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John Lee Doomis here and I am fired up to bring you our future guest today,

Zach Johnson. Zach, are you prepared to ignite? Oh yeah, let's set this place on fire.

Awesome. Zach is an entrepreneur who first started making money online when he was just a teenager.

Over the past 18 years, he has had his hands in nearly every facet of the internet and affiliate

marketing while also helping others learn how to do the same through his blog at ZachJohnson.com.

So Zach, I've given Fire Nation just a little background about your biz, but tell us a little bit

more and then about you personally and then we'll dive in. Thanks so much for having me here.

I really appreciate it. And like you said, it's been about 18 years and I first got started back in

1995, but I've always had the passion and mentality for business and trying to figure out new ways

to make money. So back when I was in school, kids could never buy soda and there was no soda machines

or anything like there is today with vending machines. So instead of carrying books around,

I'd have a six pack of soda in my backpack and kids at lunch, they'd have some leftover money from

buying their lunch. And of course, the parents aren't going to care about that 50 cents or 75 cents

or whatever. So then I'd whip out my soda cans at lunch and sell them to the kids. Then I'd come

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