If you would ask me what is one thing to master… it would be what I'm about to cover in this post. When you get really good at these 3 things you will see success faster and easier.

That doesn't mean you won't have to get good at other things.

However it does mean these are absolutely essential… and your lack of not having them is a BIG factor for not getting the results you really want right now.

This is a follow-up to the wildly successful blog post called, "How To Build A Successful Internet Business In 100 Hours."

If you have not read that, you will want to take a few minutes right now to do so (or re-read it to refresh your memory.)

This post will give you 3 CRUCIAL strategies to ensure the "100 Hour Rule" actually works for you.

Everybody I have taught this to, who started using these 3 strategies, instantly (yes, instantly) started seeing MASSIVE jumps in their productivity and progress they were making (meaning getting the important stuff done and making money).

I consider this a CORE foundational must have if you want to be successful online.

And yes, I'm putting a lot of emphasis on this because I KNOW how vitally important it is… but it lacks the "sizzle"… that's the rub, the stuff that REALLY brings you success is NOT the sizzle, its the fundamentals.

Here are the 3 Crucial Strategies…

1. Break Big Tasks Into Small Bite-Size Steps (Munchies/Action Plan)
2. Create a Weekly Plan To Do Those Bite Size Steps (Weekly Plan)
3. Create Large Blocks Of Time To Big Chunks Of Tasks And Create Momentum (Mini-Blasts)

If you make these 3 activities a HABIT, your online business will never be the same.

You will experience less frustration, less overwhelm, accomplish more in less time, and start seeing results quicker and quicker. You will, faster than ever before, reach the Full Time Online level.

Munchies/Action Plan

Let's say you have the task to set up your first squeeze page you will use to build your email list. You sit down at your computer, look at that task on your to-do list, and immediately you start feeling overwhelmed, that twinge of anxiety builds up in your chest, and you eventually find something else to do — read email, browse online, clean the bathroom toilet — anything to avoid this task!

And it keeps getting carried forward and carried forward on your to-do list, never getting done. Days turn into weeks, turn into months.

The problem is, the task is WAY too big and complicated to take action on it. You are staring at an elephant and trying to figure out how to eat it all in one bite.

The solution.

Take that big task and "munchy" it down into the small bite-size steps to complete it.

First you break it down into the big steps, then break the big steps into the small steps.

Some big steps:

* Create the opt-in offer
* Choose an email hosting solution
* Create your opt-in page and confirmation page
* Add the opt-in form
* Test the process

Then you take the big step, "create the opt-in offer" and break that down into the small steps.

So first you will need to figure out what your optin offer will be, then create an outline for the offer, then create the actual thing you will be giving away for free (your offer), edit it if it is digital content, create the download page for it, upload the page and the content to be downloaded to your site. DONE with that step.

By doing this you are creating to-do items you CAN take action on and accomplish quickly.

You can open up a spreadsheet (or word document, or just write it out on paper) and start typing the Big Steps.

Then for each Big Step, type the little steps.

Now you have your complete Action Plan to accomplish this next project in your business. (Also it gives you a lot of small little steps you can cross off when you complete them… doesn't it feel great crossing off to-do items!)

Weekly Plan

Last year, when I did my end of the year review, I realized if I did this one 15 minute activity each week — that was a HIGHLY productive week. And if I did NOT do this one 15 minute activity — that was a very NON-productive week.

Wouldn't it make since to spend 15 minutes once a week (I do it either Sunday night or first thing Monday morning) doing this activity and virtually guarantee it will be a productive week?

Here is a quick 12 minute training video on Taking Action With The Weekly Plan, as well as the exact templates I use every week, walking you through the process. (This is normally only provided to all of our new customers, but its so important want to give it to you right now too.)

As you will notice in the video, the list of small little to-do's you created above now fit perfectly into your weekly plan.

Again, make this a weekly habit and your results will shoot through the roof.

Mini-Blasts

OK, this one has been the biggest breakthrough for me. And is the last piece of the "Being Super-Productive 101" puzzle. It is also a critical one if you are doing this part-time right now.

Its covered in detail in the 1st chapter of the Nitro Blueprint System manual. And we also cover it at our Everyday Entrepreneur Getting Started Online seminars.

Here's the quick summary.

There are 3 ways to approach your business.

1. The Slow And Steady
2. The Massive Action
3. And the Mini-Blast

Slow and steady is what most people do… and it dooms you to failure.http://slowsteady.jpg/

The reason why is because you are making small incremental progress over a long period of time. That means you are not creating any momentum in your business… everything just seems to drag on and take forever. And distractions and obstacles are popping up constantly and zapping you of your time and energy.

And you are not seeing or recognizing the progress you are really making. So instead of being encouraged and excited about your wins and progress, you are discouraged and view your so called lack of progress as a negative. It now becomes negative de-motivation.

Eventually you either give up or move onto the next shiny object to repeat the pattern over again.

Obviously not a good scenario, but one that is probably all too familiar with yourself.

Massive Action is awesome, however maybe 1% to at most 5% of the population is really hard-wired for the Massive Action approach.

That is where you "lock yourself" up for however long it takes, 2 weeks, a month, 90 days and focus almost exclusively on your business.

I had a friend who was hard wired like this. When he decided he was going to do this online business thing, he made the "3 People Negotiations" with his family, friends and himself and took massive action.

It took him 90 days to create a product, learn all the tech stuff to get a site up and order processing in place, create a sales letter and launch his business. The result, he made over $100,000 his first 4 months.

Only problem, I couldn't do that and most people can't do that either. We would burn ourselves out and go crazy after a week or two! Again doomed to failure.

That brings us to the good ole' Mini Blast.

That takes the best of both of the previous approaches without the negatives. And gives you a solution that works for the rest of us.

http://slowsteady-miniblast.jpg

The Mini-Blast is where you set aside a block of time and ONLY work on your most important, result producing activities in your business. And you remove all distractions — no email, no phone calls, no TV, no crying kids, just you and your computer.

This may be 3 hours one night after work, or 1 whole day over the weekend, or 8 hours over an entire afternoon and evening, or you take off a day of work and spend 3 straight days.

Whatever it is, the keys are:
1) an extended period of consecutive time
2) ONLY focused on your most important, result producing activities (or solving your biggest challenges, such as tech issues)
3) with no distractions, you are only focused on your online business and your Action Plan

You will end up accomplishing more in that mini-blast than days or even weeks via the slow and steady approach.

You will also have created a lot of momentum in your business.

And you will have seen a lot of progress which gives you a lot of inner motivation and is very energizing.

Then, in between your mini-blasts you go back to the slow and steady approach to keep moving forward, making progress and ride the momentum you created until your next mini-blast.

On the graph, the red line is your slow and steady only line, the green line is your mini-blast approach line. You get a big jump with the mini blast, then keep moving forward with slow and steady, then another big jump.

There are some other important factors, like making the "3 Time Negotiations," that we will cover in future blog posts. So be sure to subscribe to the blog update email list and RSS feed so you see them when they come out.

Next week (on Tuesday April 28th) I will be doing a completely free and in-depth webcast training focused entirely on something we have been doing here at Nitro. I have seen the writing on the wall that an area of online business we ALL rely on is about to experience a radical (and costly change).

And we have been proactively making important changes in our business so we are not member's of the online road kill (but instead profit immensely over the coming months and years)… and I want to let you in on it too.

Keep an eye out for emails over the next few days on how to register for this webcast.

In the meantime, please post your questions and comments below about the topic of these 3 Taking Action Strategies so I can incorporate them into future blog posts and trainings.

-Kevin

P.S. Follow me on Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/kevinnitro to get quick updates, insights and tips on business and life.

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Everybody has a story of their first "big break" that pulled them into success online.

Maybe you're still looking for your first big break online too.

I'll share with you my story to help you get to your big breakthrough this year.

It was 1998.

I had a niche site and an email newsletter with 1,500 people.

I was making anywhere from $500 to $1,000 a month promoting affiliate products.

And the one that worked best for me, I would keep emailing the owner of the site with suggestions. My thought, if he did the things I told him, the site would convert more sales and I would make more commissions.

He would always reply back, "Kevin, these are awesome ideas, but you don't understand… I'm so busy with my other business I don't have time to spend on this site anymore."

After several months of this, he replied back, Kevin, what if you implement these for me and we split the profits?"

Too busy failing to actually succeed!

What was my first thought?

I was too busy with all the things I was working on (that weren't making me any money) to actually jump at an opportunity that would make me more than I ever had online.

Hopefully you don't make that mistake like I almost did!

Fortunately I got over that stupid thinking and got on the phone with Joshua.

He started telling me about his other company, that was doing 8 figures a year and growing quickly.

How he would create a marketing campaign and within the first 24 hours have thousands of new customers.

Selling things like cell phones, software, online games, niche ebooks, lead generation and more.

And how he was about ready to shut the site I was an affiliate for down because he didn't have time to mess with it because it was only doing $3,000 a month.

But he would give me a chance.

He was going to let me implement my ideas and we would split the revenue.

Fortunately I said yes because my life instantly started to change.

Within months I increased the sales at the site by 500% and for the first time, really saw the power of the Internet. And I was constantly soaking in all the knowledge Joshua would throw my way.

And to this day, he has been a great mentor and now also a close trusted friend. Just last year he invited me to his house to celebrate his birthday, his wife's birthday and their anniversary (they all happen at the same.)

To sum it up…

The guy is a genius when it comes to online business. He sees trends and GETS online marketing at a level I've rarely seen before.

A Big Break For You.

Virtually the entire time I've known Joshua, he was always the guy behind the HUGE online successes. He would be the one that REALLY made things happen but you would never know about.

And he rarely shared his knowledge outside of his close friends like myself.

Fortunately, at the strong encouragement from all the people he has privately helped (myself included) he is deciding to share his wisdom with you.


http://www.NitroMarketing.com/yourbigbreak

I can't recommend enough taking advantage of this opportunity to learn from one of the true masters of getting real results online.

He gave me my first big break online. And now he can give you your first big break online as well.

-Kevin

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This is a weekly series called "Everyday Entrepreneur" profiling successful online entrepreneurs who are seeing great success right now.

Please share this link with at least 3 other people you know who would also benefit from a weekly dose of success and inspiration.

http://www.NitroMarketing.com/blog/6-figures-a-month

Who: Jennifer McLean
Website: www.healingwiththemasters.com
www.healingrelease.com

"From Pinching Pennies to Fill the Gas Tank to Pulling In Six Figures a Month (all in a year and a half)"

After twenty-three years in marketing, she was toast.

Burned out.

Jennifer McLean was tired of working so much — to make other people millions of dollars. So she did what any reasonable marketing professional would do: she quit her comfortable 6-figure salary… to go sell insurance.

Two weeks later she realized there was no way on earth that was going to work for her.

With bills to pay and an area of expertise to tap, she decided to go into freelance marketing. It was like trudging uphill with a 500-pound weight on her back. She was still so burned out that putting her energy into this new venture was just about impossible — and it floundered.

Enter Dr. Joe Vitale. (Well, on CD at least.)

Jennifer listened to some of Joe's CD's and her mind started sparking with ideas, and what began as a very humbling chain of misfires started changing into a way to live her passion. She began building an online business as an affiliate marketer, promoting someone else's product.

Screech. Crash. Major déjà vu.

She was STILL essentially in the role of doing marketing for a client. It felt the same, and once again, she had no passion for what she was doing. Her real passion, being an energetic healer, was still not quite within reach. She knew she was onto something — but this wasn't quite it.

Then she connected with Ellen Britt, who was beginning a coaching program around a teleseminar marketing model based on the Nitro Blueprint System. Jennifer said, "Sign me up."

Before long, she realized she could apply internet marketing tactics to her passion, and create a business where "Every dime in my bank account is a direct result of being of service to someone else."

The coaching program wasn't even finished before Jennifer had taken action. She was blogging, working on her mindset, connecting with potential JV partners, and creating content she could multipurpose into different formats.

Ho'oponopono.

Jennifer's first product came out of doing an eight-week presentation on an energetic healing process called Ho'oponopono, which she recorded and formatted into an eight CD set. Working with her own product and some solid JV projects, she began building an email list, and went to work on what turned out to be the turning point in her business — a teleseminar called Healing with the Masters, which brought her shoulder to shoulder with the leaders in the human potential
movement.

"They might say no."

She realized they might say no going into each phone call with these giants in her field, but knew she only needed to find twelve who would agree to be interviewed by her for her teleseminar series. Of course, Jennifer had an ace up her sleeve as she asked, and it came in the form of a 50% commission on upgrading the free participants to purchasing the series, the participants are offered this as a one-time offer after they register for the free teleseminar.

It worked so well that her list swelled to 7,000 subscribers. The second teleseminar series brought in nearly 12,000 more subscribers. Within one year, her list had more than 33,000 subscribers. Just by being herself, she created enormous loyalty in her audience — and her speakers. Rather than feeling threatened, or like a competitor to her guests, she was a gracious host, delighting in cutting their substantial affiliate checks.

It was time for another book.

Jennifer notes that, "All books are marketing vehicles. They elevate your credibility and exponentially boost your status… and a best-selling book is even more powerful."

The "Big Book of You" sold out quickly, and Jennifer's audience appreciate her
as much as any of the big name speakers in the series.

Jennifer's Timeline:

2006 - started learning about online marketing, applying what she learned… but failed.

October 07 - bought Joe Vitale CD's and started getting ideas and making $100 a month on a good month.

January 08 - Started coaching with Ellen Britt. Discovered the teleseminar model.

February 08 - Started building her teleseminar series.

April 08 - Held her first Healing with the Masters teleseminar, making $10,000 - $20,000 a month.

Summer 08 - Held another teleseminar Vibrational Healing and a 5 week program on the nature of healing.

Fall 08 - Held her third Healing with the Masters teleseminar, making $30,000 a month.

November 08 - Sold out the initial run on her "Big Book of You" and created Big Book of You Teleseminar.

Feb 09 - Held an offline workshop generated from her list Healing Life, Healing Business.

March 09 - Held her fourth Healing with the Masters teleseminar, passing the six figures a month level!

(Each of these teleseminars have also become products she continues to sell.)

Jennifer's advice to you as you're getting started:

  • Pay your affiliates well. They are your advertising arm, and the easier and more motivating you make it for them to promote you, the better they'll do. You only pay them if they get results, and they'll get better results if the reward is high.
  • You're likely to feel afraid - but moving through and past the fear is rewarding. Don't get freaked out when you don't make money right away. Some strategies take time, and the individual pieces may not seem to be profitable - but it's important not to get ahead of yourself or to quit when they don't seem to pay off immediately.
  • Be friends with the influencers. If you can be yourself, and come from a place of contribution, befriending other people in your industry (rather than feeling threatened by them), you never know what could come from those connections. Jennifer ended up writing a chapter of Dr. Joe Vitale's book "The Key" largely because of her at-your-service attitude as she befriended him.
  • Don't try to make your dream pay your mortgage right away. The world of internet marketing tends to be filled with a lot of hype. The promise of making $30k a month with no effort is enough to lure otherwise sensible entrepreneurs into a very stressful, expectation-filled pressure-cooker.

    There are smart ways to make the transition from employee to internet entrepreneur - but you want to do it in your own time and following your own passion.

  • Don't expect this to be a life of leisure - but know that making millions for yourself instead of for your boss feels great. While Jennifer's working about as much as she did when she was in corporate America (nearly 70 hours a week some weeks), it's a night and day difference doing it for a business of her own. She can work from anywhere in the world, and is constantly grateful for the opportunity to help others.

What's ahead?


"The sky's the limit," she says.

Jennifer's hired some staff to help handle different parts of the business that are not her passion. She's planning a membership site launching in May, a publishing arm of her business, and more affiliate and JV programs featuring products she believes will help transform people's lives. Down the road, a European expansion may even be in the works.

==========

What would it mean to you, to have your own successful full-time online business THIS year?

Yes, to have a business that keeps growing every month, allowing you to work from home, doing what you love? (Just like Jennifer.)

There are 3 final spots open in our May "Go Full Time Online" workshop. During these 4 days you will work, hands-on with our team, to create your full-time online business before you leave. I personally guarantee it will create a DRAMATIC leap forward in your business.

If you want to have a full-time online business THIS YEAR, the best decision you can make is coming to Go Full Time Online.

Be one of thefinal 3 people (before they are gone forever) when you register today and decide you ARE going full-time online this year.

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What goal or dream do you have that you keep carrying forward, year after year?

And each year it becomes even more intimidating and insurmountable!

I had one for 10 LONG years, a goal that was REALLY important to me, but I conjured up grand illusions of why it was not possible.

Can you relate !?

This January, as I set my 2009 year plan, I decided to do something different.

The result…

I achieved that goal with one 15 minute phone call!!

And it ended up even better than I imagined.

After that call, I was overwhelmed with an immense amount of gratitude, fulfillment, and a core shattering realization of "success with ease".

Here's the story… and a VERY powerful "lessons learned" you can use right now today for your own goals. I call it the 3-Step "Success With Ease"
Formula.

It was 1991… the last week of my freshman year in high school.

We were sitting in the tiny high Webster City High School auditorium as they announced the seniors who won college scholarships.

Then they came to the "big poppa" scholarship, the AJ Julian. It was for $4,000. A small fortune to a kid going to college.

As they announced the winner and he walked up on stage, my friend since the 1st grade sitting next to me, Tony Neuroth, elbowed me and said, "Kevin, in 4 years that will be you."

If you knew me back then, you would know how crazy that sounded! I was a quiet, incredibly shy, awkward kid. Not the type that won awards.

However in that moment that I call an "Everyday Influencer" moment, Tony gave me a belief of "what if it was possible???"

Side Note: An "Everyday Influencer" is how any of us, in our everyday lives, can have a significant, life-long positive influence on others through small but impactful moments of seeing the best in others.

Within the next 60 days, I'll be starting a grass roots movement called "Everyday Influencers" and I invite you to take part in the fun and heart warming experience it will create.

If you know my story (you can hear it at the beginning of our most recent "Go Full Time Online" webcast), my family did not have the money to pay for college. And I knew the only way I would make it to college was earn my way through scholarships like the AJ Julian and financial aid.

And throughout high school I worked hard to receive straight A's with my eye on making it to college.

However as my senior year progressed, it became apparent I would need to spend my first 2 years going to the local community college because we just couldn't afford the college I really wanted to attend, Buena Vista University.

Then magic happened.

At the awards ceremony, they not only called my name for the "big poppa" AJ Julian, but also a half dozen other scholarships. I ended up earning over $8,000 in scholarships in 2 short hours.

Those scholarships, along with my financial aid package from Buena Vista, made it possible for me to go straight to my #1 college my first year.

Which also meant I was able to take part in a brand new freshman honors program the college started and I was accepted into for high achieving students. That included having the Dean of School of Business as my personal advisor, as well as spending 1 month out of the semester traveling for school.

I spent my freshman year in Florida, including the opportunity to learn from executives at John Templeton Investments, not to mention spending a weekend of leisure at the Florida Keys were we all caught giant Barracudas (mine is now hanging above the bar in my house!)

Then a month traveling Europe, meeting the people behind the upcoming launch of the European Union (this was in 1997). And doing a January internship in California (a dream come true when it was 10 degrees below zero back on campus!) and an internship in Dallas, TX with the local Development Office for Subway (I even got to meet Jarrod!) which is how I ended up in Dallas.

That's when the 10 year goal started.

When I graduated in 1999, I knew 2 things.

1) I was going to do whatever it took to be a successful entrepreneur, both financially and also in the contribution I gave back in this world.

2) I wanted to give back to my high school, and future kids just like me, by starting up a scholarship fund. (And of course it was going to be bigger than any of the current scholarships!)

And that goal sat on my goal list and was always posted up on my vision board, year after year after year.

In my mind, I thought it would take a 6-figure endowment, a big fancy trust, an overwhelming amount of paperwork, a crushing amount of hassle, did I mention the thought of a quarter million dollar endowment, and quite possibly I would have to also walk over broken glass while being punched in the nose by Mike Tyson to make it happen.

Do we make the journey so difficult we never set off on the journey? … Or do we make the journey so difficult we are an even greater hero in reaching the destination?

The SHIFT

This January, as I was sitting at my vacation lakehouse, reviewing the past year and setting my goals and plans for the new year. I realized something that REALLY bothered me.

This goal, of setting up a scholarship fund at my high school, had been on my goal/dream list for 10 freakin years. It had slipped into the realm of a "wish" rather than a "goal".

And I shifted my mindset…

First I realized after 10 years I had NEVER even taken the first step to make it happen.

A goal without action really is just an empty wish.

Second, I realized I had taken this goal and devised in my mind an extremely complicated plan to achieve it rather than looking for the simple solution.

Simple = Boring But Doable, while…

Complicated = Fascinating But Impossible

I first wrote down the first step to make it happen… call the high school and talk to somebody to find out the process to set up a new scholarship. I could do that!

LESSON #1: If you have a goal, or a project you want to complete, but find yourself stuck or not moving forward. Write down next to the goal the first step for you to take.

I've been using that one technique the past 3 months with AMAZING results, especially when I find myself stuck.

Then, I asked myself what's the simplest way to achieve this goal.

The answer — I don't have to set up a quarter million dollar endowment. I can instead just write a check for that year's scholarship and accomplish the same goal. And I could write that check that same day, there was no reason for it not to happen.

LESSON #2: Start using the "Success With Ease" approach. For every goal or dream you have. There are 2 routes you can take. The long, hard, complicated, almost impossible route. And the short, simple, easy and virtually guaranteed route.

From now on, borrow this saying we use here at Nitro "simple instead of complicated". Find the simple route instead of creating the fascinating complicated route. (You can always make it more complicated later.)

Next, I set a deadline and wrote it on my 2009 personal goal list. "Call the high school and start the process to set up a scholarship."

Then, as my friend Yanik Silver taught me, to make a goal come true make a public commitment so others hold you accountable. (Otherwise known as public peer pressure!)

At my January Vistage meeting, as we were reviewing our business and personal goals, I told them I would talk with the high school and find out the process before the end of the first quarter of the year.

So, obviously, on March 30th, one day before the end of the first quarter, I HAD to get into action! I got online, looked up the phone number and made the call.

LESSON #3: Assign a date to complete that first step… and then make a public commitment to employ the POWERFUL form of accountability - peer pressure!

The Rest Of The Story

I made that call on Monday, March 30th.

And in 15 minutes Kathy and Joyce quickly and ruthlessly CRUSHED my dreams of a long, hard, complicated, virtually impossible route to achieve my goal.

Instead, here's all I need to do.

Write a check, mail it to the school in April, and one deserving high school student will receive help going to college this year.

And what about that virtually impossible endowment?

All I have to do is write a check and the school, along with a scholarship committee of local bankers, handles the rest.

That's Success With Ease!

When I hung up the phone, I was overwhelmed with emotion.

In the big picture, I've given back much greater amounts of money to people and causes over the years. From giving my car to a single mother who did not have one, to large sums of money to the charities and causes that are important to me.

However the check I wrote this week was the most fulfilling giving I've done to date.

First, immense gratitude for all I have achieved in my life and the ability to give back and help others.

Second, and even bigger, the fulfillment of achieving a goal that I've had for 10 LONG years… a goal, just a couple months ago, that I probably didn't even really
believe would ever come true.

Third, and this is probably what's causing me to get teared up as I type this, the realization - through experiencing it first hand - of creating Success With Ease. And what that will mean for me over the coming months and years as I create greater and greater success, with ease, in all areas of my life and for others.

Your "homework" for today!

Apply these lessons to YOUR life, right now, while you are still thinking about it.

And share them by posting a comment below.

1) What is one goal or dream, that's been staring at you for TOO long?
And what is the first and *easy* step you can take action and it moves you forward?

2) What's the easier/simpler solution instead of the complicated solution that's been holding you back?

Just asking that question may reveal the easy/simple solution. Or you may need to give yourself time to let it come to you. Or you may need to ask other's for advice.

Whatever you do, trust that there IS an easier solution… and most likely just taking that first step will help you realize what the simple solution is.

3) Set a timeframe to take action and complete that first step (or more) and make a public commitment to others who will hold you accountable.

Posting it publicly as a comment below is the first way you can do that. I also encourage you to tell people you know as well.

Bonus 4th Question!!

I want to pass some of the wisdom I've gained over the years to the winner of the Wilke Family Scholarship For Empowered Youths.

What advice do you wish you heard as a High School graduate?

I'll be sure to make a future blog post that shares the letter I write for this future world changer.

To YOUR Success With Ease!
-Kevin

P.S. Did you notice I used the "Success With Ease" process in this very blog post?

I told you, and the 10's of thousands of people who are reading this blog post, within 60 days I'll be starting the "Everyday Influencer" movement. (public commitment)

My first step… posting online the simple 3-step process of instantly being an Everyday Influencer and inviting you to experience that immense personal satisfaction and fulfillment it will bring you.

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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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This is a weekly series called “Everyday Entrepreneur” profiling successful online entrepreneurs who are seeing great success right now. No greater opportunity exists to start creating a part-time online income and then turn it into a full-time income then right now.

Please share this link with others who would benefit from a weekly dose of success.
Who: Ryan Harper
Website: www.pigtones.com


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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This is a weekly series called “Everyday Entrepreneur” profiling successful online entrepreneurs who are seeing great success right now. No greater opportunity exists to start creating a part-time online income and then turn it into a full-time income then right now.

Please share this link with others who would benefit from a weekly dose of success.

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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