Today I’d like to invite you to join two lists. Not for the products they offer (even if their respective products are amazing!) but more for the quality of their websites and newsletters.

I use to subscribe to all the IM lists I could and it honestly helped me learn how things are working in the Internet marketing world but at one point, you have to focus and get rid of the “noise” if you want your own projects to move forward. Otherwise you become a prospect for other marketers when you should also focus on becoming one yourself…

As of today, I’m only following about three top marketers online. They either provide outstanding value in their newsletters/blogs or I can “watch and learn” from them when they’re promoting or communicating with their subscribers.

I strongly recommend that you take a look at these two guys.

One is Craig Ballantyne and the other one is Jim Cockrum.

Both are amazing marketers that offer boat loads of free information and really have a strong reputation online.

Craig Ballantyne made his name as one if not THE major success in the online fitness space with Turbulence Training and is also a master when it comes to teaching how to build a business online. Around January of 2011 he started a new project at InternetIndependence.com where he shares his knowledge and offers daily posts on the subject. From SEO to minset and books, this guys is a real writing machine! It’s unbelievable how much valuable content this guy can write everyday and how much it’s helped me so far. Even if I’ve never met the guy in person, I really look up to him and consider him as one of my models when it comes to succeeding online! I strongly recommend that you take a look and enjoy mucho mucho reading!

Jim Cockrum is the author of one of the most popular eBook about making money online and also the creator of one of the best FREE newsletter on making money online. His eBook The Silent Sales Machine sold consistently for many years now and is loaded with valuable tips and tricks for the new or advanced online marketer. It’s actually one of the first IM product I bought in my journey to making money online and I’ve read this eBook several times and I always find something new that I can implement in my projects. Jim is also a specialist when it comes to leveraging the eBay traffic to its IM business advantage without breaking the rules. More than 100 000 people are subscribed and many like me have been for years. You’ll see what it’s all about and don’t forget, don’t just read… Even if you don’t buy anything he’s recommending, take the quick tips and apply them today.

So visit their websites, subscribe to the newsletters and take note of what they say and how they both deliver their messages. They are both great marketers to model and I’ve learned tremendously over the years and I’m sure you will.

Watch, learn and take action!

Talk to you soon

Yves

I’ll give you the “secret” recipe to your online success right now… Drum Rolls…

Knowledge + Action = Success

That’s it! Pretty impressive isn’t it?!

I know, not that exciting but it is what it is. It’s so simple yet so difficult to implement on a daily basis.

At least it’s been for me.

Today, after more than 3 years in the “online” world, I’m still working on being a better action taker.

To tell you the truth, I’m far from being where I would have hoped because of one thing I’ve either not taken action when I learned something or I just abandoned and left when I should’ve persevere.

Now don’t get me wrong, I have my success stories (We’ll keep that for another post…) but in general, taking action and keep focus has been a major learning process over the years.

We marketers have so easy access to so much information and “distractions” that we tend to develop a “comfort zone” in the learning process. You learn something new, you get all exited, we start our project and then the routine tasks come in and this is where we get bored and move on to the next project or should I say search our next “rush” or “bring shiny object” as they say.

Following this path will get you nowhere and only bring frustration, loss of confidence and debts! Believe me, I’ve done it!

Here are my top 3 tips to help you avoid this track by all means possible:

1- Don’t “follow” too many Gurus! Unsubscribe from all newsletters but two or three that are written by good marketers that you can look up to, share their values and can learn from by looking at how they do things. Too many emails from gurus will only distract you and make you loose focus with all the info they’re providing and products they’re promoting.
2- When you invest in an IM product to learn a method on making money online and you like what you read/watch, do it NOW! Not tonight, no tomorrow, NOW! Even if it’s on a piece of paper… If it’s a step by step product, don’t go through the whole thing at first. Just read first chapter and take action. Then read/watch chapter 2 and go back to apply what you learned. This is what I’m doing with this blog and this is why you’ll see many things change around here in the following days and weeks.
3- My final tip for the day would be to plan. Plan every freakin’ thing that has a link with your online business. What income you expect, what you’ll do with that income, what you’ll do to get that income, etc. How can you expect to get anywhere fast if you don’t know where you’re going in the first place, etc. Let the nowhere driving to the college dropouts seeking their ways in life and make a better use of your time! My major successes were all planned and it helped me stay focussed as I tended to get back to my old habits.

Dam, I have so much fun writing these posts! I feel like I could write forever but I’m sure you have some actions to take and some money to make so I won’t take any more of your time with my “perfect French Canadian English grammar” posts.

Let me know how I can help you in any ways!

Take action now and make $$$ big time!

Cheers
Yves

When you’re first starting to learn how to make money online, at one point in your journey, you’ll be offered help by some people.

Coaching programs, eBooks, DVDs, videos… name it…

Once you’ve chosen a way, there’s a certain learning curve to go through. Everybody goes through this. You have to find what methods matches your life and character. And nothing beats experience.

Just go out there and read the stories of all the famous marketers and online successes and you’ll see that none of them made it overnight.

I can’t recall where I’ve read this but it says: ” To every overnight success there’s a 12 years story!”

Some will do faster than others. And that’s fine.

A way to accelerate your success is by having a mentor.  A mentor can help you go through that learning curve faster making you avoid the pit falls they’ve already experienced and providing you with valuable tips and tricks they’ve learned over the years testing and tweaking their own money making journey.

Now let me tell you… Not all mentors are created equal!

Take my word for it. I’ve spent thousands and thousands of dollars on coaching programs, ebooks and all sorts of learning stuff online and I had my share of excellent programs, good coaches and plain scammers who would sell their own mom for a quick buck!

Nevertheless, having a mentor has help me tremendously.

Basically with a good mentor, you can save so much time and start making money so much faster than if you would search everything on your own.

Mentors are not charging the same price. Some will cost thousands, some will charge only a few bucks… And you get what you pay for is not necessarily true in this world.

I’ve followed many of the gurus and the “coaches” out there and there are only a few that I would recommend.

One of them is John Thornhill.

Honestly, this guys is the real deal!

He’s not one of those corporate publication houses that spit programs in every subjects possible… nope. Just a regular guy who made it and doing an awesome job helping regular guys like you and me find their way to getting an online income. He use to work in a factory assembling car parts and after years of hard work he made it! And made it big time! But John is still a down to earth guy, has a great reputation online and he’s been sharing his knowledge for years now through his different programs to teach you Internet marketing and how he makes money online. Yes, I said HE makes… because he’s one of those who walk the walk and talk the talk.

I’ve never met the guy in person but I’ve followed him online for a long time and bought many of his products. His programs are always affordable, clear, simple to understand for EVERYBODY and jam packed with great content.

His latest product is called One Month Mentor and it’s an online video learning program that shows you how to set up a presence online, create your own product, build a list and start making money. All within one month (31 days to be more accurate)!

John Thornhills One Month Mentor Program

In fact, the blog you’re actually reading is a result of this program. I had the privilege to go through this course and I decided to act on all John’s teaching. It’s another “live example” for you to see what it’s all about.

There are thousands of avenues to make an income online but what you need to know to start making money online in the Internet Marketing world is all in there. It’s simple, it’s mostly video based “screen capture” style so you can watch , pause, take action, watch, pause, take action and so on!

A side-note: if you’re already a seasoned online marketer who’s been there and done that, you may find that some videos goes really deep in the basics but you just have to skip the ones you already know about and you’ll soon find yourself grabbing some new twists and implementing them in your own projects.

Yes, this is an affiliate link but I promise that this program is not “the flavor of the month” program. I’m being very honest about One Month Mentor. As I write this, I’m testing the program myself and it’s not a one push button and get rich scam. You’ll have to put effort and hard work at it. But it will pay if you watch and apply what John will teach you.

It’s worth every penny he’s asking for (which is a real steal if you don’t mind my opinion) and it’s backed up by a really strong guaranty.

I don’t know if this program will still be open as you read this but if you’re ready to accelerate your way to success, do yourself a favor and use John Thornhills One Month Mentor Program

Let me know how you’re doing.

Ask me any questions you might have. We’re all here to help each other.

Have fun and accelerate you way to your online success!

All the best

Yves

Ok. I hear ya! You need money. You need money NOW! You want to make money as fast as possible and you’ve heard of some guys making it big time on this thing call the “Internets”.

Well I have some good news for you!

Indeed, it is possible!

While it won’t be as instant as some would like you to believe (when they’re selling you that 2K$ program!), with a bit of work, you still can make good money pretty fast.

Ok, I heard ya… You need it fast, so what’s the best way to go? One word: eBay.

It won’t make you a millionaire in 24 hours… (Nothing will anyways… Please, make yourself a favour and stop believing that crap) but give yourself an hour or so and you will have your first auction running on eBay and could possibly making your first sales within the next 24 hours.

Isn’t it a great world we’re living in?! I say it’s AWESOME!

Setting up a seller account on eBay takes like 5 minutes.

Setting up you Paypal account to make money transactions on the web takes 5 minutes.

Looking around and gathering stuff you’re not using anymore and are ready to let go takes about 15 minutes.

Taking descent pictures of your items takes 5 minutes.

Checking what others priced similar items and how much ended past auctions takes about 10-15 minutes.

Writing your auction and uploading your pictures takes a quick 20 minutes or less depending how detailed you want it to be.

Here we go! You have your first online business running already!

No need to build websites! It’s just a fill the blanks…

No need to bring traffic! There are already millions of people shopping on eBay 24/7…

You live in the middle of nowhere! Who cares, your customer base is planet earth!

No need to go anywhere! Sit back in your pyjamas if you’d like…In some areas the carrier will come to you…

Now you only have to wait for the days you decided to run your auction for and once it’s sold, pack it and ship it!

Ok… I agree. First time you’re looking around, it may not be that fast and that easy. You have to learn where exactly to click or go but if I could give you my best advice at this moment, if you’re selling on eBay for the first time, don’t get caught in the details. Just do it. Give it your best shot and you’ll do just fine. Next auction will be better and so will the other next be!
And man… What a rush it will be when you do your first sale and see that money in your Paypal account! Even if it’s only 10 $… That feeling is Priceless! That’s where you catch that: It’s possible! That online thing is really true!

I might do some videos in the future about how to sell on eBay. I’ve seen many ebooks everywhere over the years but not many descent “look over my shoulder” videos.
Let me know your questions and I’ll put something together to help you get started making money online as fast as possible.

Have some fun and make money!

Talk to you soon

Yves

Here we go! The first blog post!

For some reasons, I’ve always had difficulties to make that first post.

I’ve got so much stuff I’d like to talk to you about. Anyways… Let me introduce myself first.

My name is Yves Tessier and I’m from the Montreal Canada in the Quebec province. My first language is French so please bear with me even if I make English grammar mistakes . (Don’t worry, the content of that blog will be much better than my English! I Promise!)

I’ve been “playing around” in the “making money online” world for a bit more than 3 years now. It all started out with a book I read in 2007. It was called the 4 Hour Work Week. For those of you who are not familliar with that book, let’s just say that if you’ve been thinking about entrepreneurship for a while but haven’t taken any actions yet, you’ll be amazed and literally changed by this book. I’ll save the review of this book for another day as I plan on suggesting you books every once in a while but let’s just say that it’s a New York time Best Seller written by Timothy Ferris and it’s all about developing “passive income” streams and living THE life of your dreams.

So back in 2007, I read this book… took action… registered a company and started to seek what the heck was I gonna do to unleash that entrepreneur beast inside me… To make a long story short, I started in the wholesale & retail business and then moved to selling on eBay where I enrolled in a coaching program on how to sell on eBay and develop your own eCommerce online.

While I was developing that venture, I had to learn how to promote my eCommerce because as you probably already know it, a website without traffic is worthless and isn’t gonna bring cash back home. Basically, I had to learn Internet Marketing!

As soon as I started digging deeper in this IM world, I was hooked! That’s what I had searched all these years, endless evening and nights searching for the “way” to make money online that would match my personality and my life (three kids, a full time job, a wife working full time also at that time, involved in sports, etc…).

So here I am today and I’m finally starting out this new blog that I’ve been thinking about for a long long time! I’d really like to make this web space a place to share and discuss with you about all the knowledge I’ve cumulated in the past years and we could help each other growing our online business.

My goal here is to help you as much as I can  and do my best to avoid you all the mistakes I did and take the good roads I’ve taken.

So come back often and I encourage you to register to my RSS feed as I’ll update this blog as often as possible.

Let’s have some fun and make some money!!

Cheers,

Yves