Goodbye Income Mesh

Hey guys, John here, and this might be the hardest video I've ever had to create. So it's been several months since I've published my last video and this video is here to say goodbye. I am killing income, mesh.com. And in this video, I want to walk you through the entire journey and explain to you what comes next.

So for the past three years or so, you've heard videos from me and seen my face giving tech reviews. I'd always start the video off with, Hey guys, John here from income mesh.com. But what you never knew is in the back of my mind, I always hated saying that. And in this video, I want to walk through a little bit of the journey.

Don't worry. I'm not going away forever. That was honestly just a little bit of ClickBank to get you to watch the video, but stay till the end, because this is going to be a incredibly vulnerable and informative video for anybody at any stage of the journey. All right, let's go.

Now if you are more of the blog post reader, because there's so many things I have to get it out in this video, I did decide to jot them all down into this blog post. You can click on the link in the description down below. This will be published by the time the video is up. In this video, I want to highlight some of the key points of the journey that my wife and I have been on over the last six or so years, and kind of where things fell off and where we're going next.

And trust me, it's all incredibly good news. All right. So a quick recap of the journey. I wasn't always a digital marketer. In fact, that's been a relatively recent addition to my skill set. If you will. I've always been that corporate geeky engineer. And when we had our first daughter back in 2012, uh, Susie decided to stay home from her job.

She decided to be an amazing, the most amazing full-time mom anybody could ever ask for. I love her so much and I held down the Fort. So I went to work at 5:00 AM. I came back at 5:00 PM. I went from managing the industrial and systems engineering department at Toyota GE all these other things. Yup. All these corporate pats on my back, not a big deal, but I've always had this passion for data and this passion for analysis and kind of simplifying things wherever possible.

And as a result, I really enjoyed my job and I wasn't doing pretty good. I was climbing the whole ladder. That sorta story, right? Yeah. At the same time Suzi was going through early motherhood and we wanted to document that journey. We know the power of documenting the journey, no matter what it is that you're doing.

And so we discovered blogging. We had blogs back in the day. We actually had a blog documenting our journey towards our marriage, you know, as we were engaged people and I built my first website and sold it back in 2000. Yeah. Two or four, I need to go find that date, but actually built a little small business, uh, website, just toying around learning new things.

So we started a blog right around when our first baby was born. It was just kind of documenting our parenting journey. And Susie was diving into that and I was more so on the support side and again, doing the nine to five thing. Right.

The website never really made a ton of money, but it was a huge passion project for us. And it started to bring in a little bit of income and that got me excited. Around that time. I started launching little courses on udemy.com because I knew the power of sharing your knowledge. And there was little techie skills.

And at this point it actually has over 1400 paying students, which is pretty awesome. It didn't make a ton of money, never marketed it. I was not a marketer at the time. I just liked creating things, but over time, the blog started to pick up, it started to make some decent money. And I had to figure out what to do with this new income we had.

So I got into it options trading and doing the whole stock market thing. And again, documented the journey I created my first YouTube channel back, uh, like five years ago or so. And some of my content on there as option engineer, um, got around 50,000 page views, which is pretty great. I enjoyed it, but again, it wasn't really.

Passion. I was kind of dabbling. I was figuring out what was next for me. And around 2018, our website started to make good money and it became a viable alternative to my corporate job. And I love my family at the time we had two kids and I think one was on the way at the time. And, um, so it was time to go and like really dive in and make that commitment.

Around the same time. We got an email from somebody on a Susie's, you know, distribution list who was selling their website and it was IncomeMesh.com it was kind of abandoned. It was basically like a foreclosed house. Like you kind of moved on to other projects. He's doing great. He's awesome guy. We still speak to this day.

Um, but uh, the website itself, he just wanted to offload it. So I figured, Hey, this is like serendipity. Maybe this is God speaking to me and saying, Hey, just focus and go and do this thing. So we bought it for cheap. And started working on it and developing it. And I started creating content and that was the birth of income mesh.

In the blog post that's linked in the description below, I walked through all the videos. I created the analysis. I'm not going to highlight all that here on this video. I want to get to the more important things. But if you want to see that journey of off on again, off again of creating content of bouncing between affiliate markets.

To client services, to running funnels for start a mom blog, all that is laid out in a bit more detail in the blog post,

but suffice it to say income mesh had an awesome future and has an awesome future, but I never really gave it the time and the consistency and that persistent effort that it required to really take it to that next level. I was essentially just too scatterbrained between the different things we had going on.

I essentially put this little graphic onto the blog post because I was running tech support, not just for both of our websites, but also tech support for at the time probably 60,000 or so students that were in our school. And I was just doing emails all day or day. I also had several clients. I was working on building.

Funnels building websites, renovating things, running e-commerce brands. I had that going on. I was running ads for our brand launching new courses and being about half of the teaching in all of our existing products on our main business, I was trying to write blog posts. I was also trying to be a present father, which you can see it's a lot to do there.

And then I was handling also the YouTube channel and the accounting and taxes for our business. So long story short, I did the thing that I tell you not to do, which was I let myself get over it. And I basically was selling, yes, I was trying to just do it all because, uh, being rather risk averse, I was fearful of saying no, because I thought that I had to be saying yes to be able to make the money and support my family, which is just not.

So then fast forward to 2020, and COVID, I know 2020 was a terrible year for a lot of you. And you know, my, my heart goes out for everybody. Who's has had a hard go of this recent couple of years. It was difficult for our family as well, probably for some different reasons. We have three kids and we had them all at home.

We had two websites. We're trying to support two YouTube channels, two brands, as well as three kids. We were homeschooling. We had little kids biting nipping at our heels. As we were trying to run the businesses, it was just a lot going on. And while I, my website was in my brand was bringing in a full-time income at the time.

It honestly, wasn't the best place for me to be spending the hours that I had of productivity, because we could get more money out for every hour in on start a mom blog. So that's what I did. I made a kind of calculated decision, but also it was. Led by my dislike of the name, income mesh. I just, honestly, wasn't proud to say, Hey, I'm John from income mesh

so it was an easy out for me to really dive in and focus in on the start a mom blog brand, which we did. And it grew fantastically. I'm not saying because of my efforts, it grew fantastically, but a myriad of factors, right? I mean the entire world economy, people getting used to learning online. Sadly, some people losing their jobs and looking for an accessible way to kind of build the business, which is what we do, right.

Oh, it was kind of that perfect storm where I basically said peace out to income mesh. And I went cold for a long time.

I would still produce content on an irregular basis, but it wasn't serving you guys the best I could. I personally was distracted and honestly, you guys deserve.

So now here in 2021, we're coming back to the school season. The kids are back in school and Susie and I have done some traveling, done some soul searching if you will. And we're excited to say that we decided to kill income mesh,

but it's not going away forever. In fact, it's coming back with more steam, more power and more energy than ever, and as being rebranded to unbeatable tech.com

because I still love what I do. I love connecting with you guys. I love serving you of giving you the most unbiased and practical, helpful tutorials, reviews, comparison, and strategies to help you achieve financial freedom through digital marketing. It's what I wanted. But I just didn't like the name. And I know that I'm probably making light of it a little bit here, and it's probably going to slow me down in the short run of SEO and backlink profile and all that stuff.

But I'll review how I did that. I'll show you the case study of how I minimize that impact in a later. But I'm coming back with a full head of steam. I'm committed to you guys. Uh, more content is coming. You'll see more consistent, more higher quality content for me than ever. And I do it because at this point in our professional lives, we've achieved a certain level of financial security and independence that it's not just about trying to make the money.

It's doing it out of passion and out of desire to help and serve you guys. Get there as well.

So that's the story guys. Income mesh has been a great road. A couple of years of building that brand, learning, finding my stride, finding my strengths as an entrepreneur, and I've realized that I'm ready to dive in and commit. So for the next five years or so, you're going to see this. All over the place and I'm here for you.

Do you have any questions? If you are curious about this, let me know in the comments section down below, and I do have a free gift for you. I felt like I couldn't go away and not come back with something really cool. So I put together the funnel blueprint. It is a 30 page PDF. That is fillable. It has basically all the lessons we've learned over the last six years of building funnels.

And it's super fun. You can print it out. I got mine printed out at Kinko's or staples as Kinko's still around, and it has a ton of information. So you can get that by going to unbeatabletech.com/blueprint or click on the link down in the description down below as well. And just thank you for being along with the journey of allowing me to have this video be a little bit more personal and vulnerable and showing the ups and the downs of the journey and just know that I will be here for you and helping you achieve those goals of yours as well in the future.

See you guys.