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Kickstart Today
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Monday December 15th 2008: Issue #987
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Greetings!
Christmas is coming so quickly! Barely a couple of days ago it
was New Year’s Eve and we were all wishing each other a happy,
healthy and prosperous 2008 – and yet in ten days time it will be
Christmas Day all over again, then 2009 will be right behind.
Who hit the fast-forward button?
When we were kids we thought the endless days of summer would go
on forever. Time moved magnificently slowly and life happened at
a stately and sedate pace. Of course, that was an endless source
of frustration at the time and we all spent most of our precious
youth wishing our lives away.
Now though, the days are getting shorter, months disappear
without much conscious awareness and another year is behind us.
Oh to be able to slow it down again and actually savor life as it
slips past rather than having to suffice with the occasional
taste.
So what did we all achieve in 2008 – a year that many of us
promised would be our best ever?
Did you resolve your resolutions?
Did you fulfil any of your dreams?
Did you enjoy new experiences?
Did you make inroads towards your self-promised success?
Did you, in the end, do anything much different in 2008 than you
did in 2007? Or 2006? Or any other precious year?
I really hope that you can say yes to at least one of those
questions, but let’s be brutally honest here, the chances are
slim.
Most of us are content to live with the dream tucked away in the
darkest closet of our mind, only to open the door and dust it off
on January 1st, before slamming the door again for another year.
But what a waste that is.
What a sad loss – not to me, but to you! Imagine how you’d feel
if you were one of the lucky (although there is no luck involved)
ones who could say “yes, I made it happen!”
Personally, I’m a long way from having achieved my aims of a year
ago. Very few of my ‘resolutions’ have been fully achieved. But
many inroads have been made, much groundwork has been done, a lot
of planning has taken place and a heap of mental adjustment has
happened.
All in all, I’m very pleased with my own progress in 2008 and
although I haven’t ticked every box as I’d have hoped, I know
that I took action and moved myself forward in many ways.
And that’s the way I’d urge you to see things: lack of success
isn’t failure provided that you have moved on from where you
were. Lack of success is just a resting point on the journey. So
long as you continue to travel, and know in your heart that you
are progressing, your resolutions are still in the process of
coming true.
Failure is when you have allowed the hope of achieving your dream
to die.
But come on – we don’t get many new years in this life and those
that we do get seem to go by faster and faster. Let’s make the
most of the one we do have and start to live in the moment and
for the advancement of our hopes, desire and dreams.
2009 will be here in a minute – forget the recession, you can
still make it the best year of your life.
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Kickstart has been erratic again – and I apologise to everyone
for that. To everyone who has emailed, it isn’t your ISP that is
the problem this time, it is my busy life.
This month is busy for everyone and I’m no exception. Rather than
send out something hastily written and unsatisfying, I’ve
preferred to cut down to one a week for a spell.
I will get another Kickstart to you this week, but after that
there will be a two week break for the holidays.
Hopefully, normal service will resume in January.
If I hear of any really exceptional new products in the meantime,
I’ll try to let you know, but I suspect that launches will slow
down until the New Year now as well.
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I’d like to pass on the thanks of the President of the Rotary
Club of Sidcup to everyone who has donated to our Christmas
Appeal at http://www.rotary-sidcup.org/christmasappeal.htm
Everyone in the Rotary Club has been working tirelessly
throughout December to raise as much money as we can for all the
many charities we support. Belts are being tightened everywhere
and donations are not quite as high as in previous years, but all
that means is that we will work even harder to rattle those
buckets!
Charities – whether they are local ones, serving the community we
live in, national ones or major international organizations -
exist to help people who are in the most difficulties. People for
whom an economic recession isn’t just a temporary difficulty, it
can literally be a matter of life and death.
Official support of many charitable organizations can often be
patchy at best, or nonexistent. In order to survive at all they
need our help.
All of us are feeling the pinch at the moment, but unless we dig
into our pockets the wonderful volunteers who give their time to
ensure that elderly people who would otherwise be all alone on
Christmas Day get a Christmas lunch, a few hours of companionship
and – even more importantly – the knowledge that someone cares,
won’t have the money to do what they do.
That makes a difference.
And without a few dollars a week that our Rotary Club provides
from your donations, the several children in countries where
education is unaffordable to the vast majority, would get no
education at all. A few pennies from each of makes a huge
difference. These children grow up with a chance – a chance both
for themselves and for the future of their countries.
Pennies for us – a priceless future for the world.
And when disasters strike – like the awful tsunami a few
Christmases ago, the few pounds or dollars that we give today
make a gigantic difference to people who, through no fault of
their own, are on the very edge of life itself. The Shelter Boxes
that Rotary Clubs the world over pay for can each provide
shelter, drinking water and basic human needs for twelve
survivors.
As an organization, Rotary sends in thousands of Shelter boxes
when the need is there, but we couldn’t even send one without
your help.
A small donation now will certainly help a family to continue to
survive.
Our donations are not to some vague ‘charity’ – they are to
people. People who have a real need. People for whom the
recession could be the biggest disaster of all if people like us
- the ones who can afford to help in some small way – stop
giving.
Please don’t stop giving.
This Christmas, please give all you can to as many charities that
you support as possible. They really need it now more than ever.
And if you feel you can spare a few dollars to help the Rotary
Club of Sidcup do all it can to help people in dire need all
around the world, then thank you. The donation page is at
http://www.rotary-sidcup.org/christmasappeal.htm
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PLRPro – Project Green Button – Review
A few months ago I wrote about the best membership site of them
all for private label articles. PLRpro has been around for a few
years now and has gone from strength to strength.
It is one of the very few PLR membership sites I belong to now -
and that is saying something considering I wrote the book on
private label!
Some months ago I told you that PLRpro was closing its doors to
new members for a while while they revamped their offering. Many,
many Kickstarters leapt at the opportunity to get on board before
the site was closed and the feedback I’ve had has been very
positive indeed.
The reason for the closure was that Daniel and Marc, the tireless
owners of PLRpro have been working behind the scenes to create
something that is really special – an automated site building
program that you can create fantastic, fully-functional, fully
populated with great content websites at the click of a button.
It has taken them longer than they expected, but ‘Project Green
Button’ is now a reality.
Everyone who has already joined PLRpro will have access to the
new stuff (and should really be in there trying it out pronto!).
But if you haven’t joined PLRpro yet, or are just starting out in
Internet marketing but the whole idea of building websites is a
bit beyond you right now, this is an absolute godsend.
You need virtually no experience (the little bit you do need is
clearly explained) to have great looking, well constructed
websites out there earning you money in no time.
Two of the most popular things I’ve recommended in Kickstart this
year have been The Money Tree Challenge and Info Product Killer.
Both have generated masses of positive feedback – deservedly so -
and have introduced a lot of people to some really key ideas in
Internet marketing.
One thing that these products is not, though, is work-free. Both
require a great deal of time and effort applied to them. As you
probably realize by now, putting in the effort is something I
strongly approve of and have spend the last few years railing
against the concept of finding success online with no work.
Project Green Button isn’t a 100% no-work deal, but it actually
does come pretty close. As much of the process of building sites
as possible has been automated. Probably 90%. That does leave you
with a small amount still to do, but it is totally manageable.
Newcomers to Internet marketing often get overwhelmed long before
they can taste success, but with Project Green Button, you won’t
be overwhelmed in any way.
In fact, the most overwhelming thing about it is the sales page!
Dan Turner really struggled with the sales page for this product
(I know, I read some of the early drafts) because it is
incredibly difficult to describe something that does everything!
In the end I think he has done a good job of boiling it down to
the main benefits with the site’s headline:
“Could It Really Be This Easy To Create A Site… Fully Populated
With Pre Optimized, High Quality Content, AND Generate Near
Instant Traffic At The ‘Push Of A Button’?”
The answer, of course, is yes.
http://www.plrpro.com/martin
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The Quote of the Day
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Charles the Bold (1433-1477) said,
“It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to
succeed in order to persevere.”
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Today’s Power Thought
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This is a personal observation:
Inspiration, to me, is inextricably linked to enthusiasm.
Great teachers inspire their students to take the knowledge on
offer and to run with it to places far beyond where the teacher
is standing. They inspire by opening the window in their soul so
that the light of their enthusiasm for the subject bursts out.
It is impossible to be bathed in the light of someone else’s
enthusiasm and not be changed by the experience.
You may not suddenly want to take up the same obsession that the
teacher has, but you WILL want to feel that power coursing
through your own body about *something*.
And to me, that contagious enthusiasm, that excitement, is the
essence and the spark that leads to inspiration.
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Fascinating Facts
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If you are bored today you can try this one out for yourself …
There are 3,628,800 different ways that ten books can be arranged
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