About Mark

Welcome to my official blog!

Hey there! My name Mark Tetzner, and I’m a passionate online marketer, using social media as my main marketing vehicle. On this blog, you will find some of the most valuable information on the subject, and on occasion, I will post about subjects that go beyond social media, as online marketing needs a holistic approach of integrating, and learning, different skill-sets. Hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars have been spent, as I have learned from the best of the best in this industry. Mark Hoverson, Katie Freiling, Jonathan Budd, and Perry Belcher, just to name a few.

This blog was designed to help you stop “hustling” on twitter and facebook, understand that there is a method to the madness, structure to the chaos, and to teach you the guiding philosophies of social media and “personal branding,” so that you may set yourself apart from the majority of amateurs, and really become a success in your particular endeavor or enterprise.

So first, a little bit about me…

I grew up in Northern Germany with a sister and two sets of parents, like so many of us. I have been, from the very get-go, withdrawn, shy, and handicapped when it came to social situations, especially after my parents divorce cursed me with speech-impediments like stuttering and ADS. I have been only an average student, but have been told I have unique abilities when it comes to understanding people and how they think and feel. I have come to the conclusion that this is because of the way I have spent my childhood: pretty much alone. I believe you know others when you know yourself (know thyself).

Authenticity

In my life, I have been deeply appreciated; I have been labeled as “strange” (and have being “emotionally 7 years old” in writing from some nutty psychiatrist in Switzerland, where my sister lives.) I never ventured out to achieve any of these “reputations” on purpose. I did not perceive myself as the altruistic good cop, not as the bad cop-renegade to shake up the world. It just all happened to be. I guess I’m both. But yes, do speak my mind and have not much patience for people that are not real. I am my own best friend, I wish I could share with you what that is like. I want you to experience what it’s like not to be in love with yourself, but so connected to your inner chore, that you acquire “roots and wings”. To become – at last – the victor of your life. And that you can bounce back from whatever it is that may trouble or torture you. That is my wish for you, that is my wish for everyone.

OUT of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

WILlIAM E. HENLEY

What’s more, I had a terrible encounter in Germany with another human being. I had all kinds of talents, but they didn’t “go with” job profiles I liked. Nothing seemed to work. I packed up. I became a scuba instructor. I met the best girl in the world! I ended up in Mexico. Thailand and Greece were somewhere in between. I’m very sensitive, sometimes over-sensitive. I’m a rough guy, too. I’ll crack a joke about everything. Gentle soul, hot temper. I have been on drugs and I’ve been on Prozac. I’ve vacationed and lived in Canada, China and Australia. But home has been Mexico for a long time now. The sun is certainly shining in my life. At last!

In Mexico, for the first time, at the age of 30, it “just clicked.” That was 7 years ago. Professionally, I ventured into the least likely of places one could imagine to find me: sales (you kinda need people skills). I really succeeded in a royal way. “Work harder on yourself than you work on your job”. That is, according to the man who I consider the best mentor of all times (Jim Rohn) the golden rule. I lived by it, and it has served me well. I used to be completely unable to “break my shell”, today I can communicate. It’s a precious talent.

I made up to $20K on a single day in that sales job. But it wasn’t enough, because money wasn’t the right thing to focus on. Freedom is the right thing. Money is very important, but freedom dwarfs money every time. They go hand in hand, but you know what I mean.

Going Online

I ventured online after reading a book by Mark Victor Hansen. I won’t bore you with the details. Once again, I started absorbing new skills like a sponge, deeply fascinated by it all. I was bought and sold, like all of us. I wasted money, like all of us. I got side-tracked and took about 10 Million wrong routes. But I wanted this more than I wanted to breathe! And I created more money in a single day online, than I could have even fathomed. I work like a dog and love what I do. I’m an action-taker and a go-getter.
And this is where I live