The Leapfrog Method: Ditch Baby Steps and Reach Success in Leaps
When I was in the working world I often used a process I called “Leapfrogging” to get further and further ahead.
You see it turned out that the best time to get a raise in your income was when negotiating with a new company for a new job.
The technique was simple.
I would join a company and do the best job that I possibly could. When new higher positions became available I would put myself forward for a promotion, and quite often would get it! But companies don’t pay significant increases to someone they promote internally. So I would have a great new job title, and often be on the lowest end of earning that, that job title would have.
So I would look for a new job that I could now get because of my new job title! (i.e. now I had experience as a manager I could apply for manager roles).
When I got the new job with the new company I would negotiate for the salary I felt I was worth. This often meant that my salary would increase very significantly anytime I switched companies.
I didn’t really do this on purpose, it was more that I hated to be working hard and not being paid what I felt I was worth.
I kept switching jobs in the hope that the next one would be more fulfilling. That I would feel like I was finally doing something of worth for the world.
But no matter how much I was able to “leapfrog” my income (and I raised it by 18k in a couple of years) I was never really happy. Because I was still working on someone else’s vision, for someone else’s goals, and following someone else’s rules and timeline.
I got to a position where the next logical step (from manager to district manager) looked completely and utterly miserable. There was no amount of money the company could have paid me to rise to the next level and deal with the amounts of stress, pressure, and ridiculous targets that my boss (the district manager) had to deal with on a daily basis.
I realized that I could never be happy working for someone else.
I was an entrepreneur at heart.
When I started my own business and began to learn about making a living online I discovered that it followed the exact same principles of leapfrogging to success that I had used in the job world to rise from flunky to store manager in less than a year.
While everyone else is simply plodding along at a steady pace waiting for someone to notice them, I found I could leverage any small success to lift myself to the next level.
Why?
Because the internet marketing world is built on STORIES and PROOF. If you have no story and no proof of success to make people think you are worth following…they don’t follow!
So it’s a chicken and egg scenario right?
You can’t become very successful without a good story or proof, and you can’t get that story or proof without success, right?
Wrong.
You can leapfrog your way to success use small successes along the way, and the stories and proof of others.
Leapfrogging means using leverage to jump a little bit higher than you could on your own. It’s a team game, where people help each other to leap higher or farther.
The ultimate way to jump to your success is to leapfrog off both your own successes and someone elses.
You just need a start.
How to Leapfrog:
1. Learn how to tell other people’s stories
If you are in internet marketing or network marketing there are people in your opportunity that are doing well, that are telling their story. You can tell their story too! You can sell tools or your opportunity by talking about how successful someone else is at it.
Ex: One of the guys I work with used to be a burnt out construction worker, battling addiction, and completely miserable. He used the same strategy I’m going to show you to make thousands daily online in a matter of months.
Good story right? Most people won’t tell the stories of others because they are so afraid of their leads running off and joining the other person. But if your lead joins NOBODY you still get no money. Most people will hear the story and still join with you!
2. Take screenshots of every small success
A picture is worth a thousand words. Do you think it will have more impact if I tell you that Step one in the Traffic Takeover Formula outlined in my new book “The Rebel Marketer’s Manual” (which you can get for free by signing up on the right of this page 
) will teach you how to get hundreds of leads a day…or if I show you this picture of a brand new list I created and got almost 300 new leads in two days using only step one of the Traffic Takeover Formula?
Why does this work better? Why are you dying to enter your email at the right to download the book for free right now? Because I’ve told you SPECIFICALLY what that one strategy can do, and I gave you proof. And you want to know what the strategy is.
I know you think your small successes don’t matter. But it all matters. You can use small successes as a leapfrog to slightly bigger successes. You are building your story and your arsenal of proof. Make sense?
So don’t waste anything….every small success deserves a screenshot (seriously, it’s as easy as hitting the PrtSc button next to f12 on your keyboard and pasting the image into a doc).
3. Start working on your story.
No matter what your situation, there are people out there who relate to it. Think about what drove you to want to make money from home. Let me tell you a (short) story :
Every single day I had to walk into my job was painful. Even though I liked my customers (I was serving coffee at a very well known coffee chain!) and I liked my coworkers the job simply did not reflect me.
You see some people are just not designed to go into a job and do the same thing day in and day out. Some of us were designed to be working for ourselves and in charge of our own daily decisions. I couldn’t stand the clenching feeling in my gut on a Monday morning when waiting for my boss to call and tell me I was bad at my job because food availability was down by 2%. I couldn’t stand that I had to sacrifice my moral views (ie that throwing away mountains of food at the end of the night is BAD) so that I could hit the right numbers to not get yelled at.
Surely there’s something wrong with a system that turns you into an automaton, not able to think or follow your own feelings about what is right and wrong in the world, but simply striving to hit some random number that an analyst has provided at the end of the week.
To me, there is NO acceptable amount of food being thrown into a bin when there are people starving in the world.
But, hey, I’m out of that, phew. It still get’s my goat.
Why tell this story that seemingly has no relation to making money online? Well, a lot of other people feel the same way about their jobs. There are people who will read that and agree that sacrificing your morals for a job is just a ridiculous way to live. And they might be feeling that way about their job and will want to look at what I did to free myself.
You might not have been successful yet, but it’s never too soon to be YOU in your business. It’s never too soon to show people you are real and human just like them.
At the moment your story might just be why you hit a place where you decided you NEED to make money online and get free from whatever situation you are in. It might be why you decided that XYZ opportunity was the way for you. Some people will relate. And as you get small successes you can add them to your story.
Your story can include how you broke through and got your first leads online, then how you made your first sale, then how you made your first $1,000, then how you freed yourself, and finally how you started travelling the beaches of the world!
Every small success can help you leap to a bigger and bigger success.
Count them, document them, become a story teller and proof provider. You’ll get there MUCH faster than simply plodding along doing the same thing day after day after day.
To Your Absolute (and Easy) Success! 
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