I've always believed that following your passion is the best way to succeed in business.
There's no doubt in my mind that being passionate about what I do is the primary reason my online business has been so successful for almost 15 years. That's why I always recommend my students follow their passion as opposed to chasing the money.
Chasing the money works some of the time, but it usually fizzles out quickly and you are back where you started — looking for another venture. Moreover, there's very little personal reward in simply chasing dollars. It's boring and tedious following a formula or spending your time on a topic that does not interest you in the least.
Most, if not all, of my most respected Internet Marketing colleagues (other experts in the field) have also follow their passion.
One glowing example is Chris Carpenter, whom you may remember best as author of “Google Cash“, a best-selling guide on how to make money using pay-per-click marketing.
Chris and I agree that working to live is considerably more fun and rewarding than living to work. Chris, a die-hard surfer, lives on a beach in Mexico and when not there, he travels the world in search of great surf. He also cares a lot about the people with whom he does business – he wants them to succeed.
It's in that vein that Chris has created a new course called the Profit from Your Passion BluePrint.
One of the first things you'll notice on the homepage of the membership site is the comment, “If you have any questions, comments or concerns – please contact me directly at __________”… with Chris' email address filling in the blank.
I can't think of any coach in the IM community who lets members contact them directly via email (OK, except for me, maybe. LOL)
The course consists of the following:
Video and Tutorial Modules
- Module 1 – Discover Your Passions, Skills, and Life Purpose and Envision Your Ideal Lifestyle
- Module 2 – Niche Discovery and Research
- Module 3 – Create Your Product
- Module 4 – Create Your Sales Funnel
- Module 5 – Send Traffic To Your Sales Funnel
- Module 6 – Taking Your Business To The Next Level – Advanced Strategies
Bonus Modules
- Bonus Module 1 – Developing the Right Mindset For Success
- Bonus Module 2 – Your Personal Organizational / Life Management System
- Bonus Module 3 – How To Work Efficiently
Bonus Learning Courses
- [Video Training] — Publishing Information Products
- [Video Training] — Learn How To Use WordPress
- [Video Training] — Improve Your Copywriting Skills
- [Written Content] — Creating an Information Product
The course is a well-structured step-by-step-by-step guide. Modules also include PDF downloads that you can print out.
The only downside (for some) may be the $147 price tag. Too, you'll have to wait for Modules 3 and beyond to be released. However, if you follow the course correctly, you'll be learning and building your business during that time.
The Profit from Your Passion BluePrint officially opens October 2nd, 2012 at noon Eastern time.
Right now, there is a video on the page in which Chris explains the four real reasons why most people fail to make any real money on the Internet. Watch it… I have no doubt that you'll be able to relate, if you've been working to make money online for any length of time!
My Bonus for You
If you purchase Profit from Your Passion BluePrint through my link, I'll give you 30 days free access to my Affiliate Blogger PRO academy.
To be sure you are ordering through my link, check to see that [affiliate = webjv] shows up at the bottom of Clickbank's secure payment form when you are ordering.
After you order, send me your Clickbank receipt number for the Profit from Your Passion Blueprint along with your name and email address through our Contact Page, and I'll set you up.
Enjoy the course!
Comments, questions or suggestions? Please leave a comment below!
Cheers,
I’m guessing that the original post was made at the beginning of October 2012. Given that it’s been around two months, have you had any feedback from anyone who took the course? Have you had a chance to look through the course yourself?
It seems to me you have to have both the “passion” and the mechanics of making this stuff work. I’m always amused when I hear someone making any amount of money on the internet say that they are “technophobes” and can’t do anything complicated. After conversing with them for a few minutes, you realize that they know a lot more than simply how to make blog posts. (I think you fall in that category … you profess limited “technical skills” but you are able to successfully manage a number of web sites and blogs and navigate your way around the internet neighborhood.)
I think you have to have a “passion”, but you have to be stubborn enough to see it through to a successful conclusion.
Nice encouraging stuff to look within for profitable passion.
Hi Rosalind, I am so grateful to you for writing this invaluable and life-changing piece of information for those people including myself who have always dreamed of cashing in on their passions online.
After my 7 year long hurting and agonizing drama and financial uncertainty full of tears and “cries for help” when trying to figure out how I can make tens of thousands of dollars a month online, I must tell you that you now have made me feel much more confident and motivated to stay focused on achieving all my internet marketing goals based on simply following my passions.
Having said that I am glad to share with you the book that speaks exactly in favor of following and nurturing our top passions in order to reach and fully enjoy a happy, fulfilled and at the same time, wealthy lifestyle. It’s called “The Passion Test: The Effortless Path To Discovering Your Destiny” by Janet and Chris Attwood.
There are basically three main principles that we should follow in order to lead a happy, fulfilled and super passionate life the way super successful people do, and they are as follows:
1. Intention – Consciously stating what you choose to create in your life is the first step in manifesting it.
2. Attention – Your life becomes exactly like that on which you put your attention. In other words, if you give attention to that which you choose to create in your life, it will begin to show up. Or, to be even more precise here, this could also be said in the following way:
“Whatever you put your attention on grows stronger and stronger in your life.”
3. No Tension – When you are open to what’s appearing in this moment, you allow God’s will to move through you. When you hold tightly to your concepts of how things should be, you shut off the flow of life, which in return prevents you from enjoying the fulfillment of living your personal destiny.
Hope you have found my post enjoyable and beneficial when it comes to following your true passions for living a life of your greatest dreams.
Please visit my first ever personal blog that I’ve lately setup and leave your comments there.
In advance many thanks.
Bruno Babic
P.S. I could write about my own life experiences where I have truly felt and witnessed endless possibilities and miraculously rewarding outcomes based on simply sharing or talking about your top true passions with your friends and loved ones.
That’s why I once again encourage you to visit my blog and keep in touch because I would really like to learn more about you and your passions. And, who knows, it could be exactly you who could inspire me to produce a great product or a bestselling book on some of the topics of your great interest.
I’m All Over This! Thanks Ros!
Thanks Ros for the recommendation, it looks like a great product.
The $147 will be great investment in some quality teaching.
If i’ve already read your Super affiliate handbook, and been a member at affiliate blogger pro, would this course be worth getting Ros or will it cover most of the same ground?
I didn’t know you let your students contact you directly… could I have your direct e-mail please? I did purchase your SAH and sign up for affiliate blogger pro, but could not find any direct e-mail contact info and I would like to e-mail you from time to time for some guidance.
It’s good to gain background knowledge, but I believe true learning only takes place by ‘doing’, and being able to have guidance from a pro at times to aid learning.
It’s like driving a car, you never truly learn how to drive until you have your license and get on the road by yourself. Til then though, you learn most effectively by having an instructor next to you, to guide you – when you need guiding.
kev
Hi Kev,
The basics are pretty much the same (although Chris’ membership site is prettier than mine).
Other than that, he goes into all the specifics of how to create your own information product, which of course is significantly different than
affiliate marketing.
As for contacting me directly… anything you submit via the support page in the membership area of Affiliate Blogger PRO goes directly to my email. 🙂
And you are so right… everyone learns best by doing.
Cheers,
Ros
hi ros,
i totally agree with you two. it seems that for the one reason or other whenever i did something in my life just because i wanted and just because i loved it – it usually made me money somehow. recently i watched a fantastic video – where steve jobs is talking about exactly that – http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D1R-jKKp3NA
thanks!
Looks like a great course Rosalind – and your dead on with the title of the post.
If you enjoy what you are doing you will never work a day in your life, and the money will follow.
Why chase the money let the money chase you!
BTW Chris sounds like he has a pretty good gig going there lol.
It has always been said that if you do follow your passion and do the right things, the money will follow. It’s sort of like feeding cows in a pasture from the back of your pickup truck. Drive into the pasture, honk your horn a few times to get the cow’s attention and they will follow you as you drop bundles of hay and pellets off the tailgate. They get fat, you take ’em to the sale barn…and then get paid. Works every time.
Hi Ocha,
That’s especially true when you are passionate about cows. 🙂
Cheers,
Ros