On Feb 12, 2014, I made the following post on My Silent Team's (MST) Facebook Group:

"A little something to encourage newbies like me. I'm just into my third month since joining PAC and selling through FBA. So far today has marked 2 milestones:
1) I have just received my 11th "Amazon has shipped your item" email. Totalling 12 sales for today.
2) My only PL product just crossed into the top 1% in Beauty.

All this while living on the other side of the world and doing everything through my laptop 

I left my salaried position in a big ministry more than a year ago and it has been tough (trying to sell the house to clear the mortgage, etc. while planting a couple of house churches for people who would never step into a typical church service and training others in India and Cambodia to do the same AND fundraising for the orphanage and school my wife and I started there!), but at this rate I just have to triple my current sales for the profit to match my previous salary 

Many thanks to Jim, Barrington, Duane Malek and so many of you who have availed yourselves and helped tremendously in this adventure!"

Since that time, the thread has generated questions and discussions beyond what I had ever imagined (190 comments at the time of this writing). After some thought and encouragement from members of the MST group, I have finally decided to roll up my sleeves and journal the journey. The beauty of this journey is that it is not made alone, but is an adventure with a community of wonderful, like-minded and humble people who go the extra mile to help each other surmount new peaks everyday.

Special thanks must go to Jim Cockrum and the team he has assembled, who provide not just a course but an environment for the incubation and nurture of ideas that translate into action and life-change.

I invite you to join me in this journey!

I left the apparent security of life as an employee at the end of 2012. Just 2 months before that, my wife had also left her position and to this day, my father thinks we are crazy!

Thankfully we both had some financial prudence and had accumulated 3 years of savings when we stepped out of the boat. Our main focus has been planting authentic church communities and bringing positive transformation in society. This involves quite a bit of time meeting people daily and traveling to other countries to train others. On top of that, we also had a home and school for children at risk in rural India. At the same time we wanted to be self-sustaining to model that you can make a living while changing the world.

There's a song from when our daughter was little that goes, "If your output exceeds your input, then your upkeep will be your downfall." Thus began the journey to create an income stream that would allow us to do what we needed. Having previously been in charge of the web and IT departments in my previous jobs, I started looking at Internet Marketing and the world of niche site creation, SEO, PPC, Adsense, affiliate marketing and SPAM! I found a small measure of success with Amazon affiliate sites,  but it was just not my cup of tea.

Then on September 24, 2013, I received my first email about the Amazing Selling Machine...(which I decided against buying after thorough research for alternatives).