Welcome to my affiliate and Internet marketing blog. It’s Franck Silvestre, the Body Guard Marketer…
Yeah, I was a Body Guard, member of the International Baffalo Protection (IBP), I worked for many top models, Michael Jordan, Thierry Mugler… I am also a martial artist (I practice silat, ju-jutsu, seibukan shoryn ryu and I also did a bit of everything like capoeira, taekwondo…).
I have a big problem… I don’t like to work for someone else!
… When I got married, I stopped my body guard ‘carreer’ (but NOT martial arts), because it was a bit of dangerous life… Never knew if I would sleep at night… or if it would be my very last night (I still don’t know btw).
I was a pizzeria owner 6 years ago, (made cash as a body guard, bought a failing business, and after one year I sold it for a good profit), however I retired in a religious retreat… It is one of the best thing I’ve done in my life (I’m 32 now).
The only thing is that while I was in my retreat, with my wife and 2 childs, I never worked! As you are in business, you know what happened:
When your cash don’t work for you, it goes…
After 2 years of travelling… no cash anymore!
But I didn’t care, because when you live for God, you don’t care about money, I wasn’t born with money and I will die without money. All that I will have with me are my actions: Good or Bad.
So I started to work. And you know, I hate that because it doesn’t fit with my personality, I am a business owner born and I like to be the one at the head of the operations.
I worked 3 years (from 2002 to 2005) until I stopped (I couldn’t save any money to start a new business offline).
One day, I was at home (in dec 2005), and I looked at my computer screen. I don’t know why, but something told me… “Franck, here is the money”… then I started to type “make money online”… and also in French “comment gagner de l’argent sur Internet” and everything sarted from here.
I then started paid to read stuff, survey… I rapidly left those things because I saw that it will not bring me any money..
I then had a quick glance at affiliate marketing and I knew that it was what I need to get this money rolling in my bank account again, I was alone, trying safelist and crap, and happily I found a coach (I made a lot of money in the Forex market - many sub-affiliates were earning money for me as well -, however the bastard didn’t pay!)
Ok, I left and went ahead and actually, even if he didn’t pay us, the techniques taugth were gold, and still make me money.
Now, I am an affiliate marketer, and I realized (by intuition and observing / contacting successful SUPER affiliates) that it’s much better to sell your own products through YOUR own affiliates…
Now there is a lot of pure crap sold on the web, I could write name of well known ebooks that I’ve read! How in the world people can say this for $47, $97 or any price. Some products are good, but most of them are pure rip off! People buy a book, and just copy it.
I will start my products now, and sell affiliate products on the back-end. It’s much better, and like this I will not be upset against IE6 or 7 because they block my cookies or don’t even display the site when someone click on my link…
Today is march 5 2007, I just updated my bio after reading “Internet Integrity” from Terry Dean, and you should read it as well instead of buying $97 ebook that don’t deliver. Build an Internet business.
The problem with many people is that they don’t have a business mentality.
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Franck Silvestre,
The Body Guard Marketer!
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