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Internet Marketing – A Cry For Help

Gary — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:37:16 +0000

This is a TRUE story…

Only the name has been changed to protect the identity of the person involved.

Let’s call the individual… “Mike.”

I think there is a really important LIFE LESSON here so I am going to reproduce EXACTLY what was said between me and Mike. Here is what happened so you know how this came about…

I sent some information to my list of subscribers and received several pretty nasty unsubscribe email messages. This was one of them…

From Mike:

“You have sent me pure junk since I signed up, I am not stupid and dont wish for you to attempt to make money off of me, greed is a sin.

If you want to help me then mentor me for free and help me earn an income, but I can safely assume that would be too much trouble and not the greatest of investments hey?”

My reply:

Mike,

Your comment would have to be one of the most ill-informed and disingenuous
emails I have received for quite some time.

Let’s take a look at a few things:

1 – You signed up for my Time in Motion ACTION Planner. That was FREE. Have you ever used it? Have you even read it?
2 – I have a MASSIVE amount of information freely available on my blog. It covers so many aspects of Internet Marketing. Have you looked at any of that?
3 – Also available on my blog – completely FREE are:

* The Perfect Storm – a writing manual
* Adswaps manual
* Copywriting manual
* Mindset manual <--- maybe you would benefit from that
* Twitter manual
* Power of Choice

And a bunch of other stuff – ALL FREE!

You say “PURE JUNK” – what, in YOUR opinion is PURE JUNK? Please tell me.

Also, HOW am I attempting to make money off you?

Mentor you for free huh? What ELSE would you require for free? Should I buy you a domain name, a website, build you a blog, buy you an autoresponder? You see Mike this all points to one thing – your rudeness and anger clouds your mindset.

I’m actually glad you have unsubscribed because with an attitude like yours you just don’t have what it takes to be successful right now. Waken up to yourself and stop thinking that everybody owes you something. And get out of your mind that everybody wants to take money off you. The only thing you have in your wallet is moths anyway because it’s VERY obvious that you wouldn’t pay anything to improve or educate yourself.

You cant expect help from people by being rude and abusive.

Have a great Easter and think about why you find yourself in this negative mindset because it is stopping you dead in your tracks. That little piece of advice is FREE too Mike.

Regards

Gary

Mike’s Reply:

Gary,

I have no shame to admit that you did accurately guess a few things right, I am a
man of honesty and can openly admit this.

1. I never actually received this book, but I can assure you that I have read hundreds of others.
2. Information is great. I can find information everywhere I look and even when I try to meditate.
3. Adsense costs money, A domain cost money, Twitter is useless if you dont have a website to promote, Choices can be limited, I dont choose to sit in for 5 days at a time, I have no choice I am too broke to leave.

I am angry, I am angry towards myself and God for putting me in this hell hole. I am angry because I keep loosing my job, I am angry that I cant leave my house, I am angry because I dont have no friends and by the looks of thing no future, I am angry that I have been suffering with migraines for 8 years now and cant find a cure, I am also angry that I am fighting a spiritual battle in mind that is making me feel suicidal, I want to change my life so much, but because of a peice of paper everytime I try to attempt to build something of value I cant do nothing with it.

Some of the most profound self help books I paid nothing for, and actually in all honesty its how I choose what to read. If someone is giving away a free book their intent is clear.

I dont sit around and do nothing, I have wrote 80 pages of a guide to help people also, but what the heck shall I do with it. I have no means of promoting it, forget all these free websites they are useless, the book is not great but when you have a thumping headache/pain in your head from the time you wake up to the time you go bed, then your creativity is kind of drained.

I will move into my positive mind and I hope soon, and when I do my life will change, but right now my negative mind is killing me. I have alot to do on this planet, and will succeed regardless of how weak and desperate I feel.

I am bankrupt at 23 and cant even afford to pay bankruptcy fees, I owe court money and have a distress warrant out for not being able to afford them, you try staying positive!

My reply:

Mike,

To be honest – I didn’t expect a reply from you. So, I give you credit for that.

None of what I said in my reply to you was what you call “an accurate guess” Mike. It sticks out like the proverbial Pit Bull’s OO’s.

Yes, from what you say below, you are going through stress. You are being challenged to see what you are made of. I have been through these times myself.

Lashing out at people is only gonna make things even worse for you.

Not EVERYBODY wants to take your money. But you have to pay your way in this world. Your bankruptcy is a result of poor decisions that you made and maybe some bad luck along the way as well.

Have you been to a doctor for this migraine? Try this: Figure out what side of your head the most pain is on. Left or right. Then take your opposite foot and press around the ball of your big toe until you find a spot that is REALLY painful. Press on that point with the tips of your fingers or thumb at the same rate as your heartbeat. Do that for 3-4 minutes. It’s even better if you can get somebody else to do it for you. It’s called shiatsu and it does work. I have helped dozens of people using this technique over the years but here is what I find – the ones who refuse to believe it cannot be helped. They say it’s all bullshit and they put up with their headache. Those who refuse to endure a couple of minutes of pain also put up with their headache. Their CHOICE!

Those who take the bit between their teeth and work through the TEMPORARY pain are the ones who get rid of their migraines.

You may also be allergic to food substances and additives. Try this: Write down EVERYTHING you eat and drink over the next week and record when you have the headache. Compare your food and drink intake with how you feel. I can tell you from experiences of my own that chocolate, tomatoes and cucumber are migraine foods for many people. It can also be the comination of food.

Mike, I want you to look very carefully at these two sentences you wrote:

“I am angry, I am angry towards myself and God for putting me in this hell hole. I am angry because I keep loosing my job, I am angry that I cant leave my house, I am angry because I dont have no friends and by the looks of thing no future.”

See the KEY word there? “ANGRY.” Yes, you are angry. And that is precisely why you keep losing your job. WHO in their right mind wants a perpetually angry person around them? Tell me that! What friends are you gonna attract when you are always angry? Gang-banger types, that’s who. Other ANGRY losers.

You will attract what you give out. And that is what you are “offering” the world at the moment Mike – anger. And I can tell you this too. All it will do is cause you MORE pain.

Being angry at God is a futile and senseless way to be Mike. He is TESTING you mate and you are proving to Him that you are unworthy of His help.

Learn to be more calm and reasonable.

I can tell you this – when I read your angry email the first time my initial reaction was “what a shithead.” Sorry, but that is what I thought. But I decided to email you to find out why you behave this way.

I believe that you have the capacity inside you to get out of your terrible situation. But… it MUST start INSIDE you. You probably have a hell of a lot more to be thankful for than some poor kid in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Haiti. Start looking at the positive things in life instead of focussing on all the crap. And stop GIVING crap. Coz when you give it that is all you will attract. More crap, more grief and then more anger. Like a dog chasing its tail.

You ALREADY know that what I say is true because you also said:

“I will move into my positive mind and I hope soon, and when I do my life will change, but right now my negative mind is killing me. I have alot to do on this planet, and will succeed regardless of how weak and desperate I feel.”

But, if you keep lashing out at people in frustration – like you did with me – then all you are doing is suppressing your blossoming into the being you truly want to be. Therefore, your first challenge is to MODERATE your behaviour. Take your aggression out on a punching bag or at the gym – NOT on other people. That is what I do. I train EVERY day to release the crap that people (like you) throw at me for NO good reason. In fact, as soon as I get done finishing this email, that is EXACTLY what I will do. And I will be just a little bit better today than yesterday for doing that.

Finally, Mike, I can tell that you are educated and fairly intelligent simply by the way you write. You have ability over and above the average 23 year old. With a bit of training you could be very good at the written word. That also is quite obvious to me. I’m a very experienced writer and I can spot talent in just a few short sentences and paragraphs. Your sentence construction clearly tells me that you have talent. Use it!

I want you to have this: [POWER OF CHOICE] Please read it. You will see that the person in the story could be YOU! Don’t waste your life Mike. Life is too precious for that. Embrace all the good that you will find WHEN you look for it. It’s there mate. You just have to be LOOKING for it.

I’ve spent over an hour writing this Mike. That is time that I could have been using doing something for myself but I chose to GIVE that time to YOU. I sure hope you appreciate it. In all the thousands of people online that you could have abused, you chose me today. And I have invested time in trying to make you see where you are going wrong. Maybe God, in His mysterious way, made me do it. I don’t know.

Best Wishes

Gary Simpson
Internet Marketing TEMPLE for Newbies

Just in case you are wondering – the original information I sent was a FREE offer from another marketer.

OK. Over to you. Was I too harsh with what I said? Do you think I helped this guy or did I just make things worse? If I get a reply from him I will post it below. Tell me what YOU think.

PS: If you haven’t checked out Alex Jeffreys e-book then take a look. It costs NOTHING to look. The book is free and you can learn a few things from it.

===> ALEX JEFFREYS’ The Guru’s Nightmare – Time to Put the Horse’s head in the Guru’s Bed

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MotivationSelfEsteem.com Blog is ONE Year Old TODAY!

Gary — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:45:31 +0000

Hi there,

Well today marks a milestone for this lil ole blog of mine. You see www.motivationselfesteem.com/talk is officially ONE YEAR OLD today! Yep, I started it up on the 27th of November 2008 after signing up to Alex Jeffreys’ Internet Marketing Course.

Since then I have turned this site into a POWERHOUSE of Internet Marketing information – most of which is FREE. Here are just some of the highlights along the way…

1 – Back then I was getting approximately 50 to 75 visitors a day. Today I regularly get 600 to 800 per day and have had many days over 900 and even 1,000. The biggest visitor number was last week at 1,310 visitors for the 24 hour period. That is high traffic!

2 – I went from having ZERO followers on Twitter to having some 27,000 followers now,

3 – My Alexa Ranking has gone from 5,179,210 on the 27th November 2008 right down to being in the top 100,000 websites in the world with a present popularity rank of 92,216 (and still falling like a stone) – and that is a significant achievement to be ranked 92,216th in the WORLD out of about 50,000,000 (50 million) websites!

4 – I have added content almost every week – this has drawn 3,573 comments in the 12 month period.

5 – I have also added many informational e-books to the blog to help people understand the concepts of copywriting, time management, adswapping, list-building, Giveaway events, motivation, inspiration, Twitter AND there are more to come!

6 – Added over a dozen educational (and sometimes funny and even raunchy) videos to make my points.

So, little grass-hopper… IF you think you cannot build a blog from scratch to the monumental level that you see right here, then THINK AGAIN! Sure, I’m a writer – and I can write the OO’s of just about anyone on the planet (I’m not kidding when I say that either – LOL!) – but do you know what has REALLY got me here? Let me tell you…

… sheer discipline, the will-to-succeed, self-motivation, educating myself and a host of other things but most of all… PLAIN HARD WORK! Even the BEST of the BEST in anything will NOT win if they do not use those traits. Laziness NEVER wins anything. Remember that!

You can do it. Do you want it bad enough? Well… do you? (I was gonna say “punk” – LOL!)

This blog is PROOF of what can be done in just 12 short months! Now go out and succeed!

PS: Click on the banner below for some awesome free information on how you can improve your lifestyle:

Internet Marketing Tips #6 – Gary Simpson

Gary — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:48:14 +0000

Howdy,

Today I want to continue with my Internet Marketing Tips videos. This is number 6 in the series. This one was shot outside the front of the MGM Casino in Las Vegas in June 2009.

The MGM Casino is rather unique in that inside it houses a specially sealed glass enclosure that is the home to a changing family of lions and lionesses. These beasts are incredibly majestic and the views of them are spectacular. There is even a glass walkway where you can walk through a tunnel directly under lazing lions.

The enclosure is complete with ponds and waterfalls and it is sealed atmospherically from the filthy smoky air of the Casino itself. I tell ya, there were MANY times I wanted to be INSIDE that enclosure to escape the stench of cigarette smoke. Anyway…

… the lions are extremely well fed and a new bunch is brought in every few hours from the lion ranch some 10 or 12 miles away.

OK. I know, my joke about lions in the video is pathetic. (You gotta watch the video to hear it.) This tip is all about putting yourself OUT THERE. I had a lot of people walk past me and give me curious looks when I was making this video. Do I care now? NOPE! I couldn’t care less. It’s all a matter of confidence and nervousness at the time. If I can do it, you can do it. YES – you CAN! Put yourself out there. Show the world who you are.

I hope you are enjoying these Internet Marketing videos and the range of sites that I am showing you from the “SIN” capital of the world – Las Vegas.

Gimme some feedback.

PS1: You can watch all the other Internet Marketing Tips videos and get a real taste of what Las Vegas looks and sounds like by searching the blogposts on this blog. Just click on the link under the header at the top of the page.

PS2: Click on the banner below for some awesome free information on how you can improve your lifestyle:

Alex Jeffreys – the “Newbies Nightmare” – Internet Marketing Coaching

Gary — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:47:50 +0000

Hi,

I’ve just finished reading Alex Jeffreys latest e-book called “Newbies Nightmare – the Advanced Strategies They DON’T Want You to Know!” It’s a short e-book of some 45 pages with a fair few pictures. I managed to read it all in about 15-20 minutes. [You can see a pic of the cover of Newbies Nightmare in the lower LHS column of this page - just scroll down to view.]

Written in an easy-to-read style, the Newbies Nightmare explains why 99% of people trying to make money online FAIL! I gotta admit… the stuff that Alex wrote about hit home with me too.

I signed on for Alex’s first coaching course and many of the pages on this blog are dedicated to what was taught.

If you are considering finding a MENTOR on the Internet to help you with your marketing and selling then I can personally recommend Alex Jeffreys to you. He over-delivered on his first course and I know ABSOLUTELY that with Garry Parkes now taking on the role of Operations Manager that Alex’s new course will be EVEN BETTER!

As I said, troll through this blog and see for yourself the type of information that Alex teaches and the sorts of things that you will learn.

If you want to read the Newbies Nightmare then you can get it by clicking here —> NEWBIES NIGHTMARE

PS:1 I have personally met Alex Jeffreys and Garry Parkes and many other Alex Jeffreys students at the Internet Marketing seminars in Las Vegas in May/June 2009. You can read about all the fun we had in the previous post on this blog. Just scroll down.

PS:2 Having studied lots of information on Internet Marketing (just look at the size of this massive blog!) there are TWO basic themes that keep being said by all the BIG money-makers on-line – FREE tip coming…

… here it is…

1 – Get a MENTOR
2 – Build a list

You can begin to achieve part 1 of that right here, right now. Just download the Newbies’ Nightmare to see what you are facing if you are trying to go it alone. Then read what Alex Jeffreys can do for you. It’s 100% free so you’d be crazy not to. (Remember, you can post any question below and with my experience I will try to answer it. But hurry. This EXCLUSIVE ALEX JEFFREYS MENTORING COURSE will open and close VERY quickly! Last time it was OVER-SUBSCRIBED the people who were late were simply left out. Numbers are restricted.)

Twitter – Your Credibility on Social Media Sites

Gary — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:18:00 +0000

Sit down my friend and get comfortable coz this will either delight or disgust you – depending of course on whether you have a positive outlook on life and want to make friends OR you have a negative outlook on life and want to ATTACK people over trivial matters. After you read this you will probably feel inspired to add a comment of your own.

I want to talk today about interacting with other people on social media websites. Principally I want to talk about the latest phenomenon, Twitter.

For the uninitiated, Twitter is an interactive site where people from all over the world can comment back and forth with each other 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. But the comments, known as “Tweets,” are only allowed to be up 140 characters in length. So, you have to be concise.

SO MANY WONDERFUL PEOPLE ON TWITTER:

I want to go on record as saying that I have met some of the most WONDERFUL people on Twitter. These people come from all over the world. They all have several things in common. They are positive, outgoing, happy, progressive, endearing and they want to make a difference in the lives of others.

Let me name a few of these people by using their Twitter ID’s. I’m sure they won’t mind. In no particular order other than those who I have Tweeted with most recently…

And there are MANY others too. I just haven’t interacted with them in the last couple of days and I can’t possibly name everybody or the list would extend to a ridiculous length.

AND THEN THERE ARE ER… “OTHER” PEOPLE ON TWITTER:

But… every now and then along comes some negative, miserable, nasty person who just chooses to say something very mean-spirited for NO GOOD reason at all. Whether it is a mis-interpretation of something that is said, jealously or just being plain evil, these people are out there. PREDATORS!

Now, here’s the interesting thing… and I sent a message out about this just today (copy below). These people are EXPOSING themselves as people completely unworthy of being followed by others.

A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF PURE UNNECESSARY NASTINESS ON TWITTER:

A few weeks ago I was talking to my friend Garry Parkes on the phone and Garry was bewildered that some person on Twitter attacked him in a very nasty way for him (Garry) donating money to a kid’s cancer fund and then repeating (RT’ing) the link with a message for others to do so. I too was astounded that ANYONE would be upset, annoyed, offended or critical towards him for doing such a thing. But Garry gave me the link and I read it for myself. It didn’t take long for me to determine that this particular individual had a very mean-streak about himself. Like a predator, this guy appeared to be actually hunting for people to attack.

IS IT MIS-UNDERSTANDING OR JUST INHERENT NASTINESS?

A week or so later I too came under fire from somebody who completely misunderstood something I said and then decided to take it PERSONALLY – even though the comment was NOT directed at him – and then chose to attack me in a personal, unfair and nasty manner.

What gives with these people? Are they leading such horrendously miserable lives that they just feel the need to upset others. Well, we all know misery loves company. Are they trying to attract other miserable, negative people to form a pity posse?

TWO MORE (PERSONAL) EXAMPLES:

Here are a couple of recent examples (direct copies) of things that have been said to me for NO GOOD reason whatsoever. From the person I just mentioned above (let’s call him “Richard”):

@TheGazzMan Do you even know what 1% of your new 12000 followers do? Big Deal. What are u gonna try to sell me now? Get real Dude.

Huh? I had to read that three or four times coz I just couldn’t believe it and, to be honest, I initially had NO IDEA what he was prattling on about!

So, perplexed at why anyone would send me an unsolicited comment like that, I sent this comment asking him to explain himself:

“Richard, I was wondering why you had to be so rude in the way that you said it. Have I offended you in some way?”

And here is his reply:

“@TheGazzMan Im referring to your claim of 12000 new followers in 85 days. It is all smoke and mirrors. And making$ from it. Oh well.”

Apparently this guy was shitty with me for using the TweetCounter service to send this pre-worded message:

“@Thegazzman gained 12,271 followers in 85 days and 354 since yesterday: http://twittercounter.com/ from TwitterCounter”

Now, here’s the kicker. I wonder if Richard can POSSIBLY see that his barbed comment to me is EQUALLY true of him, albeit at a much lower level of activity as he has FAR less followers than me! Further, he says in his bio: “Im a professional salesman.” Hmm. Really? Does he PRESENT himself as professional? He also claims, “I help business owners increase sales thru enhanced Internet Marketing, Intensive Social Media Marketing… blah, blah, blah.” He’s not a great working example of his claims, is he?

Unfortunately, TweetCounter seems to bring out an element of nastiness and jealousy in some people. Here is another particularly nasty response sent to me – again for NO GOOD reason:

“@TheGazzman Countmysorryass.com says that you have lost 4567 Tweets because you are a conceited jerk.”

Nice huh? Thanks “Mary.” having a NICE life, are you? She called me a “conceited jerk.” How utterly stupid. She doesn’t even KNOW me! How can anyone possibly glean such a vision into my nature from a pre-written Tweet delivered automatically from TweetCounter?

For a start, what this person said was complete rubbish. A lie! “Countmysorryass.com” does not even exist. And as for 4567 Tweets! – total fabricated rubbish just to try to convince people that she knew something negative about me that they were unaware of. Can you see the venom behind such rubbish? How puerile.

I asked Mary why she chose to say this to me and here is her equally ridiculous response:

“@TheGazzMan Anybody that has a special program to announce the number of their followers has issues. IMHO.”

WTF? So what? Yes, her opinion IS indeed humble. So humble, in fact, that it is patently pathetic.

Now, what I do when I come across this sort of thing (not too often – thank God!) is look at the person’s “general” comments to others rather than just ONE mis-guided, mis-informed, idiotic comment in isolation. Here is an example of one of “Mary’s” other comments to people (not me by the way):

“[identity of recipient removed] When your future employer looks you up on Twitter and finds you are a drunken bigot she’ll say next!!!!!!”

Nasty huh? And it shows the disposition of a very mean-spirited individual. Mary has a pattern of being nasty. I blocked her on Twitter by the way. I don’t see any point in discussing anything with a person like this. Unfortunately, Mary is lost in a sea of nasty negativity towards others.

WHY DO THEY CHOOSE TO BEHAVE LIKE THIS?

I am at a loss to understand why these people feel the need to ATTACK people like this. But I think my friend Thom Swartwood hit the nail on the head when he said, simply, “JEALOUSY.” I agree.

LET’S LOOK AT THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THIS FOR A MOMENT:

… The followers that these people had at the time of their nasty comments were 1641 for Richard and 187 for Mary. At the time I had over 12,000. I now have over 13,000. Both of these individuals are STILL struggling for followers and have similar numbers as they did when they sent their comments. What does this tell you?

It tells me that they are shooting themselves in the foot. They are EXPOSING themselves in the worst possible way – announcing to everyone that they are NOT WORTHY of following! Why are they even ON Twitter?

Here’s a Re-Tweet from Garry Parkes of something that I sent out today to try to “educate” these mean-spirited people (this is the comment that I mentioned above):

“GarryParkesRT @TheGazzMan Just remember, those who attack others on Twitter are showing MORE about themselves than those who they are attacking.”

I think that pretty much sums it up.

HAVE YOU COME UNDER ATTACK BY MIS-GUIDED PEOPLE?

Have you been subjected to an unwarranted attack by somebody on a social networking site like Twitter? I invite your comments below. You can give examples of people who EXPOSE their nastiness for all the world to see if you wish. Just don’t identify them in a manner that enables others to find them, please. First names are OK, like I have used above.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

When somebody feels the need to make some totally unwarranted, off-the-planet, evil or nasty remark to you then you can send them here just to show them what they are REALLY doing to their own credibility when they engage in this trash.

PRAISING THOSE WHO ARE GIVING AND ADDING VALUE ON TWITTER:

Alternatively, if you want to PRAISE somebody on Twitter then you can do that here too. I am sure that those people would appreciate you saying such a thing so, by all means, include their Twitter ID if you want.

Let’s praise the wonderful people on Twitter and “TRY” to educate the others. They probably wont “get it” but we can try! The ATTACK DOGS are certainly out there. It’s best not to “engage” them in jousting. That is what they want. Deny them their perverted pleasure. If you ignore them then hopefully they will crawl back under their rock to sulk and leave you alone.

IF YOU WANT TO DIRECT PEOPLE TO THIS BLOG POST:

Finally, if you would like people to come to this blog post then you can copy this tinyurl link (shortened from 92 characters to just 25 characters) – http://tinyurl.com/pd9uh2 and construct your own (positive) comment, OR…

… If you like, you may wish just to copy the following comment and link and send it to somebody who you believe has attacked you unfairly (and hopefully make them see some sense!):

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ COPY & PASTE ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Because of your comment, perhaps you need to read this: http://tinyurl.com/pd9uh2

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ COPY & PASTE ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

PS1: How are YOU presenting yourself on Twitter?

PS2: Keep an eye out for my new FREE Twitter e-book – “How to Get NOTICED on Twitter” – to be released soon. (Read this, apply the techniques and you will certainly get noticed for all the RIGHT reasons). Watch this blog post for details.

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Your LIFE – Where Are YOU Heading? – Introducing… “The Power of Choice”

Gary — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:04:16 +0000

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.

RIP Angelina Marina Gillett 12 June 1955 – 14 September 1995

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…

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

WARNING! – Posts and Comments Can be DANGEROUS to YOU!

Gary — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:08:03 +0000

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:

– The business that you work for OWNS that computer. They can remove it at any time to do whatever they want with it – including scanning the hard drive.

– Your “activities” on that computer may be being monitored by IT staff for bandwidth issues. Any “irregular” use of bandwidth can be flagged for further examination.

– 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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Internet Marketing – Inspirational Message From Linda Caroll

Gary — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:44:04 +0000

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.

P.S. I’d added this in a comment, way down there, but thought I’d put it here, too. After you hear the audio, scroll down to the reply I posted to Christine. This is the image that goes with it. : )

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INTERNET MARKETING – Music & Lyrics That Inspire You

Gary — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:51:12 +0000

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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Gary Simpson’s Blog is Being Powered Up to an EXTREME Level. [Regular ZULU Time Updates Available - as they come to hand.]

Gary — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:50:14 +0000

Hello,

Gary Simpson’s Blog is being powered up, extremely powered up. Now, what is this all about? I’m so glad you asked…

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I think you will find this post rather exciting. I know I will. I’m gonna make it “sticky” by constantly updating it to reflect all the changes that are happening. The date line above will allow you to follow all this in as real a time as the net will allow you to do or you want to do.

As you may know, I have been fore-shadowing the fact that things are gonna go to a whole new level at Gary-Land (ie my blog). I have surreptitiously been laying the “bread-crumb trail” ever since the start of the new year. A little crumb here, a few crumbs there. Here a crumb, there a crumb, everywhere a crumb, crumb. But not too many all in one place.

If you go back and read my last entry for 2008, you will see that I was making a bold statement then. Like what else would the Gazz-Man do? But it got buried as the new year opened up upon us. I knew that it would but I still wanted the “PROOF” to be there. So it IS there if you care to go back and read it but please don’t make any comments back there, for this is a NEW YEAR and the Gazz-Man is surging forward. If you wanna make a comment then make it HERE.

There have also been a couple of “notices” and several mentions to various people within replies to their comments at this site as I have been beefing the content up. You see, content is nothing to me. I can write 10,000 words in just a couple of hours. I do it all the time. So, that side of the equation I have got well and truly nailed. I never struggle for something to say – as you MAY have noticed. LOL!

What I do struggle with, however, is all the technical side of things – as I am sure so many others do. Of course I’d like to know a lot more (and I am learning all the time) but that is not the most efficient use of my time. I need to be spearing ahead with what I am good at. So, the fiercely independent Gazz-Man has done what he rarely does. He has “out-sourced.” Isn’t this what Alex Jeffreys suggests so strongly that we do? Outsource our weaknesses and leverage our strengths?

Well, now you know WHAT I have out-sourced but you don’t know WHO it has been outsourced to. More on that in a moment…

Hilary Dickinson was perspicacious enough to see some of my hints and bits and pieces that I have been embedding. Hils asked a question of me about her “observations” of this over at her blog. But I deflected her direct question with a short cover drive (cricket term) and ran down the wicket. Now Garry Parkes is a cricket afficionado. He will understand that but, you see, Garry also knows just a little more than most because I have emailed him privately to tell him, inter-alia, that I have engaged somebody of such rare and extreme talent to work on many things here at this blog.

Some of that work will not be immediately evident to the naked eye. However, it WILL be evident and relevant to Google and Yahoo and Alexa and all the other ‘bots and spiders and gizmos and things that madly rush around electronically gathering data.

So, who is this technical person? Well, answering that would just spoil all the fun and the BIG surprise I have in store. But I will say this – this person is a world authority in these matters. IM(NS)HO there is NOBODY finer. This person, will be reading this and will probably be more than a little embarrased to see such comments. But let me say this … I stand in AWE of this person’s extreme ability in this field. And the Gazz-Man does not stand in awe of too many people in anything. (You may even find out why at some future stage).

I think that will do for now. I have made my opening statements and I will blog at regular intervals with a time line so you can follow (not “the Foxy,” oh no!) the Gazz-Man. Yeah Follow the Gazz-Man and his secret, as yet, unrevealed accomplice.

Oh, one more thing… I can’t resist saying this… you will be shocked at who this person is. (And NO – this isn’t a trick – it ain’t me. I have less that 1% of this person’s extraordinary ability – big to you. I know you are here with me now.)

If I were YOU (heh… and, when you see what the Gazz-Man has cookin’, I’m kinda glad I’m not) I’d bookmark this spot. Coz you are in for a treat! And there will be some treats on offer to a lucky few.

[PS: This is phase 2 of a 4 part plan]