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Old June 25, 2012, 01:34 AM
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Default Re: Time to SPILL The BEANS and Get the WORD OUT THERE... ReNewNightVision in the LIGHTS!

Gordon and Boz,

Totally understand... No Worries! ...

Not EVERYTHING is ABOUT MAKING MONEY beyond your Own Territory...

ESPECIALLY WHEN it's with Your OWN BABY and you Like doing Things in your Own Preferred way...

I'm sure We'll hear more down the Road, Once BOZ starts understanding and Comprehending things without periods...

As I'm sure BOZ Knows and Realizes...

Many World-wide Offer this Service using their Own Methods in SERVICING HEADLIGHTS with their OWN Recipe of Success...

AND NOT OF COURSE TOO...

You Can TELL Lots are Not having that Much Success in the BIZ, just Like with So Many other Business opportunity COLLECTORS, [UNFORTUNATELY]

Quick {Analyzation} of their Web statistics, business dealings Locally and Details in General tell that Story, past, present and future...

Some businesses, Franchises as you Probably both Know are {Doing Extremely well} in Their Growing HEADLIGHT businesses & SERVICES!

MOSTLY ALL in the MOTIVATION and interest of Growing Things into A REAL BUSINESS, Expandable businesses... Those Have to be interested of course...

Great business Opportunity for {Going} After the COMPETITION, WORKING with the Competition & So MUCH MORE!

SMARTLY FOCUSED... EMERGENCY SERVICES... Sponsorships, Educational Programs...

Easy to Achieve! JUST LIKE with [ADDRESS AMERICA] related Success Stories...

ONGOING CONSUMER RELATED EDUCATIONAL information Why they Need it To Be Done on Regular Intervals...

LOTS of people Playing around with this business... Using All Sorts of Experimental Concotions, from Pharmacy, toothpaste Auto related items to Their GRANDMOTHERS old Brakefast Cooking OIL(S)! etc. etc. ...

Regarding, Gordon's comments... I've never encountered a biz op with so much skepticism...

What's Still Missing...

Of Some Sorts within This Business Model...

Just in my Opinion of course... And the worst communicator I've ever seen...

Those Who Develop http://renewnightvision.com/ INTO A FULL BLOWN! {Authority} related business model, [EXACTLY] with the Right ''TWIST'' will Help REDUCE...

I've never encountered a biz op with so much skepticism...

If you THINK HEADLIGHT CLEANING encounters a biz op with so much Skepticism...

TRY BEING involved in the Mattress Cleaning & Allergens Removal, Extracting Dust Mites, Mold, Mildew, Pollen, Spores, Bacteria and Viruses! ...
http://www.allcarpets.com.au/mattress-cleaning

I Know the business All too WELL! ( The Canadian Version & Twist!)... FREE Educational Programs, Sponsorships, FREE! Public Relations, LIVE TV Demonstrations on Morning Breakfast TV shows Etc.,etc...

Helped Create Amazing ongoing Sales and Results!

About a Dozen years back or So during my previous working Time within the Media, Newspapers and All Kinds of other Experiences/Great Times before the Good ol' Internet & NEW...
http://www.newsoffuture.com/
http://www.newsoffuture.com/about_the_future.html

AS THE WORLD TURNS ON into the FUTURE! ...

Phil

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Old June 25, 2012, 10:26 AM
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Default You've given me a good opportunity to get this off my chest.

Phil,

In the last decade, and even further back, I've watched a certain phenomenon repeated over and over.

I teach a WHITE BOARD use, and it is really great for short term projects.

For example, putting a biz specific manual together, like the Headlight Cleaning Manual.

And I've seen MANY people over the years actually create HOTSHEETS, and add some reports, and even develop kits.

BUT, what is missing is, these short term projects don't fit into a larger WHITE BOARD of a person's life.

Working with Entrepreneurial type projects where the focus is on making money, it seems to lapse into a short time period...what I mean, some guys have projects they did 5 or 6 years ago, and those are now up on the shelf.

They didn't incorporate them into a larger goal, a greater perspective and maybe, they didn't want to. Short term served the purpose.

Let me take Chatteling. I just recently got email from a guy who did pretty well in a very specific niche, a hobby niche, and made some decent money...into the thousands of dollars.

So, now he wants the advanced higher dollar amounts, and the question I asked, how is his network of BUYERS doing? Doesn't have one of course.

Which is fine, buying and selling wasn't to be his career, he dabbled and made some money, which is great.

But it is my opinion, that money-making activities should be a part of, folded into, purposeful as a part of your overall life.

Which brings me to my point (finally??!) which is

LONG range planning, let's say, THREE years down the road.

Less than a college sentence (some kids think they are being punished)...

So, it is pretty easy to create a product in 30 days, or lay the foundation of a business in 90 days and not unusual to be profitable from the get go on many products...but where does this fit into your life 3 years down the road?

Can you all remember 3 years ago, 2009? Obama was the President, we had major recession, banks and Wall St. getting infrastructure support while our bridges were falling apart.

NOT hard to do is it. Yet, how many are looking 3 years down the road and building products, services and living in the moment with an eye on their future? I'd say not many.

I love WHITE BOARDS, they are great for tracking progress, but, just keep in mind, there is the bigger White Board in the Sky...that is tracking your life as it keeps on rolling along.

It is pretty easy and simple to make money with any of 1001 ways...a little bit more concentration and goal setting to turn your project into a sustaining business.

Maybe you don't want a sustaining biz...that's OK, cause there is always chattel out there looking for a new owner.

Gordon Jay Alexander

PS. Having spent the last 4 years in and out of hospitals and getting slapped in the face by health issues, I know and understand that sometimes, Stuff Happens. Which is why having a goal in the short run can get interfered with, but, it is all part of life...up til your dead.

LIFE? Got Some?
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Old June 25, 2012, 10:17 PM
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Default post was like an arrow

ouch! that post was like an arrow & it got me right in the side!

not a mortal wound though ...

MY "rich dad" (relating advice from his real dad) said you could only really juggle three things at once. their scenario -- being involved in a community bank, owning rental property and owning farmland (BIG rent once a year.)

1 - 2 - 3, all the activities flowed and in fact reinforced one another.

my attempts to emulate that? mixed bag, some winners, some distractions but never a "flow" from one activity to the other.

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Old June 26, 2012, 04:31 PM
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Default WhiteBoard Use

Hi,

I 've heard mention of "white board use" before but can't find a description of the process. Can anyone enlighten me? I know, silly question, but always been a bit slow on the uptake ;-)

Part 2. Am about to invest in Gordon's Chatteling report. Any UK sowpubbers able to tell me how well the process works over this side of the pond. Only reason I ask is that Craigslist seems pretty light on reasonably priced offerings in Kent.

Thanks,

Paul.
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Old June 26, 2012, 07:05 PM
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Hi Paul,

Some of the following Might Help explain Things a little...

Perhaps Gordon will comment further...

Enjoy! ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=gord...w=1366&bih=665

Gordon Jay Alexander | Ryan McGrath
theryanmcgrath.com/tag/gordon-jay-alexander/
Today I'm interviewing Gordon Jay Alexander. .... Everyone I work with MUST have a white board at their desk, and they have to take a picture of it to prove they have one. You must ... A lesson which has proved invaluable to me over the years...
http://theryanmcgrath.com/tag/gordon-jay-alexander/

Phil

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Old June 26, 2012, 07:34 PM
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Default Excellent Reading! Definitely Applicable to the [UK] World-Wide & Everywhere Else...

Another few {Blasts} from the Good ol' Past(s)...

Way Back When...

Excellent Reading! Definitely Applicable to the [UK] World-Wide & Everywhere Else...
https://www.google.com/search?q=uk+b...w=1366&bih=665

Phil
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Old June 26, 2012, 07:39 PM
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Default Kent and chattel and whiteboards...

http://kent.craigslist.co.uk/spo/3087215789.html

Paul,

In Kent, there isn't a lot of chattel, but, there is enough. When dealing with this type of area, you have to think sides of town, or villages nearby too.

What you do is go to Craigslist and use a dollar amount, say 99 to 301 and then QUICKLY go through the sections looking for what you think could be a profitable transaction...then you go to ebay, amazon and try to get a feel for what this thing sells for.

In the case of exercise equipment, there is always stuff available and always stuff being sold. It takes a little time, I suggest you follow along on your local Kent craigslist, call and ask what their bottom line is (not as good as waving cash under their noses) but do 15 mins a day and get a feel for what is being sold.

As for Whiteboards. I'll have to find some pics that aren't personal.

I have people use a small whiteboard, about 2 to 3 feet by 2 ft or so, and homemade ones work great PAPER covered with clear contact paper, and it needs to hang or sit right next to the computer/desk where it can be looked at every day.

Across the top from left to right is the TIME line. How long is the project.
On the left side they draw a pryamid or bldg, this is also a time line but with the step by step process.

Starting at the END of the project, what does it look like? What is the finished project? Then you start backing down the steps of the pyramid until
you
]get
to the bottom, or the starting point.

This is a simplistic overview, but the start of the project is the End.

In Harvey Brody "speak", the bldg has a rooftop, and you have to clearly see the view from the rooftop, and then backs down the steps up the side, think of a fire escape on the side of the bldg... the very last step at the top is the step off rung, what does this look like.

By using a White Board, you can clearly see where you are at with your project, what stumbling blocks there are, and what you have to do to reach the top of the pyramid/bldg.

Gordon Alexander


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Hi,

I 've heard mention of "white board use" before but can't find a description of the process. Can anyone enlighten me? I know, silly question, but always been a bit slow on the uptake ;-)

Part 2. Am about to invest in Gordon's Chatteling report. Any UK sowpubbers able to tell me how well the process works over this side of the pond. Only reason I ask is that Craigslist seems pretty light on reasonably priced offerings in Kent.

Thanks,

Paul.
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Old June 26, 2012, 07:43 PM
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Default Alternative to Craigslist outside of USA...

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Part 2. Am about to invest in Gordon's Chatteling report. Any UK sowpubbers able to tell me how well the process works over this side of the pond. Only reason I ask is that Craigslist seems pretty light on reasonably priced offerings in Kent.
Hi Paul,

I'm not in the UK (I'm in the land downunder, the one that Kylie Minogue, Clive James, and Rolf Harris all fled from!)... However...

I've noticed that "Gumtree" is often "bigger" outside of the USA than Craigslist, so you might want to try that...

Gumtree UK - http://www.gumtree.com

Gumtree Australia - http://www.gumtree.com.au

Best wishes,

Dien
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Old June 26, 2012, 08:24 PM
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Default Re: Alternative to Craigslist outside of USA...

Endless other Options...

EASY TO FIND throughout GOOGLE UK...

And Everywhere Else...

GOLDEN NUGGETS {GALORE}...

LOADED & Ready for Negotiations!

ATM BANKING....
http://www.ukclassifieds.co.uk/

Phil
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Old June 28, 2012, 05:32 PM
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Gordon, Dien, Phil,

Thanks for your replies. I've taken notes and am making my way through Gordon's Chatteling report. I'll keep you posted on my progress.

Paul.
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