(Nice wrinkled bedsheet background past Alex)
I found this weird/embarrassing photo back in my archives and it seems fitting…
In 2012, I graduated college from the University of Arkansas and had a profound realization:
I need to make money.
Being broke like a taiwanese orchard picker is fine in college, but eventually you have to pay for things.
Deep… I know…
At the time I had been making money as a personal trainer in Arkansas, but had moved to Dallas where I had zero clients.
So doing some research on how to make money online, I stumbled upon this article talking about how some guy named Mike Geary was making $1,000,000/m selling ebooks:
When I read that story I thought what many of you are probably thinking right now.
HOLY &*^%^^% $1,000,000/m???
Is that real???
Yes, yes it very much is.
The author, Mike Geary, made more than most professional NFL quarterbacks at that time.
I was hooked.
So I decided to make an eBook too.
Since I was a personal trainer in college, I decided to make a book for college guys and call it:
“A College Guy’s Guide to Getting Ripped”
The first cover is as cringy as you probably hope:
The photoshop!
The girls!
I even remember pain stakingley going back and fourth with the eBook designer on using the right girls for the product.
No no no, she needs her hand on his abs.
Bangs are totally in, find a girl with bangs.
Incredible work past Alex
I’m chuckling like an asylum patient right now just recalling that conversation.
Once the book was done, I knew I needed to try and sell it.
Then, I got clever.
I realized I needed traffic to my sales page so I thought that writing guest posts would work.
I needed college guys to be the readers so I located a website that spoke specifically to that readership.
BroBible.com it is!
Despite having no credentials, past writing experience, or anything the editor J Camm let me have a shot at writing the first fitness article for the BroBible.
In return, I would link my product at the bottom of the page.
Shockingly enough, that shit worked.
In fact, I quickly became one of the more popular writers on the site because of my penchant for toilet humor.
If you want to look in HORROR at some of the blashempy I spoke online at that time feel free to check the articles out.
“To Bulk First or Cut First, That Is the Question” – Shakespeare
10 New Fitness Studies With Conclusions That May Shock You
Read them if you dare.
Over time, I would write articles and sell my ebook. Perfecting the design and the cover. Eventually this is what I came up with.
I want to share it here because it still makes me laugh.
Feel free to download it but be warned – it’s cheesy and has quite a few unsavory Hellen Keller jokes in there.
