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- Strategic Profits Live! - February 23rd - 29th 2008, Disney World, Orlando Florida
I’m in a real jam.
Before I tell you what’s up – I want you to know this: We’re going to have two last minute contests with amazing prizes for anyone who’s game for helping us out.
But first let me go back to how it all started, so I can quickly get you up to speed…
You see, even though we hardly promoted our rapidly approaching seminar… word has gotten out. Yep, the cat’s out of the bag. And ever since… we’ve been overwhelmed with emails, calls, faxes, and even a few FedEx letters.
It seems everyone who’s caught wind of the event wants to attend. But, of course, there’s a rub… (Isn’t there always?)
Practically every single online marketer needs a few questions answered first…
To be fair, we should have expected it. You see, we’ve put together an event that is unlike any event that’s ever been assembled and offered in the marketing and business building arenas.
That said, we simply can’t answer everyone’s questions individually. There are just way too many. Besides, the event is right around the corner… literally weeks away.
So, I racked my brain, desperately trying to figure out an easy way to answer everyone’s questions. And it finally hit me!
Just me at my computer… and you at yours.
I figured if I create 3 separate short videos describing the 3 different segments of the event… and… create a fourth video to tie it all together… everyone’s questions would be answered – in one fell swoop.
Even better, I could put the videos here on the blog, this way you could discover everything about the event and have all your questions answered before you even have a chance to ask.
So… that’s exactly what I did.
Here’s the 30,000-foot view of what got us into this mess:
First, we’ve assembled the best business and marketing minds online today.
Second, we’re presenting these mavens in three unique formats: private workshops, a huge mega-event, and an intensive bootcamp.
And third, we offered different combinations of the three formats. And it was ALL those bloody combos that sealed our fate… and triggered the tsunami of questions we are now being flooded with.
Alright, so now that you know the “back room” story – let’s shift direction and focus on the matters at hand.
VIDEO #1 – The Private Workshops
How would you like to spend a day and a half with John Carlton and only a few other entrepreneurs… as he reveals exactly what you must do to multiply your conversion rates of every email, opt-in page, sales-letter, and pay per click ad…
Or how about spending a day and a half with Jeff Walker and Mike Filsaime, as they show you how to combine Butterfly Marketing and product launch strategy into a one-two punch that literally shatters every sales record in your market…
Sound Interesting? Then Watch this video…
Advanced Workshops
Next…
VIDEO #2 – The No Pitch, World-class, Unmatched Main Event
Check this out: Imagine for a second learning from the most successful, most highly respected marketers on the planet. We’re talking about men and women who “walk their talk” and not just “talk their talk”.
I bring up this difference because the sad truth is… many of today’s so-called experts can’t pay their rent from their so called “internet profits”. In fact the lion share of their income comes from speaking… or more accurately…teasing audiences to buy their products throughout their 90-minute canned sales-pitches.
It’s such a dirty game… I often feel the need for a shower after spending just twenty minutes in these pitch-fests.
That’s why we’ve never allowed it. Not one speaker at any of our events has EVER pitched a product.
And you know what? The difference is night and day. When a real expert is on stage teaching instead of teasing… you actually learn A LOT!
Now, just listen to this line-up of speakers we’ve assembled for you…
Jay Abraham… Gary Vaynerchuk… John Carlton… Frank Kern… Mike Filsaime… Jeff Walker… MaryEllenTribby… Tom McCarthy… Janet Switzer… and Paul Scheele.
Here’s the video that’ll explain it all…
The Main Event
Next…
Video #3 – The Maven Marketing Intensive
How would you like both Jay Abraham and I to work with you to build out an entire marketing plan personalized for YOUR market and YOUR strengths?
Better yet… what if we then worked with you for an entire six months – holding you accountable - and working with you closely as you put your plan into action? This way, no matter what issues reared their ugly heads – we’d both be there to course-correct and navigate you to the very top of your market.
Sound Interesting? Then watch this…
Now, that was easy – wasn’t it?
Let’s bring it all together now… with…
Maven Marketing Intensive
Video #4 – Bringing It Home
Review The Details
That was pretty simple, right? Well, it had to be.
See, my video guy wasn’t around at 3:00am when I did these for you. And I’m no video expert. So I set up my own webcam, upgraded my QuickTime to Pro… and made some videos. Nothing you couldn’t do yourself, I’m sure.
And even though this event is very different than any seminar you’ve attended or heard about… it all makes sense now, doesn’t it?
Moreover: Wouldn’t you agree this is a superior solution, even if it’s more difficult to explain?
Obviously, if your schedule and bank account allow… this event would be the one that totally transforms your business and your life forever. That’s why you need to join us:
Register Your Spot
Now I realize that having developed this event… of course I would think the videos made sense. But you still may not agree. To you, it may still be “as clear as mud.”
Anyway, remember in the beginning of this post – I told you I had two contests to tell you about?
Well this issue of clarity brings us to Contest #1 ...
Do you think you could explain… on video… one of the event segments better than I have? If so, I’ve got a way for you to prove it… and come away a big winner at the same time.
Can you help me better convey the specific benefits attendees will take away from this event more clearly?… so that business owners will realize the profound impact this experience will have on their entire future... and help them to take that step… toward achieving the financial prosperity they know they deserve.
If you can, I want YOU be a part of this “never-to-be-repeated” business-building bonanza… on me.
I’ll have more details on this amazing video contest tomorrow. I just wanted to give you the basic guidelines, so you can get your creative juices going overnight.
More on what’s in it for you tomorrow…
Now about Contest #2 … which starts right now:
I want one reader to be my guest at our Disney World event.
That’s right. I’m talking the entire 7-day VIP Mega-Event, including a luxury room at the Contemporary Resort…including all conference meals… including the Advanced Workshop of your choice… including the star-studded Main Event… and even including the “Maven Marketing Intensive” Bootcamp I’m doing with my friend and mentor… the legendary Jay Abraham.
All you have to do is get yourself to Disney World. Then be prepared for the biggest 7 days of your life.
What’s the catch? Well many of our readers told us they enjoyed the “Win My Program” contest we held during our Business Acceleration Program launch; especially the winners. We’ve received so many requests to do it again for the Strategic Profits Live! event at Disney in a few weeks… and I think it’s a great idea too, so…
Q: Why do YOU deserve to win an all-access VIP pass to our Disney event?
Tell us WHY by leaving your comment on this blog post. The entry we judge to be “tops” will be our VIP guest at Disney World from February 23rd through the 29th for the entire 7 day event. And you’ll enjoy all the bounty I’ve just mentioned.
Heck, in addition, I’m even going to award the first 3 runners-up an all-access VIP pass too. Each will get all the VIP event access I’ve described above… they’ll just have to cover their travel and hotel room. Each runner-up winner will also experience the most transformational 7 days of their business lives.
And I’m happy to make it all happen. There’s only one rule everyone must follow…
Absolutely NO sob stories. All entries must be in the form of a cogent letter. You’ll convince me you’re one of the 4 winners by your clear, direct and incisive presentation of your answer to the contest question. It must be to the point, and relative to your business aspirations and the take-aways you’ll use to make them a reality.
Now it’s your turn. Blog post entries will be accepted for the next 7 days. The cutoff date is Friday, February 16th. So get started… and do your best. I’d love to have YOU as my guest at Disney!
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Hey Rich,
First off… excellent idea about the contest. I cannot wait to attend this event!
I started thinking, after reading your letter, “Why do I deserve to win an all-access VIP pass to your Disney event?â€
Well… first off… I would save myself a lot of money…. about $10,000. That’s what this whole game is about right… money? I could then put that money, that I would have spent on conference, into marketing my site, or taking a vacation… etc.
I got to really thinking about how great it would be to attend this event completely for free… that would be fabulous.
——– HOWEVER ——-
After thinking selfishly for a while, about why I would like to come to this event for free… I started feeling remorseful.
You see… if I win this contest… that means someone else, perhaps more need worthy, would miss out. I started really feeling guilty about my desires to save money.
So… here is what I would do if I win this contest.
I WILL take the money that I have ALREADY PAID, and put it directly in the pockets of a few people that REALLY want to attend this event.
I had such an amazing time at your last event in Delray Beach… that I want to help MORE people come to this event. The line up that you have here is one of the best I have ever seen.
So … here is the deal.
First off, I am already registered for your conference! My flight is booked, and my hotel arrangements are taken care of… I wouldn’t miss this event for ANYTHING Rich.
I have been talking my wife’s ear off about this conference so much, that I think she is actually looking forward to me leaving for Florida later this month… ☺
So, if I win, I want you to KEEP the money that I have already paid for this event, and apply it to other people that want to come.
Maybe you can give it to one person… or take $1,000 off of many people’s admission. Whatever works best.
Next, because I will be getting my hotel for free as well… I will give up my reservations at the Contemporary Resort (Feb 22nd – 29th) to whoever really needs them.
Maybe I will do a youtube video, and give my hotel reservations away to someone that could really use them.
You see… I think this event is going to be amazing. I want as many people as possible to be a part of this.
I had such an amazing time at your last event, that I would really enjoy helping more people attend this event!
I look forward to your response Rich. Thanks for putting together such an amazing event.
Lives will be changed!
To Your Success,
Ryan Wade
Ryan,
I applaud your post.
That’s the kind of thinking and generosity I’d love to see more of on the Internet.
I’d say “choose me if you win!” but I’m taking the family to the Carribean during the same week of the conference.
If I was deciding the winner, you’d have it in the bag — and I’m sure you could find someone deserving of this great opportunity.
-Bram
Hi! Rich, It’s exciting to know you want us to talk about our favorite subject and on top of that you’re throwing in the VIP treatment… I’m all-in…
After coming on the web in 2002 with a knife store website (YourKnifeStore.com) dropshiping product from a warehouse in Utha, having a tiny taste of internet success, I got involved w/affiliate marketing in the how to make money on the web community (area-39.com)… I see bouth of those domains are taken by someone else right now because I did let go of them out of fustration. I reached a point of making enough money to stay involved but not enough to brake through and start building a savings plan…
Making money on the web is a scam, so I thought… In reality I sold out to a job who consumed my preciouse time and slowly and surely started taking my dream away of being wealthy and building a financial future for myself and my family… I am embarased to say that I thought a job was the answer to building a future.. I could not have been more wrong and I did come to my senses at the end of last year… after all I am a reader of your material and it’s more than enough to spark up the entreprenural spirit in anybodys soul…
Rich, scuse me for the redundance my post got cut in half so here is the rest of it….
====== continuance from above =========
Making money on the web is a scam, so I thought… In reality I sold out to a job who consumed my preciouse time and slowly and surely started taking my dream away of being wealthy and building a financial future for myself and my family… I am embarased to say that I thought a job was the answer to building a future.. I could not have been more wrong and I did come to my senses at the end of last year… after all I am a reader of your material and it’s more than enough to spark up the entreprenural spirit in anybodys soul… That’s no joke (after all I am shoting for the VIP grand prize;-)
You are the BOMB Rich, your content is explosive and your style is top-noch. I deserve to win the all-access VIP pass to your Disney event because I’ve worked my but off my begining years building my internet business and I’m not affraid to do it all over again and even thow I walked away I’m comming back to claim what I left behind (internet success that is:-) I know what it means to work hard at building a future and I know that quiting is NOT an option…
I already feel like a WINER because your content is so good and I didn’t have to pay one red cent for it.. your material is so smoothly laid out that puting it into action has been a pice of cake for me… to win an all-access VIP pass to your Disney event would absolutely put my business right over the top…
Here’s one more reason, because I know it takes me less than $35,000 per year to cover all my bills and necesseties I am willing to donate anything above and beyond that amount that I make on the internet in 2008 to the community where the greatest need is… I’ll call it living beyond my means…
If you’re looking for an honest, hard working and flexible business owner to spoon-feed success materials to, than let me be that breath of fresh air that you’ve been looking for. I am the one who you should get the all-access VIP pass to your Disney event for :-)
Nothing but the best,
Raz
You Will Congratulate Yourself for Choosing One of Your Loyal, Raving Fans When He Becomes Your Next Huge Success Story
The last thing you want to do is give someone a free VIP Super Pass to your best seminar ever and have them haul off and do nothing with it! You even put in the “Absolutely NO sob stories” warning, because you’ve heard them too many times and you know the whiners are not the ones who are going to succeed.
The biggest risk you take in giving something of incredible value for nothing is that the person who gets it will treat it like nothing.
Now, you’re probably wondering…how can you be sure that I will take what I learn and run with it?
Desire — Why else would I be up at 3 am posting to your blog? I want to succeed so bad I can see, hear, taste, and smell it! I will hang onto every word at the seminar so that I won’t miss one morsel of wisdom that will propel me closer to that success.
Commitment — I’m committed to putting distractions aside and working on my business full-time to follow through on what I learn.
Readiness — I’m ready to put my all into implementing this and becoming the supreme maven my marketplace!
But it doesn’t stop there, either…here’s the best part:
Gratitude — I’m already one of your raving fans and I’ve been telling anyone who’s serious about online marketing they should check out Strategic Profits. I even took the time to make a video to promote the Attention Age Doctrine II. As an existing customer of your Business Growth System and Business Acceleration Program, I’ve already proven that I value what you have to offer enough to put my own cash on the line. You can count on me to put this program to the best possible use, and to be very grateful for it. I will be delighted to give you an incredible testimony of what someone can achieve when you equip them through the knowledge and mentorship in this kind of a program.
Mentor, here is your protege!
Your sincere fan,
David Huff
P.S. If there’s anything I can do for you to return the favor, just let me know. I’ll be determined to figure out a way and give you something of even greater value than what I’ve received, (and if this seminar is half as good as I think it will be, that will be tough to do).
Rich, a simple FAQ would have worked much better than time-monopolizing videos.
I don’t want to sit through your meandering diatribe in four undocumented videos, when I could have quick searched and found the information I wanted in a quick 45 seconds (in a FAQ).
At some point, the toy-obsessed will figure out that anti-text is anti-customer.
Video is NOT the best solution for everything. It was NOT the best solution to the problem you identified in this post. Video allowed you to be lazy and Rich-centric. What resulted is not viewer-centric.
Sorry, I know you’re not going to like the message, Rich, but somebody’s got to pony up and be honest with you.
Bailey
Hey Rich,
Everyone is talking about 2008. Everyone is talking about how great their lives are going to be and how much money are they going to make. Where Am I? I believe it doesn’t matter where I am but I deserve to be at Rich’s House (as in Disney) that will transform my Whole Life!
Rich, I’m going to reveal to you why I deserve to be at this Action Packed event that will change peoples lives forever and ever and ever…
I want to be successful like you and change other peoples lives. Why do I care about other peoples lives? Because everyday when I think about it, thousands of people’s money is getting drained down the pipe by making money schemes and or little niche ebooks that aren’t information that delivers. Not only that, it causes families to argue over money issues.
Then goes down to the saddest thing, Just imagine their kids want things that they dreamed of but their parents can’t afford it because their dad spent thousands of dollars on over delivering products that is worth &^^%! Just Imagine.
When I look at things like that makes me sick.
That’s why whenever I deliver products to my niches, I try my best to really deliver it to them=Helping.
I want to make money myself but I want also help people make money or give them information that will solve instead of selling crap information to them.
But the only way to do that is which I believe attending your seminar will help me UP my business. So I can make money and help others just like you.
I’m a action taker and ready to on any obstacles that will stop me from failing. I also want to mention, people talking about how they’re going to make money in 2008. I’m going to make it better for ever and that’s by attending your seminar.
That’s the reason why I deserve to attend you Big Event.
Thank You for Listening,
Kaype
Sorry Rich,
All the paragraph formats are off. It looked good when I was writing it. But it’s different when I summited it. You can tell it’s all off. It’s not a writing style.
Kaype
Rich,
The ultimate winner for your contest will be the one that combines 3 essential elements:
1. They will be your ULTIMATE testimonial- meaning their results will be monumental. (You need someone with something HUGE that is presently undervalued/under-promoted.)
2. Their offering will -with the explosive power your training provides- have the power to serve and benefit millions of business-people. (This will have the added benefit of expanding your success and name throughout a list of millions of new business-people who will know, love and appreciate you and your organizations.)
3. They will have the ability to not only maximize the power and effectiveness of your program and training, but to IMPROVE on them.
There will be many good choices,but only one BEST CHOICE to win your contest!
I am a super salesman and ‘becoming’ marketing expert who ‘accidentally’ created a new multi-billion dollar industry by
combining 3 separate multi-billion dollar industries. I accomplished this by seeing something nobody had ever noticed. The value of this idea to the marketplace is practically immeasurable -but NOBODY is ‘looking for me’ because they don’t know the concept exists.
The only ‘catch’ is that I possess minimal capital and meager ‘overall’ business knowledge -being focused on Sales, Advertising and Marketing.
If I win your contest, I will be the most powerful testimonial in you and Jays’ entire arsenal, as this concept is surely/purely an atomic bomb waiting to detonate. When it does, thousands of businesses will benefit and my concept will become their ultimate marketing/advertising tool.
WIN-WIN-WIN
Thanks,
Brian D. Ridgway
Rich,
I’m sure the decision making will be rough, as so many of your readers/BGS Members/BAP students will write worthy comments. Here’s mine:
Thank you. I’m already registered for 6 of the seven days, and didn’t actually know about the private workshops till today. As you know, I pressed hard, demanding your attention, and worked it through to get there. I’m so determined I was on a tare…and here’s why: I am a loaded canon ball, awaiting the lighting of the fuse. I have long arms and will light it when I am loaded with the gun powder I’ll get at the conference/boot camp.
I am already the “go to” person in my local market, but a big fish in a small pond, jumping at the chance to swim with the dolphins in the ocean of opportunity.
I deliberately didn’t settle for the home study because I already know enough about myself to know how I best learn and what motivates me. I’m lunging at the bait, knowing that I’m on the cusp of a huge shift that will ignite that fuse and launch me. Pardon the mixed metaphors, I’m so excited about going I can barely sleep.
I won’t wow you with promises of giving back. I have that part well down. I’m the VP of the Board of the Chamber of Commerce, the President of the Arts Council, the Executive Producer of the local Theatre, President of the Northeastern New Mexico Arts Alliance and on the board of the New Mexico Community Arts Network….all volunteer positions. But you already know that. I will take the knowledge that I glean from you to all of those places and for sure..multiply (me) it. :) Launch me, watch me go. I’ll make video…I’ll post the link when its done.
hi rich i think you no understand me how i call with you if i no have money .my dear we get one $ diffeculte .poor is control her in my countary yemen no work no company .
read my message please
Hi Rich,
A blank slate from which to create a success story, timeless testamonial and marketing powerhouse is yours when YOU declare me as you VIP guest.
I am not some blathering, raving lunatic groupie that will bombard you with newbie questions everytime I see you.
I AM an eager, militant marketer who wishes to propel himself onto the online and offline “scene” with one million dollar product and one billion dollar product – the only thing I am lacking to pull it all together is what your conference can provide as well as the money to get me there.
I recognize the value (I truly do) and know that this lifechanging event and experience will change my life.
I will soak up the information presented and produce results, I say this because I have been in the Army for the past 19 years and this experience at this time in my life is the perfect fit. I am close to retirment (12 – 24 months out) and this event would allow me to make the smoothest transition for me and my family.
I am already a professional leader, trainer and motivator I just need your help to implement the raw talent that I currently posses to pull it all together.
By becoming my benefactor You and Jay will be adding a thoroughbred performer to your stable and reap the reciprocal benefits for the rest of all of our lifetimes plus those that we leave behind as a legacy for our children and their children’s, children.
With Highest Regard and Respect – thanking You for Your consideration,
Mark Brown
AKA – The Militant Marketer
Dude! I got an even better idea for you er.. ah… US! Don’t just sell your methods….Do what the the record labels do! Be my agent! Be my promoter! Be my ASCAP, BMI…Do YOU se where I am going with this?
So, here’s my deal.
You’ve heard of second life…(I have never played it but heard it can be addictive).
I am kind of like the 3rd life guy! The “real” 3rd life guy. Let me explain. 3rd marriage (and last…3rd times a charm), 3rd career and I am stuck in 3rd gear!
Successful financial planner, loan officer/real estate agent and now I want to make it big online (and I will). I already am a Maven. It’s just that no one knows it yet.
OK. I know time is MONEY and you are, like the rest of us, short on it!
So, here’s my idea.
Let’s both of us make a ton of money. TOGETHER. I would love to win the contest but I want YOU to win just as much!
That might sound crazy but it’s true! Be my partner and share in my success. I am soooo close to making it I can taste it. I’ve got traffic coming to http://www.MassRealEstateAuction.com and http://www.ReNewsYouCanUse.com. I am stuck though in second gear in getting the traffic to actually do something.
Rich, you have already helped me a bunch and I know that with your expertise…a tweak HERE and a tweak THERE we will both make a ton of MONEY!
I don’t want you to be my valentine Rich. I want you to be my BMI my ASCAP. For using your airways, your ideas I need to pay you a percentage of my “GROSS” income for life and if I don’t, you can break my knee caps (by the way, I had that happen to me in an accident..OUCH).
Rich, there is nothing like residual income. Ah!!!! One of the best parts of being a financial planner….Residual income.
Your job. Simple find another 9,999 of me over the next year and then double the following year.
BTW. You have lost weight! Lookin good! So Rich, will you be my BMI? Will YOU be my ASCAP…
Isn’t it only fitting that Disneyworld – a park, a magical environment, that inspires and entertains millions – provides the backdrop for your motivation and inspiration-packed mega-event that will leave everyone who attends and who participates powered-up for massive success.
I believe in you, Rich…I know that you and your all star line-up are going to hit it out of the park again and again – gifting each participant with the tools, knowledge and inspiration needed to rampage through the marketplace and outshine anything else out there.
And I fully understand that the rest is up to me – I’ve got to take copious notes, I’ve got to be clear about what needs to get done – and then I need to make it happen! I must act on the nuggets of wisdom that you graciously gift me.
My team of animators are just putting the finishing touches on the animation for America’s newest theme park…it’s opening this Spring and it’s positioned to be one of the top theme park destinations on the continent…
That’s right, my business is to help create those magical environments, like Disneyworld – where millions are inspired and entertained.
“My business has been a thrilling adventure, an unending voyage of discovery and exploration in the realms of color, sound and motion. What I see way off is too nebulous to describe. But it looks big and glittering. Thats what I like about this business, the certainty that there is always something bigger and more exciting just around the bend; and the uncertainty of everything else.â€
- Walt Disney
And I aspire to achieve these bigger, glittering, grander visions – to build even more entertaining, inspiring and dazzlingly beautiful environments which will serve as a backdrop for leading edge events such as Strategic Profits Live!
And when I embarked on this journey, I saw clearly that solid marketing is the key to realizing the vision.
Rich, whether or not you you hand me that key, I’m going to be listening and following you and your colleagues teachings closely. And I thank you for the great insights that you’ve generously offered us all.
To greater visions and-
to higher profits,
Jeff Cappleman
PS: I can’t, in integrity, promise you that I’ll have the biggest success story, or be your greatest follower, or achieve more than any other participant. However, I can and do promise to listen, to take notes, to participate and share with the other participants and – above all – to act…to actually walk away from the event with an action list, and then take action on it.
PPS: To anyone who’s interested in attending “Strategic Profits Live!â€, I would leave you with these touching words from possibly the longest serving Disney Imagineer John Hench: “I make all decisions with my heart.”
July 15, 2008
Dear Rich,
Here’s a verbatim transcript I had with a friend at work today:
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My friend Karen comes into my cube for our morning chat.
“What’s all this? Are you actually cleaning up your space?”
“Actually I’m packing stuff up and deciding what to toss or donate to Salvation Army.”
“Why now? The bugs that live under your desk will just get confused.”
“I’m meeting with Quan later to tell him I’m resigning. Hey watch it so you don’t spill any more of your tea. Here, use this to soak it up before the stain sets.”
“Geez, what happened? Did you get a new job you didn’t tell me about? This isn’t about your business thing that you’ve been working on is it? Anyway, you can’t go since I’m supposed to beat you out of here.”
“Remember all that money I told you I put into learning how to build my business the past few years? And that joint venture I got into with that guy in England a few months ago? That contest I won back in February where I got a meeting with those high dollar business consultants? Well it all finally came together and the product launch we did went well enough that my partner and I are both able to quit our day jobs.”
“Oh man, congratulations I guess. Who am I going to talk to in the morning? You can’t go, I don’t want you to go, this place will drive me even crazier than I already am with you gone!”
“I’ve told you all along that once the biz took off that I’d need a take no prisoners manager to help run it for me. You tell me what you need and I’ll put together a package for you.”
“Lets talk about that later. So are you gonna go crazy on a big spending spree?”
“Nope… well, kinda sorta. Since mom is too old to travel any more so I’ll bring her brother and his family over from Germany for a reunion. I’m having my CPA hook me up with a financial planner so I don’t end up like those schmucks
that win the lottery and end up bankrupt in a few years. And I’ll treat the dogs to a nice steak dinner.”
“You and those stupid dogs. I’m insanely jealous, you know that don’t you. Is this business thing gonna keep working?”
“My partner and I are meeting up in the Maldives next month for a planning session. Those consultants I met with are more about coming up with a strategy for setting up our business for the long term and us being the ‘mavens’, the ‘go to guys’ for our market and we’re going to fine tune our plan to make sure we follow the advice these guys gave me.”
“Well I’m really happy for you, I guess. Crap. Where the heck are the Maldives? Don’t tell me, I don’t wanna know. I never thought all those things you did were ever going to work out. I thought you were just throwing your money away.”
“I can’t say that I didn’t have doubts at times, but you know what, unlike the morons that are running this corporation into the toilet, when something wasn’t working I didn’t keep doing the same things over and over and expect different results. I figured out what didn’t work and did something else until I got better results. Like that old story goes, Babe Ruth wasn’t just the greatest home run hitter ever, he also had the most strike-outs too.”
“Sometimes the cliches’ you come up with make me cringe.”
“Want to know what song is going through my head right now?”
“No, but I know you’re going to tell me anyway.”
“Take This Job And Shove It…”
“Oh for the love of… stop before I get sick on your shoes. I’m going back to my desk before that cat that swallowed the canary grin on your face causes you to have lockjaw.”
“I’ll stop by before I leave, OK. They’ll have me going through all the exit interview stuff the next couple of days so let’s have lunch sometime later this week.”
“OK, we can talk about that thing you mentioned earlier then too.”
“‘OK, See you later then.”
“Just stop with the grinning. I’m serious about that lockjaw.”
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Sincerely,
Joachim Klehe
Hello,
Have you considered becoming a writer?
Let’s get to the bone!
I want to make at least $500,000 by December 1, 2008!
At the end of 2010, I want to have revenue of $10,000,000 per year!
Yes, it may be bold but it’s what I want. I need this program (and this contest) to help me boost my business to MAVEN status. If you think that I am talkin’ tough now, wait until you see my videos and me talking to my students!
I am certain about one thing, the interent is only going to get bigger, and I want to be ahead of the wave when people start the rush and finally realize that the internet is the absolute future. I know that this conference can help me to jump ahead and stay ahead!
My mind is set at ease by numbers, so when you and Jay A. talk about the success stories, that’s what really gets me excited and wanting to achieve. The only stories that really get my attention are the ones that talk about the money they have made and in what time period.
I know that some are false on some sites (not yours), but that is what gets me going. Money is not the motivator, but it’s the tool that I need to get what I want. Oh, here is more of what I want:
1. Help my Mom and Dad to retire.
2. Get into a life where work is optional, not required.
3. Be able to travel when the mood hits.
4. I want a large house with all the things I’ve always dreamed of playing with.
5. I want my 3 dream cars (Bentley GT, BMW SUV, Lincoln Navigator)
6. Most of all, I want to fix the parent uninvolvement in the education system. It’s not the school system (I’m a teacher), it’s the parent inability to care for their child’s future.
That’s it, do with it what you will! I’ll see you there.
P.S. My birthday is Feb. 22, and great day to start my success!
Hello Jay R,
It is good that you have wants and desires, we all have them and if we don’t we should.
Your purpose for winning really sound all about yourself, is it not? Then (count the number of times in your letter or reason for winning how many times you used the word “I”) !
Winners help others become winners. Have you heard the saying when you help enough people get what they want you will have what you want. Hint – this event may need more people, maybe you could ask Rich is there a way you could help at the event or prior to the event to get more people to attend!
One more thing your dreams can be accomplished – try to begin thinking about solving a problem for others or businesses and you will eventually get those fancy cars among the other things you want. Also you may want to have in your vision the millionaire calculations formula. If you are not familiar with this formula let me know and I will email it to you ok!
Wow! My first and last goals in my list were to help my parents retire, and help to correct the educational system breakdown. Yet, your comment makes me seem “greedy”.
I want a lot and cannot apologize for that but my whole business is all about helping others, mainly free of charge.
I truly am about helping others to get where they want to be in our field. Every business is service-based and I realize the customer is king.
Hi Rich,
I’ve studied the Internet Business Manifesto and the new Attention Age Doctrine. I’ve been on your conference calls with Jay, and I’m learning a lot. I “get” who you are in the world. Thank you.
I would truly appreciate the opportunity to attend the Strategic Profits LIVE conference because I am confident that it will accelerate my business and personal growth at light speed. I have an amazing ability to collect and process large amounts of information, and I’m excited to learn all that will be offered there! Your time will not be wasted on me.
In addition to your time being well-spent, you get a man with an attitude of gratitude; someone who gives back as a rule, not an exception. I see myself as a future Maven in your very niche, working with you and the other top people in this field. I have a lot to offer, and I’m already out making a difference in this world, especially for kids. The business growth I would get as a result of attending this seminar would give me resources to do that even more effectively.
One way I give back is by being a teacher. I’ve always been a natural teacher, and have the ability to explain complex topics in very understandable ways. I began my career in industrial engineering and controls, and became a certified IT technician along the way. For 10 years I also taught IT courses part-time at a local Tech College helping others to become Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers. My wife and I currently teach computer classes for grades 7 to 10 at our kids’ school, taking time off from our professional careers to do that every week. Last year I began studying internet marketing and I am ready to go full time with it. This would be the opportunity of a lifetime for me to get equipped to do that in 2008!
Rich, I see myself meeting you in Orlando later this month, networking with attendees and presenters, and forming relationships for life! I see myself in your shoes in just a couple short years. Although I don’t yet have your business experience and level of success, I know that I can and will because of what you have to offer.
With gratitude,
Eric
Hi Rich.
As an adult, I volunteered at a shelter for battered women and children, and one task I would do would be to take some children out of the shelter for 2 or 3 hours on a Saturday or Sunday. I figured I should learn self-defense and defense of people with me (for obvious reasons). So I enrolled at a karate school with a focus on self-defense, taught by a former Sheriff (not a black-belt-in-a-box-school graduate).
One day, I’m practicing my high kicks in front of the mirror, and I was losing my balance with each kick. The teacher watched me for a few minutes, then said, “Turn your other foot this way before you throw your kick.” I did and BOOM! I looked like Bruce freakin’ Lee (or Chuck Lidell, depending on your era of choice). I told him I was impressed, and he said “That’s what you pay me for. To correct your mistakes so you can get out of your own way and end up teaching yourself.”
The seminar you have developed features the best TEACHERS in the industry (and defies the old “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach” – your lineup CAN and CAN TEACH). The point of your seminar is for the attendees to not simply LEARN stuff, and not even to DO stuff, but to LEARN how to TEACH themselves FROM their businesses, so that they can develop and grow more businesses in the future.
When I work with clients, I tell them up front that I will help solve their short term problem, but my GOAL is a solution that will be viable and active 5 or 10 years from now. I believe that the intention of your seminar is to teach US as business owners (entrepreneurs, not opportunists) how to start TODAY and get the mindset TODAY for running and managing multiple businesses 5 or 10 or 20 years from now, or even by our next generation.
As I am plowing through the BAP, the Time Management and Mind-Mapping seminars have produced immediate dividends. Janet Switzer’s portion has me on brain-dump overload (so I have to use Les Hewitt’s Focus to rein myself in). Your seminar – and especially the one-on-one opportunities and the Action Plan development and review – will take us, as entrepreneurs, that much farther down the road to creating the minority of businesses that survive more than a few years.
I have been on most of your Maven teleseminars with Jay Abraham, and am already revamping my marketing to conform to the ideas presented.
I am using the BAP to develop and expand my original idea of creating a library for fathers who don’t have custody of their children. I see the potential for more than just 6 eBooks (my original idea). I see coaching programs, membership sites, newsletters, seminars. I see linking these products to helping relationships in general (families are better together than divorced, and are better without violence and abuse). The seminar can solidify and develop this plan, and add the value that will help not only the direct customers, but have a ripple effect on their families, friends, and communities.
Thank you for your assistance to the IM community.
P.S. Your teleseminar with Frank Kern was easily the most entertaining of his series.
Why Jeremy Wong, the Maven of Mavens, should Win.
This is a story about a boy, and his passion, his vision and his philosophy.
19 years old; age, something I never thought would be a determinant of success, but this had inspired many, and brought many to watch in awe at the boy who knew so much for the short time he had spent in this magnificence that is Life.
Many told him of how he had enlightened them, how he had saved the people who lived a life of mediocrity, a life about mere survival, a life without fulfillment; for these people grew up with others who didn’t know better, the others who told them that their dreams were too big, the others who told them that they had no control over their lives when they gave up before they even tried controlling it themselves.
These people just never realized they could live a life like the few who they deemed ‘lucky’, the few who made it because they would have had a ‘miracle’ happen to them – the few such as Bill Gates, Bob Proctor, Anthony Robbins and Rich Schefren. Little did they know that if they never tried, they would never ever get there, and little did they know of how so much more they had compared to these successful people during their humble beginnings.
…but it was only until the boy came and showed them the way, and showed them that they could shape their destiny.
He gave them something worthy to live for, and with it came the excitement that life was meant to have, and he showed them how they can be so much more than they thought they would ever be. He made them realize at how it was possible to become anything in this time where they could learn anything, do anything and be anything; of how they could use their very two eyes with books filled with information to achieve the things they never realized was possible, of how they could do things that would bring them closer to where they wanted to be and that was nothing to stop them, and that they were only giving themselves excuses to justify their flawed perceptions of how they cannot be successful, flawed because they didn’t see that there was every reason they could.
The boy’s passion – to help others live their lives with passion because he had felt it himself, and he only wanted others to experience the miracle that he had, but for what reason, he doesn’t know. The euphoria that followed from helping others showed him how it was something he would do for nothing in return, and it would be why he did it; and why not when it helped others?
These people fight so hard for themselves to barely survive… how would they ever have enough give to others when they hardly had anything for themselves?
The boy; he would help them realize at how much they could get, and helped them create a life where it was possible to get everything beyond what they would ever need, and these people would then give so much back to the world because now they could with the abundance that surrounds them.
How?
He used the one thing that would help them achieve just that – Business.
His Business Philosophy – That Business’ greatest purpose and it’s real beauty is in the leverage it can create, leverage it creates in your ability to help others – that business can help you help so much more than you could ever alone, that it is the vehicle that will help you contribute more than you could ever without it. Business gives you the power to help millions, more than you would ever if you did it with your finite body that is limited by the finite resource that is time.
It is about giving as many people the feelings that life deserved nothing less of, Joy and Fulfillment, and creating a better life for these people.
…but business is also about taking; for it is only when you value yourself that others will value you and what you give them. It is also only right to allow people to repay you for what you have given them, and it will only fulfill them to know that they have given you something that you deserve so much.
Deep down, everyone wants to give, and this boy shows them just how possible it is to do just that, and how they can live their lives doing what they love – with business. He leverages their intention to give and amplifies it for them, and gives them the power to give so much more and get back so much in return.
Helping others to help others to help others – and it goes on forever; his vision to change the world for the better lays in this foundation. He would help others find abundance for themselves and in turn, create more abundance for others, who would then give more of it to even more people, and it goes on… and on…
…and imagine how much faster this would all happen when he is given the ticket that would catalyze all of which has already been moving so fast, and turn this boy’s vision into a reality.
I am that boy.
…and why I deserve to win.
I will not just become a maven myself, because I will spread this gift of knowledge to the lives that I touch, the lives that I change and for the cause that will give so much more to the world. I will create mavens that will amplify the effects of knowledge you have given me beyond what any one maven will ever achieve alone.
…and it is time to be a part of this story that will become one which will live through the ages and inspire many, and help create a world that will have more joy, a story that the world will watch in awe.
Help me in my quest to become a maven, a maven with the power to give so much more because it would only bring more to receive everything with the authority mavenship brings, a maven that will have the power to reach so many more.
Together, we will change more lives than ever.
Jeremy Wong
I will help so many live a life of passion; a life where they do what they love and contribute goodness to the world at the same time.
I will be helping these people build businesses revolving around what they are passionate about, something that they would do for nothing in return and advance beyond anyone else in the area and…
I will turn these people into Mavens; mavens that will bring so much more of Love, Fulfillment, Happiness, Security and Beauty to the people of this world.
These people will be able to use their passion that is fueled by never-ending inspiration to contribute so much to the world by guiding people in the right way, because they will be the BEST they can be at their businesses with the mavenship knowledge that I will pass onto them; the knowledge that I will get from this event.
Actually, all I want to say is – it may be late and even though I’m from half the world away, the air tickets are still there for me. :)
Jeremy
You can live with PASSION
Rich,
I have worked in the Printing Industry for over 20 years now. Mostly in the design area. I have been saying for the past 10 years now that Printing is a dieing trade. And as for the past few years it appears that I have been right. For one reason, as you know, people are turning to the internet for their information and advertising. My job ended a few months ago because the shop I worked in had to cut back due to failing business. I decided that was it, I have to do something else. I have wanted to work for myself for a while now, so why not look into the best possible answer! Since then I have been searching for everything I could possibly find on internet businesses. I have researched so many at home business opportunities, learning how to put together web pages and how to make money with them, etc. Finding that so many of them have been dead ends. Mostly because they take you so far, then leave you hanging out there! You have to read through so much bull that you can’t get the true idea of what they are trying to tell you. Then I happened up on the ‘Early to Rise’ newsletter, with all the Gurus that have offered out enough free information to let you know that what they have actually makes since. I’m more willing to invest in their information, and it has all been positive!
Having said all of this. I am new to all the internet selling and so have been studying everything I can get my hands on. Heck, I even bought ‘Internet for Dummies’!!!!
It all makes since to me. But, I realize that before I jump completely into all of this, I need to know more. I have all the pieces, but can’t seem to figure out how to put it together just right. Exactly how to get started!
When I saw your course, I thought, That’s what I need!!! So here I am, Trying to get you to take me for free! Simply put, I am a good student and I would love to hear what you and all the other speakers have to say, and to learn exactly how to put all that information to use to get me on my way to making ummm, well, lots of money!!!
Thanks for your time,
Kat…
Hi,
No one deserves this more than I do. I am sure a lot of people come pretty close, and I don’t mean to be dismissive of their committment and their personal growth, however I Rock and I am sure I would win this contest against anyone out there if we were to compare: committment, drive, growth
and determination.
I have worked diligently for the last three and a half years to remove myself from a negative life. I have done emotional work to understand where I have come from and turned it all around with positive affirmations and belief in myself and my abilities.
Over the past year and a half I have registered for untold e-books, e-newsletters and e-zines. I have listened to most free teleseminars out there, including Suzee Millers Fung Shui series this very month. I have feng shui’d my home and my personality. I have affirmed to myself my innate goodness and my right to succeed.
In otherwords I have done what you all seem to be teaching and am now poised on Ready and Raring to go. I have gone as far as I can on freebies and am already stepping up to the plate financially, though I live on a Social Security income. I have changed my lifestyle to free up some of my income to
invest in creating a healthy financial future for myself.(I have already ordered the online course for this very seminar)
My background before I became unable to work in 1987 was Product Marketing. I went from a filing clerk making $3.10hr to the Marketing Manager on the A.M.D. desk at the Seattle Branch of a major Electronics Distributor and back to the same job in Silicon Valley the very heart of electronics at a base salary of over $35,000 with bonuses and commissions and an expense account on top of that, in a very short period of time. I have been successful before, then I let my life circumstances define and reduce me.
That will never happen again!!!!!!!!!!
I have found all of that original drive and intelligence I’ve always had again and ask that you choose me as your winner so I can prove to the nay-sayers in my life, Yes! It can be done. With a little faith in yourself and some hard work, you can be the best possible version of yourself and elevate others right along side you.
I am Capable, Willing, and Able. I am Beautiful, Whole and a Child of the Universe. I look forward to seeing you in Florida at the end of this month. It is Karma. My marketing ideas dovetail beautifully with your Marketing Maven Campaign. Please give me this chance to soar. It would mean so much and I would definitely pass it FORWARD!!!!
Thank You in advance,
Teresa Hanson
A Maven in the Making/A Huge Success story in 2008!
Why do YOU deserve to win an all-access VIP pass to our Disney event?
Frankly, because I need it the most!! I am a newbie with a huge desire and massive motivation to learn from the best what I need to change my newbie status to Mavin status to become a major influence on the Internet.
I have a real chance to start out right with the knowledge of the best of the best and I want that chance.
I want 2008 to become my year of change. To grow a business to the top of the charts, providing me with a multi-million dollar income in the shortest amount of time.
Thank You!
One more thing. My take away on this will be to provide for my family and friends and to build a large, all equiped animal hospital that will provide for those pet owners that cannot afford to pay, a chance to get their pets properly taken care of free of charge. There are way to many pets going without treatment and help just because their owners cannot pay to take them to the vet. This will change when I make enough money to make it happen.
Thank You
Hi Rich and Jay,
Would helping us create a “billion dollar company” pique your interest? Rich, those are your own words! You’ve recently described the exact company we’ve been building for months, and we’re launching just weeks from now.
What if it was a business that will help millions of other people succeed in business online (and offline), as well as in many other areas of their lives? What if it didn’t cost people a dime to get our help, but they could SAVE literally thousands of dollars (and plenty of pain and suffering) simply by visiting our website for a few minutes? For free?
Everyone we’ve talked to about the business just LOVES the idea and wants to send their traffic our way. And we have excellent cash flow projections, even with very conservative assumptions. So there’s 100% enthusiasm and excitement all around! I won’t say too much about the business here for obvious reasons. But I’m sure you’ll know what I’m referring to. :-)
Because of you guys, we now know that “mavenhood” is the absolute fastest and best way to skyrocket this business. (I listened to two of your calls and took avid notes both times!) So that’s why I wanted to enter your contest.
I’ve already ordered the home study version of your Maven Marketing program, and I can’t wait for it to arrive in April! But I know that we could get a HUGE jump start, and the learning would probably be far more effective, if I were to attend the event in Florida. I’ll even let you keep the money I’m paying for the Home Study course. And that’s because I want to give you something in return for the value I know we will receive.
And the best part? You’ll be able to see the amazing idea you have personally described turn into a reality…practically overnight! (Again, your words.)
So either way, we’ll be working together on this project. But I think it would be awesome – and far better – if we were to do it in person. :-)
Lastly, we are SO enthusiastic and passionate about providing a hugely valuable service to millions of people who are hungry for what we’ll be giving them…for free!
Thanks for your consideration!
Most sincerely,
Jessica LaRock
P.S. What do we intend to do with all the money we’ll be making?:
1) Micro lending to people all over the world to help them start their own businesses – including training them on how to run a successful one
2) Teaching people that they do have the inner power and unlimited potential to succeed and achieve happiness – we already do this on our other website (www.UniverseOfPower.com)
3) Helping inner city pre-teens discover that they have OPTIONS besides drugs and crime
4) Horse rescues – my personal passion
5) And of course, we’d buy a farm so we have plenty of space for more horses!
Dear Rich,
To me, being taught by the best people on how to be THE MAVEN of my industry is the best scenario a person could ever wish for to happen but being mentored by you and Jay Abraham would be the ultimate.
You see I have studied your materials and have studied Jay’s for years now. I totally feel that being taught by the both of you, live and in person, is what will propel me to that MAVEN status.
I have been marketing to my niches helping single fathers realize that they have someone that is in the trenches with REAL WORLD experience that can guide them in raising their child or children artfully, as I like to say
There is so much material for single moms and our culture celebrates the single mom while the single dad is not taken as seriously. But I am here to tell you that being a single father with FULL CUSTODY of his children, raising them on my own without the help of their mother definitely gives me the insight on how to raise a child, while doing it artfully.
It’s important to help the single dads of today and provide them with information, products and consultations in order provide them with the knowledge on how to do this. It’s important for them to have resources to rely upon to help them achieve their goals of raising a healthy child.
Because of my techniques, both of my kids are now in college and are two of the most respectful, responsible and reliable individuals I know even if they were exposed to the same societal pressures that all other kids live through. It’s just in knowing how to apply these thechniques is how it’s done.
With your guidance, training and mentorship, I absolutely know that my expertise will reach more and more single dads so I can mentor them to raise kids artfully, producing adults that have the skills to express a positive life, thus raising the peace potential of the planet.
To that end, I have created a non profit organization, and have tied all my for profit endeavors to it, which guides our youth in expressing their emotions in positive ways. I show them so they know they can manifest a positive outcome to any situation they are in and can change their life if they desire to do so. I show them how and it is now my life’s highest purpose to do do this
With Mavenship in my other businesses it lends me more and more credibility to raise the necessary funds to run the non profit and doing that with no expense to the young person wishing to participate in my program of Artistic Creative Expression.
You Rich, Jay, et.al. will show me the steps to mavenship and expertise, and your stellar presenters some of which I know, will be instrumental in my achievment of my set goals.
With me as your number one winner, you can say that not only did you help him achieve that status but you contributed in raising the peace vibration of the world, by helping me helping reach our future, our young people and lowering the suicide rate, the violence and the depression in our youth which my program is designed to do.
What more can a person take away from your offer of mavenship creation? I don’t know but I appreciate the opportunity allowing me to express my desire to win the contest but to also raise the consciousness of your readers too.
Take care, Peace and Love
Hi Rich,
Once again… there are some extremely smart (and soon to be successful) people responding to your “contest”. Tough competition.
Just after I started writing this letter, it really hit me.
This isn’t a contest at all.
To me, a contest is simply something temporary where people go against each other to win something. Yes, technically that is what this is. Someone will win an all access VIP pass to the Strategic Profits Live event.
However…
This is a whole lot more than a mere contest.
This single event can truly change someone’s life forever… FOREVER
Man, in my mind, this little letter I’m writing has a whole lot in stake for me and my family… and how my life will be from now on… than simply winning a trip to Florida. This could seriously help to shape my life and the lives of people around me.
Wow. I hope that college persuasive writing class I took a few years back pulls through ;-)
Anyhow…
I’m not really sure what I should say to show you why I seriously deserve to win this “contest”.
So, I guess I’ll shoot from the hip and let my honesty show through
… whether that’s a good thing or not… I guess we’ll only know if I’m sitting in a window seat on United Airlines on my way from beautiful Portland, Oregon to Florida on February 23rd to finally push through that wall and reach my business and life goals.
My name is Trevor, and currently I’m living in Portland, Oregon. Not really by choice… but mostly because my wife was able to get into an awesome Physicians Assistant graduate program here in Portland. She graduates this August and I can’t wait to get out of this rain ;-)
We moved up there right out of college. I graduated with degrees in Marketing and Entrepreneurship… and actually won the Presidents Cup Award for Entrepreneurship at my college for the “promise and leadership” I showed in Entrepreneurship while at college.
The award sounds cool… but I found out it really means squat once you get out in the real world.
I’ve never held a real job where I’ve worked for someone else in my life… unless you count the family business that I worked in since I was 10. While in college I bought my first rental property (4 unit apartment building), which I still have today.
When we moved up here to Portland, I set the goal that I would never work for anyone in my life… but I had no clue how I would do that.
I did know that I would run my own business and real estate would be involved somehow… but things really weren’t all that clear then.
So, to make rent money I asked people I knew here in Portland how their businesses were doing… and then went on to show them how I could help them grow their businesses with my marketing “consulting”.
I’d never done any real world marketing in my life… but somehow I was able to talk these people into retaining me for marketing.
Over the next 12 months…
I somehow got hooked on the internet and the possibilities of building a business online that could get me where I wanted to go.
I learned how to build websites, then learned how to do a bit of online marketing, now I’m really getting into videos and using the social media to create immediate income streams and to build more sustainable web traffic.
Anyhow, I melded my love of real estate investing (I still invest in real estate to this day… I’m 25 now) and the internet and created a “hobby” website called The REI Brain.
Ya, kind of a weird name… but I meant for it to portray two things.
1. A large collective resource of real estate investing and business building resources (hence the brain).
2. I found out that 95% of real estate investors fail within the first 5 months… and I discovered that it was mainly because they didn’t use solid life success principles or solid business building and growth principles. They think that they can learn a few techniques… and they’ll be good.
Anyhow, in the first 12 months of this website I piddled around with it not really paying too much attention to it. I had several marketing clients which were paying the bills… and didn’t really put a whole lot of attention to it.
But, I kept gravitating back to The REI Brain because people kept finding the site and emailing me about how great of a resource it was becoming (to me… it seemed like just another crappy website).
The site visitors said they appreciated the fact that I focused on giving them free content… rather than shoving home study courses down their throats (this was before the whole Eban Pagen “free line” thing) that werent’ worth the paper they were printed on.
So, I kept on giving them quality, free, and actionable content that would help them actually put to action what they are learning…
… and traffic kept growing.
Now, this takes us up to today.
In late November I signed on another marketing client, which gave me a bit of “play” money to pour into my passion, The REI Brain. The money I’m bringing in with my consulting business isn’t a whole lot at all… I’m more looking at it as a way to pay the bills while I build my online business and passion.
I’ve hired an awesome web guy (another young kid… he’s 23 and does awesome work) to finally build The REI Brain into my vision. Up to this point, everything on The REI Brain was created and designed by me… which is at best mediocre web design.
So, the new site redesign is set to launch in late February, and I have about 300% more content to upload once the site redesign is complete… and have 2 product Ideas I will get going on next month… both focused on providing huge value and helping people finally take action and reach their life’s dreams through real estate.
Traffic is almost doubling every month for the last 3 months… and it’s now up to almost 600 unique’s a day (not a lot for some people… but a huge victory for me).
This is something that I just can’t ignore anymore
It’s so exciting to see my passion coming to life… especially since up to this point I’ve really only put a half ass effort into it… and under $100 invested.
With 2008, I set some specific goals for The REI Brain.
– To grow traffic to 1,000 uniques a day by April (getting there)
– To make $500 in profits in January (I made $568)
– To make $1,000 in profits in February (to date, I’ve made $392… on track)
– To make $5,000 a month in profits by August
– To create it as the single go to resource for actionable, unbiased, complete, and real life real estate investing, life success, and business building resource for new and struggling real estate investors
– To create an honest voice in the real estate investing industry that people can trust… and not wonder if they are going to get ripped off by some guru
– To create no less than 50 free audio teleseminars with real life real estate investors (no guru’s), real estate business builders, and life success experts
I have a ton more goals for The REI Brain and my small network of websites, but I don’t want to bore you.
Over the past several weeks, I’ve been taking every opportunity to read and listen to your Maven Marketing free info. I know that I can be the maven in the real estate investing industry as the honest, unbiased, and trustworthy source for actionable resources.
I was thinking about it…
…and I truly want to become the “Strategic Profits” of the “life success through real estate investing” industry.
– No fluff
– No dishonesty
– No tricks
– No selling out to make a buck
– No get rich quick crap,
– No hiding behind a website as a nameless faceless phantom.
I think people are tired of getting jerked around when it comes to real estate investing education… tired of the hype promising “make $400,000 on my first deal in 20 days with no mondy down”… people need to finally learn the entire package of what it takes to succeed.
99% of gurus sell “how to invest in real estate” products. Makes sense on first glance.
But it doesn’t work.
I’ve learned that people need to get their life success foundation down pat first, then learn investing techniques, then learn how to build a successful and solid business w/ systems. If all three aren’t done… you fall into the 95% of people who fail.
Am I the expert of all experts?
Nope. The REI Brain isn’t just me spouting off my ideas and thoughts. It’s meant to be a collective resource from successful real life investors and business owners around the North America.
After all, not everyone will take the same path to success. So why should they learn from only one person? They shouldn’t.
Anyhow, I’m seriously so excited about the Maven Marketing intensive and can’t wait to put it to action in my business. I’ve already begun to dominate a certain niche within the niche… which is what has led to 90% of my profits this year… but I want to be the “go to” in the entire industry.
My biggest take aways from the event and the whole experience will definitely be learning how grow my small little passion into a full fledged business that truly makes a difference in people lives… including mine and my family’s.
This of course is the result of the combination of the things I’ll learn (launching and creating products, adding the viral nature to my products, turning my current abilities and passion into a maven marketing machine, and a ton more).
And even more important…
… the biggest take away will be meeting like minded people who have already trudged through the sand pit of getting a successful online business off the ground. I can’t wait to learn from these people (including YOU), share my ideas, gather new ideas, hopefully provide value and insight to someone else at the event… and gain the confidence and contacts I need to make this happen.
A confession…
I’ve never gone to an event like this and don’t really know what to expect. To tell you the truth, I’ve never really asked anyone for help in my business because I always have had the attitude that “I’ll figure it out myself”.
But, I see this event as a huge opportunity for me to raise to the next level… past where I could even imagine going by myself.
I want to work with the best… and right now, that’s exactly what you, Strategic Profits, and the entire expert panel is for this event.
Hey Rich, have time for a drink or two on Monday the 25th?
I’m buying… and I’ll see you in sunny Florida later this month. (I can’t wait to get out of this rain!)
Cheers!
– Trevor
http://www.thereibrain.com (main site… redesign is not done yet)
http://www.thereibrain.com/realestate-blog (blog)
There are 78 million baby boomers, ranging in age from 44 to 62. Half of those over 50 lie in bed at night and wonder if and when they’ll ever be able to retire.
I was one of those.
Was. Until I realized at age 55 that I had swallowed the “American Dream†fantasy – hook, line and sinker – and was drowning in business and personal debt. I finally figured out that my greatest financial burden came from living in an over-sized, over-leveraged, overly expensive home. (Bigger is Better, right?) I sold it, scaled back, got de-stressed and focused … and today am earning six figures as a petroleum consultant to a small country.
I am passionate about what happens to you once you get out from under financial stress. Once you have some peace of mind. The mind-chatter stops. Opportunities that were always there … suddenly become obvious. Tout est possible! Everything is possible!
It’s a fresh start: like a butterfly that’s emerging from its chrysalis. Powerful stuff.
I’ve started with a little site called http://www.plan-b-retirement.com that’s growing organically. Built it through ETR’s bootcamps. But it needs a product … a way to monetize the site … and a focused marketing plan to spread the word.
… spread the word about how baby boomers can give themselves a second chance at the proverbial Brass Ring.
The Strategic Profits Live! event at Disney in a few weeks is the missing piece.
Rich-
My name is Dan and I want to start by saying thank you for everything you’ve given to your public as it has really made a huge impact in my life and my academics.
I’m currently in my 4th year at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. When I first got to college, I really had no idea what I wanted to do and started taking a bunch of random classes. My strengths always revolved around communicating messages with others. In addition, I grew up in the house of an entrepreneur: my father. Growing up watching him run his own construction/insulation company in the economically-disastrous city of Cleveland taught me a lot. Mainly to persist even when conditions are at their worst.
I started off my academic career taking business classes and took Japanese as my foreign language hoping that it would help me acheive my dreams of traveling the world. I’ve always had a knack for speaking in public and conversing face-to-face.
It wasn’t until my 2nd year that I discovered online business. The idea of being able to conduct business anywhere in the world via the internet grabbed my attention tightly, and I haven’t looked back since. I spent most of my 2nd and 3rd year of college researching and testing as much as I could online. Instead of going out and partying at the one of the nation’s top party schools, I chose to instead spend my weekends learning as much as I could about Internet Marketing and successful online business practices. It drove my friends crazy.
At the end of my 3rd year, I decided to stop looking at school and online business as two separate things, and try to incorporate this obsession I had with my major. I decided to pursue a Bachelor of Specialized Studies degree that would allow me to take classes from different fields of study and combine them to create a distinct major.
I am the first student at Ohio University to ever major as an “Online Marketing and Advertising” student. I have combined Advertising, Business, Visual Design, and Communication classes to help me achieve this degree. This is the start of my frustration.
You see Rich, the biggest problem that I’ve found in school is that there are NO online-related classes being taught in college. When I take marketing and advertising classes, even at a school who specializes in those fields like OU, they don’t have the information needed to teach anything directed towards the internet. I basically have to take everything I learn and relate it to online practices on my own. It’s the most frustrating thing I can possibly explain. I even have taught some of my marketing professors SEO and Search Engine Marketing, and they were astounded that they had never heard of it earlier.
This is a huge epidemic in the academic world and it’s depressing that Online Business is not a course you can take at some of the nation’s top schools.
Which brings me to the contest you’re having and the answer to why I should be chosen for this opportunity.
I have taken a risk that I can never erase when I created a major revolving around Online Business. I’ve made it my passion, my education, and my career. To me, Online Business is not something that I’m doing just to pay the bills, or to become famous for, or become extremely wealthy. I’m doing this because I love it, because it provides the freedom that I need to be able to travel the world, and because it will allow me to help many others in the process.
The biggest problem for me is not that I don’t know what to do. I don’t have a problem starting a business, dedicating myself to it, finding opportunities, or finding information that I need.
My problem is that I have ABSOLUTELY NO GUIDANCE. No professor helping me practice. No mentor directing me and telling me when I’ve made a mistake. Not even a friend to share my successes and failures with.
All I get are people who don’t understand what I’m doing, family who thinks I’m wasting my time, professors who are too controlling to take advice from a 21-year-old student, and friends who don’t care enough to listen to the opportunities that Online Business entails.
I’m in this on my own. The reason I deserve to be chosen for your workshop is because I’ve dedicated so much of my life to this field. I want to be able to have someone who’s achieved so much success like you have to teach me what I’ve been dieing to learn for years.
You’re a legend and there’s no one else who can teach online business better than you can. I want to take the knowledge that you can provide me with and give back to the academic world so that other students can have the opportunity to learn online business the way it should be taught instead of having to go online and try and learn it themselves.
As someone who learned all of this himself, I would never wish on anyone what it took for me to get where I am today. All the money, research, testing, failing, testing, failing…no one should have to go through that.
I want to join you in Florida so that I can take what I learn and not only improve my own business, but to help others businesses, and most importantly, show the Ohio University marketing department exactly what they need to be showing their students in today’s business world. The way they see it, internet marketing and business is so new that they have no way of seeing any proven results that will motivate them to teach in classrooms. I want you to help me change that.
If not this contest, perhaps an independent study, an internship, even an interview. No matter what the case, tomorrow, next week, and next year, I’m going to be conducting Online Business and helping others improve their online business. With your help, I can take everything to a new level and truly get the guidance that I need to be more successful.
I don’t know the exact answer that you were looking for, but I hope this it. Again, I’m a big fan and I really want to thank you for releasing the information that you’ve given to your public. It has already helped me beyond what I’ve ever had the chance to learn in the classroom. I hope your workshop is a success and wish you good luck with all of your ventures in the future.
Thank You and God Bless,
Dan Ricci
Rich-
I just had an idea….and you’re in trouble.
-Dan
PS- I look forward to hearing from you very soon.
It all sounds soo good! Only time will tell if I can get it together enough to make this work.
I have a particularly wonderful ability, I help Strategic Profits’s Partners who simplify information and kind of abbreviate and give more information to those who need specificity. I’m not only good at explaining things, I’m excellent at refining and editing, pulling together information in a way that makes it digestible for Strategic Profits Partners.â€
what on earth would the Strategic Profits Partners do without people like me .I have this fantastic ability in follow through mode to organize, classify, to put Strategic Profits products into systems, to set up structures that the Strategic Profits Partners can depend upon. I ‘m the foundation to so many things being workable. I’m Critical to keeping the Partners from bumping into themselves.
I’m the go to person when it comes to taking a Strategic Partner risk. I’m at the end of the continuum where Startegic Profits Partners turn to and say, “well what do you say we do, what’s next, Do you have any ideas?, I do. I’m here ready able and willing to come up with alternatives, with other ways of doing it, taking chances, beating the clock, taking on challenges. And the way I do this is so innate, so natural that I don’t even have a sense that other Strategic Profits clients commenting on this blog don’t do that.
I imagine a Strategic Profits Partners. I’m just able to look
inside my head, from a distance or read on this blog what’s happening. I don’t have to touch and feel things to know what’s happening.
I,m a member of Business Growth System , Your premier cutting-edge e-learning platform for internet business building program. With this program I’m excelling with proven offline business building strategies and mindsets to turn the web and wap sites into a thriving, sustainable mobile phone service business.
Business Growth System has provided a complete foundation for starting, growing and running a successful e-commerce future for me. The program has provided the opportunity for me to develop the entrepreneurial skill set required to take any internet business from start-up to initial growth, rapid growth and maturity phases efficiently and profitably.
The prize is mine! LOL!
I have a particularly wonderful ability, to help Strategic Profits Partners who simplify information and kind of abbreviate and give more information to those who need specificity. I’m not only good at explaining things, I’m excellent at refining and editing, pulling together information in a way that makes it digestible for Strategic Profits’ Partners.â€
What on earth would the Strategic Profits’ Partners do without people like me .I have this fantastic ability in follow through mode to organize, classify, to put things into systems, to set up structures that the Strategic Profits’ Partners can depend upon. I ‘m the foundation to so many things being workable. I’m Critical to keeping the Strategic Profits’ Partners from bumping
I’m the go to person when it comes to taking a Strategic Partnership risk. I’m at the end of the continuum where Strategic Profits’ Partners turn to and say, “well what do you say we do, what’s next, Do you have any ideas?” I do. I’m here ready able and willing to come up with alternatives, with other ways of doing it, taking chances, beating the clock, taking on challenges. And the way I do this is so innate, so natural that I don’t even have a sense that other people commenting on this blog don’t do that.
I imagine a Strategic Profits Partnerships. I’m just able to look at it inside my head, from a distance or hear whats happening on the tele-seminar calls what’s happening. I don’t have to touch and feel things to know what’s happening.
I’m already benefiting as a member of Business Growth System , from your premier cutting-edge e-learning platform for internet business building program. With this program I’m excelling with proven offline business building strategies and mindsets to turn my web and wap sites into a thriving, sustainable mobile virtual network operation- http://www.sonopia.com/conativesociety
Business Growth System has provided a complete foundation for starting, growing and running a successful e-commerce division for the company. The program has provided the opportunity for me to develop the entrepreneurial skill set required to take any internet business from start-up to initial growth, rapid growth and maturity phases efficiently and profitably. I sure deserve the what it takes to make me a maven today!
Rich,
There’s plenty of entry submissions already, so I won’t waste your time with long prose.
I deserve an all-paid pass to the Disney Event because I could never afford such a thing. As with thousands of other struggling marketers, my worries are mostly trying to make ends meet while I juggle costumer support for yet another buggy $3 MRR product someone bought from me, and a JOB that kills my spirit but gets the food on the table.
I am one of thousands. Everyday people with no money (and I mean NO money, like in zero dollars, not the typically advertised “no money” except for all the start up costs…) get online, grab a few products from a giveaway site and get their first page online with crappy content they get in a content pack and their adsense code, hoping that it will get the ball rolling for them. “then I’ll invest in the XYZ ebook that will show me how to make $100 per month!” they believe.
But it never happens.
So if I’d win I’d focus on getting these people up, and gaining a bit of momentum to help them become successes. And maybe if I got the time, I’d put what I’d learn into practice outside the IM niche, maybe getting enough money to hire a ghostwriter to make me an ebook about some well converting obscure niche…
However that is a bit unrealistic, as the IM world simply isn’t the eldorado every other guru proclaims it is, when they announce yet another million dollar month (or even day).
So, I hope that you reach to the little (tiny) guy just this once, and help so many others in return.
Thanks for the opportunity, nonetheless.
Miguel
P.S.: Kudos to Ryan Wade (author of comment #1 on this post) for spreading the wealth if he’s the winner.
MAVEN:
ace: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
a maven (also mavin or mayvin) is regarded by cohorts as a trusted expert in a particular field, and who seeks to pass his or her knowledge on to others.
As I was reading through the many posts in response to your challenge it occurred to me that I ought to know, without that inkling of self doubt, just what the definition of a maven is. I am truly glad I did. It is a word I will throw around enough times that my 10 year old daughter will eventually ask me to define “the short versionâ€, and thus another lesson begins.
The word itself, as much as we should all aspire to be given such a title, is not why I am here. Nor is it to bombard you with my accomplishments, ambitions, altruistic business ideas or rave about my unwavering and fearless determination. Fact is, I don’t deserve to win what you are offering. I don’t feel I have the foresight or online savvy (even after 5 years of earnest, endless searching, and I will be honest with myself, many half-hearted endeavors/failures) to truly appreciate let alone comprehend this opportunity that others, it would seem, might offer up a self amputated limb for.
On the other hand, though I don’t know if I can completely digest the “fate†theory or “everything happens for a reason†mentality in its entirety, I would have failed myself completely had I not taken a chance, a chance only brought on by a routine of blindly meandering my way through the medley of emailed opportunities, only clicking on the names I recognize from three years subscribing to ETR, yours being one of them and curiosity getting the better of me I clicked the link and then after reading the text between the videos (sorry I did not watch your videos, got the gist of it all anyway- nice job) I became entrenched in and could not stop reading the, for lack of a better word, “WOW†of overwhelmingly inspiring and rejuvenating (however short term it may be) posts of many amazingly positive, motivated and empowered people. One might feel they don’t stand a chance against such an excited array of accomplished and deserving go-getters. I certainly am in no way prepared for such a challenge.
So, I will take advantage of this forum you have so kindly, generously and graciously created as only a true maven could to humbly offer up a challenge to you, Rich. Instead of competing for something I believe I am not prepared for, you allow me to purchase your Business Acceleration Program. Here is the catch, I cannot pay $997 up front and right at this moment I cannot foresee being able to make $500 a month payments. I don’t want charity, a gift or even a contest prize. I am just taking advantage of this rare and unique opportunity to ask for a chance.
If I work my ass off, utilize perfectly every skill I can call on and convince the harshest, most callous mocker of online business ops., my fiancé, of the undeniable value and my personal commitment as well as don the frugal shirt awhile- all without forsaking my family I will come up with $400 for a down payment and make monthly payments from there until paid in full. Which, if the Business Acceleration Program is as good as it boasts should be sooner than if I paid it the other way. I offer this, if you give me this chance I promise to give the program a Full Time 100% of mind, body and soul and this time next year I will be at your event on my dime, another maven in the making vying for your time.
In any event- you, your time and what you do are greatly valued and appreciated. I offer you the best of wishes to you and yours in health and everything you do.
Shon
Hi Rich,
It seems to me this is a great opportunity to put into practice what I am doing in the Business Acceleration Program. I am already well known and well regarded in my area of expertise and profession and this opportunity would clearly accelerate or catapult me many levels beyond where I am now.
I traded dollars for time for twenty years as a professional musician and loved doing that but got problems with my body not working so well, and realising I needed to leverage my time and skills went into business. The business I developed became the biggest and best in its niche in my country which is a long way from the United States. That business is still operating very effectively after 15 years. I then additionally initiated an International Festival which has been a great success and attracts attendees from all over the world.
I have examined and bought many marketing courses over the years and had a few advisers but nothing has caused the degree of resonance I experienced from reading “The Missing Chapter†and the “Manifesto†etc. so accordingly I felt compelled to sign up for your Business Acceleration Program because to me here was someone getting to the essence of business and what can be done in a way that I have aspired to for so long.
I have a dream of making my business the best in the world and the International Festival also the best of its kind in the world. The thing I love about that is how much it inspires people. Intrinsic to this goal is the desire to be the “go to†person for musicians to learn how to be effective business people with their art.
Cheers
David
The short answer: I’ve been asking for it.
I asked back in July 07 at Accelerate2 when I entered your draw for it
I asked when I entered your 66 seconds contest
I asked on my “30 day manifestation trial” blog on day 11, several days ago.
It would make an amazing story if it happened. What am I saying? It IS an amazing story already… and accelerating (pardon the pun ;)
Now for the ‘WIIFM’ answer:
Since your event last year, I’ve kept in touch with the contacts I made and built a mastermind group.
I’ve laid foundations and started the process.
I’m now at the point where the ‘jump’ is facing me – to leave the day job and launch out on my own. It’s exciting, exhilarating and nerve wracking all in one, but I know I can do it and am looking forward to getting to that point of no return. It’s speeding rapidly towards me, I can feel it.
You know that my topic, Intelligence, is badly needed out there in the Internet Business world.
I’m top of my field offline. Check me out on LinkedIn (especially answers)
You know that you’ve taught me to do it properly
You may not know that I’ve been learning from Jay for several months already.
You don’t know just how ready I am, but I’d love to show you.
Bring me over and I can guarantee you’ll get a high-energy, fully participating and active ‘trainee’, with a clearly defined goal and plan to achieve freedom (that you can shortcut by picking me), with plenty to prove and a lot of value to share.
Oh yes, and it’d give us a chance for that long overdue chat we missed out on last time… My shout.
Crystal from Oz
Hi Rich,
English is my second languages so please excuse any mistakes.
I was wondering what kind of miracle would allow me to go to this amazing event when I saw the contest. Great idea.
I have studied marketing and worked in the field for the past 10 years. Suddently, I feel I have to relearn everything!!! The technology has changed human behavior and I really need to learn the Internet marketing tools & techniques.
Since I have also taken my coaching courses, my dream is to start my own website on the subject and let the world profit from my knowledge and products. But how is the big question? Time & money is missing for me to acquire the expertise. To go to the event would definitively give me not only a huge kick-off start to my business project, but a life transformation as well!
I already have a business partner, and the project is on paper (our website is at the very beginning, not what we have in mind, just a test). We have subscribed to every guru out there, we have the talent, the vision and the motivation. All we need know is the right expertise and mentor on internet marketing; plus the money, but I think once launched we will easily get the attention of VC’s.
Why do I deserve to go? I am ready for an outstanding project, business and especially an outstanding life. It’s a must. Enough thinking about it, I need to do it. Walk the talk, as they say.
Being a coach, I take pleasure in identifying objectives and action plans. If I win, my list of to-do’s will get easily done, thanks to the expertise of not one but more than 11 mentors.
I need this opportunity so I can put it in place my dream business now, without the costly help of suppliers; also to answer this inside call of mine, to give back to the world by helping people grow, and especially to give my kids the best lifestyle: more quality time with their parents, and to show them you must do what you want in life and that success IS possible.
Thanks for the hope : )
Nat
Hello Rich,
Well, no “sob story” here, I just thought I’d answer this from a different viewpoint, and explain why I might NOT be a good choice to get the the really outstanding prize you’re offering in this contest.
You see, over the last 20 years, I’ve had resonably successful “careers”, in 4 different industries offline, at six different companies. Two out of four of those careers were in fields that have crashed and burned. One was in a position that has been basically eliminated worldwide, due to advances in computer software. The least was problematic was the fourth one. This was in an industry that, through changes in a state government program in Florida, only resulted in the loss of thousands of jobs and the closing of hundreds of companies, in this state. Of course, the thousands of people in that field that were laid off in Florida, resulted in competion for jobs nationwide increasing dramatically, even if I had wanted to move.
Currently, I’ve devised an online program that offers excellent value at a great price, and is targeted towards online and offline marketers. It is in a highly competitive field, but my efforts are already starting to show some results. Although I have a bit more than a basic knowledge of online marketing to help get my product and website noticed, and get my potential clients interested enought to purchase the service, I still feel I have a lot to learn. I believe attending this event will give my marketing knowledge the boost it needs to improve my rankings, responses and conversions to the point where this will be my new, successful career.
Now, as to why I may not be a great choice for the prize. Really, for many reasons, I might appear to be a good choice. I learn quickly, I’m not afraid to work hard and smart, and to put in the time needed to get the results I’m looking for. Plus, I have a sincere desire to succeed, while providing great value to my clients.
The problem is, through no fault of my own, every industry or postion I’ve had success in has in one way or the other crashed, burned, died and been buried. Of course, I don’t believe this was my fault in any way (not really), or some kind of cosmic bad karma following me around (at least I hope not) however, there does seem to be trend developing. If you do choose me, and I wind up attending the conference, and use the information I learn to make my online business wildly successful, you may be in danger of being responsible for causing the rapid demise of the whole field of internet marketing!
Personally, I’d just like to say, that if you’re willing to take that kind of risk, so am I. Either way, I’m involved in this field now, and I’ll be working hard to succeed in it, so the consequences may be the same either way. But, if you do decide to give me the grand prize, or one of the runner up prizes, I just don’t want to hear any complaints when the whole internet crashes.
Thanks for the opportunity, and I hope you’ll take the chance. With my tongue firmly in my cheek…
Cheers,
Jack
Rich
It is so great to watch your videos right up there with the Bob Proctor. Any way I really think I should be chosen for this seminar. Why? Because I asked. And because I deserve a chance. I am ready to prove to myself that there are people who will help me do what I came to this planet to achieve. I do not know if it is you or not but it would be an honor for it to be you Rich. I feel that your heart and mind is looking for others who have a huge desire to succeed and serve where they will shine the most. I know you will enjoy helping me find the most successful way to help myself. And change the world and the world of those that have contact with me. I am an influencer in disguise and with help I will do great thinks with my new found Financial Success. I congratulate your winners. I know I belong in that category I will do great things with my life I will get there you can help me get there sooner. Rich you are very generous with all your offers that I want to do something for you. What can I do for you? Thanks for reading this Juanita Waterman
RICH SCHEFRIN IS SECRETLY A LEPRICHAUN
You look like a normal guy, Rich, but are you secretly a Leprichaun? Because there you are standing next to the proverbial pot of gold. This really is the ‘end of the rainbow.’
This Does sound like the most amazing event I’ve ever heard of. I know most of these Guru’s – either because I own something they teach, or because I’ve seen them speak. All I can say is WOW. Yes this is truly the ‘A’ level for Internet Marketing. Here’s what I know from my own experience:
1) John Carlton is hilarious, witty, down to earth and an incredible teacher of copy writing. I own his course, I think he’s fantastic and I am very excited because he is planning on teaching his special workshop in a new and interactive way that will bring the art of copy writing home to the CELLULAR LEVEL.
2) Jeff Walker is THE GUY when it comes to product launches. He’s made people a $ million + in JUST HOURS.
3) Mike Filsame really knows what he’s talking about. I own his 7 Figure code and it literally has given me form for my business.
4) Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins of Stompernet are the bomb. These guys know more about traffic generation than anyone. Just watching their videos has put me at the top of my chosen search terms.
5) Jay Abraham is the ‘Godfather’ of business building strategies. He is pure genius and is literally a factory for amazing business strategies. I have seen him speak on several occasions, and it is always a treat.
6) Rich Schefrin – You are the real deal. The manifestos and everything else you offer your readers is pure gold to anyone who uses it. More than anything, or anyone else, you have helped me to organize my thinking and be more effective. Thank you!
7) I can’t believe this is a pitch free event, this is unheard of. With this line-up of luminaries it would be a bargain at 3 times the price. Most events are all about selling you more stuff. This is the end of the trail folks – the real pot of gold.
Finally, while I have not always had the money to be in every seminar I wanted to be in, I have never let that stop me. I have volunteered and worked for companies that put me in the rooms where these GURUS have spoken and presented because I KNEW I needed this information. I WANT TO BE THERE! Not only that but I will USE the information (I mean really, isn’t it frustrating to offer quality info and have many people leave it to collect dust?)
My business is getting there, but I want it to get there faster, and I am totally willing and committed to doing whatever it takes to make that happen.
Thank you for this opportunity to share, and I’d love to be your next poster child success story.
Aura
PS – If you don’t choose me, I’m sure you need great event staff, and I am willing to work to learn!
Hi Rich,
Thank you for your generosity. Why would I like to receive a free VIP pass to your wonderful Strategic Profits Event? Simple and to the point here:
~ Finances … I plan to attend the main event but do not
have the finances to purchase the full event.
~ Business Strategy… I am a Holistic Health and Lifestyle
Coach. I have written classes and designed
a main website and membership website.
The sites are not connected/completed yet.
I have also formulated a small line of whole
foods drink mixes and am the manufacturer
of these. I have another website up for these.
http://www.Vivez-LIVE.com
I have come to overload! I need a coach,
a professional in marketing and more. Maybe
even a business partner.
~ Lead and I will follow …With your expertise and these
many others at this event, simply put:
LEAD and I WILL ACT.
Thank you for this opportunity.
Bev Montgomery
http://www.LeNaturelSecrets.com
Hi Rich
I hope that you like our Maven-Making recipe.
Ingredients:
1 1 married couple striving to succeed in their online business
2 Seven World Class Mavens
3 1 cup of desire
4 1 pot of Life’s Challenges
5 1 Tablespoon Creativity
6 Grain of Salt
7 Spice of Life
Directions:
1 Take couple and drop in the pot full of life’s challenges, Keep at full boil until all nay-sayers and negativity evaporate.
2 Mix in cup of desire. More may be added as needed.
3 Carefully add in Mavens one at a time, stirring occasionally for 7 full days.
4 Add in creativity as needed for taste
5 Remove Mavens in the Making from the pot and monitor carefully for 6 months to ensure they are well-cooked.
6 Using a grain of salt, season with the spice of life and serve using social media to starving clients.
The point is Rich, we have finally figured out what we want to do. With the help of Jay’s materials, we have started to develop a business promoting our clients using social media. We are starting to develop our customer base. The problem is we are the voice crying in the wilderness of information overload, and we cannot seem to rise above the crowd.
That’s where you come in. We have most of the pieces needed to run our business, but the question is how do we fit everything together. Thus the need for the conference and all of the extras. We have the recipe, and most of the ingredients. We just need some help writing the directions.
Love in Christ
Teresa Blaes
Why Do I Deserve to Win an All-Access VIP Pass to Your Disney Event?
In a nutshell, because professionals, knowledge workers, managers and supervisors, executives and entrepreneurs in organizational shapes and sizes all around the world will be the real winners and beneficiaries of your programs, workshops, materials and help!
Why do I say others will benefit if I’m the person who “wins” your contest?
Because I know I have the ability, willingness to make the commitment and the burning desire needed to take full advantage of the private workshops, the deep, expansive lessons of the advanced sessions, the six month, intensive marketing maven build-out, tutorial and coaching support from Rich and Jay and the take-away materials we produce.
In addition to all of those reasons, it’s my prospective, current and future clients who will truly reap the benefits of your workshops and training programs because you will help me to effectively reach out and touch their lives.
Let me be a bit more specific.
By becoming a marketing maven in my Divinely-inspired vocation of providing leadership development, training and coaching support, the personal and professional lives of my clients will be enriched, empowered and engaged in making the significant contributions their corporations, public and community service agencies, and entrepreneurial ventures crave and desire from their effective, innovative, evolutionary leadership.
I’d like to tell you more about my vocation and why I yearn for significance in these pursuits.
The late, great Peter F. Drucker, in his “Innovation and Entrepreneurship” explained, the model of technology changed from a basis of physical capability to that of understanding (and therefore optimizing, leveraging or synergizing) the biologic processes occurring within an ecological niche.
While Drucker’s observation implied an attention on the physical technologies and sciences, the new model also applied to the social sciences and social technology – such as, economics, management, the law, anthropology, psychology and others.
Now, you’re probably wondering why I’m discussing Drucker’s ideas – it’s simple, really, I have found revolutionary, yet pretty effective ways to apply this new technology model to the dissecting, analyzing and repairing of organizational dynamics, human behavior and various management practices.
Do you understand what this means?
Here’s what I’m talking about.
“As we think of this coming new world we must think of the challenge that we confront and the new responsibilities that stand before us. We must prepare to live in a new world.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. August 11, 1956
As the world of commerce, volunteerism, governance and public service continually grows more complex, today’s leaders are desperate for and demand new, effective ways to guide, engage, empower, encourage and prepare their followers.
Leaders no longer have the luxury of working with homogeneous, blindly loyal employees who look, think and act the same or who come from the same place.
To remain competitive, be productive and sustainable, leaders must inspire, emotionally and intellectually connect and empathize with people from different countries, cultures, ethnic and racial groups and sexes and sexual orientations.
But the real problem is this…
Where will leaders find the tools, techniques, strategies, policies, resources and processes to help them develop and leverage the competencies, resourcefulness and productivity of their employees?
How will leaders tap into, draw forth and eventually refine the wealth of diverse experiences, unique talents, innovative potential and spiritual resources of their people?
And that’s not all.
Who is willing and able to pull together, cost-effectively manage and efficiently deliver and provide the new types of support materials, service systems and programmed solutions called-for in this emerging market?
Where can leaders throughout all levels of an organization find ways to be educated, coached, developed and consulted with and mentored on a continuing basis?
The focus of my specialty, the depth, scope and breadth of my authority, and the nexus of my sweet spot is the attention I pay to a leader’s personal collection of quantum, relativistic, synergetic and capacitive potentials.
In short, my clients move from applying themselves just physically up to energetically, powerfully and essentially illuminating avenues of opportunities, robust solutions and multiple facets of hopeful realities for their followers.
Here are more reasons why your programs will help me to help my clients grow and prosper.
Clients perceive the value of my approaches as an order of magnitude expansion of their leadership impact – the concepts, principles and strategies they assimilate empower them to improve their effectiveness, lead others through a wider range of situations and challenges and increase the power and influence of their group.
As a designer, analyst, developer and provider of leading-edge services, systems, tools, educational materials, trend-setting ideas, methods and approaches, my creative, collaborative, communicative and commitment-oriented personality makes me well-suited to become a maven in the leadership development and innovation strategy marketplace.
For what it’s worth, my life story includes an abundance of pilgrimages, experiences, adventures and lessons learned – these treasures were acquired through my 40-year career as a VISTA Volunteer and community leader, restaurant manager, technology professional and operations executive living in 18 states and 4 foreign nations as well as working with and leading people of different cultures in and travelling to 75 countries.
The bottom line is simply this.
My life’s goal is to be recognized as the “Maven” who energizes, leverages and develops the Innovative, Evolutionary Leadership of organizations, professionals, executives and entrepreneurs – this goal is worthy of my God-given talents, abilities, vision and desires!
I have created and am still creating my own unique technology, wordology, concepts, approaches, methodology, strategy and factors like metrics, analysis and assessment criteria to help my clients become the successes they were meant to be!
Thank you, Rich, for considering my entry.
God bless you for providing us with this opportunity to improve our lives,
Bill Thomas
Rich,
As I sit here trying to compile all my thoughts into a cogent letter that explains why I deserve to win an all-access VIP pass to your Disney Event, I almost feel like I need a pre-event event just to help me wade through all the clutter in my mind, gather my thoughts effectively, and compile them in a way that truly conveys why I deserve to win.
You see, as someone that’s had a small amount of success, I know how overwhelming an experience it can be to try and find the golden nuggets of information that will allow me to accelerate my personal and business’ growth dramatically.
As you already know, there’s SO MUCH information and SO MANY gurus out there talking about what it takes to grow a business. Then add the EVER-GROWING supply of Staples-like ‘Easy Buttons’ that promise to be the ‘silver bullet’ and the fledgling entrepreneur’s life becomes a never-ending game of Mouse Trap.
So, what does all this have to do with me deserving to win?
First, I deserve to win because I’m a doer. In spite of this glut of information, gurus, and products, I continue to wade through it all, looking for those few golden nuggets that will unlock the doors to accelerated growth for both me and my business.
Second, I deserve to win because I recognize the value of what’s being offered and will immediately apply the knowledge I’ll gain. You see, in my quest to become a maven in my niche, I’ve studied each of your guest speakers, have applied their teachings, and KNOW they work.
That being said, they each teach different aspects of what it takes to grow a business and trying to create a comprehensive strategy that incorporates their respective specialties has seemed like rocket science. The opportunity to have these experts all on the same stage, teaching their specialties TOGETHER would be a live version of ‘Super-Charged Business Building for Dummies.’
Third, I deserve to win because I would take the knowledge I gained from this experience back to my niche and convert it into numerous tools, techniques, and resources that would help them dramatically improve their own lives and businesses.
You see, my primary reason for wanting to become a maven in my market is so I can help others achieve the success they desire. I know intimately the struggles and challenges facing anyone looking to start a business in today’s marketplace and I want to be a source of quality, useable information for countless others. Winning your all-access VIP invitation will dramatically accelerate my journey to making that goal a reality.
Finally, in addition to the reasons why I DESERVE to win, my entry wouldn’t be complete without citing the reasons why I simply WANT to win.
First, I want to win because I want an opportunity to network with so many other like-minded entrepreneurs. Struggling to grow a business and become a maven in my marketplace can be a lonely journey at times. An event like yours would be a welcome retreat from the long and lonely nights of plugging away, wondering if it will all be worth it someday.
Second, I want to win because I have no doubt it will have a DRAMATIC effect on my business. Having the opportunity to listen to and pick the brains of so many experienced business experts at one time would provide me with a detailed action plan for taking the MASSIVE ACTION required to achieve phenomenal growth.
Third, I want to win simply because I know it would be an experience unlike anything I’ve ever experienced previously. I’ve attended numerous seminars in the past and each time I’ve walked away with at least one golden nugget of valuable information. However, I’ve NEVER seen as strong a NO-PITCH lineup as this and I would relish every single minute of the experience.
So, in spite of my NOT having attended a pre-event event to help me cut through my own mental clutter, I hope I’ve conveyed clearly the reasons I not only DESERVE to win, but also WANT to win.
Wading through the vast amounts of available information is a HUGE challenge for any entrepreneur, especially those of us still working to piece it all together. An opportunity like this would provide a considerable advantage to anyone lucky enough to participate.
Hoping to see you soon!
Chestin
Mr. Rich Schefren,
Firstly, I want to thank you for the opportunity to participate in your Win-Win or in other words; impossible to fail Contest. At least to me, You appear to have the Midas Touch in breeding success. When I realized your concept for the contest was designed to ensure that every participant succeeds. I really admire that attribute in you. I hope I am fortunate enough to be the big winner because I have to BE THERE! and I have to be a VIP. I believe it is my divine right to be at the “New Beginnings: Growing Beyond Me-Too” from Friday, February 22nd until the following Friday, February 29, 2008. I have something that I am suppose to give and there is definiately a wealth of information, knowledge and relationships waiting to be ignited and unleashed..
I am so confident that I am suppose to be at this event, on February 4th when I first heard about the event I bought my roundtrip plane ticket and paid for my hotel. I am scheduled to check-in , Friday, February 22nd and check-out Friday, February 29th. That being said, I have already succeeded by posting this comment to your blog. I’m so excited about this I can hardly sleep a night. I know that when I step on the airplane to return home I will be thanking god for all the goodness and greatness that lies ahead after being transformed from this event.
The time is NOW. April 25th will mark a Big one for me. I MUST get established in my internet marketing business which I plan to use some of the profits to fund scholarships and housing for foster teens that become emancipated at 18 years old. Hence, they are kicked out of the system with no place to go. I’m, currently building a 4 bedroom and 2 bath house where I will be housing 6 of these young adults within the next 3 to 6 months. Although I received notice of the contest yesterday I felt I could and would give it a go. I had planned to write a concise, well thought out letter but this is the best that I could do for now. Again, thank you for this opportunity and your consideration. I am confident that my presence will contribute to the dynamics and I envision a valued and long association.
To Success,
Arbe
Dear Rich and Jay,
I like to make money – a lot of it.
Shocking! Sound greedy?
You bet I am greedy; guilty as charged!
Wow, all the negatives come to mind including stinginess, self-indulgence, materialism and gluttony. Hold on a minute lets define the term greed. Greed is also defined as a longing, a desire and a passion.
In the words of Michael Douglas AKA Gordon Gekko (in the 1987 film Wall Street), “… greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Greed is right.
Greed works.
Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
Greed, in all of its forms — greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge — has marked the upward surge of mankind.”
I do not apologize for being greedy.
A lot of us have a hard time praising or selling ourselves because we feel as though it is arrogant. It is a necessary responsibility for us as business people or entrepreneurs to make others take notice of our skills, talents and work. Very few of us have been encouraged or taught to praise ourselves. It is OK to honor, celebrate and appreciate yourself. It is actually a pretty smart strategy to convince others of our value.
Rich and Jay, I want you to be certain you have made the right choice when you chose me for the VIP pass to the New Beginnings event. I have compiled a list of what I call the ‘top ten’ reasons you can be assured I am the best choice:
10. I make a commitment, roll up my sleeves and go to work.
9. I give impeccable service.
8. I complete thorough fact-finding research including asking the ‘tough’ questions.
7. I develop an expertise and present myself professionally.
6. I am a trusted advisor and share my experiences.
5. I am known as a relationship person.
4. I do what works.
3. I am genuine and authentic in my interactions.
2. I am positive.
1. I believe in myself.
Warmest regards
David
Hi Rich,
No one can have escaped the signs, perhaps even the effects of an economic down-turn. There are three kinds of entrepreneurs who will make it through the slump; those who profit from a down-turn, those who are sharp business people, or those who are both. I would like to think that I fall into the last category, or at least into the first. I don’t offer people ways of making more money, but offer solutions for living with less. The outcome is the same for most clients: a better standard of living for those who seek the down-sizing approach.
My website tag line is “productivity, creativity, sustainability – self-reliant living in the 21st century”. I am already on the way to becoming a maven in my field (google result for “self-reliant living”: #6 and climbing), one that is growing in this uncertain world. I inspire people to be what they want to be without costing the earth, and give them tools for self-reliance. But I know my own limitations. I want to run my business as efficiently and lucratively (is that a proper word?) as possible. Everyone aspires to a more comfortable life. I’m no exception, and I would like to free up more time and acquir the resources to pursue personal goals. This is where help from marketing experts, like yourself and the other speakers, will take me to that next level, by teaching me how to leverage the available resources, be they human, technical, knowledge or tools. That will be my take-away, the result of which will be a business benefiting myself (and other beneficiaries of my increased wealth) and more clients with better and more solutions. It’s a win-win-win…. situation.
Why do I deserve to win? Like a number of contestants here, I have a track record as someone who learns and applies, tests and tweaks good IM practices, I’m gutsy and have the potential and drive to get to the top in my chosen field. There is plenty, and more detailed, evidence of my achievements to date on my website. The training won’t be wasted on me either; what little free RIA material I have applied, has quadrupled my subscriber number, and raised traffic, stickiness, SE hits, page views per visitor and income within a few weeks compared to the plateau figures of the preceding year. I would be a fool not to apply the teaching, and I’m no fool.
There remains one question: why me and not someone else? There is one more win situation – you.
I suspect you recall my name from the comment section of another page. I don’t pull any punches. I won’t apologize, I meant what I said, and I won’t grovel now because I want to win this contest. I didn’t know you from Adam at the time, and as a potential prospect I want proof that you offer value. But credit where its due, and since then I have listened to the phone call and seen videos and read your reports, so I now know that you offer plenty of value. But here is my point, if you award the prize to a cheeky monkey like me, you will not only be seen as generous, but also magnanimous ;-). Secondly, my credit card is nearly maxed out, and I can’t presently scrape together enough money for the event. I’ve seen the Jeff Walker video, so you probably know where this is going…..
In closing, I’d like to share one of my many mottoes with other readers: “Don’t seek the star, be the star”. Personally, I am happy to be a sparkling star in a constellation of other luminaries, but not content to be a dark, drab, lifeless moon just borrowing the light of the sun.
Cheers,
Judy (of the woods)
PS If I don’t make it into the first place (frankly, I would be puzzled, but your reasons would be yours), I would be happy with the Homestudy System as a second prize, since there isn’t enough on my credit card presently to get me to Florida either. It will get me hooked though, and raise my income to the level where I can afford to purchase courses or seminars in the future.
PPS I just gave you the opportunity to be even more magnanimous.
Rich, Hi.
It is February 15th and time is running out, so I must preface this posting with what I beleive Tolstoy wrote to Checkov at the beginning of a 20 page letter: “I apologize for the length of this letter but I just did not have time to write a shorter one”…
Before talking about why I am the best choice for a VIP invitation to Orlando, I want to express my appreciation and gratitude for your integrity, your willingness to learn, to reveal your mistakes and to share your knowledge. It is a real pleasure and an inspiration, to encounter someone who truly practices what they preach to the extent that you do, and this is a significant factor in wanting to attend the EXPLOSIVE Orlando event as your personal guest.
The fact of the matter is that without this VIP invitation I will not be able to come to the USA for the program (no dramatic sob story, just the way it is). Since I knew there would be a lot of worthy competitors and I might not be selected, I chose to view this contest as a personal invitation – from you to me – to examine myself as deeply and honestly as I can, and to discover within myself the reasons why I am indeed the best choice to be your guest at the program.
I found a passionate desire to seize this transformative opportunity and plunge off the edge of the cliff, aided by the expert nudging of the Magician and his friends (as in Tom McCarthy’s metaphorical story). This magical theme is further reflected in Disney World, which is a particularly illustrative example of turning ones’ vision into a tangible reality – which is precisely my purpose in attending this event.
My vision is to harness the viral communicative power of the Web (and Web 2.0), as a highly accessible platform to provide people around the world with tools for successful living, to help them resolve problems, overcome challenges, find meaning and actualize themselves.
This vision has fueled most of my adult and professional life, and my ability to actualize it is firmly grounded in over two decades of success, innovation and entrepreneurship as a clinical and cross-cultural psychologist, social scientist, organizational consultant, trainer and spiritual teacher.
The time is right for me to actualize this vision on a much grander scale and the internet as an ideal delivery system to do so — and this vision is as realistic as the Wright’s brother’s burning desire to fly. After all, how practical did their vision seem to be before they succeeded?
So, how will this program support my business aspirations?
Janet Switzer’s workshop will give me the specific actionable knowledge that I need to effectively translate my vision into marketable products and services. The main event will give me a concentrated dose of cutting-edge knowledge, taught by the sharpest minds and most successful people in Internet Marketing and business development. This will expand and deepen my understanding of Internet marketing, exposing me to the best ways in which to get my message, my products and services to those who will benefit from it.
Finally, your transformative program with Jay (the “Guru-Making Workshop”) will profoundly re-engineer and shape how I position and express myself in my market, and by catapulting me to Mavenhood, will be a pivotal key to actualizing my vision.
Last but not least, are the relationships and business connections that I will forge at Orlando. These will be a tremendous asset, since the active involvement of partners and collaborators is a crucial factor in turning my vision and business aspiration into reality.
One final note.
The Orlando program as is going to be electrifying and transformative, but my follow through on it will be the critical factor in my success. That will be the real test. I therefore plan to use your coaching and business acceleration programs, together with the 6 month Maven program follow-up, as additional support and expert guidance to fully develop, launch and skyrocket my global business, which will provide people around the world with effective and accessible tools for successful living.
If I am not selected to be your guest at Orlando, I will continue to pursue my vision with the same intensity, purposefulness and dedication. However, as Tom McCarthy’s concluded his metaphorical story at the end of the Business Acceleration program, the magician only helped his pupils to remember what they already knew – they could have discovered it on their own – but he sure saved them a heck of a long time by pushing them off the cliff !
At age 54 (on March 2), I want to drastically shorten my learning curve and accelerate my ability to manifest the results I seek. Please consider me as your worthy guest at Orlando.
Sincerely,
Yishai Jesse Almog, ISRAEL
Gentlemen,
I called in to your first, Becoming a Maven in Your Market, teleseminar, also to the second and third attempts, and finally to the fourth. I must admit that I dissed you guys on the Blog for the disorganization but I stuck with you because I had been very impressed with the content of your 3-part Internet Manifesto and your two-part Attention Age Doctrine (I felt as if you had been sitting behind me in my home office) and because I was also aware of and was impressed by Jay Abraham’s marketing prowess.
I was very intrigued by your initial teleseminar, your proposal, and I appreciated that there was a lot of value in the content and guidance you offered. However, with my present commitments and budget constraints I felt there was no way I could afford the cost of the home-study course, let alone going to Orlando.
It was your final teleseminar that got me thinking seriously about the present situation I find myself in. I have one business operating successfully and another on the drawing board. My new venture has at its core a unique and proven practical approach to resolving a habit that literally millions of people are constantly battling and one for which they are actively seeking solutions.
Working alone is difficult, as you made clear in The Manifesto, and I realized beyond any doubt, that this endeavor of mine would benefit greatly from your program, enabling me to propel my business and myself to significantly greater heights than I could achieve on my own. Considering your generous offer, the likelihood that it wouldn’t ever be offered at this pricing again together with the fact that you provided a very manageable payment plan, I realized that in another year I would be able to look back on how investing in you would have returned better dividends than any I’ve made in the past so I signed up for your home course without further delay.
I sincerely would have liked to commit to the three day seminar in Orlando and I was particularly struck by your brief description of what I call experience learning – the interactive learning experience of hands-on working in groups as opposed to the standard lecture-based and note taking. It can teach complex material better than any other method but is so rarely used as a teaching tool outside of the trades.
Your seven-day event promises to be outstanding.
I believe that I deserve to win an all-access VIP pass to your Disney event because:
I am already committed to devoting myself to developing a very successful internet based business over the coming year.
I believe that associating with and learning from successful entrepreneurs, and acting on their wisdom is the quickest pathway to achieve my own success.
I am convinced that my success will be multiplied with the knowledge I’ll acquire by having the opportunity to interact directly with you and your prominent guest speakers by being present in Orlando.
The service I want to provide to people in distress has a use value that will help so many to change their lives for the better and I need all the guidance I can get to find the best way to accomplish this for their benefit and mine.
I will come away from my intensive learning experience in Orlando with a detailed road map to follow in developing my business for the year ahead.
I will become one of your success stories, one you can use as a testimonial to encourage more people to sign up for your seminars and coaching in the coming years.
Thank-you, Tony
“When you become a master of focus, you become a master of life” Christopher Howard
Hi Rich! Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this conversation and exciting contest!
My most profound breakthroughs in life have come from gaining a greater awareness of who I am as an individual (the good, the bad, and the ugly), while acknowleging and accepting how my beliefs, habits of thought, and perceptions have directly impacted the results in my life and business. A problem well stated is a problem half solved. After coming to terms with the present and loving my self unconditionally, I have cleared the path for miracles of joy, gratitude, abundance and self-expression beyond comprehension. It has been journey, and I am on the high road to realizing my big vision with each passing day!
I first entertained the idea of making extra money on-line while going to school full-time. This was also when I began to explore the wonderful world of personal development.
Since then, I probably attempted success with at least a dozen side businesses to compensate for a mental garden that cultivated lack, need, and incongruency. What’s worse is that I had little to no business and marketing experience and had not yet identified with the concept of taking responsibility for my life. I was a victim, blown and tossed by the wind. I associated responsibility with fault, guilt and punishment. I felt like a Marionette Puppet, controlled by the strings of circumstance, time and my dysfunctional model of the world.
I was introduced to the Internet Manifesto Report while still very cynical, discouraged, and thirsting for the missing link in the chain of disappointments and failures I had experienced in the past. The insight, clarity and raw uncensored input you provided was a real turning point for me! You challenged us to challenge the status quo, think on our feet, and direct our attention to variables and functions that made the greatest difference in our business models, processes, or lack thereof.
As it was with Cinderella and the glass slipper, one size does not fit all when it comes to getting results in a specific business and niche. There are so many other factors involved in order to be successful.
It was the reality check of the century for me. My biggest takeaway was coming to terms with the fact that my website (in and of itself) was not a business. I was not in business. I was in a self-deluded, stuck state and needed to further develop certain skills, do a lot more homework and get some specialized input from someone in my niche if I was really going to transform my castle in the clouds to a city on a hill. I kinda teetered back and forth in this space for a while until I began learning to harness my attention and focus at will.
“When you become a master of focus, you become a master of life!” Christopher Howard
There are so many congruencies between the word focus and attention. Attention is the process whereby a person concentrates on some feature of his or her environment to the relative exclusion of everything else, while focus is the concentration of attention or energy on a thing. Focus is also the maximum clarity or distinctness of an image. Attention and focus has made all of the difference for me, especially this past year. I have been studying the processes and philosophies of an amazing teacher named Christopher Howard. His technologies are designed to strengthen and direct one’s attention in ways that support their desired outcomes. (That’s probably why I am here today and managed to research and complete this document before the deadline.)
The Attention Doctrine 2 is a force to be reckoned with, Rich! More about that later……..
I understand the importance of first knowing and accepting where you are before establishing where you are going. I am also familiar with the amazing power of creativity.
“Life is a pure adventure and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art….We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.” Maya Angelou
I first learned about Jay Abraham while working a temp assignment at an insurance company in downtown New Orleans. I discovered him through Michael Masterson’s Early to Rise newsletter. I was ecstatic beyond belief when first introduced to his business building strategies, processes, ideologies, and innovative ideas. I instantly created an association to his ideologies with my life, community and sustainability. I appreciated the fact that he valued taking all of the risk and always having the client’s best interest at heart independent of any external factors that might get in the way of coming from such an empathetic and authentic space.
“Original form is alive with creative energy and is constantly producing more form…There is no limit to the supply of formless stuff or original substance..” Wallace Wattles
Mr. Abraham has the unique ability to see a business from a quantum perspective and teach others how to do the same. I was introduced to the concept of leverage, optimization strategies, geometric growth, joint venture relationships, and strategic alliances from him. Now the phrasology and processes are a natural part of my marketing arsenal.
I don’t believe it is by accident that the New Beginnings training intensive is being held at Disney World, the happiest place on earth!
Walt Elias Disney clearly exemplified many of the character distinctions and building blocks of personality so simply taught by you and Jay in the Marketing Maven Program. Disney was a puppeteer, researcher, prodigy, voice behind the orchestra, futurist, and family man. I say these only to name a few. Many of us aspire to master 1 or 2 of these roles with excellence during the course of our careers. The ideals his name represents are imagination, optimism, creation, innovation, fun and self-made success in the American tradition!….Walt’s optimism came from his unique ability to see the big picture.” Just Disney
Does this sound like anyone you know?
“What we give our attention to we ultimately become and inevitably create in our lives.” Natascha Bolden :)
Over the past three or so years I have given attention to my own personal development and the incremental building of an enterprise designed to navigate individuals though the information soup and distractions of life from self-awareness to the fullness and freedom of self-expression, utilization, resourcefulness, the philosophy of sustainability, and contribution.
Back to the Attention Doctrine 2 from a perspective of humanity.
I am currently working with an organization called the Green Institute for Village Empowerment (G.I.V.E.) http://www.greenvalleynow.org founded by Ali Sahabi. G.I.V.E. supports and promotes sustainable communities and green practices in life and business. Sahabi had a vision to transform seemingly useless old silica mines into a multi-generational, multi-cultural and environmental friendly center of community and commerce in the Inland Empire region of Southern California. Sahabi and his team have literally brought the “Web 2.0 concept” as it relates to Village Empowerment to fruition in everyday living. They focus on engaging the community, utilization, and leveraging our most precious resources to benefit us on a molecular and global scale.
Rich and Jay, you have an unwavering commitment to integrity, transparency and a genuine interest in the success of those who truly deserve it (and by deserve I mean those who are uniquely qualified in mind, body, spirit and purpose with the clarity, commit, and drive to carry their fondest dreams and aspirations through to completion with reckless abandon no matter what obstacles they may face or how long the journey may be). Your outstanding business and marketing acumen coupled with your faculties of creativity have built for us a yellow brick road of promise on an amazing journey of self-discovery, self-expression, and contribution to the wellness of others by design.
I deserve to be the best Natascha I can truly be! In fact, it is my God-given responsibility. I am a V.I.P. (Very Important Person), aren’t we all? I would very much like to be your guest at this training event, Rich! In all of your teachings you are both very process oriented, as am I. It is about the journey not the destination. I wish to measure myself against myself, create win/win outcomes and an overflow of abundance in my life and the lives of those I serve. I am a fellow researcher, analyst, importer, creator, advocate, innovator, intellectual and visionary. I implement what I learn and have tremendous vision and drive. I am very generous with my ideas and am extremely coachable. I firmly believe in the Advanced Strategy of Preeminence, the power attention has on our world, practicing and teaching the diligent application core principles/philosophies that promote personal development and paradigm shifts not only in business but in relationships, families, communities, the nation and ultimately the world.
“Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve!” Napoleon Hill
We are all one. I have learned so much and continue to go after imitating the heart and character of Jesus, Brian Tracy, Jim Rohn, Chris Howard, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Pierce, Bob Proctor …..well, too many to mention here. The list could go on and on and I am eternally grateful. I’ve got lots of tools under my belt and the potential to contribute something amazing in my lifetime! I am in want of very specific direction in achieving that end. I believe in taking the long-term perspective to growth and development.
I’m ready to take it to the next level! There are billions of problems to be solved and an equal number of solutions just waiting to happen. I have heard and read about of lot of the teachers that will be participating in the event including Mike Filsaime and Janet Switzer. I would appreciate the opportunity to connect and work with them in some way. I want to participate in a mastermind team and brain trust. Oh and did I mention that I am also a singer! I can perform a set for the amazing networking party gratis as an expression of my gratitude! …….Wow, I’m really going overboard here. Did I just say that?
I have acres of diamonds in the palm of my hand and plenty to spare! Want some?
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/rconwellacresofdiamonds.htm
Well, some of them still look clearly like lumps of coal or somewhere in between (actually the vast majority could use a little work:0), but many of them are truly a sight for sore eyes to see!
In closing I would like to end my submission with some powerful words of wisdom and inspiration.
“Well, we’re convinced we must start with the public need..and the need is not just of curing old ills of old cities. We think the need is for starting from scratch on virgin land and building a community that will become a prototype for the future.” Walt Elias Disney
Life……I mean Web/Marketing 2.0 and the Power of Leverage… at its finest!
Cheers!
Natascha
Hi Rich,
My name is Peter Kolat. You probably recognize my name by now as I have been entering your contests, writing on your blog and around the internet. I’ve been writing about you and what you are doing to help us break the success barrier.
Keep on reading because I will tell you how I used the information in your BAP program to start a viral effect for your upcoming seminar. Before I get into that, let me tell you why I should win the privilege to be a VIP guest at the seminar.
Earlier this year, in my BAP contest entry, I wrote a letter from you to me. Yes, it was from you to me :) That letter showed the results of what I have already done to prove to you that I am worthy of your prize. I took your reports and incorporated the information contained in them into my business with great success.
However, I have to admit that I did not win the BAP prize. So I bought it :) It’s the next best thing. Once I received the program at home, I went ahead and started going through the program. That brought me here, to my next challenge.
One of the topics that you and one of your speakers, Mike Filsaime do so well, is viral marketing. Your messages, reports, programs, and seminars spread like wild fires. So, I took on a challenge to spread my own fire for this seminar.
Proof: (Click on the link below)
Click
here for the Warrior Forum topic
As of the time of writing this entry, my topic is one of the hottest topics on the warrior forum. There are over 515 people who read my message with 33 comments and counting. People like Jeff Walker, Frank Kern, Eric Louviere, and Jason Moffatt joined the conversation to spread the viral effect of the topic.
I think you probably know by now who I am because you joined that topic as well. IGoogle is a wonderful tool, isn’t it?
Thanks for that tip because I am using it myself as well.
**Side note: I know you enforce no sales pitches at your seminar but what I’ve gathered from the comments on that topic is that Frank Kern might be selling surf boards there. :)**
The reason why I should be one of your VIPs is because of the following 7 reasons:
1. I take action and I think I have proven to you that I do.
2. I am a real estate investor and entreprenuer. My heart goes out to everyone that is affected by the declining economy. People are loosing their houses to their banks and foreclosures are at highest levels I have ever seen. I have a plan to help as many people as possible. But I need your help to help me get the word out to the masses. I know that your BAP and the VIP access at your upcoming seminar will definately help me do that.
3. I am already incorporating social marketing into my business by following your footsteps. I know that the Disney seminar will give me that extra 5% to come out with a bang.
4. I did your Strengths Kolbe test. I know where I stand but I need you, Jay Abraham and Paul Scheele to make me over into a lean, mean and successful marketing machine. (Ohh, I finally stopped highlighting pages in my books. Mind maps are so much better. Thanks for that tip)
5. I will be your live testimonial at the event. There will be a Polish accent involved but a great testimonial nevertheless.
6. I believe that this will be my breakthrough event of my life. The possibilities are endless. The networking opportunities that I can gain from this event are enormous. I am ready to take the bull by the horns. Test me, please!
7. And last but not least, my birthday is on February 26th. I’ll be 31 years old and this would be the best gift ever. Oh, did I mention that I’m 100% Polish. Hey, if I can do it, then anybody can :)
So, there you are. That is why I should be one of your VIP guests. Right now, I am here in cold Michigan. My bags are packed and ready to fly. I want to be in the sunny Florida at the end of this month. I really, trully, and with all my heart, believe that I will be there.
Sincerely,
Peter Kolat
Hello Rich!
RE: The Disney Event
I have a mission, a vision, a plan and a message to share with the world! Right now I am in catch-up mode learning everything that I need to do it.
My career was interrupted by a near-fatal accident and brain injury several years ago. I have spent 14 years recovering and finding ways to heal myself. They said it couldn’t be done; but here I am.
I am now looking to surge out into the business world again with skills intact–matured and multiplied many times over by time and much life experience. I have a background in corporate and small business and studied marketing and advertising in college. And, I did have my own successful computer consulting company until the time of the accident.
I’m working in a niche area of the personal growth industry. I need some more information on information and multimedia product development; I need to understand the heartbeat of the internet marketing industry; and, I need to know how to make an impact on the world and get my message out.
Your stuff is great. I would be honored to work with you. This event is awsome and to the point. I’m starting life over. I can’t do it alone; but I CAN DO IT. I would be so grateful for this opportunity. If you give me the chance, I will make you proud.
I wish you the greatest Victory! Thank you for all that you do.
Yours very truly,
Louisa Page
P.S. I’m mountain time.
Hi!
My name is Maresa, I’m 15 years old, and I am probably the world’s leading expert in one certain area… that area is creating structures with big, plastic building blocks!
I hear you — you’re thinking “Big plastic blocks?!? What’s the big deal!†That’s because you haven’t seen what can be done with them yet!
http://www.youtube.com/user/LoveToBuild
This is the first video we made ourselves! (We learned it all and implemented it all this afternoon!) And THAT’S exactly why we need to become Mavens. Because manufacturing and marketing them is our family’s business, and after four long years of work and research, we are finally ready to bring them out into the marketplace.
I have built many amazing things, like a tree-house, a pirate ship, furniture, and even a pagoda! All these things were life-size, and you could go into and use all of them. I didn’t have to go to architecture school to learn how to build these things, and neither would you if you wanted to build them! All you would need is your imagination and a bunch of BuilderBLOX! (These are like ‘giant Legos®’, and are really amazing!)
http://www.BuilderBLOX.com
With them, you can build life size structures that you can actually go in and use! Like that castle you wanted when you were a kid, or that tall tower you’ve always wanted to build for the sole purpose of the satisfaction it would bring when you crashed it down! I have built structures that are over 20 feet high, and these Blox are made out of plastic!
The company is just starting up, and it’s basically a family business. We’re all trying our best to make it a success, because ‘giant Legos®’ are a really great idea! My Mom has been to several seminars, including Jay Abraham and Gary Halbert, but I haven’t gone to one yet. She had me start reading Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got, as part of our homeschool entrepreneurial project, and I’ve really found it informative. It’s mind-boggling how many businesses run by grown-ups don’t have a clue about putting customers first!
My Mom also spent hours dissecting Rich Schefren’s ‘The Attention Age Doctrine Vol.2’ line by line, because she said it was one of the very best long sales letters she had ever seen. All three of us are big fans of Jay Abraham! In fact, when we drive in the car, instead of listening to the radio, we’ll stick a Jay Abraham CD in the car player and listen to that!
When my Mom heard about the Marketing Maven Seminar, and that John Carlton was teaching a new course on copywriting she was very excited about it, because Jay Abraham is such a great teacher, and Rich is cutting-edge on the internet, and John is very intense and she studies his material industriously because “A great piece of copy is the best salesman you ever have. Anything else is secondary.†(R. Schefren). She really, really wanted to go to your Marketing Maven Seminar but we need to do our next production run and we recently found out that the plastic the blocks are made from has gone up 50% (!) from our first run in June, and she’s paying for two new injection molds for locking pegs and Mini-Blox at the same time. (And this is NOT a sob story, because we are really selling BLOX!) But, she had decided to temporarily cut back on expenses in order to be able to pay for them and keep prices from skyrocketing. I hope we win so my Mom (and my sister and I) can attend, and learn more about bringing B-I-G building to the children of America!
If we’re chosen as the winners, not only would we all be very grateful to you, but me and my sister would probably be the youngest Maven people you’d have! You would have a chance to test your program on us, and if it worked on a teenager and a 12 year old, it would be a great selling point!
My younger sister and I are a very important part of the business we’re starting, and it might be nice to have some smart, interested young people on board! Well, I hope we meet soon, and if not, I’ll bury my sorrows by building. (I’m thinking about making a cabin next!) Good-bye for now! (Hopefully I’ll be saying ‘Hello!’ to all, soon!)
Maresa Miller
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It’s Friday, February 15th, 2008 – 11:45 P.M. Mountain Time
Hello Rich!
RE: Strategic Profits Live! – Disney World, Orlando Florida
– February 23rd – 29th, 2008 — Contest #2
I have a mission, a vision, a plan and a message to share with the world! Right now I am in catch-up mode learning everything that I need to do it.
My career was interrupted by a near fatal accident and brain injury several years ago. I have spent 14 years recovering and finding new ways to heal myself. They said it couldn’t be done; but here I am.
I am now looking to surge out into the business world again. My skills are intact–matured and multiplied many times over by time and much life experience. I have a background in corporate and small business and have studied marketing and advertising in college. And, I did have my own successful computer consulting company until the time of the accident.
I am working in a niche area of the personal growth industry. What I need is more information on “information” and “multimedia” product development; I need to intimately understand the heartbeat of the internet marketing industry and web 2.0; and, I need to know how to make an impact on the world and get my message out.
Rich Schefren, you and Stragic Profits and Strategic Profits Live! with the Maven Marketing Intensive are it!
I would be honored to work with you. This event is awesome and to the point, the answer to my needs. I’m starting life over. I can’t do it alone; but I CAN DO IT. I would be so grateful for this opportunity. If you give me a chance, I will make you proud.
I wish you the GREATEST Victory! Thank you for all that you do.
Yours very truly,
Louisa Page
Hello, I just found out about this and would love to participate.
Hi! My name is Maresa, I’m 15 years old, and I am probably the world’s leading expert in one certain area… that area is creating structures with big, plastic building blocks!
I hear you — you’re thinking “Big plastic blocks?!? What’s the big deal!â€
That’s because you haven’t seen what can be done with them yet!
http://www.youtube.com/user/LoveToBuild
This is the first video we made ourselves! (We learned it all and implemented it all this afternoon and evening!) And THAT’S exactly why we need to become Mavens. Because manufacturing and marketing them is our family’s business, and after four long years of work and research, we are finally ready to bring them out into the marketplace.
I have built many cool things, like a tree-house, a pirate ship, all kinds of furniture, and even a pagoda! All these things were life-size, some were over 18 feet high, and you could go into and use all of them. I didn’t have to go to architecture school to learn how to build these things, and neither would you if you wanted to build them! All you would need is your imagination and a bunch of BuilderBLOX! (These are like ‘giant Legos®’, and are really amazing!) There’s a few photos here:
http://www.BuilderBLOX.com
With them, you can build life size structures that you can actually go in and use! Like that castle you wanted when you were a kid, or that tall tower you’ve always wanted to build for the sole purpose of the satisfaction it would bring when you crashed it down! I have built structures that are over 20 feet high, and these Blox are made out of plastic!
The company is just starting up, and it’s a family business. We’re all trying our best to make it a success, because ‘giant Legos®’ are a really great idea! My Mom has been to several seminars, including Jay Abraham and Gary Halbert, but I haven’t gone to one yet. She had me start reading Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got, as part of our homeschool entrepreneurial project, and I’ve really found it informative. It’s mind-boggling how many businesses run by grown-ups don’t have a clue about putting customers first!
My Mom also spent hours dissecting Rich Schefren’s ‘The Attention Age Doctrine Vol.2’ line by line, because she said it was one of the very best long sales letters she had ever seen. All three of us are big fans of Jay Abraham! In fact, when we drive in the car, instead of listening to the radio, we’ll stick a Jay Abraham CD in the car player and listen to that!
When my Mom heard about the Marketing Maven Seminar, and that John Carlton was teaching a new course on copywriting she was very excited about it, because Jay Abraham is such a great teacher, and Rich is cutting-edge on the internet, and John is very intense and she studies his material industriously because “A great piece of copy is the best salesman you ever have. Anything else is secondary.†(R. Schefren). She really, really wanted to go to your Marketing Maven Seminar but we need to do our next production run and we just found out that the plastic the blocks are made from has shot up 50% (!) from our first run in June, and she’s paying for two new super-expensive injection molds for locking pegs and Mini-Blox at the same time. (And this is NOT a sob story, because we are really selling BLOX!) But, she had decided to temporarily cut back on expenses in order to be able to pay for them and keep prices from skyrocketing.
I hope we win so my Mom (and my sister and I) can attend, and learn more about bringing B-I-G building to the children of America!
If we’re chosen as the winners, not only would we all be very grateful to you, but me and my sister would probably be the youngest Mavens you’d have! You would have a chance to test your program on us, and if it worked on a teenager and a 12 year old, it would be a great selling point!
My younger sister and I are a very important part of the business we’re starting, and it might be nice to have some smart, interested young people on board! Well, I hope we meet soon, and if not, I’ll bury my sorrows by building. (I’m thinking about making a cabin next!) Good-bye for now! (Hopefully I’ll be saying ‘Hello!’ to all, soon!)
Maresa Miller
P.S. We were trying to post these on Friday night before midnight, and they wouldn’t go onto the blog. We figured that you had closed out the contest on Eastern Standard Time, not California time– it was still around 8:30 in CA. But this morning my Mom saw a new entry and she guessed that maybe these wouldn’t post because they have live links in them.
So, in true, determined, ‘never-say-die!’ entrepreneurial spirit, we are trying again!
Sue
(Maresa’s Mom)
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Hi Rich and Jay,
We posted a link to 2 ‘test’ pages of the site we are starting to construct. (And, no, we are not trying to sell anyone any products here! We are actually all sold out until mid-March.) There are some stories about the young ‘Building Experts’ (and hopeful ‘pre-Mavens’!) and Maresa’s YouTube movie ’sketch’/rough draft.
http://web.mac.com/smillernc1/iWeb/www.HelloRichAndJay-CheckThisOut.com/Movie.html
Hope to see you in Orlando!
Best Wishes!
Sue
Hello!
This is Zara. At 12 years old, I’m probably the youngest person to enter this contest, but my Mom says it is a wonderful seminar and I really want to come, and NOT JUST because it’s in Disneyworld!
I want to learn how to be an ‘official’ Maven, because it’s like being an Ambassador, so I can show kids everywhere how fun it is to build B-I-G things! And help our family company grow,
Here is why I think you should choose us (including my sister and my Mom because I can’t come alone!) as your marketing Maven protege family.
First, we implement!
My sister went on a youth group ski trip this week, and she wrote an essay for Rich and Jay when she could have been out on the slopes, because she wanted to go so much and Mom was balking. When she came back, Mom read it and decided to enter the contest — on Friday afternoon! We wanted to make a movie showing her latest structure. This is our very first one, so in less than a day, we had to film it, and I had to figure out how to work the download and editing software and put titles on and upload it. I did it most of it by myself! I found out I LOVE editing and filmmaking!! It’s a little rough, and we will do it over, but I put it up on YouTube just for you, Rich and Jay, to show why we want to come!
http://www.youtube.com/user/LoveToBuild
The second reason is that, like my sister, I already have some background in marketing and copy writing. Because when my Mom drives places, or is making dinner in the kitchen, she is usually listening to a marketing or copywriting CD from her BIG collection of the best marketing experts like Jay Abraham and John Carlton. She says it fills her subconsious mind. She has lots of Mr. Abraham’s CDs because she has been to his seminar in Los Angeles, and Gary Halbert’s in Florida. I didn’t get to go but I did get to go to an advanced NLP copy writing seminar by Harlan Kilstein, in Las Vegas and sat in all the meetings — where I brought up a point a roomful of adults missed! TWICE! Now that was FUN!
So, it should be easy for YOU to teach me — I’m already pretty ‘grounded’, because I have grown up with marketing concepts embedded in my mind!!
Sometimes, I would get a little jealous of the all the time this took, but now I see how it is paying off! We sold out all our first production run and were interviewed for the newspaper and my sister and I are going to be featured in the Raleigh Marbles Museum next month as ‘Expert Builders’ in a special exhibit they are doing on the BLOX®!  And we’re not even officially launched yet! Â
So you get a chance to make sure we start out right, because we want to grow our company bigger and BIGGER!
The third reason is that my sister and I are world experts in our niche because we get to work with a fantastic toy that only a few people have yet. And most of those people think they only have “big plastic blocks†and don’t realize what they really have! Because if you have enough, you can make really BIG things that are very complex and it’s a lot of fun and you learn a lot, but it’s not like school. It’s really fun!
They’re called BuilderBLOX® and they’re BIG plastic blocks. Like giant Legos® !Â
Did you like Legos® when you were young? Did you ever want to build really BIG things, like towers you can climb and houses you can go inside, and even lemonade stands or furniture for your own room? Well, now you can! We LOVE these BLOX, and we want to bring them to the world so kids can be creative and make things instead of just sitting in front of the TV or computer.Â
It’s so great for kids. To give them the best experience possible we want to learn how to be Mavens.
RAVIN’ MAVENS!
If you pick us, what’s in it for YOU?!?
WELL, that’s the fourth reason! This is the very first Maven program for you, and it’s a new concept, so you’d get a chance to see if your methods work on a range of people from a 12-year old like me, to a teenager like my sister and a seasoned entrepreneur like my Mom.  (She told me to write that instead of her age.) We have a start-up business with a great product that is PERFECT for a Maven Marketing approach.
And, with the competition of Disney-world just outside the door, you could tell how lively and interesting you were talking by watching me!
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To see some cool things go to http://www.BuilderBLOX.com !
Zara
P.S. We were trying to post these on Friday night before midnight, and they wouldn’t go onto the blog. We figured that you had closed out the contest on Eastern Standard Time, not California time– it was still around 8:30 in CA. But this morning my Mom saw a new entry and she guessed that maybe these wouldn’t post because they have live links in them.
So, in true, determined, ‘never-say-die!’ entrepreneurial spirit, we are trying again!
Sue
(Zara’s Mom)
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Dear Rich and Jay,
We have a start-up business with a great product that is perfect for a Maven Marketing approach.
The timing is also ideal, because we are just about ready to launch. We have been ‘soft-selling’ them for about four months as we have just finished working out some complicated production challenges. (It can be trickier to sell real manufactured products than electronic download info products!) and, we are passionateIy committed to producing these in America!
I have been studying marketing for the past four years, including seminars with Jay, and the late great Gary Halbert, John Carlton, Ken McCarthy, and Harlan Kilstein. And homestudies with Eban Pagan and Frank Kern.
I have read every Manifesto, every Attention Age Doctrine, every complex upcoming seminar letter, every Maven Marketing letter, and been on your calls (even the one that fizzled…)
So, if I am so intensely dedicated to learning, and to your concept of Mavenship, why haven’t I signed up for this seminar, which seems so ideal for our launch?
Because, the price of oil has skyrocketed. And plastic is made from oil, and our product — large-scale plastic building blocks, like giant LEGOS® — are made from plastic. Since June, when we did our first production run, the cost had gone up 50% (!!) and I want to launch with a special, not a big price increase.
Also, we ‘re just about to take delivery on two new injection molds we commissioned for new product line add-ons, and these are very expensive. So, tough decisions had to be made, an I chose the traditional way of growing a business — investing in production. (Innovation, not marketing…) Even though I KNOW that your seminar wouldn’t be a cost, but have a big pay-off.
This is NOT a sob story, because we are really in business, and sometimes tough choices have to be made!!)
My daughters really want to go. My 15 year old produced an essay for you on her ski trip! Right at this critical juncture, paying all the tuition ( and I really want to work with John Carlton!), plus airfare for three, plus the prime hotel room, (and how can can two kids be at Disneyworld without seeing it– ka-ching!!) is just too big a stretch.
Then your Contest came, and I was very excited!
But then I sadly set it down, because we are opening as the featured exhibit in our regional children’s museum that very week, and there is way way too much to do. At the last minute before their big new ‘SuperStructures’ exhibit opens, the museum ‘discovered’ us, and asked my girls to be ‘Expert Builders’ and showcase the BLOX in a rush special exhibit with events and architects, and contests because of a newpaper article they just saw– because our PR worked!)
Plus we need to get our next production run done to support our launch, which requires my presence at the factory… And our website is the mid-stages of production, and I need to get a whole bunch of photos and copy that I’ve been slaving over to our webmaster. (We have a ‘squeeze-page’ here: http://www.BuilderBLOX.com ) And I had bought ‘Mass Control’, because we three can all do it at home…
But then, I decided, what good is having products if you can’t sell them?!? MARKETING is the Golden Key. We have a product that is perfect for Maven Marketing. The timing is ideal– just before official launch.
And my daughters have charisma, are world experts in our niche, and LOVE spreading the word about building B-I-G! THEY deserve to be Mavens.
And while we were working on it, your e-mail ’I’m Gonna Tick Some People Off…’, came and you kicked my butt, Rich!
So, on FRIDAY, we plunged into the world of YouTube. We implemented like crazy! We made our first video in honor of you, Rich and Jay, as thanks for getting us implementing. My youngest figured out to load, edit and uplink it, pretty much on her own. She discovered that she loves video and editing. So, it was worth it, even if we don’t win! See it here: http://www.youtube.com/user/LoveToBuild
And WOW– the chance to work with the legendary JOHN CARLTON again would be such an extraordinary bonus, because I have been writing our copy for several months now, and it is ready for evaluation.
I hope you will consider us for some type of scholarship! We would love to participate!
Sincerely,
Sue Miller
http://www.BuilderBLOX.com
P.S. We were trying to post these on Friday night before midnight, and they wouldn’t go onto the blog. We figured that you had closed out the contest on Eastern Standard Time, not California time– it was still around 8:30 in CA. But this morning my Mom saw a new entry and she guessed that maybe these wouldn’t post because they had live links in them, or there was a glitch. We emailed this to you at your Strategic Profits email, so you have a time-stamp for last night if that was important.
So, in true, determined, ‘never-say-die!’ entrepreneurial spirit, we are trying again!
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Hi Rich and Jay,
We posted a link to 2 ‘test’ pages of the site we are starting to construct. (And, no, we are not trying to sell anyone any products here! We are actually all sold out until mid-March.) There are some stories about the young ‘Building Experts’ (and hopeful ‘pre-Mavens’!)
http://web.mac.com/smillernc1/iWeb/www.HelloRichAndJay-CheckThisOut.com/Movie.html
Best Wishes!
Sue
Well I know that I may not be popular in saying this but…. if you are on any free teleclasses these days you will hear the same things that Jay says here in this video. I would only expect that he would expand on the subjects but still it is the same subject just 3 hours longer to prove his point. I would not pay $25,000 or even $300 to someone that repeats something that I hear over and over again from teleclasses for free and programs for sale much less costly from every person that wants to sell you something on the web. I understand that Jay has been doing this for a long time and one of the greatests at figuring out the clients hearbeat, if I must say so myself. But I personally have not heard him say anything different or innovative for the last three years but just repeat HIS program to up HIS sales. I am sorry Rich, the attitude that Jay has on this video is very downgrading to some of his audience that asked him questions toward. I am a speaker and would NEVER talk to my audience the way that he did. And just a note, the post previous to me (Sue) was NOT a letter to you Rich and Jay but another sales letter to divert people to her website. I guess I am a little critical these days of people that charge such high prices for the “secret” to selling Zillions, and to people that post on other peoples logs JUST to have them go to their website kind of burns my cookies. Isn’t anyone else tired of all this information overload? I know that I am.
Amen D
I too didn’t really like the way Jay presented the info to the audience. Too much fairy dust, not enough meat and potatoes. Real world examples are the way to present this type of info. Not metaphoric ramblings that need someone to interpret them. Not that it was all bad but , many times I found myself thinking ” what the heck does that mean”? …and I’m not even a newbie to the business world or marketing.
Anyway …. best wishes and please do some refining.
Rich:
Why do I deserve to win an all-access VIP pass to our Disney event?
I run a small company of 4 people which has been hurt by the down turn in the luxury home market. We have developed a product for a sub-division that will change the home automation dramatically. Just by taking the 2 modules I have learned a lot. We are changing our company atmosphere for the better by following your instruction. Using your method we plan to market it to other companies in our industry. That is why I would benefit by being your honored guest at your event. This would allow me to concentrate on your program only. I now juggle between work, home life and your course. This would be my vacation time which I had to shelved last year to help my company survive.
If I am chosen this would be the first time in my life that I would get training by the best in the business. My whole career I was promised training and then they would say either there was no time for training the project was behind or you would be board by our instructors. Most companies would have me read books and then I would be told to instruct others. I then gave up and built four companies for my partners and myself. Sold them for about $150,000 to $250,000 wait for the two year non-compete and begin again. Until now there is no go to book or course to help me get to the next level.
Even if I am not the lucky one to win the Master prize I will follow your path that has been shown to me. It will be longer than the Disney event but I know it will work out in the end.
Thank you
Bill Bew
Your greatest fan.
Hi Rich,
Where do we check to learn the names of the, “Why do YOU deserve to win an all-access VIP pass to our Disney event?”
I was expecting to hear from you by now!
Yours sincerely, Tony