Thirty minutes on the phone to relatives and he had run out of people to call. Brando Olynyk uses that as the starting point for everything else, because once the list of friends and family is exhausted you either knock on doors or you learn how to make strangers come to you instead.
He also answers the question everybody arriving in this industry quietly asks, which is whether the people at the top are holding something back. His answer is no, and he describes wasting night after night on training videos looking for a thing that was never there.
The practical run covers recruiting over the phone, guest posting on somebody else's blog to borrow an audience, and building a downline that does not evaporate a month later.
There is a review of a well known trainer and one of a nutrition company, both written to be found in a search.
Fourteen posts, long and direct. Read the one about running out of relatives first.