“Don’t focus on having a great blog. Focus on producing a blog that’s great for your readers.” ~Brian Clark

I am going to be talking about making money online for the next week or so.  This has been a mission of mine for the past few years.  I think just a bit of my background may be useful here.

Some of you know that I was successful at making money fairly early in my business career.  I retired, I thought for the balance of my life, when I was 36 years old.  It took me just about 12 years to achieve this first retirement.  (When I was 24 years old, I had set the goal for myself of retiring before I was 40)  People talk about being bored when they are retired and what a mistake it was for them to ever quit work.  Not me!  I traveled the world.  I lived in other countries.  I worked on my private pilot license and flew great small planes.  I invested nearly 2 years becoming a very accomplished sailor.  I got my advanced scuba certifications.  I went back to school and studied with masters of coaching and personal evolution – my time studying NLP and working with Tony Robbins are great highlights of my life so far.  And then the money ran out!

It’s not quite as simple as that.  I knew I was not a cheap date and I had a good stream of investment income.  And then a wonderful investment opportunity in a Canadian company came my way in 1998 and I took a big chance – either all of my financial dreams would come true or I would need to start again.  Things were great for 18 months or so and then the bottom fell out of the market – you may be old enough to remember the rise and crash of the dot coms.  Anyhow, most, but not all of my money evaporated in a very short period of time.

I could have cut my lifestyle back considerably and done alright, but I had gotten used to living well and I did not want to change until I had to.  So, I lived well and high, literally high in my penthouse overlooking the ocean in Vancouver British Columbia, until I had to go back to work.  So, I have already had nearly 10 years of wonderful retirement.

So, what does any of that have to do with making money online?  I believe that moving my business online is the future that will fully fund my next early retirement.  When I came back to work, I set myself the goal of retiring again, at a much higher level, before I was 60 and I am certain that I am going to make it.  I am also certain that the internet is going to be a key component of making this happen.

For today, I would like you to follow this link provided by my blogging coach.  His name is Yaro Starak and he and his partner Gideon have been instrumental in transforming my business.  If you let them, they will transform your business as well.  Here is the link to their Become a Blogger site and training course. The free report there has already been downloaded over 20,000 times and I found it quite useful myself.

Next time I will talk more about what the internet has already done for my business and what it could do for yours.

Till next time…Jack

“The first thing you need to decide when you build your blog is what you want to accomplish with it, and what it can do if successful.” ~Ron Dawson