Dear Friends,
Today I decided to end my career as an internet marketing trainer. I have told so many of my students that when your 1% unhappy it’s time to get out. Now it’s time to follow my own advice.
Over the last 18 months or so I have had the privilege to meet and work with some of the coolest, kindest, most generous people I have ever known. I have truly enjoyed sharing my knowledge of internet marketing and social media marketing with each and every one of you.
So why would I quit? There are several reasons, but here are a few…
First, training and coaching, for me, is an all encompassing business. I took on every client’s challenges as my own and and my time with my family has been very limited since I began on this path. I look very forward to focusing on just being dad and a husband for a while.
Secondly, while there are a great many people who have shown me a great deal of love, there are a few that have shown a heavy dose of hate and anger, partially because of my past. This group has unfortunately been much more vocal and harsh.
While I can take reasonable criticism, today I have concerns for my safety and the safety of family.
Third, I remembered that it’s much more fun and profitable to be a marketer than it is to teach internet marketing…a truth that someone had to hit me over the head to help me remember.
So, that being said I need to make a clean break….
I have asked that all my internet marketing training products be removed from the market.
I am in the process of removing all internet marketing related materials form my blogs.
Over the next bit of time I will be reverting my social media connections back to close personal friends.
I will have canceled all future internet marketing and social media speaking opportunities and will not accept new ones.
In short, I am taking my life back to private.
My current clients will be supported by Ryan Deiss’ company, Infomastery, but I will be creating no new internet marketing trainings and I have canceled all future speaking engagements regarding internet marketing.
For any current customers and clients who are still owed coaching/consulting from me, I will still be hanging around for as long as it takes to make sure that you are taken care of. In other words, while my public persona will more or less vanish, I’ll still be helping you privately and WILL NOT violate prior agreements. (NOTE: This includes “Social Media Money System” customers who are owed coaching calls with me.)
If you have any questions or concerns about any of this, please contact customer support at: support@drivingtraffic.com
…or by phone at: 512-600-4363
I appreciate your care and understanding and I wish each and every one of you great success in your future endeavors.
Sincerely,
Perry Belcher
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Peace of mind is priceless… Good luck P!!
It is always sad when a giant goes back to sleep. The people miss them and all the excitement they provide. But people must realize, even giants need sleep.
Best wishes Perry. I hope you find the rest and comfort that all giants deserve.
Good Luck Man, it takes guts to get your life back.
Follow your passion, be humble and you'll succeed always.
Perry –
I don't know you personally but I have been following you recently. Your methodolgy is sound and I liked your straight forward funny style. You helped me to clearly see an IM model that tied all of the pieces together. I am sorry that all of the bad stuff from your past is making you get out of the business. The positive side is that your family gets more of you. It is sad for us but good for them! Count your blessings. As a productivity specialist, having work-life balance is CRITICAL to your overall success. You will still continue to do great things!!
Hugs and blessings!
Perry Belcher apparently deleted his Twitter account http://twitter.com/perrybelcher or it was suspended. I think is was most likely the first one, he deleted it because his user name is still in the search results with around 200 followers at the time of this posting.
There must be more to the story as to the reason why. There is clearly a morale to the Perry Belcher story and we must all learn from it. All the best!!
Certainly, I can understand perhaps some legal pressures and constant harassments of your past influenced your decision to stop teaching in addition to the time involved in teaching, coaching, and mentoring.
Perfect Perry, that's what this is all about, freedom and happiness, thanks for helping while you were around teaching, it will be very useful for a lot of us, so we can, in our own time, retire too!!!
Enjoy your family, all the love for all of you!!
Perry, take care of you and your family. You will be truly missed. I learned a lot from you in a short amount of time. Thanks for all your help.
Wow…Perry that is really unfortunate. I have appreciated your info so much. thanks! Are we still going to have access to the back office? For those of us who are members?
Yo brothaaaaaa! Take care of family and yourself. We understand – SMMS
Perry,
Wow – I never comment on posts but felt compelled to after reading your blog. I totally get it and can only say that I wish you the best. About 6 years ago I left a career that was my passion because of a few very nasty and very vocal people. The silent majority was just that… silent. I was concerned for my wife and family and my own sanity. I walked – it was tough in fact it still is sometimes – wondering if it was the right decision. Either way, God's speed and good luck.
Rob
dude, do what makes you happy! love on the family, they grow up too fast.
you were, are and will continue to be the man, because you understand what it takes to make it.
negative crap sacks that would rather complain than do what it takes to succeed exist unfortunately. if we made a list of the people that did the complaining and make threats, we would find the same people would be on most marketers lists. i have seen it over and over.
live life. love life.
hey perry, sorry to hear that you are giving up on the internet marketing business, i can understand how difficult it is being in the spot light all of the time as a marketing “guru”, i’ve enjoyed learning from you as part of the social media money system and i look forward to hearing more about your future adventures! cheers twitter(at)locspoc
I love all the vids you do, they're extremely helpful. Will miss them, however best of luck on your new private life!
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