I dreamed about being able to make a post like this. And thank God, a year and a half after first joining STM, I can finally do so.

To start this story off, let me begin by including a snippet of my first intro post here on 6/30/2013.

The next month or two will be crucial, as I don’t have the capital (or the credit limit) to continue without seeing profits. But I welcome the challenge. I used to have a regular job and go to school like all the other normal kids, but sometimes life throws you a curveball and you have to take a swing.

(Here’s a link to my intro thread, if you want to read it: My Successes and Failures as a Semi-Noob AM’er )

Well, that “month or two” turned into 8 more long months of hard grinding and little to no success. But my breakthrough finally came.

It was not easy, but once things did click for me, they made all those sleepless nights, entire weekends sitting in front of the computer and months on end with barely any entertainment except the sound of my keyboard so totally worth it.

The Good News

So far this year I have generated about $200,000 in revenue, with about half of that being profit. On my best day I was able to hit about $2.7k with ~$1.7k in profit. I know that may not seem like much to some of you, but considering where I was a ...

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