Jason Benfield

I get asked all the time from people “How can I make money online fast and easy”…

They see me doing it, and they ‘want in’. But this question is the start of a horrible experience.

To many people get into Internet Marketing because they figure it’s an easy way out. They figure they can sit back, relax, and have a billion email subscribers, and millions of dollars rolling in – in no time flat…

And often times I just shake my head and walk away.

Another question I get a lot is: “When do I know it’s the right time to quit my job, and start working from home full time?”

And the answer I give them is when you have a business, and not just a hobby or a ’side job’.

That’s what a lot of people don’t get. Working from home is nice (as long as the kids are asleep), making money online is fantastic, but it’s still a ‘business’.

You have to adopt that mindset.

“I have a business, not just a website” – come on let’s say it one more time…

“I have a business, not just a website”…

It’s true. The people that struggle online are people who really don’t have a grasp what they are really doing. They jump into this industry looking to make some quick cash and they struggle miserably.

The people that succeed understand the fact that they have a business to run. They often times are doing the exact same thing as the people struggling, but they are succeeding.

What makes the difference between struggling and success then? Strong self-discipline and relentless action.

The person who struggles does a couple of articles, converts them into videos to distribute, and then rips the audio to create podcasts. Then they will bookmark them to a dozen or so places, submit rss feeds to some directories, and do a few blog posts all to drive traffic.

The person who succeeds does hundreds of articles, converts them into videos to distribute, and then rips the audio to create hundreds of podcasts, while socially bookmarking them thousands of times, and so on…

So again what makes the difference between struggling online and succeeding?

Strong self discipline, and relentless action taking.

One of the key principles I teach in the SEO Bully Method is “If you want to out sell the competition, then it’s as simple as out hustling them”.

But there’s a smart way to do it.

That brings me to my closing point: Successful Entrepreneurs should always be working ON their business, and not IN their business.

Which means your only job as a business owner is to think of ways to expand your business, and create systems that are easily duplicatable so that you can pass them off to someone else and move one to your primary responsibility…

Thinking of new ways to expand your business.

This is when hiring additional help, outsourcing, or even out-tasking comes into play.

Truly successful people are rich because they learn how to LEVERAGE their time, money, and resources vs. WORK their time, money, and resources.

Leverage works off the principles of multiplying the end result, while reducing the required amount of force needed to achieve that outcome.

Work means that you get out exactly what you put in, and if you stop putting in then you stop getting anything out.

I ran across this photo on Burn Your To Do List and thought it was a perfect example of the point I’m trying to make…

Does Your Business Look Like This?

This is how I personally like to think of things, because it keeps me focused to continue in the success I found…

When generating traffic to a site. Imagine that each and every technique you do only brings in ‘ONE’ single visitor to your site.

For every article your write, you only get ‘ONE’ visitor. For every bookmark, just one lousy visitor.

To get one measly sale a day, you would most likely have to do a hundred actions a day.

With that said, are you doing enough right now in your business?

I like to keep thinking of things like this, because it really makes me force myself to constantly expand my business. If I want 10 sales a day then I would do a thousand actions.

I mean come one ok. Chances are that yes you will be getting more than one visitor a day off your marketing efforts, and that your conversions are better than 1%, but if you work off the ‘worst case scenario’ you’ll ALWAYS be happy with the end results.

But to get back to my original questions:

“How can I make money online fast and easy?” – Use leverage and pay someone to do it for you…

“When do I know it’s the right time to quit my job, and start working from home full time?” – When you can use leverage and pay someone to do it for you…

Getting to the point to where you don’t have to “go to work” to make money, even if that is for yourself, is a wonderful experience.

So start picking apart your business and see what you can start outsourcing, and then just outsource it. If you personally can do it for less than $2 an hour then do it I guess, but how much more money could you make if you had an extra five hours in a day?

Now with that said, would you be willing to invest $10 to pay someone $2 per hour and gain an extra five hours of work?

Any thoughts or questions? Leave them below…

Maybe I’m just an idealist, but I personally believe in the American dream. Something that my kids may never see.

The American economy, as well as a nation, is rapidly deteriorating, and unless we as a people stand up and take a stance against the mindlessness of the so called “goverment” that’s ruining the future and the hope of the generations to come…

Then I believe that America the Great, will soon be America the once great…

We’re on the verge of losing our status as a super power among nations, and our debt and unemployment rate has grew faster in the first year of this presidency then in any other administration before.

Why?

Because of erroneous spending, immature leadership, and flat out hypocrisy.

No body in their right mind would say that the key to getting out of personal financial debt would be to ramp up spending, increase your monthly expenses, and max out every available credit line as fast as you can.

Nonetheless that’s the philosophy behind the current US government. If they don’t have money, they’ll just print more while drastically reducing the value of the currency.

How’s all the ‘hope’ and ‘change’ working for ya? People were to blinded by trying to ‘make history’ that they through their future right down the drain…

They bought into the hype, lies, and games, and sadly enough this is the reason why so many people fail online too.

They want to feel good, be hyped up, wanna be told that they will benefit, all while these seductive whisperers lay prey to every dime they can get out of ya.

And as soon as they have sucked you dry then they are gone on to the next victim.

People lose every piece of common sense they have if someone has a flashy game, and they wonder why they are left broker and with nothing to show for it.

If you wanna be successful you need to put foot to (butt), get out an do some friggin work. Take all your home study courses, and all the other crap you bought and put it on ebay. Get a job if you can’t make it working from home.

And if you have a job, then get a 2nd job to fund your home business. People that talk like this don’t grow popular but it’s the truth!

Working from home is the hardest, but yet rewarding thing you can do. But many people have no reason doing it. Who are these people? The same people who are caught up in a fantasy that one day they’ll win the lotto and strike it rich.

We gotta get rid of the words If I only, I cant, I don’t have enough time, I don’t have enough money, or I don’t know where to start…

All those are excuses. Start where you are, use what you got.

“Well if I just had more I’d do more” – No you wouldn’t because you’re not using what you got so you can’t get more.

Great dreamers start where they are, and they move into the future. They don’t despise the day of small beginnings, because they know they are not going to stay there.

This rant was inspired by this post that someone sent me below on Facebook…

This is too true to be funny.

The next time you hear a politician use the word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it’s releases.

A.
A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were
Living in the Stone Age.

D.
A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

E.
A billion dollars ago was only
8 hours and 20 minutes,
At the rate our government
Is spending it.

While this thought is still fresh in our brain…
let’s take a look at New Orleans ..
It’s amazing what you can learn with some simple division.

Louisiana Senator,
Mary Landrieu (D)
Is presently asking Congress for
250 BILLION DOLLARS
To rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number…
What does it mean?

A.
Well .. If you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans
(every man, woman, and child)
You each get $516,528.

B.
Or… If you have one of the 188,251 homes in
New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.

C.
Or… If you are a family of four…
Your family gets $2,066,012.

Washington , D. C
HELLO!
Are all your calculators broken??

Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax (Fed)
Federal Unemployment Tax (FU TA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration
Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

(And to think, we left British Rule to avoid so many taxes!)

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago…
And our nation was the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt…
We had the largest middle class in the world…
And Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened?
Can you spell ‘politicians?!’

I just watched an interview with Peter Shankman (Founder of HARO), and it blew me away. It displays one of the finest uses of Social Media to build a massive brand that translates into cash.

Peter has set himself up as THE source for reporters needing info, and because of his expert use of Social Media you have the largest papers in the country looking to him for answers.

I like the obvious signs of an A.D.D. mind, churning through a thousand thoughts, and speaking a thousand miles an hour. It let’s me know that I’m not the only entrepreneur out there that is a little quirky.

I CAN NOT WAIT for the interview with Peter, and Couch Surfing Ori coming up on Couch Surfing Radio. This is going to be a friggin side splitting fiasco, that is sure to inspire you to become a better person and business owner.

Make sure to check out Couch Surfing Ori on twitter to find out when this interview is, and in the mean time watch the video of Peter Shankman below. I thought it was awesome, and it hits home some of the myths and frankly bull crap surrounding the Social Media sphere…

Click on Peter Shankman to find out more about this King of Social Media.

If you ever wanted a step-by-step guide to creating your own products fast, then this is your answer.

Having your own product is the easiest way to get a lot of cash, recognition, and influence within your niche, but a lot of people are intimidated by the thought of creating their own product.

After reading this post you will be able to have a unique product, copy wrote, and a strategy to start making sales tomorrow.

The Prelude

For a while I’ve made my living flipping websites. Not just any website, but unique video products. I teamed up with one of the best flippers in the business Suite J, and we were killing it on Flippa (the worlds largest marketplace for websites).

FTC Disclaimer: Because the FTC is cracking down on bloggers giving anything close to an endorsement, I felt that I should be completely honest about my endorsement of Jay Piecha (a.k.a. Suite J)

Mr. FTC, he made me do it! He threatened me within an inch of my life if I didn’t say that he was THE flipping king of the universe. He said if I didn’t tell people that he was the Mac Daddy of flipping then he would send me a video of him singing ‘Every Rose Has A Thorn’!

“Snap Back To Reality” – People couldn’t touch us, because we  were able to churn out high quality, unique video products, Clickbank ready sites – faster than anyone else could in the market.

My official title in the gig was ‘Pimp Daddy of Product Development’, and I was fast as grease lightning!

How was I able to create products so fast? I created a system that was easy to duplicate.

I call it the ‘Magical Formula For Info-Product Riches’ – not really, but it was something I created that made it almost mind numbingly simple to create info products fast.

I once created an entire unique video course on ‘Tomato Growing’ (something I know absolutely nothing about) – in under 30 minutes using the formula I’m about to share with you, just to prove that it was really that simple.

And here it is… Read more…

I’m so excited! – The energy rush I feel is either because of the extreme amounts of caffeine I just consumed, or the excitement that comes knowing that you are about to rock the world!

Maybe both –

So why did I do it?

Why did I decide to take down Jay’s Mastermind, and leave blogging all together – and now why have I decided to pick it back up?

Is it an extreme case of marketing schizophrenia, or is their method to my madness?

Have I discovered a magical money pool that will make me a gazillion dollars by blogging?

No… lol

I originally shut down Jay’s Mastermind, because I hated doing it. Bottom line.

And nothing is harder than working day to day on something you hate doing.

Now I didn’t hate the blogging aspect of it, or the feedback and even friends I’ve made because of it…

I hated HOW I was blogging, just like I hate how 99% of Internet Marketing bloggers blog.

There wasn’t anything special, or remarkable about the blog or me. It just turned into empty post of what I thought people wanted to hear (or what would be good ‘linkbait’), started writing ‘reviews’ just to make money (regardless of what I really thought about the product), and it started to become more of a chore than a passion.

It was so cliche, and I don’t know if it’s the ex-rocker in me, but anything trendy or cliche makes me want to vomit.

Yes, I wanted to make myself vomit!

I mean how many – “I’ll Show You The Quickest Way To Profit, Even Though I Haven’t Made A Dime, And I’ll Still Work A Full Time Job, But I Read An Ebook On How To Make Money Online, So Now I’m An Expert, And I’m Using A Blog To Tell You So Cause I Can’t Afford Advertising” – blogs do we need?

Now please don’t get me wrong… Read more…