Empower Network Explained: How Fast-Start Training Works
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David Wood tells the story of getting a parking ticket in Hawaii for sleeping in his van, a ticket that used up the last of his money, and says that moment changed him more than anything else in his career. “Something happened to me that day,” he says. “I can’t really describe it but I just changed in a moment and I knew that I was going to make it, because I decided that moment that no matter what, no matter what, never again.”
A parking ticket in Hawaii was the turning point
Wood opens the talk, recorded live on Thursday, February 27, 2014, by telling the audience his purpose isn’t heavy training but orientation: showing people what Empower Network actually is, since he says most members, even after a year in the company, still can’t quite explain it. To get there he goes back to his own story. His last job, he says, was in 2009 at Greenpeace, and he got fired from it for being late, despite being the top person there for getting subscriptions. He was homeless at the time, living in a van in Hawaii, first by choice, then because he had no money to do anything else. Hawaii bans sleeping in cars from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., and one night the police gave him a ticket that ate up the last of his money. That was the low point, and also, he says, the moment he decided he would never go back to it.
Seven years of advice that never worked
Before that low point, Wood had spent seven years in network marketing trying to make the traditional approach work. He joined Amway in 2002, drawn not by the products but by the vision of building an income across time zones with people he’d never meet. His upline, a man named Dennis, told him to make a list of everyone he knew and invite them to a meeting. Wood pointed out he’d just spent two years as a missionary and didn’t know anyone in town except one relative already in the business. Dennis’s fix was to tell him to make new friends by approaching strangers in coffee shops and at Walmart, using lines like “you seem like a sharp person, you keep your business options open,” since almost everyone says yes to that even when they mean no. People would give him a number, he’d call, and they’d block him.
He followed that approach for three years, spending roughly five thousand dollars on events, eight to ten thousand on products like soap and vitamins, and another five thousand on audio tapes, always wondering what he was missing. He then spent a few more years jumping from deal to deal, making a few thousand dollars here and there before each one fell apart, until he became, in his words, “one of those guys” that friends dreaded hearing from, always in some new opportunity. A mentor named Eric Worre eventually helped him build an offline business through hotel meetings, and he made some money, but he could never break past three or four thousand dollars a month no matter how hard he worked.
A heckler on a webinar exposed the real problem
After Greenpeace, Wood moved back in with his parents in Alaska and kept working a new opportunity by phone, running webinars off of dollar-trial GoToMeeting accounts he’d cancel and re-register before being charged. One night, after spending an entire day calling job applicants to invite them to what he now admits may have been an illegal bait, since he was presenting a paid business opportunity as if it were a job, a man on the call started yelling that Wood was trying to scam them. Wood muted him, the group fell apart, and everyone hung up. That was his one shot for the day to bring in a new partner, gone.
Sitting with his anger afterward, he asked himself whether there was a way to build a business without constantly trying to convince skeptical people to do something they didn’t want to do. That search led him to what marketers call attraction marketing, a concept new to him since he’d never studied direct response and network marketing, in his description, isn’t really marketing at all, just talking to friends and family. The idea was simple: find people who already have a problem and are actively looking for a solution, and you don’t have to be a great salesperson, they buy because you’re there at the right moment. Ninety days after discovering this, Wood had a single night where he made over twelve thousand dollars, and was routinely making five hundred to fifteen hundred dollars a day. His best month recruiting under the old method had been four people in seven years; his best day under the new method was thirty or forty. His best year sponsoring had been twenty people; he moved to sponsoring two to four people daily, seven days a week, for two straight years.
His team was broke, and that built Empower Network
The problem, he says, was that while he was succeeding, his entire team was broke. He says he can accept people not earning if they aren’t willing to put in the work, but he wasn’t willing to keep selling what he calls “thin air,” a dream without a real opportunity behind it. He kept asking how to fix it, and one day, walking in the hills after months of not working and just thinking, the concept for the company came to him fully formed. He had already been the number one recruiter in one network marketing company that then shut down, and the number one recruiter in another whose owners, he says, wouldn’t pay people what they were worth and whose culture undermined what his team was building. Empower Network was his answer: a company built around paying out most incoming revenue to the field, with commissions from each product going in full to one person rather than being split across levels.
He walked through the back office and the products as proof of that structure. The blog costs twenty five dollars a month and pays a twenty five dollar commission, minus a merchant fee he says runs about 6.5 percent. The Inner Circle, a personal development membership releasing roughly one new audio training a week for two years running, costs one hundred dollars a month and pays a hundred dollar commission; Wood says it has paid out more than any other product in the company, and that he personally has earned over 1.3 million dollars from it alone. The Costa Rica Intensive costs five hundred dollars and pays a five hundred dollar commission. Combined with the required twenty dollar monthly affiliate fee, which is non-commissionable and funds the company’s infrastructure, customer service, and technology, he says these three products alone give an affiliate a foundation to hit most income goals.
To make the goals concrete, he had listeners write down a monthly income target and a date, noting that most people who come through his database land between five and ten thousand dollars a month, with only two or three percent aiming above one hundred thousand. His formula: take the monthly goal, divide it by thirty, and figure out how to hit that daily average alone, assuming nobody else on your team does anything. If the goal is ten thousand a month, that means roughly 333 dollars a day from product sales by yourself. “The curse of this industry,” he says, “is people thinking ‘I’m going to sponsor a Dave Wood and get rich.'” He argues those results only come from building the kind of community that helped create him in the first place.
Written up from the original recording. The full transcript is below.
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Hey guys, please refresh the screen. I'm just going to wait a minute, guys, just to get started. Apologize for being a little bit late here. But of course, I always am.
Actually, the last job I've ever had, I'm going to turn my air conditioning on here. The last job that I've ever had was in 2009. Excuse me one second, folks. The last job I ever had was in 2009, and it was at Greenpeace. Excuse me. It was at Greenpeace, and I got fired from Greenpeace for being late. Can you believe that? And I was the only one getting subscriptions to the environment or whatever we were doing. I can barely remember. But they fired me for being late. So I was homeless working at Greenpeace and fired. Not the funnest combination in the world. We got down to about having no money. And that led to a series of interesting decisions, as I'm going to talk about today, that led to Power Network.
So I'm glad to be here. So I'm going to just get going. And I really think that most of the people who are on this are actually watching the replay from yesterday. So maybe through this we can be telling people to refresh the screen together, and they can all start piling on the actual live stream. So this is actually live. The date today is Thursday, February 27, 2014. So you guys know this isn't some kind of recording or anything.
And today my purpose in being here is to orient you. It's not to go into a lot of training. It is to show you what's possible. And to just kind of get you oriented to the idea of what in Power Network really is. Because if you know what this is, you'll know what to do with it. And most of you don't know what it is. Actually, most of the people who have been in Power Network for a year don't even really know what it is. They can't really figure it out because we're a little bit of a different area. And sometimes the problems that people have, they come from just lack of clarity, you know what I mean? Because we are different, and we've done things because of those differences that nobody's ever done before. Nobody's ever done the sales that we've done on the internet and had them be as sustainable as we've made them. People are baffled by it. And they're baffled by it because they don't really understand why we're doing what we're doing and why it works the way that it does.
So today I want to explain that to you. Because if you know that, then you'll know what to do with yourself here. And you'll also know if this isn't for you. See, the one thing I can come from is a position of power, being the co-founder of Empower Network, is I can just tell you, if this isn't for you, you're welcome to go elsewhere. A lot of people come in Empower Network, they learn something and then they go on and they do something else.
You know, I was reading a book back in 2002 or 2003 when I first got involved in direct sales. I can't even remember the date of the book, but it was talking about leadership styles, right? Leadership styles. And it mentioned, and I might be misquoting facts here, so excuse me if you know the actual facts or if you know the book name. You can even write it in the comments. But this is a book they had me read in, I'm just going to leave that there actually. There's a book they had me read when I was an animal. And it was talking about GE and how, for a long time, GE ran their management in a way to where they actually weren't trying to control people to keep them around. What they did instead was they put them into an environment where they literally taught them everything that they needed to know to go off and start their own venture. Even if they wanted to start a competing company with GE, it was okay. And they started, because of that philosophy, they were responsible for creating more split-offs of people that started different entrepreneurial businesses and went off and created their own companies than any company in history.
And people question them for that strategy, because they say, hey, why would you want to train your competition? Well, the response was interesting, right? It's because when you're giving people what they really want, you get the best people. So they never had to struggle with getting world-class people. And that's one of the reasons why I believe that Empower Network has the best, most talented minds in the world of marketing. And they come here and they stay here. The reason is because we help them to achieve what they want. We help them to achieve what they want. And part of that is because of the philosophy here, part of that because of the goals here. Part of that is because of who we are. Okay?
So I wanted to congratulate you for being here. And today is really about you, because Empower Network is about you. All right?
So real quickly here, and I'm actually going to, I've been playing around with this format for the Fast Start training here. I've almost got it down to what I want to do it with. And after I do that, I'm going to systematize it, and we're going to do some neat stuff to help you guys all make a lot more money if you're an affiliate here. And if you're
A customer here, we're going to help you succeed more in your business through this process, right? So I'm right about there. So real quickly, let me tell you the story of Empower Network. And before I do that, I need to drink some cranberry juice. No, there's no vodka in it. All right, although that's not a bad idea. Hold on a second.
So this is the story of Empower Network. It's the story of me, and it's the story of a lot of you. I've been in the network marketing industry, direct sales industry, since 2002. I got involved in Amway in 2002. I actually really like that company. A lot of people join that company, and they quit it, and they badmouth it. A lot of people kind of badmouth where they came from, and I don't believe in that. I don't believe in badmouthing anything. I actually learned more there than I've learned from people on the internet. I learned an incredible amount being involved in that company. So kudos to the leaders over there.
And I got in because of a dream, because I saw a possibility of being able to create an income that spanned the world based on people buying products and services that they found valuable in different states, in different countries, in different time zones. And I saw an ability to build a business that would expand so large that it got beyond my influence to where I wouldn't even know all of the people that were in the world, on the other side of the world who were going to work and making me money. I wouldn't even know who they were. It was this fantasy that I fell in love with, that I got involved. I didn't get involved because of the products. I didn't get involved because of the compliment. I got involved because of that vision of the ability to build a business while you're lifting other people up.
Well, they told me, you know, I called my upline when I got started. He was a sapphire, and some of you guys know what that is. Some of you don't know what it is. Some of you don't really care. But I got started, and when I got started, I called this guy. His name was Dennis, one of my good friends still today. I called Dennis up, and I said, you know, what do I do to get started? And he told me what you guys have probably heard if you've ever been in direct sales. If you've never been in direct sales, let me just save you the pain by telling you the story so you can laugh about it and say, do people really do that? Yes, they do. Still, okay, and let me tell you what happened.
I called him up, and I said, what do I do? And he says, well, got a pen and a piece of paper. I said, yep, I got a pen and a piece of paper, and hopefully all of you have a pen and a piece of paper, although I'm going to have you do something different than this. He said, I want you to make a list of everybody you know and invite them over to your house for a meeting, and then we're going to show them the plan. And I said, we're going to invite them to my house. And he said, yeah, and I said, I only asked if it would work. He said, why not? What are you talking about? I said, well, I've just been a missionary for two years. All my friends are missionaries, or they're in college, and I'm in a new town. So the only person I know here that's family is already in. So if I invite him over to my house and present to him, there's not really much use of that, is there?
And he kind of chuckled and started laughing. He says, yeah, you're kind of right. We're going to have to find a new strategy. I said, what's that? He says, well, you need new friends. Right? So I said, well, how do I build new friends? I've been doing missionary work for two years. And this is what he said. He said, well, there's people everywhere, in coffee shops, in Safeway, in Walmart. I mean, just look around, find people, and talk to them.
Now, that is about the worst advice that you could give a person like me. Not because I'm stupid, but because when I have somebody who's like a mentor, I listen unconditionally. Because I have seen that be a massive catalyst for change for people when they find a mentor. So for me, when I find somebody I perceive as a mentor, if they tell me to do something, I just do it. And I'll try it until I figure out that after a lot of pain, it doesn't work. Because I want people around me that are wise. And if I don't listen to them, they're not going to give me good advice. Right?
So I wandered around looking for people to talk to. You know, hitting them up on street corners. And, you know, I'd be in a mall or whatever and, you know, go talk to some salesperson. I don't know if you guys have been a poor salesperson in the mall getting attacked by Amway people every day. But I'd say something like, you know, hey, you seem like a sharp person. You know, you keep your business options open. Which, of course, everybody says yes to because they don't want to feel stupid by being closed. Right? So if you say, are you interested in home-based business, they'll probably say no. But if you say, are you keeping your options open, everybody says yes. But they're not really. So they give you, like, this, you know, facade and they're like, yeah. And you say, well, what's your number? I'll give you a call. I've got something to talk to you about. And then you click the call and they don't pick up the phone. They block you. Right?
And so I spent three years trying to build a business like that. Not realizing that there's a better way. And after three years, I had spent maybe five grand going to conferences. Actually, wait, a lot more than that. I spent probably eight or ten grand just on products, you know, soap and vitamins, and then another five grand on audio tapes, and
Then another three grand on events. Always wondering what the secret is. Always wondering what I'm missing. Okay? And after a while, I figured, you know, after three and a half years, I was in a bad spot financially because of making bad business moves. Right? And not really listening. And jumped to a new deal to try to solve it. So I jumped to a new deal, made a few thousand bucks, and then that didn't work out either. And I jumped to a new deal, made a couple thousand bucks. That didn't work out either. Jumped to a new deal, jumped to a new deal, jumped to a new deal. And I became one of those guys. You know what I mean? Like, what do I mean by one of those guys? Well, it's like the friend where they walk in the room and everybody looks at them and say, oh God, what's he in now? You know, I was like one of those guys.
So as a result, I didn't really have a lot of close friends. I didn't really, you know, I didn't really talk to my family a lot. So they were like, well, what are you in now, Dave? You know, I was really, really, I look back and I think actually how I actually behaved was annoying. Like, I'd be annoyed by it today. I mean, if I had a friend that called me up every three months and was trying to get me into a new deal, I mean, I'd be, I'd say, hey dude, you know, you want to hang out or why don't you call? So that's what I did. And I did it because I thought it would work. Because I was told that it would work.
And finally in 2006, 2007, I got a mentor in the industry, Eric Worre, who helped me learn how to build a business. And I didn't really succeed, but I at least made some money. Offline. Doing hotel meetings. But my life just got burnt out because I was doing this for a big picture. I like wanted to make, you know, a hundred thousand a month. I was like this big picture thinker. And I just couldn't get out of this grind. You know what I mean? I just couldn't break out of it. I couldn't get out of making two and three and four thousand a month for the life of me. And there's a reason for that. I'm going to talk about that in a minute.
So I ended up quitting for a little while and I was like I'm going to be a raw food hippie. And what happened actually is I got so broke that I was homeless for a while. Because I was always trying this stuff and never able to put it together. And always making excuses about it. I mean I look back and you know it's really hindsight's 20-20. But some of this stuff I can highlight people on the call, you're just like me. This is my story.
And so, you know, in 2009 I was homeless, broke and fired from my job at Great Peace. I'm still late to everything, right? I still do that. And here's what happened. I got fired and I was out of money and I was living in a van in Hawaii on purpose at first and then I forced because I had no money to move out of the van, which was the original plan. And I was broke, you know, just so busted inside and financially and beat up.
And I got a ticket one night for being homeless from the police. You're not allowed to sleep in your car in Hawaii from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. It's like that in most places because they don't, I mean nobody wants to have homeless people sleeping in their cars in their neighborhood, right? It's just, it doesn't matter how rude it sounds, nobody wants it, even today. Think about it, do you want it? So there's rules against it, right? And it makes it tough for homeless folks.
And so I got a ticket and that ticket was like for the sum total of all the money I had left. So I was done. And something happened to me that day. And I can't really describe it but I just changed it a moment and I knew that I was going to make it because I decided that moment that no matter what, no matter what, never again. You ever have a time like that in your life where you're like, it's my time, never again. See I'd had the knowledge for a long time. I'd had the ability for a long time. I just never really crossed over that threshold to where it's time, it's time.
And I just started acting differently. I started working all day and night for a few months. And this is before the internet. I joined a business and I was hawking things on the, I was trying to get people on the phone. I was calling friends and family. I was doing all the stuff that I knew how to do and it still wasn't working. And wasn't really making wasn't really making wasn't really making the money that I wanted to make. I was making 200, 300 bucks a month and borrowing some money from my parents so I could move back to Alaska and just kind of live in a spare room and work on their internet connection.
So I moved up to Alaska and it was a couple of months of just kind of fiddling around maybe two, three months. And one day I did a conference call that changed my life. I was doing a go-to meeting. I used to get a go-to meeting subscription for a dollar trial and then before the month was over I'd cancel it and then get a new dollar trial so I'd never have to pay. I had like eight dollar trials like that going on because I couldn't pay for anything because I was broke. Really hilarious. Kept getting new credit cards every time I'd run out of them on my dollar trials and then they'd send me a new card and I'd use the new number so they wouldn't walk me from the dollar trial again.
And some of you are like, right? That's a good idea. There's free stuff for that now. You've got freeconferencing.com and Google Hangouts. Google Hangouts can handle more people
Than go to a meeting, and it's free. You don't need to spend money on this stuff today. So this is 2009, not 2014. Big difference.
So in any case, something magical happened. I'd spent all day calling job applicants, inviting them to a business opportunity presentation. Something that, by the way, if you're not going to tell them what it is, actually I think it's illegal, because you're essentially pretending you have a job for them but you don't have a job. You have a business opportunity you have to pay for. It's different. You can't pretend that this is a job. It's not. It's not a job. Right?
But I didn't know that. I mean I was just trying to make things happen. So I'd spent all day getting these people to this go to meeting. And they all got on, and halfway through my presentation this guy, he says, why are you trying to scam us? And I stopped, and I was like, I'm trying to scam you? What are you talking about? I said I'm just doing a presentation for my company. And he says you're trying to scam guys, you're trying to scam us, and he started yelling and screaming. I mean he's just a lunatic. But at the same time, something like that can have a lot of influence.
So I was trying to figure out a way to mute him out, and then finally I hit a button and I kicked him off my live, my webinar. And I was like, you see guys, he wasn't an idiot, he's not a scam. And everybody hung up. And I was just mad. I'd spent like 8 or 10 or 12 hours getting people to that thing. And that was my shot for making money for the day, to find a new partner to join my team. That was my shot. And I was just messed up and angry. Just mad.
And I looked at my life and I looked at the last 7 years, and I said, there has got to be a way to do this where I'm not constantly having to try to convince skeptical people who don't want to do something to do it. There's just got to be a way. This sucks. This is awful. How can I expect anybody to do this? And I was right. If I, as the most persistent person that I've ever met, have a very hard time with that, how can I expect somebody who's not as persistent, who's not a little bit weird, to ever even think about it? There's got to be a better way.
And that's when I ran into the concept of attraction marketing. Which is a really simple concept. It's just a word somebody invented for learning target marketing, which I'd never been exposed to because I didn't go to college and I'd never studied direct response. I'd been in network marketing, which if you know network marketing, they're not marketers. They talk to people. They're not marketers. They talk to people and they sell with their friends and family. It's different.
And I got exposed to this concept, and here's what the concept taught me. It taught me that if you can find a person where they have problems and pain and they're looking for a solution, they're looking for a solution right now, and they're ready to buy the solution, and you can find them at that moment, you don't need to be a good sales person to get them to buy. They just buy automatically because you're there when they're ready to make their decisions. That's kind of target marketing there is. The farther along they are in the decision making process, the easier they are to sell. If you find somebody who's not been exposed yet, and then you have to move them through every exposure, it's a lot more work, and a lot more exposure is a lot more time consuming, and it takes a lot more money to sell if they have been through all those exposures and they're right at this point where they're ready to make a decision. Right?
So I ran into that and I said, you're kidding me. And I found out how many people are looking for ways to make money. I found out how many people were looking for network marketing. I found out how many people were looking to join a good leader who was there to help them, who was there to lift them up. And I found out how to target with ads and with marketing, with capture pages, and that's what happened from that.
Long story compressed into very short time frames, 90 days later I had a night where I made over $12,000. I started making $500 to $1500 a day. This was not within Power Network. This was selling not 100% commissionable products. I went from my best month ever recruiting four people, ever, in seven years, best month ever four people, to my best day ever recruiting, like I think 30 or 40. It was just, there's an unbelievable difference in transformation. The same amount of work was producing my annual results daily. Right?
I started sponsoring, my best year ever I had sponsored 20 people, best year ever. I started sponsoring two to four people every day, seven days a week, straight for two years. Right? With less work, by applying this formula.
But there was a problem. That problem led to Empower Network, and you'll say, well what was the problem? Well, what I was doing I believed in, and it was good. Right? Because I never do something I don't believe in, with a little bit of a different cap. Like I'm not running Empower Network for money. I don't own it for that. If I wanted to go make money, I would just do what I was doing before, just do my own little thing. Right? It wouldn't matter. It's not why I'm doing this. Doing this for the people.
And here is the problem, and this is the problem, the most important problem is I was doing really well, but my team was all broke. Now I don't mind that entirely, because if you're not working, or something, or you're not willing to work, you're not willing to go through pain and struggle a little bit, you should not be in this kind of a business, because you're going to go through some struggles, pains, you're going to, and what's going to define you as
A person as a character is how you respond to those struggles and pains. I mean maybe you'll go through a divorce, you know, I did. Maybe you'll have just some crazy thing in your life, maybe you'll get slammed by a creditor, maybe you'll get sued. No matter what happens, you're going to have problems if you have a business, right? Sometime in the future what's going to define you as a person is how you respond to those problems, right?
And my problem was my team wasn't making money, and for some people that's okay, they can just keep selling thin air, but for me, for me, I am not okay selling thin air. I'm not okay with it. I sell a dream, that is how I build my business. Now that dream has to be backed by things to function, right? If we don't have real products, the dream isn't real, right? As you're going to see in Empower Network, we have the best products in the marketplace. If you don't have a real opportunity, then the dream is thin air, right? Does that make sense to you?
I am not okay with that, and so for me I was selling a dream based on these things, and the products were good that I was selling, but the other part there was no real opportunity because I looked at my team and nobody was making money. So I stopped doing anything and I asked a question, and I asked a question, and I asked a question, I asked a question, I asked a question: how can I change this?
And that question was what led to Empower Network, because one day I was walking to the hills, after months of thinking and not working, and this company downloaded into my brain, and I knew that if I started it I could create success with other people, because I always had a dream of having the richest team in direct sales. And I'm going to tell you, I do not, the biggest, but for the amount of people, the richest, because of how the company operates. And my goal is to get that to be bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and to create armies of success.
We have a million dollar ring we give out when you earn a million dollars in commissions, it's the closest thing to a ring we have right now, the future will have rates, but right now we have a million dollar ring. It's kind of funny, most people are like, you made a thousand bucks, but we got like 700 of those every month or something, I think this month it's like 450, it varies from 400 to 800 depending on what kind of spikes and what kind of promotions we're doing. We have just a lot of people, it's not normal. These million dollar rings are different, this is for when you earn a million dollars in commissions, okay, there's ten of them in a pound of work, ten of them. My goal is to create a hundred a year, and to do that we have to get bigger, which is why I'm doing these fast cuts, because I want you to be oriented. So every day at seven o'clock, Monday through Friday, at seven o'clock my time, Eastern time, that's when time comes when we're in, you can send your new people, build a relationship, get them here, and we'll just keep doing these for the next while, while I'm figuring out what's going to be the best information for people, which is never tactical stuff in my opinion, because that's not why you're here, you'd be somewhere else for that. What this is really about is this is about aiming you in the right direction, so for the next 30 days, the next 60 days, the next 90 days, you can be on track to hit your goal, point at all the resources where you can get all the tactics that you need to make that happen, okay.
So why does Empower Network work? Empower Network works as an affiliate program, okay. It works because we've got great products, because we provide value in the marketplace, and because we've got great processes to sell those products, and we pay out most of the money that comes in from the product sales, are paid out to the field, most of it, okay. The company operates off very tiny margins, and we've done that really successfully here. And when you bring a member to Empower Network through our sales processes, which I encourage you to use our processes, when you bring in a member here to Empower Network and they buy, that person is permanently coded to you through all the stuff that they buy here. And so if somebody buys the $25 blog, and they buy the $100 inner circle membership, and they buy the $500 product, or the $1,000, $3,500 product, you can earn from one customer over $5,000 in commissions from all of our products. And so we have normal incomes here at Empower, the reason is they bring in a customer, then they bring in another customer, and our goal is, this today is to focus your mind in one direction, and that's if you're going to be an affiliate here, which is what I'm talking about predominantly, to focus you on getting new customers all the time, because that's really your task here. And our task is to help you provide the infrastructure, the training, the products, the quality. You'll focus your energy here, that you'll create extraordinary results that you're not going to get in other areas, in other places, that because of the different intentions people have in running businesses.
See, I learned something. 2009 I became the number one recruiter in my network marketing company. I started recruiting two to four people a day, passed by everybody, run a recruiting contest, by triple the next person. Company decided to shut down, became the number one recruiter in another company, okay. That company, the owners just would never pay the people what they really deserved and what they really were worth. Became the number one recruiter in another company at the same time and had multiple incomes going on, and that company, they just interfered with the culture in my organization, because I'd get my team duplicating, and then they'd want everybody to do something stupid, like send out invitation cards to a home meeting or something, and I was trying, and
They'd go to an event and then they'd all quit, right? The opposite of what events are supposed to do, right? And so I had problems, right? But I was making a lot of money, my team was broke. So I started this company to solve those problems, to solve those problems. So that's why we're here, that's why we're here.
So a couple of things we're going to do tonight, and we're going to be short because I want to orient you. Number one, number one, I want to ask you a question, and this is a specific kind of a goal that you're going to set here. I'm going to assume that most of you are here because you're affiliates or you want to be an affiliate of Empowerment. So what I want you to do is pull out a pen and pull out a piece of paper, and I want you to write down your income goal.
Now you can also do this exercise if you're here to promote something else, and you're welcome to promote anything you choose at Empowerment, it's fine. You can use our systems, our tools, our training to learn how to do anything, okay? I want to make X amount per month by this date, okay? So maybe you want to make $10,000 a month within 90 days, put an exact date on it. Maybe you want to make $5,000 a month. I find most people's real goal when they start is somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000 a month. 10% of the people or something that come around, I've surveyed our database and I know they want to make $30,000 a month, 3% or 2%, they want to make over $100,000 a month. Most people want to make between $5,000 and $10,000 a month. Whatever your goals are are okay.
Now one thing to keep in mind here, along with everything else I ever say, is look at our income disclosure anytime we're talking about money. The reason I do that is for two reasons. Number one, I want to weed out whiners and complainers from our community. If you're going to think this is a lottery and you think you're going to get free money or something, just quit. We don't want you in, it's damaging to the rest of our community, our image and our brand, and you're not going to succeed anyway, so you might as well just quit and we'll give you a refund, not a big deal.
The second reason I do it, though, is because anytime you are talking about money, even if you're drawing out a plan, even if you're doing it in a really honest way, it doesn't matter, everything you say is true, you federally are required to disclose the averages. So we actually publish a live income disclosure on our website, comfort slash income, that you can look at, you can also click at below this video. Anytime you ever talk about income here, please refer to that disclosure. We good on that?
So let's start with, alright, so I want to make five to ten thousand a month or five thousand a month, put an exact number down, okay? Exact date. And I'm just going to sit around for a minute drinking my cranberry juice because I'm losing my voice a little bit, I've been making sales videos all day. And when you're finished writing it down, hold on a second, somebody said they lost the video, you guys still here? Still going, still waiting for some goals, waiting for some goals in the comments, write your goals. But you can take, we're going to take a couple of minutes, and there's a little bit of a delay, so I'll wait.
Okay, we got some Laurie Lewis, I want to make five thousand a month by April 30th. Okay, let's do it Laurie, awesome, I'm glad you're back. Mary O'Connelly, I want to make ten thousand a month by August 30th 2014. Okay, who else, who else, who else is willing to share their goals? We only got a handful of people on here so it's a good time to share.
Okay, Vishal Patel, are you from India or where are you from? That's a cool name. I want to make nine thousand a month by July 7th 2014. By the way, as you're doing this too, write what country you're from, I'm interested. Keep going, goals folks, goals. We'll have bigger crowds on these in the future, right now we're not really promoting them because we're systematizing all this stuff, and we're gonna make a workbook for them, things too. Goals folks, goals, goals, goals. Five thousand by April 4th, Gary Stewart, okay good goal. I like these goals, they're honest, you know, they're not outlandish. Now outlandish goals are good too, people think differently. Actually when I started, my goal was 30,000 a month, it was a lot smaller because I'd never made any real money. Five thousand by April 4th, okay good, it's good enough, good enough to start.
Okay, so this is what we're going to do, okay? I want to break down for you how to hit your goals, okay, and make it just way simpler for you, okay? What I want to do is not explain our comp plan, because it doesn't matter, and the comp plan works, okay? Vic did not understand our comp plan before he had made, until he had made two million dollars in Empower Network. It's irrelevant if you understand that when you start, what's important is you understand what pays you, okay?
And a hundred thousand a month, oh we got one, until 2015 I want to make 10,000 a month by 25th of June. One thousand daily within three months, I want to get two members every day by March 8th 2014, in Washington. It's overly simplistic on how to hit your goals, okay, and this is going to be a breakthrough for most of you if you listen to this, okay? And I want you to be very simple about everything, okay?
This is how to hit your goals. Take your goal, right, and divide it by 30, and figure out what needs to happen, how much money do you need to make on a daily basis in order to hit that goal daily. Remove any assumptions about building a downline or building a team, okay, and I want you to figure out how to hit that daily number by yourself, if nobody does anything, by yourself.
In other words, if your goal is 10,000 a month, if you divide 10,000 by 30 you're going to come up with about 333 bucks a day, right? It's about your task here. Figure out how to make an average of 333 dollars a day by selling our products every day of the month with nobody in your team doing anything. If you do that, if you aim for that, you'll hit it. If that's your intention… The curse of this industry is people thinking "I'm going to sponsor a Dave Wood and get rich," because probably you won't. Dave Woods are created to be a part of creating who I am. I had to be involved in a community that nurtured me, that helped me learn how to do these things, right? You've got to create that if you want Dave Woods to pop up. Does that make sense?
Okay, just take your monthly goal, break it into daily, and hit it by yourself and figure out what needs to happen. That doesn't mean you need to hit the goal every day. It means you need to average it every day. I'm going to do that today, right, today.
Now here's the next question I'm going to ask you. Well actually, here's what we're going to do, okay, because I want to be, I want to be quick and we've got about 15 or 20 minutes here left. I'm going to tell you how to hit your goals and what you need to do next and where to get the information you need. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to log in to the Power Networks back office and I want you guys to log in with me and I'm just going to kind of show you what we do here. Just give me one minute to open this up. Power Network… oops, test… ah, here we go. I'm logging into an account that doesn't have any of the products, guys, just because it's more useful because I just want to show you guys some stuff, okay? So this is an account that has no products in Power Network that you see right here, alright?
So here's what we're going to do for this, is here's what we're going to do for the next 10 to 20 minutes. We're going to do what our products are, okay, and how that fits together to help you make money as an affiliate here to Power Network. Alright, I'm also going to tell you what you need to do, what you're required to do, and then I'm going to give you some encouragements to make some decisions to get to the next level of your business, alright?
So let me walk through, so hopefully you guys have this open in a new window. Hold on, I've got to actually shut off my air conditioning because it was hot in here. And I'm going to kind of give you an orientation of this stuff so you kind of know what's back here. Sometimes people look at this, and we're going to go through a redesign on this and that'll solve some of the issues where people really don't know what's going on. They look at it and they don't really know what it is, alright? So I want to kind of explain what everything is, and if you know what it is you also know what you need to do next and you can make a plan. And I encourage you guys, in the next couple minutes, but first I just want to kind of explain how to get around the office.
You need help, you can click here, it's going to take you to our support desk. This, record audio, it's just, you can record an audio and it'll pop up in the news feeds of people in your team, in your organization. Up here we have an event that's happening in Seattle, New Orleans and Charlotte. I want all of you to commit right now and purchase tickets right now to one of those events. You all need to be there, and there's a reason why, and I'm not going to ask, but I want to encourage you to come to every single event in Empower. It's just one of the core commitments of a leader here, and you can buy your tickets there now.
Here's what you guys do need to do. If you're seeing in your back office, if you see a button by a product, this is "activate now." That means you're not active in that product, means you don't have that product, and if you click this button it's going to lead you to a page. It's going to have a sales video, where the sales video, whatever, and give you the opportunity to buy it. If you guys want to make money with Empower Network, and that's why you're here, to make money selling our products, you actually have to activate your affiliate account. It's required. This is a non-commissionable $20 a month fee. You can click here, you can activate your affiliate fee, and that's going to give you access. We have an e-wallet where we can pay people all over the world, where we deposit your funds and you can wire them out into your bank account, you can send yourself checks, you can get your money in all sorts of different ways, you can get your balance, whatever you want to do.
Also though, it pays for our infrastructure. Sometimes people say, you know, how does Empower Network survive? Well, we survive by the affiliate fee, right? So this is what keeps us around. This is what pays, pays for the employees, the customer service, the call centers that call your new members and welcome them on board. This is what pays for the development of our technology, development of our servers, which is incredibly expensive, and there's a couple of company products that are important to our infrastructure as well.
And one thing that I want to tell you guys, even though we're a high commission company, the company needs to make money, and I want you guys to realize that. Sometimes people get in an environment where they say, "oh, you know, you're doing this," guys, the company needs to make money to survive for a long time, so this pays for the company. So I would encourage you to activate that now if you're not an affiliate. It's $20 a month. Now let me explain what these other things are.
These other products are, and then I'm going to, I'm just going to walk through the cost and the price, and as I'm doing that I'm going to talk about how much commissions they pay out. Because if you guys want to understand how to make money, you need to know how much commissions each product is going to pay out. Now our comp plan is a little bit unique, where the commissions from one product only go to one person. So there's no down line splitting of a product. In other words, if you sell a blog, it pays a $25 monthly commission, that $25 a month goes to one person, okay? It's not split between five people. Because of that, it gives you the ability and create more income quicker, okay? And in traditional comp plans, they work by, you know, 5% per level down 10 levels, and you got to have 10,000 people in an organization to make any real money. Well, our comp plan is a lot simpler, okay? 25 will go to one person.
So if you sell, what this says here is fast start training, this is actually the blogging system, okay? It's just that in the back office, when you buy the blogging system, the blogging system actually appears and goes out to your live blog. If you don't have the blog, you're going to see an activate now by the fast start training. If you click this, right, that's where you can actually go in and you can pay $25 a month. If your account is ever inactive for the blog, you'll get a grace email that will give you a certain amount of time to repay before all your blog posts are removed. This is a product and a service that we've invested $3 million into technology here, and you can have as many websites in one file that you guys authorize us to use for the products you select. You just click on the card, enter your security code to confirm your purchase, agree to these, and click buy. You can activate your blogging system now. This is 25 a month, and it pays a $25 a month commission minus merchant fees, okay?
Sometimes people have a question about the merchant fees. We actually have a disclosure in the affiliate tools area. The reason we charge merchant fees is because we have merchant fees. So the merchant fee for the products we sell, I believe, is 6.5%, and that's from, if you process a credit card, if you've ever had a company, credit card companies make their money by charging merchants a few percent on credit card transactions. And so that's what that's for, because if we didn't do that, of course we'd go out of business from eating the fees. So this is 25, it pays 25 a month.
The Inner Circle, this is a personal development membership. This is actually our, this product has actually paid more out than any product in Empower Network, and a lot of people don't realize that. I actually looked at my own commissions, for example, this product's only $100 a month, and it's one of those things that just gets more valuable all the time, because what we do is we release about one new audio a week into that membership, and we've been doing that for two years. And so now we have audio training, which is in my opinion the best kind of training, because you don't have to sit in front of your computer, you can listen to it while you're walking, you can listen to it on your way to work, while you're cooking.
Well, this is $100 a month, it pays $100 a month in commissions. So if one of your members is connected to you on the Inner Circle, then you're going to get $100 a month commission if they buy that product, as long as you're qualified to receive commissions on it. So this is actually, I checked my affiliate account today, I have earned just under $800 actually on this product, on this product, the Inner Circle, I have earned $1.3 or $1.4 million just on the Inner Circle, in my own personal affiliate account. I actually asked Tony Rush, it's a product that's paid him the most money as well, and most of our leaders. So it's $100 a month, the Inner Circle is $100 a month, and I actually think it's our most important product.
If you get your teams, if you're building a team and Empower listening to the Inner Circle, your teams will stay around longer, they'll go to the events, and they'll buy more products, and they'll buy more of the upsells, and the reason is is because this will keep them around. Why will it keep them around, and why is that important, and why is it important for you to stay around? I want to really emphasize this to you guys on the call. I know in advance most people who are new, who are here, probably will quit, and maybe that's a person sitting right next to you in a different town. But why do they do that? It's because they don't stay focused on their dreams. You need kind of a daily injection of inspiration and motivation and knowledge to keep you aimed towards your dreams, and you're never going to accomplish your dreams if you quit stuff all the time.
So it's one of those things where it's like this catch-22, if you want to accomplish your dreams you just got to stick around long enough to gain the knowledge to be able to really accomplish what you want. You might have some big days or some big months, but if you really want to get what you want, you want to make it stable and long term, you need to keep focused on your dreams. And the Inner Circle will do that for people, because it's a down time education, they don't have to take any time out of their day, and people love those audios. I encourage you to go back there and to just play it whenever you're not doing anything that takes mental energy. If you're cooking, if you're cleaning, if you're driving to work, just play an audio in the background, turn your car to a drive time university. That's what the Inner Circle is for, and we have audios on literally every marketing subject you can imagine, where you can learn the skill when you're not doing anything.
Important, just in the background, that stuff slips into your unconscious mind. It changes your life if you just do it over one period of time.
Costa Rica Intensive, this is a $500 product, pays a $500 commission. So if you sell a Costa Rica Intensive, it pays one person, it's going to pay whoever it's connected to a $500 commission, and as long as you're qualified to receive commissions on that, if you sell one of these products and they fall on one of your, one of your code, your codes, and I'll talk about that another time, you're going to have a $500 commission, $500, right?
And the cool thing about this, I want you to think about this, is these three products by themselves give you a foundation to hit most of your goals. And why do they do that? Well, if you have a blog, you can promote any business that you want through our blogging strategy. If you have the inner circle, the inner circle is going to give you course corrections and keep you on the right track for a long enough period of time to be able to really hit your goals. The Costa Rica Intensive is going to give you the knowledge on how to build your team and hold it together in a way that's actually sustainable and will last for a long time.
I have kept people around in my teams longer than anybody that I know in this industry, and I do it by the strategies I teach in the Costa Rica Mastermind Intensive. This product was before Empower Network existed. It was in my home in Costa Rica. It was a $3,000 seminar. It's one of the coolest things that we've got, and also it pays a $500 commission if you are an affiliate, and as long as you're qualified for this product, I encourage you to of course buy it.
And if you're qualified for the product and you earn a $500 commission, now think about this, one new customer can generate you $625 in commissions. One new $25 customer, they come in, they keep buying, and you can earn $625 in commissions from one customer, and then $125 a month. So how many customers does it take to hit your goal? Is the question, if you're an affiliate here and that's your goal, how many customers does it take?
Well, if you've got the faster training in the inner circle and you want to make $10,000 a month, well it's about 70 or 80 people on those subscriptions. $125 a month multiplied by 70 or 80, it's right around $10,000 a month. That's a lot of people to get in a short time for most people. However, if you have the $500 product, how many do you need to bring in? Well, it's a little bit different. If I pull out a calculator here, let me actually show this to you guys so you guys can understand it. $10,000, let's say that's your goal, a lot of people had a goal that was similar to that so I'll just use that as an example, equals 16. So all of a sudden it becomes easier to hit your goal if you can bring in less people and make more money per customer.
Now is everybody who joins your team going to buy up to the $500 product? No, but I'll tell you, I get an unbelievable amount of people to buy that product. Why? Because I believe in it so much, because I know what's in it, I know how transformational the information is. I wish I had known the information back in 2002, but in addition to the information, in addition to the product, I believe that it's very difficult for people to earn money quickly if they're average people and not superheroes, which honestly most of us start there, even if we're superheroes later. Originally we're average, right? Because we don't know the skills here, right? But it's very difficult for most people to create decent incomes if they can't earn a higher level of commission. So it's great information, it's an incredibly well produced, well thought out, systemic product that teaches you how to build a business that stays around and holds together. Remember, I taught that after I'd been doing this and keeping teams together online, living in the mountains in Costa Rica for two years, and it's a $500 commission.
So if you can earn a $500 commission, I want to put something in perspective here. The month we launched Empower Network, David Sharpe and I earned a quarter of a million dollars in our affiliate account, our first month in Empower Network. We only had these three products when Empower Network launched. We had the Fast Start, the Inner Circle, the Costa Rica Intensive. It's all we had, right? So all those commissions, it was actually just over $200,000. It was actually about a 45 day window because it was a pre-launch for two weeks and then it was a launch. And that wasn't from company income, because we had no company income at the time. That was from solely bringing in new customers and upgrading those other products, and our first 45 days it was a couple hundred thousand dollars, right?
Now are you going to do that? Are you going to do that? Probably not. You're probably more new than I was, and you probably don't know how to do the things I knew how to do when we started in 2011. That's okay. The point is, is that if you can earn higher ticket commissions, you're going to be able to make money faster, and you'll just sell ten times more of that stuff if you own it. And by owning it, I don't mean buying it. What I mean is owning it on the inside. You see, I would, when I got in this industry, I didn't care what the products were, it didn't matter to me, and I think that attitude caused me a lot of problems when I was new, because somebody asked what's the product and I was like, it doesn't matter, just get in and give money.
Well, you know, that attitude isn't good, because the reality is, is if you don't have a testimonial about the product and people don't see a real reason why they should buy it, right? You can't sell it, can you? You can't get somebody to just buy it as a customer. You can't really legitimize your
Business, and your business is really legitimized by the customers in your business, by proving that people buy this without an opportunity. You can't do that if you don't own the information on the inside. So I tell everybody, you need the Costa Rica Intensive, you need to buy it, because I know it's in it, it's a great product, that information will transform every business you ever build for the rest of your life.
The 15K formula is our tactician product, and what do I mean by that? Well, if you want a plan, an executable plan, I'm actually making a new sales video for this right now that I should finish tonight, I'm hoping I'm going to finish tonight, but I need to finish with this in order to finish it. This is a thousand dollar product, pays a thousand dollar commission, but this product, it's more than just a commission, this is our tactician product, it teaches you how to use the science of advertising to build your business.
See, most people end up building a business, originally they get in, if they're going to have success they do it on excitement, people come in they're pumped, they don't know what's going on, and they just go and they start blogging and taking action, they start making money, and a lot of times, and this is something that happens to folks, and whether it's an Empower Network, whether they're building another business, they start making money and they start getting success, and they don't know why it's happening, and they just kind of keep doing whatever they're doing, and they kind of fizzle out, and their income dries up, and they don't know why, and they don't know what happened.
Well, what happened is that they don't know the information in the 15K formula that allows them to sustain growing an income in a marketing business. They don't know how to do it because they don't know how to do it, they're just running on fuel, and fuel can get you somewhere, fuel can get you some good months, but fuel isn't going to build you a future, it's not going to build you a dynasty. You need a strategy. So the 15K formula is the science of how to use scientific marketing to make $15,000 a month and hold it together, and this product is amazing, this product is amazing.
When we were recording this product, and we re-record it once every year, year and a half, depending on when we need to update things, when things need to be updated or changed, and you get the updates for free, but when we made this product I asked people after every webinar, because I was the one that organized the course material for this, I asked people after every webinar, I said, how many of you thought that was worth at least $5,000 just for that webinar? And at every webinar we had 50 to 250 comments of people that said that information by itself was worth over $5,000. This course is invaluable, it will change your life, and not only will it change your life, it will change your customers' lives, and when you sell one you'll earn a $1,000 commission. So I encourage you to go through it, create a story from the information in it, and then go out there in the marketplace with that story and make some sales.
Now I want you to think about something for a second. You have that same goal, and all of a sudden you have $1,625 a customer. How many people does it now take to hit your goal? $10,000 a month divided by $1,625 equals 6. So all of a sudden you've reduced hitting your goal down to 6 people in a month, if you can earn all the way up to those products. Now, is everybody in your team going to buy all those products? No, obviously not. But we have a commission system where if somebody's not qualified to receive a commission, the commission will just pass up through kind of unlimited levels of people to the next person who's qualified to earn the commission.
There's only two ways you can qualify. You can qualify through customer sales, which is going to be going out and getting some customer sales, which are non-affiliate sales, and the other way you can qualify for commissions on the 15K formula is by being your own customer, by purchasing it yourself. And so if you're not qualified, you'll pass up some commissions, you'll pass up some commissions in some power lines and lose some sales, and that's okay, we're not going to be mad at you for that, we just want to make you aware.
So we've got the $1,000 product here, 15K formula, $1,000 commission. Now, Masters Course pays a $3,000 commission, and it's a $3,500 product, and this is really the science of mastery. People get into this industry — hold on a second, somebody just sent me a text — people get into this industry and they don't really have any kind of an action plan to really get to a new level of success in their business, they don't really know what to do when they run into an income — hold on, just one second, I've got to send a text to my lady here — they don't really know how to get to the next level in their business.
And so the Masters Course is a course of mastery, it tells you how to break through different areas of getting stuck in your business, so you just never have to get stuck, you can learn from our experience, because what you're going to find, as you're building a team, as you're building an organization, whether it's here, whether it's a juice company, whether it's in an affiliate company, is you're going to find there are ceilings to doing things in different ways. When you're doing things, for example, I spent years doing one methodology, well that limited my ability to make money, because I just kind of kept doing it, expecting it to grow past that without ever having a strategy to get to the next level.
This is the strategic mastery program, it's really designed for people who really want to break through in their business, and when you sell one, it's a $3,500 product, it pays a $3,000 commission, $3,000. So if you could imagine selling one of these in a day, a lot of people, if you think about it, like—
This and I want you to consider this for a moment. A lot of people, they make the average income in the most developed richest countries in the world is about $3,000 a month. That's the average income in the richest countries in the world. If you sell one of these products and you earn a $3,000 commission, you will have a day that is the average income of most months for most people, a day, could you imagine that? Now will you do it every day? No, I don't sell one of these every day, but that's my aim.
So this stacked on top of each other, here's what happens as you start building a team and an organization. People come in and maybe they wait a day to buy the Inner Circle, or maybe they get on a conference call and they buy the Costa Rica, or maybe they come to one of these trainings and they buy the 15K Formula, or maybe they stick around and they come to one of our events and they see all the success and they decide that they're going to go all in, they're going to buy the Master's Course, and all of a sudden they'll start having these commissions coming in from people that have been around for a long time. You'll build a team and people will start bringing people at the blog, but they won't be qualified for the Inner Circle, and then a $100 a month commission will pass up from several levels down as you're building your organization, as long as you're qualified. And if not, that's fine, they can pass to me or pass to your leader or whoever else is qualified, it's fine.
Now here are the rest of the products, here are the rest of the products. This product is core to the company because we run a weekly competition based off of the profit sharing on this. This is a $297 product, it pays a $200 commission, and the $97 is divided, half goes to the company and half of it is paid out in a bonus pool for the top affiliates that week. We announce those contests every Monday on our Empower Our Conference call at 9pm Eastern Time every week. You are going to get an email that has the number of that call, it's the same number every week, you don't need to access code, it's live every Monday, and if you really want to break through you'll be on that call and we'll talk about that.
But Biviral Blog Academy, this is the system on how to use your blog specifically, specifically to create a lasting, sustainable business. High Ticket Academy, this is how to sell more high ticket stuff, this is a $497 product, pays a $497 commission. Internet Traffic Formula, okay, I don't even actually know if you can activate that right now. Oh yeah, you can't buy it yet, right? Why? Because we're launching it next month. Now this is actually going to be a massive launch, this is produced by our number one, Vick Striz House, right? Vick Striz House has earned over $3 million within Empower Network, he's the only people outside Dave Sharpe and I that have done that, and he did it in a year. Alright, he is a brilliant marketer and this is going to be a science of traffic, so I encourage you guys to get on board for the launch, it's going to be next month, and we're going to help you learn how to have your biggest month ever, right? I don't even know, can you turn that off?
And then Media Hosting is a non-commissionable product, we built this so you can upload your videos and stuff to Empower Network and host your content here, because that way YouTube won't shut you down ever, right? So that's what all of our products are, and I want to explain what they are to give you an orientation here, so you know what you can get your hands on. We don't make products every single month, we're not constantly launching something because we're committed to providing value and only launching stuff that makes sense to your businesses, okay? So if we come out with something, it's quality, and the reason I believe it's quality is because we have more people making money here than anybody ever, ever, in any kind of affiliate marketing company ever in the internet. There's just nobody like us, right? And we've gotten bigger than anybody and it blows everybody away what we do.
Because of that we attract the best people. Because we attract the best people, we have the ability to have them train, and our products launch. Check my phone real quick, we're almost done. And because of that, when we come up with something we recommend that you buy it, we're making a recommendation, that is a recommendation that I believe you should listen to. I have always ran my business under the ethics that I will not sell something to you or tell you to buy something that I don't believe is in the best interest of your business. For example, I don't believe it's in everybody's best interest in here to buy the Master's Course. It's not everybody's goals to do the things that the Master's Course teaches, it might be in the future, however it's not in everybody's best interest, right?
If you want to make money, I do believe it's in your best interest to get all the way up to the 15K Formula without question. If you're serious about making, if you're serious about making anything more than a couple thousand bucks a month on the internet, you need up to the 15K Formula. You just need it, because that is going to give you the whole package of a formula on really how to build any business online, and we've had people go other places after building businesses here and succeed elsewhere with that information. I'm actually collecting testimonials for it right now because I'm finishing up the video, and the information, the quality, the structure of it will blow you away in all of it.
So if we look at this, there's some benefits, there's some problems, I'm going to talk about that for a second. Some people look at that and say, God, that's a lot of training. Well yeah, it is, because we want to give you, we want to really give you what you need to succeed in your business.
So there's a couple of types of responses, a few kinds of responses that people have. They say, "Well, you know, I'm going to just go through everything before I take action." Guys, don't do that, because this is what you want to do. You want to buy the products that are appropriate to you right now. And here's what I want you to ask, the question I want you to look at your income goal and then divide the commissions you can make now based off selling what you have into your income goal, and see how many customers you need a month. If that number is too big, I want you to ask yourself what number isn't too big. And if you say, "Well, I can bring in 10 people in a month," or whatever, then you need to buy all the way up to whatever is enabling you to hit that goal with the products you have.
Why? Because that makes sense for a business person. It's really not a lot of money if you look at the value in what we're doing, and look at the knowledge and the education, and you look at what other people sell on the internet, even who have good products, compared to the value and the information of what we sell. It's not even comparable for the cost. And so you're really, really, really in the right place at the right time. Congratulations on being part of our community.
So here's the thing, what are you going to upgrade to and what are you going to focus on selling? All of you need to be in these four products, the Fast Start, and you need the Prior Volume Can. The Prior Volume Can is just kind of a no brainer, it's only $297. But these four products, you say, "Well, I can't do this right now," and it's really honest, you can't. You don't have the ability, no matter what, get up to here, because if you're up to here, Fast Start, Inner Circle, Costa Rica Intensive, I'll actually be doing a training sometime next week just for people who have all three of these products, and you'll need to have all these three products to attend the training. But if you have these three products, you have the ability to go at least make an income. And it's not requiring you to purchase them, we don't, you can get customers and qualify, you're just going to have a very hard time doing it, because there's two parts of the sales process. There's what we do, which works, I sell a lot of stuff without you doing much. There's what we do that works, but then there's what you do, and what you do matters. And if you don't know what's in this product, your people won't buy it, because you're going to find it's unbelievably consistent that people will only do what you do. They'll only do what you do. And if you don't buy the 15K Formula, not very many of your people will buy the 15K Formula. If you're making financial excuses, a lot of your people are going to make financial excuses. It's unbelievable how consistent it is. Sometimes people come up and they say, "Nobody will buy this product," and I say, "Do you have it?" And they're like, and I say, "Well, of course they're not, because you're feeding your excuses to them unconsciously, without being aware of it." And if you do that, you're going to lower the success of your team.
Just think about it like this, if you really have somebody's best interest in mind, you're going to do whatever it takes to get them to make the decisions they really need to make in order to be successful. That's what you're going to do. So that's what I'm here to do.
So what I want you to do, in your notes, in your journal, or whatever, write down a date that you will be all in on all of our products, a commitment. And I want you to say, "What am I going to upgrade to by the end of the night, no matter what?" Get to our ticket, get to our event in Seattle. This is a three day event. We had feedback from our last event where somebody, my buddy Chris, who I've known since I've been 12, he said, "Well, I guess I don't need to go to a Tony Robbins $25,000 seminar, or $10,000 seminar anymore, because I just got it for $97." These are really world class shows, and you want to be there. And it's not just about the show, because most people, they go to an event and they just get hawked stuff for three days. We actually don't do that. What we do at our events is our goal is to give you the information, the knowledge you need to get to the next level in your business.
So if you're serious about building a business, if you're serious about building a future, if you're serious about creating change in your life, and change in your future, change in your income, change in your persona, your energy, your charisma, you need to get to our events, you need to be an affiliate. And really, how do you build this? I'm going to give you a three minute, five minute formula here. And let me put the camera back on me, because, you know, where to buy everything, log in and buy what you need to buy right now. And I want you guys to make decisions to do something that's going to change your life. Let's talk about this here for a second, and then I've got to run.
Well, here's the formula, let me give it to you. You take your monthly number, and you need to create a system that's a daily system to hit. And if you don't think daily, you won't make money daily. And if you don't make money daily, you're not really in business. You need to be having customers every day. What's a doctor if a doctor only has one customer a week come in? I asked the doctor at the seminar, "How many people do you need to see every day to make 100,000 a year net, not gross but net?" He told me, he said, "In my profession, 17 people a day," and that's after paying for his secretary and his equipment, his insurance, and all the stuff he has to pay.
For to make 100,000 a year, I said 17 people a day. I was like, dude, you're in the wrong business. I just couldn't do that. I wonder why doctors have more heart attacks than anybody. That might not be true, but I think that's true. And so 17 a day, but you need to be thinking daily, because if you're not thinking daily, you won't be producing daily. And if you're not producing daily, can you make a full-time income? Well, if you don't make money at your job every day, you really have an income. Think about this like you think about a business or a job. If you go to a job, if you make 20 bucks an hour, you work 8 hours a day, that's 160 bucks a day, that's your life. So if you take your monthly income, you reduce it into daily, what needs to happen today?
Sales. And what do you focus on? You focus on the $25 product. How do you do that? Your capture page, you send people to your capture page, the sales video converts to about 3%, so if you send 30 people there, one will buy the video. So you focus on daily sales, that's your aim, always daily.
If you're working, what are you doing? If you're working, you're creating sales, because if you're not doing that, you're not working. You're not working if what you're doing isn't going to create sales. Being on training is good, because you need the training, but training isn't working. It's the same thing as being in school, doesn't make you money as a doctor, because you're not a doctor until after the school. When you're a doctor, you need to be seeing clients to make money, you need to be having sales. And think daily, that's why I always say daily.
Not everybody does that, and that's fine. If you want to bring in one person a week or whatever and poke along, it's fine. I always like fast strategies, though. If you really want to build a big business unbelievably quickly, here's what I tell people to do. I tell people to do what barely anybody does, because it's honest. I tell them, bring in two people a day, follow the 8 core steps, and get people towards our events. The 8 core steps are the fastest, it's about an hour of whole training to learn 8 core steps. Bring in two people a day, follow the 8 core steps, get people to our events, that's for unbelievably fast growth, because that's honest. It's not that you get two, they get two, you bring in two people a day, follow the 8 core steps, and get people to our events.
If somebody wants to build a 6-figure income and they want to be a professional, there's a time, I'm going to bring in at least one person a day and average that, average five to seven days a week. So that means five to seven people a week that you want to bring in. Just on the blogging system, we're not talking about buying everything. Why? Because it's honest. If you want to be a professional, you need to learn a professional level of income. If you want a six figure income, you've got to have a client every day. How do you do that? You produce a sale. It's honest. That's why I like it.
Now who's going to produce the sale? You. I'll make the videos, we'll make the structure, we'll make the products, but who's going to sell it? You. And if you don't do the work, it's not going to get sold.
Now what do I tell somebody who really, they're just going to poke along? I say, no matter what, no matter what, bring in a personal week. Bring in one new customer a week, one new person a week. Because if you're bringing somebody in every seven days, you'll start to believe more in what's possible. Because you'll start to have neat stuff happen over the course of the next 10 weeks or so.
But no matter what, every piece of energy is asking the question, asking the question after the question, how can what I do right now result in the amount of sales that I need to have today to hit my daily goal? How can what I'm doing right now result in the amount of sales that's going to produce the daily goal that I have for my business? How can what I do today, if your goal is $10,000, how is what I'm going to do today going to average out to $333 in income from what I do today? Every day, you need to be putting in the work that's going to average out to $333 in income if you want to make $10,000 a month.
If you think like that, you can do things that are unbelievable. If you think this is your responsibility, not somebody else's, this is not the sales video's responsibility, this is yours, and your responsibility is, no matter what, on a daily basis to bring in enough people to hit your goal, no matter what to bring enough people to hit your goal, that is a fair, honest response. Is that fair? That's what you focus on, how getting people to sales video. How do you do that? Follow the strategies in viral blogging academy. Follow the strategy, the real strategy of the 15K formula. If you really want to go fast, get people to the video, follow up with them, learn to close through email. We talked about the 15K formula. Making the video for that right now should be up a little bit later tonight or tomorrow morning.
That makes sense. So what do you do if you want to grow fast? Two a day, the eight core steps, get people to the events. If you want to be a professional, at least, what do you do? At least a person a day, at least one a day, follow the eight core steps, get people to the events. Getting people to the events will hold your community together.
If you want to be a weekend warrior, a lot of you are here for that, and that's OK. No matter what, somebody comes in every week. Because you're working two hours a day, you need to be focused on asking the question, how can what I do bring somebody in? How can what I do bring somebody in? How can
What I do bring a new person in? How can what I do bring a new person in? No matter what, no matter what, no matter what, somebody comes in, you do whatever it takes to do it. And if you think like that, you're going to hit it, because thinking is more important than the action steps that you need to take to hit that. Because if your mind's messed up, I could tell you the strategies and it won't work. But if your mind's on track, even if my strategy's bad, it still won't work, because you'll adjust it on your own. Because you're going to hit your goal no matter what.
And always asking the question, how can I do this more efficiently? How can I do this better? How can I do this faster and more powerfully? How can I hit my goal more quickly? How can I get a person in more fast with less effort, with less money? Now, if you really want to do that, it's by the face of the formula. That's what you've got to do. Does that make sense? Does that help you guys? We're good?
So welcome to Empower Network. What do you do next? Number one, buy the products you need. Number two, get your ticket to the event. Number three, get on this next Monday's call. We have a call. You listen to the replay of the, let me show you. If you go to your back office here, you can listen to the replay for Monday's call, I believe. I actually know this is a couple weeks old. You can click play and you can listen to this audio. If you click on the inner circle, we should have the calls up from the last couple of weeks. You can listen to those calls there as well.
All right, listen to those calls. Start the education in your downtime. I will see you on the beach in the world. I appreciate you guys and welcome aboard. Bye bye.