It would be easy for me to tell you what a great time I had living in the Little India area of Singapore a couple of weeks ago, enjoying the sights, smells of the spices, and visiting with the locals in the tiny street cafes but,while that’s fun for me, it does little for you as you work to improve your financial situation, or to gain your complete freedom, if that’s your wish.

The thought come to me however that maybe if I shared the most important things that could have easily destroyed my dream of freedom, maybe it would help you avoid the same pitfalls.

* A lack of dissatisfaction about my current lifestyle.

Ten years ago if I had been perfectly happy in my job, it may have been different, maybe I would have never changed for the better. Never have started looking for alternatives to a life of modest achievement and little satisfaction. But I wasn’t satisfied. I was, at that time, very security conscious and the thought of anyone being able to say (again) ‘Sorry Allan, but times are tough and we’re having to let staff go’ wasn’t acceptable to me and I knew as the years went by and my age crept up that getting rehired was going to be more and more difficult. I had tasted redundancy once already, and like many of you, had not enjoyed the experience.

I went on to start my own one man (offline) business to get better control of my situation before starting my journey online – but after a while realized that it didn’t really solve the problem in that if I couldn’t work through sickness or any other reason my income would drop to nil. And who wants to work 50-60 hours a week for the rest of their life anyway!

In short something had to change, and I had to be the one to change it, because it was obvious that no one else would, not my employer, not my friends, not my business competitors, and certainly not the government.

* Lack of a dream.  That burning desire to do better for myself, my family and my causes.

Now this is the big one, and I realize now if I had got this one wrong, I wouldn’t have been able to succeed to anywhere near the level I have. As luck would have it I had started to read personal development books, and stories of successful people, and stumbled one day on the simple principle that changed my life.

Now here is where I want you to pay attention. Because if you do, it will change your life too.

In ANY area of your life, but in particular it will explode your success online.

Because it will give you the desire, the drive and the self discipline to do what has to be done, consistently, to go from modest success to overwhelming success.

To do what as to be done!  Yep, sorry, success requires focused efforts over time.

This principle is the fuel that will accelerate your online vehicle into outer space, beyond the gravity that’s holding you back, into the easy cruise to any destination of your choice.

It’s the power of a clearly visualized dream that you have written down and review often!

You may have heard this before, but let’s break this down into it’s important components:

Clearly visualized:

This is no hazy wish, fleeting and soon gone ‘I wish I could go on a Mediterranean Cruise this year’ or similar. This is something you’ve taken time to think over carefully and fully. It’s that ‘thing’ that stirs your emotion, maybe brings tears to your eyes. It engages you at a visceral level.

It stirs your emotions.

And you find it in the quiet of extended contemplation in your ‘peaceful place’. It is never found casually or in the midst of distractions.

Some call it daydreaming and it’s similar but more than that because it has a purpose. And that purpose is to design your life.

What would your perfect day be?  Your week and year. Your perfect life.

Think it, feel it.

And ignore the voice that keeps telling you it’s impossible. ALL things are possible if you will only believe, and you will act enthusiastically on the belief, as many have examples shown. (You can study them if you wish – Colonel Sanders KFC, Thomas Edison, Martin Luther King and many more)

Written down:

Don’t ignore this! By writing down the dream you define it. You turn it from thoughts to facts in the process of being achieved. Writing it down clarifies and defines your thinking, giving it shape and form. In effect you turn it into something tangible, that just  needs to be done to realize it.

Review often:

You have to feed your dream regularly. Don’t just file that piece of paper away to get lost and forgotten in the distractions of life. Make a point to regularly take it out in a quiet time, and to relive again the emotion of it’s achievement. Let the emotion energize you.

Place a representation of the dream somewhere where you can see it daily. Near your computer maybe or as I have done, within my 12SC back office.

Mine is a photo of myself taken mid week sitting reading a book in the hills above my home city of Christchurch, New Zealand. It represents the financial security and personal freedom that drove, and continues to drive, everything I do.

What’s YOUR dream?

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Having achieved freedom after four years online, I’ll use my own experiences as an example but only because so many of you are no different from me, in background, experience and life. Even though I may not know you personally, I do know that you and I are very much alike. If you’re interested in getting a brief overview of my background you will find it HERE. You will be surprised how similar we are.

Let me ask you a couple of questions.

Have you ever had a conversation a bit like this with your boss and got a positive response? “I know it’s the busy time of the year but I’ve got a once in a lifetime chance to (whatever is really important to you). Can I have three weeks off to go do it?”

Or, are you the owner of a business on Main Street, responsible for the financial welfare of your own family and that of your employees? Could you work only 20 hours a week, and take two months off to go traveling?

Are you on any kind of benefit (disability, veteran, government or employer funded pension) and worried about the security of it, or if the value if it continuing to decrease over the years? Or the inadequacy of it that’s experienced in most every country in the world? Knowing most are asset tested these days does it frustrate you that you cannot add a bit of income on top of it without suffering penalties?

There are many forms of slavery in the world, and the universal ones I’ve demonstrated above are wage, employee and benefit slavery. All of which take away the freedom of choice, and the loss of personal dignity.

At various stages of my life I’ve suffered all of them, and those experiences made me determined to develop an online business earning residual incomes.

Why residuals?

Broadly speaking there are only two ways to generate income:

1) To exchange your time for money. To work for a salary or hourly wage, hence the term wage slave.

2) To duplicate your own efforts through the participation of others.

This is what an employer does, by employing and training others. But in doing so both the employer and the employee become slaves in varying degrees.

It’s really another version of 1) above, so let’s move on to the very few ways to develop both income AND the time to enjoy it.

Unless you’re an author, song writer or singer your options are starting to get a bit limited.

And that’s were the likes of 12SecondCommute come into play because, by promoting essential marketing service suppliers who pay you a commission on the monthly subscription of all the clients you refer to them, you start to get hold of long lasting residual incomes.

If, as in 12SecondCommute, you have the opportunity to develop small teams of affiliates and be rewarded through a multi-tier affiliate commission structure, the real power of residual incomes come into play.

Because now your income doesn’t just rely on your effort, it is proportional on the output of ALL your team.

Now you have secure and long lasting income AND the time to enjoy it.

You move from slavery to freedom. Complete financial and personal freedom if that’s your desire and you’re willing to put the effort in over time to achieve it.

So, how long would freedom take?

Well, for me (and I’m not the sharpest pencil in the pack) it took four years. Others have achieved it in half that time, but I’m not complaining <grin>. In about a week I’m tucking my baby laptop (netbook) under my arm and I’m off wandering and cruising around the world for two months.

I asked the boss (me) and I said “Go for it”, and made arrangement to:

1) Tour through Malaysia into Thailand

2) Gather up my family (and 1 year old granddaughter) for a luxury cruise up through the Norwegian Seas into the Arctic Circle to enjoy the ‘White Nights’ when the sun never fully sets. Then spend another two weeks together enjoying the many experiences in and around Amsterdam

3) Enjoy the wonders of what is probably the most scenic rail trip in the world – the Bernina Express through the Alps between Switzerland and Italy

4) Spend seven days in ‘The Imperial City’, Rome

5) On to HongKong and China to visit friends.

Is freedom worth it? I’ll let you be the judge.

Can YOU do it?

I don’t know (but if I can I find it hard to see why you can’t), but I do know that if you’re looking for the vehicle and the training to achieve it through earning residual income you would be well served by taking up the 30 day free trial 12 Second Commute offers by clicking the link HERE.

You will have a full month to check out what’s offered from the inside and you won’t need you wallet, credit card or any other payment details to take up the trial, so make that small but important move today.

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Yep, that’s the one, part of the sales page reads…

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If you are looking for a proven, easy to implement system for creating a reliable and automated income as a Clickbank affiliate, this may very well be the most important letter you will ever read!

Imagine a marketing system that automatically builds your opt-in list for you, follows up with your prospects, converts them into customers, pays you a commission, runs on complete auto-pilot and then repeats again and again.

Now imagine that this system is so simple that you can set up one after another creating multiple streams of income… at the push of a button!

“It Would Be As If You Could Just Flip A Switch &

Turn On An Automatic Money Machine”

A Money Machine You Can Start Using 15 Minutes From Now &

Have You

r Clickbank Account Look Like This Next Week…

* Screenshot of a real Clickbank account using the proven XXXXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX system

Sounds great, but how do you create a system like this?
———————-

Good question! How do you create a system that will bring you that sort of money “in the next week”?

Shh …… it’s a secret. But I’ll tell you (if you keep it too yourself).

You do it the same way as you teach a pig how to fly!

When will it happen? When pigs can fly.

Now I don’t make a point of slagging other peoples products or programs off but, frankly, I’m getting annoyed that I see so much of this rubbish being peddled in my industry that I couldn’t resist it this time.

These, so called, offers seem plausible, particularly when you’re newish online (or when you’re desperate!) but they are grossly exaggerated to the point of dishonesty.

If you have a huge list of several thousands, and several like minded associates who also have humongous lists to promote your latest ‘guaranteed’ offer too you may? indeed achieve results like this.

Notice I said “may”

$6000?

In a week?

Fully automated?
Can you do it?

Yes – when pigs can fly.

Want to hear the truth? Want to know how to really make money online, long term?

You may not like what you hear but it will be the truth, and the truth is – if you use the right tools, access the right training, and do the right things consistently you will become wealthy online, even very wealthy and personally free.

You can find the truth, always the truth, HERE.

AllanJames
(the StartBusinessMentor)
1 May 2010

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Is her unstoppable attitude one we can gain from by applying it to our internet business?

New Zealand-born internationally renowned photojournalist Margaret Moth has died of cancer.

She was 59.

Moth came to prominence after being almost killed when she was shot in the face covering the war in Sarajevo in 1992.

Moth, born Margaret Wilson in Gisborne, worked as a camerawoman in New Zealand before moving to the US. She began working for CNN in 1990.

She covered the Persian Gulf War, the rioting that followed Indira Gandhi’s assassination and the civil war in Tbilisi, Georgia, for CNN before volunteering for the dangerous mission of filming in Sarajevo.

On July 23, 1992 in Sarajevo, Moth was struck by a sniper’s bullet as she drove with colleagues to the airport to interview pilots flying relief supplies.

Her jaw was shattered, and she lost nearly all of her teeth and part of her tongue. Moth was rushed to a local hospital for emergency surgery and then flown to the United States where she underwent numerous reconstructive surgeries.

After much reconstructive surgery, she went back to her job in Sarajevo.

You may be wondering what this has to do with you and your journey towards personal and financial freedom as you build your online business.

My point it that you have to dare to be different. You have to keep focused and true to your dream, your vision of your future.

Margaret faced opposition at every turn as she pursued her dream to be the first female and best combat photojournalist in the world, but she held true to it. Through thick and thin she remained true to it!

You to will face opposition and even ridicule from family, friends and workmates – most of whom are broke, or more than broke. Certainly very few of them will be financially and personally free.

Why?

Because you dare to be different.

Because you ‘follow the path less traveled’

Because people around you feel uncomfortable about your ambition and want to drag you back down.

One of my favorite sayings is ‘I will do today what others won’t do, so that I may have tomorrow what others can’t have’

Like Margaret, face the danger, overcome the opposition, never give up, dare to be different!

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Picture this, if you will ….

* One site to administer all your emails.

* One site to save all your emails

* No more saving haphazard swipe files

* No more time wasted searching for your login
details

* No more wasting time logging in to all your
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for x amount of time. Frustrating!

* No more missed mailings because you forgot
you could mail. Opportunity lost, never to come again.

* No more time wasted setting up tracker links for each
of your safelists. You do track, don’t you? Please Say Yes!

* No more missed signups, because you don’t
know which emails convert the best. Important!

* No more money lost, because you don’t know which
mailers are absolutely useless, as many are!

* And there’s just too more to mention here…

Viral Mail Profits is beyond doubt the one and only place
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to make you take action…. and that my friends is
what we all need to get wealthy.

* You save time.
* You’re more focused and the bottom line is …
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When talking about affiliate programs, it helps to compare them to
what happens in the traditional world of brick and mortar
companies. In that familiar world, many large manufacturing
companies and large product sellers use a network of salespeople
and distributors to bring their products to all corners of the
world.

For instance, a beverage manufacturer, instead of selling directly
to their customers, sells their products through a series of
distributors and salespeople. In turn, the members of this
distribution and sales network enjoy a very good living by
promoting the products made by others.

In essence, the affiliate programs found on the internet are
distribution and sales efforts taken to the online world. The
individual web sites take the place of the distributor and sales
network, and these individuals are paid by the seller of the
product when a sale is made.

It is easy to see why this arrangement is so popular, from the
point of view of both the merchant and the owner of the web site.
The merchant benefits from increased sales. At the same time, he
or she does not have to pay for additional advertising, and the
affiliate is only paid when a sale is made.

The web site owner benefits as well, since every sale he or she
refers to the merchant means money in his or her pocket. The web
site is up and running anyway, the visitors are already there. The
only thing that has been added is the affiliate link, and that
costs nothing to set up and is very easy to do.

One word about the affiliate link. The affiliate link is what
makes this magic happen. It is how the merchant knows where their
customers are coming from. When a customer visits the web site
owner’s site, he or she will see an affiliate link to the
merchant’s site. When the visitor clicks this link, the click
through is logged by the merchant, and when a sale is made that is
logged as well.

The owner of the referring web site is then
entitled to a percentage of the sale. In most cases, this
percentage will be at least 20%, but in some cases it can be as
much as 75% or even more of each sale. With these kinds of
percentages, it is easy to see why this type of marketing is such a
great way to make money online.

Affiliate programs are very popular, and one reason is that unlike
other types of internet businesses there is no need to stock
products, buy products or even have products. That is because
instead of selling your own product, you are acting as a
salesperson or a distributor for the products of others.

This can make a huge difference to your profit margins and your
bottom line. So if you’re not already familiar with the concept of
affiliate marketing, why not check it out?

One of the finest affiliate programs on the net is 12SecondCommute
and if you click the big banner over on the right it will shoot you
off to have a look at it. They offer a 30 day free trial – no credit
card or other payment details required – and the trial is a great
way to check it out from the inside and discover all the tools inside
that everyone working online must have to succeed.

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Remember these costs (above ) are for an Autoresponder only, and don’t include any of the other services found  in the 12SecondCommute Tools Suite (capture page builders, ad and Url tracking, rotators, hosted blog etc etc)

Lowest elsewhere (autoresponder only):

$10   Highest $49

Lowest at 12SecondCommute (and includes all the other 7 services and training)

$9        Highest $39 ( Elite unlimited account)

On a value for money, and ease of use basis, I strongly recommend the 12SecondCommute’s autoresponder and it’s associated suite of essential tools. They provide a 30 day free trial, and don’t even require a credit card or any other payment details to start it, and if for some unlikely reason you decide the services are not for you at the end of the trial your details are erased from their database and you will never hear from them again. How risk free and easy is that!

This link will take take you through to 12SecondCommute, and you can pick up a very  worthwhile free bonus on the way, as my way of saying thanks for looking.

Hope that helps

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1) Do they have a manned phone number I can call
2) When I phoned – were they helpful and responsive
3) The innocent wee question I asked via their support form – was it quickly and helpfully answered?

If all is go, I commit to a *trial* run.

I use the ad tracker in my tool suite to run at least 1000 exposures through. It tells me how many hits I got, but more importantly how many of those signed up to get my guide, and calculates the cost per sign-up. <<<<<< – this is the make or break for me.

You have to test! All else is just opinion and / or guesswork.

A recent example: I found a advertising supplier being well spoken about in a forum, they had a phone, nice lady, great answers to some leading questions, asked a question through their support form, quick answer, all looked good as per 1) to 3) above, paid $25 for a months subscription to start a trial run of the service.

Set up my ad tracking for this test in my ad tracker in my tools suite – and away went the trial – of several thousand exposures of an ad that pulls 46.25% conversions for me elsewhere.

28 days later —– hits Zero!! and, obviously, conversions zero.

I immediately canceled before the renewal for the coming month.

So.. what can be learned from this little tale?

Yes, do the checks 1) to 3) above, but then track and test.

Testing and tracking will save you a fortune over time. Lets assume, as I have with various others of the scores of places I advertise, I had stuck with that advertiser for a year.

I would have wasted $300, yet my tracker (and it’s only one of the 13 online tools services included in the suite) costs only $9 a month.

So….. by having, as all should, a professional online tools suite, on this one trial alone I saved over $200

For success online you have to have online tools, and you have to track and test everything – be it banners, ads, ppc, even your sigs from forums etc.

How else will you ever know where best to put your valuable time and / or money.

Quess which tracking service I recommend   Hint: Do you see the big banner ——>>>>> 12SecondCommute

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Anyone taking up the FREE one month trial of this excellent online tools and residual income opportunity will get special bonuses of up to $32 dollars – a month!

No obligation – no credit card needed – you just take up the full month free trial, check out if all the marketing tools and the residual income opportunity offers enough for you to wish to upgrade to the ELITE (maximum) account for only $19.90 a month and you’re in line for an immediate bonus of up to $32 a month!

Less than $20 a month for a tools suite (the tools everyone online MUST have to succeed) that would cost you up to $87 a month anywhere else AND you have the opportunity to promote them if you wish and start developing explosive residuals as well.

Yes, the owner of the 12SecondCommute, Darryl Graham’s has gone crazy!  But you win, so that’s ok.

And, in line with his madness, I’m going to offer even more – a FREE copy of the acclaimed Make Your First Dollar Online Guide ($47 value), the step by step guide to making real money online that 100’s have used to break through and make real money – often for the very first time!

Offer expires 30 Nov, so make your move NOW.

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