Best of all, we’ve done it all without ever having to take any funds or loans. Which means I currently still own 100 percent of my business.

It did not happen fast. Mindvalley took nine years to build. Some years were fun. Some years were brutal.

I started with $2,000, lost money in the first two months, became profitable in the third month and just kept reinvesting profits into the company.

The upside is a company that is built around my passions – meditation, personal growth, play, culture, travel and epic interior design (our offices are magical). And having total ownership means I’m not pressured by partners, boards or investors to deliver something that I’m not passionate about.

But the climb was hard and long. And I almost lost it all on multiple occasions. I’ve made dumb mistakes. I’ve had dizzying successes. I’ve been depressed and I’ve been high.

Most of all — I’ve learned and grown. And I want to share some advice.

If I could advise younger entrepreneurs who are starting out so they avoid the dumb mistakes I made, here’s what I would say:

1. Your college degree is meaningless (and sometimes a liability).

I (barely) graduated from the University of Michigan School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. My GPA was just over 2.5. I just could not focus on my engineering classes completely.

So what did I focus on in university? Volunteer work, traveling and working abroad, pouring through books on business and entrepreneurship, learning photography, and working with theater troupes. I never got good at ONE thing. But having exposure to many different things helped give me an edge as an entrepreneur.

I think I was lucky to be a mediocre engineer. If I was successful I might be trapped in a 9-to-5 job as an engineer. The best employees are specialists. The best entrepreneurs tend to be generalists.

Don’t waste your time pursuing a perfect GPA. Instead, embrace the idea of a generalist education. I majored in Computer Engineering and minored in Performing Arts. My best subject was digital photography. And I spent more time volunteering for the local chapter of AIESEC (a foreign work exchange program) than actually studying.

All, in retrospect, were smart decisions: Having basic knowledge of programming (my programming grades were usually a C) still allowed me to build Mindvalley’s early websites myself. Minoring in drama helped me learn stage presence and become a good speaker. Photography gave me an eye for aesthetics and design. And volunteering allowed me to see the world and meet other cultures.

Steve Jobs said you can’t connect the dots looking forward, only backwards. Today it appears that everything I chose to study played a key role in my life and business success.

Your college degree is meaningless. Your college EXPERIENCE is what matters. Don’t waste it pursuing a high GPA at the expense of soaking up everything college life has to offer.

2. Don’t quit your day job too soon.

In the early days, quitting your day job is one of the dumbest mistakes I’ve seen entrepreneurs make. You’re going to need cash flow to survive, to travel, and to buy services like hosting and email solutions. And you won’t know how long it will take to get funding or generate cash flow. Unless you’ve got cash to live off, sooner or later those funds will run out.

But the real problem happens when you start worrying about money. Your flow breaks. You start second guessing your ideas. You stay up in bed at night worried about paying the bills.

Don’t quit your day job. It provides security and cash flow till you can break even or get funding. Of course, make sure you have a day job that doesn’t require you to work ludicrous hours.

If you have a job that you enjoy, it’s even dumber to quit cold. The loneliness of striking it out on your own and the boredom of working at home for eight hours a day will get to you. Juggle both till you have cash flow coming in that allows you to survive.

I started my business on December 22nd, 2002 while still holding a day job. I would work eight-hour days and then come home and put in another two hours on what would eventually become Mindvalley. I only quit my day job in November 2003 when I found myself generating $4,000 a month, which was enough to cover my day-to-day expenses.

This is important: My first goal was never to make a million dollars. It was simply to generate $4,000 a month, which was the minimum monthly income I needed to survive in New York. I set a minimalistic goal that was within grasp. This took away the pressure. Once I hit this goal, I quit my day job and set a new goal — to build a million-dollar-a-year business.

The early stage between conceiving your idea and generating positive cash flow that’s enough to live on is the most crucial stage. Screw this up and you’re dead before you begin.

People think entrepreneurs are risk takers. That’s not completely true. Dumb entrepreneurs take the most risk. Good ones look for safe, sure bets, plan ahead and manage cashflow well.

3. Business plans are mostly unnecessary.

My first two companies failed. Both were planned out in detail on business plans. They were tech startups I tried to get funding for in the Valley back when I lived in Mountain View in 2001.

Yet Mindvalley (at first) had no plan and no vision beyond two years out. It was a simple idea scratched out on a napkin. It was about diving into the pit and selling. I never raised money, never got too complicated. I just hustled.

The goal was not millions, nor was it build and flip. It was about figuring out a way to hack together a business that would make me the $4,000 a month I needed to survive so I could quit my day job, marry my girlfriend and then dream up bigger ideas while not having to hold down a 9-to-5. I now cringe every time someone asks me to explain my business plan.

Instead, every year on January 1st, I borrow my son’s color pencils and draw a 5-year diagram of where I want to take the company. I then share this vision with my team and we start hacking our way to it.

Start with a vision. Preferably, in the words of Joe Vitale: “One that SCARES you a little and EXCITES you a lot.”

Then, develop a model to make that vision a reality. Work tirelessly towards building a beta — but be prepared to test, pivot and move rapidly as you learn. In the words of Steve Blank: “No business plan survives first contact with customers.”

4. Control your equity.

I goofed early: I was too generous with equity and ended up giving up half my company. I was unconfident and felt I needed a business partner to make things work. I was so dumb I gave up equity without asking for investment. If I had been smarter, I would have saved on equity and instead created a performance-based bonus scheme.

I also did not put in a vesting period nor create a shareholders agreement — mistakes that cost me close to $5 million dollars.

As I mentioned earlier, owning the majority of my company is important to me. Having total ownership means I’m not pressured by partners, boards or investors to deliver something that I’m not passionate about.

Take Awesomeness Fest, for example. It makes absolutely no business sense. It’s a huge distraction from making money. And while it’s profitable, we give away all our proceeds to charity and made it community-driven. No board would have approved it.

Money matters. But so does freedom and ownership and having a little fun while running your business.

Here’s what you need to know about ownership:

• Never go 50/50. Always make a list of what each partner is bringing to the table and split accordingly. 50/50 partnerships are done by amateurs.
• Don’t just give away a part of your business to a friend just to have a company. Always ask for investment. Make them buy their stake and put their money on the line.
• Use a vesting period: This means that your partner commits to X number of years and only earns the equity upon completing those years. We go for a 5-year vesting period.
• Have a shareholders agreement that stipulates exactly how much to buy back each share when the time comes to part ways (in more cases than not, this will happen). Typically 6x the last 12 month’s profit is fair.

5. Forge networks and learn to connect.

I join a lot of networking groups. Much of my inspiration comes from the people I’ve met in these groups. I’m amazed at how many entrepreneurs suggest that conferences or networking groups are useless. The trick is to get into the right ones.

I didn’t join my first group until 2008, five years after I started out. My business exploded as a result. It wasn’t just the contacts. It was seeing people already doing the things you dreamed of doing. It made your dreams seem so much easier easy and more possible. I call this the Bannister Effect. Before Roger Bannister ran the four-minute mile, few people thought it was possible. But after he finished, in that same year in the 1930s, dozens of people completed four-minute miles.

Whether this story is true or not is irrelevant — the point is that you can accelerate your business by meeting others who inspire you because they’ve already done the things you dream of.

Here are the groups I’ve joined that have given me amazing value:

1. Yanik Silver’s Mavericks: A group of guys that come together a few times a year to do crazy, dangerous things like Halo Skydiving or flying MIGs in Russia. If you have money and a death wish, this is the group for you. More on www.Maverick1000.com.
2. Joe Polish’s 25K: As the name suggests, I spend the equivalent of an annual college education to be part of this group of entrepreneurs that meets 4-5 times a year for a private mastermind, but Joe is an amazing connector. Through this group I’ve met men like Richard Branson, Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil. More on www.geniusnetworkmastermind.com.
3. Awesomeness Fest: I started this event to bring together 200 people every year on a paradise location for fun and bonding. No other event I know is as much fun or creates bonds as close as this one. More on www.AwesomenessFest.com.
4. Mindvalley Insights Mastermind: This is an experimental group I started. A couple of hundred online business owners connect online and share their website optimization tests, learnings, case studies and more. If you own an online business, the knowledge here is worth millions. Email insights@mindvalley.com for details on how to join. You must have an existing business.

6. No other skill is as important as sales and marketing.

We all have different skills. But there’s one skill I feel is most crucial to entrepreneurial success, and it’s the ability to sell. I scoffed at the idea of marketing and sales. As a Computer Engineer, my vision of the world was “build epic stuff and the crowds will beat a path to your door.”

Rubbish. Tesla was an amazing engineer. He ended up broke and depressed as the Engineer-Salesman Edison took his ideas and made them count.

I failed at my first two businesses too — because I was terrible at sales, so I decided I needed a job. But my timing was off — it was April 2001. The bubble burst in Silicon Valley: 14,000 people lost their jobs. I was attending pink-slip parties, being sure to buy just one glass of wine (to save cash) and sip it really slowly to make sure it lasted the night.

No one was hiring so I blasted my resume to every company that was posting a Bay Area job ad on Craigslist. I finally got a job at a startup selling technology to law firms. The catch? It was pure sales. If I could not close, I would not get paid. In short, close or starve.

Ever see the movie “Boiler Room?” There were days that reminded me of that movie. It was awful work that made it hard to get out of bed in the morning. But boy, did I learn to sell and market. That made ALL the difference.

Exactly one year later on December 22nd, 2002 I started Mindvalley. I was profitable by the third month.

My new edge? Selling.

7. Don’t build crap for the sake of making a buck.

I believe companies like Coke, McDonalds, etc. were started by entrepreneurs with good intentions but now exist for stockholder value. But are they actually pushing humanity forward?

In that famous Apple ad, “Here’s to the Crazy Ones,” Steve Jobs actually contributed just one line. It was, “Push humanity forward.” That’s what real entrepreneurs do. Peter Diamandis is taking mankind to space. Branson adds fun, quality service and cheekiness to old entrenched industries. Tony Hsieh “delivers happiness.” I believe in teaching the world new things that enrich the human potential.

I’m not asking you to dedicate your life to changing the world. I’m just asking you to not launch businesses that sell crap, pillage the environment, take advantage of developing nations or like Coke – market junk that lead to childhood obesity and other health disasters.

You don’t have to save the world — just try not to mess it up for our children.

Know the difference between and entrepreneur and a businessman? Here’s the difference: Business people do it for the dollars.

But real entrepreneurs push the human race forward.

Are you?

I learned something from every speaker, but I found a presentation by Dr. Ned Hallowell particularly applicable for success in a connected world. Dr. Hallowell is one of the world’s foremost experts on ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder), a medical condition that is grossly misunderstood. Interestingly, his talk was mostly focused on getting attention and, since attention is a major currency of our connected world, Dr. Hallowell’s talk had my undivided attention.

How do you get someone’s attention? According to Dr. Hallowell, the acronym is SEARCH.

S – Scare
E – Excite/Educate
A – Attack/Annoy/Amaze
R – Reassure/Reward
C – Charm
H – Help

Like you, I was completely aware of (and have used) every method in his SEARCH acronym to create successful social media, advertising and marketing campaigns. And, I have paid the price when I have not been able to create compelling copy or visuals that accomplish them. But, I’ve never seen all of the most popular attention-getting tactics laid out this way, and it… um… got my attention.

After explaining the self-explanatory attention-getting words above, Dr. Hallowell turned our attention to: How to hold someone’s attention. For this, he had another acronym: SIN.

S – Structure
I – Interaction
N – Novelty

These actually do need a little explanation so, to paraphrase Dr. Hallowell, “structure” is the form factor you choose to rein in creativity. Mozart is probably the most famous composer of his era; his Sonatas, Concerti and Symphonies were all created inside of very well established structures. As you know, the structure did not hamper his creativity in any way. Dr. Hallowell’s thesis, which I completely agree with, is that the structures probably gave Mozart a comfort zone, a competitive benchmark and empowered a higher level of creative freedom. The same can be said for writings of Shakespeare and hundreds of other world-famous, time-tested composers, writers, graphic artists and other creatives.

Interaction is simply the level to which you involve the audience (Everybody clap your hands to the beat!) and, according to the good doctor, is far and away the most important tool for keeping someone’s attention.

Novelty, as a technique, is easy to describe and super hard to accomplish. Putting a unique twist on a tired format is where the true artists of attention-holding shine.

Dr. Hallowell went on to say that of the three aspects of SIN, Interaction was the most important, and that all three components must be balanced to achieve maximum attention-holding.

I know that you know all of this. In fact, I knew all of it too. But, in a world where brand briefs have deteriorated to data-driven, percentage-laden, over-regressioned, over-pivot-tabled drivel – I thought it might be fun to have some acronyms that can be used to drive thinking. After all, the currency of attention is so integral to our world; the exchange of attention is hard-wired into the grammar of the English language — you “pay” attention and you “receive” it. Just like money.

So, next time you start a brand brief or a mission, vision and values statement with the goal of getting and keeping attention in a connected world, remember to credit Dr. Ned Hallowell and thank him for SEARCH and SIN. That’s the kind of attention he rightly earned.

Well, I am going to share with you the exact same answer I shared with my sister when she asked. But first let me give you the entire story.

A couple of moths ago, Joe Polish asked me to speak at his Genius Network Mastermind Abundance Event in New York.

Given the fact that Joe is a dear, dear friend and that the speakers and the attendees of this event were people who were truly living an abundant life, I jumped at the opportunity.

Well, I literally moved into my house in Florida on a Friday and I was leaving for this event the following Tuesday – just four days later. Boxes were ceiling high and everywhere. Plus, I hadn’t done any shopping for the kids school clothes or supplies – hence my sister’s patronizing tone.

So, here’s the scoop . . .

I feel honored and privileged everyday of my life that you are a part of the Working Moms Only community. And as a community leader it is my duty to continually learn and grow, then pass that knowledge on to you.

As you know, the Working Moms Only mission statement is one of the first things you see when you sign onto our website. And it clearly states that . . .

“Our mission is to supply the tools that can give EVERY working mom the ability to lead a healthy, wealthy, and more balanced/blended lifestyle. To create a community where millions of working moms from all over the world come together in support and celebration of each other.”

Well, this is exactly why I got on the plane. Plain and simple, that mission is my calling, what I was meant to do. So today, I am going to share with you one quick-start abundance idea that came from each of the speakers at this fabulous event.

At the event, Joe did something very cool and very unusual. He gave each speaker only 10 minutes for his or her presentation. At first I thought, “How I can I possibly get all my points across in 10 minutes?” And there lied the beauty. We had to limit our points and put together a well thought out, concise presentation. And, you know what? It was one of my best presentations. The same is true for most of the other speakers as well.

The Line Up

As I share with you these elegant ideas, you will notice the diversity in the line up. These were some of the biggest names in the fields of health and wellness, business, financial services, media and marketing.

Enjoy . . .

• Peter Diamandis – If anything can go wrong, FIX IT! – to hell with Murphy.
• Edward Hallowell, M.D. – In the age of hyper-technology, we are deficient for the “new” vitamin C. We are lacking positive human contact. Contact is the “new” vitamin C – we need!
• Dean Graziosi – You need to understand the “Villain” who is lurking inside of your ideal clients. As a marketer, it is your job to kill that villain for your clients.
• Richard Rossi – Parents are responsible for their child’s education and we must teach our kids the art of critical thinking and problem solving.
• Dr. Deborah Rozman – When you live a life of frustration, your body is in a constant “earthquake” like state.
• Brendan Burchard – The three most important questions you can ask yourself towards the end of your life: 1) Did I live?, 2) Did I love?, 3) Did I matter?
• Steve Forbes – The three biggest factors for success are: 1) Vision, 2) Drive, 3) Obliviousness to the clock.
• Tim Ferris – “The Minimum Effective Dose”. No more, no less. For example, eat 30 grams of protein within 30 minutes of waking up. No more, no less.
• Dan Sullivan – Scarcity minded people live in a world of “unfairness”, while abundant minded people live in a world of “opportunity”.
• Paul Hoffman – In order to have a genius mindset you must stick to a plan based on your strengths.
• Naveen Jain – Success is not defined by how much money you have in the bank, rather by how many lives you have changed.
• Neil Strauss – Create hard “outs” for meetings. State at the beginning of that meeting that you need to leave at 2:10 – never on the top of the hour or on the half of the hour.
• Dave Logan – You can get anything you want in 90 days by understanding the outcome.
• Ray Kurzwell – You are what you think!
• Arianna Huffington – Self-doubt is simply the obnoxious roommate living in our head.
• Joe Sugarman – Give yourself the freedom to fail.
• Eben Pagan – Collaboration can look like anything. Don’t let predetermination sway you.
• Dr. Mark Hyman, M.D. – Never drink soda – never let your kids drink soda!
• Dean Jackson – Customers are less attached to their future money than they are to their present money.
• MaryEllen Tribby (yours truly) – Never spend money on media until you know what a data card is and know how to use it.

The company I was in was truly extraordinary! It was the first time I was ever in a room where everyone had an abundant mindset.

What I shared with you today was just an appetizer. My goal was to introduce you to amazing people with amazing ideas who live their life in abundance, success, philanthropy, love and happiness.

However, we all know that ideas are not enough. These people are able to live their best life because they took serious action.

If someone I mentioned touched you – ask yourself this question “What action can I take right now to achieve an abundant life?”

New York, NY (PRWEB) August 08, 2012

The Genius Network Mastermind, a group of highly influential and successful entrepreneurs, is gathered in New York City to address the primary concern of over 90% of small businesses in America – access to capital and increased sales. There is actually an abundance of financial capital available to small businesses, to the tune of over $170 Billion. For the first time in history, small business owners are now able to tap into this vein of capital.

There is also an abundance of new customers for businesses when they learn to monetize and drive revenue from the over 3 billion new Internet users that will be coming online globally by 2020. These are two great examples of how the Genius Network Mastermind is applying the primary principles of Peter Diamandis’ NY Times Best-Selling book Abundance. He set the tone for the ultimate in innovation and this movement is setting the tone for the ultimate in job creation.

“If just 10,000 entrepreneurs were able to grow their own business by 10x, that would result in far more than 10,000 jobs, which would significantly impact the economy. This is the power of exponential growth verses linear growth that Peter spoke about this morning,” said Joe Polish, founder and CEO of the Genius Network Mastermind. “According to the SBA, there are over 22 million small businesses in the U.S., these numbers are not unrealistic to achieve.”

“Abundance is not about providing luxury, rather providing a life of possibility. There are few resources that are scarce in our world, they are merely inaccessible. Yet the threat of scarcity dominates the worldview,” said Peter Diamandis, co-author of the New York Times best-selling book Abundance. “In the book we expose a paradigm shift and a new way of thinking that will ignite innovation.”

The Genius Network Mastermind is dedicated to promoting the message of Abundance for the elite 2-day mastermind event which includes the top 100 emerging business leaders from around the world. The event is being held in New York (Marriott Marquis Hotel Times Square) August 8-9, 2012.

The program leverages the knowledge of such thought leaders as:

• Steve Forbes – Dominance, Influence and Abundance in a Free Economy
• Arianna Huffington – A Better Life: Personally and Politically
• Peter Diamandis – Abundance: The Future is Better than you Think
• Tim Ferris – Entrepreneur’s Abundance Lifestyle
• Dan Sulivan – 10x your Business and Create a Bigger Future
• Brendan Burchard – Activating your High-Performance Expert Drive
• Joe Polish – Marketing Multipliers, Elegant Ideas & Flawless Execution
• And many more!

Media interviews available with Peter Diamandis, Joe Polish, Brendon Burchard and many other speakers (schedules permitting).

For more information on the event or a media pass, contact sstewart(at)sheilastewart(dot)com.

About
The Genius Network Mastermind is group formed by Joe Polish, the founder of Piranha Marketing, based in Phoenix, AZ. The company and the mastermind are dedicated to bringing resources, talent, tools and innovative technology to entrepreneurs globally. The Genius Network Mastermind is a group of highly talented, skilled and extremely successful entrepreneurs, the majority of which have built multi-million dollar businesses. Some have built businesses that have generated over $100 million in annual revenues.

For more information, visit Genius Network Mastermind at http://www.geniusnetworkmastermind.com or contact Sheila Stewart at 303-378-2022 / sstewart(at)sheilastewart(dot)com.

Last autumn, he was recognised by Sir Richard Branson with the first ever ‘One in a Million’ award for his tremendous contribution. In the past two years Joe has raised more than $1 million for Virgin Unite and has mobilised his personal network of entrepreneurs to assist Virgin Unite in expanding our work, including starting a seed fund to assist aspiring entrepreneurs in the United States.

“Joe has shown tremendous zeal and generosity in getting behind our work and his support has meant a great deal to the organisation,” says Sir Richard.

Virgin Unite recently caught up with the Arizona-based entrepreneur to discuss his work with Virgin Unite.
VU: We’re thrilled to feature you as our first ‘Entrepreneur of the Quarter’, where we highlight an entrepreneur who’s been working closely with Virgin Unite. We’re keen to give our readers an opportunity to learn about your involvement and all the different ways they can engage with Virgin Unite. What has motivated you to work with Virgin Unite and why are you interested in philanthropy or, ‘business as a force for good’?

Joe: I guess you could sum it up in one phrase: “life gives to the giver and takes from the taker.” People want to make contributions. Contributing to others makes you feel good. Working with Virgin Unite makes me feel like I’m doing something valuable.

I sell and have sold millions of dollars worth of information products to help entrepreneurs build and grow their businesses, so I have a real appreciation for entrepreneurs. I think they’re the ones that make the world go around!
So, my respect and admiration for someone like Richard is gigantic. His contribution to the world is huge!

My initial involvement was first just simply to meet Richard. I had no idea what Virgin Unite was. But then, I did an interview with Richard for my Genius Network series and I asked him how he spends his time. He said 25% of his time is spent on looking at business opportunities, 25% is spent on marketing, 10% is spent on fighting fires, and 40% is focusing on making contributions and building his foundation and doing good things in the world.

So, I thought, Wow! That’s pretty interesting, where you take a guy that most people would think is involved in lots of stuff, and making the world a better place occupies 40% of his time—that’s where his mind is right now. So, that really got me thinking.

I’ve raised money for lots of different charities. I’ve contributed through other people and organisations with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, JustLikeMyChild.org, children’s hospitals, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, we do walks for autism every year with my team, and we’ve raised quite a bit of money for the Clinton Foundation.

But for the most part, the majority of my charitable efforts have been with Virgin Unite because I love the company, the organisation, and the mission. Everything it stands for, in terms of a coolness factor, is powerful. And Richard is a genuinely very nice, progressive, and innovative guy. The more you can replicate entrepreneurs to have those attributes – business as a force of good – I think, the better the world becomes.
VU: And you’ve involved people on your team, too. Can you describe the benefits to your staff?

Joe: Actually, not only my employees, but also my clients! When we do my conferences, for instance, we will raise money for Virgin Unite, and my staff – very much going back ‘to life gives to the giver and takes from the taker’ – they all really like helping people and they’ll corral behind it. They want to support it and they want to work on things. My staff has put a lot of time into all of the stuff we’ve done with Virgin Unite in the last couple of years. It’s almost like a part-time job for them, and for me, in some ways.

As the business owner, I have to give them the ability to be involved. So, a lot of times, I’ll just throw one of my ideas out there, and then I’ll let my team plan it.
One of the things that we recently did was an interview with the best-selling author Tim Ferris about his new and updated, expanded version The 4-Hour Workweek. Thousands of people read his blog. So, we decided to take the recording of the interview and sell it on Amazon for a low fee and 100% of the money that we raise will go to Virgin Unite.

So by doing that, we want to see if we can create a model where we can sell things on Amazon. And if it works, we’ll do inserts into the packages that go out, letting people know about Virgin Unite. That can be done with literally hundreds and thousands of different books, CDs, courses, training material, both offline and online.

My staff put that entire campaign together without any of my involvement, working late at night to get it out there quickly. We do not know quite yet how well it will work, it is still a donation “research and development” experiment. However, if it works we will replicate the model with many of my Genius Network interviews, including the one I did with Richard. We’ll simply say ‘if you found value in this interview, please make a donation.’

A lot of lives are being changed through Virgin Unite in all areas of the world. I want to help document what is being done in a way that can be shared with an even wider audience of people so they can all rally behind the cause.

I want them to rally behind it not just because of wanting the recognition of “I donated money to charity and I’m a really good person.” I want to create a strong support base of inspired entrepreneurs that multiplies the fruits being produced to solve a lot of problems that can be solved on this planet with the right entrepreneurial thinking and heart behind it.
VU: What advice would you give a small business or an independent entrepreneur who was looking to get involved in philanthropic activities?

Joe: The way I look at it, there’s two ways to set up your business. You can have an ELF business – that’s what we call it, easy, lucrative and fun – or you can have a HALF business, which is hard, annoying, lame and frustrating.

One of the reasons why I like Virgin and Virgin Unite is the whole culture that Richard has set up is about fun. It’s about enjoyment. And, when you’re dealing with situations where people’s lives are at stake, you’ve got to infuse enthusiasm and enjoyment into the process, so that people don’t feel so hopeless and the workplace not just filled with despair.

As a business owner, as a marketer, you want to bring a smile to someone’s face. You want to add some sunshine to their life. So, whenever you’re putting together a message, you want it to be filled with enthusiasm.

Entrepreneurism is all about selling. Capitalism is the greatest thing ever invented, in my opinion. And half the world attacks it, as if capitalism means bad, evil corporations trying to take advantage of people.

Capitalism in its purest form is simply collaboration between people wanting to exchange money for value. Capitalism at its core is a great thing, it’s just unfortunately been defined by others in a bad light. We are helping to be a small part of the movement to share the real power and contribution of caring capitalists.

Richard Branson and what he has done with Virgin needs to be celebrated. He is a great example of an amazing Capitalist with Heart.

There is not a single small business owner who I have worked with who got into business for a goal of simply money. They wanted to make a difference for their lives, their families, and their communities. But many feel that as just ‘one person’ they can’t really have a great impact. We show them that isn’t the case – everyone who works to make someone else’s lives better through contributions or solving problems for others, and serving as an example of a “good business doing good” makes a huge impact.

My job is to help inspire as many entrepreneurs out there as I can to celebrate and expand their value creation, whether they are a small husband/wife operation, or a large corporation.

Everything that I have that is great in my life came to me as a result of someone before me who was an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs innovate and solve problems to make the world a better place. That I can talk on a telephone and record an interview with someone across the planet came from an entrepreneur’s brain and drive.

I think the more focus we create on the true entrepreneurial spirit that is beyond just making money for themselves, the more we can multiply our impact. Even small businesses can do good and help advance humanity.

Virgin is a fantastic example of that. Everyone I have met at Virgin from the front lines to the founder wants to make a difference. That’s why I will continue to support the organisation to the best of my abilities.
VU: It’s really been a pleasure to talk to you and to hear your perspective on your involvement with Virgin Unite. We are very grateful for all of your support and look forward to working together with you going forward!

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]]> http://www.joepolish.com/2012/damon-hackleman/feed 0 http://www.joepolish.com/2012/ben-pedersen?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ben-pedersen http://www.joepolish.com/2012/ben-pedersen#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 10:05:24 +0000 admin http://www.ellanmedia.com/ellanmedia.com/clients/jp/?p=1224 ]]> There are few people who I take seriously. Joe Polish has been helping me build my business for years! In fact, just one strategy I learned netted me $56, 337.42 in just 48 Hours! If you want RESULTS, you want Joe.

P.S. I’m buying a bigger house because of this.

]]> http://www.joepolish.com/2012/eric-wenger/feed 0 http://www.joepolish.com/2012/ron-preston-of-brooks-carpet-clinic-ltd?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ron-preston-of-brooks-carpet-clinic-ltd http://www.joepolish.com/2012/ron-preston-of-brooks-carpet-clinic-ltd#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 10:05:01 +0000 admin http://www.ellanmedia.com/ellanmedia.com/clients/jp/?p=1244 ]]> I joined Piranha @ last boot camp and do not regret that decision one bit. I only regret how slow I seem to be implementing his strategies. However yet again, here Joe is, sending testimonials, documented success strategies by other Platinum members and I again gain the strength and motivation to realize, that with on going implementation of even the smallest step towards any goal, a proven strategy will emerge.

So, me and a buddy pool our resources, buy a couple of portables and go for it. Well, the partnership went bad, as partnerships often do, and I found myself deeper in debt and having to move back in with Mom and Dad. (While they scratched their heads wondering what their “college graduate” son was up to.)

It was humiliating. Just me and my stinky portable living back home with my parents. But, I still had that vision, and that “bug.” So I ventured out solo.

Traditional Marketing Methods Just Don’t Cut It

I worked really hard. I mean hard. And, when you work that hard you should be making money. But, the reality was, I was still broke. Still in debt. I was “marketing” my butt off. The traditional kind of marketing, that is. You know, running high priced “professional” looking ads in the phone book, money mailers, the newspaper, I even tried going door to door. But…I was losing more money than I was making. I was frustrated. Yet, I knew there had to be a way…

That’s when I met Joe Polish. When I discovered Joe’s marketing systems, I found the missing piece to my puzzle I’d been looking for. It was the piece that completed “the big picture” in my business, and made it clear just how easy it really is to make money (a lot of money) cleaning carpets.

From Flat Broke To The Cleaning And Restoration “Expert” In My Area

I admit, I honestly thought I would be packing his stuff up and sending it back. I am a skeptic. But, to my surprise, his stuff is good. Really good. So good in fact, that just ONE of his “ready-made” ads landed me on the local television station, when flooding hit my town, as the area “expert”… My business SKYROCKETED.

In less than 48 months I was running a 4 truck operation. I was able to pay off my college debts. Able to pay off my business debts. I was able to take home a paycheck (a good paycheck). I was finally able to fulfill my entrepreneurial dream!

Once I discovered Joe’s marketing systems, I realized why all my traditional attempts at marketing had failed. It’s so easy now. I KNOW how to make the phone ring. I KNOW how to keep a steady stream of good customers coming into my business. And I KNOW how to keep my current customers loyal.

Joe makes it so simple to succeed in this business. No matter how big or how little you are, you need these marketing systems. I can’t believe what a difference Joe Polish has made in my business, and MY LIFE. He transformed me from a dreamer to a doer, and for that I sincerely thank him!

I knew it was going to take something special, something different, to market my company the way I wanted. That is – without advertising low prices. And, thank goodness I met Joe Polish.

My first full year in business was 1996 and I grossed $193,080.00. Not bad for the first year. Oh by the way, it was all residential… no big restoration jobs, no apartments…just $193,080.00 of residential cleaning with nice, fat profit margins. And, I made most that money using just ONE of Joe’s many strategies

Not Exactly What I’d Call “Beginner’s Luck”

Some of you die-hard skeptics might just think I’m lucky. Ha! If you only knew. In that first year of business I broke the world record for “breakdowns”; I was forced to buy another van just because one was in the shop for 3 months, and I had my house burn down – taking all my worldly belongings, my work truck, $15,000.00 worth of equipment, my computer and client list with it. Lucky?

I don’t think so.

Yet, because of Joe Polish’s marketing systems, I still managed to have a “first year” that rivals most people’s 10th.

So, how does someone survive their first year in business let alone a first year littered with personal disaster?

Discover The Secrets Of The Master: Joe Polish

It’s simple. You get Joe’s marketing systems and you follow his directions to the tee. No need to reinvent the wheel. It’s a no-brainer. Just one Joe Polish strategy delivers over $1,000.00 a week… and it costs just a few bucks!

How have I done since my first year? My business is booming. In 1997 I closed out the year at $291,000.00. And to date, I’ve made $614,000.00 using Joe’s systems. Plus, I have 3,217 residential clients!

And, I’ve done it all despite my unlucky start into this business! Because of Joe and his SYSTEMS, I have been able to get as many new customers as I want. I get an enormous amount of referrals. I am totally unaffected by the competition. I make more money in a 3-day work week than the average carpet cleaner makes from a full month of struggling and suffering. And, best of all, I ENJOY my business!

Thank you Joe Polish!

Life wasn’t always this good. Six years ago I was on the brink of disaster in this business. I struggled every day to keep my business alive, scratching for every nickel, working 14-hour days, no vacations, no future and stressed to the point of collapse. I was exhausted and frustrated when the most remarkable thing happened.

In 1994, I met Joe Polish who revealed to me a simple marketing tool he was using to successfully grow his unique business. Long story short, I applied the same tool to my carpet cleaning business, and was stunned by a non-stop flow of high quality, high-ticket clients.

I went from $60,734 to $164,589 my first year, (that’s more than DOUBLE), $240,878 my second, $302,558 my third, and $313,86 my fourth. And just last year (2001), with only one truck, I made a staggering $327,646.

Best of all, I have personal freedom, and I’m finally assured of a brilliant future. Four years ago I set up a secure retirement account, and last year I took more than 4 weeks vacation, including 2 weeks in Hawaii to visit my son. This year I plan to take even more time off and my business will keep running as smooth as a Swiss watch. Best wishes for your success.

In the beginning, we wondered if we could really afford to join Platinum Plus. But we now realize that we were asking ourselves the wrong question. We should have been asking ourselves, “How can we afford NOT to join?” With the help of Joe and other Platinum Plus members over the past 3 and ½ years, we’ve been able to implement many of Joe’s marketing strategies.

For our first quarter this year, we earned enough NET income to pay for four full years of Platinum Plus membership. The past two months, we earned enough NET income to pay for two full years of Platinum Plus membership—EACH MONTH! So is it worth it? You do the math.

Here’s something I’ve learned about implementation from Piranha Marketing. You’ve probably heard it before, so you’re going to hear it again. “If you fail to plan, you can plan to fail.” Here’s another one you’ve probably already heard—”The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.” Put the two together and you come up with the reason for most of the small business owner’s frustration in the business world: “Failure to make the time for planning will drive you insane!”

What I’m trying to say is that if you purchase some of Joe’s materials or join one of his programs, you’ll figure out pretty soon that there’s no “magic pill” you can take to make you successful. You’ve got to put in the time. If you’re anything like Steve and I were a few years ago, you’re probably wondering where on earth you can find the time to plan out how you’re going to implement some marketing and success strategies. You could be burnt out like we were, too overwhelmed with a business that was running us, instead of us running the business. But you really can find the time if you make the time.

Make an appointment with yourself—for an hour a week, maybe more—and don’t let anything or anyone break your appointment. Be true to yourself and to your commitments to yourself. During that scheduled time, get away from the phone, away from distractions, and take the time to look over the materials and pick out one or two or three strategies you can realistically implement. Then start working on them in your weekly appointments. Be faithful to yourself and your planning, and you WILL reap the results.

So, I’d like to leave you with two very important questions you should be asking yourself:

1. How can I afford NOT to buy any of Joe’s stuff?
2. When can I make an appointment to meet with myself, so I can be on my way to achieving my dreams?

If you act now, and keep taking positive action, you WILL succeed!

]]> http://www.joepolish.com/2012/howell-schechter/feed 0 http://www.joepolish.com/2012/kevin-buck?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kevin-buck http://www.joepolish.com/2012/kevin-buck#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 02:07:55 +0000 admin http://www.ellanmedia.com/ellanmedia.com/clients/jp/?p=1091 YOU WILL LEARN POWERFUL STRATEGIES THAT HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO TURN BUSINESSES AROUND AND CAUSE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH.

]]> http://www.joepolish.com/2012/kevin-buck/feed 0 http://www.joepolish.com/2012/doug-durham-of-earshot-audio-resources-2?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=doug-durham-of-earshot-audio-resources-2 http://www.joepolish.com/2012/doug-durham-of-earshot-audio-resources-2#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 02:07:45 +0000 admin http://www.ellanmedia.com/ellanmedia.com/clients/jp/?p=1174 ]]> Piranha Marketing ranks up with the top tier programs when it comes to straight to the point, usable information. It’s always said that if you get one idea from a program it is worth the price paid for that program. Piranha Marketing fulfills that goal and surpasses it.

Fortunately, I knew about Piranha and started off on the right foot. Three years later 59% of our clients are repeat business or have been referred by another client. (This is the “mother lode” you are looking for!) We’ve grown an average of 50% every year and are currently booked up one month in advance at a time of year that is slow for most of our competitors!

I frequently see other business that are struggling and think to my self “if they only knew how easy this could be.” In fact, I really hope that my competitors don’t see this letter. I really don’t want them to have the advantages this program would give them!!!”

]]> http://www.joepolish.com/2012/keith-beardslee/feed 0 http://www.joepolish.com/2012/jack-antonius?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jack-antonius http://www.joepolish.com/2012/jack-antonius#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 02:07:34 +0000 admin http://www.ellanmedia.com/ellanmedia.com/clients/jp/?p=1192 Joe and Tim certainly have gone all out to give us the recipe for an “E.L.F.” business. There are so many different ideas presented that any business owner should be able to adopt a few to suit his/her business.

I have listened to or read many other marketing reports and books and I find that Joe has put together the most comprehensive and easy-to-understand marketing course I have ever heard. Joe and Tim do a masterful job of bouncing thoughts off each other and it’s that touch that makes the whole course entertaining.

I know businesses can’t transform themselves overnight but if a business owner just picks up one or two marketing strategies from this course and implements them into his business, he is sure to see some major transformations taking place.

One idea that I have implemented that is paying some huge rewards is simply including some value-added services, which allows us to increase our prices. And by packaging our services and giving our clients a few choices, we have more that doubled our average job ticket since implementing this one strategy.

This is a million dollar marketing course that I wish I had heard of 10 years ago. I highly recommend it for any business owner who is trying to improve profits and lifestyle. If a person can only buy one marketing course, this is the one.

]]> http://www.joepolish.com/2012/jack-antonius/feed 0 http://www.joepolish.com/2012/darren-klein?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=darren-klein http://www.joepolish.com/2012/darren-klein#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 02:07:34 +0000 admin http://www.ellanmedia.com/ellanmedia.com/clients/jp/?p=1110 ]]>

I have heard Joe talk about E.L.F. and while I always believed it was possible I somehow did not believe it was possible for me… until now.

]]> http://www.joepolish.com/2012/darren-klein/feed 0 http://www.joepolish.com/2012/peter-feinstein-is-the-president-of-higher-power-marketing?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=peter-feinstein-is-the-president-of-higher-power-marketing http://www.joepolish.com/2012/peter-feinstein-is-the-president-of-higher-power-marketing#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 02:07:32 +0000 admin http://www.ellanmedia.com/ellanmedia.com/clients/jp/?p=1138 “Joe, your Piranha Marketing audio seminar has really lit a fire under me! Being a B2B oriented business owner, your advice and insights have quickly impacted my way of thinking about how I’m doing business. Within a day or two of hearing the testimonial and referral generating processes, I implemented these systems into my client contacts and have already begun seeing the benefits of asking for praise, and for the names of people these happy clients think would benefit from my contacting them! The testimonials will be placed on my website on a new Testimonials page, and the referral program, called Reaping Referrals, rewards the referring company with cold hard cash for those they refer, who become HPM clients!

You and Tim bring up so many useful marketing tools I’ve had to listen to all the cd’s a second time. I’ve actually decided to take three days off the week after next to spend some focused quality time ‘on’ my business so I can work on spending a lot less time ‘in’ my business. But even before I do that you should know that I have already begun restructuring my pricing to be more package oriented, offering my clients a much more solutions-oriented approach that is automatically more profitable for my company! In the process of restructuring my pricing I’ve been able to raise the prices of each component piece by between 10% and 25%!  Already I’m watching prospective clients warm to my solutions-approach to their needs; it’s pretty darn exciting.

My focused quality time will be spent redoing my current written promotional pieces, including a drastically overhauled Free Report called “The 7 Insider Secrets You Must Know before buying radio or TV advertising!” It will be the basis for my free recorded message, my media buyer information reports and upcoming teleseminars, which I hope to leverage into tripling or quadrupling my company’s net sales over the next 6 months!

Thanks for the wisdom, your insights and your willingness to share million dollar secrets for just pennies on the dollar!”

Peter Feinstein
President Higher Power Marketing

 “You may remember who I am from my famous TV commercial: ‘I’m Sy Sperling, President of the Hair Club For Men. I’m not only the Hair Club president, but I’m also a client.’

I started Hair Club in 1976 in a small hair styling salon, and over a 25 year period, I grew Hair Club into a multi-million dollar national company located in 90 major cities. During that time span, I learned quite a bit about marketing. I guess the results speak for themselves. In 2001 I sold my company for more money than I ever dreamed of.

One of the people I met along the way was Tim Paulson. Tim was not just my national sales manager and a company vice-president, but he was also a great student of marketing in general. Needless to say, there is a strong link between sales and marketing, and Tim was a great student of both. He seemed to be always attending seminars given by some of the most famous marketing gurus and was always reading books on the same subject.

Tim outgrew his position as vice-president and national sales manager and started doing his own motivational seminars on sales and marketing. I recently listened to the Piranha Marketing program conducted by Tim Paulson and Joe Polish, and contrary to the old saying that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, I learned so many new marketing ideas from the tapes that I am taking them on a 12 day cruise with me to re-listen. The tapes not only are about new and innovative marketing ideas, but it’s also about how high tech can be incorporated into every business’ marketing plan.

I recommend this program very passionately! The more you learn, the more you earn.”

Sy Sperling,
Founder of Hair Club For Men

“I have been studying marketing for over 20+ years and have a degree in Marketing. I study many areas of marketing and translate that information into my areas of expertise. For instance, I have been working in the Home Inspection Industry for approx. 20 years. I grew one of the nation’s largest home inspection businesses and then sold it for top dollar. The reason I mention this is because I now coach home inspectors across North America and Joe coaches many types of businesses as well. I learned a lot from him.

I have seen a lot of a lot of materials on marketing and was blown away by the depth that Joe takes his materials. To start with his idea on how to use Free Recorded Messages is simply astounding. I have used this technique with tremendous success. The idea that he uses on one of the first CDs about learning how to give away part of your service to build and maintain a relationship will help you understand the concept clearer than anyone has every explained it to you before, and that is if you have even know about it. On top of Joe’s teaching, Tim Paulson’s description of how he has seen companies use the techniques that Joe talks about sharpens the focus even more.

I felt I received my money’s worth within the first 3 CDs and yet the information just kept coming. I have used several of the systems that Joe describes in this program since I have been studying him for over 10 years and I have generated revenue literally in multiples of hundreds of thousands of dollars. In one year I generated $300,000 dollars using several of his ideas. This tape set is a must as it focuses directly on all of the principles I learned from Joe and how to use them.

Joe thanks for your persistence in teaching others how to have an E.L.F. (Easy – Lucrative – Fun) Life. I am enjoying that type of life now because of many of the systems that you are teaching on this program. My only hope is that others will benefit from it as much as I have seen 100s of your members do. Thanks!”

]]> http://www.joepolish.com/2012/mike-crow-is-the-founder-of-millionaire-inspector-community-in-north-richaland-hills-tx/feed 0 http://www.joepolish.com/2012/don-deleeuw-healthy-home-carpet-care-colorado?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=don-deleeuw-healthy-home-carpet-care-colorado http://www.joepolish.com/2012/don-deleeuw-healthy-home-carpet-care-colorado#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 01:16:07 +0000 admin http://www.ellanmedia.com/ellanmedia.com/clients/jp/?p=1068 Prior to finding out about Joe’s strategies, I’d been in the carpet cleaning business for about four years. I had one truck and, like my wife Ann said, “Don, why don’t you just sit on the deck and sip iced tea – you’d make the same amount of money.” So, I was having a bit of a hard time being profitable.

Nevertheless, I had some marketing background and a vision. So, I plugged along. One day, at a carpet cleaning seminar, I met this cocky, young guy named Joe Polish. He was just a “nobody” back then and, I soon realized, a really nice guy. (You just have to get past the attitude.) Come to find out, this kid had been struggling and ready to quit the business just a few months prior. But, with the discovery of some revolutionary marketing SYSTEMS, he had turned his business in to a $125,000.00 a year operation – and he only had ONE TRUCK – just like me.

Now, I’m no dummy. So, I attached myself to Joe Polish that weekend. And, with a little persuasion (he was still keeping his secrets to himself back then), I got the guy to sell me one of his strategies. And, unbeknownst to Joe Polish and me, I became the first member of what became Piranha Marketing.

Just One strategy brings in $60,000.00!

Thank god I met Joe Polish that weekend. Pretty soon I had a money-cranking system in my business. $60,000.00 from that one strategy – an incredible return on my investment!
And the rest is history…

Joe Polish reveals 104 more strategies just as good as his first one!

When you find a money tree, you keep on harvesting. Son, I bugged Joe enough and he revealed all of his secrets to me.

I found out I had been doing some things right. (Like I said, I did have a little marketing savvy of my own.) But Joe fine-tuned the marketing I was doing, and opened my eyes to dozens of marketing SYSTEMS I was clueless about. And soon, my business skyrocketed…

Four Trucks Later… I’m Sipping Iced Tea On The Patio And Making Money!

Since then I’ve made hundreds of thousands of dollars with Joe’s SYSTEMS. Today, I’ve got a four-truck operation, and am so busy I could put a fifth on the road tomorrow. My phones rings off the hook, I have a steady flow of good, high quality customers who are not price conscience. Plus, my repeat and referral business is about 82% of my monthly revenue.

And it all started with just ONE of Joe’s SYSTEMS. Today I don’t ever wonder how I’m going to get new business. I KNOW. And Joe Polish is the reason. Every cleaner in the industry needs this kind of marketing know-how. That is – if they want to actually make any money!

Don Deleeuw, Healthy Home Carpet Care, Colorado

Our dream of owning our own business looked like it was about to go “belly-up.” It seemed inevitable that we should become another statistic. After all, the average business fails in the first three years, so we shouldn’t feel too bad…or so well meaning friends and relatives told us.

We were at our lowest point, (charging our rent on our credit cards) we came across an ad in one of the trade magazines. This guy, Joe Polish, had been “starving” out of the business, too. He’s been in our shoes. But, with a discovery of some marketing strategies, he was able to turn around and make $125,000.00 a year with ONE TRUCK. We thought, “That could be us!!!” Besides, at that point what was one more charge on the credit card, so with a flicker of our dream left we got Joe’s stuff.

From near bankrupt to $30,000.00+ a month in less than 24 months!

Are we ever glad we came across that ad!!

In fact, our growth was so phenomenal that when we went to buy our custom home last year, the bank made us write a letter explaining how on earth we could grow so much, so fast. Like the loan officer told us, “People just don’t do that.” Well, they haven’t heard about Joe Polish.

Because of Joe Polish and his Piranha Marketing Systems we were able to make over $250,000.00 our third year in business. Doubling our income every year over the previous year.

But, that’s only half the story…

Creating A Lifestyle By Owning A
Business Instead Of A Job

It’s true what Joe talks about in his sales letter. You know, the whole “Lifestyle” thing. In less than two years we were able to transform a dying shell of a business into a thriving residential carpet cleaning company with two truck mounts.

We paid off the credit cards we had lived on. We had money in the bank for the first time ever!!! We got employees, health insurance, life insurance, employee benefits, new cars, a new home and we NEVER work holidays, weekends, or nights…finally we were living with security and enjoying life!!

This is NOT some hyped up, empty promise. These are REAL WORLD, EASY, SYSTEMATIC Marketing Strategies that can start making you money the day your package arrives. If we hadn’t taken Joe up on his NO-RISK offer, who knows where we’d be, (we don’t even want to entertain that thought!) but, the reality is – we did get Joe’s systems, and they changed our business, our income – OUR LIFE!
What are you waiting for?

I ordered your tapes from Nightingale-Conant. Pure marketing dynamite! (And you can quote me on that if you like.)…  Keep up your great work, Joe. ]]> http://www.joepolish.com/2012/gary-bencivenga/feed 0 http://www.joepolish.com/2012/gordon-graham?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gordon-graham http://www.joepolish.com/2012/gordon-graham#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:09:00 +0000 admin http://www.ellanmedia.com/ellanmedia.com/clients/jp/?p=1195 ]]> The information is the most practical I have ever listened to and as someone who is about to start their own business, the program has given me a great deal of confidence that I didn’t have before! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

PS – I am also recommending everyone I know to invest in this program so that they can get out of the “blind archery trap” and head towards the “business bull’s-eye.

Joe Polish and Tim Paulson have a winner in Piranha Marketing. I have already started to apply some of their marketing tools to my business… it’s really exciting stuff that you won’t find anywhere else. If you want to turn your business into a money making machine, don’t miss out on this priceless information. ]]> http://www.joepolish.com/2012/lee-labrada-is-the-presidentceo-labrada-nutrition-he-is-also-known-as-the-fitness-czar-and-former-mr-universe/feed 0 http://www.joepolish.com/2012/tony-martinez-is-the-co-founder-and-co-chairman-of-the-united-states-tax-lien-association-which-is-an-organization-that-is-committed-and-dedicated-to-helping-others-achieve-total-financial-freedom-th?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tony-martinez-is-the-co-founder-and-co-chairman-of-the-united-states-tax-lien-association-which-is-an-organization-that-is-committed-and-dedicated-to-helping-others-achieve-total-financial-freedom-th http://www.joepolish.com/2012/tony-martinez-is-the-co-founder-and-co-chairman-of-the-united-states-tax-lien-association-which-is-an-organization-that-is-committed-and-dedicated-to-helping-others-achieve-total-financial-freedom-th#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:01:23 +0000 admin http://www.ellanmedia.com/ellanmedia.com/clients/jp/?p=635 The most impactful thoughts, ideas, philosophies and business practices.

• Words that trigger emotional responses
• How to make money being cocky and funny
• The brain-science behind the marketing and business mindset that can guarantee your success.

Joe Polish fell in love with Marketing when he realized as a 4-year-old sitting on the counter of his father’s locksmith shop that if he smiled nicely…people would give him TIPS. He parlayed that into his famous “I’m trying to win a trip to Disneyland” Newspaper subscription sales method and evolved THAT into the name-dropping, self-aggrandizing, super-generous style we all LOVE about Joe.

Dean Jackson fell in love with Marketing as a young boy when he first realized that selling stuff on commission was way easier than renting himself out by the hour for a regular job and he never looked back. Ever since, he carried that distaste for real work into his adult life and has focused on a lifestyle centered approach to business using marketing as the ultimate lever to a life of freedom and fun.

Eben Pagan

Entrepreneur, author and speaker, Eben is best known for teaching dating advice to men (under the stage name David DeAngelo), as well as business management, growth and personal development skills to Internet marketers.

From Eben Pagan, you will learn :

• How to find, research and create valuable products that are in high demand.
• The formula to create and deliver your target market exactly what they want.
• The brain-science behind the marketing and business mindset that can guarantee your success.

Eben Pagan is widely regarded as one of the most successful and respected Internet marketers. He has created wildly successful programs like Double Your Dating, Get Altitude, Wake Up Productive and The Guru Mastermind.

In Eben’s ILM Interview you’ll learn:

• Words that trigger emotional responses
• How to make money being cocky and funny
• A success blueprint to launch a multimillion dollar enterprise.

Eben’s programs are not just hugely financially successful but each one is a direct result of feedback from his Clients, and have brought him real fame and recognition in many industries.

Blake Mycoskie

He’s the man behind the growing one-for-one movement. His company, Toms Shoes has given over one-million pairs of new shoes to children in need. His new approach to business has earned him the prestigious People’s Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence, presented by Hillary Clinton.

Blake Mycoskie can reveal to you:

• How profitable and powerful corporate and social responsibility, innovation, exemplary practices, and democratic values worldwide can be.
• Ideas that inspire young people to help make tomorrow better, through business practices and everyday choices.
• The path to an abundant future with socially-minded businesses and consumers and what we can all do to get there.

Blake has always had an entrepreneurial spirit. He started 5 businesses before Toms Shoes. You may also have seen Blake as he competed in the CBS  Primetime Series, The Amazing Race, where Blake traveled the world and came within minutes of winning the $1-million grand prize.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Gary Vaynerchuk, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best-Selling author of “Crush It!” and “The Thank You Economy, who is also a self-trained wine and social media expert and an in-demand speaker at conferences and organizations world-wide.

Gary Vaynerchuk will reveal to you:

• Little known, easy to implement secrets for successful entrepreneurship and social media marketing.
• How best to utilize emerging marketing and new business technologies.
• New frontiers of customer service made possible by the Internet.

Gary’s launch of WineLibraryTV helped grow his family business from $3 million to $45 million in less than 8 years. He created two other popular sites and an iPhone Apps that provided him a cult-like following of over 100,000 viewers per day and close to 1 million Twitter followers.

From Gary Vaynerchuk you’ll learn:

• What’s more important – content or marketing – and why.
• How to build a business and a ah okbrand around who YOU are.
• The power of video in your marketing.
• How to make criticism work for you.

Gary has appeared on Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Conan, Ellen, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN and NPR. He was also notably featured in Decanter Magazine’s 2009 Power List of the 50 most influential people in wine and named Innovator of the Year at Wine Enthusiast’s 2009 Wine Star Awards.

Craig Ballantyne

Craig is a contributing author to Men’s Health magazine, a member of the Training Advisory Board for Maximum Fitness and Oxygen magazines, and Early To Rise editor and author.

Craig can reveal to you:

• Fat loss and muscle-building workouts for everyday men and women, and serious athletes
• How easy and powerful it is to live everyday as if it’s your last.
• Weird new goal setting and stress relief techniques.

Fitness and lifestyle guru, Craig Ballantyne started his internet career in 1998 and has since reached millions through several online and offline mediums. His message is a positive and holistic approach to helping people improve their health, wealth, and productivity

From Craig you’ll learn:

• 12 rules, easy to live by, for a happy, healthy and wealthy life.
• 7 Steps to establishing yourself as the #1 expert in your industry.
• How a simple 5 minute task can make tomorrow tens times more productive.

Craig is realizing his dream as editor of EarlyToRise.com delivering wisdom in all areas of life, from personal fitness and well-being to marketing, management and business growth.

Dan Sullivan

Dan Sullivan is the world’s foremost expert on entrepreneurship in action. When he stands before a room of entrepreneurs, they pay attention. Not because he’s a celebrity, but because they know he can help them figure out exactly what to do next.

Dan Sullivan can reveal to you:

• How to think about and solve any entrepreneurial challenge.
• How to eliminate your dangers, profit from all your opportunities and capitalize on all your strengths.
• How to access the freedom you desire.

Dan sees his central purpose as helping people become “unmanipulated”—liberated from external forces like industry constraints, economics, and politics, and internal forces, like their thinking, and past-based assumptions. When they gain this freedom, they begin to see and capture and multiply opportunities.

From Dan’s ILM interviews you’ll learn:

• How to make a plan for your bigger entrepreneurial future.
• Processes to always be experiencing exponential growth.
• Strategies for success without ever giving up your freedom or free time.

Top-performing business leaders often quote Dan’s maxims about business life, Dan’s tremendous ability to understand each entrepreneurs unique situation and offer strategies that create breakthroughs.

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Since starting the Genius Network™ Interview Series more than 13 years ago, Polish has conducted and published audio interviews with an amazing group of the nation’s leading experts and celebrities. The luminaries include: Brian Tracy – leading authorities on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness, Neil Strauss – New York Times Best Selling Author, Tim Ferris – New York Times Best Selling Author and entrepreneur, Bill Phillips – New York Times best-selling author, magazine publisher, and fitness expert.

“Every month, my subscribers get to listen in on a very important conversation with an industry expert, best-selling author, or well-known business leader,” Polish says. “These interviews help my subscribers in fundamental ways make more money, avoid wasting money, and lead a more fun, interesting and stress-free life. In fact, these interviews contain so many great tips and get-going ideas it’s like buying money at a discount.”

Richard Branson

Richard Branson is a Billionaire maverick and serial entrepreneur, owning over 400 companies and founder of the Virgin brand. Richard Branson is best known for his Virgin Group of more than 400 companies including Virgin Records, Virgin Megastores, Virgin Atlantic Airways and Virgin Galactic. He has an estimated net worth of $4.2 billion dollars.

From Richard Branson, you will learn :

• How to make a fortune doing good, having fun and good business sense.
• The secret to living life to the fullest, ignoring competition, leveraging setbacks and fulfilling your passion and destiny.
• How capitalism, without much management hierarchy and minimal bureaucracy will save the world.

Branson has ballooned across the Atlantic, signed the Sex Pistols, Janet Jackson and all kinds of famous musicians and he has been knighted by the queen. He even owns his own island, Necker Island.

From Richard, you’ll learn:

• What it means to be a “Social Entrepreneur.”
• Skills to successfully manage 50,000 employees who love you and still have a zestful life.
• How your personal PR, power and story could ultimately be more effective than dumping dollars into advertising.

Branson also has a philanthropic streak. He’s pledged $3Billion dollars over the next 10 years to renewable energies, his Virgin Earth Challenge offers a $25-million prize to the first person to come up with an economically viable solution to the greenhouse gas problem.

Neil Strauss

Neil Strauss is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Game, Rules of the Game, and Emergency.

Neil is the coauthor of three other New York Times bestsellers–Jenna Jameson’s How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, Mötley Crüe’s The Dirt, and Marilyn Manson’s The Long Hard Road Out of Hell–as well as Dave Navarro’s Don’t Try This at Home, a Los Angeles Times bestseller.

Neil can reveal to you:

• Survival and social skills to not just survive but thrive.

Strauss was a cultural critic and reporter at The New York Times for ten years and is currently a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and executive
producer, creator, and writer of a TV show for F/X.

From Neil, you’ll learn:

• How to model and become the best at anything you want to do.
• What kind of impact you can have by standing out from the crowd and serving a higher meaning.
• How to operate at maximum efficiency and authenticity to get the very most out of life

His latest book, Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead, collects the 228 best, craziest, and most soul-baring moments from his adventures with musicians, celebrities, and icons while writing cover stories for Rolling Stone and the New York Times.

David Allen

David Allen is one of the world’s most influential thinkers on personal productivity.

From David, you’ll learn:

• How to keep your email inbox empty
•  The top 3 tricks for productivity and organization for frequent travelers
• The blueprint to winning at the game of work and the business of life
•  A cure for overworked overachievers who suffer

Dave is an international author and lecturer, and he is the founder and President of the David Allen Company, a management consulting, coaching, and training company.

From David, you’ll learn:

• How to keep up the pace — without wearing yourself down.
• Why you always feel you’ve too much to do and too little time in which to do it.
• How to take an accurate inventory in your life and set your priorities based on your values.

David has developed a revolutionary system for productivity. He is the author of two books — “Getting Things Done” and “Ready for Anything”. He is a popular keynote speaker on stress management and high performance work practices. His e-newsletter has a global readership of more than 120,000 people.

In the last 20 years, David has helped over half a million professionals in hundreds of organizations worldwide, including many Fortune 500 corporations and U.S. Government agencies.

 

Tim Ferris

Tim Ferriss is the #1 New York Times Best Selling Author and entrepreneur.

From Tim Ferris, you will learn:

• How you can morph to your body in just 4 hours a week
• What healthy skepticism is
• How to test yourself to determine your true physical needs
• How chronic diseases can absolutely be avoided
• How to stumble upon simple solutions to long-standing problems

Tim is an author, thought leader and successful entrepreneur. His lifelong pursuit of nutrition and fitness predates most of the information within his industry by at least 10 years.

Tim can reveal to you:

• Active Skepticism
• Passive Skepticism
• How to solve chronic diseases with simple dietary changes

Timothy Ferriss, nominated as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007” and Forbes Magazine’s “Names You Need to Know in 2011,” is an angel investor (StumbleUpon, Facebook, Digg, Twitter, etc.) and author of the new #1 New York Times bestseller, The 4-Hour Body. He is also author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been sold into 35 languages. He is listed as #13 in the “100 Most Influential VCs, Angels & Investors” rankings.

Brian Tracy

Brian Tracy is one of America’s leading authorities on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness!

From Brian Tracy, you will learn :

• The top attributes and most important quality of a great leader

• What 95% of success in business and life comes from
• Why the best deal you may do is the one you turn
  away from
• How all-successful people are great failures
• How to hire employees that are so good, they are
  free to you

Brian is one of the world’s foremost thought leaders on personal and business success. In the past 30 years, he’s consulted for more than 1,000 companies and spoken to over 5-billion people worldwide on the subject of personal and professional development. He’s traveled and worked in over 80 counties and speaks 4 languages.

From Brian Tracy, you’ll learn:

• The top attributes of a leader
• The most valuable activity of all
• Zero based thinking

He’s a top-selling author of over 50 books that have been translated into dozens of languages. He’s written and produced more than 500 audio and video learning programs, including the worldwide, best- selling Psychology of Achievement, and has recently launched an online business training program for small- to medium-sized business owners, called “Business Growth Strategies.” He’s one of the most sought-after success coaches and has transformed the lives of millions.

Bill Phillips

Bill Phillips is the Body-for-LIFE Creator, New York Times best-selling author, magazine publisher, documentary filmmaker, entrepreneur, inventor, self-made multimillionaire, motivator.

From Bill, you’ll learn:

• The secret to a healthy life
•  How being physically fit will help you fulfill your purpose in life
•  Why almost 75% of Americans are out of shape
•  How to know if you are addicted to food
•  The secret to Bill’s sales and marketing success

Bill Phillips has led more than a million people to improve their health with his #1 New York Times bestseller, Body For Life. Now, Bill is poised to transform the nation from worst to first within 10 years.

Bill can reveal to you:

• The path of transformation
• Inspiration versus desperation
• Handling addictions

Bill has helped people transform for over 20 years. Bill has shared his motivating advice on the NBC Today Show, the CBS Early Show, Montel Williams, Fox News, and CNN. His insights have appeared in USA Today, Modern Maturity, Women’s World, and The Los Angeles Times, among other publications.

Aside from writing and public appearances, Bill has worked with the US Department of Health and Human Services to develop programs targeted at improving the well-being of children. Public oriented work such as this has led to accolades as one of America’s most generous business leaders.