4 Video Tips To Self-Made Wealth

4 Video Tips For Self-Made Wealth

This is an early release of next week’s blog post because the educational resources I’m telling you about will be gone some time next week.

I’m a perpetual student and opted in to Eben Pagan’s Self-Made Wealth product launch this week not because I wanted to learn his ideas about money, but because he is one of the best internet marketers today and has a reputation for high quality launches and products.

I wanted to learn what he was doing to sell millions of dollars in product per year by studying his actual launch videos.

I watched the videos while making dinner for my family, cleaning up the dishes, and stretching after a workout so that it didn’t require any extra time (a habit I encourage all my readers to adopt so that you can grow your financial intelligence without making your life busier).

Anyway, I was impressed enough with the content that I thought I should tell you about it.

First off, as a disclaimer, the links in this email are affiliate links so if you buy the product I do get compensated. However, my goal is not to push the product as much as the free educational information he is delivering.

In other words, the way these big-ticket products launches work is the vendor delivers great education for free so that you think, “Gee, if the free stuff is this good the paid stuff must be really great” motivating you to buy it. That’s why I regularly opt-in to product launches – because the free stuff is usually very high quality.

If you get one good idea or insight because you watched these videos while doing dishes then it was worth the little effort it took. Alternatively, if you watch these videos instead of television it almost certainly will be a better use of your time.

At least, that is how I view these things, and I’ve learned a ton of valuable information this way – all for free.

Here’s what you will learn in these videos…

Video 1 is “The Secret Story of Money” (22 minutes) with a companion exercise sheet and PDF workbook called “Money’s Dirty Little Secrets” explaining what money is and how it works. Eben provides a simple explanation that is particularly relevant today with the bank bailouts and consequent indebtedness of our country. It will help you understand the long-term implications of how the U.S. Government is debasing our currency and what you should do to protect yourself.
The VIP opt-in video bonus at the bottom of Videos 1 and 2 is probably the most immediately useful video in the series. The beginning is a bit self-congratulatory and contains posturing, but the content after that is pure gold. I’m always ranting about the importance of growing your financial intelligence so you can grow your wealth, and in this video Eben educates you on specific points that are consistent with my message. His focus is on entrepreneurship and marketing since that is how he built his wealth, but the principles are 100% applicable. It requires a second opt-in to get this 36 minute video, but it’s well worth it.
Video 2 is “The Psychological Mistakes That Cause Us To Fail With Money (And What To Do About It)”. It also has an exercise sheet and companion workbook. This video touches on some topics I will be exploring in greater detail under an article in the works called “Hardwired To Fail”. It is an important topic explaining the psychological shortcomings hardwired into our brains that cause us to make foolish financial decisions and how to solve the problem. It also includes a fun example showing how a car payment will cost you millions of dollars (amazing but true – something I teach my financial coaching clients).
Video 3 is “Money’s Last 2 Dirty Little Secrets and the $622,000 Per Year Job”. In this video Eben discusses Gap analysis (something I have discussed at length on these pages). He also discusses how your money programs affect your wealth and reveals the truth behind self-made millionaires and how most achieve their wealth. It’s not what most people think and is completely consistent with what I teach here.

Anyway, the price is right. All you have to do is opt-in here – no cost involved – and sit back and watch. You can access all 3 videos right now from the menu in the left sidebar, but you must opt-in a second time to his “VIP list” to get the bonus video.

When you are done getting all the free value then you can opt back out next time he sends an email (which will likely be the final video in the series on Monday where he tells you about the Self-Made Wealth course he is teaching). The opt-out to get off the list is right at the bottom of each email.

What you will learn by checking out this series is another successful, self-made millionaire’s perspective on the lessons he had to uncover in order to build wealth… so that you can do the same. Not surprisingly, what he teaches reinforces the very messages I share on these pages. That’s why I’m sharing it with you.

Again, it’s all free – but only for the next few days, so get it now by registering here.

I hope you enjoy this “Self-Made Wealth” video education series and get good value from the lessons.

Andrew

I appreciate that, Todd, and your candid, timely response. I have become an avid reader of your blog and am grateful to find knowledagble, giving individuals like yourself. My point was only that I recollect buying his advice years ago as "David D". Eban (David D) is an articulate, intelligent person and if he has valuable information, then he should spread it around, so long as he is not becoming another snake-oil salesman or internet emarketer.

Keep up the good work!

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Todd Tresidder

@Andrew - I appreciate your support of my work and your contributions to this community through commenting and spreading the word to others.

Thanks.

Eben Pagan, AKA David Deangelo of "Cocky and Funny" fame, seduction extraordinaire, made his thousands or millions selling information on "how to attract women" over 10 years ago. He sold cd, dvd, e-book, coaching and live-training sessions back when the e-book phase of the internet was erupting in the early 2000's.

I will watch his videos and assess the value of his work. He, according to some of the programs I own by him, started out studying NLP, hypnosis, pscyhology, biology and male/female relations. He created his starting nest egg from the "seduction Industry" and has since parlayed that into dispensing financial advice (or whatever he labels it).

I do not know what to think of this change. I will credit him with being an effective marketer, however I do not know if I can buy into his financial advice, since at first blush it appears to smell of how multi-level marketing professes lots of easy wealth that is created by selling to each other and recruiting everyone you know, thus building a pyramid. He created his wealth and fame through marketing seduction and romance books and programs. Perhaps he is an effective marketer on the internet, but to speak of financial advice? I am not so sure.

@Andrew - First off, the videos are long since gone. As I said in the post, they were temporarily available as part of a promo for a course he was pitching that is also no longer available (for now, at least. He will likely offer it again some day.). My job is to help my readers by showing them value added educational resources (wherever they may come from). I'm familiar with Eben's history and I've watched him grow for many years. The bottom line is the content in the videos was worth the effort to view them and the cost was nothing. I thought my readers would get value from them so that was why I recommended them.

Pedro

Hello Todd
thanks for sharing this kind of resources. I tried to watch the video as soon as I read the post but unfortunately I was not able, maybe because I am out of the States :-(
Anyway I am looking forward for those posts where you are going to cover these topics and I'll try to find more info on the web

Thanks again

Steve Farwig

Aloha Todd,

Thank you so much for the referral to Eben Pagan's Self-Made Wealth videos. There was some good insightful topics covered. I think the one that was most eye opening for me was the idea of focusing on creating the right conditions to accomplish what you want rather than focusing on the outcome or goal. I had never really heard it explained like this before but it does make so much sense. This is how I starting saving money for the first time in my twenties. By treating your savings and investments like they are bills to pay and preferably on automatic payments I was able to save and not spend what I made. By making saving and investing a habit that is not a choice you create the conditions to save and invest and with some time you accomplish it. It sounds so incredibly basic but how many people out there have nothing left at the end of the month. Thank you for your wonderful sight.

Steve

@Steve - Thank you for taking the time to come back and share your experience. I'm glad you got great value from the resource. It's always nice to hear back how it works out.

Unfortunately, for new readers these videos are gone now as mentioned in the post with the only remaining video being the final one in the series.

Again, I appreciate hearing from you. Thanks.

Stephen

I was able to watch the videos while on my Computrainer! Eben did a nice job of clearly explaining what it is we are doing and not doing with our money. This is not the first time I have heard the 'psychology' aspect of money. T. Harv Eker, author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, talks about this at length. I believe the most disturbing aspect in all of this are the people who pass these habits on without saying, "You know, I don't know everything about this, why don't we find out the best solution together?" Nope. It never happens that way. Most people when asked for financial advice...give it...and they're in no position to do so. I'm proud to say my family has been applying many of his principles for the past year and we've cut extraneous spending dramatically. Waiting one week to purchase items completely places your priorities into perspective and dramatically eliminates waste. With that being said, please pass on the secret to hedging inflation!

@Stephen - Thanks for your feedback on the video series. I'm glad you got value from it.

...And good for you for already working with and implementing many of these concepts. Yes, they do work. They produce real, actual results you can bank.

With regards to your question on the "secret to hedging inflation", I want to be straight up and point out (as you already know) that nothing I share here is a "secret". I point this out more for other readers of this comment than you since you already know this blog well enough to know my position on "secrets", but for other readers the "secret" is a marketing gimmick used to extract money by selling nonsense to people who believe in such things. The secret is there are no secrets, and my readers know that.

With that said, numerous prior posts talk about a moderately leveraged, long-term real estate strategy as one of the most accessible strategies for protecting your assets from inflation. Owning a business with pricing power so that price increases can offset destruction of purchasing power is another strategy. Additional strategies for more sophisticated, active investors include certain approaches to active precious metals and agricultural investing, moving money offshore into stronger currencies, etc..

In short, there are a variety of approaches. The key is to find a few that will work for you based on your skills, interests, wealth plan and resources available.

Hope that helps...