I could Make SIX FIGURES From An "OUT-HOUSE" - with Internet Access and A Phone.

intresting story
when i came here i was lost and broke
i thought i try the IM trend since it was so hot but i just couldnt do it
im an oldschool guy
im a salesman
imo the best is strategic partnership
i had 2 succsess recently hope to continue the trend
deadlines can be very motivating from my experience .

Had to hit the thanks button cause I am pretty damn close to that point!

I nominate the above post for post of the year
That is the path to success, like it or not.

damn John way to light a fire under my ass. Thanks

"Anything the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." Mr. Hill

I read that quote and i can't disagree more then i do right now, you don't learn as a n00b in three hours how to use a free website platform, i am coaching a girlfriend of mine who isn't the dumbest person on this planet but even she, with my help, took way more then three hours to learn all this stuff and make the first income....

Again if you're in such a situation like you described you should be getting a "real" job instead of messing around with stuff that you don't understand.

You probably have good selling skills 90% of the population doesn't, what is easy for you becauase you know all this stuff, is tough on a lot of other people, (especially when it comes to sales), and no matter how dedicated they are, or how many times they take action it will not work that way...

If people need money to pay the rent they need to get a JOB IMHO and not mess around with internet stuff they ain't capable of...

Making quick money online does not exist, it takes time and effort plus you need to be constistent in what you are doing by taking massive action. But that was a very interesting story.

Great post John!

Both Amazon and Apple started out in a garage. Enough said.

totally agree... people need to have a mindset that they are totally broke to actually make something happen (hard to do unless really experiencing it)...

it is when you are down to nothing when your mind is 'activated' .... this is where you choose for yourself to: 1. borrow from family/friend. 2. rob a bank. 3. be on the street begging. 4. get very creative and do something that may unleash your breakthrough....

While I agree, that, in a situation of survival, most people are not going to take the time to learn something new in an effort to feed and cloth themselves...instead, they are going to do something that they can apply immediately, without thought - such as physical labor.

However, I also agree with John, in that, if you really want to learn something...if you NEED to, you will. Just do it. People are capable of great things.

Most people fail because they don't take action. They think too much. They figure out all of the ways that they might fail, before they even try.

When the act of learning something truly becomes a necessity, you don't have time to think about failure. Fear of failure doesn't exist. Survival mode carries a different mindset. It's all psychological. For most people, it takes great discipline to overcome the psychological roadblocks that prohibit us from taking physical action.

To quote eminem from the song Lose Yourself


"Success is my only motherf***ing option, failure's not"

"Feet fail me not, this may be the only opportunity that I got"

That might seem off topic, but its really not.

that is really what your post says to me, and i hope people take it in the context
it was meant.

You can do anything and be successful, you just gotta do it

John, I think it is the Forrest Gump syndrome you are describing (almost). To dumb to know you cant do it...so you do it.

I have hit bottom so many times and had every family member tell me to get a real job and leave the scams alone and yet each time, I guess I'm too dumb to know it cant be done because I constantly amaze them when I do it!

I have had so many exciting life experiences and made plenty of money from that "20 seconds of insane courage" that literally 99% of people will never see. We Bought A Zoo - 20 Seconds of Courage - YouTube

I've met movie stars living in Hollywood, made over 100K/yr on a job I was never supposed to be qualified for, wrote 5 published books...married the girl of my dreams from the attitude you mentioned....works

Funny John, my first report start with "If you can make money without a job, then everyone in your life is going to think you are a genius". Its true.

Sounds like you and I have had similar paths. I'd love to hear more of your stories.

Exactly

Passion and reason are both good , but this is why you have to marry them and not let one control the other...you can reason yourself out of the best opportunities where you may have excelled...so a bit of following your passion is good too, and letting it smack your reason around a little...

My reason says I cant pick up the front end of a car, but if my grandson was under one, my passion would say "step aside reason".

Passion has tricks that the "reason" is totally oblivious to, and cant even fathom.

Look at how America became a country...totally unreasonable to think it would have been possible.

Jay, I think he and I both may suffer from whats called the "hero's journey"... We accomplish things like "becoming a Nashville songwriter", that no one would believe were ever even possible, or selling 20,000 websites in one year...then fall...because we want to be our own hero again.

That may not really be true, but I read it once and thought "Is that me"?

Its no fun to do things that dont blow peoples minds... I like to do impossible things...once they become status quo I want to go do something else thats impossible.

I didnt have to be in Indiana, people were offering me telemarketing management jobs, or I could easily have went back to my old one... But somehow I had to do this (Above).

John , I dont think either one of us would trade our experience for a pension. lol I love being me, even though it gets me in hot water sometimes...like you with Hollywood...I have seen things that alot of [people never get to see and have perspectives that one couldnt have by playing it safe all the time.


It would be good to add a little jay rhome into the mix though!

Marrying a tad more reason to the passion...

I always have a company president when i do something big, because i like to be on fire, not tied down to admin stuff and maintainance.

Ps. Believe it or not, the situation in the OP was very passionate and driving for me. The discomfort was fueling.

John,,,,,,I really like your style and how you tell it like it is.

While were at it... heres the lyric...


Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip?
Yo

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready to drop bombs,
but he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down,
the whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out
He's choking how, everybody's joking now
The clock's run out, time's up over, bloah!
Snap back to reality, Oh there goes gravity
Oh, there goes Rabbit, he choked
He's so mad, but he won't give up that
Easy, no
He won't have it , he knows his whole back's to these ropes
It don't matter, he's dope
He knows that, but he's broke
He's so stagnant he knows
When he goes back to his mobile home, that's when it's
Back to the lab again, yo
This whole rhapsody
He better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him

[Hook:]
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
(You better)

The soul's escaping, through this hole that is gaping
This world is mine for the taking
Make me king, as we move toward a new world order
A normal life is boring, but superstardom's close to post mortem
It only grows harder, only grows hotter
He blows us all over these hoes is all on him
Coast to coast shows, he's known as the globetrotter
Lonely roads, God only knows
He's grown farther from home, he's no father
He goes home and barely knows his own daughter
But hold your nose 'cause here goes the cold water
His hoes don't want him no more, he's cold product
They moved on to the next schmoe who flows
He nose dove and sold nada
So the soap opera is told and unfolds
I suppose it's old partner but the beat goes on
Da da dum da dum da da

[Hook]

No more games, I'ma change what you call rage
Tear this mother****ing roof off like 2 dogs caged
I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed
I've been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage
But I kept rhyming and stepped right into the next cypher
Best believe somebody's paying the pied piper
All the pain inside amplified by the fact
That I can't get by with my 9 to 5
And I can't provide the right type of life for my family
Cause man, these goddamn food stamps don't buy diapers
And it's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer, this is my life
And these times are so hard, and it's getting even harder
Trying to feed and water my seed, plus
Teeter totter caught up between being a father and a prima donna
Baby mama drama's screaming on and
Too much for me to wanna
Stay in one spot, another day of monotony
Has gotten me to the point, I'm like a snail
I've got to formulate a plot or I end up in jail or shot
Success is my only mother****ing option, failure's not
Mom, I love you, but this trailer's got to go
I cannot grow old in Salem's lot
So here I go it's my shot.
Feet fail me not, this may be the only opportunity that I got

[Hook]

You can do anything you set your mind to, man

indeed... the mind is very powerful... we either can or cant... both options work ..

life is tough... not so long ago i did not eat for 14 days... only problem was i didn't even plan for fasting

I don't want to go back to that period again, but hard times are good for learning process...

I know Hard Times, he is the reason I have such a hard time eating ramen noodles now.

Safe to say.... we've probably ALL been there... I know I have too--many, many times... or we wouldn't BE here now... doing something I believe a great majority of people in the world consider to be one of the world's least understood ways to make a living.

But I have a counter-challenge for you John.

How about this... and believe me the following does and has happened to some...

Making "ENOUGH" FIGURES (SIX is nice, but frankly, a regular comfortable income is great too--for starters in any case) WITHOUT a roof over your head, NO internet access of your own, no phone, no food, no money...

Here's my own simple step plan (and one I have used successfully in the past)...

(While I have always been lucky to have a roof over my head, I have had times when there was NOTHING else BUT the roof, and this is what I did and that I believe others can do too)...

1. Pray. Serious. If you're someone who believes in that kind of stuff. I believe it helps.

2. If you wish to skip no. 1, then try this... BELIEVE. It is the first and ONLY way to achieve ANYTHING. ANYTHING. ANYTHING. Did I say ANYTHING already?

3. Make a SERIOUS DOABLE plan. Without a plan you're NOT going to get out of any mess easily if at all--the latter will happen ONLY if you're one those darn lucky guys or gals--you know the type--if you're NOT one of those... Sit your butt down, and MAKE A DOABLE PLAN.

4. Get up off your butt at this point and FOLLOW THAT PLAN.

I'll even do you one better, I'll share a plan very similar to one I used once to get out of being broke and virtually hopeless...

THE PLAN...

Here's what you can do if you're totally cash broke. Have no roof, no computer, talk much less of Internet access, no money, nothing. Not even the first, second or third meal of the day like most folks get...

1. Visit the busiest, most middle class part of your city where there are many shop or business owners...

2. Offer to build a CHEAPO ONE PAGE WEB SITE for them IN 24 HOURS or NO CHARGE.

3. Charge them just 20 bucks--it's a special you're offering to get folks who have NO web presence to go ahead and get this thing done once and for all AND get your own small business up and running.

4. Only catch--you gotta be paid half upfront and half when you come back. Some will say NO. Some will say what the heck... it's just 10 bucks. Trust me, there are people out there who give money to people they have never seen and have no way of knowing if they will ever see again, your job is to make sure their faith in humanity stays positive AND show up again, and with the goods as promised.

5. Get their details down in a notebook or a sheet of paper (better to go with a notebook but we're assuming you have NO money here, so you can actually get the paper from them). Get all the info you possibly can that will fit on one page... about them, some product/service info, contact info, etc. You can get free stock images off the web for them as well as create a simple NAME logo with free web tools. If they are really helpful, give them an email address they should send their logo to within at least the next one hour after you leave their shop/office--so that you can keep your word and be back with their site in 24 hours.

5. Take their 10 bucks. Get online at an internet cafe for a buck an hour. Google FREE web site builder or FREE web site, FREE hosting, or whatever the keywords are these days

6. Knock up a simple one page site with all the details you got.

7. Host it free on the web with one of those... theirname.ahostingcompany.com that doesn't show ads.

8. Email them the link.

9. Visit them the next day for your balance.

10. Repeat for 7 straight days or as much as you like.

If you can meet at least 5 business owners a day and close just one a day, you have $10 that day. Spend $1 online. $2 on an all you can eat buffet. Beg or squat with a friend/relative or find a shelter in the city for folks who need the helping hand. Depending on which country you're in, you can probably find some addresses online while you're building your site(s) for the day.

Save your $7 a day. At the end of a week, you could have $49 -- That will get you rent some nicer clothes or even get them cheap second hand. You may also be able to get some business cards made. By the second week you're a bigger fish than you were when you started... up your hunting ground, and up your price... $40 for a 3 page site. Same terms as earlier. By week 3 you can probably go as high as $100 for 5 pages, Week 4, a month after you started out with ZERO, you could be charging $150 - $200 for a 5 page site and even get monthly recurring services thrown in.

Now there will be a ton of sacrifices on your part to get this done. Like walking instead of taking the bus. Eating once a day. Sleeping outside/squatting with folks you don't know etc, if you absolutely have no other option.

But it can be done. I have done something pretty similar. Now, I'm charging $2,000 a site, and doing a whole lot more besides. Just went shopping for new electronics with the wife yesterday. Even she still marvels at how I eventually made it out of the sh#$ I was in. I was lucky, I had a roof, and where I was staying there was a computer.

But, I had NO internet access of my own so the computer was pretty much just a toy. I had to make my own way pretty much how I described above with some differences because of where I live etc.

I hit 60 businesses on foot in a week. Closed 12. Made $150. Then I met some clients who wanted other services. At least $200 in a week from those 2 clients in cash and in hard currency to boot. Then I moved further up from there with other projects. Sometimes things still seemed like crap and people still turned down offers but I don't give up that easily and I can tell you, not giving up pays.

I like these challenges. They are more fun than having everything SO easy with JVs and stuff you KNOW you don't really deserve. This way you get what you work for and can be proud of it. Whatever "IT" is.

Cheers,

Kunle

Wow!

Thanks!

Now this thread is taking shape. That is an amazing and awesome story!

Edit:

Your post almost deserves a thread of its own because people who are deep into a situation like yours was, are probably not even reading down this far because mine sounds pompous in comparison...

This thread doesnt event deserve your post!

But thanks for keeping it here... Unless you feel it could help more people otherwise after some thought.

Okay, if you say so, but there are at least 100 people here in this subforum who in the last year have reported their first online sale within a week of cold calling, having never done it before, many of them have never designed websites before and have learned, within the same week they learned to cold call..., and some who dont feel confident to design sites are doing appointment setting services for the first time...after reading a report only.

So I disagree, but life reflects back to you whatever you believe so, that may be your reality. I dont want to debate either. Lets agree to disagree.

Kunle,

Thank you for sharing your story. Those kind of stories make such a difference in people's lives and often gives them hope.

Too often I think people are afraid to admit that they have battled because they think it makes them look weak. Not so! They are stronger.

Di

Yeah I kinda disagree YGM. Not ganging up but a person's primary goal is survival and whether you know something or not, you are going to do it and THAT is sometimes your advantage...you didnt know you needed a lot of training and accidentally stumble on a new way to sell.

I taught one of my step daughters and her boyfriend in 20 minutes what to do and they had 10 leads between them by the end of the day and one turned into a customer that has lasted 3 years now. They said they were so scared at first but once they found their own groove (not what i told them), it went easy.

Also, when I first learned sales, I knew ZERO about it. I went to the library, got a library card, read about a few sales things and said well why not try it. I found a catalog of overseas suppliers and found a really good product to sell to people that owned older cars. I went to the same library and printed up some flyers (free up to 25 pages a day I think at the time) on a mac they wanted people to test out, went to parking lots and put them on old car windshields. I got a few calls and they turned into orders. I borrowed I think at the time $100 to place the order of the product from my mother (who was on govt assistance after blowing thru a $300K inheritance from my dad dying). I turned that $100 into $200 in a very short time.

No one taught me sales. No one taught me how to make flyers. No one taught me it was not a normal way to sell that product...I just figured I had to help my family...and I did. Survival. I later supported 6 people alone on this attitude (btw, I was 16 at the time).

Now, saying that, learning how to make automated money has taken me a few years in IM. There is NO way someone is going to pick that up in a day. I am training one guy that it is taking just as long as I did to make 1/2 my income thru automated methods (money machine as I call it). But that is not the point of this post it is if you are in dire straits, there is ALWAYS a way to make money no matter what you know!

You're one bad ass mofo, John!

Some wheels won't quit squeaking no matter how much grease they get....sometimes its best to keep the grease for the squeaky wheel it will actually help...

@John... this quote by you says it all:

"My reason says I cant pick up the front end of a car, but if my grandson was under one, my passion would say "step aside reason".
Passion has tricks that the "reason" is totally oblivious to, and cant even fathom."

I don't know if you've made that up or heard it somewhere but that my friend needs to be in books!!! Perhaps even the same books that Dave is reading in all the Business Schools and Sales Classes blah blah blah

@Dave There is no better teacher than experience!!! To say that those who lack phone or sales experience should not be in this business but should be out getting a regular job is a joke.... actually it sounds like something a scared little boy would say who doesn't understand that competition is healthy!
Also... I think I am gonna put Johns awesome quote into a QR code for you to scan and read everyday... I know you say the Dutch don't know what the codes are but since you've been around this forum as long as you have I imagine you know how to use them... Dude, why do I see all negativity in your posts... Oh and your comment about putting someone in an airplane that don't know how to fly was comparing Apples and Oranges which you have been so fond of saying... Instead of trying to argue, go have another blunt!

Ever get those vids up Michael?

Thanks Midnight Moon, appreciate that alot, and Im glad you get something out of all this posting! lol

Wow, I'm definitely inspired - that's the kind of gritty story that wipes away my excuses.

How nice all the friends of mr Durham come to help...


I disagree with this... you can learn by doing but if you're really in need to $$$ fast this isn't the way to go.. selling is not something you learn in a view weeks, it takes months before you even grasp what sales is really all about.... and yeah mr Durham can do stuff like that in two weeks but he hase sale experience ... he is not a not a n00b and he is giving n00bs false hope by saying grab the phone and sell... it just doesn't work that way.



Well what he is saying is that n00bs should grab a phone and go sell, sell, sell... when they do without proper training they will get burned and will stop trying, selling isn't easy it is a skill you need to learn... and grabbing a phone and calling businesses with a WSO call scrip is not going to cut it, period. maybe if he/she is lucky... but most of them will give up after rejection #100


LOL you guys aren't even in my marketing area and even if you where i am not afraid of any of you lol, but yeah when you don't know how to sell you should not be selling, if you don't know how to fly you should not be in the cockpit of a airplane, if you don't know how to drive you should not be behind the steer of a car.

Ohw and about the QR, nobody in the western world uses QR codes, if you quote me and try ti be funny with it use my quotes correctly next time, thanks.



That is what i call bullcrap, you can't sent out people to sell without proper training, yes that means more then reading a book or a WSO, and maybe a view irated people will not stop you, but when you get to call #100 and you get rejection after rejection just because you don't know how to pitch right 99% of the people will give up... and that is why if they are really in need of $$$ they need to get a real JOB and learn about sales until they are ready to sell the correct way.

That is the way i feel and think about it, i think it is wrong to have n00bs thinking that selling is easy money, because it isn't.

I didn't read anywhere in the post where the OP said it was "easy". I'm pretty sure being hungry, cold, and broke wasn't easy.

I can relate to this story in many ways. During one year I went through a divorce, bankruptcy, diabetes diagnosis, and a cancer scare. It was not a fun time (understatement).

When I decided to start making money online I had no technical knowledge other than how to send an email and surf the web. But I figured out that people needed articles and I knew how to write. I learned by looking at other articles on the web and writing better ones. I also read books by writers I admired. I can't say it was easy but I learned by reading and doing.

I think John's only point is that you can change your life if you make the decision to do so and work hard at making it happen. Whether you do it with a computer, a frying pan, or bucket and a mop doesn't really matter. The point is the same. If cold-calling isn't your thing then don't do it. Find something you can do. Of course it's not easy. The only easy thing is life is making excuses of why you can't do something.

Rose

Followers of this post :

look at these reply's and ask yourself : who would You like to work with, hire, be around, or BE LIKE?

the guy who comes and says " I can sell, and I can do it in a outhouse, in any city, in cold weather, I will make the calls, I work hard, I know fundamently it's all a #'s Game 1St, I Have a PMA, etc..,"

or the guy who say's " I need training, I have to be ready, I need to know the market,... yada, yada, yada..."




any attempt to discount this with Adverse replys will seem negative, counter productive, moving away from the real issue AND THE REAL MESSAGE, and Lame.

IMO

Thanks for the inspiring story John.

YGM: I'm very new here and not trying to pick an argument, but can't you think of a time where you were thrown in the deep end of something with 2 options.. succeed or fail?

For me I remember starting work in sales out of school, I definitely didn't have any study behind me. Our "training" consisted of building rapport and learning about our products, then we were thrown onto the phones starting with an hour a day and working up to your normal full day.

When put in that sort of position you either adapt, learn and succeed.. Or you give up and fail. It's really that simple!

That's such a great headline John ... and factual to. A few years ago i think there was a real estate guru by the name of Gary Allen?. He wrote a book called No Money Down. He became even more famous when he boasted he could be dropped into any city in the U.S. with practically no money and within a few days or weeks buy some property with positive cash flow.
A newspaper took him up on his claim and documented how he did it.
Your post tells a great truth that more people need to hear and act on.

This is a great read. Thanks for sharing.

It was very nice that you gave up your job to help your friend. I certainly couldn't do that, saying that I dont have friends. Alot of people give up their jobs saying they are going to make it online. What people should do is keep their jobs and start IM part time until they get a hang of it. Once they make maybe twice their salary then give up their full time job. I did start two years ago but didn't have the time to commit as I thought it was a full time thing. But its not. I started again this year 2012 and plan to reach my $2000 a month by the end of the year. I plan on tripling that next year and give up my job. I know I can do and I know that everyone here can do it. Just have a bit of faith and the willingness to succeed.

Great story John, thanks again for sharing, love your posts.

I took a less than graceful exit from the Gas Station/Auto Repair business in 2007 and was full time with Internet Marketing in April in 2008, there is a bigger than you think learning curve if you want to be very successful with IM. Hang in these, keep focused....this career is much better than getting a J.O.B.