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Now that I am back in Brisbane I’m ready to re-initiate the Brisbane Meetups that were started last year.

Last year I ran these as “Entrepreneur meetups” but I want to expand the criteria to include Brisbane bloggers as well.

So if you are a blogger or a business owner or entrepreneur, and particularly if you are business blogging entrepreneur, and you are located in Brisbane or can potentially come to Brisbane, please sign-up to the email list so you know when the next meeting is. Here is the link for the sign-up form.

http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/brisbane/

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For any eager beavers if you are ready to join as a client of Rich Schefren’s coaching program you can do so here -

StrategicProfits.com/coaching/

If you see a countdown timer you are just a bit early and should only have a few hours to wait before you can sign-up.

If you do sign-up, and in particular if you are in Australia, please make sure you contact me as I want to connect with every person in the coaching program who joins via my blog. Ideally I’d like to form a mastermind group in Brisbane or Australia wide if necessary, but even if you cannot participate in that, I’d still like to know who is in the coaching program and found out about it via me, so don’t be shy!

Who Should Join?

In a nutshell, if you want to -

1. Learn how to locate the right business opportunity for you, matching your own unique talents with a pressing need in the marketplace.
2. Move away from technician roles and self employment towards true business ownership, creating more freedom and more money.
3. Start outsourcing, then hire full time employees to eventually free yourself from every task but the roles you love to do, so you can focus on your true passions.
4. Create additional free time to be with family and have fun.
5. Watch how Rich implements exactly what he teaches so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
6. Make top level connections in the Internet marketing industry.

Who Should NOT Join?

Initially I would not have recommended the course to people who do not have some form of business running already. Rich’s materials are best used by people who have successful businesses in terms of a profitable niche - a genuine need in the market they can satisfy - because these people can action the lessons immediately, often for exponential results.

However, since Rich focuses energy on early steps too - gaining momentum, including lots of information on determining what the market whats, what offer to present, how to become the solution to a profitable niche, etc - I still recommend this course to people who don’t know what business they want to run yet.

You will definitely begin with a head start and avoid a lot of common mistakes having completed the course, the only issue is without an actual business up and running when you join the program, you don’t have a means to make money back from your investment immediately.

Not For Opportuneurs

This program is not a money making opportunity, it is a lot more than that - a course on business strategy and systems - and there really isn’t anything out there like it tailored so specifically to Internet business.

Seriously proactive entrepreneurs can take Rich’s program, isolate a market need, quickly sign up the right affiliates and joint venture partners and have a successful product out to market in a matter of weeks. Most people won’t do this of course - it takes a lot of confidence and strict discipline to focus on so much action, but Strategic Profits coaching certainly provides all the tools you need.

If you don’t have the time for taking action - and lots of it - or you are not in a position self-esteem wise to benefit from the education, then perhaps this course is not for you.

If you are struggling to put food on the table then I recommend building up a little stable cashflow or savings before investing in Rich’s program.

If you are already making at least a few thousand a month online but you are tired of being stuck to your computer all day every day, sick of dealing with annoying clients, sick of doing every job just to keep your business afloat, then you are in an ideal candidate to benefit from the coaching program.

Why You Should Join

If you ask me this question I’d have a simple answer - to network. The people you meet in the course are intelligent, motivated and well connected in their industry. They are also paying around $5000 for the privilege, so they are not poor either!

This might represent a pool of potential clients for your business or possible joint venture partners. Remember it’s not just Internet marketers who take this course and in fact I’d say there are probably more non-Internet marketers involved, who run either bricks and mortar business offline or sell products or services online.

The potential for joint ventures with people in the program is huge. Not only do you get the resources that Rich and his network provides, you get the resources of all the other clients in the program, provided you seek out the right partners. That, in my mind, is the best benefit.

It pays to be on the inside of programs like this, not on the outside.

Rich has made it pretty clear who he can help with his program so I won’t try to convince you any more. If you do want to sample more of the free materials Rich provides you can do so by going to the Profit Vault.

If you are ready to join with me and start building the business of your dreams, you can sign up here:

StrategicProfits.com/coaching/

I look forward to seeing you on the inside…

Yaro Starak
Rich Schefren Student

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As an entrepreneur and a blogger I’ve been afforded a unique outlook on the whole blogging as a business discussion. Bloggers look at blogging as something they do for fun, for creative expression, for meeting people, for making money directly from advertising and affiliate promotions or indirectly by promoting a business. Most bloggers are either not blogging for money or are self employed content publishers. While there is nothing wrong with that, and I’ve been living the self employment life myself for a long time, it’s not my end goal.

Because of my entrepreneur mindset I always look at things from a strategic business point of view, not an employee mindset. This attitude has led me to study business strategy and systems and implement what I learn both in my business and in my blogging. I doubt there are many other bloggers out there who think and act as I do in this regard, which is why I enjoy writing about blogging as a business model so much - it’s not territory many people cover since they just don’t think about it.

Today I have a topic for you that clearly is from the entrepreneur mindset and if your goal is to use blogs for business, possibly as your business (the blogging business model), as a lead generator for your business, or as a cashflow source for bootstrapping your business, you will definitely find the ideas below of interest.

How To Leverage The Talent Of Others To Help Grow Your Blog

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If you are like me on Rich Schefren’s email list you probably know already about this resource, but for those that don’t I have to tell you about it because it’s made it a lot easier to get all of Rich Schefren’s free videos and seminal books all in one place.

Rich has released three of the most important ebooks on Internet business and I’ve raved about them plenty before. They are:

Simply put, if you run an Internet business or plan to start one, you HAVE to read these free ebooks - they are the best resources you will ever find on building a real business online, and yes, I’m tired of saying that so go download the books already and READ THEM.

You can get them now in the new Profit Vault

What Is The Profit Vault?

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I made it to the end of the World Internet Summit (WIS) and wow, it’s been a GREAT experience.

I probably didn’t have a typical experience since I wasn’t there as a person new to Internet marketing and consequently spent more time talking to the presenters, but I want to explain to you first my take on why YOU would consider attending one of these events if you are new to Internet marketing and then I’ll throw in more tidbits about my experiences.

Opportunities, Education and Networking

My last article Beware The Allure of The Internet Marketing Success Story should serve as a cautionary tip on the mindset you need to have before entering an Internet marketing conference. Once you have that mindset you can attend these events, really enjoy and learn from the experience and leave with clear intentions rather than overloaded senses.

The WIS is four days. It’s a long event. I guarantee by the end if you watch every speaker you have enjoyed a huge variety of presentation styles and learned about many different ways to make money online.

My initial Internet marketing training occured throughout the late nineties and early two thousands where I was managing hobby sites and creating BetterEdit.com. It took a long time to learn the ins and outs of how people made money online and I can honestly say if I attended this conference back then, while I definitely would have felt the urge to buy every program (I feel that even now to a degree), I would have covered about two years worth of hands on training and experience in four days. That’s great if you want to speed up the learning process, but it also tends to overwhelm you.

What you will gain is a nice general awareness of how Internet business is conducted today. Things like capturing an email address, the sales funnel, product creation, viral marketing, copywriting, affiliate marketing, niche marketing, butterfly marketing, ebay selling, etc, are all in-depth topics that are covered in some detail at the event by each speaker. You will take a big step forward bringing the knowledge gap between wanting to make money online and understanding how others currently do it.

The big benefits come after the event when you go home and start implementing. You might begin by following the steps and training in a package you bought from one of the speakers, or by acting on the information you absorbed from the presentations. Whatever happens, if the event is the catalyst for you to start implementing and really learning through experience, then you have easily recouped the money you invested in paying the conference fee.

For the absolute newbies I’d say definitely go, it’s a fantastic experience, but be prepared to be overwhelmed. For the people who already know a thing or two about net marketing, it’s possibly even better. You still learn a lot plus you don’t feel the sense of over-stimulation to quite the same degree since the basics are not new to you and you get the chance to see how the big boys and girls make money by presenting at conferences.

The Highest Paying Job In The World

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