Be careful who you listen to, and take advice from when it comes to making money in your business.
Recently, I read a critical review of Empower Network as a business model.
(so this person can save face, I'll leave their name out of it)
The review was extremely well written as a review, criticizing our marketing training, skewed entirely towards the negative. To be
exact, it had around 3,000 words, was 2 pages long, and had one positive thingt to say about us.
In the comments, the author was responding to every single comment, with responses like "if only people knew the better way... the real online business model... they would never fall for this sort of thing..."
Here's the thing - the site actually LOOKED like someone who makes money.
(By the way, it's rare for people who ACTUALLY make money to directly spend a lot of time criticizing other businesses)
It had good design, decent lead capture functions, and was ranked in the top 12,000 most trafficked blogs online.
It SEEMED like the person was an expert at making money online through blogging... and I even thought they must.
After all, back my 3rd month online - I was making $30,000 a month selling stuff that was impossible to sell, that payed from 20-40% commissions - with a shitty design, a slow loading site, database issues, and working out of a tiny spare room in my parents house in Alaska.
So this site - the top 12,000 online, beautiful design, a list of 19,000 subscribers - this person is an EXPERT at running a business online, right?
Well, I thought so, which is why I was perplexed by the review... until I poked around on the site for 5 minutes and found... (get this) this person ACTUALLY reports how much money they make.
I saw that, and immediately clicked on the most recent report, from October of 2012... I figured - man, this lady must be banking!!!
LOL!
Net income for the month of October? LESS than $700.
Less than $700!
When I had 1,000 people on my list, selling affiliate products, blogging from a shitty design, my income was $30,000 a month - and here is a person, with 20,000 subscribers - blogging for 3 years, who isn't making an AVERAGE American income, criticizing our training!
LMAO!
Seriously?!?!?!?!???? Your going to criticize a business model that has done $20.4 million in sales in 12 months blogging - when you're a blogger that makes LESS than $700 a month with a list that's 19 times the size of my list when I was making $30,000 a month? YOU are going to criticize ME?
"Everyone, save the people from that aweful Empower Network, where people make money blogging... Do it my way!!! It's better! After all, they had way over 500 people last month make more than me, 50 employees who make more than me... ALL of whom know less technical skills... and work less hard at this... but - my way is better! Listen to me! Give me attention, too! I'm an expert... and I can teach you how to be a guru, too... a guru who ALMOST is making $700 a month after my third year... Follow me, and maybe you'll make $700 in 3 years, too!"
How about the unethical practice of criticizing a business teaching people to make money online, and pretending you're an expert, when you can't even make an AVERAGE American income? Last month - we had nearly 700 people make more money than you, mystery blogger.
So here's my advice:
Take your criticism on how we run our business, roll it into a ball, and shove it up your ass. Keep being broke.
"Nobody ever built a statue to a critic." -unknown
Again, this affirmed several things that I've known, and taught for years:
1. People who make money don't directly attack each other generally. It's a waste of our time. (notice how I left this person's name out - and please, leave it out of the comments if you know who it is - this is not a bad person, they just have some poverty issues.)
2. Critics are generally broke.
3. Technical skills do not make money. Pretty sites don't make money. Good marketing makes money.
4. What we give people at Empower Network is extraordinary, in both value, community, our products, and our ability to make money blogging, and marketing. There isn't really anything like what we do online.
5. It's best to ignore the complete, absolute, total losers out there, who spend hours, weeks, and days being negative, criticizing others, and pretend that they're being 'fair' and 'unbiased'
Why? It's because of the truth:
There is no such thing as an 'unbiased' opinion. All perceptions in life are controlled by our beliefs, focus, and perception - when we have a belief - it is by definition biased.
6. It's important to realize, if you're going to be biased, be biased and rich - control your attention, and focus on people who can ACTUALLY help you get what you want.
Here's who those people are not:
People who are not making any money, and are spending an enormous amount of time criticizing others to get attention, who can't make any money with all their 'guru hood' and wisdom.... can only help you have what they have - which is..... (drum roll):
A crappy, miserable existence, that they are doing their best to project on to you. Protect your mind. Ignore the wussies.
I think when we first launched, people thought when I made fun of Gurus, it was people like Dillard, Seig, Ray and Fernie, Budd, etc. Not the case - those guys know what they're doing.
I'm slamming the people who think that they are a guru, and that you need to be like them - who don't know what they are doing, don't know how to sell, have never made a lot of money in their life in this business - who lead you astray.
It's time for YOU to get a massive, unbelievable result in your business.
Hit 'like' if you think people making $700 a month have no right in business to criticize the marketing effectiveness of a business that's doing $5 million in sales a month.
Hit 'share' if you think it's important to listen to people who ACTUALLY know how to get what you want.
Love you all.
