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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>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sacks</dc:creator>
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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 Want More, Make Yourself More Valuable
The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Bernard MT Condensed&quot;; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="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="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-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 </span></span></p>
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		<title>Really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most important skills you can have if you really want to achieve your personal and business goals is to master- copywriting and persuasion . So today I wanted to share another great article from someone I have learned alot from personally- Master copywriter and marketer Daniel Levis.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>One of the most important skills you can have if you really want to achieve your personal and business goals is to master- copywriting and persuasion . So today I wanted to share another great article from someone I have learned alot from personally- Master copywriter and marketer Daniel Levis.</p>
<p>Pay close attention to this one because if your clients/friends/ family don&#8217;t believe what you are saying than there is NO WAY you can get what you want/need!</p>
<p><strong>6 Quick Tips to Make Your Copy More Believable </strong></p>
<p>Copyright © 2008 Daniel Levis</p>
<p>You’ve got targeted traffic coming to your site. You’ve made a big, passionate, and clear promise on your landing page. But you’re still not making the sales you’d like.</p>
<p>It could be because your offer sounds too good to be true.</p>
<p>Believability above a certain point makes sales; below that point it does not. Ad copy must make what lawyers call &#8220;a prima facie case&#8221; &#8212; that is, a case that warrants a trial in court. Only the court is the consumer, and the trial is buying and using the goods.</p>
<p>Here are 6 tips to help increase the believability of your copy &#8230;</p>
<p>Figures &#8211; Ivory Soap, as we all know is 99.44% pure. Would it seem as pure if it were advertised &#8220;almost absolutely pure&#8221;?</p>
<p>When a quotation is made from a book or from the media, not one in a thousand will verify it, yet it is worth your while to cite the exact volume, chapter, and page when quoting.</p>
<p>Figures are the height of exactness, and exactness is characteristic of truth. Vague generalities slip off the human psyche like water off a ducks back.</p>
<p>Proper Nouns &#8211; To say a great western city, instead of Denver is to create suspicion.</p>
<p>Mr. Rockefeller is conceded by all to have been one of the richest Americans, but if so described, and not named, readers unconsciously score one point against the credibility of the copy. Even further, John D. Rockefeller is better copy than Mr. Rockefeller. Proper nouns are almost as valuable as figures in advertising.</p>
<p>It is more believable to say &#8220;styles now reigning from Rue de la Paix, Paris, to Fifth Avenue New York&#8221; than &#8220;styles now reigning from the fashion centers of Europe, to those of America&#8221;.</p>
<p>Reiteration &#8211; &#8220;A Suit Of Clothes FREE!&#8221; &#8212; an incredible statement&#8230;over and over the ad stated a suit of clothes could be had without cost, fully a dozen times. You don&#8217;t believe it in the headline, or in the first or second paragraph, but it is human instinct to be impressed by repeated and emphatic repetitions of any statement, however extraordinary. The arrested man who says once, sullenly, &#8220;I am innocent!&#8221; and then stops, is probably guilty, but he who repeats the phrase incessantly and earnestly shakes the strongest conviction to the contrary.</p>
<p>A preposterous claim becomes believable, merely by making it a number of times, even without adding any further evidence or explanation.</p>
<p>Local Connection &#8211; We are more inclined to believe advertising that tells us how happy the locals are with a product, and want to buy that brand for no other good reason. Nobody knows quite why, but we trust proximity. If we hear our neighbors have bought something, it means more to us than it should.</p>
<p>Perhaps we harbor a deep-seated trait from our ancestors. Strangers and far off people are still presumed crafty, and hostile by the savage that sleeps in our sole.</p>
<p>Testimonials &#8211; Some things never go out of style, and the testimonial is one of those things. They shouldn’t be edited, and should include as many details of the giver as possible. A well-worded one from an obscure person is often worth more than one from someone famous. To be most effective, a testimonial should site specific results. It’s not enough that a customer say that they are happy with your service, or that they feel they got their money’s worth.</p>
<p>When asking for testimonials, dig for specific “before and after” measurements. You want statements like “We saved $450 on our heating bills last year after installing XYZ windows. That’s 35%!”</p>
<p>Credentials &#8211; Before launching into product claims, it’s critical you tell your reader why they should listen to you.</p>
<p>After grabbing the reader’s attention with your headline, and quickly making a big promise, this is generally the third thing you want to impress upon the reader.</p>
<p>Quickly, and powerfully demonstrate your credentials, experience, and track record. This can be achieved either directly in the running copy in your own voice, or in a sidebar using another voice.</p>
<p>Sometimes it even makes sense to add some kind of a credibility element in the pre-head (sub-headline in smaller font above the main headline) at the very beginning of the copy.</p>
<p>Daniel Levis is a top marketing consultant &amp; direct response copywriter based in Toronto Canada and publisher of the world famous copywriting anthology &#8220;Masters of Copywriting&#8221; featuring the marketing wisdom of 42 of the world&#8217;s greatest copywriters, including Clayton Makepeace, Joe Sugarman, Joe Vitale,Bob Bly, and dozens more! For a FREE excerpt visit the below link.<br />
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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 record numbers.
 
Some of the biggest and most well-known brokerages and insurance companies are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></p>
<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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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 178.15pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">P.S.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The ‘elephant’ in the room is the economy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Don’t let the ‘elephant’ squash you or your business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>And even if your business hasn’t been affected by the ‘elephant’ yet, wouldn’t it be wise to be proactive and be prepared BEFORE the situation changes?</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 is the word’s #1 marketing strategist and a best-selling author.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Dan has seen (and defeated) his share of ‘elephants’ over the past 30 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Dan’s marketing strategies have worked for himself and his clients in some of the most demanding sales environments (like infomercials, insurance industry, and even recessions) with outstanding results…imagine what they’ll do for you!</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;">Dan is giving away $613.91 of his BEST Money-Making &amp; Marketing Information for FREE…but only to a LIMTED NUMBER of people so I urge you to ACT QUICKLY before it’s too late.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></p>
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		<dc:creator>Brian Sacks</dc:creator>
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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
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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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		<title>Guest  Expert Article&#8211; On-Line Salesmanship</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does Your Online Copy Talk?
 
THE UNSPOKEN DIALOGUE
When it comes to online copywriting, it&#8217;s not the words you use that count. It&#8217;s the reaction to those words in the mind of the reader, as he reads them on the screen…
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><strong>Does Your Online Copy Talk?</strong></p>
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<p>THE UNSPOKEN DIALOGUE</p>
<p>When it comes to online copywriting, it&#8217;s not the words you use that count. It&#8217;s the reaction to those words in the mind of the reader, as he reads them on the screen…</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s your ability to anticipate and plan out those reactions that spells the difference between being able to get your web site visitors to opt-in or buy your product in sufficient numbers to make your business a success.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s like a dialogue between two people, divorced in time and space. You are feeding your reader images, ideas, and emotions across the continuum, in a carefully planned sequence&#8230; and he is feeding you back reactions.</p>
<p>You plan for certain reactions, and do your best to make them come about. You hope your reader will understand and agree with the assertions you put forward, and that he will share in the emotions you are suggesting he feel.</p>
<p>Included among these reactions are demands, questions, and anticipations, which must be answered, or your copy will fail&#8230;</p>
<p>When you&#8217;ve successfully aroused your prospect&#8217;s interest, his reaction may be to demand more information, more image, and more desire from your copy, as if to say&#8230; hmmm, tell me more? Where you have inflamed his desire, he will demand proof. And even when you demonstrate proof, he is likely to demand to know how those results are to be achieved, so he can judge for himself whether or not the product will work for HIM.</p>
<p>CREATIVE SCHIZOPHRENIA&#8230; So your challenge is to play a dual role. You must be copywriter and prospect at the same time. You must walk in his shoes, sense his reactions, feel what he feels at each point in the copy&#8230; so you can switch direction at the precise moment his demands arise, and answer them. This fracturing of your mind is one of the most difficult skills to master in copywriting. And naturally it demands a great deal of research into the product, and the market you&#8217;re working with. This sensitivity is one of the key distinctions between writing &#8220;good enough&#8221; copy&#8230; and writing grand slam home run copy that pulls in obscene returns.</p>
<p>Those anticipation points are crucial. If you miss them, you lose the interest of your reader.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s examine one of these demands in more detail. At some point in your copy, your prospect generally will ask this question. “How does your product do all these good things you say it does?” First you must anticipate where this question will arise, and then answer it.</p>
<p>&#8220;REASON WHY&#8221;</p>
<p>Notice this a very specific kind of proof. It&#8217;s not a testimonial or an authoritative endorsement. Your prospect is asking for an explanation of the &#8220;reason why&#8221; something works, which may or may not be included in the aforementioned. It is an explanation of the mechanism behind the magic.</p>
<p>I have seen ads that included every conceivable proof element under the sun fail, because they left this simple device out. They failed to demonstrate the &#8216;reason why&#8217; the product delivered the promised results.</p>
<p>Of course John E. Kennedy and Claude C. Hopkins are well known for popularizing the importance of this idea at the turn of the last century, and today many direct response ads make use of it to some degree. But how much &#8216;reason why&#8217; is enough, how much is too much, and where in the copy does it belong?</p>
<p>WHEN TO USE LOGIC AND REASONING IN YOUR COPY</p>
<p>The answer to these questions comes from your market. Are you writing to those who already understand the reasons why your product can do what you claim? Do they accept those reasons as valid? If so, there is not much point in wasting the reader’s attention with a lot of &#8216;reason why&#8217; copy. For example, if you are writing a car ad today, and the car you are writing about has ABS brakes, all you need do is name this mechanism. Millions of dollars of advertising, perhaps hundreds of millions that has gone before you, has distilled the logic and workings of this technology down to a three letter acronym that just about everyone with a license to drive understands. You simply name the feature, tie it to a benefit, and then move on.</p>
<p>But what about the vast array of products that present a new promise, but where the prospect does not yet understand the mechanism behind the claim? Here it is a simple matter of building a strong promise, backed up by a &#8216;reason why&#8217; the product delivers on the claim. In the early days of ABS for example, the pioneers made the promise of greater safety, and then backed up that claim with a reason why. Safe, because you could now steer while braking in slippery conditions, and so on.</p>
<p>Of course, the cardinal sin is to make your &#8216;reason why&#8217; copy dull and boring. It is not scientific discourse. It should sell the mechanism, just as hard as the opening sells the promise, and it must continue to captivate and engage the reader&#8217;s interest and build his desire.</p>
<p>In the later stages of product competition, where the market is sophisticated, and it seems that everyone has the same technology, the same promise, the same price, a new strategy is in order.</p>
<p>At this stage your &#8216;reason why&#8217; should take center stage. Move it up from the anonymity of the body copy, and put it in your headline. It is now just as vital as your promise, no longer just a proof element, but a new, fresh incentive for your prospect to read your ad.</p>
<p>Another place in your copy where this reaction commonly arises is where you offer a special price or discount. Your prospect is suspicious. Many advertisers ignore this fact, and are shocked to discover that a price reduction does nothing to increase sales.</p>
<p>What you must realize is that a price cut, like a promise or a claim or a benefit is only as good as the words you use to describe it, and the strategy you use to present it. Price cuts should be justified. There must be a reason for them. A &#8216;reason why&#8217; you are doing what you are doing. Without it, you are selling with only a fraction of the power.</p>
<p>Daniel Levis is a top marketing consultant &amp; direct response copywriter based in Toronto Canada and publisher of the world famous copywriting anthology &#8220;Masters of Copywriting&#8221; featuring the marketing wisdom of 42 of the world&#8217;s greatest copywriters, including Clayton Makepeace, Joe Sugarman, Joe Vitale,Bob Bly, and dozens more! For a FREE excerpt visit the below link.<br />
<a href="http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=850930">http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=850930</a></p>
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		<title>Profitable Online Campaigns &#8211; Guaranteed!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a new series where I will share articles from the top marketing experts in the world. Todays articles is from master copywriter and marketer Daniel Levis&#8230; He will show you the 3 Things YOU MUST DO to have a successful on-line presence&#8230;  Let me know your thoughts by posting below&#8230;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>This is a new series where I will share articles from the top marketing experts in the world. Todays articles is from master copywriter and marketer Daniel Levis&#8230; He will show you the 3 Things YOU MUST DO to have a successful on-line presence&#8230;  Let me know your thoughts by posting below&#8230;</p>
<p>Brian Sacks</p>
<p>here you go&#8230;</p>
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<p>When you boil it right down, there are really only three things that you need to do exceedingly well to market your business effectively online.</p>
<p>And they are,</p>
<p>Obtaining an Opportunity to Sell – Driving traffic to your website.</p>
<p>Closing the Sale – Making your sales presentation on your site.</p>
<p>Following Up on Your Maybes &#8211; Pick the ripe ones yes, but be sure to irrigate &amp; fertilize the soil, prune &amp; bug spray the trees with care, and nurture all of the fruit along. In other words, capture email addresses and follow up.</p>
<p>Mastering all three of these activities is critically important to your success.</p>
<p>But when you&#8217;re starting a new venture, which one do you master first?</p>
<p>In my experience, the overwhelming tendency is to start at the beginning. That is, spending maximum time &amp; effort attracting traffic.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, this all to common approach often results in failure.</p>
<p>Frequently, those that go this route never really get off the ground, because they can&#8217;t turn a profit. They invariably discover, after spending boatloads of cash, that some of the estimates they made in their business plan were off the mark.</p>
<p>Speaking of getting off the ground, allow me relate a story to illustrate my point …</p>
<p>I&#8217;m betting you all know the story of Orville &amp; Wilbur Wright. They went down in history as the first human beings to really fly. But how many people remember Dr. Samuel Pierpont Langley?</p>
<p>In 1896 the Wright Brothers, and Langley were engaged in a fierce competition.</p>
<p>Who would be first to conquer the skies?</p>
<p>Langley, a distinguished scholar and secretary of the Smithsonian institute was the clear favorite. He had already achieved impressive unmanned flight over the Potomac River with his steam powered Aerodrome No. 6.</p>
<p>Based on this success, Langley was able to raise $100,000 in funding, and set out to develop an extraordinary radial-cylinder internal combustion engine that would produce an astonishing 52 horsepower! In his estimation, capable of powering an aerodrome large enough for manned flight.</p>
<p>The Wright Brothers, by contrast were convinced that the secret to success lay in their ability to control the aircraft, once in flight. They therefore spent their time experimenting with gliders over the forgiving sands of Kitty Hawk.</p>
<p>For several seasons they worked on manipulating the wings, nose, and tail of the aircraft, so as to allow the operator to actively control it.</p>
<p>Wilbur, who most often piloted, suffered a multitude of minor cuts and bruises. But on each successive trial, much was learnt.</p>
<p>On October 7, 1903, it looked like the Wright&#8217;s had lost, as Langley made ready his first manned launch. Langley&#8217;s plane would go from a dead stop to the 60 m.p.h. flying speed in only 70 feet.</p>
<p>But the stress of the catapult launch proved greater than the flimsy wood-and-fabric airplane could stand, and the front wing was badly damaged on take off.</p>
<p>The nose heavy Aerodrome &#8220;A&#8221; then plunged into the Potomac.</p>
<p>A reporter who witnessed the event claimed it flew &#8220;like a handful of mortar&#8221;.</p>
<p>Things went even worse during the second launch of December 9, 1903, where the rear wing and tail completely collapsed during launch.</p>
<p>Langley had succeeded in burning through almost all of his $100,000 in capital.</p>
<p>Just 8 days after Langley&#8217;s spectacular failure, a sturdy, well designed craft, powered by a tiny 8 horse power engine, costing about $1,000, struggled into the air at Kitty Hawk, defining for all time the moment when humankind, mastered the skies.</p>
<p>Langley died in 1906 after a series of strokes, a broken and disappointed man.</p>
<p>“What on Earth Does Flying Wooden Airplanes Have to Do With Marketing My Online Business?”</p>
<p>The moral of the story is this.</p>
<p>Test, test, and retest your prime value proposition to be sure it converts customers, BEFORE committing yourself to major capital outlays, and the start of your campaign.</p>
<p>Will your site convert a high enough percentage of prospects into customers to make your campaign profitable?</p>
<p>Like the Wright brothers, who focused on control, versus brute force, you will dramatically improve your chances of success, if you make the development of a persuasive, &amp; compelling closing pitch, your number 1 priority.</p>
<p>TESTED, to bring home the bacon! Don&#8217;t even consider launching your production campaigns until this is done.</p>
<p>And then, BRING ON THE TRAFFIC!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s all about your ability to control, influence and motivate the minds of your prospects, once you&#8217;ve attracted them to your place of business. Just the way the Wright brothers were able to manipulate the wings, rudder, and nose of the aircraft.</p>
<p>Daniel Levis is a top marketing consultant &amp; direct response copywriter based in Toronto Canada and publisher of the world famous copywriting anthology &#8220;Masters of Copywriting&#8221; featuring the marketing wisdom of 42 of the world&#8217;s greatest copywriters, including Clayton Makepeace, Joe Sugarman, Joe Vitale,Bob Bly, and dozens more! For a FREE excerpt visit the below link.<br />
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<p>Copyright © 2008 Daniel Levis</p>
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