Sorry I’ve been MIA.  I have a good excuse:  I’ve been living the internet lifestyle.  (aka:  working my butt off!)

My business is doing really well, and honestly – that keeps me, and my Team, really busy.  Which brings me to the point of this post, the real life of internet entrepreneurs and those living the internet lifestyle.

Frank Kern sums it up pretty well in this video.

*Warning:  there is foul language used in this video. So do not watch with young children present.  The message is still good – so worth watching.

After you watch the video:  please share your thoughts below.  I’d love to discuss with you what you thought of Frank’s video, do you agree?  Do you still think there’s a magic button to make your internet lifestyle dreams come true?

Seriously – I want to discuss this with you.  Post your thoughts below.

By Jimmy D. Brown of Membership To Go

One of the questions I get asked a lot is this:

“Jimmy, after being a full-time internet marketing for more than a decade, what’s one thing you know now that you wish you knew back when you started?”

Good question.

The answer is simple: I wish I knew about how to set up a residual income business via fixed-term memberships back in the late 90′s so I could have built a residual income base much earlier in my “career” than I actually did.

SIDEBAR: “Fixed term membership” is a phrase that I personally created and introduced to the internet marketing crowd, although the concept itself wasn’t original to me. A “fixed-term membership site” (FTM) consists of content shared via autoresponder to paid members for a specified period of time.

I wanted to take a moment to address something that is a huge problem:  spam.  I’m not talking about spam in a can – I’m talking about the spam that lands in your email inbox. But do you really understand what spam is?

Spam is technically defined as:

Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. (emphasis mine)

So the actual definition of spam is the receiving of email you did not sign up for, opt in to or ask to receive.   More specifically: