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Confessions Of An Internet Marketing “Guru”
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Dear Friend,
Over the past few years I have enjoyed teaching internet marketing to you, although it has had its fair share of challenges, I am grateful that you look to me to help you.
For the first eight years of my internet marketing career I basically hid out in my office and made money promoting various affiliate offers totally unrelated to the "make money online" niche.
While that was fun and INSANELY profitable… people began to ask me what the heck I was doing and if I would show them how to be affiliate marketers so they can make money online too. My desire to help people and start a new profitable business began in 2007 as I started teaching people.
However – I ran into a few speed bumps.
My major hurdle was how to weed out the truly serious people from those who just want to TRY this marketing thing out, or those who think buying a program will make them rich overnight…
So… Do I slap a huge price tag to attract a different crowd?
Or do I keep it inexpensive so the people who REALLY need the help can get it?
This has really been a struggle to me… While I do want to help people, this is a business and as a business it must act in the most profitable way, and allow me the freedom to live how I want…
So what I have done is provide an INSANE amount of free content on my sites, blogs, and now even on my youtube account. Believe me… there is plenty of information out there on my sites for someone who is "broke" to get started and get going.
Here is the hard part for me… while I do care for those who are struggling… I also realize that there are priorities in life… according to the statistics the average family in America spends over $2,600 a year on entertainment (mostly movies and T.V.) while i am no saint in that department (i love going to magic shows and broadway shows) we probably spend twice that if not more…
BUT this year alone i have already spent WELL over $10,000 on my internet marketing education and over the course of ten years I have spent well over $170,000 on my internet marketing education… that’s like the cost of a PHD.
If it was a choice between going to the movies or learning something new that could help me… LEARNING always wins… Hands Down!
Now… I’m not saying go hock your house and buy a bunch of training… In fact… the neat thing about the internet is you can grow with it… if you average the $170K I have spent over 10 years you get $17K per year… Now the average year for me has been much much higher than that in profit… I kept learning as I made more… and will ALWAYS be a student of marketing.
So what is my point…
Well for starters priorities are important… and a quick audit of your finances as well as mine will quickly show where our priorities are…
Make Learning A Priority… Not Just With Me… But In Every Aspect Of Life
This is me talking to you as a friend… not a salesman, not a guru trying to get your money, THIS is why I started teaching in the first place… because I really do care about my students.
That is why this is NOT clickable…

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Now I’ll be the first to admit that things haven’t been perfect… we had a few support ticket systems fail on us, our general 800 number got flooded with calls that we couldn’t keep up with… and frankly… this got me really depressed… to the tune of gaining over ten pounds… not much for the average guy… but I’m only 5′1′ with shoes!
So what is the deal… why am I writing this…
Here it is in a nutshell…
I want to help the serious people only – because they are fun to work with AND actually do the things I teach and they are always my most successful students…
Right now… I would like you to examine how serious you are about this business, what you are willing to do to make it happen, how much of yourself you are willing to put in…
When I first started back in 1999…
Failure was not an option… it wasn’t even in my mind
If I truly felt something could help me… I got it at all costs (even if I had to cut back on luxuries – like eating out)
I took action… sure… some stuff didn’t work… but I evaluated my results, didn’t give up, went forward, and worked on INSTANT profit stuff FIRST to live on… and also worked on long term profit strategies
I realized that money isn’t something you make… its something you earn based on the value you provide
That was my focus… either provide small value to lots of people or BIG value to a few people
THIS is why my first full year as an internet marketer brought in over $67,000
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