Quick question: Can the music industry make you pay royalties from just humming a song?
Because all day long, I’ve been running around the office with an old Carly Simon tune stuck in my head.
Remember this one?
“Anticipation….Antici-pay-yay-shun is making me wait…”
Yeah, so I’m aging myself here. But can you blame me?
Because that’s exactly what the air is brimming with here at Strategic Profits–anticipation.
We’re less than 48 hours from the release of my newest report, “The Uncertainty Syndrome”. And I’m so excited, I can barely contain it.
Because I’ve been working on this thing for nearly an ENTIRE YEAR. Reading stacks of books…taking reams of notes…studying thousands of websites…just to get this report absolutely perfect.
And now, it’s only hours away from being seen by the entire world.
WHOO HOO!
But to be truthful, I’m not the only one who’s chomping at the bit here…
All around the globe, tens of thousands of people are marking their calendars for noon eastern time on Wednesday, September 17th.
They’re flocking to this blog for the latest information….they’re discussing it at length in hundreds of other blogs and forums…they’re gearing up for the biggest thing to hit the internet marketing world since the Internet Business Manifesto.
And I can’t wait to show it to them.
It reminds me somewhat of when the first new Star Wars movie in 16 years, “Episode One: The Phantom Menace”, was about to be released.
As soon as they announced the opening date, the fans went absolutely BONKERS, lining up outside the theatres by the hundreds.
We’re talking tents, sleeping bags, grills, the whole works. Some theatres reported people camping out as far as a month in advance.
A Whole MONTH! Can you imagine?
But I can certainly see the comparisons. Like a rabid Star Wars fan, there’s a number of entrepreneurs out there who can’t wait to sink their teeth into the Uncertainty Syndrome.
See, I’ve hit a nerve here with the entrepreneur community–one that I had every intention of plucking like a guitar string.
Because over the past year, I’ve talked with hundreds of marketers and business owners, digging past all the surface issues and getting right down to the core of their mindset.
I wanted to discover exactly why they aren’t where they want to be.
What’s holding you back?
Why aren’t you succeeding?
What’s sidetracking you from building a thriving, profitable business?
And the discovery I made was shocking, to say the least.
It all boils down to this…
The one thing that determines your level of success is not your talent. Or your skills.
It’s not your intelligence. Your strength. Your personality. Your creativity. Or even your connections.
It’s your ability to overcome obstacles–plain and simple.
When you learn how to instantly blast away those things that keep you from moving forward in your business, your “success ceiling” disappears…and the sky’s the limit.
And inside the report, I’ll hand you the strategies and tactics to do just that.
I’ll give you an “Ah-ha!” moment that will instantly vaporize every obstacle that’s blocking your path to success right now.
In a single flash of insight, you will instantly understand the “why” behind every failure you’ve ever experienced….along with the real reason why you’re working harder and growing less now.
And once you read my report, you will have taken the first, giant step to opening the floodgates of growth and profits and leaving your competitors in the dust.
I’m telling you..this is going to change everything–EVERYTHING–about how we do business.
Those roadblocks you’ve been experiencing will simply cease to exist. There will literally be nothing to stop you from achieving the success…the wealth…and the freedom you dream of. .
So are you ready?
Because this Wednesday at 12 noon sharp, we’re about to rock the entire internet marketing landscape.
AGAIN.
I’ll see you there…
To Higher Profits,
Rich
P.S. If you’re as geared up for this release as I am, then let me know by posting your comments below.
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Rich I look forward to reading your report. It sounds like something I could use. But then again people may use it for another reason to be stalled. I just had to get that report and read it. Then analyze, and break it down and catagorize.
And well you know the rest of the story.
Gary McElwain
i hear ya gary, but i think it’s really going to wake a lot of people up.
WHOOP! LOL.. thanks rich.. mucho.. dude! Whoop!
I have never heard of your blog or book until today, but I have to say you definitely have me interested. Find me on Twitter, I look forward to your book.
http://www.twitter.com/desaraev
Rich, now that you made your humming public you might as well have to pay royalties :-)
Seriously,
looking forward to your report; I’m 100% positive it will give ideas on how to improve my clients businesses as well as mine (never stop growing right?).
Thank you for your enthusiasm Rich -> together we change the world and that is a great purpose.
Talk soon, David (http://www.Vertrauen-ist-Marketing.com)
Ooooooh yeah Im waiting LOL :)
I feel for you Rich this must be exciting
Ahmed
Yoda would overcome all obstacles! Get your groove on and get
the star wars party going.
Funny Rich, when I was reading your email, the adwords on
the side where all star wars costumes:
http://www.officialstarwarscostumes.com/
LOL.. now you can deck your whole staff out in awesome gear.
- Dave
Personally, as much as i cant wait to read the report,
im also very tired of waiting for it.
I personally believe the “its coming” period should have been reduced by at the very least several weeks.
Im sure i ll really like it, but man, it seems to be
as long as the elections…
Hi Rich…
You learn your report sounds like it will be of great benefit to many people… and I’m really pleased you are writing about it! A lot of people get put off when they face obstacles… they see them as a reason to stop and give up rather than as a chance to do things differently or learn something new.
Every person faces roadblocks in their life… the truly successful people don’t let the roadblocks control them! Successful people discover how to dismantle roadblocks, and use them to their advantage!
Jeanne
Hmmm, what would Yoda hummmm Rich?
Looking forward to it — I’ve certainly read the Manifesto many times over.
Love the Parkour picture – it’s amazing to see the stop motion detail of a Traceur.
I’m just a beginner in that but your post puts a new twist on it.
Can’t remember the last time Carly Simon was in my head until this post – but maybe, I’ll make a T-shirt with it on!
To quote you:
Rich – you are so funny.
Carly Simon.
Such differences of perspective.
I’m sitting here smiling thinking about how you have endeared all of us to you, wrapping yourself into our lives, how in this past month you have really become so much more relaxed, even a touch bit more casual, and your words have a different intimacy to them, a refined familiarity to them. Your emails and your blog have always been inviting, approachable and readable, so imagine if you will, that I am reading your email, further intrigued because of the mention of Carly Simon and I start humming “You’re So Vain”. I do have to admit that you did get an out-loud laugh when I got to the bottom of your email and read, “(You know you want to.)”
How well you have gotten to know us, teasing us and taunting us, and how refreshing it is to sense your sincere enthusiasm, and then the defining word dawned on me about what has happened to you. I know you might find this hard to believe, but somehow through this process you have grown yourself with your own confidence, and you have become more personable. Not that you weren’t personable before, but you too are somehow changed and have been made different by this experience. And it shows. A different softness. A different sense of gentle compassion. Personable raised to the next level.
After listening to your call the last week I began telling some of my associates about you, and was trying to determine, “Why you.” Trying to clarify what it is that has set you apart from the others. Why you have succeed on this path. It’s direction. You have identified a real need and have provided the solution to fill it. The abundance of opportunity to stake a claim on filling wild entrepreneurial dreams is being realized by so many today on the internet. Where there may have been a trickle of millionaires a few decades ago, now there is a flood plain of internet success stories as wide as the Mississippi overflowing her banks. And there you are. Giving guidance and getting that river to flow within its banks until it reaches open water.
Congratulations Rich, for what is to come, and for what you have done. Many have known how to make it to the top, many just hadn’t taken the time to figure it out until they heard your voice.
Cheryl C. Cigan
http://www.known.com
I think Yoda would say something like:
“Hmmmmm….Coming closer the day is. Report you must get. Study it you must. Find what you are looking for, you will. Strong the force is with Schefren. Learn from him we will. Answers he has, does he? Hmmmm? Do or do not, there is no try.”
Andrew Lock
Ok, Andrew you beat me to it. Actually my nickname (kindly given me by a gentleman I was training) about 3 years ago…..Yoda!(Story in my Sites About)Hmmmmm…
I now use it occasionally, it’s my blog response e-mail yoda@NewbieToGuruBlog.com I consider it an honor as Wikipedia defines Yoda as a Jedi-level trainer.
Of course I may be old, but Yoda lived 800 years Hmmmmm significant is that. An effort worthy goal hmmmmm?
Time is measured by fun had, yes?
Yoda
Coming closer the day is. Report get you must. It you study must. Looking for, will find. Force Schrefren strong is. Learn him will we. Answers has he. Try or there is no do.
If your gonna quote Yoda, at least get it right.
With the hurricane in the midwest it has been a trial just to find time to read the The Maven Matrix Manifesto but what a good read. I will be looking forward to see what else Carly has sang about…. All the big News will be Happening with you.
Rich
I have not thought of it untill now, about the lining up outside the theatres due to the first new Star Wars movie, you where right about that :).
This shows how human nature are in terms of curiousity.
Harib
Founder: http://www.trafficsuperior.com
Oops, Rich – Please don’t think that I think you’re vain just because that song was running through my head, quite the contrary! You know, it’s a generational thing. Carly Simon and oh gee, what *was* his name? :)
Cheryl
Something tells me this didn’t make it through the filters so I’ll repost it:
Rich – you are so funny.
Carly Simon.
Such differences of perspective.
I’m sitting here smiling thinking about how you have endeared all of us to you, wrapping yourself into our lives, how in this past month you have really become so much more relaxed, even a touch bit more casual, and your words have a different intimacy to them, a refined familiarity to them. Your emails and your blog have always been inviting, approachable and readable, so imagine if you will, that I am reading your email, further intrigued because of the mention of Carly Simon and I start humming “You’re So Vain”. I do have to admit that you did get an out-loud laugh when I got to the bottom of your email and read, “(You know you want to.)”
How well you have gotten to know us, teasing us and taunting us, and how refreshing it is to sense your sincere enthusiasm, and then the defining word dawned on me about what has happened to you. I know you might find this hard to believe, but somehow through this process you have grown yourself with your own confidence, and you have become more personable. Not that you weren’t personable before, but you too are somehow changed and have been made different by this experience. And it shows. A different softness. A different sense of gentle compassion. Personable raised to the next level.
After listening to your call the last week I began telling some of my associates about you, and was trying to determine, “Why you.” Trying to clarify what it is that has set you apart from the others. Why you have succeed on this path. It’s direction. You have identified a real need and have provided the solution to fill it. The abundance of opportunity to stake a claim on filling wild entrepreneurial dreams is being realized by so many today on the internet. Where there may have been a trickle of millionaires a few decades ago, now there is a flood plain of internet success stories as wide as the Mississippi overflowing her banks. And there you are. Giving guidance and getting that river to flow within its banks until it reaches open water.
Congratulations Rich, for what is to come, and for what you have done. Many have known how to make it to the top, many just hadn’t taken the time to figure it out until they heard your voice.
Cheryl C. Cigan
http://www.known.com
My family call me yoda! Overcoming obstacles many I am. Learning more even I am. Waiting impatiently for this also I am. Enjoying this living experience indeed I am much!
yoda
Of course I’m looking forward to it Rich.
Each of these big reports has been an event, even though I only latched on to you with the third one “The Final Chapter” which I thought was your best to date.
Hi,Rich,
Sharing is a good thing.
Your are the one really willing to share your creative ideas with me.
Wish you all the best.
Yeah Rich, show me the money
Rich,
To the ourward side inner peace shows, does it not?HMMMMMMM
Wednesday of the next millenium is it hmmmmm
About the money it is not, rather the resulting life- fun it may generate Hmmmmmmm
(See reply to Andrew Locks’ post)
Yoda
Hi Rich
Thanks for taking the time to look after us. You know they say the more you give the more you get back and I know that you are receiving so much that you do not know what to do with all of it. Regarding your report, really looking forward to it. Your the man, you rock.
Thanks again.
Joleen
Hi Rich
Can you hum in tune?
How about creating a hum podcast called ‘humdrum’ and letting all you’re readers vote for it, sounds good to me, sounds bad to me…social media at it’s best?
Just kidding…although…you never know I might have just given someone out there a great business idea!
I’ve read both your previous manifestations many times and they blew my mind, I can’t wait to read the trilogy!
“May The Force Be With You” on launch day!
Best Wishes
John O’Hara
United Kingdom
Looking at the build-up to this report, I have a feeling it’ll rival the manifesto or even blow it away.
Can’t wait to sink my teeth into it and I’m sure there are thousands more entrepreneurs who’d agree with me.
Diana Sabrain
How much ?
Rich For The Top!
Riching the World…
- Widget Woman
Looking forward to it, Rich & to sharing it with the middle-schoolers in eBiz4Youth! Great to see your lightheartedness & sense of humor shining thru!
Juliet
Definitely looking forward to it. Rich’s reports are always so insightful, it’s like he knows exactly where I’ve gone off track.
btw, Rich… you now have hundreds of thousands of people humming that song… the world may never be the same!
Hey Rich,
Thanks for all your great work and words. I don’t know why but
you inspire on a deeper level than most marketers. As Mary Tyler
Moore might say, ” We’re going to make it after all…” Now that’s
going back further than Carly Simon. Looking forward to Wednesday!
Christo
Hello Rich,
I can hardly wait to reap the rewards of your hard work.
Hey Rich,
I have 3 of the collector saber swords if you need them:).
Can’t wait to see what you put out this time.
DDS Marketing
Thanks for the new report man your the best.
Stay strong champ!
-Marcelino Latorre
Rich makes a timely & necessary point.
Hi Rich, it must feel really good to have your system optimised to be on the eve of launching this report, something you have done before. Already knowing it is going to get downloaded 100’s of thousands of times. Already knowing that it is going to add probably 100’s of thousands of dollars to your income.
Am I correct in suspecting that the “knowing” causes you to act and for your business to perform in ways it could not have performed when you had the beginner’s mindset?
If so what you you see as a key to getting all the tumblers of the mind to align and make the switch from beginner’s mind set (wondering if it will work) to the place you find yourself (knowing)?
Looking forward to the report.
Dean
http://www.twitter.com/eco2oh
great question dean, and you’re right it feels great!
the answer you seek is in the report, which will be in your hands tomorrow ;-)
Simply can’t wait Rich!
I loved the Business Manifesto (although it was a swift kick in the butt) and so look forward to the Uncertainty Syndrome.
You’re the best!
Cheers,
Frank Dickinson
Hey Rich,
An alternative name for your report, from the old Pogo comic strip (way older than that Carly Simon song):
“We have seen the enemy, and they is us!”
Can’t wait to read it and find out how to get out of my own way.
Michael Wafer
Yahoo!
Love Ya,
Dr Tony
Hey Rich, I can tell you definitively have been Jeff Walker-ised! Keep up the good work, can’t wait till the report’s out!
Fabi
Rich-
You know how much I love your brain, so you’ve got to know how fired up I am about the Uncertainty Syndrome!
I also love Carly Simon, so you had me at “I think I owe Carly Simon a lot of money.” (I’d be overjoyed if people thought I was as young as you are.)
Blessings,
Bonnie
Your last webinar had plenty of AHA moment for me. If that was just the appetizer, then I can’t wait for the main course! Good luck with the servers.
Rich,
I have often thought it was the other way around – artists should pay us for some of the songs that get stuck in our heads. In any event, I look forward as always to your latest tome.
As someone who has been successful in the ‘real world, you are one guy who really ‘gets it’, and I always enjoy your materials.
Till Wednesday,
Jim
Hey Rich…
I am so excited about what you are releasing on Wednesday! I have been awaiting this for awhile…I really need help, and I will be diligently be ready for you message!
Anita
Hi Rich,
Wow! Sept. 08 has been a busy month for product owners and JV Partners with so many product releases happening:
Stomping The Search Engines 2.0 and The Net Effect Monthly Trade journal.
Traffic Fusion
Just to name a few; I’ve been a JV Partner on most of these launches and I’m beat from all the advertising I’ve done, but I’m really looking forward to sinking my teeth into “The Uncertainty Syndrome”, so I can finally have the opportunity to sit back with a cup of coffee, put my feet up and dive into “The Uncertainty Syndrome”.
Ricardo
HI Rich
Very much looking forward to your report. I hope it will give me the answers i’ve been looking for so that I can actually achieve the target that my blog suggests and allow me to Pay of My Mortgage Blogging. Woop!!
Meanna Blog
I must say, after going back over the Internet Business manifesto again, I am truly appreciative of the in site in there. if this new report is even Half as good, then i am truly excited!
I built a Public Company, on the same principals in the Internet Business Manifesto, and when I left Corporate life as a CEO, I totally forgot those simple things.
until i read read the Report.
Now i have been building my next Empire thanks again for reminding me that the most simple things are sometimes the most critical.
See the next empire I am playing with at http://www.pigtones.com
Thanks again Rich
Dale Hensel
Have you heard that song by Carly Simon ” You are so vain this song is about you” ?
Hi Rich
I am realy looking forward to reading
this report, you have away of putting
words together on a page to keep your
readers reading thanks for all your
hard work Paul
G’day Rich,
Your words reach far & wide..even to the land down under. So considering I’m in the southern hemisphere & we’re ahead of you timewise….do I get the “much-anticipated” report ahead of everyone else?
I’m a newbie to your information & credit through to Yaro for un-knowingly introducing me. I’m now an evangelist to your reports, video, manifesto, guest interviews etc….. and I haven’t even met you.
Thanks for the insights to success. I’m already putting systems in place for my constraints & I’m tyring to put rapid prototyping into effect.
1 more sleep to go until I have my hands on your report. BRING IT ON!!
Adam
Hi Rich,
Just wanted to say a thank you and let you know you took me completely by surprise. For some reason your response to my post got dumpted in the junk folder and if I hadn’t gone back looking for something else I would have never seen it. When I posted I never dreamed that you would have transcripted your calls. And the fact you were willing to share with me just blows me away. Thank you so much. That is what customer service is all about.
Thanks again
Ken
Hey rich,
I have been trying to make money online since 1996. I am looking to start from scratch.. What are the steps I need to take at this point?
Thanks
Dwayne
Hi Rich, I always love seeing what you are coming out with next. Big fan of yours since the Business Manifesto report I just downloaded your Uncertainty Syndrome report and look forward to reading it. Wow! Hope you don’t get too tired over the next 24 hours.
My question is, what does it take to be able to interview you to be part of a teleseminar series I am doing? I will be putting links to all your reports on the site regardless but would love to include you in the interview series as well.
Blessings,
Lori
Every pre-launch deserves equal respect. As you are the Guru of the Guru’s we will just have to bite our nails in “An-tici-pation”? Bring it on…the world commands a review!
You’re an animal Rich – it’ll be interesting to see how you’re doing in the wee hours… keep sharing this valuable information.
Q: If you had to start from scratch tomorrow, without your reputation, without your contacts, what are the first 3 things you would do?
Question: How do your thought processes work towards building systems ready for franchising/licensing to promote a specific BRAND that covers multiple niches? Would I perfect the first NICHE first to profitability? Would I focus mainly on managing systems? before I franchise/Liscense out? How do I lay it out step by step?
Hi Rich
I don’t think I have heard you discuss or mention “Personal Branding” or “brand building” From my experience, this is crucial to any business. What is your view in this subject.
Thanks
PS. You have a fantastic Personal Brand – the work you are doing now could only enhance it.
Hi Rich
Just curious, how applicable are your business strategies in UK? My point is would UK customers react differently to customers in the US?
Cheers!
Hi Rich
Thank you for answering my questions.
Got to go to work now…
Cheers!
I run a 1up program. I was just wondering what you would suggest as to some of the best ways to drive targeted traffic to my site with my URL Rotator? Because I do Rotate my sign ups that have joined under me. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. And I have much respect for you for the 24 hour webinar as I have learned much from the times I could sit in here, TY.
Hi Rich
You are providing an excellent service and you have my greatest respects – you are one of a kind!
btw, are you going to make this 24 hour video tutorials available for downloading?
Cheers
uk fan
Thanks for an interesting post. I look forward to getting a copy of your newsletter.