COMING IN 2018 – The Passion Players using the net for success
“Passion Players: How Creative People Leverage The Internet For Success” is a book set for publication in 2018 focused on Passion Players – people who are using the Internet to build a business, boost their career, or build a following.
Passion Players? Think about it. Around the world there are people chasing their passion and using the internet to reach out to people, build a following, build a business, or build a career.
Internet marketers, coaches, writers, musicians, photographers, adventurers, athletes – all are using the net. But what are the “secrets” these people are using to have success? And what can we learn from their personal stories.
THE NEW DIGITAL ECONOMY
I have been researching and reaching out to a range of people operating in what we can term the “New Digital Economy” – a post-industrial world where connection to the net enables people to reach out to fans, followers, clients and customers around the globe.
Over the last couple of decades there has been a revolution in how people communicate, a revolution that has positively affected a range of people from music stars, to coaches, to marketers, to craftsmen, to adventurers.
“Passion Players: How Creative People Leverage The Internet For Success” includes the stories and insights of people who have realized a dream through using the internet to their advantage.
WARNING
Don’t drop everything and chase your dream – not until you have given it some careful thought. “Passion Players: How Creative People Leverage The Internet For Success” includes inspiring stories of people who have had success – but it also includes a sizeable section on why chasing your passion may not work.
Take heed of those with experience who raise genuine concerns over whether you are cut out to be a professional baseball player, a rock star, or a self-help coach. Do you have the ability and experience to crack it?
CRUCIAL MINDSET
There is the difference between commonsense decisions and the grumbles of the naysayers.
There are careers and online businesses that may be within reach – if only friends and family would stop nagging at you to get a real job!
A number of people interviewed for the Passion Players book found one of their biggest challenges was from those closest to them. Big dreams – if spoken – often get shot down by those who do not share your vision or your determination.
WHO ARE THESE PASSION PLAYERS?
The book takes a good hard look at how a range of people have traveled the path to success. All are unique. But there are universal lessons to be learnt from their struggles.
4-MINUTE MILE MARKETER
Take the former video rental shop assistant John Reese. Back in 2004, he broke what can be considered to be the equivalent of the then Internet Marketing’s “Four-Minute Mile” by making over $1 million in 24 hours for an online product launch.
How did he do it? And what messages does he have for internet and affiliate marketers today?
STAY-AT-HOME MOM GAINS INCOME FREEDOM
Erin Birch was a single mom scratching a living making and selling hand-made jewelry. Then, through trial and error, she began to build an online business. Her friends and family throught she was having a “mid-life crisis” but she soldiered on. Today she is having a ball working online.
So how did she crack it?
ADVENTUROUS CAREER
Briton Alastair Humphreys stumbled almost by accident into the “profession” of adventurer after he stepped out of his front door and set off to cycle around the world. Four years later he returned and began to turn adventures, speaking and book writing into a career.
This is not the road to big bucks, admits Humphreys. But he is living his dream.
VIRAL TABLE MAKER
American woodworker Greg Klassen found out the power of the internet after a video of his creative carved and glass-embedded tables went viral on social media. Now he has a long waiting list of eager customers.
With him working from home and his wife home-schooling the kids, Klassen runs a family-friendly and sustainable business.
WRESTLER GOES SOFT
Former professional wrestler Diamond Dallas Page has a soft side. He discovered it when injury forced him to take up yoga and then develop a popular active yoga course that has benefited greatly from the reach available through the internet. Dallas Page is so invigorated by the personal success stories – many going viral on Youtube – that it brings him to tears – literally.
Dallas Page is high profile – but the internet has allowed him to go viral.
CRACKING THE CODE
Gareth Daine is a successful software engineer who can be found virtually every Friday evening on a closed Facebook group for internet marketers called “IM Pub”.
Daine has come a long way since he was written off by a teacher at school as somebody who would be unable to learn coding. Today he juggles a fulltime software engineering job with running his own online business and giving time to his family.
COMING IN 2018
“Passion Players: How Creative People Leverage The Internet For Success” is due for publication at some time in 2018.
Stay tuned!