What If There Was Something More?

Let’s be honest, we all start a business for one main reason: financial success and freedom of debt. But what if there was something more than just that?

I’m looking at my blog entries since December of 2023 and the comments that everyone have provided and there’s one thing that seems to be a common denominator: support. A lot of support even!

Looking Beyond The Money

Everybody that has seen the movie “Jerry Maguire” has heard the old phrase: “Show me the money!” for those who haven’t, the story is about a sports agent who’s pretty much lost all his clients, except one. And that one is at one point yelling into the telephone: “show me the money!” relative to the financial amount he wants as a new contract with his football team.

But my point with this is that although he at first was only looking for the monetary aspect, he found out that there were other things – more important things – that he learnt along the way.

Same for me here. I’ve pretty much been always alone during my previous internet business ventures. Even with the courses I took, there wasn’t really any support group or something like this blog where I could exchange on a weekly basis with commenters like yourselves.

I’m finding out that with this blog, I not only can reach out and comment about what I’m going through but I can also read your comments and how supportive you all are. What I thought would be pretty much a one way street came out to be so much more than that. I’m finally finding that my road to success and/or financial security isn’t a lonely one after all.

I wasn’t sure what Dean expected when he first started to want us to blog-hop amongst those like me are blogging about their internet journey but I do see now that – even though there are a few less members who’ve been consistent – both in their blogs and comments, they all seem to project the same support and enthusiasm; making the journey a little more fun when we inadvertently hit snags along the way.

Not Expected

Now granted, you might want to say to me: “Marc, didn’t you expect that?” and yes, there’s a side of me that would say that with Dean and his team at our side supporting us and every one of us constantly reading back his book, The Iceberg Effect, you would come to figure that all of this is part of the solution to achieve success.

We also tend to complicate things; you know – just to make our lives harder. Case in point, when you read his book, the one big thing that comes out of it is, “it can’t be this simple, right?” and truth be told, it is. We just complicate things.

I also love the fact that even before he even starts to talk about the business side of things, he talks about how success starts within – (chapter 2 -oh, and if you haven’t bought the book yet, please – use the following link – pay for shipping & handling and we’ll make sure to forward a copy asap; it’s worth it’s price in gold) – he uses several examples in showing us how our fears can hinder our success. In my case, I can say without a doubt that a fear of success was always just behind in my thoughts. Ironically, it was my wife who made me realize this.

She mentioned to me how I was a champion to help others and was great at planning, communication and anything else that involved projects like timelines, cost analysis, etc… but when it came to my own business… well, let’s just say I wasn’t as sure as I thought I was.

Starting On The Right Foot

So even with everything that has gone “wrong” or not according to plan, I still feel that with the support, guidance and direction that The Iceberg Effect book provides, I’m on a better path than I could have anticipated.

Time to put words into action and focus on the 4 core areas Dean talks about but more importantly look at traffic generation.

I decided to use Tik Tok as one of the free traffic generators for my blog and hopefully – with time – I’ll be able to get a ball rolling that, like a snowball rolling down the hill, will grow and grow and grow and well, you get the idea 🙂

Once that’s rolling I do intend on using a paid traffic strategy but only once I’ve mastered the one traffic generator (Tik Tok) because, like Dean mentions, trying to understand and learn and become proficient in too many traffic generators – Tik Tok, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram – all at the same time is like trying to catch too many chickens all at the same time!

So, I know that I had previously said that I’d already be on Tik Tok by now but it seems that my day job was asking a little more of my time and I just didn’t have the energy to get it done BUT next weeks blog will also include a confirmation that my 1st Tik Tok video has been published and you’ll be able to see how bad I not only look  on camera but how bad I can be at editing! LOL!

Seriously though, I do believe that if I give myself the time to learn, I’ll become good at it – pretty much what I’ve learnt about how to become good at voice-over work.

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To your success…to our success!