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Who: Bryant Jones, "The Mobile Adventure Entrepreneur"
Website: www.ExitMyJob.com/vip/
Shut up and fish.
That's what it says on Bryant Jones' favorite shirt – the one his son made for him, that he wears while he works from home, or wherever in the world he happens to be.
But it's also his best advice to you if you're building an online business of your own.
Funny thing is, fish actually play a recurring role in Bryant's success story.
He worked as an internet consultant back in 1995, when simply being able to get onto the internet was a skill most people lacked. From there, he worked for Sony in tech support, then for Homebuilder.com, then FishingWorks.com as a marketing manager. After that site dot-bombed, he started his own lead generation business, which became hugely successful. So successful, in fact, that he moved back home to East Texas… to an area where the hunting and fishing was legendary.
There was no industry there – no jobs in sight. Just fish.
The business had to work. Or else he'd kiss goodbye his dream of working only when he wanted, of having a business that supported the lifestyle he wanted.
Within 18 months he'd done half a million dollars in lead generation on the web. Bryant knew his purpose, knew what he wanted, and it just happened as he worked. For six years, from 2000-2006, this lead generation business let Bryant fish to his heart's content. He spent maybe 10-15 hours working most weeks. The rest of the time, he was out on the water.
Sounds idyllic, but it brought up one of the biggest challenges Bryant ever faced.
"The harder you work, the better you are."
"If you work hard, you're a good provider for your family."
"Real men work a lot."
When he moved back to Texas to fish the waters of his childhood, Bryant figured he had it made – he finally had the time and money he needed to spend his days fishing with his family and friends. Instead, he became kind of an oddity.
Out on the water, the conversation between boats went something like this:
"You on vacation?" an old-timer would ask.
"No, sir. I live here. I fish almost every day."
"You don't work? Your daddy must be rich, huh?"
It was the voice plaguing many internet marketers – fear of success, challenging the link between what we do and who we are, as in: "When are you going to get a real job?"
Overcoming those voices and doing this for himself was the biggest challenge.
He hit some pretty major walls – a divorce, a couple of bad business decisions, a complete loss of the passion he'd once had for the lead generation business – and his business came to a screeching halt.
He cut his lines, and went looking for a job.
"Do you know who Joe Vitale is?"
This was the remarkable first question out of the interviewer's mouth. Bryant had answered an ad on Craigslist, landed an interview, and got the job. A year prior, after reading Joe's "Attractor Factor" Bryant had set the intention to work with people like Joe, to be surrounded by mentors and
friends like that.
This company delivered Joe's coaching program, along with our Nitro Blueprint Online Business Coaching. Bryant was surrounded by coaches and mentors just like he'd dreamt of – and soaked every bit of it in. Things were going well for him, and he was making a nice, steady six-figure income.
Then realized he was in … an OFFICE! He found himself staring out the window, yearning to get back to the boat, to travel and see the world. His job began to feel like golden handcuffs.
Pressed for what he considers his biggest mistake in building his online business, Bryant points to the year and four months he spent in that job. Not because it wasn't time well spent, but because it fed into his lack of belief that he could build the business of his dreams and that kept him from actually doing it much sooner.
What he ended up doing is a pretty unique application of Nitro's programs. Rather than starting up an info marketing or e-commerce site of his own, he decided to use what he learned to help other online business owners become more profitable. He'd apply these traffic generation and monetization techniques to their existing businesses, and they'd share the resulting additional profits.
Once he got this idea and realized it was time to take action, things happened fast. In fact, Bryant was almost surprised himself as we nailed down the following timeline.
August 2008 – Attended the legendary Nitro Quattro workshop
September 2008 – Got his first client and started implementing the Quattro system for him, and turned in his resignation at his job.
October 1, 2008 – Left for the mountains of Colorado for a month
November – December – Traveled throughout Mexico
January - March 2009 – Traveled throughout Asia. Along the way, he accomplished two items from his "bucket list" – photographing clown fish in Indonesia and visiting Thailand.
Notice anything funny about that quick timeline?
The last mention you see of "working" in any traditional sense was in September 2008. Since then, he's been working, but has been completely portable – as he says, "living the life of the rich and famous, without needing to be rich or famous."
The idea is simple: make a no-lose offer to someone who could use your expertise, then get a percentage of the increase. That's how he ended up in Thailand. He attracted a client who is based there several months out of the year. In consulting for that client, he ended up with his whole trip paid for, all the while making a healthy commission which matched his old salary, living at about 1/10th the cost of living in the States.
That takes us to Bryant's new venture, www.ExitMyJob.com/vip/
It shows you how to leave your job and create a completely mobile lifestyle — how to run your business no matter where in the world you are traveling or living. If you've ever dreamed of traveling the world, running your business from a beach in an exotic country one month and the ski slopes of the Alps the next — and it costs you less than living at home, then www.ExitMyJob.com/vip/ is for you.
Bryant calls it being a Mobile Adventure Entrepreneur.
"I'm frickin' happy to wake up in the morning! I can work from anywhere. I can travel and as long as there's internet, I'm good. I'm getting ready to head back to Thailand and spend the next year living in a luxury beach front condo for $600 a month."
The hours he puts in now – are enjoyable. His life is about being fluid, following whatever projects excite him. His time is no longer mapped out for him. His commute is a maximum of ten feet from bedroom to desk. His work wardrobe? Flip flops, cowboy boots, and of course… that "Shut up and fish" shirt.
Not bad words to live by!
He's hoping to shake people out of their belief that they can't travel or live the life they've always dreamed of. He says, "If you adjust your life a little, you could have a business you could do from anywhere. There's no reason not to go live the life you want to live – the only limitation is in your mind."
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