A few years ago I was sleeping on couches.
I was committed to being an entrepreneur but I just couldn't seem to get much moving.
I struggled for a long time. I was customizing Facebook pages when I learned of a casino deal. I got to be part of the deal because I had expertise in Facebook marketing.
I learned to do internet marketing from a guy in the real estate niche named Greg. Greg taught me that all that matters in internet marketing was traffic and conversions.
Traffic to the site and conversions in to leads and cash.
He showed me how to use video, blogging, PPC and social networks to drive traffic to a lead capture page and how to use an ethical bribe to convert that traffic into leads.
Shortly after that I found out that I could customize a Facebook fan page and I could create a lead capture page inside of Facebook. That got me excited!
I spent the next several months figuring out how the heck to actually make the custom pages and right when I learned how to do it they changed it to [iframe]s.. and so I got into action and called a friend of mine that had a company that built websites.
I convinced my friend that if he could figure out how to make his pages fit into Facebook's size constraints then we might have one hell of a business!
Eventually he shut that company down though and I have moved on. We could still do something with that stuff if we were so inclined and had some extra capitol.
Now I am blogging and making videos and traveling the world. I am so happy that I have gone the route that I have.
I am not yet full time in the internet marketing world but I am working hard to get to 1,000 dollars a day and at the end of this year, 2013, my wife and I will be moving to Belize.