Benny Bells

 At a very young age I knew that if you want something in life you have to go out and get it. When I was 14, I told my parents that one day I would own my own business and be on the cover of magazines. They always looked at me and nodded, replying “it takes a lot of hard work and studying to own your own business.” 

My parents were two of the hardest working people I have ever seen. Their success story started with my father coming to this country to provide a better life for his family. Fast forward thirty years and my father is a VP at his company and my mother is a Managing Director in hers. 

Watching how hard my parents worked was real tough for me growing up. I quickly realized that the owner of the business was the smartest person in the world. He worked the least amount of hours and took home most of the money. 

Two days after graduating college I was offered a job in the Restaurant/Night Club as a manager. I had no experience but the owner believed that I had the right set of skills to pull it off. That lasted for about two years. I ran that place with every being of my body. I worked up to 100 hours per week. That job was probably the toughest because I really felt that I lived the job. I never saw friends, family or even had any resemblance of a life. All I knew was the restaurant.

In late 2003 I tried my hand in the mortgage business. I was a fast learner. Within my 1st month I generated some serious sales. I became a top producer within my 3rd month. In my 6th month I was offered the opportunity to manage my own team. My 8th month I became the branch manager. I was living life. I was young and making a whole lot of cash. It felt good. That soon came to end with all the changes in the economy and new banking guidelines. 

It was almost two years ago when I realized that I was doing exactly what I said I wouldn’t do when I was growing up. I was working for someone else. I was making their dreams come true, not mine. I needed to make a change. I wanted to spend more time with my family. I wanted my children to know their father.

I turned to the internet- partnered up with a friend of mine- and became industry leaders in a short time. Hence forward Loyal 9 was established. We empower people to change, make smart decisions and then commit to their goals. This new perspective is changing the industry and we're doing it one person at a time.

Kevin Levonas

Professional Full Time Internet Marketer loving life as an innovator and empirical entrepreneur.

I've developed successful enterprises previously in real estate and in the consumables business and within that process, I have learned a lot about myself and about others. Business ventures, ideas, new partnerships, new technology and in general different people have always provided me with the inspiration to achieve more for my community, friends and family. I don't like failure however I do believe it's part of life- to me it's happened many
times :)

Learn and move on. Don't let anyone tell you different.

I'm an east coast resident as I split most of my time between Cranford NJ and Boston MA, however I also have a ubiquitous residency online. Learn, improve, persevere, and contribute value to your community off line and online and I believe success is right around the corner.

Jorden Crowder

Well, I physically hit the wall. I was working 16+ hours per day, sleeping at the office 2-3 times per week, pounding energy drinks like crazy go…go…go and then finally my body told me no more and shut down. I was diagnosed with Bacterial meningitis and spent (7 WEEKS in intensive care unit) and nearly died! I was such a brainwashed employee my brain basically overheated and blew a head gasket…..literally! During the 7 weeks in ICU I had (2) brain surgeries and plenty of time to ponder life & my family.

Unfortunately it took me (2) brain surgeries and (1) near death experience for me to realize how incredibly wonderful & supportive my wife Kellie is. She never left my bedside and was there for me the whole time. I went back to work with my same company about 1 month after my surgery for round two. I still had a burning desire to build and get back on top. My Dad always taught me to never quit and to always get back up when your knocked down. Plus we didn’t have cable and the only channels we got were in Spanish! You don’t need cable when you’re never home!

However, this time when I went back it felt a little different because I finally started asking questions like an Entrepreneur again. How long can I sustain this? If I don’t show up to work, will I get paid? Why do my coworkers bring me down so much? Why don’t I have freedom to come & go? Why do I feel so torn between spending time with my loved ones and putting food on the table? Why has my pay not gone up in 3 years? Why am I getting a pay cut when I am blowing out all of my goals & expectations? I noticed the more questions I asked like this the more blackballed I got from people at work. Now that I look back I could see the transformation that was taking place. I was going from an employee mindset back to my roots as an Entrepreneur. The little boy mowing lawns was BACK!

Justin Woolf

I have had my share of ups and downs in this life and they have made me the person I am today. I realized what it takes to get what you want out of this thing called life. Most people complicate it. It's all about how you deal with what you probably don't want to deal with.

I learned that because sports were a major influence in my life at a young age. I love dealing with pressure. I realized being uncomfortable is what true progress is about. It doesn't really matter just because we want the results, honestly.

Who doesn't want to have great life? The question is what are you going to do about it. 

Do you believe you can? Are you worth it? How committed are you?

Don't Just talk about it, be about it. Success is defined by who you are willing to become. Are you willing to learn and grow everyday and get past your ego, even when you cannot measure the results? That's is how you succeed. 

Juan & Brandee Walker

Hello my name is Juan and this is my wife Brandee. We are fun loving parents who enjoy traveling and being adventerous, spending time with our extended family, and staying active by trying to keep up with our seven month old daughter Havanna. Although being parents is not always easy, we have always embraced our responsibilities with the same passion and enthusiasm that we run our online business with.

Our daughter is one of the great joys in our lives, but we are also blessed to have many great friends and

family members. In our spare time (which we are having more and more of these days), we are the type of family that enjoys having barbeques on the weekends, taking an afternoon dip in the pool, or spending time together playing cards, games, and our Nintendo Wii.

We also enjoy watching a good movie and getting away on weekends to listen to latin bands. The reason we are sharing all of this with you today is because not so long ago we did not get to do anything these things together. We were ALWAYS apart trying to build our offline businesses and thinking we were doing ok because we could pay our bills each month.

But now because of this business, we live a better quality of life and we are definitely looking forward to bigger and better things in the future. Some of our goals for the coming year are to become completely debt free, find a beach condo to purchase in the Grand Cayman Islands, purchase tickets to watch an NBA Finals game (we are avid basketball fans), and bringing together a group of investors to start a charitable foundation.

Karen Newman

Karen Newman is the creator of the Experience Mapping™ concept and book by the same name. Experience Mapping is a process for leveraging past experience into future success.

As a successful business coach and mentor, Karen assists former executives and workforce veterans transition to profitable careers on the Internet. Karen provides new Internet entrepreneurs with the educational tools, support and resources required to market anything, to anyone, anywhere in the world, regardless of experience or technical expertise.

A Personal Message from Karen:

Family time and quality of life are paramount and I have made it my mission to help others attain the same financial freedom and lifestyle that I have achieved. Allow me to guide you through the steps to achieve your own personal freedom and prosperity.

Simon Guillard

For 15 years I worked in corporate sales and marketing, and had long been looking for a way out of the rat race. With a young family, I was sick and tired of never seeing my children and missing out on them growing up because I always seemed to be working. I started looking for alternative ways of making money to replace my income from blue-chip corporate software sales.

Along the way, I tried and failed at numerous business ventures, including network marketing (MLM), affiliate marketing and even foreign exchange trading. I ended up in a worse position than when I had started, and with a mountain of debt that was rapidly growing.

I was then forced to look harder and faster for another income; I then lost my job! I now faced losing absolutely everything due to the mountain of debts I had, with no income to pay them with. For those of you that have been in this position, I remember all too well how the worry was sickening and the feeling like I had let my family down.

I then stumbled across an advert that caught my eye. I don’t remember what it said (I wish I did as I’d probably use it myself now) but it pointed me towards this very business system that was unique to everything else I’d come across.

This was not a ‘rags to riches’ story but that of someone who had been on a good salary as an investment banker and who had replaced their income with this business system.

I was sick of hearing the usual crap story about how someone had made loads of money in two seconds just for blowing their nose. This seemed more like what I was looking for, so I decided to get involved and check this out some more.

Art Basmajin

To make a long story short, I figured out for the first time in my life that I could actually make a ton of money and not work 50 hours a week.

When I finally changed my mindset and treated my business like a business and worked smarterinstead of harder, that’s when things really started to happen. I had to learn to think like a “strategic entrepreneur.”

And now my partner Cheryl and I are sought after for our training. Our passion is to help anyone who has a driving desire to work for herself or himself and is willing to do whatever it takes. We want to cut your learning curve and your expenses so you don’t make the costly mistakes we did.

Incredible? Not really… that’s how powerful these strategies are that our system teaches! My results are real…I am real…and this is my story.

A lot can happen in this industry if you stay the course and implement what I teach. And when it does, the flood gates will open.

Sam Levitz

In order to properly tell my tale, I’d like to paint a picture for you…

I remember it so well, I was living in Santa Barbara, California at the time. Not even graduated from the university there yet, and I was working for an export company who did most of their business in Turkey, yes, Turkey.

Don’t Let This Happen To YOU!

On my first business trip there, I had just gotten off the plane and was herded onto a crowded, stinky bus, full of non-English speakers. I took a seat near the front of the bus, crammed against the window which was fogged by the chill in the air.
As the doors of the bus closed, I heard something, the sound of someone near the back speaking English! I wretched my head around to see, and it was two 60-something year ancient men, one sitting in front of the other.

The man behind said “Hey, where are you from?” And the man turned to him and said “Colorado.”

The Moment That Changed My Life

There was a dramatic pause, then I heard the man who questioned the question sigh this HEAVY sigh. I turned around to see that man now staring out the window, his voice cracking as he was holding back tears and he said, “Colorado, huh? I nearly married a girl from Colorado once…..sometimes I wish I did…”

Whoa…I could feel this man’s pain and suffering and his regret that he had been living with for so many years. It absolutely ROCKED me.

From that exact moment in my life, I committed to myself to NEVER regret anything in my life. I promised myself to live a life of passion and happiness and to take advantage of the opportunities that life presents me, so at the end of my life, when the music stops playing, the last expression on my face will be a smile of gratitude rather than a frown of regret.

Frank Scott

"Always giving of yourself for the good of the community", that's how I was raised. A lifetime of civil service, first as a professional Firefighter/ Paramedic then to a SWAT cop / plain clothes Detective.

I followed in the footsteps of my father, who also was forever the entrepreneur. I always had something in the works from MLM companies to product development, but nothing seemed to click until I found the internet.

Struggling at first to understand this new advertising medium I eventually landed with Carbon Copy PRO. In the first 8 months with PRO, I received sales recognition awards including the Carbon Copy PRO Master Marketer Award.

This was accomplished while working full time as a Detective and taking care of my most important role as a husband and father of 2.

As a well rounded marketer, I used everything from PPC to social media to grow my businesses, but Search Engine Optimization, getting listings on page one of Google, that was what intrigued me.To offset lead cost and build long term assets by getting multiple sites to rank on the first page at one time, it became my specialty and passion.

Continuing in the tradition of "Giving of yourself for the good of the community" I now teach and consult on the SEO tactics I use for the Loyal 9. Teaching new online business owners how to grow their businesses using these tactics and Local business how they can increase the bottom line by leveraging the power of the internet.

Dr. Charlie Smithdeal

Born and raised in a small mountain town in East Tennessee, Charlie’s lifelong passion has been to help others. He discovered early on that the key to his  personal fulfillment was to obtain special knowledge and abilities, and then share these with others. So, he demonstrated an early thirst for learning and a personal quest for expert coaching and training.

An early sign of future success came when he was graduated from college at the age of 19, and then earned his MD degree only three years later. In four more years he became board certified by The American Board of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery. Soon after, he was elected into the prestigious American College of Surgeons.

When a Captain in the U.S. Air Force, he served as Chief of ENT–ear, nose and throat surgery–at Maxwell Air Force Base Hospital. With his passion for coaching others, he later served as director of residency training for Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital in New York. He was recognized as an outstanding coach and mentor by numerous young surgeons who went on to highly successful careers.

Invited to join a prestigious medical group in Atlanta, GA, he entered private practice and served as managing partner and Chief of Staff of a highly successful ENT hospital. Continuing his quest for more knowledge, he returned to New York to complete full training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at The New York Hospital. Following this second residency, Charles was invited to move his new practice to Los Angeles, where he and Deb  met and married.

His considerable success and accomplishments allowed him to retire  early from his practice, in order to pursue other interests. He soon became an acclaimed writer, inventor, entrepreneur, miniature-horse breeder, and online-marketing expert. His passion today remains the same as it was as a teenager–sharing what he has worked so hard to master, in order to help others.

James & Zurieka Model

So we thought again about home business opportunities and we tried a few different multi-level marketing businesses. To tell you the truth all the hype put me off a lot of the time, but I stuck with it thinking there must be something in this for 'these people' to be successful. That's where I got it wrong! I realised that only a very small percentage at the very top tier earned the substantial money! 0.5% were earning 6 figures annually! Less than 1% were making $30,000 and LESS PER YEAR!  

I also found the system to be unfair. Only the top tiers were benefiting from all the hard work carried out by the 'bottom dwellers'. We once again 'invested' our earnings and energies into a system that made us spend more than we earned in return! Many of these systems might have some wonderful products but if you don't have a system that works well that supports and trains you all the way, then your business is going to fail. Another thing that I discovered was that the market was very saturated by a lot of these products. Therefore, competition was very high and commissions so pithy that you were lucky to make some 'pocket money' from it in the end. I searched tirelessly for a position on the internet and to tell you the truth this business opportunity landed in the form of an email in my inbox!

At first I thought "Oh, here we go again, it's another one of those...!" How mistaken I was! It had nothing to do with affiliate or multi-level marketing. It doesn't involve being on the phone (not my natural inclination) for hours on end to strangers that waste your time, or having to 'sell stuff' to family and friends! It doesn't require your spare room or garage to be turned into a warehouse stocking lotions, potions, vitamins, pills or magic juices! It didn't require me to have "after hours" sales parties in my home or going to countless hotel lectures! I read a little and liked what I heard. Then I thought about it for a few days until I read a little more. By the time I'd read everything on the website I'd been directed to, I was 'SOLD' on this concept and decided to share my new found "gem" with my husband. We both took a more in depth look at the business plan and immediately felt that there was something of high value in this. Something we hadn't seen or heard about before on the internet or in the marketing world. This was a whole new business model that would change the face of the internet marketing world and all who are serious internet entrepreneurs!

Lena Bjorna

I'm very excited to say that I'm one of Mike's success stories. :-)

But first things first: My name is Lena Bjorna and I'm originally from the beautiful (buchilly) country of Norway. However, I permanently left the cold - and my comfort zone - when I moved to Southern California in 1995, without knowing a single soul here.

I was living in L.A., an out-of-work actress when, a few years back, I was bitten by the MLM bug. 

So I 'dropped out' of Hollywood and started chasing that grand but seemingly unattainable dream of a six-figure walk-away residual income. See, the truth was I was slaving for peanut commissions, robbing peter to pay paul, and trying to keep my team of non-committed distributors from quitting. (Probably a story you have heard  before.)

Then one day, I stumbled upon "Magnetic Sponsoring" online...and as they say, the rest is history.

Magnetic taught me not only how to properly brand and market myself, and to develop into a Leader, but also created an insatiable hunger in me for knowledge, self-education and excellence within my field. And, as I would soon find out, the more of an expert you become, the more sought-after you become in the market place. 

The snowball had started to roll...

Jeff Learner

I am originally from Houston, Texas though now split time between New York City and the mountains of Utah... (that pic on the right was taken on the roof deck of my apartment in NYC). Life wasn't always this rosy... In Fall of 2008, my franchise restaurant in Houston failed and I was left with over $250,000 in personal debt (if you want to see what that looks like click here... but warning it's not pretty).

Facing bankruptcy, I looked at lots of home businesses, including several MLMs, but they all paid too little and took too long to get going... I was running out of time and fast. One night while checking my email I clicked on "one of those ads" on the side of the screen (just like you may have)... My guard was up for another "get rich quick" internet scheme but what I found was surprisingly different I found a community of internet marketers. Too big to be conjured up but still tiny compared to the vastness of the internet. These were some of the best marketers in the world, many of whose names I recognized. And they were saying that with this system, no experience was required to become one of them. "How is that possible?", you might ask.

Well I wondered too... These entrepreneurs have hit on a formula that basically consists of combining Top Tier Direct Sales with Internet Marketing. If you don't know, Top Tier Direct Sales is the most lucrative niche of the home business industry. It is often described as "what people graduate to after they go through a few MLMs". By combining Top Tier with Internet Marketing all of the unpleasant things one typically associates with "home business" are eradicated. I'm taking about home parties, hotel meetings, pitching friends and family, etc. Once you really learn how to market, the internet does all that dirty work for you and by aligning with a Top Tier company you only work with serious qualified entrepreneurs and generate meaningful commissions (up to $16,000 per sale in this case).

This formula helped me to make over $14,000 in my first 11 weeks, then I made more... And more... In February and March 2009 combined I ended up making over $50,000. By July I had a month as high as $72,000. 9 months into the business I was over $400,000 in gross revenue at over 80% profit margins. I'm now a coach who owns his own company and helps new entrepreneurs build their businesses while I continue to run my own.