Arthur Tubman: Recruiting Leaders

Hey, everyone. Chris Record here, co-founder of Team Take Massive Action. I'm excited to introduce another powerful Take Massive Action Tuesday bonus call. And for those of you that are brand new to the team, I'd love to welcome you to Team Take Massive Action. We've got people calling in from all over the country and all over the world.

I'm really excited to see tonight so many users logging in from Skype. That's awesome because for most of you logging in from Skype means you're probably doing it from somewhere in the world. So I just really appreciate that. I appreciate you for taking the time to be out on the call tonight. And for those of you that are brand new, I want to tell you're in for a huge treat.

This call is actually an inner circle bonus call that is intended for inner circle members only. And then we take the recordings of these calls, we put them on our team website, so you've got to be an inner circle member to be able to access these bonus calls. It is just one of the many perks of being part of Team Take Massive Action, one of the reasons why we're absolutely trailblazing out there and making big things happen with Empower Network. Now tonight is going to be an awesome call for several reasons.

First of all, it's going to be awesome just because our team is awesome and every call is awesome. So there you go, right off the bat. But really the reason is because you get introduced to a very good friend of mine, one of my business partners, somebody I've done a lot of business with outside of Empower Network, someone who I have a lot of respect for. And this is my good friend, Arthur Tubman. Now a lot of you have loosely heard a little bit about Arthur.

You've seen him pop up in the group, especially when it comes to Craigslist training. That's one of the things that he's known for. Or perhaps you've seen the name Hurricane Arthur on the leaderboards. When you log into the back office of Empower Network, go click on the link and you'll see that. Click on leaderboard and then hit contest leaderboard.

And you'll usually see his name somewhere right up there in the top 10. He's absolutely figured out some things about this business that work. Now another thing about Arthur is that Arthur is one of those guys that gets very, very committed. Meaning that Arthur and another one of our co-founders, Peter Sorensen, they actually flew all the way across the world to Singapore just to go experience live events for Empower Network, just to go watch what they were doing in other countries.

They flew all the way out there, came back, and from that event, something changed inside of Arthur. Instead of just kind of building the business on the side while he was basically managing a lot of other things in his life, he decided to really get pretty serious with Empower Network. And his results since then have been phenomenal. So here's somebody who, where are we? We're about two-thirds, not even two-thirds of the way through the month yet, just a little over halfway through the month.

We're just over halfway through. So this is somebody, this is what I love about this business, is that we can bring out somebody who succeeded before. That's easy. We have a lot of killer people, and we do. We bring out people with experience and expertise.

But what I like about Arthur is that he's succeeding right now, as in right now, as in this month, these days. His strategies are currently working in today's market. So today's call is going to be a chance for you to get to hear from Arthur Tubman to learn what exactly is he doing to experience so much success right now. And not only that, but Arthur has a few people on his team that are rising stars. These are people that are coming.

They're coming out. They're making some big things happen, and they have some previous experience that they bring to the table. One of the powerful things about Team Take Massive Action is a lot of people on our team have made six figures in the direct sales industry already. They've already gone out there and done it. And one thing that's really good about Arthur is that Arthur has learned how to be able to connect with these big players.

He's really learned how to be able to engage with them, get them excited about an opportunity like this, and get them on board. So really, Arthur brings a lot to the table, just a lot. And if I were to think about it, I think he's only bringing a few people out here today, but if I was to go to Arthur and say, hey, Arthur, assemble your leadership team and have them come out to the call, I'll bet Arthur could go grab 10 or 15 people like this. He has so many leaders on his team. It's amazing.

So with that being said, what I want to do to kind of kick off the call is maybe just a little back-and-forth conversation with me and Arthur Tubman, and then I'll turn the call over. So first things first. First, Arthur Tubman, were you able to make it on the host code with me tonight? I'm here, Chris. Can you hear me okay?

Yeah, you're coming in great. You're coming in great. So I guess before we get started, what I'm going to do is just in a minute, I'm just going to turn the call over to you because I've got a pen and paper here, and I want to take notes myself because I love learning from everybody. So I just want to completely turn it over to you. So I guess before we do, I just want to ask you a couple questions.

You know, I guess one of the first things that I want to know, like I want people to know about you, Arthur, is just really, you know, you have a lot of options out there. Let me phrase it this way. You don't have to be doing Empower Network, meaning that before Empower Network, I watched you were basically doing different web projects and different consulting for large companies. And instead of going and doing that and just having your own private business and doing that, you decided to be part of a bigger vision, a part of Empower Network. And so I guess just one of the first things I want to kick off is, is why?

A guy like you with so many options, why Empower Network? Why did you decide to jump on board with us? You know, Chris, I just personally, I love, you know, from when I started in the, you know, training, social media, and branding and Internet marketing back in 2008, and I did it out of necessity. I needed to generate more leads. And so I kind of self-taught myself how to do Internet marketing and how to kind of, you know, stand out from the crowd and how not to have to necessarily go cold call leads from the phone book, and there's nothing wrong with doing cold calling.

But I literally self-taught myself how to do some of this stuff, some of this Internet marketing stuff. And I became super passionate about not only learning it myself, but teaching other people how to do it. And so for the last several years, as you know, and I really appreciate the introduction there that you gave me, I've been spending time with big clients, doing cool campaigns, building systems, building tools, websites, design, and it's all a lot of fun. Doing that type of work is a lot of fun, seeing what you can consult with the client and create with them, and how their business flourishes as a result of the work that you've done. Being able to put together YouTube videos that generate millions of views on YouTube, it's all very exciting and very rewarding.

But there's really nothing more rewarding to me than being able to really get involved with a community, being able to get involved with small business entrepreneurs, people that have various passions and different things that they're excited about, different issues that they're in, and helping them to go out there and really make a difference, really start making some real money online. And, you know, I found that Empower Network, there's really nothing that touches it on the planet. I know you've seen a whole lot of stuff out there as far as training programs and systems and different things that exist, and there's just nothing that really touches Empower Network. We experienced just how serious these guys are last week when we went out to Tampa.

They flew us out there, everything first class, all the hospitality. I mean, I've never experienced anything like this community, this company, what they've put together. And I want to put all of my passion and all of my pride into growing this team and making people on this team more successful in everything that they do online. Right on. That's awesome.

I could relate on so many levels. And here you are. You could be just taking on corporate clients and just working with big businesses. But like you said, instead, you're choosing to work with home-based entrepreneurs because you have a lot more passion there and you can relate a lot to them.

And I just love it. I absolutely love the idea of where you come from. And for those of you that don't know, Arthur, really, Team Take Massive Action was just really four people. It all started with just four people in a living room, basically, just talking about this.

We just decided it was me and Arthur Tubman and George, George Bailey and Peter Sorensen. And we all just kind of decided like, hey, we were all over at my house. We decided, you know what? Let's do this. Let's form a...

Let's just call it Team Take Massive Action because we just want to take massive action. And it's pretty awesome because all of us have gone on to make a pretty significant income as a result. Arthur was right there from the very beginning. That's why I wanted to point that out because Arthur had a lot of other choices at that time. And, for those of you that respect what Arthur has brought to the table, if anybody on this call was personally enrolled by Arthur or part of Arthur's team, I'll tell you, Arthur didn't have to be here.

He had other options on his plate at that time to make a significant amount of money. And he basically turned them down—he didn't turn all of them down, but he basically built out some time in his schedule to be able to do this instead, to serve the team, to serve the community. So that's just pretty awesome. I guess the last thing I want to ask, Chris, and you know, it's really exciting.

I just got to point this out. I know that you're very part-time with Empower, but I know how much effort you put into creating resources, creating custom sales files, creating training, and how much effort you put into that. And then also the reflection of your part-time effort into your income. And I just think it's amazing what people can do once that belief level starts to be there.

And you mentioned going out to Singapore. I went out to Singapore at the end of October. And back then, I was still—I'll be honest, I don't know how much time I spent on Empower Network.

I didn't spend a whole lot of time marketing. I spent more time doing some of my other stuff that I have in my place, some of my clients that I'm continuously working with. And it was kind of like a maybe for me. It wasn't something I was really pushing for.

And we came back from Singapore, and I was just so excited. I was so blown away by the attitudes and the people that I met and the way they operate and how they work and the realness that they have, down to earth. And I put it into high gear.

The contest came out, and I'm very competitive, as you know. And I was just like, I'm going to be at the top of this contest. I'm going to be at the top of this leaderboard. I'm going to do everything I can.

And it's not a whole lot of money, but we're talking about the end of October. No, first of all, that is a whole lot of money. That's a great amount of money. I'm sure many people on this call right now would be very, very, very thankful for $22,000 since the end of October.

Okay? That's just awesome. And I guess the last thing before I turn the call over to you is, you're talking about how fired up you got when you came back from Singapore. Well, just this last week, we went to Florida. Now, you didn't have to travel all across the world to go to this one.

I think it was only a two-hour flight for you. But just real quick, if you had to sum it up, and I don't mind, you could actually talk more about this if you want after I get off the phone here. But just give everybody a snapshot real quick. You and I went to Florida along with Peter Sorensen and a bunch of leaders from the company.

How has your belief in the company changed? Specifically, how has your belief in the long-term vision of this company changed since just where you were two weeks ago? Well, that's a pretty loaded question. And I'll take it from when we sat down that first day to do that mastermind session, they had a whiteboard and we had the chairs around.

They were masterminding, strategizing. It absolutely blew me away that it wasn't all about the Dave and Dave show. It wasn't all about whatever they say goes. It was like, hey, you guys are the leaders. You guys are out in the field.

You guys are making things happen. What do you want? What's going to help you make more money? What's going to help you have the people see the training as something that's really valuable? That they actually engage...

Engage with it in their business. They can go and use it any way they like, whether they use it as an affiliate at Empower Network or if they use it for their own primary business. What do you guys want to see in some of the new things that we have rolling out? I don't want to share too much because I know that we're not really supposed to be sharing on some of the things that are coming out. But it's just exciting to me how open-minded they are and how transparent they are.

And for me, that was basically what I really needed to see. And from that point forward, I was just like, okay, I'm doing this and I'm doing this all out. And I'm going to go out there and build a rocking team alongside you and Peter and George. We're already building one of the strongest teams in Empower.

But I just decided right there and then we are going to be the strongest and the baddest and the coolest team in Empower Network. Amen to that. Amen to that. Okay, with that being said, what I want to do is I want to turn the call over. I've got...

I've got my little kids here with me. I've got my two-month-old and my two-year-old. And I'm usually wanting to be the one talking on these calls. But tonight, I just want to sit back. I want to kind of enjoy, take notes.

I want to hear from you. And I know I saw there's a couple other caller IDs on the host code. So I know you've got some guests lined up. So, Arthur, here's what I'm hoping to get out of the call. I'm hoping to get some nuts and bolts training, because you really are doing some great things.

So I am hoping that we can hear some of that. I'm also hoping to get some more of your story. I mean, look, if people only knew a little bit more about you, it's just so impressive to watch what you've been through. Now, you don't have to share everything tonight on this one phone call, but tell us a little bit about your background. Tell us where you're from, what you're doing.

Bring your folks out. Bring your team out. And then just whenever you feel you're done, talk as long as you want. Whenever you feel like you're done, just take the call away. And in case, for some reason, I drop off when I'm driving around here at the end of the call, just hit star nine to end the recording and it'll confirm that it'll end it.

And then you can hang up the call and everybody will be gone. But from that point on, listen, for all of you listening right now on Team Take Massive Action, this is somebody who is one of the co-founders of this team. This team might not even exist if he wasn't here. This is somebody who is all in, fully committed, traveling the world just to learn techniques to be able to help us all in our business. And this is somebody that you absolutely need to listen to.

So with that being said, Arthur Tubman, take it away. Thanks, Coach. Again, I appreciate all those kind of words and everything that you said there. And I got to start off by saying that you know what, I am all in. And my personality from early on, from getting into business was kind of all or nothing.

Either I'm going to do it and I'm going to go for it and I'm going to go all out, or I'm just not going to do anything at all. And I know that you've kind of seen that for me from time to time with different things that I've done. And if I'm not fully there, if I'm not fully committed, I'm not really doing anything. But once I commit, I just kind of run with it. And that's kind of been my attitude throughout my business endeavors.

And I'm not going to go into too much of my personal story on this call tonight. But just so everybody knows, I didn't have the easiest time when I was first starting as an entrepreneur, as a business owner. I had some rough patches. And Chris and I had conversations about just having feeling sorry, or feeling sorry for somebody that's not all in or feeling sorry for somebody that has a difficult situation. And personally, it's hard for me to really feel sorry for somebody, having been in some bad situations in my personal life, having come from drug addiction, having come from places where I didn't really have a place to go and sleep because I was doing some things that I probably shouldn't have been doing, staying in and spending time in some facilities that I found myself in, and just having some of those moments in my life that brought me to this point right now.

So I'm very kind of all or nothing. I either go for it or I just don't. I didn't have a driver's license. I was on house arrest. I was going through court facing five years in state prison.

I had some really kind of bad stuff happening, but I wanted the opportunity was 3,500 bucks. I didn't have a penny to my name and I went out there and I just decided that I was going to make it happen. And within two weeks I figured out a way to make it happen. And so whenever somebody's like, you know, I don't have it, I can't find it, things are going wrong and this and that, I just—and you'll hear Chris say this on every call that he does.

You'll hear him say it on the power hour calls, any type of interviews, because I know that he's had those experiences himself, those humbling experiences, those moments where it seems like everything is against them. The world's against them. The odds are stacked against them attitude of, I'm going to persevere and I'm going to go out there. I'm going to make it happen no matter what it takes. I'm a winner and I'm going to win in this situation no matter how bad it gets.

And so that's a little bit of my story there. And as far as Empower Network, as I said before, before Empower Network, Chris and I have been working on several projects together, several projects separately. I got into this line of work back in 2008. When I'm talking about line of work, I'm talking about internet marketing, and I worked with coaching, one-on-one clients, did some group stuff. Ended up launching a company back in 2009. And from there went on to do kind of like very high-end work with clients.

And in the last six months, I really started taking a look at Empower Network and kind of what they were putting together. I got really excited. I got into the space of helping people and training people and working with people, working with leaders, building teams, something that I get really, really excited about. And I have a lot of different avenues of marketing that I enjoy. One of them, as you guys know, that have been in the group and are excited about the Craigslist training that I'm going to be putting out.

One thing I'll tell you is that the modules are going to be released very shortly. All of you guys that have been waiting, you're going to have access to some of my Craigslist training. And if you stick on to the end of the call, I'm going to actually go through and share a couple of tips and share with you a little bit of what I'm going to be covering in those trainings and how you can really start taking advantage of that, as some of the people that I have on the call have actually used some of it, have actually used some of my advice when it comes to Craigslist and have done it very, very successfully for themselves. As a matter of fact, one of my first guests just placed an ad today and he's had very good results with it and has had several people excited about Empower Network.

I do want to get into my panel. I'm going to jump back and forth between the panel guests and share some tips and some different things that might come to mind based on what's being shared. But at the end of the call, I am going to cover some of the Craigslist strategy and some of the things that you guys could really start looking forward to as far as implementing this strategy in your own business. And there's tons of strategies out there—blogging, paid advertising, free advertising.

I just find that Craigslist is a very inexpensive way to advertise that can be very, very lucrative if you learn how to do it effectively. So with that being said, I want to bring out my very first guest on the call tonight. And like Chris said, I tend to go after and recruit leaders. I tend to go after and recruit people that fund significant things in their business life and their life, and that I look up to and respect, and become home and coach them with a great opportunity.

And I find that Empower Network is hands down one of the best, if not the best opportunities on the planet right now to take advantage of. But with that being said, the first guest that I want to bring out, let me just tell you a little bit about Brandon Sharp. For those of you that might not know who he is. Brandon, just a little bit about him. He's a single dad.

He's actually a twin. What that means is he was making, over the course of the year, $200,000 plus, every single year consistently over time. And he's worked in the home business industry for the last eight years. A lot of people in the industry have come across him.

He's went all in and I just wanted to bring him out because he's doing some things. He's making things happen. He's really excited. He's coming to Austin. He has a very much of an all in mentality.

And I know that he wants to talk about something tonight, something—his topic was letting everything go, letting it all go. Brandon, were you able to dial in on the host code tonight? I am. Can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you loud and clear, man.

Awesome. Well, I really appreciate it and appreciate you, Chris Record. And I've been friends with both of these guys for a lot of years. We've done business over the years and I just want to let you guys know, thank you. And I'm very blessed to be on this call.

I really do appreciate the opportunity. I'll spend a little bit of time just telling you about my story here in just a minute, but I really want to kind of get into some of the meat of what I want to teach you guys. Arthur told me about this call. I was very excited, a little bit nervous.

I've done a lot of these calls in the past, but it's been a while, but I'm very excited to come out here and teach you guys a little bit about what I've learned—what I've learned over the years in direct sales, also being involved in Empower Network. I saw Empower Network, oh gosh, I think it was February right around that time. Chris Record had mentioned it.

Arthur Tubman had mentioned it. I'd heard it here and there. And quite frankly, I made a dumb decision and didn't do anything with it. And I waited until I started seeing Chris and Arthur really start to push the gas with this thing and drive some income. So I'm just grateful to be here.

I think the timing's right. And I think that's really important for everybody to understand the timing of where you're at. It's right where you're supposed to be at. I did want to reiterate a couple of things. I heard you talking about finding the money, Arthur, and I agree with you wholeheartedly.

When it comes to opportunities, you're going to go out there and you're going to make it happen. It's really not about the money. It really, really isn't. The first time I learned about this was many, many years ago. It was about nine years ago.

I got involved in a real estate educational product. That was a $16,000 product. Now you think you're having a hard time getting $25, a hundred dollars, or $1,600. I mean, gosh, think if you were selling a $16,000 product.

Well, the guy that signed me up said this. He said, Brandon, if your uncle passed away in Europe and he left a million dollars in a safety deposit box for you, and the key just showed up in the mailbox today, would you be able to come up with $16,000 to go get that safety deposit box open? I thought about that pretty long and hard. I thought, well, yeah, I would.

Well, what would you do, Brandon? How would you get it? Well, I'd call my mom. I'd call my dad. I'd call my uncle.

I'd call my aunt. I'd call everybody I know. I'd go stand on the side of the road and do whatever it takes because I know what's going to happen when I get to Europe and get that safety deposit box. Now, I think that's really important for your business. It's really important for any business, really, to be able to have that vision and that knowing, if you will, and I'll talk about this in the quick 10, 12 minutes I have here, that knowing of where you want to be and where you're going to be in your business and to be able to know that and really, really feel it.

I'll give you some strategies as we go through here, kind of how to do that. I also wanted to reiterate a little bit about what was said on the call last night by Chris Record. If you guys did not listen to the Empower Hour call last night, highly recommend go listen to that call tonight or as soon as possible. Just amazing content from Chris, talking to you about having an inner badass and having a wussy, one on each shoulder. It's like the angel and the devil talking to you at the same time.

That really resonated with me because I've seen it a lot, not only in my own life, but I've worked with literally thousands and thousands of entrepreneurs and built large groups of people in the direct marketing industry, and it's out there and it happens. I thought when I was listening to Chris Record talking about that, I mean, there really makes a lot of sense. We have an inner badass telling us how great we are. We have an inner wussy telling us that we're not successful. Well, you know what?

I'm going to tell you right now on this call, every single one of you are successful. You're just waiting for the money to catch up. Okay. Some of you, the money's already caught up, but for those of you that are thinking, I'm not successful—you are successful.

You really are. And it took me a long time kind of hitting the hard road in my business in order to let my business face that, and you know what, Brandon, you really are successful. Would I trade my 10 year old son, who I've been raising since he was five years old? Would I trade him for the opportunity to make that million dollars or whatever that income goal I have is? Absolutely not.

Would I trade my eyesight? Would I trade my hearing? I mean, what would I really trade for that money? And how important is that money? It's hard to shift for me because then I could start to see it, and you might want to jot this down if you have an opportunity to do so, because when you start to shift the money, you're going to create an energy around you, which is going to attract people that want to be successful.

Okay. It's not about the money. I was in a business where I felt like everybody was asking me, how much have you made? How much have you made doing that? And I didn't make a lot, so I never felt successful.

No wonder I didn't feel successful. So once I made that shift in my mindset and my perception, which Chris also talked about on the Empower Hour, once you change that perception, you start looking for those things in your life that you can be grateful for, that you already are successful for. The money is just going to enhance those opportunities of why you're successful. And you start giving that energy out to people. People are going to start coming to you and it's going to happen like magic.

And all you have to do is put your head down and do the work. Okay. I had a mentor and a coach. I've been in life coaching for about the last two and a half, three years, working in the life coaching industry, getting an opportunity. I'm the type of person—way, way before Empower showed up, I was doing my audio every single day and I was reading my book every single day.

I probably read two or three personal development books per month. And it's also a great excuse for me to jump on my exercise bike because I can kill two birds with one stone. I can stay in shape and I can read books, but I'm just passionately hungry about learning new information that can better myself. That's one of the things I learned: as you put your head down and go to work and you quit getting concerned with the expectations. Arthur said, what's the topic you could give tonight's call.

My topic was let it all go. And that's literally the point I had to get to. And you know, I'm a human being, I get stuck in my business. I got in Empower Network, signed up 16 people in my first three weeks, and got a vacation. It seemed like I didn't sign anybody else up and had to recommit myself and realize, okay, what am I doing?

Where's the thought processes? What is my inner wussy saying to me? And who do I really want to listen to? And I had to keep recommitting myself, just like I think a lot of us have to do.

It's not about quitting. It's about starting over. Arthur actually mentioned that to me not too long ago. He said, Brandon, it's not—that's what we get to do every single day. We get to start over.

We get to have an opportunity one day at a time. We do our best with what we have. I'm the type of person, I don't like to go to bed at night knowing that I didn't give the day all that I had. People ask me all the time, how's your day going today? I say it's the best day of my life.

And it is, because I'm not to be grateful for it—just the fact that I woke up and got out of bed this morning makes it the best day of my life. And that's the perception, the attitude I bring to every single day. Now, is it difficult to do some days? Absolutely.

Because we are human beings, and it does go back and forth. But when I thought of the topic, letting go, I really thought of letting go of those expectations. Okay, those expectations that we have when we come into a new business or a new opportunity, a new relationship, whatever it is—you see this in relationships all the time. You see it in new business opportunities like this all the time. People come in, they have an expectation.

I'm going to make all this money in the next couple weeks. I'm going to be rich in the next month. And then they realize they're not, and they're going to go ahead and make a bunch of excuses and blame everybody in their life. And what's that energy going to bring to their business? What's that energy going to bring to their family and their relationships?

That energy is going to bring like circumstances. Okay, it might not be exactly what they're thinking, but it's going to bring like circumstances. If you create an energy of scarcity, if you create an energy of stress and frustration, and why isn't this working—it's all starting with an expectation that you're going to be in a certain place, and you start to shift that energy into what you're really successful for today. What are you really grateful for today?

Get excited about what it's going to be like to accomplish those goals. Market into that feeling, put it into that vibration of, hey, this is why I'm successful. People, somebody that's going somewhere can take them with them. And if you're going somewhere, people can feel it and they're going to want to come with you. So I think that's really important, to work on getting into that mindset.

And when you look at expectations, I always liken this to exercise. I like to exercise. I used to not. I just woke up one morning and felt like, you know, I'm in my thirties, I'm going to have a heart attack probably someday if I don't start eating right.

And I just started exercising and I haven't stopped ever since. And it feels good. And I bring that energy to myself. I bring that energy to my business. But I look at it, your business is like exercise.

Okay. If you want to get on an exercise plan or a diet plan, you want to lose a specific amount of weight—well, you don't have an expectation realistically to do that on your first day, your first couple of weeks, your first month, sometimes your first two months. When I started my exercise program, I wasn't really overweight.

I was about 25, 30 pounds overweight. It was uncomfortable for me. I had low energy and I had some pains showing up in my body that kind of scared me. I thought I needed to do something about it.

But as I went through that process, you've got to liken it to your business. I had to understand that everything I do today is going to benefit me tomorrow. Now, I might not see the results, but if I continue to do it now—a couple of things with exercising, with your business—when you do everything you need to do today in your business, you're going to go to bed feeling good. That's a strengthening energy that you're going to take into the next day and you're going to feel better and better. And it's going to compound, or we can not make those decisions to be in our business or do our exercise program, and we're going to go to bed at night and we're going to feel guilty and we're going to carry that energy into our business the next day and our relationships.

Okay? And it's just like with exercising. There's a great book called The Slight Edge that we'll talk to you about. It's about the compounding effect of what you do daily.

Okay? My first month, I don't think I lost any of the pounds, maybe four or five of them. My body was feeling a little stronger. I was starting to see that I had more energy. But I really wasn't seeing it.

Okay? I went ahead and said, I've got to stay committed. This feels good. It feels so good when I get done with my workout every day. And I'd wake up in the morning all the time and my wussy over here on this side of me is telling me, oh, you don't need to work out.

You don't need to do this. He tells me the same thing with my business some days. I say, you know what? Well, I'm going to commit to it for 10 minutes. I'm going to commit to exercising for 10 minutes because I can go to bed tonight knowing I at least did 10 minutes, which is better than nothing.

10 minutes is better than zero. Doing one ad on Craigslist per day is better than zero. Whatever, however you're marketing and doing your business, something is better than nothing if you look at the compounding effect. Well, after three months, I lost 25 pounds. I looked better than I did when I was in high school, but I had to keep reminding myself how good that feels.

And it's important to do that in your business. Remind yourself how good it's going to feel at the end of the day. Some of you might even be at a point where you haven't even put in enough effort to even see what it feels like, because you're so attached to the expectation—the expectation of what that person is going to say on the other line, the expectation that they're going to say this and that because you don't have enough money in your bank account, or that they're going to say this and that because you don't know what to say to these people on the phone because you're brand new. Or you've been here for a while and you haven't done enough, or you haven't done nothing, and you know it, and there's no one to blame but yourself.

You just got to look in the mirror and say, well, I'm going to do what Brandon and Arthur said on that call. I'm going to start over today. Start over fresh. It doesn't matter what you say to people. I had somebody tell me a long time ago, you can't say the wrong thing.

You can't say the wrong thing to the right person, but everybody wants to work with somebody that's going somewhere. Okay? I didn't know Arthur was going somewhere—if I didn't know Chris Record was going somewhere, I guarantee I wouldn't be working with the both of them, and I wouldn't have signed up with Arthur if I didn't know he was committed to the process, because I want to work with somebody that's committed to the process, because that's whose footsteps I want to follow. And then other people are going to follow me because they'll be able to see that I'm committed to the process as well.

Operate your business from a form of inspiration. When I operate my business, I want to inspire people. Get more advertising coming in as well too. When you have a little bit of people to talk to, you get in that expectational mode a lot more. When you've got a lot of people, you don't have to be in those expectations.

But everybody I talk to, I really strive to be in a mode of inspiration. I want to inspire somebody. If I can leave somebody inspired after a conversation or an email or a message, whatever it is I'm doing with my marketing—if they can leave inspired, I feel like I've contributed to society. I've contributed to my business. I've contributed to somebody.

You never know what that other person on the other side of the computer is going through. Okay? You never know. And if you can just give them a little bit of inspiration, who knows? I've heard stories of people that wanted to commit suicide.

Somebody called them up and shared with them a business opportunity that gave them enough hope not to do it. And if that's all I did to help somebody for that day, I'll tell you what, that's the biggest blessing, better than any income I could gain from this business. But it keeps me in that energetic field, in my opinion, which evokes the law of attraction, because you're vibrating success. Okay?

So I think that's really important. Another thing that's really important is finding a deeper value. For me, my exercise program, the deeper value was I'm getting older. I'm in my 30s. I'm overweight.

I feel pain in my body. It's starting to scare me. The deeper value was my son. The deeper value was my relationships. And I don't want to die young.

I don't want to have a heart attack. It's the same with my business. What's the deeper value? Well, people say, oh, it's all about the money. Well, it's really not about the money. Okay?

It really isn't. It's about being successful and feeling good about yourself and doing what you know you can do and being excellent one day at a time. So what's the deeper value behind everything? Is it really the money? What's the money going to buy you?

Well, what's that going to do for you? What's that new car going to do for you? You follow that stream along and you keep asking those questions of what's this going to do, what's this going to do, what's it really going to provide you?

It's all going to come down to a feeling. It's going to help you energetically. Somebody searching for it—it's going to help them feel like they're having a better life.

And money doesn't provide that for people. I think we've seen enough with the economy and what's going on in the world today—the people that get too attached to the expectations, the outcome of what the money is going to bring to them. If something was to ever happen and it was to go away, it drastically changed their lives. I mean, I had it happen myself. I worked from a quarter million dollars a year, five years in a row, to not knowing how to pay my rent.

That was a serious thing. But I look back every single day and I'm so grateful. I'm grateful for that opportunity because I just learned the hugest lesson about money, and that's it's not as valuable as it is. My life and how I feel as a person is what's mostly valuable. It's not about the money.

Okay? But I had to go through that experience in order to learn it, so I could have a different value on money and give it a different attention. Okay? That way I could keep it coming into my life, because it gives you a lot of useful tools so that you can have a better life and be a better person for other people. Remember this.

This is from a book I got called Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting. I highly recommend you go grab it. It's one of my all-time favorites. I've literally read hundreds and hundreds of books.

This is one of the only books I've read multiple times. It's called Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting. The author is Lynn Grabhorn. She talks about the law of attraction from the level of vibration.

Now we've all seen The Secret. They say, what you think about, you bring about. Yeah, I beg to differ after reading that book. What you think, you feel. What you feel, you vibrate.

If you think scarcity about your business, if you think in an expectational field of nervousness and stress, trying to expect things and will things into your life, you're going to vibrate that way. And when you vibrate that way, you're going to attract like vibrations. Now it might not be the exact same circumstance, but it will be other circumstances that are vibrating at that same level. Car might break down. You might get in an accident.

You might get a flat tire. Something's going to happen. You're just going to attract that circumstance. She teaches you in this book to think about the things you want. Really feel what it feels like and be in that feeling mode.

Because when you get into that feeling mode, you can actually vibrate that mode. And once you start to vibrate it, you're going to attract, say, a million dollars in 30 days. So she cautions you not to just be so focused on the million dollars because it actually might change the vibration, but be vibrating good. Those things are going to feel like being successful.

And then you're going to start to bring those like circumstances into your life where the people are going to come to you. It's so strange. I've seen it so many times in my business where people and things have magically showed up in my life, out of the blue, because I completely let go of it all, and I gave it the right vibrational energy. One thing here, I'm going to wrap it up.

The events, I think, are super, super important. If you've heard this over and over, I'm going to tell it to you again because it is important. The events are really, really important for you to be at. I'm going to be in Austin. I look forward to meeting everyone there.

Come up and find me. Shake my hand. I'll probably be hanging out with Arthur and Chris or anybody of influence that I want to learn how to model and duplicate the same success. You've got to be there because this is the reason. We already established it's not about money.

You've got to be there, in my opinion, because if something happens to you that's only going to happen at a live event, you might lose a lot of income if you don't go. It's going to be able to help propel you forward. That's why I'm going. I don't want to miss out on the opportunity of something experiential that's going to happen to me that's going to change my life and my business forever. It's not going to happen on the phone.

It's not going to happen on a recorded call. It's not going to happen on a video. I'm looking for it. I'm going to take that experience and it's going to be solidified in who I am, and I'm going to take that and use it to build my business. It's really important to be there.

Figure out a way to be there because that could be you. Absolutely. My very first event I ever went to, about 10 years ago, I looked at the people on stage and I said, I'm going to be on that stage. About a year and a half, two years later, I was on stage four times a week for five years. It absolutely blew me away, but something happened at that event and I know it's going to happen in Austin.

Do you have any questions for me, Arthur? I'm going to wrap this up and let you get on to the next guys. Hopefully, I didn't go too long. Wow, Brandon. That's amazing, man.

I'm just sitting here taking a ton of notes. Every time I listen to you and hear you and jump on any of your webinars that you do or calls that you do, I just learn so much from you, man. I just really appreciate you sharing from your heart. I know before we got on this call, Brandon called me and he's like, hey, what should I cover? I just said, just speak from your heart, man.

I could just tell you're sharing from your heart. That's awesome. I know people on this call could really feel that. I love what you said about not having huge expectations, man. I see so many people coming into the business and they have these huge, huge, huge expectations. They're talking to a lot of people.

They're talking to a lot of people, and, man, like I said, they want to hit a thousand dollars a month because they hear about other people doing it, and guess what, you can do that, but you have to learn some things, you have to go through a little bit of a learning curve, and if you just stick to the basics it's incredible, because with this business, with Empower Network, the compensation plan is lucrative enough for you to be able to do that very quickly. I mean, I hear it over and over again, you know, Tony Rush talking about signing up two people a day on every call that he does, and it's like, we were at the leaders event and having a chance to connect with him and talk to him a little bit, and it's like, what do you really do? I send two people a day. There really is no secret. He might have a different way that he's marketing it than I am, but that's what he's doing. It's the repetitive effort over time, creating the leverage and creating the compounded effect, which creates the incomes that he's making. And Brandon, you also said that in the beginning—and I love the fact that you're open to being a little vulnerable on the call—in the beginning you jumped in, you made a splash right away, I know, I saw you doing it, I was really excited, and it seemed like you took a little bit of a break, a little bit of a vacation, or however you put it, and from what we talked about, you almost got paralyzed to go out there and market, to post an ad, to do something. Can you just take a couple more minutes—I really want you to share about this, and just talk about the bounce back. What would you do, and I know this is really recent, as recent as today and in the last week, but what'd you do, and what are the results that you had once you made that commitment, that decision, you listened to a couple powerful calls and then you took action?

Now, the first thing I did was I didn't feel guilty about it, because I believe we're all human and we're going to go through that, and that's why I think I really related with what Chris said about having your inner badass and your inner wussy. Actually, when I first heard that, I think I might write down and write my inner wussy a letter, and tell him to shut up, or else start something, let him know I'm committed to the lesson and to him, to get me moving forward. But no, I think I just kind of took a little bit of a break, and then as I got into that break, I just got a little comfortable with it, and I found myself having to recommit again. I didn't come here to quit. I came here to do what it is I chose to do with my business and the conscious goals I have for myself and for my family. But for me, I did—I got a little bit of paralyzation. It's kind of like, oh my gosh, I mean, I just did all this work, it's been a couple weeks, I haven't signed anybody up. I just started feeling down and horrible on myself. I just thought—you know, I'm smart enough to know that and be accountable for my thoughts. I had nobody to blame and I had no excuses. I know we talked a couple times and I just pulled off. I was like, I have no excuses, I'm just going to recommit. That's it. I'm going to recommit, I'm going to do it. And I sat down and I really started looking at the deeper value once again of why I'm here, which I think is really important. What's the deeper value? And to be honest with you, my intuition was just telling me it doesn't feel good to not do what you know you can really do, to not really be the best person you can be, if that's for your business. You don't want to—it's a compounding effect. If you go to bed at night and you haven't done what you know you could do today, if you don't stop that, you're going to start compounding to where you get paralyzed, and then you're going to have to break that cycle, just like on a diet or exercising. If you stop and you start gaining a couple pounds, you're going to have to stop and work those couple pounds off. But it's just a matter of recommitting, re-engaging. Today is a new day, everything's on the path, and just start taking some action, even if it's small action. Being in direct sales, we did a lot of prospecting back in the day. I always told people, one sale a day, one phone call a day, prospecting—it's better than zero. It might take you a lot longer to hit your goals, but at least you know you did something. Awesome, Brandon, again, thanks so much—thanks so much for coming out here, sharing, man. I'm excited to have you on my team, I'm excited to have you recommitted to our team, I'm excited to see what you're about to do and create, I'm excited to see you in Austin, man, because I love hanging out with you, you bring such amazing energy, and just that fun loving energy, and just an awesome guy to know. So I appreciate you coming out and sharing tonight.

Thanks for being a team player, and thanks for willing to be a little vulnerable, but also sharing some incredible insight. I got so much knowledge just listening to you, man. You bet, thank you, man, I appreciate you being a good mentor and supporting everybody here. You too, Chris Record, as well. Thank you. Cool. Well, that was extremely powerful, guys, and I hope you guys are taking as much notes as I am. I know Chris is taking notes, he's always taking notes, and I feel like we're all students and we're all teachers and we can all learn from each other. There's a program that I go to for like twelve-step work, and working on my addiction and some of the things and some of the paths that I have—there's no big I's or little me's, there's no "my addiction is worse than yours," there's no harm in that. I think that's what's really important to me, because I've been going this way for like a month, and family for a whole year, and my family is kind of—everybody is the same.

Everybody is equal. Some people might have different skill sets than other people. Some people might know a little bit more than someone else. There's always something that you can learn and take away from somebody else. And I believe that.

Every conversation that I have with people, every single day, every time I talk to somebody, connect with someone, it doesn't matter to me how much money they're making or what they're doing. I feel like I could learn something from them. And I'm sure that they maybe could learn something from me as well. Not maybe—they can learn something from me if they're open to learning something from me in that time in their life. So with that said, I'm going to just jump into our second panelist on tonight's call.

Some of you guys might have seen him. He's been pretty active in our group. His name is Eddie Draper. And I just want to tell you a little bit about Eddie before letting him take the call and kind of share his experience on his topic tonight. A little bit about Eddie.

Eddie's been in the high-end sales industry for the last 15 years. So working call rooms, working big ticket sales, working seminars, working with companies like Donald Trump Institute, National Grand Conferences—some of the companies that he's worked with. And I could just start shooting off numbers of the types of sales volume he used to do. And it's just incredible.

I mean, like six figures a week in sales volume. And I'll let him share some of that stuff on his own. I don't know if it's even really relevant. But what I do know is the guy's a powerhouse. He came in here.

And he's all in. He went to work. He started working the business. Currently owns a marketing business in South Florida. He's got his plate full.

But he saw the opportunity here in Empower Network. And for those of you that have been pretty active in the group, you've seen some of the really cool niche stuff that Eddie does. Eddie loves to draw and paint on his spare time. And some of you saw that video that he created, the sketch video. And one of the things that Eddie's going to cover tonight on our call is finding your niche.

And I know that there's a ton of things, Eddie, that you can cover. But I'd love for you to come out and share about finding your niche, finding your passion, doing things that you're excited about doing. Eddie, were you able to jump on the host call, host code tonight? I am, Arthur. Can you hear me okay?

I can hear you perfect, loud and clear. Go ahead. Awesome. Awesome. Well, first off, I just want to thank you, Arthur, for the kind introduction there.

And I just wanted to say how honored I am to be speaking here with all of you. All of you guys here tonight. I hope you guys kind of realize what a cool thing it is that we can do this, that Chris and Arthur has put together this additional training call. From what I know, there isn't another team out there that's doing this. And I just think it really goes to show what an incredible team model these guys have set up for us.

So I just feel really lucky and blessed to be a part of this team. So, before I kind of get into the content here, I just wanted to say a big thank you to Chris, Arthur, Peter, the rest of the leaders, for everything that you guys do. You guys rock. So, but, yeah. So, I know I don't have a ton of time here, but I'll be brief.

The main thing I'd like to do here with you guys is just kind of share a few things. Okay.

So, I'm going to start with this: find the things that you're good at and concentrate on those things. Like I've seen people like Arthur or Chris or J.P. Argentino, who these guys are awesome with numbers and online statistics, and they've used those strengths to get results.

Like for me, though, of course, that's kind of a work in progress, that side of it. So I figured I'm going to do what I'm better at. And for instance, I don't mind talking to people. As Arthur was mentioning there, I have a sales background. I've done seminar sales, things like that.

So I guess I'm comfortable talking to people, like I guess Brandon is as well, explaining things to people on the phone or in person. And more recently, like he was mentioning as well, I've been using some of my artistic abilities. I don't know if everyone has seen the illustration video I've done. I don't know if it's been put together, but for those of you who have and have been giving me such encouraging feedback on it, I really want to thank you. It really means a lot to me.

But what I'll do is I'm just going to really tell you guys a short story of how that came to be. Look, I know I'm not the greatest artist in the world, so I'm not saying this to try to impress you guys or anything, but rather to impress upon you: define what you're good at, and make Empower a platform for that, because it gives you such great freedom, okay? Some time back, I actually was introduced by a friend to these illustration videos online, and I just knew it was something that I could do. I'd never done them before. So the other day, I think it was last Wednesday, I decided I wanted to make one.

I had the idea in my head, I wanted to make one, and I wanted to get it to Arthur and Chris while they were still up in Tampa, and the leadership at the meeting up there. So I created the video, and I have a friend of mine who's got this killer Tony Robbins voice, and he's awesome at video editing, and he's really experienced at it. And I got a hold of him to help me edit it. Unfortunately, what happened was he had a full plate, and that basically fell through. So long story short, I realized I had to make it happen.

And it was kind of like what Brandon was saying, and Arthur was saying—you just have to find a way to make things happen. And so I ran into a lot of trial and error. I didn't know what I was doing. I had to go on Google and figure things out, and look at YouTube videos, and understand how to make it happen. But the bottom line is, is that I did.

And one thing kind of dawned on me once I did it, and I got it out to him, and I felt, obviously, some accomplishment there—is that even though it was tough, even though it was kind of hard to do, I had a great time doing it. I really did. I had fun doing it. So the point I'm trying to make to you guys is that if you're trying to figure out, okay, what's this guy talking about?

What—I don't know what my niche is. I don't draw, or I don't do this or that. What do you enjoy doing? What is it that you guys enjoy doing? What makes you, you know, makes you the person you are?

And start integrating that into what you do. Because the thing is, if you're passionate about what you do on a day-to-day basis, then it really isn't work anymore, right? It just kind of becomes fun. And that's what we really want to have anyway.

You want to make money. You want to pay your bills. You want to have the lifestyle you want. But really, I think the dream is: let's do something that we enjoy doing every day and make a living doing it. Okay?

And I think that once you realize that Empower really gives you the ability to do that, you get so much freedom in it that you can create it anywhere that you want. Then it just starts becoming fun. And once things start becoming fun, I actually think it really goes back to what Brandon was talking about, where it's not about the money. I think he makes a great point there. Because it really isn't.

I mean, of course, it's about the money. But what I'm trying to say is that when you start doing something, when you're in alignment with what you should be doing, when you're doing something you're passionate about, that sets you apart, makes you unique as an individual, then the money is just going to happen anyway. So, again, that's kind of my encouragement to you guys—figure out what that is about you. It can be anything. If you enjoy cooking, if you're really good at that, talk about that.

If you just had a child, or you're about to have a child, talk about that. I thought it was really interesting, I actually was listening back to the 15K formula, which, by the way, if you guys don't have the 15K formula, you should be getting it right now. It's absolutely incredible, the content that's in it. Obviously, Chris did so much with that.

But there's this person on there. I think his name was Justin Verrengia. I'm probably saying his name wrong. But, yeah.

When he first got on the call, he kind of struck me as kind of a geeky guy. Okay? Like, this is probably one of those guys that plays Dungeons and Dragons in his basement every night or something. I don't know. And when he took us to his blog, I really saw that I was probably right.

He's got this long, hippie hair. And he just looks like a geeky guy. But the point I'm making is that he took what maybe some people thought to be a negative, and turned it into a positive. Because he creates these videos, and he puts out these graphics that are funny. I mean, the guy is funny.

He's got this really witty sense of humor, right? And you're kind of engaged by it. And from what I understand, his blog is incredibly profitable. So that's what I'm saying—you can make this into what you guys want it to be. And set yourself apart.

Don't be what everybody else is. Don't be what everybody else is doing. Don't do what everybody else is doing. Every single person, you guys are all unique. So figure out what it is about yourself that's unique and do that.

Are you a people person? Are you a number cruncher? Are you creative? Do you want to get on the phone like Brandon is or myself is? Do you want to just hit that blogging thing as hard as you can?

Figure out what you're comfortable with, what you're good at, what you're going to enjoy doing. And go for it, okay? And make that something that you're doing on a day-to-day basis. So that's kind of one of the main things I wanted to talk to you guys about. The other thing that has really, really helped me is realizing, like I said, I don't know everything, okay?

I don't know everything. I'm not a number cruncher. I'm not a tech guru or anything like that. I sure wish I was. I'm learning, but I'm not.

So what did I do to try to solve that? Well, I tried to align myself with people that are strong in those areas. And that's the great thing about Team Take Massive Action—the community, the ability for you to reach out to people. And so that's what I encourage you guys to do, too.

Be active. Make friends. Talk to people. You'll be amazed at what people are willing to do as long as they see that you're doing it as well.

So now what I would say is, this is a suggestion here—find yourself somebody, preferably, that's on your team. Somebody that you're connected money-wise, okay? Because obviously that's nice as far as motivation and working together. And then match up your skill sets and work together to shorten that learning curve and get more results quicker, okay?

Now, one thing I do want to make sure that you guys understand with what I just said—by no means am I saying, oh, babysit somebody or be the person being babysat, okay? I'm not saying sit there and have one person put in way more effort than the other person. That doesn't make any sense, okay? What I'm saying is find the right relationships, okay? People that you know that you can work with that are absolutely motivated, that you're going to be able to team up with, because, as the saying goes, two minds are better than one, okay?

Okay? Okay. And now the other thing that I'm going to say here is to find yourself a daily rhythm, okay? Find something as far as, if you guys have a job, a day job that you're doing, if you have a schedule or whatever, that's fine. But figure out a rhythm that you can do on a day-to-day basis.

And I think this actually, again, goes back to what Brandon was saying. But I think what you've got to look at is it's creating good habits—whether that means you're doing the blog thing every day, or the calls that you're making every day. Figure out what that is, create a good habit, make that something that you make time for every single day because, to kind of use what he was saying with the whole exercise analogy—look, it's a marathon, this isn't a sprint, okay? So the things that you're doing here today, maybe you're not going to have the results that you want tomorrow or in a week.

But when they hit you in a few weeks, or a few months, that's what you're looking for, okay? So you want to have that bird's-eye view on the big picture, okay? And as a testament to that, you can see people like Arthur and like Chris and the kind of days that they're having now—$5,000 in a single day. It's because of what they've set up and all the effort that they put in from before, okay? So that's actually pretty much all I got there, Arthur.

I wanted to thank you, again, for the honor of speaking here tonight, and I want to wish all of you guys a very Merry Christmas and the best year out there today. Well, Eddie, I appreciate, again, appreciate so much for you coming out and sharing with all of us. Again, just sitting here taking a bunch of notes—just learning every single time that I hear someone, I'm always learning something. And I love what you said about accountability, finding that accountability partner, somebody that's on your team that you can work with, but I also love the fact that how active you are in the group.

I see you and JP go back and forth. You guys are cross-line to each other. There's no kind of monetary incentive for you guys to work together, but I see you guys going at it and just working together, and I love that. I love when people start reaching out and building the community. This is why our team is as strong as it is, because you guys are really engaging and becoming active, and I encourage all of you to do that.

I just love connecting not only with my leaders and people on my team, but I love connecting with everyone because, together, we achieve more. That's the team acronym—together, everyone achieves more, I think, is the acronym, team. And, Eddie, about the niche, I love that, man, because, again, like personally for myself, I love to travel. I didn't just get on a plane and want to go and drop a couple of grand to go to Singapore because I was bored and I wanted to chase Dave and Dave around in Singapore.

I wanted to go out there because I love to travel. I love to experience new things. For those of you that know a little bit about my background story, I've moved and I've lived in 14 different places in the last five years. I've moved around a lot. And I find that I probably do that because I just kind of like to experience different energy in different places and see what it feels like and just experience new things.

A lot of times my family would be like, why don't you buy a house and settle down, do things like that. I don't think I'll ever be able to really do that. I'm kind of like a gypsy. I like to go from place to place and do these things and I like to incorporate it into my business—take a video, take a picture, post it on Facebook, talk about it on my blog. I just love that you brought that up, that you decided to choose finding your niche as a subject, Eddie, because I find that's something that I do.

I just love to travel and it's something that I really like to incorporate into my business and I want to learn how to do even more of it. So I really appreciate you coming out and sharing this topic. No problem, man. Thanks for having me. Cool.

Well, guys, I want to bring out—we're going to just jump into our very next guest. It's now just about 10 minutes after 10. We've been on this call for about an hour. I know, Chris, you said that we can go pretty much as long as we want to go.

But I do want to get to our next panelist. I'm just really excited to be able to bring some of these guys out. And for those of you that didn't get selected for tonight's call, there will be more opportunities for you to come out and share. Like Chris said, I do tend to attract lots of big hitters and leaders and people that are making things happen, that have really good attitudes and great mindsets and just have tons of valuable things to share. And it just wouldn't be possible to have a call with all the people on my team.

We would probably be going until the morning hours, if not tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening, for her to do that. But I do want to bring out this very next person on the call. His name is Maurice Katz. For those of you that don't know Maurice, just a little bit about him. He was actually born in South Africa, came out here, came to America.

He's been a serial entrepreneur since the age of 19. Maurice, I believe you're 32 now. And a gifted mural artist for 10 years, now graphic artist. And back in 2008, he took his company public on the stock market. So somebody with a ton of experience in the space, in business in general.

He's built giant organizations and direct sales businesses. His last company he built to 4,000 people and was able to make six figures doing that. And most recently, he's owned a video company. And he's now running a production studio. Some of you might have seen his videos.

He creates professional videos for companies and celebrities. I know one of the celebrities he's worked with is Larry King. I know that name might ring a bell for a lot of you. And he just knows the tricks and secrets when it comes to taking an average video and just taking it to the next level. And he loves teaching on that.

And I'm just excited to bring Maurice out, hear some of the tricks or some of the tips that he wants to share with everyone. But I also really want to share, why you joined Empower. I know you have so many things that you can possibly be doing with your skill sets and expertise. I want to know why you joined and what you found has been kind of like the strategy or the route that you've decided to take here. And just share some really good insights with us on the importance of using video because I know that's your niche.

I know that's something that you're really passionate about. Maurice, were you able to jump on the host code tonight? Yes, I was, Arthur. Thank you so much. Very cool.

Hey, Maurice, I can hear you perfectly. So go ahead whenever you're ready, man. I am super ready. I am so excited. I'm so thankful to you and Chris.

I'm honored and humbled that you guys even asked me to come on the call tonight. And your leadership, Arthur, and Chris Record's, is second to none. I've been watching what you guys have been doing in such a short period of time. Your Team Take Massive Action website and the amount of support you have on your Facebook page is second to none. And I'm honored and proud to be a part of this team.

Just a shout out to Eddie. Amazing video, what you did with the cartoons and everything. I'm an artist, so I can appreciate that. And I wouldn't be able to do that because I don't freehand like that. But I just wanted to share with everybody what I'm passionate about and why did I join Empower Network and why did I join with Arthur.

I'm blown away by this company. I'm blown away by what this company and what these people have been able to do. I'm the type of person—I'm the underdog. When I was a kid, I was pushed around.

I was bullied. I was small. I was underdeveloped for a long time. And I always had this determination to become something major in life. I always had this determination to say, you know what, I've got to go all out.

All in, and then all out. And I've got to put everything into life. I was the guy that wanted to get straight A's, but it didn't come to me easy. I had to sit there and study and study and study for hours upon hours when my brother, he didn't study and he got good grades. So I'm just saying I'm the type of person that has to push through the walls in order to get to where I want to go.

And with what Arthur was talking about, why I joined Empower Network is because when you've got people building a skill set to be able to generate leads and enroll people and build a business where you've got hundreds of people getting involved in your business—I was successful, but I never knew how to do that. What I started doing is, when I turned 19 years old and I decided to never work for somebody else for the rest of my life, I didn't want to go to college. I remember I was in my guidance counselor's office and she's like, why don't you go ahead and take an SAT class for your senior year? And I said, no, I'm not going to do that. And she said, why?

I said, because I'm not going to go to college. And she says, why aren't you going to college? I said, you only go to college if you want to work for somebody else and impress them. I'm going to work for myself. So now I'm not knocking college and I'm not knocking education.

I'm just saying it wasn't for me. I love to learn, but at the end of the day, I wanted to make money, and I knew that I had to get out into the workforce. And by the time I was 19 years old, I owned my own business and I've done it ever since. I've had huge success. I've made a lot of money.

But recently, I was in a place where I was bringing in a substantial amount of income. I went back into the traditional world because the company I was with totally fell apart. I built a direct sales company to a huge organization and that company fell apart and everybody scattered. And I started looking for another network marketing company, a direct sales company, and that one didn't really work out. And it wasn't that it didn't work out for me.

It was just the companies that I chose didn't work out. And it's pretty frustrating when that happens. And so what happened is I decided to go back into traditional business, and that's when I opened up my production studio. I knew nothing about video in 2010. I realized when I was super successful making a lot of money in a direct sales company, I knew I had to brand myself.

It was then that I started following Arthur, when he had Free Blog Factory, and that's how I met him. I knew about him before he knew about me. And I started watching these guys, and they're always talking about branding and putting yourself online. I started watching David Wood and everything that he was doing and building his brand. I was like, I need to be like that.

My brand focused on people getting to know who I am. But I had no idea how to do videos. I had no idea how to do graphics. But I'm the type of person, if I want to know something, I'm going to do it to my best and I'm going to do it until I become the best. And so that's what I did.

I studied. I kept on watching tutorials after tutorials. I kept on being around the people that were better than myself. And a year and a half later, I opened up a production studio. I started getting into videos and I wanted to conquer video.

And I'm going to give you guys some serious tips about video and where it's going. Currently, there's about 72 hours worth of video—72 hours, that's like 3 days worth of video—that is uploaded to YouTube every single minute. YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world next to Google, and Google owns it. And more than 60% of Internet traffic is video content.

So people would rather watch a video than read necessarily a sales page. Now don't get me wrong, a lot of people like to read. But the majority want to watch a video. And it's stated that if you go to a website that does not have a video on it, the average person spends about 33 seconds on that website. A website with a video, they'll spend about 6 minutes.

So it's about connected content experience. It's about giving somebody an experience, engaging with that person so they can get to know you, like you, and trust you. And that's how they do business with you. And video is the best way to do that. You can't meet the world, so let the world meet you through your videos.

And so what I like to do is give you guys a few tips about video marketing and about creating a dynamic video that will take it to the next level. A lot of people think, yeah, I've got to spend thousands of dollars on equipment. I've got to figure out how this is going to all work. I'm nervous. I don't know how to talk in front of the camera.

Well, there's a few things you want to do. You want to be personable. You want people to know what kind of direction you're going in. And you want to go ahead, and at the end of the video, you want to make sure that you have a call to action.

So you want to be personable. You want to have direction in the video so they know what you're going to talk about. You want to be engaging. You want to bring valuable content to the viewer because if they feel that it's valuable content, they're going to keep on watching your videos. And the last thing, you always want to have a call to action and lead them in a direction that's going to make them have a decision.

Now, the other thing that you want to make sure of doing when you're doing a video is the lighting has to be really good, because what happens is if your equipment—which is your camera or your camcorder—is not that good, the quality isn't really there, then what you need to do is make sure that the lighting is really good because that makes up for it. See, the thing is, when you buy an expensive camera or a lens that costs tens of thousands of dollars, that's because it can be shot in low light and it still looks crystal clear. If you want your videos to come out crystal clear, do them during the day in the sunlight. Do them outside in the sun. Don't do them in your house where it's dim, because then it's going to come out grainy.

It's going to look poor quality. Subconsciously, if you have a poor quality video, people are going to judge you and judge your video and what you do by the quality of your video. So just because you're putting out videos doesn't mean that it's going to be a good thing, because you could actually brand yourself bad by having a bad video. I've seen that so many times. A company that has millions of dollars goes ahead, puts out a horrible video, and now people are watching it, people are seeing it, and they're judging the whole company by this horrible video.

So go ahead—and the fact that I'm a part of this team, I'm definitely going to give this team a lot of tips, and with a little bit of money, you can generate some amazing videos. I'm going to teach you guys about green screen, how to light the green screen, how to be able to put yourself anywhere in the world, how to put an awesome background. So like I said, you can literally buy a camera, not even a camcorder, a Canon camera that costs you about $120 at Walmart, and if you have the lighting that is right, your videos can be amazing. That video that I did that's on Facebook was done with a $100 camera that I literally got from Walmart. That's not even a professional camera. And you're like, Maurice, why are you shooting with such poor equipment?

Because I want everybody to know that they can do it. I don't want to be out of the box. I want to bring it down to everyone's level where it's affordable and attainable for everyone to get the results that I'm getting without having to feel like they've got to spend money on a $20,000 camcorder. You don't need it. You just need to know the tricks.

You need to know the insights about that. The other thing I want to talk about is where I am in my life right now, because this is really important for people to understand. This economy is pretty rough. But what's great about that is that it gives more opportunity for us, because people are going to be looking. People are going to be looking for something to get them out of the slump, people are going to look for something that's going to inspire them, to bring them out into a place where they're going to have tremendous success.

And so this is the platform to be able to do that. So the harder and the worse life becomes in the outside world, the easier it is to be able to recruit people and bring people into a business, because they know that their jobs are not solid. And so I'm in a place where I've had tremendous success. I did murals all over schools, all over Broward County. I've been flown out—I mean, inside the country—to do all these beautiful, huge murals on the outside of buildings and inside of people's rooms, kids' rooms, commercial buildings.

And that's the kind of income I was used to making. Then I went ahead and got into a direct sales company, did the same. Then when I went ahead and opened up my production company, I closed some huge clients and did really well. But what happened was, about four or five months ago, my production company—my partner and I pretty much split. And I let him go.

I let him take it all. Because the thing is, I decided, you know what? You go ahead and take the production company. I want to get back into home-based business. I do not want to be a slave, to be self-employed and have to slave over jobs.

I don't want to do that. This is tremendous. We truly have an opportunity. And so I said to myself, you know what? I'm going to stop looking everywhere else.

I'm going to look at what Arthur and Chris are doing. Because they approached me in the very beginning and said, Maurice, we're going to do this. And I believed them. And I've been sitting on the sidelines watching them have tremendous success. And I'm saying to myself, Maurice, you're successful.

You can do this. You should be in the game right now. And so I said to myself, with me what happens is I get distracted. I want to help so many people, so many companies, that I spread myself too thin. Now, Chris is a master of time management.

I mean, the fact that he's got a whole family, children. He's got this huge business that he works 60 hours a week. He's here every day working in Empower, answering questions on Facebook. I don't know how he does it. He's gifted, and I want to learn from that.

But for myself, I have to be focused. And when I'm focused like a laser, I'm going to achieve whatever I decide to put my mind on. And so I decided, I said, you know what? I'm either going to do this or I'm not.

And I said, you're either going to go all in. And I was having a conversation with Arthur this week. And I said, I'm going to make sure I'm going all in. I'm talking about all in—that's $5,000, all in.

I'm talking about the $3,500 product, everything. And I said, I don't have the money right now. I'm in the worst place, technically, that I've ever been in. And I can resonate with the speakers that were on the call tonight. I can resonate with what Chris Record shared, the fact that his credit score is down to 400 points.

He didn't know anything. He didn't know how he was going to feed his family. He didn't know where he was going to get the money to pay his mortgage. And yet he came up with $20,000 to get into the business. And I said, you know what?

I can relate to that because I'm there right now. And it's humbling to know the kind of income I've generated and the kind of lifestyle I've had, and to be in a place where literally my bank account a week ago was in the negative and I was getting hit with these overdraft fees every day. I'm talking about hundreds of dollars in overdraft fees. And I'm getting so frustrated. I'm saying, here I am.

In the best team, in the best company, I'm dealing with these overdraft fees with this little minuscule bit of money. I said, I need to get serious. I need to get right with this thing. And I went ahead, and I did whatever I could, and I went all in. And I'm all in.

I'm committed. Just today, it was funny—I ended up closing a deal that I worked on for six months, and the money came in. Enough money came in from this deal to put me further in. And so I'm so excited.

I'm so excited to be here with you guys. And I want to talk a little bit about warm market. It's very important. I know I'm here at Empower Network. A lot of the reason why I'm here is because the fact that you can attract leads and generate leads that are cold market and sign up people on autopilot—that's awesome.

But at the end of the day, you need to realize how powerful it is, word of mouth advertising and marketing. It's still the best form of marketing. And everybody in the world knows that. It's just the way it is. So what this Internet marketing does, and everything—the fact that you can connect with people—think about this.

Arthur and myself knew each other before Empower Network. He landed me, and I went ahead and went all in. Don't you think that was a good connection? There's other people that Arthur brought to the table that he knew prior to being a part of Empower Network. And what's happening right now, and I've seen this many, many times.

I've been around this industry for ten years. I've seen this. What's happening right now—a lot of people have heard about Empower Network. A lot of people have heard about it. And they have not.

They have not made any moves. They've just been on the sideline. I call them—they've been in the stands watching this game and trying to see, is this thing for real? Is this really happening?

Are people really having success here? Is this thing going to last? And when Chris is talking about going to the corporate office and there's 60 employees there, these guys are serious. This isn't some fly-by-night thing. And they're creating stories, things that have never happened in the lives of people that work from home.

And so when I'm seeing all these things come into place, and I'm seeing the perfect storm, I'm saying, man, you better get on this wave and ride the wave of your life or you're going to get crushed by it. And so what I saw is this—I'm looking from the horizon. I'm watching what Dave and Dave is doing. I'm watching what Chris and Arthur are doing in such a short period of time.

And I said, that's it. This is the time. The time is right now. And you need to talk to your friends. You need to talk to your family.

You need to talk to everyone you know, because they are going to get involved. We've got about 70,000 reps. The people that get involved underneath the 100,000 rep mark are going to stand to make a fortune. Now, don't get me wrong. Everyone else stands to make a fortune too.

But we have the lion's share. We have the opportunity to literally make millions of dollars in a very short period of time, right here, right now. So this isn't a time to sleep. This isn't a time to go ahead and dabble. This is a time to take it seriously.

And you know what's so funny? I was talking to a buddy of mine by the name of Dave. It's funny, I know all these Daves. And I was talking with him, and he was explaining to me.

He's like, you know what's so funny about this industry is that people will go ahead and purchase a $300,000 franchise or business, and come Monday morning when they open that business, they're there every day working 8 to 16 hours a day, every day, for the next five years. They get into a home-based business, and they go ahead and they do not work every day. I mean, why aren't they showing up to work every day? There's no such thing as a day off. This is your opportunity.

You've got six months of grinding, of going hardcore, so that you're set up for the rest of your life. So I just want to encourage you guys to go ahead, crawl out. Think of yourself—you're on the edge of a cliff, and you have a chance to fly. There is no back door for me. I made this decision.

My account is at zero right now. I'm a bank accountant. I'm all in. I've put everything on the line for this business. And why did I do that? Is that a foolish move?

No, it's not. I think it's a very wise move. A foolish move, which I've done so many times before, is take a $4,000 investment, invest it in a stock, and lose half your money in a day. Or what about taking a $4,000 investment and putting it in your car that's depreciating, which I've done. And so I'm saying to myself, you know what?

Taking $4,000 and putting it into Empower, I've never taken $3,500, put it down on the table and been more excited about it. I don't have this fear of like, oh no, am I going to make it, is this going to work? No, I am so excited that I did that, because now when I look at my friends—because I'm going warm market—when I look at my friends and I tell them, listen, I spent five grand.

I'm in this thing all in, all the way up to the top of my head. They're either going to think I'm nuts or they're going to say, oh my gosh, I've got to move with this guy. Even if they don't go all in, they're going to at least come in for $25 to $125 and at least get the $500 package, because they're going to say, look, I've got to at least match this guy's commitment halfway. And so you're going to see myself rise to the top in Empower Network with Arthur and Chris and really add to this team and add to what this team has to offer, and really help everybody on this team succeed, because that's what it's all about. This is a team effort, and we've got to lay our lives down for each other.

I mean, this is a team effort. This is it. This is a family. This is awesome, and I'm just so excited, privileged, honored, and humbled to be here right here right now in 2012. I know that 2013 is going to be our best year yet, everybody that's on this call.

Make a decision. It starts with a decision. It starts with a mindset. I don't care what you're going through. Like I said, I've been going through the hardest time in my life right now.

And it's kind of hard for me to say this. My bank account was at zero. But that's where I'm at. That's the reality of it. I've got a beautiful car in the driveway, and I could barely pay for it.

And I'm watching all these people. I'm the guy in the stands, and I'm watching all these people have success, and I'm sick and tired of it. I'm like, listen, just get in the game. Go all in and just make it happen. And so that's what I did, and I'm so excited.

And thank you so much, Arthur, so much, Chris, for taking the time to train us, to teach us, and to have me on this call. I really appreciate it. Wow, Maurice. You got me having chills over here just because of the kind of energy that you just brought to everyone listening to this call. It's extremely inspiring, man.

It's extremely inspiring to me because I just watched your energy shift in the last two weeks, literally. We talked to you when we first got started. You're one of the first people I contacted, because I know some of the stuff that you've done in the past, and I know the caliber and skill sets that you bring. I know the power of your video training. I know the power of the videos that you create.

I just know everything all around that you do. And I just think it's so powerful. And I watch you kind of sit around and watch it happen and wait around. And from time to time you reach out to me and kind of tell me that you're still in, you're still coming along. And I would just basically say, okay, man, whenever you're ready, I'll be here.

And it's just so exciting, man, to see the shift in energy in you, man. It just blows me away. Just talking to you two weeks ago, it was very much an "I can't" type of mentality. And we had that conversation. And it's just like—within a snap of a finger, your energy shifted.

And I'm so grateful that you're willing to be vulnerable on this call. I'm so grateful that Brandon, Eddie, that you guys came out. You're willing to be vulnerable. You're willing to be transparent and show your real side, because this is what it's about. I'm not afraid.

I'm not ashamed of my past. I don't share about it all that much. I probably should be more. Some people know my story, my whole story of being emotionally, spiritually bankrupt, all drugs and alcohol and having a very crappy lifestyle. And then they also know sometimes I've kind of put up a mask and not shown that face.

And I'm really grateful, Maurice, that you were able to come out here and share that openly and be okay with it. That just speaks volumes to me when people do that. And again, I'm really grateful. Brandon, thanks again for coming out on this call and sharing with everyone. Eddie Draper, doing some phenomenal stuff out there in the video space and some of your sketches.

I'm excited to see what you're going to come up with next. And Maurice, I'm excited to see what you're going to do here in the next little bit. I know you've got a game plan that we talked about, and you're going to absolutely kill it. So again, thank you for coming out and sharing. All right, cool.

So guys, I do want to kind of bring you up to speed, kind of tell you what's happening. I know some of you have been waiting for a while for this Craigslist training. But before I go through and share what you're going to see, I do want to say that all this training for you is not only can you use it for your own marketing efforts, generating leads and sales and all that good stuff, and something that I've experienced with using Craigslist and using these different marketing avenues that we use, Facebook and blogging—one of the things that I have to say is you'll be able to actually use the Craigslist training, kind of teaser training videos, for people that are interested. For people that are currently in the direct sales or network marketing industry, trying to figure out a way to use Craigslist effectively.

And I'm sure that we all know how many networkers there are out there that use Craigslist. They have absolutely no idea what the hell they're doing. And frankly, they just don't know how to generate leads as well as I've been able to. Now I'm not the single expert out there on Craigslist. There's plenty of us out there.

I've just taken the time over the last five years and really learned it and used it, and done it very, very successfully. I've generated over 50,000 leads on Craigslist. I've generated a lot of leads here on Empower Network. I've generated about 11 sales off Craigslist. Some of you on this call might actually have met me on Craigslist.

You might have actually never talked to me. You could have signed up from one of my ads, and then later on you got a call from me welcoming you to the team. And there's a lot of ways to do it. There's kind of the old school way, which is what you can do as far as creating clickable, trackable, and image ads, and ad links, and flags. And I just want to kind of share that.

I just want to kind of cover one of my disclaimers. And I think this is really important, because one of the things that I did prematurely—and I'm going to pull myself out and make myself vulnerable right now—is I prematurely posted about the Craigslist training and some co-op that's coming out. And the reality is when people see something new, a lot of people have shiny object syndrome. They see something new. They see something that's flashy, that's working for somebody.

And they're like, oh my God, this is awesome. I'm going to wait for that to come out. And I'm just going to stop doing everything else until that comes out, because that is what's going to make me successful, because that is the secret. And the reality is that you can't do that no matter what. So, yes, it's going to give you another avenue to generate more leads and traffic to all the stuff that you're doing.

And it's going to be awesome. But one thing that I have to do is give you my disclaimer. And I used to do this disclaimer when I did social media talks to different companies. I did a lot of live speaking when I first started out as far as standing on branding and training on social media and training on Internet marketing. And I have my disclaimer for that.

And it's pretty much the same disclaimer for Craigslist. Number one is you have to realize that anything that you do that's new, it's not going to happen for you overnight. Don't expect to have as many leads as I do from one ad on the first ad that you place. Even if you just copy me, or no matter how much you follow the instructions, you just won't be that good right off the bat. It's not going to be overnight.

You'll get there if you're repetitive and you're consistent and you can put the energy in, and learn it and do it right. The second part of the disclaimer is—so number one, it's not overnight. Number two is it's really not that hard. It's not hard.

It's not easy, but it's not that hard. And a lot of people, they think technology, and they just think it's hard. It's going to be painful. I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it. They get shiny object syndrome because they're excited, but then when it comes time to do it, it's too hard to do it.

They can't seem to figure it out. It's not hard. And number three, and this is the most important one in my opinion, is it's not a replacement to anything else that you're doing. It's not a replacement to the Facebook method. If you're sending out 20 to 25 Facebook feelers, is what I call them, every day, you're kind of sending out those conversation starters, those icebreakers—continue doing that.

That's going to help you build your business. If you're blogging every day—I generated two sales off my blog the other day. I tapped into my life. They came to my blog.

They read a blog post. They signed up. Almost no blog post traffic—you have to do it consistently and repeat that over time, and it starts to happen. He mentioned it many, many times.

I didn't implement it. I just implemented it a couple days ago. I'm seeing leads every day to my Contact Me form, people contacting me wanting to join my business. So, again, the third and most important disclaimer that I leave is it is not a replacement to anything else that you're doing. I do want to say a lot of people know that I had a $5,000 day recently.

I've had a couple big days recently. I just jumped on a new lead source, like a solo ad that I created. You think that's how I did it? You think I just jumped on some really cool, shiny object that I've never seen? Because guess what?

When I joined Empower Network, I'd never heard of a solo ad in my life. I know what a media buy is. I know what a joint venture is, but I never heard of a solo ad. It's just a different name for a media buy or a joint venture. I just never heard of it.

I was definitely open to testing it, learning about it, and I'm continuously doing that, but I realized that it's not going to replace all my marketing efforts that I'm familiar with, that I know how to do and that have been working. So what I want you guys to realize is: go out there and do what I did in November. Go recruit 54 people directly to you in a month. Go do that.

Again, I'm not saying that to brag about what I did, but what I'm saying is, I came back from Singapore. I was committed. I gave my commitment to Chris. I gave my commitment to Peter, to George. They're my accountability partners.

They're who I partnered with to keep me accountable to my goals. I told them that I'm going to focus on two a day. I didn't quite hit two a day. I applied the strategies that I know, one of those being Craigslist, and I got the result that I was seeking. It came from Craigslist.

Not all of them came from Craigslist. But what I love about Craigslist is it's a very inexpensive marketing avenue that you can generate a lot of leads from and that you can generate sales from. I really like about it, I've been doing it long enough to know that it works really, really well. And so some of the things that you guys can look forward to learning on the Craigslist training and utilizing it for is, again, the custom sales funnel.

We're going to create a custom sales funnel specifically for Craigslist. That's going to be coming out here in the next week. You're going to have a new funnel you can use. You'll start getting access to some of these trainings right away, within the next 24 hours, literally. So by tomorrow, you'll have modules here.

There's going to be some on a monthly basis. I don't know if you guys know the stats, some of the figures, it literally does on a daily basis. I'm going to break down how Craigslist works.

I know some of this stuff is going to be basic for some of you, but for the majority of you, you really want to see how this thing works. What are some of the categories in Craigslist? Where do you want to post? So if you post in the services section versus the job section, how many more ads will you have to do before you see the same type of results? And what kind of results?

But I'm also going to give you my three specific guides that I use. And, again, I follow my own teachings. I do it myself. I've been doing it for a long time.

But I don't remember it, so I have to have a list of things that I do. And sometimes I forget to do them, and it ends up hurting me. But I have a list, a step-by-step guide that I use in order to place my ads. I'm going to take you through placing your first ad on Craigslist. If you've never placed an ad on Craigslist, I'm going to teach you how to actually do that.

And it sounds simple, but even some of you that are advanced on Craigslist, I bet some of the things that I'll show you will blow you away, because of the amount of leads that you generate from your Craigslist ads. Now, there's also going to be some intermediate stuff in there, covering your tracks. Like if you guys want ads, being able to see statistics and things like that, you cover your tracks. That's on Craigslist. Now, one thing I've got to say is I'm not trying to teach you how to cheat the system.

I'm just basically trying to teach you how to do something effectively so that you don't get blocked, so that some of you are aware, if you've been experiencing having an ad posting system working for you, whether you decide to outsource that to an employee overseas, or somebody locally, or somebody that you work with, keeping track, or keeping everything kind of in place to be able to keep track of everything that you're doing. And just have kind of like a guide, and know where stuff is, and what you want to use, and things like that. Now, the last part of it is going to be some advanced stuff. This is not going to be released to everyone.

I'm not 100% sure exactly how we're going to release this training, but it's going to be very, very advanced training for those of you that are trying to figure out the formula, the exact formula for doing multiple ads. Some of you know that, personally, I've had campaigns where I can go out there and do 20 or 30 ads in a day, and so this is how I'm generating some of the traffic that I'm generating. Some of you might have seen me on the leaderboards with the leads. I have days where I generate hundreds of leads off Craigslist, and that's how I do it. I have a formula for multiple ads, a quick guide for the strategy that you can outsource.

I know some of you have been waiting for it. But again, remember my disclaimer. This is very important. Number one, it's not overnight. Number two, it's about how you use it effectively.

You follow my three-step guide. And number three, it is not a replacement to anything else that you're doing. Don't stop doing everything that you're doing and focus on something new and shiny and exciting, because you will slow down your business, you'll go into management mode, and you won't achieve the goals that you're looking to achieve. And learning is part of it. It's an income-producing activity.

It's not an actionable activity. You have to actually take action and do the things every single day that are going to generate you income. Facebook is one of those things. Blogging is one of those things. Running ads is one of those things.

Assisting with it—you have to be doing it on a daily basis. So with that being said, if you're still on the call with us, is there anything else specifically that you'd like me to cover? We've been here for almost two hours. I know this has brought out three guests on the call tonight.

Is there anything else specifically that you'd like me to cover before we wrap up for the evening? No, buddy. Great. Great call. Just wrap it up.

Well, thanks again, everybody, for joining us this evening. I look forward to, again, keeping everybody connected. One of the things that Eddie mentioned was be active and stay active and make friends. I'm going to encourage you to do that in the Facebook group. Ask your questions.

Make friends. Be positive. You'll notice we're not empathetic to any type of negative attitudes or any type of BS. If you've got something negative to say, open your door, open your window, and scream at the guys for being here, and we'll see you next Tuesday night.