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[GordonJ]

An idea.

Plant a seed.
Do what you must to allow it to grow.
Tend it. Protect it. Water and nourish it.

ALLOW it to grow. Keep the weeds away. Shoo off the birds. Drain the rains.

The process of protection may be different for everyone, but the garden idea is the same. You have to learn about the land, the soil, till it, work it...CHOOSE what you want to grow, acquire the seeds, plant and tend...then comes the harvest. Sort of ...

What we're all about here, eh?

Gordon

P.S. https://www.angelfire.com/biz/gjbiz/00gift.pdf

Originally Posted by Dien Rice

Hi Mr. U.P.P.,

The topic you talk about is a very important one, of course... It's fun learning, but not so useful if you never use it!

In my opinion, you still need to be a lifelong learner...

For one thing, you're going to increase your skills and increase your chance of success. But...

You have to combine that with actually doing stuff... You can't only learn, you also have to be doing...

So, how do you do that?

There's more than one way...

One way that I found works for me - which I don't do all the time, but which I do sometimes - is called "Operation MoneySuck," which comes from the late Gary Halbert... But the best exposé of it is from John Carlton, who worked with him. They're both very well-known copywriters...

The absolute gist of "Operation MoneySuck" is that you simply focus on doing what brings in the money... You don't focus on anything else.

The reality is, if you create a big "to do" list of everything you need to do, some of those things will bring in the money... and some of those things won't.

Those other things might be favors for friends which they've asked you to do... They might be things you need to fix around the house... They might be regular chores... They might be social obligations... It might be tidying up all your computer cables... It might be alphabetizing your book collection... It might be polishing your collection of ping pong balls...

There are usually a lot of things on our "to do" lists that don't directly bring in money...

So the key to "Operation MoneySuck" is, for a specific time period during the day, you cut out all the stuff that doesn't make money... During that time, you exclusively only do those things that bring in money.

I found that this approach does work for me.

I've tried it out, and it made me more productive... (I have to juggle taking care of a one-year-old child now, so it's a little more difficult now than before!)

So that's one approach.

Here's the link to find out more.

Operation MoneySuck 2.0
https://www.john-carlton.com/2011/02...moneysuck-2-0/

I've also more recently been creating daily checklists... instead of a normal "to do" list, it's a checklist.

I think there's a kind of mental satisfaction in checking the box... You feel a sense of achievement, and that keeps you going and makes you feel good about actually getting things done.

(I break up all longer tasks into a series of shorter steps, each with its own check box... That way, I get the satisfaction of checking each box as I go along...)

I may go into detail about this at some point in the future... But I also found that this works for me.

I mainly put key money-making activities on the check list...

Having said all that, I do think you do need to have the attitude of being a lifelong learner, but you also really have to combine the learning with doing.

And it's also good to have a testing mindset...

I mean, wow, you can really learn from Glenn's approach here on the forum and also in Glenn's own email list and on his own websites. Just test, test, test...

The thing is, you can read what's worked for someone else. It may not work exactly that way for you.

There are many reasons why... The time could be a different time. You could have a different type of audience that reacts to something differently...

There are so many different variables so that you really have to test to see if it works for what you're doing...

Just taking what someone has done and applying it yourself may work... Or, it may not, but it's definitely a way forward. You have to test and tweak it...

Thanks a lot for raising the topic...!

Best wishes,

Dien

[unpinkpanther]

Originally Posted by GordonJ

An idea.

Plant a seed...

What we're all about here, eh?

Gordon

P.S. https://www.angelfire.com/biz/gjbiz/00gift.pdf

Thanks Dien for sharing Gary Halbert's Operation MoneySuck method of focusing on getting results that matter.

And thanks, Gordon, for sharing that special report.

Wait! Has it been FOUR years already? I can still remember when I got that "Seed-Faith" report.

It's one of those reports I've printed out and highlighted and bookmarked.

By the way, that's yet another benefit I get from business reports that get to the point.

I find slim business reports:

- easy to print out
- easy to digest
- easy to test
- easy to get results with

Much like Gordon's new report Planning for Success, which is already being "Recommended by Gumroad" in the Gumroad marketplace.

If you want to know more about Gordon's new report, you can check it out using the link below:


Gordon Jay Alexander's Planning for Success


Combined with the special gift Gordon just shared above, this new report becomes even easier to apply and profit from.

Also, if you have a business idea right now, here's a post with some quick tips that can help you get started in the right direction today:

http://www.sowpub.com/forum/showpost...96&postcount=2

Thanks for reading!

P.S. After postponing for YEARS, I finally went through Gary Halbert's famous "Boron Letters". And I can't believe how PRACTICAL and FUNDAMENTAL those letters are. Especially the part about the MATH around campaigns.

P.P.S. Apart from J.F. (Jim) Straw's Mail Order course, I'm yet to see another person who has helped me see the MATH behind marketing like Gary Halbert did in those letters...

[GordonJ]

Vincent James, Ben Suarez and Halbert plus some big picture overview.

I think I will post a long, boring, drawn out rant/rave/observation about all of this and everything else, because it is an overcast day, and I have no one around to play Monopoly with.

Costs of Product.
COSTS of CUSTOMER ACQUISTION (often ignored but often the highest cost of doing a business)

Cost of delivery, overhead, taxes, payroll (or contractors) all to get to the NET PROFIT.

TIME.

Oh, and as good as Boron Letters is (and it is terrific), make sure you keep in mind where they were written from, and what got Gary there in the first place.

Ignore the maths, and pay the price.

Thanks for this reminder, now for that all day rant.

Gordon

Originally Posted by unpinkpanther

Thanks Dien for sharing Gary Halbert's Operation MoneySuck method of focusing on getting results that matter.

And thanks, Gordon, for sharing that special report.

Wait! Has it been FOUR years already? I can still remember when I got that "Seed-Faith" report.

It's one of those reports I've printed out and highlighted and bookmarked.

By the way, that's yet another benefit I get from business reports that get to the point.

I find slim business reports:

- easy to print out
- easy to digest
- easy to test
- easy to get results with

Much like Gordon's new report Planning for Success, which is already being "Recommended by Gumroad" in the Gumroad marketplace.

If you want to know more about Gordon's new report, you can check it out using the link below:


Gordon Jay Alexander's Planning for Success


Combined with the special gift Gordon just shared above, this new report becomes even easier to apply and profit from.

Also, if you have a business idea right now, here's a post with some quick tips that can help you get started in the right direction today:

http://www.sowpub.com/forum/showpost...96&postcount=2

Thanks for reading!

P.S. After postponing for YEARS, I finally went through Gary Halbert's famous "Boron Letters". And I can't believe how PRACTICAL and FUNDAMENTAL those letters are. Especially the part about the MATH around campaigns.

P.P.S. Apart from J.F. (Jim) Straw's Mail Order course, I'm yet to see another person who has helped me see the MATH behind marketing like Gary Halbert did in those letters...

[unpinkpanther]

Originally Posted by GordonJ

Oh, and as good as Boron Letters is (and it is terrific), make sure you keep in mind where they were written from, and what got Gary there in the first place....

Thanks for this reminder...

Gordon

Speaking of crimes, I think the biggest crime anyone can commit is to live below his own potential.

Life is short

Too short for anyone to deliberately skip over using information that can help him leave behind a better legacy...

Too short to waste chasing the financial Big Foot of "money-for-doing-nothing"...

In all his reports I've read, JF (Jim) Straw usually states the difference between INFORMATION and KNOWLEDGE.

And I always wonder:

What makes some people turn information into PRACTICAL action plans while others use the same info as an excuse to keep becoming mentally-obese seminar junkies?

Can't say I know the answer, but I think it does have something to do with showing gratitude.

We need to be more grateful to the "person" revealed in this quick video here by the one and only Snoop Dogg (don't worry; it's censored!)

To your success!

P.S. If you're grateful to be here on SOWPub, then you can pick up the planning for success report today

[Glenn]

Thanks Mr Un,

I saw Snoop on a Martha Steward Show.

Was Gobsmacked.

Checked out his cookbook.

Couldn't Eat AND didn't Understand a lot of his recipes.

But.

Snoop is pretty darn Savvy.

Cookbooks are one of the top best selling niches on amazon.com

Thanks,
Glenn