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Kickstart Today
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Tuesday June 23rd 2009: Issue #1037
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Greetings!
Bloody cheek!
I get JV requests all the time. Some are more blatant than others, but none more so that an email I received yesterday from someone called Eric Rockefeller.
I don’t know him, and have no recollection of having had any dealings with him, so getting an email with the subject line: ‘(Personal from EROCK) DUDE: You Mail Yet? JV SWIPE #3′ came as a surprise.
To start with, I hate emails that pretend to be personal when they are anything but, so he got off to a bad start, but it got worse.
The email started:
Hey, Dude, can you mail this for me…before I pull it down?
So personal that he doesn’t know my name and has now called me dude twice. Make it three times and I’d have to shoot him.
In any case, mail what? Did this guy never learn any manners, or has he just mislaid them because the shiny lure of money has blinded him?
This EROCK’s email went on to give me three pre-written emails that he seemed to be demanding that I send to you as fast as possible.
This paragraph is typical of the canned content:
Here’s the deal, my friend Mike Newman has just put
a video up on his website that is going to change your
life forever! It describes a simple way that anyone
(yes, including you) can start a business almost
overnight.
Who is Mike Newman? He certainly isn’t MY friend, yet EROCK appears to want me to pretend to you that he is.
One of the three emails that I’m supposed to send to you goes on…
Trust me, {NAME}, when you see what he reveals in
this video, you’re going to be glad you took my word
for it, and watched it immediately.
Trust? Strange word in the context, don’t you think?
I suspect that Mike Newman, whoever he is, has appointed Eric Rockefeller as his affiliate manager, and Eric is trying to drum up business. What a pity he hasn’t had the sense of understanding to build a relationship first.
No thanks Eric. No thanks Mike. And if I get any emails from anyone with either of those paragraphs in them, no thanks to them too.
People are very quick to condemn marketers for shady practices, and I’m always quick to jump to the defence of those who maintain high standards (in my experience, that is most, or at least most of those I associate with) but it is crap like this that tarnishes us all.
If the product is any good, let me review it and recommend it, if I feel it is good enough, in my own words.
Not because someone who doesn’t even know my name tells me I have to.
No thanks … dude.
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My iPhone is up and running and even better than I thought it would be. I really love it.
So far I’ve transferred my diary onto it, started to put all my contacts on it, downloaded a couple of albums from iTunes and loaded them on, browsed the Internet, Tweeted, downloaded hundreds of emails, bought half a dozen apps (and got a few free ones), tracked a walk that Delia and I went on yesterday with the inbuilt GPS function, taken some pictures of Delia and a video of my pond – oh, and written a to-do list.
And I’ve just scratched the surface of what is possible.
What I haven’t done yet is made a phone call or sent a text message! 
My only gripe with the iPhone is that it is very shiny and slippery. I’m terrified of dropping it! But it looks so nice I’d hate to put it in an ugly case.
Update: Since writing that, I’ve been for a nice walk, and while we were out, my iPhone rang! It was a good friend of mine who fancies lunch tomorrow.
So I’ve now received a call (and sent him a text message) but I have still to make one,
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Another email just came in from someone who wants to do a link swap on our respective websites. I get a lot of those, and ignore them all, but this one made me smile.
The lady said that she had been browsing my sales page for Keyword LSI Spy and felt that it was a perfect complement to her own website, so a mutual link would be in both of our interests.
Quite apart from the fact that linking to anything on a sales page other than the order form is a very bad idea, her website is all about wireless burglar alarms. Pardon me if I don’t quite see the synergy!
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There are a couple of really good things coming up in the Internet marketing world, but I’m embargoed from talking about them for a few more days.
Rather than just plug anything in the meantime, which I won’t do, I’ll leave today’s Kickstart as a sales-free-zone!
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It is scary how you mind can play tricks on you. I’ve been working on my annual accounts, and that entails poring over thousands of individual PayPal transactions and trying to work out what they were all for. Most of them PayPal give the information, but some they don’t say a word – leaving my poor old brain the onerous task of trying to remember things from a year ago.
For example, back in August of last year I sent $30 to dozens of Kickstart readers. That’s a lot of money, but I have absolutely no idea why! I suspect it was a rebate of some of my commission on a product they bought, but don’t ask me which one, or when. It is a complete blank!
If I sent you $30 on 29th August 2008, can you remember why?
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The Quote of the Day
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J. Paul Getty said,
“My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil.”
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Today’s Power Thought
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What do you focus on?
Take two people. Let’s call them Peter and Paul.
Both come up with an idea for a simple computer program that will revolutionize something they do online.
Peter says to himself “I wish I knew a bit about programming, but it looks so difficult. All those odd-looking words and squiggly brackets. There is no way I could ever learn that. Oh well.”
Paul says to himself “I wish I knew a bit about programming. I wonder where I can find out what those squiggly brackets and odd words mean? It can’t be all that hard – there are lots of books around. I think I’ll give it a try.”
Peter saw the hurdle as being bigger than the objective and so gave up before he started.
Paul saw the objective as being bigger than the hurdle and so simply stepped over the obstacle.
The same could be said of Jane and Janet.
Both came up with an idea for an ebook.
Jane did nothing with her idea because the hurdle of writing was bigger than her desire to have a book of her own.
Janet finished her book and sold it online because, even though she’d never written a thing in her life before, she didn’t see that as an obstacle and just focused on the end result.
There are far more Peters and Janes in this world who give up on their ideas at the first sign of an obstacle than Pauls and Janets who focus on the end result and blunder through every roadblock.
People who stop at the first sign of difficulty – or even long before at the first anticipation of difficulty – are not unsuccessful in their lives, they are anti-successful. They can’t fail because they don’t try. In fact, in their own terms their refusal to fail is quite an achievement in itself – albeit a negative, stifling one.
The Pauls and Janets – anyone who is bigger inside than the problems that surround them – are truly successful even when they don’t achieve their ends. their success comes from the fact that everything they do in their lives moves them a step or two ahead of where they were before. For them, a difficulty today will have a solution tomorrow. And if today’s goal doesn’t come to fruition, despite their best efforts, then they know in their hearts that tomorrow’s one will.
It is that knowledge – that inner certainty that whatever the odds, ‘I CAN do it’ – that defines a successful person. Whether their success has been achieved yet or not.
You can learn to focus on the problems rather than the results, or you can train yourself to see the results as being far more powerful, important and exciting than any silly little obstacle that happens to sit in the way.
It is your choice, your life and your success. What will you focus on?
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The Foolproof, No-Nonsense,
Kickstart Guide to Making Money Online
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Fascinating Facts
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When she was in her sixties, Queen Elizabeth I used to like to sit in front of her court with her gown open at the front to expose her breasts. Nobody seems to know quite why. Perhaps it just amused her.
I rather think (and hope) that the current Queen, Elizabeth II, is a tad more modest.
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