http://mikemarin.com Thoughts On Entrepreneurship, Lifestyle Design, Marketing, Work & Life Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:31:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Learning is the beginning of wealth.  Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process begins. Formal education will make you a living, but self-education will make you a fortune!" - Jim Rohn With that being said what I want to ... http://mikemarin.com/idea-of-the-day-self-education.php First off this Book is AMAZING! I am really getting alot out of reading a book a week and I suggest it to everyone if they can find the time.  Anyway Robert Ringer's book are very practical and I have learned alot from them. Of all the quote on quote success guru's ... http://mikemarin.com/action-by-robert-ringer.php This is part 2 of what I learned from Eben Pagan.  Check Out Pt 1 Here Money isn't Real Money has no intrinsic value meaning that there is nothing backing money. Focusing on Money doesn't build wealth. We need to focus on Value.  Alot of what Eben teaches is all about creating ... http://mikemarin.com/eben-pagan-what-i-learned-from-him-pt-2.php I just finised reading Robert Ringer's book To Be Or Not To Be Intimidated and all I can say is Wow.  I would give it a 9/10.This book was recommended to me by Dan Kennedy and Yanik Silver.  Both have this book in there top 10 book list and these ... http://mikemarin.com/book-review-to-be-or-not-to-be-intimidated.php 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 ... http://mikemarin.com/minisite-design.php 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 ... http://mikemarin.com/eben-pagan-what-i-have-learned-from-him-pt-1.php 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 ... http://mikemarin.com/doberman-dan-the-kitchen-table-entreprenuer.php 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 ... http://mikemarin.com/what-i-am-reading.php 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 http://mikemarin.com/you-cant-connect-the-dots-looking-foward.php The man’s name is Napoleon Hill and he wrote a little book in 1937, Think and Grow Rich.  Story has it that Andrew Carnegie one of the world’s richest men, asked Napoleon Hill to study and model 500 of the worlds most successful people such as Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, ... http://mikemarin.com/the-book-does-this-man-know-something-about-success-that-you-don%e2%80%99t.php