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You’ve heard the stories: rags to riches success, phenomenal achievements that change lives. Now, get the secrets from one of the world’s leading authorities in Internet Marketing and discover how it all started. Former car salesman Mike Filsaime is one of the world’s leading authorities in Internet Marketing today. He is the creator of “Butterfly Marketing”, one of the most successful online marketing training programmes in the history of the Internet. In this article, SkyQuestCom speaks with Mike Filsaime about success, making money online and the pursuit of dreams.

(The following conversation is an excerpt from SkyQuestCom’s interview with Mike Filsaime.)

SkyQuestCom: Today, SkyQuestCom is privileged to have with us Mike Filsaime. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

Mike: I'm 39 years old currently, I'll turn 40 this year. I live in New York , in the United States . I live on Long Island . I'm born raised there on Long Island . Previously, to the online marketing that I'm doing now, I was in the automotive business. In 1990, I got into the car business and worked my way up to management. In the last few years that I was in the business, I was a General Manager of a Toyota dealership; we were one of the largest Toyota dealerships in the world. While I was doing that, I started looking into some online marketing opportunities. From there, I started having some success that was trumping what I was doing as a General Manager in the automobile business.

October of 2002 was when I first started marketing online. In August of 2004, I gave my notice in the car business and ventured full-time online. At this time, October of 2004, I was doing about fifteen to twenty thousand dollars per month while juggling between two jobs. When I went full-time, I immediately went up to $50,000 per month and I never stopped from there; it always increased from there. Last year, we did about $4.5 million in sales and we do $350,000 a month in online sales.

SkyQuestCom: So you had a very successful job and now you’ve gone into Internet Marketing. Can you tell us how you made the transition from working 9-to-5 for someone else, to now living the lifestyle of your dreams?

Mike: Yes, I chuckle to the 9-to-5 (Smiles)! The car business in United States is, they call them “bell-to-bells” and I worked a lot of 9-to-9s. I worked 28 days a month, 75 hours a week in a very, very competitive business. We were geared to always be #1 in the region. And I was spending some time online; I was doing a lot of training for the sales staff and started to spend some time online while I was gathering some closing materials on overcoming objections. I was getting email solicitations to start an online business and I would delete it every single day. One day I said, "Oh, let me read the sales letter." It was by a guy named Frank Kern who happens to be a very good friend of mine now and he's one of the top internet marketers out there as well. But that was the sales letter I read. It had the typical headline - Scarcity, Urgency, Bonuses, Order Now. I'm glad I made that purchase and from there, I started creating my own websites.

The transition from the car business came at a point when I just had to face the facts that there was so much opportunity for growth in my online business that it was time for me to move forward from there. One of the things I liked that I took from the automotive sales industry into online marketing is the understanding of why people buy- the psychology of the buyer. And that has really, really helped me to create effective marketing campaigns online.

SkyQuestCom: There are probably a lot of other people listening also who are also stuck in a job somewhere and they would also like to make the same transition. What advice would you give to them?

Mike: My advice would be: when you make that decision to take a leap, you always want to do that out of a position of cash flow. I would never recommend just selling the farm; to go into something that you have high hopes for that's not currently generating any income. Or if you're brutally honest with yourself, it's not going to generate the sufficient income that you have.

We have to understand while you have a full-time job, let's just say you're making $5,000 a month and you have an online job that you're growing that's making $500, $1,000, $2,000 a month. So now we have combined resources; we're making $7,000 a month. We have to understand that the online dream is a supplement to the income. And we want to know what our monthly minimum is, what is the cost to run our bills, to pay my mortgage, to pay my car, pay my health insurance or whatever it is. And to know what we need to survive and provide for our kids and food on the table, everything like that. If we know that that's $3,000 per month, we have to say to ourselves, "Well, then maybe it's not time to give up the $5,000 per month and the $2,000 I have here just to go for the $2,000."

So make sure you can save some money and you're in a position of cash flow. I recommend saving at least 3 months' salary when you're ready to take the plunge. And it's ok to go backwards a little bit because you're making this much here and a little less here. You take the plunge here, you have the opportunity to really leverage that and have some explosive growth. But you definitely don't ever want to be in a position where you didn't plan properly! And the next thing you find is you gave up a good job and you have to go back and maybe you can't get that job because it's not available.

It will crush you to leave something to pursue something that doesn't work out and a few months later, find that you have to go back into the real world. So I think the important thing is to save some money, and have at least 3 months' salary. Make sure there's enough cash flow coming in when you start to pursue your dreams.

To listen to the rest of the conversation, watch a clip of Mike Filsaime's recorded interview at http://learning.skyquestcom.com.

With over 200,000 subscribers around the world, SkyQuestCom is Asia's largest multimedia e-learning company. SkyQuestCom offers online video seminars of the world's best personal development experts and business gurus including Anthony Robbins (Unleash The Power Within), Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad), Brian Tracy (The Psychology of Selling), T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind), John Gray (Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus), Jay Abraham (Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Warren Buffett (Forbes' "Richest Person in the World") and many more. To learn more about SkyQuestCom, visit http://learning.skyquestcom.com.

Labels: butterfly marketing, how to make money online, Information Technology, Internet Marketing, Interview, mike filsaime, Online Education, self help, Success Blog, success secrets, the butterfly effect

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Tung Desem Waranging is Indonesia ’s top motivational coach whose clients include the children of Indonesia ’s former President, top celebrities, successful business executives and even tertiary graduates. As a qualified consultant who is recognised by world renowned peak performance coach Anthony Robbins, Tung has made successful breakthroughs with clients whom he inspire to lead healthier lives, live confidently and more importantly, achieve success. He is also the author of the hugely popular book, Financial Revolution, which sold over 10,000 copies in a single day. The affable “Pak Tung”, as he is affectionately known, recently stopped by at SkyQuestCom’s Singapore office to share his insights on some of Anthony Robbins’ most powerful success principles and how you can apply them to turn your life completely around.


(The following conversation is an excerpt from your new Personal Development Channel video.)

SkyQuestCom: Today we’re privileged to have with us Tung Desem Waringin. I understand your success began with a motivational talk you attended. Can you tell us more about this talk and how it changed your life?

Tung: Yes. In the year 2001, I attended the Tony Robbins seminars. When I attended the Tony Robbins seminars, I know how to handle my emotions, because one thing that’s stopping most people from achieving their goals is Fear. If you cannot conquer your fear, you achieve nothing. When I learnt from Tony Robbins how to conquer my fear, I can achieve my wildest dreams and my wildest goals in my life.

SkyQuestCom: What are some of your values you see as important to your success?

Tung: Yes. My values are first, Wisdom. I’m always looking for wisdom. Secondly, I’m looking for health. Third thing, my value is Harmony and Family. Fourth thing, my value is Wealth; becoming rich. Really, really rich, not only just rich (smiles with conviction). Number five is Cheerfulness; Happy. Cheerfulness. These are my five values with all the rank.

SkyQuestCom: You’ve gone from almost nothing to being very, very successful in just 5years. What were some of the key decisions, the key turning points that brought you to success?

Tung: My key decision in the year 1995, when I decided to subscribe to Book Vision Summaries. Every month, I must pay a sum of money and I receive eight book summaries. One of them was Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins. And in the year 1996, I bought the book, English version, even at that time, I cannot (pauses), my English is not good. Now it’s still not good but I have the confidence. But at that time, I had no confidence, but I still buy English book. The price was very high for Indonesian people. But I read it with all the determination that I must finish it. So, full 2 months I finished all these English books. And I learnt something- that our mind is only looking for pleasure and avoiding pain. When I learnt this from Tony Robbins’ book, Awaken the Giant Within, at that time I become the branch manager in one of Indonesia’s biggest banks and I became one of the best branch managers. I achieved so much because I know how to move people with the pain and pleasure. This is so beautiful. If you master this, you’ll master your life. If you cannot master this pain and pleasure, your life will master you! So you’ll not master your life. So this is beautiful. I can change the audit results in Surabaya that time, from the worst become the best. And in the Malang branch, from the worst to become the best too. And I can move people very good so I know this (concept) is a very good one. So that’s the second decision that changed my life.

The third decision, when my father became ill. We sent him to the hospital and my father was really, really ill. He was all yellow and spent 19 days in the hospital. Do nothing and doctors gave up. At that time, I decided to bring my father to Singapore. When I decided to bring him to Singapore, I waited with my father 40 days in Mount Elizabeth Hospital. I decided to buy Tony Robbins’ cassettes. They were Personal Power cassettes. Personal Power cassettes. There were 24 cassettes. When I heard the first cassette, I already decided that I must step up, set another standard. And I will move better than before. So I decided to quit, not resign- but I sign another thing that’s better, right? So people always say “resign”, so retreat. No, I don’t retreat, I just move forward. So step forward. What happened? When I decided to move forward, I moved to another company that paid me better. Four times better! Really, four times better! But that was the third decision- I bought the cassettes. When I heard the cassettes, already changed my life.

And the fourth decision that changed my life, when I decided to attend the Tony Robbins seminars. When the next year in 2001, I decided to attend the Tony Robbins seminars, that time was the worst time of my life. I don’t have money, I don’t have job. I quit my job. My wife just gave birth to my second child. My daughter. I had no income and my father went to hospital again. So with all the obstacles. Even I cannot speak English, I cannot hear English properly at that time. My English is not as good now. But I decided, yes, I must attend the Tony Robbins seminars. When I attended the first Tony Robbins seminar, I decided to attend the next seminar. All the seminars I take. Even I must sell. This is the hardest decision that I take. I must sell the only property that I have. I don’t even have house, I sell my only land. And still not enough, and I borrow money, five thousand U.S dollars. After that, I attended the Tony Robbins seminar, “Life Mastery” in Hawaii. In the year 2001, on 11th September. You still remember what happened? Yes, 911. World Trade Centre crashed by (pauses). That day really changed my life. Because Tony Robbins says, “In this life, whatever happens is no meaning. The only meaning is the one that we give! So if you give wrong meaning, you will take wrong answer. When you give wrong meaning, it means you will have wrong feeling. And if you have wrong feeling, you will have wrong decision. And if you have wrong decision, it means you will have wrong action. If you have wrong action, you will have wrong results, or wrong destiny.”

To watch a clip of Pak Tung's recorded conversation, visit http://learning.skyquestcom.com

With over 200,000 subscribers around the world, SkyQuestCom is Asia's largest multimedia e-learning company. SkyQuestCom offers online video seminars of the world's best personal development experts and business gurus including Anthony Robbins (Unleash The Power Within), Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad), Brian Tracy (The Psychology of Selling), T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind), John Gray (Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus), Jay Abraham (Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Warren Buffett (Forbes' "Second Richest Person in the World") and many more. To learn more about SkyQuestCom, visit http://learning.skyquestcom.com/.

Labels: Anthony Robbins, Interview, Online Education, online seminars, Personal Development, Personal Growth, self help, Success, Success Blog, success secrets, tony robbins, tung desem warangin

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Take a rare, sneak peak into the personal lives of Robert Kiyosaki and Anthony Robbins as SkyQuestCom CEO Mr. Richard Tan shares his learning experiences from 2 of the world's most successful and famous speakers.

Labels: Anthony Robbins, Interview, Robert Kiyosaki

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