Monday October 1st, 2007: Issue #844
The seminar this weekend was nothing if not intensive! I feel exhausted and I didn’t end up watching every presentation from every speaker! When I had to leave yesterday evening (at 6pm) Mike Filsaime had just gone on stage and there was still another speaker scheduled after him! I was really sorry to miss Mike because he is good guy, and he is taking a break now from speaking at seminars.
Frank Garon and his partners provided some top class speakers from all over the world and none of them disappointed. The amount of real, usable content that was freely given out was staggering.
Even though I like to think I’m pretty experienced at this Internet marketing stuff, and I like to keep current about the latest ideas and strategies, I still managed to learn a whole lot and filled an entire notebook! And I didn’t attend every session!
And remember, this was free to attend!
As I said in my special report on Friday night, I had seriously expected that the event would be full of hype and hard sell - what we call a sell-a-thon in the business. But I was very pleased to admit that I was wrong.
Of course, all the speakers had something to sell. But all understood that they had to give great content first. The sales pitches were, in the main, kept to the last few minutes of each session and I’m sure that absolutely nobody in the audience ever felt pressurized to buy.
People did buy, naturally. There were some phenomenal deals on offer. But there was no feeling of obligation.
What was also great was that all the speakers mixed and mingled with the crowd on the break times and many of them were in attendance for the entire weekend.
The entire event was videoed and the DVD’s will soon be on sale, but in the meantime you can get to see the whole thing online (and, I believe, even take advantage of some of the amazing deals).
The event was intended to be a live broadcast over the Internet but technical difficulties with the hotel’s firewall made that a bit of a problem. I think transmissions were made, but I’m not so sure about their quality for the whole weekend. To make up for that glitch - and to allow others to benefit from the seminar who couldn’t be there, the organizers have said I can still let people sign up for the online broadcasts - all the sessions either are online now, or will soon be, and will be available to view for the next month.
You can get to see them via http://www.urlnex.us/FrankGaron2007/Online/
Over the three days there were a lot of really excellent speakers. All were top rate. There wasn’t one that I’d be critical of. Most I saw, a few I missed. But for my money, the highlights of the entire three days were Kirt Christiansen, who talked about membership sites, Armand Morin who talked about the broad brush strokes of Internet marketing and building it as a business and Anik Singal who, despite being in the middle of a multi-million dollar new product launch, took time out to fly over from America to talk about how he makes a fortune from simple to build affiliate websites (and didn’t mention his new product launch at all!)
I’m sure everyone who attended will have a different set of three favorites, based on their own interests and experience levels. But those were my top picks!
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What’s happened with Michael Green’s $20,000 in 20 Days Challenge?
Here is the latest update. The course launched on time over the weekend and everyone who bought it should have been able to get their manual by now.
The manual is 250 pages long and covers everything you need to know in great detail. Michael is a very good writer and is able to break everything down into clear and simple steps.
A few people have emailed me to ask why the price hasn’t gone up yet - the 20/20 course is still available on the website at the pre-launch 50% off price.
There are a couple of reasons, as far as I understand. One is that Michael has been very tied up over the weekend and didn’t get a chance to make the change to the website. Then in the hours following the launch time he was flooded with emails from people begging him to extend the deal for a bit longer.
I can see that this is true because I have had more people buy through my link in the 24 hours after the launch than did in the 24 hours before!
Michael emailed me this morning to say that he is extending the 50% off offer for a short while longer so as not to disappoint, but that the 250 copy limit is now fast being approached anyway.
If you have any questions or concerns at all about this course, email me and I’ll do my best to answer them.
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I’ve been delighted to see that many people are taking great positive action with the 2020 course already. That’s the way to succeed!
A few have set up blogs so that they can share their experiences and report on their progress. What a great idea to keep themselves accountable!
If you’ve done just that and would like to announce your blog’s URL, you can do so on the Kickstart Forum at http://www.kickstarttodayforum.com
Remember though that to deter the kind of junk posts that all forums suffer from, you can only post one URL in each post.
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I was looking something up online this morning and must have mistyped a url because up came a site that I really didn’t need to see before breakfast.
(I didn’t put this in the email version of Kickstart because it would have been sure to trigger every anti-spam filter going!)
Although I really didn’t need to be presented with a large full-color image of a lady and gentleman (using those terms loosely) doing the thing that ladies and gentlemen have done together in private forever, I was amused and baffled that the picture, which was very graphically hardcore, had coyly blurred out the woman’s breasts so that you couldn’t see anything other than a vague pink shape.
However, the ‘below stairs’ activity was not hidden in any way. Medical students could have used it for reference!
I don’t (and didn’t) choose to find sites like that, so have no idea if such double standards are widespread (pardon the expression!). But it did make me chuckle for a moment before I hit my back button.
And before anyone with a dirty mind emails me, ‘hitting my back button’ is not the latest euphamism! 
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After the exhausting fun and games of the weekend, I am about to do it all again next weekend! Robert Puddy is putting on three-day seminar in Meriden, near Coventry and I’m really looking forward to it.
If you are going and haven’t yet booked your hotel room, be aware that the seminar hotel is now full. I’ve booked into a hotel called Windmill Village a couple of miles away. They still have rooms available and their phone number is 02476 404040. They are the sister hotel to the seminar one and are honoring the special delegates room rate.
Let me know if you end up staying there - maybe we can get together over breakfast, and if there aren’t too many I’ll happily act as chauffeur (I can fit up to 7 in my car).
The url to book a place at the seminar is http://www.urlnex.us/BritPackSeminar/
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There were lots of Kickstart readers at the seminar this weekend and it was, as always, wonderful to be able to say hello.
I was particularly pleased that Mike Wynne, a Kickstart reader and regular London Lunch attendee, was the very lucky winner of £1000 worth of great training from Kirt Christiansen.
Another reader, Richard (sorry Richard, I didn’t catch your last name) asked me why I’d stopped the creativity contests that I used to run here. The truth was that the number of people taking part dwindled and so I didn’t think there was much interest.
However, it was coincidental that he mentioned it because I had just been thinking of starting them up again while on the train that morning!
Watch out for the first one soon. I really have learned to take notice of synchronicities like that!
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An Inspirational Thought
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Although I don’t aspire to be mega-rich I did find it inspirational this weekend to talk with people who are.
Kirt Christiansen sold his first website for $12m.
Armand Morin makes $27,000 per DAY.
And Anik Singal is a 24-year old who has only been in IM for less than four years. I remember him posting on the Anthony Blake forum asking why his first book didn’t sell any copies. At that time he was a flat broke medical student who just wanted to make a bit of cash online to pay some bills.
He is now turning over more than a million dollars a year and confidently projects that will rise to $2.5m over the next 12 months.
And you know what? When you stand and chat with them they are just regular people. They wear clothes like the rest of us, breathe in and out the same as you and me and no doubt have stresses and worries in their lives just like we all do. As far as I can see, the only difference is that they keep on taking action. If something doesn’t work, they don’t blame anyone else and throw it all in. They just take more action with something else.
If inspiration is something that makes you raise your own game, then these guys are the kind of people to get it from.
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The Quote of the Day
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Wanda Landowska said,
“The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration.”
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Today’s Power Thought
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When you go to see a doctor or a dentist you expect them to be up-to-date with the latest knowledge.
A lawyer would be pretty useless if he didn’t have the latest legal decisions at his fingertips.
When you take your car in to be fixed, it is understood that the mechanic understands this years model.
The world is a constantly changing place and there is new knowledge being produced in every field imaginable each moment of the day.
And yet, why is it that so many of us reach a certain stage in our lives where we think we know it all and that we don’t have to learn any more?
Most of us aren’t lucky enough to work in companies that give us limitless training opportunities. As we are not ‘forced’ into taking training we take the easy road and ignore it completely.
We all have two choices in this life.
We can take a decision to stop learning, stop acquiring new information, stop expanding our minds and stop growing. We can stagnate. Our knowledge and experience can stay exactly where it reached its peak.
In fact, it is wrong to say that when we do that we stop dead because we don’t. We carry on moving - backwards. The world around us is forging ahead and leaving us way behind.
Our only other choice is to embrace the concept of permanent education.
Permanent education means that we actively seek out new knowledge. We learn to love the acquisition of new information - even if it has no immediate application for us - because we know that one day all the pieces will fall into place.
Permanent education is all about feeling excited to end each day with more facts at our disposal than yesterday - to revel in the act of learning and to arrange our lives so that we can be exposed to as much new information as possible.
The fact that you are a reader of Kickstart suggests to me that I’m preaching to the converted. You are almost certainly already a perpetual learner - and I salute you for it!
The reason I’m writing this then, is not so much to persuade you of the value and the joy of permanent education, but to encourage you to share this thought with everyone around you. your children, your family, your friends and your colleagues.
There is safety in numbers!
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Fascinating Facts
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Every continent contains a city called Rome.