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Originally Posted by Grapesoda
when I worked on sister/sister one of the guys on the crew had won the lottery twice... once for a few million and once for a few hundred thousand... he put the money in the bank, left it and continued with his life until retirement... an older guys so just about 5 years away....
meanwhile one of the black actors complained because he only made 50K a week and whitey was fucking him  |
Yeah, being wealthy is a mindset for sure. It's about doing a lot of things consistently right. It's about wanting it. Its about being determined. Its about taking huge chances. Its about taking personal responsibility. Something most refuse to accept as the implications of those things with respect to the one complaining are not overly flattering.
I had a relative contact me recently about PPC asking me if i could show him as he had just closed one of his busineses' and told me he had 90 days and he was out of cash. I was very leery as I knew he was not a go getter and didn't take much personal responsibility for anything and wasn't going to sacrifice 14hrs a day to learn and obsess so that in 90 days, he'd be able to pay his bills.
I was pretty clear with him that there is no easy way from the start. I was very clear that 90 days was not a lot of time to not only learn a huge amount of stuff, but to then be profitable in time to pay his bills and be ok. I expected a tremendous sense of urgency on his part... but of course, i should have known better.
We began with me helping him. I set him up with the best of everything - high converting landing pages, high converting banners/high CTR banners, lightening fast servers/CDNs, full tracking setup and gave him every advantage that 95% of people trying to buy traffic will never have. He struggled. I started feeling bad as I knew I was draining his money trying to teach him, so I explained that I can give him the data and a roadmap to at least make 4-500 a day from my own stats and historical data.
First, he starts telling me his internet was out and he couldn't email spreadsheets back and forth. A normal person would have ran to starbucks and kept working or used their cell phone as a hot spot... he instead fucked off for 2 weeks until his internet was restored (was a legit issue with Verizon) and then started asking incredibly stupid questions, the answers to which were glaringly obvious... not to learn, but to create the impression that he was working hard - though the questions also clearly indicated he wasn't.
He's family and he's helped me in the past but that was too much. I knew from the start he would do this and really i was just trying to clear my conscience I suppose. But at that point, i felt like he deserved to lose his house. I stopped answering the phone and Skype and went back to working on my own stuff which I grew substantially in the last month alone.
When it all goes bad for him, he'll have a great story about how the bank fucked him, how everything else fucked him, how nothing is his fault and so on as most people do.