I have this weird flaw, or at least some people call it a flaw. I’m not especially competitive. I can be. But more often, I’m in a completely different race than the people around me. I’m not sure when I started thinking this way, but it’s fairly evident from my life from as far back as I can recall that I never did care about who came in which place.

Instead, I prefer to compete with myself.

When I win business that other digital media groups were also trying for, I never think of it as winning from them. Instead, I just feel like I finally got a proposal to sound even a third as enthusiastic as I sound in person. When someone else gets a great big feature in a magazine, instead of feeling angry or sad or like I lost, I think to myself about how I can achieve more and deliver more results, so that it’s obvious next time that I be called for a story.

Competing with one’s self is far more fulfilling. You control more of the variables. If you want to find more success, throw yourself into your work, into doing big things that matter, into helping your clients succeed. That’s so much easier to conceptualize than thinking about racing against some other person or group.

If you’re trying to catch up to my numbers (and ask yourself why, because the numbers aren’t what matter as much as how you leverage them), you can’t control what I’m doing. So, every little variable I add messes up your effort to catch up or pass. Meanwhile, you’re not paying as much attention to you as you are to me, and are thus not focused on the part you can change the most.

No one ever won a race looking sideways.

Remind yourself of this often. Competition was given to us by our overlords. It was put in place because in situations where someone fabricates a competition, invariably, a third party benefits from BOTH parties’ efforts more than you. Most times, when you’re feeling competitive, you’re being played.

So instead, work within yourself. Work your variables. Work on those things you can change. Work to improve your skills, your thinking, your ability to serve, and your capacity to complete more than you could before. Execute. There are so many talkers that by just doing, you get the chance to win.

It’s much more fun this way. Believe me.

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This article was written by one of my very favorite bloggers, Chris Brogan.  He always has incredibly insightful and thought-provoking articles…do check him out if you haven’t already.

http://www.chrisbrogan.com/more-fun-than-competition/

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When I created my first Website, several years ago, I was so excited and motivated I couldn’t stand it! I knew my site contained good, useful information and I was ready to let the world know.

I figured all I needed to do was submit my site to the search engines, exchange a few links with other Websites and the traffic would just start pouring in!

Oh, how naive I was! It didn’t take long at all for me to realize it’s not that easy!

I eventually came to the realization that promoting a Website took loads of hard work and dedication…it’s not easy at all!

But then I heard about a traffic generation technique called “Article Marketing” that made everything a whole lot easier. You just write a short article, put a link or two in there pointing to your Website, then you submit the same article to hundreds of article directories…

Easy and effective right?

Wrong!

I wrote and wrote and wrote…I submitted and submitted and submitted and for what?  Only a few visits a day!

You see, although article marketing is an extremely effective traffic generation technique, there is more to it than just composing an article and submitting it all over the place.

It took me a great deal of time to figure what actually worked and what didn’t.

But, fortunately for you one of the most successful article marketers on the Internet has written an ebook revealing the exact technique he uses in order to conquer just about every niche he touches. It’s call “Article Marketing Domination.”

Josh’s ebook is the most popular product on the subject of Article Marketing on the market, and for good reason, it simply WORKS!

In “AMD” Josh explains exactly how to craft a traffic pulling article, from the title to the “signature” and he puts to rest many of the common misconceptions associated with article marketing like “duplicate content.”

If you haven’t already, I highly recommend you click the link below and grab a copy of this industry leading article marketing ebook!!

CLICK HERE

You’ll be glad you did.

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How often have you purchased a new program with high hopes of it being THE answer to your current problems, and before you know it you’ve moved on to 3 new ones before you even checked everything out with the first one?!  Sandra’s been there too…

Are you throwing money out the window?

1. Review the program and make a decision about what you’re going to accomplish as a result of it BEFORE you sign up.
2. Review the program benefits and determine how and when you’re going to use them.
3. Recognize that you have to work IN your business so that you have a business to work ON — too many people advise against working “in” your business and, quite frankly, that’s a mistake.
4. Do the work.  Whatever program you sign up for is going to require you to do more than simply show up to the calls, take info in via osmosis and have instant results.

Sandra Martini is a strategic marketing and productivity consultant who helps entrepreneurs create and implement the systems to achieve their visions, with services such as coaching, client systems development, consulting and Team Sandy Done 4 You Online Business Marketing & Management as well as a variety of informational products.

For more business building strategies and to get your free audio series “5 Simple & Easy Ways to Put Your Marketing on Autopilot”, visit Sandy’s site at http://www.SandraMartini.com today.

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Everything in your life is the cause of what you think and believe. Take a good look at your life from a perspective that you are the creator. Even though you may not believe you can do anything about your life right now, do it anyway and make an inventory of your life as it is now.

? What do you like about it and what not?
? What would you like to change?
? What would your perfect life look like?

Setting goals and intentions in your life is the single most important task in the entire process of creating the life you always dreamed about.

Can you imagine that almost 95% of all people simply don’t do this? And the rest of the 5% do it, but only 10% of this small number ever reach their goals. That’s why so many people struggle and businesses fail. Not enough people set clear intentions about what they want in life. Like other important things that could help us attain truly fulfilled lives, the simplest things in life are mostly overlooked.

How to Program Your Subconscious for Success

Setting goals and intentions is a conscious exercise. Achieving these goals is a spiritual and subconscious exercise. This is where the Dream Manifestation Wizard comes in. By using intentions combined with images and audio plus repetition, you program your subconscious in the most efficient way possible. There are three ways to program your subconscious:

1. Intensity – Imagine putting your hand on a hot stove
2. Repetition – Remember learning poems?
3. Synergy – Conscious mind and subconscious mind work together

Click here to find out more about the Dream Manifestation Wizard

Craft Powerful Affirmations that Work Like Magic

After you have figured out what your perfect life would look like, formulate it into short and powerful goals and intentions.

The key to writing effective affirmations is that they must be positive and stated in the present moment. A good starting point is to use something you don’t like or you would like to change and then rephrase it. For example, you may not like being in debt. You can rewrite this into “Money is flowing to me easily and I enjoy it in abundance.” Use only words with positive associations. Don’t use the word “debt” as you don’t want your subconscious to create debt! Now you may start to understand the inefficiency of signs and statements like these:“Don’t cross this line” or “Don’t get nervous about this.” Your subconscious mind does not know the difference between Do and Don’t. It is the job of the subconscious to manifest your thoughts, even if the thought is negative. The statements above will only increase what you don’t want, so be careful how you think about it and how you phrase it.

Choose Intentions that Align You with Your Life Dreams

Intentions are another powerful way to use the Dream Manifestation Wizard effectively. Intentions are more powerful than goals as they work on a higher consciousness level. Intentions create a new pathway in your life.

A path that you can follow until your life dreams are fulfilled.

When you craft intentions use a time frame, otherwise you are not able to break it apart into smaller goals. Lets assume you want to own your own home at some point. Decide when that should be and be precise about the details. For example: “By the end of 2009 I live in my own 3b/2b townhouse.” Make sure you add a picture that’s a close match to the house you want. Next, create some supportive goals that act as milestones: “By the end of this month I have the perfect financial plan for buying my own home,” and “Within six months I have enough for a down payment,” and so on.

A Profound Way to Rewire Your Brain

Every time you see your goal or intention on the Wizard’s screen you physically rewire your brain by creating new neural pathways. This is the most powerful way to change the definition of yourself. In the beginning, your conscious mind may experience some resistance to your new goal or intention. This simply means you are getting out of your comfort zone and growing. Over time it will get easier for your mind to accept these new commands. After a couple of weeks your brain will be completely rewired and your new goal, intention or belief will be fully integrated. In a nutshell: Use affirmations to change your attitudes; use intentions to set a path that you will follow until it is fulfilled; use goals to set milestones for this path.

Click here to find out more about the Dream Manifestation Wizard  

To your successful intentions . . .

P.S.: Check out over 500 powerful template examples that are included on the Dream Manifestation Wizard for your use. Simply copy the ones you like and change them until they’re a perfect fit for your goal or intention.

Click here to find out more about the Dream Manifestation Wizard

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How to influence reluctant prospects to sign-up

Would you like to learn how to inspire even your most reluctant prospects to take action? It might be persuading them to open an email, visit your website, or read your blog post.

Convincing them to surrender their contact info (and willingly become your lead) in exchange for a free special report or newsletter.

Or more importantly, influencing them to work underneath you in your downline and getting them to purchase whatever you’re selling.

The reason I ask is this.

Ann Sieg just interviewed this unorthodox fellow by the name of David Garfinkel.

And guess what?

——————————————
They Chatted At Length
About This Very Subject!
——————————————

Copywriting.

In other words, writing that inspires people to take the actions you want them to take.

If you want to start learning how to craft enticing sales messages and offers that no sane prospect could ever refuse…

Click here to listen to their conversation.

http://slb.RenegadeProBlog.com/wealthexperiment/

(David really over-delivers on this call and serves up plenty of proven-to-work copywriting advice – free of charge!)

Plus, Ann gets him to reveal a little-known (and severely underused) mindset trick you can immediately start using…

——————————————
That Will Help You “Connect” With
Potential Clients Like Never Before!
——————————————

It’s not something that’s taught in any school, business, or industry.

The highest paid writers working for the biggest advertising agencies don’t even understand this stunning sales secret.

But you can discover it today by simply listening to their in-depth interview.

Here’s the link again.

http://slb.RenegadeProBlog.com/wealthexperiment/

Now you might be wondering…

——————————————
“Who Exactly Is This
David Garfinkel Character?”
——————————————

Well, he’s considered by many marketers to be, “The World’s Greatest Copywriting Teacher.”

Because from what I hear he’s dedicated the last 15 years of his life to teaching it.

Thanks to him, many of his students have gone on to become rich because their websites, sales letters, emails, and ads, rake in small fortunes.

(At least 3 of them have written sales letters that made over $1,000,000 dollars in 24 hours.)

Oh, and I should mention this too.

Word on the street is that Ann Sieg secretly hired this guy for 35k to personally train 3 of her team members for six months.

(And to help launch Renegade Professional.)

The results?

——————————————
Over $1,100,000.00 In
Sales Within Just 72 Hours!
——————————————

Almost 40,000 fresh opt-ins (leads) generated in a single month.

Exactly 4,454 new customers acquired in less than 8 hours.

More than 186,517 unique website visitors in under 30 days.

Apparently Ann was so thrilled with David’s training and how things went…

(Who wouldn’t be, right?)

That now she’s having him teach copywriting to her entire team for six straight weeks!

But you’ll never believe this.

She’s actually going to allow a limited number of people from the general public…

——————————————
To Sit In On These Closed-Door
Company Training Sessions!
——————————————

I’m almost positive nothing like this has ever been done before and I’ll have to admit I’m a little curious to see how it turns out.

Interested?

Click here to find out more information.

http://slb.RenegadeProBlog.com/wealthexperiment/

By the way, Ann and David talk about “The Ultimate Copywriting Crash Course”…

(I think that’s what they’re calling it.)

Towards the very end of the call.

Everything before that is pure content.

Sound copywriting (and business) advice from David (and Ann) that will help you politely influence folks to do what you want them to.

To Your Success!

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When you think about running shoes, you probably have a company that comes to mind.  Think about soda pop and another company comes to mind.  This is because some companies are great at creating superior brand recognition.  They’re the first place you think of and the first place you go when you need what they sell.  Positioning your company, building brand recognition, is a very profitable strategy.

Here are a few tips and strategies to boost your company’s brand recognition:

#1  Provide an exceptional customer experience.  Treating your website visitors and customers like gold is a great way to motivate them to remember you and think of you first whenever they have a need. It also boosts word of mouth and that’s a very powerful tool.  Remember that an exceptional customer experience begins the moment your prospect lands on your website and doesn’t stop.  It’s good customer service, and a wonderful product or service too.

#2  Interact.  People don’t know who you are unless they’ve been exposed to you.  Experts say that people need at least three exposures to a brand before they remember it, which means you need to be out interacting online with your prospects and customers to make sure they know you.  This is what makes social media such a powerful tool.  Three positive interactions with a prospect create brand recognition and social media opens you and your company up to thousands of potential prospects. Blogging, guest blogging, publication, press and publicity, and advertising all help to build brand awareness and recognition. Make sure they’re an integral part of your marketing strategy.

#3 Offer value.  Share knowledge and industry information with your prospects.   Articles, reports, published books, and white papers all help establish brand credibility in your industry.  And credibility translates into recognition. You know Donald Trump is an expert in commercial real estate because he’s published, and the guy gets a lot of press and publicity.

#4 Be consistent.  Use your logo, colors and graphics consistently throughout your web content, marketing materials and communications.  Create a theme and an image you want to portray and stick to it so prospects and customers can begin to recognize you.

As a successful internet marketer and business owner, branding and brand recognition plays a critical role in your overall marketing strategy.  Brand boosting tactics, designed to increase familiarity, result in awareness, trust, and ultimately purchases.  Boosting your brand recognition is a profitable business strategy

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Subject: The Right Mindset Makes It Easy To Make Blogs Work For Your Business Blogging is taking off like a wildfire. People are blogging about  just about anything you can think of. From the daily routine of their cat, to technology reviews, to politics.

Until the blogosphere sorts itself out and matures a bit more, it may be difficult to tell exactly how this new frontier of instant publishing can help you and your business grow. But don’t worry – you’ll start getting a flood of new ideas in the coming months.

For now, the most important thing you can do is develop the right mindset about business blogging. What you think about something, and how you strategize appyling it in your business very often has more to do with succes than the technology, tool, or resource itself.

With that in mind, here is the most important thing you can do. Keep your eye on people.

DO NOT get stuck on the “technology.” That’s what drove all the pie-in-the-sky dot.com dreamers into the financial abyss. It’s people and personal commuication that matter most, and should always be a the center of all your thoughtsstrategies, and actions.

Blogging is just a tool. But it’s a tool that can and should become a major support arm of your business. Why?

Because it exponentially multiplies the world’s oldest, most favored, and trusted form of information sharing — word of mouth.

Just ask yourself, whom do you trust the most to give you advice, recommendations, and information about opportunities, purchases, or choices? Someone you know and trust, right? Someone who you feel is just like you.

That type of trust comes from personal communication, social interaction, and the joining together of like-minded individuals. Blogging simply magnifies and expands that sense of community and more personalized communication, and then expands the reach across the entire world!

Link trust; with respect, positioning, and word-of-mouth and you have the makings of a powerful marketing arm that can initiate an ever-growing stream of highly targeted prospects.

Remember, it’s the relationships that matter most. Keep your eye on that fact, and you’ll always have the right mindset for business blogging that’s a benefit for you and your readers.

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Everything in your life is the cause of what you think and
believe. Take a good look at your life from a perspective that you
are the creator. Even though you may not believe you can do anything
about your life right now, do it anyway and make an inventory of your
life as it is now.

? What do you like about it and what
not?
? What would you like to change?
? What would your
perfect life look like?

Setting
goals and intentions in your life is the single most important task
in the entire process of creating the life you always dreamed about.

Can you imagine that almost 95% of all people simply don’t do
this? And the rest of the 5% do it, but only 10% of this small number
ever reach their goals. That’s why so many people struggle and
businesses fail.

Not enough people set clear intentions about
what they want in life. Like other important things that could help
us attain truly fulfilled lives, the simplest things in life are
mostly overlooked.

How to Program Your Subconscious
for Success

Setting goals and intentions is a conscious
exercise. Achieving these goals is a spiritual and subconscious
exercise. This is where the Dream Manifestation Wizard comes in. By
using intentions combined with images and audio plus repetition, you
program your subconscious in the most efficient way
possible.

There are three ways to program your
subconscious:

1. Intensity – Imagine putting your hand on a
hot stove
2. Repetition – Remember learning poems?
3. Synergy
– Conscious mind and subconscious mind work together

Click
here to find out more about the Dream Manifestation Wizard

Craft
Powerful Affirmations that Work Like Magic

After you have
figured out what your perfect life would look like, formulate it into
short and powerful goals and intentions.

The key to writing
effective affirmations is that they must be positive and stated in
the present moment. A good starting point is to use something you
don’t like or you would like to change and then rephrase it. For
example, you may not like being in debt. You can rewrite this into
“Money is flowing to me easily and I enjoy it in abundance.”
Use only words with positive associations. Don’t use the word “debt”
as you don’t want your subconscious to create debt!

Now you
may start to understand the inefficiency of signs and statements like
these:“Don’t cross this line” or “Don’t get nervous
about this.” Your subconscious mind does not know the
difference between Do and Don’t. It is the job of the subconscious to
manifest your thoughts, even if the thought is negative. The
statements above will only increase what you don’t want, so be
careful how you think about it and how you phrase it.

Choose
Intentions that Align You with Your Life Dreams

Intentions
are another powerful way to use the Dream Manifestation Wizard
effectively. Intentions are more powerful than goals as they work on
a higher consciousness level. Intentions create a new pathway in your
life.

A path that you can follow
until your life dreams are fulfilled.

When you
craft intentions use a time frame, otherwise you are not able to
break it apart into smaller goals. Lets assume you want to own your
own home at some point. Decide when that should be and be precise
about the details.

For example: “By the end of 2009 I
live in my own 3b/2b townhouse.” Make sure you add a picture
that’s a close match to the house you want. Next, create some
supportive goals that act as milestones: “By the end of this
month I have the perfect financial plan for buying my own home,”
and “Within six months I have enough for a down payment,”
and so on.

A Profound Way to Rewire Your Brain

Every
time you see your goal or intention on the Wizard’s screen you
physically rewire your brain by creating new neural pathways. This is
the most powerful way to change the definition of yourself. In the
beginning, your conscious mind may experience some resistance to your
new goal or intention.

This simply means you are getting out
of your comfort zone and growing. Over time it will get easier for
your mind to accept these new commands. After a couple of weeks your
brain will be completely rewired and your new goal, intention or
belief will be fully integrated.

In a nutshell: Use
affirmations to change your attitudes; use intentions to set a path
that you will follow until it is fulfilled; use goals to set
milestones for this path.

Click
here to find out more about the Dream Manifestation Wizard

To your successful intentions . . .

P.S.: Check out over 500 powerful template examples that are
included on the Dream Manifestation Wizard for your use. Simply copy
the ones you like and change them until they’re a perfect fit for
your goal or intention.

Click
here to find out more about the Dream Manifestation Wizard

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Here is some outstanding news!

Here’s the story…

When people want to start an online business,
they usually have one of two challenges:

1) They don’t have a product of their own to sell, but they
really want to start a *real* online business – or -

2) They currently sell as an affiliate for others, but
can’t seem to make more than a couple of sales here and
there and feel like all they’re doing is building the
*merchant’s business* (instead of their own).

They see others doing really well online, but they don’t
understand the “pattern” or “blueprint” for making money
without their own product.

If you’ve ever felt this way about your online
business,
then this may be the most important update you ever
read!

Here’s why…

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Get the whole story here, or keep reading for more info…

“BLUEPRINT ” for Super Affiliate Success
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Two people I have an incredible amount of respect for
have just released what is literally the “BluePrint”
for
successful affiliate marketing.

I know you’ve heard of them…

Rosalind Gardner and Jim
Edwards.

Rosalind Gardner is the author of “The Super Affiliate
Handbook – How I made $436,797 Last Year Selling Other
People’s Stuff Online”

Jim Edwards is the publisher of the world-famous
“I Gotta
Tell You” multi-media newsletter and regularly sell $10’s
of thousands of dollars a year in other people’s products
as an affiliate.

Not too long ago, they decided to take their unique
perspectives on selling as affiliates while building
their own businesses at the same time (instead of just
building the business of the merchant’s they sell for)
and create a no-holds-barred, high-impact training
program for anyone who is serious about building their
own business while selling as an affiliate.

They’ve created The “Affiliate Business
Blueprint”… and
man, is it powerful!

Together they reveal to you:

~ How to AVOID the 6 “curse of death” mistakes 95% of all
affiliates make…

~ How to quickly write incredibly powerful product
endorsements that make people grab their wallets… whip
out their credit cards… and BUY NOW!

~ The BEST ways to market your affiliate sites online and
get the “eyeballs” you need to make the money you want!
(We’ll show you how and where to find the best traffic so
you make money NOW – and, we’ll show you how to keep it
going – and where to find more!)

~ How to find and evaluate profitable niche topics with
profits just waiting to be harvested… by YOU!

~ How to quickly and accurately assess market demand… so
you can estimate how profitable a niche might be for you.

~ How to become an “Instant Expert” in virtually any niche
you want to sell as an affiliate – AND – where to find
HOT products & services that are selling – RIGHT NOW!

As you can see, this training is *packed* with valuable
information you’ll be able to use immediately!

Go here for the full story
“BLUEPRINT ” for Super Affiliate Success

If you’re ready to make this your “breakout” year as far as
finally creating your own unique online business, this is
exactly what you need.

Go here for more information
“BLUEPRINT ” for Super Affiliate Success

To your success,

PS – You might be asking “Do you really need this
training?”

Well, if you’re not planning to (or don’t want to) sell
anything to anyone… or if you don’t want to sell a whole
lot of products as an affiliate… or if you don’t want to
create your own massive list of rabid, opt-in subscribers
where you collect people’s names and email addresses to
sell them stuff — and you don’t plan to — then NO, you
don’t need this tele-seminar information!

BUT – if you do want to build a FAT list… if you want
to sell boatloads of ebooks, software, products or services
and make nice, juicy affiliate commission checks… or if
you PLAN to do any of these things… then YES, you need
this information… NOW!

BLUEPRINT ” for Super Affiliate Success

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It’s been simmering below the surface for years and now this power shift has finally boiled over into simultaneous national recognition.

Like Goliath being slain with a lowly slingshot, the mainstream media (in the form of Dan Rather) came to the undeniable realization that they were no longer in
control of information.

Within 30-minutes of that now infamous TV special on “60-Minutes II” broadcast bloggers were digging into the facts and questioning the validity of what had just been presented by the 42-year broadcast veteran. In less than one week, CBS admitted it could “no longer vouch” for the memos. And just weeks after the election, Rather announced his retirement and the blogosphere won another victory.
No matter what your political affiliation is, this incident is one very public example of the power of blogging. Blogging is quickly accelerating into a steeping, sloping growth
curve of popularity and application. ABC News selected Bloggers as “People of
the Year”, and Merriam-Webster declared “blog” its “word of the year.”

Putting the power of blogs to work for your business can have more an impact
than you can imagine… and it’s easier than you might think.

It puts the power of information and the impact of influence in the hands of the verage Joe”. It makes instant publishing a reality regardless of your technical kill level. And it’s a business growth tool that the savvy small business owner can no longer afford to ignore. The world’s oldest, most effective form of communication and marketing on steroids!

So why is blogging gaining popularity so quickly?  What’s the attraction?  And  why is it so darn powerful?

The answer is quite simple when you consider history and human nature.

Blogging is an unstoppable technological force that exponentially multiplies the world’s oldest, most favorite, and most trusted form of information sharing — word of mouth. Think about it.  Who do you trust the most to give you advice, recommendations, and information about opportunities, purchases, or choices?

If you’re like the vast majority of people, it’s the opinion of someone you know and trust. Someone who you feel is just like you. That type of trust comes from personal
communication, social interaction, and the joining together of like-minded individuals.

Blogs and the blogging community deliver all that — and more.

Now is the time to master business blogging and put it to use for you! Do it before other proactive business owners step into your ideal niche and muscle you out of this primetime opportunity.

You can learn more about blogs and business blogging in particular at here.

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