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So. Just a bit of motivation from somebody's who down right now but will never be kept out of the success.
I been poor and I been rich... and you know what.. i choose rich every fucking time but if I have to be poor for a second to do what's needed for fam/friends, i can manage .
I had a seriously GREAT run on the web 2002 through 2017's end..
But let me take you back .. before this, i was passionate about music & basketball. I sold my music in high school to anyone that would listen and got a song on Clemson University radio, which took off... made me a bit of a buzz around the town. I knew then, my dream would be to be successful in music one day. This led to me seeing a few artists from Texas being super succesful with the internet and I began to learn. NOBODY Believed I could make anything happen. Everyone thought my internet shit was a joke.
I founded a groundbreaking website in 2002 , which i sold to one of the founders of instacart in 2008, when he was just a millionaire (but still... well into millions lol).
Fast forward again.........
As a 20-something male I founded another groundbreaking project that combined models, my camera, & a product niche I loved. Taking pictures of women for a living .... Cool shit for any guy under 25 i must admit.
I let this project go though.. too many girls didn't really want to model. They just wanted attention and their 'young self' was effecting their 'new path' into being a fully clothed teacher or Government worker etc LOL
To go with this, I also started a subscription site where i gave people the product from that niche at lowest prices on-line more or less. I was getting like $49 to $99 per membership ... I sold this business off to a friend.
After this, about 2009 , I had a Youtube moment. Went viral and figured out how to scale things with SEO. Before people knew you could point links at videos, i as crushing it. I pointed this out on Wickedfire and wrote an eBook about it.. EVERYONE on WickedFire mocked me and took it as a joke. Now all those same people are doing those same techniques, started probably 3 years after my eBook (i sold a few copies, not many).
It was fun though with YOuTube..Got paid for appearances and all. Covered the hometown newspaper, made it to hollywood as one of YouTube's first groups to enter the Culver City YouTube space
Then .....once in Hollywood and I saw how fake entertainment was....... I was a bit annoyed ... plus I was losing steam / energy to blog and i couldn't provide links to my videos the way I was before... etc etc... And I found affiliate marketing. Oh.... once i found AMing, i had a life chanaging run from ~2012 or 2013 - 2015. Then 2016-2017, i banged it out for a bit and made some more dreams happen. Traveled the world. I have photos from around 2008 where i was sitting on my bed with the city skylines of the world I dreamed of seeing...... and by 2017, I had photos in those cities. Amazing life.
Now, in came 2018. I met a person who i cared about but soon became the 'crutch' of . I took on their wars and gave up my money and time to help them seem 'right' in life. Why? I didn't come from a wealthy background so I could relate. They were striving but their family was holding them back in some very wrong ways..... anyhow, all of 2018, i spent money and had no time.
The result? I went broke. From all the problems I helped fix .. i lost myself .. lots of stress and issues i had dodged all my life successfully. .. they finally found their way to me.... I even Even sold my gold and diamonds because I wasn't healed myself from all the negativity I was around and people kicking me when I was down.
So be end of 2018:
I was fighting my way back. I learend how to work reddit and launched a successful subred with 2k followers that are active.
I got on eBay.... By Jan 2019.. was almost doing $10k in sales the first month and stabilziing my life once more BUT they then cancelled my paypal saying i was high risk.. no other reasons.. no negatives on my account.
So, i transition into getting others to sell what I found I could sell.... And it went okay at first but once volume went high, I had to start cutting back because people couldn't handle the customers of ebay.
Meantime, i launched my own brand store with the product I knew were selling and that's been going well but it's not stable on Google so.... I don't have $$$ yet
In short... i'm still broke but I now know how to do product launches, funnel pages, reddit pushes, found new google news posts sources, have web site developers from Central EUrope (Trustable) & learned new SEO strategies....... BUT, i'm now living out of my car a few days until i get to a new place , just pushing through the madness waiting on my break.
And the funny thing, I just remembered my website of 11 years, one which i launched with my YouTube Career..... has a lot of bcklinks & content.... so i'm going to use it to fundraise and sell a limited amount of links.
moral of the story:
- Your ideas are the most valuable thing you will have as an entrepreneur
- What you've done in the past can never be erased or diminished. With the internet, many times, it can be revamped for new profit
- Ownership is important
- Starting over, forces you to learn new things sometimes that will take you up to the "Super Saiyan" version of your Goku self
As i type this, I'm in a public library ... most of my stuff in storage... and what i'm traveling to my next AirBNB rental with is in my car.
NEVER STOP! We all go through it. Just everyone's not ready to admit it.
I just want to admit it so when the stories talk about me, people know it waasn't fake.
I been poor and I been rich... and you know what.. i choose rich every fucking time but if I have to be poor for a second to do what's needed for fam/friends, i can manage .
I had a seriously GREAT run on the web 2002 through 2017's end..
But let me take you back .. before this, i was passionate about music & basketball. I sold my music in high school to anyone that would listen and got a song on Clemson University radio, which took off... made me a bit of a buzz around the town. I knew then, my dream would be to be successful in music one day. This led to me seeing a few artists from Texas being super succesful with the internet and I began to learn. NOBODY Believed I could make anything happen. Everyone thought my internet shit was a joke.
I founded a groundbreaking website in 2002 , which i sold to one of the founders of instacart in 2008, when he was just a millionaire (but still... well into millions lol).
Fast forward again.........
As a 20-something male I founded another groundbreaking project that combined models, my camera, & a product niche I loved. Taking pictures of women for a living .... Cool shit for any guy under 25 i must admit.
I let this project go though.. too many girls didn't really want to model. They just wanted attention and their 'young self' was effecting their 'new path' into being a fully clothed teacher or Government worker etc LOL
To go with this, I also started a subscription site where i gave people the product from that niche at lowest prices on-line more or less. I was getting like $49 to $99 per membership ... I sold this business off to a friend.
After this, about 2009 , I had a Youtube moment. Went viral and figured out how to scale things with SEO. Before people knew you could point links at videos, i as crushing it. I pointed this out on Wickedfire and wrote an eBook about it.. EVERYONE on WickedFire mocked me and took it as a joke. Now all those same people are doing those same techniques, started probably 3 years after my eBook (i sold a few copies, not many).
It was fun though with YOuTube..Got paid for appearances and all. Covered the hometown newspaper, made it to hollywood as one of YouTube's first groups to enter the Culver City YouTube space
Then .....once in Hollywood and I saw how fake entertainment was....... I was a bit annoyed ... plus I was losing steam / energy to blog and i couldn't provide links to my videos the way I was before... etc etc... And I found affiliate marketing. Oh.... once i found AMing, i had a life chanaging run from ~2012 or 2013 - 2015. Then 2016-2017, i banged it out for a bit and made some more dreams happen. Traveled the world. I have photos from around 2008 where i was sitting on my bed with the city skylines of the world I dreamed of seeing...... and by 2017, I had photos in those cities. Amazing life.
Now, in came 2018. I met a person who i cared about but soon became the 'crutch' of . I took on their wars and gave up my money and time to help them seem 'right' in life. Why? I didn't come from a wealthy background so I could relate. They were striving but their family was holding them back in some very wrong ways..... anyhow, all of 2018, i spent money and had no time.
The result? I went broke. From all the problems I helped fix .. i lost myself .. lots of stress and issues i had dodged all my life successfully. .. they finally found their way to me.... I even Even sold my gold and diamonds because I wasn't healed myself from all the negativity I was around and people kicking me when I was down.
So be end of 2018:
I was fighting my way back. I learend how to work reddit and launched a successful subred with 2k followers that are active.
I got on eBay.... By Jan 2019.. was almost doing $10k in sales the first month and stabilziing my life once more BUT they then cancelled my paypal saying i was high risk.. no other reasons.. no negatives on my account.
So, i transition into getting others to sell what I found I could sell.... And it went okay at first but once volume went high, I had to start cutting back because people couldn't handle the customers of ebay.
Meantime, i launched my own brand store with the product I knew were selling and that's been going well but it's not stable on Google so.... I don't have $$$ yet
In short... i'm still broke but I now know how to do product launches, funnel pages, reddit pushes, found new google news posts sources, have web site developers from Central EUrope (Trustable) & learned new SEO strategies....... BUT, i'm now living out of my car a few days until i get to a new place , just pushing through the madness waiting on my break.
And the funny thing, I just remembered my website of 11 years, one which i launched with my YouTube Career..... has a lot of bcklinks & content.... so i'm going to use it to fundraise and sell a limited amount of links.
moral of the story:
- Your ideas are the most valuable thing you will have as an entrepreneur
- What you've done in the past can never be erased or diminished. With the internet, many times, it can be revamped for new profit
- Ownership is important
- Starting over, forces you to learn new things sometimes that will take you up to the "Super Saiyan" version of your Goku self
As i type this, I'm in a public library ... most of my stuff in storage... and what i'm traveling to my next AirBNB rental with is in my car.
NEVER STOP! We all go through it. Just everyone's not ready to admit it.
I just want to admit it so when the stories talk about me, people know it waasn't fake.
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