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Hi Friends,

Are you in debt, struggling to make ends meet and fed up
with not having enough money?

Are you doing OK financially but want to do much better?

Are you doing well financially but the "price" you've been
paying for your success (stress, anxiety, health issues,
relationship strain, no time, disillusionment, etc.) is too
high?

Have you reached out for books, tapes, seminars or coaching
(including law of attaction stuff) specifically to improve
your finances, lifestyle and quality of life, but nothing
seems to work for you?

If you answered "Yes!" to any of the above questions, I have
some exciting news for you. Robert Scheinfeld just
created a new resource that has the power to radically
transform your relationship with money — in ways that have
never been possible before.

I'm not talking about investing, marketing, the Internet,
network marketing, business building, real estate,
stock trading or some new technique or strategy for
increasing your productivity or efficiency.

I'm talking about a revolutionary breakthrough. Something
you've never seen or heard before. I'm very excited about
this breakthrough that I had to reach out and tell you about it
right away.

http://www.thestorybehindthesecret.com/moneygame.htm

Let me explain …

For 12+ years, Robert Scheinfeld has been teaching people
how to tap unusual "sources of sources" to create success
and prosperity in their lives. You've probably heard of his
best-selling Invisible Path to Success and 11th Element
work. Maybe you already own one or more of his courses or
books.

Robert is very proud of his earlier work which has profoundly
touched the lives of tens of thousands of people in more
than 190 countries.

However, as he continued his own personal journey, he
discovered that while the Systems he developed and taught
made him infinitely better at playing what he calls "The
Money Game" — and enabled him to amass his own fortune
(then lose it and build it up again) — playing The Money
Game was still extremely stressful, his prosperity was still
"fragile" and  vulnerable to severe ups and downs

He noticed it wasn't just him either. The same thing was
true for virtually everyone, no matter how much money they
have.

That wasn't OK with him!

        Further Down "The Rabbit Hole" …

Robert ultimately realized there were additional pieces to the
wealth and prosperity puzzle he hadn't yet found. To use a
popular phrase from Alice In Wonderland and the movie "The
Matrix," he realized he could go even deeper down "the
rabbit hole."

What he discovered through his own experiences (of making
money, crashing and burning and "being rich"), and through
his relationships with hundreds of other extremely wealthy
people (including some of the wealthiest in the world), is
that The Money Game is a game you can't win  — if you play
according to the rules, regulations and structures you're
taught growing up.

Robert discovered it doesn't work to simply play The Money
Game better and pile up more and more money, which is what
most people want tio learn and all the experts teach. You've
got to actually bust loose from the old rules of The Money
Game entirely and start playing a new game with a new set of
rules that work for YOU.

Robert discovered how to do that, how to bust loose from The
Money Game and has been quietly showing others how to do it
for the last year and a half.

He taught this concept to Chris Attwood and many others, whose
lives have never been the same since - this is POWERFUL
STUFF!

Now he's prepared to show you how to do it too through a
brand new resource he just completed and released called …

"Busting Loose From The Money Game Home Transformational
System"

In that resource, he reveals his "Busting Loose Process"
and how to harness it to make money a total non-issue in
your life.

Once you bust loose, there's no more worrying about bills or
the balance in your checkbook. No more asking "Can I afford
that?" Or "Should I buy that?"

No more worrying about your assets and liabilities, personal
income, savings, debt, profits, retirement or taxes.

No more working your butt off to "make ends meet" or carve
out a little pleasure or luxury in your life. No more of the
complexity, worry and stress that come from trying to
intelligently manage, grow and protect whatever amount of
money you've been able to pile up.

In short …

        No limits or restrictions of any kind
               as it relates to money!

We're talking about major "outside the box" thinking and
living here. Sound unbelievable? I assure you, it's very
real and absolutely doable - if you know how, which Robert
can show you.

I don't care what you think you know about money, wealth,
prosperity and abundance, or how many books, tapes or
seminars you've experienced on those topics. Robert's System
is major renegade stuff and I guarantee you've never
experienced anything like it before.

            A Guided Tour Opens The Door
                   To The Secrets …

Robert has prepared a special multimedia Guided Tour of the
Busting Loose Process for you. To take that Guided Tour,
and I strongly urge you to take it, just click on the
following link:

http://www.thestorybehindthesecret.com/moneygame.htm

It will be well worth your time.

Angela

Since I recently participated in a contest but did not win, it feels important
to focus on what I succeeded in doing; what did I accomplish?
When I focused on why I did not win, I contracted a very bad case of the
post-competition blues… we all like to receive something of high value
from someone we admire or from an organization as a proof of how much
THEY value us. It's like proof of how much we are loved and recognized.
Funny how we, as humans, need that kind of confirmation from others to feel self-worth.

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"Walk Into Any Niche You Choose
And Dominate Instantly Because
You'll Already Know Where The
Money Is At Every Single Turn…
Before You Ever Even Spend A
Dime Of Your Own" ???

These are the types of claims we have been reading in the recent months from several software, promising that you can literally begin to investigate
a number of keywords and track the advertisers whose advertisements are constantly showing up. This type of monitoring is hugely powerful, especially if it's
able to be done in an automated fashion.

Well — if you've seen any of the recent launches for Google Cash Detective, X-Ray Domination, Uncover Profits or Adwords Tycoons, then you already know that most of those programs are out of reach even for some people that are making good money.

X-Ray Domination = $1500
Undercover Profits = $291 per month
Google Cash Detective = $495 plus $97 per month
Adwords Tycoons = $1500

If you've ever wondered how some of the guys in the past year have been turning up some incredibly enormous checks by using the Pay-Per-Clicks, wouldn't you want to know HOW they are doing it?  I know I do! 

What gets more powerful than letting a little robot loose on the Internet to monitor particular keywords and report back ONLY the campaigns that were shown the most every time they were monitored?  This literally gives you a license to piggyback on other people's success that already have a proven selling process for their affiliate website landing page or just their affiliate link.

I have been testing GCD for a couple of months now and can verify this.

I recently received a great offer from JP Schoeffel at www.adspypro.com/ . This software is the was created in the "Better'n'Cheaper" series, where a number of people pay in advance nominal membership fees to create cheaper and better alternatives to software that has been released and which are only available at much higher prices.  He writes that he has received a lot of criticism for this.  JP Schoeffel has long experience in Internet Marketing and has produced some very good marketing materials and tools, such as Niches-In-A-Box and many social bookmarking books and tools. He has also had  a lot of success as an affiliate marketer.  Now I know why!!!

When I finally got around to reading the sales page on www.adspypro.com/ I was happy to see that it works with several other programs - not just Adwords. The price on the page says $67 for the time being, and will continue to rise after the pre-launch period is over.  Rush to get this software, if you have missed out on the others. Receive $20 back from me after the guarantee period has ended, provided you purchase through my link, of course.  The $20 rebate is valid only until June 30th, 2007 and for 500 licenses.

I received my copy today and I am pleased to say that it looks very good.  More to come in the near future on a review of this software and some effective strategies to use with them.

I received Google Cash Detective, GCD, as a surprise bonus last year when I subscribed to a new Adwords management service, which took me months to learn - not because it  was so hard, but because I am so non-technical. The link to GCD arrived about a couple of months ago.  Being the non-techie person that I am, t took me quite some time to learn to install - but once I finally got over my fear and "got it", I realized it wasn't that  difficult, after all to install software and things like a "cron manager" and to create databases. I've been testing it without any detailed instructions on how to find the profitable campaigns.  I have found campaigns and tested new ones but haven't had the instant success that so many people are claiming would be the results of having this. I suppose if someone were to peek over my shoulder and tell me exactly what, when and how to do things, I would learn much faster and be earning much more money with it. 

I also recently received a copy of Adwords Tycoon, which went on sale yesterday and sold out within a few hours of its launch, even after hours of problems with their servers, and learned just very quickly through their tutorials how they find the profitable campaigns, but the price of that software was very high.  These software are very similar to one another, but to be fair, the Adwords Tycoon software gives more info and is more flexible than GCD, but lacks the extended service of transferring your keywords to your Adwords campaigns, a monthly service priced at $97 per month, as mentioned before.

More to come on a comparison of the functionality of these software and the results I am getting.

Google Cash Detective, Adwords Tycoons, XRayDomination, and UnderCover Profits are ALL SOLD OUT.  But you can get www.adspypro.com/ for a limited time at the pre-lauch price of $67 and $20 back from me after the guarantee period has ended, provided you purchase through my link, of course.  The $20 rebate is valid only until June 30th, 2007 and for 500 licenses.

Stay tuned to this blog for an upcoming video on the results I am getting with these software.
 
Angela Wickenberg

Apropos Facebook for business and how to make money from your content and network on Facebook, I found this article on Early To Rise:

7 Sizzling Business "Discoveries" From Stanford's Facebook Project (and How They Can Help Any Entrepreneur Make a Million Bucks)

By Charlie Byrne

Last week, Mark Zuckerberg turned 24. 

And my guess is, he's pretty pleased with himself so far. 

A college dropout, but from Harvard. A self-starter who launched a business from his dorm room. And, oh yeah, the world's youngest self-made billionaire, according to Forbes magazine. 

Make that a "theoretical" billionaire, since nobody is really sure exactly how much his hugely popular social networking website - Facebook.com - is actually worth. It's not publicly traded (although Microsoft recently laid out $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake). It's not clear where it's headed. (Mark himself isn't sure.) To some people, it's not clear what purpose it's supposed to serve either.

But at least two things are sure.

First, people love it. Nearly 70 million visited the site last month alone. And second, it's looking like one of the greatest entrepreneurial innovations since, well, since someone launched the first business that offered sliced bread.

One area that's receiving plenty of attention is Facebook "apps" (applications). From useful tools such as stock market tickers and productivity management helpers… to complete time wasters such as "Give the Imaginary Puppy a Bone" and "Who's the Coolest Person You Know"… there's a Facebook app for just about everyone and everything.

After (if) you've chosen to add one of them to your Facebook homepage, it appears in your browser whenever you sign into Facebook. Most of these mini software programs are developed by third-party entrepreneurs and monetized (not always successfully) through a classic advertising model: Get eyeballs and sell ad space or place affiliate ads.

Facebook apps are so big right now that B.J. Fogg, a professor at Stanford University, launched a semester-long project just to develop more of them for Facebook users. 

At the end of the project, Professor Fogg and his students published a report to name the entrepreneurial "discoveries" they had made. But were they really breaking new ground… or just reinventing the wheel?

I decided to take a look. 

Combing back through the longstanding principles you've come to know and love by reading ETR and Michael Masterson's new blockbuster book, Ready, Fire, Aim, I found at least seven "power principles" with fascinating parallels to the Stanford project.

ETR Longstanding Principle #1: Introducing Products in a "Mature" Market

Consumers aren't looking for brand-new products. They are looking for clever new adaptations of products they already know and love. When it comes to new, the human brain can take only a little bit of it. Eighty percent of the old and 20 percent of the new is a good ratio. Your goal is not to develop brand-new ideas, but to notice trends that are beginning and develop products that anticipate that trend by a little - just enough to catch your customers' attention.

Stanford Students' Discovery: "It's Never Too Late to Create a Winning App." When Stanford launched its project, over 6,000 Facebook apps already existed. Just 10 weeks later, the students had six apps in the top 100. None of them were radically innovative.

ETR Longstanding Principle #2: The Power of Simplicity

You can sell your product very well by talking about its many benefits, but the most successful advertisements are those that highlight a single benefit above all the rest. When this benefit can be presented as uniquely characteristic of your product, you have an advertising proposition that can last and last and last. Consider any great marketing campaign - Burger King, Charmin, Marlboro. Examine any best-selling, non-fiction book - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, What Color Is Your Parachute?,  Chicken Soup for the So ul, etc. What do they all have in common? Simple themes. Ideas so simple they can be expressed - and understood - in a few short words.

Stanford Students' Discovery: "Simplicity & Clarity Are Key to Success." Too many and too clever features must be avoided. Make the app easy to understand and easy to use.

ETR Longstanding Principle #3: Ready Fire Aim

Prudent entrepreneurs do not want to risk all their time and money on a single product. For the best chance of having a successful business, they need to be flexible about what they are going to sell. If their first product idea doesn't sell well, they have to be able to generate a second one. Innovation matters. And so does speed. Combined, they give your business extraordinary growing power.

Stanford Students' Discovery: "Speed & Flexibility in Launch & Iterations." Many fast and imperfect trials beat deep thinking. Flexibility beats quality. Getting too attached to one app idea can be fatal.

ETR Longstanding Principle #4: Teamwork Accelerates Success

Don't even try to be a solo creator. You will get much better results much faster by working with a creative team. Sometimes you might get ideas while showering or exercising or sitting on an airplane. But don't act on those ideas. Write them down and bring them up when you're brainstorming with a group.

Stanford Students' Discovery: "Community Cooperation Leads to Success." Students helped each other a lot, sharing app development tools, tips, and insights.

ETR Longstanding Principle #5: Check Your Ego at the Door

How do you know your product idea is good? Because you think it is? Business is not and must never be about what the business owner thinks is good or right. Business is about providing value to the customer. And that value can be determined only by the customer. Don't let your ego convince you that you can teach the marketplace what it should and should not buy, or you and your ego will soon find yourselves in the poorhouse.

Stanford Students' Discovery: "Individual Opinions About Apps Are Worthless." Don't be swayed by one person's opinion. Just get the app out there and see what happens.

ETR Longstanding Principle #6: Don't Be a Pioneer in a Market

When it comes to answering most of the fundamental questions about selling your product, the best answer will always be this: Imitate the industry norm. If you are always trying to come up with product ideas that are completely new and different, you will likely have a very poor success record. Let others live (and die) on the "bleeding edge."

Stanford Students' Discovery: "Copying Success Is a Cheap/Fast Way to Succeed." Novelty isn't the best approach to apps. If you're desperate for a win, just copy something that's working. Flipside: If your app is doing well, expect imitators.

ETR Longstanding Principle #7: Accelerated Failure

Success isn't usually about genius. It is more often about trial and error. Money loves speed, so spend your time trying new permutations of existing successes rather than endlessly hoping to find the "next big thing." Don't be satisfied when things are "running smoothly." An entrepreneurial business should never be running smoothly. Accelerate failure. Cut your losers and run with your winners.

Stanford Students' Discovery: "Success Comes From the Chaos/Control Cycle." Successful innovation is a process.

So there you have it…

Now I didn't have access to the details of everything Stanford attempted. They probably made a ton of easily avoided mistakes. And it sounds like they had some very nice successes as well.

Over the course of their project, they generated somewhere in the neighborhood of $1 million in revenue from their Facebook apps… not to mention at least three new companies that were formed during the experiment, two others that were acquired by outside interests, and reports of lucrative job offers for all those who completed the program.

But I'm willing to bet they could have had a LOT greater success, a LOT sooner, if they'd spent some time reading Early to Rise and Ready, Fire, Aim first.

That's where you have an advantage. You see, every day you get (for free!) what took about 75 smart Stanford students months and months to learn. (And think of all that tuition you saved too!)

So congratulations to the smart and energetic Stanford students who learned these lessons the hard way - valuable business principles that most people never discover. You're getting them the easy way… but now it's up to you to go out and use them.

Of course, you've got to be careful out there. Just because lots of people are talking and writing about Facebook doesn't necessarily make it a lasting business model. There have been plenty of "next big things" on the Internet that have turned out to be quite the opposite.

But you've got the knowledge to find out quickly, without spending a fortune, if a business idea is going to work. So who knows? Use ETR's ideas to develop an "app"… and maybe YOU will be next to make a million bucks on Facebook!

Dear Friends,

I once heard someone say:  Make it a regular practice to offer to help people out without expecting immediate compensation.  If you do this every week, you'll soon find yourself wealthy with appreciative genuine friends that want to help you. 

One of the best ways you can not only make yourself feel good, but benefit yourself in the future is to offer to help other people out with no immediate expectation of compensation.

Every human society has a value system that includes reciprocity.  That is, a system where one party does something for another and then the favor is returned at a future date. 

Reciprocity is one of the critical elements that has allowed humans to prosper.  So, it's a very powerful ingrained force in people.  Think about it.  When someone does something to help you out, don't you feel a strong urge to return the favor?

And this goes the other way.  Because in today's cut-throat world there seems to be less and less people willing to help others out without immediate compensation, when you do offer to help someone out, it's highly appreciated.

So, you not only get to do a good deed where you can feel a glow inside because you did something nice, but it's quite likely that someday that favor will be returned.  Quite often, it's returned with much more interest than you ever expected the favor deposit to earn.

Naturally, you need to use common sense.  You don't loan someone you hardly know your life savings since they had a tough day.  But, you might offer to give someone a ride when their car is in the shop, or help your elderly neighbor fix something in their house.  Other ideas are to be a father to the fatherless child, bring along a less fortunate child to the movies or to your weekly family dinner at the restaurant, help someone without a car and sufficient funds buy groceries, sit and watch tv with a lonely old person.  One day you will be old too.

Remember however, it may not always be the person you gave the favor to that will return the favor.  I believe that somehow "the universe" returns the favor or favors in big and/or small ways, but not from the exact same kind of situation or person.

Last night, I received three emails with the same content. Stephen Pierce has taken the initiative to raise enough money to feed one million children.  Armand Morin and John Reese were the other two to send messages, as well.

Here's the message.  It's about feeding 1,000,000 starving children in the world.

Please read this IMPORTANT MESSAGE.
http://www.ForAGreaterCause.org

Feeling hungry?

My guess is yes. Chances are, you'll be running to the
snack machine to grab a candy bar soon. Or hitting the
drive through for a combo meal. Or possibly sitting
down to a nice dinner at home with the family.

Whatever it is, you have the capacity to quiet your
hunger pains with very little effort, correct?

Great. Now hang on to that thought for a moment…

Because right now, there's more than 850 million people
hungry in the world. Right now. This very second.

850 million That's 100 times the population of New York
City, folks.

And I don't mean "Boy I sure got the munchies" hungry.
This is "I haven't eaten one bite of food in days"
hungry. The type you and I have never, ever
experienced.

Not even CLOSE.

Think that's shocking? What 'til you hear this…

Before morning, 16,000 kids around the world will drop
dead from starvation.

Newborns. Babies. Toddlers. Grade schoolers. Teenagers.
All fresh, young faces looking for a chance to make
their mark in the world.

But they won't. Because after weeks of pain, weakness,
and suffering, they'll finally succumb to the slow,
horrible death of starvation.

And here's the worst part–that's just TODAY.

Tomorrow, there will be another 16,000 dead children to
take their place.

And the next day.

And the next day.

And the next.

Am I getting through to you yet?

http://www.ForAGreaterCause.org

From now until Tuesday, May 29, my goal is to put food
in the bellies of 1,000,000 children around the world.

Don't worry–I'm not going to go all Sally Struthers on
you here. I'm not asking for anything except a few
seconds of your time.

In fact, I'm going to give YOU something fre, just for
helping out. Here's how it works:

Step 1: Go to http://www.ForAGreaterCause.org
Step 2: Download my fre success report called The
Power Of The Third Influence
Step 3: I'll donate a plate of food to Feed The
Children on your behalf.

That's it. You download. I donate. Simple as that.
And with your few seconds of effort, a little child
will go to bed with a full stomach.

How can you pass that up?

http://www.ForAGreaterCause.org

Inside this success report you'll discover…

    * How Stephen went from having 2-cents to my name to
    earning millions of dollars online.


    * How to turn around your life with a simple shift
    of association.


    * How to double your productivity and get more of
    the right things done.

And much more.

It's all yours–fr*e for the taking. Just go to the
website, download it, and I put another plate of food
in front of a hungry little face.

All because of you.

http://www.ForAGreaterCause.org

4 days. 1 million kids fed. We can do it–but you gotta
help me.

This is your chance to really make a difference. As a
parent…a grandparent…a brother…a sister…a
friend.

All I'm asking is for one simple download, and I'll do
the rest. In fact, I don't even care if you read my
report.

Will The Power Of The Third Influence inspire you?
Sure.

Will it make you think? Absolutely.

Will you be closer to achieving personal success after
reading it? I believe so.

But the real power behind this report is not in what it
will do for you, but what it will do for a million
hungry kids.

All I'm asking is that you take 10 seconds to download
it. 10 seconds and a hungry child gets to eat.

Isn't that worth 10 seconds of your time?

http://www.ForAGreaterCause.org

Right this minute, there's 16,000 kids that won't live
to see tomorrow morning…unless something changes.

We might not be able to save them all. But with God's
help–and yours–we'll save a bunch of them.

Can I count on you? Or more to the point…

Can they?

Now it’s your turn. Visit:

www.foragreatercause.org

and Stephen will donate a plate of food for a starving child on your behalf.

Stephen is giving away a free report that will teach you about building wealth. (Stephen has gone from having 2 cents to his name to making millions of dollars online.)

This report is yours free.

Pick up your free report and help a starving child.

Go to www.foragreatercause.org

Take care,

Angela Wickenberg

by Angela Wickenberg

We typically seek first to be understood; mostly, we do not listen with the
intent to understand, we listen with the intent to reply.  We are either
speaking, or preparing to speak, filtering everything through our own eyeglasses
and reading our life stories into other people’s lives.  

“I know exactly how you feel - let me tell you about my experience“ - constantly
projecting our own movies onto other people’s behaviour.  If we have a problem
with someone - then that person just doesn’t understand.  Sound familiar?  But
to understand another person, you have to listen to them, understand them.  We
are so filled with our own rightness, our own stories.  I’m guilty of it too.

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