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Welcome to The IM Inside Track

As I compose this first post, there are tons and tons of thoughts running through my head.

You see, this is a site that I’ve always wanted to find. It’s something I’ve always known that was needed. It’s something that I never in my wildest imagination thought that was meant for me to be the creator.

But here I am, with high hopes, and it’s been a long and twisted path.

You might or might not know my own story, so I’ll just tell you a little bit to set the stage for those who don’t know me, and more will come out later.

My background went from college to the U.S. Army to a job as a programmer, which I absolutely loved. That lasted 6+ years, and for the sake of money, since I was newly married and my wife was newly pregnant, I took a job with a small software company which moved me from Pennsylvania to New Jersey to be their technical support manager.

I loved that job also, but something inside me made me want to do more, earn more, and make a difference for more companies. I guess I was an entrepreneur, so in 1981 I started a little software consulting company, and for 8 years I traveled back and forth across the country teaching other programmers, and sometimes took consulting gigs with area businesses designing their online systems and doing some programming if called upon.

I loved the work. I didn’t particularly love the travel. By 1989 I was burned out, and had some money in savings, so I made my first career change, and opened a retail store selling sports collectibles and later other types of collectibles.

I now appreciate people who run retail businesses, because it was a non-stop grind, and eventually not real profitable, which helped me build up a 6-figure credit card debtload.

In 1998 I found eBay through the help of a friend, and did that while I still had the store. I set up a web site as well, and started following the IM’ers of that time that convinced me that riches awaited.

Hah! If only it were as easy as they made it out to be. But at my age, and with my debt, there was no way I could find a job that would pay me enough to pay down my debt as well as earn enough to live on.

So I tried everything, and from 2002 through 2005 nothing worked. It kept getting worse… and then about that time, there were two armed robberies. My wife had a knife at her throat the first time, and I had a gun at my back for the second one. But it all worked out, and actually might have been what inspired me to work just a wee bit harder to make the Internet marketing thing work.

That was my first why, and we’ll talk about whys later. I wanted to get rid of that albatross of a store so bad I could taste it.

In 2005, in my darkest hours, with debt at over $300,000, and no more available, I sat down and decided to forget most of what I had learned to date, and focus on setting up small websites that were monetized with Adsense and eBay affiliate links. To get traffic quickly, I used Google Adwords pay per click.

It worked, but it wouldn’t work today, so don’t run off trying to do that now.

The fact that it worked then, and the fact that some online friends encouraged me to write about my methods, resulted in my first book, 5 Bucks a Day, and then a free forum, and later a paid membership site (Earn1KaDay), and much more including more books than I can count without seeing them listed.

I consider myself very lucky indeed, not only the success, not only ridding myself of the debt, not only a little bit of fame, I guess, but more than anything the fact that I’ve made quite a few friends online.

I’ve learned a lot. I’ve communicated in various ways with a lot of people who follow me through my membership, that have purchased my books, that have gone to my seminars, and who follow me on Facebook or elsewhere.

The fact that there are people in the world that follow me, and have told me that they appreciate what I teach them, sometimes even saying that I’ve changed their lives, makes me want to go even further in spreading the word about what’s possible if you do things the right way, and that’s what I want to teach in this site.

I’ve heard that Internet marketing isn’t always the most respected profession in the world, and I guess I can understand why. There is sometimes a propensity for marketers to embellish things for the sake of a sale, and I’ve heard many a tale of gullible people being taken for thousands and tens of thousands of dollars because they were promised that they could get rich if they would just follow the marketer.

I guess I was sucked in also back in the old days, but fortunately not for huge amounts of money.

So to make a long story short, I know what it feels like to be starting, or even beyond starting — to be doing what I thought was the right process and getting relatively nowhere.

And I know it isn’t just me with that problem, as I’ve received many emails and read many forum posts over the years that absolutely frustrate me to death, and sometimes break my heart.

If I had a dime for every time someone told me they need to make quick money, and they have no money to invest in coaching or high-ticket courses because they’ve already thrown money away on a coach or mentor or another high-ticket course, I’d be rich.

Well, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but I’ve still heard that a lot.

So here you are, and here I am, and I like to think that what I’m charging you to be here is relatively painless.

I hope I can help you, I really do, and I hope you’re ready.

What I will be doing inside The IM Inside Track is to share with you on a frequent basis some of the tips and tricks and thoughts that I’ve learned over the years since I started doing this.

I’ve done well since 2005. I’ve made friends that have also done well, and I’ve learned from them.

As I write this today, I’ve outlined 14 different major topic areas that I’ll be depositing short articles and blog posts and podcasts about inside your members area, with a dozen or two or three sub-topics for each major topic area.

I’m sure that as the site fills up, those numbers will grow substantially, and I hope you don’t get tired of hearing from me.

If you’re looking for ways to earn more income, we’ll have that.

If you’re looking for advice on how to do certain technical things, we’ll have that.

If you’re looking for marketing advice, we’ll have that.

If you’re looking for butt-kicking now and then about your habits and mindset, we’ll have that too, and I hope you don’t mind.

We’ll have a whole lot more, of course, and today I can’t even imagine what will be here a year from now, and what the price will be then.

But today, you’re here, you’re paying a reasonable monthly fee (right?), not too much to break the bank, but something, so that you appreciate the value (I’ve found that people who get stuff for free don’t have any “skin in the game” and totally ignore what they’re given).

The schedule for posting and delivery of the content here isn’t set in stone yet. I intend to send you something at least a few times a week, maybe slightly more some weeks. I won’t forget about you, and I hope you don’t forget about me. I sincerely want to count you as one of my success stories in the future, and even more so I hope that you come to know, like, and trust me, and that you build your business in a way that your customers and followers will know, like and trust you.

Until next time, have a spectacular day.

 

Dennis Becker, the 5 Buck Guy