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Kickstart Today
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Wednesday October 8th 2008: Issue #967
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Greetings !
…active volcano or a glacier.
In case you missed it, the last line of the interesting fact was
missing from Monday’s Kickstart and that (above) was it.
Now you’ll have to check back to find out what the first line
was!
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Selling my Keyword LSI Spy program at a cut price has proved very
popular, even if it has resulted in me shooting myself in the
financial foot! Normally priced at $67, it is available to
Kickstart readers at $20 off for a very limited period.
If you’d like to get your hands on this clever script that lets
you find the words that the search engines REALLY want to see on
your web pages and in your articles, then please PayPal me $47 to
m.avis@ntlworld.com
You can even take a test run of the script here:
http://www.keywordlsispy.com – but don’t buy it there!
Here is an unsolicited testimonial that I received just this
morning from Kickstart reader Gordon Longworth:
“I’m a newbie. I’ve only recently got my very first website up
and running. I used Keyword LSI Spy and it’s been pretty
gratifying to find that my site is on page 1 of Google, is the
first entry on Yahoo, and is the fourth entry on MSN, preceded
only by three sponsored sites.
“If a newbie can do this, I wonder what the experts are going to
achieve.
“Many thanks for a great product.”
You are very welcome, Gordon.
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By the way, Monday’s Kickstart arrived in your inbox really late.
I don’t know why – I sent it out about 8 hours earlier, but for
reasons of their own, EmailAces didn’t broadcast it.
It’s a good job there was nothing of a time-sensitive nature in
it!
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As I write this, governments all over the world are starting to
take action over the banking crisis. Here in the UK announcements
have been made about money being made available to grease the
currently stuck flow of inter-bank lending, and the government is
about to effectively take a financial stake in at least six
financial institutions.
Here, and in countries all over the world, central banks have cut
interest rates.
After what seems like weeks of dithering, it appears that
something is at last being done on a global scale.
We can only hope that this will be a solid plaster cast and not a
flimsy piece of elastoplast
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Did you see the news about the 22 year old man who built a
WordPress blog 2 years ago and has just been paid $15 million for
it?
You can read the article (and view the $15m blog) here:
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/10/07/size-doesnt-always-matter-authority-does
Now, the guy, Johns Wu, has been incredibly lucky. He has also
worked hard over two years to build his blog up into something
that someone would want to pay money for.
Folks, there is nothing about his blog that you or I couldn’t
have produced. Everything he did – even down to the writing
(which he could easily have outsourced) – is easy.
Any one of us could have done it – even those Kickstart readers
who have never done more on their computers than open an email.
Blogging is the easiest way to get started on line and, it seems,
the fastest way to make a buck (or $15 million of them) by
selling the web property you produce.
I mentioned the other day about the guy on the Warrior Forum who
built a blog and sold it for $125 in 24 hours. Not $15m, but the
principle is the same.
He has now written up what he did in a free report, so if you are
interested in the idea behind blog flipping, head on over to this
URL and grab your own copy to read more:
http://www.blogflippingfool.com/
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Habit Busting – Review
It’s time to get a bit serious here. This is something that
affects most of us and I’m one of the biggest sufferers.
Do you ever get up in the morning with lots of good intentions?
You have a mental list of the things that you’d like to get done.
You start the day with an image in your mind of the jobs and
tasks that you really need to take action on.
But something happens.
Other things suddenly take on an importance way beyond what they
should.
You find yourself making coffee, opening post, tidying piles of
paper, playing solitaire, phoning friends, reading emails,
browsing forums … or any of a thousand diversionary actions you
can come up with rather than make a start on the things you woke
up thinking were important.
The day slips by and by the evening you realise that nothing on
your to-do list got done. Again. Ah well, maybe tomorrow.
But tomorrow the cycle of procrastination starts all over again.
Every once in while you do manage to avoid avoiding work and boy
do you feel good at the end of those days. But sadly, those days
of real productivity don’t happen nearly often enough.
You know, deep down in your heart, that you can achieve wonders.
You can do some AMAzing things. You know for absolute certain
that you are way better than your actions make you out to be.
But … procrastinating is so deeply ingrained in you that you
can’t seem to find a way around it.
All those other things that you do instead of taking real,
constructive, positive action are just so darned compelling.
If you’ve nodded your head even once while you read that, then
you are exactly like me. You procrastinate. And unless you stop,
you are doomed to stay on the merry-go-round of underachievement
forever.
I’ve found a program that really helps. I mean really helps.
It is called ‘Habit Busting’ and it can help you tame your
procrastination habit in 21 days or less.
I’ve bought it and can vouch for the fact that it is packed with
useful advice that will really work. I can’t wait to finish it
and put it’s wisdom into practice – this is something I WILL NOT
put off!
When you consider how much even being 25% more effective would be
worth to you (and I think Habit Busting may well help me to a
much bigger improvement than that) then the very low cost becomes
insignificant.
If ever there was a time when investing in yourself was vital to
your financial future this is it, and this is a very small
investment for a very big future.
Click here for more information about Habit Busting now!
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The Quote of the Day
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George Bernard Shaw said,
“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window
through which you must see the world.”
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Today’s Power Thought
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You can foresee the future.
You don’t need a crystal ball or a set of tarot cards to see into
your own future. All you need is a set of expectations.
If you expect good things to happen to you, generally they will.
If you generally expect bad things to come about, then they will
too.
In a survey carried out by Dr Richard Wiseman for his book ‘The
Luck Factor’, a very strong correlation was found between people
who are either demonstrably lucky or unlucky and whether they
believed that good or bad things would happen in their lives.
The more they believed and expected good fortune, the more they
got it – and vice versa.
Positive or negative expectations are not an ingrained
personality trait that your are born with – they are acquired
habits.
Habits, however deeply entrenched, are able to be changed if you
have the will and the belief that a better way is possible.
If you are a ‘negative expector’, start out by changing small
areas of your thinking.
Instead of thinking, ‘Oh, I’ll never get a parking space’, just
for once go out with the absolute belief that you will find a
spot. More often than not, you will – and you will be well on
your way to changing your negative thought habits.
It is absolutely true that we make our own luck – so why on Earth
would you want to make it bad?
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The Foolproof, No-Nonsense,
Kickstart Guide to Making Money Online
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Fascinating Facts
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In an average year, 311 New Yorkers are bitten by rats – but 1519
New Yorkers are bitten by other New Yorkers!