The longest journey begins with a single step

I've purchased quite a few Internet marketing programs over the last several years because after 20+ years as a programmer, the passion to program has been beaten out of me. I need to find a new line of work, something that can replace my current income where I don’t have to work for anyone but myself. Dilbert is an oracle…

Some of those products I found rather good, others left me shaking my head. But I never found one that left me with the feeling, “Yes, THIS can change my life!”

I wanted one with no fluff, detailed information in a step-by-step format, a product I could get up and working fairly quickly, and something that was a repeatable system with metrics to measure success or failure by.

I recently found Steve and Tim’s Commission Blueprint and it didn’t turn out to be what I expected. That is a good thing.

This morning I decided to pull the proverbial trigger and do a complete “session” of testing 4-6 products at Steve’s recommended budget of $500/product. To answer your question, yes, that scares the crap out of me spending that kind of money. But as Dr. Susan Jeffers says, “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway!”

It helps that I’m doing some contract work in the evenings after work and on the weekends. I’m going to use that money to fund this project. If I completely tank, all I’ve really lost is time since the contract work is extra income. If it does work, my life changes forever…

On to chronicling my case study. I’ll update this topic as I complete each step along the way. Here is step 1.

Step 1 – Watch the videos at least twice, taking notes the second time
I finished watching all the videos for the first time this morning. Now I’m in the process of watching again and taking detailed notes to compile into a “playbook.”

Don't wish me luck but rather wish me the consistent persistence to succeed.

Welcome my friends to the show that never ends

My new friends over on the forum at Underground Affiliates, LLC suggested I start this blog to chronicle my efforts to finally make an Internet marketing program work and hopefully change the path of my life.

Hopefully it'll also inspire someone else to try to change their life for the better. I know I'm not the only person who's looking to change careers and gain more personal and financial freedom. I know I'm not the only person longing to break the M-F/9-5 work cycle. And I KNOW I'm not the only person who's tried and failed at other self-employment opportunities. I'll be 43 this December and things have to change.

Granted, I must take 99% of the blame for those failures. The British poet William Ernest Henley expressed it best in this poem:

Invictus

OUT of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

My next posting will be the content of my posting that started this blog and where it's headed.