Hi,

I wasn’t even going to write this blog post but then it occurred to me…

… I haven’t had a good ole rant for a long time – like… almost a week! Plus, I’ve been holding off making a public statement and taking a stance on this issue for too long. And that just ain’t me. Nobody is ever gonna die wondering what I think about something I consider to be important. Those who know me well know that you can take that to the bank.

So, what am I cooking up today? Well, I just want to rave on about everyone’s favorite misery whinge at the moment and throw my 2 cents into the ring.

It seems as though Internet Marketers are forming up into TWO big opposing groups – those who wish to deceive and con versus those who don’t. I will call the former group the “Decepticons”, mainly because that is what they are mostly about – deceiving and conning.

Just in case you aren’t familiar with the concepts of the movie “Transformers”, here is the Wikipedia definition of a Decepticon:

“The Decepticons are usually depicted as the antagonists in the fictional universes of the Transformers toyline and related comics and cartoons, and the enemies of the Autobots.”

In other words they are the “bad guys.” So, moving along with this theme and relating it to Internet Marketing …

Decepticons will use false subject lines such as:

- “Notification of Payment Received”

That’s a real nasty because it tricks people – especially beginners – into thinking they have made a sale. So they eagerly open the email to see what the payment was for and then they get presented with some crap like: “Now that I have gained your attention…” Well, it sure gains mine – I start hunting for the UNSUBSCRIBE link straight away.

That deceptive subject line is bloody awful! I’ve even seen several experienced marketers use it. They should get a damn good kick up the a** for it.

Here’s another very “popular” misleading subject line:

- “RE: (and anything they type after that)”

This is designed to trick you into thinking that somebody is actually replying to you because that is the prefix given to ALL replies to emails that you send. Again, a trick – and a pretty moronic one at that. Why? Because the instant that you realize that the email isn’t personal you lose TOTAL interest and wonder who this putz is. Then you get annoyed that they would play such a trick on you and… UNSUBSCRIBE!

Here’s another commonly used Decepticon subject line:

- “Your Order Confirmation”

This is yet another trick to get you to open the email to see what the heck you are supposed to have ordered. When you realize that you have been conned yet again… yep… UNSUBSCRIBE!

Are you starting to see a pattern here? These Decepticons are SO bereft of talent that they have to resort to trickery and con-artistry to try to get you to open up their crap and then HOPE that because you did that you will either click on something that will take you to a sales page or an opt-in page to surrender your details for – wait for it – even MORE of their JUNK!

Now, here’s a particularly untalented Decepticon subject line that is doing the rounds FAR too often and is all the “rage” at the moment:

- “Your Order #RU256790843”

I can’t even believe how dopey this is and yet SO MANY would-be marketers are using it. Even worse there are so many fledgling marketers blindly copying this ridiculous ruse. It seems really strange to me that ALL of these deceptive subject lines all carry the prefix RU. Why not XT? Or ZBU? Nope. Monkey see, monkey do. (Give the chimp a peanut) They are ALL #RU. They might as well be #RU-anIDIOT. So, when somebody fools you in this way what do you do? Hint: Look above – it begins with U and ends with E!

There are several other “popular” Decepticon subject lines equally as misleading as these but I won’t bore you with any more. You have probably seen them anyway.

Do you like them?

I sure don’t. And it would seem that NOBODY else does either. But the dill-brains using them just continue to use them to build massive lists that are becoming MORE and MORE unresponsive by the day. Very soon anyone engaging in email marketing will have to have a list of 100,000 just to get 100 opens. And that 100 will be the greenest of green raw beginners on the planet. And when THEY wise-up they won’t be opening these emails either.

Rampant adswapping has caused this malaise. I’m not against adswapping. I think it has its place but so many people now are so feverish to build an enormous list that they will stoop to almost any level to fool people into handing over their name and/or email address. So, rather than be creative and tell the bloody truth, they resort to misleading people.

What the Decepticons clearly have NOT factored into their equation – quite apart from the rising percentage of people unsubscribing from virtually ANY email contact – is the MASS de-sensitisation of ALL those receiving these deceptive and highly misleading emails. Even after a relatively short period of time most people wise up and stop being fooled by them.

Like you, I am on 100’s of lists. I rarely unsubscribe – unless somebody sends me endless worthless junk that’s been around since the first moon landing OR they pound me mercilessly with far too many emails.

I was talking to a colleague the other day who found himself on a list where the owner began to barrage him with 4 emails per day and then ramped it up to 8. Yes! 8 emails per day – EVERY day! That is abusing the system if I have ever heard of it. What if everyone started doing that? No wonder autoresponders are becoming more expensive to use and are breaking down more often.

Some Decepticons also think they are pretty clever by hitting the space bar 20 or 30 times before they add the mandatory unsubscribe link too. Well, not only is that unethical and against the TOS of most autoresponders but also – how STUPID! Even a rank beginner can drag the scroll bar down to where it is hiding at the bottom of 10, 20 or even 50 folds of white space. Deceptive and… dumb!

When this is all said and done, there are still people out there in marketing cyberland who will send you GOOD information – not all of it demanding your name or email address on EVERY occasion. Some will point you to blog posts, some will just send free information and some… just a few, like me, will even send you the occasional NO opt-in pdf. But even when the honest and ethical people do these things the ignore rate and the unsubscribe rate is still very high because of what the Decepticons are doing.

It has almost reached epidemic proportions. In fact, I take that back. It has. It’s now a PANDEMIC. It hurts everyone, fills up everyone’s email account with tons and tons of useless junk and desensitizes everyone. And don’t expect it to stop any time soon. The ONLY time it will stop is when open rates are so LOW that the Decepticons finally realize that all they have been doing is sh*tting in their own nests OR stronger rules of the CAN-Spam Act are invoked.

What are your thoughts? What are the email subject lines and tactics that you detest the most? Have your say. In fact, RANT all you want. You can disagree with me if you want too. If you want to blast me, go ahead. Just be prepared for the return salvo. Seriously, say what you want. If you have a reasoned argument that disproves what I have said above then I will NOT censor you. I promise.

While I’m at it – here’s another PROMISE – I will NEVER send you a misleading or deceptive email subject line. I’d rather be creative than follow blindly the lead of the Decepticons. Plus I have too much pride in what I do to be so banal.

For me… I’ll be an “Autobot” any day of the week.

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Hi,

Well, today something happened and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. It’s all to do with attitude.

I’ll bet you know people who have wonderful attitudes. I’ll also bet you know people whose attitudes stink too.

Today I came across somebody whose attitude was abysmal. It stunk to high-heaven from the moment I laid eyes on him. Let me tell you what happened…

OK. I’d been working in my office since early morning and I really needed a break, so I decided to go out and buy some lunch. I drove to a local fast food outlet that sells all that really healthy stuff – you know… chicken, chips, soft drinks. Only joking. But that’s where I ended up. I just needed FOOD! Anyway, in I walked and ordered my food.

The young lady behind the counter was pleasant but quite young and obviously inexperienced. So I made allowances for that while she took some time to ring up the order, take my money and give me back the change. No problem. No big deal. Then in HE walks… this guy.

I turned and casually glanced at him because there was a bell on the door and I wasn’t doing anything except just standing there, waiting.

He has this angry scowl on his face and looked like he was REALLY enjoying his day – probably his whole life. Not! Anyway…

… he walks up to the counter and growls: “Chicken and chips!” No smile. No greeting. His body language is saying it all.

I’m thinking two words: “Rude pr*ck!” Sorry for that but it’s exactly what I thought.

The young lady rings it up. Then he decides to go to the refrigerator and grab a drink and something else. So, the girl cancels the cash register entry then rings it all up again to get the new total. Pleasantly enough she says, “That’s fourteen dollars and sixty cents thanks.”

Rude pr*ck – I’ll call him that (because that is EXACTLY what he was) – opens his wallet and retrieves a crunched up ten dollar note and just throws it on the counter in front of her. I watched him do it, sighed and mentally just shook my head in disgust. The young lady had her hand open to receive the money. She looks at him enquiringly and he just looks back at her.

She repeats the amount owed. He opens the side flap on his wallet, pulls out five dollars in coins and drops them onto the counter so they run everywhere.

I take a deep breath…

This reminded me of a certain boofhead who incurred my wrath at the bar of the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas in January – only he was in the reverse position. He was the so-called “service provider” – the bar-tender. I won’t go into it here but those who were with me at the time saw what happened to his BAD attitude that day.

Back to the story at hand…

… The young lady picks up the coins and puts this guy’s money in the cash register. She’s obviously rattled and closes the cash register. Remember the amount? I was thinking: “Oh, oh. Now she’s so upset she’s forgotten his change.”

I’m also thinking… “if this guy arcs up he’s gonna have more than a 80lb waif of a young girl to deal with.” Coz I am FURIOUS with what I am witnessing. In my book, there are NO EXCUSES for this rudeness.

Rude pr*ck, in a nasty tone says: “I suppose I’ll get some change!” He glances at me with a snaky look on his face so I squared up to face him and just stared at him. If he was looking for support then he was looking at the WRONG guy!

Well, what he said just wasn’t QUITE rude enough to have me intervene. And I can assure you, my reader, that I don’t take too kindly to this sort of thing – bullying, rudeness, false “superiority” over other people. So I just stood there and drilled this guy with the icicles coming out of my eyeballs. He looked at me several times then went and sat down and shut his mouth. Thankfully.

I felt really sorry for this poor kid. Why should she be subjected to this treatment? I see it a fair bit in my travels and I wonder what the proponents of this rudeness get out of having a lousy, stinking attitude. Is it some sort of perverse thrill? Or don’t they even KNOW they are doing it? Do they live such hideously miserable lives that they just want to spread their infections?

I thought about it while I waited to get my meal. Then I remembered something. I remembered him opening his wallet. The scrunched up ten buck note he pulled out was all that he had in it. It made me wonder if his attitude was a result of his lack of money or if his lack of money was a result of his attitude. The latter I would suggest.

I have always been of the belief that, when dealing with people – especially people working in lowly-paid, menial jobs – that a drop of honey is more valuable than a gallon of vinegar. Anyway, I made sure that I thanked the young lady and gave her a big smile before I turned and gave the guy one last BLAST of a look that left him with absolutely no uncertain impression that I was NOT impressed with his disgusting performance.

I may come back and tell you about the beggar woman that I observed in Los Angeles a few years ago. That’s an interesting story too.

So, what do YOU think? Have you had similar experiences? Share them with us.

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I hope that STUPID headline gave you a good laugh. But I have a reason for it (apart from giving you a bit of a chuckle).

Well, we’ve ALL seen them – sales pages making OUTRAGEOUS claims for income and wealth. Do you believe them? We’ve seen – Rich Jerk, Rich Janitor, Rich This, Rich That, blah, blah, blah… And now we have the latest variation of this theme – the Rich 16 Year Old.

It would seem that headlines and claims are now becoming more and more bold, outrageous and even aggressive, so it goes to follow that people are probably NOT believing them. Hence, in the dog-chasing-its-tail syndrome, the claims are becoming more and more ridiculous and sensationalistic.

My headline here is PATENTLY ridiculous. I deliberately made it so just to show you how stupid things are getting. What prompted me to do this? Read on…

I recently received a spam email from somebody (supposedly) about a 16 year old girl who is SUPPOSEDLY making millions with “her” system. There was also the provocative claim that she had recently made $405,179.29 in just 45 days. And then she claims: “That’s $119,738.50 in my pocket in the last 7 days, and I never even had to leave home for it!” Heady stuff huh? Against my better judgment (*sigh*), I decided to check it out. I was curious – and therein lies a little LESSON in itself, but I will press on.

Well, there she was – a picture of her. A couple of them. In one picture she was proudly displaying Cickbank checks. In the text, she was claiming to be a bit of a brat (probably true at that age – LOL). She said she “didn’t care.” (Whatever! – the favorite word of teens around this age. If you know any teens or have teens of your own you will KNOW what I mean… WHATEVER!)

While scrolling down the sales page I was looking at I noticed a picture of an expensive late model Bentley sedan with some stickers on the windscreen suggesting it was hers and some words below the picture saying: “The Rich 16’s $220,000 Bentley, before I’m even officially licensed to drive, haha.” Interestingly, the number plate had been blurred out. I could only think that this was to prevent those who would have the wherewithal to check the plate – and determine who the true owner was – from doing so. So, there was a little HINT.

Then there were all the usual screenshots of Clickbank checks and account information. Curiously, there was also a copy of a letter from Clickbank with certain sections conveniently blanked out. What struck me as odd is that all the names in all the letters and the Clickbank checks were ALL blurred out. Why? The young lady had already identified herself and told us her name. She’d already signed off using her name at the bottom of the sales letter too. Her identity had already been established – unless, of course, she was using a pseudonym (in which case it would have been more credible if she had stated so).

The letter displayed was from the Clickbank Premier Elite Program. I don’t doubt its authenticity. What I do doubt, however, is WHO it was addressed to. The picture of the envelope it came in also had the name blurred out. So, in my mind, at least, the value of those pieces of “PROOF” was immediately diminished by the suspicion they aroused.

Was the envelope and letter actually addressed to the alleged 16 year old or were they addressed to somebody else? Their inclusion just weakened the entire page. Besides, everybody knows those Clickbank screen shots can be photo-shopped. Does ANYBODY believe them?

Also, in the text of the letter it stated in the opening sentence: “This letter is to confirm that (name obscured) has been receiving payments (words removed) for our retail website, Clickbank.com, since November of 2006.” Um… the 16 year old says on the page that she isn’t good at math. Fair enough. But I am. That means she started 4 years ago which would have made her 12 years old. Another HINT that all may not be kosher with this promotional material.

My detective nose started to twitch. So, I spent a few minutes digging around and lo-and-behold… I found an almost identical page from a more “credible” source that used the SAME graphics – minus the insertion of the 16 year old girl’s persona and her deliberately portrayed “I don’t care what you think of me” attitude. It reeked of the “Rich Jerk” sales page from some years ago. A clone attempt. The other site displayed the same product, same color scheme, very similar information. In essence, it was the SAME.

Well, maybe she (or the person behind her persona) really is an affiliate of the original source. I don’t know. But the way that the sales page was written it suggested that this young girl had miraculously stumbled across a system of her own that had heaped wealth on her very quickly. Of course, this is playing up to the age-old greed and “me too” component in all of us. Brain thinks: “If a 16 year old kid can do this then the system she is using MUST BE INCREDIBLE.” Next brain thought: “I WANT this!” Sales psychology 101 in action.

Now, I’m not averse to using “creative” headlines myself. Heck! Look what I did with this. But they have to have some honesty and the entire presentation needs to be CONSISTENT. In this instance it isn’t. The whole page is just too contradictory.

Nevertheless, there are dozens of people promoting it. I checked it. There they are – all out there with their Clickbank hoplinks. I wonder if they are using the “system” themselves or are just blindly whoring it to make commissions off the unwary. The latter I would suspect.

So, what next? What about this for an OUTRAGEOUS HEADLINE?…

“The BILLIONAIRE FETUS Reveals How It Became Wealthy Online While STILL in Its Mother’s Womb – NO Computer Skills Necessary.” (“wah-wah: How could I get a computer in here anyway? Goo-goo-ga-ga”)

SUMMARY: Don’t believe everything that you see or hear. Do your DUE DILIGENCE. Remember, if there’s a few bucks in it MANY people will promote it and SOME will promote ANYTHING and more than a few will just blatantly rip-off anyone and everyone.

Interesting footnote: In between me starting and finishing this blog post, the video at the top of the so-called 16 year old’s site has now been removed from YouTube because of – wait for it… “terms of use violation.” Interesting huh?

You can add your comments to this discussion in the area below if you so desire.

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Hi folks,

I just thought I would say a couple of things in the hope that what I offer here can be assimilated into your thinking. And if you get my IDEA then I’m hoping that it will free up some of your “mind-space” for creativity rather than blanketing it with a useless negative emotion.

NEGATIVE EMOTIONS:

Negative emotions stifle creativity. When your mind is open or “free to roam” it can create marvelous things. We are ALL capable of this. But… some of us are locking down that creativity. And one of the worst things for that is frustration.

Frustration is your enemy. It will cloud your thinking.

I see a lot of frustration in many people from time to time. It’s very easy to see when people speak about it openly but, if you can “read between the lines,” it’s there in so many comments. It’s in the language. It’s in what is said and even sometimes in what is not said or even counter said or contra said.

Even worse than frustration is the negative emotion we know as anger. Anger will completely destroy your creativity.

WHAT CAUSES THIS?

Frustration occurs mainly because you are comparing YOUR personal “struggle” with the apparent ease that others are having. But what you see is only YOUR struggle. You don’t see and therefore don’t KNOW what goes on behind-the-scenes with other people. Consider this: You may be comparing your greatest weakness with another person’s greatest strength. How silly is that?

Anger occurs when you believe that you are being treated unfairly.

AN EXAMPLE:

For instance, I can’t speak German. To compare myself with ANY German-speaking person will leave me feeling inadequate. But do I want to speak German? No. I am also completely USELESS at golf. If I suddenly developed a burning desire for playing that game (which I won’t – just not interested in it) would it be fair for me to compare myself with Tiger Woods? Uh-uh. And yet, that is what I feel so many people are doing.

We all get frustrated at times. I get frustrated sometimes too. But I slap myself out of it real quick before it gets me down.

AN ANALOGY FOR YOU TO CONSIDER:

Let me share with you this analogy that I have used so many times in my dealings with other people on this matter. In fact, it’s part of my “Journey, Life, Destiny” Personal Development HOME STUDY Course. (See banner below)

Think of YOUR journey (in your chosen venture) as a being given a pack of cards. There are 52 cards (and a couple of jokers) in the deck. You are looking for the Aces. An ace signifies success (in whatever you are trying to achieve).

Every deck is shuffled differently because we are ALL different – different strengths and different weaknesses.

GOING THROUGH YOUR DECK:

So, you start turning over the cards in your deck, one-by-one. Your first five cards are 2, 7, 3, 9 and 4. No aces. Now, at this point, some people will throw up their hands and immediately say “Give me another deck.” These are the impatient ones. (Are you like that?)

Little did you know that the very next card you turned over could have been an ace. The chance of turning up one of those 4 aces is getting better with every card turned. But you became impatient and frustrated. So, you start again. You start turning the cards in a new deck… 5, 5, 6, 10 and 3. Aaagh! Time to tear the hair out! “GIVE ME ANOTHER DECK!”

Then you look across at another player and the very FIRST card that person turns over is… an ACE! Aaaaaaaaagh!

DAMN! What is wrong with YOUR deck?

Well, the answer is nothing. You just haven’t tried long enough or hard enough.

Then somebody else in the same field of activity turns up an ace on their 15th card. DOUBLE DAMN! Frustration and negative emotion sets in and you get down on yourself.

You demand another deck! And your very first card is… a joker. Jokers are those people in life who seem to exist only to upset, rip us off, ridicule and/or annoy us. We all have to deal with them. They are part of life. It’s how you respond to them that determines how badly they will affect you.

You grab the rest of the deck and throw it all over the floor in anger. Then you brood about how UNFAIR everything is…

Have you ever felt that way? I have. But let’s think about it.

WHAT HAPPENED?

What did the other players do that you didn’t? The obvious answer is that they persisted. Have you given yourself long enough to succeed? Are you comparing your strengths and weaknesses unfairly with the strengths and weaknesses of others? In other words, could you be comparing one of your weaknesses with one of the greatest strengths of another person? If you are doing that then you are ALWAYS going to be disappointed.

WHAT ARE YOUR CHOICES?

Basically, you have three choices:

1 – Keep chopping and changing decks before you give your deck a decent opportunity to produce,
2 – Just stop trying and get out of the game completely. Maybe try another game. Or…
3 – Keep turning over the cards thereby improving your chances card-by-card.

So, what are YOU going to do?

Well, if you are persistent enough you will keep turning those cards over. The odds are that you SHOULD turn over an ace in every 13 cards but if you don’t then you should know that the more cards you turn over without finding that elusive ace the better your chances will become.

Be persistent enough to give yourself the opportunity of winning.

HAS THIS HELPED YOU?

I hope this short analogy has helped you. I use it often. It’s an original idea that I had many years ago and I’ve never seen anybody else view things in this manner. Has it helped you? I hope so.

PS: Feel free to make a comment below.

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Traffic. It’s the LIFE-BLOOD of any website.

Even the prettiest, most chock-filled-with-information website on the Internet that gets little or no traffic might as well be closed down. It’s USELESS!

Let’s think for a moment about a traditional bricks and mortar store. Why do you think the leases and rents in popular shopping malls are so high? Because THAT is where all the traffic is! Those are the locations where the highest profits will be made.

The owners of those stores pay fortunes in rental space for those prime locations.

Back to websites…

… how is YOUR website going? Are you getting plenty of traffic? What’s your Alexa Ranking? [yeah, I know – it’s only a rough guide but check out the AR of this site.]

More traffic = more sales, providing you have targeted products to sell to that traffic.

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Alex Jeffreys (apprentice GOO-ROO, not GNU Mr Garry Parkes) is off on a well-earned vacation in sunny Florida, USA while the rest of us are here still hard at it building our blogs and loading them with content anxiously awaiting his return. Well, some of us are.

You see, I have noticed something, something rather normal actually. While the cat’s away most of the mice … do bugger all. I see it in business all the time. When the boss or supervisor vacates the premises, most of the staff slacken off. Well, let me tell you something here. This is YOUR business. YOU are the boss.

I have been my own boss now for almost 20 years and I know that the face you see in the mirror every morning can be the hardest boss of all time (very rare – as in workaholics – eg the person typing all this up for you) or the easiest boss of all time (yeah, I think I’ll go and have a surf, play golf, hang out at the club, blah, blah, blah…)

Well, if you build your business to the level that Alex Jeffreys has, or Rich Scheffren has or Newt Skobernacker has or Mike Filsaime has or Michael Cheney has then yeah, maybe it will run largely on auto-pilot without a lot of your presence. But in the early days YOU should be hussling.

So, I have compiled a little check-list for you to look over. This is just to let you think about how you might like to go about things and what is gonna separate the winners from the losers. Sorry to use that term folks but there are always gonna be winners and, unfortunately, losers in every endeavour in life.

I think there is a lot of learning to be had here in this 20 point check list that I have constructed for you. So here is my 20 point list that discerns the difference between winners and losers. You can learn very quickly here why winners win and losers lose just by checking this list…

1. Winners have dogged determination. Losers lack the ability to see any project through to a satisfactory conclusion.
   

2. Winners never give up, give in or surrender. Losers quit the moment things get the slightest bit difficult.
   

3. Winners make exceptional use of available time. Losers waste time engaging in useless activities.
   

4. Winners plan and map their route to success. Losers consider plans belong to builders and maps belong in glove-boxes.
   

5. Winners take responsibility for all outcomes. Losers shun responsibility and prefer to place blame on others.
   

6. Winners commence a task at the earliest opportunity. Losers procrastinate, delay and run out of time.
   

7. Winners learn from their own mistakes and the experience of others. Losers make the same mistakes over and over again.
   

8. Winners are committed to projects. Losers display whimsical interest.
   

9. Winners make things happen. Losers watch things happen.
   

10. Winners are pro-active. Losers are re-active.
    

11. Winners have vision and imagination. Losers are backward looking and lack initiative.
    

12. Winners encourage and inspire others. Losers criticize and ridicule others.
    

13. Winners are methodical and organized. Losers are haphazard and slipshod.
    

14. Winners seek information and embrace new knowledge. Losers ignore better methods, concepts and ideas.
    

15. Winners ask: “How can I do that?” Losers state: “How do you expect me to do that?”
    

16. Winners invest in income producing assets. Losers waste money on depreciating consumer goods.
    

17. Winners develop 5, 10, 20, 30 years of experience. Losers repeat one year of experience 5, 10, 20, 30 times.
    

18. Winners continually push existing limits and boundaries. Losers feel comfortable operating below their self-imposed ceilings.
    

19. Winners take calculated risks. Losers take hazardous gambles.
    

20. Winners are inspired to do more to be more. Losers conspire to do less and not be noticed.

Now, if you want you can print the Gazz-Man’s check-list, take a pen and give yourself a tick or a cross against each of the 20 points above. There is only ONE requirement – be honest. That is another characteristic of winners – they are honest with themselves.

I welcome any discussion on any of the twenty points listed above. But, can we just stick to one or two coz if you address EVERY point or even every second point this is gonna get horrendously large and messy very quickly. In fact, it may be wise just to pick ONE point and give it a darn good hammering!

Maybe, without naming names, you might work with someone who displays a characteristic listed above. Wanna get it off your chest?

Or, maybe you would like to discuss some of the principles that Alex Jeffreys has been teaching in his Internet Marketing course.

You can even RANT if you want. Come on. Who wants to have a red hot crack? I won’t censor anything so long as it doesn’t hurt an individual.

Hello everyone,

Well the time has finally arrived…

… I want you to meet the creative genius behind the Gazz-Man’s most amazing blog. You are about to meet “Q.” But first, why did I name this person Q? (There is ALWAYS a “but first,” isn’t there?)…

If you have been watching over the last week or so and reading my blog then maybe you know that I chose Q because, indeed, Q is the code name of James Bond’s technical boffin in the movie series. I thought that was pretty cool. However, Q also stands for question. So, in the way that I think, having two alternate meanings was rather delightful. You will notice that quite often I operate on several levels at once rather than just the obvious.

All along my aim was to take the focus off the person’s identity and put the focus squarely onto the WORK that was being done. This was deliberate on my part. You see, this would allow you to see the incredible transformation that has literally taken place right before your very eyes at this blog…

Yes, the changes have been rapid, extensive, very visual and well, in a word… STUNNING. But that is my friend Q. Everything that Q does is the same. Q also stands for QUALITY. And if you are clever enough to get Q to work with YOU (shades of Alex Jeffreys there!), then you will experience exactly the same thing. It is quite an experience to know that you have such a reliable EXPERT in your corner with you.

Already there have been several “EXPRESSIONS of INTEREST” that have been made by some people (saw yours too Ed on the old thread – hmm, a little rhyme – and it will be registered) and identified in the blog as such. Q has been monitoring these. But it is still not too late to hire the creative genius of my friend.

I want to tell you that design work of this quality is VERY rare. In fact, you just WON’T get it anywhere else. Why? Because NOBODY in this caper (coding and designing) has the brilliant mind of this person. The cost elsewhere can run up to around $2,000 with all the technical gagetry that I now have on board here. I am not paying anywhere near that figure. Further, I have negotiated a FANTASTIC rate with Q for members of the F500 if you want some of this wonderful work done yourself.

No. Just to set minds at ease, I am NOT receiving a cut, commission or anything else for doing this. That is NOT how the Gazz-Man operates. The Gazz-Man would not do that without telling you up-front coz that is the sort of person I am. Unlike some people who have NO HONOUR and will do anything for even small amounts of money I would NEVER do such a thing. My self respect s too good for that and I indeed have a conscience, unlike some.

To that end, many of the members of the F500 know that I have already given of myself – freely, willingly and without riders, favours or expectation of ANY BS “I owe-you-one” type conditions. Nobody owes me anything for anything that I have done to help them here. It has been my gift and gifts do not come with conditions attached – at least NOT from me they don’t.

So, here is the deal (take it or leave it)…

… as soon as the comments here reach the magic number of 100 (as in 100/100) which is how I rate my friend’s work then – and only then – you will meet Q!

Now, I will not be counting any comments deliberately designed to bump the comment count up. If I detect that (and I can assure you – the Gazz-Man, like his friend Q – has powers of perception) then I will discount that comment.

So, what can you comment about? Well, what do you like about this blog? The design, the feel, the name, its transformation, the colours? Or, maybe you would like to comment on the other side of what makes this blog work – ie what I write about, my style of doing things blah… blah… You see, I am very proud to say it is now the total package. This has very much been the result of a symbiotic relationship (JV) of two minds coming together to create something that NEITHER mind by itself could achieve. If you go back to one of the early comments I made about draft horses (LOL!) a couple of threads back then that is what I was strongly hinting at there (I’ll get it and drop it in the comments area below a bit later).

So, you can comment on pretty much anything. It’s up to you.

Over to you.

PS: If you think my occasional swearing – masked as it is – or my references to, er, “other matters” from time to time is a bit over the top then here is your opportunity to rap me over the knuckles. Whether I take any notice of you, of course, is entirely another matter. LOL!

PS2: You may also register an “EXPRESSION of INTEREST” in this thread if you wish. (That is all you have to do – just say “EXPRESSION of INTEREST.” As before it is only an expression. You will not be held accountable if you change your mind after talking to Q. But please, Q is avery dear friend of mine and has been for many years. I would really appreciate that you do not mess around with Q’s time as it is most valuable. As good a friend as the Gazz-Man can be he can also be rather capable in an adversarial manner. And he is very loyal and protective of his friends (and Q is a very dear friend)… if you get my drift. The BEST bit about all that is that YOU get to choose! Good-Gary or Bad-Gary. I know both of these guys really well (DUH!) and I can tell you who I would MUCH rather deal with – LOL!

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Hi,

Well, after the last week of frenetic activity on my part to draw all the elements together for the budding tigresses here on this blog, I am gonna change tack. I want to do something light and frivolous for once. I just wanna have some fun!

But, even having said that, there is a strong undercurrent in my message here to you today. And if you “get it” you will be able to motivate and inspire yourself to levels that you never thought possible. I do this regularly. So, what do I do?

Quite simply, I use music to inspire me.

“Oh yeah Gary, I do that too! You ain’t telling me nothing new here buddy!”

Really?

Well, let me ask you this. Have you ever been through your entire CD or record (sorry kids) collection and catalogued the VERY songs that “do it” to you? Have you? I will bet not. I have.

In my exasperatingly large collection – I have some 500-600 albums – some are total lemons but I have them because there is ONE track on some albums that gets me rockin’ and rollin’ like you wouldn’t believe. I’m talking about putting it on and then “watch out!” type stuff. The “zone” as I sometimes talk about.

So, what I have done is this. I have taken those individual songs, instrumentals, anthems, whatever and made a Gazz-Man compilation album. In fact, I have taken it a step further (you probably might figure that I would, huh?) and I have separate compilation CD’s that I use to evoke different feelings in my body chemistry. And let me tell you this – if you do this it is powerful, powerful stuff!

But it takes time and it takes effort and it is a real pain sifting through all the crap to get the gold and diamonds (sound like a familiar theme?). And I already know that most of you will think, “yeah, great idea but I don’t have time” or whatever excuse you will have. (Um, go back to the PPP#2 and re-read all about EXCUSIOLOGY!) To that, I say this… “That is precisely why you never WILL have time.” Because you are not delevoping the very thing that God gave you TOTAL control over.

You see the mind is a powerful thing – a gift, a very great gift. But it is a gift that is massively under-utilised. It needs to be prompted, inspired, cajoled into action. And a great catalyst for this is music.

Now we all have songs etc that we HATE. And when we hear them we get annoyed, agitated, angry, resentful and a whole range of other negative emotions. Why? Because they are either highly irritating to us or the singer is a pencil-neck dweeb or THAT song or piece of music reminds us of a dark time in our past. Mostly it is the last reason stated. And, if I may be so bold, you are probably thinking of one such tune right now… You damn well HATE it don’t you? I know, I know…

You already recognize that. But there are two sides to every coin, so to speak.

Let me give you an example. Most people seem to react quite positively to Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger.” Why? Because at THAT part of the Rocky movie when boxer Rocky Balboa says to his inner-self that he isn’t gonna be a bum any more and MAKES THE DECISION to be the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, we hear that music. It is a powerful psychological motivator in the movie.

But what about you? What is the powerful motivating music in YOUR movie – and I’m NOT talking about playing around with videos here. No. I am talking about THE most important movie of all. The one that YOU are the STAR of. The movie of YOUR LIFE!

You see, it is all very well to love Rocky music. But what you are really doing “associating” yourself with that is cheating yourself. You are living Rocky’s life and YOU are NOT Rocky! So, most people are falsely “in love” with that piece. Do you understand what I am saying here? Sure, I LIKE “Eye of the Tiger” too. But it doesn’t rattle my cage. OK. It does nudge it slightly. But I need more. Much more. I need a personal cage RATTLER! One for ME!

What I am looking for here from you is YOUR music. What piece inspires you SO much that it seems to have been written just for YOU! Hey, I don’t mind saying that I believe that Emerson, Lake and Palmer wrote “Fanfare For the Common Man” for me. If I ever feel down then just a few bars of the opening of that piece will have me so fired up that I am ready to take on the entire rest of the world. That is how powerfully it inspires me.

But I have many other personally inspiring tracks that I also use. It depends what I want at the time. I actually have three CD’s that have around 15 to 20 songs or instrumentals on them that I can target for what I want. Yeah I know you can put 10,000 songs on an iPod. But all that does is confuse you with an endless array and most of it will be JUNK! Do NOT dilute your concentration.

What I am talking about here is narrowing all those songs down to a fine selection of “mood music” and yes, I have those sorts of songs on one as well, though I am never normally in need of too much inspiration in that regard, being a member of THAT half of the human race that is fortunate enough (or UNfortunate enough!) to have TWO “brain centres” that most often work very independently of one another. Ladies, you really don’t know how much of a damn disadvantage that can be. Maybe I will talk about that later. Then again – maybe not. Who knows… ?

Back to the real subject of this material…

WHAT piece of music gets you SO inspired and motivated and jumping out of your skin that YOU feel you can take on anyone or anything? And, more importantly, do you know WHY it does that? When you know WHY you can then consciously move to new levels using this powerful technique as a catalyst. So, over to you…

Tell me.

PS1: Yes, I know some of you find it a chore to read long copy. It is an ENDLESS ongoing debate that is never gonna go away. I could write shorter stuff but then you just wouldn’t get the detail. But, I am always willing to listen. So, under your name just write (too long) or (about right) or (too short). I am also considering the use of headings. But tell me. What do you like?

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A very good friend of mine just emailed me something that DEMANDED my attention. He is a guy who places no limits on himself or his ability. He is a pretty incredible fellow whose talent in karate has to be seen to be believed. In fact, the word “devastating” comes to mind. Anyway…

… he knows I am “into” this motivational stuff as well and we regularly email back and forth and talk even though he lives some 2,000 miles away on the other side of this vast continent of Australia. But what he sent me today SHOCKED me and I just had to stop what I was doing – on the spot – IMMEDIATELY – and share it with you.

It’s all about having NO limits.

You see, I hear people say things like “I could NEVER do that” or “I’m just not lucky” or “I’m not smart enough” or blah… blah… blah… Excuses, excuses, excuses!

Some of you will know that I wrote a pretty hard-hitting article on EXCUSIOLOGY in Garry Parkes‘ second newsletter for the Profit Pulling Project.

So, you know I don’t like excuses – even when they are dressed up as “reasons.” It’s the SAME dog, just a different leg action.

Excuses limit people.

In fact, I have a very near and dear relative who says “I can’t” before virtually EVERYTHING they say. And every time I hear it I wince and say “Yes, you can!” To which this person immediately retorts, “No, I can’t.” And then we go yes, no, yes, no, yes, no. But it always ends with a big fat NO! Sadly, this beloved person is always BEATEN and cowed before they even start – not that they ever will. Coz this person convinces themself that it is a WASTE of time even trying. Jeez. That CRAP NON-THINKING makes my blood boil!

I HATE this garbage because this is a person who I dearly love. This person was totally devoted to me as a kid growing up. And that may help to explain why I am like I am. So, there’s a hint to the identity of this person.

But it’s not just within my family. I hear people say it everywhere. All the time. And that is why most people FAIL. Coz, they never even start. And if you never start how can you ever win?

OK. Now you know what I am on about here… so I wanna ask you something…

Are you LIMITING yourself? What does that little voice inside your head say most often? Does it say…

Well, what is it? Coz you KNOW, don’t you? That little voice is already talking, isn’t it? You KNOW whether you are a “can do” person or a “can’t do” person. And I know you know. OK…

Watch this short video of this most amazing and inspiring man – Nick Vujicic.

NOW tell me you can’t do something! Go on. Tell me! WHAT can’t you do? WHAT?

You really have NO limits! Only the FALSE ones that you put on yourself.

So, get out there and bloody-well do the thing you fear! Do it and overcome it and you will GROW. And the experience you get will allow you to do it again, and again. And you will become a stronger, more capable and better person.

The world is full of lilly-livered weak people who can’t even make simple decisions. Don’t be one. Overcome your fears and phobias. You really have NO limits! You only have to prove it to yourself.

PS: And if Nick Vujicic doesn’t shake you to your very soul then you are not human. This brought a tear to my eye. What a human being!

Internet Marketing can be confounding, confusing, annoying and downright bloody frustrating at times.

Now this is gonna be short and sweet – something that the Gazz-Man is NOT noted for.

I’m gonna give everyone the opportunity to tell me – and anyone else who cares – what your biggest issues are in Internet Marketing.

I am giving you the chance to LET RIP. I will censor nothing – providing it isn’t defamatory or hurtful to an individual. You can even swear a bit if you want. I don’t care. Rant. Vent. Spill. Get it off your chest, out of your head. Here’s your opportunity. You’ll feel better.

Spray the “methods” of the so-called gurus if you want. Give ‘em a big Goran Ivanicevic serve.

Tell us all what you really think about Internet Marketing.

Over to YOU. Let RIP!

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The Gazz-Man Shares 25 Things That You May Not Know About Him. Yeah, and maybe DON’T wanna know about him. But you’re getting them anyway. Too bad!

I was at the blog of Michel Fortin the other day and saw a really interesting idea he had about listing 25 strange, weird or bizarre things about yourself that OTHER people may find amusing or interesting. He said somebody had started this on Facebook or somewhere and had “tagged” him. I kinda made an association of this with Garry Parkes’ brilliant thread on overcoming challenges and thought I’d give it a go.

The so-called “rules” state that you also have to tag 5 people to get them to follow suit. I really liked the idea. According to others, I’m a strange, weird and bizarre person, so I thought I would give it a try. Here goes:

1 – I am a control freak. Freak being the operative word. Yep. It’s my way or the highway. Why? Because I have systems and controls for everything and I record everything and unless you have a better way – which I sincerely doubt – then you do it my way.

2 – My favourite TV serial show was Dallas. Oh, I just used to love it when Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal) would look with those big almond shaped eyes at her husband Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) and say, “Oh… Bobby, I love you Bobby!” Only my hearing wasn’t all that flash. Instead of “Bobby” I heard “Gary”. And I would drool and have these amazing dreams and I think I’ll stop right about there…

3 – Since I am on the subject of women – I have always adored the screen presence of Catherine Bell and when she was in that show JAG, I just used to marvel at how that tight shirt she wore fitted every contour of that marvelous body. I would always say, “That CANNOT be an off the rack (pun intended) shirt. It has to be custom made.” Whew! I also think that Australian, former Miss Universe, Jennifer Hawkins is one of the most naturally beautiful looking women in the world. I do admire the female form. (sleaze comments)

4 – I am incredibly pedantic. I have mentioned several times in my blog posts that I am a perfectionist and that it is one of my greatest strengths but, on the other side of the coin, one of my greatest weaknesses. This sits hand in hand with point 1 above and it is a dangerous combination for any person to have. You wouldn’t want me for a boss. Hell, I don’t even like me as a boss. I have been self-employed for many years. No-one else can handle me anyway.

5 – Speaking of danger. This is something that I am normally loathe to speak of for fear of the chronic reactions it usually gets. I am a karate black belt. Not only that, I am a very senior karate black belt of some 40 years training. I train EVERY day – without fail – and I have reached the lofty level of 7th Dan black belt. I have also been awarded the title of Kyoshi (pronounced “Key-oshi,”) which means Master of Masters. Pretty much, in layman’s terms, that means I am a serious ass-kicker (see PS below – no further correspondence entered into. That’s it. I said it.).

6 – Moving on from that, I was once the body-guard of Tom Jones for his Perth performances. But that was way back in 1985. I have also performed body-guard services for other international, national and local performers. But I don’t or, more correctly, won’t do it anymore. It’s crap.

7 – I love my puppalitos – my dogs. Every morning I lay on the floor and cuddle them and let them lick the sides of my face and ears. That’s pretty gross considering they have probably spent half the night licking their asses and wee-wee’s. Hmm, maybe I should stop this. But I love them too much. They are my little buddies and they sit under both my office desks and follow me everywhere. Incidentally, they are females. I think that makes it marginally better, but not much.

8 – I have the weirdest sense of humour. I have word association problems that nobody else even understands. So I can rattle off half a dozen puns or jokes that nobody else laughs at coz they just don’t “get it” – even when I explain it – and then they don’t give a crap anyway and I think that is even funnier. Bizzare.

9 – I am prone to amazing, fantasmagorical, rants and when I am on one people just sigh and find reasons to go somewhere else until I settle down. This sometimes erupts in my writing where I can micro-rant, mini-rant, completely rant, sermonize or even pontificate if I feel strongly enough about something I am passionate about. Or angry about.

10 – I love to read books and usually devour a couple of novels per week, though not lately – LOL! I have a massive library that contains not only novels but also hundreds and hundreds of technical books and motivational books. Back to pendantic for a second. I initial the last page of every novel, date it and assign it a score from 1 to 10, according to how much I liked it. I know… anal.

11 – I have also written many books. I have over a dozen e-books and manuals that I have written. Plus many more partially completed. I have also completed a 200,000 word crime thriller, as yet unpublished.

12 – I like chocolate. I also like eggs but I don’t like beetroot. And you can beat an egg but… ( I am so naughty!)

13 – I am an absolute exercise nut and like nothing better than to sweat like a pig during and after aerobic and weights training.

14 – I once met Chuck Norris at a karate studio. He is a lot smaller than me but that’s not too difficult as I stand at just under six feet and weigh around 265 pounds. I should be in the WWE.

15 – Speaking of which… I love watching the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) events and the madcap gimmicks that these incredibly talented people get up to. This is a fantastic study in branding. If you want a lesson in branding your material then go there. My favourite “personality” wrestler is, or was, “The Rock.” He is a laugh a second that guy. So bloody funny. My favourite “technical” wrestler is Bret “the Hit-Man” Hart.

16 – I hate text messaging and only just tolerate Twitter, which I think is one of the dopiest names ever invented. Twitter! DUH! In fact double duh!

17 – I have never used an Automatic Teller Machine and never will. I think they are crap too.

18 – My best friend, my first sensei (karate teacher), Warren King, was killed in a motor cycle crash in 1980. At that time, he and I were having a blazing disagreement over something really stupid and I told him to go and “get effed.” I have never forgiven myself for that coz I never got to tell him how sorry I was for saying it. Even almost 30 years on, I think of him all the time and hope that his spirit is soaring. His teaching lives on in me. When I die, the first thing I’m gonna do is find him and tell him how sorry I am.

19 – I am a terrible practical joker. I hide things on people and then, when they have been driven crazy with frustration looking for them, I replace them while they are not looking. I also change people’s book marks – all that sort of sh*t. I know it is childish but I love doing it.

20 – I value true friendship above all else.

21 – I am rarely motivated by money alone. There needs to be another carrot to get me interested. In many ways I am a lone-wolf. Although my favourite animal, without doubt, is the tiger.

22 – I am a complete bastard to engage in word debates (Or maths debates, for that matter). I can pull words out of my arse that most people have never even heard of. I also contort and conjoin words and generally murder the English language if it suits my purpose to do so. But most times I try to write very correctly and in good syntax. When I am on a roll, I can easily produce 5,000 to 10,000 words in one sitting. My ACTION Planner e-book was written in 5 hours flat. That is 72 pages.

23 – I am relentlessly ruthless when I am chasing something that I want. For instance, after major surgery to correct an injury I performed 330,000 specific exercises to strengthen the limb and yes – I charted and documented every one of them.

24 – I was a weakling as a kid – a real milksop “Mummy’s boy” who used to get the snot and sh*t beaten out of him on a regular basis coz I was small and a late developer. My family wasn’t wealthy so I made a set of weights out of some old jam tins filled with rocks and cement, with a metal bar running through the middle. As I got bigger and stronger I used to wire bricks to each side for extra weight. When guys would hit me they would hurt themselves. Then it was my turn. LOL!

25 – I am a collector of samurai swords and ancient Japanese and Okinawan weapons of war. Collectors of this weird stuff are called hoplologists. So, I guess I am a hoplologist.

26 – I think the best rock group the world has ever seen is Slade and, IMHO, Noddy Holder (lead singer) has the greatest rock voice of all time. I also like Wizzard, CCR, ELP, ELO, Carolyn Mas, Judith Durham, Yanni, and, of course, the old hound dog himself, Elvis. I have visited Graceland and stood at the foot of the grave of the great man. Then I went mad and spent about $400 on trinkets and mementos. Lisa Marie Presley must love me. I also like many other bands and singers – too numerous to list here. Oh, and I adore Phyllis Nelson’s version of “Move Closer” (see my music and lyrics thread)

I know I said it was 25 but I break the rules on everything. Think of it as a “bonus,” or maybe further torture – LOL!

My tags are Mark (Mr Smarty-Pants) Austin, Thom Swartwood, Denis Caron, Nikki Stephens (I can hardly wait for this!), Garry Parkes, Renee Olsen, Hilary Dickinson, Harry (Hazzard) Harris, Paul Hamilton and (she will hate me for this – but I don’t care – tee-hee) Linda Caroll.

Yeah, I can’t count either. I know the rules said five but, remember, I break the rules on everything. Go to it folks – whang your list of 25 on your blog then come back here and tell us when you have done it. If you don’t wanna do it then that’s OK… Scaredy-bear.

PS: If anyone wants to ask me about any of this then I’m happy to talk about anything except number 5 and if anyone uses that title (it is only relevant in the circles in which I move) then I’ll let Bad-Gary loose. The only reason I even included it was because those bloody RSS feeders are displaying me all over the bloody place and I have no way of getting the damn pictures and info back. Curse those damn things! That is as much as I will say on the matter.

PPS: Just for the record, various family members and a close friend helped me compose this stupid list in about five minutes. They could have gone on to 50 because of my quirkiness in so many things but we let it drop at 30 and I cut it back to what you see here. If you wanna do a list then try that.

MISSION COMPLETE FOR:

1. Linda Caroll
2. Hilary Dickinson
3. Renee Olson
4. Paull Hamilton
5. Nikki Stephens

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Another three hour session has come and gone. Alex Jeffreys delivered his Module #6 Coaching Webinar (this morning for me but evening for most folks) in inimitable style and then stayed on for another hour answering questions. And then, lo and behold, there he was on Twitter engaging in Tweets with Nit-Twits like me. He really does go the “extra” three or four miles.

I managed to take 12 solid pages of notes. So, “Triple Threat Affiliate” – what was it all about?

Well, obviously, he said a heck of a lot more than what I am gonna precis here but I have picked the eyes out of the main body of information and here they are – in point form:

FIRST HOUR:

1. – Concentrate on BUILDING THE LIST – the list comes BEFORE the money,
2. – Work in 90 minute blocks (without interruption) eg 4 x 90 minute blocks = 6 hours,
3. – If you are LIKEABLE and KNOWLEDGEABLE people will talk about you and then maybe even write about you. (web 2.0 marketing),
4. – Set up the list and then reap the benefits FOREVER,
5. – Look at the 80/20 rule – where are your best RESULTS coming from – focus there,
6. – Don’t become a busy FOOL! Focus on ONE thing and become great at it,
7. – List building and email marketing should come high in your priorities,
8. – Write an e-book to use to build a list,
9. – Business is easy, people make it hard,
10. – The two sides of business – RESULTS and EXCUSES,
11. – Check the FREE information on Aweber,
12. – You can be SO close to success and yet NOT see how close you really are,
13. – Relax and move forward – TAKE YOUR TIME – don’t get FRUSTRATED or ANNOYED,
14. – Making mistakes is PART of the process.

SECOND HOUR:

1. – When you are “with” yourself every day you don’t realise how much you are progressing and growing,
2. – Your journal shows how much you are growing (are you even keeping one – tsk, tsk),
3. – You already know more about on-line marketing right NOW than most people on-line know,
4. – Fail forward fast,
5. – People who can see past failure will be successful,
6. – Focus on giving value to your traffic, squeeze that traffic onto a list, build a relationship with the people on the list & then you can “sell” to those people,
7. – Understand the difference between the Autoresponder “follow-up” series and a general “broadcast”,
8. – Don’t use the autoresponder to “hard” sell. Use the “soft” sell approach,
9. – The broadcast is generally where the money is made.

THIRD HOUR:

The third hour consisted mainly on Alex Jeffreys’ explanation of how he separates all his email lists into three categories (ie the “triple threat”). Broadly the three categories are:

1. – the unopened email (email ignored)
2. – the opened email – without link click (partially ignored)
3. – the opened email – with link click (full notice taken)

Alex then went on to explain how he deals with each category of email recipient. The goal, of course is to get every email recipient to move to category 3 – ie to open the email and click on the link, as these are where sales can ultimately be made. A very basic method is to ask those in categories 1 and 2 why they didn’t do what those in category 3 did. Pretty simple, but how many people do it, or will do it? Alex calls this “drilling down into the list.”

You should be able to achieve a 20% open rate and a 10% click-through. This is where your sales will come from.

General information:

1. – Find out what people want and then… GIVE it to them!
2. – Take pride in your work,
3. – Give people value,
4. – The number ONE thing is to TELL your story!
5. – Create your best subject lines so that people actually OPEN your emails as there in just so much competition for attention.

Alex then went on to demonstrate how he does this but I have neither the time nor the space to even begin to replicate that. Just go to the Member’s Area and watch for yourself.

The reason that I have broken this webinar into the three hourly segments above is to allow those who need to watch the training retrospectively to know what was discussed and where to expect it. This precis of the event can only highlight where you will find these things.

Thanks again Alex for yet another informative webinar.

PS1: If you are having “negative” feelings towards other people because they are “seemingly” moving ahead at super-sonic speed then, IMHO, you are totally missing the point. Focus on what YOU need to be doing. Go and listen to the words of the Desiderata for there will always be greater and lesser people than you – NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE! In fact, just go and listen to Les Crane’s 1971 musical rendition of Max Ehrmann’s time honoured 1952 poem anyway. It is powerful stuff!(NB: Desiderata is Latin for “desired things.”)

NOTE: I am still to proof read and tidy this post up. It may include typographical and spelling errors at this stage. Will come back later. Regards Gary.

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Hi everybody,

I have a VERY SPECIAL TREAT for you today.

Linda has a message for anybody who is despondent and/or frustrated with their own “results” or more importantly, perceived lack thereof at this point in time.

Linda’s message was inspired by what she read at Nigel Yip’s blog. As some of you will know, Nigel has decided to quit.

Anyway, have a listen and please post a comment about her message. What are YOUR thoughts on this? Do YOU want to make an affirmation to YOUR success here? Are you gonna quit or has this just re-doubled your resolve to succeed?

Click to listen [time: 5 min 29 sec]

PS: When you read this Nigel – as I know you will, eventually – I want to thank you for all the help that you have given the F500 students with their video production. Your knowledge and assistance in that is first class and it is a pity that you didn’t push past your doubts that you could succeed in this area. There are a lot of people who have benefitted from what you have done to help them. They will go on, of course and you will forever be a part of their success. I sure hope you will one day find what you are looking for. And I say that sincerely to you.

Hello,

Well, I finally got it done…

Amid a flurry of mis-haps – dogs barking, phones ringing, jet aeroplanes roaring overhead, batteries running out, interruptions, troubles editing and rendering the video on my computer – I have FINALLY completed a video.

Here is my Motivational Moment Video #1. I have planned a series of 52 of these short Motivational Moment videos. Hopefully, now that I have done the first one, they will get easier to do.

I haven’t uploaded it to You Tube yet. I’ll get around to that. I just wanted to get it up here first before I go to the gym. Click the link below (2 min 25 sec):

OR just watch the short video directly below:

I hope you like it. Watch for my little “surprise” at the end. I was gonna delete it then I thought… nah, my friends are so used to me doing this thing…

PS1: My thanks to Paull Hamilton who gave me some good advice via email and on his instructional video – which I watched about a dozen times, pausing at appropriate places along the way. Thanks Paull – you video king you! LOL.

PS2: You will probably have to let it buffer before viewing it.

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Hi there!

There is something special to me in creating a thing so wonderful that it will outlast your own mortality. I refer to people like Shakespeare and the great painters like Renoir, Van Gogh, Rembrandt and Co and the great musicians like Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Bach and so many others. Then we have the great actors – John Wayne, Greta Garbo, Paul Newman, Vanessa Redgrave, Audrey Hepburn etc, etc. And all the wonderful authors and sculptors and other artisans throughout history.

These people are immortal. Their memory lives on long after they have gone.

I talk about the lady in this You-Tube clip a lot. I believe she has a most angelic and haunting voice.

[WARNING - ADULT CONTENT: The Gazz-Man becomes rather amorous and canoodling when this song is played... heh, heh I had to self-censor and delete the bit that I had written after that. I do have SOME decorum, not a LOT, but some - LOL! I know that kids are now reading my "stuff" so I gotta be a bit circumspect. Darn!]

The truth is – I JUST WANTED this great song and film clip on my blog! And I have now conjured up a way to do it. (I love it when I can do that!) IMHO it is one of the greatest love songs of all time, and I understand Phyllis Nelson also wrote it too. Pretty special, huh? This is what can happen when a person taps into a power beyond the reach of most. She only did it ONCE – with this song – but ONCE was enough!

Anyway, check out Phyllis Nelson singing “Move Closer”…

I was so sad to learn of her death in 1998. BUT… her beautiful song lives on. Do YOU see what I am getting at? If you are interested, here is some more info on this lady: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Nelson

Now, the point of this post – you KNEW I would get to it sooner or later, didn’t you? – is to ask you who YOU admire and why. It doesn’t have to be a singer or a painter or a composer or an author – and they haven’t had to have croaked it either – it can be anyone.

So, WHO stirs your emotions and why?

PS: I should let you know that this mortality-immortality thing is leading somewhere. I am just LAYING A FOUNDATION HERE. Everyone who comments on this thread is gonna get something very special from the Gazz-Man… COMPLETELY FREE! [not immediately but when the thread that I have planned goes up - I just need to pick an appropriate time in between everything else that is going on]

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Today Alex Jeffreys interviewed Andrew Fox in the (bonus) Webinar conducted for students of the Alex Jeffreys Internet Marketing Coaching programme.

In the two hour interview I managed to take approximately seven pages of notes. Here is a series of points covered in that interview:

These were the main points of the two hour interview. I hope this smorGAZZboard helps those who were unable to attend.

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Alex Jeffreys concluded his coaching programme today for the initial intake of some 500 students. How many are left still standing is unknown. Some never started, some fell by the wayside, some found it “too tough” and some just decided that Alex Jeffreys wasn’t the mentor or coach for them. I can’t say I feel particularly sorry for those who didn’t emerge into the sunshine from this Alex Jeffreys course. They made their decision – for whatever reason. They certainly had the same opportunity as those who finished did.

I guess it is like a University course, in some respects… some finish, some don’t. In life some people win while others lose. Anyway, I don’t want to focus on any of that too much longer. You can go to my thread on winners and losers if you are interested enough in the REASONS for this.

Some students were unable to make this last webinar for work reasons or family committments, so this summary is for them – and for any lurkers who come here wanting to avail themselves of free information.

OK. Get a cup of tea or that poison that some of you drink called coffee and settle in coz the Gazz-Man is gonna end this Alex Jeffrey’s coaching course with a BIG banging post. I haven’t done that for a while and now seems like an appropriate time. I might slap some people around a bit too coz I’m a bit frustrated with the attitude of some. So, click away now if you are a precious flower who only blooms at midnight when there is nobody around to see you.

Here we go…

Alex Jeffreys was asked before the session started (by Theresa Mayhew, I think) of what the MOST important thing was that HE had learned. Alex said, “The most important thing I have learned is to take action and step out of my comfort zone.” Then he also went on to say how he has also learned to sleep less. That was amusing. I think we have all had lessons in this. I know that there have been some days where I have had as little as 2 and 3 hours sleep just trying to get everything done as quickly as possible, and I work fast anyway. The massive size and complexity of this blog is proof of that.

Just on that point – realise this… you are gonna be dead for a bloody long time. Get all your “lost” sleep caught up with then. Seriously, only really lazy people with little ambition waste time getting too much sleep. It’s OVER-rated folks! Try doing with an hour less. It’s p155 easy when you try.

Most people seem to prefer my summaries in point form so here is a synopsis of the key points, in chronological order of presentation:

~ This is not the end but the very start.

OK. Time for me to digress… again… (I know, I know) This is SO important I am gonna tell you something personal that I don’t normally like to bung on about too much, especially on my blog. But I’m gonna do it today coz this is MAKE or BREAK for everybody on the course. You can certainly skim read this next bit or just pass over it if you want.

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Most of you are now aware that I have a black belt in karate. (It was an impossibility to keep shielding it anyway coz of those blasted aggregator sites that people have. So I came out and said it in point 5 of my “25 things about Gary” challenge that has been doing the rounds).

Please TRY to stick with me here coz I think it is very relevant…

When I attained that level I thought I was the “duck’s nuts.” Seriously. But I was wrong. It took me five years of beating myself to a pulp and being beaten to a pulp to get it. But what that really signified was one thing and one thing only – that I was teachable. Oh maybe it also proved that I could stick with something. But it showed that I could do the “basics” and pass a test on them. That is all.

Now, after almost 40 years of HARD and continuous training (incurring many injuries, some of them serious) I can see that so clearly now. I am on a much higher rung of the ladder now. A single black belt to me is such a rank beginner. They know so little. I don’t even like teaching at that level much. But it is a start. A foot on the rung of the ladder. That is where most of us are now in Internet Marketing, some are a little higher and some are a little lower.

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[I hope you can appreciate how difficult that last part was for me to write. But for those who can relate to what I said, that was for YOU. If you didn't relate to it then just move on. I'm not gonna make a big deal of it.]

So here are your choices…

[a] Are you gonna drop off the ladder and quit or “retire?”
or
[b] are you gonna hang where you are?
or
[c] are you gonna start climbing your way to the top?

I could probably go on and on with more of what Alex Jeffreys shared in his final webinar module but I think you get the idea.

So, what is the Big Darn Online Secret? Alex Jeffreys didn’t really say, did he? Is there a secret? Heh! You think there is? If you want to keep searching for it then good luck. You see, IMO, there are NO secrets on the Internet. Information moves at the speed of the fibre-optic cables which is, effectively, light speed. And if there ever is a secret then it doesn’t last too long.

The only secret is the one that you hold in your brain. What are you gonna do with the knowledge you now have?

These were the main points of the one hour and fifteen minute concluding Module in the Alex Jeffreys Internet Marketing Coaching Course. As usual, I hope this smorGAZZboard of information helps those who were unable to attend.

PS: Congratulations and thankyou Alex Jeffreys on a job well done often under very trying circumstances. I am sure that the vast majority of the 500 learned many worthwhile things. I know I have. Bring on Las Vegas!

“Bright light city gonna set my soul
Gonna set my soul on fire
Got a whole lot of money that’s ready to burn,
So get those stakes up higher
There’s a thousand pretty women waitin’ out there
And they’re all livin’ devil may care
And I’m just the devil with love to spare
Viva Las Vegas, viva Las Vegas”

[lyrics by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman]

NB: I haven’t had time to correct any spelling or grammatical errors in this post properly yet. I’ll do that after I get back from the gym this evening. I just wanted to get this summary up FAST!

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Well, here it is – my Motivational Moment Video #2 [4 min 40 sec]. So, what is it about?

In short, I discuss a tremendous piece of wisdom from the world’s most successful investor – I figure he probably knows a thing or two or three…

I am sitting in my GAZZebo on the level just above my swimming pool. You can see and hear the water cascading into the pool from the two gargoyles that sit on top of a structure (to the left in the video). You can see the endless greenery of my tropical garden too – I mean, why the hell would I want to go to any tropical resort when I have built one of my very own. Huh?

The shade kinda darkens my face a bit but the audio is fine. There are other things to see in the video too. Can you see the bottle of plonk hanging up behind me? When I partake of a nice red wine I like to lynch it up and hang it from a prominent position as a trophy. That was a Pepperjack Shiraz, a nice little drop if I do say so myself.

You will also see “Lonely Street” – another little trophy that I brought back from Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee. That is just ONE of many dozens of trophies I brought back. Like I said before Lisa-Marie Presley probably loves dills like me – LOL! “Thank ya verra march Gazz-Man!” … as she walks down Rodeo Drive, Beverley Hills, looking for a pair of shoes costing more than my entire FN GAZZebo.

Also in the video is a little something for our friend the Purple Minxy Witch aka Her Royal Purpleness aka Nixster – aka Nix – aka the Purple Blog Queen – aka (as James Woodfield decreed) Her Royal Magentasty – unfortunately it is not of the desired colour but, hey, I was thinking of her.

What a day it was – sun shining, birds singing, a light breeze (with a gust of wind at the end) – ahh, so nice! The exact opposite of what my friends in the Northern Hemisphere have been experiencing – snow, rain, freezing temperatures – LOL! (*suffer* – the Gazz-Man is SO thinking of you…)

Finally, a little message at the end for Lizzie ‘the Lizzard” Dickinson, daughter of Hilary (Hils) Dickinson. Just wait little one – the Gazz-Man gets revenge!

Hope you like this.

PS: Now the obvious question that you might be thinking – IF you have seen Motivational Moment Video #1 is… “OMG, is he gonna do that flex thing again?” Well Paula Brett, what do you think? You seemed to be rather amused by it? And Paull Hamilton (thanks for your video tuition over at your video intructional website), you even referred to weasels or, was it, Hammo-sters? And Lizzie Dickinson – the LIZZARD – will the Gazz-Man perform those gymnastics or pretend to read a book again? There are two sections that you may like to watch rather closely. I can see Linda Caroll going *sigh*! But, what happens? Well Garry “Parkesy” Parkes gave the Gazz-Man a bit of “advice” on that. I am just SO good at taking advice – NOT! Watch and find out! LOL!

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Hello,

It is with a very heavy heart that I write this post today. It is completely unintended as I had something else that I wanted to offer concerning a follow up to my post on the issue of mortality/immortality. But that can wait a bit longer.

Something immediately important has intervened. I must also admit that the subject of this matter has been weighing on my mind for quite some time. I have mentioned it via email to a few. Plus, I have just received an email from a friend who has been threatened with the sack for what that person (the friend who will NOT be identified) wrote on their website. The information that was posted by that person is now being used against them by somebody in the same employment – VERY unfairly, in my opinion. But this is happening nevertheless.

WARNING:

I IMPLORE you all to be VERY CAREFUL about what you say online both in posts and comments and ALSO in emails. These can be and are PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. I will have more to say about emails in the commentry of this post if people want to engage me in this important matter. (But I could understand why many will be reluctant to do that once they read this).

Before going on with this – coz I am in big time RANT mode over it and I can feel it brewing (just warning you if you want to bug out now – LOL) – I want to tell you what happened when I took my pupsters for their walk yesterday. I want to do this because something in my mind is telling me that the two issues are connected.

WHAT HAPPENED TO MY PUPPIES YESTERDAY:

This really upset me yesterday…

My beautiful, innocent, defenceless, peace loving puppies were attacked by this big, vicious, unrestrained dog – a Rhodesian Ridgeback, I think. This vicious effen thing just bolted at my oldest girl with hackles up, fangs bared and saliva dribbling off its ugly mouth. It lunged hideously and snapped at her and I had to place myself in the way of this bloody ugly, vicious, mongrel bitch of a thing. I literally screamed at the owner (who was standing nearby) to control his beast and, fortunately, for ALL concerned, something really nasty was averted. At least he had the sense to call his dog off and drag it away.

That attack dog could have torn both my girls to pieces. I was so fearful and angry at what happened. You see I had visions of both my girls being ripped and torn and broken and bleeding and panting with their eyes bulging, frightened beyond belief. And if that had have happened then I would have exploded.

PROTECTING YOURSELF ONLINE:

And here is my segue. I have been thinking about that, a LOT. I am very guarded in walking past that house now. But my point is this – people are NO different. We have people who love peace, social interaction, sharing and being nice to others and we have people who madly want aggravation, victimisation, conflict and war.

Getting back to my opening comments…

PERFECT EXAMPLE OF ONLINE VICTIMISATION:

My friend has now decided to take his/her comments down. You see, my friend is now being threatened with the sack for putting a point of view. And here is the kicker – at NO stage did my friend name the company concerned. This proves to me that this friend of mine was being monitored. In other words, it was KNOWN that this person had a blog and that this particular blog was being monitored and watched like a hawk for information that could be used in a vindictive manner to cause trouble.

MY WARNING FOR YOU:

Folks, your blogs and comments can be monitored. They are public documents. As soon as you hit that publish button they are out there – for the entire WORLD to see. If you say that your job is boring, unchallenging, you hate it or anything else then be careful. Somebody may decide to use your comments against you.

The law (I am not a lawyer BTW but I have a pretty fair appreciation, from many years of business, of the way that things are viewed in a legal sense) does not make a distinction on the ephemeral nature of what is published – only that it HAS been published. Remember, even if you publish something for a short time there is still the cache and there is also a thing called the “Way Back Machine” that can store screen captures for months.

A PERSONAL EXAMPLE:

Recently, I had the occasion to warn a certain person who made completely false, misleading and defamatory remarks about a member of an Association that I am involved in. His public criticism of this person, who he named indirectly (but EVERYONE knew absolutely who it was), was ongoing and unrelenting and very hurtful to this guy – basically because it was a pack of lies.

What the “attacker” was doing, in this instance, was publishing a pile of SH*T, making a big joke of it then taking it down the next day to publish more SH*T. He thought he was so clever and entertaining. He also thought that by putting his comments there and then taking them down fairly quickly that he was pretty safe.

Eventually I got sick of seeing this very unprofessional jealousy so I stepped in on behalf of the victim who, incidentally, is a very nice 73 year old man.

I warned the aggressor that he faced damages for slander. He scoffed at that so I asked him for PROOF of what he was saying. His reply was that it was his opinion. To which I replied that his “opinion” was completely false, baseless and defamatory, not to mention VERY embarrasing and hurtful to his victim. I also said to him that the member was considering taking it to a lawyer. That was when he had a big “re-think” and promised to take down ALL remaining references quickly and discontinue his stupidity.

His “understanding” was that since it was ONLY a web document and that he could publish and remove material at his whim that it wasn’t actionable. I told him to think again (re the cache, plus the fact that several members were copying his rubbish into word documents as proof). I then mentioned to him that a slanderous newspaper article lasted only for a day but the fact was that it was published, could be seen by millions of people and could be tendered as proof. I also mentioned that many very heavy financial penalties have been inflicted against newspapers and magazines for this very sort of thing.

The penny finally dropped for this guy. He made an UNRESERVED apology on his website and we all let the matter go at that. BIG lesson for him. It could have gotten very nasty if indeed we had decided to pursue it in the same manner that he was publishing his daily garbage.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR YOU IF YOU ARE AN EMPLOYEE:

… if you are an employee and you are using a business computer to post or comment or do whatever in your work time then KNOW this:

– Your contract of employment may have a clause in it that addresses “private” computer use.

Now, I am not trying to scare anyone but I have grave fears that include the fact that there are teams of people set up by many businesses specifically to monitor IT use. IF your business has an IT team or a dedicated professional person then YOU need to be wary. PLEASE.

PUBLIC COMMENTS:

Look, I can get away with all sorts of things on my blog (within reason) coz the only person I report to is me. My computers are mine and I do all this in MY time. But even I have to be careful concerning public comments.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE:

On this subject I might also add that a certain somebody published what I considered to be defamatory commentary about another certain person on my site and I promptly removed it. Folks, YOU CAN’T DO THAT. It is ACTIONABLE! If the person is named (which this person certainly was) or easily identified through position or reference or association then it is defamatory to make disparaging remarks (which these certainly were). I could go on and on about this… “Please Gary… DON’T! We get the message.” OK.

PROTECTING YOURSELF FROM POSSIBLE HARM:

PLEASE look after your personal and professional interests. PROTECT yourself. If you have something that you just need to say then do what I do sometimes and “code” it. Use innuendo. Keep people guessing. Does he/she mean that or not? You can get your message across.

Maybe it might be wise just to “scan” the posts on YOUR blog to see if there is anything there that says “too much” and/or could be used against you – for whatever reason. If so, it is easy to do just a simple edit.

CONSEQUENCES:

Now, specifically on the matter that my friend is facing – ie being sacked. I have no doubt that the political so-called “human resource” and “manager” types that enjoy taking other people down are trolling all the social media sites hunting their targets. They are the attack dogs who get their jollies and their reputations and often their rotten promotions by climbing and clawing over decent people who make simple errors of judgement.

As I keep saying – protect yourself. Also, on that score DO NOT publish sensitive personal information on your blog, your website or ANY of the social media sites. This includes names of parents, partners, pets, birthdays, addresses or anything else that trollers can used to “home” in on you. You will notice in the photos of my dogs that I will not even name them, and I state the reason why. Go and take a look.

IS THIS PARANOIA ON MY PART?

Yes, I will probably be accused by some of being paranoid. I have been accused of that many times and even by certain members of the F500, one of whom attempted to ridicule me in front of others. But get this… I don’t care!

IN CLOSING:

Before closing, let me leave you with this – what IF (and this is only IF) some “attack dog” was collecting information on you over a period of time to use against you at a time of their own choosing? Paranoid? Maybe. But YOU need to make your decision on all this. I am just throwing it out there because of what my friend is now being subjected to.

There is EVIL in the world folks. And there are indeed evil people and those who will do ANYTHING for personal gain. Keep your wits about you. That is my MAIN message here.

Please… just look after yourself.

PS1: I am thinking of each and every one of YOU here. Some of the F500 I am rather close to and some I am very close to and many I don’t even know at all. I would hate to see anything hurt any of the people who come here or who I know through interaction either via blog commentry or in private email. Hence, my strong CONCERN over all this. If you think that what I said is over-the-top or mis-placed then that’s OK. Just look after yourselves – that is all I ask. If you do that then my comments here will not have been in vain. Thank you.

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Hi,

I was wanting to introduce this after my post on Immortality, which you can read here: http://motivationselfesteem.com/talk/766/immortality.htm but a couple of things intervened, so I have had to delay it. Until now…

I think about these things a lot. Hence, much of my work here is focussed on helping others, like YOU, to become the very best that you can be while you still have the GIFT OF LIFE. And it is a gift. Your life or the lives of your friends or loved ones can be taken from you in an INSTANT in any one of a thousand ways. None of us are going to live much past 70 or 80 years, unless some massive breakthrough is made in medical science. Therefore, our time on this planet is so very short.

My question to YOU is this – are you using your GIFT wisely or are you doing what so many do, are you wasting it?

Are you using your God-given talents or are you afraid to for fear of ridicule or abuse or failure? Is your life a magnificent obsession or are you simply wanting to tip-toe through to the other side hoping not to be noticed by anybody?

When my wonderful friend Marina Gillett died unexpectedly at age 40 my life was thrown into turmoil for the second time because of the loss of somebody close to me who died far too young. I kept asking myself over and over again, how could somebody so beautiful and so wonderful and so incredibly talented and so loving be taken from her family and friends at such a young age? WHY? Marina died in her sleep of an undiagnosed and very rare heart condition.

Marina and I shared a special bond in that we were so alike in the things that we held precious and important. She had so much more to give but she was never given the chance. Her life was cut far too short. I won’t go on too much here but this lady was a very special person to me and I miss her deeply.

This started me thinking about life in general and the legacies that we leave behind.

What can I, and indeed others, do to make our marks in this world and be remembered for something good? Far too many people are remembered for bad deeds and heinous crimes but there really is overwhelming good in this world. [For isntance, there are many wonderful people who visit this blog of mine and I am very proud to have met them and been given the opportunity to interact with them.]

I kept thinking about this whole mortality/immortality issue and one day, in 2003, I was inspired to write a short story called, “The Power of Choice.” Here is the cover.

The Power of Choice - Gary Simpson

I believe it to be my very best piece of written expression (to date). I also believe that I had a power working through me when I penned this story. I am not religious but I have deep spiritual beliefs. So let me tell you just a little bit about it and how it came to be…

I have to say that when I wrote “The Power of Choice” it almost wrote itself. I often think that something divine coursed through me that day. I had no idea where the story was coming from. The words just assembled in my head and virtually demanded to be written. Within a couple of hours it was done, virtually as you will see it when you click on the link below. This story just kept coming and coming. And when I finished writing it (by hand) I was mentally exhausted. I put it down for a few hours and rested before I came back to read it. And when I did, I wondered, “WOW! Did I just write that?” I couldn’t believe it. I still can’t!

Yes, I know I can write. I have a talent for it and I have worked very hard to polish this talent for many, many years. But plain writing and story-telling are two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT things. The Power of Choice is story-telling.

Over the years, this story has been downloaded hundreds and hundreds of times into over 40 countries. I stopped counting years ago. I have had dozens and dozens of wonderful emails telling me how what I have written has transformed lives. Can you believe that? Me! I have had a hand in doing that. Wow (again)!

So many people have emailed me telling me all sorts of very personal reactions they had after reading it. Some quotes are included in the e-book but I have so many more. In fact, they would almost fill an e-book themselves (or double the size of PoC). Most people have told me that they have cried their eyes out. Anyway…

… I would like to offer it to YOU. There is no opt-in or any messing around here. I think it is just too important. I simply want to get the message to you. It only takes about 15 minutes to read. It is very moving and you may want to print it out and read it in private. I also believe that if you take this story into your heart you will never look back.

For any students of the Alex Jeffreys Internet Marketing Course who are wavering, not sure whether they will push on and take ACTION or slip back into inertia and do nothing (or just keep looking for that elusive “Holy Grail” of success) then I URGE you to read the “Power of Choice.”

Just below is the direct download – my very precious gift to YOU…

I give you THE POWER OF CHOICE – [Link disabled on July 8th, 2010 - see side bar now]

PS: I would be most interested in your comments after you read it. Thank you.

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Improving yourself will enable you to fulfill your DESTINY.
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Hello,

I have been thinking – ever since the Alex Jeffreys Internet Marketing coaching course has finished – about the tremendous amount of information that everybody has been exposed to. This has also been obvious on Alex Jeffreys own blog where hundreds of people have been making all sorts of observations and comments in the last couple of days at his invitation for feedback.

Now, I don’t mind saying that I am a pretty well organised individual and I am a very good planner and I am methodical. However…

… I too am struggling to cope with everything.

Some time back I made the comment that people were trying to squeeze three years of activity into three months. Alex saw that comment and mentioned it in one of his webinars.

The BIG obstacle that just about everybody faces is TIME.

How can we get everything that needs to be done… done?

So many people have to work all day, run businesses, attend to home demands, attend to family demands, accede to the requests of our friends etc, etc and yet STILL try to find time to build an internet business. And here is what I think…

… I think we are all getting frustrated that everything is taking so long to do. Let’s see…

writing articles and submitting them

And that’s not the entire list That’s just what I quickly rattled off the top of my head. Now I KNOW how busy everyone is. Most are so damn busy that they don’t even have time to read posts like this fully. They certainly don’t have time (or can’t be bothered) reading other people’s comments. I know that because of what is said (or not said) in the comments.

You see this on Twitter all the time – everybody is so obsessed with throwing their own offers out into the constant stream of people there that very few ever bother to look at what anyone else is doing. Everybody has a “see this” or “visit this” link. Then of course, we have the usual suspects who are so off the planet that NOBODY knows what they are on about, including them! (I’m gonna write a Twitter post soon about some of the UNbelievable things I see there – should make for “interesting” reading)

From my point of view I get 100’s of emails every day. Yep – every day. There is one IM who emails me at least two or three times a day. I treat this guy like a joke now. I just collect his emails (without even reading them) and re-direct them into a single folder. I find this individual MASSIVELY annoying. However, apparently, he is one of the most mega-successful marketers on the entire Internet. Go figure that…

There hardly seems to be any time to have a LIFE with everything that needs to be done and every demand that others make upon your time. So I wonder…

… how are YOU coping? Tell me.

PS: Is there anything that confuses, confounds, perplexes or FRUSTRATES you so much that you just feel like SCREAMING! (LOL) What annoys the CRAP out of you? Come on… have a whinge or a bitch. Just let it all out. The Gazz-Man is here to laugh WITH you not AT you!

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