I'm going to tell you a story about a man that flunked out of school at
the age of 16. It was so bad at school that the only A's he got were in
physical education. When he was in junior high he never did any work in
English because he hated it so much. Of course, if you don't have good
English, your reading suffers too.
He didn't like school at all. He would hook out of school and go to
work; he was only 13 years old (he looked a lot older). He went to
summer school every year just to get through junior high. I think they
just pushed him through because he doesn't remember doing anything but
showing up.
Why am I telling you this? Because the same man that flunked English
every year and quit school at the age of 16 is a successful Internet
marketer. And guess what he does. He helps people to discover multiple
ways to quickly create content for websites, articles, autoresponders
and any other type of content. And you’re right - it's me.
One day my best friend Lori, who is also my partner, was talking about
starting a home business. We both like to travel and we wanted our
business to be portable. We came up with this idea of working on the
Internet. We picked a guru program and put everything in it that we
could.
In the program, there was a lot of reading and writing. I had cold feet
right from the start. Lori knew that I had problems with reading and
writing. My writing was so bad that when I used spell-check I could
swear the computer was smoking and I was dreading it. Me. Of all
people.
But Lori saw something in me and figured a way around it. She had me
first start just doing some research on keywords. I wasn't too bad just
checking out some single words or phrases. After I did that for awhile
then she said that our websites needed to be blogged. What the heck is
a blog? Did I tell you that the only thing I knew about a computer was
how to fly my flight simulator? Not even how to write or send an
e-mail. When she mentioned writing a blog, I didn’t know what
to think. She told me that she would show me how to write just a few
lines.
I’d write a few lines about our different web
sites. Every time I wrote a blog I would have to ask her to make sure
everything was spelled okay. All day long I would do research on
keywords and I would try to write blogs. Lori would read them and
correct my spelling.
Then one day Lori said I should write an article about something that I
have a passion about. She said, don't worry about the spelling; just
write down what you know. I started doing what she asked. I had no idea
where she was going with this. When your spelling is not good, your
typing is even worse. I think my top speed was about six words a
minute. It took me awhile to put things down. But I did what she asked
and didn't think about it anymore.
One night Lori said, Jeff come here I want to show you something. You
are now a published author. I said there is no way that I could be a
published author. Lori edited my so-called articles and submitted them.
See you can write, she says. My response was, you must have rewrote the
whole article and just put my name on it. When I read it, it was my
words but spelled right.
I could not believe what she did. It opened my eyes and made me realize
that I can write articles and even e-books. My point to all this is, if
a high school dropout that flunked out of English every year can write
articles and e-books so can you.