UPDATE – First Read this – John Reese new focus

Prospering

Online Dictionary: to thrive, succeed, etc., or cause to thrive, succeed, etc. in a healthy way

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):   . To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain. They, in their earthly Canaan placed, Long time shall dwell and prosper. –Milton

Doesn’t that sound good ‘Long time shall dwell and prosper“.

To thrive (in a healthy way).

live long and prosper

I like the concept of prospering. Success with a healthy moral component, perhaps.

Everyone wants to succeed, to make it. Who wants to prosper? It sounds more on-going that succeeding doesn’t it. Like its a life thing as opposed to an immediate thing. “Ok so I succeeded in doing that – now what?” But if you have prosperity or are prospering, its ongoing. Makes a journey out of effort.

Everyone wants just enough;

“I just want enough to be (fill in the blank)and  happy, comfortable, taken care of, that all”

And then when we have that- well we want more.Just enough more.

What if the goal was ; “I want to prosper” ?

That suggests something ongoing, and also something interactive. You cant ‘prosper’ and leave your friends and neighbours in the ditch. That creates success perhaps, but not prosperity. Prosperity suggests we raise ourselves and everyone else up at the same time doesn’t it?

America was once known as a prosperous nation, now its..what? The richest? The most powerful?. I would  like to be in a Prosperous nation wouldn’t you. It implies the nation is powerful, successful, of course, but also a nation that lifts up others.

How about a goal of prospering? When asked whats your goal in life – you can say – I wish to prosper.

How do you prosper?

Well prosperity is not necessarily about how much wealth/stuff/gold you can acquire, as much perhaps about how much good will you can build.

Prosperity is not so much about getting to the top. Maybe more about pushing your potential

Prosperity is not so much about being Number 1. It suggest more that you are part of a community that has become enriched through effort and mutual concern for wellbeing

Prospering isn’t working till you drop. But a balance of effort, goodwill and achievement.

To succeed – you win. You overcome. You beat the rest. You destroy the challenges. You kill the opposition.

To prosper – you are in a mode of constant achievement. You are aware you are part of a group, a species perhaps. You realize success only works if somehow your success has enriched others.

Its not that tricky to succeed – you just keep going. Its not complicated. Its just hard dedicated work towards a goal.

To prosper, perhaps, requires ongoing realization that one person making it alone, is one thing, but when you reach down to bring others along, even if it seems it will slow the journey, is something beyond imagining

5 Lucky steps is all you need

1) Be available.

There is the statement ‘success arrives to those who are prepared and available’. Be open to possibilities. If you want to succeed, in a financial fashion, don’t become so tunnel vision oriented that you miss opportunities. You may decide for instance that writing or selling books is the way you are going to make it, and you become so focused you miss an opportunity a friend is offering in say blogging. Or you want to sell real estate, but an acquaintance has an on line clothing store that he needs help with an will even give you equity in it, but you don’t give it a thought. Listen to the opportunities around you, there are always opportunities. Some are good for you, some aren’t. But be open. Here’s another truism when you look back from a successful venture it is never what you were looking for and it is almost always a collection of staggering coincidences that led you to that successful venture. Be open and aware

2) Say yes.

That’s it. Say yes. At least to the possibility. Take a chance to invest some time investigating the opportunity. Say no when it obviously will not work for you at this time. But initially say yes – you cal always say o later. But if you say no, or are fearful of even looking into the possibility. There’s no opportunity to say. There’s no ‘luck” in your life.

4) Be prepared.

Success happens when you are prepared and available. So be open, but also be ready to tun up, when it happens. They say 50% of success is turning up. 90% is turning up ready to play. Be ready for action, and act, immediately. A friend asks, or you see an ad, or there’s a message put out, and you think- that’s interesting, in fact that would work for me, I should get in touch with them. Tomorrow, and then its after the weekend, and then…its gone. Turn up, ready to play when you see an opportunity

3) Accept failure

The world is full of opportunities, not all are for you, and most will not work, because of timing or finances, or market changing or you cant get along with your partners. Success comes from failure – but in the words of Bob Dylan – “failure is no success at all”. Failure is to be expected. If everything worked all the time…well what a mess. And if everything worked the way it was supposed to , everyone would do it, and there would be no money in it. Success is rewarding and lucrative, because most will not get past the first failure. Failure if you will is the fence or guards around success. Its the filter that allows only the prepared an determined win. And thats why winning is so lucrative, because so few get there, not because of luck or talent or skill, but because of lack of determination and foresight to get past the first one or two or twelve failures. The more failures there are, the more profitable and rewarding is is when you get there. You can fail as many timers as necessary – but you only need to success – ONCE. A good number. Once

4) Believe in opportunity

Be available, be prepared, and expect opportunity. Millions were made in the 1920′s depression , not by many, but by the few who were ready prepared and expected to find opportunity. Its party of being available. If you don’t believe it, you wont see it, and opportunity and luck will pass you by. Believe it before its there. Its allows you to be available, and make you want to be prepared, and take away tunnel vision. Sets you up for success. Yes if you believe you can achieve it. Bit if you don’t believe there is an opportunity for you round every corner – you’ll never ever see it. Even when its staring you in the face.

and just for luck – an extra lucky step: -

6) Expect to work

“The harder I work the luckier I get”. Its seems like a golden opportunity then you see the work involved and you think – that’s not what I want that’s not how people become e successful – they’re just ‘luck’ into things. No-one licks into things that produce true success and value in their lives. There is the 10,000 hour theory, to become very good at anything – you have to put in at least 10,000 hours at the thing. Frank Kern in Internet marketing portrays himself as lazy and long haired and a goofball. If you believe that – you should buy my bridge I have -you’ll find it in Brooklyn where I left It for you. If you get a chance take a look at say Mass Control 1 or 2 that Frank Kern created – imagine how many hours of actually creating, and then how many hours of study of all the direct selling gurus he must have done – has done. Its always work. Luck is always work. The harder I work the luckier I get

Why are we here?

Why is there something rather than nothing?

Are we alone?

What is love?

Why does toast land butter side down?

Really the only answer, the only true answer is I don’t know. We don’t actually know.

We can guess, we can have theories. The theory of evolution. The theory of relativity. The theory of Internet dating.But let’s be honest if we didn’t see it, its hard to know.

However in this day and age it is like having a disease to say about some piece of information – i don’t know.

We can find out the answer to lots of facts- the wingspan of the (insert bird here) , the speed of the (insert noun here)

But if someones says – will this absolutely guaranteed work, make me rich, give em freedom, right all wrongs? -

The answer should be – I don’t know. Lets find out

If you ask John Reese will this email pull? Will this Header be noticed? Will this opt-in be the best possible? He will say ” I don’t know – lets try it, and learn”

When we ask “Should I do this or that (presuming neither are illegal or idiotic) – should I move here or stay there, should I commit or should I rest? The really smart answer is: – I don’t know – take the best action thats seems appropriate at the time and learn from the outcome.

The best thing about I don’t know is it enables progress. If the answer was always. Yes. I know. Then who would try new things. Who would take a risk, if supposedly it had already been tried? Why make the effort if the know-it-alls, know it all.

Scientists (except in the media)rarely say ‘this is absolute’ ‘this is true”truths. Scientists like theories,because they know all they can say is: -it worked like this so far, or the facts seem to be justified so far, but who knows things could change,lets keep our opinions open.

So when you or I, we, ask the gurus of our industry or profession: – will this new idea work, will this untried scheme fly? The answer should always hopefully be, ‘I don’t know, try it, let it happen and learn from the outcome’.

The best answer you could ever get. I don’t know.

Try the most sensible action first, and learn from the outcome, keep your options and opinions and outlook -Open.

The fact that you are making mistakes at least indicates the fact that you are in the process, are creating – Activity. As my dear old Dad used to say – you cant steer a parked car. (of course my dear old Dad never said that – some motivational speaker said that, over and over again. My dear old Dad was more likely to say – you are the laziest son I have ever had)

Nevertheless only activity can produce success. taking and thinking about ‘a plan is good. But unless there is activity there will never be an outcome. A result.

By the way this has to be the best (as in most complex ) mindmap I have seen for displaying, everything, I mean everything you need to know about Internet Marketing.

MindMapOfUltimateWoe from Andy Jenkins Blog.

Study it . It is a thing of beauty.

Back to the post at hand.

Only activity in the end will produce results. Only results produce success. And if in doubt do something, any activity will produce some result. Good or bad. Inactivity produces nothing.

Ken Robinson has a great video on creativity being weaned out of us through education

If you are just starting a business, you may fall into the ‘college/school’ trap of only doing things that produce ‘successful’ results, and become frozen by the thought of failure.(the pass fail syndrome) If that is the case – redefine, in your mind, a successful outcome. The New Definition: – all outcomes that come from directed effort are successful outcomes.

No effort,  no outcome, that is not allowable. All outcomes from directed effort count. And are important.

Success is merely a series of wrong steps continuously learned from,that eventually produces your desired result. Success.

John Reese always says you learn from activity. And no matter where your business is right now, as long as your are prepared to put in continued activity – this is the ‘worst’ your business is going to ever be.

If you have a business that’s moving along, you may become frightened to change anything or try anything new in case you disturb the little ‘success your business is producing.

You cannot get different results from the same effort. You cannot get more money from something that gives less money. So you have to change the business to produce a new result. Initially the change may produce less money or no money and you feel this is an unsuccessful step and stop doing anything else.

You cannot get more from the same, and you cannot ever, ever, ever expect to be right the first time or the second time or the third time. Success  is produced from a series of steps, most of which appear to be mistakes but are just learning steps. If you don’t learn the wrong way, you cannot find the right way.

To create a successful business requires effort, constant effort. And being willing to learn from that constant efort.’Mistakes’ are irrelevant,and actually dont exist. Rename your ‘mistakes’- your steps.You do not incur mistakes, you only have steps towards your desired outcome

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
Winston Churchill

You have just bought the course and downloaded all the information. You hurry through a few pages of the manual and scan a few instructional pdfs, glance at the video presentations -but really why bother?

You know, you truly know, for the first time, this is for you. This is your future!

Making money at home.

Making money in your underwear.

No more job, you hear me? No more job!

You know all the ‘pitch’ (case study) headlines. You’ve read through them at least ten times; -

‘four legged blind boy with no hands makes a million on the internet’.
‘Homeless dude creates fortune while living in an abandoned car’.
’16 year old student makes 5 million in fifteen seconds with his first launch, and he got it wrong!’.

You cant wait, cant wait to get your own business going.

So you sort of do some stuff, almost as they told you, well close enough. You buy a domain name, find a web hosting service, copy and paste the landing page, they gave you (they gave everybody), and you publish it. Its up! Its live!. You are on your way…

Nothing.

Now its a week later your credit card is maxed out to Google or Yahoo Pay Per Click advertising, and three people have clicked on your page and bought nothing. Not even opted-in. In fact you’re pretty sure they got to your site by mistake…

You hear overnight success – and you’re a failure

You hear videos going viral – and you’re stagnant.

You hear – $1 million in a week – and you’re into the bank for your mortgage and its been five weeks…

Reality check.

Some facts: -

Opt-in rates for a free item from an unknown are maybe, maybe 3%

Opt-in rates for a cold (that is, first time to website) buy – less than 1%

The chances of you getting it right the first time – less than.05%

The chances you will not quit in disgust?

Well that’s up to you. Totally. Completely. Up to you.

That’s when goals and dreams and reality collide.

A dream is a motivation. A goal is something concrete to work for. But expectations can kill you. Kill -your business, your ambitions, your drive..

Be aware expectations have nothing to do with actual success or failure.

If you dream is lets say to create financial freedom through an internet business, and your goal is to have a business up and running in a week, starting from zero. Its (probably) not going to happen.

All businesses take time. All things of value take – effort and time.

Never mind the four legged blind kid that had overnight success. (how many legs do you have? are you blind?)

And expect it to cost you.

A degree, a basic business degree is going to cost you at least $10,000. An MBA around $40,000. Are you prepared to spend $2-3000 learning? Over time? How much is financial freedom worth to you?

Are you prepared to fail to succeed?

Are you prepared to put in time? A degree is 3 years minimum (yes that does include extensive partying). To learn a trade like plumbing or carpentry takes minimum two years.

Are you prepared to have realistic expectations and give your self, a year at least, learning curve?

Are you prepared to do this while keeping a full time job.( 9 -5 you earning a living, after 5 you create a life)

Expect little except effort.

Accept your dream as a worthwhile lifetime achievement.

And then, whatever takes, make it happen.

Then have always the expectation of success. Understanding work and effort and time are the ultimate necessary ingredients. And the ultimate guarantee for success.

(The homeless guy in the car? – it took him 5 years- and he wasn’t really homeless and his car had WI-Fi)

No DVD, no satellite TV, no mobile phones,no PDA’s, no TiVos, no iPods, no digital cameras, no PlayStation, no wii, no blogs…

As of March 2010 the world wide web has  20 billion web pages (and change, lots of change).

The population of the planet (this planet) is approx 6.8 billion, estimated to reach 9 billion by 2040 or 50.That a lot of…us.

Then there is Kurzweil and The Singularity.It refers to the future point at which technological change, propelled by the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, will accelerate past the point of current human comprehension.

Now that’s comforting – past the point of human comprehension!

In 2011 Frank Kern releases his ‘Ultimate Fighting – MoneyControl Course ‘ for $250,000, with a $300,000 money back guarantee. It sells out before  its created.

Within two months there are 453 million money control courses on the internet, all seeming to come from a guy called Matt.

And of course in 2050 Google takes over the world.

But much more important, our credit card bills are climbing at rates they don’t even have scales for yet.

And then there’s Global warming, or not.

Or Climate change, because its getting warmer, or colder.

The financial collapse that threatens capitalism. Or not. That will only happen once in our lifetimes. Or not.

And the earthquakes, why are there so many earthquakes? And the tidal waves and the weird storms and quantum physics and that Super Duper Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland that can produce the end of the world at the touch of a switch. Or cant even turn on.  And then there’s cat juggling…

(sorry I just threw that in for no reason)

All that…noise, and people and information and duplication and out of control science and -

Unless the world ends (via @Mayans) December 21st 2012.

The question is what are YOU going to do about it? How can you cope.

Here’s a thought.

Ignore it.

Information is just facts, non facts and opinions about things that exist around us. Or stuff they completely made up (which we can ignore)

If it is facts about things that exist around us, then that is something that has always been there (as in NOT NEW), now there’s just a lot of people, and computers, producing words about them.

Nothing NEW has happened (in most cases) just a lot of new voices.

(see that sentence is a repeat of the information in the previous statement. Its just there for the hard of hearing)

Look at the Internet business – just to pick something crazy at random.

You make money online only ONE way – by selling something to a customer.IN fact that’s how business have always been. Always.

Yes the Internet is a new medium and has to be approached differently. But not new. Frank Kern for instance says the Internet allows us for the first time to directly interact with thousands of people (The List) as though they were one individual.As if it were, in fact, a one to one sales call. As if it were a sales made through relationship building.

Well nothing new there. Basic selling.

Now online (typically) you create or have created a digital product (ebook, DVD,Video, audio) about something in  a market that people want. Large or small. An then buy or get traffic (PPC, Joint Venture) and offer that traffic something they want.

See The Ultimate Internet Business Plan

So there are thousand, hundred of thousands of programs and offers and course on line to help you with that. But despite all the secrets and ninja tricks and undisclosed magical mystery – its all the same.>Because you only do it one way. (yes there are nuances, but unless you are an information hound – forget the nuances)

Pick one you like and seems trustworthy. Go with that till you make money, then think about it.

Where do you want to go next.

That is the key – where do YOU want to go next (not what shiny info object catches you attention) what do you want?

Another example Eban Pagan teaches Master Classes on the psychology behind selling and money. Great stuff.It is. But its what Brain Tracys teaches. Its what Jim Rohn and Bob Proctor and Napoleon Hill taught. It what the master Earl Nightingale taught. And they got their information from…someone.Its not new. Its applied new.

Ok.

So.

Here’s how you stay sane and alive in this world of noise.

Focus on what you want. And go get that.Pay attention to what you want.That is all you need.

Nothing else is important to you. The rest is noise. And eventually you get used to noise and only filter in the important stuff. To you.

As you learn and change your wants change. Great then its time to focus on that.

Hers the great thing nowadays – no matter what it is, there’s information out there waiting for you. When your ready.

Focus on whats important. To You.Whether its a peaceful relaxing life, a rich life, an exploring life, a relationship, your kids, whatever it might be. At this point in time.

Focus on it. Because that is you. And that is all you need.

Leave the other glittering shiny objects alone – they do nothing for you, they are distractions

Noise.Talk.Just talk. Information for the sake of information for the sake of information for the sake of information…

This is really what sets the USA apart. I live in Canada, and though we share the same landscape and border, the Canadian mentality is more…what shall we say…more compromising. An American (stereotypically) is driven, ambitious, aggressive and believes ‘I can do it,my way god darnit’. A Canadian is more live and let live and lets just all get through this together.

In business that tends to mean that Canada has less per person productivity than the USA. Not because Canada is less smart or less anything in any real way, except one. Risk.

The stereotypical Canadian will minimize risk (see our banking system which didn’t collapse in the economic meltdown, because fat cats and monopolies that they are, they dont like big risk)

Now this is generalizing and going for risk after all has allowed the USA to virtually bring down the entire worlds economy, and allowed China to put itself in a very important position economically and possibly will have irretrievable hurt the US in terms of its number 1 ranking for all time – but, thems the breaks .

Anyway…

Lets get back to the entrepreneur before I ride off in all directions at once

Its a fact, in terms of business, in terms of lifestyle – a successful entrepreneur has everything else beat hands down (except A list Male Hollywood actors perhaps ) (Oh and politicians – a free ride all the way – but -)

But an entrepreneur, the concept of an individual making it without the safety net of a job or big company environment, is risky.

Most people have jobs because jobs are easier. To get.But jobs have no life attached to them.

Most people ‘work’ because they dont like the risk. Most countries dont do as well ,productivity wise, as The US because the population avoids risk.

Be the cowboy/cowgirl. The wild spirited one. Its risky, but its a great life.

Why?

Entrepreneur – The true possibility of financial freedom at best and the reality of financial control of your life, at worst.

If you do not control the engine of your income, you have no control. If you have a job, you can be let go fired at any time for reasons that have nothing to do with your work, or accomplishments.

If you have a position with a financial ceiling – a job, a tenured position etc, then you can only make what is given , not what you can earn.

However -If you create your own business, and you keep at it until it proves successful, and it has scale (that is your earning ceiling is only limited by your ambition) then you have possibilities.Then you can create a lifestyle second to none, because you can have an income stream, independent of you time input. Financial freedom. And an income stream not in the hands of a boss or board.

However it will be in the hands of a marketplace, so: -

Top 3 things to look for in your entrepreneurial search: -

1) Make it something you want to do. Really want to do – this is how you are going to spend most of your waking hours, make it something that drives you .

2) Make sure your business can scale. Up. Examine the marketplace you want to be in, can it sustain you making millions? You might not ever want to make that much. But if you felt like it, could you?And in bad times will that marketplace sustain you?

3) Make sure, I repeat, make sure, you can get you time back out at some point in the future. If it will always take YOU working at the thing to keep it going, and theres no way to back you time out – you have a job, you are the boss and the employee. You have income, but no life.

4) Realize Risk is all. Not money as much as time and emotional commitment. You are going to have throw everything you have got behind the project. And when it fails (It might) be prepared to throw everything you’ve got into the next, and the next, until you make it work (it will)

Risk as in attitude, not as in throwing your family’s saving at something with no safety net. Not risk as in craziness without thought. Risk as in; no-one else believes in it, no-one else sees it, no-one else is prepared to work this hard, no one else can see how it will possibly work -

What do they know?

5) take advice only from those who have what you want. Again I repeat take advice only from those who have what you want. It doesn’t matter if its your parents, your best friend, your rich neighbor, if they do not have what you want – in this case, creating an income stream that is self sufficient unto itself, and that can make them millionaires. They have no say.

After all these days Frank Kern can make 1 million or so in an hour – and GM and top wall street financial institutions are bankrupt.

If you are not American , then absorb their driving spirit enough to make your life financially free.Believe in becoming accountable for your own future. Absorb the risk

When people are financially free they can help others. You have time and money. Its good to send money to Haiti or Chile, its better to go down there and help with your own hands,  put the ‘aid’ directly into the right hands.

Its good to care about your kids. Its better to have a life where you can be with them when they need you because you have created time in your life.

The entrepreneur is a French word – but its  Americas gift to the world.

Take the gift.

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- There are 1.73 billion Internet users worldwide as of September 2009.

- There are 1.4 billion e-mail users worldwide, and on average we collectively send 247 billion e-mails per day. Unfortunately 200 billion of those are spam e-mails.

- As of December 2009, there are 234 million websites.

- Facebook gets 260 billion pageviews per month, which equals 6 million page views per minute and 37.4 trillion pageviews in a year.

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

Both use standard  Internet marketing tactics to re-sell their old seminars. Both Seminars are done. Over. They have the money and the results. Now to further promote themselves and continuity programs they ‘give-away’ the DVDs of their workshops (True value products). Then if you back out of the ‘funnel’ because of shipping, they both offer direct downloads for $1.

In Internet Marketing once you have a’ product’ re-use it as many ways a possible. Mike Filsaime is a master at this, and Lee McIntyre duplicates in true form.

So they know their stuff.

But where are you , or me in this? Getting started, fumbling through the morass of information and techniques and watching the ‘gurus’ pile on the money and almost newbies like McIntyre generate $100,000 a month, with the same apparently slick techniques.

Mike Filsaime started back when the Internet was still steam powered. When the market was still virginal and naive and you could spam yourself a customer or two. Mike Filsaime grew up at the same time that “Internet Marketing’ grew up. He caught the wave.

2010 is not 1999. The audience is sophisticated. There is no spam. Your emails are full of ‘mass control’ headlines and pitches. Your email box is FULL of your opt-in responses and you cant remember which is which, as most are the same, and they want you to spend anywhere from $9.99 lifetime buy in, to only a mere $699 a month.And the pitches are endless. How are You ever going to make it?

Niche marketing is…well what niche hasn’t been explored, mined, trawled, over and over. SEO is no longer the wonder it was, as Google always stays ahead. And the days of PPC  average costs of .15c a click are so far away its like another universe.

But so what.

Everything changes.

Theres always the ones who get in ‘at the right time’.

Remember for every Mike Filsaime, John Reese, Eban Pagan and Frank Kern, there are hundred who didnt make it.Who started when times were ‘good’. When things were ‘easier’. When the time was ‘right’.

But they didnt make it. They failed?

They quit

Then there is Lee McIntyre, his business is barely 2 years old. So he started when the bloom was certainly off the rose.

For every new marketer that comes along there are thousands of new prospects flooding the internet. The customer/prospect base is increasing far beyond the capture possibilities of the few ‘gurus’ out there.

Thus Lee McIntyre.

And watch Lee McIntyre enter his small meeting room on his first day. His opening. He is nervous. He hadn’t slept the night before, or the night before that. A month before he was worried sick no-one would pay to come hear Lee McIntyre. Why would they?

Then he was worried sick they would all cancel. Why wouldnt they?

Then he was worried no-one would come, even after they had paid. Why would they?

Then he was worried sick no-one would respond to his ‘information’ and they would all leave. Of course they will.Its just lee McIntyre – not someone, well ,important.

But here’s the thing. He went ahead. He booked the little meeting room in Manchester. He didnt want to. He wanted to run away. He wanted to cancel. He was terrified. We’re all terrified of moving forward. But he went there anyway. He walked into the room anyway. He started to speak anyway. He went through with it anyway.

The biggest challenge, especially with Internet marketing where your at home with this ‘thing’ on the screen,nothing “Real’. Why bother?  This thing isn’t really a website. You dont have all the advantages. It will never work.

So you walk away. Why not? Whats the point?

You dont ‘pull the trigger’, because if you dont ‘act’ you can dream. But if you act – then you have to deal with reality.

And it maybe failure.

This time

Remember.

Only this time.

Do it again

Watch Lee McIntyre, he is Mike Filsaime et al way back. Nervous frightened, terrified his dreams will shatter.

But he goes ahead anyway. And hes not great that first day. Nervous, not a good speaker, uncertain. Hesitant.

But by the second day, hes relaxed, hes believing a little in himself, and he has great information to share.

As we all do.

As we all do.

But we have to pull the trigger. We have to allow our dreams to shatter and deal with reality .

You cant move on if you you dont move. A parked car cannot be steered.

As John Reese always says – whatever you do now, is the worst its going to be because you will learn to fix your mistakes.

But if you dont act. If you dont leap. How can you move?

Leap.

Now – when its not right, when its not perfect, when it might not work.

Because next time, it will work better.

Lee McIntyre Page Mike Filsaime page

Obviously not.

Nothing like.

Mike Filsaime, a protege of Frank Kern et al. Was a Car Dealership sales manager, a professional salesman, before coming to the Internet World. One of the originals. Bought the original Frank Kerns ‘Instant Internet Empires’ (the one the FTC closed Frank down on)from a spam email (when spamming was THE WAY), and re spammed it (probably) and never looked back.

A huge business.

One of the gurus, in fact is selling most of his basic businesses right now to specialise in software for Internet Marketing. A smooth clever (in a good way), sales professional.

Lee McIntyre is from Manchester England (with the accent to boot – looves Man United – hates West Am -thats soocer you see). Started just over two years ago in the Internet world, ex teacher, never did nuffin for long like. Doesn’t go the big seminars. His business is set to do about 7 figures this year. Started two and half years ago – worked his way up to $7,000 a month, then $20,000 and just now is reaching for the 7 figures.

Mike has hundreds of students who now do 7 figures – no contest right?

Well…

Recently they both recycled two workshops. Mike Filsaimes 7 figure secrets, and Lee McIntyre -The Inside out – Upsidse Down workshop.

Mike had about 144 plus people there – they paid $5000 each, all the top names taught, and many top names were in the audience. The Seminar was how Mike runs his 7 figure plus businesses, and how he got thewm to 7 figures. Mikes personal talks were laying out his business, what he does, how he runs it, and how you can run one just like it. The mistakes he made, ther secrets he found out. Pretty much full exposure. in. An insiders look at a big time business.

Lee McInytre  announced at his workshop  his business was just hitting the $100,00 per month mark.He had 60 people,who paid $997, in Manchester England, and it was his first ever workshop. He was nervous, and said so, but he did the same thing, as the 7 figures (albeit at a lower level) absolutely laid his business bare, what he did, the mistakes, the fears, the getting started, hiring his first assistant, making his first product.

Mikes workshop was 5 or 6 years ago. Lee’s was last year. Both were workshops on how they run their businesses, no hold barred. Secrets revealed  if you will.Both were recycling the DVD/Videos of these workshops to sell their new ventures. Both were doing it almost exactly the same way – Mike Filsaime page.  Lee McIntyre page

One at the top of his game, the other just getting  started. Mike – smooth, lots of experience, and of course it was a USD seminar. Lee, young, nervous (but successful) in Manchester, with the Manchester accent (hard to sound polished with a manchester accent). But both excellent, both holding back nothing. Both offering true insights.

But if you were an outsider, with no real appreciation of what was being offered – you would say – its the same thing, one slick, one not. Bit how can they do the same thing in the same market, and offer true value.

Well thats the thing about the Internet Business – ist not so much about product as it is about the person.

And there is a lot of room in this billion dollar business. Frank Kern doesnt own the whole thing you know.  There’s room for you too.

In fact as we go into a bit more depth on these two workshops you will see, not only is there room for you, there are markets and people, that ONLY you can reach.

Part two – in depth -contrast and compare – coming to this space – soonest!