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		<title>Why do you eat cake when you KNOW it makes you fat?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do you procrastinate when you KNOW it will hurt your chances of success? Solve those riddles and you can gave all the wealth, health and success you ever want and more. The good news is that the answers are simple. Even the APPLICATION of the answers is simple. You just have to have the tools. Want more good [...]]]></description>
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<p>Solve those riddles and you can gave all the wealth, health and success you ever want and more.</p>
<p>The good news is that the answers are simple. Even the APPLICATION of the answers is simple. You just have to have the tools.</p>
<p>Want more good news? Those tools are how you are going to prove yourself as a potential partner of mine.</p>
<p>Yesterday I talked about the businesses I&#8217;m going to allow you to partner with me on.  If you didn&#8217;t see that then <a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/suck-more-radical-honesty/">go here</a> to read more.</p>
<p>Once you have the right mindset training then I will <strong>KNOW</strong> you are ready to achieve and succeed without hangups.</p>
<p>Like I&#8217;ve said many times, everything is about mindset.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m allowing you inside a eight-figure plus potential empire. But you have to have your head screwed on straight or it will never work. What kind of businesses am I talking about?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a sneak peak:</p>
<p><strong>- </strong>High octance digital publishing via Kindle and other reader devices</p>
<p><strong>- </strong>CPA-style marketing for an awesome weight loss product</p>
<p><strong>-</strong> Bad ass Kickstarter.com projects</p>
<p><strong>- </strong>High leverage SEO</p>
<p><strong>- </strong>High end internet marketing consulting for celebrities and Fortune 500 companies</p>
<p><strong>- </strong>High end masterminding for any industry</p>
<p><strong>-</strong> Plus a LOT MORE</p>
<p>Each one of these businesses are tested and already doing AT LEAST six figures a year <strong>IN PROFIT </strong>and they aren&#8217;t even scaled out yet!</p>
<p>There is an easy $10 million per year in these projects alone and that&#8217;s just the beginning. But I&#8217;m not just gonna give you access to my inside stuff unless your mindset is right. I&#8217;m gonna let you in for free but you have to have to some real mindset training first.</p>
<p>My personal mindset guru is being brought in to train you guys how to get your head right and the <strong>EXACT </strong>steps to take to get all your ever want in life.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.michaelbernoff.com/Matt">Go here to register.</a></p>
<p>His name is Michael Bernoff and he&#8217;s a true bad ass. He knows EXACTLY how to get you to take action and finally achieve.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.michaelbernoff.com/Matt">You can see a special video message from him here.</a></p>
<p>So, if you want to partner with me or just get to a point to achieve at a level you never before imagined then be on our call Thursday night.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s gonna rock your world.</p>
<p>See you tomorrow!<br />
Matt</p>
<p>P.S. <a href="http://www.michaelbernoff.com/Matt">Go here</a> to see a video from Micheal and get registered for the mindset training.</p>
<p>This is a life changer if you let it be. Plus if you want to partner with me then you have to be there anyway. <img src='http://www.themarketingmoron.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><a href="http://www.michaelbernoff.com/Matt"> Register here.</a></p>
<p>This will be recorded but please be there live so you can get your questions answered live.</p>
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		<title>How To Not Suck (more radical honesty)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been very inspired over the holidays to finally stop pulling punches. It&#8217;s time to kick some ass and take some names. For those of you with ADHD that can&#8217;t patiently read my stuff, this email/post is about how you can partner with me in my new &#8220;holy grail&#8221; businesses. Real partners, not just thinly [...]]]></description>
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<p>For those of you with ADHD that can&#8217;t patiently read my stuff, this email/post is about how you can partner with me in my new &#8220;holy grail&#8221; businesses. Real partners, not just thinly diguised affiliate programs. More on that in a bit&#8230;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Radical Honesty</strong></p>
<p>I discovered a cool blog last week and found myself READING EVERY WORD. It&#8217;s from a guy name <a href="http://www.jamesaltucher.com/">James Altucher</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d never heard of him until last week but I love this dude. He&#8217;s the type that you&#8217;ll either love or hate. The reason is because of his radical honesty, both about himself and others. He&#8217;s funny and though I don&#8217;t agree with everything he says, I love his writing.</p>
<p>His style has inspired me to finally stop being so PC and really do what I want to do, help people.</p>
<p>Unfortunately most people need to be told what to do all the time. Even those that don&#8217;t could use an ass kicking once in a while.</p>
<p>So, from now on I&#8217;m be the &#8220;remote ass kicker&#8221; and really get people to move off dead center and make it big.</p>
<p>So, let&#8217;s start with what holds you back.<br />
1) Fear of the unknown<br />
2) Fear of success<br />
3) Fear of failure<br />
4) Fear of everything else</p>
<p>With so much fear there is no action taken. You get frozen and can&#8217;t even take a step.</p>
<p>You need a REAL call to action.</p>
<p>You are afraid. No biggie. Just get over yourself and take some steps. Success is usually only an inch away amazingly.</p>
<p>I talked a lot about fear in a previous post so I won&#8217;t go too much into that again. You can read all about that <a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/plan-part-2/">here</a>. (Make sure to download my <a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/plan-part-2/">fear-smashing PDF</a>.)</p>
<p>Hell even I have fear sometimes so I KNOW it&#8217;s universal. But if you have the tools then fear is easy to dispatch.</p>
<p><strong>How To Not Suck</strong></p>
<p>Once you actually start taking some action you need a path to follow. Without that, you&#8217;ll eventually get lost and fear and inaction will return.</p>
<p>So, in order to not be afraid, not suck and not fail AGAIN, all you need is three things:<br />
1) Action<br />
2) Action<br />
3) Action<br />
4) Holy Grail</p>
<p>Oh wait, that&#8217;s 4 things. My math is bad. <img src='http://www.themarketingmoron.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Action removes fear.<br />
Holy grail gives you confidence.<br />
Confidence removes fear.</p>
<p>Action + Holy Grail = Success</p>
<p>Success removes even more fear and you all of a sudden don&#8217;t suck and you become UNSTOPPABLE! (For those of you that don&#8217;t read my stuff more often and are wondering what the hell I mean by &#8220;holy grail&#8221; just go <a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/holy-grail-part-4/">here</a>.)</p>
<p><strong>The Holy Grail(s)</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to figure out how to partner with my readers for a while now. Not some lame affiliate program that allows you to &#8220;partner&#8221; with me. I mean a real partnership where we work together to grow a real business and we split the profits.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been hard for me to figure out for obvious reasons. You need to trust partners. I didn&#8217;t want to get stuck giving away the farm while my new partners did nothing yet kept half the money. Plus how in the world do you scale to an unlimited number of partners while maintaining focus?</p>
<p>Finally I had to drop my ego and kick my own ass a bit and just say screw it. If people want to lie, cheat and steal my time, energy and money then let them. They&#8217;ll weed themselves out and the cream will rise to the top.</p>
<p>As far as scaling goes, I&#8217;ll let the partners manage that. (Those details coming later.)</p>
<p>So, what in the world am I talking about?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m opening up my businesses to all of you to partner with me. I&#8217;m talking about businesses that already work, already make big money, already are tested. They just need you to get in and drive.</p>
<p>These businesses already are doing six figures or more EACH for me and/or my friends. No theory. All real. I provide whatever you don&#8217;t have (people, funds, scaling, expertise, etc.) You run it and we split the profits.</p>
<p>Pretty simple. (Of course you have to provide a MINIMUM of half the work or resources needed.)</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the best part: It&#8217;s free.</p>
<p>BUT&#8230;and this is a BIG BUT, you have to prove yourself. I don&#8217;t need my time wasted any more than you do so you have to jump through a couple hoops.</p>
<p>For a long time the only way I could have people &#8220;prove&#8221; themselves was via buying products or paying me money somehow.</p>
<p>This has proven to be a REALLY bad way to filter people. It&#8217;s better than nothing but ultimately very bad.</p>
<p>Luckily I found a brilliant way for me to test your mindset, work ethic and partner potential.</p>
<p><strong>This is the Call To Action.</strong></p>
<p>Time to not suck and finally achieve big things.</p>
<p>If you want to partner with me and finally make it big both financially and in life then watch for tomorrow&#8217;s email/post for more details.<br />
Talk soon,<br />
Matt<br />
P.S. Set aside an hour on Thursday evening because I&#8217;m going to explain it all then via teleconference.</p>
<p>Details tomorrow.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s partner in 2012 and make it your biggest year ever.</p>
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		<title>Arizona man in hospital after head on collision yet&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;he still brought in almost $20,000 in profit! Luke&#8217;s printer Bruce was hit head on in by a drunk driver and while in the hospital his mail order business was still bringing in thousands of orders a day. All on autopilot. Now that&#8217;s a holy grail! In case you missed me explaining what &#8220;holy grail&#8221; means click [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wpfblike' style='height: 30px;'><iframe src='http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.themarketingmoron.com/arizona-man-hospital-head-collision-yet/&amp;layout=default&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=600&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' allowTransparency='true' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:600px;'></iframe></div><p></p><p><a href="https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/177299790"><img class="alignleft" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 10px;" title="Head on" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/48/136629418_450aaec77d_m.jpg" alt="Head on" width="240" height="180" border="0" hspace="5" /></a>&#8230;he still brought in almost $20,000 in profit!</p>
<p>Luke&#8217;s printer Bruce was hit head on in by a drunk driver and while in the hospital his mail order business was still bringing in thousands of orders a day. All on autopilot.</p>
<p>Now that&#8217;s a holy grail! In case you missed me explaining what &#8220;holy grail&#8221; means <a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/holy-grail-part-4/">click here to read it</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://postcardprofits.com/stories/bruce.php">Here&#8217;s a video with Bruce telling his story.</a></p>
<p>Bruce is one of Luke&#8217;s students that got in on one of Luke&#8217;s &#8220;ready to go&#8221; projects.</p>
<p>Luke is officially retiring from the scene and he&#8217;s releasing one last &#8220;holy grail&#8221; project. It&#8217;s all tested and already making money. All you have to do is take over and run it.</p>
<p>Luke and I are doing a webinar covering the whole thing this Thursday at 5PM Pacific.</p>
<p>Because Luke is working one-on-one with those that get in on the project he has to keep the group small so it&#8217;s <strong>NOT BEING RECORDED NOR REPEATED</strong>. This really is a one time deal. Also note that this is <strong>NOT</strong> an automated webinar. It&#8217;s 100% live and real time.</p>
<p><a href="https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/177299790">Click here to get registered.</a></p>
<p>Make sure to be there on Thursday because I&#8217;m dead serious about it not being recorded nor repeated.</p>
<p>You are either in or out.</p>
<p><a href="https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/177299790">Here&#8217;s the link again to get registered.</a></p>
<p>See you on Thursday.<br />
Matt<br />
P.S. Stay tuned for my continuing email series to learn how you can get in on my &#8220;holy grail&#8221; projects.</p>
<p>If you missed the first parts of the series here are the links again:<br />
Part 1: <a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/time-inspired-part-1/">Time to be inspired<br />
</a>Part 2: <a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/plan-part-2/">The Plan<br />
</a>Part 3: <a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/part-3-impossible-succeed-without/">Impossible to succeed?<br />
</a>Part 4: <a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/holy-grail-part-4/">The Holy Grail</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/177299790">H</a><a href="https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/177299790">ere&#8217;s the link again to get registered for the LIVE webinar on Thursday.</a></p>
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		<title>The Holy Grail &#8211; Part 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday in Part 3 I talked I said I&#8217;d talk about traffic today. Well guess what, traffic is not the holy grail. (If you missed Part 2, get it here.) So what is the &#8220;holy grail&#8221;? I&#8217;ll get to that in a minute. Traffic is really quite simple. (There&#8217;s the word again!) Only two ways [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wpfblike' style='height: 30px;'><iframe src='http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.themarketingmoron.com/holy-grail-part-4/&amp;layout=default&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=600&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' allowTransparency='true' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:600px;'></iframe></div><p></p><p><a href="https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/177299790"><img class="alignleft" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 10px;" title="Just drive" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4665338572_c18815e188_m.jpg" alt="Just drive" width="240" height="180" border="0" hspace="5" /></a>Yesterday in <a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/part-3-impossible-succeed-without/">Part 3</a> I talked I said I&#8217;d talk about traffic today. Well guess what, traffic is not the holy grail.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/part-3-impossible-succeed-without/">(If you missed Part 2, get it here.)</a></p>
<p>So what is the &#8220;holy grail&#8221;? I&#8217;ll get to that in a minute. Traffic is really quite simple. (There&#8217;s the word again!) <img src='http://www.themarketingmoron.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Only two ways to get it. Buy it or create it. Before we go any further I want to shatter another myth.</p>
<p><strong>There is no such things as free traffic! </strong></p>
<p>You pay for <strong>ALL</strong> traffic in some way. You either outright buy it or you pay for it with time or outsourcing.Now that you understand that part, all you need to know is either where to buy it or how to create it.</p>
<p>Where to buy it?</p>
<p>Obviously Google PPC has become too hard for most people and that&#8217;s mostly Google&#8217;s fault. They simlpy hate affiliates and only want to send their traffic to landing pages with full navigation and full disclosure of everything including price.</p>
<p>In short, their rules are not easy to get around and still convert well. Worse, they simply shut down your account if you can&#8217;t interpret their goofy wording in their &#8220;terms and conditions&#8221;. So they are out.</p>
<p>PPC on Yahoo/Bing is better but suffering from the same fate because they hate affiliates too.Jjust not as much. So they are out.</p>
<p>There a lot of other PPC networks out there that will work fine but I don&#8217;t want to get into that too much because in the end this email is not about some goofy &#8220;secret&#8221; traffic source. That sort of stuff is all hype and mostly big bags of B.S.</p>
<p>Media buys are tough for the beginner and can be a bit expensive when starting out unless you have been around the block. So that&#8217;s out for now.</p>
<p>&#8220;Creating&#8221; traffic is easier in some respects because there are no goofy rules to follow as mentioned and you can do it at will.</p>
<p>The downside is that most times its takes a while to see results and you have to do some work in the &#8220;create&#8221; part of it.</p>
<p>So obviously you can create traffic by blogging, SEO, social media, writing articles, etc. But all those take a LOT of time to do right (meaning not spammy) and the results can take months or years.</p>
<p>&#8220;But wait a second Matt, I though you said yesterday that traffic is the easy part?&#8221;</p>
<p>(I can read your thoughts) <img src='http://www.themarketingmoron.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Yes I did say that. But I didn&#8217;t say that ALL traffic was easy. So what do I do? I do a hybrid approach that&#8217;s both FAST and EASY.</p>
<p><strong>I do Facebook PPC and press releases.</strong></p>
<p>Facebook PPC is pretty good and getting better. I definite place to start. Just make sure you read their goofy rules too.They do have rules but so far they are pretty good with helping you get a campaign up fast and don&#8217;t just shut your account off because you don&#8217;t understand them.</p>
<p>The targeting is great and clicks are VERY cheap if you do it right. They are not super fond of affiliates either but you can get around that by keeping the traffic inside Facebook.</p>
<p>Meaning, just drive the traffic to a Fan page. Simple and the clicks are cheap. Just do an iFrame of whatever affiliate thing you want to promote but don&#8217;t be hypey and don&#8217;t be spammy.</p>
<p>Press releases are the perfect traffic source because they are a hybrid of &#8220;paid&#8221; and &#8220;created&#8221; traffic and with it you get SEO done almost automatically. You do have to write them but it&#8217;s simple. Just have to consistently do it at least once a week. We do them every day.</p>
<p>Go to OnlinePRNews.com to see the tutorial on writing PR so you can follow the format correctly.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s really it guys. Spend about $100 or so on Facebook PPC to test the offer and then do press releases to get the bigger, better &#8220;organic&#8221; traffic. Simple. Simple. Simple.</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s the holy grail all about then?</p>
<p>Obviously the problem with all this &#8220;easy&#8221; and &#8220;simple&#8221; stuff is that there is testing involved.</p>
<p>If you are still a &#8220;Type 1&#8243; person as talked about in previous emails in this series then you won&#8217;t know what to do when a test fails to produce the expected results.</p>
<p>So the holy grail is fully tested and proven traffic and offers that already make money with that traffic. AAHHHH!</p>
<p>Yeah that&#8217;s a tough one because NO ONE wants to do all the work of testing and then just give you their money machine. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s the holy grail. It exists but good luck getting it.</p>
<p>Well I&#8217;m about to change all that.</p>
<p>I have many tested and proven traffic sources and offers that convert well with that traffic. They make money right now. Good money.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to give you the chance to get in on those. These are all turnkey and ready to go. You just get in and drive.</p>
<p>One is a fast easy route, you just pay to get in. One is slower but &#8220;free&#8221; route. (More on that in a bit.)</p>
<p>The fast, easy route will be revealed in a live webinar this Thursday. I&#8217;ll be hosting a webinar with my old friend Luke Jaten.</p>
<p>Luke is famous for creating multiple projects that have produced $50k per week or more in profits VERY fast using simple postcards.Those of you that have been following me for a while will remember that he and I launched the Postcard Traffic system back in 2009. That course was a huge success and many people went on to make A LOT of money with it.</p>
<p>Several people were able to quit their jobs and make more money than they ever dreamed possible. They key was that they got in on Luke&#8217;s &#8220;holy grail&#8221;. He gave access to his projects that were already making money.</p>
<p>They simply had to get in and drive.</p>
<p>Unfortunately Luke has decided to &#8220;retire&#8221; and he&#8217;s allowing access to his last money-making mail order project so he can quit running it. He&#8217;s gonna detail it live this Thursday at 5PM Pacific.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a ONE TIME WEBINAR and it won&#8217;t be recorded or repeated EVER. You are either in or you are out.</p>
<p>What Luke is giving access to is worth a LOT of money and he&#8217;s working one on one with each person that gets in on it so it&#8217;s gotta be kept small. Last time he did this he created several multi-million dollar businesses for his students. All they had to do was step in and run them. He&#8217;s doing it one final time this Thursday.</p>
<p><a href="https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/177299790">Click here now to go register.</a></p>
<p>Remember, this won&#8217;t be recorded and won&#8217;t be repeated ever again. So if you are a Type 1 person and just want to be told what to do each day AND you want the holy grail without having to do all the setup and testing, then you MUST be there on this webinar on Thursday.</p>
<p>Ok, enough about that. You get it.</p>
<p>The slower and &#8220;free&#8221; route is going to be detailed in a later email but this gist is that you will be able to access to my &#8220;holy grail&#8221; projects for basically free after you prove yourself to me by doing some work and jumping through some hoops.</p>
<p>The projects I&#8217;m giving you access to are right now making some people $10k a month all the way up to $100k/mo and more. The testing is already done. The offers already make money and the traffic sources are tested. You just have to get in and drive.</p>
<p>Details in later posts.</p>
<p>Talk soon,<br />
Matt<br />
P.S. Make sure you don&#8217;t miss this Thursday&#8217;s webinar with me and Luke Jaten. It will be awesome. Even if you aren&#8217;t going to get in on Luke&#8217;s turnkey &#8220;holy grail&#8221; mail order project then you should still be there.</p>
<p>Luke is a master teacher and will be delivering some amazing content on how to do postcard traffic and mail order projects the right way.</p>
<p><a href="https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/177299790">Go here to get registered for this Thursday at 5PM Pacific.</a></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t miss out.</p>
<p><strong>I&#8217;m not kidding when I say IT WON&#8217;T BE RECORDED AND WON&#8217;T BE REPEATED.</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/177299790">Register now.</a></p>
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		<title>Part 3 &#8211; It&#8217;s Impossible To Succeed Without&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;the right mindset. Sad but true. If you don&#8217;t have your head screwed on right it&#8217;s near impossible to get out of your own way and really succeed. Fortunately that&#8217;s a pretty simple problem to solve. Just know that &#8220;simple&#8221; and &#8220;easy&#8221; are not the same things. In my last post &#8211; Part 2 &#8211; I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wpfblike' style='height: 30px;'><iframe src='http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.themarketingmoron.com/part-3-impossible-succeed-without/&amp;layout=default&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=600&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' allowTransparency='true' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:600px;'></iframe></div><p></p><p><img class="alignleft" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 10px;" title="The View" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3063/3010975006_808f2fe92e_m.jpg" alt="The View" width="240" height="160" border="0" />&#8230;the right mindset.</p>
<p>Sad but true.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t have your head screwed on right it&#8217;s near impossible to get out of your own way and really succeed. Fortunately that&#8217;s a pretty simple problem to solve. Just know that &#8220;simple&#8221; and &#8220;easy&#8221; are not the same things.</p>
<p>In my last post &#8211; <a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/plan-part-2/">Part 2</a> &#8211; I gave you access to some simple tools to remove all fears and procrastination in order to get your mindset right.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/plan-part-2/">If you missed it go here.</a></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve delayed in posting Part 3 on purpose to hopefully inspire you to actually DO the exercises in Part 2. Without doing them you WILL NOT get the best results! That&#8217;s a fact.</p>
<p>Assuming you&#8217;ve done that, let&#8217;s move on to Part 3.</p>
<p>In this post I&#8217;ll start to map out the plan and give you some ideas to get started.</p>
<p>The goal with this series is to get you AS FAST AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE to making AT LEAST six figures a year. Then it&#8217;s all about scaling.</p>
<p>OK back to the two types of people:</p>
<p>Type 1 &#8211; Needs to be told what to do</p>
<p>Type 2 &#8211; Self-directed</p>
<p>Problem is that no matter what, you HAVE TO start at Type 1 when learning a new skill or trying to change your life. You simply don&#8217;t know what to do until you get some experience under your belt.</p>
<p>For Type 1 people trying to make money for the first time on the Internet or trying to create a REAL freedom business everything seems daunting.</p>
<p>And it is. But I have a solution. More on that in a minute.</p>
<p>Type 2 people listen up!</p>
<p>Provided your mindset is right, success on the Internet is a really simple formula:</p>
<p><strong>Traffic + Converting offer = Success</strong></p>
<p>It really is that simple. The only difference between millions of dollars and failure is scaling that formula smartly. That&#8217;s it.</p>
<p>There are all kinds of things that people get twisted up on inside the &#8220;traffic&#8221; part and the &#8220;converting offer&#8221; part but those really are the only two pieces that matter.</p>
<p>Good news is that traffic is simple AND easy. You just buy it or create it. I&#8217;ll talk about that in future emails.</p>
<p><strong>TRAFFIC IS THE EASIEST PART SO DON&#8217;T GET SO HUNG UP ON IT!</strong></p>
<p>For some reason people have this feeling that traffic is the &#8220;sexy&#8221; part or something. Traffic doesn&#8217;t make money. Only a converting offer does. Traffic only SCALES the money.</p>
<p>I can send you ten million clicks of the best traffic in the world but if your offer is shit then you just have shit.</p>
<p>Once you really get this you will quickly realize that all you really need to focus on is a converting offer. That&#8217;s simple AND easy too. There are millions of them.</p>
<p>A converting offer can be anything but in the end it&#8217;s just finding a WANT (not need) that people have and fill it.</p>
<p>What do people want? Again, simple.</p>
<p>They want to be feel wanted, feel attractive and to be fulfilled or entertained. Find offers that fill those areas. Simple.</p>
<p>Lose weight.<br />
Get healthy.<br />
Make money.<br />
Be entertained (movies, books, video games, Kindle, etc.).</p>
<p>You can make millions in ANY of those areas.</p>
<p>An offer can be your own products or affiliate products. It doesn&#8217;t matter.</p>
<p>OK wait, I hear a lot of you already, &#8220;We already know this stuff, why so basic? Where&#8217;s the meat?&#8221;</p>
<p>THIS IS THE MEAT. Basics are all you need. So many get so worked up over the latest shiny object that they can&#8217;t see the forest for the trees.</p>
<p><strong>MAKING MILLIONS AND/OR CREATING A FREEDOM BUSINESS IS SIMPLE PEOPLE! ALL YOU NEED IS THE BASICS, THEN SCALE!</strong></p>
<p>If you aren&#8217;t where you want to be then you simply are focusing on the wrong things. It&#8217;s that simple.</p>
<p>Mindset, converting offer, traffic in that order is all you need to focus on.</p>
<p>Finding a converting offer seems so hard for so many people but it&#8217;s ridiculously easy. Just got to Clickbank, Amazon or any affiliate network and you&#8217;ll find all kinds of converting offers.</p>
<p>Clickbank has gotten really strict these days so the garbage is slowly being weeded out and you can find good stuff to promote. Focus on &#8220;high gravity&#8221; offers with a high affiliate payout.</p>
<p>On Amazon look for the &#8220;hot&#8221; products (they list these for you already) and filter by products over $200 and promote those.</p>
<p>On affiliate networks look for broad market products that are evergreen (weight loss and beauty stuff is good).</p>
<p>Just pick one that you have some interest in and promote it. I have LOTS of friends and acquaintances that make HUGE money doing exactly what I just told you to do in the last 4-5 paragraphs so no excuses please.</p>
<p>But what does &#8220;promote&#8221; mean? Traffic. I&#8217;ll cover that in the next post.</p>
<p>All the traffic you&#8217;ll ever need. In droves.</p>
<p>Talk soon,<br />
Matt<br />
P.S. Notice throughout this post I used the word &#8220;simple&#8221; a lot. That&#8217;s on purpose. I want to really drill into your head that <strong>YOU CAN DO THIS&#8230;AND DO IT BIG!</strong></p>
<p><strong>IT&#8217;S SIMPLE!</strong></p>
<p>But you have to start somewhere so to make this all real easy for everyone I&#8217;m just gonna tell you what to do and then you can move to becoming a &#8220;Type 2&#8243; person after you really &#8220;get it&#8221;.</p>
<p>To help with that look at <a href="https://postcardprofits.com/stories/debbie.php">this video.</a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s an video that should humble and inspire you at the same time. It&#8217;s the true story of a school teacher that lost her job and then within one month made more than $11,000 and launched a new business from home. She doesn&#8217;t even need a job anymore.</p>
<p>$11,000 happens to be A LOT MORE than a teacher&#8217;s monthly salary in case you don&#8217;t know. Best part, she had no idea what she was doing. She just followed the steps I just gave you and had a plan.</p>
<p>She started at Type 1 and she&#8217;s now a Type 2.</p>
<p>In the next post I&#8217;ll tell you how you can exactly do what she has done AND EVEN BETTER.</p>
<p><a href="https://postcardprofits.com/stories/debbie.php">Check out her video here.</a></p>
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		<title>The Plan &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite movies of all time is called &#8220;The Game&#8221; starring Michael Douglas. In that movie the star is taken through a series of events seemingly out of his control. But behind the scenes he&#8217;s being directed to make decisions that will end up with the best outcome for him. The goal being to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wpfblike' style='height: 30px;'><iframe src='http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.themarketingmoron.com/plan-part-2/&amp;layout=default&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=600&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' allowTransparency='true' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:600px;'></iframe></div><p></p><p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1173" style="margin: 10px;" title="The Game" src="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/screen-capture1.png" alt="" width="253" height="231" />One of my favorite movies of all time is called &#8220;The Game&#8221; starring Michael Douglas. In that movie the star is taken through a series of events seemingly out of his control. But behind the scenes he&#8217;s being directed to make decisions that will end up with the best outcome for him. The goal being to take him outside his comfort zone.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a crazy movie and you should definitely see it of you haven&#8217;t. The main character is a very successful business man that has his life all planned out only to be turned completely upside down by &#8220;The Game&#8221;.</p>
<p>The point I want to make is that there are two types of people in this world. Those that need to be directed &#8211; aka &#8220;told what to do&#8221; &#8211; and there are those that are self-starters (don&#8217;t need to be told what to do).</p>
<p>I think most people fluctuate between the two types depending on experience, motivation, interest, etc. but in the end there are only two types.</p>
<p>Some people stay one type their whole life. They never step outside their comfort zone because of some fear.</p>
<p>Fear comes in many facets but none are real. I&#8217;ll talk more about that in a bit. In the end you are either making decisions to direct your life or they are being made for you.</p>
<p>Which camp do you want to be in?</p>
<p>All that being said, I have a very ambitious plan to get <strong>EVERYONE</strong> reading this into the camp that directs their own life without fear and acts <strong>BOLDLY</strong> to achieve whatever they want in life. It&#8217;s pretty simple to do. Just think about what you want to do, be, see or achieve and then remove all blocks to those goals. 99.999% of those blocks are just fear.</p>
<p>Fear is <strong>NOTHING</strong> but a story you are telling yourself to justify inaction.</p>
<p>Seriously. Read that sentence again slowly and really think about it.</p>
<p><span style="background: #FFFF00;">Fear is <strong>NOTHING</strong> but a story you are telling yourself to justify inaction.</span></p>
<p>To completely remove every fear you&#8217;ve ever had <a href="http://themarketingmoron.s3.amazonaws.com/bookchapters/Think%20Big%20And%20Swing%20For%20the%20Fences.pdf" target="_blank">read this chapter of a new book</a> I&#8217;m writing. Once fear is gone then it&#8217;s all about taking the steps one by one.</p>
<p>What steps you ask? That&#8217;s pretty simple too; You just back into it. That&#8217;s also covered in the chapter I just wrote too. <a href="http://themarketingmoron.s3.amazonaws.com/bookchapters/Think%20Big%20And%20Swing%20For%20the%20Fences.pdf" target="_blank">Get it here.</a></p>
<p>OK, now what?</p>
<p>A plan.</p>
<p>My plan is to turn my whole business upside down. I&#8217;m switching from a completely for-profit model to a partial-profit model. &#8220;What&#8217;s that mean weirdo?&#8221;, you say. Glad you asked. <img src='http://www.themarketingmoron.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>It means that after spending millions of dollars on dumb shit and pleasing only myself I&#8217;ve found that I&#8217;m left with a lack of fulfillment. Yeah I&#8217;ve had all the best the world can offer from private jets, luxury homes, exotic cars, etc. But nothing brings me satisfaction other than helping others.</p>
<p>So, after much thought I&#8217;ve decided to make a radical move.</p>
<p>I know after much testing that all I need is about $600,000 per year to do anything I ever want to do. Anything above that gets wasted and makes me an idiot. (Seriously)</p>
<p>So, I&#8217;m changing everything. My goal is make 100 MILLION DOLLARS, and then give nearly all of it away. Yep, all of it (minus my $600k a year). And I want to give a huge chunk of it to my students and coaching clients. The rest will go to charity.</p>
<p>Crazy? Hell yes it is. But I believe this can work.</p>
<p>But we gotta start somewhere. So you gotta start with mindset.</p>
<p>Mindset is EVERYTHING. Without the right mindset you can&#8217;t even take the first step. <a href="http://themarketingmoron.s3.amazonaws.com/bookchapters/Think%20Big%20And%20Swing%20For%20the%20Fences.pdf" target="_blank">So start by getting my &#8220;fear removal&#8221; tool here.</a> Study that, take action and then you&#8217;ll have all you need to go to the next step. The next step is obviously start with a solid money making system.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll get into that in the next post.<br />
Talk soon,<br />
Matt<br />
P.S. Don&#8217;t forget to check out Matt Wadsworth&#8217;s world record attempt and help him get the word out by posting it on Facebook etc.</p>
<p>His site is here at <a href="http://www.makingthejump.com" target="_blank">MakingTheJump.com</a></p>
<p>P.P.S. <a href="http://themarketingmoron.s3.amazonaws.com/bookchapters/Think%20Big%20And%20Swing%20For%20the%20Fences.pdf" target="_blank">Get the chapter I wrote here to work on step one</a>. Get your mind right and remove fear and procrastination forever.</p>
<p><strong>DO NOT TAKE THIS PART LIGHTLY!!!</strong></p>
<p>See you in the next post.</p>
<p>If you missed part one of this series you can see it <a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/time-inspired-part-1/">here.</a></p>
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		<title>Time To Be Inspired! (Part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been deep in thought for a while now trying to figure out to help more people actually succeed online. Not just succeed. But to really do it BIG and change lives. There are many things I&#8217;ve come up with but the overarching problem in the end is that Internet marketing has too many variables. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wpfblike' style='height: 30px;'><iframe src='http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.themarketingmoron.com/time-inspired-part-1/&amp;layout=default&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=600&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' allowTransparency='true' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:600px;'></iframe></div><p></p><p>I&#8217;ve been deep in thought for a while now trying to figure out to help more people actually succeed online.<a href="http://www.makingthejump.com/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1167 alignright" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;" title="MakingTheJump.com" src="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/screen-capture-300x231.png" alt="" width="300" height="231" /></a></p>
<p>Not just succeed. But to really do it BIG and change lives.</p>
<p>There are many things I&#8217;ve come up with but the overarching problem in the end is that Internet marketing has too many variables. There&#8217;s simply too much to do and too<br />
much to learn to be successful quickly. </p>
<p>So most people get frustrated from lack of results and quit or keep searching for the latest, greatest shiny object (product launch) to &#8220;solve&#8221; the problem.</p>
<p>This just makes the problem worse and creates more debt or &#8220;investment&#8221; in this crazy online marketing business.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a sort of a death spiral.</p>
<p>Einstein is famous for saying that doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. I certainly agree with that but how do we stop it? There must be an answer&#8230;</p>
<p>Good news is that I&#8217;ve found it. And I&#8217;m going to reveal the whole secret over the next few days in this series.</p>
<p>All free. No optin. Nothing to buy. Just answers.</p>
<p>And help.</p>
<p>In this first installment I want to inspire you so you can first have vision.</p>
<p>Without vision you will forever fail.</p>
<p>///&#8211;Start inspiration&#8212;////</p>
<p>So imagine trying to succeed online with all the problems I&#8217;ve mentioned already AND being physically handicapped.</p>
<p>Worse, <strong>imagine being BLIND!</strong> I mean shit, at least I can see perfectly well to write this email and use a mouse! Well, my buddy Matt Wadsworth has been wildly successful online and can&#8217;t even see his computer.</p>
<p>In fact, he&#8217;s never seen anything&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;EVER.</p>
<p>He was born blind.</p>
<p>Many of you may have heard his story or<br />
have seen him speak but wait til you see<br />
what he&#8217;s up to now.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s actually creating a documentary movie<br />
about him going for a world record.</p>
<p>What world record?</p>
<p>This will blow you away. <strong>He&#8217;s going for the world record motorcycle jump!!!</strong></p>
<p>Yep, he&#8217;s insane. He can&#8217;t even see the ramp he&#8217;s trying to jump from!</p>
<p>You have to see the first video about the attempts and training he&#8217;s done already. You can see it <a href="http://www.makingthejump.com/">here</a> or go to <a href="http://www.makingthejump.com/">www.MakingTheJump.com</a></p>
<p>He&#8217;s training with one of my childhood heroes, Micky Dymond. I raced motorcross when I was a kid and always looked up to Micky. He was a rock star.</p>
<p>I crashed a lot and broke a few bones and was never very good so retired in my early 20&#8242;s because I started to hate getting hurt. Now here comes Matt Wadsworth and is doing what I got scared to do <strong>AND HE&#8217;S BLIND!</strong></p>
<p>Micky Dymond was one of the world&#8217;s greatest racers and I&#8217;m jealous I never got to train with him like Matt is.</p>
<p>So, this is your inspiration moment for today. Watch the video about Matt training to make the jump <a href="http://www.makingthejump.com/">here</a>.</p>
<p>Talk soon,<br />
Matt<br />
P.S. If you can&#8217;t get inspired by a blind dude trying to do a world record motorcycle jump then you have ice water in your veins or your momma hated you or something.</p>
<p>Matt is donating 100% of the profits from the documentary to charity so please support him in his journey.</p>
<p>See the videos here:<br />
<a href="http://www.makingthejump.com/">www.MakingTheJump.com</a></p>
<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s email will reveal the first part of my answer for how to crack the code and succeed huge online. And I&#8217;m gonna help you do it, 100% free of charge.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s my way of giving back for this holiday season and I&#8217;ll finally reveal what I&#8217;m doing behind the scenes to <strong>GIVE AWAY ridiculous amounts of money to people like you.</strong></p>
<p>Yep you read that right.</p>
<p>More tomorrow&#8230;.</p>
<p>///&#8212;End Inspiration&#8212;/// <img src='http://www.themarketingmoron.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
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		<title>Broken water heater nearly destroys family&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty manly as most of you know already. But I just saw something that made me tear up. The story is amazing. I got an email from Mike about it and he said it made him cry. Even though I know Mike is a softy and isn&#8217;t prone to hype at all, it just [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wpfblike' style='height: 30px;'><iframe src='http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.themarketingmoron.com/broken-water-heater-destroys-family/&amp;layout=default&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=600&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' allowTransparency='true' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:600px;'></iframe></div><p></p><p><a href="http://mainstreetmarketingmachines.com/realpeople/cmd.php?af=811702 "><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 20px; border: 0pt none;" title="Getting the old one out" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/129/380112198_77ff64c75e_m.jpg" border="0" alt="Getting the old one out" hspace="5" width="180" height="240" /></a>I&#8217;m pretty manly as most of you know already.  <img src='http://www.themarketingmoron.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>But I just saw something that made me tear up. The story is amazing.</p>
<p>I got an email from Mike about it and he said it made him cry. Even though I know Mike is a softy and isn&#8217;t prone to hype at all, it just seemed like a tad bit of marketing hype to me.</p>
<p>But then I saw it myself.  It&#8217;s very moving.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the new video from the Main Street Marketing Machines launch.</p>
<p><a href="http://mainstreetmarketingmachines.com/realpeople/cmd.php?af=811702 ">Click here to go check it out &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>
<p>The video is nothing but real success stories right from the actual people.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a very well made video but that doesn&#8217;t really mean much these days.</p>
<p>What does mean EVERYTHING is the stories themselves.<br />
These are real people. MSMM changed their lives.</p>
<p>You MUST see this video even if you NEVER plan to buy MSMM simply because it gives hope.</p>
<p>And hope is a huge thing.</p>
<p>Some would say everything.</p>
<p>You have to watch all the way to the end (it&#8217;s not long) because the last story is the best one.<br />
It&#8217;s a very moving story from the wife of a MSMM hero. I won&#8217;t spoil it but I will say that the part about the broken water heater is what tore me up.</p>
<p><a href="http://mainstreetmarketingmachines.com/realpeople/cmd.php?af=811702 ">Go here to see it &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>
<p>Talk soon,<br />
Matt &#8220;Cry Baby&#8221; Trainer<br />
P.S. In my last email I said I was gonna give more details about my new training bonus for MSMM.</p>
<p>/&#8212;&#8211;Sidebar&#8212;&#8212;/<br />
In case you missed the first 2 emails about my new training program:<br />
<a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/seth-godin-slapped/">Click here for Part 1 &#8211; Seth Godin Slapped Me</a><br />
<a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/linchpin-part-2/">Click here for Part 2 &#8211; Be The Linchpin</a><br />
/&#8211;End SideBar&#8212;/</p>
<p>I also promised I&#8217;d tell you how to find high-paying clients now.  I&#8217;ll start with that.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s actually pretty simple to find high-paying clients. The simplest (and most effective) way is through networking.<br />
I&#8217;ve made some killer contacts just by attending various events. I don&#8217;t mean marketing events either. (Avoid those like the plague for this kind of stuff.)</p>
<p>I mean the local meetups and community leader type events. They are not hard to find. Just go to Meetup.com and look around at all the local meetup groups.<br />
The best ones are for local business leaders or Chamber of Commerce type of events.</p>
<p>So far at EVERY one of these I&#8217;ve attended, I was the ONLY one at the event that knew ANYTHING about marketing on the Internet.</p>
<p>Guess who was VERY popular! <img src='http://www.themarketingmoron.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Make sure you bring LOTS of business cards! You&#8217;ll get so many leads you won&#8217;t know how to handle them all.</p>
<p>Another really cheap and simple thing to do is postcards.</p>
<p>Just send a very basic bright yellow postcard to lists of corporations with 10-50 employees. (That range is key.)<br />
You can get those lists lots of places but I like SalesGenie.com or Jigsaw leads from Salesforce.com.</p>
<p>So go to it! If you work at this a bit you will see huge results!</p>
<p>But here&#8217;s even better news!</p>
<p>In my new training I&#8217;ll show you how to bypass ALL that work and jump straight into the exact group that&#8217;s a huge goldmine for me now!  (That secret is staying a secret for now.)</p>
<p>I also mentioned that my new training is going to be done in small, mastermind style groups but this gets better.</p>
<p>These groups are gonna meet at my house! Yep you&#8217;ll hang with me at my own house for 2 full days and get to see all my inside stuff that&#8217;s working now. Nothing held back.</p>
<p>Since I have some pretty famous Internet marketing friends that live VERY close to me, a few of them will be there too.</p>
<p>So you&#8217;ll get the chance to be in a small, intimate group and get behind the scenes access that&#8217;s not granted anywhere for less than $10,000 or more.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m gonna make sure those that can&#8217;t attend live will get videos of the live training.<br />
I&#8217;m also gonna do more than one event at my place to make sure the groups stay small and intimate.</p>
<p><a href="http://mainstreetmarketingmachines.com/realpeople/cmd.php?af=811702 ">So stay tuned to the MSMM launch</a> and buy it through my link when it finally launches on Monday the 18th.</p>
<p>Email me with any questions at matt(at)themarketingmoron.com</p>
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		<title>Be The Linchpin &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bolted out of bed today with a start. I was sweating and breathing heavily. I was on the verge of a panic attack. You know how you have strange things go through your brain in that half-asleep, half-awake state just before you get up in the morning? Well I had a doozy today. I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wpfblike' style='height: 30px;'><iframe src='http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.themarketingmoron.com/linchpin-part-2/&amp;layout=default&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=600&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' allowTransparency='true' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:600px;'></iframe></div><p></p><p><a href="http://mainstreetmarketingmachines.com/simple/cmd.php?af=811702"><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 10px; border: 0pt none;" title="The Big Money" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2355/2125697998_b053ac13e1_m.jpg" border="0" alt="The Big Money" hspace="5" width="240" height="180" /></a>I bolted out of bed today with a start.<br />
I was sweating and breathing heavily.<br />
I was on the verge of a panic attack.</p>
<p>You know how you have strange things go through your brain in that half-asleep, half-awake state just before you get up in the morning?</p>
<p>Well I had a doozy today.</p>
<p>I was thinking about the first email about my new training I sent you the other day and I started freaking out a bit.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/seth-godin-slapped/" target="_blank">If you missed part 1 of this series click here.</a></p>
<p>I realized I had maybe confused some of you and that bothered me. I also realized I was being a bit &#8220;cagey&#8221; by holding back so much.</p>
<p><strong>Lame.</strong></p>
<p>So, after thinking about it all day, I&#8217;m just gonna spill the beans now.<br />
I was gonna drag it out and whet your appetite for what I have a bit more.<br />
But I think it does that on it&#8217;s own already and there&#8217;s no reason to play games.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the deal. I&#8217;m crushing it right now with my new stuff. Since it&#8217;s a wide open arena, I want as many people as possible to get in on it.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s one area where training is lacking and it&#8217;s so untapped it&#8217;s unreal.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a market with big pockets that are <strong>CRAVING</strong> to pay you HUGE upfront fees to help them.<br />
<em>(See the P.S. for even more about this.)</em></p>
<p>Here are a few example deals I&#8217;ve closed in the last several weeks:</p>
<p><strong>&#8212;&#8212;-Check out these deals&#8212;&#8212;-</strong></p>
<p>*** A $10M/yr company that&#8217;s doing well but they don&#8217;t even collect emails on their sites.<br />
And get this, they NEVER email their current customers&#8230;ever!!!</p>
<p><em>(This deal is paying me $25k up front PLUS the bonus I talk about in the P.S.)</em></p>
<p>*** A very successful ****** worth millions that sells $100k training packages and has NO IDEA how to get new clients. He gave me control of all his marketing.</p>
<p><em>(This deal will net me an EASY 7 figures over the next couple years.)</em></p>
<p>*** A well known ****** that books huge seminars but has no idea how to market himself.</p>
<p><em>(This one is worth another $25k upfront AND more on the back.)</em></p>
<p>*** A hugely successful ***** that sells tons of ***** and has a big following but no idea how to market to his followers.<br />
He doesn&#8217;t even have a Facebook page!<br />
And he was just on Good Morning America!</p>
<p><em>(This one will net an easy $100k in the first month alone.)</em></p>
<p><strong>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;Pretty killer huh?&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</strong></p>
<p>I could keep going but I think you get the idea.</p>
<p><em><strong>So here&#8217;s the &#8220;secret&#8221; strategy:</strong></em><br />
Reaching out to big clients that have big pockets&#8230;<br />
<strong>but suck at marketing.</strong></p>
<p>Guess what, there are millions of them.</p>
<p>They even KNOW they suck at marketing and are CRAVING for someone like you to contact them.<br />
They are searching for you but they don&#8217;t know how to find you!</p>
<p>Seriously.</p>
<p>So, what&#8217;s the catch?</p>
<p>The bright ones reading this are still wondering why I redacted (fancy word for &#8220;removed&#8221;) a couple key words in the example deals.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t want to give that away yet. That&#8217;s where the HUGE &#8220;aha!&#8221; moment comes.</p>
<p>You see, in general, what I&#8217;m teaching you here is 100% true and you can CRUSH it for several years just reaching out to any business that needs you.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what Main Street Marketing Machines teaches very well.</p>
<p><strong>&#8212;&#8212;Video update&#8212;&#8212;</strong><br />
BTW, check out the second training video from Mike about MSMM.<br />
It&#8217;s killer. <a href="http://mainstreetmarketingmachines.com/simple/cmd.php?af=811702" target="_blank">Click here to get it.</a><br />
<strong>&#8212;&#8212;End update&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</strong></p>
<p>But I&#8217;ve uncovered a very select group to go after that BLOWS AWAY even 100 new &#8220;local business&#8221; clients.</p>
<p>- This group has a LOT OF MONEY TO SPEND ON MARKETING!<br />
- This group wants to PAY YOU UP FRONT!</p>
<p>- This group will pay you 100 times more than ANY local business!<br />
- This group is CRAVING your skills!</p>
<p>- This group is out in the open and very easy to contact!<br />
- This group won&#8217;t even flinch at a $25k up front fee!<br />
- This group will see you as a hero and will <strong>LOVE</strong> to hear from you!</p>
<p>In short, it&#8217;s a goldmine. A big one. And it&#8217;s completely untapped.</p>
<p>So my training will teach EXACTLY:<br />
- Who this group is and how to find them<br />
- What to say to them<br />
- How to close them (though it stupid easy!)<br />
- What to offer to them and what NOT to offer to them<br />
- How to get a neverending stream of new clients from this group<br />
- How to guarantee results and feel great about it<br />
- All the contracts and paperwork you need so secure the deals<br />
- And most importantly&#8230;<br />
&#8230;How to do NONE of the actual work!</p>
<p>This training is only going to be done in small, mastermind style groups.<br />
The first group I&#8217;m taking has to buy Main Street Marketing Machines through my link.<br />
You&#8217;ll also have to fill out an application and get approved by me personally to get in.</p>
<p>The reason is that this training is gonna be very &#8220;hands on&#8221;, personal training from me and I only want to deal with high-level, non-crazy people.<br />
I also want to vet out the losers that just want to steal the content and resell it as some stupid $37 e-book.</p>
<p>This is a real opportunity to take MSMM to a very high level and build a seven-figure business VERY FAST.<br />
And I&#8217;m gonna teach you personally.</p>
<p>Anyway, you get it.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re still reading then, <a href="http://mainstreetmarketingmachines.com/simple/cmd.php?af=811702" target="_blank">click here to check out the new MSMM video.</a></p>
<p>In my next email I&#8217;ll show you some outside-the-box ways to find high end clients on your own now.<br />
If you are ambitious enough you could have big paying clients before the training even starts!</p>
<p>See you in the next email,<br />
Matt &#8221; ******** &#8221; Trainer</p>
<p>P.S. My last email left a few people confused so I wanted to say something:<br />
NO MY NEW TRAINING IS NOT THE SAME AS Main Street Marketing Machines!</p>
<p>OK, whew! Got that off my chest.</p>
<p>My new training complements MSMM completely and adds a multiplier effect to it.</p>
<p>In my last email I also mentioned that I&#8217;m averaging $4000/hr with this new strategy.<br />
That&#8217;s only partially true.</p>
<p>The REAL truth is that the $4000/hr is ONLY THE FRONT END! I&#8217;m also getting a piece of the increase in profits!</p>
<p>This will add up to at least <strong>AN ADDITIONAL</strong> very high six figures a year and maybe even seven.<br />
So in the end I can&#8217;t even tally the REAL number that I&#8217;m making per hour doing this.</p>
<p>Let me answer a big second question I got from many of you:<br />
YES! YOU WILL TO HAVE TO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!</p>
<p>But here&#8217;s the thing, even if you very new to Internet marketing, you already know enough to do VERY well with this.<br />
Plus, in my training I&#8217;ll show you how to get other people that already know what they are doing to do ALL the work!</p>
<p><a href="http://mainstreetmarketingmachines.com/simple/cmd.php?af=811702" target="_blank">Click here to check out the new MSMM video!</a></p>
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		<title>Seth Godin slapped me</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Damn you Seth Godin! I had a perfectly great plan going and then you stepped in. You completely spun me around and disrupted my ENTIRE plan&#8230; &#8230;and I thank you. Yes it felt like you slapped me in the face. And yes you made me tear down WEEKS of work. And yes you caused a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wpfblike' style='height: 30px;'><iframe src='http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.themarketingmoron.com/seth-godin-slapped/&amp;layout=default&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=600&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' allowTransparency='true' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:600px;'></iframe></div><p></p><p><a href="http://bit.ly/msmm1"><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 10px; border: 0pt none;" title="seth godin slapped me" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3213/2312981944_2fa2247ff7_m.jpg" border="0" alt="seth godin slapped me" hspace="5" width="240" height="240" /></a>Damn you Seth Godin!</p>
<p>I had a perfectly great plan going and then you stepped in. You completely spun me around and disrupted my ENTIRE plan&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;and I thank you.</p>
<p>Yes it felt like you slapped me in the face.<br />
And yes you made me tear down WEEKS of work.<br />
And yes you caused a major delay in my product release.<br />
And yes I lost MONTHS of revenue (high six figures worth).<br />
And yes I had to COMPLETELY reboot my brain and business.</p>
<p>Even through all that, I must thank you.</p>
<p>You have changed my life AND my business, forever.</p>
<p>Though it&#8217;s been a hell of a wake up call and a disruption, it&#8217;s 100% worth it.</p>
<p>What the hell did Seth do that caused so much drama?</p>
<p>He wrote a little book called &#8220;Linchpin&#8221;. (Read it when you can. Highly recommended!)</p>
<p>Before I read that book I had a plan to do something that&#8217;s not been done in the Internet marketing world before.</p>
<p>I was gonna teach all my success secrets using the university model. It was to be based on &#8220;systems&#8221; and homework and very rigid methodology.<br />
Exactly like a university.</p>
<p>Linchpin showed me that my &#8220;university&#8221; model was completely flawed&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;and doomed to fail.</p>
<p>No question about it.</p>
<p>Why? Because it&#8217;s based on a model that&#8217;s doomed to failure.</p>
<p>Rigid systems like our current school system are failing and have been for a VERY long time. They are geared to create robotic, rigid &#8220;factory workers&#8221; that can&#8217;t think for themselves.</p>
<p>The don&#8217;t teach how to be a creative thinker, a problem solver, an artist or a giver.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the complete OPPOSITE of what I want my students to be.<br />
So I was forced to see the light and rethink my ENTIRE plan.</p>
<p>It really threw me for a loop&#8230;BAD! I was in a funk for over a month.</p>
<p>I was even a bit depressed because I couldn&#8217;t figure out how to fix the entire training system I had planned.</p>
<p>Thankfully, I finally snapped out of it and I&#8217;m back. Stronger than ever and with a 10,000 times better plan.</p>
<p>This time I&#8217;m moving forward with the whole &#8220;linchpin&#8221; idea fully integrated.</p>
<p>The idea being that you MUST make yourself THE &#8220;unremovable&#8221; piece or the linchpin.<br />
You MUST make yourself the one piece that no one can do without; The one last piece that makes the entire show run without falling apart.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t do this then you really only have about as much value as a $3/hr outsourced worker.</p>
<p>After completely reworking my plan, I have something that&#8217;s real, solid and 100% future-proof.</p>
<p>You WILL become the linchpin. You&#8217;ll never have to worry about changes that happen in the Internet marketing world ever again.</p>
<p>No more worries about Google, email, Facebook, SEO, traffic&#8230;none of it.</p>
<p>YOU will be the one solid piece that holds it all together.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll sleep like a baby knowing you have a business that will be around forever no matter what happens.</p>
<p>The best part, you&#8217;ll make more money and have more fun than you EVER dreamed possible!</p>
<p>Yes this is all real. I&#8217;ve been testing it for 3 solid months now.</p>
<p>My results?</p>
<p>For one, I&#8217;m more confident than I&#8217;ve ever been but more importantly&#8230;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m averaging over $4000 or EVERY hour I &#8220;work&#8221;.<br />
(I put &#8220;work&#8221; in quotes because it&#8217;s very easy and actually FUN!)</p>
<p>How many hours would you &#8220;work&#8221; with results even near that?<br />
A LOT! Especially when you see how fun and rewarding it is.</p>
<p>The system I have can get you there and fast.</p>
<p>So what is it?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not gonna reveal that just yet.</p>
<p>What I will tell you is that it has a lot to do with a product that&#8217;s launching right now.</p>
<p>The guys at Traffic Geyser are launching their completely revamped product, Main Street Marketing Machines.</p>
<p><a href="http://bit.ly/msmm1">Click here now to see the first video to grasp the size of this.</a></p>
<p>These guys are getting real results for lots of people.<br />
I checked it out and it&#8217;s real. You can&#8217;t say that about much these days.</p>
<p>Stay tuned to my emails coming over the next few days to see more details about my system.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m also gonna show you how to get it for free.</p>
<p>(HINT: It has something to do with the Main Street Marketing Machines Fusion launch.)   <img src='http://www.themarketingmoron.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Talk soon,<br />
Matt &#8220;Linchpin&#8221; Trainer<br />
P.S. In my last couple emails I talked about a way to END procrastination forever. I&#8217;ll finally reveal how to complete the puzzle.</p>
<p>In the previous email I showed how to put a &#8220;flavor&#8221; or &#8220;feeling&#8221; on your procrastination.<br />
(<a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/times-a-changin/">Click here</a> to read about that again.)  That was step 1.</p>
<p>Step 2 (the last step!) is simply to reverse that feeling.</p>
<p>For me, when I start to procrastinate I start feeling &#8220;pressed down&#8221; and the task I need to do feels like it&#8217;s a giant staring down at me.</p>
<p>So all I do is reverse that. I close my eyes and start visualizing that I&#8217;m feeling tall and I see the task as a tiny little thing the size of a postage stamp.</p>
<p>So examine your &#8220;feeling&#8221; of procrastination, then close your eyes and visualize the opposite.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll see some amazing things start happening. You&#8217;ll feel empowered and you&#8217;ll find getting up to do that dreaded &#8220;thing&#8221; incredibly easy.</p>
<p>Try it. You&#8217;ll like it.</p>
<p>In my next email, I show some more details of my &#8220;linchpin&#8221; system and how you can start doing it yourself.</p>
<p>Stay tuned.</p>
<p><a href="http://bit.ly/msmm1">Don&#8217;t forget to check out the first video from Mike about the new Main Street Marketing Machines system.</a></p>
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		<title>The Times They Are a-Changin&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times They Are a-Changin&#8217; Man I love that Bob Dylan song. I hadn&#8217;t heard it in a while but when I sat down to write this email it&#8217;s all I could think about. To get yourself in the mood for this email click this link and turn up your speakers. OK &#8211; got good [...]]]></description>
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<p>Man I love that Bob Dylan song. I hadn&#8217;t heard it in a while but when I  sat down to write this email it&#8217;s all I could think about. To get  yourself in the mood for this email <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiRQypcldG8" target="_blank">click this link and turn up your speakers.</a></p>
<p>OK &#8211; got good ol&#8217; Dylan playing now? Good.</p>
<p>The times indeed are changing. So much so that even long-successful  strategies like SEO, article marketing, business blogging and even email  marketing are losing their effectiveness.</p>
<p>In fact, I&#8217;m 100% convinced nearly everyone is now doing all these things wrong. Let me explain.</p>
<p>With the rise of Facebook and the MASSIVE amount of new content uploaded to the Internet, SEO is dying a slow death.</p>
<p>&#8220;Really? Why? How?&#8221; you say.</p>
<div>We simply don&#8217;t have adequate filters anymore to find quality  content and information. There&#8217;s just too much new stuff every day now.  YouTube alone has 50,000 hours of new content uploaded <strong>EVERY DAY!</strong></div>
<p>Search engines aren&#8217;t solving that problem is well as they used to. So  where are people turning more and more to filter content and find stuff  that relates to them?</p>
<p>They turn to the ultimate filter&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;their friends.</p>
<p>I firmly believe that this is at least part of the reason why Facebook has grown so fast. It&#8217;s a GREAT content filter.</p>
<p>Marketers always go where the traffic is. So they are now flocking to Facebook in droves.</p>
<p>You are seeing Fan Pages flying up like mad. Marketing ads every where  you turn. People constantly posting marketing messages on their &#8220;wall&#8221;.  Forced invites to marketing groups you have no interest in joining. It&#8217;s  getting crazy.</p>
<p>Guess what, nearly none of it is working very well. Everyone is doing it all wrong.</p>
<p>Article marketing is tired and losing effectiveness every day because  people are wising up to the mostly crap content. Business blogging is  suffering the same fate.</p>
<p>Email marketing is becoming less effective because people use their  lists as marketing hammers constantly hitting their subscribers over the  head with promotions. (Yes I&#8217;ve been guilty of this too.)</p>
<p>People are simply tired of crappy non-relevant content that doesn&#8217;t  connect to them. Couple that with near constant marketing promotions you  get an entire system that&#8217;s failing for most people.</p>
<p><strong>The Times They Are a-Changin&#8217;</strong></p>
<p>In my own business I&#8217;ve made a MAJOR shift.</p>
<p>In the last several months I&#8217;ve spent almost $600k testing all these things in every way you can imagine.</p>
<p>All that testing yielded me a big fat&#8230;nothing. Except the knowledge that I was doing it all wrong like everyone else.</p>
<p>It finally hit me exactly 3 months ago what I was missing. It was the &#8220;connection&#8221;.</p>
<div>You <strong>MUST</strong> to connect to people and deliver great stuff to them and not hammer them with promotions.</div>
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I saw the writing on the wall several months ago even as I was massively  scaling my SEO niche blog business. Once I fully grasped what was  coming I completely changed the course of my company.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve changed:<br />
- No more SEO. I&#8217;m completely convinced it&#8217;s a dying model. (Google is scared to death of Facebook because of this.)<br />
- Only connect with people via story telling and high quality content<br />
- I finally embraced Facebook (with a lot of kicking and screaming for YEARS)<br />
- Following the content &#8220;curation&#8221; model on my blogs to deliver what my visitors want<br />
- Having FUN with the business now instead of just doing what makes money (niche SEO blogs&#8230;boring)</p>
<p>Since making the major changes my results have skyrocketed.</p>
<p>Things like:<br />
- Instead of waiting 60-90 days for SEO to start working, I get free traffic in a couple days that grows exponentially<br />
- Over 800% increase in response from my email lists<br />
- Facebook Fans growing virally without any more work<br />
- Optin rates on my Facebook Fan Pages over 60% many times as high as 80%<br />
- New sites becoming profitable in just a few weeks instead of months ALL with &#8220;free&#8221; organic traffic<br />
- Readership and time on my sites increasing over 500%<br />
- Going from 1000&#8242;s of sites to just a few dozen to generate a seven figure income<br />
- Reducing staff requirements by 80%<br />
- Customers and readers that love their experience and become a &#8220;tribe&#8221;<br />
- We have fun now and working on the business is a pleasure instead of a grind!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s my firm belief that everyone reading this needs to immediately  incorporate more &#8220;high touch&#8221; and connection with people into your  businesses. Get off the &#8220;shiny object&#8221;, launch-of-the-week merry go  round and build a real future proof business.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what works and will work forever:<br />
1. Curate great content and organic traffic happens naturally.<br />
2. Use your email lists to tell stories and connect with people<br />
3. Do the same with your Facebook accounts and build your list on Facebook<br />
4. For promotion, only do very &#8220;soft&#8221; marketing if any at all. (If you  do 1-3 right you don&#8217;t even have to sell people at all. They&#8217;ll just buy  whatever you suggest. &#8220;Suggest&#8221; being the key word there.)</p>
<p>If you do all these things you&#8217;ll start to develop a tribe of people  that love you. They will do whatever you tell them to do because you  become the authority. They&#8217;ll love that you don&#8217;t pound them over the  head with marketing messages.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been tweaking this whole system for months and its been working  extremely well. So well that I will never go back to the &#8220;Old Way&#8221; of  doing things. My business is changed forever.</p>
<p>The model will either work for you or it won&#8217;t &#8230;and the only way we can find out is for you to learn about it first hand.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m willing to walk you through it &#8211; FOR FREE &#8211; as long as you realize it&#8217;s NOT for everybody.</p>
<p>This project <strong>IS</strong> for:</p>
<p>* People who value helping others and contributing to their marketplace just as much (or more) as they value making money.<br />
* People who know their business can grow, and who are willing to work to make that happen.<br />
* People who are making money already and just want more leads that convert better</p></div>
<div>* People who want to build a &#8220;tribe&#8221; of loyal followers in a very short time<br />
* People who understand the value of what I&#8217;m offering and won&#8217;t waste time needlessly</div>
<div>This project is <strong>NOT</strong> for:</p>
<p>* People who sell &#8220;get rich quick&#8221; or &#8220;Biz Opp&#8221; materials.<br />
* People who do CPA marketing &#8230;or only want to be affiliates.<br />
* People who have no business, aren&#8217;t actually selling anything, or  are perpetually in &#8220;information gathering mode&#8221;. (If you haven&#8217;t gotten  started yet, that&#8217;s OK just as long as you&#8217;re ready to actually start  doing something now.)</p>
<p>And now for more brutal honesty: You actually have to work. Pretty hard.</p>
<p>The discovery I&#8217;ve made has nothing to do with you sitting on the couch  drinking beers while money falls from the ceiling. (That would be  awesome though.)</p>
<p>So if you&#8217;re hoping for that type of &#8220;miracle&#8221;, then you might want to pass on this.</p>
<div><strong>Here&#8217;s How It Works</strong></div>
<p>Like I said, it&#8217;s free to learn about what I&#8217;m up to and how it can be applied to your business.</p>
<p>So if you&#8217;re curious, here&#8217;s what to do:</p>
<p><a href="../machform/view.php?id=1" target="_blank">Click this link to be taken to an application</a> where I ask you all sorts of questions about your business. They&#8217;re not  that invasive. I&#8217;m just really wanting to make sure I think we&#8217;re a fit  before I take up both of our time explaining everything.</p>
<p>The application will come to my office and one of two things will happen.</p>
<p>Possibility number one: I&#8217;ll decide my stuff is NOT a good match for you and I&#8217;ll let you know politely.</p>
<p>Possibility number two: I&#8217;ll decide we MIGHT be a good match and I will schedule a call to see if we really are.</p>
<p>If that happens, you&#8217;ll get a VERY valuable overview and Strategy  Session where you see exactly how the system works. Plus, you&#8217;ll get  some suggestions on how you can apply it immediately to your business.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all free.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll review applications on a first come, first-served basis.</p>
<p>Go here now to get the application. No optin required and no games. It&#8217;s really free if we are a fit.</p>
<p>Talk soon,<br />
Matt &#8220;Changin&#8217; Times&#8221; Trainer<br />
P.S. I mentioned in my previous email I found a simple system for forever eliminating procrastination.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a simple system that only requires you to &#8220;reframe&#8221; your thoughts.  After you change your frame you&#8217;ll get more done effortlessly. So much  that you&#8217;ll be amazed.</p>
<p>The coolest part is that it only takes a couple minutes to learn.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the first step:<br />
When you are thinking about doing something what does it &#8220;feel&#8221; like? What does it &#8220;look&#8221; like?</p>
<p>For example if you are thinking of a task you need to do and you are feeling the procrastination bug coming on what do you see?</p>
<p>Get a picture in your head then close your eyes as you think about it.  Is it in color? Is it &#8220;loud&#8221;. It is &#8220;above&#8221; you. Is it &#8220;big&#8221;. Is there  &#8220;motion&#8221;. Are there any &#8220;smells&#8221;.</p>
<p>Find 2-3 dominant feelings about it like those suggested above. Write those down.</p>
<p>In my next email I tell you step 2 (don&#8217;t worry there are only 2 steps!).</p>
<p>After step 2 you&#8217;ll be 100% motivated to do previously dreaded tasks. Seriously!</p>
<p>Stay tuned to next email for step 2.</p>
<p><a href="../machform/view.php?id=1" target="_blank">Click here to go to the application for free consultation session with me</a></div>
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		<title>Cowboys in Space</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cowboys in space. That was the premise of the Star Wars movies. At least it was supposed to be. Even though I love Star Wars, it didn&#8217;t really pull off the &#8220;cowboys&#8221; part. However there is a really cool TV show you should check out that does pull it off, and very well. The dialog [...]]]></description>
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<div>Cowboys in space.</p>
<p>That was the premise of the Star Wars movies. At least it was supposed to be.</p>
<p>Even though I love Star Wars, it didn&#8217;t really pull off the &#8220;cowboys&#8221; part.</p>
<p>However there is a really cool TV show you should check out that does pull it off, and very well.</p>
<p>The dialog and storytelling in this show is some of the best I&#8217;ve ever seen. The show is called &#8220;Firefly.&#8221;</p>
<p>It was written and produced by Joss Whedon of &#8220;Buffy The Vampire Slayer&#8221; fame.</p>
<p>Before you roll your eyes and tune out, please trust me on this. Firefly is an amazing show.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s how good it is; My wife hates sci-fi, but even she loves the show.</p>
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<div>The show is a several years old and unfortunately it was canceled after  only one season but it&#8217;s available on iTunes, NetFlix and DVD. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_%28TV_series%29"> (Click here to check it out)</a></div>
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<p>I can&#8217;t recommend it high enough.</p>
<p>(It spawned a movie called &#8220;Serenity&#8221; as well but PLEASE see the entire show BEFORE watching the movie. You&#8217;ll be glad you did.)</p>
<p>So why am I writing about Firefly and cowboys in space? Many reasons&#8230;</p>
<p>First off, its just damn good entertainment. It&#8217;s witty, funny and has a great story line.</p>
<p>Second, its a great lesson in writing and capturing (and keeping)  viewers attention. My goal is to be able to do that well in my email  communication and blog posts so I study great writers.</p>
<p>If you can connect with people then you can market to them if you aren&#8217;t &#8220;douchey&#8221; about it.</p>
<p>The third reason is about mindset. Think about the mindset of a cowboy in space.</p>
<p>Space is a wide open frontier with massive amounts of opportunities,  especially in shows like Firefly and movies like Star Wars where it&#8217;s  fairly simple to travel from planet to planet. This is just like the  Internet.</p>
<p>There are so many awesome ways to make money on the Internet I&#8217;ve had to  learn a new skill&#8230;saying no. I&#8217;ve been very guilty of taking on too  many projects because there are so many great ideas and so many ways to  make money.</p>
<p>Cowboys in space have an interesting mindset I think we can learn from.  They are pursuing so many opportunities that they get themselves into  trouble.</p>
<p>By going after things they probably shouldn&#8217;t (mostly for the excitement  or the &#8220;quick buck&#8221;), lots of crazy things start happening.</p>
<p>This creates great stories but we don&#8217;t want great stories. We want freedom and success and a clear head.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s hard to turn down great opportunities but I&#8217;ve had to start doing  that lately. In fact, I&#8217;ve developed a new training program that&#8217;s  teaches how to focus on one thing.</p>
<p>This email is not about that but it&#8217;s a great lesson in itself. In a sea  (or universe) of opportunity, it&#8217;s tough to stay focused.</p>
<p>Lack of focus I think is the main issue for why people don&#8217;t succeed  online. Nearly every person I know in Internet marketing suffers from it  on some level.</p>
<p>So here&#8217;s the main lesson I want to get across for this email:</p>
<p>Focus on ONE thing. And one thing only.</p>
<p>Pick ONE thing that you know works and just do that. You&#8217;ll get results.  You&#8217;ll learn how to improve and you&#8217;ll have a clear head. Don&#8217;t be a  &#8220;cowboy&#8221; going after new opportunity every time you see it. You&#8217;ll never  get anywhere.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t know what that ONE thing is then go back and reread some of my previous emails. I&#8217;ve talked about this before.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll hit on it again in future emails so stay tuned.</p>
<p>Talk soon,<br />
Matt &#8220;Cowboy No Longer&#8221; Trainer<br />
P.S. I&#8217;ve learned some cool tricks about how to stop procrastination and  get yourself motivated to take action in just a couple minutes.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s actually quite simple and has changed my life in a big way. Procrastination is the HARDEST thing to conquer.</p>
<p>Fortunately I&#8217;ve discovered a cool system to defeat it forever. All you have to do is change the way you perceive.</p>
<p>Stay tuned to my next email for more on that.</p>
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		<title>iPhones suck&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It drops in slow motion. Like a scene from a movie. Sailing very elegantly through the air. As it flies I feel a twinge of regret. I just wasted $500. Then the phone smashes against the ground and I can&#8217;t help but giggle. Now I have a cool story to tell. I had just launched [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wpfblike' style='height: 30px;'><iframe src='http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.themarketingmoron.com/iphones-suck/&amp;layout=default&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=600&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' allowTransparency='true' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:600px;'></iframe></div><p></p><p>It drops in slow motion. Like a scene from a movie.<a href="https://infomillion.infusionsoft.com/go/iphone/bmf/" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 5px 20px; border: 0pt none;" title="broken iphone" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3092/2363073251_551580c4b3_m.jpg" border="0" alt="broken iphone" hspace="5" width="180" height="240" /></a> Sailing very elegantly through the air.</p>
<p>As it flies I feel a twinge of regret. I just wasted $500.</p>
<p>Then the phone smashes against the ground and I can&#8217;t help but giggle.</p>
<p>Now I have a cool story to tell.</p>
<p>I had just launched my new iPhone 4 off our 8th floor balcony.</p>
<p>&#8220;F*kn piece of shit,&#8221; I mutter to myself.</p>
<p>Over the last several weeks I&#8217;ve had nothing but problems with that damn thing. Apple&#8217;s super-gay product called &#8220;Mobile Me&#8221; has been duplicating my contacts like rabbits breeding.</p>
<p>Three days ago it gotten so bad I had over 100,000 contacts on my phone. Only 1000 of which are real.  Awesome.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s when I entered the iPhone seventh circle of hell.</p>
<p>You see there&#8217;s no way to just de-duplicate the contacts built into the iPhone.</p>
<p>Of course not! Why would there be!!!!?????  WTF???</p>
<p>After numerous trips to the Apple store &#8220;Genius&#8221; Bar, trying everything I found online and a couple different apps, nothing worked.</p>
<p>The the so-called &#8220;Genuises&#8221; at the Apple store made my duplicate contacts jump up 60,000 more!  AAAAHHHHH!!!!</p>
<p>Then every app I tried couldn&#8217;t handle that many contacts and just crashed.</p>
<p>THEN my phone became almost inoperable. The number of contacts made it run ridiculously slow.</p>
<p>THEN TO TOP IT OFF, the contacts were syncing to my MacBook Pro and making IT run slow. Seriously&#8230;WTF?</p>
<p>So, smashing the thing on the ground solved a lot of stress I was having.  <img src='http://www.themarketingmoron.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Sort of&#8230; I still had the damn contacts to deal with. AAARRGGGHHH!!!</p>
<p>I was able to retrieve an old backup on Time Machine and get it working again but only AFTER six more hours of work!</p>
<p>So, why am I telling you all this?</p>
<p>Simple. There are major holes in the iPhone software. Holes that can easily be filled with smart marketers like us.</p>
<p>There should a simple app that&#8217;s fast and light that will de-dupe contacts and make Mobile Me work right. But there&#8217;s not.</p>
<p>I KNOW there are millions of people all over the world having the same problem. Instant market that&#8217;s desperate for a solution.</p>
<p>But how do you create an app that would fill holes like these? I had no idea until Trey Smith showed me what&#8217;s up.</p>
<p>Turns out it&#8217;s pretty simple.</p>
<p><a href="https://infomillion.infusionsoft.com/go/iphone/bmf/">Click here to check out his new video</a> about how he built a simple iPhone game that became an instant hit.</p>
<p>There is a HUGE business opportunity here.</p>
<p><a href="https://infomillion.infusionsoft.com/go/iphone/bmf/">Check out Trey&#8217;s insight on this.</a> Good stuff.</p>
<p>Talk soon,<br />
Matt &#8220;Need A New Phone&#8221; Trainer<br />
P.S. Feel free to take my idea for de-dup app and make a boatload from it. Just please send it to me so I can fix my crap phone.</p>
<p>Waiting to hear more about my blackjack tales? I&#8217;ll show you the whole strategy if you make me a promise.<br />
Full details coming in next post.</p>
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		<title>Frustrated Marketer Quits After 7-Figure Year?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Close your eyes for a moment and imagine a dream business. In this business you have ultimate freedom. You are the owner. You can come and go at will. You work from home. The business mostly runs itself. You can pretty much do whatever you want, whenever you want, without even thinking about the money. [...]]]></description>
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<p>In this business you have ultimate freedom.</p>
<p>You are the owner. You can come and go at will. You work from home. The business mostly runs itself.</p>
<p>You can pretty much do whatever you want, whenever you want, without even thinking about the money.</p>
<p>Sounds awesome right?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the weird part&#8230;</p>
<p>I have a close friend that was in that exact situation&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>AND HE GAVE IT UP.</strong></p>
<p>Yep, he got so overwhelmed with frustration he quit.</p>
<p>To outsiders looking in it seems insane. Why would someone who just did 7 figures in a year just quit?</p>
<p>What could possibly drive frustration to such a level that they would turn their back on a hugely profitable business?</p>
<p>Until recently I would have been asking the same questions. But now I see the answer clearly.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s quite simple actually.</p>
<p>More on that in a minute.</p>
<p>In the last several emails I sent you I&#8217;ve told you stories of various levels of success and failure in a few different Internet marketing businesses.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>In case you missed those, here links to the five parts<br />
Part 1 &#8211; <a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/punched-face/">Why you should get punched in the face&#8230;</a><br />
Part 2 &#8211; <a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/punched-face-part-2/">Punched on the face (Part 2)</a><br />
Part 3 &#8211; <a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/jane-punched-face/">Jane gets punched in the face</a><br />
Part 4 &#8211; <a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/geeks-hate-years-eve/">Geeks hate New Year&#8217;s Eve</a><br />
Part 5 &#8211; <a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/16-year-runs-billion-dollar-company/">16 Year Old Runs Billion Dollar Company?</a></p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>Those stories led to me explaining how critical systems are to success.  Yet VERY FEW in Internet marketing teach or actually use systems.</p>
<p>Systems are so critical that I firmly believe you have VERY little chance of succeeding without them.</p>
<p>Let me put that a stronger way:</p>
<p><strong>WITHOUT SYSTEMS YOUR CHANCES OF FAILING ARE 90% OR GREATER!</strong></p>
<p>But there&#8217;s one small thing you can do that will explode your chances of success to almost 100%&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;EVEN WITHOUT A SYSTEM!</p>
<p>Let me explain.</p>
<p>A couple months ago I had some hardcore realizations.</p>
<p>I realized my business was driving me crazy.<br />
I realized that I had started to dread getting up in the morning.<br />
I realized I couldn&#8217;t sleep because of stress.<br />
I realized I was only doing things because of the money.<br />
I realized I had to quit was I was doing.</p>
<p>But guess what&#8230;I had just generated well over $1 million in just a few months, most of it profit.</p>
<p>Yep, once again the story that started this email is about me. (Man am I conceited or what?)   <img src='http://www.themarketingmoron.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the worst part of the story:</p>
<p>I couldn&#8217;t figure out why I was so frustrated!</p>
<p>This just created a frustration loop that led to even more frustration! AAAAAHHHH!</p>
<p>After much thought and study I finally figured it out.</p>
<p>This leads me to revealing the one tiny thing you can do to almost guarantee success even without the systems I&#8217;ve been teaching about.</p>
<p>Hold on here it is&#8230;</p>
<p>I realized I didn&#8217;t like what I was doing.</p>
<p>Yep that&#8217;s the secret. Just like what you do.</p>
<p>Yes systems can replace people but do they create happy people?</p>
<p>Like the 16-year-old that works in Burger King, systems are what drives that business to billions a year.</p>
<p>But how many of those 16-year-olds actually like the job?  Very, very few&#8230;if any.</p>
<p>So Burger King is FORCED to create systems or they would quickly fail. No system can force happiness and contentment.</p>
<p>So where does that leave us?</p>
<p>At first it&#8217;s quite frustrating to realize you are only living your life for money.</p>
<p>Especially when there is no quick easy answer.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the good news. I developed a system that revealed exactly how to cure my problem.</p>
<p>It showed me the EXACT steps I needed to take to change my business around. The system showed me what I should be doing that will make me happy and fulfilled.</p>
<p>Wanna know the best part? It ALSO showed me how to make a TON of money!</p>
<p>So now I&#8217;ve completely restructured my business. I&#8217;m doing what I love to do AND IT STILL MAKES HUGE MONEY!</p>
<p>Guess what will happen? Because I&#8217;m now loving what I do, I will most likely make even MORE money than before.</p>
<p>In fact, I&#8217;m certain of it. Happiness fuels success.</p>
<p>The cool part for you is that I&#8217;m gonna show you the exact system I developed that reveals all these things.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll simply fill out a few questions on a survey. Then my system will show you exactly what you should be doing in Internet marketing to not only make a ton of money but also be incredibly fulfilled.</p>
<p>Once you have those exact steps to take you can start working the other systems around your passion.</p>
<p>I really feel like this is the holy grail of systems development. It&#8217;s that powerful.</p>
<p>In the last couple emails I mentioned some new training I&#8217;m launching that&#8217;s all about systems.</p>
<p>This new tool is the starting point.</p>
<p>You see my &#8220;university&#8221; is not some cookie cutter training that tries to work for everyone. Just like a real university, there are different course paths to take because people are different.</p>
<p>What would happen if universities only had one course path? Failure.</p>
<p>My training conforms to you and who you are. What you love. What drives you. Your passions.</p>
<p>Once we know those things we THEN teach you the course you need to take to nearly guarantee success.</p>
<p>For now, there&#8217;s only one way in, you have to qualify and then you have to prove yourself and yes there will be a tuition cost.</p>
<p><strong>WAIT!!!!!</strong></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t leave now what you just heard there&#8217;s a tuition cost.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m gonna do something unheard of&#8230;</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>I&#8217;m gonna REFUND ALL OF YOUR TUITION!</strong></span></p>
<p>Yep, you read right. When you reach success with the training I will refund all your tuition costs.</p>
<p>Why would I do this?</p>
<p>For one I want to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that this works.</p>
<p>Second, I want my successful students to partner with me.</p>
<p>So, once you complete the training and meet the goals of the training and actually become successful, you will become my partner.</p>
<p>I will refund your tuition and we will work together to scale out your business using every resource I have.</p>
<p>As mentioned before the first qualification step is to buy the Magic Bullet System 2.0 <a href="https://mbe.infusionsoft.com/go/MBS2SV/bmf2" target="_blank">through my link.</a></p>
<p><a href="https://mbe.infusionsoft.com/go/MBS2SV/bmf2" target="_blank">Click here to watch the sales video</a> that covers that MBS2.0 does. It&#8217;s really quite amazing.</p>
<p>Make sure to clear your cookies and cache before buying to make sure I get credit. If I don&#8217;t get credit you don&#8217;t get into my training.</p>
<p>So, yes I turned my back on a 7-figure business. But I created a new one based on the output of my new system!</p>
<p>Let me help you create your own perfect 7-figure business.</p>
<p>Clear your cookies then <a href="https://mbe.infusionsoft.com/go/MBS2SV/bmf2" target="_blank">click here to watch Amish&#8217;s new video.</a></p>
<p>You can get in on the early bird list and get on the right track before everyone else.</p>
<p>Talk soon,<br />
Matt<br />
P.S. If you already own the Magic Bullet and are getting 2.0 for free then contact me on my blog or email me and we can work something out.</p>
<p><a href="https://mbe.infusionsoft.com/go/MBS2SV/bmf2" target="_blank">Click here to watch the new Magic Bullet 2.0 video.</a></p>
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		<dc:creator>Matt Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;is systems. Last email I wrote about the power of systems. In case you missed it you can read that here. Everything in life needs some sort of system in order to succeed. -Health care needs systems or people die. -Education needs systems or people fail to learn. -Business needs systems or money is lost. [...]]]></description>
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<p>Last email I wrote about the power of systems. In case you missed it you can <a href="http://www.themarketingmoron.com/16-year-runs-billion-dollar-company/">read that here.</a></p>
<p>Everything in life needs some sort of system in order to succeed.</p>
<p>-Health care needs systems or people die.<br />
-Education needs systems or people fail to learn.<br />
-Business needs systems or money is lost.<br />
-Internet marketing needs systems or you will fail.</p>
<p>Last email I promised to start explaining systems that produce results.</p>
<p>First off you need to know what type of person you are. This is because if you don&#8217;t start on the path that fits you, you will fail. No matter how good the system.</p>
<p>So we need to start with some very basic stuff.</p>
<p>Like who are you?<br />
What drives you?<br />
What are you good at?<br />
What is hard for you?</p>
<p>Without knowing these things you won&#8217;t know how to proceed. People are different so one system that works well for one person will not work for another.</p>
<p>In my upcoming &#8220;university&#8221; we are going to craft systems just for YOU and WHO YOU ARE.</p>
<p>Here are some examples:<br />
- If you are detailed and math oriented you should be doing<br />
CPA afffiliate marketing and media buys.</p>
<p>- If you are a people person then you should be doing high<br />
end blogs and building your &#8220;celebrity.&#8221;</p>
<p>- If you are a quick action person you need to be doing<br />
quick hit marketing to produce results fast. (Social, video<br />
and CPV are examples)</p>
<p>- If you deep and analytical you need to be doing SEO<br />
for niche blogs.</p>
<p>There are excellent systems for all these things and more.</p>
<p>But you MUST know where your interests lie and what you are good at (which is usually what drives you).</p>
<p>My &#8220;university&#8221; will set you up with a series of systems that work with who you are and force you to succeed.</p>
<p>In order to get into my systems you need to be accepted and you need to take some action.</p>
<p>The first action step is to join the Magic Bullet system being launched by Amish Shah.</p>
<p>He just released a new video that gives away all his private traffic sources.</p>
<p><a href="https://mbe.infusionsoft.com/go/MBS2V2L/bmf2">Check that out here</a></p>
<p>In the next post I&#8217;ll show you a simple system that will FORCE you to think differently AND raise your income level to heights you can only dream of now.</p>
<p>Stay tuned,<br />
Matt &#8220;I Love Systems&#8221; Trainer<br />
P.S. Don&#8217;t forget to check out Amish&#8217;s new video here and get in on the private traffic sources he&#8217;s giving away.</p>
<p><a href="https://mbe.infusionsoft.com/go/MBS2V2L/bmf2">Click here to watch it.</a></p>
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