Dear Friend,
I thought I'd be dead by now. Or still flying fighter jets. But you and I both know life can throw you a few surprises now and then... and that's what this is all about. The weird but true story of how a 30 year old fighter pilot accidentally found a foolproof system for making money on the Internet using a cheap camera and a crappy laptop.
I'll be honest with you, I Thought The Internet Was Only For Looking At Girls! Or getting email or whatever! I'd never even heard of "Internet Marketing" and I wouldn't have known a "marketing guru" if he walked up and handed me a $100 bill. After all, I'd been in the cockpit of my jet for the past 8 years and my main focus was on staying alive during my combat missions - not messing around on the computer!
But One Day It All Went Down The Tubes... Just a few short minutes after touching town on the runway, I felt a searing pain shoot down my left leg. I could hardly move. What was happening? All that supersonic maneuvering caused unbearable back pain that took me out of the game. After 987 hours of flight time, (near the 1000 hour milestone every pilot guns for), I could barely get out of my cockpit. If the plane ever caught on fire with me in this condition, I would burn alive… So I had to fess up with the doctors…
August 2007. After checking me out with an MRI, the first thing the docs decided to do was inject my herniated disc with goo. Let me tell you, not a pleasant experience. Three times I was stabbed by a 4 inch needle and slowly injected with “medicine”. It didn’t work. Next, it was off to surgery. The docs put me under the knife to relieve the pressure. At the end, they told me I had an 85% chance of flying again.
During the recovery, I was soon bored stiff. After working 12 hours a day, sometimes 6 days a week doing something I loved, there was only so much ESPN I could watch. Not being able to sit, I could only stand, or lie in bed… and it was torture. After developing an interest in Internet Marketing a few weeks before surgery, I decided to give it a shot. Seemed harmless enough.
I learned the fastest way to bring in cash if you were a beginner was to sell other peoples products. (Affiliate Marketing.) And after flying one of the fastest jets in the world, slow was not appealing!
I wasn’t exactly armed to the teeth with the latest in technology. All I had was an old laptop, and a Casio Exilim camera. So I needed to figure out how to work with what I had. Quickly, I developed a strategy… Make quick videos telling the story of my recovery… and what I was doing to take my mind off the pain.
The Results Were Astounding! Within 3 weeks, I was making money. Not getting rich, (almost a grand), but making real cash. And all I did was point the camera at myself, and tell people about products, and send them to a link to find out more...
This is where it all started for me!