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 news? Those tools are how you are going to prove yourself as a potential partner of mine.

Yesterday I talked about the businesses I’m going to allow you to partner with me on.  If you didn’t see that then go here to read more.

Once you have the right mindset training then I will KNOW you are ready to achieve and succeed without hangups.

Like I’ve said many times, everything is about mindset.

I’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?

Here’s a sneak peak:

- High octance digital publishing via Kindle and other reader devices

- CPA-style marketing for an awesome weight loss product

- Bad ass Kickstarter.com projects

- High leverage SEO

- High end internet marketing consulting for celebrities and Fortune 500 companies

- High end masterminding for any industry

- Plus a LOT MORE

Each one of these businesses are tested and already doing AT LEAST six figures a year IN PROFIT and they aren’t even scaled out yet!

There is an easy $10 million per year in these projects alone and that’s just the beginning. But I’m not just gonna give you access to my inside stuff unless your mindset is right. I’m gonna let you in for free but you have to have to some real mindset training first.

My personal mindset guru is being brought in to train you guys how to get your head right and the EXACT steps to take to get all your ever want in life.

Go here to register.

His name is Michael Bernoff and he’s a true bad ass. He knows EXACTLY how to get you to take action and finally achieve.

You can see a special video message from him here.

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.

It’s gonna rock your world.

See you tomorrow!
Matt

P.S. Go here to see a video from Micheal and get registered for the mindset training.

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.

 Register here.

This will be recorded but please be there live so you can get your questions answered live.

I’ve been very inspired over the holidays to finally stop pulling punches. It’s time to kick some ass and take some names.

For those of you with ADHD that can’t patiently read my stuff, this email/post is about how you can partner with me in my new “holy grail” businesses. Real partners, not just thinly diguised affiliate programs. More on that in a bit…

Radical Honesty

I discovered a cool blog last week and found myself READING EVERY WORD. It’s from a guy name James Altucher.

I’d never heard of him until last week but I love this dude. He’s the type that you’ll either love or hate. The reason is because of his radical honesty, both about himself and others. He’s funny and though I don’t agree with everything he says, I love his writing.

His style has inspired me to finally stop being so PC and really do what I want to do, help people.

Unfortunately most people need to be told what to do all the time. Even those that don’t could use an ass kicking once in a while.

So, from now on I’m be the “remote ass kicker” and really get people to move off dead center and make it big.

So, let’s start with what holds you back.
1) Fear of the unknown
2) Fear of success
3) Fear of failure
4) Fear of everything else

With so much fear there is no action taken. You get frozen and can’t even take a step.

You need a REAL call to action.

You are afraid. No biggie. Just get over yourself and take some steps. Success is usually only an inch away amazingly.

I talked a lot about fear in a previous post so I won’t go too much into that again. You can read all about that here. (Make sure to download my fear-smashing PDF.)

Hell even I have fear sometimes so I KNOW it’s universal. But if you have the tools then fear is easy to dispatch.

How To Not Suck

Once you actually start taking some action you need a path to follow. Without that, you’ll eventually get lost and fear and inaction will return.

So, in order to not be afraid, not suck and not fail AGAIN, all you need is three things:
1) Action
2) Action
3) Action
4) Holy Grail

Oh wait, that’s 4 things. My math is bad.

Action removes fear.
Holy grail gives you confidence.
Confidence removes fear.

Action + Holy Grail = Success

Success removes even more fear and you all of a sudden don’t suck and you become UNSTOPPABLE! (For those of you that don’t read my stuff more often and are wondering what the hell I mean by “holy grail” just go here.)

The Holy Grail(s)

I’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 “partner” with me. I mean a real partnership where we work together to grow a real business and we split the profits.

It’s been hard for me to figure out for obvious reasons. You need to trust partners. I didn’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?

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’ll weed themselves out and the cream will rise to the top.

As far as scaling goes, I’ll let the partners manage that. (Those details coming later.)

So, what in the world am I talking about?

I’m opening up my businesses to all of you to partner with me. I’m talking about businesses that already work, already make big money, already are tested. They just need you to get in and drive.

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’t have (people, funds, scaling, expertise, etc.) You run it and we split the profits.

Pretty simple. (Of course you have to provide a MINIMUM of half the work or resources needed.)

Here’s the best part: It’s free.

BUT…and this is a BIG BUT, you have to prove yourself. I don’t need my time wasted any more than you do so you have to jump through a couple hoops.

For a long time the only way I could have people “prove” themselves was via buying products or paying me money somehow.

This has proven to be a REALLY bad way to filter people. It’s better than nothing but ultimately very bad.

Luckily I found a brilliant way for me to test your mindset, work ethic and partner potential.

This is the Call To Action.

Time to not suck and finally achieve big things.

If you want to partner with me and finally make it big both financially and in life then watch for tomorrow’s email/post for more details.
Talk soon,
Matt
P.S. Set aside an hour on Thursday evening because I’m going to explain it all then via teleconference.

Details tomorrow.

Let’s partner in 2012 and make it your biggest year ever.

So the pseudo-intellectual subject line should give a clue to my mindset as I write this.

I’m sitting alone in my office after a long day of celebrating Christmas with my closest friends and family. After this day I had to share some things I learned about myself.

Of course I’m sure you all get the same emails I get this time of year. Optimism runs rampant and you get tons of well-wishing holiday emails.

That’s not a bad thing obviously but I really think a bit of it is fake. Some of it feels like what marketers think they are “supposed” to do.

So this year I had set my mind to not even email you guys because I didn’t want to come across as “fake” or doing what I’m “supposed” to do during the holidays.

I told myself I’d just be quiet and let the holidays gracefully pass by. Until exactly 4 minutes ago…

So what happened? I’m not sure exactly.

All I know was that I was having a really great conversation with my very close friends Amish Shah from the Magic Bullet and TheAppCode.com and Larry Ostrovsky from BeWellBuzz.com.

It’s 4:10 AM in San Diego and those guys just left my house after a very nice Christmas dinner celebration with all our wives and a few family members.

We had a great day and ended up having a deep conversation about life, love, happiness, family etc. A few things those guys said made me realize some things and I wanted to share it publicly.

So, this is my holiday email to all of you.

I actually do really care that anyone reading my messy prose will have the best year of their lives and I want to be a huge part of making that happen.

I’m launching a few projects soon that will show how serious I am but first I wanted to let you know how thankful I am that you are still listening to me and giving me your attention.

It really does mean a lot that you think I have something interesting enough to say that you stay on my list.

Thank you.

So what did I learn that spurred me to write this email?

It all started when I was slinging some wine-induced insults at someone that was not around to defend themselves. Both Amish and Larry defended the person I was insulting and it forced me to pause and examine what I was actually saying.

In the end I finally figured out that had no right to say the things I did. It also made me understand on a deep level that we all have a dark side. We all hide deep dark secrets we hope that no one finds out.

I have them too of course. What I realized was that I was lashing out at that person because I was sensing that they have similar dark secrets as I do. So I was really lashing out at MYSELF!

It was a very cathartic moment. Thus the subject line.

It really nailed me hard. Hard enough to do a reset in my brain and sit down and write this email.

So in the end, we all have faults. We shouldn’t be so quick to slam others when most likely we are really lashing out at things we see in ourselves.

None of us are perfect and we are all striving to work this thing called life as best we can.

So please take time to reflect this week on what you really have in life and how blessed we all are. I don’t care what your situation is, you have a million things to be grateful for.

Life is awesome and I’m so happy to share a small piece with you. Be kind. Be grateful. Be patient. Be caring.

We get one shot. Might as well do it in peace.

Happy holidays to all of you.

Thanks for riding along with me even with all my flaws.

Matt

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Yesterday in Part 3 I talked I said I’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 “holy grail”? I’ll get to that in a minute. Traffic is really quite simple. (There’s the word again!) Only two ways to get it. Buy it or create it. Before we go any further I want to shatter another myth.

There is no such things as free traffic!

You pay for ALL 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.

Where to buy it?

Obviously Google PPC has become too hard for most people and that’s mostly Google’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.

In short, their rules are not easy to get around and still convert well. Worse, they simply shut down your account if you can’t interpret their goofy wording in their “terms and conditions”. So they are out.

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.

There a lot of other PPC networks out there that will work fine but I don’t want to get into that too much because in the end this email is not about some goofy “secret” traffic source. That sort of stuff is all hype and mostly big bags of B.S.

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’s out for now.

“Creating” traffic is easier in some respects because there are no goofy rules to follow as mentioned and you can do it at will.

The downside is that most times its takes a while to see results and you have to do some work in the “create” part of it.

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.

“But wait a second Matt, I though you said yesterday that traffic is the easy part?”

(I can read your thoughts)

Yes I did say that. But I didn’t say that ALL traffic was easy. So what do I do? I do a hybrid approach that’s both FAST and EASY.

I do Facebook PPC and press releases.

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’t just shut your account off because you don’t understand them.

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.

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’t be hypey and don’t be spammy.

Press releases are the perfect traffic source because they are a hybrid of “paid” and “created” traffic and with it you get SEO done almost automatically. You do have to write them but it’s simple. Just have to consistently do it at least once a week. We do them every day.

Go to OnlinePRNews.com to see the tutorial on writing PR so you can follow the format correctly.

That’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 “organic” traffic. Simple. Simple. Simple.

So what’s the holy grail all about then?

Obviously the problem with all this “easy” and “simple” stuff is that there is testing involved.

If you are still a “Type 1″ person as talked about in previous emails in this series then you won’t know what to do when a test fails to produce the expected results.

So the holy grail is fully tested and proven traffic and offers that already make money with that traffic. AAHHHH!

Yeah that’s a tough one because NO ONE wants to do all the work of testing and then just give you their money machine. That’s why it’s the holy grail. It exists but good luck getting it.

Well I’m about to change all that.

I have many tested and proven traffic sources and offers that convert well with that traffic. They make money right now. Good money.

I’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.

One is a fast easy route, you just pay to get in. One is slower but “free” route. (More on that in a bit.)

The fast, easy route will be revealed in a live webinar this Thursday. I’ll be hosting a webinar with my old friend Luke Jaten.

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.

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’s “holy grail”. He gave access to his projects that were already making money.

They simply had to get in and drive.

Unfortunately Luke has decided to “retire” and he’s allowing access to his last money-making mail order project so he can quit running it. He’s gonna detail it live this Thursday at 5PM Pacific.

It’s a ONE TIME WEBINAR and it won’t be recorded or repeated EVER. You are either in or you are out.

What Luke is giving access to is worth a LOT of money and he’s working one on one with each person that gets in on it so it’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’s doing it one final time this Thursday.

Click here now to go register.

Remember, this won’t be recorded and won’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.

Ok, enough about that. You get it.

The slower and “free” route is going to be detailed in a later email but this gist is that you will be able to access to my “holy grail” projects for basically free after you prove yourself to me by doing some work and jumping through some hoops.

The projects I’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.

Details in later posts.

Talk soon,
Matt
P.S. Make sure you don’t miss this Thursday’s webinar with me and Luke Jaten. It will be awesome. Even if you aren’t going to get in on Luke’s turnkey “holy grail” mail order project then you should still be there.

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.

Go here to get registered for this Thursday at 5PM Pacific.

Don’t miss out.

I’m not kidding when I say IT WON’T BE RECORDED AND WON’T BE REPEATED.

Register now.

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…the right mindset.

Sad but true.

If you don’t have your head screwed on right it’s near impossible to get out of your own way and really succeed. Fortunately that’s a pretty simple problem to solve. Just know that “simple” and “easy” are not the same things.

In my last post – Part 2 – I gave you access to some simple tools to remove all fears and procrastination in order to get your mindset right.

If you missed it go here.

I’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’s a fact.

Assuming you’ve done that, let’s move on to Part 3.

In this post I’ll start to map out the plan and give you some ideas to get started.

The goal with this series is to get you AS FAST AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE to making AT LEAST six figures a year. Then it’s all about scaling.

OK back to the two types of people:

Type 1 – Needs to be told what to do

Type 2 – Self-directed

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’t know what to do until you get some experience under your belt.

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.

And it is. But I have a solution. More on that in a minute.

Type 2 people listen up!

Provided your mindset is right, success on the Internet is a really simple formula:

Traffic + Converting offer = Success

It really is that simple. The only difference between millions of dollars and failure is scaling that formula smartly. That’s it.

There are all kinds of things that people get twisted up on inside the “traffic” part and the “converting offer” part but those really are the only two pieces that matter.

Good news is that traffic is simple AND easy. You just buy it or create it. I’ll talk about that in future emails.

TRAFFIC IS THE EASIEST PART SO DON’T GET SO HUNG UP ON IT!

For some reason people have this feeling that traffic is the “sexy” part or something. Traffic doesn’t make money. Only a converting offer does. Traffic only SCALES the money.

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.

Once you really get this you will quickly realize that all you really need to focus on is a converting offer. That’s simple AND easy too. There are millions of them.

A converting offer can be anything but in the end it’s just finding a WANT (not need) that people have and fill it.

What do people want? Again, simple.

They want to be feel wanted, feel attractive and to be fulfilled or entertained. Find offers that fill those areas. Simple.

Lose weight.
Get healthy.
Make money.
Be entertained (movies, books, video games, Kindle, etc.).

You can make millions in ANY of those areas.

An offer can be your own products or affiliate products. It doesn’t matter.

OK wait, I hear a lot of you already, “We already know this stuff, why so basic? Where’s the meat?”

THIS IS THE MEAT. Basics are all you need. So many get so worked up over the latest shiny object that they can’t see the forest for the trees.

MAKING MILLIONS AND/OR CREATING A FREEDOM BUSINESS IS SIMPLE PEOPLE! ALL YOU NEED IS THE BASICS, THEN SCALE!

If you aren’t where you want to be then you simply are focusing on the wrong things. It’s that simple.

Mindset, converting offer, traffic in that order is all you need to focus on.

Finding a converting offer seems so hard for so many people but it’s ridiculously easy. Just got to Clickbank, Amazon or any affiliate network and you’ll find all kinds of converting offers.

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 “high gravity” offers with a high affiliate payout.

On Amazon look for the “hot” products (they list these for you already) and filter by products over $200 and promote those.

On affiliate networks look for broad market products that are evergreen (weight loss and beauty stuff is good).

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.

But what does “promote” mean? Traffic. I’ll cover that in the next post.

All the traffic you’ll ever need. In droves.

Talk soon,
Matt
P.S. Notice throughout this post I used the word “simple” a lot. That’s on purpose. I want to really drill into your head that YOU CAN DO THIS…AND DO IT BIG!

IT’S SIMPLE!

But you have to start somewhere so to make this all real easy for everyone I’m just gonna tell you what to do and then you can move to becoming a “Type 2″ person after you really “get it”.

To help with that look at this video.

It’s an video that should humble and inspire you at the same time. It’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’t even need a job anymore.

$11,000 happens to be A LOT MORE than a teacher’s monthly salary in case you don’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.

She started at Type 1 and she’s now a Type 2.

In the next post I’ll tell you how you can exactly do what she has done AND EVEN BETTER.

Check out her video here.

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One of my favorite movies of all time is called “The Game” 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’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.

It’s a crazy movie and you should definitely see it of you haven’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 “The Game”.

The point I want to make is that there are two types of people in this world. Those that need to be directed – aka “told what to do” – and there are those that are self-starters (don’t need to be told what to do).

I think most people fluctuate between the two types depending on experience, motivation, interest, etc. but in the end there are only two types.

Some people stay one type their whole life. They never step outside their comfort zone because of some fear.

Fear comes in many facets but none are real. I’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.

Which camp do you want to be in?

All that being said, I have a very ambitious plan to get EVERYONE reading this into the camp that directs their own life without fear and acts BOLDLY to achieve whatever they want in life. It’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.

Fear is NOTHING but a story you are telling yourself to justify inaction.

Seriously. Read that sentence again slowly and really think about it.

Fear is NOTHING but a story you are telling yourself to justify inaction.

To completely remove every fear you’ve ever had read this chapter of a new book I’m writing. Once fear is gone then it’s all about taking the steps one by one.

What steps you ask? That’s pretty simple too; You just back into it. That’s also covered in the chapter I just wrote too. Get it here.

OK, now what?

A plan.

My plan is to turn my whole business upside down. I’m switching from a completely for-profit model to a partial-profit model. “What’s that mean weirdo?”, you say. Glad you asked.

It means that after spending millions of dollars on dumb shit and pleasing only myself I’ve found that I’m left with a lack of fulfillment. Yeah I’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.

So, after much thought I’ve decided to make a radical move.

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)

So, I’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.

Crazy? Hell yes it is. But I believe this can work.

But we gotta start somewhere. So you gotta start with mindset.

Mindset is EVERYTHING. Without the right mindset you can’t even take the first step. So start by getting my “fear removal” tool here. Study that, take action and then you’ll have all you need to go to the next step. The next step is obviously start with a solid money making system.

I’ll get into that in the next post.
Talk soon,
Matt
P.S. Don’t forget to check out Matt Wadsworth’s world record attempt and help him get the word out by posting it on Facebook etc.

His site is here at MakingTheJump.com

P.P.S. Get the chapter I wrote here to work on step one. Get your mind right and remove fear and procrastination forever.

DO NOT TAKE THIS PART LIGHTLY!!!

See you in the next post.

If you missed part one of this series you can see it here.

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I’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’ve come up with but the overarching problem in the end is that Internet marketing has too many variables. There’s simply too much to do and too
much to learn to be successful quickly.

So most people get frustrated from lack of results and quit or keep searching for the latest, greatest shiny object (product launch) to “solve” the problem.

This just makes the problem worse and creates more debt or “investment” in this crazy online marketing business.

It’s a sort of a death spiral.

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…

Good news is that I’ve found it. And I’m going to reveal the whole secret over the next few days in this series.

All free. No optin. Nothing to buy. Just answers.

And help.

In this first installment I want to inspire you so you can first have vision.

Without vision you will forever fail.

///–Start inspiration—////

So imagine trying to succeed online with all the problems I’ve mentioned already AND being physically handicapped.

Worse, imagine being BLIND! 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’t even see his computer.

In fact, he’s never seen anything…

…EVER.

He was born blind.

Many of you may have heard his story or
have seen him speak but wait til you see
what he’s up to now.

He’s actually creating a documentary movie
about him going for a world record.

What world record?

This will blow you away. He’s going for the world record motorcycle jump!!!

Yep, he’s insane. He can’t even see the ramp he’s trying to jump from!

You have to see the first video about the attempts and training he’s done already. You can see it here or go to www.MakingTheJump.com

He’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.

I crashed a lot and broke a few bones and was never very good so retired in my early 20′s because I started to hate getting hurt. Now here comes Matt Wadsworth and is doing what I got scared to do AND HE’S BLIND!

Micky Dymond was one of the world’s greatest racers and I’m jealous I never got to train with him like Matt is.

So, this is your inspiration moment for today. Watch the video about Matt training to make the jump here.

Talk soon,
Matt
P.S. If you can’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.

Matt is donating 100% of the profits from the documentary to charity so please support him in his journey.

See the videos here:
www.MakingTheJump.com

Tomorrow’s email will reveal the first part of my answer for how to crack the code and succeed huge online. And I’m gonna help you do it, 100% free of charge.

It’s my way of giving back for this holiday season and I’ll finally reveal what I’m doing behind the scenes to GIVE AWAY ridiculous amounts of money to people like you.

Yep you read that right.

More tomorrow….

///—End Inspiration—///
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This site has been established to have a place to keep friends and family of Sophie up to date on her progress.

Sophie is insured thankfully, however, there are a tremendous amount of expenses that are “not covered” not the lease of which is the challenge of day to day living as both parents have essentially stopped working to focus on Sophie’s care. In Addition, we are making arrangements to have Sophie be seen be the top experts in the field, from places like Dana Farber in Boston, St Jude in Tennessee and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, to get the best information we can for Sophie.

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I just did a new video detailing how I’m future-proofing my Internet business. I’m doing this for lots of reasons but certainly all the bad news out there makes you stop and think!

Anyway, I’ve grown weary of all the “doom and gloom” and want to deliver a message of hope and possibilities.  As always let me know what you think.

I’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’t prone to hype at all, it just seemed like a tad bit of marketing hype to me.

But then I saw it myself. It’s very moving.

It’s the new video from the Main Street Marketing Machines launch.

Click here to go check it out >>>>

The video is nothing but real success stories right from the actual people.

It’s a very well made video but that doesn’t really mean much these days.

What does mean EVERYTHING is the stories themselves.
These are real people. MSMM changed their lives.

You MUST see this video even if you NEVER plan to buy MSMM simply because it gives hope.

And hope is a huge thing.

Some would say everything.

You have to watch all the way to the end (it’s not long) because the last story is the best one.
It’s a very moving story from the wife of a MSMM hero. I won’t spoil it but I will say that the part about the broken water heater is what tore me up.

Go here to see it >>>

Talk soon,
Matt “Cry Baby” Trainer
P.S. In my last email I said I was gonna give more details about my new training bonus for MSMM.

/—–Sidebar——/
In case you missed the first 2 emails about my new training program:
Click here for Part 1 – Seth Godin Slapped Me
Click here for Part 2 – Be The Linchpin
/–End SideBar—/

I also promised I’d tell you how to find high-paying clients now. I’ll start with that.

It’s actually pretty simple to find high-paying clients. The simplest (and most effective) way is through networking.
I’ve made some killer contacts just by attending various events. I don’t mean marketing events either. (Avoid those like the plague for this kind of stuff.)

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.
The best ones are for local business leaders or Chamber of Commerce type of events.

So far at EVERY one of these I’ve attended, I was the ONLY one at the event that knew ANYTHING about marketing on the Internet.

Guess who was VERY popular!

Make sure you bring LOTS of business cards! You’ll get so many leads you won’t know how to handle them all.

Another really cheap and simple thing to do is postcards.

Just send a very basic bright yellow postcard to lists of corporations with 10-50 employees. (That range is key.)
You can get those lists lots of places but I like SalesGenie.com or Jigsaw leads from Salesforce.com.

So go to it! If you work at this a bit you will see huge results!

But here’s even better news!

In my new training I’ll show you how to bypass ALL that work and jump straight into the exact group that’s a huge goldmine for me now! (That secret is staying a secret for now.)

I also mentioned that my new training is going to be done in small, mastermind style groups but this gets better.

These groups are gonna meet at my house! Yep you’ll hang with me at my own house for 2 full days and get to see all my inside stuff that’s working now. Nothing held back.

Since I have some pretty famous Internet marketing friends that live VERY close to me, a few of them will be there too.

So you’ll get the chance to be in a small, intimate group and get behind the scenes access that’s not granted anywhere for less than $10,000 or more.

Don’t worry, I’m gonna make sure those that can’t attend live will get videos of the live training.
I’m also gonna do more than one event at my place to make sure the groups stay small and intimate.

So stay tuned to the MSMM launch and buy it through my link when it finally launches on Monday the 18th.

Email me with any questions at matt(at)themarketingmoron.com

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 was thinking about the first email about my new training I sent you the other day and I started freaking out a bit.

If you missed part 1 of this series click here.

I realized I had maybe confused some of you and that bothered me. I also realized I was being a bit “cagey” by holding back so much.

Lame.

So, after thinking about it all day, I’m just gonna spill the beans now.
I was gonna drag it out and whet your appetite for what I have a bit more.
But I think it does that on it’s own already and there’s no reason to play games.

Here’s the deal. I’m crushing it right now with my new stuff. Since it’s a wide open arena, I want as many people as possible to get in on it.

There’s one area where training is lacking and it’s so untapped it’s unreal.

It’s a market with big pockets that are CRAVING to pay you HUGE upfront fees to help them.
(See the P.S. for even more about this.)

Here are a few example deals I’ve closed in the last several weeks:

——-Check out these deals——-

*** A $10M/yr company that’s doing well but they don’t even collect emails on their sites.
And get this, they NEVER email their current customers…ever!!!

(This deal is paying me $25k up front PLUS the bonus I talk about in the P.S.)

*** 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.

(This deal will net me an EASY 7 figures over the next couple years.)

*** A well known ****** that books huge seminars but has no idea how to market himself.

(This one is worth another $25k upfront AND more on the back.)

*** A hugely successful ***** that sells tons of ***** and has a big following but no idea how to market to his followers.
He doesn’t even have a Facebook page!
And he was just on Good Morning America!

(This one will net an easy $100k in the first month alone.)

———Pretty killer huh?————

I could keep going but I think you get the idea.

So here’s the “secret” strategy:
Reaching out to big clients that have big pockets…
but suck at marketing.

Guess what, there are millions of them.

They even KNOW they suck at marketing and are CRAVING for someone like you to contact them.
They are searching for you but they don’t know how to find you!

Seriously.

So, what’s the catch?

The bright ones reading this are still wondering why I redacted (fancy word for “removed”) a couple key words in the example deals.

I don’t want to give that away yet. That’s where the HUGE “aha!” moment comes.

You see, in general, what I’m teaching you here is 100% true and you can CRUSH it for several years just reaching out to any business that needs you.

That’s what Main Street Marketing Machines teaches very well.

——Video update——
BTW, check out the second training video from Mike about MSMM.
It’s killer. Click here to get it.
——End update——–

But I’ve uncovered a very select group to go after that BLOWS AWAY even 100 new “local business” clients.

- This group has a LOT OF MONEY TO SPEND ON MARKETING!
- This group wants to PAY YOU UP FRONT!

- This group will pay you 100 times more than ANY local business!
- This group is CRAVING your skills!

- This group is out in the open and very easy to contact!
- This group won’t even flinch at a $25k up front fee!
- This group will see you as a hero and will LOVE to hear from you!

In short, it’s a goldmine. A big one. And it’s completely untapped.

So my training will teach EXACTLY:
- Who this group is and how to find them
- What to say to them
- How to close them (though it stupid easy!)
- What to offer to them and what NOT to offer to them
- How to get a neverending stream of new clients from this group
- How to guarantee results and feel great about it
- All the contracts and paperwork you need so secure the deals
- And most importantly…
…How to do NONE of the actual work!

This training is only going to be done in small, mastermind style groups.
The first group I’m taking has to buy Main Street Marketing Machines through my link.
You’ll also have to fill out an application and get approved by me personally to get in.

The reason is that this training is gonna be very “hands on”, personal training from me and I only want to deal with high-level, non-crazy people.
I also want to vet out the losers that just want to steal the content and resell it as some stupid $37 e-book.

This is a real opportunity to take MSMM to a very high level and build a seven-figure business VERY FAST.
And I’m gonna teach you personally.

Anyway, you get it.

If you’re still reading then, click here to check out the new MSMM video.

In my next email I’ll show you some outside-the-box ways to find high end clients on your own now.
If you are ambitious enough you could have big paying clients before the training even starts!

See you in the next email,
Matt ” ******** ” Trainer

P.S. My last email left a few people confused so I wanted to say something:
NO MY NEW TRAINING IS NOT THE SAME AS Main Street Marketing Machines!

OK, whew! Got that off my chest.

My new training complements MSMM completely and adds a multiplier effect to it.

In my last email I also mentioned that I’m averaging $4000/hr with this new strategy.
That’s only partially true.

The REAL truth is that the $4000/hr is ONLY THE FRONT END! I’m also getting a piece of the increase in profits!

This will add up to at least AN ADDITIONAL very high six figures a year and maybe even seven.
So in the end I can’t even tally the REAL number that I’m making per hour doing this.

Let me answer a big second question I got from many of you:
YES! YOU WILL TO HAVE TO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!

But here’s the thing, even if you very new to Internet marketing, you already know enough to do VERY well with this.
Plus, in my training I’ll show you how to get other people that already know what they are doing to do ALL the work!

Click here to check out the new MSMM video!

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…

…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 major delay in my product release.
And yes I lost MONTHS of revenue (high six figures worth).
And yes I had to COMPLETELY reboot my brain and business.

Even through all that, I must thank you.

You have changed my life AND my business, forever.

Though it’s been a hell of a wake up call and a disruption, it’s 100% worth it.

What the hell did Seth do that caused so much drama?

He wrote a little book called “Linchpin”. (Read it when you can. Highly recommended!)

Before I read that book I had a plan to do something that’s not been done in the Internet marketing world before.

I was gonna teach all my success secrets using the university model. It was to be based on “systems” and homework and very rigid methodology.
Exactly like a university.

Linchpin showed me that my “university” model was completely flawed…

…and doomed to fail.

No question about it.

Why? Because it’s based on a model that’s doomed to failure.

Rigid systems like our current school system are failing and have been for a VERY long time. They are geared to create robotic, rigid “factory workers” that can’t think for themselves.

The don’t teach how to be a creative thinker, a problem solver, an artist or a giver.

That’s the complete OPPOSITE of what I want my students to be.
So I was forced to see the light and rethink my ENTIRE plan.

It really threw me for a loop…BAD! I was in a funk for over a month.

I was even a bit depressed because I couldn’t figure out how to fix the entire training system I had planned.

Thankfully, I finally snapped out of it and I’m back. Stronger than ever and with a 10,000 times better plan.

This time I’m moving forward with the whole “linchpin” idea fully integrated.

The idea being that you MUST make yourself THE “unremovable” piece or the linchpin.
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.

If you don’t do this then you really only have about as much value as a $3/hr outsourced worker.

After completely reworking my plan, I have something that’s real, solid and 100% future-proof.

You WILL become the linchpin. You’ll never have to worry about changes that happen in the Internet marketing world ever again.

No more worries about Google, email, Facebook, SEO, traffic…none of it.

YOU will be the one solid piece that holds it all together.

You’ll sleep like a baby knowing you have a business that will be around forever no matter what happens.

The best part, you’ll make more money and have more fun than you EVER dreamed possible!

Yes this is all real. I’ve been testing it for 3 solid months now.

My results?

For one, I’m more confident than I’ve ever been but more importantly…

I’m averaging over $4000 or EVERY hour I “work”.
(I put “work” in quotes because it’s very easy and actually FUN!)

How many hours would you “work” with results even near that?
A LOT! Especially when you see how fun and rewarding it is.

The system I have can get you there and fast.

So what is it?

I’m not gonna reveal that just yet.

What I will tell you is that it has a lot to do with a product that’s launching right now.

The guys at Traffic Geyser are launching their completely revamped product, Main Street Marketing Machines.

Click here now to see the first video to grasp the size of this.

These guys are getting real results for lots of people.
I checked it out and it’s real. You can’t say that about much these days.

Stay tuned to my emails coming over the next few days to see more details about my system.

I’m also gonna show you how to get it for free.

(HINT: It has something to do with the Main Street Marketing Machines Fusion launch.)

Talk soon,
Matt “Linchpin” Trainer
P.S. In my last couple emails I talked about a way to END procrastination forever. I’ll finally reveal how to complete the puzzle.

In the previous email I showed how to put a “flavor” or “feeling” on your procrastination.
(Click here to read about that again.) That was step 1.

Step 2 (the last step!) is simply to reverse that feeling.

For me, when I start to procrastinate I start feeling “pressed down” and the task I need to do feels like it’s a giant staring down at me.

So all I do is reverse that. I close my eyes and start visualizing that I’m feeling tall and I see the task as a tiny little thing the size of a postage stamp.

So examine your “feeling” of procrastination, then close your eyes and visualize the opposite.

You’ll see some amazing things start happening. You’ll feel empowered and you’ll find getting up to do that dreaded “thing” incredibly easy.

Try it. You’ll like it.

In my next email, I show some more details of my “linchpin” system and how you can start doing it yourself.

Stay tuned.

Don’t forget to check out the first video from Mike about the new Main Street Marketing Machines system.

The Times They Are a-Changin’

Man I love that Bob Dylan song. I hadn’t heard it in a while but when I sat down to write this email it’s all I could think about. To get yourself in the mood for this email click this link and turn up your speakers.

OK – got good ol’ Dylan playing now? Good.

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.

In fact, I’m 100% convinced nearly everyone is now doing all these things wrong. Let me explain.

With the rise of Facebook and the MASSIVE amount of new content uploaded to the Internet, SEO is dying a slow death.

“Really? Why? How?” you say.

Search engines aren’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?

They turn to the ultimate filter…

…their friends.

I firmly believe that this is at least part of the reason why Facebook has grown so fast. It’s a GREAT content filter.

Marketers always go where the traffic is. So they are now flocking to Facebook in droves.

You are seeing Fan Pages flying up like mad. Marketing ads every where you turn. People constantly posting marketing messages on their “wall”. Forced invites to marketing groups you have no interest in joining. It’s getting crazy.

Guess what, nearly none of it is working very well. Everyone is doing it all wrong.

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.

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’ve been guilty of this too.)

People are simply tired of crappy non-relevant content that doesn’t connect to them. Couple that with near constant marketing promotions you get an entire system that’s failing for most people.

The Times They Are a-Changin’

In my own business I’ve made a MAJOR shift.

In the last several months I’ve spent almost $600k testing all these things in every way you can imagine.

All that testing yielded me a big fat…nothing. Except the knowledge that I was doing it all wrong like everyone else.

It finally hit me exactly 3 months ago what I was missing. It was the “connection”.

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’t help but giggle.

Now I have a cool story to tell.

I had just launched my new iPhone 4 off our 8th floor balcony.

“F*kn piece of shit,” I mutter to myself.

Over the last several weeks I’ve had nothing but problems with that damn thing. Apple’s super-gay product called “Mobile Me” has been duplicating my contacts like rabbits breeding.

Three days ago it gotten so bad I had over 100,000 contacts on my phone. Only 1000 of which are real. Awesome.

That’s when I entered the iPhone seventh circle of hell.

You see there’s no way to just de-duplicate the contacts built into the iPhone.

Of course not! Why would there be!!!!????? WTF???

After numerous trips to the Apple store “Genius” Bar, trying everything I found online and a couple different apps, nothing worked.

The the so-called “Genuises” at the Apple store made my duplicate contacts jump up 60,000 more! AAAAHHHHH!!!!

Then every app I tried couldn’t handle that many contacts and just crashed.

THEN my phone became almost inoperable. The number of contacts made it run ridiculously slow.

THEN TO TOP IT OFF, the contacts were syncing to my MacBook Pro and making IT run slow. Seriously…WTF?

So, smashing the thing on the ground solved a lot of stress I was having.

Sort of… I still had the damn contacts to deal with. AAARRGGGHHH!!!

I was able to retrieve an old backup on Time Machine and get it working again but only AFTER six more hours of work!

So, why am I telling you all this?

Simple. There are major holes in the iPhone software. Holes that can easily be filled with smart marketers like us.

There should a simple app that’s fast and light that will de-dupe contacts and make Mobile Me work right. But there’s not.

I KNOW there are millions of people all over the world having the same problem. Instant market that’s desperate for a solution.

But how do you create an app that would fill holes like these? I had no idea until Trey Smith showed me what’s up.

Turns out it’s pretty simple.

Click here to check out his new video about how he built a simple iPhone game that became an instant hit.

There is a HUGE business opportunity here.

Check out Trey’s insight on this. Good stuff.

Talk soon,
Matt “Need A New Phone” Trainer
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.

Waiting to hear more about my blackjack tales? I’ll show you the whole strategy if you make me a promise.
Full details coming in next post.