As a founder of Elite Results Marketing which is a high-level SEO Marketing Solutions Firm, many describe me as one of the best SEO experts for quality first page google ranking and I’ve been able to consistently get my clients ranked on the first page of google year after year. I’ve worked with many mom and pop shops and restaurants all the way up to fortune 500 companies.

But, I started out just like anyone else. I started out wearing multiple hats, relying on unpredictable marketing, I had no idea what it cost me to acquire a customer, no idea where the customers were coming from and quite frankly, I was not charging what I was actually worth.

As Dakota always said; I was working in my business and not on my business.

I was stuck, servicing people I didn’t like to service, waking up every day miserable, I hadn’t taken a vacation in 4 years and I was making what most people would consider incredible income but I was still trading time for money and it was costing me my soul in the process.

But then I looked at Dakota’s lifestyle and business and it was the complete opposite of mine. He worked with some of the coolest people on the planet and was running the marketing for guys that were doing 5-10 million a month in sales. He would post screenshots of his online banking portal in his private inner circle Facebook group where on some days the dude had $75,000 of incoming wire transfers. He had 40+ employees and what blew my mind is he worked 4 days a week, was never stressed, never overwhelmed and was always happy.

After seeing his business and lifestyle I finally just reached out and said ‘dude, how in the hell are you doing this type of revenue and how in the world are you able to keep up with it all.’

And he replied with… “Automation, delegation and elimination LOL” and he left it at that.

A week later I was scrolling through my newsfeed on Facebook and I see one of his ads inviting me to a live virtual conference so I clicked the ad and found myself on this really nice landing page. I was asked for my name and email and then I entered this live chatroom with hundreds of people commenting and there was this crazy introduction and sizzle reel! I felt like I was attending an event in person.

I went through all 2 hours of this training and I’m telling you it was seriously a work of art. By the end of presentation I was stunned. It was so insightful and on top of that, it literally made me want to just pull my entire savings account and just give it to this guy as he had that type of impact.

 That same night I reached out to him via Facebook and I said ‘dude, I just saw your webinar. Please take all my money.

He replied with, “LOL, I’m glad you enjoyed it. That training I recorded over a year ago and ever-greened. Over 1600 business owners see that per week and about 135 of those business owners take advantage of the offer you saw, schedule calls with us and we vet them and only service people that we like, align with and want to support. One Funnel, one webinar and that’s it. Sometimes less is more :)”

At that point I realized I needed a damn webinar.

A week later I wired Dakota $30,000 to script, build and scale a webinar for me.

Within in a year of making the investment I had generated over 200k a month in recurring revenue, was able to use that recurring revenue to hire help, delegate the things that didn’t generate revenue and eliminate the things I didn’t want to do which allowed me to buy back my freedom, make more money and work less. I never imagined this was possible.

It’s been a true honor to work one-on-one with Dakota Burford and his team. He has been critical to my growth over the years.

I hope my story inspires you to think outside the box, take action and not allow excuses to minimize your potential.

 You only have to be right once and I can tell you first hand that the one right decision for me was this one single relationship with Dakota.

“My name is Shannon Allen. I am a serial entrepreneur and currently residing in sunny South Florida in Downtown Brickell.

I am writing this as a special shout out to Dakota Buford for his amazing work with me and my business partners.

Dakota is seriously an internet marketing beast and has been an extreme value add to my business. When it comes to scaling your company or concept online through sales funnels, webinars or other outside of the box marketing Dakota is your guy.

When you are ready to take your company or concept to another level, it will be worth it for you and your business to scale with Dakota.”

My name is Nick Cooper, and I'm writing this message to thank one of my favorite people on this planet and that's my dear friend Dakota Burford.

 I want to thank you because you have shown me that my life's desire to take my work from a one-on-one perspective to one of many perspectives is possible and the fact that you represent me now means everything.

Look, for every Tiger Woods there was a Butch Hartman. For every Phil Knight there was a Michael Jordan and I feel like in I have the opportunity to be one of the greats by leveraging your expertise, coaching and guidance and for that I thank you