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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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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’ve compiled a bunch of notes from the Rich Schefren conference and also the videos he’s been releasing in the lead-up to the launch of his next program. You can get the free videos here - Strategic Profits Videos.

I was pondering over how to release them to you and I’ve decided to extract the key lessons and present them to you in this series.

The order may not make complete sense since I’m combining my notes from different sources and skipping a lot of points in between. What I have provided are some really great lessons and tips on how to successfully build and manage an Internet business, thanks to the mind of Rich Schefren and filtered by Yaro…

Multiple uses for the same content

Rich was up on stage doing his presentation explaining that he had “stolen” away an employee from (Donald) Trump University to act as his product developer. This person’s role is to take all of Rich’s materials, his audio, stage presentation and written words and come up with content packages to sell (with some help - there is more than one person on the product development team).

The idea here is to make use of every thing you produce in multiple ways to generate the most cashflow and front-end sales mechanisms. In Rich’s case he has a ton of materials to play with, but even if you are only getting started it’s worth remembering that you can combine any podcasts or blog articles you produce and make them into products. The same goes for reports or ebooks, whitepapers, interviews and presentations. Everything is marketable if there is someone out there who sees the value.

Journal writing

Rich keeps a journal every day that he uses to reflect on his life, the decisions he makes and the outcomes he generates. He finds by looking over periods of his life, both successful and not so successful, he can determine, with the benefit of hindsight, experience and education, what he was doing well and why. This sort of self reflection can be very valuable to ascertain why you might be failing to gain momentum in your business today.

Outsourcing

Here is a sample of the significant roles Rich currently has outsourced/employees managing that he no longer needs to do himself.

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I finally had a chance to watch Rich Schefren’s long video (not the case studies he has been sending recently). This is the video he was intending to perform for his current clients at the seminar in Florida, but later defaulted to his proven presentation, which I had seen before.

If you haven’t see the latest videos, you can start by watching the first 30 minutes for free and then opt-in on that page with your name and email address to get the remaining 1.5 hours.

What Is The New Video About?

The new video is more of the same from what he have come to expect from Rich - he teaches exactly how to build a long term, sustainable business, that runs without you. In other words, the goal for most entrepreneurs of having stable income and other people working to keep your business running and growing.

Rich’s latest video is the next evolution of his message. It’s clear he has learnt more and tidied up his presentation, so you get a real sense of knowing what the steps are.

He’s also putting a lot of emphasis on the concept of Momentum, which I think is worth explaining in the context of a small business.

Momentum

I expect most people reading my blog lack momentum. Even in my case I’m still on the cusp and haven’t quite tipped over into a momentum phase, though I can almost taste it now - it’s just around the corner.

When you first start your business it’s just you or perhaps you and your spouse. You do almost everything by yourself and your focus is on building enough cashflow so you can start bringing in people to help you. Your goal is to go from a technician role that does all the basic jobs, to a manager role where you coordinate workers to finally a business owner where you can do other things or only perform a very top level strategic role in the business.

The problem with being a technician is that you are constantly doing the jobs you hate, like client support, basic tech jobs like website updates, server management, email accounts, affiliate software, bookkeeping, etc etc - the list is endless! All this “other” work takes you away from your core competencies, which for many of you I suspect is content creation. You do best writing, or recording audio or video or perhaps coming up with the ideas for content that you want other people to create and sell.

This is where momentum comes in. Momentum gives you the cashflow so you can begin to hand over jobs to other people and do more of your core passion jobs, thus creating more value in your business and increasing cashflow - momentum - even more. Once the momentum starts it tends to compound, since with each new employee or outsourcer you hire to help, you get more time to create value and ultimately, increase profits.

Thus for every small business out there, or really every self employed person out there looking to turn their start-up into a real business, the first goal is to attain momentum.

Rich understands this need and thus focuses a lot of time on the concept of momentum, so if you feel this is an area you need to understand better in order to reach a momentum phase, block off two hours of your time and go watch Rich’s video now.

Here’s the link again: StrategicProfits.com/startuptofreedom/

Strategic Profits Program Launching This Week

Rich is opening the doors on his next round of coaching this week - hopefully. He tends to change plans quite often during his launches, due to the very dynamic nature of his product launch process. The date may change, but my current understanding is that towards the end of this week you will be able to join and the price is about $400 USD a month - but don’t quote me on that!

As you know, I’m a current client of the program and a big fan of the proposition Rich and his company offer to the Internet marketing world. I’ll spend more time during this week relating some of the insights I’ve picked up from Rich, so stay tuned for more articles like this one.

I’m also very keen to mastermind with every person who joins Rich’s program under my affiliate link. If you want some personal contact with me after joining the program, please make sure you get in touch and let me know you are in.

Yaro Starak
Gaining Momentum

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I’m sitting in my hotel room in Hawaii at the moment. I’m about to head to the airport on my final leg of my journey back to Australia. I can’t wait to get back to Brisbane and catch up with everyone.

Rich sent an email to his affiliates today about some new videos he released in the lead-up to the launch of his latest coaching program. He’s using the phrase “Startup to Freedom”, which I think aptly describes what he teaches and is certainly what most people in business would like to achieve. Freedom is certainly my business goal.

If you are interested in systematizing your online business and are considering joining Rich’s program the videos are worth watching.

You can check them out here:

Startup To Freedom Videos

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