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They Call it “The Business”: Lessons from ShowBiz

“The key to real security is the ability to sign your own paycheck” Oprah Winfrey
Strangely enough I’ve been without a ‘job’ for most of my working life.  Not that I’ve lived off the system…au contraire, if anything I’ve made my own systems and lived on them .  The interesting part is that the most [...]

March 4th, 2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Positive Manipulation Secrets for Marketing

“If money and time were not object, what would you do? How would you feel? What would your life be like?”

The primary purpose is different than you may think…or at least thought before you read this. It is NOT to get them to ‘goal set’, or even to identify what they want (although there is a hidden key there). The purpose is to get them to create a future feeling filled with their particular PDE and step into it. If you remember Maxwell Maltz “Psycho Cybernetics”, the mind can’t tell the difference between something that actually occurs and something that is vividly imagined.

February 23rd, 2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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The System is Still The Secret

You can’t shortcut the shortcut folks. The fact is most people don’t have a roadmap they can shortcut in the first place. And that’s the biggest problem of all. In business it’s pretty simple:

* No System=No Business

Sure you can get some level of success just on pure luck, and hard work can make up for a ton of shortcomings. But if the goal is to build something profitable, and ultimately sustainable, you need a system….

February 14th, 2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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How to Know What Your Prospect Wants: PDE

We tend to look at our ’stuff’ as the solution to some kind of problem our prospect has (hopefully…let’s face it if nobody needs it, you’ve got a bigass job ahead of you…hmm apparently bigass IS a word…who knew?). So when we’re talking with them we focus, if we’re smart, on the solution to that problem and show them how our ’stuff’ will fix it. Simple right. Marketing 101. Let’s peel the onion…

February 13th, 2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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2 Magic Problem Solving Questions

What is up with the natural human desire to complicate things to the highest degree possible? I mean, when it comes to the internet, and business in general things are complicated enough without the seeming self-destructive need to complicate the already complex (like this sentence, for example).

February 12th, 2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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It’s all about Desire baby…

When you get your eyes away from your problems and start trying to solve the other guys (you know, the guy with the money…) magic starts to happen, and the ‘money fairy’ may just make a donation to your bank account.

February 6th, 2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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How to Write Great Internet Advertising Part 3

So what’s in it for your prospect? The legendary sales trainer Zig Ziglar wrote that if you give enough people what they want you will get what you want. The key phrase in that sentence is WHAT THEY WANT, not what you want them to have. There’s a difference, and most of us have been guilty of it more times than we care to admit.

February 2nd, 2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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How to Write Great Internet Advertising Part 2…

How to Write Intelligent Internet Marketing Part 2… Know where you are, know where you’re going and be sure to tell everyone that matters. If you can’t explain to your prospect (or yourself) why you’re doing what you’re doing, you may have a hard time getting where you want to go.

January 31st, 2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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How to Write Great Internet Advertising Part 1…

How to Write Great Internet Advertising Part 1… Know Your Audience, if you’re talking to yourself, I hope you enjoy the company.

January 30th, 2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued