1. Waste Time Feeling Sorry for Themselves:  Mentally strong people do not feel sorry for their circumstances or dwell on the way they have been mistreated. They have learned to take responsibility for their actions and outcomes, and they understand the fact that life is frequently not fair.
2. Give Away Their Power:   Mentally strong people do not give others the power to make them feel   inferior or bad. They understand they are in control.  They know their strength is in their  ability to manage the way they respond.
3. Shy Away from Change:   Mentally strong people embrace change and welcome challenge. Their biggest   “fear,” is becoming complacent and stagnant. An environment of change and   even uncertainty energizes a mentally strong person and brings out adaptive   powers and their best.
4. Waste Energy on Things They Can’t Control:  Mentally strong   people seldom complain about bad traffic, lost luggage, or other people because they recognize that all of these factors are generally beyond their control. They can only control their own response and action.
5. Worry About Pleasing Others:  A mentally strong person strives to   be kind and fair and to please others where appropriate, but is unafraid to   speak up. They can withstand the possibility that someone will get upset and will   try to explain and soothe with grace.
6. Fear Taking Calculated Risks:  A mentally strong person is   willing to take calculated risks. With mental strength, an individual can   weigh the risks and benefits thoroughly, and will assess the potential downsides   including the worst-case scenarios before they take action.
7. Dwell on the Past: A   mentally strong person acknowledges the past but avoids focusing their mental   energy in past disappointments or in fantasies of the “successes” now gone. They   invest the majority of their energy in creating a present and future.
8. Make the Same Mistakes Repeatedly: A mentally strong person   accepts full responsibility for past behavior and is willing to learn from mistakes. The ability to be self-reflective in a productive way is one of the greatest strengths of successful executives and entrepreneurs.
9. Resent Other People’s Success:  Mentally strong people have the strength of character to feel genuine joy and excitement for other people’s success. They do not become jealous or resentful when others succeed rather they take notes and are willing to work hard for their own chances at success.
10. Give Up After Failure:  Mentally strong people are willing to fail   repeatedly, if necessary, as long as the learning experience from every “failure” can bring them closer to their ultimate goals. Thomas Edison said,   “I have not failed.  I have just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.”
11. Fear Alone Time:   Mentally strong people enjoy and even treasure the time they spend alone. They   can be happy with others or be happy alone.   They usually use their downtime to reflect, to plan, and to be productive.
12.  Feel the World Owes Them Anything: Mentally strong people are prepared to work and succeed on their merits, at every stage of the game. They realize that the world does   not owe them a salary or a comfortable life, regardless of their schooling.
13. Expect Immediate Results:   In starting a business, mentally strong people are “in it for the long   haul”.  They have “staying power” and they understand that genuine changes take time.

DO THESE CHARACTER STRENGTHS FIT YOU?

If they do, read on because your Mental Strength is what it will take to become a success at Online Marketing and the Champion Movement – belief in yourself and your WHY.  Most if not all Online Marketing activities that make money require that you create and start your own business.  My two articles, here and here, on the economy and job losses show that the jobs are gone, they are not coming back soon and that the best way to find financial independence is to rely on yourself and start your own company. This will take money and your time and Mental Strength to endure and overcome the challenges of understanding technical interfaces and reaching out to talk to others that will be incurred. If you succeed, you will have your own business that provides an independent source of income that can make you financially independent and you can do this from your own home. The rewards are great but there is work required.   To reduce the risk of failure and to remove a lot of the work involved, you can use the Champion Movement system of products and services about which this review is being written.

Champion Movement Blogging

This product is an improvement on Ryan Nelson’s Vertical Rising product.  Let us start at addressing what is a Blog and why is it necessary.  Wikipedia   says that a blog is a discussion site or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consists of discrete articles, or comments, called posts.  Until 2009, blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single   subject. More recently   “multi-author blogs” (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and professionally edited. MABs are now from newspapers, universities   and special interest groups.  The Champion Movement is an Alliance Blog where multiple independent authors create their individual page blogs as sub-domains on the same platform or domain and share resources and visitors.  This is new and has only been done on Vertical Rising.  This was Ryan’s creation for Vertical Rising and has been added to and improved upon in The Champion Movement.

Blogs emerged in the late 1990s with web publishing tools that facilitated the posting of content by non-technical users.    Previously, a knowledge of HTML and FTP protocols was required to publish content on the Web.  These tools are incorporated into the Champion Movement Blogging that makes the creation of blogs relatively easy for non-technical people.  They just need to write the article on the   topic of their interest and Post it on the blog supplied by the Champion Movement, which is a copy, and paste operation. On the Champion Movement, the blog set up is made easy by the use of videos explaining each step. This is an integrated package that enables the user to create his personal blog, link into aWeber and have affiliates added   to the Blog with simple steps. Blogs are expanding exponentially.

In 2011, there were 156 million blogs and growing.  Blogger, recently purchased by Google, is the most popular blogging service used today. One makes money off of a Blog by creating one; writing articles or making posts with content in areas that the user has expertise; use SEO techniques to ensure that the article “pops up” on search engines for that topic; and when the user comes to the blog, attract him with interesting affiliated ads that are located on the blog site.

Every time an affiliate ad attracts a viewer, you make some money.   The critical element is the content in the article and the SEO techniques used to make it in the top 10 in searches.  The Champion Movement Product makes this process easy and affordable.

Now what does The Champion Movement attempt to do?  It gets you started by helping you with tutorials.  Some of these tutorials cover:

• Understand your intent for a blog
• Define a plan of action for your blog
• Shows you how to set up the blog

(a) Creating a Google account

(b) Setting up your marketing page which includes your personal profile

(c) Creating a marketing page where you get visitors to sign up

(d) Setting up Google AdSense account

(e) Setting up an Amazon Affiliate account

(f) Shows you how to load up your first article or blog.

Afterwards, the team looks at your article and suggests or makes SEO changes that make the article appear higher up on Google searches.  It is a complete kit for “How do I do it?”  This is an invaluable help for beginners and intermediate online marketers.

Launch Pad

I think of the Launch Pad product as the other half of the Champion Movement product.  It provides videos that teach just about anything and everything that one can use in internet marketing.  The depth and breadth of the video library is measured in the hundreds. It is being added to constantly.   They provide training on things ranging from creating a blog to how to make videos and put them on your blog site.  It is complete, dense, tested and represents years of work by Ryan Nelson.  It is complete because it is Ryan’s personal library accumulated over years of work and success.

A reasonable strategy for the novice or intermediate entrepreneur would be to join the Champion Movement, take the Simon Sinek WHY course and find his WHY, then populate his personal basic blog with a few articles.  One could add Launch Pad to educate oneself on video marketing and the other forms of marketing such as “pay per click” that are described in this package.  As one got into the various forms of online marketing, one will need this library of online marketing resources.  These are training videos on just about any topic you can imagine usable in online marketing.  Having access to this library is like having a technical consultant hanging over your shoulder as you march forward to getting your business up, online and profitable. For those with some experience in online marketing, who want to “go to the next step”, this library is it.  It covers the techniques on online marketing with tutorials. It appears to be added to every week.

The Champion Movement Website

The website promotes the movement itself and helps you find your unique WHY.  This is essential to you finding and helping others find their WHY and making your unique contribution.  The site has three buttons to get started.

• Fast Start
• Webinar – explanation
• Create site – Sets up your site virtually automatically.  Just a few step process.

Included also are many instructional and tutorial videos for you to improve upon and enhance your site.  Let us review some of its features currently listed:

1.    DASHBOARD – TABLE OF CONTENTS ON PAGE

• Champion Project
• Discover Your WHY
• Have a M.A.D. day
• Launch Pad
• Blog Sharing
• Rewards Program

2.  CHAMPION PROJECT

• Champion – You
• Do you see yourself as a victim anywhere?
• Financially, Physically, Spiritually
• What choices have you made to make yourself a victim?
• What choices have you made to ensure you are the victor?\
• Champion You
• Do you trust yourself?
• How do you feel when you are judged?
• Can you appreciate the differences and uniqueness in others?
• What is the unique gift you possess that has a possible positive impact on the world?
• What is your biggest fear?
• What would your life be like if you were able to ignore what others think of you?
• What is it about being a friend that is important to you?
• When did you do something for others and it really mattered to you and caused an authentic connection
• What made you smile about that story
• When have you been moved to tears? Why?
• Champion Your Inspiration Before You Discover Your WHY Course
• Champion your message after you complete the “Discover Your WHY” course.
• When asked, what do you do? After the course, your answer changes from “I write” to:
• Champion Others – Friendships
• Your Inspiration:  Go to and take the Simon Sinek Course – “Discover Your Why” This is my WHY –

“I help people explore the truth in what is possible so that . . . they can actualize their full potential.”

• Ask yourself, what is your lofty goal or impact that you want on the world?
• Discover your WHY course with Simon Sinek
• Start the Champion Project\
• Completed – Discover Your WHY
• Login – Course
• Champion the Movement
• Leaders Eat Last – Simon Sinek
• Fatal Flaw
• iPod Effect
• Your Movement

3.    DISCOVER YOUR WHY – Simon Sinek Course – Truly unique to Champion Movement

4.     HAVE A M.A.D. DAY – MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Shows – Select and Go To Feature

• Champion Morning Show
  • JJ Jackson- M 11:00 EST – Inspiration and status on the search for your WHY
  • Ryan’s Road Map – Thursday 11:00 EST

“How to” on the website and blogging

• JJ’s Café – F – 11:00 EST – Temporarily suspended
• Videos
  • Introduction
  • Create a Website
  • Select a Design
  • Create Dummy page
  • Navigation Bar
  • Settings
  • Edit your page
  • Picking a Theme
  • Images / Banners – I
  • Customer Sidebar
  • Images / Banners – II
  • Customer sidebar

5.   LAUNCH PAD

CONTAINS WEBSITE VIDEO LIBRARY OF HOW TO CREATE – SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS – – – BEING ADDED TO ON AS NEEDED BASIS.  HERE ARE THE ONES CURRENTLY LISTED.

This Website is different and interesting. It introduces you gently to the detailed concepts in the Simon Sinek course.  It gets you prepared.  The course itself is intense and personal to you.  The questions are tough but only because they are about you and you probably have not thought that way about yourself before.  The online course is completely confidential between yourself and the computer. No one else can see what you wrote. It is online learning – – – about yourself.

The website helps you set up your own website, modify it, as you desire using the video instructions provided.  It guides you through the process of finding your WHY and challenges you to help other find their WHYs.

  5.    BLOG SHARING

Describes via instructional videos –

• Blog overview
• Your Profile
• First POST
• Formatting POSTS
• Tips After POSTS
• Posting Ideas

6.  REWARDS PROGRAM

The Champion Movement is a company with one level of compensation.  It compensates when you bring someone into the movement or they buy their services.   There is a one-time compensation and monthly compensation. The rate is generally 50:50. This adds up as we can see below.

 Rewards come from selling Champion Movement Products are shown in Exhibit 1, Champion Movement Rewards Example.   Look to quantity “1” to see that the commissions are 50%.   Two examples are shown.  One is for 20 new members and the other is for 200.  This can be either a part time or a full time process.   People will join to find their WHY and convince others to join to find their WHY as well as to practice their WHY.

The WHY component of the Champion Movement can easily be under appreciated.  This is a serious movement to get others to discover their WHY and act upon it.  This usually means giving service to others and the community. Many believe that the movement has the potential to change the world – if enough of us start living our WHY.  Because of this phenomena of living your WHY, when small businessmen discover their WHY, they often want to bring their employees into the Champion Movement so that their firm is differentiated from others.   Their firm will take on a new Aura because it does things that are more positive for the community.  This will make them more money and grow the community.

Exhibit 1  Champion Movement Rewards Example

Champion Movement 360

As the movement grows, the Champion Movement 360 is planned to be a 3 – 4 day conference with excellent speakers.    They will provide insights and education as well as hands on training in branding and website optimization.  The first meeting date has not been set as of today.  However, they are planned for the near future.  A three day advanced facilitator training took place in San Antonio in November of last year. I attended.  It was very informative and worthwhile about the WHY program and the process of facilitating others to search for and identify their WHY.  The meeting agenda is not settled for this year yet; however, two types of meetings have been discussed.  First, is to run another WHY facilitator session.  If you get a chance, I recommend that you attend. The Second, is to run an advanced workshop, review of Blogs.  It would have excellent speakers to make presentations at a fun resort.  I would expect topic experts on certain topics such as the economy, health, gold and national debt.   Speakers are chosen by their expertise in a   topic, relevance to the times and the WHY program.

THE CHAMPION MOVEMENT LEADERSHIP TEAM FOUNDERS

The Champion Movement Thought Leaders

I have included Simon Sinek as a thought leader since he created the special course provided in The Champion Movement to find your WHY.  I have taken the course and found my WHY with this process.  It is thorough, complete and will make you understand yourself much better. Each person’s why is different. Most have a service element for reaching out to our fellow man.  There is a close relationship between Simon Sinek and Johan Jackson or the special course would not have been designed and built.

 The Champion Movement

The critical variable in all startups is the management team. Do they have experience? Have they been   successful? Do they work well together as a team?   All of these questions are critical to the success of a startup.  Let us go through the list.

Do they have the resources?   Given that the market is there, can this team and this set of products   reach them and do it profitably? In this case, there is high probability that this team will be successful since they have made similar companies successful.    The capital resources are minimal because it is primarily people.  Ryan Nelson already has the servers and resources established to support the company.  This capital is required.  People time from Ryan and JJ is required and these individuals have worked successfully together for years.  With that said, let us review the team and their backgrounds.

RYAN NELSON – CHAMPION MOVEMENT TECHNICAL & ONLINE MARKETING EXPERT

Ryan has been in the business of online marketing, tools development, website development, blogging, blog development, SEO and branding for most of his business career. He has published several popular books out in these areas.  He is one of the outstanding leaders in the industry. His depth of knowledge and breadth of knowledge may be matched somewhere but is not exceeded in the field of  internet marketing.

In a number of cases, he created the concepts that are widely used in the industry. For WMI, Vertical Rising and Vertical Legacy and now The Champion Movement he was the “technical guru” behind the scenes.  As such, he created the blog site that allows new members to put their blogs on a single site where an “alliance” is born among users. This “first” allows Ryan and his team to SEO all the blogs, add common new educational videos and provide better support and at lower costs.  What is the difference this time?  He owns the company with his partner JJ Jackson.

Without the Alliance Blog that Ryan created, Vertical Legacy (VL) could not have been launched. He proved the concepts with volunteers from WMI (I was one as a Founding Member of VL and VR) and created Vertical Rising (VR) where he worked out the glitches. It now runs smoothly.  In the last year, he moved his expertise and resources to a new company, The Champion Movement (again, where I am also a Founding Member), which he owns with JJ.  It too is up and running smoothly. I expect the company to grow from here.

Ryan and JJ are focused 100% on making this company work from the standpoint of “Making a Difference” in the world.  He announced to the early Champion Movement members that he is challenging himself to produce successful entrepreneurs.  He intends to teach them how to make money in the online marketing mode of the internet.   The Champion Movement is Global.  Obviously, he is a critical asset of the firm.

What about Ryan as an individual?  I have listened to him on his shows for many hours over the last three years, met him in person and worked with him in one situation.  On a personal level, he proves himself a principled Christian and follows closely what he thinks is “Right” even when he might lose money.  I found him to have high integrity who does not wander far from his Christian ethical standards. He produces what he promises.

Technically, he is extremely competent in the field of online marketing.  I retired from IBM with 40 years working with “techys”.  He is very competent.  This means that he knows how to set up websites, blogs, and articles and understands Google to the point of getting your articles ranked high.  It also means that he is proficient of what should be said, how it should be presented, what colors to use, where to place the item on the page and which ad words to highlight.  That is the marketing piece.   Further, he displays an attitude that is encouraging, helpful and enthusiastic on making his students successful on their own efforts to make money and to make a difference in the community.

Finally, he is a motivator to get people to do what they instinctively feel that they should be doing. He promotes the idea that at times, one must have your own idea, march to your own drummer and ignore the “Dream Killers” who say you cannot achieve or should not attempt to reach your dream.  He uses stories to illustrate his points.  We all have a unique and special “WHY” and can make unique contributions.  He encourages that and promotes that the money will follow.  He has made a lot of money but cautions – “Don’t chase the money – Chase your dream!”

JOHN JACKSON (JJ) –J.J. INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER

He was the daily “Charge Call” commentator for WMI for years and now has his own business where he is the commentator for the Champion Morning Show (M) and sometimes sits in for Ryan (Thursday).   Thus, one can get up to 2 hours per week for business owners that are part of the Champion Movement.  However, I have never been bored. He rotates subjects and is always well prepared.

He has a strong persona and business relationship with Simon Sinek as represented by the Champion Movement being the only source of Simon’s online interactive “Discover Your Why” that enables an individual to search out and find his WHY.  In the final stages of this search, facilitators have been and are being trained to work with new members to help them find their WHY.

Now let us talk about JJ himself. I have been listening to him for three years, met him several times and have been in his home. I am much impressed with him. One might reasonably ask, why? It is simple. I look for certain things in people if I am going to work with them.  He meets my criterion. First, I look for honesty with himself and others. Listening to his morning shows over a period of three years is an experience since he honestly expresses himself and analyzes his own thoughts and actions. It helps you better understand him.  He is a good psychologist but may not know it.

Next, I look for integrity. “Integrity” is JJ’s middle name. He has strong moral Christian values that are family-oriented and he does not waver. He lives the values of honesty, caring, service and love for others. When he speaks, one thinks that he might have made a good preacher.   However, he never forgets the business side of Champion Movement.  He does know that this Movement is about people and he introduces you to ways to influence them by helping them reach their goals. Both he and Ryan believe that if they are successful in growing the movement, the money will follow because the world will be better off.

JJ’s WHY is “Service for Others in a Loving Manner”.  Over time, while listening to him, you will recognize that his character has been formed by hard work and dedicated service to help others reach their goals.  He lives his WHY.  He provides a good example of what we could do by living our WHYs.

JJ’s has a unique quality and competence in dealing with people via public speaking, motivational speaking and personal interfaces.  He has some knowledge of the intricacies of online marketing but that is not his “long suit”.   JJ lives, breathes, and sleeps the Champion movement. He is enthusiastic and it shows. He wants others to participate so that they can learn their WHY, improve their lives and start serving others.  In the process of serving others, they will bring other like-minded people on board the movement and make some money for themselves.

JJ and Ryan complement each other and together they make a great team.  That is why I believe that the Champion Movement will be successful – – -a good idea and a great management team.