How I Started
About Franck
Hi, I’m Franck Silvestre (the Body Guard marketer), a 37 years old ex-body guard from “La Guadeloupe”. I’ve protected various people starting from my friends to people like Michael Jordan – when he came in Paris with the dream team…
La Guadeloupe is a beautiful island in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. You may not know La Guadeloupe yet because it’s a French Island, it’s just above Trinidad & Tobago.
A Beach - La Guadeloupe
I’m fluent in five languages (French, English, Spanish, Creole and Arabic). I started a career as a financial adviser, but it wasn’t really for me – pretty boring job when I think about it…
I’m also a martial artist, and if you know a bit about MMA and UFC, Cheick Congo is one of my old sparring partners. I started as a real “street fighter”, and then became a pencak silat and Brazilian ju-jutsu expert. I used to live a pretty dangerous life, but I had to change this after I got married. I must say that in the beginning, it was really difficult to stay at home without any kind of real action!!
I’m used to this now… In 2000, I bought a pizzeria and then sold it after a year, took the money and moved to Dubai. I also learned Aikido there by the way.
Today, I make a living online creating and selling information products with list building and email marketing.
In the last four years, I have generated more than $100,000.00 on the Internet promoting affiliate programs and my own info products with inexpensive traffic methods like search engine optimization. I started to create my own info products to sell more affiliate products to my customers, but when I saw the real potential of product creation as an online business model, I quickly moved from being an affiliate to create my own products (I still promote affiliate products, but in the backend). One of my passions is teaching others how to start their own business on the Internet.
I’m not a guru, I help others to do what I do with step-by-step tutorials. I love step-by-step, and I know that Internet business newbies like to know what they have to do next…
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My Story… (in a nutshell)
As I told above, I was a body guard – in France, Paris – and also bouncer during the week end… Then, I decided to have a more ‘conventional’ life. I bought a struggling business – a pizzeria “Pizza King” , and managed to turn it into a money machine. A year later, I decided to sell it, I took the money and…
Then I moved to Dubai. I spent all my economies there… Since I needed some kind of income, I started to work as a PE teacher, but I didn’t have enough time for my wife and children, and I decided that I needed to find another way. I decided to turn on the Internet to make money.
After spending sometimes on the Internet, I finally found a good forex website and I subscribed to the forex newsletter. I learned a lot and was ready to start with a demo account when I received the email that changed everything… The website owner was recruiting affiliates to promote his product (I never heard about the word affiliate at that time), and I decided to get on his affiliate list.
How I started to make money on the Internet?
To keep a long story short, I got in his $197 coaching program – got in at no cost (I did some work for him) – and learned how to create an affiliate site, promote it and earn commissions. A couple of month later, I made my first commission in the Forex market ($250), and had a lot of sub-affiliates promoting under me and sending me commissions as well… I learned a lot, but the only problem is that this scammer never paid us! I said us because it was an allstar program.
The Island with the beautiful sea "Karukera" - This is the original name of La Guadeloupe. When Indian tribes "Arawaks" were living there...
I was really upset (an ex-cop from UK in the program even asked me if I wanted to this scammer’s house to get our money back, and I must say that I was tempted… but I finally refused.) I learned a lot from this scammer-coach after all!
Many people would have gave up at this point, but I’m a martial artist, I’m a fighter, and quitting is not in my options. Since I started to earn in the forex niche, all I did was signing up with clickbank and sharesale, added new affiliate links, and I started to make a few hundreds dollars per month again…
however, my income wasn’t stable.
At the end of 2007, I discovered another coach, Mark. He taught me how to build a real affiliate business instead of just making money online. It’s where I became really serious and I started to see a steady and growing income with his teaching. During 2007 started to consistently make $300.00+ per month, then $500.00 per month as an affiliate.
I then decided to create my own products. My first one was the “Ultimate Market Research Trick”, I sold it at $7 with the seven dollar script, and got a few affiliates sending sales and customers my way. It was really amazing! I then created another product, an seo ebook, and my customers absolutely loved it…
Building a customer list helped me to make more affiliate commissions and see my first four figures per month. Things really start to become interesting when I hit $3,000.00 per month for the first time. The only problem is that I didn’t have a proper sales funnel in place. For this reason, my business didn’t grow as I should have. I learned a lot about selling information products, although I’ve made many, many mistakes…
In 2009, I discovered Eben Pagan. I bought his “Get Altitude” business DVD training – it was actually the recording of a $10,000.00 business seminar – and I learned how to create a real profitable Internet business. Finally, I took a break for one year and a half (from Apr 2010 – to Sept 2011) pursuing offline activities, so I’m just coming back, and I already have many “apprentices” in my classes…
My Internet Cash Vault Formula to make money on the Internet is:
- A Profitable Market with a lot of traffic
- Building a List of Subscribers
- An Offer (Your High Quality Product)
- Upsells and Backends
- A blog (the “Hub”)
This is my Internet income diary In a nutshell… This is what I do to make money, and also what I teach on this blog.
Thank you for taking the time to read my story, and I hope to see you commenting on my blog!
What’s the next step and how you can start?
Creating your online business takes a lot of work at the beginning, but once you actually have everything in place, Internet literally pays your bills for you…
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Franck – Internet Marketing Coach
The Body Guard Marketer
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