A 3 Month Commercial for Celebrity Branding You

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It was an odd day today. I woke up and decided that I would fix my bank account. It's been underperforming lately, so to speak. I have these images on this vision board on my wall, and only today did I realize that I was capable of most of all of the things, Now, that I was planning on being someday.

Anyway, I've taken Tim Ferriss' low information diet to heart, only reading material to help you finish the current project you are working on, and started something new today. I've decided that it is my responsibility to make sure these seeds of greatness blossom into beautiful flowering trees.

A seed will never feed you unless you water it. I aim to water these seeds of talent daily. A couple of months back, I had the idea of doing all the little challenges at the ends of the chapters in the 4 Hour Workweek and recording myself on video doing them. I couldn't justify myself doing it, because I couldn't see it going anywhere. I couldn't see how it connected to my ultimate goal: which it like many is to be rich, famous, and respected. (Yes, I am laughing at myself as I write this.)

All that was just a preface into this. I have justified doing the steps outlined in Celebrity Branding You, and I will do them in the next 90 days. Well I think I should put the list with some deadlines here.

professional photo -- cool rockband style (July 24th)
write a book -- on your topic of interest (August 7th)
testimonials -- of products and services (August 21st)
start a newsletter -- digital, then physical one later (August 22nd)
design and build a website (OMP) -- online marketing platform (August 31st)
promote your website -- syndication strategy (September 11)
monitor, optimize -- create new revenue streams (September 25th)
rollout -- go national with your business (October 9th)

*October 14th is the 90th day unless I just can't count the days properly on my phone.

I have to admit that this list looks intimdating, especially because I am going to be out of the country for most of the month of August, but I have gotten amateur photos taken by an art student, written a short book that I'm not very proud of, and gathered character testimonials (not product testimonials) in the past. But let's start at square one.

I am going to be creating a ridiculous amount of content in the next 90 days, because I've decided like Ed Dale that there is no charge for awesomeness. Well, there really shouldn't be. I have to get cracking on my recommendation website. Yeah, I just want to recommend products and services (free and paid) that work for me.

I'm going to go for a two times a week update since I have my main blog to attend to until I'm in Burma suffering from Internet withdrawal.

Unhub

Just started using Unhub today and it is awesome!
Okay it added the URL shortner feature and a profile
bar that stays glued to the top of your browser
featuring links to all the profiles or places that you
visit frequently on the web. I love it. Now I just need
to get acquainted with ping.fm

These sites are designed to make the socials lives
much easier!

Finally Robert Allen Launches Cash in a Flash

Yay! There should be celebrations in the street over this book that been years in the making. Mark Victor Hansen and Robert Allen have probably been planning this since 2000.





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43 Things Quiz

I'm not really sure how I ended up on this sight when I was looking for social network creation. Anyway I joined, because there was this really cool kid on there that I had to connect with. They have this awesome quiz on the website, sort of challenging, I was honest, and then amazed by how many things on the list I could honestly say I had done like visit four continents. Anyways here are the results:

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm a

Self-Knowing Extroverted Believer

Much Ado About Renegade Breakthrough

So I have an ad on eBay running to build a list for the relaunch of Renegade Professional and Renegade Breakthrough. I realize that I planned to have at least 100 running at a time. Seems like I've been distracted with graduate school. I'm happy though because I'm putting together two killer marketing/promotion campaigns for Glory Power Ministries and BCS, Christian Fioravanti's company.

Glory Power is launching a product without a product launch (*shakes head), but the founders are not schooled in marketing and I do not have the time. Perhaps I can find someone that offers that service and connect them. Eureka.

I'm plugging away at my Renegade Lessons. If anyone wants free lesson or more info on this check it out: (Renegade = Attraction Marketing (Brand Building) 101)
http://budurl.com/renegadesignup

Front Loading

This is a skill that I have been thinking about for a while. I read about this group that described one of their friends. He had this odd habit of spending the first two weeks of his classes in the library doing all of his work for the semester. He would even miss some of his classes. I have started doing this on a smaller scale. I have not gotten to the point of doing all of my reading before a class starts, but I have begun to do all of my reading at the beginning of the week.

Reading can be spaced over three days. I cram it into one day and with good reason. I want so spend more time on infopreneuring. I took a big step towards into creating a muse (according to Timothy Ferriss' definition) today. I spent a little time talking to God on what I am suppose to be giving the world. Now I know what to write about. I made a table of contents for a book, and I know it will not be difficult to complete. The book will include the conversation.

Clarence Wooten on Entrepreneurship

I realized that I had the mindset of an employee
while I was trying to start a business. Today was
my biggest aha moment ever! When Clarence
Wooten said,

"A paycheck is an addiction. Not unlike crack."

my mindset was altered forever.

See the video I watched that brought about the change:
(So short, but so dense with information.)

Rich Dad Poor Dad Reacurring Thought

So this thought keeps coming up in my mind about how my current education is pulling money out of my pocket and therefore not an asset by Robert Kiyosaki's definition. Actually, this education is costing me more than I can calculate. I understand the principle of creating assets which he presented. Multiply the things that are putting money in your pocket or cashflow, and reduce the things that are taking money out of your pocket.

This education right now is a huge liability. In fact, it might be considered too costly if 80% of it wasn't being covered by the VA. So my meditation for these last three months has been create assets or create possibilities for more income streams. I make online videos. I write articles, press releases...whatever, but my focus should be on bigger deals.

I recently ran across this guy's program called Million Dollar Licensing. I watched all his videos, and I am seeking to apply his stuff in between reading my textbooks and making discussion posts. You guessed it. I opted for the online format for my degree in TESOL because I thought that it would give me more time to pursue marketing...boy was I wrong.

This Million Dollar Licensing idea is somewhat like a technique that I learned as one of Robert Allen's Mastery students. It's called Transaction Engineering, and the class is taught by Lorenzo Spencer (The Undercover Millionaire). The technique is to set yourself up as a contractor for companies that interest you and to make sure that you get a finder's fee.

All of this is turning over in my head because I know it is a better way to do business instead of focusing on giving out informational reports and hoping that people join your business opportunity. Why is the second business plan so much more prevalent than the first? Anyways back to the original juxt: Create Assets.

How to Make Screen Captures

I just learned a cool trick that I've been dying to share. And it's so simple that it is almost embarrassing. I can see how I can use screen capture for school. I mean who really wants to go through the whole downloading process or copying of website code to reconstruct a message for students.

This process is ideal for constructing a PowerPoint presentation or a WordDoc handout.
1) Push the button after F12 labeled "PrtSc" (it is on my Toshiba anyway). I see it labeled differently on my Dell "Prnt Scrn". It's also above the function keys instead of after them. In any event push the "Print Screen" button.

2) In MSWord you can edit the screen capture by using the crop feature on the Picture Toolbar. (View->Toolbars->Picture) (You have to click the little black dots to move the edges in or out.)

3) Copy and paste your picture into Powerpoint for further editing or Paste into Paint or any other photo editing program on your computer to save as a image file (.gif, .jpeg etc.) for later use.

Journey of an Infopreneur

It's sort of funny. I think Robert Allen coined the term Infopreneur and I'm selling his stuff on the subject on Craigslist. So I decided that I will have 100 ads running at a given time, no less. 100 just sounds like a good number. I will be marketing this guy Mark Ewing's course on becoming a professional group travel organizer. It's something that I might go into in the future so I thought that it would be cool to market it for now.

School sucks so much outta ya. As I am blogging I'm sort of procrastinating on reading my chapters for this last week and writing my papers. I love school:)

The Power of Focus

I think I should have read that book that shares the
same title as this post. I'm just going to share some
insight from the training that I plugged into to get
my Infopreneuring business up and running. I
promised myself that I will have one product up
for sale by the end of this month.

RECAP 5/12/09

What is the most important resource you have?
Time
Money
Energy

I'd argue that focus is, with focus you create better
ideas of how to leverage other people's time money and
energy and how to use you own time and energy better.

Guard your focus with your life and you will do wonders.
Focus will determine the kind of result you get more than
anything else.

Learn how to say no and focus on what you start; there
will always be a new system, tool, or product coming out
that you will want. File the email or ad away and focus.

This is a link to get access to the training I plugged into:
Click to Get Access to How to Do Business on the Internet

Recounting my journey here

So I've started several books that I've never finished in my life. Perhaps the problem was that I did not have the resources to complete them. So, this blog will be about all the things that I have begun that I welcome input on. At one time I was afraid to share my thought, but now I just believe that if someone if helped in the process any amount of criticism I might receive for my words doesn't really matter.

There are three journey that I will write about here:
1) The journey of an Infopreneur
2) The journey of a graduate student
3) The journey of a patron

I have access, right now to all the information I need. But, hopefully as I write about each of these topics I will find those that know more about them.