My success story? This is Chris here from AskChrisJensen.com. I have been working with Clint Anderson over the last month, and earlier today he asked me to do a guest post describing my success story as an Internet Marketer. Being a big fan of everything that Clint has done so far, I agreed to do the post. Here is my story, and I am sticking to it!
Unfortunately, I do not have a big sob story as to why I decided to get into Internet Marketing. I have been a restaurant manager for the last seven years. I am happily married to the woman of my dreams. We both have nice incomes. We have a nice house in Rockwall, Texas. We have nice cars. We have two cats and a dog. Life for us is pretty great. So, now you might be wondering, why? Why devote your spare time to making money online? Well, to tell you the truth, I miss my wife. We have all of these great things in our life, but the one thing that we do not have is the time to spend together. We never eat home cooked meals because we work opposite schedules. We get one day and maybe one or two nights together each and every week. It was killing us. We are really wanting to start a family, but we would both like to be an integral part of our children’s lives. Being that we are both in management, this will never happen. So I decided to do anything and everything to replace one or both of our incomes so that we could have the family life that we have both been missing for so long.
I started my quest into Internet Marketing just over one year ago. I started buying e-books. I started joing membership sites that promised me the world. I built websites, I built blogs, I built lenses, I wrote articles. No matter what I tried, I would do it, not see money rolling in, and then I would move on. Even though I thought that I was doing everything, I was going nowhere. I was not getting traffic, I was not building a list, I did not have a plan, and I did not set personal goals. This went on for just about 10 months. I was burned out, and I was ready to quit.
Somewhere in my quest for success, I came across another marketer by the name of Justin Brooke. I started following what he was doing by way of his blog and being a member of his list. I was really impressed with what he did, and I was even more impressed that he was actually teaching people what he does instead of trying to sell me the best new thing every other day. One day he sent out a message saying that he and his wife Chaunna would be holding a 30 Day Apprentice Challenge. This peaked my interest, so I decided to look into it to see what they were offering. They were going to start a contest for a chance to become an apprentice of theirs. They were going to give us little tasks to complete each and every day for 30 days. In the end, they will be choosing a winner who will become their apprentice.
So far, I am blown away. I have built a blog (and in my opinion, it is pretty impressive). I have started building a list. My list is growing every day. I am getting great amounts of traffic. I am getting unique visitors from the traffic getting secrets that they have been teaching me. I am so impressed with everything that I have accomplished since starting this challenge about 20 days ago that I have decided, win or lose, who cares? I have my own business. I am set up for success, and I know that this is just going to snowball even more. While I have not made enough to quit my management job, I know that this option will present itself in the near future.
I would really like to thank Clint Anderson for this opportunity to make a guest appearance on his blog. We have decided that in one month we will reconnect to see how we are both doing with our Internet Marketing careers. If you would like to see the exact things that I have done to become a semi-pro Internet Marketer, check out AskChrisJensen.com.
Go Hard or Go Home!
Chris Jensen
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Clint, I like it. You are the man of the hour. Real, personable, informative… and no spin. Thanks for putting it out there. I am sure it will strike chords in others to keep going. Mike
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,.. Credit goes where credit is due. Nice.
Chris is of course the man….. AND gave it a tweet.
I love it when reality oozes through the web onto the screen. Very cool.
It certainly hammers at the IMANUT issue… Thanks!
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