As someone in his 40's, I can assure you it takes quite a lot to impress me nowadays. I've read so many how-to books in the past and only a few really stand out. After a while, a lot of them all just start to sound the same. Then I came across The Millionaire Fastlane . It was recommended to me in a private forum of which I am a member. Since the testimonials all sounded so good, I got it. And boy and I glad I did!
There is something completely refreshing, efficient and paradigm changing about the way MJ has written it. It cuts through the fog and smoke, leaving you with the stark reality to take over and consume you.
So, that is why I am here. I thought I would peek at the forum and its very well done - I love the graphic design. Anyone know who did it?
Myself, I am someone who has had many trials and tribulations in running my own business. I have some previous sales experience and then moved into computer consultancy. That went quite well for a while. I even hired a fulltimer and a part-timer. However, that's when the wheels came off, partly due to my niavity. In any case, I learned many a lesson and even wrote a book on how to start your own computer consultancy!
I became fascinated with copywriting and the thought of running a mail order business. The passive and scalable nature appealed to me. Then the internet came along. I turned my book - not published but in pdf format - into a website where you could download it, all automated. I was pulling in $50K per year just from that alone for a while, until my rankings dropped and the internet became flooded with such offerings.
I set up an automated data recovery business, where I used a macro program - with over 500 lines of code - that would automatically run through an indepth process to analyse someones corrupted data, create a report, email it to the customer, update a database with their information and more. This is reducing the time for money equation. Foreign competition has beaten me to the gate a little with this now. They brought out software to replicate what I did as a service and so the floor fell out of the margins. Shame, it did ok for a while.
I went into affiliate marketing. Did some Adwords to Adsense arbitrage. When I first hit upon that, in my first week I did $1,600 in profit. The largest Adsense cheque I got from that was over $19K. You were only allowed one Adsense account per person, so I was researching how to create multiple identities, using Ltd companies and so on. I figured I could take the top 8 places on Google Adwords for my keywords, thus increasing my profits nicely.
Sadly, I went too slow. I thought I had all the time in the world but Google changed the rules and profits were massively slashed. They introduced something called "Smartpricing" which hammered the profit margins. Another lesson learned...
I own my own discussion forum, with over 24K uniques per day. I've been optimizing the ad revenue on that recently and have made good strides. It is what is keeping me afloat because 2 years ago I got hit with a lifetime Adwords ban. Google banned over 200K advertisers that year, clearing out their books and getting rid of many affiliate marketers. Shame, I had a nice steady income - but nothing spectacular - from one site. So, PPC with Google was largely over. Shame, because they are a first tier search engine with a 70% market share of that type of traffic.
I had 2 great months in the ringtones game. I did some competitive intelligence and found out how someone was raking in some good money selling ringtones. I did 2 months where revenues were just over $50K. I was doing over $2K in sales some days, with profit of $30K per month. This only lasted 2 months. Why? The USA changed regulations on how to sell ringtones and profits plummeted. I was out of the game.
So, you can see I have had many trials and tribulations over the years. I got places too late, took too long and so never took the opportunity to make decent money consistently.
My experience of online marketing is quite extensive. Know loads about SEO, PPC, Blackhat, copyrighting, creating websites, php, html. I can write books, program databases, do tech stuff. I love Rich Schefren's stuff - great blog he has - and he got me interested in The Theory of Constraints. Some of the diagramatic stuff is really good for problem solving. I've outsourced to the Philippines, had a couple of fulltimers working for me - but not too reliably!
I am single, but would like to settle down with someone. Currently clearing some business debt as fast as I can, which resulted from losing 70% of my income after my Google ban.
Always up for networking via Skype or whatever, with those who have good experience, are doing well or who are local to me.
My goal for joining this forum is to transform myself through creating better processes. I want to re-engineer what I am doing so that I have far more success than I have had. By moulding both my character and perspective, I hope to make great strides towards a highly prosperous business. At the same time, the business is to generate as much passive income as possible. I hate the idea of being tied down to either a location or time. Most likely, the vehicle will be they internet.
I also hope I can contribute positively to this forum and make some good friends!
Regards,
Jon
There is something completely refreshing, efficient and paradigm changing about the way MJ has written it. It cuts through the fog and smoke, leaving you with the stark reality to take over and consume you.
So, that is why I am here. I thought I would peek at the forum and its very well done - I love the graphic design. Anyone know who did it?
Myself, I am someone who has had many trials and tribulations in running my own business. I have some previous sales experience and then moved into computer consultancy. That went quite well for a while. I even hired a fulltimer and a part-timer. However, that's when the wheels came off, partly due to my niavity. In any case, I learned many a lesson and even wrote a book on how to start your own computer consultancy!
I became fascinated with copywriting and the thought of running a mail order business. The passive and scalable nature appealed to me. Then the internet came along. I turned my book - not published but in pdf format - into a website where you could download it, all automated. I was pulling in $50K per year just from that alone for a while, until my rankings dropped and the internet became flooded with such offerings.
I set up an automated data recovery business, where I used a macro program - with over 500 lines of code - that would automatically run through an indepth process to analyse someones corrupted data, create a report, email it to the customer, update a database with their information and more. This is reducing the time for money equation. Foreign competition has beaten me to the gate a little with this now. They brought out software to replicate what I did as a service and so the floor fell out of the margins. Shame, it did ok for a while.
I went into affiliate marketing. Did some Adwords to Adsense arbitrage. When I first hit upon that, in my first week I did $1,600 in profit. The largest Adsense cheque I got from that was over $19K. You were only allowed one Adsense account per person, so I was researching how to create multiple identities, using Ltd companies and so on. I figured I could take the top 8 places on Google Adwords for my keywords, thus increasing my profits nicely.
Sadly, I went too slow. I thought I had all the time in the world but Google changed the rules and profits were massively slashed. They introduced something called "Smartpricing" which hammered the profit margins. Another lesson learned...
I own my own discussion forum, with over 24K uniques per day. I've been optimizing the ad revenue on that recently and have made good strides. It is what is keeping me afloat because 2 years ago I got hit with a lifetime Adwords ban. Google banned over 200K advertisers that year, clearing out their books and getting rid of many affiliate marketers. Shame, I had a nice steady income - but nothing spectacular - from one site. So, PPC with Google was largely over. Shame, because they are a first tier search engine with a 70% market share of that type of traffic.
I had 2 great months in the ringtones game. I did some competitive intelligence and found out how someone was raking in some good money selling ringtones. I did 2 months where revenues were just over $50K. I was doing over $2K in sales some days, with profit of $30K per month. This only lasted 2 months. Why? The USA changed regulations on how to sell ringtones and profits plummeted. I was out of the game.
So, you can see I have had many trials and tribulations over the years. I got places too late, took too long and so never took the opportunity to make decent money consistently.
My experience of online marketing is quite extensive. Know loads about SEO, PPC, Blackhat, copyrighting, creating websites, php, html. I can write books, program databases, do tech stuff. I love Rich Schefren's stuff - great blog he has - and he got me interested in The Theory of Constraints. Some of the diagramatic stuff is really good for problem solving. I've outsourced to the Philippines, had a couple of fulltimers working for me - but not too reliably!
I am single, but would like to settle down with someone. Currently clearing some business debt as fast as I can, which resulted from losing 70% of my income after my Google ban.
Always up for networking via Skype or whatever, with those who have good experience, are doing well or who are local to me.
My goal for joining this forum is to transform myself through creating better processes. I want to re-engineer what I am doing so that I have far more success than I have had. By moulding both my character and perspective, I hope to make great strides towards a highly prosperous business. At the same time, the business is to generate as much passive income as possible. I hate the idea of being tied down to either a location or time. Most likely, the vehicle will be they internet.
I also hope I can contribute positively to this forum and make some good friends!
Regards,
Jon
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