The start of my Listnerds journey
I had to look up when exactly I signed up for Listnerds because I wasn't sure about the exact date. It turns out that I signed up on January the 18th, 2022. That means today 12 weeks (and a day) ago, I started to explore what this Listnerds "thing" people were talking about exactly was. I was reading emails mainly and trying to explore the website for the first 3 days. It was at January 21st when I wrote my first newbie's guide about staking CTP on Listnerds. From that moment, I started to focus on building a team by writing guides and showing people my Listnerds experiences. From January 22nd, the first referrals started to appear and it was an almost daily thing the first week or so.
Upgrading to premium & later enterprise
I could already see the value in upgrading from that moment on, but I have to admit that I had no liquids available at that moment and the best I could do was upgrade to the premium membership as that would only set me back 27 bucks. Let me tell you that I was waiting impatiently for the 3 days to be over every single time that I sent an email on Listnerds, I knew this girl needed a better upgrade than premium! But I waited it out until the month was nearly over, meanwhile, I decided to recruit more team members by sharing my experiences, writing guides, and doing a nice HivePunk raffle for my team members. Slowly the team was growing and I was determined to gather good content creators in my team to set an example of how we can change the way of affiliate marketing by onboarding more Hivers along the way.
After my month premium membership, I went all-in by going enterprise, the best upgrade ever as it takes you just a few days to earn that back!
Note: you do earn your Listnerds tokens staked! Not liquid, and there's a 10-week power-down period.
Building my list
Today this is how my downline currently looks:
Not bad after three months, ay? I recruited 38 people in my level 1 downline, 8 are recruited by my team members, and also even 1 ref by one of these level 2 members. I especially love the fact that, until now, we are gathering like-minded content creators that see the bigger picture, not get stuck on the old "email marketing is a scam/sucks, etc" thoughts but listen to the one referring to them and are willing to give it a try as they already build a connection with that person over the years. These old connections we built in these past years are now paying off as we know exactly when we onboarded another very valuable member of our team. Not all of them are familiar ones though, so don't feel shy to join! We are a friendly bunch!
Great minds think alike
Now I don't want to brag too much, maybe just a little though, but I'm proud of the fact that my most active team members, you know those rock stars you keep seeing at the top of the lists on Listnerds all decided to go enterprise as soon as they joined or when they had time to finally become active. They listened to my stories, I showed them what I was experiencing and they didn't need more than a few hours overall to see the HUGE potential in Listnerds, they knew they would not regret it, and that's why they still remain part of the enterprise crew until today. Thanks to these rockstars, I have seen my name appear in the top 10 lifetime sales list that you can find in your affiliate tab on Listnerds:
Without any previous sales experience or being a pro in affiliate marketing, I managed to build my list by showing what I was doing and sharing my thoughts, mistakes, and knowledge that I had gained in this short period of time. I also make mistakes, but the key is to learn from them. I love analyzing stats, and seeing how you're doing by looking at your numbers is a great indicator if you're on the right path or should change some things here and there.
Listnerds Whale!
Something that I was really looking forward to was ending up at the whale section regarding sales:
Of course, I have to share this for the books later, haha. I've never reached whale status anywhere until I became one in this list, so let me enjoy this a bit and brag about it in this one post, ok? :)
5000 Listnerds stake milestone
Now I have to admit, I would have already passed this milestone sooner if I didn't also taken some Listnerds into powerdown in the past weeks, but I decided to share it once the stake was officially shown as 5000+. This happened this morning when I claimed my daily rewards (245 Listnerds were waiting for me this morning!) and I have to share this memorable moment as well:
I decided to add my team member @amirtheawesome1 in the screenshot because I know he feels left out as the number four. He doesn't have to though because he climbed his way up there very quickly, because he joined at least a month later than me.
The question now is, when will I hit the 10k milestone? Probably somewhere in May. I think it's safe to say that this will happen before we move back to Spain, which is a nice reason to celebrate, haha.
Some fun facts
I want to share with you once again the power of compounding, when I reached 1000 Listnerds staked, I was initially planning on taking out some earnings for our new life in Spain, but when I hit 1000 I was way too excited to reach the 2000 milestone, therefore I waited until I was at nearly 2000 Listnerds before I started doing that.
It took me 11 days to go from 1000 Listnerds to 2000 Listnerds.
After that, it took me 10 days to go from 2000 Listnerds to 3000 Listnerds!
Within another 9 days, I blew past 4000 Listnerds (4300 to be exact).
To get to 5000 Listnerds staked, it was another 5 days.
I'm very thankful to be part of the early Listnerds users and I don't see myself going anywhere anytime soon! Let's keep building something great together!
Listnerds Team "Going Out" Music NFT Giveaway
This last announcement is meant for my active team members only! I was planning on doing a separate post about this raffle and announcing the winner initially. Unfortunately, time is precious currently and therefore I will make this a quick announcement of the winner only..
Congrats @amirtheawesome1 for winning the @Stickupboys NFT "Going Out". It will be sent to you within the next 24 hours on NFTTunz. Please stay awesome!
I will think of a new raffle or contest for my team members soon, but probably after I settled in Spain. For those that needed until the end of this post to decide to join our awesome Listnerds team, here's one last referral link. If you use that, you are part of our team and we are a very supportive bunch that values people that make an effort. Newbies on Hive are just as welcome as old-school Hiveans, we prefer welcoming people that have the same mindset and want to build something long-term, not just a quick buck. If you recognize yourself in this, we are here, and please join! If you want to get it all for free without putting in the effort, you might want to use someone else's ref instead. :-)
I promise you that earning these sweet tokens yourself will give you a very good feeling and is highly motivating to keep going, you will not regret it!
More Listnerds Content
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- Helping my team members to build their CTP stake on Listnerds
- I'm leaving Listnerds curation comments and they work
- Plagiarism on Listnerds - Piggybacking on other people's content
- 10 Things you should know when you just joined Listnerds
- Listnerds Music NFT Giveaway - Stick Up Boys "Going Out"
- Plagiarism on Listnerds
- Examples of the emails I created for Listnerds
- Earn Listnerds & CTP tokens by opening emails
- How-To Auto Scale Your Emails
- Listnerds Newbies Guide | Enterprise Membership Rocks!
- Listnerds - Building something great together
- Listnerds Newbies Guide - Embedding images in HTML
- I have to share my excitement - Daily Listnerds earnings!
- HivePunks Giveaway - Winner Announcement
- Listnerds Newbies Guide - Sell your digital art on Listnerds
- Listnerds Newbies Guide - The Importance of a catchy title/subject line
- Listnerds Newbies Guide - Evaluating the first month
- Listnerds Newbies Guide - What's a Click-Through Rate? (CTR)
- Listnerds Newbies Guide - Let's talk about Solo mail
- Listnerds Newbies Guide - How to get your email verified
- Listnerds Newbies Guide - Let's talk about (E)MAIL
- Listnerds - Reviewing The First 2 Weeks
- Listnerds Newbies Guide - Earning Listnerds Tokens
- Listnerds Newbies Guide - Staking CTP Increases Your Voting Power
- Listnerds Newbies Guide - Start earning in a few simple steps
- Join My Listnerds Team To Win A Free Hive Punk
- ListNerds Newbie's Guide - How-To Stake CTP On ListNerds.com
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