Double Your Productivity in 90 Days or Less

October 22, 2008

Just recently I was being interviewed on a well known talk show and the interviewer asked me a very important question.

She asked, “Why are some people with all the potential in the world just barely getting by while others with the same potential are thriving and succeeding?”

It is the same question that I have asked myself consistently throughout my life, the same question that led me to ultimately discover how to untap more of my own potential.

Over the past decade, I have identified 21 traits that I have found in people who lifted themselves from failure to fortune, from hopeless to joyful, from broke to Millionaire, from worst to first - in health, relationships, business and in every area of life.

While there is not enough room here to unveil the 21 traits all at once, I will tell you the 3 that you can put to work right now to create lasting success in your own life starting today. 

Three traits successful people have in common:

1.  They have clear, specific measurable goals with plans for their attainment
     (they know where they are going and how they are going to get there)

2.  They take action on those goals every single day
     (they follow through on what they said they were going to do to achieve their Goals)

3.  They value their time
     (they schedule their days and invest their time in a way that ensures their Goals will be realized)

Most people have not made a habit of learning how to condition themselves for success.  While we all have tremendous potential that has not been untapped yet, most people still have not figured out how to get the most out of themselves. 

They have not yet learned how to think, act, talk or feel like a massive success yet.  The potential is certainly there, it simply has not been unlocked yet.

When I was broke in my 20’s, I was blessed to discover a mentor who offered to start me on this journey of becoming everything I could be.  Someone who told me my dreams did not have to stay inside my own imagination, that I was indeed worthy, that I could be, have and do anything I wanted.  This person offered to take me by the hand and lead me in the direction of my dreams.  All I had to do was make the commitment to implement the Success Secrets I was being taught.

I admired, respected and studied that person and I modeled as many of those success traits that I could.  I copied them into my own life and they quickly became habits that I still practice to this day.

I jumped at the opportunity when a Millionaire offered to teach me how to get the most out of myself.  What I learned led me on a journey to start a business that went on to generate over $ 25 million in revenue.  Little old me.  I developed a new confidence with new success habits that left me feeling unstoppable. 

(And I’m just getting started)

You have a similar opportunity to learn the strategies I have been practicing for over a decade.

My colleague, Eben, has graciously allowed me to share some of these ideas with you in a new course he has created for Entrepreneurs.  I think many of these principles go way beyond entrepreneurship and can be carried over into other areas of life.  These tips could help you get a promotion at work, instill better habits for your children, help you maintain peak energy all day long and so much more, more so you can develop your own true potential.

And if a Multi-Millionaire knocked on your door and offered to show you exactly what they do to design their day to day life and reach their true potential in business and in life- so that you could copy their success traits and model their success habits in your own life, would that have a positive effect on you? 

A wise man once told me, “Find out what successful people do and then go do it.”

Do you want to see exactly what Eben and I do on a daily basis to create unstoppable momentum, have more clarity and energy than we know what to do with? 

To unleash your own potential, go here (it will only be up for 12 hours)

 http://www.dotcompreneur.com/recommends/productivity

 Live Your Dreams,

 Jill Koenig
 

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Perez Hilton’s Top 3 Tips for Bloggers

September 18, 2008

This is a clip direct from Martha Stewart. On September 17th, she dedicated the entire show to the topic of all things blogging.

If Perez Hilton is not on your list of successful blogs to study, it should be.

With 9 million hits a day, the site is a phenomenal case study in the use of traffic, ads, photos, personality, video and pop culture to say the least.

Here are Perez Hilton’s Top 3 Tips for Bloggers:

1. Find a niche and make yourself stand out
PerezHilton.com started out as a hobby, one of Perez’ unique characteristics is the doodle on pictures.

2. Be prepared to work hard

Perez awakes at 3:57am and puts in 15-16 hour days.

3. Don’t be afraid to Network

Perez says meet people and ask for things (Perez asked to appear on Martha)

P-nasty’s influence has led to joint ventures offline as well including music, clothing lines and public appearances making him a very wealthy man.

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Seven Steps to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed

June 26, 2008

By Elizabeth Hagen

Do you look at your office or home and feel totally overwhelmed by the clutter, piles, and stuff? Do you wonder where to start? Do you want to run out in terror?!

I know what it’s like to feel like your home or office is totally out of control instead of you being in control. I know that this feeling causes stress and anxiety. And, can make you a not very nice person to live or work with!

There’s hope. I work with overwhelmed people every day and help them get focused, organized, and productive in their home and office. But, you need a plan. Studies have shown that every one minute you spend planning saves ten minutes of execution.

Step 1: Get Ready

Take out your calendar and pick the date you are going to go through your entire home or office. This will take anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours. Have a clean sheet for each room and write the name of the room down on the top of each page.

Step 2: Identify the Areas to Organize

Begin at the front door and imagine a big clock imposed on the floor. Choose where you want 12:00 and start there. Now, look around the room clockwise writing down any area that you’re tolerating or that bothers you on that room form. Before you leave each room put a * by the area that bothers you the most in each room. Go through each room in the home or office.

Step 3: Prioritize

Take a clean sheet of paper and title it “Priority Form”. Now, transfer each priority from all the room sheets onto this paper. Look at each area and decide which one you want to tackle first. You may want to pick an easy area to have a quick success story or you may want to pick a large task to get the worst out of the way right away.

Step 4: Choose a Date

Set a date to organize this area and put it in your calendar.

Step 5: Get Ready to Take Action

Look at the task that you’ve chosen to do first and decide if you’ll need any supplies. If needed, break this task down into smaller tasks and number in what order you’ll do them. Write down a reward that you’re going to give yourself when you’re done. Make it a GREAT reward!

Step 6: Do It!

The day is here and you’re ready to get started. Put on some fun music, some comfortable clothes and start organizing the area. Use my S.T.A.R.T. ™ method to get organized:

Sort

Throw

Appoint a Home

Restrict to a Container

Take Back Control

Take everything out of the area that you want to organize and START. Sort though and decide what belongs there and what doesn’t. Put the items that don’t belong there in a box and bring that away later. You need to stay focused on the area that you are working on. As you’re sorting you’ll also be throwing away items and/or putting in a box for donation or a garage sale. After you’ve sorted through everything you know that whatever is left belongs in that area. You’ve just appointed a home for those items. Now, restrict them to container if possible. Use baskets in a closet, drawer divider bins in a drawer, etc. to get ‘like’ items together into a container. Step back and look at what you’ve done! You’ve just taken control back of that area of your life and it feels great!

Step 7: Reward, Relax, and Repeat

Well done! Acknowledge yourself and enjoy what you’ve just accomplished and cross this task off your Priority Form. Be sure and enjoy your reward and when ready – tackle the next task!

It’s amazing what happens when you start to get organized in your life. You’re going to feel better about yourself, have increased self confidence, and get so much more done each day. You’ll love getting organized – I guarantee it!

Elizabeth Hagen - EzineArticles Expert Author

Elizabeth Hagen is a dynamic and inspiring speaker, author, and consultant who has motivated thousands to take action and get organized. She is President of ElizabethHagen.com and works with overwhelmed people to help them get more focused, more organized, more confident and more productive. Her latest book “Organize with Confidence!” is a pocket book and manual that will change your life! Subscribe to Elizabeth’s free ezine “Extraordinary Results” at http://www.Elizabethhagen.com and receive the “31 Tips to Simplify Your Life” as her gift to you..

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Finally, Bloggers Learn How to Create a Video Sales Letter all through the Magic of a WordPress Theme!

June 4, 2008

Video Sales LetterBloggers can now use WordPress to create an endless amount of Video Sales Letters, thanks to DotComPreneur expert contributor and Internet Genius, Ben Cope.

Ben is the creator of numerous WordPress themes and can help you get your Video Sales Letter set-up, installed and ready to go. Whether you are a blogger, small business owner or internet marketer, you already understand the power of video. However, if you are not putting video on your websites, blogs and sales letters, you are missing the most important component that can make your message and web content much more effective.

You Don’t Even Have to Be a Master at Copywriting

You can create a video sales letter that is just as effective, if not more effective than any written sales letter on the Internet and you don’t have to be a master copywriter to do it. You can use the same proven steps that wildly successful internet marketers use to create money-making, written sales letters to make your video sales letter just as wildly successful. The fact is - video sells!

Video allows you to do so many things that the written word or audio just won’t accomplish.

Video gives you the ability to make a connection with your viewer. By putting yourself on the video, you are able to build a relationship with the viewer. It lets them get a better feeling of the ‘face’ behind the website. You are able to demonstrate your enthusiasm, knowledge and credibility all in one single video. If you are putting video testimonials into your video sales letter - it lets your prospects see first hand that you have already helped people just like them. It lets them watch and hear the excitement and enthusiasm in your current customers that in turn will pass on the excitement to them a well. People by nature get easily sucked in and persuaded by TV shows, commercials and infomercials… and you have the power of that same medium right in the pages of your own blog … using VIDEO.

All You Need to Do is Answer

The majority of people on the Internet are looking for answers to their questions and solutions to their problems. If you can show your site visitors that you are the answer - you will make money! A video sales letter will help you accomplish just that. You could utilize video in so many ways. You can teach people how to do something by making a video tutorial, you can do a weekly video newsletter, you can answer your subscriber’s questions, and so much more. Your Video Sales Letter gives you the medium to include your attention getting message, your personality, credibility, social proof, customer testimonials, offer, call to action and guarantee all in the same powerful video.

The fact that you are reading this article, tells me that you are an entrepreneur that is dedicated to your own success on the Internet. You know the importance of video and the benefits of building relationships with your customers and website visitors. Every new customer adds to your bottom line and makes you even more successful. It all starts with taking action - so begin using video as a sales tool more - starting today!

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For more information about the Video Sales Letter … or to enter the “Big Web Video Giveaway” contest and get a chance to win a copy of Sony Vegas Movie Studio software, a Flip Video Camera with tripod, and a one-year subscription to EZS3.com for hosting your videos … go to the Video Sales Letter

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Organizing Paper Files with P.E.A.C.E.

May 29, 2008

By Marlo Nikkila

Paper is one of the biggest issues for people. There is too much of it and it is easy to get behind, often causing people to feel like they are literally drowning.

Following the P.E.A.C.E plan you will be able to reclaim your sanity for current and future paper in your life.

How does that sound?

P = Permission to let go.

Get this…80% of the paper you keep you will never refer to again!

So, you officially have permission to let go! How does that feel? A little scary?

That’s okay, because I am going to ask you to begin with the easy stuff.

Begin with the backlog of old bills, receipts, warranties, recipes, articles, and bank statements. Make sure you have your recycle bin and shredder handy. (wink)

As a quick tip, if you are overwhelmed with all the paper around your desk, turn a pile upside down and start at the bottom. More than likely these papers can be tossed.

E = Evaluate the papers you have.

Sometimes it is out of habit that we continue to file papers we no longer need. Just because there is a file for it, doesn’t mean you have to keep it. The key to evaluating paper is asking the right questions. With better questions comes easier decisions and ultimately less paper!

  • Can this paper be found somewhere else?
  • Is this a duplicate?
  • Have I needed this information before?
  • Why am I keeping this in the first place?
  • Am I required to keep this? If so, how long?
  • What next action is needed?

A = Act on it.

Your piles of paper probably exist because something needs to be done with individual pieces–sign, read, pay, call, research, follow-up, errand, etc.

Am I right?

The best solution is if it takes less than 2 minutes, just do it. If it is going to require more time and energy, go ahead and jot down the info onto your calendar or to-do list and recycle the piece of paper. The paper no longer needs to serve as your reminder. (More permission to let go!)

If you find that the paper really is needed, then I suggest a tickler system or an action book.

C = Contain & Categorize your papers.

The best way to find it in less than 3 minutes is to create a specific home for your papers in places (and names) that make sense to you.

Do you have a mail center to capture your incoming mail?
Is your filing cabinet in the area that you pay bills and process your paper?
Are you naming the files appropriately?

The best question to ask yourself when filing or creating a home for your paper is Where will I find it? This is a more powerful and appropriate question than the more common Where should I put it?, because the item will likely land on any open horizontal space.

So, when naming a file, if you would naturally look for your car info under Prius instead of Automobile then by all means label it that way.

It will also help if you think in terms of categories for your paper. Examples would be, financial, health, hobbies, owner-manuals, utilities, etc.

E = Electronic solutions.

There are also several ways you can take advantage of technology to reduce the amount of paper in your life.

  • Receive electronic bank statements and utility bills.
  • Use auto pay for utilities and other bills.
  • Opt out of mailing lists-virtual and paper.
  • Keep all you password and log-in information with SplashShopper ID on your PDA or desktop computer.
  • Store important documents on a secured remote server.

My hope is for you to experience the freedom that comes with making P.E.A.C.E. with your paper, once and for all.

Marlo Nikkila is The Organizing Coach. Claim your free “7 Powerful Ways to Simplify Your Life” Action Plan and receive a subscription to Let’s OrganizeTogether! e-zine. It is packed with refreshing tips and resources to create a simple and meaningful life, plus invitations to teleconferences and other opportunities.

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How to Earn Money with Your Parked Domains

May 23, 2008

I see it everyday among my fellow DotComPreneurs.

You are deeply immersed in working on your business and a new product or business idea suddenly appears before you.

What happens next is fairly routine.

You come up with a catchy name or multiple moniker that adequately represent your new bright shiny idea.

Next (usually within seconds or a few minutes) you head over to your favorite registrar and check to see if the domain is available.

Most DotComPreneurs have at least a few great ideas on the back burner.

I know I do.

Which means you may have dozens, hundreds or perhaps even thousands of unused domains just sitting there while you’re working on your other high priority projects.

If you’re like most newbies, the domains you purchased but haven’t put to work yet are parked on the domain registrars default parked page. This happens automatically until you either host your domain someplace else or forward it to one of your other web sites.

The domain industry’s dirty little secret…

What you might not know is that your domain registrar earns money every time someone visits your domain and clicks on one of the relevant ads displayed on their default parked page. The links on the page are targeted based on the words contained within your domain.

Some registrars generate more revenue on these ads than they do on domain name sales.

Something else you might not be aware of is that YOU, the owner of the domain can take advantage of any possible type in traffic and earn money per click just like the registrars do simply by utilizing a strategic parking service.

In the domain parking industry, the top rated domain parking service is Domain Sponsor

You may be surprised at the value of click through traffic of your parked domains. This week, on one domain, I earned $ 7.96 in revenue from only 7 visitors. That’s more than the price I paid to register the domain.

The fastest way to find out is to stop giving your traffic to your domain registrar and park them and take a look at what kind of traffic is coming your way.

1. Go to Domain Sponsor and set up your account.

2. Follow the instructions for adding each domain to your Domain Sponsor account.

3. Park the domain on the servers as listed.

Don’t forget to type in your domain into your web browser to ensure that domain directs to the new redirected page.

*WARNING: Do NOT click on links on your page or type any phrases in the search box*

That is considered to be click fraud since you are being paid by the advertiser for any clicks and your account will be shut down. (you can look but don’t touch or click on the page).

Do NOT link to any of your parked domains from any of your other web sites. That is against the rules my friend. If you are caught posting new links anywhere, kiss your entire account goodbye.

If there were existing links directing to your domain, that’s fair and will generate revenue, but do not try to outsmart the system.

There are a variety of factors that will determine how much money you can earn from your domains:

* The Domain Name itself. Is it keyword rich? Does it receive any type in traffic. If your domain is www.2kewl2Btamed123.com, don’t expect much traffic. That doesn’t qualify as keyword rich.

* Past use (if any) If there are old incoming links, you may get considerable traffic.

* If your Domain is similar to a high traffic existing domain. For example, I have several parked domains that are two words: XxxxXxxxx.com but someone else owns the same words separated by a hypen Xxxx-Xxxxx.com Guess who gets an aweful lot of click throughs? Yep.

* Most people when typing a URL of a web site unconsciously type in a .COM after the words. I owned a domain name for several years when imagine my surprise, a TLC television show was created with the same name and keywords. Since I owned the .COM, it generated thousands of visitors and considerable click through income until that party purchased it from me. I did have plans to develop the domain, but when approached by the buyer, whom I admired and respected, I let it go so it could serve millions now instead of later when I got around to it.

Publicly listing any of my domains would lead to traffic surges so while I can’t do that, I can tell you of the results of a few of my parked domains and you can let your imagination run wild.

Last year one of my real estate domains received 1,995 visitors and earned $ 468.54

Another domain received 9,063 visitors and earned $ 269.84

A diet domain received only 255 visitors and earned $ 179.23

I could purchase 130 more domains by reinvesting that $ 916 in revenue…park them… reinvest the revenue from those…and keep growng my portfolio.

Remember I set it and forget it - all I am doing is parking my unused domains on this service until I develop them. There are DotComPreneurs making millions of dollars each year by investing strategically in expired domains specifically for the purpose of earning revenue this way.

Note: It may take a few months for the keywords to aggregate. Each time a visitor clicks on a link or types in a search phrase, the system collects that data and modifies the words on the page accordingly so your success ratio will generally increase over time and so will your monthly checks.

Remember, those domains were previously earning the registrar that revenue. I did nothing except spend 5 minutes once to redirect them and renew the domain each year for $ 7. As you can see from just a few of my examples, it adds up.

More on domains coming soon but in the meantime, after you get set up and redirect your domains, I would love to hear about your results.

Here is the link to Domain Sponsor

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WordPress: How to Make Your Blog Work for You

May 12, 2008

If your blog is business oriented, you must always consider SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

Yes - the ugly three word phrase. But these tips are easy - no coding needed. No scratching your head over php or html. It’s simply about choosing the theme layout that will help your SEO efforts. It’s easy but almost no one knows about it or thinks about it.

Do you know that Search Engines don’t always read every word on your page? That’s right - they don’t. The header tags and the upper left hand corner of the page might be all that is checked. What if your sidebar is in the upper left hand corner? The content in your sidebar doesn’t change frequently so the Search Engines will think there is nothing new and move on. One of the main advantages of a blog is that it is frequently updated so it is Search Engine friendly.

What’s a blogger to do? Simple - choose a two-column theme with the sidebar on the right!

What are ‘header tags’? Header tags are simply the title of the post. Behind the scenes, your theme encloses your title in header tags. That’s what makes the font bigger and makes it look like a title. Why is the title important? Search engines also look at what’s inside your header tags. Since each post creates a new page it’s easy for the search engines to locate the header tags. So - think about the title of every post. Make it keyword rich for the search engines but make it grab your reader too.

With a little thought and planning you can make your blog really work for you.

For more tips and tricks on WordPress and blogging please visit http://www.wpguru.com Here is where you will learn everything you ever wanted to know about WordPress.

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Stop- Have You Tried These FREE Traffic Tricks?

May 9, 2008

In this article we are going to take a quick look at some free traffic tricks that are incredibly powerful, VERY underground in terms of awareness and application, and so simple that they can be implemented in one short afternoon. (All while generating boatloads of traffic, often on autopilot, for days, weeks and months to come) Read on as we dare go a bit beneath the tired and tepid terrain of the average blogger, and look at some things the leaders of the pack are using to drive HUGE incomes while most of us scrape for scraps!

Amazing Adventures in Aggregation

Here is all you need to do to turn your default Wordpress install into a veritable powerhouse, cash crunching, affiliate marketing monster machine of infinite imagination.

Your Very own planet

Install a free plugin that will aggregate past, present and future posts from a variety of sources in and around your niche, auto updating your site with relevant content that is being called, culled and collected from any number of unique sources that you select.

Convert a Catalog

You then take a catalog, or what is commonly called a data feed, and parses all of the information in the catalog into RSS, and imports it into your simple blog administration area. Now you probably WILL need external software outside of Wordpress to do this effectively, but it is very cheap, and VERY powerful.

What is the net effect? Simply stated, depending on the parameters you set up, you can have an auto updating, auto publishing maniac monster of a blog, pulling outside content on a daily basis to FEED your blog with relevant niche information, as well as an ONGOING supply of perfectly formatted products being posted on your blog, directly from the Catalog items that you converted to RSS. It’s amazing stuff, and with a nice template on your blog, you can have a professional grade affiliate site, selling REAL products and services that updates for YEARS to come on automatic autopilot.

These are things that ONLY the elite level people are playing with, almost entirely “underground”…and are so disarmingly easy to emulate, YOU can do the VERY same thing simply by following the above.

And STOP Looking for the Magical Solution Out “There”.

Focus on the magic within. You have it, I know you do. We ALL do. The one certitude online is this: Content is king. And creativity is coveted. Show you have lots of both in areas that you care most about, and people will beat down your door to revel in it. They do for me, and I guarantee the same for you as well. Life is short, and the journey of 1000 miles begins with one simple step. What are you waiting for?
Want to see how we make money Blogging?

FREE Blog Marketing Strategies revealed so much fun & effortlessly easy, it almost feels like stealing -Ian Hollandar http://karmicconsulting.net/go/blog/

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Alexa’s New Ranking System

April 27, 2008

Alexa recently modified their web site rankings system that most DotComPreneurs utilize as at least one measurement of their web site popularity.

If you asked 10 different people what Alexa is or how a web site’s rank is calculated, you would get 10 different answers. Ultimately the traffic tracked by Alexa was registered only through computers who used the Alexa toolbar.

Alexa states that a web site’s Alexa ranking will now be based on more sources of data (although they did not reveal specifically what those sources are) and that we will now have an even better indicator of a web site’s popularity.

photo Alexaannouncement graphic

Right now the Alexa rankings cover a time frame of only 6 month max while they recalculate the historic data for each site. When the data reappears, it will reflect the new criteria for web site popularity and you will once again be able to look back approx 5+ years.  Go here to read Alexa’s April 15th announcement and find out what other improvements they are working on.

You can’t improve what you don’t measure.

Remember there is no substitute for tracking your website and business’ daily traffic via your own tracking systems, whether that’s Google Analytics or some other web tracking service as well as whatever indicators are relevant to your niche, ie ezine subscribers, blog feed subscribers, along with the gazillions of other performance indicators we can measure.

Jill

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Tony Robbins Lawsuit Against Stephen Pierce

April 25, 2008

The biggest news story in the internet marketing world this week is not a million dollar product launch, a new tool or system that will revolutionize your business. It was the lawsuit heard ’round the world. TMZ (yes TMZ the Hollywood gossip site) broke the news of a lawsuit filed by personal development giant Tony Robbins against internet marketer Stephen Pierce.

Stephen Pierce was recently invited to teach internet marketing at Robbins’ Wealth Mastery event in Australia.

As an attendee of many of Tony’s events, (you call him Tony when you immerse yourself in his teachings), before entering the venue, I was required to sign a waiver and promise that I will not record the event.

Robbins lawsuit claims Pierce illegally taped and later sold video DVDs of his internet marketing presentation from Tony’s event. Robbins attorneys also allege that Pierce claimed in advertisements that he was Tony Robbins’ Wealth Coach, and implied that Robbins endorsed Pierce. To complicate matters, the lawsuit states that Pierce advised his students to skip Robbins $ 8,000 event and buy Pierce’s bootleg video instead. Ouch.

You can view the actual details of the lawsuit that was filed here http://www.aolcdn.com/tmz_documents/0424_tony_robbins_wm.pdf

On Pierce’s blog, he quickly posted his interpretation of the series of events leading up to this and was surprised when the lawsuit was filed. Pierce stated that he had been in communication with Robbins people, had been given permission to record the video, and had complied long ago with their requests. Pierce even went as far as to say he had copies of all of the email communications during this time period, calling it a misunderstanding, which should at least clarify some of what went on here.

Asking me to pick sides would be like asking me which of my two brothers I love more.  I have tremendous respect for both Pierce and Robbins and I am watching with great interest.

I hope these two power house DotComPreneurs sort this out and reach an amicable settlement, and make nice again outside of the court system. Tony Robbins has been on both sides of lawsuits, as plaintiff and defendant -a losing defendant in 1998 against Wade Cook and winner in his lawsuit against a Canadian tabloid that blamed him for breaking up a marriage.

While there are many lessons we can extract from this ordeal, one of the obvious lessons in this for you and I and everyone surrounding the internet marketing world is… it is imperative that you get all permissions detailed in writing when you interview subjects, use photographs, sell products others participate in, record video or audio, claim affiliations, utilize testimonials, use or sell interviews with others.

The more successful you become, and the more people on your team, the more opportunity there will be for miscommunication and misunderstanding.

Many a friendship and reputation have been destroyed through misunderstandings that could have been avoided by clarifying the details in advance in writing with thorough legal contracts.

In other words, cover your a**


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