Hey everyone,
So this journal is turning into a bit more of a personal blog than a business blog, but it was intended for both so when it goes out of balance, that simply means one area of my life is doing really well so I write about it more! ;o)
My band Hollywood Assassyn has finally released it’s first EP titled ‘The Sick In Me’ which consists of 5 tracks we recorded at PowerSound Studio’s here in Edmonton. As I’ve been playing in a band for the past 6 or 7 years now this is my first fully professional product meaning recorded, mixed, mastered and printed with fabulous artwork. Needless to say I’m very excited to have it in my hands!
If you want to help out my band you could head over to CD Baby where we are selling it online.
Then there’s my biz, I haven’t been as active at online marketing as I would like to be because of how busy I’ve been with music. I also took a real job all of last year doing carpentry so I could learn some more highly useful skills.
But lately I’ve been back online and I’m working to release a product that’s been on the back-burner for way to long. This will actually be a re-release as I’ve put this out before and it was a huge success, but I’ve worked on it and made it way better.
I won’t tell you what it is quite yet, but I will tell you the guarantee which I’m making. “You will make money BEFORE you have to pay any money.” I know that sounds pretty crazy, but it’s true. It took me a long time and a ton of money to put this together but I can assure you that there is not one single product on the internet that has a guarantee that strong, because no one else has what I have created!
The best part of it, is that it’s FREE!
Please feel free to comment on this post, I always love hearing your thoughts!
Ian
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Filed under Inspirational, Music, Personal by on Feb 12th, 2009. Comment. 
ya, I really do hate starting off a new blog entry with a bunch of crappy excuses as to why I haven’t written in so long. Make a long story short…I’m lazy. Isn’t that the dream of most Internet Marketers tho? To make so much money that they can be lazy and not work? Ha ha….that’s not at all the case with me.
My last post talks about my new band Hollywood Assassyn which I’m still in, and we are doing great. We ended up getting 4th place in our provice of Alberta for the music competition, pretty solid finish if you ask me considering how new of a band we are.
Then I also decided to get a ‘real job’ as a renovations worker. Me and my girlfriend Angela want to slowly work our way into the real estate market and knowing how to a lot of the work ourselves would really help. So I took the job, not so much for the money, but for the knowledge. Boy oh boy…for someone who has been sitting behind a keyboard for the past 10 years, I sure quickly realized how hard so many people in life work.
I mean, I’ve only been working the real work for 2 months and every night I come home so tired and so drained. All I want to do is eat and watch tv to fall asleep to so that I can do it again tomorrow morning! I mean, I even like my job because I know that I’m learning some very valuable skills, and my girlfriend has seen me lose a lot of my belly which is cool too…but maaaan does it ever suck the life out of me.
I mean, I love Internet Marketing and I love reading about new things that are going on. I love setting up JV’s and crafting emails and all that great stuff. I love meeting new people and talking about new ideas and ways to make money online. I love it all…but over the past two working months, I have had the hardest time actually getting to work and not just ‘Facebooking’. Add me if you like by the way!
I got a really good taste of something that most people go through everyday…and to be totally honest without being disrespectful…I hate it. I hate that my most creative and inspiring hours are spent making someone else rich while so many great ideas or work bursts of energy pass by cause I’m somewhere else doing someone else’s work.
So I have cut myself down to part time and vowed to renew my energies into things that I love, or that make me a lot of money so that I can set myself free again. Free to play my guitar, and record songs, and write messages like these to you great people who read them, and discover new territory on the internet, and sleep in a little and all that great stuff.
Listen….if you read this and you can relate to what I’m talking about…like if you hate that your best hours are givin to someone else making them rich while they lay around by the pool on vacation…you have DO SOMETHING about it. You have to make a move. Make ANY move…it doesn’t matter how small or insignificant you may feel it is. MAKE THAT MOVE.
You know all the sayings, 1000 mile journey begins with the first step…ya it’s corny and cheesy and overused, but it’s also true. There are opportunities out there that you can do part time at first and grow into a business later. Trust me…how do you think I got my start? I mean some people start off rich, but you and me ain’t that person are we? We have to work our own asses off to get anywhere.
But if you don’t work your own ass off, it’s always gonna be there all big and chunky and slowing you down where ever you go. ;o)
Please feel free to comment on my blog and share with me your story or thoughts. I will write again soon with one way that I’m making a move to an even more financially and energetically free lifestyle.
With love, and now even a little real life experience to relate to you with…
Ian
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Filed under Business, Inspirational, Personal by on Mar 17th, 2008. 13 Comments.
Hey Everyone,
So I’ve been in a new band here in Edmonton now for about 2 months. My old band called Rigveda has officially parted ways and moved on to other projects.
I was supposed to move to Vancouver, BC but didn’t quite make it. However luck would have it that I got into a new project that I’m enjoying quite a lot. We are called Hollywood Assassyn and we are an originals only 4 piece hard rock band. I play lead guitar and sing back up vocals, I’m back into the same position I was in my first gigging band Divided.
So in the very short time that we have been together, we have already accomplished everything all my previous bands took me 4 years to do. First off, placed Top 6 in Canada and #1 in Edmonton in an online voting portion of a huge battle of the bands called the Bodog Battle. That earned us a spot in a live show for the city with the top 24 online bands out of the 54 total. The live show happened at Jett Night Club and was my first show with the band. Of the 12 bands who played, we ended up winning the show…wow, what a great start.
We’ve played 2 more live shows and have been paid a total of $580 for those two shows. Plus we already have t-shirts printed up and sold a few at our 3rd live show which was one of the best we have played yet. We are already better and we keep getting better.
When I came into the band they already had 4 of their songs recorded at Power Sound Studio’s in Edmonton, they are considered by many musicians here the premier recording studio in Edmonton. However, we have already been back into the studio to record 2 more songs of which I played on. So now we have 6 songs recorded in total.
So that’s all been in 2 months. We have 2 more shows already booked and have been offered a pretty good deal to record a radio ready album at Power Sound and we are thinking of taking it. We’ll see what happens. We just aren’t slowing down. Word of mouth is spreading for the band already and it just seems the ball is really rolling. It’s pretty great.
I’m also working for a music promotions company in Edmonton called JCL Productions which books mainly touring bands into local venues and helps promote the shows and takes care of the bands needs when they are here. Possibly we are trying to expand into getting more gigs in town and more artists booked.
I’m also going to start bartending at my local watering hole, the Stonehouse Pub in order to make some extra bucks to help me pay for the bands needs as well as meet some potential new fans! I don’t really have any experience with it, but I seem to know a lot of people and the bar likes that I’m in a band and working for a music comany, cause that’s potential new customers for them.
And then there’s work. Oh work. Ha ha…I’ve never really been the biggest fan of work, but really who has? I do love Internet Marketing. I love the freedom it has provided me with. But I’ve been getting so busy with music and promoting and then living, it’s been hard to get myself to work.
But I do have a really great product that is built, it’s called Smart Subscriber. About 98% of the work to run this program is done. I pretty much just have to release it to the public. It’s actually been ready for about 4 months and I was supposed to release it a long time ago. But I’m scared.
I have put so much into this product that I fear it won’t work and I’ll feel like a miserable failure. So I’m pretty sure the answer is just to take the plunge and release it. And since you care enough about me to read all the way to the end of this post, I want you to see it. But could you do me a favor?
Could you please tell me what you think of it, and where you think it could be better. If I can make it all better according to most of your suggestions, then I’m sure it will increase my chances of having a better release! Just click on this Smart Subscriber link to go check it out.
So that’s what’s been going on with my life in those areas! I hope it’s at least, entertaining.
PS. Before you go, it would also be great if you do leave me some comments right here on the blog. Comment about anything, the music or what you think of the Smart Subscriber. I just want to get into the habit of you guys really telling me what YOU think! Your thoughts will be readable by everyone.
I’ll comment back too! I want to make this blog more a means of communication between me and you ok! Cool!
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Filed under Music, Personal by on Nov 17th, 2007. 1 Comment.
Hello,
So yesterday was the first time I posted into my blog in quite
a long time right? And I sorta thought that you would have
forgotten about me or moved on right?
Nope!
You and hundreds of others actually wrote me back to welcome me
back into Internet Marketing and it made feel so special! A lot
of my subscribers also wrote me telling me that they are still
struggling to make a living on the Internet and asking me if I
can help them out.
Well I can help out in some ways but not in others. Some
people wrote to me telling me they are in debt and are in
desperate need of money. Well to be honest, the best advice I
can give you in that situation is to go out there and get a job!
The Internet can provide a great income, but it takes time to
learn all the necessary skills and you should NE.VER count on it
to pay off your debts in a short period of time.
Do the right thing if you are in a dire situation…don’t think
the Internet is some sort of get-rich-quick solution. It does
make a lot of people money very fast, but those people also work
hard and learn a lot before they make mo.ney.
Then there are people like Barbara, I hope your reading this
Barb! Your email really hit the nail on the head!
Here’s what Barbara sent me;
Hi Ian,
Just thought I’d reply to your email to let you know I’m still here
and happy to know you’re back in the business. I’m really not doing
much of anything on the Internet these days–got tired of spending
my money on things that ne.ver worked. I’m afraid a lot of it is my
fault–after really working hard at the first few things I tried, I
started jumping from one thing to the next and ne.ver giving
anything a chance to work.
So now I’m just reading emails and deciding if I want to try again.
If you’re in Houston, you’re in hot and humid weather–I know
because my sister used to live close to Houston. Now she’s in the
Dallas area, and while it’s still hot there, it’s not nearly as
humid. Staying inside in the A/C is the best place to be this time
of year in Texas! I look forward to hearing from you again.
Sincerely,
Barbara Ross
I think this is a great example of what a lot of you others are
feeling. Frustration, desperation and giving up hope! Man, I
understand that completely!
It took me two years before I ever made mo.ney on the In.ternet!
I also think my reply to Barbara might Interest you. Here’s
what I wrote back to her.
Hey Barbara,
Oh man…you just said every concern that my new product covers.
Most people don’t know how to make mo.ney online and they spend and
spend trying to make it happen and never see a dime.
The pro’s tell you that the true money is in owning an email li.st
but once again, you have to know how to write, set up email and
website software, and then advertise it all which all of course
means spending more money in hopes you’ll make some back.Well my new software combats both of those problems.
My guarantee is “Make Money BEFORE You Spend A Dime” and I give you
a 90 Day fr.ee trial to prove it. oh, and of course, there’s NO
credit card required to join, because I want to make sure I do my
job before asking for any of your payment information.Just wait about 2 weeks Barbara, and I’ll have this thing ready to
go ok!
So far I’m loving Houston. Yes it’s pretty humid, but I think
because I’m so used to be so cold in Canada, I’m loving it right
now!
Thanks,
Ian Herculson
http://www.IanHerculson.com
So I really do think that the product that I’m about to release
in the next two weeks is totally targetted at Barbara and those
who feel similar to how she does.
A lot of you asked me to see what I was up to and I don’t want
to let to much information out of the bag right now because I
don’t want any competitors stealing ideas, but I do want to say
that I’ve been up working late nights and I’m almost ready to
show you what I’ve got!
Anyways, I just wanted to say THANKS AGAIN to you for welcoming
me back into Internet Marketing and showing me that I have one of
the best groups of people anyone could ask for on the Internet.
Oh by the way, if you live in Houston, TX. I’m thinking of
doing a get together with anyone involved in Internet Marketing
and just meeting up so that you can meet with me face to face,
shake hands, (b.uy me a beer, he he) and ask me anything you want
about my businesses. I think it would be really cool!
Send me an email if you are are from Houston and want to meet
up with me and a few others! I want to see what kind of
interest this gathers!
Ok I guess that’s all I wanted to say for now!
Ian Herculson
PS. I’m still practicing my PS’s! Please remeber that if you
want to reply to this email, it will come directly to me and I
really do LOVE getting your emails and hearing your stories!
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Filed under Business, Personal by on Jun 27th, 2007. 1 Comment.
Hey there,
Ya it’s been a long time since I posted last and man, what a story I have to tell if you want to read it. I won’t tell you all about it now, because it would simply take up too much time but let me just say, I almost lost my entire business ‘again’ which would be the third time, but this time it was my fault.
I’ll tell you quickly that over the past 6-8 months I decided to get a Private Server to host all my websites which there are now about 11. So I moved everything over, and man…it was the worst experience of my life.
I have recently moved my most important sites back to my old time favorite host, who I have had issues with in the past, but at least they solve them pretty darn fast!
If you are at all thinking that your host isn’t good enough or that they don’t give good enough customer service, or that you even need a new host, please try the host I now “SWEAR” I will ne.ver leave again.
Here’s a link for a fr.ee month as well!
http://www.gurumarketer.com/thirdsphere.htm
Anyways, right now I’m down in Houston, Texas with my girlfriend Angela who’s been here since the beginning of May working as a sales rep for an awesome alarm company. If you are in Houston, and you’ve been thinking of getting an alarm for your home, reply and I’ll see if I can get Angela to help you out!
So for the past 6-8 months I’ve been watching my business slowly crumble to pieces and there wasn’t much I could do about it because as you may also know, I’m in a band and we got busy. Most of my time I dedicated to music and since my sites were on that crappy host, I watched as my business just drizzled away to almost nothing.
Thank god Angela went to Texas because I am now down here with nothing to do except work on my Internet Business and I gotta tell you, I’m working a lot! I’m able to focus completely on what I’m doing with nothing to distract me. It’s great.
I have a bunch of new stuff coming out very soon that I want to show you. No one else on the internet can off.er what I’m about to off.er, because it’s such a unique idea, and I really think you are going to love it.
So really, the purpose of this post is simply just to get back into communication with you, let you know I’m still alive and that I do want to continue forward with my business.
Please do feel fr.ee to reply to this email and say he.llo or whatever, or tell me what you want to learn about. No matter what it is, I just want to get back to business!
Ok, that’s it. See you around!
Ian Herculson
PS. I have to practice writing good PS’s. Did you know that about 85% of people will read the PS but barely any of the email? Good to know hey!
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Filed under Business, Personal, Webhosts by on Jun 27th, 2007. Comment.
Ok good, I’m glad to know that I can start blogging again.
Altough it’s going to take a bit of time to learn exactly how this SemioLogin theme works correctly.
Ian Herculson
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Filed under Personal by on Jun 27th, 2007. Comment.
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