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If you’re not aware by now, I’m a huge fan of technology, in fact I embrace it.

My wife and kids call me “gadget boy.”

I can live with that name, I guess.  I tried to get them to refer to me as “Sir.”  That went over like a led ballon. 

I digress…

As you know I market my services and products on the internet and I am always trying to improve my results.

With that being said…

If your interested in web 2.0, making money online, copywriting, salesletters and sales copy then you’ll want to read a report that I just finished reading (during the New England/Jets game.)

It’s called, The Death of The Salesletter.  It’s 50 pages long but believe me when I say it’s well worth your time.

Information on making money online, Michel Fortin, Copywriting, Salesletter, and Web 2.0

Check it out!

Enjoy

Greg

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It was this time four years ago that I started my own business. That was the best decision I was forced into making. Are you thinking, “forced.” Well the truth is that I didn’t come to this conclusion on my own.

The owner of the company I worked for (as a VP of Operations) decided I was too honest or something, and decided that it was time to eliminate my job. At the time it was devastating. My wife was worried, although she didn’t show it. But come to find out about 4 months later she was really concerned.

But at that point, without knowing it my life was changing. I was making the transition from being an employee to an employer.

Fast forward 4 years.

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This is an important note and I hope you take the time to read it because I discovered the missing ingredient to affiliate marketing. And I have proof.

About 7 days ago I received an email from a friend of mine. He was passing on a recommendation for a resource called Affiliate Project X (Have you heard of It?)

…well I hadn’t.

So I decided to visit the site to learn more. I went through the information about Affiliate Project X and thought it sounded pretty good. But I had an interest in the subject already, so it made sense to investigate it more. I’m a publisher of sorts and I spend my time designing web sites and blogs for my clients and myself. I make pretty good money doing it on the side but a big piece of my revenue is generated through Affiliate sales.So if I can find “best practices” to increase my income, I always pay attention!

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Recently I found this article on goals, passion and how they can help you achieve whatever you want most for your business, income and life. Normally I try to post my own original content but I feel this article is worth the space.

Enjoy!

Greg

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Inspirational Goals - A Source Of Unquenchable Passion

By John Paul Hill

Would it be useful if all of your goals in life created such a passion and inspiration within you - so much so that you could not fail to achieve the result you desired?

All successful entrepreneurs develop passionate relationships with the projects or ventures they are developing and this passion becomes the source of all-conquering energy that drives them to succeed.

No matter how complicated your goal setting process is this technique will help you create habitually inspirational goals.

All successful Entrepreneurs work on pre-defined goals. Some may do it more formally than others but nevertheless they always have a clear vision of their end-game or outcome.

These goals will ultimately have a degree of detail to them to enable their effective fulfilment but, more importantly they will be a source of passion and inspiration for the entrepreneur - a passion which is obvious and infectious to those they come in contact with.

We all have goals in life, although most of us have condemned them to be ‘Got’ To-Do’s instead of ‘Want’ To-Do’s and when thinking about our goals often do not check-in on how passionate or inspirational they really are.

Similarly, even successful entrepreneurs sometimes get stuck when creating new goals or trying to develop interim goals to help them achieve a greater outcome.

This simple (but not simplistic) exercise will give you a chance to unburden yourself of the inhibiting ‘Don’t want’ stuff that most of us carry around, it will then gently lead into more creative thinking before taking you into the ultimate, passionate and inspiring goal setting zone.

Please give it a try and feel free to pass it on to someone else that you know who may be able to benefit from it. It’s also great to try out with children when they are stuck finding something to do or need some inspiration.

Have a pen and some paper ready then take a few minutes to write as many things as you can think of after each question (no more than 3 minutes on each).

** To get the most benefit from this please do each question in turn - write each question at the top of a fresh piece of paper - enjoy! **

1. What don’t you want?

2. What do you want?

2. What do you want less of?

3. What do you want more of?

About the Author: John is a premier coach who specifically works with entrepreneurs. His website is at http://www.johnpaulhill.com where you will find COMPLETELY FREE entrepreneurial coaching resources for you to use. You can also register for a FREE TeleCoaching seminar hosted by John where you will be able to experience your very own entrepreneur coaching session.

Source: www.isnare.com

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Normally I would say that most of my readers are pretty hip…

C’mon, you don’t wear black socks with your sandals do you?

I didn’t think so…

Well this is going to be a short post. But I am going to ask you to do something.

I want you to click on the banner. Or if you prefer you can click on this link: BurnLoung.com/Recommends.

This business taps into one of the hottest trends in society right now. And the projections are that it will be hot for a long time. Its digital music downloads.

This site gives you the opportunity to have your own digital music download store. I think that this business model is really great.

With barely any work on your part, you can have your own money making music store. Isn’t that cool?

Ok, so when you click on the link go to the bottom of the page. They have a great flash presentation that tells you all about it.

Also there are some pretty big names that have stores and use this site to get all of their music from.

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I am going to depart from my original posting plan and talk about debt with this post.

Recently, I received an email from a subscriber about her debt. She was drowning in debt and was asking for ideas to help her.

Here is the original email (obviously I am leaving name and contact information out.)

Subject: Extremely In Debt

I owe a 1st mortgage ($118k at 5.875%), a 2nd mortgage ($14.7k at 8.875%)and under $50k in credit card debt. How can I get out of debt? Thanks.

Unfortunately, many Americans are facing this same problem.

For those that are not congratulations! But getting into these debt problems are not all irresponsible spending habits on the part of the consumer. Some of this debt is for valid reasons.

Let me give you an example.

Several years ago I worked as a VP of Inbound Operations for a small Call Center Outsourcing company and things were going great financially. However, I hated my job. The people that I worked with were so passive aggressive and really had no business acumen that it was very difficult to manage with integrity and responsibility.

You see the leadership team was not honorable. This included the owners, the head of human resources and the person in charge of account services.

To make a long story short…One day I told my wife that I was going to fight for what I believed was right. Well this leadership team didn’t like it and ultimately the owner wanted me to fire somebody that didn’t deserve it.

I wouldn’t do it…

Bottom-line, they decided to fire me instead because I wouldn’t act as a puppet.

To make matters worse they gave me 2 months of severance. Well, when your a VP you deserve more but expecting the owners to do the right thing was out of the question, so I wasn’t surprised.

Fast forward a year. It took me 11 months to find another job with equivalent pay. During those 11 months I ran my credit cards up to pay the bills. So, when the dust settled my family and I were in a bad way.

So you see, not all debt is irresponsible spending but sometimes it is caused by desperation (you have to do what you have to do to keep the roof over your children’s heads.)

Unfortunately, no matter how you got into this debt problem, it will not go away easily. And unless you want to live your life full of stress you have to take action!

So what do you do?

Your don’t want to hear this but you need to start by accessing where you currently are. When debt gets so deep it is easy to hide your head in the sand and stop reviewing your bank account and your bills. The pain is too great!

But let’s agree, that is the old way.

Start by getting a piece of paper and a pen and writing down all that you owe. Next go through what you spend your money on during the day. Here comes the hard part…

…decide what is nice to have as opposed to what is a must have.

Eliminate the nice to have and use that money to start paying down one bill. If you pay the minimum you will never get anywhere.

There is a great system that I used about 3 years ago and has helped me work wonders. It’s called Debt Free in Three. I urge you to check it out.

Ok let’s step back to eliminating the nice to have. You may say that is too much trouble. If you are thinking that way then your not ready to change your debt problems. Stop reading, this post is not for you.

If you are serious about debt elimination then I recommend you visit my page…Secrets of The Millionaire Mind. You learn how to properly think about money, end your destructive attitudes and embrace the positives things you need to do to achieve what you desire.

So let’s recap…

1. Become aware of where you currently are;

2. Break down your spending and identify what you are spending your money on;

3. Eliminate the nice to have stuff;

4. Use that money to identify a bill that you want to pay down;

5. Focus on that one bill and pay it off until you go to the next one.

Resources To Help:

- Debt Free In Three

- Debt Repair Online

- Secrets of The Millionaire Mind

Listen, it’s important that you take action on this now. So, do something. Find a resource that can help and before you know it, you’ll be out of debt and living a better life!

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