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Taco Bell, Kinko’s, And The Story Of My Most Embarrassingly Stupid Failure?

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

I was driving home from grabbing a bite to
eat at good old Taco Bell last night, while
doing that I was listening to a new training
series I picked up on direct marketing and
well . . .

The guy was talking about free ways to drive
traffic online from offline and one of the
techniques he brought conjured up one of the
most embarrassing moments in my home business
career.

I started laughing out loud and shaking my
head in shame for what I once did. I was
sitting a stop light and the guy in the car
next to must have thought I was crazy.

If ever you think you’ve done something dumb
in the name of your business good old Daegan
been there too.

See, back when I knew nothing more effective
to do than buy and call leads I started to
grow restless for my lack of progress and
growing credit card debt. I figured I was
gonna take a stand.

If no one was going to teach me anything
better to do I’d do it myself. What did do?
Well it started with a Google search for how
to generate leads. I came a page that talked
about using “drop cards” to bring in the
leads.

I looked great. Testimonials of people
handing out these little business card sized
ads getting massive results. If they could do
it then so could I do.

I marched my silly butt down to Kinko and
printed up a few thousand of these neon green
suckers. They said “Looking for additional
income? - followed with my website.”

The price was about $200 bucks which was
quite a spend for me back in those days, but
I again went ahead and put in on the card.

Two days later I had my “drop cards” ready to
start bringing in the recruits. I started
placing them on car windows in my
neighborhood with excitement of the flood of
leads to come.

Two hours later . . .

200 drop card blowing the breeze. When I took
the train downtown I would leave a few
behind, I don’t think a sole looked at those
things . . .

The embarrassing part is, I just opened my
closet a couple minutes ago and there where
the remaining 1500 of those suckers starring
me the face reminding me of grand past.

Desperation drives you to do strange things.
If you think I haven’t tried all that crazy
stuff that doing work a lick, if you think I
was born with a silver spoon, ohh how wrong
you are.

What a looser, but at least I can take solace
in the fact that I tried. I didn’t have the
guidance I need, but sure enough I wasn’t
giving up.

When people ask me why I would give away the
exact resources I use to drive traffic to my
website right now. The answer is simple . . .

I remember being out there with the drive and
not the direction. I remember feeling lost,
alone, silly, frustrated, and plain out dumb.

I remember second guessing myself - “I must
be smarter than this? Why I can’t I make it
work if it’s so easy and duplicable?” and I
remember having no one really to turn to and
how isolated that was.

And well . . . I don’t want you to have to go
through that part of the success curve like I
did. In fact, I’d like to leapfrog you to the
good part as fast as I can. Why? Because
that’s what I wish someone would have done
for me.

The spots in my special little insiders club
are dwindling. Now that you my WHY behind it
maybe that’ll shed some new light on things
for you.

To make it simple. I’ve been at the bottom
embarrassing myself and it sucks. I don’t
want you to have the same story. Go here now
and let’s leapfrog the embarrassing stuff:
http://www.recruitlikecrazy.com/adlab

To the top,

Daegan
“The King Of Never Calling A Single Lead”

P.S. If these resources can bring in
$87,142.47+ per month for me, what if they
just did 5% of that for you? An extra $4400
a month would pay off a lot of bills. reduce
a heck of a lot a stress, and I guarantee it
would put a big old smile on your face. So,
why hesitate let’s get the show on the road:
http://www.recruitlikecrazy.com/adlab

Oprah Gets Brainwashed By A Cult

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

You and I did get brainwashed . . .

I’m gonna tell you how, but I want today’s
message to be a two part lesson, so let me
tell you a little story about how I came up
with this episodes title . . .

There I was walking into my local grocery
store to get my daily Gatorade fix (I got one
orange and one grape) and that’s where I saw
it. Sitting right there in front of me was
the headline “Oprah Get’s Brainwashed By A
Cult” on the cover of the “National Enquirer.

I was rushing to the back of the drugstore to
pick my daily fix, but when I saw this
headline it stopped me dead in my tracks. I
thought any headline powerful enough to make
me stop dead in my tracks on a mission is
surely something that will get others to stop
to.

So the first lesson of today’s episode is
simple.

Be aware of your surroundings. There is more
marketing going on around you right now
that’s working than you know. Anything that
works on you will work on your prospects.

This has several applications, and so I want
you to think about this. What was the last
pay per click ad you clicked on? It worked on
you right so why not your prospects?

What was the last article you stopped to read
online? What made you stop to read it? Was it
the subject? Was it something you really
really wanted to know? Whatever it was I
guarantee what interests you enough to stop
will have the same effect on your future
prospects.

Use this knowledge well . . .

But back to the whole brainwashing ordeal,
it’s no gimmick. I was in fact brainwashed.

See when I started my first home business my
mentors word was gospel. What he said I did
and never thought twice. I thought if this is
how he got there then it’s how I’ll get there
too.

Sounds pretty logical right?

WRONG!

I was brainwashed into thinking what they
said would lead to success without question
and because I allowed myself to fall into
this state I lost a good $7,000+ and had a
long, painful, and rejection filled 6 months
early in my education.

Would I go through it again? Heck no, and
neither should you.

Never take what anyone says to you as the
gospel. Look to the number and look to your
own results and that’s where you’ll find the
truth.

That’s why in everything I share with you I
make sure to give you numbers and NOT just
say do it because Daegan said. That stuff
just don’t fly in my world and neither should
it in yours.

Follow the results and you’ll follow success.
Here’s what I mean . . .

Last night I was going through a few numbers
in my business and noticed something really
strange. Strange enough, in fact, to make me
stop and really evaluate WHY I was seeing
what I was seeing and to put some hard
numbers to it.

The results were crazy shocking.

I found that one of my methods of recruiting
was out pulling the others by 836% when
analyzed.

What this means is if you’re advertising your
business and right now you’re making $2 for
every dollar you spend with this one change
for that same dollar spent you’d earn back
$16+.

That’s something to take notice of. It
stopped me so dead in my tracks that I
decided to put together the results in a
video and give it away freely to everyone who
decides to take the small plunge to pick up a
copy of my free cd.

As soon as you register, on the following
page the video will pop up and play. If
you’re interested in seeing this shocking
video and you haven’t picked up a copy of my
free cd, now is the time.

What you’ll learn will shock you as it did
me. Here’s the link where you can check it
out: http://www.recruitlikecracy.com/freecd

To the top,

Daegan
“The King Of Never Calling A Single Lead”

P.S The numbers don’t lie and when I saw this
ONE little trick was out pulling everything
else by 836% I took notice and so should you.
You’ll get the video free when you pick a
copy of my free cd. All you gotta handle is
shipping and that’s almost less than a gallon
of gas these days. A deal? Yes! Go here now:
http://www.recruitlikecrazy.com/freecd