My Ultimate Guide to Personal Development and Financial Freedom

The terms self-help, personal development, personal improvement, personal growth, self-improvement, and information marketing are often used interchangeably. The industry is increasingly being referred to as the expert industry in recent times because, according to Brendon Burchard, it’s where “experts” operate.

While self-help (also used without hyphen) is now viewed as derogatory because of the assortment of snake oil salesmen (call them charlatans) that prowl about, online and offline, seeking who to unleash their wares and cures, it was the term first used to describe the industry and was coined by Samuel Smiles, a Scottish Doctor, in 1859. However, according to sacramentochiropractic.com, the origins of self help date back to the book “The Constitution of Man,” written by a Victorian phrenologist, George Combe, in 1828. It was followed by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Compensation” in 1841.

The personal development industry is estimated to grow to $13.2 billion by 2022, up 33.33% from the 2016 base of $9.9 billion. Quoting market research.com, Iulia-Cristina Uta writes, “the self-improvement market was worth $9.9 billion in 2016 and is estimated to grow to $13.2 billion by 2022 with 5.6% average yearly gains.”

Writing in brandminds.ro, and quoting Niels Eek, a psychologist, Iulia-Cristina Uta, elaborates, “Self-improvement is about consciously identifying and developing one or more facets of your life. From the perspective of an entrepreneur, self-improvement will often entail some sort of mental training but can mean anything from practicing stress management to valuable goal-setting. Professionals are often keen to learn things like time-management techniques (for better prioritizing tasks) and increasing productivity without compromising mental wellbeing.”

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According to brandminds.ro, the self-improvement market is wide and encompasses a large variety of products and services which range from books, to e-books, online courses, coaching programs, webinars, “academies”, “universities”, “masterminds”, masterclasses, conferences, mobile apps etc.

Taking the digital angle, Hazel Davi, a guest blogger at virgin.com quoted various sources and research findings as pointing to the fact that compared to other age groups, millennials are the most driven to engage in self-development. Writing under the title, “What does self-improvement look like in the digital age?”, she asserted, “Millennials love self-improvement; whether it’s learning how to be an inspirational leader or change-maker, coding for beginners or Leaning In - they seemingly can’t get enough of it.” You can get the full article here.

Since its creation in 1859, the industry has become unstoppable with thousands of “gurus” peddling their wares to whoever cares to read, listen, view, try, and buy.

When asked whether he was a “guru”, Peter Drucker had responded that, “The term charlatan was too difficult to pronounce so someone invented the word guru.” In this regard marketresearch.com has this to say. “Consumers are realizing that there are many so-called “experts” now peddling a variety of online “masterminds”, “academies”, “universities” and coaching services. Too many, in fact. As a result, gurus are trying to figure out how to cut through the clutter while consumers are trying to identify legitimate, competent experts.”

According to sacramentochiropractic.com, September is National Self Improvement Month in the US. According to the blog, it’s “a time to reflect upon your life, set new goals and take strides to make personal changes in order to achieve the life you truly wish.” The US is unique in this regard as the only country I know of with a full month set aside for self improvement. Any wonder the US is the global centre of gravity for self-improvement. The industry was estimated to be worth $11 billion in the US in 2018, according to webwire.com.

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What I Wrote About Self Help In 2015

I’ve always been fascinated with the self-help industry since I stumbled on Brian Tracy’s motivational tapes years back. At about the same time I stumbled on the “12 Pillars of Business Success” by Jay Abraham. That led me to “Success Magazine”, and later “Excellence Magazine”, and later became a huge fan of Tony Robbins, whose “Unlimited Power”, and “Awaken The Giant Within” I devoured.

That was long before the internet. Today the internet has put self-help in everybody’s palm.

In 2015 I wrote a blog post on the subject for my fans and it was later published here.

You can read it right here (see enclosed). The title is:

DOES ATTITUDE REALLY DETERMINE ALTITUDE? Keith Harrell’s book screams, Attitude is Everything: 10 Life-Changing Steps to Turning Attitude into Action. Jeff Keller not to be outdone goes a step further and shouts, Attitude is Everything: Change your Attitude, Change your Life. Two of the fathers of modern motivational literature, Napoleon Hill, and W. Clement Stone, had in 1960 written what many consider the definitive treatise on attitude when Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude was published. Though it didn’t have the word attitude in its title, Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People was on positive attitude and was first published in 1937.

The very first ever book on positive attitude was entitled Self Help and was written by Samuel Smiles, a Scottish doctor in 1859, and sold 250,000 copies. Oliver Swett Marden latched onto Self Help and in 1891 published his Pushing to the Front, which according to him were notes of “inspiration and help to strugglers trying to be somebody and do something in the world” , which culminated in his lunching of SUCCESS Magazine in 1895. According to the editors of SUCCESS Magazine, in SUCCESS, Marden “sought to inspire and uplift, to teach and to hold up models of success as a beacon for others who aspire to be the same.” With SUCCESS Magazine, Marden launched the “success movement”, otherwise also called the “self-help movement.”

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Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, which came out in 1937 literally set the success movement on fire and the movement has never looked back. At the time of Napoleon Hill’s death in 1970, it had sold over 20 million copies. The towering figures in this movement, excluding the founder Marden, and not necessarily in any order, include the early fathers like Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone, Earl Nightingale, Norman Vincent Peale, Denis Waitley, Wayne Dyer, and Og Mandino. Next are the later-day followers like Zig Ziglar, Harvey Mackay, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Brown, and Tony Robbins. With the advent of the internet, a new generation of success gurus led by Brendon Burchard has exploded in the scene with millions of followers. Donald Trump, the real estate mogul, is in a class of his own. His Think Big and Kick Ass In Business and in Life is one of the definitive bibles of the success movement.

The Self Help industry according to The Guardian, is a $11bn strong in the US alone, with books in this space such as Chicken Soup for the Soul series selling over a billion copies. The book The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne, published in 2006, and the follow up film starring Bob Proctor, made waves the whole world and was translated into 46 languages. The book has sold more than 19 million copies worldwide. The book is based on one of the several tendencies in the self help industry called the law of attraction. According to this law, what you think about, you attract. If you think positive thoughts, you attract positive things. The reverse, according to the author, is also true. Viola, change your thinking, change your life. John C. Maxwell, Wayne Dyer, Daniel Amen, Brian Tracy, and Marilee Adams are some of the more well known authors that have books on how thinking positive help change our lives.

So back to our question: does attitude really determine altitude? For the non cognoscenti, altitude refers to the level of your monetary success, the height of your achievement glory, the stupendousness of your wealth. A deep look at some of the most successful people on the planet, whether in politics, sports, academia, business, and entertainment, to mention a few, however, shows no causal relationship between attitude and success, however defined. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Muhammad Ali, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Jordan, Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs, Williams Shakespeare, Bill Gates, Ben Carson, and Oprah Winfrey, Tony Elumelu, Aliko Dangote, and Richard Branson, to mention a few, are some of the most successful individuals on record. How did each and every one of these individuals achieve stupendous success? ONE WORD: THROUGH GRIT.

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By success, I don’t just mean financial wealth, because Nelson Mandela, one of the most successful leaders that ever lived was not a multi millionaire. So the one and only ingredient that separates successful people from others is grit, by which I mean hard work, burning the mid night oil, iron determination, standing for something, sacrifice. Malcolm Gladwell tells us to succeed in any endeavour, you need 10,000 man hours of continued practice, that is, about 10 years in the trenches. Ten years of learning, ten years of focus, ten years of faith, ten years of passion, ten years of sacrifice are what you need to reach the proverbial tipping point.

Attitude is a state of mind, of always expecting the best no matter what the world throws on your path. But attitude (the software) without hard work (the hard ware) will not put bread on your table, even if you are a comedian. As a comedian, you have to continually come up with fresh rib crackers otherwise you will become stale, and that calls for extreme hard work.

John H. Johnson of the “Ebony Magazine” empire fame said “there is no defense against excellence”, and the boxing maverick, Don King, once said, “if you set yourself on fire, the world will come and watch you burn.” Don King was talking about passion, zeal, determination, to go out and make something out of yourself, not waiting for a dole out, social security or manna from heaven. Are you ready for success? Then wake up, put on your running shoes, fold your shirt sleeves, put your hand to the plough and never look back and the gods of success will show up. Only hard work will see you to the Promised Land because the maker of all the universe Himself decreed that he who does not work does not eat. Attitude alone my friend is not enough. You need a ton of grit to stand on.

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Which Are The Most Lucrative Segments of the Self-Help Industry?

The self-help industry evolves with evolving technologies. While radio, TV, newspapers and magazines dominated in the 50s to the 80s, today the internet holds sway, with digitally delivered products in apps, MP4s, MP3s, videos via YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia and podcasts dominate. Podcasts like the Tim Ferriss Show, The James Altucher Show, and Pat Flynn’s SPI (Smart Passive Income) attract up to 100 million listeners combined monthly. Oprah is in a special class her own, with OWN and The Oprah Winfrey Show attracting millions worldwide.

Sometimes it’s easy to mix up the medium, channel or technology with the market verticals. It’s important to note that technology is just a medium, or channel or mediator. For emphasis, if I train you how to write a book face-to-face in the classroom or train you in the form of a podcast using a platform such as Webinar Jam, am I a trainer or a podcaster? In all, the industry is categorized differently by different writers depending on where they are coming from: media, practitioners, or technologists. With that in mind let’s review some market classifications.

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Infomercials Audiobooks Marketresearch.com identifies the following as the top nine market segments of the self-improvement industry:

Self-improvement Books Self-improvement apps Personal Coaching Motivational Speakers Weight Loss Programs Public Seminars Holistic Institutes & Training Companies

Look at line 6, motivational speaking.

This industry is in a class of its own with the living and dead icons like Less Brown, Zig Ziglar, Jim Rohn, and Dale Carnegie the most celebrated. To take your game to the next level, grab my book, “The Celebrity Speaker” here, and read my blog post “The Little Known Secret of the World's Greatest Speakers And How You Can Join Their Ranks” here, “How To Make 7 Figures In The Speaking And Training Industry” here, and “The Top 7 Mistakes Amateur Motivational Speakers Make” here.

One of the most prolific online trainers in the world is Brendon Burchard, with over 2 million FaceBook followers, and over 1,000 YouTube training videos.

The founder of the Expert Industry Association (now defunct), author of five books, including The Charge, The Millionaire Messenger, and The Motivation Manifesto, he has been endorsed by Oprah, the Dalai Lama, and of ex-CNN’s legendary anchor, Larry King. Oprah.com refers to Brendon Burchard as “One of the most successful online trainers in history.” In his The Millionaire Messenger, Burchard lists the top 10 fastest growing segments of the “expert industry” as follows: Motivation Advice Leadership Advice Financial Advice Business Advice

Marketing Advice

Relationship Advice

Spiritual Advice

Style Advice

Productivity Advice

Health Advice (including weight loss) 7

According to sacramentochiropractic.com, webinars, teleseminars, and other virtual communications methods are fast replacing face-to-face training.

The fastest growing segments of the self-improvement seminar industry are:

Virtual Seminar Virtual Events Virtual Coaching

Other than relationships, the most common goals that people want to achieve through self-help books according to sacramentochiropractic.com are:

Increasing Happiness Spirituality Weight Loss Success Money

You can get more details here.

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The Most Lucrative Self-Help Segments in Figures

According to marketresearch.com as quoted in brandminds.ro, the various markets related to the self-improvement industry and how much they are worth are as follows:

Self-help audiobooks – $769 million Self-improvement books – $800 million Self-improvement apps – $27 million Personal coaching services – $1 billion in the US Motivational speakers – $1 billion per year combined The details are here.

HOW YOU CAN JOIN THE INDUSTRY According to Brendon Burchard’s “Millionaire Messenger”, you can share your expertise in seven dimensions and get paid, as: Author

Trainer

Coach

Consultant

Speaker Seminar Leader

Information Marketing

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Your book can provide the launching pad for your expert empire as experience by the following gurus will illustrate.

From being virtual unknowns, books helped catapult the following experts to stardom: Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hanson (Chicken Soup For The Soul), Jay Conrad Levinson (Guerilla Marketing), Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad), Tony Robbins (Unlimited Power). With your book, you can start training based on the ideas in it, then start speaking which could lead to coaching, consulting, seminars and information products.

Personally my “Bridges to the Customer’s Heart” opened doors to Fortune 500 companies and to some of the largest corporations and most respected CEOs and HRDs in Nigeria. This is what the late Jay Conrad Levinson said, “Someone once asked me how much I made for my first “Guerrilla Marketing” book.

The answer I gave was $10million. The book itself only paid me about $35,000 in royalties, but the speaking engagements, spinoff books, newsletters, columns, boot-camps, consulting, and wide open doors resulted in the remaining $9,965,000.

THE THREE PILLARS OF EXPERT

The Results Expert The Research Expert The Role Model

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The Top 5 Reasons You Should Stake a Claim In the Expert Industry According to Brendon Burchard in his The Millionaire Messenger, the top five reasons you should stake a claim in the self-improvement industry are: Your work is based entirely on your passion and knowledge.

Your work activities center on “relating and creating.”

You work anywhere and anytime, starting now.

You do not need a large team.

Financial income is disproportionate to any other industry.

The 10 Steps To Expert Empire

You may not be able to create the next Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram just yet, but if you want an empire that can generate for you $10 million within a few years - if you really work hard and follow the footsteps of the authentic gurus - you’ll not be wrong if you emulate Brendon Burchard’s guidelines . Here are the foundational principles for creating an expert empire as Brendon Burchard lays out in his The Millionaire Messenger:

Step 1: Claim and master your topic

Step 2: Pick your Audience

Step 3: Discover Your Audience Problems Step 4: Define Your story Step 5: Create a Solution Step 6: Put up a website Step 7: Campaign Your Product and Programs

Step 8: Post Free Content

Step 9: Get Promotional Partner Step 10: Repeat and Build the Business Based on Distinction, Excellence, and Service 11

This may sound too good to be true. Just 10 simple steps and you’re a millionaire. You’re quite right to be skeptical. And even cynical, and dismiss the whole notion with the wave of your hand. But listen carefully and listen hard.

While before it took donkey years to build a solid expert empire as Tony Robbins has done, thanks to the internet, you can build your empire today within a twinkling of an eye. While it took Tony upward of 40 years to amass his $500 million in networth, it took the online business strategy guru Ramit Sethi just 15 years to build his empire now estimated at $25 million. Can you guess where his empire will be in the next 15 years?

Tim Ferriss, whose empire is worth $100 million, built his within 10 years. His first mega successful book, “The 4 - Hour Workweek” was released in 2007. He released “The 4 - Hour Body” and “The 4 - Hour Chef” in quick succession.

Before you could write any rebuttal against his “4 - Hour” claims, he released “The Tools of Titans”, and “The Tribe of Mentors.” As at 2019, The Tim Ferris Show has been downloaded 400+ million times. Tim Ferriss as I stated earlier is worth $100 million and is 42 as at 2020.

Another mogul, James Altucher, is in a class of his own. He is a contrarian with three iconic books, “Choose Yourself”, “Reinvent Yourself”, and “The Power of No.” His estimated net worth is $50 million. While he has come a long way as a venture capitalist, it took him less than 10 years to skyrocket his profile to the stratosphere. His The James Altucher Show started in 2015 and as at today has had over 30million downloads. So a good book worth reading may be all you need to kick-start your empire as the late Jay Conrad Levinson did with his “The Guerilla Marketing.”

To round off, this is what Pat Flynn of the SPI (Smart Passive Income) fame who was one of the first “gurus” to jump into podcasting in 2009 has to say, “I'm not exaggerating that podcasting changed everything for my career, my business, and (really) my life. So much has changed since those early days of podcasting. Today, the podcast industry is booming at unprecedented growth rates. Technology innovations are making it super easy to record, edit, host, and publish a show. And brand super fans are increasingly craving the intimacy that a podcast's audio experience provides.”

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Who Are the Authentic Gurus As we have seen, the self-help industry dates back to at least 1828. Of course, that is not entirely correct. Motivating people, with oratory, dates back far longer to antiquity. As Adlai Stevenson once alluded, when Demosthenes (c. 384 - 322 BCE) spoke to the crowds in ancient Greece and people turned to each other, they said, “Let's march.” So self-help dates back at least 2400 years. However, it really took off with gusto with the advent of radio, TV, and now, the internet.

Here are the men and women that have made the biggest impact in the English speaking world, arranged not in terms of wealth amassed or age.

Missing are Sir Richard Branson, and Oprah Winfrey, two of the biggest motivators of the modern era, but they belong to the billionaire list.

THE FORERUNNERS James Allen

Samuel Clason

Napoleon Hill Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

W. Clement Stone Jim Rohn

Les Brown

Ken Blanchard

Viktor E. Frankl

Charlie “Tremendous” Jones Jay Conrad Levinson

Brian Tracy

Jay Abraham

Jack Canfield

Mark Victor Hanson

Tony Robbins

Dan Sullivan

Richmond Dayo Johnson

Dale Carnegie

Marcia Weider

Robert Cialdini

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THE NEW GURUS Gary Vaynerchuk Joe Polish

Tim Ferriss

Brian Clark Pat Flynn

Marie Forleo

Rand Fishkin

Ramit Sethi Jon Morrow

Ruth Soukup

James Schramcko

Michelle Shroeder-Gardner

Neil Patel

Brian Dean

Brendon Burchard

Daren Hardy

Daren Rowse

Derek Sivers

Jeff Goins

Peter Diamandis

Ryan Deiss

Michael Hyatt

John Gray

Facts About the Personal Development Industry • Tony Robbins is the richest self-improvement guru with net-worth estimated at $500 million in 2020.

• The best-selling self-improvement book of all time is “Men Are From Mars, Women are from Venus” by John Gray with estimated 50 million copies sold.

• The best-selling book series is the Chicken Soup for the Soul with estimated 500 million copies sold globally, with Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen the authors of the first book in the series. Altogether, 1 billion products in the series have been sold.

• The biggest online trainer is Brendon Burchard.

• The best known online business strategist who does not regard himself as a blogger is Ramit Sethi.

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Embarking on Personal Development as a Student As a student or a learner, you must be clear on what you really want regarding your personal development, vis-à-vis, what you really need. At the higher order of things or at the strategic level, Dan Sullivan in his “The Dan Sullivan Question”, identifies three things people really need in their quest for learning: Clarity about your future direction Confidence about what you’ve already achieved Capability to achieve bigger goals Studies have shown, e.g. the Hawthorne Experiment, and many gurus, including the late Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Charlie “Tremendous” Jones, have all emphasized, achievement is 10% physical and 90% mental. That’s why gurus emphasize the need for a “positive mental attitude.” Those who take their game to the highest level focus on uncluttering their minds first by unlearning, relearning, and learning.

Stephen Covey in his “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” calls the process Sharpening The Saw in reference to Abraham Lincoln’s wise saying, “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.”

So as a learner continually sharpen the saw. Life today requires lifelong learning because the half-life of knowledge, that is, the time it takes what you know to become obsolete, gets ever shorter occasioned by unceasing technological change. Stephen Covey used the formula “P/PC Balance” and the “parable of the golden goose” to illustrate the point. What he teaches is that there must a delicate balance between production and production capability. Learning increases your production capability.

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The key to learning is finding the right teacher. But as always, as the Buddha said, “When the student is ready the teacher appears.” In today’s world, however, where there are thousands of teachers and fake prophets and gurus in each field, the right teacher will not just appear, you must diligently search for one. Irrespective of the area you wish to master, there are excellent teachers.

As a guide you may wish to begin with the list of “gurus” above. Sometimes going to the big gurus may be counter- productive as you may not be able to afford them and their level of knowledge may be too high for you. Look for unheralded gurus who can guide you until you’re ready to make the next leap.

I Paul Uduk can help you.

According to the Dreyfus model, there are five levels in skill acquisition as follows:

• Novice

The “conscious competence” learning model recognizes four psychological states:

• Unconscious incompetence

• Advanced Beginner • Competent • Proficient • Expert

• Conscious incompetence • Conscious competence • Unconscious competence

Coaches and trainers divide most of their offerings into three categories: Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced. Depending on what you need as a learner, as opposed to what you want, and depending on your level of competence and existing skill, a good trainer will guide you accordingly to where to start.

Be humble enough to follow the guidance of your coach or teacher or instructor. When I started my banking career, I needed to pass certain professional banking exams to be certified for instance and I wanted to start at the advanced level but my coach gently advised me to start at the basic level and it paid off.

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To select a coach, look at his or her pedigree: what has s/he achieved in his field. Is his or her achievement merely a paper certificate or there is something to back it up, e.g. has s/he written a book in the subject? Look for references, ex-students, check blogs and websites and you’ll discover who is who?

The Skills You Need to Quickly Hone The world, especially the world of technology, moves at a breakneck speed so constant learning is the new normal.

Arie P. de Geus in his 1997 book, “The Living Company”, indicated that the half-life of knowledge, that is, the time it takes knowledge to become obsolete was 12 to 24 months depending on the industry, today I don’t know if it’s up to six months. Today we’re talking about 5G technology, while Huawei indicated it’s already started exploring 6G. Driverless cars, AI, 3-D printing, IoT (Internet of Things), drones, robotics are all becoming or will soon become the new normal. At the personal level, you need to quickly acquire skills in the following areas:

• Effective Communication (including Public Speaking) • Online Business • Blogging • Content Marketing • Copy Writing • SEO (Search Engine Optimization) • Creative Writing • Online Training • Coaching • Mentoring • HTML • Coding • Drone technology • App design

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Recommended Books, Blogs, Websites for Students (see the Appendix) The books I showcase in this blog post are the ones I’ve read and will help shorten your learning curve; the blogs and websites I highlight are the ones I follow, subscribe to and buy products; the gurus I’ve mentioned are the ones I know, follow and learn from. Obviously there are thousands others I don’t know out there. As you diligently search you’ll discover new ones. In addition to the recommended books, blogs, and websites, get my eBook, “How Experts Build Empire: The Paul Uduk Story.” It’s a treasure trove of information for the beginner. You can get it here.

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Personal Development and Financial Freedom for Experts As I’ve already indicated, experts operate in seven dimension as Author, Trainer, Speaker, Coach, Consultant, Seminar Leader, Information Marketer. As in all spheres of human endeavour, the 80/20 rule applies. Only 20% of experts are making the kill while the remaining 80% eke out a living on about $60,000 average salary per annum according to indeed.com. To join the boat of those making it, every expert must jump onto the online business train. It’s already crowded out there but as the saying goes, the best time to have started was 20 years ago, the next best time is now.

Ramit Sethi started about 15 years ago and is worth $25 million today. You too can get a piece of the cake if you made a push for it.

This is what James Altucher said. “Most Americans have only their salaries to provide their income, and often times that is not enough to live the life they want. It can feel hopeless…” For many trainers, speakers, coaches, artist, and consultants, it can indeed feel hopeless. But it doesn’t have to be that way. If the earnings of the gurus I have highlighted in this blog post are anything to go by, there is still room for one extra guru. You could be that one extra guru.

But only, if you’re willing to swallow your pride, and embark on learning new skills in the broad field of “online business.” If you do, you’ll attain financial freedom as Tim Ferriss, Ramit Sethi, Brendon Burchard, and Ruth Soukup, to mention four gurus I learn from.

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Without going into details these are the things you need to learn doing:

Learn Building/ Doing What Online Coaching Platforms

Marketing Online Learning Courses

Example

Driver

Singularity University Genius Network High Performance Academy B-School Elite Blog Academy Super Fast Business Writers Den Platform University Tribe Writers IWT (I Will Teach You to be Rich) Growth Lab Growth Machine Experts Academy

Peter Diamandis Joe Polish Brendon Burchard Marie Forleo Ruth Soukup James Schramko Carol Tice Michael Hyatt Je Goins Ramit Sethi Ramit Sethi Nat Eliason Brendon Burchard

Earnable Serious Bloggers Only EBA (Elite Blog Academy)

Ramit Sethi Jon Morrow Ruth Soukup

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Learn Building/ Doing What

Example

Super Blogs

Pro Blogger Copy Blogger Smart Blogger The Linda Ikeji Blog

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing Affiliate Marketing

Podcasting

The Tim Ferriss Show The James Altucher Show Smart Passive Income

Mega Conferences

Traffic & Conversion Summit

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Driver Darren Rowse Brian Clerk Jon Morrow Linda Ikeji

Rosalind Gardner Michelle Schroeder-Gardner

Tim Ferriss James Altucher Pat Flynn

Ryan Deis

My Last Word

“ Carving a piece of the internet (online) cake goes beyond having a website. It goes beyond being an expert on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and other social media platforms. It goes beyond running online training on Zoom, Skype, Go-to-Meetings, or Microsoft Team. It goes beyond launching training programs on online training platforms such as Teachable, Thinkific, and Podia. It goes beyond teaching on Udemy, getting gigs on Fiverr. It goes beyond uploading a book or two on Amazon.

Making a kill online requires deep understanding of the strategies that enable you attract and acquire audience, develop evergreen mouthwatering products, develop a game plan that enables you to establish as a brand, market your value proposition, develop marketing and sales strategies and finally selling that brings in the cash through your well optimized sales funnels. It’s much work and it can look overwhelming without a coach that understands the entire online ecosystem and how money is made. Even as an “expert” you need a coach to show you how online business works. If Tony Robbins could subject himself to tutelage by his former mentee and student, Brendon Burchard, you have no excuse. You have nothing to lose but a lot to gain: cash jingling in your pocket, personal freedom, and more ability to impact the world. If you get the right coach, you’ll achieve the financial freedom and the type of life you’ve always dreamed.

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Top 3 Recommended Books For Students and Experts The Invisible Sale by Tom Martin The Millionaire Messenger by Brendon Burchard Platform by Michael Hyatt

Top 4 Recommended Online Courses For Students and Experts Serious Bloggers Only by Jon Morrow Earnable by IWT (I Will Teach You To Be Rich – by Ramit Sethi) Elite Blog Academy (By Ruth Soukup) B-School (By Marie Forleo) 23

About The Author

Paul Uduk is the author of several books, including Bridges to the Customer’s Heart dubbed The Customer Service Bible. Richmond Dayo Johnson calls him “One of Nigeria’s most authentic experiential writers. A trainer par excellence and founder Vision & Talent Training Group, his clients include Fortune 500 and some of Nigeria’s biggest companies, including Nigerian Breweries (Heineken), Nestle, Dangote, First Bank and Nestoil Group (whose clients include ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, Agip, and NNPC, amongst others. Paul has been featured in The Guardian, Vanguard, NTA, SilverBird TV, Business Day and SuccessDigestExtra. A Platinum Author at EzineArticles.Com his mantra is “There is no defense against excellence.” Follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, connect with him via email and at his website.

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