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How Do I Hang Up My Job And Start Selling Shovels In My Niche?

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Discover how Russell Brunson started selling his Internet Marketing ideas and eventually making it to the top.

Start Selling Shovels 

OK.. here's where it gets a little complicated.

Before I finally learned this important lesson and took my online business into seven-figure land...

...and shared the stage with famous marketers like Mark Joyner, Brad Fallon, John Carlton, Mike Filsaime, Michel Fortin, and Carl Galletti...

I had to go drop-dead broke first!

I'm not kidding! Here's what happened...

In 2002 I married my best friend Collette. At the time I was still wrestling and going to school full time, and she was working to put me through school.

Because of NCAA regulations, even if I did have some time, they wouldn't allow me to have a real job, so I tried to earn some money online to help support our new family.

Lemme tell you, I was pretty darn particular about where I plunked down my money to educate myself about marketing. Heck, I only had an hour or so of free time a day between classes and wrestling practice to take action on what I learned.

Believe me...Being a poor college student with a new wife, there was absolutely NO margin for error.

I Had To Either Hit A "Home Run"
With My Business Or Starve!

So I started experimenting with various "turn-key" online business opportunities and bought a lot of marketing courses. Believe me, I kept really close track of how this stuff was affecting my bottom line.

Unfortunately, I went through two years of painful trial and error before I had any success in my online business. I think I must have fallen for every scam and "get rich quick" trick online.

Most Of Them Didn't Do Jack-Squat For Me,
Except Put Me Further In Debt!

The bottom line is this: I got ripped off a lot. Wasted my money. And I'll bet your dollars to donuts you've been burned, too, in the internet marketing game.

Heck, I think every serious internet marketer has been cheated--because there's so much garbage out there, and no objective scorecard to help you decide what works and what's real.

It's frustrating. Yet, when you want to make real money online in any niche, you need help.

But how do you know who to listen to when it comes to building a real online business?

 

I've got to admit that it's hard, and it's just getting harder. In fact, did you know that, in November 2006, there were at least 34 product launches that I knew about teaching one segment or another about internet marketing!?!?

Thirty Four!

Now I'm not a genius, but I know they can't be all the "best."

In fact, I KNOW they aren't!

Here's why:

I get almost 20 offers a day from internet marketers who want to joint-venture with me. I always tell them to send a physical copy of the course for me to review.

I've seen a truckload of audiotapes, CDs, DVDs, transcripts come through the office. Unfortunately, based on my own wallet-draining experience in college...

Most Of Them Are Not Even Close To Being
The Best Available! Even The Stuff From The
Wannabe "Guru's" With A Limited Track Record
Are Mediocre At Worse!

Even the products that ARE worthwhile only deal with one small segment of what it takes to sustain a thriving business.

For example, once you buy the course on traffic generation, you have to then buy the course on list-building, copywriting...

And on, and on, and on...

In other words, you'd have to buy a whole slew of courses (and drop thousands of dollars!) just to get a decent snapshot of what it takes to succeed in internet marketing!

Sure, you can outsource this stuff. But you've gotta know what to outsource!

And you have to have at least a slither of knowledge of what you're outsourcing, so that you'll know if the person you hired doesn't rip you off by doing a crappy job.

Here's the deal: Internet marketing (especially the "how to make money" niche) has skyrocketed in recent years. It's now a 100 million dollar industry, and everybody with access to a computer and an internet connection wants to get a piece of it.

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cannedguds

Another one of your great lenses and if selling shovels can make me money, there's no reason why I should not give it a try. Now I can earn money "twice" from selling shovels and from my Checks site with webpages that include Delux Personal Checks & other sorts of stuff! thanks again for sharing another one of your 5-star lenses! See you at the top!

Posted September 16, 2008

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Posted July 31, 2007

Lasse

Hi Joy,

Interesting content, I did not know Russell Brunson's story before this, its very inspriring story for all of us. I just rated your lense with 5 starts.

Keep up the good work,

Lasse
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Posted July 19, 2007

Richard

Right on Russell Brunson is truly teaching people how to outsource and how to make it online. I'm using some of his techniques to help me build my sites as well. I've successfully had someone help to build my graphics for my Internet Marketing Training Site.

Posted July 11, 2007

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