Oct 30
In this special 2008 Election podcast, Latino Print Network’s Kirk Whisler interviews Congressional members Ruben Hinojosa, reresenting Texas; Raul Grijalva representing Arizona; and Loretta Sanchez, representing California. These interviews took place during the recent Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institutes events in Washington, DC.
For more information on the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute go to www.chci.org
Oct 30
In this episode of Internet Business Mastery, we present The 7 Reasons Why People DON’T Succeed in Internet Business and How You Can Avoid Every Single One, Part 1. Plus, we show you a free tool for doing critical stats tracking on your site.
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Oct 30
In this episode of Internet Business Mastery, we present The 7 Reasons Why People DON’T Succeed in Internet Business and How You Can Avoid Every Single One, Part 1. Plus, we show you a free tool for doing critical stats tracking on your site.
CLICK HERE to get immediate access to Internet Business Mastery Academy, where you will get full access to ALL of our courses, tools, and resources for creating your own internet business and escaping the 9-to-5.
Each month we add at least one new internet business course, a Grill the Guru interview, and new video tutorials in the Million Dollar Rolodex.
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Oct 29
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Episode #28 - The episode where I prove that I really do have legs! It’s my first time coming out from behind the desk! I’d love to know what you think of this on-location episode, please let me know on the blog.
This was a really fun episode for me to put together for you. I decided to record my business and marketing discoveries as I traveled around New England and Canada a few weeks ago. Before I set out, I really didn’t know what was going to happen, so it was kinda’ exciting to see it all unfold.
I explain why NCL cruiseline is going against the grain of how most cruise lines operate, and how that radical approach is winning them many new customers. I should add that NCLhad no idea I was producing this episode, and I receive no compensation from them for praising them so highly (but I should 
The format is a little different, mostly because I put together as my travels progressed, but there are many useful marketing lessons throughout, and of course some of my odd British humor.
Please let me know what you thought of this episode by posting your comments on the blog here.
Business Breakthroughs Webinar Replay (from last week)
NCL (Norwegian Cruise Line)
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Oct 23
In this special 2008 Election podcast, Latino Print Network’s Kirk Whisler interviews Congressional members: Grace Flores Napolitano, representing California, Robert Garcia formerly representing New York, and Silvestre Reyes, representing Texas. These interviews took place during the recent Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institutes events in Washington, DC.
For more information on the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute go to www.chci.org
Oct 21
Episode #27 - IMPORTANT: If you’re reading this BEFORE Thursday Oct 23rd, register for a special, FREE Webinar I’m conducting LIVE, with Jim Edwards at 7pm Eastern, (4pm Pacific, 12 Midnight GMT), by clicking here. It’s all about ‘the one and only magic fomula to cashing in online’ (everything else is just a more complicated version of this simple and POWERFUL formula that YOU MUST know and understand). Again, it’s FREE, so register now (we only have 83 spots lefts as I write this and I ALWAYS have to turn people away due to the capacity of the system).
Also, if you’re in the NYC area, join me this Saturday and Sunday at The Info Products Seminar – it’s $497 to attend which is an absolute bargain considering the wealth of information you’ll learn. Click here to grab a last minute seat, subject to availability.
If you’re reading this AFTER Thursday Oct 23rd, sorry, you missed out
Right, now it’s time for business. Disney have made a radical move for 2009 with their U.S. theme parks Disnelyand in California and Disney World in Florida. I’ll spill the beans at the start of the episode.
This week’s viewer question is about how to record audio then have it transcribed, a useful process for all business owners and entrepreneurs to know about.
Your Nifty Click fix will be granted again with a brilliant way to search ALL of CraigsList. I show you my ideas for using this nifty tool, let me know your thoughts and ideas about it on the blog.
The BIG marketing lesson comes from Gramercy Tavern, New York City’s #1 restaurant. I had the pleasure of eating there last week and it was absolutely phenomenal. Not aloof and stuff like so many high-end restaurants, it had the perfect ambiance and superb service. The marketing principle I reveal comes from the book ‘Setting the Table’ which I highly recommend. It’s written by the owner of Gramercy Tavern, Danny Meyer. Do yourself a favor and grab the book yourself, it’s packed with useful ideas that any business can benefit from.
Search All Craigs (search all of Craigslist)
‘Setting the Table’ Book (by Danny Meyer)
Disney Free Day (get in for free on your birthday)
NCL (Norweigian Cruise Line)
NiftyClicks.com (admit it, you need to feed the addiction)
1 on 1 Consultation with me via phone (I’ll help you with any aspect of your business)
Microwave Marketing (Special offer for viewers only)
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Oct 17
Day two kicked off just a little too early but I made it over to the Excel for the presentation about mydeco. It looks like it’s going to be an amazing site but it was interesting to hear that the retailers couldn’t provide them with a reasonable quality of data feed so they just had to build code to scrape their sites.
I then had some time to take in the exhibition and hang around at the Existem-AM stand which seemed to be where you could find the affiliates throughout the conference!
Next session was about PR by 10yetis and once again it was an excellent presentation with some great tips. I was surprised to hear that free newspaper The Metro is consider the most influential newspaper.
From there I moved on to the presentation by Nora from Sedo which was interesting as I’ve been getting more into domaining recently. The number of cases studies of businesses which have rebranded just to match a generic domain was pretty amazing.
Finally I made it along to the Super Affiliates session which was both entertaining and inspiring. In some ways it wasn’t so much about learning new information (apart from Shak’s story which was new to me!) but about being inspired about what is actually possible.
The second night party was really enjoyable although the private Sky party did mean things were a bit disjointed which was a shame. Maybe that’s just because I didn’t get in 
but it did mean I couldn’t catch up with those who were behind the closed doors!
All in all it was a fantastic couple of days and a job well done by all at Existem.
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Oct 17
In this special 2008 Election podcast, Latino Print Network’s Kirk Whisler interviews Congressional members: Xavier Becerra, representing California, Ed Pastor representing Arizona, Lucille Roybal Allard representing California; and Linda Sanchez, also representing California. These interviews took place during the recent Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institutes events in Washington, DC.
For more information on the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute go to www.chci.org
Oct 15
Getting started on day 2 of the expo so time for a quick blog post about the events of yesterday.
I had an early start but got down to London in time for the intro by Matthew Wood from Existem and the keynote by Michael Nutley from NMA then the full programme started at 11am.
I went to the Wordpress SEO session by Joost de Valk which was excellent and packed full of useful tips. I think I probably need to set aside a couple of days to install about 20 plugins now though! The most useful tip that I took away was to look at hardcoding certain parts of the wordpress theme like the blog title instead of causing another database query for something that never changes. Load time has always been the one area of Wordpress I’ve been disappointed with so I’m hoping that making these changes will help.
I went to the bonus lunchtime session held by sunshine.co.uk where they released their sunpress plugin which looks pretty impressive and will be a great starting point for a Wordpress travel site.
Next session I went to was the Extreme SEO session which was fairly lively and in between the chaos there were some great tips. Lots of chat about taking out your competitors with negative SEO rather than improving your own site though which was slightly disturbing! The dominate subject was link building and it does seem to show that as long as you take care of some basic on page SEO issues the main thing you should be worrying about is links.
The final session of the day was the Affiliate State of the Nation panel which I moderated. It seemed to go pretty well and there was some good discussion about issues facing the industry. Most interesting for me was the issues about affiliates either wanting to grow large businesses or keep it as a lifestyle business. Thanks to Kieron for speaking up on that point of view. I was also amused to be sitting on the stage watching Shane Robinson fall asleep in the second row.
It was great at the end of that session to bump in to Pete Sipple from Frequencycast which is a podcast I have been listening to for some time and which I would highly recommend.
Finally the night finished with a cruise on the Silver Sturgeon which made for a great end to the day.
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Oct 14
Episode #26 - I stayed at a Hilton hotel recently and was shocked to experience their ridiculous room service policy. See if you agree with me and let me know your thoughts on the blog.
This week’s viewer question is about moving the free line. You may or may not have heard that expression before, which I think was popularized by Eban Pagan. It’s all about giving customers more free stuff early on in the relationship, so they can get to know, like, and trust you much faster.
I mentioned this last week but I’ll repeat it again. So many people have been asking me for more NiftyClicks I’ve launched a spinoff site for them at http://www.NiftyClicks.com – if you’re quick you can get in at the ridiculously low, special pre-launch rate of just $10 per month!
In the show I reveal an amazing alternative to PowerPoint or KeyNote that’s managed online. It’s called SlideRocket.com and I love it! I’ll show you a demo in the episode and I encourage you to try it out, especially since it’s currently Free.
The BIG marketing lesson comes from BOSE, the audio equipment company. Not all their products are great in my opinion, many are cheaply made and don’t last long in my experience (some people even say BOSE stands for Buy Other Sound Equipment), but they definitely understand marketing, that’s for sure.
SlideRocket (online presentation software like PowerPoint but MUCH better)
NiftyClicks.com (admit it, you need to feed the addiction)
Microwave Marketing (Special offer for viewers only)
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