Ralph Zuranski: Hi, this is Ralph
Zuranski, creator of the In Search of Heroes program and I’m
on the phone with Jason James.
Ralph Zuranski: He’s a young and
up-coming star on the internet who has been very successful
in marketing membership sites for eBay and is now coming out
with a revolutionary product I think on July 11. Is that
right, Jason?
Jason James: Yes, the launch of that
product is called Uncut Internet Marketing Pro Launch July
11.
Ralph Zuranski: Can you tell me a
little bit about yourself, please?
Jason James: Sure. I’m actually from
Massachusetts and I was in the military for four years. When
I got out I was looking for something to do.
Jason James: A lot of my friend had been
actually making money online in their spare time doing
things with eBay and such and all these different areas like
a lot of affiliate marketing and stuff like that.
Jason James: So I got really interested
in it. I thought I’m not a nine to five kind of guy so I
started exploring the different areas and what I came up
with was it sort of just hit me like a ton of bricks that
this eBay thing is unbelievable.
Jason James: I got my start selling
online with eBay and selling a few things from around the
house.
Ralph Zuranski: Let me ask you a few
questions about heroes because you are pretty young. I think
you are still right around 29, aren’t you?
Jason James: I turned 29 in April of
this year, 2006.
Ralph Zuranski: Yeah, so the heroes
program is to help inspire young people on how to be
successful in businesses and entrepreneur. So the first
question I wanted to ask you is what is the worthy ideal you
are pursuing with honesty and integrity?
Jason James: In business I don’t think
you can go very far if you are not someone who is very
honest and you don’t have integrity because when you are
going to things such as live conferences and seminars and
you go out and meet people, people form an opinion of you.
Jason James: People can see, at least I
can. I can sort of get a feel for what type of person I am
speaking with. Is this person a good person, a moral
character? Are they an honest person?
Jason James: For young people I think it
is very important to be honest and to have a high level of
integrity. So that is what I would say.
Ralph Zuranski: What do you want out of
life in ten words or less?
Jason James: Well, out of life in ten
words or less. I would like to be remembered for making a
difference in people’s lives. I would also just like to be
very simple.
Jason James: I’ve had the same goal
since I was young and that was just to be happy. To live a
happy life. And like I said, to make a difference in
people’s lives.
Ralph Zuranski: What is the dream of
vision that sets the course of your life?
Jason James: Like I just mentioned I
really have been very fortunate with my online business and
it’s funny when you are starting out with an online business
you are just going for money, money, money, me, me, me. At
least that’s how it was for me when I was starting out.
Jason James: But as you come into a
little bit of success and the money is there, for me
personally all I want to do now is help people achieve
success because it’s so rewarding to see when other people
are at a certain point and they are struggling and sort of
give them guidance.
Jason James: To take them on this path
of, “I hate my job; I want to start an internet business.
This is my idea and this is what I want to do.” To set them
off and give them advice and mentor them and take this along
this path and see them achieve success.
Jason James: For me seeing someone who
emails me with a glowing testimonial like, “Thank you so
much for your help. I was able to make this much money and I
was able to buy a new car” or whatever. To me that is very
rewarding.
Ralph Zuranski: How important is it to
stay focused on a primary goal?
Jason James: It’s very important.
Setting goals in general in life and a business is very
important. I’m creating a product right now and I’ve poured
my heart and soul into it. If I wasn’t into it you would be
able to see that on the product itself.
Jason James: When people would be
dealing with me they would see my attitude and how I was
approaching things. So when you are focused on a goal and
you don’t let external things distract you. It is very
important to stay focused and to take small steps each day
to reach your goal.
Ralph Zuranski: Do you follow your
hunches and intuitions?
Jason James: Sometimes. I prefer to go
with things that are more fact based. I’m not a guy that has
a hunch and acts on it. I’m more of a good decision maker
and I get facts and make good, educated decisions.
Ralph Zuranski: What is the specific
philosophy or philosophies that guide your life and your
decisions?
Jason James: Like we first talked
about, I think it is very important to be a person of high
moral character and an honest person. I also mentioned that
when you come into success I think it is very important to
thank those who have helped you and to give back to people
that want to get where you are at.
Jason James: I think it’s very important
to just give of yourself and not to be selfish and think
“me, me, me” because I’ve been there and it’s not a very
pleasant place to be. And you don’t make a lot of friends
that way.
Jason James: So I would say to give of
yourself and to be almost selfless in your life. Think of
the other person first when you are making decisions and try
to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
Ralph Zuranski: What place does the
power of prayer have in your life?
Jason James: It has a big place in my
life actually. I attend church most Sundays when I can. I
pray every few days. Actually I wasn’t that religious and
into prayer but I’ve been seeing a girl the past few years
and she really got me into it.
Jason James: I cannot believe that up
until the time I met her that prayer and belief in God and
having faith was not a part of my life. More and more each
day prayer is becoming a bigger part of my life and I think
it’s very important to have that spiritual connection.
Jason James: So prayer for me is a huge
part of my life.
Ralph Zuranski: Do you think that
prayer and having a spiritual connect with God and just
having a spiritual relationship with somebody that has the
same guiding principles as you do, do you think that is
helpful in helping you attain a happy place?
Jason James: Absolutely. My girlfriend
that I’ve been seeing for three years and I hope will soon
be my wife, when I met her things were not at a great, great
place in my life.
Jason James: When I met her I started
becoming more into prayer and into going to church. Half of
my life got better and better and better and I attribute a
lot of that to her. She really set me on the right path.
Jason James: It’s easy in life to make
bad decisions and go on the wrong path but when you have
someone there by your side to always remind you to do the
right thing and that you shouldn’t do that and to always
guide you in making decisions. That is very important.
Jason James: So my girlfriend has been
there by my side and always led me on the right path.
Ralph Zuranski: It’s valuable to have
somebody like that. Are your goals and actions consistent
with your beliefs?
Jason James: I would say they are,
absolutely. I have written down my goals and I write a daily
action plan every night before I go to bed.
Jason James: When I talk to people and
even simple things like email I am always going to be myself
but part of being myself is having core beliefs of honesty
and integrity and that is very important to me.
Ralph Zuranski: I know that you spent a
little bit of time in the Marine Corp and there is always
that question of what are you willing to sacrifice your life
for?
Jason James: I would sacrifice my life
for others, really. Actually I was joking about this with my
girlfriend the other day. We were having a conversation that
was very silly about taking a bullet.
Jason James: I just got two new puppies
and it was like, “Would you risk your life for those
puppies?” I’m like, “I would.” They are just four months old
little Miniature Pinschers and I love them so much.
Jason James: If a bullet was coming at
them I would jump in front of it, or a truck, which is maybe
more appropriate, or something like that.
Jason James: I feel that I’m important
but I also place a very high value on other life, animals
and people.
Ralph Zuranski: Is it valuable to have
highly charged emotions about achieving your goals?
Jason James: Most definitely. I think
having a passion for what you do really shows to other
people and having a passion for what you do will, I think,
you will be more successful when you have highly charged
emotions.
Jason James: When you are passionate
about what you do you just put your heart and soul into
something. Put yourself into a project that is very
important and I think when your heart is into something life
can go by much easier as opposed to something that you are
fighting and you are not into and you have emotions but they
are negative emotions.
Ralph Zuranski: Is it useful to take a
positive view of setbacks and misfortunes and mistakes?
Jason James: Absolutely. I’ve had tons
of, not bad things happen to me but unfortunate experiences.
I’ve been there where I’ve been fired from a job. I’ve had
money problems. I had my car repossessed. I had big-time
credit problems.
Jason James: I’ve learned from all these
different things. They can all be learning experiences.
Granted I’m only 29 years old but I’ve been through a few
things that have really helped me.
Jason James: Now where I’m at in the
place in my life to sort of learn from where I’ve been. I’ve
been down in the dumps. I’ve been there with no money, no
prospects for a job, being a college drop-out. I’ve been
there.
Jason James: All these things that have
happened to me have contributed to where I am at now. I run
a pretty successful business and I’m happy with where I’m
at.
Jason James: In January of this year I
was able to buy a house and I bought a car that I paid for
with cash. I really attribute my success to having been in a
bad place and having learned from those experiences.
Ralph Zuranski: When you do have
setbacks and misfortunes and mistakes is it important to
have optimism?
Jason James: Absolutely because no
matter how bad things get for me or for anyone who is
listening to this, there is always light at the end of the
tunnel. You can’t appreciate life now as it is if you don’t
have a feeling for how bad it could be. I don’t know if I
said that properly.
Jason James: When you are down and not
where you want to be it’s very important to just stay
positive, stay working towards your goals and stay
optimistic. That is very helpful and very important.
Ralph Zuranski: Do you feel that it’s
important to maintain a sense of humor in the face of
serious problems?
Jason James: I do. I’ve never been a
big worrier. Things could be going wrong in my life but I
always joke about them. When my car got repossessed I
laughed it off, as serious as that is because I had no car.
That is one of the reasons I got fired from my job because I
couldn’t get there.
Jason James: It did damage to my credit
report which is so important in these days. Everything is
based on credit. I just kind of, well, it’s a learning
experience. It happens and I’ll learn from it and I’ll learn
never to buy a car that I can’t afford with $500 payments
and I’m only making $800 a month.
Ralph Zuranski: Wow, what kind of car
was that?
Jason James: It was a Mitsubishi
Eclipse when they first came out with a new model. I went
out and got one, which was really stupid.
Jason James: Cars are a depreciating
asset. Unless you are really doing well I wouldn’t go out
and buy one that you can’t afford. A car is just
transportation from point A to point B.
Jason James: Especially these days there
are kids who have these fancy cars and you know that ¾ of
their monthly income is going to pay for that thing.
Ralph Zuranski: Do you invest time in
daydreaming about what your life will be like when you
attain your goal?
Jason James: I actually do, all the
time. I have these goals for my business and for myself. I’m
not a material person but I’ve worked real hard and one of
the things that I want is a boat.
Jason James: I live in Virginia Beach,
Virginia, currently. I’m originally from Boston. There’s a
dock up the street and I want a nice modest boat to just go
out on the water one day and relax.
Jason James: I feel that I’ve worked
hard for that and that’s my goal is to have a boat. I also
think about throughout the day just being able to do things
like pay for my child’s college education in full when I do
have a child some day.
Jason James: My girlfriend is actually
struggling right now. She’s in a tough place in her life
with her job. She doesn’t like her job and she isn’t making
all that money. She has a mortgage and her room-mate moved
out. She’s struggling financially.
Ralph Zuranski: Yes, it’s important to
have positive thoughts. Do you feel it’s important to make
positive statements about yourself, the type of person you
are and your goals?
Jason James: I think it’s important to
make statements for me personally. I write stuff down all
the time. I keep goals on paper and I have post-it notes all
over the place.
Jason James: Right in my office, on a
big huge piece of paper I have characteristics of success.
Things like determination, commitment, dedication,
discipline, courage, so I have stuff all over the place with
sort of positive affirmations.
Ralph Zuranski: Do you feel that it
takes courage to pursue new ideas?
Jason James: It does take courage. Like
I mentioned earlier I’m in the middle of a product launch
right now. It was very hard for me to get started because as
you get started and are working really, really hard on
something you don’t know where it is going to lead.
Jason James: You aren’t sure of if you
should even be doing this. Is this doing to work? Should I
be doing something else that is going to make me money? It’s
just very hard because when you are working hard on
something, like for me in this new project I have thousands
of affiliates who have said they will help me promote this
thing.
Jason James: I have 20 different
contributors who have made a video for this web site I’m
putting together. There are times of doubts where I’ve
invested all this time and money and is it really going to
work out? Is it going to happen for me?
Jason James: So there are always times
of doubt and I think it’s just important to just take each
day as it comes and keep working hard towards your goals and
put the rest in the hands of God.
Ralph Zuranski: Do you think it’s
important to be willing to experience discomfort in the
pursuit of your dreams because, just as you say, whenever
you have a dream and you are pursuing it there are times of
doubt and discouragement.
Jason James: So how important is it to
be willing to experience that discomfort?
Jason James: Nothing great was ever
achieved without some discomfort involved. If you want to be
successful in online business, for example, you have to step
out of your comfort zone.
Jason James: You have to attend live
seminars. You have to email people. You have to get on the
phone if you want to arrange a joint venture or something.
Jason James: It’s an American thing, I
think, to be lazy and find the easy way and expect things to
be done for them. It’s very common in our society.
Jason James: If you want to be
successful I think it’s very important to step out of your
comfort zone and do the things that are difficult for you,
whatever it may be.
Jason James: I think when you are doing
something worthwhile you are going to experience discomfort.
There are going to be things you don’t want to do. I think
that is just natural and if you work through those things
you will be better in the end for it.
Ralph Zuranski: Do you think it’s
important and beneficial to make decisions quickly?
Jason James: Definitely. Personally I’m
a quick decision maker. Just last night I was with my
girlfriend at dinner and we had been to this Mexican
restaurant several times.
Jason James: I look at the menu for
maybe 30 or 45 seconds. I review it and boom, I know what I
want. My girlfriend has been to this place several times but
this is a recurring theme. She takes forever. She has to
keep telling the waiter or the waitress to come back because
she doesn’t know what she wants yet. It’s like, pick
something, you know.
Jason James: I think in business you
have to be a quick decision maker. You have to think real
quickly. Am I going to pursue this or am I not going to
pursue this? Am I going to do this or am I not going to do
that?
Jason James: You waste a lot of time
dwelling on things that you don’t need to be dwelling on. I
think it’s important to be a quick decision maker. Explore
things in as much detail as possible, make a decision and
move on.
Ralph Zuranski: Once you make a
decision are you slow to revise or reverse that important
decision?
Jason James: Personally, no. I’m not
slow at all. I think business is sort of about adapting to
change and adapting to things that happen so if I make a
decision and I’m not happy with it I will revise or reverse
it pretty quick. I’m not slow at all to do stuff like that.
I’m one to take action quickly.
Ralph Zuranski: In the pursuit of your
goals and your dreams, I know you were in the military for a
while and you’ve been challenged by loss of your job and
loss of your car and I know that creates doubts and fears.
How are you able to overcome your doubts and fears?
Jason James: By not having any choice
and sort of realizing that this is my life, this is the only
life I will ever have; this is the life that God gave me.
You just sort of have to have that hope that there are
better times ahead.
Jason James: You just sort of have to
keep moving forward and take one day at a time. Take things
one day at a time and do small things each and every day
that move you toward your goals.
Jason James: For me in those really,
really difficult times when I woke up each day feeling
really badly about myself but there was also this small part
of me that was like, “Things are bad now and they can’t get
much worse. So it’s going to be better times ahead. I know
there is. Just have faith that there is.”
Ralph Zuranski: Do you think that it’s
important to readily forgive those who upset, offend and
opposed you?
Jason James: I do, actually. I learned
this a long time ago. For example if someone wrongs you or
if someone did something to you that you didn’t think was
right I think the power of forgiveness is great.
Jason James: I can relate this to online
business. Someone, for example, screws you over some way
online and time passes and then as you come back and maybe
that person comes back and they email you in the future and
say, “I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have done that. That was
wrong. I apologize.”
Jason James: A lot of people would say,
“Forget you; I’m not going to work with you.” But for me
personally I think the power of forgiveness is powerful
because what good does holding a grudge have? What good is
it saying, “No, I’m not going to work with you. You wronged
me.”
Jason James: When you forgive someone
what you end up with is friendship and experiences. You know
about that person and they came back and they forgave you
and what you have is a friendship and a future business
relationship.
Jason James: If you take the offence and
want to hold a grudge and not work with them, what do you
have then? You have an enemy, you don’t have that business
relationship, and you don’t have that friendship. I think to
forgive is very important no matter how hard it might be
sometimes.
Jason James: People make mistakes and if
they are willing to admit those mistakes it’s very important
to forgive.
Ralph Zuranski: I know that you have
had a few low points in your life. What was the lowest point
in your life and how did you change your life path to one of
victory over the obstacles you were facing at that time?
Jason James: Well, the lowest point in
my life was when I got my car repossessed, I had four
different maxed-out credit cards, I had quit college, I
lived with my parents, I had no car, no money, no job. It
was a really awful, awful time.
Jason James: I was actually able to join
the military, which I think is one of the best decisions I
ever made. I joined the Marines, which I don’t know if you
know a lot about the Marines but that is one of the
toughest, most disciplined branches in the world.
Jason James: Just the three months of
the basic training itself was the most challenging time I’ve
ever had in my life. So when I had entered I was sort of in
this awful place but I got a new sense of hope when I joined
the military.
Jason James: I saw that I had a lot to
offer. I have a lot to offer the world. I’m a smart person.
I’m serving my country. People are writing me letters
saying, “Thanks for serving. Good luck in the future.”
Jason James: So I spent four years in
the Marines and I accomplished a lot of great things. I was
in school for 1 ½ years to learn my job and in my graduating
class I had the second highest GPA and I had the highest
physical fitness score.
Jason James: I got this award which is
called the Warrior Award. If you are in the Marines you will
know that once you graduate from MOS school, (Military
Occupational Specialist) where you get trained for a job in
the military, I was awarded what is called the Warrior Award
which is voted on by your peers.
Jason James: Your peers vote who most
exemplifies what it is to be a Marine, to have honor,
courage and commitment. And I was voted that by my peers.
There is a very special ceremony. I was in my dress uniform
and I was awarded that.
Jason James: That meant a lot to me
because when I joined the military a few years before that
moment I was in an awful place and in two short years I was
in this wonderful place. I had the envy of others.
Jason James: I was in great shape, I had
a lot of things going for me, I had great grades in my
military school, and I got this award. It’s crazy how that
changed my life.
Jason James: I went on to serve and then
when I got out I had this really unbelievable outlook on
life. I was so positive. I was ready to take something and
run with it, which at the time happened to be eBay which to
this day is an unbelievable quick and easy way to make
money.
Jason James: It’s so powerful and the
traffic that eBay gets, millions and millions each day. A
powerful thing.
Ralph Zuranski: What would you say are
the things that you learned when you were in the military
because we have our military over in Iraq fighting there now
and your life was at its lowest point? You say that your
training with the Marines actually changed your life around.
What exactly did you learn?
Jason James: First and foremost I would
say discipline. Having a task and having the discipline to
follow through and accomplish that task. Before the military
I was one to start a lot of things and never finish. So I
learned discipline.
Jason James: I learned to respect
authority. I learned, and this is very important and if you
see any of my web pages you will notice that I’m a
perfectionist. One of the big things in the Marines is
attention to detail.
Jason James: We are talking about a
thread on your uniform that is not supposed to be there. A
tiny little wrinkle on your pants, on your dress uniform
that is not supposed to be there. A little scuff mark on
your shoe that is not supposed to be there.
Jason James: Have a shave that is not
perfect, because you shave every single day. This attention
to detail and everything that you do. In relating to online
business that could be like releasing your product without
totally testing the whole system so that it works and
everything down to a T.
Jason James: So attention to detail and
the core values of the Marine Corp are honor, courage and
commitment and those things hold a strong place in my life
to this day.
Ralph Zuranski: I think that is
probably something that would help everybody, wouldn’t it.
Jason James: Certainly. I think it
would.
Ralph Zuranski: How important is it to
believe in your financial dreams and that they will
eventually become reality?
Jason James: It’s very important
because you need to have a goal that you want to reach
because otherwise you are not really heading anywhere unless
you have a goal.
Jason James: For a lot of people they
have financial goals, which is fine. I have financial goals
and dreams. I want to make X amount of money per month. I’m
nowhere close to that right now but each day that passes I’m
taking steps to get there.
Jason James: I have a goal so I know
where I want to head and I know where I want to be heading.
Once I achieve those goals certain things in my life will be
easier. I won’t have to work as much and I’ll be able to buy
that boat.
Jason James: It sort of motivates me. I
want to have those financial dreams and goals to get there.
Ralph Zuranski: Having been in the
military, and there’s a lot of people that are putting their
lives on the frontline, what is your definition of heroism?
Jason James: Heroism is, I believe,
giving of yourself for a great cause. Talking about the
military I think the military is one of the most selfless
things that someone could do.
Jason James: I actually have a younger
brother that just got out of the Marines and he served four
tours of duty, in Iraq twice and also in Afghanistan twice.
He is a young kid, 21 years old.
Jason James: He was actually what is
called an O311 which is an infantry man. He was in the front
lines. He had incoming fire and he fired on enemies. A 21
year old kid out there risking his life so that we Americans
can live a comfortable, safe life.
Jason James: To me my brother is a hero
and if you serve in the military I believe you are a hero
because you are possibly giving your life for a greater
cause, which is so we here in America can live the cozy life
that we live.
Ralph Zuranski: Did you ever create a
secret hero in your mind that helped you deal with life’s
difficulties?
Jason James: Secret hero? I wouldn’t
say I have a secret hero. I have ideals that I like to live
up to and I sort of see myself in a certain way. I don’t
think I have a secret hero but I have this sort of ideal
that I try to live up to and try to hold myself up to.
Ralph Zuranski: Other than your brother
who are the heroes in your life now?
Jason James: Currently I would say
first and foremost are my parents because they’ve been
through a lot. They never really had money. Mom is a
secretary to this day. My dad is a factory worker. Those are
not very high-income jobs.
Jason James: I have two brothers, also,
and they worked their butt off to give my brothers and I a
life that we had, which was a pretty good life. It was a
middle class life.
Jason James: We didn’t have all these
great things but when I was 16 I was able to have a car and
I had clothes on my back and I always had the nicest
sneakers. My parents are just tremendous role models for the
value of hard work and what hard work can do and being
selfless.
Jason James: My mom and dad wanted their
sons to have a great life so they just worked all week long
really, really hard and a lot of their money and their
resources and their time went to ensuring that their sons
had a great life.
Jason James: As far as business I have
role models in business. There are certain people out there
that I look up to. Certain people that have that honesty and
integrity and they run a business like I want to run some
day and they have the income that I want to have some day.
Jason James: There are a whole bunch of
different people out there. My parents and then just various
marketers. I’m not going to name names but there are a few
of them out there.
Ralph Zuranski: How important is it to
have trusted friends in a mastermind group to bounce your
ideas off?
Jason James: I think it is very
important because so many ideas come when you are talking to
someone with a like mind. I’m in internet marketing.
Jason James: When I am talking to other
internet marketers just for a very short time it is amazing
the ideas that just start flowing because we have like
minds, we are on the same wavelength where all these great
ideas come from when you are talking to people.
Jason James: Whether it be through email
or Instant Messenger or on the phone or at a live seminar,
you have, like I said, the same mindset and you just bounce
these ideas off each other and all these great ideas result
from having friends and people that you can communicate
with.
Ralph Zuranski: Do you feel there are
any heroes in our society that aren’t getting the
recognition that they deserve?
Jason James: I think there is. Teachers
are a group that comes to mind. Teachers get paid like crap.
Let’s be honest. Where would we be without education and
teachers? They dedicate their lives to teaching others.
Jason James: Also, going back to the
military, people that serve in the military, while there is
a lot done to recognize people in the military I don’t think
it’s enough. The sacrifices that some of these kids,
especially, make, I don’t think they are getting recognized
enough because they really are heroes.
Ralph Zuranski: I totally agree with
that. Why are heroes so important in the lives of young
people?
Jason James: For me personally I think
heroes are important because you have someone to look up to,
someone who has a set of ideals that you want to have when
young people get older.
Jason James: They have someone to look
up to and someone to model their lives after. For me it’s my
parents. They work so hard. They are my heroes because their
work ethic and they are giving of themselves for a great
cause is just to this day it’s engrained in my mind how hard
they have worked.
Jason James: They are almost to
retirement age and they are still working. They may not have
a lot of money but every birthday or every Christmas that
roles around they always have something nice for us.
Jason James: So when you are young and
impressionable I think it is very important to have someone
to look up to and have someone that you want to be like when
you get older.
Ralph Zuranski: What are the things
that parents can do that will help their children realize
that they too can be heroes and make a positive impact on
the lives of others?
Jason James: I think being positive. If
I had a child I would try to be positive with that child. I
would tell my child to be completely selfless, to think of
other people first, to give, give, give, give because life
is very short and it’s not going to be that great of a life.
Jason James: When I get old I don’t want
to sit there and look back and say, “What have I
accomplished?” If I had the attitude that I was going to do
things for me, me, me and make all this money and keep it
and not give to charities and not help people, I think that
would be awful.
Jason James: If I’m sitting there on my
deathbed and I didn’t make a lot of difference in people’s
lives. So as parents I think help their children realize
that they can be heroes. They can be positive, be good role
models themselves, and teach them to give of themselves and
try to make a difference in other people’s lives.
Ralph Zuranski: How does it feel to be
recognized as an internet hero?
Jason James: It feels great, actually.
It’s funny because I was at the point when I was first
starting out that I was sort of like a sponge taking in
information and I still am.
Jason James: I recently went to a
seminar in November of 2005 and I got to speak for the first
time. It was like the tables were turned. It was really a
strange feeling. It’s a good feeling.
Jason James: People were literally
lining up to talk to me and pick my brain and it felt great.
These people were talking to me like I was some kind of god
or something.
Jason James: It changed my life because
I have all these opportunities now that weren’t there
before. Being known out there and having your name out there
it’s great because all these different opportunities can
lead to bigger and better things. It’s been great.
Ralph Zuranski: Why do you think that
you were selected for this unique honor?
Jason James: I think I was selected
because, getting back to what we first talked about, I think
I’m a good person. I have high moral values – honor, courage
and commitment, my values from the Marine Corp.
Jason James: I try to take those things
into my business and run a good solid business and try to
help a lot of people. I have a web site that actually
teaches people how to sell on eBay and people that sign up
to that web site they actually get to email me for a year
with all their eBay questions.
Jason James: I get tons of questions in
and I just love answering those questions and helping people
get their options up and running and making money.
Ralph Zuranski: I chose you as my
expert for eBay and chose you for a very good reason because
hopefully the heroes program will help a lot of the military
families be successful and make money on the internet as
well as honoring the heroes in their lives – the moms and
dads, grandmas and grandpas, sons and daughters and
husbands.
Ralph Zuranski: The people who really
are, as you say, laying their lives down so that we in the
United States can have a comfortable life.
Ralph Zuranski: So you think that being
recognized as an internet hero will change your life in any
way?
Jason James: It may. Being recognized
as a hero is great because people can now come to me and
they can see what I’ve accomplished. I just want to help a
lot of people.
Jason James: I just get so much joy out
of helping people and being recognized as a hero hopefully
more people will come to me and look to me for advice and I
can make a difference in more people’s lives because I just
love that.
Jason James: When people start achieving
their goals and getting from that tough place in their life
and getting to a really happy place in their life. That
process and that road, being along that road with people
while difficult at times the reward is just tremendous.
Ralph Zuranski: Do you have any good
solutions for problems facing society, especially racism,
child and spousal abuse and violence among young people?
Jason James: I really don’t. Those are
just huge problems. I believe that racism is alive and well
in this country. Blacks and whites, who knows if they will
ever get along.
Jason James: Abuse and violence, I
think, are always going to be there. We can do things to
prevent it and education people but I just think it’s always
going to be there.
Jason James: We can do things to reduce
it, like I said. Violence among young people I think there
is not much you can do. You can do what you can about the
gun laws or education people and try to make this world a
happy place but problems like that I don’t thing there is
one answer to it.
Jason James: There are just steps to
minimize these things.
Ralph Zuranski: I think you came up
with one good answer and that is education. Educating people
and what they need to know to be successful and to become
people that can be successful.
Jason James: Certainly. I think being
educated and having the right frame of mind and knowing
things that you need to do make a difference in this world
that is very important.
Ralph Zuranski: Don’t you think that
having good role models is a good idea, too?
Jason James: Absolutely, because when
you have a good role model you have someone to look up to,
someone that you can turn to. If you have a situation in
your life you can say, “What would this person do” or “What
have they done in the past” when this type of thing came
along.
Ralph Zuranski: When I’ve been
interviewing a lot of the heroes a lot of them told me that
they had virtual heroes like George Washington, Abraham
Lincoln, and Einstein. Even though they didn’t know them
personally they actually read about their lives and then
created those characters in their mind.
Ralph Zuranski: Then whenever they had
questions they would go into their minds and ask those
people questions and they patterned their lives after the
people that they wanted to become like.
Jason James: Actually I do have someone
like that. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of Howard
Hughes? He was an aviator, an engineer. The movie with
Leonardo DiCaprio called “The Aviator” was about him.
Ralph Zuranski: I saw that.
Jason James: For some reason he is just
so fascinating to me. He was actually an old movie director.
I have some of his old movies that are in black and white,
terrible quality but it’s amazing to see what this amazing
man accomplished in his life.
Jason James: He was a billionaire. He
designed and built all these planes for the military. I
don’t know if you ever heard of the Spruce Goose but it was
the biggest plane ever made that is made of all wood.
Jason James: He actually flew it one
time. No one ever thought it would fly because it was so big
and it was made out of wood.
Jason James: If you have seen the movie
“The Aviator”, Leonardo DiCaprio does a great job of
capturing how he made quick decisions. He recognized an
opportunity and said, “Let’s do this, this and this and get
on it right away.”
Jason James: He was a quick decision
maker. He didn’t spend a lot of time dwelling on things. So
Howard Hughes.
Jason James: I have this thing with
aviation. I’m actually in the process of learning to fly a
plane and getting my pilot’s license and Hughes was a
big-time aviator and I am so interested in his life and his
career and aviation was a big part of his career.
Jason James: When I think of situations
like you were speaking of I guess I sort of look at Howard
Hughes and see how he would handle things. I don’t do that
on a daily basis but he sort of is my hero and my
role-model. He’s just so fascinating.
Jason James: If you ever get to see one
of his movies, one of his first is called Hell’s Angels.
It’s about World War One and has all these fight scenes with
planes. It’s in black and white but it’s really, really
neat. If you ever get to see it definitely check it out.
Ralph Zuranski: I’ll have to. Well, if
you had three wishes for your life and for the world that
would instantly come true what would they be?
Jason James: I would say an end to
disease and an end to world hunger and I would say very
important in this day and age peace throughout the world. I
won’t live long enough to see this but hopefully one day my
kid’s kid’s kids will live on a peaceful earth.
Jason James: Places like the Middle
East, peace on earth. Imagine that. How unbelievable would
that be?
Ralph Zuranski: That would be great,
wouldn’t it? What do you think about the In Search of Heroes
program and its impact on youth, parents and business
people?
Jason James: I think it’s tremendous
because you are just sort of spreading the right message and
that’s the message of having heroes, people to look up to,
staying positive, making the right decisions in life.
Jason James: You web site,
InSearchofHeroes.com, is just unbelievable. There is so much
great information on there. It is so motivating to go to
your web site and listen to interviews and see the
difference you have made in people’s lives, especially young
people.
Jason James: In business, you have been
to these conferences and seminars and put up the pictures
and take down the interviews and there is just tremendous
information there for people to take and it’s all free. It’s
unbelievable what you have done.
Jason James: I’m so glad to be part of
it so thank you so much for having me in your heroes
program.
Ralph Zuranski: You are very welcome,
Jason. You are the type of role model that I hope the young
people will be able to follow and I’m just grateful for your
help in the eBay program because I think that’s the fastest
way that people can become an entrepreneur and start making
money within a day.
Jason James: Yeah, I know from
experience. I mean, if you have something, and you might
have heard this a million times, but there’s lots of things
around your house. If you have something in your house you
want to sell, sign up for an eBay account.
Jason James: Take a few pictures, write
a good description, put it up there and boom. If somebody
buys it now, you can have sold that thing in one day. It’s
crazy. It’s a great way to make money.
Ralph Zuranski: Yeah, well, it’s great.
It’s an integral part of the heroes program is to help
people learn business and learn how to write and take photos
and to learn accounting. And I’m looking forward to your
assistance.
Ralph Zuranski: I know how busy you are
and I really appreciate the time that you invested in this
interview. I really congratulate you on your new project
that is coming out because I do feel that video is the most
effective way of getting a message across.
Ralph Zuranski: I think you saw in our
Heroes site some of the videos that I did of the Heroes
interviews. I think technology has finally caught up with
the ability to deliver audio, video and words all at the
same time.
Jason James: I definitely agree and I
agree wholeheartedly. I think online multimedia in general,
audio and animation, talking web sites and video especially
is going to be huge. There’s going to be online TV stations
and all these different things with video and audio. It’s
just going to be the next big thing and I’m so glad to be
part of it.
Jason James: The videos you have on your
site are great. So I’m just trying to ride that wave as far
as we can and take advantage of it.
Ralph Zuranski: I know your project is
going to be a great success and so I look forward to working
with you. Again, thanks for your time.
Jason James: You are welcome, Ralph.
Thank you for having me on the call and the project is
called Uncut Internet Marketing. It is a series of videos
made from some of today’s top marketers. That would be at
www.UncutMarketing.com if people want to get more
information on that.
Ralph Zuranski: Can you spell that out
for the people that are listening?
Jason James: Sure. It’s
U-n-c-u-t-M-a-r-k-e-t-i-n-g, UncutMarketing.com and the name
uncut simply means that these marketers made videos that are
real, uncensored, unscripted, unrehearsed. They just sort of
made a video on what they know and put it together for me.
Ralph Zuranski: That’s great. And then
you have a blog on there, too, don’t you? Can they access
the blog from that particular web site?
Jason James: Yes, I have a blog set up
with updates as to what’s happening with the launch. That is
at
www.UncutMarketing.com/blog.
Ralph Zuranski: That’s great. What I’ll
do when I post your interview in the parts of it I’ll put up
into maybe 15 or 20 leading up to your launch, which is
going to be July 11. People can actually access it right
directly from the In Search of Heroes blog and also from
your Heroes page.
Jason James: That would be great,
Ralph. Thank you so much for your help.
Ralph Zuranski: You are very welcome.
So I look forward to working with you and have a great day.
Jason James Website
