The 800-pound gorilla -- aka The connection we're not making...

Also, Gordon, you asked how I define "Big Time."

I know that's a vague term that can mean zillions of things, depending on whom you ask.

I guess I'd define it as having credibility among one's peers in the real world. Being taken seriously. Having power or 'weight,' in a way.

Then you could ask how I define 'the real world.'

It's like the dinner theater actor vs. Jack Nicholson.

Yes, there will always be someone 'better' than you are in any given field. And there's NOTHING wrong with being a perfectly CONTENT 50-year old dinner theater actor -- AS LONG AS YOU PUT THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE + ***REALIZE*** THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE DOING!

The point is to realize the difference and not get delusional about it.

You asked what I meant by radio interviews + Fox News + QVC.

I see these as three 'chinks in the armor' between "Low-Level Land" and the big-time real-world.

There's a shield betwen the two worlds, and those are three (basically free) ways I've identified where one can BREAK THROUGH the shield.

They are three mainstream 'giants' who (sometimes!) ALLOW card-carrying Low-Level citizens to enter Real-World Big-Time Land.

Watch Fox + Friends in the morning, and you'll see what I mean.

It's a socio-economic time warp (sometimes!).

If you can't find a way to break through the shield, you'll always remain like a UFO freak with a colander on your head. -- And I don't mean YOU, I mean me, you, and all of our dream-ridden (-ladden?) colleagues.

Another example: The average person walking down the street does not even know what an ebook is. And, of the ones that DO know what one is, 90% of THEM would never be caught DEAD actually BUYING one!

Peddling ebooks (which, ya gotta admit is a big part of many low-level entrepreneur's playbook -- and that's just one example) is a way to GUARANTEE that you will REMAIN solidly in Low-Level Land.

The real world is merrily chugging along, paying no attention to our antics.

All the stuff I see discussed is LOW-LEVEL. It's stuff that, even when it 'works' it yields basement apartments + 12 year old P.O.S. cars.

THAT'S why the real world IGNORES it all.

What I'm saying is, we should (at least) AIM to bring ourselves (+ our entrpreneurship) into the real-world, and find ways to break OUT of the sub-sub-sub-sub-sub culture we're involved in.

-- TW