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Kickstart Today
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Tuesday June 30th 2009: Issue #1039
Kickstart Today is published more or less twice a week for
opted-in subscribers only. Publisher: Martin Avis. Your comments
are always welcome.
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Greetings !
Today is the day that Chris Freville’s Dominating Niches goes on
sale. The magic hour is noon EST (5pm UK time) and so I’ve
delayed today’s Kickstart a little so that hopefully, by the time
you are reading this, it will be live.
You’ve got the report showing how Chris made over $30,000 from
one niche site and seen his video showing how he made over a
quarter of a million dollars. Now you can finally get your hands
on the full ebook and video course that explains exactly how you
can emulate his success.
http://urlnex.us/dominatingniches
Chris is a real person who is genuinely doing all that he says he
is. I know him and can vouch for his integrity. And he explains
his stuff really clearly and in detail, so that anyone can follow
along.
When Chris has launched products in the past he starts with a
special introductory price and then puts it up after three days.
This time is no exception. You need to act fast on this one or
you’ll miss the launch discount window.
Dominating Niches is a real business strategy – not a fad – that
once learned, will continue to build streams of income for you
for as long as you like.
It’ll be the best buy you’ve made for a long time as far as
systemized business plans are concerned.
But how about I make it even better for you?
Chris has asked that where possible his friends and partners
offer genuine bonuses. Let’s be honest, there are several
marketing reasons for doing this: they whip up interest, create a
buzz, build a sense of competition between affiliates and overall
end up generating extra sales.
Normally I wouldn’t get involved.
I’m not here to hype you into buying anything you don’t need and
I’m certainly not here to sell to you. My job is to recommend
good products and steer you in the direction of things that can
really make a difference to you. So many bonuses are rehashed old
stuff that appear to add value, but really don’t, so I’m often
suspicious of them – and so should you be!
But this time I’m going to offer you something really special and
a bit different if you buy Dominating Niches using my affiliate
link: http://urlnex.us/dominatingniches
Something that I believe has a very real value.
In a few weeks I’m going to be one of the speakers at a major
London Internet marketing seminar – talking about building,
maintaining and profiting from your list. I’m in the middle of
writing my talk right now and it is packed full of
take-it-to-the-bank information. The working title is ‘Cutting
Down The 4-Hour Work Week’ or ‘The Lazy Man’s Way to Online
Riches’. 
What I propose is that I will make a special, exclusive, video of
the content of that presentation. This will be at least an hour,
maybe more, of hard-hitting stuff that I use every day to make a
very comfortable full-time income.
Maybe one day I will sell the entire thing as a product in its
own right, but until I do, you can get it exclusively, and free
of charge, simply by buying Dominating Niches today.
You’ll need to do a couple of things to get this exclusive
Kickstart bonus.
1. When you go to the sales page and click through to the
ClickBank secure order form, check that my affiliate id is at the
bottom. It should say [affiliate = avisc] right at the bottom of
the page. If not, you may need to clear the cookies on your
computer and then click this link
http://urlnex.us/dominatingniches again.
2. After you’ve competed your purchase, email me a copy of the
ClickBank receipt.
3. I will acknowledge your email and put you on the waiting list
to receive the exclusive video presentation within the next 2-3
weeks.
So there you have it: Dominating Niches is a great, realistic,
workable business strategy. For the next few days only it is at a
special launch price and by buying through my link -
http://urlnex.us/dominatingniches – you will also receive my
specially recorded video as a no-cost bonus.
Note: My bonus is only on offer until the price of Dominating
Niches rises (in 3 days time).
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Another shop – a branch of Thornton’s Chocolates – has just
closed down in my High Street. They sold high-end chocolates, but
primarily were a shop for buying greetings cards and wrapping
paper.
It gives me no pleasure to say so, but it was only a few months
ago that I was in the High Street with one of my daughters to buy
a card and some wrapping paper. We looked in Thorntons, but the
displays were tired and the staff were firmly fixed behind their
counter, from where nothing was going to move them. We were the
only customers and we bought nothing.
Their competition – a more ‘mass market’ store called The Card
Factory was heaving. They had a jolly lady standing in the
doorway encouraging passers-by to come in. They had more cards on
each display than Thorntons had in the entire shop. They had
lines of people waiting to be served.
Guess where we spent our money. Along with everyone else.
And so it was no real surprise to learn that Thorntons has gone
and that with Woolworths an empty shell, The Card Factory is now
the only real choice for buying greetings cards.
Survival of the fittest or survival of the smartest?
We were chatting to a friend the other evening and she is trying
to arrange a 60th birthday party for a large group of her family
and friends. I don’t recall the exact number but I think she said
about 30 people.
You’d think that in this day and age restaurants would be biting
her hand off to get that kind of business. It has to be at least
£1500 or £2000 worth of business ($2500-$3300).
But no. Three different restaurants have turned her down flat so
far – and she isn’t a rowdy person! There is no reputation to
precede her! And four others haven’t even bothered to reply to
her emails.
What is the matter with businesses? For goodness sake, we are in
a deep recession – don’t they realize that they have to fight for
trade? Have they completely given up? Is the very idea of
marketing so scary that they can’t be bothered?
Yes, the economy is in tatters – wherever you live in the world -
but that is only a small part of the problem. The real issue, it
seems to me, is that too many businesses have grown lazy and
complacent. They still hang on to the fallacy that they only have
to open their doors and customers will come in and spend.
They are ignoring the evidence of their own eyes.
I saw a photograph of Sidcup High Street a hundred years ago -
the population was much smaller then, but every shop was occupied
and as a commercial center it seemed to be thriving. What was of
note was that all the windows had enticing displays and signs and
that many of the shop keepers were standing in their doorways
ready to greet customers. And no doubt drag a few in who were
just passing.
They worked for their trade. They didn’t sit behind a counter
looking bored.
If I had a shop that was suffering I would be out there handing
out leaflets. I would be looking to do deals with other shops to
send them customers in return for them sending people to me. I’d
be looking for ways to engage with the community. I’d run special
promotions.
None of those things need cost money. So a lack of a marketing
budget is no excuse.
But they don’t do anything, until the day that they cannot open
their doors any longer. And then another cog is removed from the
machine that is a thriving High Street.
I’ve ranted enough. But I’ll end with this…
I was talking to a local business the other day who are, frankly,
struggling. I made lots of suggestions along the lines of the
things I mentioned above, but I could see the guy wasn’t
listening.
In the end, he said, ‘That’s all very well, but we can’t afford
to look desperate. It would make life very difficult for us when
times pick up again.’
Hello … the odds are that unless you swallow your pride pretty
soon, you won’t be around when times pick up.
Today there are only two kinds of businesses: the smart ones or
the dead ones.
Look around – how many dead ones do you see, who just haven’t
realize it yet?
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I opened up my drawer of summer shorts a couple of days ago -
they have remained unworn since last summer – because the weather
here in the UK has finally turned hot.
It came as quite a shock – albeit a nice one – to find that not
one of my six pairs of shorts fitted me. They were all way too
large around the waist. Last year I was a 38-inch waist, pushing
39 or 40 inches. Back then, those shorts ranged from comfortable
to tight.
I tried my summer linen trousers: same problem. Without a belt
cinching them in with material bunching up, they slid down over
my hips. Delia laughed.
Now the odd thing about this is that according to the scales I’ve
only lost maybe a couple of pounds this year.
And yet, when I went to a clothes store yesterday to buy new
shorts, I got one pair in a 36-inch waist and another in a 34!
The only answer I can think of is that Delia and I have been
walking at every opportunity – trying to do about an hour almost
every day. And while this hasn’t yet translated into actual
weight loss, it must be redistributing fat from my middle to
muscles in my legs.
Last night on TV, Steven Fry talked about how he has lost almost
6 stones (84 pounds) primarily by going for long walks every day.
There is a lot to be said for this walking lark – it is free, it
is fun and by goodness, it certainly seems to be effective!
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Sadly, despite my pleas for more people to book up over the
weekend, the numbers for the July London Lunch are still too low
to make it a viable event.
As a result, I have to pull the plug and cancel this one.
Everyone who has paid will receive a full refund later today.
Please don’t send in any more bookings for the July lunch – the
next one will be in September and I’ll announce details of it in
due course. Hopefully that will be a more convenient month for
everyone.
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Don’t forget, Dominating Niches goes on sale at 12 noon EST (5pm
UK time) today. Grab it – and my exclusive bonus – while you can.
http://urlnex.us/dominatingniches
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The Quote of the Day
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Joe NAMAth said,
“If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?”
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Today’s Power Thought
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There is an excellent motivational speaker in the UK called Peter
Thomson.
Peter tells a lovely story about how his teenage son went to his
first school dance.
On returning home, Peter asked the usual parental questions
including, ‘Did you dance with any girls?’
The lad said that he had, and Peter went on to ask, ‘Did you ask
any girls to dance and got turned down?’
The boy again said that yes, this had happened.
So Peter went on, ‘and how did that make you feel?’
The young man then showed an AMAzing flash of maturity. He
answered, ‘It was okay … she wasn’t dancing with me before I
asked, and she wasn’t dancing with me after I asked, so I didn’t
lose anything by asking.’
Oh that we all could see life so philosophically!
But think about it – how many things do we all fail to do because
we fear a negative outcome. Yet, if we take Peter’s son’s
attitude on board we’d realize that we very often have nothing to
lose, and everything to gain.
The more I thought about the story of Peter Thomson’s son and his
extraordinary attitude towards rejection (see above), the more I
thought that it deserves further investigation.
What exactly does ‘no’ mean?
We are all faced with people saying no to us all day long. To
combat the fear of rejection that this sets up in our minds, most
of us (but apparently not Peter’s son) have developed our own
ways to handle it. The most frequent strategy is simply to not
take an action that could lead to a negative answer.
But is that a sensible strategy?
I think not.
The problem is that most of us take the ‘no’ as a person
rejection and feel pain (quite literally) as a result. To avoid
pain, we avoid the situation that could cause pain.
However, put yourself in the shoes of the person saying no. It
isn’t hard, we are all in that position many times a day.
What do YOU mean when you reject someone? Are YOU trying to hurt
them?
I doubt it. What you are probably really saying is ‘not right
now’ or ‘not this week’ or ‘I’m too busy to give it much
thought’ or ‘I haven’t been paid yet’ or ‘I need to discuss it
with someone else’ or …
… you get the message. ‘No’ rarely means a rejection of the
other person, it most often means that the person being asked has
a different agenda.
Let’s look a the teenage boy at the dance again.
Did the girl who turned him down really mean to hurt him, or was
she just shy? Perhaps she already had a partner. Maybe she
couldn’t dance.
In any case, the young fellow did get dances that night. He just
asked someone else who had an agenda more in tune with his own.
The key to overcoming fear of rejection is two-fold:
1. Understand that the other person’s agenda may be different to
yours and that this in no way diminishes the worth of what you
have to offer. It reflects on the person saying no, and not on
the person asking the question.
2. The secret to getting someone to say yes is persistence. If
you stop at a ‘no’, you’ll never get anything done. If you don’t
stop asking until you get a yes you will never feel the fear of
failure, only the exhilaration of acceptance.
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Fascinating Facts
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I’ve always wondered about the terms ‘first world’ and ‘third
world’ countries. We bandy them around, but how many people know
what they refer to? And is there a ’second world’?
Well, we live in an age of almost limitless information on tap,
so I did what i should have dome a long time ago and looked it up
on Google.
The answer is surprising – to me at least!
The terminology stems from the Cold War era and refers to whether
countries are politically or economically aligned to the US or
the Soviet Union.
First World countries were the US and its allies (primarily North
America, Western Europe, Scandinavia and most of Australasia).
Second World countries were the Soviet Union and its allies
(principally The Soviet Union, China, North Korea and Cuba).
Third World countries were non-aligned or neutral countries
(pretty much all of Central and South America, Africa and the
rest of Asia).
It just so happens that the poorest nations tended to be in the
‘third’ designation, but economic prosperity wasn’t the original
criteria.
Since the break up of the Soviet Union, the terms have become
meaningless, but they are so ingrained they continue to be used.
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