Internet Pursuit

It was 5 months since the seminar. I kept in touch with Joseph Gorman and his marketing team. Joseph and his team were actually falling apart. We had discussions about my membership site, they were all excited to get on board and promote it, but the real backbone to the marketing circle was John Wade. John decided split from product creation and fall into corporate consulting. He was doing well. Joseph kept running his PLR membership and his content sites, where he was doing ok, but not as good since Google changed some shit and cause him to lose a lot of money.

I had to get a job again, yea, it sucked, but I needed just enough to pay the rent. My friend hooked me up with a job over at Blockbuster, a video renting store. It started to get cold out again, heading into a strong winter. I started to fall into my old habits, drinking alone, smoking a lot, and basically wasting my life away. I felt I failed. I didn’t know what to do.

I leaned up against the store window, took a deep inhale on my Marlboro Light cigarette, and let my smoke filled lungs push out the pollution. I started to get scruffy again, haven’t shaved in a week, my hair was getting long. I was making a cool $8/hr over at Blockbuster. I was now 22 and a half. It was October, and we were having Halloween specials. I laughed at myself, I laughed at my life, I had an 18-year-old High School kid telling me what to do. I went at the Internet Marketing thing for a bit more then a year. I wasted a lot of money, and wasted a lot of time.

I walked into the shitty apartment once again. Man it was painful to look at. I no longer had the office in my room; in fact I moved my bed back into my room. I didn’t really have any friends anymore; I let them go when I got interested in this Internet Marketing thing. I downed a few beers and a couple shots of Vodka. I needed to get my mind at ease. I lay in my bed and lit up another cigarette and just stared at the ceiling, wondering, wondering if there is anything that I can do. I didn’t understand why I wasn’t successful, I’m hard working, I try to the best I can, it didn’t make sense to me.

I thought a lot that night, thought about my times of success with my membership site. I really wanted to run another one; I just didn’t know a good niche. I wasn’t very good at marketing online, with the previous site, I kind of felt like I got lucky.

I got out of bed, it was 3 am, I pulled a binder out of my desk it contained about 15 different Informational Books that I have purchased over the past year. I searched through the 3-inch black binder, and finally found what I needed.

Selling your Website

I read for about an hour on the topic, and started to get an idea. It took me less then a month to generate $2,000 in membership fees and then sell it for $6,000. If I did this every month, I could be making really good money.

IEl variante de poker poker como Omaha Holdem es igual a Texas Holdem pero aqui cada jugador recibe cuatro cartas con cara abajo. didn’t sleep that night, for the next 4 hours, I planned out my execution. I planned out that if I made one site, got it to make $10,000 a month, ran it for three months and sold it. I could make $100,000 on each site. I figured I could do this 4 times in a year, and make $400,000 in revenue every year.

Then I said to myself, “Why am I settling at $400,000, why don’t I create 2 every month and make around 24 sites. I could be a multimillionaire then.

My heart started to race with excitement, I could almost taste the money. The sun came up and I just finished listing 50 possible niches I could work in. I knew if this was going to work, I needed to be a two months in front of the game. I had to be focused, no distractions. This was going to be my life.

I knew I was going to become a millionaire.

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I knew I couldn’t just produce membership sites and hope for the best. I needed to learn a bit more about them. How they run? How they are formed? What makes them work? There were thousands of questions and I didn’t know where to find the answers.

Being the business savvy individual I am, and doing what I need to do to make it work, I contacted a few membership owners, I contacted one online membership and two offline memberships owners. I told them I was a reporter for a website and I wanted to interview them because we were doing a segment on memberships. I failed to get the online membership owner to cooperate, because he asked me what site I was talking about, and I couldn’t give him anything.

I did get the other two owners to let me sit with them for two hours each and ask all the questions I had. This is how I learned what I know now. I asked really specific questions, questions on keeping members happy, how do you pull them in, what makes them want to join? It was like my own one on one seminar.

Ronald Vander, owner of one of the offline memberships, his niche, golf, he was a really smart man. He caught on pretty fast, and said to me, “Steve, I know this isn’t for an interview, these aren’t the type of questions people ask, what is this really about?” I told Ronald that I wanted to run my own memberships some day. He told me to study memberships, study country clubs, organization, baseball teams, church organizations, men’s clubs, sisterhoods, fraternities, sororities, etc.

So, I went on my quest to understanding memberships, I did tons of research and studied what makes a membership work. I studies how people join, why people join, why they stay as members, etc. It was a full month of brutal research, and I kept a small marble notebook to write all my notes in.

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The date was December 1st, 2005; I felt I was ready to start my first membership. However, I didn’t know what niche to choose from my list of 50. That morning I decided to go workout a bit, I used to play a lot of basketball in my high school days, I was pretty good at it.

The game was moving pretty fast, all the cigarette pollution in my lungs was making it hard for me to keep up, but I kept pushing even know I was getting the most painful cramp under my ribs. The other team had a fast break, and I was left behind everyone else, trying to catch up. One of their players took a lay-up and made the basket. My team member quickly grabbed the ball and threw it over everyone’s head over to me, since I was behind everyone else I was already running down the court.

I can remember this moment like it was yesterday, everything slowed down, the ball landed right next to me and I grabbed it with two hands, I was about 5 steps away from the hoop, and a voice at the other end of the court yelled, “Dunk it!” I used to be able to dunk back in high school; I haven’t dunked a basketball nearly in two years. I took the ball and dribbled twice, and then took off my left foot. I’m around 6’ 2”, and my wingspan is a bit over 6’ 7”, I flew in the air, arm fully extended with the basketball sitting in the palm of my hand. I couldn’t believe the height that I got off my jump, it all moved perfectly with my momentum, my hand was about 9 inches over the rim; I was a foot away from the hoop, moving on an angle. I pulled back my arm to slam the ball as hard as I could. Slammed. The players made a powerful, “OHH Shit!” sound. My team won the game with an explosive ending.

When I was packing my stuff up getting ready to go home, two guys, same height as me, wanted to know how I was able to increase my vertical so much. I told them I did a program back in high school.

They told me they would pay to be able to jump like that.

I found my first membership.