To blog income builders, “Sold, for an undisclosed Amount!” is a message that signals big bucks,  the exact amount of which is left to the reader’s fertile imagination, but you can bet your firstborn, the house and the dog that it’s more than a lifetime supply of peanuts for your pet monkey.  In a previous post I wrote about Danielle Friedland and how in four years, start to sell date, she sold her Celebrity Babies Blog for an “undisclosed amount”.

Yesterday, at my monthly Smart Thinking Marketing Group meeting,  I met someone who did that in what?  SIX … 6 … MONTHS! YES!  This is 6, SIX, half a year!

Gustavo Garcia and his colleagues began their project this summer … so whether that was June, July or sometime earlier, is somewhat besides the point, the point is, in something like six months, they sold their online business for an undisclosed amount.  Sweet!

with Gustavo Garcia - resized again

Gustavo  was our keynote speaker.  He told us how he had an idea that would improve efficiencies and the bottom line by the millions for the call center industry.  He tapped a few chosen former colleagues and  the Discreet Math Group was born.   What is so unique about this success story is that the marketing was entirely social media based.  They launched their product with a blog. As theirs was a business directed product, Gustavo relied heavily on LinkedIn which is the social media of choice for business and then went on to connect with Facebook and Twitter.  Here is the crazy figure that made my head swirl: in hard, actual, cash outlay, it cost them a total of $76.20!

I think that this is the penultimate in living the blog income life! Granted these gents weren’t exactly newbies.  They each pack some serious credentials behind them that go back some twenty years in internet marketing/technology, but you gotta love the speed of this success story.

Here is one other interesting fact.  Shane Morgan who owns and facilitates the Smart Thinking Marketing Group relied on social media searches to find Gustavo!

Time to head back to LinkedIn and polish up your profile and open accounts with Facebook and Twitter if you haven’t done so yet.

Here’s to your future headline:  “Sold!  For an Undisclosed Amount!”

Valentina
Lots of good cheese in social media!

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