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11.24.09

The one dirty little secret that insures failure for most people!

Well here it is…

Settle into your computer chair.

Turn off the cell for 8 minutes.

Turn on the printer and hit Print.

Take a sip of coffee or a swig of Mountain Dew.

Focus / Read / Learn / Implement

Your significant other will thank you!

Lets begin by revealing 3 MYTHS you want to avoid:

1) It’s a MYTH to think that your money worries will be gone in 2 months
when it took 10 years to accumulate your existing financial issues.

2) It’s a MYTH to think that success is OUTSIDE of yourself, meaning it’s
the program/marketing systems responsibility to instantly make you abundantly
happy/wealthy/secure.

3) It’s a MYTH to think that the Internet is a business. When in reality,
all it is is a huge communications tool that can be manipulated to bring
you all of the LEADS you can handle, whenever you want ‘em.

And there you have it.

That’s my speech.

Thanks and have a great day!

Hold on there on Sally Sue….

You’re not going anywhere just yet.

I’ve barely scratched the surface.

Yes, what was mentioned above probably stung a tad, but it’s the TRUTH
that will set you free.

Free.

Freedom.

Freedom to roam.

Freedom to breathe.

Freedom to relax.

Freedom to spend.

Freedom to loaf.

Freedom to rejoice.

Freedom to do whatever the hell you want do, whenever the hell you want to do it.

Excuse me,

But I’m getting a little fired up in here.

Can you please lower the temperature down to 62.

It’s going to get a whole lot hotter real soon!

Thank You.

Now Lesson Up….

You want something.

I may not know exactly what you want, but you do want something.

Otherwise, you would NOT be here right now, reading this e-report.

Am I right or am I right?

(Gotcha!)

Ok,

Enough with the silly banter.

Lets roll up our sleeves and get to work.

Question…

Why do YOU feel that most people fail?

Could it be that…

* They’re lazy?

* They’re in-decisive?

* They’re procrastinators?

* They’re looking for the fast ride out of Dodge?

* They’re not following up with their leads?

The answer is:

Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes and Yes!

Most people do a combination of all 5, to some degree.

I’ll be honest here and say that I was all of the above and more.

Back then, I was the hungriest S.O.B. on the Planet, but at the
same time, I was also the laziest S.O.B. on the Planet.

I’d rather watch movies than write an email like this.

I’d rather SLEEP 14 hrs a day, than read about how to make $100K a yr.

I’d rather put off today what could be done next week,

And on and on and on.

Needlessly to say, I was pathetic.

How I got myself turned around is large part due to the fact that
I woke up out of a coma (figuratively speaking) and realized that
one day I wouldn’t be 25 anymore. That I could no longer hide in
my one bedroom apartment, sleep to 1 PM, 7 days a week and get by
with making $400 a week.

In short, I needed a better plan.

More on that in just a second.

Remember how I told you that you wanted something.

Go ahead, tell me what it is right now.

Go ahead, I’m listening.

Waiting

Waiting

Waiting

Waiting

Waiting

Have you spoken yet, because I can’t hear you?

Come on, tell me right now.

You want _________________

You want _________________

You want _________________

You want _________________

Ok, that’s enough for now.

Pick one and lets focus on it.

For example, you want a

4,000 sq foot home in the hills of Oregon,
surrounded by 27 acres of gorgeous wooded land,
cliffs, ponds and streams.

You have a pool, mini-shooting range, 3 car garage that
stores a Lexus, BMW and a Jeep.

Your house has a finished walk-out basement, with bar and
a 47 inch flat screen to watch Monday Night Football on.

You wake up, whenever you feel like it.

Why?

You have NO commute.

You have NO boss.

You have NO desire to leave your kingdom.

Why?

Because you’re the Boss.

You call the shots.

You say when to work, when to leave.

You say when to pack up the rug-rats and head for Disney.

You say when to go grocery shopping, the movies and to the gym.

Why?

Because you worked your ass off to get to where you are.

You studied like a mad man, devouring books, dvds, cds, etc…

You hung out with people who were 100x more successful than you were

You (O.M.G.) “lost” money your 1st two years.

Why?

Because you knew that to climb the ladder, you’d have to get pricked along the way.

You cried, worried, stumbled late at night.

You freaked out over the (count ‘em) 9 insufficent funds fees that occurred.

You thought about throwing in the towel a thousand times over, but you never did.

Why?

Because you wouldn’t of been able to stand yourself 10 yrs down the road.

You’d still be slaving away, for peanuts, in an end cubicle, working till 9.

You’d still be driving a 13 yr old car, that cost you more in repairs than the car is worth.

You’d still be hiding from creditors and avoiding knocks at the door.

Why?

Because you’re broke.

You have no money.

You have no cash reserves.

You barely make enough to cover the bills as it is.

Why?

Because you didn’t BELIEVE in yourself.

You didn’t BELIEVE you could have it all.

You didn’t BELIEVE that you deserved abundance and prosperity.

You didn’t BELIEVE that you were made to be a reward for 10k people.

Why?

Because no one ever told you could.

You were always told No.

You were always told “You can’t do that, be that, etc..

You were always told “Stop being a dreamer”.

Why?

Because “society” as a whole wants you to be just like them.

You should want to conform, to fit in, to be accepted.

You should go to school, get good grades, find a job.

You should be thankful for $35K a yr.

Why?

Because no over ever told you could HAVE MORE, BE MORE, DO MORE!

That’s why!

But gosh darn it,

I’m here to tell you right now

As sure as the sun is setting in the west

You can have it all.

The house, the marriage, the money, the kids, the freedom.

whatever it is that YOU want.

You can have it.

Maybe not right this second.

And maybe not even this year.

But you can have it all.

If you believe in yourself.

Hot diggity George, I think this kid hit the nail on the head.

Shut up Margaret, let the boy speak. I’m on the edge of my seat here.

If you believe in yourself, then the house in Oregon can be your reality.

If you believe in yourself, then you having an extra $10K a month after all
your bills are paid, can be a reality.

If you believe in yourself, then you can achieve it all.

This is true.

But I would be remissed if I didn’t make a public disclaimer.

And that is this…

You need a plan.

Like a great tour guide, who maps out the agenda to follow.

You need a plan / roadmap / proven path to follow.

Because belief will do little for you if it’s not continiously mixed with action.

Noticed the word I just mentioned…

‘continiously’.

Ummmm.

That means to be consistently applying fuel to further your momentum.

Even if its only a spark, that’s 100x better than to be doing nothing.

With a spark, a roaring fire can take shape.

With a spark, lives can be forever altered.

With a spark, you can rescue yourself and others.

And it all starts with

Belief + Action

Two tiny words in the English language that can tilt the world to your door.

Some people will apply the code.

Some people will be aware of it and ignore it.

Some people will never be aware of it.

Now

You can say

That you’ve been made aware of it.

Which course will you choose?

Application or Ignorance.

Application will be get you closer to your dreams.

Ignorance will move you further away from your dreams.

Easy decision to make, isn’t it?

Or not.

Jim Rohn says “What’s easy to do is also easy not to do”.

Your life to date is the only symbol you have.

Is it what you really want?

If it’s not,

Then begin applying the code of Belief + Action.

Not doing so, will insure your failure.

Doing so, will insure your success.

And in case you’ve been sleeping under a rock, don’t forget…

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The Magic of Secret Little Text Messages

Grab your cell phone right now and text LazyMoney to
69302 to gain access to our Secret Little Text Messages
that ‘hotwire’ people to track you down and give you money!

* It’s as easy as sending a text to your spouse, friend or
neighbor. Enter 69302 as the number you’re sending to and
then lazymoney as the message. That’s it!

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Stay tuned….

There’s always MORE right around the corner!

We appreciate you,

Tim & Melissa

Cell: 330.881.3026

The Magic of Secret Little Text Messages

11.03.09

Do yourself a favor…

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The Magic of Secret Little Text Messages

Grab your cell phone right now and text LazyMoney to
69302 to gain access to our Secret Little Text Messages
that ‘hotwire’ people to track you down and give you money!

* It’s as easy as sending a text to your spouse, friend or neighbor.
Enter the number and then lazymoney as the message. That’s it!

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Listen up…

If you’re not using OFFLINE marketing strategies, such as direct
mail, voice and text broadcasting, in your present campaigns, then
you’re leaving a lot of money behind.

I was foolish enough (and naive enough) to believe that I didn’t
need to do anything offline. That I’d be 100% ok to stay online,
100% of the time. I wasted many months, even as I read and heard
about all the leaders and how they were including offline tactics
in their marketing campaigns.

Boy was I…

Wrong!

Wrong!

Wrong!

So today, I mix things up.

Postcards.

Thank You cards.

Direct Mail

(see FREE sample @ http://www.kirks-graphics.com/clients/tim/lazy/index.htm)

Drop cards.

Text broadcasting

Email broadcasting

Etc….

Dan Kennedy teaches…

That the worst number in marketing is 1.

Meaning to be solely reliant on 1 of anything…

1 program, 1 form of lead generation, 1 direct mail piece, 1 full page ad, etc…

Is like slowly taking the air out of your one and only financial raft.

Sooner or later,

You’re gonna sink.

Unless

You have a Plan B firmly in place.

Offline marketing is a great Plan B to start with.

******************************************************
The Magic of Secret Little Text Messages

Grab your cell phone right now and text LazyMoney to
69302 to gain access to our Secret Little Text Messages
that ‘hotwire’ people to track you down and give you money!

* It’s as easy as sending a text to your spouse, friend or neighbor.
Enter the number and then lazymoney as the message. That’s it!

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That’s it for now.

I’ll be back in touch shortly, with more goodies.

Stay tuned….

Tim

Cell: 330.881.3026

2 New Mind Maps For Lazy Weekend Money

11.03.09

Lazy Weekend Money will be revealed soon!

But 1st, here are two new Mind Maps for you.

Go Here: Lazy Weekend Money

Enjoy, Tim

330.881.3026

10.08.09 10:47 PM EST

3 Critical Steps To Pocketing Massive Cash Consistently

(Key word here is “Consistently”. You can’t maintain a lifestyle
on Fast money, but you can build a lifestyle with Consistent
Money).

These are the 3 basic steps that must be followed if you’re
going to be a success online or offline, in your home based
biz opp.

The 1st step is the ability to drive targeted traffic to your website.

Lets face it…

The traffic (aka.. visitors/leads) come 1st.

Without it, there are no over-night packages, checks or enrollments in
whatever program it is that you’re promoting.

Remember this at all costs.

No Leads = No Cash

Examples Of Generating Traffic:

* Pay-Per-Click (Google Adowrds)

* Banner ads & (PAID) Safelists

* Email Marketing

* Cell Phone Marketing (This idea is HOT!)

* Postcards

* Forum Postings

* Article Marketing

* Social Media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube)

All of these methods have one objective and
that is oush targeted visitors to your page.

It’s NOT to sell them immediately.

It’s NOT to make friends.

It’s NOT to brand yourself.

It’s to CAPTURE A LEAD.

Which leads us to #2.

The 2nd critical step is to build a “LIST”.

A “LIST” (aka… your own opt-in email list) is a group
of prospects who have raised their hand and expressed
interest in your offer.

We call them LEADS.

They’re the life-blood of any home biz.

The MORE leads you have flowing your marketing
pipeline the greater your chance of seeing consistent
results.

How do you capture your leads?

You use a lead capture page to BAIT and CATCH your prospects
contact information, mostly name and email address. If you can
snag a phone number and physical mailing address, then all the
better.

There are TWO huge benefits to building your own 100% opt-in LIST.

The 1st benefit is that you now have the capability to follow-up with
your LIST, long after they originally requested information.

Do you know that there are people reading this blog post right now, who
have been on my personal email LIST since 2003?

Six yrs later.

They’re still getting communication from me.

The 2nd benefit of having a large and expanding list
of people who know, like and trust you is a valuable asset.

Think about it…

How powerful would it be for you to be able to mass
broadcast via email, phone and direct mail, your own
personal sales message to thousands of people who
KNEW, LIKED and TRUSTED YOU?

Let me tell ya…

It’s beyond powerful.

It’s liberating.

To know that you can literally create cash-on-demand because
you’ve cultivated your own personal list of prospects.

Just like a farmer who cultivates the corn field and the collects his crop.

Which leads us into #3.

The 3rd step is Conversion.

The farmer who cultivates his corn field and collects his crop is
CONVERTING a seed to a tangible food product.

You, being LIKE a farmer…

Will take a name and email address (YOUR SEED) and cultivate
that seed to CONVERT into an enrollment, registration, sign-up,
etc…. whatever process your “system” or “program” takes.

Here’s the CATCH.

That SEED could take days to CONVERT.

That SEED could take weeks to CONVERT.

That SEED could take MONTHS to CONVERT.

That SEED could take YEARS to CONVERT.

But you DO NOT care.

Why?

Because you’ll still be here, days, weeks, months, years later.

Ready and able to CONVERT that SEED when it’s time to do so.

Without this long term attitude, so many of you will leave many
thousands upon thousands of dollars behind, only to be grabbed
by the entrepreneur who’s willing to wait.

Take these 3 steps to heart.

Each one builds on each other.

Not any one step is more important than the other.

If one step isn’t present, the other two will soon crumble.

It’s inevitable.

I hope this helps you,

Tim

330.881.3026

You have no idea how humiliating it is…

10.09.09

Right now, its friday afternoon, about 2 PM.

I was sitting around on the couch when I got a
text message on my blackberry about some “Guru”
from England promoting his information product
using catchy phrases such as make “Massive Cash
Fast”.

Sounds great, doesn’t it?

Of course it does. It got my attention, as surely it would yours.

I mean, who could resist the idea of being able to generate
Massive Cash Fast?

Using words like that would turn on the coldest of prospects.

But unfortunately…

There’s one FLAW.

And it’s pointed directly at people like YOU and I.

The flaw is in the word FAST.

Massive Cash Fast implies ‘right now’, ‘quickly’, ‘today’,
‘easy money’, etc…

Which can be translated into:

‘I’m getting evicted 3 days from now so let me make some money
(FAST) like today so I can pay my back rent and stay another month’.

This is how most people who NEED fast money think.

(notice I said NEED, more on that in just a second!)

They’re in such a desperate state for money FAST because they’ve been
playing the “Rob Peter to Pay Paul” game for far too long and it’s
catching up with them.

I should know, I was once a “Fast Money Thinker”.

(more on that too in just a second…)

Do you SEE the BIG problem here?

Fast is the short term glorifier, not the long term objective.

Fast will pay your bills from 3 months ago, but not keep the
same roof over your head a year from now.

Fast will quickly (pardon the pun) out-run you.

Think of an avalanche that’s gaining speed and size as it rolls
rapidly down the hill.

The avalanche will destroy whatever is in its path.

It doesn’t care.

Money doesn’t care either.

Too much money too fast is the equalivent of the avalanche hurling
its way down the mountain side.

You, at the bottom, don’t stand a chance.

All you can do is hunker down and quiver like a little school girl.

And hope & pray that the avalanche stops before completely destroying you.

I know, I know.

This sounds so silly doesn’t it?

I mean seriously…

It’s like everyones best dream come true to be suddenly in the MONEY.

But look at the vast majority of lotto winners.

An astonishing number of instant millionaires end up broke after
only a few years.

Why is that?

It’s because they got crushed by the Money Avalanche and their
own “Fast Money” mentality.

It came in too soon, too hard and too fast.

No time to prepare.

It’s…

“Here’s a check for $10 million. Where would you like it”?

Their reaction…

“I’ve never seen a check for $10,000, let alone $10 million!”.

And so the end begins before the beginning could even begin.

So what’s a poor farm boy (that was me) to do?

Like I said earlier…

I am guilty of being a “Fast Money Thinker”.

Back in 2002 & 2003, I went through some rough financial waters.

The main Internet program I had worked on since early ‘99 collapsed,
and so did my residual check. Plus I thought I’d play the role
of “landlord”, bought 8 rentals, thought I was Carlton Sheets, etc…

Ended up in bancruptcy court.

Scrambling and crying, I found myself in desperation mode, seeking
any relief from the pressure and embarrasment of not being able to
pay even the smallest of bills on time.

You can’t imagine the humilation of having to call home to your
parents at the age of 30 to ask for MONEY.

You can’t imagine the humility pill I had to swallow to ask my
SISTER for $2k, which was taking money away from her famiy.

You can’t imagine the agony of wondering if you have enough money
to buy groceries.

And on and on it went.

Thankfully, there was a light at the end of the tunnel.

It was called…

Get A Job.

Yes, that was my salvation.

Going back to work with a buddy of mine doing landscaping for $11/hr.

It gave me much needed cashflow and a chance to recover….

Financially & mentally.

It was enough to get me back on my feet so that by Sept., 8th, 2005,
I walked away from the landscaping gig altogether, never to return.

I don’t know what your solution to the “Fast Money Thinker” issue is.

I don’t proclaim to have all the answers.

All I know is what worked for me.

But I will deliver to you this one vital piece of advice that was
taught to me by one of my mentors, Joe Schroeder.

Joe said this…

“Your need to make money is the reason why you’re not making any”.

Think about that.

It’s 100% true.

When you’re in need, you’re in lack mode.

You need to pay the rent, but can’t.

You need to pay the electric, gas and water, but can’t.

You need to pay for food, but can’t.

What’s the ONE thing your mind sees above all else?

It’s one word….

LACK!

I’ll say it again…

It’s LACK!

You don’t have enough.

So your mind starts to protect what little resources it has left.

That’s why to a broke person, $20 is everything.

Whereas to a rich person, $20 is 2 pennies on the ground that
gets over-looked.

Why?

Because one of them has their needs covered.

I’ll let you figure who it might be.

Ok…

Back to the “Guru” pitching “Massive Cash Fast”.

It’s good for him,

He’s making “Massive Cash Fast”.

But for the little guy, it’s another pipe dream because they
bought into the idea that if they just buy his course, they too
can begin to see “Massive Cash Fast”.

Don’t worry, I’ve done it too.

Just know that there are certain skills, attitudes and resources
needed to make Massive Cash Fast happen for yourself.

( I posted 3 Critical Steps to Pocketing Massive Cash Consistently
on my blog at www.TimBerger.net )

If you know this stuff in advance, then you won’t be disappointed in the end.

Hope it helps.

In Strength and Honor,

Tim

Ex-Restaurant Worker / Mountain Biker / Home Biz Entreprenuer

Cell: 330.881.3026

Couch / Gym / ‘08 TrailBlazer / Home Office / Out-n-About

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