From $1 to $17,000: How Navy Officer Grew His Online Business Side Hustle On a Submarine

In today’s video I want to share an interview with Dave Chesson. Dave is the founder of Kindlepreneur and has an amazing story of how he started and how he continues to build and grow his online presence.

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One of the amazing things about moving to this area is that I get to connect with a lot of amazing people. A lot of these people I knew before I moved here and others I have met since moving here. One of those amazing people that I got to connect with was Dave Chesson.

Dave and I have military backgrounds, we were both a part of a mastermind group and we have a few other things in common. I know Dave’s story but today I want you to learn about Dave.

Dave: The military was constantly sending me around the world, away from my family, and I wasn’t happy with that. I didn’t have a goal and was just showing up everyday and doing the job they asked me to do. I decided I needed to develop a business that would allow me to leave the military and still provide for my family.

Of course being on the other side of the world there is no way to open a brick and mortar business. I also didn’t want to leave one 9 to 5 job for another, that didn’t feel like success.

We started looking at online marketing and the ability to be able to make money from anywhere in the world (as long as you had internet access). That is what kicked off my interest into search engine optimization (SEO) and other online tactics.

Jeff: What was the first thing you did online that generated money?

Dave: My wife went to a conference - A Danny Johnson conference and there was a guy, Jeff Usner, who had a free book called something like ‘How to make Money Online”. I got the book and decided to follow everything it said. I did, I read every page and applied everything it said. It took a couple of months to implement everything and I made…….$1.00.

Most people would have laughed and thought that was the biggest waste of time. I didn’t.

I was able to make something from nothing, something that didn’t affect my regular job, and I saw that $1 as a success. That was proof that I could succeed. I just needed to do it again, and again, and build on that.

That first project was a site called FreeGameNinjas.com, which has nothing to do with what I do now.

I realized the concept could work, I just needed to tweak my process and learn from the mistakes I made with the first project. The second project was a little better I made $17. I saw that I could build on my idea and make improvements. But it wasn’t something that I felt that mattered. I needed to find something that I felt would bring real value to the internet.

So I started another project and then another. I just kept building onto those projects. I wrote books for Kindle, I created products to sell to people. I continuously learned from my mistakes.

My business now is Kindlepreneur which is designed to help authors get their books in front of the public. Through this process I realized that some of the software on the market geared towards authors was lacking in a lot of areas. So I created KDP Rocket a software designed to help authors create and sell their books.

One big thing that has been prevalent throughout this process, is you constantly take a step up. You continue to learn and grow from your past mistakes.

If you are looking to start doing your own thing you have to keep in mind that everyone has failures. You just have to learn from that and keep moving forward.

It’s been fun to get to know Dave and learn more about him and his story. I am amazed at his ability to take an idea, build a team and get it done.

I hope you enjoyed learning more about him, I look forward to bringing you more stories about people like this.

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