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Learn more about our updated Terms of Service

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 21:16:00 +0000

We're updating our Terms of Service on May 22, 2024, so we wanted to let you know ahead of time.

These changes won't affect the way you use our services, but they should help make it easier for you to understand what to expect from Google — and what we expect from you — as you use our services.

You can see the new terms here. We also summarized the changes at the bottom of this email.

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What's changing?

You can review the new Google Terms of Service here. At a glance, here's what this update covers:

Generative AI terms. We're moving our existing Generative AI Additional Terms to our main Terms of Service and adding other AI-related clarifications. For example – we won't claim ownership over original content generated by our AI-powered services.
More clarity on abusive activity. We're providing more examples and details about abuse and interference with our services that isn't allowed.
More details on limitations of liability. For users outside the US, we're adding clarifications to our limitations of liability and indemnity sections to avoid any misunderstandings in light of local laws or customs.
More clarity on disputes. We're clarifying that if you violate our terms, our remedies aren't limited to suspension or termination of your access to the services, but may include other remedies under applicable law. If problems or disputes arise between us about these terms, you'll have the opportunity to describe the issues and address them.
Updates to reflect how our services work. We're adding language about how our services work, and updating certain Google service brand names that have changed over time.
For users based in the European Economic Area (EEA) only:
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- For more details, please see this summary of key changes to the EEA versions of our Terms.

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Cash App Sign In Code (536-480)

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Sign-In Code

536-480

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Updating our Google Account inactivity policy

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 20:23:00 +0000

Every day Google works hard to keep you and your private information safe and secure by preventing unauthorized access to your Google Account with our built-in security protections. And keeping you safe means having strong privacy practices across our products that minimize how long we store your personal files and any data associated with them. We want to protect your private information and prevent any unauthorized access to your account even if you're no longer using our services.

Therefore, we are updating the inactivity period for a Google Account to two years across all our products and services. This change starts rolling out today and will apply to any Google Account that's been inactive, meaning it has not been signed into or used within a two-year period. An inactive account and any content in it will be eligible for deletion from December 1, 2023.

What this means for you:

These changes do not impact you unless you have been inactive in your Google Account for two years or have not used your account to sign in to any Google service for over two years.
While the changes go into effect today, the earliest we would enforce any account deletion would be December 2023.
If your account is considered inactive, we will send several reminder emails to both you and your recovery emails (if any have been provided) before we take any action or delete any account content. These reminder emails will go out at least 8 months before any action is taken on your account.
After a Google Account is deleted, the Gmail address for the deleted account cannot be used again when creating a new Google Account.

How to keep your account active?

The simplest way to keep a Google Account active is to sign in to the account at least once every two years. If you have signed in to your Google Account recently in the past two years, your account is considered active and will not be deleted.

Other ways to keep your account active include:

Reading or sending an email
Using Google Drive
Watching a YouTube video
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Downloading an app
Using Google Search
Using Sign in with Google to sign in to a third-party app or service

There are some exceptions to this policy. Examples include: a Google Account with YouTube channels, videos or comments; an account that has a gift card with a monetary balance; or an account that has a published application, for example, one that hosts an app on the Google Play store. Other exceptions to this policy are available here.

Google also offers tools to help manage your Google Account and provide options to back up your data, including the ability to download your data using Google Takeout, and allowing you to plan for what happens to your data if you're inactive for a specific period of time with the Inactive Account Manager.

Our priority is to make it as easy as possible for you to keep your account active, if you want to, and we'll ensure you have adequate notice before any account is impacted by this change. So before an account is deleted, Google will send email notifications to the Google Account and its recovery email (if one has been provided). You should verify that your recovery email is up to date.

Learn more

Inactive Google Account Policy
How Google retains data we collect
Updating our inactive account policies (only available in English)

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Learn more about our updated Terms of Service

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:13:00 +0000

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On January 5, 2022, we're making some changes to our Terms of Service. These changes won't affect the way you use Google services, but they'll make it easier for you to understand what to expect from Google — and what we expect from you — as you use our services.

You can review the new terms here. At a glance, here's what this update means for you:

More clarity on what you can expect from Google and what we expect from you: We're providing more examples to describe the mutually respectful conduct that we expect from all our users.
Revised warranty disclaimers and limitations of liability: We're including new warranty disclaimers and limitations of liability to reflect industry standards.
Increased clarity and certainty in case of problems or disagreements: We changed some of the language in the Taking action in case of problems and Settling disputes, governing law, and courts sections to make it clearer what would happen in those situations.
Improved readability: While our terms remain a legal document, we've done our best to make them easier to understand, including reorganizing some topics so that they're easier to find.

If you use Family Link to manage a Google Account for someone else, please take some time to talk to them about these changes.

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Important policy changes for Google Account storage

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 02:00:00 +0000

Dear Google User,

We are writing to let you know that we recently announced new storage policies for Google Accounts using Gmail, Google Drive (including Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, and Jamboard files) and/or Google Photos that bring us in line with industry practices. Since you have previously used one or more of these products in your Google Account storage, we wanted to tell you about the new policies well before they go into effect on June 1, 2021. Below is a summary of the new policies. Please reference our Help Center article for a complete list of what's changing.

Summary of the new policies (effective June 1, 2021):

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If you're inactive for 2 years (24 months) in Gmail, Drive or Photos, we may delete the content in the product(s) in which you're inactive. Google One members who are within their storage quota and in good-standing will not be impacted by this new inactive policy.

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If you exceed your storage limit for 2 years, we may delete your content across Gmail, Drive and Photos.

What this means for you:

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You won't be impacted by these changes unless you've been inactive or over your storage limit for 2 years. As this policy goes into effect June 1, 2021, the earliest it would be enforced is June 1, 2023.

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After June 1, 2021, if you are either inactive or over your storage limit, we will send you email reminders and notifications in advance and prior to deleting any content.

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Even if you are either inactive or over your storage limit for one or more of these services and content is deleted, you will still be able to sign in.

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Note: The inactivity and over quota storage policies will apply only to consumer users of Google services. Google Workspace, G Suite for Education and G Suite for Nonprofits policies are not changing at this time, and admins should look to the Admin Help center for storage policies related to their subscriptions.

Learn more about how to keep your account active

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To learn more about how to remain active with these products, visit this Help Center page.

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The Inactive Account Manager can help you manage specific content and notify a trusted contact if you stop using your Google Account for a certain period of time (between 3-18 months). Note: the new 2 year inactive policy will apply regardless of your Inactive Account Manager settings. You can learn more about these changes and ways to manage your or a loved one's account in our Help Center.

Learn how to manage your storage

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Learn more about the over quota policy and what counts against storage quota.

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You can use the free storage manager in the Google One app and on the web to see how you're using your Google Account storage, and free up space across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos.

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Something's missing on moneyonlinebasics.blogspot.com

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 17:16:00 +0000

Hi there –
I wanted to reach out to tell you how much I appreciate moneyonlinebasics.blogspot.com I especially loved the open source resources you mention there.

One thing that I found out about was entrepreneur.com on your page here moneyonlinebasics.blogspot.com/2009/02/ and it really provided some interesting insight.

Digging into it a bit more, I found this helpful guide https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/what-is-open-source-software/

It really helped me better understand open source software as a whole. I think it would be a nice addition to your page, especially for all of your users.

Thanks again for the great resource!
All the best,

Aleksa

Learn more about our updated Terms of Service

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:15:00 +0000

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We're improving our Terms of Service and making them easier for you to understand. The changes will take effect on March 31, 2020, and they won't impact the way you use Google services.

For more details, we've provided a summary of the key changes and Frequently Asked Questions. At a glance, here's what this update means for you:

•	Improved readability: While our Terms remain a legal document, we've done our best to make them easier to understand, including by adding links to useful information and providing definitions.
•	Better communication: We've clearly explained when we'll make changes to our services (like adding or removing a feature) and when we'll restrict or end a user's access. And we'll do more to notify you when a change negatively impacts your experience on our services.
•	Adding Google Chrome, Google Chrome OS and Google Drive to the Terms: Our improved Terms now cover Google Chrome, Google Chrome OS, and Google Drive, which also have service-specific terms and policies to help you understand what's unique to those services.
•	No changes to our Privacy Policy: We're not making any changes to the Google Privacy Policy and we haven't made any changes to the way we treat your information. As a reminder, you can always visit your Google Account to review your privacy settings and manage how your data is used.

If you're the guardian of a child under the age required to manage their own Google Account and you use Family Link to manage their use of Google services, please take some time to discuss these changes with them.

And of course, if you don't agree to our new Terms and what we can expect from each other as you use our services, you can find more information about your options in our Frequently Asked Questions.

Thank you for using Google's services.

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Improvements to our Privacy Policy and Privacy Controls

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 12 May 2018 11:39:00 +0000

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This month, we're updating our Privacy Policy to make it easier for you to understand what information we collect and why we collect it. We've also taken steps to improve our Privacy Checkup and other controls we provide to safeguard your data and protect your privacy.

Nothing is changing about your current settings or how your information is processed. Rather, we've improved the way we describe our practices and how we explain the options you have to update, manage, export, and delete your data.

We're making these updates as new data protection regulations come into effect in the European Union, and we're taking the opportunity to make improvements for Google users around the world.

Making our Privacy Policy easier to understand

Simpler structure & clearer language

We've improved the navigation and organization of the policy to make it easier to find what you're looking for. We've also explained our practices in more detail and with clearer language.

New descriptive videos & illustrations

Often a visual description is easier to understand than text alone, so we've added short videos and illustrations throughout the policy.

Embedded privacy controls

We've made it easier to jump to key settings directly from the policy, helping you make choices about your privacy.

The revised policy is available here and will take effect on May 25, 2018.

Improving your privacy controls

Within the past year, we updated My Activity so that you can better access and manage the data in your Google Account. We also launched a redesigned Dashboard, which allows you to easily see an overview of products you're using and your data associated with them.

This month, we've updated our Privacy Checkup with new illustrations and examples to help you make more informed choices about your key privacy controls. And since we understand that your preferences may change over time, the new Privacy Checkup enables you to sign up for regular reminders to check your privacy settings.

To learn more about these and other controls to manage your privacy, visit your Google Account.

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The #1 reason for my poverty

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:44:00 +0000

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Dear Make Money At Home,

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The Money Magic of Social Media

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 04 May 2012 10:00:00 +0000

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A Personal Note from Joshua...

This week, I'm going to let you hear from my good friend Nick Usborne. Nick has one of the most unique perspectives on social media and the future of the Internet that I have heard. I strongly urge you to read what he has to say...

The Money Magic of Social Media
Your Best Opportunity to Make It Big Since the Birth of the Web
By Nick Usborne

What's with all the hype surrounding social media?

(And, maybe the real question is... Can you make money because of all this hype?)

It's as if every company on the planet has become distracted from the serious business of marketing. It seems as if they are wasting their valuable time and resources on messing about with Facebook, YouTube, and Pinterest.

Well, it's easy to think that way. But if that's really your view of social media, you are missing out on the biggest opportunity to come your way for at least 10 years.

The truth about social media is that it is not a fad, or an add-on.

Social media is not an add-on to the Web, it is fast BECOMING the Web.

Facebook already has over 845 million users. Hundreds of millions of people are also using Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and other social media services.

Why is social media so popular? Because it gives people what they want.

Facebook never advertised. Nobody needed to be sold on Facebook, because it gives people what they want. It enables people to share, chat, play, and even buy.

It's the same with Twitter, YouTube, and Pinterest. They didn't have to buy ads on TV to "sell" people. They are popular because they address an absolute need in the marketplace.

Do companies "get" social media?

For a while, they didn't. They just saw social media as a distraction. They went through that denial phase, just wishing it would go away.

Then they came to accept that social media was here to stay, and many companies began to dip their toes in the water.

Finally, a very small percentage of companies "got it," immersed themselves in social media, and found that it offered a huge Return On Investment.

Those companies in the toe-dipping phase had better wake up to reality fast, because they are losing out big-time. A truth in marketing is that you need to go where your audience is. And online, the place where people spend the most time is not on traditional websites, but on social media sites.

That's where the audience is.

That's where the money is.

That's where the opportunity lies.

When an industry is seriously disrupted, opportunities are plentiful.

It's hard to make serious inroads as an entrepreneur when an industry is in a state of stability. Everyone is happy with things just the way they are.

Online right now, nothing is stable. The whole Web has been disrupted by the growth of social media. In other words, now is the ideal time to step in, hang up your shingle, and make your mark.

What are the opportunities, exactly?

There are several.

Set up as a specialist in social media.

The most recent figures tell us that over 50% of companies that are using social media outsource the work. They just don't have the skills or resources in-house. As for the kind of work you could offer, there are plenty of choices.

You can be a social media strategist... helping clients with their big-picture thinking and planning. Or you can help them implement, by setting up and managing their social networks. Or you can focus on social media writing, on their networks and on their websites.

Once you immerse yourself in the skills of social media marketing, you will see there are plenty of opportunities out there. Choose the opportunity that's right for you, and grab your share of the market.
Add social media to your existing line-up of services.

If you already have a freelance or consulting business, you can simply add social media expertise to your existing line-up of freelance services. In fact, deep knowledge of social media will soon be a must-have skill for anyone involved in marketing online.
Use social media to grow your own business.

Even if you don't want to offer professional services as a social media expert, you can use what you learn as a means to promote and expand your own business. For many top-earning entrepreneurs and freelancers, social media is becoming a key driver in attracting new and better clients.
Use social media to grow your own Money-Making Websites.

Perhaps you already have one or more revenue-generating websites of your own. If so, a deep knowledge of social media is becoming essential in the fight for eyeballs and wallets.

In my case, I use social media extensively to attract new visitors to my website about coffee, CoffeeDetective.com.

This is why I wrote my program on social media.

Maybe I have an eye for shifts and opportunities online.

Back in 1998, I was among the first to see that companies were making the mistake of writing their websites in the same way as they wrote their print materials. Right away, I saw that was a mistake, and I built a business on helping them "get it" and start writing in a way that better matched the Web. In 2001, I wrote the first book on the topic, Net Words.

Well, I'm having another one of those moments. Not many people see that the Web and social media are fast becoming one and the same thing.

And, as with any other fast-moving change, I know that most companies will be slow to get it. They'll dip a toe, then up to their ankles, and by the time they are into it up to their knees, they will have missed the boat.

Think about that. Social media is fast BECOMING the Web, and most companies just don't get it yet. What does that sound like to you?

To me, it sounds like opportunity.

And that's why I created my system, How to Make Money as a Social Media Expert.

I developed it to give you the knowledge and expertise you'll need to go out there and help companies make the transition from traditional online marketing to social media marketing.

My program isn't about just using various social media sites.

There are plenty of excellent books available on how to use Twitter, Facebook, and so on.

But knowledge of the various sites doesn't give you the expertise to go out there and make money as a social media expert, any more than owning a hammer makes you a successful carpenter.

My program takes a very different approach.

From page one, the intention is to immerse you in social media, so you totally understand how it works, what it offers, and how it fits into the broader discipline of online marketing.

And by the time you have completed the program, and the accompanying webinar series, you will be ready to go out there and show companies how to take full advantage of what social media offers.

This isn't a read-it-and-leave-it kind of program, it's a read-it-and-use-it program.

My purpose it to give you the knowledge, insight, and hands-on expertise you'll need to approach one of the millions of companies out there which are at that "toes in the water" stage. Those are the companies that don't yet understand the transformational nature of social media, and they desperately need your help.

Better still, they'll pay you handsomely to help them get up to speed.

This is a once-in-a-decade opportunity.

As I wrote earlier, my career online was launched when I saw a huge opportunity back in 1998. I saw that most companies just didn't understand how to write for the Web.

Right now, another opportunity, of equal size, is up for grabs.

Most companies just don't understand what social media marketing is. Nor do they understand the huge challenges they will face as the Web becomes more and more social.

As for you, you face a similar choice.

Either you can be one of the few entrepreneurs who sees the writing on the wall, and recognizes that your own future as a professional will be closely linked with the level of your expertise in social media, or you'll be one of the majority, who will be left behind.

My program has been created specifically for you, to give you the knowledge you'll need to become one of the few.

Make no mistake, the time when you could safely ignore social media as an area of expertise is long past.

Your choice now is either to grab the opportunity and grow your business, or bury your head in the sand and stagnate.

Click here to learn more about my program, How to Make Money as a Social Media Expert.

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Are We Doing It All Wrong?

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Almost every morning Matt Smith sends me a link to another fantastic article he's discovered on the web. One morning it was a link to this piece by Jonathan Fields on the importance of delighting your customers. After reading Jonathan's thoughts, this idea has been incorporated in every email I send. It's a message that will stick with you, because you sure don't want to be doing it all wrong.

Craig Ballantyne

"Stand out. You must stand for something and attract the right people while not being afraid to repel the wrong people. You need to over deliver, give faster results than promised, and become the go-to leader for your market." – Bedros Keuilian

The Power of Delight

By Jonathan Fields

What if we were doing it all wrong?

According to my genius friend and founder of Riddle & Co., Jeff Riddle, businesses are going about growth all wrong. They spend every waking hour and huge line items in their budgets on customer acquisition. Then, once a prospect becomes a customer, they all but forget about them. The common ethic, in fact, is to do the minimum necessary to keep an existing customer from leaving. That's where the "sad state of affairs" bar has been set.

How messed up is that?

Not just from a feeling good about what you're doing and how you're treating others standpoint, but according to Jeff, it's horrible for the bottom line, too. Analyzing large volumes of data, he was able to determine that 70-80% of new customers were generated not by formal acquisition and marketing initiatives, but by word of mouth from the 5% of existing customers who were most delighted with the product or service.

Newsflash – when you blow peoples' minds in unexpected ways on a consistent basis, give them more than they expected and – check this out...actually treat them like you'd want your mom (assuming you love your moms) treated, guess what happens? They can't shut up about you! And when they tell someone exactly what you'd say in an advertisement, it carries about 1,000% more credibility.

I've taken this approach in business over and over, it's extraordinary how well it works. And how much more fun it is building a business based not just on the drive to acquire, but on the quest to delight. In my recently launched venture, Good Life Project, I have a line-item in my budget for delight. And I have a Director of Delight. Serve, solve and delight, in fact are among the core ethics in the culture I'm helping to cultivate, and it's also one of the 10 Commandments of Epic Business.

But, here's the thing, this isn't just about business, it's about LIFE! YOUR LIFE!!!

When we look at the key relationships in our lives, we often do the exact same thing. We spend all of our time, energy and money on acquisition, then once we've converted someone we shift into "minimum maintenance mode"...and wonder why everything falls apart.

Think about it. When you're single, you really take care of yourself, you go to the gym, exercise, eat better, dress better, engage in activities that make you come alive. You leave little notes, text sweet messages, create surprise meetups, try things you'd never try in the name of finding new ways to connect, make time for dates, walks, hand holding and more.

You are in full metal relationship acquisition mode and you do everything you can to create the best marketing impression possible.

You start to attract interesting "prospects" and eventually "convert" one to boyfriend, girlfriend, lover, spouse or partner. You keep the same high level of engagement up for a bit, but then what starts to happen? You start to feel a little too secure. You take the relationship for granted. You stop thinking about how to attract and delight that person any more and just work on the assumption that everything's pretty much locked and loaded.

Except, it isn't.

Nobody likes being treated like a foregone conclusion.

We thrive on knowing that the person with whom we've chosen to dance WANTS us in their lives, thinks about us all the time, loves to be with us, cares about us and loves seeing us delighted. And not because we demand it, but because they light inside at the thought of making us light up inside.

So, what might happen if you repositioned "relationship acquisition" not as an end, but an invitation.

An opportunity to consistently surprise and delight the person with whom you've connected? In ways they'd never see coming? Even the smallest ones, just enough to let them know "I'm thinking of you, you matter to me, I appreciate you!"

In business, your marketing, sales and acquisition costs would plummet. In life, the quality, depth and duration of your relationships would take off.

And, rather than spending all your time trying to figure out how to get peoples' attention, you get to spend your time plotting and scheming ways to blow their minds. And inspiring your teams and tribes to do the same. What do you think would happen to employee turn-over when the single overriding purpose of every person on your team is to serve, solve and delight?

Sounds cool, right?

But what about the habituation situation?

The what?

Habituation. Our stunning ability to absorb good and bad into a new equilibrium.

Picture this...

It's a Friday night and the spouse brings home flowers unexpectedly. Wow, what a delight.

Same thing next week on cue, how lovely.

Same thing next week, nice color.

Same thing next week, whatever, put 'em in a vase.

What began as a delight has been demoted to an expectation.

Human beings have a remarkable ability to habituate both up and down. What elevates us in the beginning becomes baseline over time. So if we're striving to always delight, doesn't this create a bit of a hedonic delight treadmill, where we've got to keep raising the bar higher and higher to deliver the same hit?

And if so, how do we stop that from happening?

CAN we stop if from happening or do we have to just work with funny little quirk of human nature?

How can we make this all work in business and in life?

[Ed. Note. Jonathan Fields is a dad, husband, author, speaker, A-list blogger and serial wellness-industry entrepreneur. Fields writes about entrepreneurship and creativity at www.JonathanFields.com and interviews emerging world-shakers at www.GoodLifeProject.com. His latest book, Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt Into Fuel For Brilliance, was named the #1 personal development book of 2011 by 800-CEO-Read.]

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The Power of Delight

A New American Dream

Jeff Riddle's original American Dream was to become a professional baseball player, however injuries ended his career at the University of California, San Diego. His next passion was music, and he spent several years touring the country and participating in over 500 concerts in a rock band. Throughout both of these adventures, Jeff focused on building strong personal relationships, and this led him into his next escapade as a business relationship strategist. Jeff's work has impacted the lives of solo entrepreneurs to fortune 500 companies shifting how companies engage, connect, and deepen their relationships with their customers. In 2011 his company, Riddle & Co., was acquired by Retargeter, an online advertising technology company. His unique approach to adding value to small and large business owners has him speaking around the country on the importance of what he calls, "The Give Give", where he helps companies change their mindset around how to grow their businesses. You can learn more about Jeff's business and his continuing journey towards his American Dream at his site, www.TheGiveGive.com.

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Turn Someday into Payday

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 02, 2012

The Event

Sometimes it takes an "event" to finally set the wheels in motion on a dream we've had. It could be the loss of a job, a financial setback, or a health scare – as Mary Ellen Tribby explains today. When used properly, the stress of that event can motivate us to massive action.

Craig Ballantyne

"If you want to accomplish anything, get out of your comfort zone." – Kekich Credo #1

What Doesn't Kill Us, Will Make Us Stronger

By Mary Ellen Tribby

"At this point, we can't rule out malignancy," the doctor said.

I just looked at my husband. I knew he was asking the doctor questions, but I didn't hear any words. I saw his lips moving and felt his strong hand on top of mine. But all I could think was I needed to wake up. ("This is not happening. I know I am just having a bad dream.")

It wasn't until I was in the front seat of our car that I realized it wasn't a dream. "Are we going home?" I asked. "No," my husband said. "We are going to get your ultrasound and more x -rays." "Oh," I replied.

It didn't really matter where we were going, because all I could think of at that moment were the three beautiful children my husband and I have been blessed with.

First, my thoughts went to Mikaela who was ten-years-old at the time. Without me, who would she talk to about boys? Who would show her how to put on makeup and help her pick out a college? But the most painful thought was... who would comfort her in her loss?

For the past three years, Mikaela has accompanied me on the Race for the Cure breast cancer walk.

She is well aware of the horrors of treatment.

She's often commented about people walking in honor of a loved one. For her, I knew there would be no sugarcoating the truth.

Then my thoughts shifted to Connor, my eight-year-old son (at the time) – an amazing baseball player who plays it cool with his dad and friends.

He is an undeniably sweet boy who always writes a special card for me on Mother's Day. What would he do next May? Would he pretend to write a card, not telling his teacher that he has no one to give it to?

Suddenly, I felt like throwing up. I asked my husband to pull over.

Once back in the car, all I could think about was Delanie, who was our four-year-old princess at the time. She is so used to having both my husband and me tuck her in at night. She wakes up each morning with a smile on her face and kisses to spare. Have I made enough of an impact on her life that in 10, 12, 15 years from now she will remember me?

Over the following three weeks, I was poked, prodded, and sliced.

On the 22nd day, I found out that I did not have breast cancer.

You would think that I would be so happy that I could not wait to get back to my normal routine. But no. Something happened. Going through that breast cancer scare changed my life in many ways.

You see, I've always wanted to start my own business – a business that would empower the working mom. A business that would provide the tools for EVERY working mom to lead a healthier, wealthier, and more balanced life.

It is my belief that working moms have more influence on what our world will look like than any other single group of people. Plus, they have the responsibility to match. I even purchased the URL for my new business back in July of 2007.

But I already had a job. And not just any job. I had one of the best jobs in the world. After all, I was Publisher and CEO of Early to Rise. So I kept saying, "Someday. Someday I will start that new business."

I'm not sure what kept holding me back before the cancer scare. I think the fact that I loved my job. And that, even as a CEO, I was able to enjoy quality time with my husband and three kids – from attending their baseball games, school plays, and tennis matches to taking long walks on the beach.

When I would speak at conferences, working moms who heard about my career accomplishments and wonderful family life always asked me, "How? How did you do it?" Those moms were always with me. Tucked in the back of my brain. Not forgotten, but put on hold for "someday."

But after the scare, the need to create this new business and help other working moms have the lifestyle they wanted and deserved was overwhelming. I could not "NOT" do it.

Unlike most working moms, I had developed systems and strategies for leading a complete and fulfilling life. I had escaped the guilt and the feeling of inadequacy. I had raised kids who were strong, confident, and compassionate. And I knew that I could teach any working mom who wanted to make more money to accomplish that as well.

So in one of the worst recessions America has ever seen (Remember this was the end of 2009), with one of the highest unemployment rates in history, I left the best job I ever had in my 25-year career. Three months later, Working Moms Only was a reality.

What I learned along the way will help you jumpstart any new business. You see, I did not take a dime from any investors, even though the offers were there. My husband and I took $10,000 out of our personal bank account and put that money into our new company.

Several of my industry colleagues questioned me about turning down investors and using my own money. My answer was simple. This was the way we had been teaching ETR readers to start a business – and this was the way I was going to do it.

These are the three most valuable lessons I have learned thus far:

1. Less is more.

A friend of mine recently left her corporate job to start her own marketing consulting firm. The first thing she did was find office space. I asked her why she was doing it. She told me that, with the real estate market in the dumps, space was a bargain. So she was able to rent space for $1,500 a month that normally went for three grand.

But she did not stop there. She bought a desk, chair, filing cabinets, and a couch. She spent $5,000 before she wrote a sales letter or had a website built.

After two months of trying, she finally landed her first client. That client is paying her a $2,000 a month retainer. You do the math.

Back in 2009, I had a four-bedroom house and three kids who had their own rooms. I did not have a library, den, or office. Still, I did not go out and rent space. I converted my rarely used dining room into my office. (Heck, we're kitchen people anyway.) It overlooked a golf course, and I find it very conducive to writing. When I needed a change of scenery, I would take my laptop and sit out by my pool. I did not buy filing cabinets or print business cards. I had a really good computer and I understood the value of knowing how to use it to it's fullest.

2. Work on your business every day.

When you are starting a brand-new business that is going to be your livelihood, there are no weekends. You don't get the day off because it is your wedding anniversary or your kid's birthday. You have to make sacrifices.

Now does this mean I missed Connor's birthday? Of course not. But after he went to bed that night, I worked. I worked until I finished everything I needed to do. Sure, the goal of having your own business is to get it to the point where you are living your desired lifestyle. But this does not happen overnight.

You must take your business seriously. For this very reason, I vowed that I would not work in my PJs. I still get up and go to the gym first thing in the morning. I then shower, dress, and dive into my work.

I don't stay in bed an extra hour or talk on the phone. I treat my business with respect – as I have always treated someone else's business that I was running.

I know far too many "entrepreneurs" who are still in their pajamas at 2:00 in the afternoon. These are the guys who are always asking why they are not doing as well as their competitors.

3. Know your market intimately.

It's best if you are a member of your target market. This is the road I have taken. I knew what it was like to be an executive before I had kids, and I have been a working mom for 11 years before I started Working Moms Only. I honed the new skills I needed over those 11 years. I am now in the top percentile of highly paid working moms.

If you are not personally in your target market, there are several things you can do to get yourself up to speed. Start with these:

Study your competition. Understand what they do and figure out how you can do it faster, better, and cheaper.
Use Amazon to get insider information about your prospective customers. Read reviews on products similar to the ones you are thinking of developing. Decide how you could address buyers' concerns and enhance the features and benefits they like.

These lessons alone will help you make more money and gain more flexibility in your business.

And this is important . . .

Yes, my epiphany spoke to my passion. However, starting and cultivating a profitable business is important. And, managing that business while procuring flexibility adds tremendous value to my life.

As you can see all three sides of the triangle, money, passion and flexibility should be considered in starting and running your business. As your business grows the priorities will shift. Some days all three may share in equality. Some days one or two may take a strong lead. Just like all aspects of your life your business in continuously evolving.

[Ed. Note. MaryEllen Tribby has created the site, www.WorkingMomsOnly.com, as the leading website and newsletter for the empowerment of the working moms. Her mission is to supply the tools that can give EVERY working mom the ability to lead a healthy, wealthy, and more balanced/blended lifestyle. To create a community where millions of working moms from all over the world come together in support and celebration of each other.]

The Event

What Doesn't Kill Us, Will Make Us Stronger

A New American Dream

In this month's issue of Financial Independence Monthly, you'll discover the best business models for creating financial independence online. For a lot of people who are interested in a personality-based business, the most powerful model is the Affinity Model. Affinity means that you can show your readers that you are just like them and that you've overcome the same struggles as they did. Both Mary Ellen Tribby, and my friend, Isabel De Los Rios, who runs BeyondDiet.com use the affinity model with great success. Isabel has over 200,000 customers on her site because she has been able to show them that, at one point, she was just like them with her nutrition and weight struggles. She can prove that she knows what her prospects are going through (much like Mary Ellen does in her article today). Both Isabel and Mary Ellen are also dedicated to the Content Model, an important component of almost all online business strategies. Showing that you have authentic affinity with your prospects is a powerful way to make a deep emotional connection with your prospects. If you've been in your client's shows, you need to let them know, and to show them that you've found a solution to their problems. Learn more in this month's issue of FIM.

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The Quickest and Easiest Way to Better Health and Creativity

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TUESDAY, MAY 01, 2012

The Best Place to Start

While I make my living showing people how to grunt and sweat while cursing my name, the good news is that you don't have to become a gym rat to improve your health and add years to your life and life to your years. Today, you'll discover the quickest and easiest way to achieve better health while dramatically increasing your creativity. It's something everyone can – and should – do each day.

Craig Ballantyne

"Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?" – Jack LaLanne

The Most Important 30 Minutes of Your Day

By Craig Ballantyne

The alarm clock gongs at 4am, even though I've already awoken naturally out of habit. This signals to Bally the Dog that it's time to jump on my bed for a few minutes of morning belly rubbing before I get up and go immediately to the computer to spill the contents of my subconscious (I finished this article by 4:51am). This is my magic time where I write faster than at any other time of the day.

Finally, at around 6am, it's dog walk time. Bally the Dog comes downstairs, we suit up for whatever elements the Toronto morning plans to throw at us that day, and we start up the short hill to Starbucks. We don't go in, but I peek at the baristas beginning their morning routine, and then we head down a big hill to the first off-leash section of our path.

(You can imagine our journey like the footsteps traced in one of the old Family Circle cartoons. Me playing the role of little Jeffrey, and sometimes, depending on what he ate the day before, Bally literally playing the role of Barfy the Dog.)

In the gulley where Bally gets to go off-leash for a few minutes, he likes to sniff and leave his mark, and excitedly greets every other dog before continuing on his merry way. Next we turn and head toward the beach where the Parks and Recreation Department of Toronto has generously provided a large off-leash area for dogs right on the water so that Bally can swim in Lake Ontario. And he does, all year round. There's no water too cold for a Labrador Retriever.

All of this is part of our exercise regimen for the day, but according to Dr. Steven Blair, an exercise researcher at the University of South Carolina, we could have turned for home before heading for the beach (on our first of 4 dog walks each day). In just 30 minutes, Dr. Blair says, I would have garnered all the physical activity necessary to reduce my mortality risk by 50%.

According to Dr. Blair, it's not obesity that is shortening our lives, but the lack of physical activity. And no, you don't need to channel your inner Tony Horton or Craig Ballantyne for an intense, sweat-dripping, heart-pounding, metabolism-boosting workout three to six days per week in order to get heart and health benefits. The doctor prescribes just thirty minutes of walking per day.

For many ETR readers, I'm sure that comes as a welcome relief. You're busy, you're stuck in Wisconsin in the dead of winter or Singapore in the stickiness of summer, you're in three airports today as you make your way from Cleveland to Louisville to Tennessee to visit suppliers, or frankly, the thought of sweating voluntary turns you off. That's fine. Anyone, anywhere, can find a way to get thirty minutes of brisk walking. Research even shows you can break up the exercise into three 10-minute blocks and you'll still achieve the health benefits.

But there are more than just wellness advantages to walking. If you still need another argument to take up this strange new fad of putting one foot in front of the other, consider what it will do for your work. I guarantee that you'll be more creative during these thirty minutes of exercise than you would be stuck in front of the computer for another hour (outside of your magic time).

In fact, research shows that getting up and away from our regular work environment leads to greater creativity. That's one of the reasons that you get so many good ideas in the shower. And remember, the apple didn't fall on Newton's head while he sat in his study.

Exposing ourselves to non-work related environments allows our brains to come up with ideas that we wouldn't get otherwise. Combined with the increased blood flow from exercise, and you have a one-two punch for problem solving and generating some of your best ideas of the day. Don't ignore this opportunity to improve both your health and the quality of your ideas.

Anytime of the day is acceptable for getting your thirty minute walk, provided you aren't visiting Dubai in August (if you are, you'll probably want to skip the lunchtime energy-boosting outdoor walk).

A morning walk can help you clear your head or organize your thoughts for the day. It's also going to be the easiest time for you to fit in your walk before the events and emergencies of the day steal your time.

A lunchtime walk may boost your mental alertness and help you avoid the afternoon lethargy that comes from a heavy meal that many people mistakenly choose to eat at noon. This also allows you the opportunity to invite a colleague on your walk so that you can work through a problem outside of the regular office environment while benefitting from the increased creativity of a new environment.

Hitting the road after work can bring you multiple rewards. You'll get the health, creativity, and energy boosting benefits, plus it will keep you out of the kitchen and away from that mindless pre-dinner snacking that often ruins an otherwise excellent day of eating high-quality nutritious food.

Finally, there's one more time of day where a brisk 30-minute walk can be a secret weapon for your health. Research shows that moderate exercise after a meal high in fat and calories can help immediately lower harmful levels of blood triglycerides. If you tend to overindulge at dinner, whether a bad habit at home or due to a business dinner with colleagues, you can mediate some of the damage by scheduling your daily walk after dinner instead of falling asleep in front of the TV.

The power of something so simple, a thirty minute walk inserted at any time of the day, seems almost hard to believe. But Dr. Blair insists that if you add moderate daily physical activity to your routine, you'll be able to dramatically improve your health and lifespan. You'll also increase your bone density and remain more mobile into your later years.

This doesn't mean you can ignore the importance of eating whole, natural, high-quality foods and minimizing your intake of man-made diet disasters like French fries, pie crust, and chips (three of the worst offenders for your heart and health). Good nutrition – and avoiding bad food – is vitally for your health and longevity.

It would also be wise for you to include at least two short sessions of resistance training each week to stay strong and further increase your bone density. Plus, if you want to build a beach body, it's going to take more than a brisk walk. You'll need metabolic resistance training and intervals.

However, if nothing else, adding a thirty minute brisk walk to your day appears to be the vital first step in lifelong health and wellness.

Get a good pair of shoes, consider a furry companion who will get you moving every day (free personal trainer!), and look forward to becoming more creative at the same time as improving your health.

[Ed. Note. Craig Ballantyne walks his dog up to four times per day and at this rate expects to live to be 217 years old. When walking your dog, he recommends you avoid streets known to have stray cats as a 72 pound chocolate lab can almost pull your arm off when it sees one of its natural enemies. Craig is also the author of Financial Independence Monthly and Turbulence Training – his trademarked home-based metabolic resistance training workout system that will help you burn fat infinitely faster than walking or jogging.]

The Best Place to Start

The Most Important 30 Minutes of Your Day

A New American Dream

He started out struggling as a comedian and actor in Hollywood and somehow found his way to become one of the most influential fitness figures of the 21st century. Tony Horton began his career as a workout guru in the mid-90's training celebrities. His methods became so popular that he attracted the attention of a young product development company, BeachBody, and his P90X program was born. Despite advertising hard work and intense effort – or perhaps because of their brutal honesty about what the program required – P90X and Tony's influence flourished. Today, millions of copies of his original program have been sold, and BeachBody has created an eco-system of over a dozen other products and celebrities, with some workouts even more insane than Tony's. Their success has benefited from having a big idea, overdelivering on value to their customers, and surely by watching their numbers (you don't do infomercials unless you're a serious business). If you'd like to learn more about Tony, you can listen to the interview I did with him here.

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The Best Goal is No Goal

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FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2012

Have I Gone Mad?

Blashphemy. The best goal is no goal? Has your editor, a hardcore believer in the art and science of goal setting, gone mad?

Absolutely not. In fact, you'll agree, after reading today's guess essay, that while Leo Babauta's take on goal setting is slightly different, the bottom line on how you should live your life is the same, whether you choose to set goals or not.

Craig Ballantyne

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Best Goal is No Goal

By Leo Babauta

The idea of having concrete, achievable goals seem to be deeply ingrained in our culture. I know I lived with goals for many years, and in fact a big part of my writing is about how to set and achieve goals.

These days, however, I live without goals, for the most part. It's absolutely liberating, and contrary to what you might have been taught, it absolutely doesn't mean you stop achieving things.

It means you stop letting yourself be limited by goals.

Consider this common belief: "You'll never get anywhere unless you know where you're going." This seems like common sense, and yet it's obviously not true if you stop to think about it. Conduct a simple experiment: go outside and walk in a random direction, and feel free to change directions randomly. After 20 minutes, an hour... you'll be somewhere! It's just that you didn't know you were going to end up there.

And there's the rub: you have to open your mind to going places you never expected to go. If you live without goals, you'll explore new territory. You'll learn some unexpected things. You'll end up in surprising places. That's the beauty of this philosophy, but it's also a difficult transition.

Today, I live mostly without goals. Now and then I start coming up with a goal, but I'm letting them go. Living without goals hasn't ever been an actual goal of mine... it's just something I'm learning that I enjoy more, that is incredibly freeing, that works with the lifestyle of following my passion that I've developed.

The problem with goals

In the past, I'd set a goal or three for the year, and then sub-goals for each month. Then I'd figure out what action steps to take each week and each day, and try to focus my day on those steps.

Unfortunately, it never, ever works out this neatly. You all know this. You know you need to work on an action step, and you try to keep the end goal in mind to motivate yourself. But this action step might be something you dread, and so you procrastinate. You do other work, or you check email or Facebook, or you goof off.

And so your weekly goals and monthly goals get pushed back or side-tracked, and you get discouraged because you have no discipline. And goals are too hard to achieve. So now what? Well, you review your goals and reset them. You create a new set of sub-goals and action plans. You know where you're going, because you have goals!

Of course, you don't actually end up getting there. Sometimes you achieve the goal and then you feel amazing. But most of the time you don't achieve them and you blame it on yourself.

Here's the secret: the problem isn't you, it's the system! Goals as a system are set up for failure.

Even when you do things exactly right, it's not ideal. Here's why: you are extremely limited in your actions. When you don't feel like doing something, you have to force yourself to do it. Your path is chosen, so you don't have room to explore new territory. You have to follow the plan, even when you're passionate about something else.

Some goal systems are more flexible, but nothing is as flexible as having no goals.

How it works

So what does a life without goals look like? In practice, it's very different than one with goals.

You don't set a goal for the year, nor for the month, nor for the week or day. You don't obsess about tracking, or actionable steps. You don't even need a to-do list, though it doesn't hurt to write down reminders if you like.

What do you do, then? Lay around on the couch all day, sleeping and watching TV and eating Ho-Hos? No, you simply do. You find something you're passionate about, and do it. Just because you don't have goals doesn't mean you do nothing – you can create, you can produce, you can follow your passion.

And in practice, this is a wonderful thing: you wake up and do what you're passionate about. For me, that's usually blogging, but it can be writing a novel or an ebook or my next book or creating a course to help others or connecting with incredible people or spending time with my wife or playing with my kids. There's no limit, because I'm free.

In the end, I usually end up achieving more than if I had goals, because I'm always doing something I'm excited about. But whether I achieve or not isn't the point at all: all that matters is that I'm doing what I love, always.

I end up in places that are wonderful, surprising, great. I just didn't know I would get there when I started.

[Ed. Note. Leo Babauta is the owner of ZenHabits.net, a website devoted to providing clear and concise wisdom on how to simplify your life. He's also the author of, The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential, in Business and in Life.]

Have I Gone Mad?

The Best Goal is No Goal

A New American Dream

Zen Habits is about finding simplicity in the daily chaos of our lives and clearing the clutter so we can focus on what's important, while creating something amazing in our lives. It's a simple, contrarian approach to living in this "crazy-busy world gone mad" we inhabit. But perhaps that's why it works so well. After all, it just happens to be one of the Top 25 blogs and Top 50 websites in the world, with over 237,000 readers. The articles on the site are written by Leo Babauta and are uncopyrighted – allowing his content to be shared across the web and to bring readers back to his blog. Zen Habits features one or two powerful articles a week on: simplicity, health & fitness, motivation and inspiration, frugality, family life, happiness, goals, getting great things done, and living in the moment. Leo has turned his passion into profits and has written several books to support Zen Habits, all while allowing him to achieve his American Dream.

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The You Factor Part 3: Do Less, Make More

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The You Factor Part 3: Do Less, Make More
By Joshua Boswell

The time has come in your life for you to do less, and make more.

What I'm going to tell you today is the part of the "You Factor" where you will make more money than you thought possible in your life.

The good news is that you are going to make this money by doing less.

You will do less of the things that bore you. Fewer things that scare you. Virtually wipe out the things that frustrate and aggravate you. Most important, you will do less of the things that cause you to lose money, opportunities, and real success in your life.

It is essential that you get this idea into your head: "I will do less, so I can make more."

The Control Freak Trap

Let me explain...

Most entrepreneurs I know have an ego issue. They are control freaks. They live from a premise that they can't really trust others and have to do it all themselves. They don't like being dependent on someone else, so they do it all themselves.

The problem is that the very thing they are trying to protect - i.e., their freedom and income - is the very thing they are destroying by being control freaks.

This is because there are only 24 hours in a day.

More than that... there are only so many things you can focus on at one time and still be productive and useful.

When you give your time to micromanaging things, you are robbing yourself of valuable production time - time that could be spent doing what only you can do.

The Most Critical Task of Your Business

When people begin putting a business together, it is easy to get caught up in many, many different activities.

Website, product development, strategies, affiliates, speaking, writing, SEO, social media, etc....

The list can get very long and tedious. Most budding entrepreneurs feel like they need to focus on all of this, all the time, and make all of it work.

Not only is that thought not true, it is self-defeating. Not all business tasks are created equal. In fact, there is one task that is more important than all the rest.

It is selling.

Unless you discover how to convince people to buy what you are offering, you are out of business.

But, you have to know that there are many, many approaches to selling... video, sales letters, joint ventures, advertising, social media, etc.... the list of ways and methods for selling can be as long and varied as the list of business tasks.

So, how do you know where to focus?

The answer lies within the "You Factor." It is unlocked by asking one simple question...

The Most Critical Question of Your Business

Here is the most important question you can ask when building a business - especially when getting started:

"Which, of all the selling approaches I could use, would I personally be best at putting to use based on my skills and talents?"

You must discover the answer to this question. Let me give you an example of how this works:

The "You Factor" in My Own Life

When I started my copywriting business, I went to a seminar by Bob Bly called "Selling Yourself."

Bob is a very smart fish. During those four days, Bob presented us with more than a dozen different techniques and strategies for marketing ourselves. He also brought in guest speakers to give us their perspective.

But, the most important thing Bob did was give us the underpinning principles of marketing ourselves. He not only told us "what" to do and "how" to do it... he told us "why." He then told us that in the real world, his ideas would not show up as they had in the seminar. Things would be different. We would need to adjust and adapt. We would need to personalize it to fit our unique style.

At the time, I did not realize how powerful this was or how wise Bob was in presenting it to us this way.

But, I took his advice to heart. I tried a number of different approaches. In the end, I found that my best success came in picking up the phone and calling people. I have a natural ability to create instant rapport with people in person and over the phone. People just like me and trust me when they meet me.

Over the course of hundreds of calls, I discovered a script and approach for closing deals. Today, I can close a consulting or copywriting deal, almost at will, if I can speak on the phone or in person to someone.

Why? Because I combined proven sales tactics and strategies with my unique style and approach. I discovered the answer to my sales question and my business boomed.

Thank you, Bob.

No One Can Replace You

Anyone can replicate products and services. Anyone can offer things for sale. Anyone can put up a website. Anyone can post notes on social media sites. Anyone can buy a success system and follow the step-by-step pattern.

So why don't more people win at business?

Because they forget the "You Factor." They forget that at the heart of every successful business is a sales engine. There is a real, live human being that has discovered how to reach across the mail, email, websites, banners, billboards, and storefronts, and convince his fellow man to pay him money for his wares.

This real, live human being has discovered that it is their unique insights, characteristics, and style that does the selling. Once they unlock the recipe for how to sell what they are offering, they can teach it to employees and replicate it.

But the first and most important job we have is to inject the "You Factor" into the sales process.

Ways to Sell Your Business

Here is a short, simple list of ways I have seen people successfully market and sell profitably. All will work. But not all will work best for you and your business. Your task is to discover which ones will and focus on them until you master them.

Direct mail
TV ads
Billboards
Social Media
Pay-Per-Click
Door-to-door (yes, people are still getting wildly rich doing this)
Telemarketing
Retail
Swap-meets, farmer's markets, and such
SEO
Magazines
Video marketing
Live events

What can you add to the list? There are many, many more approaches.

A Powerful, Upward Cycle

Let me end by giving you an outline of why it is so vital and rewarding for you to focus your unique abilities on discovering the best possible sales strategy for your business.

When you focus on discovering your unique ability to sell to your market, a magical chain of events happens in your life and business.

You specialize and begin to master your unique talents and skills.
As you get better and better, you grow in confidence. Confidence is a key part of all success.
Confidence gives you great doses of courage. Courageous people are always willing and able to do scary, "impossible" things. This separates them from the crowd.
Doing scary, unique, uncomfortable things because you have courage allows you to produce unique results, products, and services.
This draws people to you. People love new and unique and special. And, they pay for it!
The more you focus on "just you" sort of tasks, the more money you make because you are specializing, growing in confidence, etc.... People notice that and will pay you more for it.
As you make more and focus on your strengths, you will sell more, grow in joy, peace, wealth, and fulfillment. It's awesome!

A Unique Opportunity to Master a VITAL Selling Skill

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There is no escaping that fact.

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The You Factor Part 2: The Wedgwood Phenomena

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:50:00 +0000

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The You Factor Part 2: The Wedgwood Phenomena
By Joshua Boswell

On July 12, 1730, the 12th son of Thomas and Margaret Wedgwood was born. They were poor, working-class potters, struggling to live in a very harsh, pre-industrial world. They named him Josiah.

By the time he was in his late thirties, Josiah became one of the most renowned potters of his day. By the time of his death in 1793, Wedgwood China was known around the world and in high demand by royalty and peasants alike. To this day, it is synonymous with quality and prestige.

The interesting thing is this: Josiah did not invent china or pottery. He didn't invent anything, actually. He couldn't truly even make china that well because as a boy he survived smallpox, but it damaged tissue in his knees, preventing him from running a throwing wheel.

But he could duplicate and tweak ever-so-slightly. So, Josiah took existing materials, processes, colors, patterns, ideas, strategies, and pottery techniques, and simply tweaked them to produce a product that revolutionized pottery, china, and dinnerware.

Oh, and do you know what? His most acclaimed piece of pottery - the thing he spent the most time on... and the thing he got paid the most for - was an effort to make an exact replica of an ancient Roman vase known as the "Portland Vase."

It seemed the more he replicated past success, the more successful he became.

The Paradox of the "You Factor"

In our world today, there is far too much emphasis placed on creativity. I personally have been caught in this trap more than once. I want to make something new, unique, creative, and awe-inspiring.

Those things are good. But that kind of thinking takes the "You Factor" and distorts it. It fuels the success myth that the only important thing in business is a Unique Selling Proposition (USP). People take the "unique" part and obsess about it.

That is a huge mistake.

Recently, in talking with Michael Masterson, he said to me,

"Marketers make lots of money telling people they should be unique and totally different because it feels right. But 80% of the successful entrepreneurs I know simply duplicated other successful businesses at first. Their only goal was to make money. They understood that without money, nothing else in their business or personal life was possible."

Dan Kennedy, one of the world's highest-paid copywriters and business consultants feels the same. Speaking of top copywriters that command fees above $100,000 per project, he said,

"As you might guess, there's a very, very small fraternity of pro copywriters at this fee level. Most of us know each other very well. I can tell you with authority, we all use these kinds of 'swipe files' to efficiently recycle what we know works, rather than to invent from scratch and experiment unnecessarily."

So, does that mean you can just go around and steal other people's ideas, products, and services?

No, of course not. But, it also means you don't have to start from scratch. Business models, products, techniques, etc., are all already out there.

All that is lacking is YOU.

I promised to tell you about the second aspect of the "You Factor" today and this is it.

It is the great secret to all success stories.

Successful men and women - entrepreneurs that live extraordinary lives of fulfillment, excellence, joy, and security - all take existing ideas, patterns, materials, and resources, and then inject themselves.

Here is Where Most Entrepreneurs Utterly Fail

Have you ever asked yourself where most entrepreneurial hopefuls fail? Why is it that so many people want wealth and freedom and a great lifestyle, but don't obtain it?

Where is the number one point of failure?

It is here: Business idea and product development.

Most people become obsessed with figuring out what creative, unique thing they will sell. They hit that wall until they get frustrated and drop out of the race.

My message to you today is that the wall doesn't really exist. It's a myth.

You can simply step around it. Behind the wall is a mountain of products, services, ideas, resources, and techniques already created by thousands of years of human history and ingenuity.

Step around the wall and pick up one or two of them, dust them off, polish 'em up, and add your personal touch. Then get out there and sell it as a benefit to yourself and others.

You do not need to create... you need to replicate... with a personal flare.

Think about this...

Did Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino's Pizza, invent pizza? Nope. They don't even make a very good pizza. In fact, in 2009 in a taste study by Brand Keys, Domino's was voted dead last by consumers... tying with Chuck E Cheese! Yet, they have 9,000 stores around the world and are one of the most profitable restaurants in the world.

Or, what about Apple? Did Steve Jobs invent the computer, mp3 player, or cell phone? No.

Or, what about J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series? Did she invent the plot a backward boy becoming a powerful hero? Nope. Ever heard of Hercules or Superman?

I could go on, but I hope you see the point.

The ideas, products, services, and secrets are all there.

They just need you to pick them up, make them your own, and share them with the world.

The famous Isaac Newton said, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

The Real Nature of the "You Factor"

In all of these examples, success was obtained by taking existing ideas and resources and replicating success... with a personal twist.

Their unique insights and action are what made the difference.

It is this rich combination between the familiar and the new that creates a powerful attraction factor.

I have said a few times that all you need to do is add yourself - your unique twist and signature.

That is the real "You Factor" here. It is not in the invention or creation. It is in the action and personalization.

So, how do you "pick it up," act, and personalize in a way that will create success in your life? What do you do? How do you do it?

This is the third aspect of the "You Factor" that I will share with you next week as we continue our discussion about my Golden Life Formula.

No molds. No restrictions. No force feeding. Just YOUR Dreams.

The Golden Life Formula is a framework - a solid foundation upon which you can build any structure you'd like. It gives you the tools and the freedom to do it your way, define your own destiny, and personalize it.

It allows you to activate the "You Factor" in ways that other systems and programs cannot do.

It gives you the power to "stand on the shoulders of giants" in a very powerful, proven way. Much of the work of success is already done for you. It is time for you to pick it up and begin your personal journey toward wealth, happiness, and abundance.

Last week, I had one of the Carefree readers email me and ask if the Golden Life Formula was "code" for learning copywriting... or some other "business in a box" idea. I answered and said,

"No. The Golden Life Formula is a way of living. It is a mentality that allows anyone to create vibrant success in their life, in a way that is best suited for them."

That is the Golden Life. That is what this is all about.

If you do not yet have access to my Golden Life Formula audio series, I would like to invite you to join the discussion now.

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The You Factor Part 1: Act

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:40:00 +0000

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The You Factor Part 1: Act
By Joshua Boswell

There is a very dangerous myth being peddled by far too many gurus and sages out there.

It is sexy and enticing. It appeals to every ounce of greed and indulgence within each of us. And, it is exploited shamelessly to extract large sums of money from your wallet and leave you without rewards of any kind.

Today, I'm going to expose this myth... and begin to give you the remedy. You will feel liberated and happy and powerful when we are done.

Here is the myth:

Failure is not your fault. It is the fault of the system you are using.

If you just had a better system, you would already be successful.

(And, oh, by-the-way, I'm selling the perfect system.)

The reason why this myth is so effective at getting you and I to buy new systems and programs is that there is a very powerful, partial-truth embedded in it.

The true part is this: With the right system and or program, you can avoid many pitfalls and dangers. It is like a map. It helps you see the fastest, most effective way to travel. It helps to remove the learning curve and can help you be more profitable faster.

This is all very, very good. It's true, the better your system, the better your odds of success can be.

Why This Half-Truth Hurts So Many People

But, it is only half of the story.

The other half - the part that failure is not your fault - is what kills the vast majority of entrepreneurs and keeps them from having any kind of real success.

This thought implies that you are useless and not really important in the equation. It suggests that the only important part is the system you're using. Alternately, it can also suggest that you are already perfect, know it all, and don't need to change anything to enjoy success. Just add system and - PRESTO! - you're successful.

Even deeper, it implies that you are a victim of the circumstances around you. The scary part about being a victim of circumstances is that once a victim, always a victim, because circumstances will always be there.

Here's the Liberating Truth

The most wonderful truth in the world is this:

You - and you alone - are the creator of your success.

Systems and gurus are just tools. They are not "done for you" programs, as most of them purport to be.

Circumstances and unexpected problems in life happen to all of us. But, none of them have the power to stop us from having success if we choose to have success in our life. You have the right and power as a human being to control your response to circumstances.

You are not the pawn of a guru... you might have to make some changes... and you are not the victim of circumstances.

If you are not a victim of circumstances, then clearly you are the master of your fate. Because of this, life can be anything you wish it to be. Anything.

If you are ignorant to the laws of success and happiness... and you know it... then, happy day! You can learn and grow and become because you are receptive to the wisdom and insights of others.

Introducing the "You Factor"

The antidote for this kind of thinking is what I call the "You Factor."

It basically states that the most important element of your success is YOU.

I know it sounds so simple and obvious, but most entrepreneurial hopefuls don't really understand this... or maybe they don't want to believe it. Whatever the case, they don't live congruent with the truth.

They think a certain system or mentor or circumstance is the thing that will really make them successful.

But that is not true.

You - and you alone - are the only power, influence, secret, or system that will make your life the rich, wonderful existence you always dreamed of having.

You are the most important factor.

But, there is one challenge to this fact... you may not fully realize it yet.

Three Aspects of the "You Factor"

There are three ways in which you are the most important factor.

Today, I'm going to talk about one of them. I will share the other two with you over the next two weeks.

My objective is to prove to you that YOU are the most important factor... and really, you have everything you need to create any lifestyle you'd like.

First, you are the most important factor because humans are beings that act and are not acted upon.

Think about this for a minute.

You are designed to act... and not be acted upon.

Consider a tree for a minute.

It comes from a seed that falls from another tree. It has no control over where it is planted. Wind, water, chance, man, and other factors all determine where it falls. Once it begins to grow, it can do little else than grow. It cannot move. It cannot protect itself. It cannot think, feel, reason, or associate. It just is.

Or what about a dog or a cat? They can get about and make some kinds of decisions, but in the end, the lives of most animals are defined by environment, their owners, and their instincts. They are acted upon and have little say in the matter.

You, as a human being, are different. You define environment. You define circumstances. You invent. You create. You react and respond.

You Are a Creature of Power

Because you are a creature of power, you live with a formidable truth: Nothing will happen in your journey toward success until you make it happen.

And, everything can and will happen when you make it happen.

It is time for you to act and stop being acted upon. Discontinue thinking you are a victim. Set aside thoughts of not having enough time, money, energy, support, systems, insights, secrets, friends, or ideal circumstances.

Pick up the challenge to be a creator. Assume the role of CEO of your life. Determine to act today and build a personal empire of your choosing.

You will not know it all. You will not have all the answers. You will not be a genius and make all the right decisions. You will not know all the secrets.

But, that does not matter. You are a being of power - a creator that is proactive in solving problems.

If you don't have it... find it. If you don't know it... learn it. If you can't do it... find someone that can.

Take action! Do something!

You... and you alone... are the single most important secret weapon in your success because you can act.

You Can Conquer All Obstacles

On May 23, 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay, became the first men to successfully reach the summit of Mt. Everest and live to tell about it.

It was not his first attempt to conquer the world's highest peak. This was the ninth British expedition. Many died in those previous attempts. They were bitter failures for Hillary.

There is a legendary story of Hillary attending a dinner after one of his failed ascension attempts. The dining hall they were in was situated at the base of the mountain and had a large window that looked up toward Everest.

With a clenched fist raised to his immovable enemy, Hillary declared, "You beat us once. You beat us twice - and more. But you will not beat us forever, because we can grow and you can't."

So it is in your life.

Yes, there are problems in life. Yes, circumstances will thwart your progress. Technologies will change. Marketing ideas will evolve. You will find yourself in a labyrinth of confusing options and ideas.

But, none of this matters. It doesn't matter because you can grow and change and adapt. You can act.

Systems and gurus and secrets are not the answer. They are tools.

You - and you alone - are the answer to your success because you are the one that will take action. There is no "done for you" success system in business or life. It's an inside job.

The "You Factor" is a major aspect of the GoldenLifeFormula. This Formula has been used by every successful man and woman I have ever known or read about.

Over the next few weeks, I am taking the GoldenLifeFormula and breaking it down into bite-sized pieces for you. I will explain every aspect of it for you. In fact, I already started last week.

To gain access to the full details, you simply need to subscribe to the Carefree Entrepreneur newsletter. There is no cost.

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Next week, I will share with you the second aspect of the "You Factor." I think it will surprise... and delight you.

The Dangers of Golden Ticket Thinking

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:45:00 +0000

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The Dangers of Golden Ticket Thinking
By Joshua Boswell

Living a rich, full life... one dripping with abundance, money, and happiness... is absolutely possible.

In fact, it is your natural state. You were created from the ground up to enjoy that kind of a life.

So why aren't you enjoying that kind of a life today? It is likely that you are a victim of what I call "Golden Ticket Thinking."

This kind of thinking came very close to destroying my life, my family relationships, and my self-worth. Today, I'm going to show you what this thinking is. I'm also going to introduce to you a new formula I've discovered for overcoming this toxic thinking... and helping you to live a "Golden Life" in a relatively short period of time.

In the classic book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (aka the musical Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory), Mr. Wonka inserts 5 Golden Tickets inside bars of chocolate. In part, the ticket reads: ;

"Greetings to you, the lucky finder of this Golden Ticket, from Mr. Willy Wonka! I shake you warmly by the hand! Tremendous things are in store for you! Many wonderful surprises await you... mystic and marvelous surprises that will entrance, delight, intrigue, astonish, and perplex you beyond measure. In your wildest dreams, you could not imagine that such things could happen to you! Just wait and see!"

My Search for the Golden Ticket

For many years, I went around looking for a magic, Golden Ticket that in one swift turn of events would change the course of my life forever. All of my financial needs would be taken care of. My eternal bliss and joy would be set.

My life became searching for the Golden Ticket. It became an obsession. As fast as I could find another newsletter, system, website, or product that promised to contain a Golden Ticket... I'd subscribe, buy, attend, and consume.

After years of searching, I one day realized that the Golden Ticket - at least in the way I was thinking about it ;- was a myth. For a while, I felt like a broken man. It was a tough time.

The most nauseating part was that I watched as other people, who started their pursuit of an abundant life after me, were already enjoying wealth, financial freedom, and abundance. Clearly, I had missed the boat and they had caught it.

What did they do that I had missed?

Here's What I Was Missing

The answer lies in the success experienced by the Beatles. Many, not knowing their story, think they were an "overnight sensation." That in effect, they one day found the Golden Ticket of Music and shot to the top. That is not true.

What really happened is this...

From 1960 to 1964, the Beatles played in bars and pubs in Hamburg, Germany. In all, they did well over 1,200 live gigs. Think of all the practice this gave them. They could not only master their performance, they could gauge, in real time, what resonated best with the audiences.

In his book, Outliers, Malcom Gladwell presents the idea that you need 10,000 hours to master something. The Beatles stayed focused and disciplined in their efforts to master music and the art of live concerts. They put in the hours.

Is it any wonder they became an international sensation that, for many people, continues on in popularity to this day?

Think of what a painful contrast that idea is to "Golden Ticket Thinking." Think of all those years I spent bouncing around from idea to idea to idea. It is likely that I didn't spend 30 minutes trying to master some of those things... let alone 10,000 hours.

The Trouble with Mastery

The 10,000-hour number is troublesome at best for most people. If you think of it as a regular day job, this is just about 5 YEARS of focusing on the same project/task/skill/talent ... day in and day out.

If you are trying to master something to make money, then you will need to have 5 years' worth of income stocked away to make it happen, since you won't be able to make money and focus on mastery at the same time.

The other option is to work at it part-time, at nights and on weekends. Then it would only take you 10-15 years!

Looking at these numbers, it is easy to see why the "Golden Ticket Thinking" is so prevalent and enticing. Who wants to spend 15 years figuring out how to get rich online? Who has 15 years of their life to invest in mastering something that could change tomorrow?

What if there was a way for you to drastically reduce the time and effort it took to begin enjoying the lifestyle that the Golden Ticket represents? Mind you, it is nothing like "finding" a Golden Ticket... but it will also take you much less time than 15 years to achieve. In fact, how does as little as 3 months sound?

As impossible as it seems, there is a way.

The Golden Life Formula

I call it the Golden Life Formula.
Here it is: P = 700^e x (M + S)

This formula is taken from the best teachings and practices of current masters like Michael Masterson... and "old-school" legends like Napoleon Hill and Claude Hopkins.

And, as Michael has personally told me... current so-called "Internet marketing gurus" don't understand at all how it works. Because of this, my guess is that you've never seen the inner-workings of this simple formula before... and likely won't be able to find it easily. That is why I'm sharing it with you.

The Golden Life Formula in Real Life

Let me tell you two experiences I have had with this Formula. One is from my own life. The other is from someone I taught the Formula to and how it changed his life.

In April 2005, I was dead broke and about $200,000 in debt. That same month, I received a letter from Paul Hollingshead and Michael Masterson. Inside this letter was a system that implemented the Formula.

I took advantage of it and bought into the system.

Within 3 months, I had a fully-functioning business online and was marketing my services to companies large and small, all over the United States and parts of Canada and Europe.

Within 11 months, I had increased my income by more than $100,000. ;

A few years later, I decided to shift gears on my business focus. I applied the Formula once more. Here again, it did great things for me. Within 3 months, I doubled my income.

This kind of growth makes my children smile and my wife very happy. This makes for a delightful, rich, full life!

Now, let me tell you a similar story about one of my friends.

Sean was working at a regular day job when he decided it was time to strike out on his own. It was a scary prospect to think about stepping out into the unknown because his job paid well and his income was steady.

That is when I introduced him to the Golden Life Formula concept. Keeping his day job to ensure security for the family, he began to earnestly apply the Formula.

Within 6 months, he had matched his income and switched to working from home full-time. Within 12 months, he had doubled his income and was making more than ever before in his life.

I could tell you many more stories. None are "get rich quick." All involve real work from real people. All are true and have happened to ordinary people like you and me. None of them involved "shiny objects" with inflated, flashy promises.

I'm Certain You Can Enjoy Serious Wealth and Happiness

It's not as exciting as finding a "Golden Ticket," but it is much more practical and rational. It's more realistic. Using this Golden Life Formula ;makes it both possible and probable for you to start living a life full of wealth, abundance, peace, and happiness in a relatively short period of time.

I'm purposefully not giving you the details of this Formula right now because each aspect of the Formula ;deserves a detailed explanation.

I've decided to share this explanation through my weekly podcast series. This is available only to Carefree Entrepreneur ;weekly subscribers. Joining is FREE and the full explanation of the Formula ;is part of your subscription.

If you are already subscribed to the Carefree Weekly Newsletter, you will hear details on the Formula in the coming days via my weekly podcast. You will also hear details on how to implement this in your life right now.

If you are not, you can subscribe for FREE right now by clicking here.

As a special bonus, when you do subscribe, I will also give you a complimentary copy of my revolutionary guide, "Buyer Psychographics: How to Find Buyers that Buy." Join us today.

You can enjoy a rich, full, abundant life... but only if you realize that merely one-in-a-billion ever really finds a Golden Ticket. The Golden Life Formula ;is for the rest of us. It's for you.

Eat the Fruit of Another Man's Labor

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:41:00 +0000

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Finding Buyers that Buy
Part Four: Eat the Fruit of Another Man's Labor
By Joshua Boswell

Standing under the apricot tree, I could hardly believe my eyes.

It seemed like every branch and twig on the tree was covered with fruit. Large limbs that normally would be five and six feet off the ground drooped down dangerously, in some cases touching the ground.

We'd bought this home on three acres about 45 days beforehand, and hadn't been back since. In that time, the fruit had come on the trees. Apricot and cherry come on first, and they were ready to eat. But the apple, peach, and pear trees were also looking heavy laden.

On the west side of the property, there was also a very healthy vineyard, just bursting with green grapes that would turn purple and sweet after the first frost.

Standing there, the thought came to me: "I'm going to eat the fruit of another man's labors ... and enjoy every minute of it." I did nothing to reap this harvest but purchase the property and savor the goodness.

Today, I'm going to tell you about a system that will allow you to do the same thing online.

The only difference will be, your harvest will be of money, and not apricots and cherries. But, you will greatly benefit from the labors of other people. Their years of toil, labor, effort, and wisdom will come to serve you in ways you never thought possible.

Let me explain so you get the full picture ...

Every day, every month, every year, there is a host of very intelligent, savvy businessmen and women working very hard to find market demand and then profit by providing products and services to meet that demand.

Many of them do things right ... they understand their buyers' emotional buying complex, they test messages, they ask the right questions, they present their goods just right, and they constantly strive to improve.

Collectively, these people generate billions of dollars of new revenue each year.

What if you could reap some benefits from all their labor, time, and ingenuity?

You can.

These marketers have proven that whenever they can get qualified buyers into their sales funnel, people will buy and profits will be generated.

So, your task is very simple: Supply the qualified buyers and let the other marketers do their magic. When you do that, you will get paid for your efforts.

In this process, you do not have any overhead, no shipping costs, you don't have to create products, no customer service headaches, no refunds, no merchant account troubles, and you don't have to create intricate sales funnels or marketing plans.

You simply insert qualified buyers into pre-existing, proven systems - and then make money and enjoy a greater lifestyle because of it.

As you know, over the past few weeks, I have been focusing our conversations on the topic of Finding Buyers that Buy.

I've been doing this because I wanted to give you the tools and insights needed to find qualified buyers.

When you know how to find qualified buyers, you can do two things:

First, you can build your own products, services, sales funnels, and programs, and sell directly to them.

This is how millionaires and billionaires are made online. It is a great way to make a living. But, as you can see, it also has some challenges. It is complicated and very involved. I do think, over time, you should build this kind of system.

But, it takes time and money and good old-fashioned elbow grease.

There is a way to take those qualified buyers and simply plug them into someone else's pre-established, proven system and begin to immediately make profits.

And that is the second thing you can and should be doing.

By capitalizing on another man's labors and genius, you can begin to immediately make money and build up a long-term, consistent, safe income. This income can allow you to pay extra bills, fund your larger business development efforts, and even retire early from your day-job so you can live life more fully.

My desire is that you begin making money now.

And to do that, you need to make the most of another man's labors. You need to capitalize on existing, proven systems that will pay you money today, without you having to take the time to personally create an entirely new money-making system.

So, how exactly do you do that?

There are five simple steps to eating the fruit of another man's labor online:

Identify a niche that you are passionate about and that is profitable
Create a website
Attract qualified buyers
Connect your qualified buyers to proven, money-making systems created by someone else
Enjoy the profits generated

I know it sounds very simple, but that really is one of the best patterns for making money online.

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Step 2 - creating a website - will cost you a little money, but not much. For example, you can host a website for around $5 a month. Totally affordable for anyone.

The bad news is that within that simple formula there are a great many pitfalls and loopholes. You can lose a lot of money and time trying to overcome those pitfalls and loopholes on your own. You can also lose a lot of hope, your dreams, and your passion for life, going at it alone.

I don't want to see that happen to you.

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It may not be for you, but I strongly urge you to look into it. You can get all the details here. From there, you can decide if you want to get started making money right away or wait a little longer.

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Next week, I'm going to share with you the one thing that almost destroyed my business, my income, and my family ... and how I conquered it. It's a bit personal, but I think the lessons I learned will save you a lot of time, money, and heartache. So, I'm willing to be a little vulnerable for your benefit.

10,000 "Personal" Conversations

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Finding Buyers that Buy
Part Three: 10,000 "Personal" Conversations
By Joshua Boswell

Last week, we established the fact that if people are going to buy from you, you must unlock their Core Buying Emotion. This is done by knowing your buyers' "what" and "why" at a very deep level. (See the article here for a refresher.)

A number of years ago, I was approached by Corel to help them revamp and then do a global relaunch of PaintShop Pro, their photo-editing software.

It was a daunting task. Corel has been around for a long time. I had seen their ads and promotions and always felt they were good. But, as I visited with the marketing and creative team, it was clear to me they were not getting the sales they wanted or needed.

And, I could see why.

The biggest problem they faced was one of personal touch. By and large, everyone on their list received the same message. Same ad, same discount, same benefit bullet points ... same everything to everyone.

Because I could clearly see the mistakes they were making ... and because I had the perfect solution ... I took on the project.

The solution lay in asking their current buyers and prospects just three questions.

I knew that once we had the answers to these three questions, we could revolutionize their messaging and bring up their sales.

These three questions are pure marketing magic - especially when you know how to analyze the answers you'll get back. I first learned about these questions from a marketing psychologist named Dr. Glenn Livingston. He is a leading expert on buyer psychology and is regularly hired by companies like Nabisco, GE, Proctor & Gamble, AT&T, and hundreds of other global leaders.

The questions allow you to step inside the heart and mind of the buyer. In other words, you can discover the logical and emotional triggers that would cause someone to buy your products and services.

The first question helps you see what is important to them.

The second question helps you see why those things are important.

The third question reveals to you what I call the "profit gap."

This is the gap between how they are now living and how they wish they could live, but just can't find a way to get there. Herein lies a great deal of your profits.

So, the first order of business for solving the Corel riddle was to put together a survey. It was a survey unlike any they had ever done. In the past, their surveys were all multiple-choice questions.

Multiple-choice surveys are okay, but they only give you the prospect's opinion on your opinion. It is very limiting.

The new and improved survey we put together primarily had essay questions. That is what the three magic questions are ... open-ended questions that let people talk.

Essay questions scare most marketers. They are afraid of what people will say, given the chance, and they are lazy and don't really want to read all that stuff.

But, I LOVE essay questions because they allow prospects and buyers to freely and openly share their thoughts, feelings, ideas, and emotions. This reveals their personality and individuality, which allows me to stop seeing my market as a block and view them as real people.

Here are the three questions we asked the Corel market ...

1. "What is the single biggest concern you have with photo-editing software today?"

2. How would finding a solution to this concern change your life and your photography?"

3. "If we really wanted to knock your socks off with new photo-editing software, how would we do it?"

When we asked these three magic open-ended questions, letting people freely talk (no word limits to responses), and then carefully analyzed their word patterns, feelings, and insights, we discovered something really obvious, but remarkable ...

People on their list were using the software for lots of different reasons ... and they all wanted a wide diversity of photo-editing features.

The forensic police chief wanted a way to track changes and zoom in without losing details to see evidence better so they wouldn't lose as many court cases.

The artist wanted ways to add colors, change images, and enhance lighting so people would oohhh and aahhh over his work.

The social bugs wanted a simple way to share a million pictures with a million people with the push of a button so they could connect with people and feel important.

The serious professionals wanted a way to realistically enhance every aspect of the picture so their clients were happy, paid more, and spread the word.

And on and on it went. Dozens of different wants and whys.

No wonder the same message to the whole market was not working!

So, we took this data and laid it on top of existing demographic data they already had and began creating personalized, customized segments of their list.

Before we were done, we created around 214 list segmentations. We then crafted a unique message and offer for each segment.

The results? With over 80% of the mailings, we had an email open rate of over 60% ... with many of them, we hit over 90% and saw returns of over 75%. This was exponentially better than any results Corel had ever seen on a product launch. Profits skyrocketed. Plus, they were able to push into segments of the market that previously had not bought from them ... like law enforcement.

(If you don't think those numbers are good, the next time you are with an Internet "guru," ask them how many list segments they have and what their response rates are. You'll see what I mean.)

The magic behind all of this was personalization.

Using demographic data and the responses from our three magic questions, we came to understand the PaintShop Pro market in new and intimate ways. This allowed us to talk specifically to the individual buyer in ways that resonated with their personal "what" and "why" triggers.

It allowed us to identify the true gaps between what they wanted and what they believed the market was offering them. Once we structured a message and software that filled in that gap, it was natural for them to buy from us.

From many experiences like this, I believe that one thing - more than anything - separates small, struggling companies from large, global leaders.

It is this ...

Small companies don't truly know their buyers - they guess.

Large companies know their buyers deeply and personally. In fact, there is a correlation between how well you know your buyer and how big and profitable you can become.

By using these three magic questions - and effectively analyzing them - you empower yourself to know the individual desires of your prospects and buyers and then cater to them.

Here are the three questions in a template form that you can use in your own business:

1. "What is your single most pressing question about ___________?" or "What is your single biggest question about _________?"

2. "How would getting a solid answer (or solution) to that question change your life?"

3. "If I could knock your socks off with a ___________, how would I do it?"

You can ask these in person or through survey software. But the biggest key is to let them talk. Do not put any limits or stipulations on their response. Let them talk.

Would you like to see a live sample of how this all works? If you have been following me for the past few months, you have already seen it.

You can see it again here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/carefree.

Notice how I structure the questions and format the overall survey. Notice how anything that is not demographics is an "essay" question.

Now, what do you do with all of this information? I mean, depending on the size of your list or market, you could end up with dozens ... or thousands of responses.

How do you get value out of all that? How do you effectively analyze it and then use it to give greater value to your buyers?

Next week, in my fourth and final piece in the "Finding Buyers that Buy" series, I'm going to give you the secrets for taking this information and converting it into copy, products, websites ... and, yes, profits.

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Finding Buyers that Buy Part Two: Unlock the Core Buying Emotion

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Finding Buyers that Buy
Part Two: Unlock the Core Buying Emotion
By Joshua Boswell

It is unlikely that people will pay you money until you unlock their Core Buying Emotion.

How do you do that?

Today, I'm going to show you.

The trick is to understand the two critical elements that make up the Core Buying Emotion:

What. You have to first understand what it is that people are after. You'll remember that I'm not a big fan of trying to figure out their "needs." Needs are fulfilled through the selling of commodities. You don't really want to be in the commodity business.

You want to be unique, exclusive, and stand out so that buyers have to get from you and none other. In this realm, you are catering to the demand that all human beings have for enjoying a better life, in one form or another.

Unless you know what their internal demands are, you are stuck without a real business.
Why. Figuring out "what" they want is not enough. It is true that you can sell some things to people knowing that, but you'll never really create a safe, secure, consistent income this way.

The money will begin to flow more freely when you have a clear, in-depth understanding of "why" they want those things.

The question now is this: How do you uncover their "what" and "why" so you can unlock their Core Buying Emotion?

What most businesses do is pull a meeting together of their smartest people and sit around doing their best to guess what buyers want and why they want it.

The good business owners have usually been around the block enough times ... and sold enough stuff ... and lost enough money ... that they "get" it and know their buyers pretty well.

But, that is usually the exception. Most miss the mark either in part or completely.

The result is that they leave large amounts of profit on the table.

In some cases, they miss the mark so badly that they don't make any profits and they go out of business.

You and I don't want to be in that position. I think we'd rather be perfectly clear on what our buyers want and why they want it so we can make their lives better and increase our profits at the same time.

There is a better way to find the "what" and "why" than guessing.

It's called asking.

I'm a big fan of asking buyers what they want and why they want it. It is remarkable what information you can get when you ask the right way.

The Internet makes this really, really easy. But, the way you ask is important.

As you might guess, you can't simply send out an email saying, "Dear Buyer ... Will you tell me exactly what you want in life and why you want it so I can squeeze more money out of you?"

We all know this doesn't work.

It is like sitting around on a Friday night with some friends and asking, "What do you want to do tonight?" The answer is typically a blank stare, a shrug of the shoulders, and an "I don't know ... what do you want to do?"

But what if you asked a better question?

What if you started the conversation more like this, "Hey Tom, what is the most exciting party you ever went to?" He'll think for a minute and start telling you all about.

Then, if you follow up that question with something like, "Why did you like the party so much?", he is likely to talk your ear off for the next 5-10 minutes telling you why this particular party tripped his trigger.

If you are smart and listen carefully, in that description, Tom will tell you his entire internal definition of what constitutes a fun party. You can now easily identify what words, images, experiences, and emotions are important to Tom when it comes to parties.

You see, all of us have an internal formula for what's important and valuable to us. As I said before, this is what Michael Masterson calls the Core Buying Emotion. This formula is made up of words, images, and emotions all mingled and swirled together. This formula comes out when we describe things that are important to us.

This is the key to asking your buyers what they want and why they want it. You never outright ask what they want. Instead, you get them to describe to you something that they already spent money on and why it was so important to them.

They will tell you and then you will know their internal formula for making buying decisions.

Once you know this formula, you simply mirror it back to them, with a new product attached to it. It is very likely that they will buy this new product because it resonates with their Core Buying Emotion. It shows up as important for them. The better you harmonize your offer with their Core Buying Emotion, the more likely it is that they will buy and buy often from you.

Let me tell you a quick story to illustrate the point. It's a love story and I think you'll enjoy it ...

On Friday, February 5, 1995, I met Margie Andersen for the first time. It was a blind date that had been arranged by a mutual friend of ours - named Cherilee.

Cherilee had lived next door to me for a number of years during high school before her family moved away. But in 1993, I ran into Cherilee once again - only this time in the Netherlands, where we were both serving a mission for our Church.

Over those many years of knowing Cherilee, we had many talks about life and the future. She was great at asking quality questions and listening. I was a great talker (no surprise there). Because of this, she got to know me very well - including what I was looking for in a spouse.

When Cherilee met Margie and got to know her, bells went off in Cherilee's head. "This gal would be perfect for Joshua!" she thought.

So, on that fateful Friday morning, she called me up and started telling me all about Margie. She knew exactly what buttons to push because she knew me so well. A blind date was set up. We went out with a large group of friends, just to be on the safe side.

Well, as it turned out, it was a marvelous experience. Lightning and fireworks were going off all night. Within a few hours of meeting each other, there was some serious strong chemistry going on and everyone we were with that night could sense it.

This story has an exciting beginning and a lovely current status ...

You see, just 3 days later, I proposed to that Margie gal ... and she agreed! Now, 17 years later, we have 10 wonderful children and one of the best, happiest, most rewarding marriages I've ever seen.

It was all made possible because Cherilee took the time to discover my Core Buying Emotion and used it as leverage to get me to take action.

She went deeper than just trying to impress me with basic benefits and features.

She asked good, quality questions that got me talking. She listened. She discovered my hot buttons. And then, she used them to my benefit.

That is what great marketers and business owners do. That is what drives profits sky-high and makes selling easy as pie.

This week, your assignment is to consider how you can use this same pattern in your business (and personal life) to unlock what your buyers want and why they want it. Here is the pattern:

Ask. Ask just two quality questions that get people to openly describe something important in their life. Ask what they want and why they want it. (Obviously, it helps if it is related. If you sell cars, get them talking about their favorite car.)
Listen. Listen carefully to their answers. Note the words, images, and emotions they use.
Record. Take those words, images, and emotions and see how you can honestly and rationally connect them to the products and services you offer.
Mirror. Mirror all of this back to them and offer to sell them something.
Bank. Rejoice in the better life you helped them achieve, and deposit money in the bank. ;-)

Next week, in Part Three of this "Finding Buyers that Buy" series, I'm going to share with you the mechanics of how I talk to buyers and analyze their words, images, and emotions. It is obviously impractical to sit down one-on-one with thousands of people. But, I've had "conversations" with over 10,000 people at a time and made it very beneficial for all of us.

I'll show you how next week.

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Segment #5 - Creating the Buying Frenzy

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Finding Buyers that Buy

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:57:00 +0000

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Finding Buyers that Buy
By Joshua Boswell

Because it is so hard to find buyers that will spend money with you, many companies go out of business before they ever get started.

Especially small businesses.

If you're going to make money online and build a safe, consistent income, then you must know where to find buyers that will buy from you. A steady stream of buyers will give you the power to overcome mountains of obstacles, give you great staying power in any economy, and drastically improve your quality of life.

There are four aspects of finding buyers that buy that I'd like to focus on. Today, I will cover the first and most important. Today is the "what" ... the next three weeks will be the "how."

At the core of finding buyers that buy is a concept called "Psychographics."

Psychographics is the study and classification of people according to their attitudes, thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and aptitudes. It's knowing the words they use, the emotions they have, and the choices they make on a daily basis.

Do not confuse this with "demographics," which is the study of facts about people. Their age, their gender, where they live, number of children, etc. ...

These kinds of facts and figures are important, but they only give you a small insight into the buyer's life and desires. It's far too shallow to really bring in consistent, safe, ongoing sales.

You must go deeper. You must understand what makes their heart race, what keeps them up at night, and what drives them to do irrational, spontaneous, totally emotional things.

Michael Masterson (aka Mark Ford), has been teaching the need to dive deep into the thoughts, feelings, and emotions of buyers for many, many years. He calls it the "Core Buying Emotion."

Many people think that you can sell someone just by appealing to a set of base emotions like greed, fear, anger, sex, etc. And, it is true. Those emotions are very strong. But human beings are much more complicated than that.

Michael puts it like this ... and you can substitute "online marketing and sales" for the word "copy" ...

"Great copy, ultimately, is an exploration, stimulation, or provocation of the prospect's greatest and deepest desires, fears, hopes, and dreams."

Savor that statement because it's worth millions of dollars once you discover how to explore, stimulate, and provoke the buyer's Core Buying Emotion. This Core Buying Emotion is uncovered only when you come to understand the psychographics of your target audience.

There are several other powerful advantages to understanding the psychographics of your buyers:

First, you know exactly how to talk to them. You understand their Core Buying Emotion.
Second, you immediately know where they are. You'll remember that finding where your buyers are is the first step to discovering your Optimal Selling Strategy. (Another of Michael Masterson's powerful phrases and concepts; see Ready, Fire, Aim for details.)
Third, you know what design, images, colors, and styles will appeal to them and entice them to buy and buy more often. (Yes, the book is judged by its cover ... )
Fourth, you know how to price your product or service.

In the next three weeks, I'm going to talk about the "how" to uncovering the psychographics of your market. I think you'll be surprised at the methods I use.

There are several parts of this discussion that I want to spend a little more time on. Because of that, I've decided to sit down and record my thoughts in audio format. I suspect this will take me 30-90 minutes.

I'm calling it, "Buyer Psychographics: Strategies for Finding Buyers that Consistently Buy."

This in-depth discussion is really only for those who are ready to go deeper. Because of this, I'm inviting everyone to get a copy of the audio file, but requiring that you raise your hand and opt-in.

To receive a no-cost copy of my audio discussion, "Buyer Psychographics: Strategies for Finding Buyers that Consistently Buy," click here now and fill out the simple form that follows.

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Please note: During this discussion, nothing will be sold. I'm just interested in helping you understand this crucial part of building a safe, consistent income online, no matter what the economy.

Before I let you go, I want to share a very interesting story with you. I think it will illustrate how weak it is to rely on demographics alone and how powerful psychographical data can be.

A number of years ago, I attended an expensive, private, four-man business-building mastermind session. Before I got there, I had no idea who the other three participants would be. This kind of situation always makes me a bit nervous because you never know who you're going to get "stuck with."

At first, I thought my deepest fears had been realized. It appeared that I had nothing in common with the other people in the room.

I was the only one on a first marriage. I was the only one with children still at home. I lived out in the country, while they lived in the suburbs. I drove used cars — actually a minivan and a 15-passenger van. They had a variety of sleek sedans and sports cars.

To me, it seemed like an odd group of people to put in the same room for a mastermind session. We didn't even have the same kinds of businesses ... I was online, another guy was retail with a storefront, another was a stock trader, and yet another was mail order of cosmetics and skin care.

In other words, our demographic footprint was miles apart.

Then, during a break about halfway through the first day, one of the other guys mentioned that he had just bought a "nuke." He gave no other description. But I laughed, and asked him if he put it in a "super." He smiled and said he did. Then, another guy asked if he had smoked it first. He had. The conversation sped on from there as we talked about queens, combs, drones, extractors, and dozens of other things.

You see, as it turned out, all of us were beekeepers.

What were the odds of such a diverse group of men all being beekeepers? As we talked about it, we dove into "why" we all had bees.

We discovered that the reasons were all the same: Bees made us unique. It was challenging and difficult. It was hard work. It connected us with nature. It was therapeutic and healthful. Perhaps most of all, our hives were symbolic of our intense drive for independence. This was also at the core of our business ownership.

In other words, at the core, we all shared a unique set of emotions, thoughts, and motivators.

We went one step further and reviewed the materials our host had used to sell us on the four-man mastermind session. We quickly discovered that he had effectively used almost all of those emotional triggers in his materials.

By deeply understanding our psychographics and using them effectively, our host had persuaded four totally demographically-different beekeeping business owners to gather from the four corners of the United States and pay him over $20,000 for the privilege of doing so.

Understanding our Core Buying Emotion allowed him to gather customers and charge prices that otherwise would have been outside of his reach.

That is the profit-creating power I want to give you.

I hope you will carefully read the next three segments of this series to find out how to do just that. I also hope you'll register for my new, free audio presentation, "Buyer Psychographics: Strategies for Finding Buyers that Consistently Buy."

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Doing the Impossible

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:52:00 +0000

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Doing the Impossible
By Joshua Boswell

Today, I have a personal story to tell you. It's a story of how I was able to double... then triple my income in just under three months.

And, I did it in 2008 - during the worst market crash since the Great Depression.

At the end of my story, I will tell you the grand key I used to turn things around for me... and show you exactly how you can do the same thing.

At the beginning of 2008, I was working as a freelance copywriter. Life was good, but I had a problem. The problem was that I was constantly chasing clients. The tail was wagging the dog.

Even though I made six-figures and was able to work from home, I didn't really have a business... I had a self-created job. I didn't really have freedom of time... I was chained to a small group of clients who controlled my lifestyle.

It was unacceptable for me, so I started looking for ways to free myself.

What I needed was a real business. A business that would allow me to make money, even when I wasn't directly working, consulting, or writing.

Toward the end of 2008, something small, but very dramatic happened to me...

And just six months later, the bulk of my income was not directly attached to my time. I brought in income even when I wasn't writing, consulting, or speaking. What's more, my income jumped twofold. Within 12 months, it had taken another jump.

This was incredibly liberating and rewarding.

The thing is, at this time, the media, and hundreds of wise, talking heads, said that it was the time to draw back, slow down, and be very cautious. After all, the business world was falling apart and stocks were plunging. Money was drying up and disappearing. It was a scary time.

They told me it was impossible to radically change my business and survive. But I did it... and thrived.

How did this income and lifestyle transformation happen?

The real key to this rapid - almost impossible victory - was my connection with a powerful network of highly-knowledgeable people and systems.

You see, the reality is, I wasn't smart enough or motivated enough to create this personal transformation on my own. And, my main mentor was not smart enough or motivated enough to get it done either. And, simply putting the two of us together was still not enough.

It took an entire network of well-connected people and systems.

This network of systems and people opened the following doors for me...

I connected with a new breed of customers that bought more, more often, and when I wasn't on the job.
I was given simple instructions on how to consistently attract these kinds of customers. Even though these instructions were implemented within weeks, I personally did very little to actually implement it. And, it cost me nothing because of the unique network I was connected to.
I wiped out my technical obstacles... overnight I was able to implement advanced technologies without knowing how it all actually worked. It was plug-and-play at its best.
I gained access to a large group of world-class businesspeople - all interested in helping me advance my business and make more money. Many of them gave me transformational suggestions that did not cost me extra money.
People in my powerful network also consistently sent business to me for no other reason than that I was part of the "club" and they liked me.
I was given an endless - but manageable and customized - stream of proven business practices, principles, and techniques.
This inspiring network helped me to see my blind spots, shortcomings, and business deficits... and then gave me rapid, simple solutions for overcoming the same.

As you can see, when you are connected with the right people and systems, it allows you to drastically accelerate your income, expertise, presence, and reputation.

All of this is central to improving your lifestyle by having more money and more time to enjoy it.

The question is this: Where do you find a powerful, profitable network of people and systems like this?

This is a very important question for you, right now.

The reason is this: There are many signs that the economy is heading for another steep crash... like the increased U.S. national debt... the continuing turmoil in Europe... escalating gas prices... perpetual unrest in the Middle East... and unnerving signs that China has been fabricating their growth... etc....

The world is really struggling right now.

With this in mind, it is more likely than not that if you want to build a strong, online business in the next 1-2 years, you will need to "do the impossible."

To do this, I believe that, like me, you will need to find a safe, powerful, profitable network to connect with.

It is for this reason that I have been recommending over the past few weeks that you join the Internet Money Club.

The Internet Money Club will give you all of the benefits I outlined above - the same ones that helped me drastically increase my income, while reducing my business time commitments.

You will have a mentor, a network, technical resources, proven business development resources, and a community to help you stay focused and motivated.

Not only will this kind of network of people and systems help you "do the impossible," it will help you do it in record time. In just 30 days, you will have a fully-functioning, professional online business up and running. From there, you will spend time building that business and discovering how to make it generate money, even when you are not there.

Tomorrow is the deadline to register for the Internet Money Club. If you are ready to build a strong online business... one that can give you more time and more money... you need to take action today and get registered.

I hope you join us in this profitable and powerful network. I believe it will change your life... just like it did mine.

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30 days is all it takes to change your financial future ...

On March 5th, you will walk into a new session of the Internet Money Club with nothing.

No website. No domain name. No business big idea. No products to sell. No merchant account. No marketing expertise. No business-building, moneymaking team.

Nothing.

Just yourself... and an intense desire to finally get out of the rat race, and make a ton of money online.

On April 5th - just 30 days later - you will have EVERYTHING.

You will have a business plan.
You will have a big idea.
You will have a website.
You will have proven, step-by-step marketing strategies.
You will have a personal, proven mentor.
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