Vick Strizheus Lays it down LIVE Monday Night

Practicality dictates that everyone's results will vary as we are all unique and different. Basically, it takes hard work to make a substantial income in this business, and some people will make no money at all. The earnings of an Empower Network affiliate will be 100% dependent upon their skills, work effort, commitment, leadership capabilities, and market conditions. Common sense would suggest that in most opportunities, one would find exceptional individuals performing well above average, while others perform under the average. Empower Network does not guarantee any level of income or your success.

To see our full income disclosure, please visit our website at www.empowernetwork.com forward slash income dot php. All right. Good evening, everybody. My name is Zyx Rizes. Hopefully you guys can hear me okay.

I had a little bit of a delay here of an issue actually trying to get on. I don't know. My voice must be jammed or something like that. But, hey, guys, we're going to be getting started here. If you want to grab yourself something to write with, get yourself seated comfortably, this is going to be an open conversation.

I just wanted to talk with you guys about some things that hopefully can make a bigger impact and bigger difference for you, your business, for your life, for your family, because everything is kind of connected, isn't it? I don't know about you, but for me, when I got started in this business, it was initially all about the business was just this one side of things, and then there was the family side. I noticed one thing in this particular business is that when you're starting to break through and kind of start having those successes, initially small successes, and then as they grow into bigger successes and bigger successes, this becomes a part of your life. It becomes a part of what you do. It becomes a part of your family's life, and it doesn't feel like it's a business or it doesn't feel like, well, you have to do something.

It just feels like, hey, I get to do this. So we're going to be talking about quite a few things today, guys. Again, we still have people coming in, so we'll be starting here momentarily. I want to just congratulate you guys. What I want to talk with you about today is some principles, some ideas.

Let's just talk about success. I think you're here because you want to talk about success, right? I've seen a couple of Facebook posts. If you came here from Facebook, you've probably seen on Facebook people saying, to learn how to get or how I'm able to generate a crazy amount of opt-ins and leads and things like that for the business. We're going to talk a little bit about that as well tonight.

Just to give you an example here of what's possible when you actually start applying some of the ideas and really take your business seriously, guys, and it doesn't matter if you are just getting started, if you have been in this game for a little bit, it's available to everybody. In my opinion, this is the best hands-down industry to be a part of. I got started in this industry in 2005. I did not know anything. Fast forward, just to give you an idea of what we're going to be covering here starting tonight and then into tomorrow.

You guys want to pay attention because I will be making some announcements tonight on this call. Over the next couple of weeks as we go on this journey of training, I'll be giving you guys a lot of training. I'll be giving you guys a lot of training. We're going to dive specifically into business building areas, into traffic generation areas. Just to give you a glimpse of what's possible, just today, just before I got on this call here, I pulled up my GetResponse account.

It shows I generated 15,063 opt-ins. Not visitors, opt-ins to my list. These people are highest quality opt-ins. When I send out an email, there's about 40 to sometimes 60 and up to 70% of those people open my email. How do you engineer that kind of stuff is what people want to know.

As you know, if you have been in this industry for any period of time, you know that really the lifeblood of this business is, well, it's actually twofold. Let me just kind of take it back a little bit, take a step back and cover this. I believe in this business, in order to succeed for anybody, it's a two-sided business. Number one, it's the business of you. That's the first part.

We always talk about that. The second part is the mechanics. What I want to talk to you about tonight and kind of share some ideas and strategies is about a little bit of both. Then as we progress into tomorrow, tomorrow night we're having a training, which I'm going to tell you about as well, that's detailed specifically about business. Then over the next couple weeks, there are going to be quite a bit of trainings coming up that you guys will see.

A lot of people are asking, Vic, how do you generate these kind of results? It's almost unbelievable. You know what? It might sound like it's unbelievable. When I got started in this industry, I did not know anything about how this business worked.

One thing that I had was I had a big, big, big dream, folks. I had a big dream when I started in this industry, and I was fired up like there was no tomorrow. I think when people start in this industry, they all kind of start on the same level with similar intentions. People want to make more money. People want to spend more time with their families and things like that, and all that stuff is great.

That was me. For those of you guys who don't know who I am, and maybe this is the first time you've dialed in to this call, I am one of the leaders here with Empower Network, and I'm just privileged and honored to be able to get on this call and talk to a lot of people, thousands of people here on this call tonight. It's a privilege and honor for me to be here, and also for Empower Network to trust me with talking to a thousand people on this call. But for you guys that don't know me, I got started with Empower Network, it was just over a year ago. Before that, I was building my business online for about eight years, roughly, since 2005, you do the math.

One thing I'll tell you about me, guys, is that math was never my favorite subject in school. I used calculators a lot, but I did not graduate college. I barely graduated high school, but I found that it doesn't matter what your education level is, it doesn't matter what you accomplished, how many degrees you got hanging on your wall, whatever you got, that thing doesn't matter anymore. It used to matter, but now, think about it. People always talk about job securities and things like that, and I just find it funny because not that long ago, we all witnessed this huge government shutdown.

I was just talking to some friends of mine, I'm like, dude, if there was one job that needs to be the most secured, or at least perceived to be the most secured job in the world, that would probably be a government job. And we all know what happens, or what can happen with those types of things. The best thing that you and I can do, my friend, is what? The best thing we can do is we can figure out how to create our own economy, how to write your own ticket in life, how to work for yourself, how to make your own money, how to not depend on anybody else, how to depend on yourself, and how to provide for yourself and for your family what they truly deserve, and not having to be in the mercy of somebody else, because there is no somebody else that's going to take care of you, my friend. That's just how it is nowadays.

And so the cool thing is you're on this call, you're invited here. I believe there is no accidents in life. I don't believe in coincidences in life. I believe that every single thing, good or bad, every single thing that happens to us or happens for us in our lives, in our business, everything, I personally believe that everything happens for the right reasons. And it might not seem like whatever happened to you today, maybe it's not the best thing that happened to you today, maybe it's something horrible happened to you today.

And it might seem like, oh my God, it's the end of the world. I'm getting evicted or I'm getting my car reported. I'm getting this, I'm getting that. I found that if you just start believing, you know what, whatever you're going through in life, there is going to be a day, there will come a day if you don't give up on your dream, there's going to be a day to where you're going to look back and you're going to say that was the best thing that happened to me at that particular time because that's what made me stronger. That is what made my difference go to a different level.

And that is what I needed to take myself to the next level. So let's talk about success. This is one of the topics that I don't, I can be here talking about this all day because success is something that is dominating. Whatever thought dominates your mind is what you're going to be experiencing in your life. If you guys are writing things down, you might want to write this down.

Whatever your dominant thought is, that's what you're going to experience. It tends to manifest in your life. So if your dominant, if your predominant thought is, hey, success, right? And you're just turning that over and over in your head. How do I become more successful?

And what is success? You know, success is not just, it's not always financial side of things. Success is not always just, you know, living in a mansion or whatever, how most people pursue success to be. Success is when you can do what, you know, when you do what you want to do, with whom you want to do it, when you want to do it, without asking anybody's permission to do it. That to me is success.

Success is when, you know, if you want to be a school teacher and you're just enjoying the heck out of it. If you're having a ball in school, you know, when you're teaching kids something, if that's, you know, if that's your thing, that's what you want to do and you just love it. You know, if you're a stay-at-home mom and you just love to cook, if you love to, like, keep your house clean and shiny and everything, you know, if you love to take care of your husband or your wife, if you just love to raise, you know, the most awesome kids in the world, if that's your thing, listen, you are successful. That's what success is all about. You know, if your thing is, hey, you want to build an online business, then listen, this business can absolutely give you an unbelievable lifestyle, just like we all know, right?

But here's the kicker though, you've got to love it. You know, a lot of people start this business and a lot of people, you know, they quote-unquote want to be successful, but they are approaching the business from a wrong perspective. They're approaching the business from a wrong side and they are trying to force success and you can never, you can never, my friend, you can never force success. It doesn't work like that. So, you know, when we talk about success, just kind of keep those definitions in mind.

It's, you know, you've got to love it, man. You know, and if you're here, if you love the potential that this business can give you, that this industry can give you, then you and I, we need to talk, right? And that's what I want to talk about tonight and we're going to bring everything into a, hopefully, you know, we're going to keep this call short. And so let's just kind of dive in. So what I want to do is, I've been hearing a lot of people talking about or trying to explain this marketing thing, right?

And, you know, how to succeed, quote, unquote, succeed, and obviously a lot of people refer to that to monetary things, which is fine. But a lot of people are trying to just either, you know, consciously or unconsciously or deliberately or not deliberately, they just, for some reason, they just overcomplicate success. They just overcomplicate. They just make this thing to be this mysterious thing that is just like, oh my God, I need to, you know, it's like there's a, you know, a mile-long combination of numbers and I need to know all the numbers in the right order, you know, in order to be successful. Here is, let's just kind of demystify this.

You know, one of the things that I wanted to do is, let's just demystify success and then we'll get into the marketing strategies and then I'll have some very cool announcements for you guys as well. So here is the thing, okay? So when I look back on my career, you know, when I was getting started, not knowing, not having any knowledge about this industry, not, you know, not knowing anybody, did not have any connections, no list whatsoever, had no idea what marketing meant. All I wanted to do was, I wanted to provide my family the best I could. It was 2005.

And so, fast forward, you know, we were just in Miami at the Empower Network event, which was awesome, by the way. I met so many of you guys. It was fun hanging out with you all. And, you know, I took a look at that and I, you know, I was holding the check and one thing that was going through my mind was, you know, for, you know, strangely enough, money is not really what people are after. You know, it's great and it relieves a lot of pressure in a lot of areas.

And that, to me, was more exciting than anything else, right? So, when I was looking at that, you know, I thought, why is it that so many people try to overcomplicate this thing called success? And really, why is it that some people just succeed while others, while others, they're just, you know, seems like they're just grinding, they're trying to force success and it doesn't work for them. So, there's a couple things that I'd like to share with you. And again, if it helps you, great.

I hope it helps you guys, okay? Because I'm here not to waste your time. I don't want to waste your time. I certainly don't want to waste my time. Let's get to the bottom of this and talk about this.

You know, it all starts, like I said, it all starts with you having, you know, just a huge dream, for lack of a better word. You know, why do you want to do this? Or what do you want to do? It all starts with a dream, okay? So, funny thing that, you know, I say this is, you know, I just had a flashback to when I was a kid.

You know, I think I was like seven or eight years old. And ever since I can remember, you know, we came from, I came from Ukraine, back in 1996, I believe. And ever since I was like seven or eight years old, up until we moved over to the States, and I believe, I don't remember exactly how old I was, but I think I was like 12 or 13 years old at that time. I just turned 30 now. So, my dream, you know, as a kid was, funny enough, was to be an interpreter.

You know, I wanted to, you know, we had some folks from overseas, you know, from Finland and the U.S. visiting us and just like church projects and things like that. And I'm like, I was looking at those interpreters, and I'm like, man, one day I want to be that interpreter. One day I want to interpret like that, like that guy, like that gal, you know? And I just got, I got so clear on my dream as a kid that, you know, some kids wanted to be like astronauts and pilots and things like that.

You know, my dream was I wanted to be an interpreter. Man, I wanted to translate people, you know, to interpret languages. So, and, you know, we moved over to the States and about six months into it, sure enough, I found myself translating, you know, first for the family members and then, you know, and then people started hiring me to translate for them. And all of a sudden, I realized that, hey, listen, I'm living my dream. You know, as a kid, I always wanted to be an interpreter and I'm living my dream.

Here I am, you know, translating. And it was fun, you know, that was fun because that's something I wanted to do. When I was, when I was, when I got married when I was 20 years old, one of the things that was dominating my, just my mind all the time is, man, I was looking at, you know, everybody around us and, you know, you know, if you're here, if you, you know, if there was one person on here and you're thinking that, no, people who are succeeding, you know, they must have, you know, they came from this ultra successful family and, you know, everything was roses for them and they never had to struggle, whatever. That might be the case for maybe some people. Certainly wasn't the case for me.

You know, our family was very mediocre. We, you know, very humble lifestyle. And when I was looking at that, you know, got married and here I am, you know, have my wife, I'm like, man, I don't want my wife to work. I don't want somebody else to raise our kids. I don't want to be told what to do, when to do it, when to take a vacation.

I just, you know, I just hated it, man. I just hated working for somebody else. You know, that was not my thing and I did not know how I'm going to do it. But you know what? I had a dream, my friend.

If you can get one thing from this, part of my ramble here, my rant is get yourself a dream and make it big, make it vivid, make it clear, make it colorful. What is it going to do for you? What do you don't want? Be very specific on exactly what it is that you would like your life to look like. One thing that I found with me and with other people is that people who dream big dreams, they typically, generally, if they don't quit, they ultimately, sooner or later, they reach their dreams.

So dream big. Something also very, very important that I want to point out to you guys, something that certainly helped me personally. I promise you we're going to get into some of the marketing stuff and some of the nitty-gritty and business stuff. Why is it that sometimes you tell people exactly where to put their ad and they just find a way to fail? Why is it that sometimes you can market for somebody, you can run their ad, and somehow they find a way to screw it up and fail?

Blows my mind. I don't know. Blows my mind. But it's just how it is. And you know what I think?

I think it's people who tune themselves, like when you tune in a radio, right? When you tune in a radio and there are different radio stations, it's what station you want to listen to. You want to listen to a station where all they do is they just moan and groan and complain about everything, how the world is terrible and how everybody's going to die in 2014 and how, you know, that's what they said when the millennium was coming up, right? And you're going to listen to that crap, the garbage all day long? Guess what your predominant thought is going to be?

It's going to be scared. It scares you, right? It's going to be lack. It's going to be uncertainty. It's going to be the world is coming to an end.

And you know, of course the world is going to come to an end one day, but heck, you're living today. You've got today. Make today the best day you can possibly make it. So what are you tuning into? What are you tuning into?

So it's very, very important to keep that in mind because if your predominant thought is that what they tell you on the radio or TV or in other circles, and here you are trying to build your online business, my friend, I've got news for you, ain't going to work, okay? Might as well just forget it. And one thing, guys, that I'm going to tell you right now, you know, listen, if I, when I start talking about success stuff, when I start talking about this business type stuff, I get passionate, all right? Because this is the kind of stuff that, you know, it turned our life around completely, but the cool thing is it's available to anybody who's willing to listen and who's willing to apply some of these principles. So you've got to, it's very important to see your dream, okay?

So when you talk about your dream, do you see your dream? Here's a question for you. What does it look like? Give you an example. Okay, when I was broke, when I did not know what I was going to do or what I will do, all I knew is somehow, somewhere I'm going to find a way to succeed.

You know, I would just put myself in a car and I would drive across the city, and I would just drive up on these hills and, you know, and go in circles just up and down the streets of the richest neighborhoods in our city, and I would just look at those houses, just being in that environment, right? I wanted to see what my dream would look like. I wanted to, you know, I was just, I wanted to put myself in that environment as much as possible. It just felt good, you know? It just felt good because I knew deep down that one day that would be me living there, okay?

What does your dream look like, my friend? Do you know what it looks like? You know, when you see your dream constantly in front of you, something happens to you as a marketer, okay? Something happens to where all of a sudden, your predominant thought becomes success. Your predominant thought becomes your vision, okay?

And you get, the more you think about it, the more you put yourself into that environment, the clearer it becomes. And it's like, I'm not here to preach law of attraction, you know, I don't know the science behind it, nor do I care. All I know is whatever you focus on typically tends to manifest itself, okay? So, it's important to see your dream, okay? It's also important to talk about your dream, okay?

To talk about, first of all, who do you talk to? Well, we all talk to ourselves, right? Weird, yeah, I know. We all talk to ourselves. We talk to other people.

It's important to talk about your dream, all right? It's also important to protect your dream. A lot of people will try to steal your dream from you. As soon as you start talking about your dream, a lot of them will try to take it away from you. It's important.

It's your responsibility. If you want to succeed, it's your responsibility to protect your dream. Never let anybody have it, okay? Your dream is your dream. They can get their own dream.

It's important to have your dream, my friend, okay? Let me tell you why this stuff is important. And guys, I'm going to, you know, if I mention income, which I just did, I'm going to give you a big, bold income disclaimer. We're all adults here, I hope. I assume we're all adults here.

We all understand that business is business, right? I can show you how I do my business. That's exactly what I'm going to do starting tomorrow or the next couple of weeks, okay? Again, we want to make sure you stay on because I've got some really cool answers. Ultimately, it's going to be up to you to implement these ideas and strategies for you, you know?

And so, my results, thankfully, my results are my results, okay? I hope that you take these strategies and you explode them, right? You blow me, you know, you blow past me and, you know, and just double my results. It's all possible. But at the same time, I cannot guarantee anything, okay?

So, if I say an income, you know, numbers, whatever, just kind of keep in mind that these results are not typical because we do things that typical people are not willing to do. Simple as that. When you look at your family, when you look at yourself, when you look at your loved ones, your friends, whatever drives you in life, when you look at that, and then you look at your dream, and then you say it's worth it. It's worth it for you to go after it because those people are dependent on you. And you don't even know how many people's lives you can change by just, first of all, changing your life and having that dream big enough for yourself.

Because if I would quit, you know, when I was getting started, man, it was a bumpy road, for sure. It was a very bumpy road. And at one point in life, at a time, we did not have a $1.19 to my name to buy bread for our family. Some of you guys know that story. But I did not give up.

And because I did not give up, you know, now I'm able to reap the rewards of seeing people who followed what we teach. And now they're in a position of kind of spreading this ripple kind of spread. And I have not seen, guys, I've been around in this industry for about eight years, like I said. I have seen a lot of companies. I have seen a lot of programs, a lot of opportunities.

I personally have not seen anything as genuine and as authentic and quite frankly as awesome as Empower Network. So, you know, I just wanted to take this opportunity to give a big shout out to the founders of this company, Dave and Dave, you know, the CEO of the company who just came on board, Jonathan Croston, awesome guy. And what's really, really awesome is that as great as what they've got going on here, this is just the beginning. And that's very, very motivating for me. But okay, so you never know what your dream can, you know, what if your dream can make a big difference in somebody's life?

You never know that until you actually stick to it, right? Second thing, so number one, you've got to have everything starts with a dream. Second thing, folks, is your game plan, okay? Very important. Let me just kind of briefly talk about this because I don't hear a lot of marketers talk about this.

A lot of marketers, especially nowadays, they're trying to give you the Band-Aid solution. You know, a lot of marketers, unfortunately, they're giving people the Band-Aid instead of treating and really, you know, it's like that. You know, my family and I went on a cruise a few years ago and, you know, I think we were in like St. Martin or something like that and we got off the ship and there was a bunch of people kind of surrounded us and they're like, hey, you want to buy this Rolex? You want to buy this Rolex?

20 bucks, 20 bucks. You want to buy Rolex for 20 bucks? And you look at that and you know it's fake, obviously, right? But unfortunately, a lot of marketers, they're trying to sell you that Rolex for $20, those push-button solutions, those get-rich-quick, you know, solutions that obviously never work, never will work, and they're trying to get your 20 bucks and they're happy with it, with your 20 bucks, but you've got something that's fake. Does that make sense?

You don't have something that's authentic. What you need is you need to hear the authentic stuff. You need to hear the stuff that's going to make you, that's going to make you successful. Listen, here's proof in the pudding for you, okay? There is a, you know, there is a guy that used to be alive by the name of Napoleon Hill, right?

So, Napoleon Hill, his book, one of his books anyways, is Think and Grow Rich, okay? Another one of his books is called, and I was just, actually, I just have it on my desk here, it's called The Law of Success, and I actually have this original 1925 edition. I purchased it, it was an infomercial on TV and I think I paid like 300 bucks for this book, but I wanted to get the original version of that book. It's called The Law of Success. If you ever can find it, I suggest you get it.

It's like 500 pages long and it's very, very big, but his work, I want you to hear me out here, okay? His work created more millionaires and more billionaires than anything else in this world. Any truly successful entrepreneur, business owner, any billionaire you talk to, they will, if you tell them Napoleon Hill or Think and Grow Rich, they will know who you're talking about, okay? I promise you. You can actually do a test.

Test me on that, okay? So, his stuff is all about how to succeed, right? So, I'm reading this book here, it's called Law of Success, and here's what I'm reading, okay? So, if his book is supposed to teach people how to make money because a lot of them become millionaires and multimillionaires and billionaires, right? I mean, it's supposed to show you the tactics.

It's supposed to show you like, here's how to succeed. Here's how to make money. Here's where to invest. Here's the kind of investments to pick. Here's what to avoid.

Here's how to, right? Here's what I'm reading. His lesson one, definite purpose, right? Definite purpose. He's talking about having a definite purpose.

Lesson two, he's talking about self-confidence. Lesson three, he's talking about initiative and leadership. Lesson four, imagination. Now, hear me out. Lesson five, action.

Lesson six, enthusiasm. Lesson seven, self-control. Lesson eight, habit of performing more service than paid for, all right? Lesson nine, check this out, attractive personality. Personality to making money?

-huh. Lesson ten, check it out, check it out, accurate thought, right? Lesson eleven, concentration. Lesson twelve, tolerance. Lesson thirteen, he's talking about how, about failure and why people fail, right?

How to not, you know, little failures get, you know, get the best of you. Lesson fourteen, cooperation. Lesson fifteen, the golden rule. Now, did you hear any lessons teaching the how to? No.

You're not going to find it. Okay? Here's why. Here's why. And remember, his work created more millionaires and billionaires than anything else, probably, you know, any other ten, ten, you know, projects put together, okay?

Why is he, why is that? Because, my friend, success is all within, okay? You become successful from within. You become successful, this is where, you know, when I was talking about that fake Rolex and the real Rolex, right? The real thing costs money.

The real thing, people need to work for, people need to, people need to earn money and buy the real thing, right? $15,000, $20,000, $40,000, whatever. Justin Verangia, he was just in Miami and he took number two spot in the contest and he got, you know, like a $40,000 Rolex, $38,000 Rolex that he won, right? So, by the way, congrats to Justin, brother, awesome. But, but, but listen, if you want your business to be authentic, my friend, people in this industry, they need authenticity, man.

People are sick and tired of band-aids and if you can be out there, if you can be a voice in this industry, if you can decide that, you know what, I'm going to be a voice in this industry of authenticity, right? I'm not going to tell people what they want to hear, I'm not going to be giving out these band-aids, I'm going to give people the real thing, you will have more money coming to you than what you know what to do with, promise you that, okay? Promise you that. So, let's move on. Now, I forgot what I was talking about.

Okay, so what we're talking about, I think we're talking about the game plan, right? So, the game plan for your business is this, there's a lot of different, you know, there's a lot of different avenues that we can go about to get what we want in life, right? So, there's, you know, I mean, shoot, man, you can sell houses, you can sell cars, you can, you know, you can build airplanes, you can fly airplanes, you can, or you can be an internet marketer, right? So, you decide what game you're going to play, okay? I decided that I want to play this game called internet marketing, network marketing, this kind of game, okay?

Now, obviously, if you're here, you probably, you know, in the same boat, you know, you want to play this game, okay? So, that's cool. Number two, in the same game plan category, you've got to decide what team you're going to play on. My friend, very, very important, here's what I see a lot of times happening, okay? I see a lot of people, they get in the game, but they're jumping from one team to another, to another, to another, to another.

How do you think the real, like, you know, I mean, there was a big game yesterday, right? What if those players were just jumping from one team to another, never sticking around long enough, never be loyal to one team long enough for them to start seeing the synergy in the team coming together, right? For them to start kind of feeling the players and kind of getting their game together. What if, what happens in your business when you just jump from one thing to another, to another, to another, and then there's always this new thing that's coming out and, you know, and you're not, you know, you don't know where you are, right? You're everywhere.

You kind of just decide what team you're going to play on. And, you know, my team in this industry, I decided that my team is going to be Empower Network. Why? Let me tell you why. I looked at a lot of companies.

I could be with any company out there, right? I could build my business around anything. I was looking for something authentic. I was not looking for that fake Rolex. I was looking for something authentic to where the company owners would be authentic.

I was looking for the product. And I was looking for the obviously the compensation plan because if you're going to build a team around a company, you want to make sure that the comp plan is good, right? You want to make sure the product is good. But for me, the most important thing was I wanted to make sure that the head of the company was screwed on right. Make sense?

Because the comp plan can be changed, product can be modified or created, you know, a new one created. But if the leadership of the company is messed up, the whole thing is going to be messed up. Okay? So, for me, when I talked to the owners of Empower Network, Dave Wood, Dave Sharp, I just felt that these guys are authentic because they were not talking about, well, how much money they're going to make and how big the company is going to be. They were talking about, hey, how can we help the little guy?

How can we help the, you know, the mother of three make it, right? How can we make the father who's trying to, you know, to support his family, how can we help them make it? And they understood, see, this is what really, really resonated with me, my friend. And if you were invited here by somebody, if you got here, if this is your first time, if somebody invited you, listen, get back to the person. I'm just, you don't have to do a thing I'm telling you, okay?

If you don't want to, it's going to be totally your decision. Whatever you want to do is going to be totally up to you. But if I were you, I would genuinely get back to the person and just say thank you, you know? Whatever you decide to do, whether you decide to get in with us and run with us, walk arms with us or not, get back to the person who got you on this call and just say thank you because at least you know the truth, you know? And what really resonated with me was that, you know, this company was authentic and it shows, you know, it shows in their results.

And I haven't seen anybody, any other company produce as many success stories for the size that this company is than Apollo Networks. So, again, this is my team. This is the team I want to play on, okay? And I am not, you know, I'm not looking to, you know, to scatter my attention into anything else. I don't need to, you know?

Here's how to tell if the team that you're playing on is, you know, is a good team or not, okay? You take a look around, okay? You take a look around. Let me tell you. If you see people making it, you know, If you see people living their dream, not talking about their dream, but actually living their dream.

If you see people quitting their jobs, if you see people transforming, if you see families getting together, my friend, that to me is the right kind of team. And that to me is a sign that, hey, this thing is for real. Now it's gonna be a question of what are you gonna do about it, okay? So when I look at anything in life and business, I just look at if somebody can do what I wanna do, if somebody did what I wanna do, okay? I look at A, how quickly can I get there?

In other words, well, this is gonna be determined by, in this industry, network marketing industry, it's actually very easy to tell. If somebody is successful, take a look at what product they're selling, take a look at what the compensation plan is. So what I'm looking at is how many products would I need to sell on average, taking into consideration the compensation plan, right? In order for me to hit my goal. And if I see somebody else is making it, I'm gonna say, well, listen, if they can do it, I can crush it.

My friend, here's what I want you to think about. And I don't care if you just getting started today. I don't care if you think that you don't know anything yet. I don't care if you have never ever succeeded in this industry yet. I want you to take a look at me.

I want you to take a look at Tony Rush, Tracy Walker, Justin Varengia, Lauren Stem. I want you to take a look at Raskin, Aaron Raskin. I want you to take a look at Chuck Marshall and all these guys who are succeeding with Empower. I want you to take a look at the Paulos Barroso. I want you to take a look at those people.

I want you to take a look at your sponsor, to the person who invited you here. And I want you to look at yourself in the mirror. I want you to look into your eyes and say, if they can do it, I'm gonna crush it. And I want you to start believing in yourself, my friend, because until you start believing in yourself, it's gonna be pretty difficult for you to succeed. If it's available to somebody else, it's available to you.

The question is, what are you going to do about it? And so what we're gonna do, again, is we're gonna help you, okay? We're gonna help you with the process and actually take you behind the curtain, guys. Again, I'll tell you what we're gonna do here together at the end of this call, okay? But listen, I just want you to know that if it's available to somebody else, people are essentially the same.

I don't care what country you live. I don't care what skin color you are. I don't care what your education, heck, forget education. Education has nothing to do with how successful you got. It really has nothing to do.

There are a lot of well-educated people. There's a lot of PhDs who are broke, who cannot pay their bills. There's a lot of people who are just, man, just you look at them and you're like, man, how in the world are you making your money? There's a lot of dumb people. Forgive me for, yeah, I'm just, man, I'm just being for real here.

There's a lot of people who are not very smart, okay? Folks, seriously, there's a lot of people who are not very smart. They are crushing it. I'm one of them, heck. English is my second language.

No college education, not a single diploma except like a high school diploma, you know? And listen, if I can provide the kind of lifestyle for my family, you know, that we're just, it's just unbelievable, you know? Guys, it's available to you. So please, just start believing in yourself and start looking at people who are succeeding and start channeling your attention into the direction that you want your life to go. Stop listening to the crap that's around you.

Stop allowing people to steal your dreams and start listening and feeding and nurturing yourself and your vision and your dream because that's how you become successful. I want you to start looking at the car that you want, your dream car. I want you to start looking at the house you want. I want you to start looking at the jewelry, if you know, that's your thing. I want you to start looking at those vacations.

I want you to start looking. I want you to start surfing the net and I want you to start dreaming. I want you to start putting your vision board in your room so that you can see what your dream is gonna look like because that is where it starts, okay? And so again, when, and you know, if you can, yeah, get this book, you know, The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill and read it, right? Read that book.

It's gonna open your mind. It's gonna start shifting your paradigm. It's gonna start shifting the way you think and it's gonna start, you know, when your vision stretches, when the possibility stretches for you of what's possible, it will never, you will never go back. You will never be satisfied with what you got today. You will never be satisfied, you know, with working for somebody else.

That's your thing and if you're cool with working for somebody else, great, more power to you. But listen, I am not gonna allow anybody to control my family's destination. I'm gonna be the one who's gonna decide, you know, what I'm gonna do and how I'm gonna do it. And ultimately, it's gonna be up to me to make it happen. You know, don't let, don't give, don't put your success in the hands of your sponsor.

Don't put success in the hands of somebody else. Success belongs in your hands and you are responsible for your own success, my friend. Okay, cool, so team is obviously important. Now, speak victory into existence. Man, oh man, this is one saying that I want just, again, might be a good idea to write this down, all right?

Doesn't matter what is going on, okay? Start speaking victory, start speaking, you know, faith, build your business on faith. I just knew that I'm going to make it somehow, something's gonna come across and I'm gonna make it, okay? Why? Because my dream was big enough, okay?

My dream was big enough. What's your definite purpose, okay? Again, Napoleon Hill talks about that stuff. Again, he doesn't talk about the how-to, the how-to will come, I don't care. I want you to forget about the how-to, okay?

The how-to will come. It's gonna be like, you know, man, a lot of times, you know, I'll just be like, did I get this idea or this thought in my head now and it's like, man, this is like a million dollar idea right there, boom, you know? All it is just a matter of implementing it. Boom, there's another million dollar idea. I mean, there's plenty, folks, there's plenty of ideas floating around but unless your mind is open to them, unless you have that, unless you're tuned in to the success station, is that make sense?

Unless you deliberately tune yourself into the station of success, you're just gonna, you're subconscious, you won't even notice. Your subconscious is gonna block all those million dollar ideas that's just all around you every single day, every moment. It's all around you, okay? You gotta tune in to the right station to be able to pick up on those ideas, okay? And there's some strategies that you can implement obviously.

Again, highly recommend you get Law of Success and read that book, okay, good stuff. All right, so that's thing number two is a game plan, right? Thing number three, thing number three is, and I mentioned this a little bit in Miami for those of you guys who were in Miami, is just create your personal vision for your life. Again, we talked about this, I'm not gonna touch or take too much time on this, but you need to have your personal vision, not somebody else's vision for you, but you need to have your own vision for your life. People don't buy into your goals, and goals are important, you need to have those, but those are just a milestone.

Those are milestones in a journey of your ultimate destination, which never, I mean, you never really arrive. It's always, you're either growing, you're improving, or you're dying. I mean, it's just one or the other, there is no arrival. It's not like, okay, I'm gonna arrive here, I'm gonna make a million dollars a year, and that's it, period, I'm just gonna sit there, and everything's gonna be great, and everything. No, man, there is, the more money you make, the more, there's gonna be different kinds of problems you're gonna be facing.

I mean, the problems never go away, my friend. When I was broke, I had one set of problems, figuring out how to not be broke. When you have money, there's other types of problems that you need to deal with, so there's a constant, never-ending thing with dealing with problems, but it doesn't matter. T. Harv Eker, I think, said this.

He said, if you have a big problem in life, all that means is that you are a small person, and not physically small, but mentally small, okay? So that's why reading, that's why associating with other successful people, that's why listening to other successful people, that's why tuning in to these calls weekly is so critically important, okay? So that you develop that mental toughness so that any problem that arises, doesn't matter how big it is, doesn't matter what's going on, you know what, it just rolls off of you, and you look at the problem from a 30,000 feet up above. You know, you're not in that problem, you look at the problem from above, and then you see a way of how to solve it, right? So just, you know, why should people join you?

You know, if you're promoting something, just really think about it. Have you ever asked yourself, why would somebody join you instead of somebody else? I mean, why? Is there, you know, do you provide something? You know, and here's the best solution to that.

Decide that you will be the source, okay? The source of number one, of inspiration, of good message, of positive message. People don't care about people who are talking about, you know, the kind of garbage that's going on in the world. That's what everybody else is doing. If you wanna be like the 98%er, you can join them, okay?

People will be more attracted to you, people will be naturally and just effortlessly attracted to you when you start speaking positivity in your business and in your life, when you start bringing, you know, positive and just positive energy and be that source of lightness in this business, in this industry. People will be surrounded, people will surround you, people will wanna be a part of what you got going on because there is just, there is a deficit of that kind of stuff right now. There is abundance of garbage and everybody is in that. If you can be the source, how do you become the source? Well, number one is, I mean, there are different ways.

I mean, obviously, growing yourself every single day, you know, really, really for at least 15, 20 minutes a day, you know, guys, just please, you know, for your sake. You know, you're not doing it for somebody else, you do it for yourself, you know, and the reason you do it, the reason I read is just because I want new information to go into my head. You know, I want new stuff, I want new inspiration. What am I reading? I'm reading stuff that just, quite honestly, is gonna inspire me, that's gonna stretch my vision.

I read stuff that's talking about the potential, that's talking about, like, you know, listen, we have, I mean, look around you. Seriously, look around you. Maybe you're in a room, maybe you're in a car, maybe you're at work, maybe you are, you know, in front of a TV, maybe you're multitasking, maybe you're on a computer. Take a look at your computer, right? Whatever is around you, the chair that you're sitting on, the house that you're in, the computer that you're looking at you know, that was a vision, that was an idea in somebody's head at one point or another.

The desk, the books, all that stuff. You know, the cars, everything. That was an idea in somebody's head and people are all essentially are the same. You know, somebody wanted to, you know, somebody was looking at this or thinking about this thing and they thought, well, maybe I'll just put this flat thing over here like this and I put four legs on it and we'll just call it a table and boom, now we got tables. You know, what's your idea?

I want you to think about it. I want you to think about it. I want you to start picturing it, okay? I want you to read about it. I want you to read other stuff that's not even marketing related that's gonna open your brains to good ideas, okay?

I know I listen to a lot of very successful people from other industries outside of network marketing. Why? Because when I put that information in, I have better ideas that I'm able to come up with in my industry, okay? So when you do that, naturally, if you just read for 30 minutes a day and just focus on what you're reading, okay? Think about what you're reading and just make notes, okay?

Take one idea per day. If you can take one idea per day, write it down. Maybe create yourself a notepad, right? A little, you know, black book or whatever, black book of ideas, white book of ideas, and just start writing your ideas, okay? One idea per day and start sharing those ideas with people who are following you on Facebook, with people who are on your list, and just kind of freely just start sharing.

You know, people who make it in this life, people who make it in this world are people who give more than they ask for in money, all right? Start giving your best stuff that you've got. Trust me. And so what's gonna do for you is, number one, it's gonna position you as a source, okay? People will start looking at you as a source of new information, of positive information, of this stream of positivity that they can come and get fed at, okay?

Second thing that's gonna do for you is it's going to force you to grow because, hey, what you learned today, you gave it away. Guess what? Tomorrow, you need to learn something new. You gotta be, you know, you gotta learn something new tomorrow in order to be able to pass it on, all right? When you do that, and just put this to the test, I'm telling you, you don't have to do it, but if you do it, it will make a big, big, big difference for you.

You know, I actually had some people come up to me in Miami at the event, and they said, Vic, my goodness, man, what you shared with me and just this little idea that I'm sharing with you right now, some people actually applied it. And they came back to me, they're like, man, my opt-in or my, not opt-in, but my open rate for my emails, dude, it went from like 2% to like 30%. And I cannot believe it. All I did was just start sharing good, positive ideas with no pitches to my email list, okay? Try it.

Promise you it's gonna work. But here's the kicker. You gotta do it genuinely, okay? Don't do it and then just in the back of your mind, think, okay, I'm gonna get you later, all right? It's not gonna work.

You gotta be positive. This is what we're talking about, my friend. We're talking about being genuine. We're talking about being authentic, not being fake, not being manipulative, not being phony. And people can smell a phony a mile away, man.

You know, if your business is just, you know, if you're being phony and just trying to do stuff today, just to eat for today and try to make 50 bucks today, you might do that, but then you're not gonna have a business three years from now. You're not gonna have a business. Nobody will wanna listen to you because people can smell a phony a mile away, you know? And, but people just crave authenticity, man. People crave, you know, you being the real you, you know?

And here's something else. When you tell people what they want to hear, they will not listen to you because of what everybody else is doing. When you tell people what they need to hear, see, kind of like what I'm telling you right now. You know, I, you know, there's probably two people here on this call who will say, who will say, well, Dick, you know, whatever, man. And that's okay, you know?

I'm not, I'm not trying to please everybody because I know not everybody's gonna make it, but I want people who are going to make it, who are destined to make it. And if you listen to my voice tonight, you are destined to make it, okay? I want you to hear what you need to hear and stuff that's gonna make a difference in your life, my friend. Okay, so let's move on. See, that's the thing with me is, man, I get, I get, I get passionate about this kind of stuff and then I don't want to jump, jump around too much, but I think we're talking about being the source, right?

So, you know, just be the source of, source of new positive information in your business. People don't care about, really, you know, people don't really care about how much you know until they care, really, until they know how much you care. You know, really, I mean, it's just, it's just simple as that. When people see you as somebody who really genuinely cares about their success, you know, if you're building a team, whether it's within Power Network or not, you know, if you're not with us, why not? You know, join, join forces.

I mean, this is, this is fun. And, you know, but if you're building, if you're building a network marketing business, if you're on this call, when people get your true intention, and I mean, transparent, you know, they will know how much you care. Growing this business and duplicating your success and your team will be so much easier because people will see you and they'll follow you. You know, a lot of people, a lot of these, these so-called gurus, you know, they teach one thing and they do a different thing. What we do is, you know, we do what we teach.

You know, we, when we say, read, listen, we're reading. You know, when we say listen to audios, we listen to audios, inner circle. You know, when I say, hey, study your business, you know, become the student of the business, which is, you know, thing number four, I believe, that we're on right now, right, is learn everything you can about the business you're in. If you're in a Power Network, learn about this business. If you're in this industry, learn about this business.

And what is it that you need to learn about? What is the thing that you need to learn about? Again, I'm just trying to demystify thing called success for you, my friend. And as you can see, it's not so much the actual tactics and how to, kid you not, it's less than 10%. It's actually less than 10%.

90% is all the stuff that's above. 90% is the stuff that Napoleon Hill talks about in his book, okay? 15 chapters and not one chapter talks about how to. Why? Because the how to is not as important as the other stuff, okay?

Because when the other stuff is in line, you know what? The how to will come. You know what? You will get an email and you will, you know, you would not normally open that email, but something's going to tell you, hey, just open this email. You will open that email and that email is going to lead you to a link.

And maybe that link is going to lead you somewhere else. And then, and then that something else is going to lead you to you finding your mentor or somebody else is going to inspire you. And then all of a sudden it just turns on this, you know, this, this, this abundance for you in your life. And you know what? The reason that you got to this point is because you were receptive to an idea.

You see, you were in tuned with a success. You know, you, you were in your, in your, you know, your predominant thought was success, right? That's what you were thinking about. And so somehow that made you to open that email, whatever that may be, you know, it might be something else. There might be, you know, coincidences that some people might call it, right?

But I don't call them coincidences. I say, hey, you know, when, when, when you do certain things in a certain way, kind of like what I'm telling you now, right? And you do them and then you don't, you don't, you don't see a giant, you know, big shift tomorrow, but you do them every day. You do them every day. You are consistent.

You know, you're consistent. Listen, the Hall of Famer, okay? The Hall of Famer in, you know, baseball or basketball, whatever, right? The, the, the superstars, you know, the people that everybody looks at as idols, whatever, right? I, I, I read an article a while back.

The, I forgot the guy's name, but he was like a superstar, you know, baseball. And those people strike out something like, I don't know, don't quote me on the exact number here, but, you know, over 70% of the time they strike, I mean, they fail over 70% of the time, but because they're consistent, because they keep coming back, because they're still in the game, because you know what, their, whatever their, their last shot was, whether good or bad, and 70% of it is bad, you know what? They forget about it and they move on. Different day, tomorrow is going to be a different day. You know what?

Tomorrow, you're going to start fresh from a fresh page. Whatever happened today is gone. Its history will never be repeated again, but tomorrow you've got a fresh start. When you have that, when you have that mindset, you know what? I'm just going to keep coming back.

I'm going to keep looking in the direction I want to go. I'm going to keep dreaming. I'm going to keep having my dreams in front of me. I'm going to keep studying about this business. I'm going to keep learning.

I'm going to keep looking at the people who are making it. I'm going to keep dialing in. I'm going to keep, you know, going through the products, not only selling a product to make a buck, but you know what? I'm going to become a product of the product. I'm going to go through the 15K formula.

I'm going to go through the master score. I'm going to go through the products that's available. Listen, when you do that in a positive mental attitude, knowing that your dream is going to manifest sooner or later. In fact, watching that movie, I think somebody, Chris Reckard, somebody, I don't remember exactly who that was, but they gave this example and I liked it. You know, they said, hey, if you're watching a movie, right, and you already know the outcome of the movie, you know, and if your character is struggling in the middle of the movie, you know, you're not going to go, oh my God, it's the end of the world, because you know that ultimately there's going to be a good ending, right?

Kind of like with your life, when you know, and let me promise you something, my friend, people don't fail. People only quit. Okay? I'll say it again. People don't fail.

I don't believe in failure. When I was at the bottom financially, when I did not know what I'm going to do tomorrow, and I don't know if you can picture that. I don't know if you can imagine what it's like, where you literally, you literally don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. You literally, you have no money in your bank account, you have no credit cards, and you don't have cash, and you literally have no idea how you're going to feed your family tomorrow. None.

But you know what? You just, you just, you just know that, you know what, something's going to happen. And in my case, you know, my mom came to us and she, you know, she brought us like $50, and it was a gift for one of our son's birthday gift, I believe, because she didn't know what to get us. And she did not know we were struggling. We did not talk about our struggles.

We did not talk about what we were going through. We did not, you know, some people, they have a, they have a, you know, they run a campaign and it bombs, you know, some people spend 50 bucks on the campaign and it doesn't work out the way they, you know, hoped it would. And they start spreading all this, you know, negative energy all over Facebook, all over everywhere. You know, they're in these groups and they're talking about, well, I didn't make any money yet. And man, that's, that's, that's what you get, you know, you'll get more of that.

You know, when you're struggling, don't talk about your struggles until you have overcome them. Never talk about your struggles when you're going through them. Talk about your vision. Talk about where you want to go. Look at that.

And then when you have gone to the other side, and then you're not struggling anymore, then your struggles become your launching pad for your even greater success. Does that make sense? You see, I can talk about my struggles now that I used to have because I am, I'm not going through that right now. And it's in the past. You never forget where you came from, but you know what, my, whatever happened to me then, now it gives me this, this authentic, you know, you know, mental authority, really, when dealing with people.

And this is something else you need to really master is dealing with people, okay? Because every single dollar is going to come to you from people, okay? But when you deal with people, when you ask somebody or when you, you know, when you write an email and telling somebody to buy something, for example, right, when you are writing an email, most people write an email from a mindset of, you know, well, I don't know how anybody would, you know, I certainly couldn't afford to do that. You know, or they're desperate, you know, they're writing their emails, and then they're wondering why they're not successful and nobody's buying from them. Listen, when I write an email, okay, when I, when I tell people to do something, I am, I'm being very authentic, and I have this, this, this mental authority, right, to tell people to, you know, to purchase whatever I'm telling them to purchase, for example, because I am not buying any excuses.

Okay? I know what it's like to struggle. I have gone through that, just like maybe some of you are going through right now. Maybe your situation is just bottom of the bottom. My friend, don't give up.

Please don't give up. Okay? You can go through this. You can, you can, you can get on the top. You can, there is, there is, there will be a day, and it's coming very soon, to where your struggle is going to be your greatest asset.

Okay? And then you're going to use this situation to help thousands of more people. Okay? Because you know what it's like to be on the bottom. And if I did not know what it's like to be on the bottom, I would never, never talk to you about what I'm, what I can talk to you about today, because I didn't live it, and I wouldn't be authentic if I, even if I talked about it.

There's a lot of people, you know, there's a lot of kids of the rich folks who never had to, to struggle with anything, right? And we know, I mean, where most of them end up. Okay? But when we struggle, that's when we get stronger. And my friend, we're here to support you.

You know, one of the things that I like very, very much about Empower Network is that it's a community of people, unlike any, any else I've really seen, I have seen out there, that is dedicated to helping people not only, you know, become financially free, not only, you know, take care of their monetary things, but really to transform people from inside out, because really, that's what success is. It's inside of you. Everything you've got is within you. Okay? Maybe you just need to hear one idea, maybe a certain way, maybe you need to hear about one thing, maybe, you know, from 10 different people until something clicks, and until you start making, you know, taking things seriously, and actually acting on the idea.

I don't know what it is for you, but all I know is that it's all within you. Okay? So, learn about this business. So, what do you learn about? You learn about two things.

You learn about marketing. Okay? Notice, I didn't say learn about your business in the very beginning, because this stuff is, as important as this is, it's not the most important thing. Okay? But it's a piece, it's a piece in the equation, it's a piece in the puzzle.

A very small piece, I should say. But you still need to learn it, right? So, you learn about the business. You learn about people. And what do you learn about business?

You learn about, number one, what you sell it. Okay? Number two, you learn about marketing. So, marketing is what? Traffic generation, how to get visitors to your stuff.

Okay? And again, this is something that I'm going to be helping you guys with a lot coming up over the next several weeks. So, pay attention. And again, we're going to do that for free. Okay?

We're going to do that for free. You definitely want to pay attention, because if there is one thing that I figured out in the business category is marketing. Okay? As far as getting people to see your website, and not only see your website, but getting people to opt in and getting people to purchase. Okay?

It's called conversions. So, again, you know, I, I, the reason, you know, some people look at, look at Vic now, and they think, well, Vic, it's easy for you to talk about this stuff, because somehow, some way, you know, you just ended up where you are. And, and the answer is, you know, you couldn't be more wrong. Because I started out not, not having a list. Nothing.

Okay? But I was committed. My mentor, I had a mentor in my life. I had a gentleman who was mentoring me. And I was listening to him.

And I did not question anything. I did not question anything. I would, you know, he would tell me to, to, to go to an event. And I did not have the money. I would borrow the money to get to an event.

He would tell me to, you know, to, to learn about, you know, solo ads, how to get solo ads to work. You know, how to get people to, to send your solo ads to the list. That's all I needed to hear. He said, just, you know, learn about solo ads. And I started, you know what I did?

I did not wait for him to tell me, okay, Vic, here's how you do that. He just gave me ideas, folks. You know, a lot of times, we want to have people telling us how to, which is cool. And I understand that. And we need that sometimes.

But when we depend too much on the how to specifics, okay, a lot of times we become like the, you know, like, like in marketing for lack of better, you know, a better other way to explain it is like, like, like kids, you know, I got five kids, and they're all eight and under. Okay. So, a lot of times, we are just too dependent on somebody. When I was, when I was building my business, in the very beginning, I remember, I was fishing for just ideas, just give me an idea. You know, he said, you learned about solo ads?

Great. I went to Google, I went to Yahoo, I went everywhere, forums, and I just started searching and researching about how do I get solo ads to work? Okay. He said, you can do free marketing. I said, really, there was a thing called free marketing.

He said, yeah, you can, you can, you know, I mean, there's ways to do free marketing. Google, right? How to do free marketing. Now, you don't have to do that now, because now we got people who can teach you the how tos. Okay.

But I want you to keep in mind to keep your mind open for ideas, so that you're not dependent entirely on the on the how to and solely on the how to. I want you to be open to ideas. Okay, so that you can, you know, take a step or take two steps yourself, by yourself, and see how it works out for you. And if you fall, hey, we got you covered. Okay.

So, learn about traffic generation and, and conversions. Okay, traffic generation is actually not difficult. It's actually one of the easiest things you can learn how to do. Okay, kid you're not. There is, especially nowadays, you know, when I was starting out, there was Google.

You know, there was a, we could do, I remember, we could do a Google, you know, Google AdWords campaign. And, and I could get on, on the first page of Google in the top three spots, literally within like 20 minutes. Okay. And I would pay whatever, you know, maybe 17, 10 cents to 15 cents per click. You know, when somebody clicked on my ad, it was super easy to make money at the time.

Okay, just like it is now. But the difference is now is I don't go to Google. I don't need Google money. They're all cool and everything. We love them, right?

Google is awesome. In fact, they give us a lot of free tools. But I don't go to Google to advertise my business. I don't play with Google when it comes to giving them money to advertise my business. I don't need to.

Okay. The game has changed. There is other ways to get, to get traffic now. There is other, you know, other directions. And I like to get my traffic.

I like to, you know, what I call command traffic to my website. I don't like to be the mercy of Google or Yahoo. I wanted to say, okay, I want to get 20,000 visitors to my site. Okay. Just a couple of days ago, I started a campaign.

I wanted to test it out. By the way, the magic word in business, if you want, you know, if you want, again, you know, if you're taking notes, the magic word in business, in our business is testing. Okay. Testing small and then doing a bigger rollout. Testing small, doing a bigger rollout.

Testing small for as low as $5, $10, $15, $20. Okay. Don't take your bread money and do a test campaign and then spend like $10,000 or $5,000 just on a test campaign when you don't know how it's going to work. Take it small. All right.

Start small. So, we're going to cover a lot. Guys, again, if you're here, I want you to pay very, very close attention. If you're not in Empower Network, I want you to get in. I'm just telling you to get in, get back with the person who got you.

Why? Because over the next couple of weeks, we're going to be doing a lot of really cool stuff. Okay. We're going to be talking about traffic. We're going to be talking about conversions.

We're going to be giving away a lot of free trainings in that area because 2014 is your year. 2014 is the year to make the biggest difference that this industry has ever seen. 2014 is the year where we create more success stories than has ever been created in any other year previous to this. 2014 is a year where millionaires are going to be created. If you want to be one of them, this is your year.

So, we're going to be giving away a lot of cool content. People say, Vic, why are you giving away all this stuff? Listen, because there is so much that's available to you. Just to give you the perspective, there is every 30 seconds somebody starts a brand new business. Okay.

Somebody starts a home-based business on the internet. Every 30 seconds, non-stop, 24-7, every 30 seconds, there is a big, if you can imagine, there is a huge, huge, huge turnover. Some people are leaving, you know, who have lost their dream. People who decided to quit, they're leaving. There is new people, floods of new people coming in every single minute.

Okay. There is never, ever, ever lack of people. There is never lack of traffic. There is never, you know, if you have the people who think that, well, I just have to keep stuff for myself. Listen, there is no such thing as lack in this industry.

Trust me. There is no such thing as lack. There is so much stuff that's available to everybody. Just like fishing. When you go to Atlantic to fish, do you care if there is like, you know, a hundred fishermen fishing in the same area?

No, you don't because it's Atlantic, right? Same thing here. There is, I mean, guys, there is abundance, okay? And if you have that abundance mentality, abundance is where you live. Abundance is what surrounds you.

Abundance is the, you know, is part of who you are, right? So that's why we're going to be doing a lot of free training, giving you guys away. Again, so if, you know, get in with Empower Network so you don't miss any of that stuff. All right. So traffic.

Okay. One thing. Again, give you guys an example of the power of traffic that's available to you. A couple of days ago, I started a campaign, right? I wanted to test.

Oh, yeah. I remember this is where I was going with the whole testing thing. So I wanted to test an idea, you know, a traffic method and a traffic campaign. Started out and 48 hours later, I got about 60,000 people, unique visitors who saw my website. got well over 15,000, unique opt-ins.

That's the kind of stuff that I'm going to teach you guys. Okay. How to do if you, you know, if you, if you're wondering, how is it possible? How is it possible to get 7,000 leads in a day? 15,000 leads in a day?

Is it possible? Heck yeah, it's possible. And you need to learn how to do that. And when you learn how to do that, you never, ever, ever, ever have to depend on anybody in your business. You never have to depend on anybody telling you how to make money, right?

Because you understand. Now, traffic is one thing, right? Opt-ins is one thing. But when you get opt-ins, half the battle is won. When you learn how to get good quality opt-ins, right?

You're, you're halfway there. Okay. The other half is getting those people to purchase. And here is the secret, my friend. When you do this stuff that I've been rambling and ranting about for the last hour, okay, when you work on yourself every single day, conversions is something you will never have to worry about.

When you write those ideas, when you lead, all right, when you decide to be better, to get, you know, to be fresh, to stay on the top of your game, to be the source, and every single day you have something new going into your mind and you're sharing with your list. As you're building these opt-ins, hopefully this whole picture starts to come together with, for you, right? What I'm talking to you about. That's why I wanted to talk to you about these, you know, this, this, this marketing kind of stuff at the, you know, as one of the last things I'm going to be talking about before we get into some really cool announcements, is because when you have all that stuff above and you're doing that regularly, when you have these opt-ins, okay, see what happens is you are building yourself and you're building the relationship with your list and it can be done automatically, okay? Again, I'm going to show you guys how to do that starting tomorrow.

We're going to have a series of webinars, training webinars, for those of you guys who got the traffic product that Empower just rolled out. You guys will be getting that. For those of you guys who don't, just watch your emails, watch your Facebooks, whatever, because we'll be also giving you information, some really, really cool free trainings over the next couple of weeks, several weeks actually, two or three weeks. So keep your eyes open, that's what I'm going to tell you. But there's a lot of really, really cool stuff coming out, folks.

But convergence is something that you also need to master. So traffic generation, convergence, you know, with traffic generation, let me give you a couple of tips, guys. Here's the simplest way you can start today. I'm going to give you one nugget. What you can do is this, go to, well, first of all, you need to have something to promote.

So if you're with Empower Network, if you're in this business, if you're on this team and if you want to build your business with Empower Network, great, that's what I'm doing, I'm not focusing on anything else, it's awesome. So you need to have something to promote, you need to have a product to sell, and by the way, you make money by selling products, not getting people to join you in the business. You move products, that's how you make money. Empower Network is coming out with a line of products that is just amazing. One of the products is traffic generation products, okay, that's going to be coming out here next several weeks, you guys will hear about it, and that is, I mean, we survey people and the number one thing that people want, the number one thing that people want to learn about in this industry called network marketing, internet marketing, is traffic generation.

Thing number two that people want is they want to learn how to convert that traffic into opt-ins and then opt-ins into sales, okay? And that's one of the products that's going to be available to you to sell to that marketplace, but you've got to be in Empower Network to sell it, to earn commissions on it, okay? Pretty sweet deal, and again, the commissions on that thing is going to be pretty, pretty good. All right, so that's that. So what, shoot, now I forgot, see that's the kind of thing with me, my mind goes like a hundred miles an hour, and I get all these ideas I want to give you, okay, I was talking about the Google keyword tool, right?

So what you do is you have something to sell, you have a landing page for it, because when you're going to send people, you need to send them somewhere, and the place you send them to is your front door, which is your landing page, okay, an opt-in page, you want to capture opt-ins, that's the name of the game, you want to capture opt-ins. So you go to Google, okay, type in Google keyword planner, it used to be Google keyword tool, now they renamed it, they call it Google keyword planner, don't ask me why, I don't know, okay, but that's what it's called. Google keyword planner, you just Google that, okay, and the first search result is going to pop up, you just click there, it's going to take you to, it's going to tell you to sign in to your Google AdWords account, you have to have, you have to create a Google AdWords account for that to work, okay, so you can create Google AdWords account, if you have a Gmail account, that's free, Google AdWords, you don't have to run ads with them, and you can create that account for free, so you just need to have an account to be able to use the Google keyword planner, okay, so you just sign in to your Google AdWords account that you will create, and once you're there, go to tools, and then Google keyword planner, okay, and from there, you just type in whatever you're promoting, again, this call is designed, you know, to be, you know, generic, I mean, if you want to promote Empower Network, awesome, you know, if you want to promote something else, awesome, although I don't, you know, I, to me, it doesn't make sense, because this is, this is the coolest thing to be running with, in my opinion, anyway, so, whatever product, you know, if you're promoting one of the products within Empower Network, for example, the traffic product that's going to be available to you guys, right, what you do, is you just go to Google keyword planner, and you just type in different companies, for example, right, or you type in keywords like, how to get traffic, what will people search for, okay, or you just type in website traffic, or online traffic, or internet traffic, or, you know, how to get visitors to my website, something like that, right, and so, Google keyword planner will go out there in the cyberspace, and it will pull all the data from Google, and it will tell you how many people are searching for that particular keyword, okay, on Google per month, and so, this is how you figure out what keywords, or what crowd you're going to be marketing to, okay, so, if there is only, like, 1300 people searching for a particular keyword that, you know, you think is good, if there is 1300 people searching for that per month, then obviously, there is no reason for you to market to that crowd, because the crowd is not big enough, okay, when I go after a keyword, I want to make sure that there is a crowd big enough, I want to make sure that there is at least 30, 40, 50,000 people searching for that consistently on a monthly basis, okay, so, you figure out what keyword you want to go after, and it will also give you additional keywords similar to that, that you can check out as well, okay, and so, that's how you will be able to, again, we're going to cover all this stuff, and there's going to be, you know, obviously, for those of you guys who got the traffic product from Empower Network, you guys will be, all that will be covered in great detail, okay, I was talking about the how-to, I mean, literally, this is like the how-to type stuff, for those of you guys who did not get it, again, there's going to be some free training available to you guys that you will be able to benefit from a lot, keep your eyes open, very wide, for that, there's going to be some cool stuff coming out, that's going to show you the how-to and everything, okay, so, then you can go to different networks, okay, I'm a networks guy, I don't like to write articles necessarily, you know, you can do that, you know, that works as well, if you do it right, I like to get traffic anytime I want, you know, if I wanted to get 50,000 visitors tomorrow, I know how to do that, and I'm going to teach you how to do that too, okay, but the type of traffic that I'm getting is, a lot of it comes from networks, okay, there's other people who are doing the work that you don't need to do, like building lists, and like cultivating lists, or like launching products, and going on TV, for example, right, and selling, you know, how to make money online products, how to start, you know, a home-based business on the internet products, and so, marketers like me, and soon you, what we can do, is we can go and we can literally tap into those lists, and into that data, and we can just say, okay, I want, you know, I want to send out 100,000 emails to this list, okay, of people who just purchased something that has to do with making money on the internet in the last 30 days, and guess what, when you do that, man, oh, man, you get traffic like crazy, okay, you get traffic floating back to your site, and these people are hot, you know, when people are, when is the best time to sell somebody something? Listen, folks, I just want to say I appreciate you, you know, I'm proud to be a part of Empower Network, I'm proud to be running with some of the best people in the industry, I'm proud to be associating with, you know, with cool people like Dave Sharp and Dave Wood and Jonathan Cronstan and, you know, all the leaders of the Empower Network Leadership Council, proud of you, you know, proud of you for being here, I'm, you know, I'm proud for you making a decision to changing your life, I'm proud of you to, for, you know, for staying on here for, you know, over 90 minutes here listening to me rant, but hopefully you got a thing or two or a nugget or two from this call, if you did, let me know, I would love to hear from you, I appreciate you guys, I look forward to seeing you on the webinar tomorrow, watch for emails, watch your Facebook walls, we are going to do something that has never been done in this industry before, period, and you can be a part of it or you can watch it from the site. I would rather have you be a part of it because you being a part of it, it's going to make a big, giant difference for you in your business, I appreciate you guys, stay blessed, talk to you tomorrow, bye.

Transcribed by https://otter.ai work, determination, skill, and consistent effort, please refer to our average earnings at EmpowerNetwork.com forward slash income dot php.