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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