Archive for November, 2007

Stephen Pierce is an internet multi millionaire who, with his wife, runs an endless empire of online businesses and three different coaching clubs. He is known as one of the powerhouses of the internet and teaches others to replicate his success.

The Path of Failure to Success

Pierce didn’t start out successful. He managed to blow what few opportunities that came his way on the mean streets of DC. He had no future and no hope.

When Pierce was kicked out of high school at age 16 he thought it was the best thing that could have happened to him and felt liberated. He kicked open the door of the school building and never returned to school. Then he immediately set out and did what dropouts usually do: look for trouble. And when there wasn’t any trouble to be found, he made trouble.

After a couple of years of “liberation” Pierce was caught in the middle of a street fight among a couple of gangs of thugs after a drug deal had gone bad; a bullet ripped into his leg and he fell over, not knowing if he’d live or die.

He was whisked to the hospital but spent a long time laying on the gurney looking up at the harsh lights. He didn’t have insurance, didn’t have a support system, no one believed in him anymore because he had been too good at being bad for too long.

Right then Pierce knew he needed to stop blaming everyone in his world for his problems and start claiming the future he knew he deserved instead of just waiting for it to happen.

The doctors treated him but left the bullet in his leg. Pierce assumed this was because he didn’t have insurance, and they probably expected that he wouldn’t survive much longer anyway, but the bullet is there and it remains a symbol of where he came from and reminds him to be grateful.

He Turned His Life Around…And Went Bankrupt

Pierce spent the few years turning his life around…only to go bankrupt. He had started one business after another and they all tanked. Even though he wasn’t hanging out in gangs or dealing in drugs he was completely disowned by family because they couldn’t put up with his business dreams anymore and thought he should get a real job. No one took his calls. He was told that everything he touches turned to dust.

After finally filing for bankruptcy in the late1990s he literally became homeless. An acquaintance let him sleep in his office at night. Pierce borrowed a computer and an internet connection and started to learn about this thing called the internet.

He discovered he had a knack for picking out stocks. After a year of giving his stock tips away for free on a forum, and discovering his tips were worth $725K profit to anyone who had followed them, he started a membership site even though he didn’t know how to put together a website. He sent out an email to the 1,200 people on his email list and waited. After that first $350 order came in several minutes later, the momentum didn’t stop. Pierce made $500K that first year and now, ten years later, grosses $10 million per year selling products on several websites as well as a lucrative speaking career.

Today Pierce lives in a mansion inside a gated community in a custom designed home near Dallas. They have a ranch so his wife Alicia can live her dream of riding horses.

It’s About Life, Not Profits.

Pierce isn’t content just selling products and relaxing in his mansion, however. He and his wife travel around the world teaching people how they can live their dreams as well.

As a Certified Accelerated Innovation Trainer he coaches CEOs and other corporate executives. He’s also a Certified Coach and works one-on-one with individuals who want to pursue their dreams and set up their own home-based internet business.

Thanks to his travels to Singapore, Australia, India, Malaysia, Dubai, South Africa and other countries he’s helped thousands of people around the world set up their own successful online businesses as a result of his coaching and inspiration.

“I’m dedicated to giving more life to more people,” says Pierce. “The more life you give others the more life you get yourself.” Raised Almost a Million for Charities

Pierce used the power of the internet to raise $130K in 64 hours at a seminar in Singapore for Feed the Children.

He hosted a dinner at his house that generated $78K for Russell Simmons Charities.

After Hurricane Katrina he set up a website and asked his fellow marketers to donate money for the victims. They came through with over $600K.

And those are just a few of his charitable activities and yet more way that he gives more life to people.

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