I want to first talk a bit about me, and what I have been doing, and then I will talk about the IMTSuccess program, and what I am doing with it.
Well, first me.  Most of you know that for the last 10 years, I have been a boater, and living on my boats and enjoying the summer out of the water.  This summer was not to be any different.  I had just installed a brand new, state of the art Wifi internet system to do my business with on the boat, and it was June 14, and I was heading out for 3 months.

Coast Guard Helping Recover Boat

I got half way across the Strait of Georgia, off the Pacific Ocean, between the Vancouver Mainland and Victoria Island, and I hit something big in the water, and put a big hole in the boat.  Within 15 minutes, my boat had 4 feet of water in it and the dog and I were abandoning ship waiting the Coast Guard to rescue us.  Well, that was the end of my boating times, the boat had filled with water, but I was able to recover it, but it was a total right-off, so I sold it for scrap, and basically lost everything I owned.

Well, now that the dog and I were homeless, I had some decisions to make.  I was able to save my prized possession, my computer, wish as you know is my business, so I made it back the mainland, found a nice apartment in New Westminster, and moved on to land.  My long time dream of living on the water crushed, and the fact that I came very close to losing my own life, a bit disturbing, but my lifetime dream of working for myself from home, untouched, and I moved on.

Well, things were actually pretty good, I was enjoying the land thing, and my business was growing, I had started a new venture which I will tell you about below, but talk about getting the wind taken away from your sails, when on the 4th of August, I got a call from my brother, saying Mom had taken unexpectedly ill, and I should come down there.  Well. I hopped on a plane a few hours later, and the next morning, I held my Mother’s hand as I watched her die.

Always Missed, Forever Loved

A totally unexpected shock that shook up my life like nothing else ever has. I had always been a mamma’s boy, and my Mom and I shared a very special and close relationship, and losing her felt like someone had ripped a limb off of my body and said I can never have that limb back again.  The pain was awful.  I thought to myself, what now, this is too much this summer, how can I go on, life isn’t fair.  Well I then thought to myself something that my mother always told me over and over when I was going through tough times . . .Rod, you can have and be anything in life that you want to as long as you Never, Never give up. She was a smart lady, and I owed it to her not to give up.

Well, that brings me to the next chapter in my life, what I am doing Now.  If any of you reading are still trying to make a living online, you then for sure have heard of Local Search.  This is huge; everybody is talking about it, but no one doing it.  Well, except me.  I have joined up with a partner, a former IMTSuccess student, who himself, has refused to give up in his quest for a

local-search-results

work from home income, and we are kicking this thing and making more money that I ever dreamed of online.  I have never done anything so easy in my life.  Local business are all looking for some help with their web site, whether they are plumbers, dentists,   roofers, it doesn’t matter, and they will pay good money, $500 -$2000 a month for someone that can bring them results.  And you know what, I do nothing more that I have taught throughout the IMTSuccess course to promote their site, but it is a lot easier to get page 1 results for “plumber Vancouver” than just plumber.
Again, listen to what I said.  I do nothing to promote these sites, that that which I have taught many of you in the IMTSuccess Program.  Nothing much has changed online.

Now that brings me to the IMTSuccess Program and the IMTSuccess Support Program.  Effective immediately, The IMTSuccess Support Program has been canceled.  I have canceled all the subscriptions. What gets me, and what I do not understand, is the people that have been paying for the IMTSuccess support program monthly, and never asking for help.  Don’t tell me your not making any money online, obviously not, you spending it!

Now, what I say next, I in no way intend to offend anyone, and if you take offence, I sorry, but it has to be said, and all I ever wanted is your success online.  I am talking to a group of people that joined me in a project at the beginning of the year, the I will Blog for you Project.  This project was intended that I set up the blog for you, and you promote it and keep 100% of the profits.  Then there was the I will Promote for you portion, where you paid me to have my outsourcing team do some of the promotion methods for you.  Well, in my emails, on my sales page in our conferences, those of you that participated in this project we well aware that you have to promote these sites yourself, even if you had me do some of the methods, you had to do the rest to ensure you sites would make money.

I have always taught you that if you are promoting a site, you must use all the promotional methods taught to you to get a site indexed and ranked because if Google sees promotion coming from only 2 or 3 methods, they will sandbox or blacklist your site.  The majority of you took me up on my offer to pay for the sites and promotion on a monthly basis over one year, and I expected you to commit to that, as you knew what you were getting in to.  Well, ¾ of you have since canceled your payments, and the project was an extremely large money loss for me.  Those of you that paid up front for your site, get to work, its not to late to start getting 100’s of back links to them, and they will make money for yours.  Never, Never give up!

This is why I am canceling the IMTSuccess Support and training, and I just can’t afford the time or money to do it, when the large majority of the people are not doing it themselves.  I am not the type of online marketer that creates a product online, sells for $1000’s of dollars (as you see products launched every week) and they do not care if you follow their methods or not, they just want your money.  It is not my job, or any others persons job to make you successful, it is yours.  And if people do not start taking my Mother’s advice of Never, Never quite, you will never, never have a large online business providing you ample money to stay at home and enjoy life the way it should be enjoyed.

Those of you that did not complete payment for your sites, the sites will be going back to me, as they are all great sites, and everyone of them can make money, and I will never, never will give up on them.  When we did this project, I only had time to do 3 sites for myself, as I was working on yours, but I did promote them with everything I have taught you, and each of these sites earns $200 – $300 per month.

I have absolutely no regrets for doing the training I did in the past, and enjoyed working with all of you, but for now, I am done with the training part of my business, time to work on my own business.  Each of you have the ability and the knowledge to do it yourself, you just have to realize that it is not easy, but it is simple, but it takes a lot of hard work, and my taking Mom’s advice, of Never Never giving up, you will reach the success that each and every one of you deserve.

Remember, your current job takes a lot of hard work also, 40 – 50 hours a week of hard work.

Let’s not be strangers, as in the future drop me an email or phone call to tell me what you are up to, or maybe you have a partnership idea, like my new partner did, and maybe we will work together in the future.

To Your Success
Rod Larrivee

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I have had this Twitter discussion with twitterers and non twitterers alike, “What is Twitter for?” There are some people on Twitter get totally upset when I send out a tweet that has a self promoting link. I am not sure what they are doing on Twitter. In my opinion, there are not enough people in the world to make Twitter feasible for its creators, if Twitter users are only interested in what everybody is having for dinner .

You do not see right now a lot of advertising on Twitter, but the Twitter owner’s have stated publicly, that there will be. Twitter is a business, and it will make money.

Let’s look at the big Twitterers at the time this eBook is being written. Now these are just my opinions on why they are on Twitter (I don’t think they need any more friends.)

Ashton Kutcher – 1,250,000 followers – Followers for Ashton mean clarifying bad press, more followers, more fans, more box office sales, more movie rentals, more money???

CNN – 1,000,000 followers – More followers, more hits to their sites, more advertising revenue, more money???

President Barack Obama – 800,000 followers. He built his followers during his campaign, more followers, more votes, President of the United State – Good on him!

Oprah – 250,000 followers in a weekend after joining Twitter on her show. More fans, closer interaction to fans, more show watchers, more magazine sales, more money???

So, here it is for me, the purpose of Twitter: Promotion of oneself, one’s product, one’s life goal, or one’s cause and I welcome all as my followers, even if you want to tell me what you are having for dinner

Rod Larrivee
http://twitter.com/rodl13