Thank you so much for your GREAT Info!!!

I am continuously Amazed at how Divine intervention is at work in my life!!!
I just recently found you and your info, through a friend of yours and You’re having this contest that is going to help you & I grow profits to the MOON!!!
Well, I have to tell you, You, and me winning your mentorship, are exactly what I ordered from the Cosmos!!!
It’s Incredible!!!

You must Know, I am the contestant for you!!!

I have a product that is going to make Millions & Millions & Millions of Dollars in a relatively short period of time!
And I’m so glad you’re the guy to help me do it!!!

My single greatest constraint right now is, An inefficient work style.
I beleive that I really only have two constraints right now, the one above and the second being, Alone & lost in a networked world.
When it comes to web sites & such I’m pretty much computer illiterit. I know this is easily overcome by knowing the right people.
Really, with your help both of these constraints are blown out of the water easily and then it’s PROFITS TO THE MOON!!!!! and
La Buena Vida, Todo el camino … cha, cha, cha!!!

Man this is exciting !!!
What a TESTIMONIAL it’s gonna be for you!!!!!!!!!!

One of the greatest benefits I will enjoy is to help a vast number of people who are less fortunate, The more money I make, the more less fortunate I can help, this is something I am passionate about and brings great joy to my Soul!
While I’m making all of these oodles of cash, it brings me to my next great benefit, which is my next HUGE product launch,
That is going to help save the planet from global warming!!! This of course will be of Great benefit to me and every one in the World!!! and of course I will be making… Billions?
Yes BILLIONS!!!
And third, well, LA BUENA VIDA , TODO EL CAMINO !!!!!!
What more could one ask for ???

And Rich Schefren, You too will be apart of it ALL!!!

To Higher Profits

Judy

It is all about the words. Words in books, the wisdom of others, and having the wisdom to recognize and implement an applicable thought process when you read it, hear it and see it.

I can’t help but think that if the internet did not exist Rich, you would have been a bookseller in another life. Because being a bookseller is about guiding a customer to an answer to a question, providing a solution to a problem which has yet to be discovered.

How delightful during your 24 hour telecast to hear you reference the number of books you read as you researched concept and thought launchers for your new report. Listening to you made me think about what Christopher Morley wrote in 1923 in “The Haunted Bookshop” about books,

“Let the bookseller learn to know and revere good books, he will teach the customer. The hunger for good books is more general and more insistent than you would dream. But it is still in a way subconscious. People need books, but they don’t know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence.”

Countless individuals and businesses are stampeding to the internet exploiting the explosion of entrepreneurial opportunity, both as practitioners and as teachers of the “how-to”. Morley’s protagonist, Mifflin, reflected upon his understanding of the value of advertising, and of course realized it would be futile,

“I am not a dealer in merchandise but a specialist in adjusting the book to the human need.” “A book is ‘good’ only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.”

In his own fashion I think Morley defined ‘viral marketing’ back in 1923. The art of what you do with your mentors and your list of satisfied customers was framed within this sentence,

“There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it. No advertisement on earth is as potent as a grateful customer.”

I have always taken pleasure with the simplicity of the complex implications which Morley identified, even back in 1923 about the mind and advertising,

“I mean that my advertising is done by the books I sell. If I sell a man a book that delights or terrifies him, that man and that book become my living advertisements.”

Your coaching programs and your reports are similar to a doctor, a doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. Morley’s progragonist, Mifflin went on to state,

“My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don’t know they want books. People don’t go to a bookseller until some serious mental accident or disease (or in our case a lackluster online business!) makes them aware of their danger. Then they come here. For me to advertise would be about as useful as telling people who feel perfectly well that they ought to go to the doctor. Do you know why people are reading more books now than ever before?”

Being a bookseller is about getting the right book into the hands of the right customer at the right time. The right information to the person seeking the information, the solution, right here and right now.

People do not find books, books find people.

People do not create ideas, ideas come to people.

You are taking sound marketing principles and applying them to this all new message delivery system.

Again, Morley identified this when Mifflin was explaining to the advertising sales rep from Grey-Matter Advertising Agency,

“I am interested that you should have thought it worth while to come in here. It reinforces my conviction of the amazing future ahead of the book business. But I tell you that future lies not merely in systematizing it as a trade. It lies in dignifying it as a profession.

After I read your Entrepreneurial Emergency Report I became mired in a sea of contemplation. Yes, the report stirred thought and analysis, and yet I couldn’t quite identify what could possibly be the constraint which was holding back the explosive growth of my online business. So in a fit of intellectual frustration I did what I always do when seeking an answer, I went looking for more information. I revisited some of your previous reports, and downloaded The Maven Matrix Manifesto and consumed it in one evening. Plenty of “aha” moments there. Imagine, if you will, being bolted out of a dead sleep with the realization of what that constraint was! I sat on the edge of the bed, and shook my head, headed to my desk and started making notes.

Of course I am not going to reveal it here on the internet, because it is rather personal in nature, but what is important is that I now know what it is. And this single constraint has inhibited me from completing the transition of taking my online presence with http://www.known.com from being about my “bricks and mortar” bookstore to providing what I do best, and that is being a purveyor of information.

I mean, I’ve got it all. I am that number three constraint. I am that person.

Four constraints are in my way.

Three things above and beyond the obvious? The freedom to keep doing. The luxury to walk around barefoot in a pair of shorts sipping coffee mid-day in the middle of a northern Michigan summer day knowing that the pieces are in play, and that all will be alright. The idea gathering, the human energy, the test and putting into play an idea to see if it has merit, to see if it can work. Watching it grow and develop its own personality. The opporunity to learn, and the luxury of experiencing the homecoming of like-type minds coming together. The sheer magic of smiling at the end of the day and asking, “Now wasn’t that fun?” And of course, experiencing the joy of possibilities. And I might take a vacation someplace warm to get away from the cold northern Michigan winters!

Thanks again Rich for the report. It was definitely worth the read. And see, just like a book, I didn’t go looking for it, it found me.

Cheryl C. Cigan
Known Books
http://www.known.com
“We are always known
around the world.”

I am posting here to qualify for your contest because I have not been able to access the other thread on your blog.

Not being able to focus on one task at a time!

2. How many constraints away are you from having the business and the life of your dreams?

I’d say a total of threemajor constraints.

3. What are the three greatest benefits you’ll enjoy once those constraints are removed?

More time to relax and spend quality time with my family and friends due to a sense of accomplishment.
More income.
Peace of mind.

1. Do you know what your single greatest constraint is right now? If so, what is it?

Yes – Innefficient Work Style. Sadly your chart resembles my day.

2. How many constraints away are you from having the business and the life of your dreams?

Four I believe.

A) Create and maintain a time log.
B) Determine and set my productivity rate
C) Prepare and commit to a daily routine
D) Slash work hours – I like that one!

3. What are the three greatest benefits you’ll enjoy once those constraints are removed?

More time, money and freedom!

How many constraints away am I from achieving the life of my dreams? Here’s my list:

Head trash
Knowing how to create a complete business plan and knowing where to start with product & service production
Knowing the most streamlined way to produce revenue
Cash flow to make it through start-up
Knowing how to budget for outsourcing when cash flow is limited
Not being sure that our niche will really respond to our ideas because they aren’t that tech savvy, but (being in the industry myself) I know there is a huge need for what we can bring to the market…but getting them to buy what they need when their business has dried up with the economy may mean that it is not the right time to be in this niche…not sure how to resolve this

The three greatest benefits will be peace of mind, financial freedom and having time to enjoy life to the fullest.

b. It’s not that easy to quantify how many constraints away I am to achieving my dreams. But there Are constraints for sure. Thanks for highlighting; it’s indeed crucial to sort it out I guess.

c. I’ll enjoy these 3 greatest benefits:
1. peace of mind
2. fulfilment
3. wealth & abundance

My BREASTS, My Business!!
http://www.confessionsofabreastfeedingmama.blogspot.com/

I’m always looking for what I believe will be the next big business or system that will give me the financial freedom I want.

2. How many constraints away are you from having the business and the life of your dreams?

I’m not sure how many I have, thanks for bringing THAT to my attention.
I need to know everything before I start doing anything. Time not used to produce, just busy-ness not business. Not seeing results fast enough. Fear of either being or not being successful, not sure which. I’m sure there are more but you didn’t want a sob story. Lets say at least 3 for now.

3. What are the three greatest benefits you’ll enjoy once those constraints are removed?

Knowing I can give my family what ever I want at anytime I want without worrying how much its going to cost.

Being able to give more to the DAV and my church.

Being able to feel successful and help others to feel that way.

Steve B