The success stories are everywhere. Young guys driving Lambos on TikTok. Influencers who film themselves making a sandwich and get 10 million views. For some of us, however, it doesn't come easy. I've been internet marketing since 2011. Like many of you, all I ever wanted was to be "free". To "live life on my own terms". The only problem... Well, I was not very good at it. I was living in Las Vegas at the time and was making no money online, so I found a job on Craigslist doing phone sales. It was miserable, but I earned just enough to survive. I worked as hard as I could. I stayed up late reading sales books every night. Zig Ziglar, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, you know... all the classics. Those books became my bible. I practiced every day. Slowly, I started getting better. But... Turns out, the company I worked for was run by a group of folks with... Shall we say "questionable business practices". When I started to notice the red flags, I considered quitting, buuuut I didn't. I was finally starting to get good at sales. That was a big mistake. As I turned a blind eye, I also became complicit. The FBI raided that company in 2013, but they weren't after me. Afterall, I was just an employee... I walked out of there, and decided I would never work for a place like that again. I moved back to Reno and decided it was time to go all in on myself. I had my first success online in 2014 when I started an ecommerce business in the action sports niche. I used Instagram automation to drive sales. From there, I developed other businesses too. It was going well. I focused on social media, paid ads, automation, messenger bots, optimizing my sales funnels, and much more. I got good at it. All my dreams were finally coming true... Then, in 2016 there was a knock on the door. Next thing I knew, I was being interrogated by the FBI. Turns out, what happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas... They were building a case on the Vegas fraudsters the whole time. I was indicted as a co-conspirator. You can see the full prison story here: