Joshua Shafran, David LeDoux, Jack Zufelt and Mark Joyner.

Those are some of my online mentors that played a significant role in my early online success… some starting as far back as 1998 when I was a green as grass 22 year old kid getting started in online business. (And now they are some of my best, most trusted friends.)

Today, I'm a part of 6 mastermind groups. Vistage costs $9,600 a year, Ryan Deiss and Perry Belcher's Million Dollar Earners Mastermind costs $20,000 a year, Yanik Silver's Internet Maverick Business Adventures costs $7,500 a year, Strategic Coach costs $8,000 a year. Plus 2 other private groups. In addition to having my own business and life coach I meet with for 1 hour a week.

And the return on investment (and business connections) I receive from being a part of those groups is off the charts. (Plus some of my closest and most trusted friends come from groups like these.)

The truth is to become successful, you NEED help. I honestly don't know a single successful person who didn't receive help along the way. The idea of the "lone wolf", blazing their own trail, too proud to seek help and guidance from others is a myth.

And the best help comes from mentors and mastermind groups.

Here's a secret… I have a specific yet simple formula for quickly getting amazing results whenever I set out to learn something new.

It involves a 2-step process to both finding a mentor and forming a mastermind.

Recently I was interviewed by Sona Vanderhoot, founder of the Center for Collaborative Mentorship, for their newest training program.

And she was kind enough to allow me to share it with you.

Download the "The Proven Formula to Mentors & Mastermind" audio mp3

and

Download the 5-page written re-cap pdf of the training.

Here is some of what you will receive in this 60 minute training…

• How to avoid the crippling Internet (and Entrepreneurial) Isolation.
• The "5 People" Secret To Your Success.
• The 3 Key Factors to making a new mastermind group work over the long-term.
• The 2 Methods to finding mentors in your life. (every mentor I've had came from using one of these 2 methods)
• How to form a strong, long-term relationship with your mentors so everybody wins and they want to keep mentoring you. (plus what to avoid that always leads to failed
  mentorships)
• How to identify and work within your strengths and passions in business and life.
• The key to what TRULY motivates you over the long term.
• The 1 trick that allows you to avoid failure in your life.
• The 2 steps to become and stay motivated over the long AND short term. (most people do one, or the other, but rarely both steps)
• My best advice for people who have not yet become successful.
• My "Action Items" that allow you to immediately take action and implement what you learned on this call.

Your feedback…

Please take a minute to share your own success stories, experiences, and insights to finding and working with mentors and masterminds in your life.

Just post a comment below.

-Kevin

P.S. If you want our help if getting mentors and forming a successful mastermind, then here are 2 action steps you can take immediately.

First, attend our next Everyday Online Entrepreneur workshop. You will leave with an amazing mastermind group of 6 like minded people, who support each other for months and years after the workshop is over.

Second, check into our Nitro Coaching and Mastermind program. Most of the year its closed, but a few days every few months we are able to take on new members to be personally mentored… the first step is to sign up for the notification list.

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What goal or dream do you have that you keep carrying forward, year after year?

And each year it becomes even more intimidating and insurmountable!

I had one for 10 LONG years, a goal that was REALLY important to me, but I conjured up grand illusions of why it was not possible.

Can you relate !?

This January, as I set my 2009 year plan, I decided to do something different.

The result…

I achieved that goal with one 15 minute phone call!!

And it ended up even better than I imagined.

After that call, I was overwhelmed with an immense amount of gratitude, fulfillment, and a core shattering realization of "success with ease".

Here's the story… and a VERY powerful "lessons learned" you can use right now today for your own goals. I call it the 3-Step "Success With Ease"
Formula.

It was 1991… the last week of my freshman year in high school.

We were sitting in the tiny high Webster City High School auditorium as they announced the seniors who won college scholarships.

Then they came to the "big poppa" scholarship, the AJ Julian. It was for $4,000. A small fortune to a kid going to college.

As they announced the winner and he walked up on stage, my friend since the 1st grade sitting next to me, Tony Neuroth, elbowed me and said, "Kevin, in 4 years that will be you."

If you knew me back then, you would know how crazy that sounded! I was a quiet, incredibly shy, awkward kid. Not the type that won awards.

However in that moment that I call an "Everyday Influencer" moment, Tony gave me a belief of "what if it was possible???"

If you know my story (you can hear it at the beginning of our most recent "Go Full Time Online" webcast), my family did not have the money to pay for college. And I knew the only way I would make it to college was earn my way through scholarships like the AJ Julian and financial aid.

And throughout high school I worked hard to receive straight A's with my eye on making it to college.

However as my senior year progressed, it became apparent I would need to spend my first 2 years going to the local community college because we just couldn't afford the college I really wanted to attend, Buena Vista University.

Then magic happened.

At the awards ceremony, they not only called my name for the "big poppa" AJ Julian, but also a half dozen other scholarships. I ended up earning over $8,000 in scholarships in 2 short hours.

Those scholarships, along with my financial aid package from Buena Vista, made it possible for me to go straight to my #1 college my first year.

Which also meant I was able to take part in a brand new freshman honors program the college started and I was accepted into for high achieving students. That included having the Dean of School of Business as my personal advisor, as well as spending 1 month out of the semester traveling for school.

I spent my freshman year in Florida, including the opportunity to learn from executives at John Templeton Investments, not to mention spending a weekend of leisure at the Florida Keys were we all caught giant Barracudas (mine is now hanging above the bar in my house!)

Then a month traveling Europe, meeting the people behind the upcoming launch of the European Union (this was in 1997). And doing a January internship in California (a dream come true when it was 10 degrees below zero back on campus!) and an internship in Dallas, TX with the local Development Office for Subway (I even got to meet Jarrod!) which is how I ended up in Dallas.

That's when the 10 year goal started.

When I graduated in 1999, I knew 2 things.

1) I was going to do whatever it took to be a successful entrepreneur, both financially and also in the contribution I gave back in this world.

2) I wanted to give back to my high school, and future kids just like me, by starting up a scholarship fund. (And of course it was going to be bigger than any of the current scholarships!)

And that goal sat on my goal list and was always posted up on my vision board, year after year after year.

In my mind, I thought it would take a 6-figure endowment, a big fancy trust, an overwhelming amount of paperwork, a crushing amount of hassle, did I mention the thought of a quarter million dollar endowment, and quite possibly I would have to also walk over broken glass while being punched in the nose by Mike Tyson to make it happen.

Do we make the journey so difficult we never set off on the journey? … Or do we make the journey so difficult we are an even greater hero in reaching the destination?

The SHIFT

This January, as I was sitting at my vacation lakehouse, reviewing the past year and setting my goals and plans for the new year. I realized something that REALLY bothered me.

This goal, of setting up a scholarship fund at my high school, had been on my goal/dream list for 10 freakin years. It had slipped into the realm of a "wish" rather than a "goal".

And I shifted my mindset…

First I realized after 10 years I had NEVER even taken the first step to make it happen.

A goal without action really is just an empty wish.

Second, I realized I had taken this goal and devised in my mind an extremely complicated plan to achieve it rather than looking for the simple solution.

Simple = Boring But Doable, while…

Complicated = Fascinating But Impossible

I first wrote down the first step to make it happen… call the high school and talk to somebody to find out the process to set up a new scholarship. I could do that!

LESSON #1: If you have a goal, or a project you want to complete, but find yourself stuck or not moving forward. Write down next to the goal the first step for you to take.

I've been using that one technique the past 3 months with AMAZING results, especially when I find myself stuck.

Then, I asked myself what's the simplest way to achieve this goal.

The answer — I don't have to set up a quarter million dollar endowment. I can instead just write a check for that year's scholarship and accomplish the same goal. And I could write that check that same day, there was no reason for it not to happen.

LESSON #2: Start using the "Success With Ease" approach. For every goal or dream you have. There are 2 routes you can take. The long, hard, complicated, almost impossible route. And the short, simple, easy and virtually guaranteed route.

From now on, borrow this saying we use here at Nitro "simple instead of complicated". Find the simple route instead of creating the fascinating complicated route. (You can always make it more complicated later.)

Next, I set a deadline and wrote it on my 2009 personal goal list. "Call the high school and start the process to set up a scholarship."

Then, as my friend Yanik Silver taught me, to make a goal come true make a public commitment so others hold you accountable. (Otherwise known as public peer pressure!)

At my January Vistage meeting, as we were reviewing our business and personal goals, I told them I would talk with the high school and find out the process before the end of the first quarter of the year.

So, obviously, on March 30th, one day before the end of the first quarter, I HAD to get into action! I got online, looked up the phone number and made the call.

LESSON #3: Assign a date to complete that first step… and then make a public commitment to employ the POWERFUL form of accountability - peer pressure!

The Rest Of The Story

I made that call on Monday, March 30th.

And in 15 minutes Kathy and Joyce quickly and ruthlessly CRUSHED my dreams of a long, hard, complicated, virtually impossible route to achieve my goal.

Instead, here's all I need to do.

Write a check, mail it to the school in April, and one deserving high school student will receive help going to college this year.

And what about that virtually impossible endowment?

All I have to do is write a check and the school, along with a scholarship committee of local bankers, handles the rest.

That's Success With Ease!

When I hung up the phone, I was overwhelmed with emotion.

In the big picture, I've given back much greater amounts of money to people and causes over the years. From giving my car to a single mother who did not have one, to large sums of money to the charities and causes that are important to me.

However the check I wrote this week was the most fulfilling giving I've done to date.

First, immense gratitude for all I have achieved in my life and the ability to give back and help others.

Second, and even bigger, the fulfillment of achieving a goal that I've had for 10 LONG years… a goal, just a couple months ago, that I probably didn't even really
believe would ever come true.

Third, and this is probably what's causing me to get teared up as I type this, the realization - through experiencing it first hand - of creating Success With Ease. And what that will mean for me over the coming months and years as I create greater and greater success, with ease, in all areas of my life and for others.

Your "homework" for today!

Apply these lessons to YOUR life, right now, while you are still thinking about it.

And share them by posting a comment below.

1) What is one goal or dream, that's been staring at you for TOO long?
And what is the first and *easy* step you can take action and it moves you forward?

2) What's the easier/simpler solution instead of the complicated solution that's been holding you back?

Just asking that question may reveal the easy/simple solution. Or you may need to give yourself time to let it come to you. Or you may need to ask other's for advice.

Whatever you do, trust that there IS an easier solution… and most likely just taking that first step will help you realize what the simple solution is.

3) Set a timeframe to take action and complete that first step (or more) and make a public commitment to others who will hold you accountable.

Posting it publicly as a comment below is the first way you can do that. I also encourage you to tell people you know as well.

Bonus 4th Question!!

I want to pass some of the wisdom I've gained over the years to the winner of the Wilke Family Scholarship For Empowered Youths.

What advice do you wish you heard as a High School graduate?

I'll be sure to make a future blog post that shares the letter I write for this future world changer.

To YOUR Success With Ease!
-Kevin

P.S. Did you notice I used the "Success With Ease" process in this very blog post?

I told you, and the 10's of thousands of people who are reading this blog post, within 60 days I'll be starting the "Everyday Influencer" movement. (public commitment)

My first step… posting online the simple 3-step process of instantly being an Everyday Influencer and inviting you to experience that immense personal satisfaction and fulfillment it will bring you.

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Picture this. You’re an Olympic diver. You’re perched on top of the platform you’ve dreamed of for as long as you can remember. You hear the first few notes of your National Anthem and know you’re about to feel that smooth ribbon around your neck, the weight of the gold medal.

Quick: What got you there?

One of two things — a carrot or a stick.

But it goes a little further, and if you can see the value in knowing what motivates you and others, this is going to be really helpful.

How can this help you?

Two ways, really.

First, knowing what motivates you will help you see what’s most likely to move you forward, to help you accomplish what you desire. Instead of leaving your motivation unconscious, you can harness it to take you where you want to go.

Also, if you interact with anyone anywhere… professionally or personally, knowing what motivates them is invaluable, too. Chances are, you’re dealing with people every day who are not motivated in the same ways as you are. Without understanding their motivations, you’re going to be a lot less effective and a lot more frustrated than you need to be.

So, what motivates people?

You've probably heard about the carrot and the stick.

About half the world’s population is motivated by the carrot - a reward of some kind, something you’d do just about anything to move toward. The other half is motivated by the stick - a negative consequence that you'd do just about anything to avoid.

But it goes deeper than that.

There are three major areas (Power, Affiliation, Achievement) that motivate people, and with each, people are either striving toward something (carrot) or away from something (stick).

When you combine them you have 6 very distinct motivation types.

Let me explain.

Carrot + Power
Stick + Power
The first area is power. For someone motivated by a carrot and power, the goal is to beat everyone else, to rise above the crowd, to be Number One, the best.

The person motivated by a stick and power, they'll do just about anything to avoid the feeling of being defeated or powerless. It’s just unbearable for them to lose, and they can't stand the thought of looking up to anyone else who defeated them.

Carrot + Affiliation
Stick + Affiliation
The second area is affiliation. Someone who’s motivated by a carrot and affiliation gets pumped up by the idea of having recognition, of being loved and admired by an audience of fans full of admiration and applause.

In contrast, someone motivated by a stick and affiliation wants to avoid being a loser, thinking nobody will like them if they don't win. Avoiding being alone, isolated, and cut off is what drives them.

Carrot + Achievement
Stick + Achievement
The last area is achievement. The carrot here involves competing with yourself, and there’s nothing more satisfying to this person than setting a goal and achieving it. It’s not about winning or losing, but about reaching the goal. It’s more of an internal thing rather than competing against others.

The stick-driven person here wants to avoid failure at all costs. If they do fail, they will redouble their efforts, blaming only themselves. Next time, they'll start sooner, work harder, and do whatever it takes not to fail again.

The question to ask is, which category best fits you?

Knowing what motivates you can give you great clarity on your own life - both in what you’ve done in the past and what you want to accomplish in the future.

Based on how you’re motivated, what can you do to move yourself forward?

But this is also a great tool when you deal with other people.

Knowing what motivates them helps you to empower them to be the best they can be. You can tell a lot about their motivation type from what they say and do. It will be language and action that fits into one of the 6 categories.

The mistake you might make in not understanding these motivations is that you’re likely to try to motivate others the same way you’re motivated. Unless they come from the same angle you do, it’s probably going to misfire and frustrate both of you and make them UNmotivated!

One more important thing about this - there’s no right or wrong to human motivation; it’s more a matter of how we’re wired. Understanding motivation is just a matter of being able to better understand people and what makes them tick.

Turning this toward your online business, what’s going to move you forward? Think keeping these motivations in mind as you write your sales letter might help you connect more with your prospects? Use both the carrot and stick, power, affiliate and achievement in your writing.

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This is a hard lesson I had to learn. And also a common mistake I see other people making. And it causes an immense amount of frustration and failure.

Most likely its a mistake you are making right now too.

The good news… its easy to fix!

Our entire life we have been taught to set and achieve goals. From getting good grades, to winning the football game and league championship.

And as we enter the world of work and business. We are taught great strategies to set goals in our life.

This is not about goal setting. If you want to learn more about setting goals, then check out Nitro Blueprint System students Dale and Jeanne Stuemke at www.launchyourgoals.com

Here's the problem.

Goals are about Outcomes. What do we want to achieve.

In your business it might be…

get more traffic

increase your optin rate to 35%

make $10,000 a month

They are the destinations you want to end up at.

However… listen closely, here's the real secret… you have NO control over achieving your goals or not.

Instead, you ONLY have control over the inputs, the actions you take that can lead to reaching your goals. The reason is, to achieve those goals (those outputs) require other people you have no control over to do something.

Let's look at the 3 examples above to make this tangible.

get more traffic

To get more traffic to your website requires other people to come to your site.

However, if you instead look at the inputs - the things you can actually do - that would most likely result in the outcome you are looking for. Well, then you can make it happen.

So you could start up a pay-per-click campaign following the upcoming October issue of Trafficology that is all about PPC traffic.

Or find a new affiliate partner. Or write and submit an article to some article directories.

You have control over all of those actions.

And you can also monitor the results that comes from those actions to see which one most effectively leads to your goal.

increase your optin rate to 35%

Again, to increase your optin rate requires more of the people who come to your website to fill out your subscription form with their name and email address and pressing the submit button.

You can MAKE people do that. Instead you can only do your best to enable that result to happen.

You can test different headlines, or test new submit buttons, or test offering something you think would be more appealing for subscribing, or adding testimonials, or a picture.

ALL of those things YOU have control over. Those are inputs, actions, you take that could very likely lead to the outcome, your result or end goal, you are trying to achieve.

make $10,000 a month

Finally, this requires other people to first visit your site, read your page, click on the order link, enter their name, contact info and credit card details and press the button to pay you money.

If you step back and ask yourself…
"What actions can I take that will get me closer to the end result I want to achieve?"

You end up with a list of:

increase my traffic

increase my optin rate
(we talked about those - they are actually results you don't have control over but do have actions you can take to move you towards those results)

test different headlines for my sales letter

increase the value of my offer

add testimonials (careful with that one, if you don't have testimonials than that means you have a new output you need to accomplish of getting testimonials)

improve your email follow-up messages

What Is The Big Lesson Learned?

Its great to dream, set goals and look towards the future. In fact, if you want to be successful you need to do those things.

However that gives you a list of the Outputs you want to accomplish… all of which you have no control over.

So, if you don't follow that up with this next step, then you will constantly be feeling frustrated and not seeing the results you want.

The next step is to then take those end results and identify the actions you can and should take that will lead you towards achieving those goals.

These are the things YOU have CONTROL over and are not dependent on somebody else doing something (like visiting your site, opting into your list or buying your product.)

In our Nitro Blueprint System training we call it "breaking up the major into the minor."

If this message resonated with you, then most likely you've been making this mistake too. (Don't worry, I still find myself doing it too.)

You will also find our Nitro Blueprint System incredibly helpful in overcoming this roadblock.

It gives you our 10-step system to starting and growing an online business. Even more, it gives you the specific ACTIONS (all those things YOU have control over) to accomplish each of those steps.

Check out Nitro Blueprint System's step-by-step internet business success system today here.

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http://www.nitroquattro.com

To make things a little more interesting we've also added the following last minute bonuses…

BONUS #1: Free access to S.C.O.R.E.

This amazing traffic generation system has previously only been available as part of the STOMPERnet program at $800/month (which is totally worth it by the way). Now, STOMPERnet is currently closed so you can't even get it there.

But everyone who gets Quattro Sales System on Tuesday, August 19th will get this system for free.

FAST ACTION Bonus #2: "Our Most Successful Upsell Revealed"

We reveal to you our #1 best performing upsell video, its word-for-word script AND the top-secret
fill-in-the-blank template that goes along with it.

- This champion has produced results as high as $800 per customer!
- This was NOT part of the $3000 Quattro workshop.
- This is a FAST MOVER'S BONUS, get Quattro
on Aug 19th before this bonus goes away.

FAST ACTION Bonus #3: 4 Weeks of Quattro Coaching Calls

Each week you will be able to submit your questions and we will get together on the phone with the entire Quattro Family to answer them.

I'm not 100% sure how many people we are going to do the coaching for, but no matter what,
the first coaching call is next week, so of course, you need to register now to get in on that.

Go now and grab the fast-action bonuses before they're all gone.

http://www.nitroquattro.com

Quattro and conquer,

Kevin

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Today was my first day to learn how to wakeboard.

I can barely close my hands, my forearms feel like jello, I could barely open the zipper on my laptop bag… and I'm loving every minute of it.

Not to mention today is Cinco de Mayo, which is almost an official holiday here in Dallas, and means I'm having a tasty margarita tonight!

While I was driving home from my first lesson, I realized the experience I am going through is much like the experience you go through with your online business… especially if you are still in the beginning phases.

First, when learning anything new in life, from playing the guitar to getting in shape, I always find a coach to shortcut the process and help me get results faster and easier than trying to figure it out on my own.

If you do not have your own Internet Business Coach yet, then all I can ask is why not? Are you not serious about your success or are you just playing around?

Second, before we even got in the water, he started by teaching me some fundamentals. First how to properly drive the boat. Then how to get up on the wakeboard by showing me first then having me practice. Next the basics to do once I am up.

Now, I'm sure some people would want to "screw these fundamentals" and want to jump right in the water and have fun.

They are the same people who wouldn't see instant success, blame everybody but themselves and never see them again.

Now it came time to get in the water and I was nervous.

Was I going to be able to get up, would I look like an idiot, would I be his worst client ever, and 100 other unsupporting thoughts were going through my end, including how cold is that water!!

I won't pretend, thoughts of "quitting" and just going home also crept in.

I put on the board and got in (water not so bad, yeah!!)

We get ready to go and my mind is trying to remember every detail, why am I trying to make this harder than it really is?

Off we go and I wasn't ready for what happened, as the board pushed through the water and I got up a little, the handle ripped out of my hands.

Hmmm, I'm going to have to hold into that sucker tight.

IMPORTANT LESSON NEXT:

What did Matt my coach do now?

Did he point out the 10 different things I did wrong, did he call me a little sissy for not holding on tighter?

Nope, he kept saying how great I was doing and how close I was to getting up.

I was impressed.

When starting anything new, you are going to screw up and fail, a lot. Just remember back to how many times a baby falls down before it is able to walk.

Is it your fault you are not an instant success at it?

Nope, it takes time to learn a new skill and "engrain" that into your brain so it becomes a natural skill to repeat.

Yes, at this point in time some coaching is definitely helpful. But MUCH more important is the positive encouragement so you keep moving forward.

The next attempt I got up for a few seconds and then went off to the right out of the wake and did a summersault.

More enthusiastic praise and encouragement from Matt and then a little more coaching on what I did right and what to do differently next time.

I was feeling pretty good.

Then we went 3 or 4 times in a row with me not getting up.

If it wasn't for Matt's continuous encouragement I would have become very discouraged.

Instead I keep focused on "testing" small changes each time and visualizing myself successfully getting up.

Then it all clicked and I popped right up and was off and running.

Now was time to use what he told me before we got into the water, how to position the board, my body and my hands and the rope.

Wow, it was so exciting to see it all come together, even though I'm sure I looked like I had a margarita or 3 before hand with all the wobbling around I was doing out there as I had my first experience standing on a little board, with my body twisted around, gliding on water behind a boat going 20 miles an hour.

After what seemed like an eternity (was probably all of 15 seconds) my legs were on fire, my arms were jello and I lost my balance and let go of the rope before I did a very painful face plant into the water.

Wow, the praise and excitement from Matt was at a peak. You would have thought I was his first client to ever get out of the water!

And like each time before, after the praise we did a recap of what happened, what worked and what I could learn from it.

We tried to go another time after that but by then my hands and forearms had enough.

While driving back in we talked more about what I did and learned. I shared with him some of the things I was trying and doing and he would say, yep, that's good or nope, that was what was causing you problems but I couldn't see happening.

When we sat at the dock and our lesson was over I felt like a success, even though I just got up 1 and 1/2 times.

And as I probed him to get a feel for how my results were compared to others he did a great job - he gave me both extremes so I knew I was not horrible (some people take 2 entire lessons or more before they can get up) but also the people who did great usually had past experience like skateboarding or snow skiing.

WHAT IF I DIDN'T HAVE A COACH?

I would be out there with a buddy of mine, who also had no clue how to wakeboard and extreme chaos would happen.

We would be driving the boat wrong and making everybody else mad, we would be giving each other bad advice on what to be doing, the guy in the boat would get frustrated with the guy in the water who "can't even get up out of the water" even though he has never done it himself either, I would be in the water beating myself up mentally and stuck in a negative feedback loop.

When that "blind leading the blind" opposite experience would be all said and done I may have ended up giving up on this whole "wakeboarding" experience and go back to the "same old same old" and find another dream to go after another day.

Unfortunately 9 times out of 10, the latter experience is what most online entrepreneurs experience. Of course they end up with little or no results and in most cases failure.

Just like me learning to wakeboard, you becoming a success online can be faster, bigger, more fun and more rewarding if you have your own coach.

If you want to see how you can have your online business coach, just like I have mine, then go to this site today.

http://www.internetbusinesscoach.com

~Kevin

P.S. I signed up with Matt's 10 session package because I know by the time we are finished I will be a successful wakeboarder, having a blast out on the water, and able to share what I learned with my friends who want to learn too.

For example, this first lesson (getting up) is like picking your market and setting up your blog for the first time. Doesn't seem like a big deal but most people never even get that far, they spend their entire lives watching wakeboarding videos on YouTube, talking about how they are going to learn and everything else (except for actually DOING something.)

Then lesson 2 I will learn how to "cut an edge" and move around while I am up and jump out of the wake. That is like creating your product that your market wants to buy that you will sell them.

Then, eventually, after you finish with your last coaching session you will be the online marketer who is making sales every day and have mastered ways to get traffic, build your list, generate "revenue on demand", have a lucrative backend profits and more. You are in all aspects an online success.

The first step is to recognize that having a coach is the smart thing to do and take the first step in getting one by going here.

http://www.internetbusinesscoach.com

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It was very cool!

I go to the Borders bookstore down the street from my house several times a week to work in their cafe. (It's where I go when I really want to get a lot of high level work completed.)

When I was walking out I saw sitting on the front table, with all of the current best selling business books, a brand new book called Inspired Marketing.

Now, the title itself is engaging enough and would have got my attention to look at it.

But I also personally know the 2 authors of the book.

First is Joe Vitale of Hypnotic Marketing.

We have worked with Joe for the past 5 years and am a huge fan of everything he does.

The second author was Craig Perrine who first started out as one of our Product Managers 4 years ago. He then went off on his own and started MaverickMarketer.com

And even cooler, the inspiration for Inspired Marketing came from one of the monthly Hypnotic Gold issues where Joe and Craig first talked about the topic of Inspired Marketing and what inspired it.

I still remember that interview and the story that started it all, and you can read the story in the book.

Inspired Marketing is based on using inspiration in your marketing, that connects with your prospects on a deep level, instead of a bunch of hype.

This book is a real breath of fresh air because it is filled with true stories of real men and women, each from different backgrounds.

What I like is that whether you are just starting out or have a business already, you will find a story in this book that you can relate to.

Because the book is officially launching today, you want to go to their site and see all the genuinely cool extras you get from Joe and Craig's website.

Go check it out for yourself at:

http://www.inspiredmarketing.com/invitation

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I'm not a big TV Watcher, other than a handful of shows I TIVO, from Lost to the Wire, and catching the Mavericks struggle through the NBA season.

However something caught my attention so I had the good old TIVO record it for me and I just started watching the past episodes.

It's Oprah's new reality TV show "The Big Give".

Now this is what they need more of on TV!

Instead of showcasing big headed, back stabbing, ego maniac, celebrity wannabes eating goat's innards.

This show showcases the power of giving.

Each week the contestants are given a challenge to make the biggest impact helping others. This week it involved inner city elementary schools in Houston, TX.

The week before they were given $5000 each and 48 hours to make the biggest impact to a complete stranger. One group ended up raising over $150,000 for the oldest orphanage in Colorado.

If you want an inspiring, uplifting, positive and entertaining hour, then check it out on Sunday nights.

~Kevin

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I dare you…I double dare you…no wait, I triple dog dare you! In grade
school that is the equivalent of throwing down a gauntlet, and no self
respecting third grader is going to walk away with out at least trying to
do the dare.

Can you imagine today; getting a laundry basket, tossing the clothes on
the floor, climbing in and zipping down the stairs? Probably not, because
you are envisioning a pile of dirty laundry, crushed laundry basket, hole
in the wall at the bottom of the stairs…oh yeah, and probably a broken arm
or hip.

Now go back to your 8 year old self…feeling the danger, the thrill of the
ride and knowing that it will be worth Mom’s wrath just to have that bit
of fun. Read more

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We've had a bunch of people tell us that they somehow didn't get our emails about this, so I wanted to make a post to give you a heads up to make sure you didn't miss this…

The first round of our exclusive one-on-one Nitro Internet Business Blueprint personal coaching program will be closing in 2 days (on Friday, August 31st).

If you've already filled out an application form, I congratulate you. You've made a very smart decision that you won't regret.

If you haven't filled out your application form yet, there is still time. But please do so immediately as the first class begins on September 6th and we stop accepting applications in just 2 days. Don't put this off. This is going to literally be life changing for the 16 people that are accepted.

You owe it to yourself to at least try and see if you're eligible for acceptance.

http://www.InternetBusinessCoach.com

If you have already submitted your application, please be patient as we go through them all.  We're literally buried up to our necks in applications - we've received hundreds (yes, hundreds!) of applications over the past 9 days.

Apply now at  http://www.InternetBusinessCoach.com

- Matt

PS. Here's the story in case you missed it…

After 6 years, for the first time ever, we are revealing our Nitro "Secret Sauce" Blueprint and personally coaching 16 people to create a 6-7 figure Internet Business. The class starts on September 6th, so you  MUST apply by August 31st to be considered. BUT, 739 of our best customers have already pre-applied.  And 2 spots were  secured by customers in our local mastermind.

Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to finally launch a profitable Internet business now that you can get your hands on our "Secret Sauce" Blueprint, PLUS personal 1-on-1 coaching that walks you through everything hands-on, step by step.

Claim your spot here:  http://www.InternetBusinessCoach.com

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