Kris Darty: A Rising Star’s First 90 Days

Okay, welcome to this exclusive Empower Network Inner Circle interview, and because you're listening to this, you're in the right place at the right time. My name is Chris Rushlow, your host, your co-pilot through cyberspace, and I'm extremely excited to have our guest on the show today. A few quick things to keep in mind, so here's my flight attendant speech. Let's block out all distractions, tune out all background noises. I know a lot of us suffer from too much information coming in and not enough attention to what's in front of us every day.

Okay, so let's turn off any TV or radio, close the door, turn off the cell phone and text messaging, close out Skype, and don't forget, close out email program. So if you are at a computer, you might want to open up a Word document or get out your notebook and be prepared to take some notes, or if you're driving, you might want to just slow down a bit, listen intently rather than trying to pass the car in front of you. Today my special guest is Chris Daugherty. Chris has quickly risen through the ranks of the Empower Network, although relatively new. Due to the internet marketing scene, he is already being talked about in many circles as a phenom to watch out for as the Empower Network grows into the most powerful blogging system on the internet.

Here today to give away all of his secrets, ladies and gentlemen, Chris Daugherty. How are you, my friend? Doing great, man. Doing great. I'm digging up these secrets.

I'm digging up these secrets as we speak. I'm getting ready to dish some serious stuff out here. I should have some background music with that One Republic song playing. I'm going to give all my secrets. I think I'm going to have to loop that in there.

That's probably a good idea. I think that'll probably work. Chris, let's start off, buddy. Let's tell everybody. Let's tell everybody your story and your words, how you got into first network marketing and then into the internet marketing world, and what your views were, what brought you there, and why you did it, and just essentially your story and your words.

Let's start there. Sure. Absolutely, man. My story, it's obviously a living and growing being, and there's so many aspects of it. When someone asks me how this all happened, sometimes I have a hard time knowing where to start and where to finish.

Although Empower Network calls sometimes are long, I don't want to make this four hours or anything, but basically, I'll start as a young child and hurry up through that. When I was growing up, I lived in kind of a rough neighborhood, not really a neighborhood, but the people that I grew up with weren't of the highest caliber. No male figure in my life had a job. They were either drug dealers or they just lived on welfare. Growing up, I really didn't understand the idea of hard work and being responsible and that kind of stuff.

I kind of followed suit. I picked up the same kind of business habits. Most of my family did kind of legal. They did legal things to make money. To me, it was just everyday business.

I didn't know it no different. I kind of picked up the same. Then when I was about 17 years old, someone invited me to a church meeting. I realized some things that I had been doing wrong in my life and just kind of the lies I've been told my whole life and realized that there was a God. I needed to have a relationship with him.

Over the course of a few months, I kind of searched into who God was and the Bible and that kind of stuff. I became a Christian. I became a born-again Christian. I met the Lord Jesus. Obviously, after that happened, my whole business was kind of shot.

You can't necessarily hang around on street corners anymore. Right. Before, I didn't really worry about the law and all that because I was kind of a rebel and did my own thing. That's just the world I grew up in. I was kind of sneaky and knew how to kind of dodge that whole situation.

Once I realized that there was a God and that I couldn't escape, there was nothing I couldn't hide from him. He knew everything I did. I was going to give it a count for one day. I realized. Well, shoot, I've got to stop this stuff.

So, you know, and so did my family. We all kind of came to know the Lord around the same time. So, we all kind of had the same business. Shoot, I think you already told me not to shut that off, right? I don't follow instructions real well.

I got one turned off. My fax machine is still going off. It'll end soon. This is very important. This is very indicative of your life, right?

This is it. I mean, I just got people, you know, calling on base, constantly, messages. It's just ridiculous. This is great. This is great.

Yeah, this is it. This is how I do here. I mean, I got stuff all around me. I did do the Do Not Disturb on Skype, so I'm not getting Skype messages, but I am having people call. Probably someone wanting to know how to set up their merchant account or something, you know?

Yeah. Yeah. But anyways. So, for all of you out there that are wondering that, you know, if you're ever going to be able to get, you know, anywhere in life having an organization issue, let Chris Daugherty be living proof that this thing can happen even when you don't have everything completely organized. How about that?

Absolutely. I can attest to that until the day I die. You know, I am so unorganized. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous.

My poor wife, she is constantly trying to bring me back into reality and in this organized thing. And she's handing me lists. I mean, I got like lists laying all over my desk from her and I'm just like, they just pile up and I don't even know what they say. Yeah. Post-it notes everywhere.

She'll put it on your forehead and good. Yeah. She's yeah. She's good for that. But, but she's, you know, she's awesome.

Jessica, Jessica Daugherty, my wife, I mean, I love her so much. She's really been a help to me in my business. Yeah. Yeah. And so I, I see her in the business, just, you know, reminded me, Chris, you need to call 20 people, you know, it works.

It's something about, I've noticed that when you're in a company, when you're building a home business, that when a couple's united behind that, it just makes things 10 times easier and things go faster and smoother. And the probability of someone being really successful in it just increases a thousandfold. Yeah, are united in that partnership, I've seen that. Yeah, it's like that in every business. I mean, you see the most successful people in the world, they're, you know, sometimes you don't really see their spouse because they're not, you know, they're not the head figure or whatever, they're not the one on TV or on a camera, and you know, but there's someone behind them supporting them that loves them unconditionally and just, you know, encourages them in life.

And I know there's some people that don't have that, you know, and I know I talk to people on my team, they're like, my wife just doesn't, you know, understand, and she don't, you know, want to do this. Well, she didn't have to do it, and if she doesn't understand, she doesn't support you. My wife didn't. She always supported me, right? I mean, she's always loved me and encouraged me whatever I do, but you know, I got the eye rolling and, oh, I don't know, these things, you know, and then if I asked her, like, you think you can do this, and she's just like, I don't, you know, she doesn't, I'm not doing your business for you, that's your thing or whatever.

And I'll tell you what made the difference. I just started making some money. Funny how that works. It is funny, you know. So, you know, I just, and it wasn't a lot, you know, and it really was the first real commission I got. I got a commission of three hundred dollars, and that was four months ago. I got a commission notification that I had three hundred dollars directly deposited in my bank account. I said, Jessica, look at this. She's like, is that real? I'm like, yeah. And then I got another one the next day and she's like, whoa, you know. And since then she's been paying a lot closer attention, and you know, now we're working together, she's real happy to be supporting and helping me, and she's like, I don't know, I don't know, with the little things, and you know, some big things too.

But anyways, so what I'm telling you is that if your spouse isn't supportive, just ignore it, deal with it for now, and make some money. All right, just prove them wrong that this, you know, you've been in a thousand of those that never work, we'll make it work, because I'm telling you, right where you're at right now is doable. All right, if anything's going to work for you, this is it. Trust me, all right, I've seen, you know, lots of opportunities, lots of things, lots of MLM programs, and I've never ever in my life ever seen something so simple, you know, and done for you for the most part, to where, you know, anyone no matter what experience they have can get in and make some money right away just by talking to a few people. It just makes sense. You can make more money with this than anything I've ever seen quicker, because we get paid 100 percent commissions, you know. So just bear it, make a couple sales, and then show them the bank account, and after that it should be a little smoother for you.

So anyways, I guess I should try to get back to my story, huh? And this is, this is me, you know. It's your story, brother, however you want to tell it is all right with me. Okay, you know, I get a little distracted with my own self and just start talking about stuff and I lose focus. Yeah, I know somebody else like that, his name is Dave, yeah, he's kind of spacey too. It's kind of crazy. That's, I don't know, you know what, I think initially attracted me to Dave was just him making money, you know, but then after that I realized, and at first I was just like, this guy's so goofy, you know, but then I realized well shoot, I'm goofy too. I remember looking at your testimonial videos with Dave sitting down in Costa Rica, and we were just cracking up watching your videos, and we're thinking, oh my goodness, would every once in a while someone like this comes along, but we didn't expect this. Oh my goodness.

So anyway, so yeah, back to, you know, the doom days. You know, I stopped the business that I was involved in, and the people around me, you know, bless their hearts, you know, they didn't know no better, so they told me I needed to get a job. And at the time I was like, well, why the heck do I need a job, I've never had one, you know, I don't really want one, you know. And then I looked in the Bible and I found this book, it's called the book of Job, and I said, well, here, you know, I got a job right here, and they're like, well no, that's not good enough. Okay, so yeah, I finally did cave in and I found myself a job, and I entered into, you know, the proverbial rat race, and it didn't work out for too long, I kind of got sick of it, so I kind of left and we moved out to the hills somewhere.

And then I kind of became like an Amish dude. I really wasn't Amish, but we were surrounded by Amish people out in Hillsdale, Michigan, where we lived there for a while. It was a neat experience, it was a fun time, we had, you know, chickens and cows and stuff, and we were like, we were like, you know, the Beverly Hillbillies or something except backwards. We were like really good warm market responsive list there though. I'm getting, you know what's funny is that I've seen a lot of Amish people in network marketing, really. I'm so serious, I don't know how they do it, you know, it's like, I mean, how do they get on the computer and change their ownership or something, I don't know, but one of the companies I was in a long time ago, they had like a weird amount of Amish people and I don't know what the deal was.

That's definitely off subject, you know, I never ever hear things like this from anybody else. Right, it's like crazy stuff though. I mean, yeah, they're like the dudes, one of the leaders in one of the companies I was in the past, he was Amish, I mean, he just was, you could tell, I mean straight, he wore the Amish clothes and everything, I mean he was straight up Amish, and the dude was making some dough in network marketing. This is hilarious, you can't write this stuff.

So anyways, so okay, so the job thing didn't work out, and then I had a call from someone I had met the year prior in the downriver area in the Detroit area where I grew up. I had been in the farm for a while, and I worked for him like one weekend when I was kind of visiting one of my friends, because my friend worked for him. He called me and said, hey, you want a job? I'm thinking, well, not really, but they've been telling me, don't ever refuse work, you know, this is like some kind of mantra of the working class, don't ever refuse work. I'm like, okay fine, yeah sure, I'll take a job.

So he actually had me come and live with him. He had me move back to the downriver area. He had like a studio apartment down in his basement, and I moved into the dude's basement, and he taught me carpentry. He was a master carpenter and he was a licensed builder in Michigan, and he did residential remodeling as well as new construction, and I worked with him for I think four years straight, every day doing construction, and he taught me the trade. So that's my trade, I'm a carpenter, or at least I was. Anyways, I can fix stuff. And carpenter, the way I describe it, in Michigan it's like if you're a carpenter you're everything, you know, it's not like if I'm an electrician all they do is pull wire and that kind of stuff, right, if you're a carpenter you're a plumber, you're an electrician, you're whatever, especially when you do residential remodeling.

So I learned that, and because he was self-employed, I had the idea that well, I wanted to do that someday, and I didn't really want to work for someone my whole life, so I was kind of gleaning skills from him and learning how to do stuff so I could do it on my own. And then I eventually did, I started my own construction company and started getting business that way, and it went well for a little while, you know, it has its ups and downs, right, I'd get busy for a little while and make some decent money, then I'd be broke for a while, and that's kind of how the cycle works. It's kind of a weird way to live, but you know, I learned to trust the Lord, really is what I did.

And honestly, I know not everyone has this experience in life, and that's their thing, but my experience is that God's always been good to me, and you know, when you've seen how I've lived for the past whatever, 10 years, and the amount of employment I've had, the amount of jobs I've had as far as my own business goes, and just how we've never been hungry, we've never, our bills have always been paid on time, we've always had a nice place to live, we've had cars to drive and all that kind of stuff, and it almost doesn't make sense. And it's kind of like, you know, what's happened to me in internet marketing in the last four months, it almost doesn't make sense.

And honestly, people ask me what my secret is, and you know, I know how to do some stuff, but I'm not like ultimate expert at everything, or really anything, but my number one secret is the Lord Jesus. I mean, really, without him I can do nothing, and I really believe that. You know, any skills or abilities that I have and I've been able to put forth in this industry are just a gift from him. I mean, we all have talents and gifts, and they're not, we might work toward developing them, right, and put in time and take courses and that kind of stuff, and we should do that, we really should, but ultimately whatever we learn, you know, we didn't come up with it ourselves. I mean, we learn things from the experiences in life, and I think God really does enlighten people's eyes to have an understanding as far as business goes.

I mean, the number one business book of all time has been the book of Proverbs. It talks about money and business and how dealings are done, and that's been, everybody has always known that. I mean, the wisest man ever, Solomon, he was also the richest man in the world, which, for a good reason, because wisdom, you know, the ability to understand things and to put things into play, can create an unlimited amount of riches. That's why it's more valuable than riches. That's why I don't have a problem investing in information and knowledge and understanding, because I know that it's more valuable than any dollar, because it can create so many more.

So anyways, off story again. No, that's all right, that's all right. So anyways, so basically the real estate market dropped, and so did houses being built, and really a lot of houses being worked on. I mean, people just couldn't get financing to do any work, so basically I was just out of a job, out of a business, and I've always been sort of an entrepreneur, like I said, from as long as I can remember, whatever form, you know, kind of distorted forms, but nevertheless I've always been sort of business-minded, and I've been developing that over the years. I've been in a few network marketing companies, you know, on and off throughout my adulthood, I'm only 29, since I've been 18.

I think I've been in a few network marketing companies. I did join an MLM when I was 18 for like a week, I'm with, no, it wasn't Amway, but it was like some weird copycat spin-off of it. It was silly, you know, the presentation was compelling so I was like, yeah, buy everything, you know, but then after, I'm like, well shoot, what do I do now? I didn't even know what it was, really, and I have friends that kind of joined me at the same time and they still to this day, you know, every time I mention anything like, oh yeah, just like that one thing, I'm like, whatever dude, we're like 18 and we didn't have any idea what we were doing, you know.

It wasn't a scam, well no, I mean we were just stupid, but that gave me a taste and that idea of leveraged income and the ability to create wealth beyond just my abilities, because it doesn't matter what I did, I'm still trading time for money, and I realized that's no way to be wealthy, because you only have so much time and after a while you kind of wear out. So, oh my goodness, lots of things happened in between that. Then about six months later, I was like, oh my god, I'm gonna be rich, my wife's cell phone broke, all right. This is the start of kind of where I am right now.

This is a weird way things happen, and like I said, this is part of the reason I know that I'm where I'm supposed to be, because I didn't really plan this, it kind of just happened. Six months ago I did not have any intention to do network marketing, to do online marketing, or anything of the like. Obviously the Empower Network didn't even exist, I had no idea I'd be doing this, nor did it enter my mind. But about six months ago my wife's cell phone broke, so I went online to look for a cell phone for my wife, and I came across this deal where they were selling cell phones, but they weren't real, they were like knockoffs.

So I found this whole weird world of cheap knockoff stuff and wholesale stuff from China and that kind of stuff, and I thought, well darn, you know, this is a lot cheaper than what they're selling it for here, I bet I could buy some of this and then sell it for more, you know, buy low sell high, right, I got that, I've been doing that for years, you know, that's what I thought business was. So I tried that, and I thought, you know, how could I do this online? So I thought, well, eBay, you know, that's where everyone does business online, that's all I knew, right, I mean I didn't have a Facebook account, I didn't really do much online, I mean email, I didn't hardly check that.

So I tried eBay, took me about a month and they banned me, they kicked me off eBay, and you know, I mean I didn't really realize what was going on, I just thought I bumped into this thing and I'm like, wow, this is cool, you know, and I looked on eBay, well they're selling all kinds of this stuff on there, so I thought, well I'll try it, and then I don't know what the deal was, but they just kicked me out. So, you know, I thought, when they did, I mean seriously, I am like forever banned from eBay, it's like, I get this weird feeling every time I think about it, I'm like, man, I was born in America, I mean, don't I have like a right to an eBay account, but apparently I don't.

So after they booted me from eBay, I was actually selling a product that I found on there that they were selling, it was the second most searched for item on eBay, and I thought, well darn, there's not like a hundred thousand dollars worth of this every week, I think it was, and I was trying to get a nice chunk of it, you know, so I looked into this company that was selling this stuff to get a wholesale account with, with the real company now, with the knockoffs, because I thought, you know, this is a cool deal, I'm gonna make this a business, I got to do this, you know, retail license and everything. I was serious, you know, I was gonna make this happen.

So then I got a hold of this company to get a wholesale account, and they directed me to their wholesale site, which turned out to be a network marketing company, and I'm like, what in the world is this, you know. And I like I said, I've been in a few times in the past, and I decided, you know, I didn't want to do that, I don't know, there were certain things that I thought I had to do that I just hated and I didn't want to do it. And one of the things I love about Dave, and what I've learned through the Empower Network and just hanging out around him, is that you do what you want to do, man, you know, I mean you don't have to be a droid of the leaders and do the traditional, you know, bug your family and friends if you don't want to, you know, you do whatever you want to do.

But I mean you obviously had to know like I could be making way more money than I am right now, right, if I did some things that I just don't do, and to me, you know, it's not really worth it. You know, my ultimate goal isn't just money, and there's lots of things you can do for money, but if I don't want to do those things, and if I'll be miserable doing them, well I'm not going to. If someone wants to be miserable and make money, well they can just get a job, but I didn't want a job, I wanted a business that made money, and I didn't want to be miserable doing it.

So anyways, so I'd kind of forsaken the whole network marketing industry, and I know what we do in Empower Network isn't really network marketing, but it actually goes very far in the network marketing industry, and I know it very well, some anyone trying to do network marketing, because network marketing is a slow growth deal, I mean it's very seldom that someone gets started and makes a bunch of money right away to be able to sustain any kind of full-time income, so they can focus on it. Usually it's coming out of their pocket for a good while, whereas with the Empower Network we empower people to be able to create a full-time income in a week. I mean that's what I did, my first week I went full-time, which I mean was no time before, you know, I was just unemployed, so it's not like I had a job and I was trying to replace anything, I had no income, you know.

I went from no income to a full-time income residually in a week. That's the kind of power that we have here, to be able to do, and it's only been two weeks, right, and I'm just super excited to see, absolutely, what happens in the future. So anyways, okay, so that's kind of my story, and I know I'm not finishing it, you know. Four months ago, which is after the eBay thing, after they banned me, you know, I ran into this company, and the guy I signed up with encouraged me to check out a well-known attraction marketing course, right, and I looked it up and I discovered this whole world I never knew existed, you know, online attraction marketing.

And shortly after that I ran into Dave through these same people that he had introduced me to, and he was a cool guy, and he was doing internet marketing, he was ranked on the first page of Google for the company that I had joined, and I talked to him, you know, I told him, well, you know, I want to do what you do, because that's how I found him, I just Googled the company and his page came up, and I didn't even talk to him, I just went and signed up, you know, I found his link and I joined, you know, and that's what I wanted to do, you know, I want to be able to just Google me, you know, and then find me on there and then just buy and just join.

And he kind of discouraged me from it, and I understood his reasoning, you know, because he didn't want me to get distracted and go into the endless loop of training and figuring stuff out that most people go through when they get online and start to try to market. So I respect him for trying to help me out in that way, but that's what I wanted to do, you know, so I did, and shortly after I kind of partnered up with Dave and some of the things he was doing, because that's who I had learned internet marketing from, it just made sense to join the person that I had learned how to market from.

And that's one of the cool things about what we do, is that people ask, is this a good way to get qualified leads? Well, I mean yeah, if you can bring someone into the Empower Network and show them how to market and how to make money, I mean they're gonna join you in anything, you know, I mean it just makes sense that if the person that brought you in is working with you and teaching you how to do online marketing, but the person that you'd been working with in the past in whatever company you're in, you know, doesn't have a clue how that even works and you can't relate with them, and they almost discourage you from doing it, well it doesn't make sense to stay in business with those people. You know, I mean if I'm learning from somebody how to do marketing, I'd much rather just work with them in everything I do.

Absolutely, so that's what I do with Dave, and we partnered up on just about everything he does. I'm there with him because, you know, obviously he knows what he's doing more than anyone else I know pretty much online, and just the things that he's taught me in the short amount of time that I've had to work with him have made me amazing results. I mean, I've been doing a lot of things with him and I've been making a lot of really good money, you know. I have a blog, right, he taught me on a blog, I've made over a thousand dollars per post on that blog, you know, everything out of the few posts I've written, I have made over a thousand dollars per blog. Yeah, so it's been awesome.

So, you know, I started out with Dave in the company there, and I went through a training course with him, and I started to implement some of the things he taught me, and I started seeing results right away. I mean right out of the gate, my first month I made four thousand dollars with the company that we were with, as well as through affiliate programs, and the programs I promoted were the ones Dave created, and kind of the reason that I was able to do that is really because Dave can sell, and I just kind of sent traffic to the process Dave set up, and I made real good money that way because people buy stuff that Dave sells and he's got great products. I mean, he knows what he's doing, and anybody that is in online marketing could definitely benefit from the information that he puts out there.

So it was a compelling offer, it was a good product, and Dave was doing the selling, so much easier for me than most people had experienced up to that point. So that's pretty much one of the major reasons that I was able to have success as quick as I was, because I wasn't piddling around trying to figure out every plug-in and all this stupid technical stuff and then building my own sales funnel, writing my own autoresponders, all this stuff, it takes people a year to get done, it still kind of sucks, so they never make any money from it.

And you know, I've talked to people and they're like, well, I don't want to focus on branding myself, I don't want to promote anybody else, I'd rather brand myself. Well, if branding yourself makes you broke, why the heck would you want to do that? You know, I mean who cares, right, I mean you do what makes you money, we're not in here unless you just want to be rich and famous, or you want to be famous, right, and you want everybody to look at your picture all the time, I mean if that's all you want to do just spam your picture everywhere, seriously. But if you want to make money, well, you find out how it's made and you plug into a process that does most of the hard work for you and you just learn how to direct traffic to it and just make money, man.

And I'm telling you, if you'll focus on that and not all the nonsense, and you start making money, well your brand will be built. I mean, that's how it's done, I mean it's not, you don't come out of nowhere and just promote yourself and think that everyone's going to love you if you're just talking about how good you look, you know, because no one cares how good you look, they want to know how are you getting results, right, and the best way to get results is to plug into a system and a process that does most of the work for you, that has been proven to convert and proven to produce results in the past, and that's kind of how it worked with me.

So anyways, that was a super long story, and I don't even know if I even finished it, but, no, that was really good, help us understand how you're at present day, and what shaped your life and what shaped your everything, now, with your present circumstances and why you are where you are. I know that a lot of people, Chris, are wondering, well, you know, yes he had this background, and yes he just got started five months ago, which is pretty amazing, but a lot of people, I can hear it even in my head as somebody who just removed myself from the situation and was listening as if I was listening to you for the first time, although we're friends and we've talked before, and I look at that and go, well, what was he doing, you know?

So maybe if you could get a little bit into what you might have been doing, and we don't have to get technical, but what kind of methods and why you did them the way you did them, what really mattered, what counted, what made the difference of what you were doing right.

Yeah, I'll do my best here, and I've been struggling with this for the last couple months because people constantly, I hear from people every day all day wanting to know the tip, the secret special thing and whatever, and we kind of play on that stuff, and it's kind of funny, someone was asking me the other day, actually a leader in the industry, they just got in the Empower Network and they're like, so you've been getting some pretty cool results, I'm like, yeah, they're like, so what's the secret, I'm like, I'm like, you serious? I'm like, well, you know, the secret, they're like, no, what is it? I'm like, well, there is no secret, you know, except for talking about the secret all the time, you know, because it works. Doesn't it? It really does. It's funny, everyone wants to know the secret, and I do my best to kind of let people in on some of the stuff that I do, but I'm still formulating exactly what I do, you know, I mean I just kind of do it, but most all of it, I learned from Dave.

And people, one of the things I tell people is like, you know, what happened really is, I went through this course with Dave where he really just laid out everything he does, and the thing about Dave is that he has a way of being able to actually explain what he does. And actually, up to the time I went through that, another one, okay, you're getting, so yeah, I tell you, they come in from, this is another different phone, I got like three of them here and they just all ring at different times. Anyways, up to the point where we kind of started going through this course, Dave was doing a lot of stuff and getting a lot of results, but he had a hard time conveying what he did, and a lot of leaders have the same issue, because sometimes it's their personality or some skill that they really didn't know they had, and it just kind of naturally comes out and they're getting a lot of results, and then they try to explain it to somebody else and it kind of comes out not real clear, they can show you some techniques or something, but it's really not about the techniques.

Although they help, you know, what Dave was able to do with me is convey to me sort of the mindset and the concepts behind building success online, and I just took a few of those concepts and kind of ran with them and have them in the back of my mind as I'm doing whatever I'm doing. And one of the major concepts that has kind of shaped my quick success is, and I don't even know what you call it, but it's building on successes, all right, this Dave taught this in one of the courses I went through with him, and this is how he did it, right, he started out with nothing, like we all do, right, and he did something right, he got some little success, I can't remember what his was, but I will, this is what he taught us to do, create some kind of success, I don't care what it is, right.

And I hear people all the time, they're like, well, when I get results then I'll start signing people up. Well, you don't, it doesn't work like that, and they're talking about monetary results, you know, you can't wait to make money before you make money, because if you wait to make money, well then you never make it, right, I mean there's gotta be the egg thing, I think, yeah, there's gotta be a point where it's like, okay, I don't have to be Mr. Making a bunch of money to get somebody else in, you can actually use other people's, and I also created my own, and I'm telling you, you can create any kind of story you want, right, but you do want to create success stories.

And some of you are thinking, well, how do I create success stories, I can't sign no one up. Listen, this is what I did, right, and this is how it started. I first joined up with Dave, right, and he put this thing together where he had this competition, and he said, you know, whoever makes the coolest video about why you love this thing we're in, I'm gonna give you 100 bucks. So I thought, well shoot, you know, I'm gonna do that, I'm gonna win that thing.

So I made this crazy video, and I know you've seen it, and I just promoted the heck out of it, and I stayed up all night one night, the night before the contest ended, and I just private messaged everyone that was up on Facebook, and it was like, hey can you just go over this video and like it, because that was one of the stipulations, you know, that was how we won, right, you had to have the most Facebook likes. So anyway, so I did that all night long, and I don't know how many likes I had, but I won, you know, because I knew who else was in kind of the runnings, and I went over to look at theirs, I'm like, oh yeah, I got more than they did. So I bugged Dave about it for like two weeks, and he apparently forgot about it or something, but he's like, okay, yeah, I'm gonna do it. So he sent out this message talking about, you know, check out Chris's video, he won the thing or whatever, and that was my first success, right, I won this little competition, I made a video.

Now who can make a video, when you can make a video, who can stay up all night and bug their, I'm not really recommending this, but this is what I did, you know, I did what had to happen to make that first success, right, and like I said, did I make any money, well I didn't, he gave me a hundred bucks, but it took him like three weeks or something to give it to me, but that's what I did, I started out with that success, and I wrote a blog post about that success, why David Wood gave me a hundred bucks, I remember seeing that, yeah, and everyone's like, whoa, David Wood gave you a hundred bucks, what is up with that, you know.

And so then I went on and I found something else to create another success story. I went on, and we use a social syndication service for SEO, and it's a well-known service that a lot of people in our industry are in because it's really effective. So anyways, I found a way to be able to become the number one member of that deal, right, and it's really easy, I actually made a video about it, and I know other people have been working on kicking me out of number one, and they kind of do for a day or two days, and hopefully they make a video when they do it, but anyways, I found this really easy thing to become number one at, right, and I just sat there and I made sure that happened, right, and then I made a video about it and I wrote a post about it and I said, look, hey, three days from a hammock I became number one in this thing, and you know, people just started talking about, who is this guy, you know, hanging out in his hammock talking about how he's number one and all this stuff, how do you do that.

And I'm telling you, it was really easy, just like the video was, I just made a video and I stayed up all night and made sure everyone went over and liked my video, and I won, you know. Then I kind of learned how to do some SEO stuff and learned how to rank stuff on Google, and so I started doing posts like that, I'd create a blog post and then I'd rank it on Google, right, I take a screenshot and I make a video and say, you know, how I took eight out of ten spots on the first page of Google for this thing in eight hours or something, like, from my hammock, you know, I always had to throw the hammock in there, I always remember that one as well, right, so people are like, what the heck is this guy doing, and I'm telling you, what I did was really easy, and you know, I did kind of go after like a sort of high competition thing, but apparently there wasn't that much, right, I mean I took eight out of ten spots in like eight hours, it was ridiculous, but it was for a well-known tool, it was a tool I was ranking for, so I just promoted that, and you start creating small successes like that and promoting it, people start to think, get the idea that this guy knows what he's doing, right, did I really? Well, sort of, but not really.

So that's kind of what got me started, and just kind of having some success and getting kind of a name and people starting to follow me and that kind of stuff, and then I actually started getting opt-ins to my site because people wanted to know the secret, right, how is he doing all this stuff, well, I just made that happen, and that's kind of what I continually do is build on one success, right, you make a success and then you make a success and then you make a success and then you make something happen, then you get, and how it works is, you know, say you make ten dollars online, right, I think my first, I can't remember what my first, anyways, you make a little bit of money, or maybe not even money, right, you can rank a post, right, you get a post on the first page of Google, you know how many people right now are online trying to do online marketing, they're blogging daily but they don't know how to rank a post, right.

If you can do that, right, and you make a video about it and you make a blog post about it, and you kind of explain how you're doing it, or maybe not, you're just saying, hey, opt into my form and I'll show you how, those people, you have value to give to them that can help them, right, and you might not be able to help me because I know how to rank a post, right, I don't need to know that, I mean I already do, but there's tons of people that do that, right, and tons of people that don't know how to do that, right, so that's your market right now, you focus on the people, right, that aren't quite where you're at, right, and then that showing and doing that will build, build you up to be able to get to the next level where now you're making, you know, three hundred dollars a night while you're sleeping, and you know how many people are doing that, well there's a lot of slim pickings, you know, not too many are doing that, so now your market just got bigger, right, there's a bunch of people that are doing online marketing that haven't made three hundred dollars while they're sleeping.

Well when I did that, I made a video about it and I started telling people, hey, I know how to make three hundred dollars while I'm sleeping, why don't you opt into my form here, right, and I'll show you that, or why don't you buy this thing, it'll show you how to do that. So then I get all the people that hadn't made three hundred dollars a night, now they're wondering, you know, what's Chris doing, I want to do that, I want to follow this guy around and see and try to figure it out, and then that brings me to the next level, and then you know, now I make ten thousand dollars in a day, well how do you do that, well, join me and I'll figure, right, I mean that's not, I'm not saying that's just what I've done, you know, I mean I got another success, so what I've been doing a while, I've been promoting it, right, look what it looks like, look what happened, look what I did, all right, so why don't you want to follow me now.

So that's sort of one of the tactics, and like I said, that's not a scientific thing, you can't get a tool that does that, you can't get any kind of automation with that, it's just something to have in the back of your head as you're building your online presence and you're trying to get sort of a following and get people to join you, just make it work, you make something happen, right, and anybody can make something happen, right, if you don't know anything, we'll learn something and then teach it, right, and you learn something, you implement it, you get a little bit of results, it doesn't have to be a ton of money or nothing, right, and then you promote that success, and then the people that haven't had that success yet will be interested in learning, and they'll realize, well dude, this guy's got a lot of money and knows a little more than I do, maybe I should kind of plug into him and get to know him and talk to him and then maybe join him, right.

And that's kind of what happened, that's one thing I've done, but my main marketing method has been content marketing, that's really all I've done up till two weeks ago. I've done a little bit of PPC since Empower Network started, and I guess I had one ad before then for like a month, but honestly I didn't make any money with it that I know of, right, I'm so bad, you know, I'm so unorganized, my tracking is non-existent, you know, I mean I gotta say I got commission checks kind of just laying around, my primary company, I got a card that they sent me with my commissions on it, I still haven't activated it, and there's thousands of dollars I haven't activated on there, and I don't even know where it's at, it's like it's under this pile of paper, a pile of sticky notes my wife has, you know.

It's a good problem to have, it really is, you know, but I mean today she's like trying to get on me, she's like, I'm straightening out your finances today, I'm like, well, you have fun, because she's talking, asking me about why I'm getting ten dollar charges for this bank account, like I have no idea and nor do I care, and really, to me money is just, it's not, it doesn't mean anything, you know, I mean sure, it's kind of what we use for trade and we need it, right, but I've removed myself emotionally from money for some time now, and I know that we hear a lot of times, you know, you're in whatever business, right, you read business books and self-help books and all this stuff, and people are always talking about mindset, and half the time I'm just like, oh shut up about it already, you know, it just seems ridiculous that people keep talking about this thing, but honestly it's very important.

And you know, some of the things I've learned from Dave, and I kind of already sort of knew, but he explained it very well, that we do resist money in our lives, and it's a subconscious thing that happens, and there's multiple reasons, but one of them honestly is just the fact that we're obsessed with it, and it's like life to us without it, we die, you know, and if that's kind of your mindset, that you're so desperate for this thing, you know, that you stay up all night and you're just so stressed out about it, and I understand financial situations get bad and stuff happens and it's really stressful, I understand that, but honestly, if you lost it all right now, you'd still be here, I mean we'd still be breathing, if you live in America for sure, but even if you live in other places you'd still be here and you'd still be breathing in the world, I mean you can find food, right, you're not going to starve, there's things to be had.

And you know, it's okay, because we're so desperate and so attached emotionally to this paper, and that's honestly all it is, it's just stinking paper, it's just worthless stinking paper, the only reason it's worth anything is because we think it is, but honestly, look at the stuff, it's really just paper, okay, there's no need to sell yourself into slavery for it, it's just some stuff made from trees. It's just like when you were totally obsessed with some girl in high school or something, right, and you were kind of desperate about her, you look desperate, I mean you got nervous when you thought about talking to her, whatever, well she didn't want nothing to do with you, it's like, get away from me. When we come from a place of desperation, we naturally repel stuff in our lives, and money is one of those things, and the reason most of us don't have a lot of it, because we don't know what in the world to do with it for one thing, and plus we're so obsessed with it that we just naturally resist it, it's kind of a weird thing.

And you know, because I'm a Christian, I deal with other Christians all the time, and there's especially in Christian circles this weird superstitious idea about money, and anytime you talk about making a little more of it, they pull out this verse about the love of money being the root of all evil, and I totally agree that it is, but it's totally opposite of what most people use that for and try to claim. People have this idea that being poor is spiritual, and it's just not true. You know, I don't love money, right, I could care less about it, you know, I appreciate the things it affords in my life, but I'm not trusting in that stuff, I realize it can be used for good, that's why I think I should get more of it, not just so I could pile it up, you know, I have causes and I have things bigger than myself that I think need to be contributed to, and there's a lack of support in very important things in the world, and I know if I can make more of it, well I can give to those things and contribute to those things, you know, and I want to do that.

So when someone says, you know, you love money, well they're just ridiculous, because I refuse to enslave myself to another man or to the dollar, because that's what's going on when someone gives their whole life, right, and what is your life, right, it's, you know, the Bible says it's even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away, your life is made up of time, that's what your life is, right, I mean there's only so many seconds, you only have so many years. When you give your time to another man, and in the Bible, you know, the Bible tells us not to be servants of man, well I agree with that and I try to obey that, and I don't want to be a servant of man my whole life, I don't want to give 40 hours or 60 hours or even 20 hours to a corporation every week of my life for my whole life, because it's not their life, it's mine, and God gave it to me, and he wants me to live it the way he told me to, not the way they tell me to.

So the reason I'm doing this, one of the reasons anyways, is to be free, you know, and to have the resources to do more good in the world and contribute to causes that are important to me. And I think, you know, we talk about the why and all that stuff, and it really is important, because if all we're doing this for is just to pay our bills, which is fine because we need to do that, but I'd encourage people to try to have a vision of something bigger than themselves, and to not be doing this just strictly for themselves, because if they're just doing it for themselves, we only need so much, I mean like I said, I created a full-time income in a week, well am I going to quit now, well no, because I have 100 people on my team that I want to create a full-time income for in a week, you know, I have things I want to give to, my church burned down a year ago and we had to get a new building, and we owe a lot of money on that building, and the way it's going, you know, with the Michigan economy, and the people in our congregation not having a job or having any source of income, it's not going to happen anytime soon unless someone steps up and does something about it.

And you know, that's really part of my story, how I got here in the first place, is that five months ago me and my wife were praying about what we could do to remedy that situation, because like I said, at the current rate it just was never going to happen, to get to get paid off, and right now, obviously, we're in a situation where if we continue at the rate we're going, it won't be a problem at all, and that thing will be taken care of, and then after that, obviously there's so much more good that can be done in the world to someone that can be responsible with money. So I don't know why I'm saying all that, but I think it's because it needs to be said.

I think you bring up a point, Chris, that a lot of people have a hard time coming to terms with, because like you said, being in that place, in that space of desperation, right, that's really tough to get out of and be able to see past that, and it's really tough to look at the world from a space of being able to create some significance around you rather than just thinking selfishly, personally, about yourself and your survival, and that's a very tough shift, and I think what we can do in the Empower Network is be able to shift people out of that, to where they don't have to worry and be selfish and desperate and trying to just survive right now.

And right, that's how the Empower Network started, I mean that was the whole point, I mean Dave was wandering around in the wilderness one day and was just thinking, this is a bunch of crap, that all these people in this industry of the make-money industry aren't making no money, you know, it's just, this is scam, what the heck, something right here, and not that they couldn't, right, but before the Empower Network it was just very difficult, you know, you had to learn all this stuff and do all this stuff that most people just will take years to figure out, or most of them just wouldn't. So did Dave need to do this? No, the dude was making like 80 grand a month on his own, without any help, and that was like a residual thing that would have kept going on whether he did anything again or not.

Because he had the freedom financially, because of the residual income he had coming in from past endeavors in this industry, online marketing, and the process he set up in the past, he had the freedom and the ability to cast a vision to help everyday people that had, whatever reason it was, to be in this industry and in this space trying to make an extra income or to replace their income or whatever, for whatever reason they were in here trying to create an income. He had the freedom to think beyond himself, and that emotional attachment to the dollar had been removed long before, which I think is probably one of the major reasons that he was able to accumulate the success he had to that point.

But the reason I'm saying that is because we need to think beyond ourselves, and that's what Dave's done with the Empower Network, is he thought way beyond himself and said, what can I do to help somebody else be successful, I have these certain skills, right, that enabled me to get where I am, well let me lend these skills to you, to Chris Darty, or even Chris Rushlow, or to the farmer, right, that's broke, the construction worker that is looking for a different way to make it happen, because there's just no work where they're at, or whatever, whoever decides to join us, you know, that's the kind of thing that we all need to develop, to think beyond ourselves and to have a bigger reason to do what we're doing, and when that happens, it's one of the best motivators you could ever possibly have.

You know, myself, right, I could just sleep in a park, you know, just eat whatever, I hardly eat anyways, I mean I'm so out of it I forget to eat, my wife has to remind me and bring me lunch, seriously, but I mean I can just survive, right, I don't need a whole lot, but once I got a wife and kids it was like, oh shoot, well I guess I need a little more, so I had this new motivation, why I need to make something happen for them to have a decent life, you know, for them to have a nice place to live, for them to have a decent car to drive, for them to have good nutritious food on the table.

But that only takes you so far too, because there's a single family, I'll need so much, well now I think way beyond that, I think worldwide, I mean like I said I'm a Christian, so I have obviously something to share with people that can significantly change their lives like it has mine, you know, I have this understanding, this knowledge about how to make money online, now well, I know so many people that are suffering from poverty unnecessarily, I mean it's totally unnecessary, it does not need to be that way, but they've never seen that there's another option.

So it's kind of my goal and my mission, you know, to wake people up and to help them see and understand that you can do this, because I can do it, I know someone else can, because I have, there's sometimes a few mental shifts that need to happen, and because I've made those shifts, it's sort of my duty to be able to help some other people make those shifts, and it really is, and Dave's done it with me, you know, he's helped me get out of my thought process that was hindering me from moving forward, and just say, hey man, you don't need to worry about that, you just need to take action, and all those things will fade away in a short time.

If you stop thinking that everything needs to be perfect, and you can't do this because of that, and whatever all that stuff is just stuff to slow you down from being who you're supposed to be and getting done what you're supposed to get done and doing what you're supposed to do, and you just need to scrap it all and just, like I said, last night, make a decision that I'm gonna make this happen, and it is possible, and that's one of the biggest things that we all need to conclude. You know, can you do it? Well, has it been done? Yes. If it has been done, it can be done again, if someone else has done it, you can too, you know, as long as you're willing to do what they've done, and try and fail, right, but don't quit, and try again.

And maybe get a little success, right, but not as much as you want, but don't quit and tweak it and keep moving forward, you know, you can be successful. Expressing the Empower Network more than anything else I know of, it's the simplest thing I've ever done, completely done for you, you just have to get people to the door and say, take a look at this, it could change your life forever, it's changed my life. So anyways, you know, I encourage people to do is just stop making excuses and focus on what we've laid out for you in the Empower Network, we have a core checklist, when you first start you should go through the fast start training right away, you should, obviously it's more than that, but go through those things and start doing them, blog daily, that's a very important fundamental part of what we have here.

And I'm telling you, that's what I did to get the success I have, I've made over a thousand dollars per blog post that I've written, over a thousand per post. I want to take, you know, two hours, I'm kind of slow sometimes, things take me forever, I mean actually most things take me forever, they really do, long time, it's ridiculous how long things take me to do. I've written some pretty fast, but I've written blog posts that took me like a day, sometimes two days to write, it's just ridiculous how slow I am and stuff, but they pay me a thousand dollars or more, you know, and that's, and it's going to be residual, because with content marketing, which I think is the coolest form of marketing there is, for lots of reasons, it's a residual thing.

I mean, when you build good content, you're going to be able to, you're creating an asset, a real one, the definition of an asset is you buy something or you acquire something, right, and it pays you residually from that thing whether you work again or not, and that's what content is, once you create it, it's there, right, so you learn how to promote it and you can always promote it more, I mean you can take stuff that you made a year ago and promote it again and get traffic from that thing and turn it into money, you know, monetize it. And with the Empower Network we make it so easy because you can literally blog about anything, and people start asking, what do I start blogging about, we just, you know, you have to just start, okay, it doesn't matter what, you just start.

My first couple posts were just the most, it was just horrible, the worst thing, I still have them on my blog, please don't go read them, you know, I'd like to just delete them, they're the worst thing I've ever seen anyone write, you know, my first few, I didn't know what in the world I was doing, but I put something on there, right, and that's all that counts at first, because it's going to take you a couple posts to kind of learn your natural writing style, and everyone has one, right, and honestly I wasn't good at writing, I still am not good at writing, I failed every, I think every English class I was ever in, mostly because I did horrible, though, I wasn't really good at English, and just because I didn't show up, I dropped out in ninth grade, like, no I haven't been in school since ninth grade, it's been over, I don't know, over 10 years, you know, and I made 10 grand in one day in the Empower Network just by creating a little bit of content.

So let me run this back for a minute, Chris, because I think this is very important for people to understand. Sure. And that is, you let go of the fear of not having enough money and finances and security, and let go of giving time to other masters, right, and being a servant, and you shifted out of the fear of worrying about that, and then you naturally operate, as you would say, a little slower with some of your content than the average person would, and yet somehow you have quickly exceeded what most people have done in the Empower Network and created an income much quicker than most people by doing exactly the opposite of what most people would naturally attempt to do inside of anything, right?

Yeah, one heck of a paradigm shift there. Yeah, you know, it kind of doesn't make sense, you know, and I try to make sense of it, but what's so weird is with what we do, and which is why they set this thing up as content marketing being the main method of marketing, because one, anyone can do it, but two, it really does create, I mean the highest paid income that I know of online, I mean anybody that makes a lot of money online does some form of content marketing, right, I mean they have a blog, right, they talk about themselves and their unique offering of value.

Shoot, I'm trying to remember what in the world I was going to say with that, but that's why Dave made this thing, and for the longest time when I started doing it and then I started making money, it was like, what is going on here, this is like weird stuff, where is this money even coming from, and honestly to this day I don't know where it comes from, it just shows up, seriously, I mean, you know, I get traffic to my site on a continual, I've been blogging for four months, my Alexa rank is way below 100,000 worldwide, and not everyone knows what that is, but the people that do, it's just like, what, and if you knew how much content I've created, it's pretty insignificant as far as it goes, but I'm telling you it doesn't make any sense when you think, okay, I write something on this blog and somehow that's going to turn into money, right, I don't know how, it's just silly, you know, I mean when you think about it, it's just like, well how does it happen? I don't know, but I just know it does.

Okay, so don't question the process, just go, we just do it, and that's what I did, you know, when I first got out of that course with Dave, he put out a challenge, I think it was a 90-day challenge, and said, blog daily for 90 days, and honestly I didn't do it every day, but I did make an attempt, and I did what I could on a consistent basis, at least for the first 30 days, and I just started making money, people started buying stuff because whatever, they liked my content or whatever, but I'm telling you, it's a 90-day challenge, it works, it really does, which is why he set it up this way, because out of any other form of online marketing, this really is the best way to get money.

It just seems weird when you think about it, you know, to this day it still seems weird to me, it's like, okay, I write something, all right, I might make a video, I'll put it on the site and then I'm going to promote it and then people are going to come here and buy stuff, all right, how does this work? I don't know, but it just does, okay, trust me, it does. And I know I've heard several people that have gotten in recently and they've never blogged before in their life, and they've just started creating posts and doing a little bit of promotion with it, getting people to come to it, and they're signing people up and people are going through the funnel and buying stuff.

And the key is really to have a compelling offer that when someone gets to your content, one, your content isn't so completely boring, it's a little bit interesting, it's informative, right, people have a reason to read it, but then there's a compelling offer somewhere on your site along with your content that kind of draws people in and says, oh yeah, I want to, this post is pretty good, this guy seems pretty cool, let me check out what he's got over here on the side, and then they enter into this funnel that has some compelling sales videos and that kind of stuff done for you in the Empower Network, and it just turns into cash, it's like this weird cash machine that keeps spitting this stuff out.

So anyways, that's content marketing, it's a strange thing but it just works, it really does, that is my major form of marketing, that's what I've done from day one, and that's what's made me the money I've made, is blogging, right, blogging and then directing the traffic that comes to my blog to an offer that converts and that makes good money. You know, if you direct it to something that converts but makes you know, 10, well that's not going to be as effective as obviously you send it to something that makes 100, or even if you had something that made 100, right, but you directed it to something that didn't convert, well that wouldn't work either.

Well in the Empower Network we have both, we have compelling offers, right, that convert and make 100, so I can't think of any better place to plug in and to just do the basic stuff, and I'm telling you, don't complicate it, don't worry about the junk, if your Facebook API key, if you can't figure it out in the back office when you're trying to set up some plug-in, just scrap it, doesn't matter. I've been telling my team that I've got level people out there, that's great, so like

Horrible. They really were.

But, you know, you can't create one post and say it didn't work. Right. I mean, you have to keep creating content. Yeah, well, sadly, that's what I see happen a lot of the time is people expect things to kind of work just like pressing the microwave button, the start button there, you know, because we're so used to in our culture of instant downloads and streaming and everything on demand right now. And, you know, so that kind of thing, people think that, well, if you just give me all this, if I just, you know, kind of press this little button, this easy button, that it's all just going to spit out money and everything.

And the funny. Thing is, is that starts happening when the majority of people have finally given up. You know, they don't they don't stick it out and. Oh, yeah. A couple more posts and ready to do some more promotion until you get it down.

You know, and then some people who don't, they go, this doesn't work for me. And I always had to do in a lot of my sessions with people, my team and the people I coached is I would have to tell them it works if you work it. You know, are you working it? Right. And.

And it's not difficult. It just takes a little bit of application. It does. Yeah. Yeah.

And you're and, you know, Chris, you're living proof of it, man. You know, to be able to you take a step back and you look at this and you go five months ago, I didn't know anything about, you know, Internet marketing. Right. You know, fast forward five months. It's so crazy.

It's so crazy. You're like you don't even recognize your life from five. No, it is. So it's just it's amazing. It is awesome.

And I'm telling anyone can anyone can have it. Right. But like you said, you just you just need to go make the next post. Right. You know, and if some if something really not working right, something really strange for whatever, it just it really isn't work.

Right. Well, fine. Figure it out. I mean, there's a reason. Right.

And it could be, I don't know, you know, whatever. You know, the thing is, we can take from this is that we have people who are making it making it. Right. Right. And doing it.

And so for someone who's not quite yet figuring it out and they haven't seen the results from it, you know, they're still priming that pump. But the pump hasn't shot out any water yet. You know, right. Yeah. Proverbial, you know, water pump, you know, but see, they don't see that water rising as they're pumping, priming pump.

But they don't see the water rising underground. They don't see the results yet, although it is coming up. It is growing. And then eventually it finally shoots out at a pace. You're wondering, well, where the heck was it all this?

Well, I got more than I need. And it's a lot of that, you know. Absolutely. Yeah. There's people making this thing happen.

Then the question to ask yourself is, well, if it works, then what am I doing to not make it work? And how can I learn and correct that and do what makes it work? You know, because obviously there's got to be a way to do it. So I just haven't figured it out yet. Right.

Yeah. Right. And now is not the time to quit. Right. There is no secret.

It's not like we're holding anything back. I mean, if we hold something back, we begin. Giving you 20 percent commissions or, you know, like that. Right. I mean, come on.

I mean, it's really not. Yeah. We're not trying to hold no one down here. I mean, you know, it's called the Empower Network because we, you know, we really want to empower people. And I'm telling that's why I'm so 100 percent behind this thing, because I know that out of all things that someone can do, you know, this they can do this.

You know, and that's why I promote to my grandma, you know. Anybody, my mom, you know, I said my mother in law is in the Empower Network. We signed her up. Yeah. She loves it.

She's she's she's blogging away. So, you know, I know out of all things that this can work. So do the work. I mean, just get in, follow the simple steps in the core checklist, you know, get with your sponsor. They obviously have a vested interest in your success, you know.

You know, plug into whatever they got going on, because, you know, some not everyone will have an extra training or anything like that. But figure out what they're doing. You know, they got you in. Right. So they were doing something right.

I mean, they figured something out. Right. Maybe you were the first one. Well, whatever. What they do.

Well, they talk to you. Right. Well, there's a clue. Just talk to somebody. I mean, there's a perfect soundbite right there.

You know, I mean, really, I get people call me and make sure that Facebook, right. I get, you know, 10, 20 requests a day. And then as soon as I hit accept. Right.

Then there's then they're chatting. Right. And then I throw a little chat. And there's like, Chris, you know, it's just not working for me. What do I do?

What have you done so far? Well, nothing. Well, you know, I do something. I mean, really, I mean, I have I have sort of a, you know, basic understanding of marketing. So I know how to do a few things that, you know, I don't know.

They're sort of advanced. But they're they're they're more like, OK, I'm going to set this campaign up. Right. And I'm going to put it into motion and I'm going to get results from it. Well, not everyone is there yet, you know, but anybody can approach somebody.

And, you know, I'm not talking about going out and bugging your family and friends or hanging out in shopping malls or anything like that. But there's a there's a world of people online that are trying to make this work. Right. They're trying to make money online and they are not making any money. Right.

Because, you know, one, they're promoting an offer that doesn't convert, two, when it does convert, they're getting paid crap. So, you know, the people they get in don't stand because they ain't making money fast enough. So they quit. So it never it never builds enough for them to be, you know, to justify their efforts pretty much.

Well, I'm telling you, the world, the Internet especially is just filled with these people. Well, they are your prospects. I mean, you have something that can help them, that can make the difference in their lives, that can make their effort. And I'm telling you, you know, if you don't know SEO, you know, if you're not the best SEO, if you haven't figured out pay-per-click yet. And I'm telling you, all these things are easy.

Right. They're not real complicated. They're not really special extra secret. You just start doing it. Right.

If it doesn't work, you figure out. You know what else I can do different to make it work. And you start, you know, editing your process till it starts producing results. But, OK, if you're not there yet, find these people, you'll find them everywhere because they're spamming links. Right.

Because they're desperate. Right. They're desperate because if you see one spamming links, more likely they're desperate because they ain't making no money. And they put this front on like, oh, yeah, we're making tons of money over here. Check my link out.

Well, more likely they're not. You just start a conversation. And when you get past the pitch and they're trying to draw you in because, you know, they're in a desperate situation. Hey, so how are you really?

How's this working for you? You know, are you really making any money? And most people. Well, they're honestly going to be like, well, no. Well, why not?

You know, I don't know. I just keep sending people my link and they don't want to do with me. Well, you know, one, probably because your offer stinks. And two, because you could probably be a little more tactful. Right.

Well, let me kind of help you out here and show you something that people just want to join. And honestly, you know, when I promoted Dave's course, I sent people to the sales video. Right. And Dave did a good job at selling them.

And I made money. Well, in the Empower Network so far, I've sent a few people the sales video. Most people I've sent straight to the join page. All right. There ain't no selling involved.

All right. I mean, it's just like 100 percent commissions. Get in. You know what I mean? Dave Wood is selling for you.

You don't have to set the blog up. Right. There's no technical thing you got to set up there. You just blog daily.

Tell others get money. Right. All right. Is that's that's a pretty good, pretty good pitch there. Here's the join page.

Get started now and start making money. You know, it's not that complicated. It doesn't have to be this strange, mysterious thing. You just need to start getting people to the center of the sales video. You know, but honestly, people are in a situation where they're desperate to find something that works.

And five thousand people in one week apparently works, you know, over half a million dollars in a week. Something's going something's working here that ain't that ain't worked in other places. So it's like, you know, this is the best solution that we can offer people. And you need to believe that. I mean, you really do.

And if you don't, you need to consider and really, really think about what you have in the Empower Network, because, you know, every day I think about it, I realize, well, shoot, you know, it's even more than I thought. And it really is. It's so stinking powerful. It removes so much burden and time and headache from people that are just trying to get started online, or even the people that aren't, are experienced online, because now they don't have to sit there and teach their people how to set up their website and all this technical stuff and go through this painful process of trying to recreate themselves over and over and over again.

You know, they can just plug people into something that works and say, go make money. And when someone makes money on your team, they're not going to go anywhere anytime soon. So it solves so many problems. So go out there, find these people. Right.

And is it the most efficient model? No. But if you're just starting out and you don't know anything. Right.

I'm telling you, people want this. And all you got to do is put it in front of them, start creating your content and get it in front of people and bring them in. Because I'm telling you, people are joining and they're going to be joining from now to the moon falls or whenever, you know, because all we're going to do is have more and more and more stories about people getting in, not having any experience online marketing and making money. And I'm telling you, it's going to be the most talked about thing, you know, in an online period.

I mean, right now we're like the hottest subject on Alexa dot com. And I think Dave tells for like the seven or something most popular site in the world right now. Yeah. I mean, that's serious stuff. This ain't we ain't playing around here.

And that's not like that doesn't just happen for me where it's a big deal. And it's a big deal because we are really helping people. We are really, really empowering people. We're in this to make money, but we have a dual purpose. You know, we don't want to just make money.

We really, really want people that are in this industry to make money to really do that. Right. And up to this point. Most of them weren't. We're striving very, very much to make the promise of financial freedom a reality, something that's actually attainable.

And we've done it and we're doing it on a daily basis. So I'm telling you is that, you know, you have something that can bring hope back into people's lives and can solve all the reasons that they're here. And those are, you know, a million reasons. But whatever it is, you can help people in their lives and they'll thank you for it.

You know, they think of me every day for introducing some stuff and teaching them how to make this thing work. And I'm telling you, it's simple. You just need to start taking action. Follow this course, the core checklist, start blogging daily, telling others and get money. All right.

That's why we say it. Right. That's why it's on the front of the blog. Right. Three steps.

That's right. Blog daily. Tell others. Get money. All right.

It's that simple. Don't complicate it. Just don't. I made it a point not to complicate things on my blog, my personal blog.

Right. That I had to set up for whatever. Four or five months ago is still just a disaster. I mean, you know, it's just goofy ghetto stuff. I got stuff out of whack.

I got, you know, plugins that aren't working or whatever. And I told myself the most important thing I can do is to create content. Right. For like two months, I was creating content. Right.

I didn't have a capture form on my page. I didn't even know it, because what was the deal was, is I had like I had a capture form on my header. On the main front page. Right. When you first go to, you know, my page.

My front page, my main domain, if you just went there, we had like a capture form in the header. But if you went to an individual post, it wasn't there. And I didn't realize this till like two months in. And I'm wondering why aren't I getting like a lot of leads, you know, because I never sent anyone to my front page.

I always send them to a post. Right. So I was creating a post and I was sending people the post. And like, you know, I get like comments on the post. Right.

but never leads. And I'm just thinking, what the heck? And finally, I was at one of my I was looking at my post one day and I'm looking around like, where the heck's that capture form? Oh, my goodness. I don't even have one on here.

Chris, you made four thousand dollars. Yeah. Without a capture page. You mean to tell me you didn't have any way for them to get a hold of you on those. I didn't have any leads.

I didn't have any leads to like, probably. Probably a month and a half ago. And then I got, I got like 200 leads in like, it might've been two months. Right. I got like a hundred leads a month after I finally figured out, oh, shoot.

I got no capture form. Yeah. A thousand dollars first month. Yep. Because I didn't, I didn't, I didn't bother with, with worrying about if everything was perfect because it never will be.

If you, if you wait for perfection. Right. You'll never start. because. Because perfection comes with the process.

Yeah. And if you're not willing to go through the process, you, perfection is, is an impossibility. you'll just, you'll never get there. So don't, don't even think about it. Just give up on perfection.

Right. There's some things in life, you know, you shouldn't give up on, but, but perfection is one of them. Not, not give up on, but don't make it a requirement. Well, you know, even, even as a perfect example, you know, Lexus, you know, a very high quality car manufacturer. You know, their, their motto at one point was the relentless pursuit of perfection.

Right. Right. Relentless. Right. Be relentless.

Yes. For sure. I mean, don't, don't give up on it, but don't make it a requirement. you know, you have to, you have to just do it. And, and like I said, it's the pursuit.

It's not, it's not, you don't just be it. Enough of getting ready to get ready. Right. You become it. You know, had we, had we got perfect and power network would not have launched yet.

Yeah. Yeah. We would have paid to people. Toby and Layla were, you know, close behind that. We wouldn't have had those stories.

We wouldn't have been able to change all those lives if we would have simply waited because we wanted to be perfect. Perfect. Right. Yeah. It's just a ridiculous thought.

It's, it's impossible because you, because you don't, you don't know what's wrong until you start pushing, you start moving forward. You know, you can't, there's things that you just, you'll, you'll never see before you start. And the, and the experience is what, is what gives you, what perfects you. And really perfect just means complete. You know, and, and, and we can never be complete until we go through the process of perfection.

And so, so, you know, just get started. That's it, brother. Don't worry about the junk, right? Right. Right.

It's just, it's, it's, it's crap. It's a lie, right? It is a lie. And you don't, don't lie to yourself because you can get started today and you can start making things happen. You can start getting results.

you know, if you, if you just, if you just shut that thing off in your head that keeps going off saying, no, I can't because of this, I can't because of that. I'm telling you, you can. Right. And that's what I did. That's exactly what I did.

I stopped. I had this and I still fight it, you know, things, don't, I can't move forward because of this or that, well just, you know, just shut up, right, sometimes you just had to tell yourself shut up, right, because I have to do it all the time, that's right, seriously, I mean, you know, and sometimes some people think that's weird, you know, but really, you know, our thoughts can damage us, they can hold us back, and like that's what I was saying earlier about money, the thoughts in our head keep us from success, and you know, they can be, we can have them for whatever reason, you know, just our upbringing, social programming, whatever, but when you know something's not true, or you know it's hurting you and holding you back, when it keeps crying out in your mind, you just need to say, hey, just shut up, because I'm not going to sit here and let the world go by and let this opportunity pass because you keep telling me I can't because of this, I can't because of that.

Listen, you can do whatever you want, and that's what we do, we do whatever we want, and you know, everyone does, and if you haven't moved forward yet, it's just because you don't want to. Well, I'm telling you, change your mind and want to, because it's worth it, and make a decision just to do it, and you'll be glad you did, you know, I know I am, and we'll be here, you know, as in Empower Network, we'll be here to support you and to help you move forward, you know, just get in and start doing the required work, that's it, and the results will come, that's it, man.

Well, you know what, man, I really want to just leave it on this high note, because you know, it's been said, and it has been, it has been displayed, and it has been proven, absolutely, you're living proof of that, buddy. Absolutely, yeah. So it has been a pleasure, my friend, it has really been a good time here to get some insight from you, and really just sit back and kick back and relax, and get to really get inside your head and see where you're coming from, and I think everybody's extremely fortunate to be able to get the secrets from you.

So, yeah, I appreciate you guys having me on here and being able to try to get some of that stuff out of my mind, you know, I have, I'm somewhat challenged with figuring out what exactly the secret is, but hopefully I put some stuff out there that'll help some people, because that's really what I want to do, you know, I really do want to help people see things for what they are and be able to make a decision and just move forward and start getting results in their business, so I appreciate it, man, you know, love you guys, you guys are awesome, we're going to take this thing to the world and take it to the moon.

That's right, we're empowering people. That's right, brother. Well, I'm with you, man. So, for David Wood and David Sharp and Chris Darty, my name is Chris Rushlow, and we're signing off here, and we will see you at the next level, to the top, and on the next one, talk to you later guys, we'll see you later Chris, all right, all right, thanks a lot bro, we'll talk again the next one, all right, bye-bye.

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