Vick Strizheus: Success Secrets of a Top Earner

Good evening, Empower Network. My name is Vic, and we will be getting started, guys, in just a few moments. I hope everybody can hear me. I got Paul on the line. Paul, if you can text me, let me know if you can hear me.

I just want to make sure that everybody can hear me on this line. Well, guys, my name is Vic Streisand, and I'm fired up. Man, I'm fired up about being on this call tonight. I was actually just talking to Dave Sharp, and he asked me to get on the call, and I was honored. I'm like, yeah, man, of course.

Of course I'll get on the call, and we'll share some strategies with you guys, some things. We got somebody who is not muted on the line, and I'm not sure who that person is. If you guys can go ahead and mute yourself out, that'd be awesome. Okay, thank you very much. This way we can have a nice, clean call for everybody tonight.

And so what I wanted to do for everybody on this call tonight, guys, is I just want to talk with you. One thing that I don't want to do is I don't want to waste your time here tonight. I certainly don't want to waste my time, guys. So I would actually encourage you guys, if you want to, of course, to take some notes.

I think some of the things we're going to be discussing tonight will actually help you move your business to the next level. And I don't think, I know, I know that's what's going to happen when you take the strategies we're going to be discussing tonight on this call, guys, apply them in your business and actually take action on this stuff, okay?

Now, I'm not here to pump you up, folks. I'm not here to put fire behind you. But I want to give you some things that have personally helped me move my business to another level, okay?

Last time I chatted, when I just got on the call, we had like 1,200 or 1,300 people. I think we just maxed out the lines. So as people are logging in, they are literally being kicked off the call, but they can listen to this in the inner circle. Anyway, so folks, we will probably have a lot of new people on this call because Empower Network is growing like crazy and, you know, some of you guys may know who I am. Some of you guys may be like, well, who the heck are you, Vic?

And why should I listen to you? So two minutes here. Guys, I got started in this industry just like most people, with a dream, okay? I got started in this industry being absolutely broke, actually broker than broke.

I was actually in the hole financially. I had to borrow the money to get started, and lots of money. I had to borrow $30,000 to get started, but I was fired up. I had a dream, just like many of you guys listening to this call tonight, right?

Just like a lot of people starting in this industry, I wanted to provide the best for my family. I wanted to be able to take my family on nice trips. And I had that vision of, you know, how awesome would that be? So that's something that drove me.

When I got started, you see, I did not understand the principles of success, really. And I'm not sure if you guys are just getting started with Empower, if you guys are just getting started with wherever. Maybe you got invited to this call by somebody else. And in that case, I just want to welcome you guys. I want to welcome everybody, right?

Especially if you were invited by somebody onto this call, and you're just kind of checking out what this thing is all about, folks, I want you to pay very, very close attention. I don't believe that you're here by accident.

I believe that you are here for a reason, okay? In fact, I don't believe in accidents. I believe that everything happens for the better. And so the fact that you're here, you can actually apply the stuff we're going to be talking about to anything that you're doing out there, okay? Whether it's online, whether it's offline, whether it's selling your own stuff, or promoting Empower Network, promoting whatever, right?

I just happen to believe that I'm in the right place at the right time, and I'm fired up. Guys, I am absolutely fired up about Empower Network. I'm absolutely fired up about working with Dave and Dave, founders of Empower Network. Absolutely incredible guys. And just fired up about the future, right?

So I know we have a lot of people, a lot of the guys are with Empower Network. And so I just want to say that, guys, this is absolutely incredible, you know, what we're going to see here coming up, actually in Denver, okay? You guys, in Denver, we'll see something that will absolutely blow everybody's mind, not just with Empower Network members, but I think in the industry, okay? So back to what I was saying, guys, when I got started, I did not understand the principles of success, okay? And I was struggling.

I borrowed $30,000. I invested $20,000 of it for different marketing strategies. I just thought, hey, if I just have a website, right, if I just have something to promote, boom, I can just throw money to different advertisement campaigns and I'll be rich. I retired my wife. And I said to my wife, I said, baby, we're going to be rich.

We're going to make it. We're going to have a lot of money. We're going to be traveling the world. We're going to be living the lifestyle that we truly deserve. Now, what happened was, the things did not go as well as I planned them to go.

In about 60 to 90 days, guys, I wasted it. That's my story, guys. That's where I'm coming from, right? So the strategies we're going to be talking about tonight, folks, I want you to pay very, very, very, very close attention. I don't care what you do with this information.

I assume that you're here on this call to help you take your business to the next level. This stuff I'm going to be sharing with you tonight works for me. So, folks, I'm not saying this to say that I'm somebody special. I'm not, okay? I'm not.

I'm a guy who's a college dropout, okay? I went to college for six months, and I dropped out, because I wanted to hang out with my, at that time, girlfriend, currently my wife.

So I was not into the education, the college education thing. I dropped out. Guys, I'm somebody who, you know, English is his second language, okay? So it doesn't matter what country you live in. It doesn't matter if you got an accent.

It doesn't matter if you think that you have an accent. Whatever the thing is, okay? It doesn't matter. You can still do it, right? So it doesn't matter what your background is.

Guys, I'm here to tell you that I'm nobody special. But I've learned some things, and I applied certain things in my business and in my life that absolutely revolutionized everything in my life, okay? So I want to share these principles with you guys here tonight. And again, I hope you take notes and really take action. And actually, at least try it out in your business, okay?

And just try it out for the next 30 to 90 days, at least 30 days. I promise you guys this one thing, okay? I can promise you one thing for sure. If you take the strategies we're going to talk about tonight, specific things I'm going to be sharing with you, okay? Specific things.

If you take them and if you apply them daily, underline this word, daily, right? Not today and then skip tomorrow and then, if you feel like it, maybe the next day. Guys, daily. If you discipline yourself to take action on this stuff daily, all right? I can promise you one thing.

90 days from now, you will be a different person, okay? When you become a different person, okay, your business will naturally, effortlessly, by default, it will change, okay? Now, what are some things that I'm talking about here? So we'll be covering, there's quite a few things. That formula would be this, and I'm just going to share with you what my mentors early on taught me. See, I was fortunate enough, I told you I'm nobody special.

I'm not, right? But I was fortunate enough to come across some people, to come across some mentors in my life about 8 years ago, right, that taught me some things, and I was smart enough to follow the instructions, okay? So here is the formula, okay? Are you guys ready for it? Here is the ultimate formula for success, okay?

Thing number one, everybody knows it, okay? We have been taught this over and over and over again. Thing number one is, guys, just know where you go, just know where you want to end up, okay? Know your destination. I'm not going to talk too much about this because this is some fundamental type stuff, okay?

We're going to get into some specifics. We're going to get into some marketing stuff. I'm going to actually share with you guys some traffic generation stuff, give you some ideas, some really, really good, cool strategies that you guys can start focusing on. But we have got to talk about the fundamentals, some of the fundamentals, because that stuff is like, if you can imagine the iceberg, right, floating in the ocean somewhere. What you see at the top above the water is maybe 2% of what's under the water, okay?

You see, the top is your marketing skills, okay? It's your ability and knowledge how to get traffic. And, of course, we're going to cover that on this call tonight as well. It's your ability to communicate. Communicate with people, right?

That's really the 2% that you need to know. If you can learn how to get traffic to a website that you already have, right, and obviously if you're in Empower Network, that's great. If you have your own version of the website, great, right? And you learn the skill of communicating with people, okay? Guys, that's the top.

That's what everybody is looking at, and they want to see, and they just want to learn. Okay, how can I get more traffic? And how can I convert? How can I convert more people to buy my stuff? That's all they're interested in, right?

Is that little pinnacle, that little thing that's floating above the water, that iceberg, right, that's floating above the water, and all they can see and all they're looking at and all they're focusing on is that 2% of what's above the water. What they don't see and what they don't even want to think about is what's under the water that they can't see. You see what I'm saying? Okay, my friends. If you just take this concept, okay, and just literally apply this stuff in your business, you see, this is why so many people in the industry are failing, okay? It's because they just want to focus on that 2%. So here's what I mean, okay? Step number one. So the ultimate formula for success, my friends, is this, all right?

So step number one is, of course, you've got to know where you are going, okay? And the thing that I want to underline with that, and I've taught this over and over again, I teach this to my team, I teach this to my private clients and anybody that I work with, is clarity is power, okay? You've got to be, the clearer you are of where you want to go, my friend, the more powerful your vision is going to be, okay? Why is that important? Well, it's important because it's just like, I was just in Hawaii.

We had a team event and I had a little family vacation, stayed there for like two weeks. And I was at, in our suite, okay? And my wife and kids, we have four children. My wife with our kids, they were on the beach, right? And so I went to our suite to get something and they moved.

They went to a different location on the beach, okay? So I come out and there was a lot of people on the beach, right? A lot of people on the beach. And I just look at the place where my wife was with her children, and they're not there. They moved to a different spot, a little bit further down.

And so I'm looking at this big picture, right? I'm looking, there's a lot of people on the beach. There's water. There's a lot of different activities going on. There's a lot going on, right?

And I'm just looking. And I don't know if you have ever found yourself coming from a darker room, maybe a hotel or something, and you're looking at the bright sand and the beach and the waters and everything, and you're kind of squinting your eyes a little. But, right, so here I am. I come out and this metaphor hit me. I'm like, wow, this is so true when it comes to marketing, when it comes to our business as well.

I'm looking, there's people. And I see this big picture, panoramic view, right? And I can't really, if I just look at the big picture of things, folks, if I just look at the big picture of things, it's hard for me. I can't see my wife. I can't see my children.

I can't see where I need to go. Does that make sense? A lot of times, my friends, a lot of times people in our industry, people in the world, okay, people who are trying to go somewhere, they're just looking at things as this big panoramic view, okay? They're seeing this big picture, and they kind of know what they want.

You have this fantasy maybe, right? We all get started in this industry because we want better things. We want more time, freedom. But let me ask you, how does that look for you? Do you know the answer to that question?

How does that look for you? Do you have a clear, crystal clear picture of your dream? Do you have that? I didn't.

In the beginning, I didn't. My picture was, better lifestyle, right? I wanted to have more things and better things and more time off and travel. But how does a picture actually look like on a day-to-day basis? Have you ever taken a note?

Have you ever taken a sheet of paper and written down exactly how would you like your day to go, right? That type of clarity, my friend, okay? So step number one is know where you're going. And here is something I have discovered, and it fascinates me, right? It's, I don't understand it.

When surveying people and asking them, do you have your ultimate, how do you want to live your ultimate day, right, written down in writing? Do you have that? Do you know what it actually looks like? When you ask people for their honest opinion on that, right, most people don't. And I find that absolutely, it just blows my mind.

Why? Because it only, it's going to take you a day. But here's what it's going to do, okay? When you take the time to do this, and when you crystallize it, it's going to become your magnet, okay? It's going to become the thing that's going to pull you towards it when the going gets tough, when you hit an inevitable block, when something is not going to go right in your business, when you spend $50 on an ad and it flops, right, that vision, my friend, if it's powerful, if it's crystal clear, it's going to pull you in that direction, okay?

So here I am on the beach. I'm looking at everybody as a big picture, and I'm looking for that one person. I'm looking for my wife, right? And I'm looking at everybody, and boom, as soon as I spotted her, boom, I know exactly where I want to go. I know exactly the direction I need to go.

And I don't think about it. My feet just move, right? And there might be obstacles. I might need to zigzag between chairs and things like that. But I know exactly what my end destination is, where I want to go, right?

And I get there. Does that make sense? So simple things. I mean, fundamental things. But I found that most people, they have that, and they understand it, but they don't do it, okay?

My friend, you guys are different. You guys are Empower Network. You guys are on this call on a Monday night, right? Instead of watching football or whatever, or going to hang out at the park, you guys are here learning the principles. And so please take this for your sake, okay?

Don't do this for me, because I don't, you know, this is the kind of stuff that I do naturally right now. But this is the kind of stuff I had to learn. And when I learned it, guys, when I started to implement it, it changed my life, okay? Not just my business. It changed my life.

Thing number two, okay? Thing number two is you have to write it down, okay? You have to write it out. And again, I'm not going to take too much time because I do want to spend more time on some specifics here. But guys, just write it down, okay?

Write down exactly how. You want to write out your dream statement, okay? Just bottom line. Just write out your dream statement. Make it present tense.

And then here's the thing. Read your dream statement twice a day, okay? One of my mentors was Bob Proctor. And many of you guys know him. I still learn a lot from that guy.

And I actually suggest you guys check him out if you want to get his books. Phenomenal guy. He said that, when he was getting started, he was working at the fire station. He was a fireman at the fire hall.

And he said that when he came across Napoleon Hill's work, and he came across this book called Think and Grow Rich. And his mentor told him to look at the book, to read that book, and find a secret in that book.

You see, you guys probably all heard about Think and Grow Rich, and it seems like everybody in the entrepreneur world has heard about that book, right? But here is what Bob Proctor said. He said, my mentor said, find a secret in that book. And when you find the secret, you can get anything you want, okay?

And do you guys know what the secret was? The secret was this. Decide exactly what you want, write it down on a piece of paper, and read it two times a day or more, okay? Now, if we just leave things at that, right, you know, one would say, Vic, you're crazy, man, of course it's not gonna do anything, right? We still have to do some more things. But you see, guys, this is the under-the-water thing of the iceberg, okay? This is what's hidden under the water, and this is what most marketers don't understand, and that's a big reason why they're struggling. Now we're gonna move on here. So what you do next, okay, so you write out your statement and you read it twice a day. And step number three, okay, here's, you take massive action. Sounds simple, take massive action. How do you take massive action, okay? And what kind of action do you take?

Guys, I want to just be completely transparent with you guys and just talk to you like I'm talking to my best friend, like I'm talking to people. I mean, we were just in Hawaii hanging out with my team members, and this is what I was telling them, okay? I said, guys, first of all, before we get to the marketing pieces, before we get to the traffic generation things, which I'm going to share with you guys here a little bit later on this call, I want you guys to write these things down, and I really want you to think about it, okay, and implement it in your business and in your life daily for the next 30 days. Just do it for 30 days, okay? That's all I'm asking. Just do it for 30 days, and then when I see you guys in Denver, okay, you guys will tell me how it goes, is that fair, okay?

So thing number one is this, okay, guys, before we take massive action. See, a lot of people talk about taking massive action, taking massive action here, massive action there, but what does that really mean, take massive action? You see, if Tony Robbins says this, he said, look, man, if you want to get to a sunset heading east, you will never see it, right? So taking massive action in the right direction is how you want to do it, okay, is what you want to do. So here are some things that personally allowed me to take my business to the next level, and it was, I was struggling, I was spinning my wheels before I understood these, okay? Thing number one, guys, is this, okay: you will never take massive action if you don't believe that success and the lifestyle that you have written down is possible, not only possible, but possible for you. Think about that.

So what I want to tell you is, no matter what you do, you will never lose any point, any focus, no matter how powerful your business is. Of course, I want to give you all the resources that we need. It's hard, but it's easy to take massive action once you've done that, right? So you're gonna keep going as fast as you can the next day, okay? As we're gonna progress here on this call, everything we're gonna talk about, these are the filler blocks that are essential for your building, okay? If you don't have these filler blocks in place, okay, if you don't have these things in place, your building will not be sustainable, okay?

You will not take massive action. You may take massive action for like a week, okay? And then you will go back and you will maybe join another deal, and maybe you're going to jump from one thing to another thing like a lot of people are doing, never really succeeding in anything, okay? So here they are. Believe that it's possible for you, okay?

Take a look at Empower Network, for example, okay? If you guys are here, how many people are succeeding? Thousands, okay? Thousands. Now, unfortunately, the metrics, unfortunately, the statistics, is the same for a lot of places, right, including Empower Network, okay?

Like one guy on my team, okay? He was struggling for seven years, okay? What's the distinction there, okay? And then there can be a person right next to them, okay? Maybe sitting at the event right next to them, and that person is complaining.

That person is saying, hey, this does not work, okay? Why is that? Well, I believe that it's going to come down to some of these specifics, okay? So the first specific is, hey, believe that it's possible for you. We're going to talk about how you create that belief, okay, in just a minute here.

Part of how you create that belief is going to come from reading your dream statement, my friends, as crazy as it sounds. And I found this to be true in my life personally, okay? When I wanted to get something, right, I would always have a picture of it, whether it was written down or an actual picture. And every single time, okay, whether it's through, you know, I run into somebody, maybe I see something, I see an advertisement, I get an idea, I see a headline that I implement, and my business just goes to the next level. Something happens, to where I just come across a piece of information that helps me get to the next level, and ultimately helps me get the thing that I want, okay?

Now, I'm not going to try to understand how that works. It's none of my business, right, as long as it works, okay? And I'm just sharing that with you guys, what's working, okay?

Okay, so thing number two, and I see this, I run into people daily who, I say, man, if I could, I could just shake you up and just make you act like the person you want to become, okay?

So specific number two is, act like the person you want to become. When you think about this, guys, think about it. How would they talk? How would they walk? Have you ever thought about that?

So we're marketers, right? We're trying to make money. We're trying to build our businesses. We're trying to do big things in this industry and in our lives, in our business. But have you ever really sat down and been honest with yourself and said, okay, so how would a person that I aspire to be, act, okay?

How would they talk? How would they hold themselves? What would they think, okay, when they're at that level, okay? It reminds me of this little guy. I actually don't know if he was little or big, but the guy called by the name of Roger Bannister, okay?

And he's known for breaking the four-minute mile. And I actually watched his interview. He's an old guy right now. But in his interview, he was talking about how he did it.

And I found that to be fascinating, personally. I'm the kind of guy who's like, I wonder how it happens that a few guys come together, two, three guys come together, and they create Google? How does a teenager create Facebook? I was always fascinated.

How does Donald Trump lose all his billions and become bankrupt, right? And then gain his billions again in three months. How does it happen? I was always fascinated. So I like to read stuff like that, right?

I like to read about, I like to listen to interviews with people who have gone through that process, right? And so one guy I was listening to was Roger Bannister's interview. And he said that, when he was asked, how did you do it? How did you break the four-minute mile?

Because for hundreds of years, nobody, everybody said nobody can run a mile in four minutes. It's just impossible. It's been proven by science. It was impossible.

And this guy goes out there and does it, okay? He said, I ran a four-minute mile in my head before my buddy did it. And so as I was listening to that interview, again, I'm a business guy, right? I'm an entrepreneur. So everything, I find the correlations.

I kind of link things together really quickly. I said, hey, isn't it interesting that a guy ran a four-minute mile in his head before he actually did it? And you know what happened next, right? Everybody started to run four-minute miles. Now in business, right?

How do you act like the person you want to become before you become it? Think about that, okay? That's all I'm going to say. Just think about that. And I hope, if you guys are taking notes, you can kind of glance at it later.

And just let it marinate, right? As you go to sleep tonight, just think about these ideas, okay? I'm not here to put these on you. I'm just here to suggest them to you guys, right? And I just know that it's going to make a difference if you just take it with an open heart and an open mind and just let it marinate, right?

And think about it. As you go tomorrow, as you go about your day, as you go to work tomorrow, right? Maybe you're working from home. As you're doing your thing, just think about these ideas over and over again. And so thing number three is this.

Claim your territory, okay? Claim your territory. Here's what I mean by this. As a marketer, okay, how many marketers do you think there are in the industry? I think hundreds of thousands, right?

Millions. Millions of marketers. I mean, heck, there are some companies that have a few million people in their organization. And there are many of those companies. So millions, maybe tens of millions, hundreds of millions, right?

And you and I, we're marketers, okay? Think about this. Why do some marketers rise to the top? And some marketers, or most marketers, stay at the bottom, okay? Well, I think, and this is my theory, right?

And I happen to believe, and I happen to stick by it, is that as a marketer, if you want to rise to the top, guys, you have got to be somebody who's going to put your stake in the ground, okay? Here's what I mean by putting your stake in the ground. Don't be just another marketer, okay? If you're building your Empower Network business, if you're building any other businesses out there, okay, and I think if you're on this call, and if you're not in Empower Network, you must be crazy, okay?

Just get in, okay? Because in my opinion, I could do anything out there, and I just don't believe there is anything better than Empower Network, okay? I actually don't think there is any organization that's more grounded, that's better, that has better vision, better leadership than Empower Network. I just don't, okay?

So if you're not a part of Empower Network, a part of this family, man, just get in. I'm just telling you, just get in. So as you're building your business, okay? You need to, you don't need to be just another marketer, okay? If most people run their businesses as being just another marketer, okay?

Have something that you stand for, have something that you stand against, okay? Again, have you ever thought about that? As a marketer, I don't care if you're just beginning, or if you're a seasoned marketer, do you have your own vision for your own business? Do you have your own vision of something, why are you here? Why are you?

Are you just, do you just want to make another buck? Or do you have something invisible that's driving you? Do you have something that when people talk to you, when people read your email, there's something going on, there's something different about you, right? There is some kind of invisible energy that's going on there, and they can't quite pick up on that, but it just makes them feel good doing business with you. Does that make sense?

Think about that, guys. These are the things that most marketers don't think about, but these are the things that I implement in my business on a daily basis, okay? And these are the things that I see in people who are really exploding in this industry as far as being successful and living the kind of lifestyle that everybody aspires to. Guys, there is something about those people, if you really sit down and analyze it and just kind of look at it, there is something about those people that you can't see. You can't see it.

You can't really see it. You can't really touch it. You can't really smell it, but it's just there, you know? It's just there. And that something is how those marketers see themselves and how they hold themselves, right?

And their vision for what they do behind what they do, okay? So put your stake in the ground, and here's the easiest way to do it. Again, you can be just a complete newbie into this thing. You can still do this, okay? Here's how you do it.

You're building your list, right? You have your list going, hopefully. And so the way you do this is you communicate with your subscribers, okay? With your subscribers, you say, hey, this is what I stand for. Just wanted to let you know, right?

And through your actions, for example, I can give you my example, right. I don't tolerate any form of negativity in my life, including my business, period, okay? So people who are whining about things, right, on my list, people who don't like anything that I do, right, I just don't tolerate that kind of stuff, okay?

And I have been like this ever since I was getting started, and ever since I learned the strategies that I'm sharing with you right now, okay? Are you going to lose some people? Yes, right? But I'm telling you, the people that you're going to keep, the people who are going to be around you, those people are going to be your best followers, okay? Those people are going to do business with you.

If not immediately, they will resonate with you, okay. You don't want to attract everybody, but you want to attract certain people, okay, to your business. And so this is how I have been building my business over the last eight years. Seven of those were successful, okay?

And I was failing until I came across some good mentors in my life. So having your stake in the ground, you just communicate to your list, and you communicate from your values and from what you stand for and what you stand against, okay? I get, man, I get fired up talking about and just kind of crushing those people who peddle junk in our industry, things like, hey, just buy this push-button software and you're going to be rich tomorrow, okay? People who are just saying, hey, just get this line of code for me for 37 bucks and you're going to be rich tomorrow.

Okay? If you become a millionaire tomorrow, you're going to have 100,000 visitors to your site, we're doing nothing, okay? We all know that's garbage, and that's what's being propagated in our industry.

And there's a lot of garbage propagated in our industry. And if you're going to be just like them, guys, right? Just like those people, if you're going to say anything just to get that $25 sale, right? You're going to be just like another marketer. And you don't want to be that.

You don't want to be in that position. You want to be different, okay? You want to have your stake in the ground. You want to say, this is what I stand for. This is what I will tolerate.

This is what I will not tolerate. And, you know, if you like it, great. If you don't like it, you can not subscribe to my list. And if you have that kind of attitude, and if your actions back your saying, okay, if your actions are congruent with what you're saying, there is going to be that invisible force that you're going to create as a marketer, and people who are attracted to you are going to be naturally attracted, okay?

So, important. And as you guys do all these things, right? As you're building, and again, we're talking about the fundamentals. We're talking about some things that most marketers don't want to talk about, okay? But you have got to develop this belief that, hey, whatever you do, there is going to be no going back.

And my friends, I did a few times before when I was on this call and the Google Hangouts I did with Empower Network with you guys, and I just say this, hey, you have got to burn your bridges and you have to have no plan B, right? Just no going back, folks, no going back, okay? Now, when you're just getting started, some people ask me, they say, Vic, how do you deal with my situations? I just got started, man, and I'm not seeing the results yet and bills are coming in, and family members are being a little bit negative, and my friends think I'm crazy, and I have this dream, and I think I can do it, but I don't really, I get discouraged by my surroundings, by my environment, by the people that I hang out with. How do you deal with that?

And you know what my answer is? Guys, listen, I was just coming from, well, we were coming from Hawaii, flying back to the mainland, and as we were taking off, there was some major, major turbulence. In fact, I have never experienced that kind of turbulence in my life being on a plane. That plane was dropping like, I mean, it must have been, 50 to 100 feet. People who were not buckled up, they were up to the ceiling, and as I was sitting on the plane, and the plane is taking off, I think, man, here we are up in the air, we just took off and there is no going back.

We just have to go through this. You just have to get buckled up and we just have to get through this. And you know what? Deep down, right? Of course.

I knew that there's going to be, the turbulence is going to be temporary. You see, unfortunately, a lot of times in our business, in our lives, we go through turbulence, right? We go through turbulence, but we don't have, like, when I was on that plane, I knew that, hey, it's going to pass, right? The turbulence is going to pass.

We just have to get through it. And I know as soon as the plane goes off a little bit higher and higher, then it's going to be a smooth ride and a smooth flight. But when that turbulence hits you in business or in life, how do you deal with it? My friends, here's what I can tell you. I was in a situation in my life to where I really didn't have a dollar and 19 cents to my name.

I was in that position at one time in my life, and I had absolutely no idea how I'm going to feed my family tomorrow. I literally could not go to Walmart to buy bread to feed my family. Did not have a credit card, did not have a dollar and 19 cents to my name, okay? If it wasn't for my mother coming over to our house and gifting us $50 for somebody's birthday, I forgot whose birthday that was, just because she thought we were doing okay, right? And then she just didn't know what to get us.

So she just got us 50 bucks to buy something. And that saved us, and that put some bread on our family's table. Guys, I know what it's like to go through that kind of turbulence, okay? So when I speak, when I talk to people, when I write my emails, when I just communicate, right, because I have gone through that, my friends, because I have gone through that, and I know what it's like to be on the bottom of the bottom, right? I can tell you that, hey, whatever you're going through in life.

Right now, it's going to pass, okay? It's going to pass. Just buckle up and believe that it's going to pass, and there's going to be a smooth life. You just have to believe it. Whatever you're going through in life, man, and especially here, guys, you got the community backing you up, right?

You got the empowerment. When you go to an event, folks, the thing that's going to help you in this process, you're going through this turbulence, right? The thing that personally helped me through my turbulence in my life, right, was that I deliberately seeked out, I deliberately went to search for success stories, and testimonials, and people who have made it, and people who are going through struggles, and really just rags-to-riches stories, and I was just deliberately watching videos, and listening to people, and listening to interviews, and constantly saturating my mind with, you can do it, you know, these people have done it, and I was listening to the rags to riches. There was the success network by Darren Hardy that was running it. I don't know if it's still up or not.

The success training network, in fact, TSTN, yeah, that's where it is, TSTN, and he had a program there, it was called Rags to Riches, and so he would interview people one after another, just kind of talking about their struggles, and how they overcame it, and what did they do, and how, what helped them. I was just constantly saturating my mind with that kind of stuff, and when you're going through turbulence in life, my friend, okay, regardless if it's business, regardless if it's in your personal life, your personal situations, here's one thing that you just absolutely should not tolerate, okay? You should absolutely, consciously turn your attention away from people who are going to pull you down, and who are going to tell you that you can't go through it, okay? There is nothing worse you can do to yourself than listen to those people, okay? So just make a decision that, hey, I'm going to deliberately seek out people who have done it.

Go to YouTube, there's plenty, right? Get on these conference calls, listen to the inner circle audios, just listen to it, listen to it. The more turbulence you have in life, the more positivity you need to put in your head, because that's the kind of stuff that's going to get you through it, and as you're going through it, right, you want to read your dream statement as much as possible. Just read your dream statement. Don't let anybody steal your dreams, my friend.

If I would quit, if I would quit, okay, when I was going through my turbulence in life, I would never be able to get to this point, and I would never be able to impact the people that I'm impacting right now, and I would never be able to make the difference that I'm making right now in this industry, okay? And let me tell you something. You are here, right, and if you're going through some struggles right now, my friend, this is, you might not believe this. But this is for your own good, all right? Later on, you will be able to inspire other people because of what you have gone through, okay?

People who don't struggle, take a look at the kids of the rich people, okay? If everything is given to them on a silver platter, they never have to work for anything. They grow up being weak-minded. They have no idea what it's like to struggle. They have absolutely no idea what it's like to be on the bottom.

They have no idea what it's like to not have enough money, right? We all, every successful entrepreneur that I personally know of, okay, everybody, we're struggling. Everybody, we're struggling. And that struggle, my friend, is going to make you even stronger, okay? So don't look at this as a bad thing, okay?

Look at this as, hey, you're going to use this later for your own good, right? And think about it. If you give up right now, okay, if you give up right now, my friend, you're going to lose that potential. You will never be able to make a difference in the world, okay? And let me tell you something.

You're listening to my voice tonight. You can make a big difference for somebody else. You can make a big difference for your family. You will make a big difference for other people, thousands of other people, tens of thousands of other people, if you believe, okay? You have got to believe that you can do it, my friend.

And I'm here to tell you, you can do it, okay? So just have a no-going-back attitude, okay? Regardless of what you do, regardless of how bad it may get, no-going-back attitude, okay? It's just no going back.

Just don't even tolerate. Don't even think about any other plans, right? Something else I want to talk to you guys about, and I think this is important, okay? As you're building your business, as you're going towards your dream, you have got to use the language of success, okay? And I wanted to cover this because I see so many people building their businesses, but they're using language of failure, okay?

Guys, there is a difference between the language of success and the language of failure, okay? Some of you guys listening to this call tonight, you probably already know what I'm going to say, right? I just did a video on this topic, right? But just briefly, I want you guys, again, if you're taking notes, I want you guys to just think about this, okay? Just consider it.

Just give it a shot, okay? That's all I'm asking. Just give it a shot and see what happens, okay? What's the language of success? And when I say language, I'm talking about how you think, because how you think is essentially, you're just talking to yourself in your head, right?

When we think, we're just talking to ourselves in our head. So it's how you think and how you actually talk, how you talk with yourself, how you talk with others, okay? You know what most marketers, and what most people really in the world, they're just using failure-type language. They just say things like, well, I hope it's going to work for me, and I'm going to give it a shot. I'm going to go and just try this out for 25 bucks and just kind of see what happens.

Hopefully it's going to work. And they say hopefully a lot. Have you ever noticed that? And you know what else they say? They say, I'll try.

They'll say that a lot too. They say, I'll try that, okay? And guys, it's a language of failure, okay? Language of failure. Failures use the language of failure.

Successful people, people who are rich, people who are successful, okay, they're using the language of success. And, you know, I'll try it, I hope it's going to work, right? Okay.

If this were your only way to do it, and it's either do or die for you, you will never say, I'm going to try, I'm going to hope. You're going to say, I'm going to do it. I'm going to figure out how to do it, okay? If I'm going to go through a struggle right now, if I'm going to go through some turbulence right now, I don't care, because I will do it. And that's how successful people talk, okay?

And back in the days, I was using a lot of the failure-type language, and I was saying, well, I'll try it, you know? I'll try it. I hope it works, right? And what I got is exactly that, hoping. I was hoping always.

I would invest money on different ad campaigns, and I was hoping. I was hoping, okay? Now, you say, Vic, you're talking about all this stuff, but really just, man, just teach me traffic generation stuff, man. Guys, I'll tell you a cool resource when it comes to traffic here in a minute. But I'm telling you, unless you understand these concepts, unless you build that, I mean, what's a good way to put it?

Unless you really look at the ingredients of what's going on under the water of that traffic generation, that iceberg that's floating in the ocean, okay, guys, that little tip that's above the water, it's nothing, okay? If you just focus on that, that's all you have, is that little tip, okay, that's floating above the water. And you know what? A few waves are going to crush it, okay?

But if you take a look at the whole complete iceberg, including what's under the water, okay, what's under the water is 95%, and what's above the water is like 5%. Okay, so this is the 95% kind of stuff, okay? I hope you guys are taking this stuff seriously. So use the language of success, as you go, just give this a test for the next 30 days. In fact, I want to challenge you guys.

You guys up for the challenge? Okay, let's do this. We have an event coming up in Denver, all right? So you guys are on this call tonight, and if the person listening to this recording, go ahead, if you guys are up for the challenge, as Dave Wood would say, right, don't be a wooshie. I would actually throw this challenge at you, okay, which is exactly what I'm going to do tonight on this call, okay?

And then when I see you guys in Denver, July 19th, I want you guys to tell me how it went for you, okay? So here's the challenge. You ready? So the challenge is this. Make tomorrow a better day than you had today, okay?

Well, let me rephrase it just a little bit, okay? Become a better person tomorrow than you were today, okay? Become a better person. Become a better person. Become a better person tomorrow than you were today.

Now, you don't have to be dramatically, like night-and-day kind of better, right? But just strive. Just don't kid yourself, right? You can kid me. You can kid your neighbor, but you can't really kid yourself, you know?

Be honest with yourself. And for the next however many days we have until Denver, okay, guys, strive. Do your absolute best, okay? Don't go to bed at night if you did not improve something in your life or just something inside of you as a person, okay? Now, here are some things that will help you, okay?

You ready? So here are some things that will help you. Now, why do I want to throw this challenge at you? Well, simple, okay? I believe that if you take this challenge, and if you seriously take this, okay, I believe that the marketing part of it, marketing part of the business, and actually making money is going to be so much easier for you guys.

I promise you that, okay? I promise you. And I want you to let me know in Denver when you see me in Denver. And if you will be honest with yourself, you will find this to be true, okay? So here are some things that will help you with this challenge, okay?

So what I would do if I were you is I would read daily, okay? This is, in fact, this is one of the core commitments of Empower Network, right? Is reading daily. This is one thing that I'm constantly preaching to my people, right?

People who are private clients, people who fly out to my office. I had a couple people here at my office, and we were talking about this. And I said, hey, the first thing I say is, hey, you got to improve yourself. And how do you do that? You read daily.

Before I got started with my online business, there was a year to where I went to work for an insurance company, okay? And I was a part of the organization, of a team, of an agency. And these guys were making big bucks. The agency manager, he was earning like 2 million bucks a year. And one thing that he taught his team, or his agents, is he was adamant about reading.

He's like, you guys, you have got to read. You have got to read. You have got to read. And you know what? I got an idea.

And I got this thought in my head. I'm like, well, why is he talking about reading all the time? But you know what?

As I look back and I look at him, and the guy was earning 2 million bucks a year, okay, you look at Dave Sharp, okay? You look at Dave Wood. Dave Wood reads all the time. Dave Sharp does the same, okay? We were in Hawaii, and we had Les Brown.

You guys know who Les Brown is, right? We invited him to our mastermind, to our little training. And this is a guy who is in the Toastmasters International, being, I believe, top five or top ten speakers in the world. In the world. Think about it.

Top five in the world, okay? And you know what he said? He said, I read daily. I read daily. And you know what?

When I look at marketers, and when I look at people who are complaining about why their businesses don't grow, why they can't make money online, why they're struggling, right, the last thing they want to do is read. The last thing they want to do is read. So what do you read? Guys, I'll give you a couple suggestions, but I do read a lot.

I personally, well, I'll be completely upfront with you guys. I read about anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes a day. Most of the time it's about 30 minutes a day, okay? Including weekends, including every day. So here are a couple books I can give you that will help you as a marketer, okay, specifically as a marketer, okay?

And the first one is by Alan Loy McGinnis. Alan Loy McGinnis, M-C-G-I-N-N-I-S, okay? And the book is called Bringing Out the Best in People. Bringing Out the Best in People, okay? It's a cool little book.

You can actually read it probably in one sitting. It's not very long. It's a very, very easy read. But he's talking about different things on how to become a better communicator, right? How to get closer to your people.

Because think about it. Every single dollar, guys, that you're going to earn, that I will earn, okay, is going to come from who? It's going to come from people, okay? Every single dollar you're going to earn is going to come from people. So it would be a good idea to learn some things about people, don't you think?

So Bringing Out the Best in People, get the book. It will help you as a marketer, okay? It will help you as a marketer. Another book I want to recommend, and this is a very, very popular book, and probably a lot of you guys have read it, but I will still suggest that you read it again, and read it through the lenses of an internet marketer, through the lenses of what we talked about on tonight's call, okay? And the book is called The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles, okay?

The Science of Getting Rich. Now, the book suggests, money, right? The Science of Getting Rich suggests wealth. But the book is not about money at all, okay?

If you read the book, you know, the book is about principles, okay? So these are my recommendations for you guys today, okay, as far as reading. And read these books a couple of times if you can before Denver. I promise you, you will start thinking a little bit differently, okay?

So thing number two that's going to help you with this challenge is just listen to the inner circle, okay? Listen to the inner circle audios daily. Listen to them daily. When I was, again, flying to Hawaii, then to Miami for the Mastermind, Leadership Council, I was on a plane quite a lot, right?

And what I was doing is I was just listening to audios. I was listening to Dave and Dave talk. I was listening to interviews of other Empower Network leaders. I was listening, right? I was just listening, listening, listening.

Why? Because, hey, I want to learn one more strategy. I want to learn one more nugget. I want to get one little thing that's going to help me. Maybe I've heard it before.

Maybe I already know this, right? Maybe just like a lot of you guys saying, hey, I already know that. I already know that, Vic. You don't need to tell me about traffic. By the way, I will, okay?

But here's the thing. What I find myself, what I catch myself a lot, is, hey, I say, hey, I already knew that. But just hearing this way, hearing it one more time this way from this person, all of a sudden it just clicked, right? All of a sudden, boom, you have this spark. You have this idea going.

And who knows? Does that make sense? So just listen to the daily audio of Empower Network inner circle, guys. There is a wealth of information. Just listen to it, all right?

And if you don't have access to it, just get it. I mean, it's an investment in you. It's an investment in your future. It's an investment in your business. Thing number three that's going to help you with the challenge, guys, is association, okay?

Association with other successful people. Association. And part of the association is going to come from reading and listening, okay? When you read, people say, Vic, which is better, to read or to listen? I say it's better to read, but you always want to listen as well, okay?

So you read and you listen. Because when you listen, your mind can wander, right? When you're listening, when you're doing your things, you don't always focus on the message. You have to focus on what you're reading, right? A lot of times you might think about something else while you're listening, and all of a sudden you're like, well, what was that all about?

You kind of missed part of it, right? When you read, you have to focus consciously on what you're reading, okay? So that's why I say reading is better than listening, but you've got to do both, okay? And so your association is going to come partly from doing that. But we all heard the saying that goes something like, birds of a feather flock together, right?

Something else I want to tell you guys is don't tolerate negativity, period. Okay? And that's going to include people who are in your maybe family, people who are, excuse me, I just had my Skype call. People who are in your team, people who are, maybe some of your friends, just don't tolerate negativity, okay? Some people, regardless of how awesome an opportunity is, regardless of how awesome the company is, regardless of how awesome anything is, okay?

There's always going to be people who will complain, people who will be negative, people who will be critics, okay? People who will look for reasons why something is not going to work, and you want to get away from those people, okay? Now, if you have a negative spouse, maybe not a supportive husband, if your environment that you are in is not very supportive, well, here's what you can do, okay? You can just ignore them. And in the beginning, it's going to be a little bit difficult, but you just have to ignore them.

I mean, of course, you're not going to divorce your wife or your husband, but just ignore them and work on this stuff even harder, okay? So that you can get results, so you can say, hey, check this out. Take a look at this. We're going to make it, okay? It's going to be okay.

It's working for me. It's working out. It's going to be okay. We're going to build, this is my dream. This is what I want to do for us, okay?

This is what I want to do for myself. This is what I want to do for myself. This is what I want to do for my family. Please support me with this. We're going to get through it.

There are other people who are doing it. Look at this guy. Look at this guy. Look at this guy. There are other people who are doing it.

I will do it. Just give me time, okay? And you work harder on yourself than you have ever worked on yourself before. Make sense? You work harder on yourself than you work on your business, okay?

And just don't tolerate negativity, guys. Don't tolerate negativity. Don't tolerate negativity. When you hear people, for example, when you go to Denver, okay, when you go to the next event of Empower Network, guys, or when you're on Facebook, when you are looking at what's going on in the marketing lab, right, guys, there are people who will bash and pull down and just be negative about what you're doing, right?

And it doesn't matter. You need to learn how to ignore them. Right? Right. Absolutely ignore them.

Okay? Don't let them get you. Don't even fight with them. Don't put more fuel into their negative fire. Make sense?

Okay? So these are some things that will help you guys with the challenge. Okay? Let's see. So what we can do, let's see.

Oh, man, we've been going on for like an hour already. Wow. I'm telling you, time flies when you're having fun. All right. I love sharing these principles with you guys, because this is the kind of stuff I can talk about all night, which, of course, I'm not going to, but this is the kind of stuff that I'm more passionate about than even marketing, because this is the kind of stuff that, I had a privilege right now to work with a lot of people.

I don't even know, 30 to probably 50,000 people all together over the last probably three, four years, okay? And what I see over and over and over again, guys, is people who say that I know everything. People who say that stuff is not important.

Right? Just give me the meat. Give me the meat, man. Those people are struggling. Okay?

Here's another piece of advice for you guys. Don't take advice from anybody who's more messed up than you are. I actually got this advice from one of my mentors. He said, Vic, don't take advice from anybody who's more messed up than you are. If you take their advice, you're going to be like them.

Okay? Don't take advice from anybody who's more messed up than you are. Okay? So, unless somebody is earning the kind of money that I want to earn, right, I'm not going to listen to them. They might be a cool person.

That's fine. It's cool. Right? But as far as taking their advice? No.

I'm not going to take their advice. It's like somebody who's going to try to teach you how to make your relationships work, but they were divorced seven times before. You know what I'm saying? There are a lot of people in this industry who will try to teach you how to run your business and tell you what to do and tell you how to do things and tell you what you should do, but they're broke. Right?

They don't have any idea how to pay their rent next month. Are you going to listen to them? Are you going to let their small mind control you? Are you going to let them piss you off?

Are you going to let them distract you? Are you going to let them bring you down? Are you going to let somebody bring you down? You have a dream. You're here because you have a dream, don't you?

You're here because you want to make a bigger impact for your family. You want to take your family's lifestyle to the next level. You're here because you want to build something good. You want to build your dream. Right?

Guys, you're here. You're the elite. Most people are not willing to get on a call like this. Most people are not willing to do what it takes. Most people just want to sit on the couch and watch a movie or watch football.

Right? Eat chips and potatoes and get fat. Right? That's what most people want to do. You guys are here.

Right? Don't let those small-minded people control your thinking. Let it bounce off of you. Just like water rolls off a duck's back.

Right? Just don't let them influence you at all. Be immune to that kind of stuff. And as you go, and as you move forward, you're going to get better and better and better at this stuff.

And then you'll get to the point to where you will not have anybody. You will get to the point, folks. If you follow what I'm teaching you tonight, guys, you will get to the point. There's going to be a time in your life, in your business, there will come a time to where you will know, okay, that whatever is going on around you, it will not affect you unless you let it affect you.

Okay? Did you know that the economy has absolutely nothing to do with your success? Did you know that? Did you know that the worse the economy gets, the more success you can have in this business? Did you know that?

Did you know that? Did you know that you can have your dream car? Did you know that you can have it? Did you know that you can actually take your family to the nicest places of the world that God has created and show them what it's like to have freedom? Guys, you can have that.

And you know what? I was at the point in my life to where I could not have that, right? I could not take my family on vacations. I could not go any places, but I had a dream, and I never let it go. You have a dream.

Don't let it go. Okay? So let's talk about some specifics on, when it comes to actually building a business, and I want to give you guys a couple points in a direction. Maybe you can check it out.

You know, when a lot of people say, Vic, what's the best traffic generation strategy? What's the best traffic generation method? We have been talking about the fundamentals. We have been talking about the below-the-water, under-the-water type, or part of the iceberg, right? This is what we have been covering for the last hour.

And the reason that I spend an hour on this kind of stuff, guys, is because 80% of your success is going to come from what's going on under the water. Okay? Trust me on this. Just trust me on this.

Here is what I can tell you when it comes to, because I know there's maybe three of you guys, maybe more, sitting there, and you guys are waiting for a secret traffic generation strategy that can make you rich. Guys, if there was one thing that you could advertise your website with, or on, if there was this one secret source that you can go to, to advertise your website on and just get conversions, right, everybody would be rich.

Okay? But there is no one thing in particular that's going to work a hundred percent for you. Now here's what can work for you. Everything can work a little bit. Here is the mindset shift that you need to have.

Or the kind of mindset that you need to have. First of all, you have to develop the eye of a marketer, is what I call the eye of a marketer. Here's what I mean by this: as a marketer, you need to act like a marketer. Okay.

When I browse the internet, when I drive in the car, right, when I'm on the plane, flipping through the magazine, the SkyMall or something, right, when I'm at the airport, when I'm at the store, when I'm wherever, right, I always fish for ideas.

I always fish for places to advertise. I always fish for places to put my ads in. For example, I'll give you a quick example, okay. You go to a rest area, this was some little thing that I found for myself.

Right. You go to a rest area, a truck stop, maybe. Right. And you go to those restrooms. What do you find a lot of times?

Well, I don't know about girls' restrooms, but I go to a guy's restroom, and as you're just standing there doing your thing, right in front of your eyes, there is a bulletin board with all kinds of ads on it. Have you ever seen that? One time I was standing there, I'm like, dude, there's a phone number I can call, and I can give them, I can send them my ad, and boom, they can slap my ad onto this thing. And I can have my ad showing in restrooms in 10 different states.

Right. Boom, I've got traffic. Okay. Now you may not get 50,000 visitors from that per day, but hey, it's traffic. Right.

So as a marketer, have an eye of a marketer. Okay. Develop an ability to spot places you can advertise, to look for different ad campaigns, to look for different headlines. Like when I'm driving in the car, I'm constantly paying attention to what's going on in the advertising space. Right.

If I see a bulletin board, if I see a big banner on the road, if I see a sign or something that gets my attention, right, and if I like the headline or I like something, I just either take a picture with my phone, or I write it down, right? I keep a swipe file of that kind of stuff for myself as a marketer. Again, are you treating your business as a business, or are you treating your business as a hobby, and are you looking for somebody to spoon-feed you with this kind of stuff, right? I'm just talking to you straight up, okay?

You know, I may not say what you want to hear, but what drives me crazy sometimes is when I see people asking for things, and they're not even willing to just think, just use, just think, how, okay, so when it comes to traffic, you need to get people to see your website, okay? And then here's the thing, guys, if I told you one specific website, if you go advertise that right now on this call, okay, we have 1,300 people, this line is packed, listening to me, and guess what? Tomorrow, or even tonight after the call, probably 700 or 800 people would go there, and they would place an advertisement for Empower Network on that source, and guess what? It's not going to work for anybody.

Does that make sense? And worse yet, this call has been recorded, and then there's somebody else, 100,000 people are going to listen to this call over the next month, and then 80,000 of those people are going to do the exact same thing, and it's not going to work for anybody, okay? So that's why I'm telling you what I'm telling you. This is not difficult. Most people just look for the secret, but if we just think logically sometimes, and we just kind of sit down and simplify things, okay, so you got a website, right?

And so what do you need? You need to get some traffic to your website. So what is traffic? Well, traffic is people, right? It's human beings.

It's, you know, you need some eyeballs. You need some eyeballs to your site. Now, the cool part about Empower Network and what we're doing is this is such a mass-appealing market. I mean, this is such a mass-appealing company. Who doesn't want to make an extra 500 bucks a month?

Everybody in the world wants this. We're not selling some soccer equipment, that only a specific group of people, or something like, how to teach your dog how to sing or something, to where there's maybe like 100 people interested in that kind of thing, you know? I mean, we're talking about making money, man. Everybody wants to make money. So how about if you just take a flyer and just slap it on Walmart's bulletin board?

How about that, with your website on it, okay? How about hiring, again, I'm just telling you guys some ridiculously simple ideas here. How about hiring, you know, a school kid? And then go to your mall parking lot and just print out flyers and just have that kid, paying $5 or $10, right?

Or $20. And just have that kid put the flyers under the windshield of every car in the parking lot. How about that? You think you'll get maybe one, two people to sign up? Maybe, you think?

What if you get 10 people to sign up? When it comes to traffic, folks, there is so much out there. There is. If you just think, like, if you browse the internet, right?

If you go to websites and if you browse the internet, what I do is I just look, let's say if I come across a website and there is an ability for me to put banners, or there are some banners, other banners, right? A lot of times if you scroll down the website, there's going to be a link that's going to say something like advertise, or contact us for advertisement opportunities, or something like that, right? If you just click on that link, I just contact them and say, hey, what do you got? What type of packages do you have?

What can I, how can I advertise my site here? That's it. It doesn't take, it's not rocket science to figure this out.

And so what you do is you create your own little swipe of traffic sources, right, that you can come back to over and over and over again. Again, you're going to step past it. Hey, you're a marketer, guy. So, a lot of times we don't want to step out of our comfort zone, right?

A lot of times we just want people to give us stuff. We want our upline to tell us what to do exactly, right? And a lot of times we do that, right? But a lot of times, if you just take a leap of faith, if you just step out and just believe in yourself, just don't depend on anybody. You're a marketer, okay?

You're here to build your dream. You're here to build your vision. You're here to build a dynasty for yourself, for your family, okay? If you just step out and say, I'm going to figure this out, I'm going to do this and just simplify it.

Don't look at this as a big picture of something that is just, oh my God, I can't figure it out. Just simplify it, right? Well, traffic is just people. Well, how can I get more people to visit my website? What are some places, how can I get more people, okay?

You might have a few things going offline. Or maybe you want to place advertising in your local newspaper. How about if you live in a city that's not very big? How about if you place an ad? Just call another state, right?

And just place an ad in another state. How about if you call the UK, okay, for example, and you just place an ad over in the UK? How about Australia? How about if you place an ad in a newspaper that's of an English-speaking country? How about that, okay?

And I can guarantee you, it's not going to be expensive. It's going to be fairly cheap. But what if you got 10 sign-ups from that? What if you got five sign-ups from that? You know what?

What you do is you reinvest your profits, or a portion of your profits, right, back into your business, but this whole time, you're staying focused and you're staying laser-focused, and you're working harder, excuse me, on yourself than you work on your business. Does that make sense? So do you see how it's actually not difficult to succeed, folks, but just because society has programmed us, just because we were programmed to think only in this little box, okay? You can't really think outside of this little box that you have right now. You can only be so much, you can only have so much, you can only do so much.

And what are you doing reading those books, man? And somebody's going to laugh at you. People used to laugh at me, right now they're coming to me, they're coming to me asking for money, okay? People who used to laugh at me when I was struggling, when I did not have the money, when I did not have the money to buy bread for my family, people who were laughing at me, right now they're coming to me saying, hey, man, can you please borrow me, can you please lend me $5,000, you know?

And they're still doing what they were doing back then, still living paycheck to paycheck, still struggling, still complaining, right? So think about it. Succeeding is not difficult, friends. Success is a decision, okay? Success is a decision.

Don't depend on anybody. Don't depend on your upline. Don't depend on anybody. I don't care if you're just getting started. My friends, you have a wealth of information and Empower Network here, okay?

You got Inner Circle. You got Costa Rica. You got the 15-Day Formula. You got the Master's Course. If you don't own all those products, to me, you're not serious in the business, you know?

And you say, Vic, I don't have the money? And you know what? I can't really hear you, because I borrowed the money to get started. And when you just dip your feet in the water, when you dip your fingers in the water and you're not fully committed, you know what subconsciously you're saying, what you're telling yourself?

You know what subconsciously you're telling the world? If you're saying, I'm not committed, and you know what you're going to get? You're going to get that, okay? So, my friends, I'm, as you can see, man, I'm on fire, man. I can go on all night.

But let's get back to the topic. But here, guys, the stuff I'm sharing with you, I hope that you see why I'm telling you this stuff. Because this is the kind of stuff that most marketers don't want to talk about. Because most marketers, they want to tell you what you want to hear. They want to sugarcoat things.

They'll say, I'll just get in at least 25 bucks. Just give me, at least give me 25 bucks. Man, I'm so desperate for that first sale. Just give me 25 bucks. If you're not fully committed, if you're not all in with Empower Network, if you don't own all the products, you will never have that commitment.

You will never have that spark in your eye. You will never have that certainty, that enthusiasm. That's something that's going to come across between the lines, between the words that you're saying. That's going to convince that prospect, even through your email, even when they see your website.

Okay. There's going to be no desire for the prospect to buy the products with you. Okay. They'll join somebody who is all in. And for some reason, they'll be attracted to that other person.

And then you're going to say, well, why am I not making money? I just wanted to see if it's going to work for me, you know? And this is the recipe, this is like, they say rich get richer and poor get poorer. It's because rich people, they do things a little bit differently than poor people do.

And because of their actions, right, they get different results. Okay. So my friends, if I were you, if you're not all in, I would do whatever it takes, whatever it takes, if you want this to be your home, if you want it, you say, Vic, look, do it. If you could, man, if you went from being, borrowing money to get started in this industry, right?

And, if, dude, if you can, if you, at the age of 29, being a college dropout, having four kids now, right, and having English be your second language, dude, if you could earn 2 million bucks in six months with Empower Network. I'm going to do this. What's, I mean, I don't take any excuses, you know? No excuse for me is a good excuse from people. I don't.

I don't listen to excuses, because I know what it's like to struggle, and I know what it's like to be fully, totally committed 1,000%, forget 100, 1,000% commitment, and I know what it's going to take to succeed, and these are the things that you need to focus on to succeed, okay? Guys, if I was somebody who was just getting started in this industry, and I was just preaching this stuff, I would not expect you to listen, okay? Don't just listen to me, listen to other leaders in Empower Network. Dave Sharp, they'll tell you the exact same thing, right? Listen to guys like Tony Rush, right?

Toby Layla Black, we got Aaron Reskin, we got people, I just came from Miami. I'm from Empower Network Leadership Council, and guys, Dave Wood, what we were just talking, and he's like, dude, there's lots of room, or Dave Sharp, excuse me, he's like, Vic, there's so much room at the top, so much room at the top, man, and the top is not crowded, it's the bottom that's crowded, but there's so much room at the top, and guys, I just want to invite you, man, just make a decision, right? No going back. Don't care how hard it is, okay? Don't, no matter how hard it is, okay?

No matter what kind of turbulence, if you're falling down, you know, a hundred feet, every time you try to get up, guys, no matter what's going on, just make a decision. Nobody's going to steal your dream from you. Nobody's going to take it away from you, okay? Not you. You're not going to take your dream away from yourself, and you will not let anybody else, not your family, not your relatives, not your friends, not anybody, none of those losers on the internet trying to discourage you from going after your dream.

Nobody. Nobody's going to take your dream away from you, because you're going to the top. If I can do it, if others can do it, you can do it, and there is absolutely no difference between me, between you, between Dave Wood, Dave Sharp, between Les Brown, or anybody else in the industry, guys. You believe that? There's absolutely no difference.

The difference is going to be what's going on between your two ears, okay? And the good news is we can change what's going on between our two ears by making a decision, okay? And so I hope you guys are going to follow the challenge. So, let me tell you, for those of you guys who do want to spend some money on traffic, right?

Here's one cool little source I want to tell you that you can check out, right? It's a site, a little site called compete.com, okay? Compete.com. Just go there. It's a little tool.

It's an online application to where you can actually find really cool traffic sources, tons of them, and it's not cheap. I think it's like 200 bucks a month for the basic package. But I believe they offer a trial. I don't know if it's like 24 hours or something like that.

Maybe a seven-day trial. You can check it out. Okay. But when it comes to traffic, guys, just think outside the box a little bit and just break it down to the simplest terms and just say, hey, how can I get 10 more people to see my website today? How can I get 50 more people to see my website today?

And just have that marketer's eye, create yourself a little swipe of different resources that you come across, because as a marketer, you will need that for later, right? When you have your team, when you're building, when you want to give value, you need to have a reservoir of information. You need to have a reservoir, something you can share with your, if you're going to be a leader in this industry, man, you can make a million bucks a month, guys. If that's not your goal, that's fine. But hey, you can make a hundred thousand a month.

How awesome would it be to never, ever, ever, ever have to worry about money? Think about it. How awesome would it be to go to, I mean, we were just shopping with my wife in Hawaii, and she came from the store and she was like, hey, maybe I got you this, the flip-flops, and I look at it and it's like a $700 pair of flip-flops.

I'm like, you didn't even think about it because you don't worry about money. And guys, I'm not telling you just to say Vic is somebody special. I went from the bottom. And I was able to change my situation. So can you.

Okay. So can you, make a decision. So get all in, guys, get to Denver. Okay. Well, I think I'm going to leave you with this.

As you're building a business, as you're progressing as a marketer, as you're advertising, right, as you're trying to juggle everything, and trying to figure out how to make it better and better and better. Here's what you do. You need to learn time management. Okay.

You need to learn how to manage your time. And, you know what? There is no, so I actually just shot a video today. I do a video a day, and I decided to just give out value to the marketplace, right.

Just do a video a day, just one nugget, something to put out there for my followers and, for the internet land, right. No sales pitches. And somebody suggested it, and I'm like, I thought about it, and then I said, why not? So let's do this. And today, I was talking about, hey, there is no such thing.

As time management, okay. There is, you can't really manage time. People say, how do I manage time? Right. How do I manage time?

You can't. Time is time. We all got 24 hours a day. Trump got 24 hours a day. You got 24 hours a day. And so does the president.

Okay. But see, what we need to learn is we need to learn how to manage our activities during the day. Okay. So here's what I do, guys. And I just want to give you as much value as I can in this hour, 90 minutes, however long we're going to be on this call here, and then we're going to wrap this up. Here's how I manage my day personally, my activities.

Right. So I generally don't start my day without having that day planned the night before.

Now it doesn't always happen like that, but it's most of the time. Okay. Now, sometimes, I may be in a position to where maybe I'm traveling, on the road or something. And I really can't, I'm kind of away from the office and things like that. But most of the time, I plan my day before I go to bed.

All right. And I learned this again from my mentor. All right. Can you guys get, do you see the fine line kind of go as I'm talking to you? And I'm always referring to, hey, look, this is from my mentor, because guys, I'm no genius, right?

I learned this stuff, and that's why I'm passing this stuff on to you. And hopefully you learn this, and hopefully you take action. And then you're going to be on the call. And then you're going to be talking to 1,300 people on a teleconference. And you're going to be talking to 15,000 people, in the stadium at the event.

And you're going to be saying, hey, this is what I learned. I'm nobody special. That's the beauty of this business, guys. That's the beauty of this, because anybody can do this if they're willing to. But the problem is most people are not willing to.

Are you going to be in the first category or the second category? Okay. So the thing when it comes to managing my activities is, before I go to bed, I just do it on my phone. I just got a little app, it's like a to-do-list kind of thing, to where it allows me to check off things and stuff like that. I think it's called ToDoWe, or something like that.

Something like that. And I just think about tomorrow, and I just say, okay, so what do I need to get done tomorrow? And before I go to bed, I have thing one, two, three, and generally four to six things that I need to accomplish tomorrow. And I just get it out of my head, and I just write it down. It can be on paper, it can be on your computer, on your phone.

It doesn't matter. Okay. And so I have a crystal clear idea. I have a crystal clear picture of what my day is going to look like tomorrow. Okay.

Now, unless something crazy comes up, unless there's something, yeah, something blows up, or a fight goes down or something like that, that I really, really, really need to get on it, generally I will stick with that plan. Okay. So, and then tomorrow, when tomorrow comes, I just do thing number one. That's the most important. I just prioritize them in order of importance.

And I just start on thing number one. That's the most important, may not be the easiest, but the most important. Okay. And I just do that until it's completed. And I go to thing number two after thing number one is completed.

Okay. A lot of times I'll get through all those things. And a lot of times I won't. A lot of times, I'll just get through one or two, depending on how complicated the thing is, right, and how much work I need to do for that. But what you do is you focus on your income-producing activities. Now, my business might be a little bit different than your business right now, and let me clarify that. Okay.

Just the activities that I do on a day-to-day basis. Okay. Now, when I think about it, so if you don't have your own, let's say if you're just using, if you're just an affiliate of Empower Network, you're building your business as an affiliate of Empower Network, what are your income-producing activities? Well, it's working on yourself.

It's an income-producing activity, because if you don't, your income is going to reflect, okay? I read for 30 minutes a day, like I said, in the beginning, right? When I go to my office, when I come back from the office, when I go to the store, when I'm just in the car driving throughout the day, you know what I do? I just pop in the inner circle audios. That's what I do.

You know? Today, earlier today, one of my team members, he happens to be our support manager, Paul, he came to my office, and I was listening to, I had my earbuds in my ears. I was listening to the inner circle. I was listening to, they would, Rembrandt, you know? I do that.

I do what I preach, guys, right? So developing yourself is an income-producing activity, okay? And then what else? What else is an income-producing activity? Well, it might be researching for traffic, what to advertise, right?

That's going to be your income-producing activity. So maybe you're going to give yourself 30 minutes, okay? And when you do this kind of stuff, guys, you want to be careful. Here's what I do a lot of times, right? I would take a step further, and I would actually give myself an estimated completion time for each of the projects.

Now, sometimes I don't know how long it's going to take, but I found that if you give yourself a completion, estimated completion time, or a certain time frame for a project, right, that a lot of times, that's going to be enough for you to kind of keep you on track. Make sense? So you don't want to get distracted. You don't want to get, you know, find yourself being lost in the research.

And then all of a sudden, you just spend a whole day doing nothing but browsing and researching, right? But kind of give yourself deadlines, right? Give yourself time frames. So let's say, you're going to research for traffic sources, just kind of browse different websites, just kind of go, Google, how to get traffic, ways to get traffic, things like that.

And just kind of browse through the sites, man. Just kind of go through it. Just click on it. Just see where it's going to take you and look for the links for advertising opportunities. That's it.

Simple, not complicated. Okay. And give yourself like 30 minutes. Okay. Set an alarm clock.

Boom. 30 minutes up. You let that go, regardless if you found something or not. Okay. Boom.

You just let that activity go. You move on to the next income-producing activity, might be to do a blog post, right? Blog daily, right? Now, guys, I used to think that blogging is not important. You know what I think right now?

I say, hey, my blog is important, right? So this is where you can actually give value to the marketplace. This is where you can actually, I was talking about putting your stake in the ground, right? Let's, I was talking about claiming your territory as a marketer.

I was talking about, how are you different than the rest of the millions of marketers out there? Well, this is, you can make the distinction. You can differentiate yourself on your blog, can't you? Right? On your blog, this is your territory.

This is your world, right? And it just so happens that Empower Network has a blogging platform. By the way, guys, when you just think about blogging, man, I just have to tell you this. We were just in Miami, right? For the Leadership Council.

And what I saw with my own two eyes, guys, is what you guys are going to get a taste of in Denver, when it comes to technology and what these guys are rolling out, it will absolutely blow you away. You have got to get your butt to Denver. I guarantee you. Get to Denver. Don't ask why.

Don't say I don't have the money. Find a way to get to Denver. No ifs, buts, or nothing. Okay? Just get to Denver.

You have got to be in Denver. Okay? Some of the things that Empower Network is going to reveal in Denver, guys, is just, when I saw that, I'm like, wow. And there's just no words. It's absolutely insane.

So, but blogging is your little world, right? This is where you can tell the world about who you are, provide value as you're learning things. You want to, the best way to learn is to hear something and then teach something. Okay? Teach what you learn is the best way to learn.

When you can explain what you learned to somebody and they can understand, then you know it. If you just listen to it and you can't understand it, and you can't explain it to somebody else, you don't really know it. Unless you can explain it to somebody so they can understand it. Make sense? So what else can be your income-producing activity?

Might be to do a video. Right? Get yourself a video hosting from Empower. Do a video. Do what you're going to preach.

Folks, if one day you're going to be a leader, one day you're going to be on stage. You say, Vic, I don't care. That's fine. It's about making a difference.

What fires me up, guys, is making a difference, man. It's making a difference. It's not the money. Life is good, you know. You can build a nice house like one of my teammates.

He remembers right now, he's doing, he doesn't, my life is good, man, he gets relaxed a little bit. I'm like, dude, you got to get yourself bigger goals, man, you know. But hey, it becomes then, it's going to become something bigger than money, you know. Hey, you know what the really, the juice of this business is, guys, is being able to replicate your success.

It's when you have people coming to you at the event and shaking your hand and saying, Vic, thank you, you have changed my life, man. That's the juice of the business. That's what fires you up, you know. That's what keeps you going. That's what pulls you.

It's not the money anymore. The money was the beginning part, right. But then eventually, I'm telling you, the money is great, but the intangible payoff is better. It's much better. It's much better than the cars.

It's much better than the material, tangible things. It's much better, when you know that somebody was affected as a result because you were on this planet, okay, because you were in this business, because you took action, because you took the time to implement the strategies that you learned, because you took the time to develop yourself as a marketer, and you strive for excellence, not just mediocrity, okay. So, guys, go for it. Don't let anybody derail you, because you deserve to be at the top. You deserve to be successful, and you can do it, okay.

Guys, I'm going to leave you with this. I said it already, right, on this call a few times. Guys, just get to Denver. Okay, thing number one, get committed to going to the top, okay. Get all the products.

I don't, a lot of you guys are not even on my team, in fact, most of you. So there is no financial commitment, okay, but I'm just telling you from my experience, okay. I'm just telling you from what I see. Just go all in, get all the products with Empower Network, because something is going to flip. When I see people on my team, when they purchase all the products, they just feel better about themselves.

Just something happens, you're just like, I'm all in, I'm all in, you know. So you will have a sense of relief, a sense of power. When you purchase all the products, you get fired up, you get committed. Something is going to be different about you that's going to come across in your marketing. It's going to come across just from your website, just from people visiting your website.

And just because the website is associated with your name on it, something is going to change. It's going to be about that website that's going to resonate with people, I'm telling you. You say, Vic, this sounds like BS. It might be, but you know what, it works. I don't care if it's BS or not, but it works.

Okay, it works. And that's what's important, is it works. Okay, guys, you can do this. Find a way to get all in. If you were starting an offline business, how much money would it take?

Hundreds of thousands. I started this business for, whatever the thing is, to get all the products with Empower. And in six months, I've earned two million bucks. Is it worth it? Now guys, you say, Vic, you earned that kind of money because you're special.

No, I'm not special. But you know what I did? I took the time to learn and to implement, to develop myself, and I read, and I listened, and I associated myself, and I went to events, any opportunity. And when I was just starting to make money in this industry, I understood, and my mentor said, Vic, you have got to get around people who are making it, man.

You have got to get around people who are going where you want to go. And when you get to the event, when you get around those people, right, you want to seek out the cream of the crop. You want to be around people who are talking about, hey, I just earned a hundred thousand dollars last month and his life is awesome.

You want to get away from people who are saying, hey, this thing doesn't work. You want to be around people who are saying, hey, this is incredible. This is awesome. Right? Those people are going to fire you up.

Those people are going to inspire you. And you're going to get maybe one secret, one nugget, something that you're going to apply in your business and take your things to the next level. Okay, guys. So get all in. Second thing is, get to Denver.

Okay, guys, get to Denver. And you say, somebody asked me, you say, Vic, I'm going to get to Denver. I'm going to get to Denver. I'm going to get to Denver. Somebody asked me and said, Vic, I have to make a decision.

Do I invest the money into marketing, or do I invest the money to go to Denver? My answer is, get to Denver. Okay. Why? Because you will get something that you can't explain.

You will get something, you'll get around people who are making it. People who are different, people who are the elite. 98% of them don't want to go to Denver, guys. 98% of them don't want to spend 165 bucks on a ticket plus whatever flight and hotel, but guys, this is, you're talking about your future, man. You're talking about your future. How bad do you want it?

Get to Denver. Okay. I look forward to seeing you guys in Denver, and tell me how the challenge goes for you. Okay. So hopefully you guys have been taking notes tonight.

I would really, really, really, really love to see you guys in Denver. All the leaders are going to be in Denver, guys, find a way to get to Denver. Marketing is this, the way I look at it, and yeah, you can invest 500 bucks or a thousand bucks on that campaign. What if it flops on you? What if you get good results?

Great. Awesome. Right. But you know what? You're not going to have that spark.

You're going to miss out on the spark that's going to take your business further. You know, you're going to miss out on that spark. You're going to miss out on that fuel.

Think about this. This is how I see it. Right? So going to events and associating yourself with people, and especially going to events, there's nothing like going to an event. Okay.

And I've been to Empower Network's two events already. Denver is going to be my third event since I joined. I went to every single one. And this is how I can kind of compare it. Right?

So marketing is like, when you market, your engine, let's take an airplane, for example, right? For some reason, I like airplanes. I'm just fascinated by how that thing just flies, this massive thing just flies up in the air. I can't get my mind wrapped around that concept, but I think it's genius, whoever, the Wright brothers, how they did it. And it's just absolutely incredible.

So an airplane, it just flies, right? And it flies, just the activity of flying is your marketing. Consider that. Okay. Just marketing is flying.

You know, what going to events is, is fuel in that engine, or fuel in the tank, that power, that allows that airplane to fly. It's just how I see it. Okay, guys, you need to have both, right? But with marketing, like I said, you can implement some of the low-cost strategies and maybe do some free marketing and do more of that, right? And just put all your resources as much as possible, number one, just to go, go, go, go, go.

Go all in, and get to Denver. Guys, it's a business that can pay you, literally pay you millions and millions and millions of dollars. If you believe it, if you take action, if you get serious, if you get laser-focused on it, if you don't look around, if you don't look to the left, don't look to the right, don't care what's going on in the industry, don't care what's launching tomorrow or tonight, right, you don't care about anything else but your mission, your vision, your dream. And this is a vehicle that I believe everybody listening to my voice tonight can use.

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