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Kickstart Today
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Thursday June 18th 2009: Issue #1036
Kickstart Today is published twice a week for opted-in subscribers only. Publisher: Martin Avis. Your comments are always welcome – to respond to anything you read here, please click ‘Reply’
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Greetings !
After the marathon issue that #1035 turned out to be, I’ll keep things a bit more in proportion today!
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I bought a little Flip video camera a couple of days ago and to test it out I went out into my garden and recorded a short testimonial video for Troy McDonald’s new ListCrew co-registration list-building service.
I’ve posted it on YouTube so you can give me some feedback!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BASOuVrjF2o
There are a couple of things I may change, but in principle, what do you think about video reviews like that?
Please give me some feedback because as far as video and YouTube are concerned I’m a complete newbie and I need all the help I can get!
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On the subject of YouTube, do you know of any ebooks or courses on using it to its best effect?
This could be your chance to recommend something to me! 
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Tuesday’s issue of Kickstart was not only a long one, but it was also one of the most difficult to get to you. I don’t know why, but my autoresponder, EmailAces, took over 30 hours to fully distribute it, and the bounce rate was far higher than normal.
To try to combat whatever problem EmailAces were experiencing, I set up a new autoresponder (ARP3) on my own domain and imported the entire Kickstart list into it. Hopefully you will have received an email from that service telling you that I’d posted the Kickstart edition online in the archive.
I’ll try to do that for every issue from now on.
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Today is the final day that you can get my special bonus (233 seed wordlists to help you discover hidden niche markets) when you buy Keyword Research Pro.
It is also the last day that you can get a $20 discount by typing the coupon code 20off in the box provided.
Keyword research is so important and Keyword Research Pro is such a good tool that it would be a real pity to miss out on the discount and Kickstart bonus.
http://urlnex.us/keywordresearchpro
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I just finished reading a new novel called Dead Men’s Dust from a first-time author by the name of Matt Hilton. It was very good. Very good indeed.
It is a tough, hard-hitting thriller with a central character who is every bit as bad as the worst of the bad guys. If you love a bit of murder and mayhem, then this is the escapist, fast-paced storytelling that will keep you glued to the pages right to the very end.
‘Dead Men’s Dust’ is very similar in style to my favorite writer, Lee Child, and the hero, Joe Hunter is every bit as tough as Jack Reacher. Maybe even more so!
It is an excellent page-turning thriller that I highly recommend.
UK book lovers use this link: http://urlnex.us/deadmensdust-uk
US book lovers use this link: http://urlnex.us/deadmensdust-us
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Tomorrow is iPhone day – I can’t wait!
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The Quote of the Day
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George Bernard Shaw said,
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
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Today’s Power Thought
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Bad habits, good habits, they are all habits.
The way you manage your life, including the finite amount of time you are blessed with each day, is largely a matter of habit.
We are creatures of habit – that is the way we deal with life.
Our habits – or learned behaviors – are the bedrock that keeps us on track. But unfortunately, there are times when our learned behaviors are keeping us on the wrong tracks.
When you read about good ideas to manage your time better, or to help you set and achieve goals, or to positively advance your life, what do you do?
Do you read about them, think ‘Good idea!’ and forget all about them?
Do you halfheartedly put them into action for a day or two and then forgetfully revert back to your old behaviors? And end up saying that the new idea was good, but didn’t work for you?
Or do you actively embrace the idea, put systems in place to make it work in your life, become an evangelist for it, and over time incorporate it into your daily living?
I doubt if the latter applies very often!
And the reason boils down to habit. It is more comfortable, more habitual, to keep on keeping on than to make the real effort required to bring about real change in your life.
It takes three to four weeks to really create a new habit in your life. And those 3-4 weeks are hard work.
First you have to be sure that you really want this new habit – and that you’re prepared to ditch the old one.
Then you have to build it into your life. By this I mean that you have to be on the lookout for all of your other behaviors that work to reinforce the old bad habit and find ways to modify them to the advantage of the new.
If possible, try to document your new behavior – write an entry in your diary, or tick a box on a form to show you’ve completed it each day.
Ask people around you to keep on reminding you.
Most of all, reward yourself. The more beneficial you can make your new habit RIGHT NOW the deeper and faster it will bed into your life.
In a few short weeks you will have changed.
Your new behavior will no longer be something you are learning – it will be something that you rely on.
The process of actively managing your life – whether that is the time allocation part of it or any other part – will have begun.
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The Foolproof, No-Nonsense,
Kickstart Guide to Making Money Online
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Fascinating Facts
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Here’s a new word for you: ‘chalazae’.
The chalazae is the stringy thing that you see in the white of an egg.
Now here’s a challenge – see if you can use it in conversation sometime today!
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