Are You Thinking...or Merely Working?

Liberation Formula Seminar Richard Koch & the One-Hour Work Day September 28-30 Apply Here   Mel,   A few weeks ago, I posted a photo on Facebook of a gift my daughter, Tannah, gave me:  A waterproof notepad for the shower.   I got a lot of light-hearted ribbing.    I once sent an April Fool's email offering readers the opportunity to use my shower, since that's where so many profitable ideas come from.   People thought it was a hoot.   But were they jokes?    You see, most of us entrepreneurs like to think we spend our days thinking.    Simply because we're not digging ditches, or pushing 1s and 0s for "The Man", we fool ourselves into believing we're thinking.   If we're reading white papers, we think we're thinking If we're researching a topic, we think we're thinking If we're having meetings with our staff, we think we're thinking If we're Skype-ing with clients, we think we're thinking If we're analyzing Adwords campaigns, we think we're thinking   But, if we're honest with ourselves, we're still merely working.   Because real, breakthrough thinking rarely (ever?) happens while you're at your desk, in front of a laptop, or doing anything that has even the slightest aroma of "work".   As Richard Koch states in The 80/20 Manager, "Now I work no more than 3 hours a day, unless you count pleasurable reading and talking as work - which in a way it is for me, because that's when I have my best ideas. If I'm lucky enough to be inspired, it usually comes while I'm cycling, walking, on holiday, or sleeping.  I know that I achieve more when I work less."   So, are you really thinking or are you just working?    Here's a good way to find out...   -How much time do you spend cycling, walking, swimming, lifting weights or doing yoga?   -How much time do you spend reading for pleasure?   -How much time do you spend in unstructured conversations with no discernible business agenda?   -How much time do you spend journaling?   -How much time do you spend on holiday?   -How much time do you spend listening to music, strolling through art museums, doodling, painting, playing the drums, doing crossword puzzles, or just staring out the window?   -How much time do you spend sleeping, showering, playing with your kids or romancing your significant other?   If you're like most entrepreneurs, the answer is "not much" or "not enough".   And that means you're not thinking.   At least not much.   Or not enough.   You're not giving those breakthrough ideas (the only kind of ideas that will take business and life to the next level) any access to your brain.   You're just working...and thinking you're thinking.   If you'd like to find out how to spend more time doing the things that attract breakthrough ideas, and learn it directly from Richard Koch himself, who attributes his great wealth directly to his liberation formula for working less and thinking more...   Join us September 28-30 in Chicago.   Apply here.     Carpe Diem,   Perry Marshall         ***NOTE: Please do not reply directly to this email, instead go to http://support.perrymarshall.com     Free Video We manage our emails with Infusion. This Guide and Video explain my secret marketing sauce. If you no longer wish to receive our emails, click the link below:  Update subscriber options   Perry S. Marshall & Assoc 159 N. Marion Street #295 Oak Park, Illinois 60301 United States (312) 386-7459   Having trouble viewing this email? Click here

Your Golden Ticket: Introducing Mastermind Twelve

Your Golden Ticket Mastermind Club 12 Reserve Your Ticket Here     Mel,    "I am preparing other surprises that are even more marvellous and more fantastic for you and for all my beloved Golden Ticket holders – mystic and marvellous surprises that will entrance, delight, intrigue, astonish, and perplex you beyond measure."                   -Willy Wonka, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. Today I'm introducing my "Golden Ticket". It's called Mastermind Twelve, and it's your VIP access pass inside the "Chocolate Factory".  In fact, with your Golden Ticket, you'll even get to spend a day with Willy Wonka himself.   Nope, I'm not talking about me. With your Golden Ticket, you get... To come to Chicago for Day 1 of my landmark seminar with Richard Koch, the "Willy Wonka" genius behind The 80/20 Principle.  Richard will reveal his time- and asset-management formula for working one hour a day - and growing wealthy while doing it!  A $1500 face value, but potentially life-changing. One-year access to the world's smartest online brain trust, the Perry Marshall Mastermind Club. A $1188 value. $1000 discounts on my elite coaching programs. Monthly hangouts with me. Private call-in days with me. A year of my Renaissance club newsletter, delivered to your door. You'll rip it open like Charlie Bucket ripping open a Wonka Bar. Plus much more. The access, resources and contacts available to you with your Golden Ticket would cost, at minimum, $3104...but you'll be amazed at the price of Mastermind 12. Click here to find out how to reserve your Golden Ticket today. Carpe Diem, Perry Marshall     ***NOTE: Please do not reply directly to this email, instead go to http://support.perrymarshall.com     Free Video We manage our emails with Infusion. This Guide and Video explain my secret marketing sauce. If you no longer wish to receive our emails, click the link below:  Update subscriber options   Perry S. Marshall & Assoc 159 N. Marion Street #295 Oak Park, Illinois 60301 United States (312) 386-7459   Having trouble viewing this email? Click here

Corns Gone in 5 Days or Money Back

Mel,

A while back I hosted a teleconference with Dan Kennedy where we talked about writing sales copy. (You can listen to the whole MP3 at www.perrymarshall.com/copywriting/kennedy.htm ) I asked him to discuss examples of small, Google-like classified ads and he produced a beauty. It's been running for many decades in the National Enquirer. It says:

Corns gone in 5 days or money back.

I did a quick search on Google and NOBODY had taken this offline knowledge and replicated it online.There were hundreds of people on the call and STILL nobody has done so even now!

If anybody ever tells you all the easy money is gone from the Internet, they haven't read a magazine or newspaper lately. The opportunity to make money on the Internet will cease to exist only when everyone who searches the web finds exactly what they're looking for the first time, every time.

It ain't gonna happen in my lifetime. To say such a thing is kind of like the guy who said we should close the patent office because everything had already been invented. Stupid. (Is that starting to become a theme?)

One of the most powerful formulas for online marketing is to study what's worked for decades offline (not hard to do, just requires a trip to the library) and move those same great ideas onto the web.

Perry Marshall

Listen to my entire copywriting teleseminar with Dan Kennedy at:
www.perrymarshall.com/copywriting/kennedy.htm



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