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		<title>Dan Kennedy &#8211; Lesson Of The Month- INNOVATE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 22:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[INNOVATE Just the other day, I was listening to a recording of a speech by Joe Sugarman* and Joe said, &#8220;One good path to success is to learn all the proven rules and meticulously follow them.  Another path is to occasionally break all the rules, because breakthroughs come only from breaking rules.&#8221;  Resonates with me; ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>INNOVATE</strong></p>
<p>Just the other day, I was listening to a recording of a speech by Joe Sugarman* and Joe said, &#8220;One good path to success is to learn all the proven rules and meticulously follow them.  Another path is to occasionally break all the rules, because breakthroughs come only from breaking rules.&#8221;  Resonates with me; as you know, I wrote a whole book based on breaking rules.</p>
<p>On one hand, I&#8217;m cautious about innovation; pioneers usually come home full of arrow; it&#8217;s often costly and time consuming&#8230;and I am always much more interested in &#8220;what works&#8221; than a new idea.  However, as Joe said, OCCASIONALLY, or I might say, &lt;u &gt;at carefully chosen time, you have no alternative but to be the pioneer in order to move forward and in order to stand out from the crowd.  It is, of course, the minority of times that you successfully innovate that you get noticed for, not the majority of times you successfully follow an already plowed path.</p>
<p>(*In case you don&#8217;t know, Joe Sugarman is a mail-order pioneer:  first to sell electronic calculators via direct-response ads, first to use 800#&#8217;s.  You may know him via his infomercials or QVC appearances for Blu-Blockers.  But his JS&amp;A ads and catalogs preceded The Sharper Image and led in selling various electronic gadgets.)</p>
<p>I think the best times to innovate are when you are absolutely convinced that the conventional wisdom; the already plowed path; the crowd is wrong.  Just as an example, when I was getting started in the speaking business, everybody seemed to operate under the policy of billing clients for fees and expenses after their engagements (anything else was viewed as impolite and unprofessional), and most speakers who sold product from the platform sort of begged the clients for permission, and often sacrificed that opportunity.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Very early on, I determined that being in the banking and collections business did not serve my purposes very well at all &#8211; nor did speaking only for wages.  So I insisted on a 50% fee deposit to take a date off the calendar, balance and travel expenses paid on<br />
site at the speech, and I refused dates where I could not also offer my materials.  At the time, peers criticized me; told companies would never accept such terms; and called &#8216;unethical&#8217; by agents and bureaus.  Today, my payment policies are the norm in the profession.</p>
<p>Another example:  at a time when every vendor in a particular niche was offering only very expensive services requiring long-term contracts, I copied their marketing method but used it to sell a substitute product at a very small price (and quickly took in a couple million dollars) &#8211; I was convinced they were idiotically leaving a lot of motived but unsatisfied customers behind by not offering a low price option.</p>
<p>An interesting survey of selected, successful, profitable large corporations turned up 74% that said they&#8217;d achieve their first big success with either a unique product or a distinctive way of doing business, although this breakthrough may not have come along until they had been in business for many years.  Note the word:  first.  I also know many companies that are able to subsequently build on that first breakthrough more conservatively, to grow and stabilize their businesses.</p>
<p>The bottom-line, I guess, is that you gotta gamble.  You try to gamble only when you must OR when circumstances look so favorable that it is irresistible, but you got gamble.</p>
<p>DAN S. KENNEDY is a serial, multi-millionaire entrepreneur; highly paid and sought after marketing and business strategist; advisor to countless first-generation, from-scratch multi-millionaire and 7-figure income entrepreneurs and professionals; and, in his personal practice, one of the very highest paid direct-response copywriters in America. As a speaker, he has delivered over 2,000 compensated presentations, appearing repeatedly on programs with the likes of Donald Trump, Gene Simmons (KISS), Debbi Fields (Mrs. Fields Cookies), and many other celebrity-entrepreneurs, for former U.S. Presidents and other world leaders, and other leading business speakers like Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy and Tom Hopkins, often addressing audiences of 1,000 to 10,000 and up.  His popular books have been favorably recognized by Forbes, Business Week, Inc. and Entrepreneur Magazine. His NO B.S. MARKETING LETTER, one of the business newsletters published for Members of Glazer-Kennedy Insider&#8217;s Circle, is the largest paid subscription newsletter in its genre in the world.  <a href="http://https://gkic.infusionsoft.com/go/newmifge/briansacks%20" target="_blank">https://gkic.infusionsoft.com/go/newmifge/briansacks</a></p>
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		<title>Dan Kennedy &#8211; Test and Grow Rich!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Renegade Millionaire Way by Dan S. Kennedy &#160; &#160; &#160; Test And Grow Rich &#160; “Testing” is an ugly topic.  Why?  Because testing variables in advertising direct mail, phone scripts and sales presentations requires discipline, diligence and patience.  To get it right, you can only test one variable at a time.  This means that ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Renegade Millionaire Way</span></p>
<p align="center">by Dan S. Kennedy</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h1 align="center">Test And Grow Rich</h1>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>“Testing” is an ugly topic.  Why?  Because testing variables in advertising direct mail, phone scripts and sales presentations requires discipline, diligence and patience.  To get it right, you can only test one variable at a time.  This means that if you change a headline, you can’t change anything else.  Plus you have to make sure all other variables remain the same, like the mailing day or a war breaking out that has everybody watching CNN day and night or the President getting caught again with his drawers down or a hurricane hitting.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Frankly, most business people will just not go through the “<em>detailitis</em>” required to test &#8211; which is why it’s a very good idea to model proven promotions.  And in some cases where you’re only going to use something once or twice or you’re dealing with a very small number, it’s just not worth testing; instead, you take your best shot.  But let’s assume you’re working on something you intend to use over and over and over again in some significant quantity, so that it’s worth real effort to fine-tune it&#8230;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I have some tips for you: first of all, there’s non-testing testing &#8211; huh?  Well, I describe that in my book ‘The Ultimate Sales Letter</p>
<p>’ (available at <strong>http://bit.ly/I9Tdha</strong>  ), where I talk about the steps to take with a finished sales letter before you actually mail it.  Second, there’s split testing, which is the fastest way to test and get to a reasonable conclusion.  Let’s assume you have a postcard and you want to leave everything the same but test four different headlines, and you have 4,000 similar addresses to mail to.  You do “nth name testing”; that means Headline #A goes to every 4th name, Headline #B to every 5th name, Headline #C to every 5th name, etc.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>So you evenly divide the list without bias among the headlines being tested.  Some media (like Val-Pak or MoneyMailer) will let you split test within a single buy.  Third, there’s testing against a control.  A “control” is a marketing strategy that already works well and you’re using it on a continuing basis &#8211; maybe it’s a series of letters you mail every month.  You have been using it long enough you know what it produces.  You have a “known” to measure against.  Now you can start trying to improve that control, ideally one step or variable at a time.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>If I’m trying to beat a control, here are the “hot” variables I’ll look at closely, to see if there’s room for improvement:</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>1.</strong>  The offer</p>
<p><strong>2.</strong>  The guarantee(s)</p>
<p><strong>3</strong>.  The urgency of response</p>
<p><strong>4.</strong>  The big idea or big promise</p>
<p><strong>5.</strong>  The overcoming of skepticism i.e. credibility and believability</p>
<p><strong>6.</strong>  The style or tone of the writing itself</p>
<p><strong>7.</strong>  The look of the piece</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>By the way, little, very testable things DO sometimes make very big differences.  Recently I showed an example in my newsletter of a guy who just added four rubber-stamped words to the outside of his envelope, and beat his control by 300%.  I once brought a TV infomercial back from the dead by <span style="text-decoration: underline;">raising</span> the price of the product.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Gary Halbert saved the Pearl Cream advertising by adding a particular bonus.  In 1984, after attending my seminar, a dentist in Sacramento changed five words on his Val-Pak coupon and went from getting two or three new patients a month to 15 to 20.  This is the sort of thing that makes direct-response advertising as frustrating as golf. (Did you happen to see John Daly miss a put seven times and scratch himself out of the tournament a few weeks back?  Ugh.)</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Obviously, you can’t test if you can’t, won’t or don’t collect accurate data.  You have to code every offer, and track where every ounce of business comes from.  If you have employees who are lax about this, you must educate them about the importance, discipline them if they goof it up, and ultimately can’em if they won’t do it right 100% of the time.  I confess that I fly by the seat of my pants in my business more than I should, but I can’t fire me, God knows there are days I should.  Anyway, I can assure you: the clients I have with the best profits and incomes possess the best information about where their business comes from.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let me switch gears and talk briefly about another aspect of “testing”.  This is actually how all highly successful entrepreneurs view everything they do&#8230;as testing.  They do NOT see things in the context of “success” or “failure” like ordinary people do, and as a result they do not become “de-motivated” like most people do.  See, most people drain all the vitality, courage, optimism and git-up-n-go out of themselves by focusing on all the things they do that don’t work out well, as a compilation of failures.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>But successful people understand the powerful impact of that negative reinforcement on their own self-image (somewhat akin to the impact of pouring a gallon of toxic waste into a pint of clear water, drinking the result, and wondering why the stomach backs up into the esophagus).  Instead, they carefully organize the things they do into a series or sequence of experiments, testing options, and focusing on the ones they find that work.  And they fully expect to go through any number of experiments that don’t pan out before walking away from the lab with a winner.  This not only has practical relevance, it has profound psychological ramifications.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Just like a little tweak in thinking can make a big difference in the results of say, an ad or a flyer, a little tweak in thinking can make a giant difference in the life results experienced by an individual.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><strong>DAN S. KENNEDY</strong> is a serial, multi-millionaire entrepreneur; highly paid and sought after marketing and business strategist; advisor to countless first-generation, from-scratch multi-millionaire and 7-figure income entrepreneurs and professionals; and, in his personal practice, one of the very highest paid direct-response copywriters in America. As a speaker, he has delivered over 2,000 compensated presentations, appearing repeatedly on programs with the likes of Donald Trump, Gene Simmons (KISS), Debbi Fields (Mrs. Fields Cookies), and many other celebrity-entrepreneurs, for former U.S. Presidents and other world leaders, and other leading business speakers like Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy and Tom Hopkins, often addressing audiences of 1,000 to 10,000 and up.  His popular books have been favorably recognized by Forbes, Business Week, Inc. and Entrepreneur Magazine. His NO B.S. MARKETING LETTER, one of the business newsletters published for Members of Glazer-Kennedy Insider’s Circle, is the largest paid subscription newsletter in its genre in the world.</p>
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		<title>THE ART OF MASTERY</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am about to tell you how to add $25,000.00, $50,000.00, maybe $100,00.00 a year to your yearly income &#8211; without spending even a penny more on advertising or marketing. One of my featured guest speakers at a past SuperConference was Michael Vance. Michael worked side-by-side with Walt Disney for a number of years.  As ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am about to tell you how to add $25,000.00, $50,000.00, maybe $100,00.00 a year to your yearly income &#8211; without spending even a penny more on advertising or marketing.</p>
<p>One of my featured guest speakers at a past SuperConference was Michael Vance. Michael worked side-by-side with Walt Disney for a number of years.  As I was listening to Mike, I made a mental note to start talking about a Walt Disney quote about marketing that I used to use a lot.</p>
<p>What Walt Disney said about Marketing is:</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Do what you do so well &#8211; and so uniquely &#8211; that people <span style="text-decoration: underline;">can&#8217;t resist</span> telling others about you.&#8221;<br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">In every field, there are &#8220;masters&#8221;</span></strong><strong>.</strong>  People just so darned good at what they do that people are compelled to tell others about them.</p>
<p>Mike Vance is that kind of speaker, and there are darned few in that category.  Actors like Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro.  The salesman I used to buy my cars from, Bill Glazner, at Sanderson Ford in Phoenix &#8211; he puts every other car guy I&#8217;ve ever seen to shame.  There are a couple chiropractors I know who put on such a great &#8220;report of findings&#8221; (their equivalent of the Printing Audit) that they enjoy 100% conversions and can easily sell large dollar &#8220;pre-pays.&#8221;  There&#8217;s a shoe-shine guy at the Atlanta Airport who still rubs wax in by hand, snaps the towel with authority, slaps the leather, makes the brush sing.  And this is important: these people are &#8220;master performers.&#8221;  They are not just masters at whatever technical thing they do, they are masters at presentation.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">So, here&#8217;s a very simple, very practical question:</span></strong>  after customer buys from you for the first time, do they &#8211; without any prodding from you &#8211; rush to the phone, call an associate, and tell them about the amazing buying experience they just had?  Are the first words out of their mouth to the next person they see about you?</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">If it is, here&#8217;s the economic impact:</span></strong>  your need to invest money in acquiring new customers will diminish over time as your business converts to being 100% referral driven.  This means you can take all the money you now spend on advertising, direct mail, telemarketing, etc. and put it into your pocket instead.  This means you will have more people calling and waiting in line for you than you have time, because each client will multiply.</p>
<p>&#8220;Mastery&#8221; can quite easily be worth an extra $50,000.00 to $200,000.00 or even more to you each year you remain in this business.  (Bank it all at even modest interest and in just five years you can retire a cash millionaire.)</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">To get that good, you must dedicate yourself to doing so:</span></strong>  I&#8217;ve always been impressed with the late Yul Brenner, who performed the &#8220;King and I&#8221; a record number of times on Broadway &#8211; and still rehearsed his lines, gestures and facial expressions everyday, before every performance, right up until his last one.  How many times have you written out your own, complete sales script word for word?  Recorded it and listened to it on tape?  Role-played it with family or mastermind group members?  Practiced in front of a mirror?  Ever?  This month?</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Get this:  I can predict your future bank balances</span></strong> if I know what you read, what you listen to, what educational functions you attend, who you hang out with and what you work on (practice) regularly.  Oh, and years ago, Joe Karbo wrote this wonderful ad headline:  are you too busy making a living to make a fortune? Are you?</p>
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<p align="center"><strong>DAN S. KENNEDY</strong> is a serial, multi-millionaire entrepreneur; highly paid and sought after marketing and business strategist; advisor to countless first-generation, from-scratch multi-millionaire and 7-figure income entrepreneurs and professionals; and, in his personal practice, one of the very highest paid direct-response copywriters in America. As a speaker, he has delivered over 2,000 compensated presentations, appearing repeatedly on programs with the likes of Donald Trump, Gene Simmons (KISS), Debbi Fields (Mrs. Fields Cookies), and many other celebrity-entrepreneurs, for former U.S. Presidents and other world leaders, and other leading business speakers like Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy and Tom Hopkins, often addressing audiences of 1,000 to 10,000 and up.  His popular books have been favorably recognized by Forbes, Business Week, Inc. and Entrepreneur Magazine. His NO B.S. MARKETING LETTER, one of the business newsletters published for Members of Glazer-Kennedy Insider&#8217;s Circle, is the largest paid subscription newsletter in its genre in the world</p>
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		<title>Why People Fail-By Dan Kennedy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another great article by my own mentor/guru Dan Kennedy. He&#8217;s one of those people like the old E.F.Hutton commercials&#8211; When Dan Speaks &#8212; You should Listen! Everytime I have listened to him and Bill Glazer I have made $$$. Why People Fail A series of No B.S.  Articles from Dan Kennedy   If You ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Stencil Std&quot;; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Stencil Std&quot;; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here&#8217;s another great article by my own mentor/guru Dan Kennedy. He&#8217;s one of those people like the old E.F.Hutton commercials&#8211;<br />
When Dan Speaks &#8212; You should Listen!</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Stencil Std&quot;; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Everytime I have listened to him and Bill Glazer I have made $$$.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Stencil Std&quot;; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Why People Fail</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family: &quot;Baskerville Semibold&quot;; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A series of No B.S.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Articles from Dan Kennedy</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: MarkerFeltThin; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If You Want <span style="text-decoration: underline;">More</span>, Make Yourself <span style="text-decoration: underline;">More</span> Valuable</span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The mayor of a small town once wrote to Benjamin Franklin asking for a donation so the town could buy a bell for its town square.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Franklin </span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">sent money with a note suggesting they forego the bell in favor of buying books for the town library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It is at the library we might find an answer to why so few succeed and why most fail – at anything, at everything. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Most people do not apply themselves to acquiring know-how nor apply the know-how they acquire. In short, they have the attention span of a gnat, the diligence of an idle, random breeze. They certainly don’t <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">study</em>. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have become quite rich and somewhat celebrated, reaching the pinnacle of success in not one but three different fields. At each required skill-set, I once sucked. For me, there has always been a crawl to competence, then a fast rise to superiority. Part of the process is getting through of a lot of information in a hurry but also continuously. For nearly 25 years,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I read a book a day plus newspapers, trade journals, newsletters, visited the public library weekly; took on a needed skill and so thoroughly and intensely studied it as to become a world class expert. When I was teaching myself to be an advertising copywriter, for example, I studied no less than an hour everyday, listened to recorded material on the subject constantly, sought out and got to know the top people in the field, and when one told me to take great direct-response ads and write them out longhand 21 times each, to teach my subconscious the rhythm<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>of such writing, I did that with 100 ads. I collected over 200 books on the subject and immersed myself in them. I built organized files of samples that fill a room. I traced one master back to his teachers, they to theirs, thus even knowing the genealogy of the field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>When I am asked by fledgling or journeymen copywriters how they, too, might have clients waiting in line to pay them $100,000.00 fees when there are thousands of copywriters advertising their availability for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>1/10<sup>th</sup> that or less, and I tell them this answer, they reject it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">They seek rewards out of kilter with their value and are unwilling to do what is necessary to build up their value.</strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The same answer could be given by the top earners in insurance, real estate, retail store ownership, dentistry – name the business or profession. The answer is the same.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">I am told by people all the time that they simply do not have time to read and listen to all the material they have purchased or subscribed to</span></strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">. But time is democratic and just. Everyone has the same amount. When I choose to read with my mid-morning coffee break and you choose to blather about trivia with friends; when I choose to study for an hour sitting on my backyard deck at day’s end but you choose to watch a TIVO’d American Idol episode, we reveal much. When someone says he does not have the time to apply himself to acquiring the know-how required to create sufficient value for his stated desires, he is a farmer surrounded by ripe fruit and vegetables, whole grains and a herd of cattle on his own property who dies of starvation, unable to organize his time and discipline himself to eat. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Incidentally, success in every business, including yours, depends on <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mastery</em> of a handful of critical competencies (one of which is always <span style="text-decoration: underline;">marketing</span>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The individual who sets out earnestly and diligently to acquire a wealth of know-how in each winds up with wealth in his bank account.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>All others watch with envy and cry in their soup, two activities they do seem <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to</em> find time for.</span></span></span></p>
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		<title>THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From:  Brian Sacks Subject:  The ‘Elephant’ in the Room…     What is the ‘elephant’ in the room?   The elephant is…the economy.   And more specifically, the dreaded ‘R’ word – recession.   What’s going on?   Foreclosures are at an all-time high.    Banks with large portfolios of sub-prime mortgages are failing in ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">From:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Brian Sacks</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Subject:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The ‘Elephant’ in the Room…</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">What is the ‘elephant’ in the room?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">The elephant is…the economy.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">And more specifically, the dreaded ‘R’ word – recession.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">What’s going on?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Foreclosures are at an all-time high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Banks with large portfolios of sub-prime mortgages are failing in record numbers.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Some of the biggest and most well-known brokerages and insurance companies are being either sold, taken over, or bailed out by the US government.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">People are losing their jobs and struggling to pay skyrocketing gas and grocery prices.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">With all of this confusion, Wall Street is reeling and investor confidence is shaken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>And if that’s not bad enough, many so called ‘experts’ on the economy say the ‘sky is falling’ and it’s only going to get worse.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Is the ‘elephant’ affecting YOU and your business?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Maybe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Maybe not.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">As a matter of fact there is a better way to fight the ‘elephant’ in the room and since you’re one of my online friends, I’m happy to let you in on a ‘secret’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">DAN KENNEDY, the world’s #1 marketing consultant and best-selling author, has squashed his share of ‘elephants’ in the room over the past 30 years. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">But if you think the economy isn’t affecting your business, you might want to consider that your customers and prospects are being bombarded with ‘doom &amp; gloom’ messages about how bad the economy is and the coming recession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">They’re hearing these messages day after day after day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>And they’re probably having frequent conversations about the ‘elephant’ with their friends, relatives, neighbors, and co-workers too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The ‘elephant’ is a constant topic of stories on television, on the radio, in newspapers &amp; magazines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Surrounded by all this negativity, your prospects and customers can’t help but be affected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It’s human nature to react with caution and cut back on spending…or at least be more careful about what they spend their money on.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">No matter how hard you try, unless you’re hiding under a rock, you can’t escape the ‘elephant’ in the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>So what do you do about it?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">You could bury your head in the sand like an ostrich, ignore it, and hope you’re still standing when the dust settles…but hoping is NEVER a good strategy for success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Wouldn’t it be a better idea to be more proactive?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Isn’t there a better way to deal with the ‘elephant’ in the room before it squashes you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">If you’re not familiar with Dan, let me give you the quick run-down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>As a marketing consultant, he has worked hands-on with clients in 136 different product, service, and business categories.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">In the information publishing field, he has literally guided hundreds of start-ups to multi-million dollar annual sales.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>And to be honest, studying Dan’s material has been largely responsible for my success.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">He routinely commands fees of $19,000.00 per day for private consulting, $45,000.00 to as much as $75,000.00 plus royalties to write an ad campaign, series of sales letters or other marketing materials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Over 80% of all clients who utilize his services once opting to do so repeatedly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>And he’s got people waiting in line begging to pay those fees because the value he delivers far exceeds the fees.</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Why People Fail A series of No B.S.  Articles from Dan Kennedy   If You Want More, Make Yourself More Valuable   Dan Kennedy, The “Millionaire Maker” The mayor of a small town once wrote to Benjamin Franklin asking for a donation so the town could buy a bell for its town square. Franklin sent ...]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The mayor of a small town once wrote to Benjamin Franklin asking for a donation so the town could buy a bell for its town square. Franklin sent money with a note suggesting they forego the bell in favor of buying books for the town library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It is at the library we might find an answer to why so few succeed and why most fail – at anything, at everything. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Most people do not apply themselves to acquiring know-how nor apply the know-how they acquire. In short, they have the attention span of a gnat, the diligence of an idle, random breeze. They certainly don’t <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">study</em>. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I have become quite rich and somewhat celebrated, reaching the pinnacle of success in not one but three different fields. At each required skill-set, I once sucked. For me, there has always been a crawl to competence, then a fast rise to superiority. Part of the process is getting through of a lot of information in a hurry but also continuously. For nearly 25 years,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I read a book a day plus newspapers, trade journals, newsletters, visited the public library weekly; took on a needed skill and so thoroughly and intensely studied it as to become a world class expert. When I was teaching myself to be an advertising copywriter, for example, I studied no less than an hour everyday, listened to recorded material on the subject constantly, sought out and got to know the top people in the field, and when one told me to take great direct-response ads and write them out longhand 21 times each, to teach my subconscious the rhythm<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>of such writing, I did that with 100 ads. I collected over 200 books on the subject and immersed myself in them. I built organized files of samples that fill a room. I traced one master back to his teachers, they to theirs, thus even knowing the genealogy of the field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>When I am asked by fledgling or journeymen copywriters how they, too, might have clients waiting in line to pay them $100,000.00 fees when there are thousands of copywriters advertising their availability for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>1/10<sup>th</sup> that or less, and I tell them this answer, they reject it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">They seek rewards out of kilter with their value and are unwilling to do what is necessary to build up their value.</strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The same answer could be given by the top earners in insurance, real estate, retail store ownership, dentistry – name the business or profession. The answer is the same.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">I am told by people all the time that they simply do not have time to read and listen to all the material they have purchased or subscribed to</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">. But time is democratic and just. Everyone has the same amount. When I choose to read with my mid-morning coffee break and you choose to blather about trivia with friends; when I choose to study for an hour sitting on my backyard deck at day’s end but you choose to watch a TIVO’d American Idol episode, we reveal much. When someone says he does not have the time to apply himself to acquiring the know-how required to create sufficient value for his stated desires, he is a farmer surrounded by ripe fruit and vegetables, whole grains and a herd of cattle on his own property who dies of starvation, unable to organize his time and discipline himself to eat. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Incidentally, success in every business, including yours, depends on <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mastery</em> of a handful of critical competencies (one of which is always <span style="text-decoration: underline;">marketing</span>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The individual who sets out earnestly and diligently to acquire a wealth of know-how in each winds up with wealth in his bank account.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>All others watch with envy and cry in their soup, two activities they do seem <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to</em> find time for.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">The WHY PEOPLE FAIL articles are provided by Dan S. Kennedy, serial entrepreneur, from-scratch multi-millionaire, speaker, consultant, coach, author of 13 books including the No B.S. series (</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><a href="http://www.nobsbooks.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: &quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.NoBSBooks.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Arial Narrow&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">), and editor of The No B.S. Marketing Letter. <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">WE HAVE ARRANGED A SPECIAL FREE GIFT FROM DAN FOR YOU</strong> including a 2-Month Free Membership in Glazer-Kennedy Insider’s Circle, newsletters, audio CD’s and more: for information and to register, visit: <a href="http://www.freegiftfrom.com/briansacks" target="_blank">www.freegiftfrom.com/briansacks</a></span></p>
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