About Franck
Hey, I’m Franck Silvestre, a 35 years old guy from the Caribbean Sea (”La Guadeloupe”, just beneath Trinidad & Tobago – beautiful Island by the way).
I started my Internet business journey from scratch in 2006 with a free blogger blog and his determination to make a living from the Internet.
I travel all around the world with his wife, his two (recently three) kids and his indispensable laptop.
I started with affiliate marketing, made my first commission in the forex market ($250.00) and, then, after a lot of trials, failure, stress and patience, I managed to create a $1,000.00+ monthly income in 2007, I then decided that it was the time to create my own products.
I quickly started to sell thousands of dollars worth of my own products (low flag ship $7 products), while still making money with affiliate marketing. This helped me to double my online income, and I never looked back.
Today, I makes a living online and I also help beginners (his offline and friends) to jumpstart their own Internet business and eventually make a living from the Internet. I am now working on creating an Internet marketing product line to help beginners.
My Internet business newsletter is read by thousands of loyal subscribers, and my one-on-one Internet business coaching program helped many beginners to start make money online.
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Want to know EVEN More details about me? (you’ll learn more about my story – in a really small nutshell & not in particular order…):
Before we start, I wanted to let you know that I built two super seo powered wordpress blogs (started them back in the days in 2007, but Someone (a hacker) didn’t like my performances and hacked my two money making blogs). Since (dumb me) I didn’t have a backup, they were lost forever.
These blogs were very important for my online business because I was using them to get top seo rankings for almost any keywords. And this made me thousands of dollars in affiliate commissions… until it dried down completely (I hate hackers).
But this didn’t stop me. In December 2008, I started this new blog (and a couple of others as part as my top secret seo strategy). Today, I get top rankings for my keywords (not any keywords, but the money-getting-keywords) in just days and sometimes in just minutes if the keyword isn’t too competitive…
Even more about me… from the beginning
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 pencak 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 ‘career’ (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 became 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), then, 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 children, I didn’t bring in any revenue… All I did was spending money! As you probably guess… after 2 years of traveling and spending a lot of money… 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 anyway. The only thing I’ll take with me are my actions: Good or Bad.
So I started to work. And you know, I really hate to work for someone else 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 for three years as a P.E. teacher (from 2002 to 2005) until I stopped (I couldn’t save any money to start a new business offline, so I didn’t see the benefit of working).
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 started from there…
After that, I started paid to read stuff, survey… I quickly left those things because I quickly realized that I wasn’t going to make a living with these activities…
I started roaming online searching for a solution, for a real way to make money online. I remember seating in front of my computer at 6.00 AM and leaving at 12.00 PM. I’m serious, I did this for weeks… without any money coming in. It was a really stressful situation… Plus with my wife wondering what the heck I was doing, it was not easy to handle…
Happily, I stumbled upon affiliate marketing, but I didn’t know if it was the real deal, and I didn’t make any money for months (I was doing nothing to make money anyway).
I finally got into a coaching program for free, and this is how I made my first commission $250. I made a lot of money in the Forex market – many sub-affiliates were earning money for me as well -, however the bastard (the coach) didn’t pay me!
Ok, I left and went ahead and actually, even if he didn’t pay us, the techniques I learned were pure gold, and they still make me money today.
Now, I am an affiliate marketer and make money promoting other people’s products. However, 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…
As always, I decided to learn from the best in the industry. I got another affiliate mentor (Mark Ling), this time, it was an excellent coach, and my business really started to take off. For business I got Eben Pagan… I get every course he releases, I have the get altitude, the guru mastermind and his other wake up productive home study courses. These are pretty expensive (I got some of them because I made a lot of affiliate sales though), but they are worth every pennies when you finally understand that making money online is nothing else than a real business.
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…
I don’t claim to know it all (heck, whenever you see someone claiming that, run as fast as you can), but I know enough to take any Internet business newbie and get him to start his Internet business on solid foundation and earn four figures on the Internet.
I hope my story will inspire you to start your own Internet business this year… and if you need me to mentor you, just contact me.
Franck Silvestre,
The Body Guard Marketer!
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