Kyle’s “Take Aways” From Yanik Silver’s “Underground Online Seminar” - Bob Parsons, CEO Of www.GoDaddy.com and His 16 Rules For Success In Business And Life…
Howdy,
This past weekend I was down in Washington DC to attend Yanik Silver’s Underground Online Seminar. This is the second Underground seminar I have been to and as always, Yanik put on a great event. Over my next few posts I will share my personal take-aways from the seminar. I hope that my personal ‘take aways’ will help you grow your internet business and achieve even greater success…
The keynote speaker of the event was Bob Parsons - Creator and CEO of www.GoDaddy.com
WOW!!
What a guy and what a story! Bob shared the story of his life, his journey as a Marine to Vietnam and how his near-death experience molded his view of life and helped him realize that FEAR is mearly “False Evidence Appearing Real.” (He didn’t actually say that but I love that quote about FEAR and I think Bob has embodied that FEAR does not stop him or hodl him back in life).
Bob shared how at one point in Vietnam he was sitting on the top of an old French Fort on top of a hill, in a deadly combat situation, seeing his friends die around him, contemplating whether he was going to live through the experience of that war and he had a life-changing epiphany.
In that realization he said he “Felt the joy of being alive” and he decided at that moment that he would not succumb to destitude and lose hope like some of his other brothers in arms. He said to himself everyday “please let me be alive for tomorrow’s mail call.” He gave himself a very simple goal every day that helped him survive that deadly time of his life in Vietnam…
He asked himself “what’s the worst that could happen?” Bob said that by identifying ‘what the worst situation was’ that he could let his mind move past that and actually get to the business of living life.
Here are some of the “Take Aways” that I had from Bob’s Awesome Key Note Presentation:
“Success is 1/2 due to luck, being prepared for the right situation when it comes, and putting yourself in that right
situation. The other 1/2 of success is having perspective.”
“If you love something it will tell you all its secrets”
“If stuff isn’t working you gotta do something different.”
“Once I found an advertisement that worked I took out a loan for $50,000 and rolled the ad out BIG TIME!”
“I had already achieved success with another company but I started GoDaddy.com because I wanted something to do…”
“We track everything…”
“GoDaddy.com started out with NO business plan, we tried lots of stuff, we built a service called “Websites TOnight” which
helped to build your own website and we noticed people needed domain names who bought our website tonight service. That was a turning point for Godaddy.com”
Bob Parson’s 16 Rules For Success In Business And Life In General
Bob shared a great series of “Rules For Success” at the end of his excellent presentation. I have posted the first three rules here and I have included a link of where you can get the rest of them for FREE.
1. Get and stay out of your comfort zone.
I believe that not much happens of any significance when we’re in our comfort zone. I hear people say, “But I’m concerned
about security.” My response to that is simple: “Security is for cadavers.”
2. Never give up.
Almost nothing works the first time it’s attempted. Just because what you’re doing does not seem to be working, doesn’t mean
it won’t work. It just means that it might not work the way you’re doing it. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and
you wouldn’t have an opportunity.
3. When you’re ready to quit, you’re closer than you think.
There’s an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: “The temptation to quit will
be greatest just before you are about to succeed.”
To read the rest of Bob’s Rules you can go to his Blog to read them all CLICK HERE
(I actually just bought the Poster of these 16 Rules that Bob sells because I like them so much!!) 
Those are some of my “Take Aways” from Bob’s talk. He’s a really cool dude and he gave an inspiring speech.
Here is a video I just found that Yanik shot with Bob immediately after Bob gave his keynote address. I hope that you like it and I hope that you got some good take aways from this post…
To your success,
Kyle Battis
Marketing Manager Of The Listbuilding Club
