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I wanted to send this out to all of you as a reminder of the joy and thanks that each of you bring to me and the community throughout the year.

May you enjoy Christmas and the Holiday Season with family and friends as you prepare for a healthy and prosperous 2010 and beyond!

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Once again thanks to all who suggest that I may have value to offer to others

Dr. Ron the NicheProf

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• 3 Things that you must know:

  • There are websites

  • There are Internet businesses

  • There are well-oiled money machines

• 8 Characteristics of a well-oiled money machines:

  • Rabid market of buyers who want what you have and have money

  • A system that finds, gets, keeps and grows customers

  • Built-in sales funnel and process

  • Allows you to make a $1000 per sale within 2 to 3 steps of the entry level

  • Pays you on the marketing efforts of others

  • Works 24/7 because money never sleeps

  • Provides residual income

  • Allows you to focus on a single thing

Dr. Ron Capps the NicheProf

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A look at your marketing funnel and the movement of a visitor from supect to prospect to customer:

• Your Marketing Funnel:

  • Load your funnel with Suspects (NOTE: I suggest using Social Media, Articles and Giveaways to attract people to the top of your funnel)

  • View your funnel as a purification process to filter quality from the quantity loaded in the top of the funnel

  • Relationships that you can develop with those in your funnel are the key. (I dislike ever referring to those in your funnel as being on your list. It minimizes and depersonalizes the individual. I much prefer referring to those in the funnel as being part of a community, tribe, congregation, etc. Recognizing this distinction demonstrates an important awareness of Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs motivational model and the mid to higher levels of the model.

• Start with a low end product - Free to $97

• Second level in the funnel - $97 to $297

• Third Mid-Range Level - $397 to $997

• Fourth Upper Mid-Range Product - $997 to $1997

• High End Boot Camps and Seminars - $1997 to $4997

• Personal Access via Coaching & Closed Memberships - $4997 to $25000

• The look and branding must remain consistent throughout all levels of the funnel

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I’m sitting in a quiet room at the Millcroft Inn, a peaceful little place hidden back amongst the pine trees about an hour out of Toronto. It’s just past noon, late July, and I’m listening to the desperate sounds of a life-or-death struggle going on a few feet away. There’s a small fly burning out the last of its short life’s energies in a futile attempt to fly through the glass of the windowpane.

The whining wings tell the poignant story of the fly’s strategy – try harder. But it’s not working. The frenzied effort offers no hope for survival.

Ironically, the struggle is part of the trap. It is impossible for the fly to try hard enough to succeed at breaking through the glass. Nevertheless, this little insect has stacked its life on reaching its goal through raw effort and determination. This fly is doomed. It will die there on the window sill.

Across the room, ten steps away, the door is open. Ten seconds of flying time and this small creature could reach the outside world it seeks. With only a fraction of the effort now being wasted, it could free itself of this self-imposed trap. The breakthrough possibility is there. It would be so easy.

Why doesn’t the fly try another approach, something dramatically different? How did it get so locked in on the idea that this particular route, and determined effort, offer the most promise for success? What logic is there in continuing to, until death, to seek a breakthrough with “more of the same”? No doubt this approach makes sense to the fly. Regrettably, it’s an idea that will kill.

“Trying harder” isn’t necessarily the solution to achieving more. It may not offer any real promise for getting what you want out of life. Sometimes in fact, it’s a big part of the problem. If you stake your hopes for a breakthrough on trying harder than ever, you may kill your chances for success.

The moral for salespeople is that trying harder and more of the same does not work. Like the doomed fly, you push harder and harder, yet the prospect delays and delays. That’s what happens when your company does not use lead scoring. That’s what happens when you don’t find creative ways to engage. For instance, when was the last time you attended an Investor Day, attended a dinner with The CMO Club or posted a comment to a CEO’s blog?

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I was fortunate to have become intimately familiar with the life and lyrics of the late singer, songwriter, social activist Harry Chapin.

Beyond to doing a content analysis of the language choices within his lyrics, I was moved by the degree to which he represented what I believe it meant to be an American Citizen in our Participatory Democracy.

I've had access to his family, his private papers, his unpublished works and many journalists, producers, entertainers and governemental leaders who had relationships and encounters with Harry during his brief lifetime.

I found the lyrics of a song that is not as familiar to the general public to be one of my personal goads. I thought I would share the lyrcs with you today.

I believe that we would all live fuller and more productive lives if we asked ourselves this question on a regular basis.

I Wonder What Would Happen to this World
by Harry Chapin

Oh well I wonder
Yes I wonder
What would happen
What would happen to this world
Well I wonder what would happen to this world

Now if a man tried
To take his time on Earth
And prove before he died
What one man's life could be worth
Well I wonder what would happen to this world

And if a woman
She used a life line
As something more than
Some man's servant mother wife time
Well I wonder what would happen to this world

Oh well I wonder
Yes I wonder
Oh yes I wonder
'Bout what would happen
What would happen to this world
Well I wonder what would happen to this world

As I look around us
There's such strange things
There's muggers and there's jugglers
And we are led by clowns
If an answer ever found us
Would we change things
Or are we just a people
Rotten ready for the ground

And if our future
Lies on the final line
Are we brave enough
To see the signals and the signs
I wonder what would happen to this world

We see the people
We see them marchin' down
Do we join the parade
Or do we try and turn around
Well I wonder what would happen to this world

Disciple children walk the streets
Selling books and flowers
Can they be last ones
With a semblance of a dream
If we say that no one's out there
And we say we're goin' nowhere
And we avoid the question
Is this all that it means?

Oh if a man tried
To take his time on earth
And prove before he died
What one man's life could be worth
I wonder what would happen to this world

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