So I have been thinking about how can I take my skills online and make money with them.  I am already well versed in Adobe Photoshop so I decided to learn how to make mini sites.   Did this yesterday real quick, I thought it came out pretty well. Tell me what you think.

And the Ebook Design

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A little Background on Eben Pagan.  He is one of the the few in the internet marketing industry how actually made his money selling non-How to Make Money Stuff first.

Who Is He? He is an information marketer/entrepreneur famous for starting and owning Double Your Dating.com.  I believe I heard him say that it does around 25 million dollar a year business that employ around 50 people and is 100% virtual.

Area of Expertise? Marketing, Information Marketing, Time Management, Business Development

Education? College Dropout/ Self-Taught

Previous Jobs? Manual Labor Copper smith, Real Estate Agent

Products? Guru Mastermind, Wake Up Productive, Ignition, Get Altitude, Guru HomeStudy Course, SelfMade Wealth

Eben is one of my mentors and I have learned an absolute ton from him I do not even know where to begin.  So Ill start with a first things I learned from him a little over a year ago

1.Speed Of Implementation

A Research done by college about success showed that the one key factor for success was success was the Speed of Implementation.  Which is the time between when you learn something and you put it into action.  All successful people implement quickly.  This Idea alone is the reason why I have this blog.  I have adopted this as one of my own philosophies I can already see that it is making a difference.  The minute I heard that you should have a personal blog that day I registered this domain name and began setting up this blog.   Now I am not saying that I am perfect at this but I have noticed that being conscious of this has helped me so far.

2.The Road to Success is Not Obvious its Counter Intuitive

Eben Pagan makes the analogy that business is very similar to Carnival Games meaning that you can win once you know the trick which is not obvious.

This is the way most people think: How do I figure out how to get 1,000,000 people  to give me 1 dollar?  I know I have, you sit there scheming.  If I invent this then I can get all these people to give me MONEY and then I will Have One Million Dollars

The New Mindset: How Do I give 1,000 dollars of value away for free to 1 million people and ask 10 dollars in return.

Counter Intuitive to give first, Eben says this alone is responsible for his success.

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I spent the last few days reading over and studying the wealth of free information on Dan Gallapoo website DobermanDan.com.  If you are interested in direct response marketing, copywriting, or being able to start a multi-million dollar business from you kitchen table for less than $200 dollars then you are going to want to check out his website.

I have become very weary when people teach how to make money stuff.  But I will tell you a couple of reasons why I like Dan’s Website

• Its Free (The information is much better than 99% of paid products)
• He actually has made millions of dollars selling to the bodybuilding niche – information and supplements and not selling to the how to make money crowd.  I found one of his online info products here.   He actually said that out of the whole internet marketing guru crowd only about 10% have actually made their money selling non-how to make money products.  (If you don’t know that whole crowd consider yourself better off, most of them are charlatans)
• He mentored under the great GARY HALBERT! Gary Halbert has become one of my idols and is the real deal.  You should check out his website thegaryhalbertletter.com if you have not already.
• Its entertaining and easy reading.
• Much like Tim Ferriss is focus is on building business to create the lifestyle that you want.

Anyways check out Dan’s site and Gary Halbert’s site

Here are some of the post I really liked

Writers Write–  http://dobermandan.com/the-doberman-dan-letter-issue-no-7/

It has inspired me to begin to make a commitment to write everyday.  One of my goals is to become a better writer.

The latest and Greatest — http://dobermandan.com/the-latest-greatest-sexy-new-marketing-secret/

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For 2010 I am trying to read two books a week.  I think reading is very valuable and allows you to get a variety of perspectives on life rather than just your own.  The fact that someone puts all their life lessons into a book and sells it for under 20 dollars is  an absolute steal.   Often the biggest homes have the biggest library’s.   Last week the two books that I read was 1.Crush It by Gary V. and Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi.  Both were very good reads and I would recommend them anyone looking for an advantage.

Anyways last night I read The Instant Millionaire by Mark Ficher.   It was a quick read it took me only an hour and half to read.  I thought it was excellent.  If you have read alot of the self help literature (which I have read before)like Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, The Richest Man In Babylon, The Magic of Thinking Big then this will be nothing new.  However I think the way the information was presented is very easy.  It is presented in a story of a young man visiting an old millionaire and the millionaire tells him the secrets to becoming wealthy.

The Story makes it both entertaining and easy to understand. Go to amazon and check it out.

Action Steps:

1. I am going to review my goals daily

2.I am going to experiment with Self-Suggestion

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This is a speech from Steve Jobs, I think it is one of the best speeches I have ever heard and it has had a huge impact on my life. If you have not seen it. WATCH IT ASAP

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

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