June 2018 – Pedro Segundo

Simple Ways to Start Your Blog TODAY & Make Money While Doing It

Diving into how to start your blog and seeing the ways in which you can monetize is one of the best ways to create passive income for yourself. I am no expert on this topic but I will share my experiences with blogging. Note this is a lengthy post with loads of information.

Having your own blog can give you a huge presence in the online world as well as leveraging your influence to impact others.

The Benefits:

Building an amazing audience base that shares the same goals and interests as you
Ability to express yourself
Document your experiences and memories that can potentially provide value to someone else that helps them succeed along the way

Blogging can be a lot of fun too but it can also make you some serious cash if executed correctly. Today, I will be covering everything you need to know to start your blog and monetize it so you can live the life that you WANT!

Making Your Blog:

First things first, we need to create a website that you can call home for your lovely thoughts. We need to find a host. The topic of hosting can get really technical but a simple way to think about it is leasing a space on the internet that you call home. Kind of like my 12-month lease for my apartment in college.

The flip side of your apartment lease and hosting is actually really cheap. Hosting a website costs on average about $3-7 per month to set up.

Blue host is the website hosting that I use for lifeofpedro.com and they have treated me so well since I joined them. They have a 30-day money back guarantee safety net that and provide top-notch customer service. Given this was my first ever website, they have been helpful in the process.

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Below are instructions on creating your BlueHost Account:

1) Get Started Now

2) Select Your Plan

3) Create Your Domain (This is your http://www.__________________.com)

4) Create Your Account

5) Install WordPress

Building Your TRUE Audience:

Next thing on your agenda is building a true audience. A true audience is the key to making your blog valuable.

Let’s take Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi for example. Whenever these two soccer superstars come out with a new cleat, there are millions upon millions of people that are die-hard fans that will sacrifice everything to get their hands on them. Like people will take drastic measures to get their hands on their idols new product. This can be applied to you as well.

All it takes is to build a strong solid audience base of around 100-1000 of true fans that

Love your work so much they will buy whatever it is you are offering
Notice how I said 100-1000. You don’t need millions of people to make this possible

For example. Let’s take an amateur soccer player who loves to play soccer and nothing else. All he needs to do is build a fan base of 100-1,000 people.

For instance. if he finds 1,000 people and offers ONE cleat or ONE jersey that are willing to give him $100 for his product

This equals out to be $100,000.

Can you live off that? You absolutely can. This is what your average college student thrives for, is a six-figure salary but here we do it in a passive approach as to getting a degree and getting a job to make that salary.

The amazing thing about this too, you don’t have to be the best blogger or influence in your industry or “niche.”

Now the more you build this the more income you are guaranteed to make and more channels of influence you gain.

Interesting story:

Whenever I was 12 years old, I had the dream of becoming a pro soccer player. After slow growth and frustration, I figured I would learn from a mentor to improve my skill set. That way I could actually play and all my friends would be peanut butter jealous. Hours of research led to one thing on how a Mexican little boy can achieve his dreams.

Finally, I found a guy named Matt Smith. He was a random guy that loved playing soccer and teaching people how to get better. I binged watched all his previous YouTube videos to kind of check out his style.

Sooner or later, it happened

Matt reached out to all his die-hard YouTube subscribers and asked if he made a training program if people would buy it? Everyone said yes. The birth of Epic Soccer Training came into place for the price of $50.

Matt has sold over 200,000 copies of his $50 training program.

Now do the math.

RELATED POST: IMPROVE YOUR GAME IN SOCCER

CREATE VALUABLE AND EXCITING CONTENT

So just as Matt did, you need to figure out you are passionate about and begin writing about it.

You want to offer value in return for the reader reading your blog. This is where your creative brain that I know you all have comes into play.

But like anything else guys, this will take time. A lot of times it will feel as nobody is reading your blog except your mom but don’t give up. Give it a whole year before the thought of quitting comes into mind. 95% of people that start something completely new give up whenever things start to get tough. But remember, to live how other can’t you need to do what others won’t.

Matt Smith was making videos and tutorials long before he became famous. Now, he lives of that hard work he put in the beginning and barely has the work again. His program alone makes him about $10,000 dollars without ever having to work again. Why? Because he built his true audience base.

Ask yourself. Does working hard now and enjoying the beautiful things in life later worth it?

110% my friend

If he can do with teaching people how to play soccer better, imagine the endless things you can do.

Offer A Solution To The Customer:

Our biggest goal is to build your true audience. Building your audience is the most important component of this process and the one you should focus on when you first start out. Note, this is a marathon, not a 100m sprint.

No worries though, you can still make some cash flow by recommending products through affiliate marketing. I would highly suggest this route for your first year before you start selling your own products.

Now if you want to dig deeper into Affiliate Marketing: I will be posting a blog post specifically for that next week:

After you have built a strong following base, you are ready to send out details and updates

You can go two routes with this.

Writing a blog post or uploading a video to your product or
My preferred option: create an email list

Benefits of Creating an E-Mail List:

We all have fallen into giving away our email list to a company or brand just for that coupon or discount right? The same concept applies here

Whenever giving away your e-mail address you create a confidential relationship between you and the reader. In order to get their email list, you have to give them something to offer, it could be a funny joke, a cookie, and high-five literally anything guys!

Once you have infiltrated the inbox, you are in the clear. For me, my email inbox is where I store all my important information that interests me the MOST.

Now if you able to gain access to that space, you have a greater chance of the reader actually looking at your product/service and promotes an even higher chance of you closing on that reader. Sounds good so far right?

What I personally use for building an email list and send out my monthly newsletter and updates is, Get Response. Get Response is one of the most reliable, easiest and cheapest platforms to do this on. This platform automatically sends out these emails which is the beautiful thing about it. All the work you have to do it setting it up. The rest is taken care of.

This is how I’m doing it:

I find out what people are interested in the most or something they are struggling with
I research products and services to best help that needs
I send them a funny and engaging email through Get Response and mention a product that is worth checking out
The reader checks out the product and wallah you got a traffic and a sale

Easy enough right?

The beautiful thing is that by collecting this email list, you are able to contact directly with your readers and you know exactly what is they want. Focusing on the right product/service is the only hard part but once that is done you can let this machine roll.

Wow, that was a load of information in one post. Hope that this article was helpful to you!

Creating your own blog and making a living from it is extremely challenging and exciting. Now that you know all the basics that you need on how you can create a blog and make it worthwhile…

What is stopping you?

P.S. Here is a pic of me when I was 6 years old grinding hard af on these blog posts on my HotWheels Laptop

Your boy,

Pedro Segundo

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Increase Productivity & Simplicity In Your Life with ONE Product In 2018

How would you like to live a life where everything is made simple, easy, and quick?

A world that the Bruce Wayne’s and Tony Starks live in, where their personal assistants aid them and help them live their life all through the power of their voice.

In today’s blog post I will talk about a product that you NEED in order to adapt to our growing technological world.

Behold I bring you the Amazon Alexa

My Experience With Alexa

So, a little story on how I began to dabble with virtual assistants

Back when these products were released I was kind of skeptical about the whole thing. I was stubborn to follow the newest trend and sort of prohibited me to adapt to the modern time. I simply didn’t feel a need to buy this product. I would see constant ads and promotions on the internet, television and even in physical locations. I was bombarded by it.

Then one of my close friends in college, Cade, had gotten the Amazon Echo Plus during Thanksgiving Break.

Coming back to college we were all chilling in his room playing video games with other friends. I hear Cade say, “Alexa, play my vibes playlist” and immediately after you hear a very pleasing British female voice reply with “Alright, playing your vibes playlist” and then it began to play his playlist filled with nice and chill music, perfect for the occasion.

No movement, no fingers, everything was done on command with the voice

From this moment, I was intrigued.

My curiosity skyrocketed. I immediately began playing around with it and asking every possible question and request that came to mind. I wanted to test its full capacity and see what it could really do. How do I do that? I ask it one simple question.

Me: “Hey Alexa, who was the 2014 NBA MVP”

Google: “The 2014 NBA MVP is Derrick Rose”

Me: “Aye, that boy niceeeee!!!!”

I was sold.

What makes these Virtual Assistants so special though?

Products like Alexa & Google Home are powered by AI (artificial intelligence). An intelligence that only gets smarter the more data it collects and the more its used. Almost everything that is run by robots has AI integrated into them somehow.

Let’s be real, it’s the future and soon everyone will be talking to a cylindrical speaker on their kitchen counter asking what the weather is like for the day.

It is completely changing how we live our daily lives. Now, I don’t have to even get up to change the song, change the show I’m watching on Netflix or even text/call people. Alexa does it all. This makes life a heck of a lot easier and cooler, to be honest. This gives me more time to focus on more important things that actually need human use. Simple tasks and chores can be done all with AI.

That’s Not All

Not even are you able to connect your phone and maybe other Alexa models. There are dozens of products that you can connect that are compatible with Alexa to manage your home by the tip of your tongue.

Now imagine being able to control the lights in your home, change the channel or show, change the temperature of your home? It’s pretty darn sweet if you ask me.

If you aren’t making the change now, you will sooner or later. Artificial intelligence is the next big thing and virtual assistants like Alexa are not going anywhere. If you can’t beat them, join them!

Click a promo on the Amazon Alexa

Your boy,

Pedro Segundo

2019 Bonnaroo Announcement | Stay Tuned For Details

Today I will be talking about a lifetime opportunity that Jack & I will be offering to all of our friends and followers. We will announce details later but for now picture this.

This will not only make you want to drop everything and go but it will broaden your horizons to depths you have no idea were there.

What better way of doing this?

Attending a 4-day non-stop music festival where EVERY single individual is radiating energy.

Bonnaroo has been an up and coming music festival that grows exponentially every summer. With growing averages of 80,000 people for the upcoming years.

With ridiculous headliners such as Eminem, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Chance the Rapper, Travis Scott, and Major Lazer all varying in different styles and genres.

So picture this…….

You and 5-6 of your closest friends taking a weekend-long journey witnessing amazing performances while all having the time of your literal life.

The best thing about it..

Everyone else has the SAME exact vibe. Everyone is out to make the best of it! From meeting new extravagant personalities, seeing some shit you never thought, and enjoying all of your favorite music in front of hundreds of thousands of people.

If you’re not convinced yet

WATCH NOW

Hopefully, we’ll see you on the other side

Your boy,

Pedro Segundo

Improving Your Game in Soccer the Quick & Easy Way for 2018

Needing that extra drive and secret sauce to skyrocket your game from riding the bench to being a star player? You come to the right place!

In this blog post, I will talk about a course that helped me improve my game in soccer tremendously. I will also dig a little into my story about how it all came to be.

FIRST EXPERIENCE IN THIS SOCCER WORLD

Growing up as a kid, I have always loved soccer. It became one of my favorite past times as a child and quickly began growing to be a passion.

I can still remember this day at my grandma’s house in Mexico where my very first present on my first birthday was a soccer ball. Words cannot express how enthusiastic I was as a child getting this present. It’s funny because I am not telling you from my point of view. I am telling you all this from my mother and grandma’s point of view because they were the only people present during my first actual birthday. My dad at the time was at the States traveling and finding a place to settle down before my mother going to that location.

Let’s be real here for a minute. Who do you know that remembers their first birthday vividly? I know close to zero people that do unless you have an insane memory.

But anyway, getting that first ball sparks joy into my eyes and immediately I start to play around with it, kicking it, pushing it around as I crawl, and overall just get curious about it. Honestly, life was amazing at the time because of A. no worries B. I had a soccer ball and C. I was a baby so who cares.

IT ALL STARTS WITH A DREAM

As I got older and I began to start falling in love with it. Kicking the ball and just being around the sport was my absolute favorite thing and from those moments I knew it was something I wanted to work to get better.

Here are some vintage pics of Young Footballer Pedro. Promise me you won’t laugh.

America FC

Mexico National

At the time soccer jerseys were about the only thing I wore. I kid you not THE ONLY THING I WORE. I’d rock these jerseys to school almost every day.

My attire from Kindergarten up until like 4th grade consisted of shorts, a jersey and tennis shoes. Funny thing is, in 3rd grade I would actually wear my cleats to school. Hearing the “click-clack-click-clack” walking down the hallways was the worst now that I think about it, but hey, you never knew when 5v5 was about to go down in recess. You always had to stay prepared.

FALL IN LOVE WITH THE PROCESS

In my elementary years, I sucked. Like I really did suck. I remember sitting on the bench for youth soccer back when I was 6-7 years old and barely getting any playing time. This all was so awful because I WANTED to play because I LOVED to play. Sitting on the bench only discouraged me as a kid growing up.

Going from my elementary team, middle school team, high school, club and all the way up to college my main objective was

“How can I get better today?”

Getting better was the only way of making me happy and doing what I loved to do, so I did whatever it took to reach that.

I WAS A NERD FOR THE SPORT

With that mindset and ambition, I would do virtually anything to learn a new trick, learn from the best and literally ANYTHING to get better.

Afterschool for me in my early days was binge-watch Youtube videos, highlights, games, and everything that had to do with soccer footage online. I really want to just digest everything I saw and somehow apply it to make my game better. I would mostly watch freestyle videos because I loved how they looked and they were by far the most fun things to do when playing.

Every footballer reading this will understand this feeling.

“Bro, how did you do that”

“You have to teach me that”

“That’s really cool”

I fed off this and would just motivate me to learn more tricks/skills to do with the ball.

During that time, the internet was vastly growing at an exponential rate. There were loads of videos, trainers, and courses being made available to inspiring footballers. Anything you could watch on Youtube at the time, I watched it at least 1,000 times.

One of the videos that I kid you not, I watched over a million times was this “Ronaldinho Joga Bonito Video” I watched this so many times trying to emulate every trick, touch, and thing they did in that video. I also tried the bouncing off the walls tricks in my own living room. Jesus, did I break so many things cause of that.

That weekly conversation of “I broke something again mom” was not pleasant but after happening so many times. They began to kind of shrug it off. I made them a promise that I would get better so I wouldn’t break stuff anymore.

For those curious, here is a list of videos that I watched over and over again. Hey, maybe we binge-watched the same videos.

There is beyond way more videos but these are a few of my favorites. If you haven’t noticed a lot of those are Ronaldinho videos. Ronaldinho growing up was my favorite player and style that I would try to emulate the most. I automatically fell in love with his playing style, flair, and skills. I loved him so much that I would constantly buy his jerseys, his signature cleats, and posters to put in my room. The guy was a pimp on the field. So I tried to be that.

MAJOR LEARNING CURVE

Learning tricks was the main thing I focused on at the time and still is but that wasn’t getting me to my main goal, of being a better overall player. I knew that I had to change to elevate my game to new levels.

By the age of 12, I saw that change was needed. The change I sought? A course. This was not just an ordinary course, it was a step by step guide in mastering the foundations of soccer and training programs that promoted that. Epic Soccer Training was the solution.

The crazy thing is, I was so stubborn about the fact of reaching out for help because I had the mindset that I was going to learn everything through on my own but that soon came to be inefficient and very frustrating. My parents were firm believers of that but after long talks and conversation after conversation, I convinced them to purchase the course. I promised in return for good grades in school. This was a frequent tactic I used a lot lol.

The course that I bought was a course that helped me develop a “fail until you succeed mentality” as a kid. Many aspiring footballers get discouraged whenever things don’t go as well and I perfectly understand that because I too was in your same exact shoes. I would rage quit, I would get really mad whenever I would spend hours, days, weeks, and even months on learning a new trick or skill and would make few to none results. I understand, its really frustrating.

Developing that mindset and having someone there along the way to help me really improved my game to a whole new level. Quickly after obtaining the program, I could see huge strides.

The course helped me to learn the tricks, skills and the most importantly the foundations of the game. If you look at the greatest players in the world, what is the one thing they mastered above all?

THE FOUNDATIONS

It presented these topics under a whole new light that not a lot of coaches and trainers had instructed me at that time.

WITH ACTION CHANGE WILL COME

Matt Smith, creator of the program was just starting out at the moment but with 15 years of experience integrated into this course, it has greatly improved and impacted many other players around the globe. Matt includes a FREE trial period for players to test out the program and really see if it something that they want.

Inside this program are loads of videos, strategies, training outlines, and secrets that every player wishes they had access to. The only thing to keep in mind is if you do not apply yourself and take the time to get better, you will not see results. You get by what you put into it.

Anyone can learn this stuff. It takes some commitment, but the most important thing is to use your time wisely by starting my methods right away.

-Matt Smith

Actions over words are key

I will include the link down below for young aspiring footballers to check out what helped me to seek the results they need in the fastest amount of time possible. Click on the link down below to start your free trial.

GET YOUR FREE TRIAL TODAY

Your boy,

Pedro Segundo

Mexico Makes History in World Cup 2018

WOW!!!!!

Boy oh boy! What a game. Actions cannot express how I feel after witnessing excellent soccer played by Mexico. Predictions and game analysists reports all said that Germany would have the lead advantage, and from a soccer standpoint that is true. Germany has all odds on their side when you compare stats and players. Not to forget that Germany is the defending champs after winning it all in Brazil in 2014. Mexico does not have the same caliber of players that Germany has but that did not stop us from catching that swift dub.

Germany has begun their World Cup run with a loss. THE DEFENDING CHAMPIONS, start with a loss against Mexico. Out of all countries, we are the first to give the Germans their first loss of the tournament. Do you know what this means? Mexico has not been able to beat Germany in an official World Cup game until this day. That is huge! Yeah, we didn’t outplay Germany but we had more clear chances and showed more heart in wanting this win. Right off the bat, you could tell we were out to go after it. Showing ambitious chances and targeting the German’s weak spots.

AND THE CROWD GOES WILD

Let me set the tone for this one.

Mexico has been playing exceptionally well, we had optimistic chances.

Germany attack in our attacking third

Germany loses possession

COUNTER ATTACK

The ball gets played to Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez

Hernandez plays the ball to Chucky Lozano

Lozano absolutely shats on Ozil with a brilliant first touch that sends him home

Kroos tries to pick up Lozano but the poor defending by Ozil makes it too easy to not finish

Lozano takes another touch into space

Lozano composes himself with cold blood running through his 22-year-old-viens and BOOOOOOMMMMMM!

GOAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!! THE CROWD GOES ABSOLUTELY WILD AF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So wild that it creates an Earthquake in Mexico City. Yes, a freaking earthquake. I was blown whenever I heard about this. Mexico City had a small artificial earthquake due to

Kirk Semple tweet about earthquake — tweet from Kirk Semple on Twitter

“mass jumping” from the goal. Like how many jumping beans do you need to make an earthquake? My friend, you need a whole lot! The excitement and raveling fans whenever Lozano scores his merely fantastic goal is insane. My family went crazy. Drinks were spilled, body collisions occurred, Max, my dog, was frightened because there was so much movement and emotion happening all at once that he could not handle the hype. Literally, such a great feeling when he netted that key goal. From this moment on, Mexico as a country had high hopes on getting the dub in Russia. As Germany was our number one obstacle in the group stage and things were looking good.

KEEP THE LEAD

The rest of the game was crucial for Mexico to keep playing smart soccer. Germany at first was calm about the fact they were down. The typical mentality for the Germans. Germany has an intense win mentality that is insane. You cannot let your guard down as they will punish will like my pal O’Keefe likes to say “PUNISH THEM.”

The whole game Germany was pressing and I have to admit, we were parking the bus but you gotta do what you gotta do. German with many clear chances and times that I was jumping out of my seat and screaming “NO NO NO NO PLEASE DO NOT SCORE.” Germany was out possessing us in every aspect but whenever the fact of counter-attack came Germany looked like headless chickens not knowing what to do with my man Vela, Layun and Lozano’s 92 pace. Hummels and Boateng with their 60 pace could not compete and hold off this high pressure of attack from the Mexican side. A comment from my good friend Felix clearly showed that the German side was not playing their best.

Hummels needs a nap

You have the refs on your side

– Felix Kollmannthaler

There are many excuses you can say but the final minute was slowly arriving.

Layun had two clear chances in the last quarter of the game and I kid you not I wanted to rip the hairs out of my head because he was not finishing. Frustration and anticipation were building up. Germany was going all out full force to grab the equalizer and not let their supporters down as Mexico was on their way of making global headlines.

MARQUEZ REACHES MILESTONE

Rafa Marquez achieves a huge milestone when he gets subbed on for Andres Guardado in the 74th minute. The moment he stepped on the pitch he becomes only the third player in history to compete in five world cups. Captaining four out of five. My mom LOVES Rafa Marquez. She has been supporting him ever since he first played for the Mexico national team. She likes him for his good looks not so much for how he plays but she slowly began picking up soccer IQ and realized that he is also a really great player for Mexico. Respect goes out to that man.

THE FINAL WHISTLE

93rd minute:

The whistle blows and tears of joy are expressed by the players. A nationwide celebration is rapidly occurring in Mexico and my family is jumping up and down screaming Spanish profanity like there is no tomorrow. I indeed was doing the same as I was extremely happy about the result and how we played as a team.

We did it

Mexico finally broke the curse and we beat the defending world champions. No one in this tournament can take that away from us.

Mexico wanted to change and change they got. Use Mexico as an example.

If you want to achieve something that everyone doubts and all adversity is against you

Shrub that off and go do it!

You can worry about the results later but the most important thing is that you do it and progress from that. It does not matter if you fail but the important thing is that you tried. Mexico failed many times when going against Germany but finally defeated them and boy does it feel good.

What are you doing today to make yourself better?

Ochoa Mexican National Team after a win — Ochoa after the win

Your boy,

Pedro Segundo