Over the weekend, Mikael from Denmark asked the question…
"How is it possible to accomplish all of these results in 4 days? Can you explain the process for me?"
You may be wondering the same, and would love to see the answer below.
-Kevin
P.S. Mikael signed up and will be at Go Full Time Online, coming all the way from Denmark.)
P.P.S. Today (March 31st) is the LAST day to sign-up for the Go Full Time Online Workshop by clicking here.
Tomorrow the page will say "CLOSED". If you want to go full time online, don't miss out, instead join me in Dallas as you make your full-time online business happen this year.
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Hi Mikael,
Thank you for your email. And I appreciate and honor the commitment it will take to travel here from Denmark.
I'll go into more detail for you.
First, between now and the event, you will want to use the bonuses we provide you to pick your niche market, do the research to understand that niche, get a website put up, start getting some traffic to it and gain a deeper level of understanding with it.
Don't worry, the Proven Niche Markets, Nitro Blueprint System and free blog set up bonuses all walk you through this process. It can happen in a matter of days or at most weeks. And the bonus Everyday Entrepreneur seminar videos, we take people who are absolutely brand new to online business, walk them through the process and by the time they leave they know how to do all of this. You can watch those videos and follow right along with them.
Or, if you have already accomplished those, then you can use the bonuses to improve what you are already doing between now and the event.
I call that your online empire foundation.
If you were to build a sky scraper, you first need a solid foundation. That is what people leave our Everyday Entrepreneur seminar accomplishing, building a VERY strong foundation that is now ready for the skyscraper.
Then, when you come to the Go Full Time Online workshop. You will build your sky scraper.
Each session we will cover one aspect of online business, show you how to do it, provide the templates and resources we use ourselves, then you have a series of exercises we walk you through to actually do that right there at the event.
And we will have a number of trainers and coaches and some of our successful students at the event, available to give you feedback, coach you through the process, answer your questions and support you whenever needed.
Also, each session builds on the previous one. The entire 4 days are laid out in a logical progression, so by the time the 4 days are over you have went through the entire "empire building" process from beginning to end.
And you will leave with an action plan you will be following for the rest of the year. That plan will take you first to full-time, and then 5 figures a month and beyond. I'm sure we will have some students who break the 6 figure a month mark in their first 12 months after the workshop.
Also, you will form some powerful networks of other online business owners who are at the event. They can end up being great friends, JV partners, masterminds or more.
So the event masterfully combines learning with implementation and gives you support the entire way.
Would love to have you there. From what you said, sounds like it will be the perfect leap forward you are looking for.
http://www.GoFullTimeOnline.com
-Kevin
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How can you go from losing money, making no progress with your business, to making 7-figures a year?
It IS possible, in fact that's exactly what Nitro Blueprint owner Michael Lovitch did, after learning the principles you'll learn (at no-cost to you) in tomorrow's “Full-Time Online” Nitro webcast.
*Before you continue, be sure to register for the webcast now so you can learn exactly how to go full-time online this year:
http://www.NitroWebcasts.com
Then read Michael's case study below to see how he went from losing money, to making 7-figures this year:
Michael Lovitch went from IT sales to online marketing of audio hypnosis programs and has never looked back.
In charge of business development for a database encryption company, Michael had hit a ceiling. His income was capped, and even though it was a good income, he still yearned for something more.
Days of opening channel accounts for government and banks was getting old fast. Even though he had the luxury of working from home, Michael had to leave his wife and home behind once or twice every week in order to travel for work.
So he decided to take control of his destiny and start his own online business. He wanted something that involved no more travel, more freedom and no limit to how much money he could make.
Within a week of making the decision to start his online business, he and his beautiful wife learned that they were expecting their first child. That clinched it. The time had come for a new life.
As with everything he does, Michael jumped in with two feet and surrounded himself with all the resources he could. He even bought the Nitro Blueprint System. However, just buying it and using an idea or two from it; and an idea or two from another system; and “help” from someone else all meant that he basically had no guidance whatsoever.
He wasn’t following any one proven method and as such, he simply didn’t know what he was doing when he first launched his website www.hypnosisnetwork.com.
He chuckles as he recounts this story. “My first day open, I had 2 sales: my mom and my mother-in-law.” Because he didn’t have a flight plan, he was going nowhere fast. The site wasn’t profitable for the first 6 months; in fact it was losing money.
Because Michael didn’t understand the online marketing world, he naively believed that if you build it, they’ll come. He was working full-time, full-blast and getting nowhere.
Looking back Michael can see the fallacy of his ways. He gave no thought to building traffic to his site. There was no plan for how he would drive people to this impressive site.
The other thing he did was that he started out too large. He began with an inventory of 11 products, when just 2 or 3 would have allowed him to focus and do much better before growing with the addition of others.
Once Michael spotted these errors, he quickly started to remedy them. He began to network with other internet marketers and learned what they were doing right to create success. “Luckily I met Kevin and Matt of Nitro early on at a Yanik Silver event. We ended up sitting together at the Washington, DC event, ironic considering we are all based in Texas. I learned so much from them.”
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Lessons Learned…
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Networking with others who have successfully done what he wanted to do was the key to his success. Despite his rocky first six months, The Hypnosis Network is growing more each year. In its second year of business, it hit 7 figures. In fact, it is no longer growing just on the Internet; it is building a brand and hitting the big time. Michael’s site was even recently in the NY Times.
Just networking won’t be enough however. It is imperative to choose one system to follow. If you chase multiple rabbits, you won’t catch any. So commit yourself to following one success story, in order to replicate those results.
Michael began masterminding even before the Nitro Blueprint System, but he sees the added value of what could have been. He could have been so much further along and it would have been so much easier had he followed Nitro from the beginning.
Because he had a flawed structure and did not build with systems the way Nitro teaches, he now has to fix things from before. Nitro is the way to go for any internet marketer.
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Living the Good Life
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Michael still works; in fact he likes to work. However now when he travels, it’s because he wants to. He has freedom. He truly believes in the products he sells and cares about it. His wife no longer needs to work.
They can volunteer, give to charity and enjoy their financial freedom without any worries. His work has even allowed him to talk with brain science experts and psychologists. He has access to experts he respects because of the success of his company.
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Michaels’ Advice For Would-Be Internet Marketers
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This industry is the real deal. It is still wide open and nothing is easier. Incredibly, most people don’t know how to build a successful business online.
Even though it looks like the net is crowded with people offering things for sale, there are so many opportunities just waiting to be seized. So many brilliant minds have not even gotten into this yet that there is still tons of money to be made for the average hard working guy or gal, before all the sharp minds get in on it.
Surprisingly you don’t have to be the smartest or the most tech savvy individual to make this work. You just have to be committed to working hard, be organized and follow a plan.
Internet marketing is not a get rich quick scheme. But it takes commitment and hard work. Find someone who has done it and let them be your guide. Follow what they say to do.
The Nitro plan is the best plan out there. It will work for you, if you’re not a complete idiot. Apply yourself fully, all your thoughts and energy need to go into your business until you are on the path to success. You have got to think and you have got to work. Nothing happens on its own.
Michael's Website is at:
http://www.hypnosisnetwork.com/
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WHAT TO DO NOW
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If you want to be like Michael (and all the other “Everyday Entrepreneurs” we feature each week who are out there doing it and following our system), then make sure you get registered ASAP for tomorrow's no-cost Nitro Webcast.
http://www.NitroWebcasts.com
When you register and attend the webcast, you'll learn the exact steps to go from scratch (or wherever you are right now) to quitting your job and having a full-time online business in the shortest amount of time possible.
http://www.NitroWebcasts.com
~ Kevin
P.S.
Only 1000 people will be able to get on the webcast, and the spots are nearly full. Register now to avoid missing out:
http://www.NitroWebcasts.com
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What's the "rule" for making the leap from "beginner" to "full-time online" this year?
I'm always talking with our customers who have made that leap and now work from home and make a full-time income with their online business. (You can read the case studies of some of these full-time online Nitro customers here.)
And what I'm about to share with you, at first may sound daunting, but that feeling will quickly be replaced with exhilaration.
It's called "The 100 Hour Rule".
My definition is:
"100 hours of REAL work focused on one outcome will give you an online business making consistent income every day."
That's the first step to full-time online success, is first achieving part-time online success.
That's when you are waking up every day and knowing your online business is making you money that day.
And when you break that down, if you spend 10 hours a week, that is 10 weeks… or a little under 3 months.
If you follow the 100 Hour Rule, within 3 months your online business can be making you consistent daily income.
And then, to follow that up is the "500 Hour Rule".
"500 hours of REAL work focused on one outcome will give you an online business making a full-time income."
That's when you are waking up when you want to, no job to go to, no commute to suffer through, no T.P.S. reports to fill out. And instead you get to sit at home, sip some coffee, play with the kids and decide what you want to work on that day.
At just 10 hours a week, that's less than 1 year and you are at the full-time online level.
Imagine this time next year you've DONE IT, you've turned in your 2 weeks notice, cleared out your desk, threw away your alarm clock and are now working from home because of your online business.
It's a great feeling, isn't it?
OK, right about now you're mind is telling you "I have been working 10 hours a week and that hasn't happened yet… what are you talking about?"
I understand completely. When I first got started online I didn't understand this either. Nobody ever told me, "Kevin, this is the way it is." Instead I had to figure out the HARD way… all of those ways that don't work to discover the ones that do.
And I'm sure you're experiencing the same. You are doing what you think is best because nobody helped you by showing you a better way.
That's my goal, to share my lessons learned on what REALLY works instead of what DOESN'T work.
Two Key Distinctions
Let's dig into the definition to see what it REALLY means because the power lies in the details with this one.
And then will give you a powerful yet simple tip you can put to use.
Here it is again: "100 hours of REAL work focused on one outcome will give you an online business making consistent income every day."
There are two key parts.
100 hours of REAL work
and
focused on one outcome
Its human nature to be looking for the "greener grass on the other side of the fence". A common term is "shiny object syndrome".
I've been guilty of this just like you.
Something new comes out, the marketing is hitting all of those psychological triggers and product launch hot buttons, and our Shiny Object Magnet switch flips on to full-power.
Next thing you know, hours, days, even weeks have passed chasing the shiny object to discover you are the same place you were when you started.
Where as, if you stay focused on one outcome your business and the steps to make it successful. And only looked for things that would make that business more successful faster. And wasn't a distraction from your outcome, or sent you down yet another shiny object rabbit hole.
You would of course be much further along today. Seems simple and obvious, but in the day to day
The tougher question to ask yourself, but one you deserve to ask yourself is…
Are the things I'm spending my time doing "REAL Work" or "Busy Work"?
Here are some examples of "busy work"…
- having an inbox full of 539 marketing emails and reading them, just because they are there and engaging, with no purpose for doing so
- buying an ebook, skimming through it, then never doing anything
- watching more free videos somebody posted online giving you more shiny objects to think about
- dabbling, doing a little here, a little there… with no plan on what you are doing, where you are going, the steps you need to complete to get there
Is this your typical day working at your online business?
Turn on computer, download email, read the latest emails you got from all the lists you are on. Clicking on a few links, watching a video for 30 minutes, going back to email to see what new messages came in you need to read. Going back online to check out your favorite site because you deserve a break from work. Thinking about a new blog post you could write but never putting those thoughts into writing. Opening up your aweber account to see how many new subscribers you got, only to be disappointed yet again that you have the same 23 people on your list. Download more email and spending the next 45 minutes reading and clicking on links.
Whoops, its getting late, time to close up shop after another productive day working on your business.
The problem is…
During that entire time, there was not a single action taken that moved your business forward. Nothing that made your business better today then the day before. Yes, there was a lot of time spent on activity, but no time spent on action.
How do I know this? At one time that was my life, and my results… or more like no results showed it.
Of course that example "day in the life" was an exaggeration, but compare yourself with that list and this next one.
To contrast that, I kept a running list of what I accomplished in one 8-hour day last week.
- wrote 21 autoresponder or broadcast emails
- wrote 2 blog posts
- created 3 new pages for a new sales funnel
- recorded a 45 min camtashia training video
- started work on a new sales video
- put together a new offer for a promotion we are running
- checked stats to see how the business is performing
- answered 2 dozen emails from people I'm working with (either in our company or other companies)
- spent 15 minutes answering questions on our customer forum
- and went through part of a product I purchase to learn a new skill
- and 15 minutes browsing through my folder of emails from all the lists I'm subscribed to, checking to see what's up in the online world.
Here's the million dollar question to ask yourself…
If you spent 10 hours a week, that look like that second list, how great would your online success become over the next few months?
Obviously the answer is you would run circles around the person who spends their time doing the "busy work" stuff.
Maybe that second list seems daunting, like you could never do that.
If that thought even remotely entered your mind, not a problem.
I started off just like you and over time learned some tricks to get the full-time online results I now see.
Your Next Step…
On Thursday, October 8th, I will be holding a brand new webinar that shares with you the most important tricks, steps and techniques to reaching your go of going full-time online. Look for an email on Monday to register and reserve your spot on this free webinar.
In the meantime, scroll to the bottom of this page and post your own comment.
-Kevin
P.S. Follow me on Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/kevinnitro
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His days were filled with jobs and his nights were filled with paperwork—not exactly the life he envisioned. Ryan Harper was a self-employed electrician working 80 hours a week, rarely finding time to be with his wife and two young children let alone hang out with friends.
"Friends? I didn't really have any back then. Who has the time or energy after a long day of work to drive across town and do something with friends? It was all I could do to keep up with my business and my family," Ryan said.
So what did he do? He took the steps to change his life, and change it he did by becoming an online entrepreneur.
Ryan literally started his journey in the world of online money-making with zero practical online experience. In fact, he didn't even use e-mail regularly and still describes finding the "on" button to the computer his biggest challenge.
Although he had a lot to learn, Ryan persevered, plugged into the Nitro Blueprint System, and went from zero to 100 in a short amount of time.
Now, instead of longing for more time with his family and a little relaxation, he has the freedom to take the kids to school, attend soccer practice, go to the gym in the middle of the day and even take long vacations — something that was completely unheard of during his previous life, working 80 hours a week.
Ryan said one of the most vital things he learned from Nitro was to utilize others to help him build his business. As a guy with little experience, he could either spend hours upon hours of time learning every aspect of how to run and promote his business, or he could outsource.
"I realized I didn't actually have to do everything; I could delegate and monitor and get it done," Ryan says. "Although it was initially hard to let go, I learned I didn't need to be in the middle of things, I could simply set the systems in place."
And now the question everyone wants to ask: "How long did it take youto actually make money?"
Here's Ryan's timeline, starting from zero:
January 2008 - bought the Blueprint
February - came up with idea
March - worked on creating it, and launched site
May - passed 500 total customers
August - passed 500 new customers in 1 month
September - $10,000 in 1 month
October - $10,000 2nd month in a row
November - $10,000 3rd month in a row. PLUS, Garmand, the biggest GPS manufactor, contacted us to do a JV.
December - first $20,000 month!
January 2009 - record month with 1600 new customers and $18,000 in sales
February - passed $89,000 in total sales
While Ryan's path to success was relatively fast, he's the first to admit he made some mistakes along the way that possibly prevented him from reaching his financial goals even sooner.
The biggest mistake?
Shiny Object Syndrome
Like many aspiring entrepreneurs there was always the latest book or course or method to draw his interest. Each time after he experienced disappointment with the latest fad, he would return to the Nitro Blueprint System. Ryan said, "I stopped trying to reinvent the wheel and started believing that the simple way could actually work."
Ryan found that sticking with the basics and understanding them forward and backward—before moving on to more advanced techniques—helped him to build the kind of business foundation from which success grew organically. That's why he kept coming back to Nitro, sometimes shutting himself in a room to read through the entire System, in order to keep him on the right track.
"The Blueprint lays it out step-by-step and there's really no way you can't make it if you just stick with it; it takes you from nothing to a great finished product," says Ryan. "You can sell your own product or someone else's, and Nitro will help you get out of your head and get started."
Did Ryan beat himself up when he made mistakes or allow mess-ups to become major setbacks? Not at all! Instead, he believes putting himself out there, making changes along the way, and accepting his screw-ups allowed him to really get in the game, not just stand on the side-lines in research-mode.
Although Ryan says his success could have happened even sooner had he stayed focused on the system that works, the money started coming in within three months, and he was able to cover living expenses within six months. Since then, his business has experienced exponential growth.
Ryan believes one of the keys to his business success has been his emphasis on customer service. He focuses on asking customers what they want rather than trying to give them what he thinks they want. In addition, Ryan has utilized blogs, viral videos, YouTube and other Web 2.0 sites to put his SEO strategies to work. Of course, he hasn't done it all on his own, but has wisely chosen to outsource projects to ensure he is doing things the best way possible.
So how has this changed Ryan's life?
He traded his electrician's tools for a computer and now lives the life he envisioned when he began the online journey not so long ago.
His typical work day involves spending about two hours a day on his business (www.pigtones.com) and "hanging out a lot." He even took an 8-week summer vacation traveling with his family.
"The best benefits of my new lifestyle are intangible," explains Ryan. "You don't think about how much you miss when you are buried in work, but you begin to fully realize it once you are doing what you want and can enjoy life.
Ryan's advice for anyone who'd like to get their life back: Find a proven online business system and use it to create a steady stream of online income.
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The Perfect Mike Filsaime Butterfly Marketing 2.0 Bonus
I'm sure you've heard all the talk and emails about Mike Filsaime's Butterfly Marketing free offer that opens up on Tuesday, March 24th.
FYI, get all the Butterfly Marketing Free Offer details here. Also on that page be sure to get on the notification list so you get advanced access before it fills up.
And you're probably giving serious consideration to getting your free Butterfly Marketing course (obviously it works, and you get a $1,995 course for free.)
To thank you for being a Nitro member, and because I believe strongly in the quality and money getting ability of Butterfly Marketing, I'm giving you something really good.
The perfect butterfly marketing bonus.
When you use this link to get your copy of Butterfly Marketing
http://nitro.butterflymarketing.com
You'll receive the perfect compliment to Butterfly Marketing.
3 years ago we really started to "dial in" marketing strategies you're just now hearing about. Things like 1-click upsells, monthly subscription/continuty and more.
In fact, many of the biggest breakthroughs originated with new methods we were pioneering.
We created a training session showing some top-secret underground marketers what we were doing and how they could duplicate it.
The results speak for themselves.
- One person added an EXTRA $300,000 per year to his business.
- Another added an extra $1.5 million
- Another was selling a $39 e-book and not making much from it. He got access to this training and just using what he learned on the video quickly turned it into a $5 million business.
- Another guy applied one strategy that immediately tripled his business.
That training session made a lot of people a lot of money.
And its the absolutely perfect compliment to Butterfly Marketing 2.0 because the updated Butterfly Marketing incorporates some of our HIGH IMPACT marketing techniques. The training session will really enhance the results you'll see when you combine the two.
I feel sorry for everybody else who isn't getting this bonus, they just won't be able to compete with you.
And here's how you can get it for free.
When you get Mike Filsaime's Butterfly Marketing trial offer on Tuesday March 24th. I'll give you that ground-breaking training for free.
Plus, I'll give you 2 more training sessions that are perfect compliments to Butterfly Marketing.
- How To Move From Being Overwhelmed & Experiencing Information Overload To Taking Focused Action And Seeing Results ($97 Value)
- How To Outsource, Automate and Systemize Your Business ($97 Value)
The first one instantly removes any overwhelm feeling you may have and quickly empowers you to take massive productive action. You'll be able to get more done in 1 day than you used to get done in 1 month. Powerful, POWERFUL stuff.
The second shows you how to free up more of your time by outsourcing, automating and turning your business into a turn-key system. This shows you a brain-dead simple method to follow, even if you're just getting started. You'll love it.
Here's What To Do…
FIRST, go here now and register on the pre-notification
list to get to the front-of-the-line.
Then, make sure to go back here, using this same link, on Tuesday, March 24th
http://nitro.butterflymarketing.com
(NOTE: this will probably sell out
within hours that day so if you wait you most likely will miss out)
SECOND, after you place your order, you will be given login details to their site. When you login you will see a box that has the download link for this bonus package.
However you HAVE to use this link on that day to place your order or else the
download links will not be in the member site for you..
http://nitro.butterflymarketing.com
THIRD, when you click on the download link you will go to a special secret page at our site where you can immediately access these money getting bonuses.
This is really the perfect compliment to Butterfly Marketing and can't wait to see how much cash it puts into your pocket the next few months.
To your success,
Kevin Wilke
Nitro Marketing
P.S. If you just want the recap…
1) Get Butterfly Marketing on Tuesday, March 24th here:
http://nitro.butterflymarketing.com
2) Login into the member site and you will find a download box for these bonuses.
3) Go through these bonuses and put them to use to start making more money online.
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Who: Brad Costanzo
Website:
www.TheMultiFamilyMentor.com
www.TheMultiFamilyMentor.com/blog
"I read this book, and knew THIS was what I wanted for my life," Brad said.
You can probably guess the title of the book - it's catapulted thousands of people into internet marketing just by opening their eyes to the possibility of living life on their own terms, setting up and automating online income to finance the life they would otherwise only dream about… it's Tim Ferriss' 4-Hour Workweek.
Soon after reading the book, Brad Costanzo met Nitro Marketing's Kevin Wilke at a networking event he holds every month in Dallas. It didnt take long after meeting Kevin for him to purchase the Nitro Blueprint System. But it wasn't like he was instantly propelled into a world of tango contests and cage fighting.
In fact, when he started out about a year ago, he didn't even know what FTP meant. His primary online skills consisted of being able to surf the Internet and check e-mail. Like many internet marketers, he also had a major challenge:
"I have ADD and want to chase every shiny object," says Brad. "Looking at all the information out there, I felt like I was drinking from a fire hose."
Brad believes Nitro provided the structure he needed to stay focused. As he continued to read and learn and stretch himself in the IM world, he claims the Blueprint helped him to stick with an action plan.
"The Blueprint kept me structured, where I lacked structure," says Brad. "It's a complete step-by-step program, which is just what I needed."
Identifying the right niche was also a challenge for Brad. He and his partner knew they wanted to create a product from scratch, and they decided to go with their intuition rather than market research. Looking back, he recognizes how conducting research could have helped the product become a lot more successful, more quickly.
So what other things has Brad learned along the way?
- Focusing on one task at a time is the way to go. Brad says he should have segmented the tasks and lessons he wanted to accomplish. The lack of organization early on caused some unnecessary mistakes.
- It is important to trust the process. Confidence is so important, and getting some experience under your belt is the path to confidence. "It is 90% less scary the second time around," says Brad.
- Partner with another IM—particularly one who has used the Nitro Blueprint System. You can learn from others' experiences and keep each other on track.
- It makes sense to start with affiliate sales. Brad says if he did it over again, he would start with affiliate sales in order to build his list. Then, he would move onto creating his own product.
"It's better to learn from mistakes because you're taking action, rather than failing because you're not doing anything."
Although Brad is the first to admit he's made some mistakes along the way, he believes his IM journey has been what it should be—making things happen to determine what works and what doesn't work.
"Sometimes jumping right in can be a double-edged sword," explains Brad. "You
make mistakes, but you also get your momentum going. I prefer doing it like this, rather than suffering from analysis paralysis."
Brad's philosophy of action has paid off. Instead of sitting on the sidelines, dreaming about what could be, he is reaping the rewards of his hard work.
Just take a look at his money-making timeline:
January 2008 – Purchased the Nitro Blueprint System.
February 2008 – Came up with a niche and registered a domain.
March to May 2008 – Created a product and conducted market testing for demand.
June 2008 – Launched the product and made $1,000 the first month.
July 2008 – Doubled the money reaching $2,000 for the month.
August through November 2008 – Reached $3,000 each month.
December 2008 – Started several joint venture partnerships in his niche and made $8,500 for the month.
January 2009 – Conceptualized a new site with a friend:
www.TheMultiFamilyMentor.com
February 2009 – Started the first series of Teleseminars for this new site.
By learning from his mistakes and being willing to stretch himself, Brad is now in a place where the new opportunities come a lot easier. He is able to replicate his action plan for success.
In fact, Brad says, "Success with each new website is now a matter of when not if."
And something amazing happens once you start to see a little success online. Opportunity starts to show up and it quickly becomes a matter of having too much opportunity rather than not enough. Brad said friends started asking him for advice and bigger opportunities started to show up in his life.
While he continues to work in his former business as an independent consultant with commercial real estate, he works it on his terms. He enjoys having a flexible schedule and getting to work when and where he chooses – with clients he chooses. All this while many people in commercial real estate nowadays are happy to take whatever crumbs fall into their laps.
Perhaps even more exciting is that Brad truly enjoys working on his sites and seeing the fruits of his labor. He's surprised himself by discovering how much he enjoys working on his online businesses. His next venture is the launch of a new business with a friend:
www.TheMultiFamilyMentor.com.
Brad's advice to others is to focus on the steps, one at a time, rather than the result. He says everyone wants to be an IM millionaire, but if that is your only focus from the beginning it is easy to get discouraged. Instead, find a system, create a plan and stick with it.
To get started building an online business that gets results and makes excited about everyday, check out the Nitro Blueprint System.
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Picture this. You’re an Olympic diver. You’re perched on top of the platform you’ve dreamed of for as long as you can remember. You hear the first few notes of your National Anthem and know you’re about to feel that smooth ribbon around your neck, the weight of the gold medal.
Quick: What got you there?
One of two things — a carrot or a stick.
But it goes a little further, and if you can see the value in knowing what motivates you and others, this is going to be really helpful.
How can this help you?
Two ways, really.
First, knowing what motivates you will help you see what’s most likely to move you forward, to help you accomplish what you desire. Instead of leaving your motivation unconscious, you can harness it to take you where you want to go.
Also, if you interact with anyone anywhere… professionally or personally, knowing what motivates them is invaluable, too. Chances are, you’re dealing with people every day who are not motivated in the same ways as you are. Without understanding their motivations, you’re going to be a lot less effective and a lot more frustrated than you need to be.
So, what motivates people?
You've probably heard about the carrot and the stick.
About half the world’s population is motivated by the carrot - a reward of some kind, something you’d do just about anything to move toward. The other half is motivated by the stick - a negative consequence that you'd do just about anything to avoid.
But it goes deeper than that.
There are three major areas (Power, Affiliation, Achievement) that motivate people, and with each, people are either striving toward something (carrot) or away from something (stick).
When you combine them you have 6 very distinct motivation types.
Let me explain.
Carrot + Power
Stick + Power
The first area is power. For someone motivated by a carrot and power, the goal is to beat everyone else, to rise above the crowd, to be Number One, the best.
The person motivated by a stick and power, they'll do just about anything to avoid the feeling of being defeated or powerless. It’s just unbearable for them to lose, and they can't stand the thought of looking up to anyone else who defeated them.
Carrot + Affiliation
Stick + Affiliation
The second area is affiliation. Someone who’s motivated by a carrot and affiliation gets pumped up by the idea of having recognition, of being loved and admired by an audience of fans full of admiration and applause.
In contrast, someone motivated by a stick and affiliation wants to avoid being a loser, thinking nobody will like them if they don't win. Avoiding being alone, isolated, and cut off is what drives them.
Carrot + Achievement
Stick + Achievement
The last area is achievement. The carrot here involves competing with yourself, and there’s nothing more satisfying to this person than setting a goal and achieving it. It’s not about winning or losing, but about reaching the goal. It’s more of an internal thing rather than competing against others.
The stick-driven person here wants to avoid failure at all costs. If they do fail, they will redouble their efforts, blaming only themselves. Next time, they'll start sooner, work harder, and do whatever it takes not to fail again.
The question to ask is, which category best fits you?
Knowing what motivates you can give you great clarity on your own life - both in what you’ve done in the past and what you want to accomplish in the future.
Based on how you’re motivated, what can you do to move yourself forward?
But this is also a great tool when you deal with other people.
Knowing what motivates them helps you to empower them to be the best they can be. You can tell a lot about their motivation type from what they say and do. It will be language and action that fits into one of the 6 categories.
The mistake you might make in not understanding these motivations is that you’re likely to try to motivate others the same way you’re motivated. Unless they come from the same angle you do, it’s probably going to misfire and frustrate both of you and make them UNmotivated!
One more important thing about this - there’s no right or wrong to human motivation; it’s more a matter of how we’re wired. Understanding motivation is just a matter of being able to better understand people and what makes them tick.
Turning this toward your online business, what’s going to move you forward? Think keeping these motivations in mind as you write your sales letter might help you connect more with your prospects? Use both the carrot and stick, power, affiliate and achievement in your writing.
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Who: Jackie Lange
Website: www.CashFlowDepot.com
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Jackie Lange had been a stay-at-home-mom for twelve years when she decided to get into real estate. Although she was not exactly tech-savvy, she did have one website advertising her business. However, before long she learned that that this one little website was generating lots of leads all over the U.S.
Jackie spent some time finding ways to distribute the leads to real estate offices around the country. Her online business grew out of this ability to share exclusive leads to others and from there the business took off.
Then several years later, after stumbling across the Nitro Blueprint System, she started a new site teaching others how to invest in real estate. This second site proved to be extremely successful.
What kind of success are we talking about here, and how long did it take? Check out Jackie’s money-making timeline:
June 2000 - Started first membership site, ExtremeSuccessGroup.com, which now has more than 100 members.
June 2007 – Began as a Beta Tester for the Nitro Blueprint System.
June - August 2007 - Used Nitro Blueprint training to build lists and prepare for the launch of a new site.
September 2007 – Launched the new site and made $30,000 in the first month.
October 2007 - November 2008 – Achieved steady growth and new content continually added to the site to add value.
December 2008 – Brought in 600 new members and more than $70,000 in sales in one month with a featured Bailout Special.
While Jackie is pleased with her success, she says there were challenges along the way. Among the most significant hurdles was finding the right joint venture partnerships. She has made an effort to keep her prices low for her customers, but she found that other real estate investors were hiking up prices to make a bigger profit. This made it difficult for her to find fair match-ups for rewarding partnerships.
Other issues that slowed her down included trusting in people to help her with Internet marketing who could talk the talk but not walk the walk. Some of these bad experiences with IMers as well as hyped-up "pitch fest" seminars left her skeptical of receiving help from others, until she met Kevin and Matt with Nitro Marketing.
"I knew people were out there making tons more money than me, and I thought there was some secret system that I didn’t know about" laughs Jackie. "Then, I was invited to an IM mastermind group in Dallas and met Kevin and Matt, and realized there were actually people out there doing really well who have both integrity and great products."
Jackie had the opportunity to be a Beta Tester for the Nitro Blueprint System, and it helped her to identify what she should be doing to take her business to the next level. Before that, she didn’t really have a plan and admitted she was fumbling around trying to find something that would work.
"Nitro’s time-tested system has helped me to know what steps I need to take to stay focused" says Jackie. "Furthermore, Kevin Wilke’s heart is in the right place and he has a passion to see people succeed as he teaches from his own experience."
Jackie points out that NBS is not the most expensive product out there, and that too many people are fooled thinking high dollar means high value. In the case of the Nitro Blueprint System, Jackie states it is affordable because the creators want to get the info out to as many people as possible. "They want to see people succeed."
Through her online journey, Jackie has discovered that she also takes great joy in teaching others how to succeed in real estate. She acknowledges that the economic problems in the country are forcing people to look for ways to make money, and she strives to provide online training to other struggling entrepreneurs or real estate investing newbies through her site www.CashFlowDepot.com.
(Note: Jackie partnered with Jack Miller. She handles all the marketing and part of the content, and Jack (another real estate investing expert) also handles part of the content.)
Not having to work an office job since 1980, Jackie believes in the money-making potential in real estate and the Internet.
"I haven’t had to worry about money and I get to do what I want when I want, and I want to share that with people so they can stop being miserable in life," explains Jackie. "I say, if you do this and this, you can get out of that mess."
Jackie’s advice for people who are searching for ways to make income online or offline: Plug into a time-tested system and just get started on a new business, because you don’t know what the future holds. Even $100 a month can grow to $500 or $1,000, or $10,000 a month or more!
To learn more about the Nitro Blueprint System Jackie used, check out
www.NitroBlueprint.com.
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