Being successful with a $25 Dollar Blog Program

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To see our full income disclosure, please visit our website at www.empowernetwork.com forward slash income.php. Hey, I'd like to welcome everyone. First of all, my name is Michael Angelo Lopez, and I got invited to do this call, and I love doing these calls. I'd like to welcome all the Empower Network members. I'd like to welcome the guests.

I'd like to welcome all the newbies. Some of you just joined Empower Network yesterday or today, but you're in for a treat today because when one of the leaders chatted me on Facebook, good, good, perfect, good, he said, hey, listen, Michael Angelo, what we want you to talk about today is right up your alley, and it is. I'm going to show you, and here it is real quick. Let me back up a little bit. Listen, last time I did Empower Hour, someone said, Michael Angelo, I can't wait for the replay so I can play on slow mode, right, because I tend to talk fast.

Listen, I'm going to ask you all today to listen faster, okay, because it's hard for me to stop my enthusiasm. I'm a five-or-something puke jumping parasite, but people used to go to my dad's church to lose weight. So I just get excited, especially, listen, it's easy to get excited when you made over a half a million dollars last year. It's easy to get enthusiastic. You jump, you don't get out of bed.

You spring out of bed, man. Oh, running into the shower. Man, let me slow down a little bit. Tonight I'm going to answer one question. I'm going to answer one question.

Listen, I got to tell you this. Don't mistake my enthusiasm for hype. I'm blessed. I'm blessed to have been connected with Empower Hour after seven years of trying this rodeo, you know, going through all the MLMs and auditions and everything and finally landing my last rodeo and finally making the money that took my family to a whole different ball game, took my family to a whole different level of abundance, right? Today I have all the toys and that.

And more importantly, I have freedom. I can do the things I want to do. I can help those I want to help. You know what? Listen, listen, real quick.

You don't know you've gotten there when your relatives start coming out of the woodwork. The other day I had an uncle, hey, my friend, you're my favorite nephew. Who are you, Uncle Jesse? Dude, man, I'm famous. I got Uncle Penny.

I got no Uncle Jesse, right? So you know you've made it when they start coming out asking you to borrow money. It's a good feeling. Now that doesn't mean you're going to lend them money, but it's a good feeling. When you reach the top, you have all kinds of different problems.

A lot of different problems. Cool. But tonight I'm going to answer this question. Can a $25 blog program get you rich? That's the question that when we're in.

Now listen, it's 903. I'm like Dave Wood. Dave Wood, he'll say, I don't know if it's going to be a two-hour or a three-hour or a four-hour hanging. So I'm like, I'm just going to go on until I've said enough, until I've tied out, until you're filled with hopefully a pure, and I know, pure content. I'm going to share this real quick story.

I like to tell a story before I start. A lot of you all remember Billy Graham and Oral Roberts. And some of you all remember Jim Baker, that TV evangelist back in the 90s, 80s, right? Well, all three died, and they go to heaven. St.

Peter opens the door. He goes, why? What are you saints doing here? He goes, well, you know, we died and we're ready for our mansions for our good work in heaven. St.

Peter looks at his clipboard and he goes, listen, there must be some mistake. Your mansions aren't ready for another three days. You know, they didn't know what to do. So St. Peter goes, look, look, look, listen, I know it's hot and stuffy down there, but do you mind waiting down in hell, you know, just for a few days so your mansions are ready?

The saints said, no, we don't mind. Two days later, St. Peter opens the door and there's the devil. St. Peter goes, what do you want?

He goes, what do you mean what I want? I want to get those three saints from down there. He goes, why? They're just resting until the mansions are ready. The devil said, rest in my butt.

Billy Graham's trying to convert everyone, Oral Roberts trying to heal everyone, and Jim Baker's trying to raise enough money for an air conditioner. That's the attitude. That's the attitude. People start texting me slow down. That's the attitude we have to have.

That's the attitude I'm going to embed in you. I'm hopefully instilling you at the end of this Empower Hour. Now I'm going to slow down because people keep texting me slowing down. I just talk fast, right? But the question is, can a $25 blogging program get you rich?

Let me share something real quick about this. Let me back up a little bit. Before I joined Empower Network 13 months ago, right, I was in different MLMs, right? I was, you know, the auto ship, whatever, different energy drinks and diet powders and everything. And I've always received, I always got success, but never the amount that I got on here.

There's a reason, right? For one, there's no auto ship in Empower Network. For two, I'm going to share with you, some of y'all don't understand, because I got a call today and said, Michelangelo, what is the actual product for Empower Network? I said, well, the fly product, the leading product, is that $25 blog program. He goes, well, what is blog?

Folks, I went and did some research. I just did some research, and you can research it yourself, right? There are an estimated 31 million bloggers in the United States alone. By the way, little stat, 48% are white, 38% are African-American, 4% are Latin, Latinos like me. Folks, we can't spell, man.

We can't spell. We're better at math. We're like, what? You read our blog, you're like, what? You got to go to Google translation.

But 31 million bloggers. 42. Man, I can't read that number. I'm going to say 4200 million blogs. 329 million people view a blog.

25 billion page turns. Over 500,000 new posts a day. 400,000 daily comments. Folks, 60% of businesses have a blog. That's huge.

That's huge. I want you to understand, because this $25 blog is going to rock this world. This $25 lead-in product from Power Network can absolutely change your life. See, you don't have to like blogging. You just have to like making money.

That's what I keep telling my students. You don't have to like your sponsor. You just got to like making money. That's the key, folks. Can a $25 blog get you rich?

I'm going to share a little bit of my experience. Now, listen, I got to throw in some disclaimers in here for the big brother and that, because, you know, they're watching everywhere, right? Listen, I'm not guaranteeing you're going to make a dime. I'm not implying you're going to make a dollar. I'm letting you know that you could be right off the Jerry Springer show.

Chances are you're not, because you're taking the time on a Monday night to not be watching the Kardashians or the Duck Show, whatever that's called, and you're taking the time to plug into the Power Hour to change your life. I'm letting you know there are others just like me, who are bigger than me, who are making crazy money within Power Network blogging system. I'm going to throw some numbers out. I don't know if I can or not, but I'm just going to do it. It was at different levels, but tonight we're going to talk about the $25 blog.

I'm going to let you know right now, 132,000, and I'm reading the screen from the Power Network back office, my screen. Again, I'm not saying you can make this, but I'm saying that I broke the barrier, and there's others before me that broke the barrier even bigger than me. It's not silly willy, folks. $132,275 from that blog alone. That's huge.

It's crazy. Hey, Michelangelo, I never finished sixth grade. Hey, Michelangelo, I'm just like you. I'm Spanish. I'm going to share with you how to overcome that.

I'm going to share with you what happened in this past event in Miami that Dave Wood did, Dave and Dave did, I'm sure it was both of them together, that blew my mind, that I made damn near, oh, you can bleep that out if I said damn again. You can bleep that out when I was explaining that. I said damn, too, in that one, too. But listen, darn, listen to me. This is crazy.

Listen, people overcomplicate things. People overcomplicate things. You know, and Dave Sharp talks about this. There are two ways, two ways to promote your Empower Network blog once you come in. You can do it the indirect way, and I'm going to share with you that in a minute, and that's blogging.

Some of you all like the blog. Some of you all. Hey, can you all hear me better now? Text me if you can hear me better now. Someone told me that you couldn't hear me better.

So hopefully you can hear me better now because I'm off the speaker phone, so if you can text me. But listen, I'm going to share with you. They make these phones all sophisticated, but dang, man, they're speaker phones. No one's gotten a speaker voice phone right, man. It's crazy.

But anyway, listen, Dave Sharp talks about the indirect way, and that's where you find content or you blog about something you like. You know, whatever it is, your hobby, maybe, or things you like to do, whatever. You blog about it. Okay, perfect. Hey, thank you.

Hey, you blog about that, and you learn SEO, and you can find it on the other levels of Empower Network, and you learn how to sprinkle some keywords in there. Say you like badminton, right? And you go on to the, you know, this and buff badminton school of badminton, right? So you would sprinkle keywords there in your blog content about badminton, how to badminton, how to become a professional badminton, whatever, right? And sooner or later, you get those keywords right, you're going to be found by those searching for badminton, right?

That's the indirect way. That's the way I like to call advertising like a billboard. You get people to your blog. They read about the content that you sent them there to, right? And on the right, they look at the banner.

Oh, they see, oh, how do I make money here? And they click on it. You capture the email, and the emails start going out about, you know, Empower Network blog. Hey, join me. Join this.

Here's what we do. Here's how we're making money. That's the indirect way. I love it. For those of you who like to write, it works.

Have people made money like that? Listen, there's a lady in Australia, Christina. Christina Muniz with a, I'm not going to say broken back, but darn near close broken back. Forgive me, Christina, if I didn't get it right, but I know one thing. She was flat on her bed with a laptop blogging.

So there is a way, and I'm going to share something with you. I know a lot of y'all juggle families. You juggle two careers and jobs and everything, and it's hard for you to find enough time to blog. It doesn't take that long. Blog isn't an essay.

It's not a five, 10, 15-page term paper. It's just writing content about what you like, sprinkling with the keywords that you're sure the people you want to find you, find you. See, that's the key. So you're not trying to find everybody. See, I always say if you're trying to be somebody to everybody, you'll get nobody.

You're trying to find the people you want to find you, and that's how you get good at getting the conversions from the blog. Too many people I've seen are trying to get the masses. So you don't try to get the masses. You don't try to get everyone in the United States. Listen to me.

I always say this. Listen. I always say this. If you're ugly but ugly, you're just trying to get the but ugly people in this world just like you. If you stutter, you're just trying to find the stutterers just like you.

If you can't spell, believe me, there's enough people that can't spell that won't know you misspelled a word on your blog. Because they misspelled the words too. See, that's it. You're trying to find a niche. The people that succeed in blogging find a niche in their writing, in their blog.

And they might not blog every day, but when they can, they do. But they blog as often as they can. And then as you build it. And I'm going to share something with you about blogging that's so important for everybody. See, people forget that Empowered Network can help you.

That blog platform, that $25 blog platform, can help you no matter what business opportunity you're in. See, people forget that, right? If you're in Mary Kay, if you're in Avon, if you're in some other biz op, people forget. You know, I have to remind myself, listen, it can help them generate leads. A Mary Kay rep can start a blog, put her little pink Cadillac on the blog, put a little copy, some little whatever she sells makeup, do a little video with some pretty model makeup, and she sends her leads to the blog and sends some self-page from Mary Kay, and I'll guarantee you she'll convert.

Because the self-page isn't going to gain her trust. The blog is. See, the blog is an undercover self-page. Y'all need to write that down. The blog is.

I got to share this with you real quick, real quick. So last Sunday I went to church, right, and the preacher says, Michelangelo, Michelangelo, man, I haven't seen you here since Christmas. You know, and he goes, I thought you were in the Army of the Lord. I said, shh, I'm in the Secret Service. So, friends, listen.

I just had to throw in that joke. But the point is, the blog is an undercover sales tool. A blog is more open to being accepted for the reader to read the content than it is a sales page. When someone lands on a sales page, they've got their guard up. They are on the defense.

They don't want to be sold, and they know they're being sold. Like, this ain't new. No, there's nothing new on our site. They've seen sales pages before. But send them to a blog.

Hey, listen. Instead of saying, the next time you have a lead. This is so important. Because the person – I'm going to share with you right now the biggest tip. Here's who's successful with a $25 blog in Empower Network.

Write this down. You need to know this. Number one, you have to keep this in your brain. Write this down on your desk somewhere. Write this down.

Ready? 90% of your leads or your prospects, whether they come through paid advertising or free advertising, are in an MLM or BizOp, or have been beat up by an MLM or BizOp, or their sponsor went to the witness protection program. You have to work. You have to write the blog from that perspective. Rarely is there a newbie fresh out of grade school who's never had any experience with any BizOp or MLM or network marketing.

Ninety percent, that's who wins. See, the person who wins, and I'm going to talk about email marketing, is not the person that says, join my mother of all Empower Network program. You're going to be rich overnight, bam, bam, bam. It doesn't. It's the person that says, hey, listen.

Listen to me. I can help you no matter what you're in. Check out my blog. Let me show you how I use my blog to gain trust. That's the key to collect emails.

You see, one person, you know, I just took David Sharpe's watch in Miami convention because I took third place in the contest, right? And the way I did it is this. While a lot of people are sending out, join my mother of all Empower Network program, I'm saying, hey, I can help you no matter what. And you send them to the blog, and the blog shows them exactly, hey, listen. Position yourself with this blog.

Make it a triangle trust. Generate traffic there. Collect your email there. I'm telling you, you'll convert, convert, convert. Because you're genuinely helping them.

You know, if someone just joined some other MLM last week, or if someone just got beat up by a, you know, by a biz op last week, the last thing they want to hear is, join me. If you say, hey, listen, I can help you, man. I can save your day. You know, I can help you make money. Just get back on your feet.

And you send them to your blog, and you give them some pointers. It works. It works every time, all day, all day, like till he's happy hours. That's the key. Every time I run into someone like is already in the direct marketing company, or something, I say, listen, what are you in?

The average person will say this, hey, what are you in? Oh, I'm in Amway. Oh, man, my Empower Network program is the mother of all Empower Network programs. It's the best. You know, come check it out.

Not me. I say, really? You're in Amway? Man, I can help you. When did you join?

Two weeks ago? Listen, I can help you position yourself so you don't come across as a newbie. I can help you generate leads. How's that? Because I can position you with a blog.

See, folks, you've got to understand this. One of the things just as powerful as the doctor's mock, right? When you go in the doctor's office, you respect and you hear and you listen and you obey every word he has. I'm about to take a sip of Perrier. This call is sponsored by Perrier.

I don't have an affiliate link, though. But anyway, Perrier, call me. I'll get some bucks. But listen, when you're in the doctor's office, you don't question anything he says. He tells you to buy this.

You don't care. You might buy a generic brand because you're cheap, but you're going to buy it, right? Same thing if it's in print. It's believable. If it's in print, all of a sudden your status grows from new.

Listen, nobody knows you're a newbie but you. In fact, a lot of y'all give yourselves away. A lot of y'all, when you're talking to a lead, oh, well, I just joined two weeks ago. You didn't need to say that. He might have thought you already assumed it.

You already done two years, especially when you send it to your blog. Damn, because if it's in print, it's believable. It's funny. Listen, I got off a phone call today from a lead. He said, oh, my God, I can't believe I'm talking to you.

You're all over the place on videos. Isn't that amazing? The blog does the same thing. You know, I mean, power network. Some people miss this, but you don't have to be writing either.

You know, some of you girls that are pretty, you've got to do a video blog. You know, some of you guys are not so pretty. Don't do it. You'd stick to writing. But you girls and guys that are a little bit more handsome, pretty, do a video blog.

When you're at the mall, stop. Hey, listen, here I am. I'm about to buy this clothes first. You know, boom. Talking about the girls, some guys.

But you know, whatever. Some guys. But listen, that's the point. You get it up there. You send traffic.

Suddenly, you're on TV. You know, if you ever see someone on TV, they're like Celebrity Saturday. It could be a local show that they pay for, but all of a sudden, damn, man, he's on TV. That's the way you work the triangle trust with the blog. You position the blog.

You make it so it positions you as someone authority. That's the key. A lot of people are missing this, and I'm letting you know, you newbies and guests here, you'll kill it. You'll kill it. You'll kill it.

Let me share something with you. That $25 blog added up to 132,000 plus in 12 months, and I'm not a rocket science. I'm not a rocket science. You can do this. There are prettier faces on this earth, too.

Not that many, but there are prettier faces on this earth than me. There are smarter people on this earth than me. There are better copywriters on this earth than me. There are more disciplined people on this earth than me, and yet I made 132,000. There are people listening on this call that can write copyright like no tomorrow.

I ain't kidding. There are people on this call that are models. There are people that are older, and you ain't got time for no learning curve, and you'll attract the older people. The boom, what is it, the boomer? The baby boom.

The baby boom industry is the hottest market to tap into. You guys, you connect with the baby boom, fellow baby boomers, you'll kill it. You just use the power network blog to position yourself as someone in authority. I'm going to share this with you. We spoke about the indirect way with a blog.

I'm going to share with you how to blend, put in, integrate the indirect way with the direct way. You see, here it is. Make no mistake about it. I'm just going to say something. In the power network, there are different levels.

One is the 15K level, and they have in there a training on how to earn 15K a month. One of those trainings happens to be about solo ads and list building. All I teach is collect emails. All I teach and all you need to know is this. So many people complicate things.

Become a Groupon. Learn the model after Groupon. If you ever heard of somebody Groupon, they're a $2 billion a year company, and all they do is collect emails from some ugly no video site, and they send geographically targeted offers to those collected emails, the flesh and blood behind those emails. That's all you have to do, man. Listen.

Listen to me. That's all you have to do. Once you set up your blog, once you got the pretty photo you have, even if you have to use Glamour Shot, it's okay. The video, once you got the content there, right, and you're ready to drive traffic to, me, I'm going to share something with you, and I'm going to be honest. For those of you that have time, free advertising may work for you.

Me, I like solo ads. I like solo ads. I love solo ads. It's the fastest way to build a list. It's the fastest way to get eyeballs on that blog, and it's just a numbers game.

Once you got that blog set up, and I'm letting you know it doesn't take you more than a day. Once, because you don't have to be perfect. You don't have to have a million posts. You go to my blog, I probably have four posts. That's it.

Strategically written, strategically placed. A couple of pictures of my family and my toys. That's it. That's it. And I drive traffic to it.

I collect the emails, and that's when the relationship starts. That's when the autoresponder starts. That's it. People complicate things. While you're doing that, see, here's what happens.

Here's what happens. Every newbie here, or maybe you're on the fence, listen to me. Even you members, listen to me. This is so important. This is so important.

People tend to work one or the other. Here's the key. While you're collecting emails, while you're building that list, you're finding and researching content, and you're adding more posts to your blog. That's the key. It's not one or the other.

You're collecting emails. You're creating a post. That's the key. See, at first, collecting emails, you know, it might trickle in, trickle in, and all of a sudden you're not getting no conversions. Mark my words, the only difference between the listeners on this call and myself or any other leader in Empower Network is chances are we've had a head start.

Chances are we've had a start. We've collected emails longer than you have. That's it, because we're all collecting. And here's the whole thing. Well, Michelangelo, this is a true story.

I'm going to tell you this true story. Well, Michelangelo, you gurus never tell the sources. You know, you have some magical source, you know, where you're sending people to the blog. Listen to me. I know for a fact.

I know for a fact, because I know all the top gurus. I know for a fact. Here, I went to Austin, Texas, right? So I was placed 30th in some contest, right, in Empower Network. So we had a day where Dave had this big party, you know, and I'm sitting down, and I'm sitting down with Lawrence Tam, and I'm sitting down when Tony Rush passed by.

I'm sitting down with Franco Gonzalez. I'm sitting down with some other big leader, right? And I know what's going on, so we talked about the Porsche. And I went there with one objective. I told my sponsor, I said, man, I'm going to go in there.

I'm going to tap into Lawrence Tam. I'm going to talk into Aaron Rashkin's head, brain. I'm going to find that magical lead source. I sat down at the table, and I know they're telling the truth because they had a couple drinks like me, right? You know, people loosen up when they drink.

They don't have no magical formula. They're doing the same thing I'm doing. They're buying traffic, buying soles from pretty much the same sources. This is good for you to hear. This should give you confidence.

You can do this. There's no one with a magical source. Now, it's true that as you make more money and you don't blow it and you put it back into your business, you're going to start to snowball. And like Dave Wood said, the hardest part to make is going from zero to 10,000. After that, you can't stop it.

If you wanted to, you can't stop it. I'm telling you, I've heard it in my stays in Austin, and that's the truth. That's what happened to me. The hardest part is going from zero to 10,000. I'm going to share something with you real quick.

There are only two kinds of people who don't make money in power networks. I mean, you know, there are only two kinds of people that don't make money, those who never joined in the first place and those who quit. And the people that quit tend to have the lottery ticket mentality. There's so much. I've got to say this.

I've got to say this. If Dave and Dave would take the blog and all the other products and they would package it to a real tangible product and they put it on the shelves of Office Depot and Barnes & Noble and they charge ten times the amount that they're charging now, that $25 blog, they would put the price of $4.99. On the Internet, everything is $4.97. Offline, it's $4.99, right? But listen, unless you go to Tommy Bahama, they're stuck on $1.09.

I don't know why. But listen, if they were to do that and you're looking to make money, you come across that shelf, you would not have the stigma of it being a biz-op opportunity. You wouldn't flinch to buy that $4.99 blog that sells for $25 on the Internet. I'm telling you. I do research.

That's absolutely true. I'm letting you know that's nothing. It's not rocket science. A lot of it is in the brain. A lot of it is in the mind.

I'm going to share this story with you. I just want to share the power of the Power Network corporate office and their whole structure in that because, like I said, I've been online for seven years, and I've never seen the owners working directly, working three, four times a week doing Google Hangouts, right, to help their downline, the whole company convert. So there I am in Miami, right, and I'm just going to share this experience. I want to show you who you have, who are the leaders in this company. And I was sitting there in Miami, and there was a product launch for traffic, and I said, you know what, Lena?

Lena's my wife. I said, you know what, Lena? I'm not going to send one email out. Let's see what happens when it's just the days promoting for me. I'm going to take another drink of Perrier, tall bottle.

I love Perrier. Anyway, that was another second sponsor. But listen, and I didn't. And the corporate office sent out emails, right. That's crazy.

I didn't send out one, no email. The corporate office sent it to everyone in the company, and they converted for me. Folks, it's like my preacher dad used to say, get them in church, and we'll get them saved. That's all I do. Listen to me.

That's all I do. I concentrate on one thing. I concentrate on promoting that $25 blog to the people that have been beat up and need some salvation. And I get them in church, and Dave and Dave do the rest. That's the key.

See, people overcomplicate these things. Do you want to go to the higher level? Sure. And that's for another day to teach them for another power hour. I made it with the other levels.

But we're talking today about the $25 level, because the $25 level can change your life. For those of you, I'm going to share this with you. The money, and this is going to sound so hype. This is going to sound so hype, and I'm letting you know it's the truth. It becomes, when you start, when you position your blog, and it's not rocket science to do it.

Trust me. There's no magical copy. You know, a lot of people, they overthink. They spend four days doing a post, man. They spend two days at GlamourShot doing a picture.

Just get a picture. Google yourself, and I promise you, you'll find it. Well, I ain't got no picture. Google yourself. It might be one of those pictures from your booking when you got in trouble, but so what?

Put it up there. There are many jumpers that can make money that relate to you. I don't know. Right? It might not be the best picture, but put it up there.

Don't spend four days trying to write down and re-edit your copy. Just get the blog up. Pete, listen to me. The only one that knows that you just joined today is you. Unless you go, I don't know, I just joined today.

No one needs to know that. No one needs to know that. Get your content up. Get your content up. Collect emails.

Yes, there are free ways to collect emails. There are paid ways to collect emails. Obviously, the paid way is faster, right? I personally love solo ads because solo ads will get into my blog, collect the email, redirect them to my blog, the Triangle Trust, have a video. Listen, if you're shy, get un-shy.

If you're shy, get un-shy. Listen, you're either going to die shy broke or you get un-shy and get rich, one or the other. If you really have some inner struggles and far more mental issues with the camera, get someone, get your brother, get your sister, get your kids. Not your kids, but get someone to represent you. You know, make me a partner.

Hey, this is, you know, Jolena and I'm Michael Angel's partner, whatever. But get your voice out there, whether it's your first person or second person, get it out there in the blog, because once you have that blog up, all you have to do is drive traffic to it. All you have to do is drive traffic to it, and I promise you, I promise you that $25 blog, it's going to convert for you. It's going to convert for you. I want to share something real quick about conversions, because I convert.

I'm not trying to be arrogant, but I convert. Real quick, I earned over in total internet marketing income, which includes I'm not in no other biz-op opportunities. There's only one in Power Network. That's another thing, real quick, I'm going to step on some toes, and you newbies can just, like, hold your ears real quick. I mean, yes, I'm going to say this.

You can listen while I'm going to step on some toes right here. Listen to me. Don't promote anything else. Don't promote anything else. For the life of me, I don't understand when some people, one day they're posting a Facebook post on Empower Network, and the next day it's some other biz-op.

It doesn't make sense. I'm going to share with you why, and I'm telling you this is logic, and this is business sense. First of all, when you join this $25 Empower Network blog platform and Empower Network, you have to treat it like a business. This ain't no lottery ticket. You can't come in, well, I'm going to give it a try.

And honey, if it doesn't work out in 30 days, we're going to move on to that pure leverage little stupid silly, hey, wake up now, honey, wake up now. No, I really mean it. Wake up. You're following a signature. But listen, you know what I'm talking about.

But anyway, listen to me. If you were to buy a subway, invest in a subway franchise, you know there's recurring expenses. You know there's you don't even know where your customers are going to come in. You know you have to promote and market. You're not in it for 30 days.

Well, honey, we'll try Burger King. You know, you're not into that. Most offline businesses don't even go into the black for two years they say. Why is a business online, why should it be any different? Thank God it is.

I've never been in a business that took two years, but the point is this is a business and there are recurring expenses and it takes time to collect emails. You don't have to collect a lot of emails. I'm sharing that to impress you. Yeah, you're probably going to say, oh, I'm not trying to impress on you. I'm trying to impress you.

No, I'm not trying to impress you. I'm trying to impress on you. No, I'm doing that to impress you so that you can get off your butt and know you can do this. If I did it, you can do it. That's crazy.

Well, it's a little way shy, $670,000, something like that. That's crazy. Because here it is. Remember what I said earlier. Listen, your niche, you're not saying, you're not cramming Jordan Power Network, man, you're going to make a million, billion, zillion dollars.

You're saying, hey, I can help you. What, you're in Mary Kay? Let me show you how you can blog. Let me show you how you can use the blog as an authoritative site because the blog will be much more believable to your leads than the company's website. All day, every day, like Chili's Happy Hour.

Write that down. Your Empower Network blog will be much more believable, will do so much more for gaining your prospects' trust and belief than the company, whatever companies, because people don't like companies. They still don't like corporate America. They can't differentiate the difference, you know. So when you send to the blog, they're relaxed.

They're reading content. There's a lot of things you can do with the blog. But I'm telling you, I'm going to tell you real quick. I'm going to tell you a real quick tip. Write this down, guys.

Those of you in binary, write this down. This is so important. This is a huge tip. I'm going to give you two big tips. And for those of you on the fence, you're going to know why.

See, at the end of this, I want you to say, you know what, my hope is that, you know what, I can do this. Yeah, it's not going to happen overnight, but listen to me. Yeah, I happened to have a list when I first started, so it was easier for me. But if you plan on being among the land of the living six months from now, you need to join today and collect the emails tomorrow. Start going.

You know, you need a good night's rest, right? And then start going. And I promise you, six months from now, you may not be where you want to be, but you're not going to be where you used to be. There is no way in the world that you do what the days train and what these empower hours train and all the Google Hangouts from every team and empowering everybody do. There is no way that you can fail.

I'm going to share something. I'm going to step on some toes. The only other people that fail are because they're in love with the feelings that being rich gives them, but yet they have no inner commitment or desire to truly succeed. That's why they turn on the TV and they watch the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Think about it.

Why do people watch the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous? Oh, honey, honey, look at that mansion. Get out of there. Double wide. Look at that mansion, honey.

Isn't that pretty? Oh, my God. Hey, they watch the Kardashians. They watch that duck thing, man. Y'all with me?

I ain't going to say it. I'm going to step on some toes. Some of y'all are duck lovers. I know that. But listen, the point is Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, what the?

It gives them the feeling. That's why they get caught up in these hype videos off of clickbait and that. Oh, my God. Oh, my. But they have no real commitment.

They have no discipline. They're right off the Jerry Springer show. I'm letting you know that you start the block, position yourself as someone with authority and it doesn't take much, and you start collecting emails. And I'm going to say something that a lot of y'all are going to want to hear. I'm going to say something that you sponsors that invited guests here are not going to want to hear.

And you're going to say, man, why did you say that, Michelangelo, for the love of God? Let me take another shot of Perrier before I say what you don't want me to say. I just got two texts. Don't. Please don't.

No, I didn't. I tell my team members. I tell my team members, for the first 60 to 90 days, don't worry, concern yourself about making money. Tell them that. Don't, you know, people join because people join any biz op, and the next day they feel as though they should make money.

I tell them, listen to me. Don't concern yourself with making money for the first 69 days, and I promise you, if you do that, the money will come. I'm telling you. You leaders, you owe it to your team members. Your team members say that, because this isn't some lottery ticket.

And there is a little lottery ticket. curve and they get it better at writing copy and they get better at doing the videos and they get better at buying the makeup and making it prettier and they get better at posting those videos and they get better at doing little virtual videos from all, you know, from everywhere, whatever that, you know, and all of a sudden, things start clicking. I always tell someone, the big muscle man who keeps hitting that boulder and on the 99th hit, it splits. I'm going to ask you, did the 99th make it split or was it accumulation of 99? I'm telling you, it was accumulation of 99, right?

My team, I tell them, don't worry about making money, don't concern, I don't want to hear about making money. You do these steps, especially in the eight core commitments, you do those eight core commitments, you do them, do them, do them, when you first join, you do them, do them, do them, and I promise you, nine days from now, nine days from now, you won't have to worry about much. You're going to see the money start trickling in, like Dave Wolf said, from zero to $10,000 the hardest, but once you get to $10,000, you can't stop it. You see those first two levels in Power Network, those are recurring expenses, but they're also recurring residuals. That's what's going to allow you to walk away from the job, that's what's going to allow you to say, you know what?

I quit. What? What? Come in Friday morning, man, you must be nuts. Get out of here, man, and you just walk out and you throw a paper cup at them or something.

That's the key. That's crazy. Me and a man for the love of God, let me share something with you real quick, I'm going to be closing pretty soon, no one, when I'm talking to someone on the phone, better ever tell me they don't have $25, because it's a flat, bold lie. Turn off the damn cable, man, that's what you do, turn it off, you won't do that, you won't turn off your cable, huh? Tom, stop drinking beer, man, you spend $100 on beer every day, what about cigarettes?

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