Move Over Lyle Lovett, Here I Come!

Hi!

A while back I told you about my wife buying me a nice acoustic
guitar for Christmas. This is the kind that has the amp pick-up built
in…you just plug and play. Well, not to look a gift horse in
the mouth, but if you have a guitar that plugs into an amplifier
it usually means you are supposed to play in front of a crowd,
right?

And I have been wanting to do that for years, but never had the
guts. I love Texas singer-songwriter music. You know…Lyle
Lovett, Charlie Robison, Bruce Robison, Robert Earl Kean and
others. It is great music…tough, gritty and comes from the
heart.

But, I didn’t know if I had what it took to play in coffee houses
and small venues.

So I asked a professional musician to give a listen.

Now, I have jumped out of airplanes, spoken to crowds of more
than 500 and even driven through snowy mountain passes in a 15-
passenger van with out snow tires, but I have never felt more
nervous than singing and playing into a microphone in front of a
professional musician who has been given strict orders to tell it
to me straight!

I said, “Just tell me if I stink and I will only play at home and
not even mess with trying to play in front of other people.”

Well a funny thing happened.

I played a song.

And then another.

And then another

Finally, after about an hour of playing (Boy, where my fingers
sore!), I asked him, “Well, what do ya think?”

He replied, “Dude, you need to be playing in front of people!”

“No, really, tell it to me straight.”

“Dude, you need to be playing in coffee houses and anywhere else
you can.”

Whoa! this is a guy that makes a living playing guitar and singing and
he just said I was good enough to play in front of people!

Now, what does all this have to do with you?

Well, I didn’t wake up one day with the talent to play and sing.
I have been doing this for years in the privacy of my own home.
And probably would have stayed there if I had not been encouraged to
branch out. A person who does this for a living, whom I respect,
just encouraged me to try something I probably would not have
done otherwise.

It’s the same way in doing business on the internet. Many of you have
the latent abilities to do what I do for a living…make money on
the internet. But no one has given you the encouragement, the
gentle shove in the right direction.

That is what a mentor can do for you. He or she can look at your
ideas, listen to your plan and tell you…straight up…if you
have what it takes to make money on the internet.

So, what am I proposing?

Well, nothing right now.

I have two coaching clients presently and it has been one of the
most rewarding things I have ever done. I have helped them
research their niche, find products for their niche and start
building a web site to provide those products to their niche.

In a few weeks, I will teach them how to build a community
through newsletters and blogs. I will also teach them how to
drive targeted paying customers to their site through this
community and articles and the search engines.

And I am racking my brain how to open this up to more people.

It isn’t cheap. And I can not do this for many people at a time.
And I haven’t even worked out all the details yet. But if you are
interested in something like this, send me an email and we will
go from there.

Blessings,

Stephen Beck
http://www.FamilyEbiz.com

PS. I am working on something that will blow your socks off! A
few people who went to the Family Ebiz Expo are beta testing it
for me now and I will be getting your input soon through a
survey.

Suffice it to say, it will bring starting a PROFITABLE online
business within reach of ANY family…whether they are computer
savvy or not!