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I’m writing this from Manhattan New York, and it is an AMAZING place. I’ve been once before, but this time I’m in control of my trip (not a tag along for a two-family trip), plus I’m in a slightly better financial situation, so it’s like I’m a kid in a candy store who just got his allowance.

I’ve taken quite a bit of video footage as I wander the streets, which I’m going to edit together and publish on the blog in a series of New York videos (I’ve got an interview with Ed Dale in there too, who I met at the 30 Day Challenge meet-up on the evening of the day I arrived here). I’ll hopefully have a chance to stitch the first one together tomorrow.

Blog Mastermind Affiliate Bonuses

There is a deadline coming up tomorrow that I wanted to quickly let you know about before it passes.

I’ve been keeping a close eye on the affiliates who are promoting Blog Mastermind. Many of them have offered fantastic bonuses if you join my coaching program via their affiliate link.

However there’s a catch – most of the bonus offers expire at the end of August 2008 – tomorrow (Sunday USA time) is your last day to claim a bonus.

I’ve listed below some of the bonus offers I could find that are expiring soon, so if you are still fence-sitting about joining Blog Mastermind, you might want to take a look at the bonuses on offer, some of them are too good to miss.

Make sure you clear your cookies before ordering from the links so you give credit to the right person – the person you want to claim the bonus from.

Bonus Offers from Affiliates

ITriedThat.com Bonus – Steve is offering a $25 cash rebate if you buy through his link.

Problogger.net Bonus – Darren is offering private one-on-one coaching to each person who buys through his link.

JohnChow.com Bonus – John is offering a $500 sponsored review on his blog if you order through his link. You also qualify for a prize draw to win a Slingbox Pro.

There are likely some more great offers floating around the net, so look around or pick one from the above.

As even more incentive to join, the Aussie dollar continued to slide further during the last few weeks. As I type this it’s down to $0.86 to the $USD, so you save 14% when you join Blog Mastermind if you are used to paying in US dollars, because I’m still charging in Australian dollars for the coaching program.

It’s time for bed for me. Good night from New York.

Yaro Starak
New Yorker

A couple of weeks ago I spent the weekend at Niagara Falls, in Ontario Canada. We rented a car and then after a much longer than expected drive from Toronto (it was storming like crazy – lightning hit within 500 meters of our car), with a short detour at Niagara-on-the-Lake (a lovely little bed and breakfast/fancy European hotels strip with great restaurants), we arrived at the falls.

Here is a video I recorded of the adventure, including a trip on the smurf boat right up to the foot of the falls.

I’ve been to Niagara Falls once before and it always amazes me how much water there is, which this time was magnified even more given it rained most of the weekend I was there. As an Australian I’m used to dry weather, so it’s nice to get wet like I used to as a child playing in the rain. Thankfully it wasn’t too cold, unlike my first trip to the falls.

This week I’m off to New York city and as always will record video and share my experiences with you. I’m heading to the Ed Dale/30 Day Challenge meetup first, then off to the US Open tennis and then just exploring. If you want to say hello, make sure you make the meetup tomorrow night.

To people who email me during this time and my Blog Mastermind students, please be patient with me as my email response times might be a bit slower than usual during this period, but I will get back to you.

I’m off to New York City tomorrow for a holiday. While there I was thinking of holding a meet-up for my readers, but I just got word that Ed Dale and his 30 day challenge people are meeting on Wednesday, so I’ve decided to head to that instead – and you’re invited!

If you want to meet me and say hello to Ed Dale and his crew too, we’re meeting on Wednesday night starting 7pm.

Full details are on the 30 Day Challenge blog.

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Willie Crawford has been in the Internet marketing game for a long time, yet he still managed to have an entire career in the air force before becoming a devoted online marketer.

Willie and I recorded this interview on Skype and I wanted to learn more about his history online, since he is widely regarded as one of the earlier “gurus”. I was also curious about what Willie’s first foray into online business was, as most people don’t start out selling how to make money products. Willie is no different – his first big success was a recipes email newsletter and a cook book he sold (a six figure business), which began after he started sharing recipes from his family farm.

From there Willie went on to become a seminar speaker, created a continuity income stream by private labeling the 1ShoppingCart system (his is called ProfitAutomation.com) and today runs a community of people who service all kinds of markets in his Internet Marketing Inner Circle.

Willie ends the interview with two powerful tips – how any person can start a business today providing basic Internet marketing services and training to local offline small businesses, and how to leverage forums to find opportunities.

Show Notes

• Willie’s early life living on a family farm and then joining the air force
• His first Internet business project – a dating affiliate program
• Willie learns about niche marketing by reading email newsletters while flying in the air force
• Family food leads to Willie’s first successful email list and product – a cook book
• The next step – Willie becomes a speaker at Internet marketing seminars
• Willie reveals the secret to success – good copywriting
• Taking the next step, Willie decides to create his own residual income product
• How to become an expert – run your own seminars like Willie
• How the Warrior Forum led to a business opportunity
• Today Willie focuses on offline businesses and helps them market online
• Why do some people succeed online and others fail
• Willie’s current community – The Internet Marketing Inner Circle
• How to leverage forums to find business opportunities

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Last night was the Toronto bloggers and blog readers meet-up organized between myself and John Chow.

I forced John, his readers and my readers to go to the Live Organic Food Bar in Toronto, which I realize is not everyone’s cup of tea (no meat). I was secretly curious to see what John would post on his blog about it because he always covers the food he eats when he goes out.

John wasn’t too harsh thankfully and enough people ordered food, so I think we pulled it off. Who knows, maybe I even converted some people to organic vegetarians or even raw foodists (not likely! – I’m not there yet myself).

You can watch John’s video of the event below and read his recap here -

I’d like to thank everyone who turned up. It was great as always to talk to so many like minded individuals all following the blogging path.

If you attended the event and want to keep up with anyone you met, don’t forget you can go to this Facebook event page and find a list of people who attended (or at least who RSVP’d).

A Common Thread

We talked about all kinds of topics but one thing stuck out in my mind after the event as the most common thread, something which people continued to ask me about throughout the night in some shape or form.

I have to blame Tim Ferriss for this, it’s his fault.

Everyone is dying to emulate the 4-Hour Workweek.

As testament to how much people don’t like their day job and desire travel and lifestyle freedom, I was asked how I manage to travel and blog and earn a good living running a business several times by different people. I think that has to be the greatest motivation for a lot of people to start an Internet business and one of the main reasons you read this blog.

To answer this question, last night I mentioned two factors -

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