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Affiliate Marketing, Google Ad Words, Rob, what happened to you? I responded.
Google Ad Sense, Network Marketing, Niche I will never forget his response. "Well
Marketing, Direct Mail, Real Estate, you know what the problem is Mr. Calvert,
Stock Market Investing, Direct Marketing, there are just too darn many ways to make
The 4X Market, High Yield Investment money" He went on to tell me that he
Programs, Direct Sales, EBay and Online still had his crummy job at the airlines,
Auctions, Information and all he had been doing for the past 3
Marketing...............the list goes on years was basically spinning his wheels,
and on and on and on. trying one entrepreneur enterprise after
Where do you start? another.
What do you do? He said he made the most progress during
Here is a story that you may relate with the short 6 weeks we spent together
and hopefully provide a couple of ah ha learning how to make money on EBay and he
moments. About 3 years ago I was speaking was ready to pay me my consulting and
at an Internet Marketing Conference in coaching fee to get him back on track and
Orlando, Florida. On the front row was a his income to $3,500 a month with online
bright eyed enthusiastic young man in his auctions so he could quit his job.
twenties named Rob. I see this epidemic everywhere I go.
I was one of the first speakers at the Would be full time, home based,
event and my topic was "How to Create a entrepreneurs that are suffering from
$5,000+ Monthly Income with EBay and information over load. They are a jack of
Online Auctions". I could tell during my all money making methods and a master of
presentation that Rob was getting excited none!
about the possibilities of making money Is this you?
with EBay & creating cash flow with I have to admit, at one time that was me.
online auctions. I became so fascinated with the Internet
When my presentation was over several and the possibilities that I spent hours
attendees went to the back of the room to upon hours studying different systems and
invest in one of my training programs. implementing few or none of those
Rob was the first in line. I discovered systems.
later that Rob had invested in my Deluxe Here is what I have discovered.
$1,500.00 How to make money with EBay Choose the strategy & systems very
package which included 8 hours of 1 on 1 carefully.
training and coaching along with the You must ask yourself, am I looking for
DVD's CD's and manual. short term or long term cash flow?
I noticed throughout the weekend that Rob Is this a system that I want to run for a
invested in 3 or 4 other programs during long time or short time?
the seminar. I thought to myself, this What are the realistic income
is good. He is a newbie and he is going possibilities for this project? This is a
to try to find the right cash generating very important question. One of the best
program for himself. I had the quotes I have heard over the years is
opportunity to visit with Rob briefly "You have to say no to a lot of good
towards the end of the weekend, and sure projects to make certain you have time
enough he had inherited about $10,000 for the great ones"
recently and decided to invest that money Once you decide on a project, you must
into a financial vehicle that would get STAY WITH IT, until you are profitable!
him out of his dead end job working for Always remember that the problem is not
the airlines. the project or the system. If other
I reminded him to contact our office to people are making it work, so can you.
schedule his first 1-on-1 coaching The real problem is always in the mirror.
session and encouraged him that online The best money you can spend is on
auctions can be used as a marketing one-on-one coaching from a mentor who
division with whatever business he knows what they are doing. These type of
choose, even if he didn't want to do coaches can take years off of your
auctions as a stand alone business. This learning curve, and will pay you back 100
concept is discussed at times what you invest in their knowledge
Six weeks later, I was reviewing my and expertise.
client list and going through some I personally do consulting with people in
records and I realized that Rob had never three our four niche markets. I also
called our office to schedule his first personally pay a coach in another market
one-on-one session which he had already I am in the process of mastering. I am
paid for. I rarely do this, but I always amazed that most of the time the
decided to pick up the phone and check in people that hire me to coach or consult
with Rob. with them are already full time
He told me that he had marked in his day entrepreneurs earning strong six figure
timer to call me that week. He then went incomes. Yet the newbie will spend
on to share with me three or four $97.00 over and over for the latest
businesses that he had unsuccessfully eBooks on the newest hot trend and never
tried over the past 6 weeks that had not even consider hiring a coach. Listen,
made him a penny. This was a clue, that even Tiger Woods needs a coach!
this gentleman definitely had unrealistic Once you start a project, STAY WITH IT,
expectations and I made a mental note to until it is profitable.
discuss this during our first telephone Think BIG! Once you have a project that
consulting session, which we had is working, ask yourself, how can I
scheduled for a week later. duplicate this?
Over the next 5 weeks Rob and I met on I recently had a lady from Utah call me
the phone once a week. My goal was to and wanted to hire me to consult with her
teach him how to make money on EBay and one on one to teach here how to make
become a full time entrepreneur He got money with EBay & get her business
20 items from his closet and garage on started and profitable. She was very
EBay during the first week and sold 16, discouraged because she had spent the
which is statistically above average. last six months focusing on how to create
His second week using some techniques we a website designed to create income from
taught he put $301.00 cash in his pocket. Adsense. After she got her "self
The fourth week almost $500.00 more and education", she built her site in less
he jumped over the $500 mark his 6th week than 3 hours. She said she had finally
earning $711.00. At this point Rob was figured out the formula after spending
well on his way to creating a full time almost $2, 0000 on books and courses, but
income successfully selling on EBay, and last month she only averaged about $5.00
I knew it was just a matter of weeks a day from her sight.
until he would be able to submit his My response, "You don't need me, you need
resignation to the airlines. 999 more websites". This ladies problem
His sixth week, he didn't call in for his was she wasn't thinking big enough and
scheduled training session. I assumed she wasn't thinking duplication. I told
that something had come up and was her after she had 1,000 websites each
confident that he would be calling to earning her $5.00 a day ($5,000 a day
reschedule. At this point I certainly total) She could call me if she wanted
wasn't going to beg him to continue his and I could help her get to $5,000 a
"self education". month in profit with EBay and online
Three years go buy and I never heard from auctions. She thanked me for the
Rob again, until about 2 ½ weeks ago. paradigm shift and hopefully I will never
The phone rang at our office and my hear from her again until we are speaking
assistant told me there is someone named together at a seminar somewhere.
Rob XXXX on the line. I thought to Is it time for you to quit spinning your
myself Rob XXXX, I know that name, how do wheels and get focused on exactly what
I know that name? systems and cash generating programs you
(I use XXXX to protect the guilty, but I want to master? A free book entitled The
will personally be sending him a copy of Top 6 Cash flow Systems for 2006 might
this article) help you, and you can get your copy at
I took the call, and as soon as I heard After you decided, get some coaching, get
his voice everything came back to me. profitable & duplicate!






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