Meet Me and Follow My Progress on YouTube! (Progress Thread)

[jazzfreak11]

Wow! Ryan I am loving these vids. The 52 week challenge seems very interesting. Internet marketing is something I would love to learn more about. Keep it up!

Thanks for the encouragement! This week I was really in a slump. Got next to nothing done and made no extra money.

However, that doesn't mean all news is bad news! Turns out there's a guy who's just starting a new business, he's been looking at me for a little while, and when he saw I was a coach at IMElite.com, that gave him the final push to call me up. I'd say there's a pretty good chance we end up working together (meaning anywhere from 1-3 thousand $ a month for me, which would be a big help to my current goals!). It's not super time-consuming work either: some simple PPC and social media management.

Anyways, I talk about all that stuff in the video. Here's week 5:

YouTube - Week 5: The Bad and the Ugly

• You can have riches, or you can have excuses
• Flippa promotion?
• My first offline client?
• Why I'm waiting to use Frank Kern's method
• Ryan Lucht takes on The Challenge!
• Overload

Keep in touch guys, sorry I haven't been active here very much lately. I'm still lurking (and learning!)

[Rem]

Hey Jazz this is good stuff. I missed this thread when it first came out. Not only is this good quality but it is inspirational. After watching these vids it has personally got me pumped up and makes me want to go out and hustle.

Keep up the good work and I may actually form my own progress thread if I can pull together some info.

Great Job!!!

Speed ++

[jazzfreak11]

Hey Jazz this is good stuff. I missed this thread when it first came out. Not only is this good quality but it is inspirational. After watching these vids it has personally got me pumped up and makes me want to go out and hustle.

Keep up the good work and I may actually form my own progress thread if I can pull together some info.

Great Job!!!

Speed ++

Thanks rem, I look forward to reading your progress thread if you can get one out!

As for my progress, luckily I had a MUCH better week this week and I'm seeing good stuff going down!

WEEK 6 VIDEO!

YouTube - Week 6: GOOD NEWS! (and disappointing news)

• I believe that the site flipping method is valid...but is it worth it?
• My bottom line on following Starting From Scratch explicitly
• Progress on my case studies
• Limiting beliefs with consulting?
• Amazing SEO Results from Google Sniper

[bateati]

Why challenges don't work.

Do you think your the only person trying to use these methods to make some money? (I know you don't think this)

Those methods are so saturated with competition even the best internet markets are having a hard time making money.

Consider this Ryan, instead of scheming up ways to make other people money.
Make yourself money!

Start your own business !
I see your already trying to do that, but put more energy into that.

These are fun videos to watch but I have to advise you to use that web savvy brain of yours on more personal ideas.

Start your own challenges.

Be the driver!
Listen to the information this forum provides you with.
Your already on your way to being successful. But your just riding the wrong bike (but on the right path)

[FDJustin]

You know, Bateati, completing these challenges publicly would be a very good way to begin setting up his own challenges. Not only because they're a learning experience, but because he'll show results.

[bateati]

By completing these challenges you will of course learn a few things.

But your potential is limited to only achieving the challenge inventors level of success. (which usally isn't shit in the scheme of things)

Anything you learn from those challenges is available to you right now by taking action and just doing it. Not to mention you may find a hole in the system, which is unexplored and can be hugely profited from.

If those challenges are so amazing these people would not be sharing them with the world. Maybe at one time they were a trend but that trend is obviously long gone by now hence the easily accessible information.

I do agree that after completing these challenges he will then have credibility to make his own challenges. Giving people emphasis to complete them for he may be considered an expert then.

But this is the fastlane forum, I do not advocate anything that isn't amazing with potential HUGE profit margins.


These needs are waiting to be filled. We need to find them.

Stop wasting your time with such mainstream ideas and methods.
That is unless you are scheming up a way of doing it better then everyone else.

Ryan you are young, I'm not much older. But start aiming for the moon right now, with every idea you decide to follow through with.
Don't waste any ounce of energy you may have making somebody else rich.

As you age, grow into the body of a ceo with high ambitions.

If your source of income relies on somebody elses success or sale...
Find something else to do because your already giving yourself up short.

There are of course limitations to this.

[LightHouse]

Actually the pace he is moving i think is good, he is learning a lot and making contacts a long the way. you can't wake up in the morning and shoot for the stars if you have 0 experience in what you are doing.

Ryan, Why not automate the ones that require building something?

[bateati]

Lighthouse I agree, you can't shoot for the stars with 0 experience.

But shooting for the stars requires its own experience. A different kind of experience, only obtained when shooting for the stars.

affiliate marketing or pay per performance programs are just bs for those who wish to be considered entrepreneurs. It's not sustainable and a waste of good efforts for somebody with higher plan in mind.

If this was the warriorforum or some tech forum I would not even bring this up because the common goal and theme there is to do this sort of thing.

This is a fastlane entrepreneur forum and when the members here loose track of what the end goal is I just feel like they should be reminded.

I don't care if hes 16, by the time hes 21 he could have a full pledged business going because he aimed high straight from the gate and eventually found something that worked.
Why should he wait till hes 21 to finally realize he has not been aiming high all this time just to start where he could of started now?

I am a very crazy compassionate person. I'd live in a tent for 4 months if I had to put fourth that sort of risk to strike gold or at least be a decent success at what I was trying to pull off.
Sometimes I sleep without a pillow or blanket just to not get to comfortable.

That being said, decide for yourself if what I say is something you would like to believe in and follow through with or not.

[jazzfreak11]

Hey folks,

I just read over some of your responses, and wow. They've got quite a bit of wisdom in them. Well, since I've last been posting around, I've been doing a lot of work. A lot of failing, a lot of reading, a lot of thinking, a lot of meeting people and working on things.

So here's my update.

FROM INTERNET MARKETING TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP: I've decided to go full blown with this. I've pretty much stopped blogging at RyanLucht.com . That's not a business. That's a for fun project that I just don't have time for any more.

Instead of being an affiliate marketer, I am now the President and CEO of Ryan Lucht Internet Properties. I'm focusing on a small portfolio of sites, ranking them in Google, promoting affiliate products, and tracking everything very carefully. Then I'll build my own products around those niches, sell them, build sales funnels, email lists, etc.

There's a lot of work to be done in this area, so I'm starting to look for people to help me. I don't have money to pay them, so that's out of the question. So I put out a YouTube video just 10 minutes ago looking for some unpaid interns/mastermind members who are willing to help out in exchange for access to training courses, tools, and a learning experience. (you can see that video here YouTube - WORK WITH ME! Make Dollar Signs! Fun Involved! )

I have 3 internet properties that I'm working on right now. One is from the 2010 Challenge, and is okay. One is on sat prep books, but that's brand new. The last is on Brain Training, and that's probably the furthest I've gotten in the process. That site has tons of links and I'm working on a free email course to start the sales funnel.

My 4th property is a blog called SchoolDestroyer.com, and it's in need of a major makeover. I still get plenty of traffic and a few sales here and there from it, so it's time to push it to the next level. I think I need to give it a new name, a new focus for it's content, maybe a new layout. It's going to be a big project, and I need a whole team just to help with that. I'm going to start recruiting for that team sometime soon, from among my IRL friends.

MY "JOB": As far as my "job" goes, I've continued working for various internet marketing clients, and I now have a waiting list of about 5 clients too! So that's going well. There's also a marketing firm with offices locally who wants to schedule an interview with me for a Paid SEO internship with them this summer.

WORK FOR FUN AND VOLUNTEERING: I've started another website just for fun about bowling, and any money I make from it is going to be spent taking my girlfriend of 8 months bowling. I'm also volunteering doing IM for two fundraising efforts: SaveMaryJacobsLibrary.com and MontgomeryFireworks.com . It's always nice to hear when I hit $1,000 or even $3,000 weekends.

FREELANCING: (In addition to doing MJ's idea of using all my spare change and starting a little Fastlane fund), I'm doing freelance writing jobs on oDesk, because I think they're really easy, and they give me spending money, and money to put into my (slightly premature) F.U. Fund (anti-job fund).

COLLEGES: Man oh man is this crazy. The college hunt is awfully exhausting. Right now I'm looking at Entrepreneurship programs at Northeastern, UDel, Syracuse, and Babson. I'm also looking at Entrepreneurship minors at UPenn and BU. In my research and visits so far, UDel and Syracuse both have incubators on-campus for student-run businesses, and I even met a girl at Syracuse who graduated last year and is there on an Entrepreneurial Fellowship, where she gets tons of grant money to grow her business, free grad courses, office space in the incubator, and mentoring from professors. Very cool.

Anyways, I think that wraps it up for now. See you guys later!