Hello I changed to a new account to just ask a few questions to see if your story is legit or complete bollox I respect you & see you as an inspiration to anyone of any social/race/financial status/ and whatever else the f..k I might have left out.
I'm sure you can find out if you tried.
Ok anything I say is really not critical of you in any way. I don't know anything abut you what so ever and if anything I say feels like a direct assault on you it's not.
I have been pottering around now for over a year and the amount of complete bullshit that's out there is "sickening" and I'm yet to see anyone of any caliber or interest in helping anyone to learn fuck all online unless there is a "wait for it" course/group/membership/insider group/group insider/gold members/ I could go on.
If your story is legit I don't get it ? You talk about "the hood" or whatever your trying to describe, you say .......
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This part confuses me if you don't like the VICTIM mentality why even mention this "
I love to coach, mentor and train folks in what I?ve learned over the years. I don?t have patience for those with the ?victim mentality?."
Yet you go on about your hard times growing up ? Listen everyone has a story I can tell you from my experience, I was in prison at the age of 15 but it's not something I'm going to display "like your sad story" unless my objective was to sell something. You say "I love to coach, mentor and train folks in what I?ve learned over the years. I don?t have patience for those with the ?victim mentality?.
Then why the fu.. even mention "your sad story" if only to tweak emotions into buying something, to me it sounds like complete bullshit. Which if I'm right is sad and really makes BHW no better than the warrior forum. if you think I'm being excessive, show us how your going to help anyone other than taking their money.
This is just my opinion I am not making big money online or anything like that or saying that I am an kind of expert/anything I am not trying to claim anything, but mere observations of the same old SHIT. Please take no offense as there should not be any to someone as helpfull as you.
1. Your post confused me from the get go because I don't understand why you'd have to create a new account just to ask me some questions. Why hide who you are? If you're intention was not to hide who you are on the forum then why didn't you just use the account you'd normally be using on the site to ask me your questions? Maybe I misunderstood what I read.
2. You then go on to say you're "just asking a few questions just to see if I'm legit". For you and anyone else who reads this post I have nothing to gain by lying. I chose to tell you about my "sad story" (as you put it) so that members can get to know a little bit about me. There is no way to get to know everything about a person within a single post but just wanted to share what I had been through so that others who may be struggling can relate to my story or have some glimmer of hope that if a person with my background and upbringing can do this and succeed so can they.
3. I really do not have anything to prove to you or anyone else. I am
not being paid to monitor this thread nor am I being paid to speak at the event. As a matter of fact none of the speakers are being allowed to pitch anything at the event so it is a true
ZERO PITCH event from what I understand. That is to the best of my knowledge. As a matter of fact I just had a call with one of the organizers of the event a couple days ago to discuss some Creatives who confirmed that none of the speakers is going to be pitching or selling, how did you put it so eloquently...
"wait for it... course/group/membership/insider group/group insider/gold members/ ..."
We are all footing our own bills for travel, hotel stay and food nosquars so why would I tell you this
"sad story if only to tweak emotions into buying something..." Those were your words and for someone who "respects me" and doesn't mean to offend me you sure come off just a little bit offensive. I might even dare to say a bit angry which I totally get and can relate to because I was once where you are although I probably spent more time getting fed the bulls--t and WAY MORE money being ripped off until one day if finally happened. I actually made money online. I'll be sharing some of that information at this awesome event come November.
Let me be clear nosquars
I am not selling anything so not sure how you can make this argument or accusation.
4. I mention in my post about not having patience for people with a victim mentality because I don't want time to be wasted on the circumstances of their lives. It's about doing what you can with what you got. Not to sound cliche but it's about getting up after a fall and not worrying about yesterday's tragedies or mistakes or what may come tomorrow. To me the best thing you or anyone can do for that matter is start focusing on today and taking action. Better yet taking
MASSIVE ACTION!
Regardless of what you or anyone else thinks
I will always share my story because it does make a difference to people who THINK that this journey came easy or was some overnight success story. It wasn't and I didn't go into every detail of my family and my suffering. Days when I didn't even have enough food to feed my two sons when I was a single father just trying to survive. Days when I couldn't afford to pay my bills and had sh-- shut off so all the food in my refrigerator went bad. Trust me I did not go into way more than I could have because I don't need your sympathy. I don't need your approval. I was just trying to inspire folks who may be going through some of what I went through. I want members who are sitting on the fence to know that I too have been there and can relate to what some of them are going through. People need to fully commit to this and not half-ass building their businesses or it's never going to happen.
5. I did not take your post as a "direct assault" on me because you are 100% correct in that you do not know anything about me. There is nothing to "get" and no dark motives for me posting about my upbringing. I just wanted to let others out there know that it doesn't matter what you've been through, how much money you got, your gender, race, creed or color if you take the right course of action you will achieve some level of success. The problem as I see it nosquars is that so many people do not want to DO THE WORK or expect a miracle overnight. It simply does not work that way. You are right in that there is tons of bulls--t to sift through when listening to all the so called "gurus" out there telling you how they make $365,167.88 per month (or per day) all from the comfort of their homes while working only 4 hours per week on an island sipping a cocktail or having sex on the beach with two or more beautiful exotic women. YEAH RIGHT! If Internet Marketing were that easy don't you think more people would be doing it? It's like the claims that some MLMers make when they claim they are making so much money doing practically nothing. Of course they are doing something. They are building a downline and recruiting others to do the work.
6. First and foremost you have to understand that we ARE running a business nosquars and not a charity. I am not trying to offend or insult you although the reality is most of us in this business do what we do to make money and not for free because again this is OUR business. Basically everyone of these so called "gurus" is a marketer including myself. I am an Online Marketer who also works with Offline clients. So it amazes me when people get mad at marketers who are MARKETING their products to them in order to make money. This is what marketers do. They market. So instead of getting angry about being marketed too STUDY their marketing. Learn how they pitch and close. What emotional triggers did they push and how do they get people to part with their money? That is what folks should be doing then emulate them when marketing their own products, services and goods. Now I am not saying to go out there and rip people off like some of the "gurus" do.
With that said I agree that there are more snake oil salesmen out there selling snake oil and conning tons of innocent people out of their hard earned money. Some of these people getting ripped off are Newbies while others have been in the game for a year or longer. Regardless I don't agree that folks should be ripped off but here's where my next point is timely...
7. WHY do people buy things online from total strangers for $7, $17, $27, $37, etc. and expect that they are selling them the Miracle, Silver Bullet, Brass Ring System that would help them generate a million dollars in 90 days? Let me put it to you like this...
I can guarantee you that if you took a popular street corner for example Time Square in New York and you had two to three guys on each corner with a billboard selling their information products, courses, access to their membership sites, coaching programs, etc. etc. etc. MOST people would not buy EVEN with being able to meet the person and shake their hands in "real life" vs. reading a sales letter online or watching a video promising them the world. WHY?
Because their guard would be up as to this just sounds too good to be true. Keep in mind that you'd be in front of the person who's willing to take your money on the spot to hand you a CD ROM or USB Drive claiming that everything you need to know is on that thing and you'll be making money in no time. Would YOU buy it? Most people wouldn't but I can guarantee that some people would because they are HOPING that IT works! They are HOPING that it works like MAGIC and helps them make money. Notice I said people are hoping IT worked. I never mention that people go in thinking or realizing THEY'D have to do the work.
8. It has never failed that when most people realize THEY have to put in the time and work that they don't grumble or make excuses for why they don't get things done. They are under some assumption that the "guru" or their team was going to do the work for them and that they'd just sit back and make all the money. They assume it'll be easy and not have to put more than a couple hours a day into it. Let me ask you a couple questions now nosquars
(1) WHY would a "guru" share a system with you that is TRULY working so well and making them a ton of money for free let alone share it all so that it became saturated and
(2) WHY do people think that they don't have to put in the time and work????
You see it's like a saying I once heard...
everyone wants to lose weight but no one wants to diet!
Bottom line is most people already know what they need to know in order to make money both online and offline but have either a lack of confidence, some sort of self-destructive mechanism or are just plain lazy. Yes I said lazy! What really kills me as these same "lazy" people will go work a 9 to 5 making someone else rich vs. putting that same time, dedication and hard work into their own business. Is it because those people have been programmed to work for someone else and collect a paycheck to feel secure? That may be true in most cases. They do not have the entrepreneurial mindset and yes it begins with
that MOST important component... MINDSET!
I've always asked my students to take a hard look at themselves and the level of success they've had in trying to build a business from home working as an Internet Marketer. I ask them that if they were their own bosses would they have fired themselves within the first week or month because they don't treat their own business like a business rather more like a hobby? Do they put in 8, 10 or 12 hours PER DAY building their business and continuing their education on learning more about how to make money online? Do you nosquars? I know I did when I first got started taking it serious. I went DAYS without sleep and sometimes without eating just to get sh-- done!
How much money do people spend on learning new strategies, buying software/systems to enhance or build their businesses? There have been occassions where I have spent more than $30,000 PER YEAR on continuing my education or paying for tools to continue to grow my business and that
does not include the hiring of outsourcers.
If you treat your business like a business it'll pay you like one but if you treat it like a hobby then it'll pay you like one!
"Pottering around" isn't going to cut it nosquars.
Carlos Hilu Slim, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, etc. etc. all didn't build their multi-BILLION dollar businesses by
pottering around. They put in 80+ hour work weeks and also worked on weekends. Most (if not all) came from meager beginnings.
You end your post with the following statement:
"This is just my opinion I am not making big money online or anything like that or saying that I am an kind of expert/anything I am not trying to claim anything, but mere observations of the same old SHIT. Please take no offense as there should not be any to someone as helpfull as you."
You
are entitled to your opinion but you are not entitled to tell me what I should take offense to especially if you are seeking me to be so helpful. Have you ever heard the saying "You can attract more bees with honey."
I hope that clears things up for you nosquars and anyone else who has read your post. I will try to make myself more available here on the board but keep in mind that I am running several businesses and have a family to attend too so I may not answer questions right away.
I'm going to ask that members please be patient and that they respect my time. I don't think that's asking a lot for coming back and contributing here.
My apologies to those who felt this was a long winded post but just wanted to clarify things for nosquars and anyone else who has the mindset and expectations that he has. For those who do not know (which is probably most of you reading this) I use to have a free Internet Marketing Coaching Club and a couple LIVE streaming shows. I use to give away so much of my time, money and resources to those who promised if I would only work with them now they'd pay me for my coaching later. That didn't last because I soon realized that if one doesn't have skin in the game they won't value what they are being taught, given or receiving. I had a lot of students, partners and customers waste my time. Now I am sorry to say I that my business model has changed. The days of me giving away money, Omaha Steak packages, Christmas Trees during the holiday season and other charitable actions has gone away. It's not that the need has gone away but
the gratitude and appreciation did and so for that I just pulled back and focused more on my family, close friends, businesses and the non-profit that I started. Oh and of course my latest hobby of gold prospecting
Again I will try to monitor this thread more often to answer questions and reply to posts.
