And it was NOT easy.
Every single business was started on a shoestring budget. And for the first few years, things were extremely lean.
I was so broke I went out on a limb and financed all my start-up costs on multiple credit cards. I worked around the clock, often surviving off Pot Noodles so I could invest extra money into testing marketing ideas.
And like so many other entrepreneurs, I hit my fair share of roadblocks. (Actually, “roadblocks” doesn’t even come close to describing the disasters, disappointment and depression I endured.)
After six long, painful and humiliating years of one business failure after another, my first successful venture involved selling private label books on eBay.
Sure, I made some decent money. Enough to eventually quit my full-time job constructing car doors at the Nissan factory I’d worked at since graduating high school.
But the BIG money didn’t start rolling in until I realised that I could make more money teaching people how I’d been doing it.
As soon as I figured that out, I experienced a…
