Rich,

I haven’t read the Missing Chapter yet (I’m download it now). But I’m sure it will be KILLER. Thanks for all your efforts in trying to get everyone on the right track. You’re certainly going to help a lot of people make a lot of money this year!

Cheers!
Mike

Rich,
I love the clarity and focus of your writing.
Business Strategy does seem to be the missing element in most Internet marketers toolboxes.

Everyone seems to be caught up in the ‘more with more’ mindset vs. ‘more with less’ thinking.

kudos to you,
Bryan

Wow has been and is an incredible read am still taking it in.
Thanks for getting it out so that we can take it in!

Rich,

After reading your report, I realised that as a newbie to the Internet Marketing/Business, it contains valuable information for me to refer to in order to stay focused.

The missing chapter is myself - to take action by applying the step by step Business Strageties and utilising the coach to guide me.

Thanks for the report and keep me posted on when your next coaching will be.

Tara

Good stuff

Hi Rich,
I have no idea how I connected with you (or you with me) to hear about your Internet Manifesto, but I’m glad it happened. I was unaware of the concept of Process Mapping and would really like to know more about it. The section on knowing how much your time is really worth was also very useful to me. I’d love to hear more. Please keep me on your mailing list. Thanks, too, for the additional “Missing Chapter” which I’ve just downloaded and haven’t had a chance to read yet, but look forward to reading.

As well as getting a little insight into those concepts, I’m very impressed with the original thinking in announcing your upcoming program. Keep going! Joyce

Rich: Just finished reading the Missing Chapter. This really helps everything make sense. I am excited and ready to discover my strengths and use them properly.

“The good [strength] is often the enemy of the best [strength].”

Thanks much!

I have read your reports. I believe that you truly understand and are passionate about what you do. Which make me eager to join your group, because I can see how it would grow my business.

But I doubt that I will have the funds in time to join your program. Perhaps—at a later time—you will find a way to reach more people and become an “Jack Canfield” in your coaching abilities.

Curt

Thanks, Rich, for a very insightful approach to an Internet business. I’ve run a very small one for eleven years and am ready to make it bigger, but of course, am overwhelmed at all that must be done “right now” or “before” I can move forward. Your manifesto soothed my distraught brain. Your graphics were fantastic and helped me visualize what exactly I’m trying to create.

OmniGroup.com has several programs that serve as outlining or visual creators (for OS X platforms) so a business can recreate their own graphs and charts and outlines (to-do lists) for inspiration (someone asked previously). Very easy to use and really good.

Thanks, Rich, for talking to our “mindset” and not just our wallets.

Wow! These are ‘lightbulb’ moments for me. I will be sitting at my computer on product launch day, Amex in hand. Awesome stuff.

HI, Rich,

The Missing Chapter is brilliant and inspiring work.

In part, it affirms my own understanding, at this point in my life - after having been in a business that did not leverage my strengths for many years, I decided to make a change a few years ago to one that did.

Reading your assessment is inspiring me to think deeper about what to do to make my own online offering unique and fun.

Brilliant! Well done, Rich! Being a business coach myself, I know that it’s not the quantity of knowledge I have sometimes, that’s crucial to my success or my client’s, but my ability to convey that critical information in a meaningful way to my client that will inspire them to action. And, you my friend, have that rare quality. Your thoughts are clear, your writing is direct and concise, but most important - it’s relevant and meaningful.

There are some people who come along that humanity can consider to be ‘torch-bearers’. Those special people that illuminate the pathway - so that others can see the possibilities that lie ahead, and see the simplicity of the steps that lie ahead.

Thanks for the torch!

Your Friend - Todd

Rich I think what you share is profound. I realize now most of my life that I have been an opportunist. I have been chasing the next buck instead of truly building a business.

Thanks for opening my eyes for now I can truly see.

I really got some exciting insights from the ‘missing’ chapter. Full Marks to you Rich for the effort you made in analysing & responding to client questions. The biggest danger facing a guru is in assuming that those less advanced understand the stuff they didn’t write ‘cos it was ‘obvious’. Just look at the average copy for product instructions. Great stuff. I’m going to share it around a bit, starting with my jobless graduate son.

You really tell it like it is, and I appreciate that. There is so much garbage to wade through on the Internet - that it is literally like a breath of fresh air to read your Manifesto. I usually spend my days wandering around the intenet holding my nose from the stench of all those opportunist pitches!

Thanks Again-
AG Wright

Great guidance on what to focus on when thinking about breaking free from needing a job. The aproach of shopping around for markets first, then taking inventory of your strengths and concentrating your efforts on developing them really make sense in what to focus your mind on when laying out your plan of action towards successfully starting and running a business.

Many Kudos to you Rich!

I was very impressed and duly chastened with your Manifesto as it applied to myself ‘working’ my online biz.

The Missing Chapter really sparked that Ah-Ha moment for me, that we all really strive for. Like the onion in your Manifesto, I need to strip away the many layers I’ve inadvertantly applied to the core/basics of my business - so much so that I get lost in my own mire, smoke and mirrors, and wearing the rose coloured glasses. It is a strange trait that we have of making things more difficult and believing that it must be this way or we’re not doing it right.

I found myself nodding and smiling at seeing myself in what you had written, but the good news is that I could also see the potential for so much more when starting or rather getting back to the ‘basics’ of my strengths, passions and creating the ’cause’ as you so aptly pointed out.

I look forward to more tidbits of ‘uncommon sense’ to come and
to test my newest learning of strategic thinking in your contest

Thank You Muchly!
Hanne

Talk about turning me around. I’ve been working online for some time and thought I was headed in the right direction, and fortunately I was not terribly far off track, but enough so that I will have to reflect and redirect some of my efforts.

I see that my means of helping others may have had some positive impact, but there is still much more that I can learn. Thank you for showing me that no only is there room to grow, but that I’ve been helpful, if a little off target, myself.

Thank you for bringing up talents, strengths, and interests.

Is it fair to say that an interest is not enough to run a successful business, but that it must be focused and fortified by solid strengths built on the particular natural inborn talent(s) a person is inclined to by his wiring?

Good work!

You may want to fix the typos in your graphics on page 19 & 21: “strenghts”

Thanks for the insights in these two reports!

Rich…

Wow..!

Great stuff. Honestly, I found that missing chapter even more powerful than the Manifesto. I’ve even saved it to my desktop to read a few more times

See, don’t we hear such conflicting advice online? One man says, “what are your hobbies and interests? Build a business based on them, even if the profit potential is small”.

And then another guy says, “seek-out 100 tight niches, and rule them all. Quantity is quality, blah, blah”.

None of it bad advice.

I believe it’s the ‘mindset’ you’re in - your ’stance’ and ‘posture’ - that determines your success.

And your missing chapter homed-in on that point in a way that’s not been done before (at least not that I’ve seen).

Working with your strengths is like giving yourself a headstart, isn’t it? I mean, if you’ve been surfing since you were 7 years old, and everyone knows you rule the waves when you hit the beach…

…And people are always seeking you out for surfing advice, because your method makes it look easy…

…And then you go and set-up a gambling website?!

Hello?!

Rich, I already know your program’s going to be a success. And for those that join you, from the value I’ve got out of your Manifesto (and missing chapter), they’re set for massive success.

Thanks, man, and don’t hold back on any more info like that

Have fun,

Scotty Stevens

Bra VOOOOOOOOOOOO
http://www.oliveoilgoesglobal.com?numid

I want to thank you for identifying and explaining the problems I was having and providing a solution to every one of them! Not that I can now solve them, but at least I can now identify what needs to be changed in my thinking.

This has been a very rewarding exercise!

Thank you for sharing your expertise!

Rick; i’d like to add my Thanks and applause for a real thinking,mind stopping piece of work. I’m just getting my feet weton all this. What a Godsend to all who read your work. Thank you so much.

Thanx for the update Rich…

For the last few days I had a “sneaking suspicion”….

Then I download and I proceed to read the missing chapter…
and it confirms my “sneaking suspicion”…..

and….I get it.

The problem was I had “forgotten” it in some cases
and ignored it in others.

Another funny thing is I had pretty much decided “months n months ago” to go back down that path…(you know….. the incorporate/utilize your strength)

In some circles it’s called……
“Being Real” / “Keeping it Real”

So here’s the deal….I do not
need your coaching class.

This was the most affordable coaching I would have ever gotten.

Good luck to everybody.

P.S.
If you love america, go play some….
StarSpangled Solitaire
http://www.starspangledsolitaire.com/

Listen to the starspangled banner
and think about what a cool/phat
country this is…despite the various issues.
Btw….playing solitaire helps
me to think and “strategize”
Now that’s funny.
New update coming soon….

I’ve downloaded the “missing chapter” three times now, and Adobe Reader cannot open it (for printing). I get 2 - 3 error messages. 1) Not enough data for image, on pg. 1, and from pg. 2 there is another error msg. or two. Something is basically wrong. Too much hurry?

Please advise when fixed. TY

Great missing chapter. I like how you took many comments from the contest and built them into it. Good strategy.

The manifesto definitely was food for thought, and now comes this missing chapter… What can i say? You’re right, it did make me angry, for a few minutes. And i’m still trying how to work out how to make my strength (computers - my passion for 40 years, even though they weren’t in reach until about 25 years ago) into a Cause. I mean, sure, to me they are that, but turning others on to my viewpoint has eluded me for almost as long…

Very clear and very convincing Rich!

Rich,
Every few years I read a book that really hits home. The combination of Manifesto & Missing Chapter are the latest.

I have actually had some reasonable business successes in the past — I took over a company, used credit cards to fund it, and grew it from nothing to $3.2M in sales 3 years later (sound familiar?) — and have chasing online marketing opportunities the past 2 years. All though I generate a nice living, I can totally relate to every thing you described.

It’s time to get back to my strengths - which coincidentally are business coaching & consulting… would love to talk to you about that aspect of your business!

Thanks for the clarity!

Rich,
Thanks for putting in the hard work to make a very timely topic so cogent and engaging.

All of us need to be reminded of what my partner calls the “main thing” and, as he says, “Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing.”

The Manifesto and the Missing Chapter are most enlightening works I had read in a long time. I have read hundreds of marketing and business development books over the past 20 years. Very few offer truly new ideas or strategies and even fewer offer a way to implement them. Most are just rehashed ideas behind new dust covers. I would hope that the majority of the people that downloaded the Manifesto and the Missing Chapter would actually take action on their new found knowledge. Learning something new without ever applying that knowledge is a complete waste of time. Michael Gerber of E Myth Worldwide is probably the only other person that I have ever found that shares a similar vision and he has been living that vision since 1977.

Wow Rich,
That is a great chapter!

Your ability to cut through all the clutter and get to the heart of the matter is fantastic. You have sparked something in me. The Manifesto and the Missing Chapter will mark a turning point in my life. I now see that I need to begin making changes to grow the business that I want.
Thank you.

Brilliant Clarity.

Thank You.

Wow! You are incredible! I wonder why hasn’t anyone teach business success they way you did.

Thank you so much.

Tim

Very slick. Makes you sit up and think and review till you uncover the secret

Interesting article—will go back and completely read it again—-probably several times!

Thought provoking. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Rich

Rich,

I saw you speak at Carl Galletti’s Internet Marketing Conference in Las Vegas last month.

You definitely have a fresh look at business and have caused quite a few people to have lightbulb moments, including myself.

Thank you for helping guide me in the right direction and clarify my thoughts on what I should be doing.

Strategically Yours,

Page Daddy
a.k.a. Marty Stewart

Rich,

Awesome stuff! I’ve downloaded both the Manifesto and the Missing Pages…
You’ve really made me re-think about the ways I’ve approached my internet ventures.
Thank you.

Six Words. Clean Slate. Open Mind.

Well, as an owner (currently) of 3 offline businesses with bottom line NET profit of over $15,000,000 annually, plus 5 online businesses netting over $1,000,000 annually, all that I can add is “this is just more of the same old same old” and frankly just a long sales pitch for his coaching services (covered up by equally long winded self praise).

John James
Chicago, IL.

Hi Rich, Thank you ~ awesome. The Manifest could have been a brilliant sales letter. It had all the elements. Problem, agitation, and a hint of solution. Controversy, and reframing to create a new “Leadership” position in a crowded market.
Intantly everyone else becomes a pretender, and just arguing with you puts them outside the tent. Testimonials, real value content keeping interest high throughout, a hint of scarcity, survey and competition to collate info and further drive debate. Even a price warning to qualify the interested.

And what’s more, as a sales letter it would be invisible. Most would read the message, and pick up the pitch on the fly, and because the insights add real value, it’s infinately viral. Brilliant!

The missing chapter operates at a whole new level. Yes, the Manifesto’s strategic/tactical debate had to be raised, and there is truth in the fact that some internet names have us on a treadmill of looking for newer shinier shovels ~ but in the long run, the people who grind out the formula solutions are hostage to those with a cause, honed to a fine edge with talent.

A real wake up call. Thank you.

So my question is: Where are you going with this? Clearly sufficient demand has long since been built to fill your last personal coaching sessions with the manifesto, so that’s not it.

Maybe you’re looking to replicate your hypnosis sucess in internet coaching, and these are your own “Help Wanted” ads.

If so, could I be first to apply for position of Coach?

Sincerely

Mike

Hi Rich, Thank you, awesome just doesn’t seem to cut it. I have just finished reading the Missing Chapter and you hit me between the eyes right at the start by saying that a web site is not a business. There is so much there that I will have to go back and read it a couple of times to truly absorb it but I am a little miffed that you want me to think for myself. I know what my strengths are but converting them to an online business is going to take some thought. As a newbie I have been wanting someone to take me by the hand and say do this, do that etc. and my immediate thought was to run back to what I have been taught because by following your strategies I will have to think for myself, I will have to stretch my boundaries and move out of my comfort zone. Isn’t that fantastic? Scary but exciting. Thank you again.
To John James, same old, same old to you maybe but obviously very new to others who have not made it to your level. I hope you find the time to feed us more Rich be blessed.

Rich, you did it again.

I loved several things especially about the Missing Chapter:

1. It confirmed that I am in the right business, as I am firmly playing to my strengths.

2. It confirmed my belief that there’s a LOT of misinformation in the IM world that, frankly, is purposely focused on appealing to the Opportunist’s mindset. Fortunately, I have ignored a lot of it, picked out the cherries, and have been approaching my business very strategically.

3. It confirmed that I don’t have to worry about 99% of my competition. Most of them simply don’t/won’t have the committment required to compete with me. That’s not to say I’ll have an easy ride - that 1% will be formidable indeed!

4. What I didn’t realise was how powerful I could turn the passion I feel for my business - and the tremendous mission we are on - into a selling proposition to outsourcers as well as employees. Yet it makes so much sense. Thanks for that incredible nugget. (I LOVED the ads you provided!)

Rich,

Once again Brilliant,

The 18th July you say??

I’ll be waiting at my computer for opening time.

Regards
marc Lindsay
http://www.plrpro.com

Both Manifesto and The missing Chapter are GREAT and constitute an ASSET to anyone aiming to start his online business.
Thanks a lot for this piece of work.
Jaafar Boukriat.

Rich…thanks for the clarity!

I confess to being an opportunist…but also an entrepreneur. I think you are spot on with your analysis and most people…including me must have got a swift kick in the butt…owwwwwwwch!

Luckily for me I have been playing to my strengths in our current business…not through intent, but through a “Heart Felt Desire” to make other peoples lives just that bit easier and helping Kids along the way to expand “their” talents, and grow in their own confidence to be able to face the world ahead.

Absorbing the “Missing Chapter”…I now realise that for me…my main strength is in teaching…and it was like walking down a long straight road with a darkened and clouded vision.

As I read what you had written…the Sun began to break through the cloud and light up my road ahead. I can see my route!

Thank You for That Rich.

Thanks Rich.
“Distilled wisdom” is perhaps the way to describe the Manifesto and Missing Chapter.
I have been a “newbie on the verge of …” for about three months. At first I thought it was because of info overload and analysis paralysis but now I realise I wasn’t taking the plunge because my instincts shied away from most of the business models I saw on the net.
Now I realise I was being strategic because I didn’t want to be another lemming (”just build a 1,000 blogs on automatic and become an Adsense millionaire!”) and I really want to build a longterm, different business that I will excel at. So, now, with your distilled wisdom, I realise that the same things that I thought were hindering me were, in fact, a major strength.
I was going to wish you good luck with your publishing project but I’m sure luck won’t be a factor you will need so instead, may you have much success and many happy clients.