Your Guide to Making the ULTIMATE Shift from Employee to Entrepreneur through Online Marketing

Thank you for visiting my blog today!

My name is Scott Ewart, and it is a pleasure to meet you. I am passionate about helping those thinking about moving from what I call the ‘employee’ mindset to the ‘entrepreneur’ mindset. This change can be a big transformation one’s life, and I have undergone the transformation and want to share my experiences with you and help you make the same transformation. I have learned the online marketing and social media strategies from top industry leaders and will share with you how you can take that entrepreneurial mindset and be successful in your OWN business.

I have felt great freedom in my life since making the transformation and I want you to experience the same feeling of freedom. I have focused the content on my blog to share insights on marketing strategies and tips, social media marketing, entrepreneurship, business startup, and personal branding. Personal branding is a strategy that only the top leading marketers are using today and are able to leverage their success to help others around them. I hope that what I provide here for you will help you solidify your personal brand and how that brand can help you achieve the wealth and freedom that you are looking for. I look forward to our interactions!

Huntington Beach Sunset

A Bit More About Me….
I live in Petaluma, California, about 30 miles north of San Francisco. I grew up in Southern California, primarily in the town of Huntington Beach, your standard middle-class home with loving parents and a younger brother. My parents provided well for us and we lacked very little. I swam competitively from age 5 through high school (at one time I even had the second highest breast stroke time in California!). My parents were tough but loving and made me the person I am today. They pushed me to go to school to get a secure job. My dad worked for Rockwell for 40 years – an Industrial Age job – and thought that was best for us too. But I knew then that they were struggling at building a future. And I didn’t know it at the time, but I had a different destiny.

Changing the Path Chosen for Me
To my parent’s dismay, I skipped college and went to work right after high school. I wanted to learn how to make money and be independent. With no financial education or any good idea of what I wanted to do, I became rudderless and fell back on what I was familiar with as part of my upbringing. A nice corporate job with benefits and security. So that’s what I did.

At 18 I started as a computer operator, making printouts and mounting tapes. I was trained on the job to be a programmer, and from there I spent many years building a variety of software applications (just ask me how to track hazardous chemicals through a nuclear processing plant!!). Zoom 12 years when someone I was mentoring at work told me I’d be a great teacher – that patience, logic, and knowledge were great strengths of mine. I thought he was kidding – teaching?!?! Never occurred to me. But that afternoon driving home I had what I clearly had a strong epiphany and I knew then that teaching was my destiny.

Another 16 Years Go By in a Flash….
I soon took a job as an instructor at Oracle, teaching people how to use our software applications. I did this job for 5 years – traveled almost every week and had no life, but I loved teaching. I took another couple of jobs over the next 11 years within the company and had some great experiences, but nothing felt as good as when I was teaching and helping others learn and grow.

I now found myself 28 years into a corporate career, still working hard and trying to save for the future. With changes coming in the economy I no longer wanted to be afraid of losing my job and being unable to support my family. I wanted to work less for other people and enjoy the work I did more. I wanted to travel. I wanted my own business. My eyes were open to possibilities, though I did not know what they were.

I was introduced by a friend to the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by Robert Kiyosaki. I read it in less than 2 days. I was captivated by the story. It made me realize that fear was what was holding me back from moving forward with the life I wanted to lead. Fear of losing my job. Fear of not being able to support my family, my dogs, my house. Fear of failing in a business or when making investments. FEAR!!!

OK, so overcome the fear you say! It is not so easy though. You are wired to think a certain way based on how you grew up and the values you were taught. Years of these thoughts and habits crowd your mind and keep the fear real, sometimes paralyzing.

Erase the Fear!

Forget the Fear and Make the Plan Real!
I was 45 and never up until that point in my life did I think I would have a mid-life crisis. I think everyone’s definition of that is different. For me, it was taking a serious evaluation of where I was in life, and then deciding to do something about it. My younger brother and father had both passed away a few years before. I knew that if I did not start living my life differently than I was, I might as well be with them. They were gone yet I was still here for a reason, though I did not feel alive or passionate about anything. But reading Rich Dad Poor Dad changed all of that. It brought me alive and made me feel like I had options. I knew I was not stuck and doomed to live my corporate life forever. Now, I just had to forget the fear and put a plan into action.

Becoming an Entrepreneur
I had to move from being an employee to an entrepreneur. Logic told me it was the right thing to do, but my brain had 30 years of training as an employee – doing what other people tell you and not really thinking or working for yourself. As an employee, I rarely questioned what was right for me and my personal business, what I call the economy of ‘Scotty Inc.’. When I started to focus on ‘Scotty Inc.’, my thoughts were always rooted in thinking about my retirement. I had some money in my 401k, had some savings, and had lots of consumer debt.

As the economic and business worlds moved into turmoil, I started to question how I could ensure a better future for myself and my family. I knew that what I had been doing was no longer working and that I needed to change it. I had to figure out how to become wealthy enough to be independent of corporate America and our government – and to focus on me as an asset to MYSELF.

I started my own LLC and looked into many businesses – expensive franchises and website design to name a couple. Then I looked into the network marketing industry. I spent several months learning network marketing online, but learned quickly that I needed to do more than sell products for someone else. What happened if they closed or went away? I realized that I was really still working for a company and was dependent on them – what happens if they go away? I’d be in the same situation as an employee. I had become an Entrepreneur but I was still missing the passion I needed to grow as an Entrepreneur – and one day found it without even looking.

What?!?!? You STILL hadn’t found your passion Scott?
As I became more knowledgeable about marketing online, I found that there was no real ‘mentoring’ – lots of people share experiences but the 1-1 coaching was missing that is needed to really get started successfully. I found myself wanting to help others more than I wanted to work on my own projects. I wanted to share what I knew, save others the pain of having to go through what I already knew.

I studied social media marketing trends and followed those that have already achieved success in that area, and realized that getting your business online is all about building your personal brand. I had the company products to sell. I had ‘Scotty Inc.’, but I wasn’t doing anything with it. It was just there, like another file in my filing cabinet that I went to once and a while. But once you build your personal brand of ‘YOU Inc.’, you can create life-long wealth by doing what you love with a business model that makes sense. You can rely on yourself and your personal brand forever – not something that you can say about a product or a company, that’s for sure.

I am passionate about helping others make the shift from an employee mindset to an entrepreneurial mindset, and to come through the transformation with their own strength, power, and passion. I want to help people get started off in online marketing the RIGHT way… by establishing their personal brand. Not branding themselves around a product or company. If you believe that you can be a bank teller, you can. If you believe you can be an entrepreneur, you can do that too! Each and every person CAN change their circumstances, whether it is professionally, personally, or financially, and create their own new reality.

Let's Get Connected!

I Would Love to Connect with You and Hear YOUR Story
I look forward to sharing my knowledge of personal development and online marketing with you, and I look forward to learning from you as well. You can always contact me through my Contact Scott page with any questions find me on Skype (scott-ewart).

Take a moment to provide me with your name and email address on the right to take advantage of the valuable FREE gift I have created just for you! The ‘My 7 Things to Know When Making the Mindset Shift from Employee to Entrepreneur’ report will share valuable information and insight to the secrets to making the shift from being a tax burdened employee to a successful entrepreneur, building your own personal brand, and choosing to live the life that you want to live!

Here’s to you and your success!!

P.S. I have 3 amazing dogs, all Pugs, and they are another great passion in my life along with traveling and enjoying time with friends, so below I have posted a few of my favorite pictures. Enjoy!