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To be successful in business or anything for that matter comes down to 2 critical factors;

Potential and Performance

Constant training and personal development is an essential for anyone serious about being successful, however as important as it is to continually increase your skill set, it only gives you the first critical component of success - Potential.

Your potential is what you are capable of achieving with your current knowledge and skills when you are operating at peak performance.

Performance is where most people fall down. There is no doubt about the importance of loading up with more knowledge to give you more potential, but unfortunately for most people they caught up in the never ending doom loop of chasing more and more knowledge without focusing on their performance.

If you’ve attended a lot of seminars and trainings before and haven’t improved your results, performance is the issue. Performance is where the rubber meets the road and while it’s all about taking massive action, the crucial component left out of most trainings is you must take the right action.

I see this common mistake too many times with entrepreneurs, they are working flat out with their head down and bum up, with the false belief that as long as they are busy they must be making progress, right? WRONG!!

Most entrepreneurs waste their days away working on the trivial $2 an hour tasks instead of the $1,000 an hour tasks.

Every successful person understands the importance of ongoing personal development to stay ahead of the pack… The missing piece of the puzzle for most people is fulfilling their potential and how they can overcome bottlenecks and barriers when they present themselves so they can operate unrestricted at full throttle where performance meets potential.

In my time training as a Commando in the Special Forces it was the same combination, where we constantly trained to further develop our skill set to give us an edge over our competitors on game day, this is the 1% effect all elite people focus on that I share at my business seminars.

The big thing I got out my Special Forces soldier training was how to operate at peak performance. Do you think the Australian Special Forces knows a bit about getting people to operate at peak performance and achieve amazing things? You bet they do! And I’m so grateful for that experience and even more grateful that I have that to pass on to budding entrepreneurs at my business events.

The great thing for you is you don’t have to go through Special Forces training to arm yourself with the all important Commando peak performance formula… Even better for you is you don’t have to wait for long to access them… Why? Because The Business Commandos Boot Camp is coming up very soon to arm you with everything you need to achieve your goals faster than you ever thought possible.

Check it out at: http://www.TheBusinessCommandosBootCamp.com

Use “Commando” as your special access code for your complimentary ticket.

Seats are limited, so head over to the website and register your place now.

Remember your future is what you make it!

That’s all for now.

Aaron Parsons.

P.S. Arm yourself with the tools to fulfill your potential and make this year your best year ever. Secure your complimentary ticket now at: http://www.TheBusinessCommandosBootCamp.com

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Beware… The 5 minute experts are circling.

I’m sure you’ve experienced it, as there are so many business mentors, business coaches, many different people coaching and consultants out there today and some of them are very good at what they do.

However if you dig a little deeper with most to see if they have any substance behind them, experience or runs on the board, in most cases they fall dramatically short.

It reminds me of a business group I was once involved in for a few months, there were so many 5 minute experts getting around in this group spruiking how good they were and funny thing was they were so full of their own manufactured importance they would only talk to certain people…

And the most interesting part of it all was that most of these people had attended a couple of business seminars, read a couple of business books or completed a 2 week business coaching program and BINGO, they were the new expert on the block!

…And not scared to let everyone know about it I might add. 

5 minute experts are present in every industry, I’m sure you’ve seen them… right?

The crucial thing for us budding entrepreneurs is that we don’t fall victim to 5 minute experts… Can you imagine what could happen to your business and personal life if you took advice from one of them… Ouch!! Scary stuff.

I remember a small example for myself falling victim to an accountant who was playing out of his depth. It was only a small deal I took to him about 7 years ago and it cost me a little over $10,000 for his totally useless, totally wrong advice… And to rub salt into the wounds I paid him for his wrong advice. How embarrassing!!

The thing that we all need to take on board is that if you get the wrong advice for your business it will cost you big time!! Possibly even bankrupt you.

So beware and do your recon when consulting an expert to ensure they have the goods to get you your desired result. Look at what they’ve helped others achieve, their experience, credentials and what they’ve personally achieved.

A lot of business owners and entrepreneurs fall victim to their own “5 minute expert” thinking… I’ve seen it too many times where as soon as someone goes into business for themselves, they know everything there is to know about business.

Interesting thinking when you look at the most successful entrepreneurs in the world like Henry Ford, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, etc… They surround themselves with a team of experts.

I do the same myself and have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in my own education and continue doing so today… It doesn’t matter who you are you can’t achieve great things by going it alone!!

Quite often I see employees falling into their own “5 minute expert” coma, as they see what the boss is doing and think they know better… Most don’t have the guts to take the entrepreneurship path and the ones that do quickly learn it’s not as easy as it looked when they were spectating.

Bottom line anyone can all fall for the “5 minute expert” thinking, but beware if you want to play a bigger game and go to a whole new level faster than you ever thought possible, you must seek the right advice, coaching and support.

Have you ever felt like you weren’t achieving the results that you know you are really capable of?

I know I’ve felt like that many times.

I was doing a motivational talk yesterday with a group of top performing sales people and one of the things we were talking about was the 4 minute mile…

See, before Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile barrier, everyone thought it was impossible to run the mile in 4 minutes or less… But when it was achieved all of a sudden many others starting running the mile in under 4 minutes.

Isn’t that interesting?

Sometimes we let ourselves be limited by our success thermostat… Meaning that if you’ve earned the same amount of money for the last few years like $100,000 for instance, you’re thermostat is set to that level.

Our mind is a very powerful thing, hey.

I’ll be the first to put my hand up and confess I’ve been affected by the success thermostat syndrome in the past… And I wasn’t even aware of it, as… “You don’t know what you don’t know!”

The BIG changes started happening for me when I began pouring the right fuel in… We are a lot like cars when you think about it, put in crap fuel and you get poor performance.

When I began reading all about others successes and attending countless seminars around the world pouring the high performance fuel into my mind, things rapidly began to change.

Much like the 4 minute mile syndrome I guess, all of a sudden when I seen and heard what others were achieving, I knew with the right guidance it was possible for me to do it too.

The result… My success thermostat limited me no longer… And my income continues to accelerate each year as I continue my own personal development and help others do the same.

This old saying rings so true;

“Rich people have big libraries, poor people have big TV’s”

I hope that helps, as I’m guessing like the rest of us you’ve got a bigger game to play.

Your future is what you make it!

Aaron Parsons.

Henry Ford was taken to court back in his day by the Washington Post for of all things being ignorant…

Ford took it all in his stride until he finally got sick of the two dollar questions being fired at him from the prosecutor and he stood up slammed his fist on the bench and said;
“Why on earth would I bother filling my head up full of useless information when on my desk I have a row of buttons that I can push anytime I require and have an expert give me the answer immediately?”

Henry Ford was a very successful person I’m sure you’d agree… Here’s the big thing; The row of buttons you and I have at our finger tips are more powerful than Henry Ford could have ever dreamed of. We have a much bigger advantage than him if armed with the right knowledge and acted upon.

There’s an army of over qualified experts all over the world ready and willing to work for you for as little as a few dollars per hour. Oh and did I mention that some of these people have multiple University degrees, they are very good at what they do.

If you require an information product, basically if you can think it and explain what you want they can make it for you.

“Be the general of the army, not a soldier in the trenches”

Before you look to outsource, first you must map your strategy so you can stop doing the two dollar an hour jobs and start focusing on where the real money is made.

Don’t fall for the head down bum up approach to business running around like a chook pecking the scraps off the ground, which is easy to get sucked into with no blueprint to follow.

To find out more and put yourself into the drivers seat to leverage this phenomenon join The Business Commandos Inner Circle at: http://www.TheBusinessCommandosInnerCircle.com

A Press Release About Us You May Be Interested In…

International award winning entrepreneur Aaron Parsons is gearing up for a major assault on Australia and New Zealand with a series of powerful workshops that will arm attendees with the secret weapons they need to rapidly grow their business and personal wealth.

Aaron, a successful entrepreneur with more than 20 years of business experience and a former member of Australia’s elite Special Forces, will be running six free two-hour Cashflow Commando workshops in October as part of his new book launch, starting in Adelaide on Tuesday, October 13.

“The Cashflow Commando workshops are intensive and aimed at small business owners and entrepreneurs - people who are serious about building their business, whether it be online or offline, and creating wealth to live the lifestyle they choose,” says Aaron.

“A lot of business owners are not taking the right approach, and because of that they’re in a position of weakness and at the mercy of somebody else or the economy for their future.

“A smarter way is to arm yourself with a Cashflow Commando education for life, so that you’re in total control.”

Workshop attendees will learn:

• The power secrets to get everything you want, faster than you ever thought possible.
• The Number 1 reason why 95% of business owners and entrepreneurs fail and will continue to struggle if they continue down the same path.
• How to build a profitable lead generation system to attract more business than you can handle.
• How to make money while you sleep with the internet.
• The three simple steps to grow your business profits by 61.75% within the next 30 days
• How to build a wildly successful offline or online business that works without you to live your dream lifestyle now, not some distant date in the future.

Aaron, who later this year will be launching his new book entitled “Cashflow Commando: How To Escape The 9 To 5 Prison Camp And Join The New Rich”, says the workshops will focus on the three keys to win in business today.

“Some of the components covered include, navigating from where you are now to where you want to be, exploding your profits with the ultimate cash flow formula and staying two steps ahead of the pack so that you’re constantly evolving and moving forward. In addition, the workshops are about optimisation, using the systems you’ve already put in place to get the maximum benefit out of the least effort.

“These events are about bringing the commando principles into business,” Aaron says. “If you continue operating like everyone else you’re effectively like a chicken, picking the scraps off the ground. Successful entrepreneurs apply the Henry Ford principle, sitting in the driver’s seat and pulling the levers so you’re in total control of your business. That’s the key for complete personal and financial freedom, so you don’t get sucked into the business and become a slave.”

The Cashflow Commando workshops will also be held in Perth (October 14^th), Melbourne (October 15^th), Brisbane (October 20^th), Sydney (October 21^st) and Auckland (October 22^nd).

To register, or for more information, go to www.CashflowCommando.com
(use promo code “Blog” to secure your FREE ticket)

The most valuable asset any business has, whether it be an online business or offline business is a database of people who are interested in what you have…

In fact it is really a database of people who you have developed a good relationship with who are interested in what you have to say and offer.

Building your database is an ongoing daily task, remember it’s all about building the relationship and staying in contact with your prospects so that you are their when they are ready to buy.

A good point to keep in mind when building your database is that each time you get a new addition to your database it is future income, now I’m not saying that you will sell to everyone that enters your database, however you will obviously sell to a percentage of your database.
So if you’re struggling to see the value in focusing on your database, just think of it as future revenue.

There are many different strategies you can use to build your database and let’s start with someone traditional offline business examples;

A good one for a traditional bricks and mortar business is to run an in-store competition where people enter their details into the draw to win a prize that can be something you’ve packaged up in house or you may even offer a holiday to gain more attention. This allows you to capture peoples details so you can stay in contact with them to build the relationship and send out special offers to generate more business.

Here’s an example from a café business I worked with;

Everyone who entered the café was invited to enter the draw to win a free lunch, which created street talk “Who said there’s no FREE lunches?” and was an effective marketing strategy in itself generating more clients.

With the details that were captured was the clients birthday, then every year just before their birthday we sent them an invite to come in for their free birthday cake that we had made specially for them. Now the key here was that how many people celebrate their birthday by themselves?

Yes these people would bring all of their friends and family, which sky rocketed the cafes sales… Then the café would also capture all of the extra peoples details and the whole thing just ‘Snowballed’ BIG time.

See how simple it can be to massively increase your sales - simple strategy, BIG results!! And a great example of the benefits in building your database.

For an online business you can simply use an auto-responder on your website to capture prospects details. To get a great cost effective auto-responder system go to www.autowebbusiness.com

Generally you will offer a free report, book or audio in exchange for your prospects details. The information that you are giving them should be good quality information to help them get what they want, as this is the first step of the relationship building process and if you help them get what they want then the law of reciprocity comes into play and most people will want to repay the favor.

The beauty of an auto-responders is that you can have it all set-up automatic, so that as soon as they enter their details the they will receive their FREE gift and also receive messages from you, even if it is just once per week with helpful information for them, which allows you to build the relationship and to ensure that you are there when they are ready to buy.

These messages can be all pre-written and entered into your auto-responder. Remember most people won’t be ready to buy on first contact and auto-responders are a great way to stay in touch without any extra investment of your time.

For an example of the auto-responder process just enter your details and claim your FREE gift we offer here on our website.

Auto-responders give you great leverage, do it once and get paid forever!

Magnetic marketing involves giving your clients some thing of tangible value when they do business with you that they can redeem on their next visit. This is designed to attract them back to your business for repeat custom.

If you have a mechanic shop for example with every service you may leave a $20 discount voucher off the next service, which expires in 3 months time. So when the person needs their car serviced again they are more than likely going to call you, otherwise they would be effectively wasting $20.

This works especially well when you are trying to attract new clients to your business.

Here’s how it would work for a dry cleaning business. First you would send out vouchers for Free dry cleaning to the people you are targeting for this marketing campaign and then when the people who took you up on your offer come back in to pick up their dry cleaning, you would give them a 50% discount voucher for their next lot of dry cleaning, which would expire in 30 days.

When they come back you would give them another 50% voucher off their next dry cleaning bill also to attract them back to your business again and get them into the habit of dealing with you. From then on you would treat them as a normal client.

The psychology behind this strategy is that firstly you offering a no-brainer offer that your prospects would be just throwing money down the drain if they didn’t take you up on it and then you’re following up several times with more magnetic marketing offers to get them into the habit of dealing with you.

For this to be effective obviously you must deliver excellent service.

You don’t have to use discounts with your magnetic marketing, you can offer holidays, free meals at restaurants, gift packs or whatever else you can come up with that is appealing to your target market and makes sense to give away to attract a new client or keep an existing client coming back to buy more.

Get creative, you could even partner up with other businesses and work together on this one.

P.S. This and a whole lot more will be covered in details at The Business Commandos Boot Camp

Lumpy mail is a very effective strategy to secure Attention and increase your response with your direct mail campaigns. If you’re trying to get the Attention of a key prospect, lumpy mail will help you stand out and be remembered.

I’ve even heard of someone sending a CEO of a large company a $1200 golf bag to get the CEO’s attention and get his foot in the door for a presentation. Mind you this deal was probably worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, I’m not by any means suggesting you use a $1200 golf bag. You must know your numbers and stack the odds in your favor.

When a prospect receives a lumpy piece of mail they are curious to open it and see what is inside. You know yourself when something arrives in the mail for you and it’s an odd shape and you can feel that there’s something different inside, which makes you want to open it immediately to find out what it is.

There are many lumpy mail pieces you can use including the following;

· One red sock with an invite to an event where they will get the second red sock to make the pair

· A tape measure – “Do you measure up to today’s standards in ________? Get our Free report on the 3 biggest mistakes made by business today.”

There’s a few to get you started and we haven’t even scratched the surface. I remember a copywriter I know who sent a lumpy mail piece that turned up in a large express post bag with a pair or red underwear inside and a note saying; “I’ve sent you these undies, because when you read my offer, you’re going to shit yourself” – Now I must clarify, this individual knew his market and they loved the joke. So pick your mark if you plan on any outrageous campaigns like this one.

Remember your lumpy mail is to grab their attention, then your message must end with a call-to-action as to what they must do next. Whether you’re offering a free report, seminar or consultation, you must make it clear to your prospect the next step.

Attention is the currency in marketing today and Lumpy Mail will help you cut through the clutter and get response from your market.

P.S. This and a whole lot more will be covered in detail at The Business Commandos Boot Camp

We all hear how building a mailing list is one of the most important aspects of being successful online. Time and time again, day after day, we hear “The Money Is In The List.”

And you know what? That statement is 100% spot on.

So, if everyone keeps going on about building mailing lists and people keep asking “how do I start to build a mailing list” there obviously must be insufficient information on the market detailing how people can start, then grow their mailing lists.

There is also the million dollar question - “How do I get traffic to my squeeze page” to start building my lists?” Now, forgive me if I am wrong here, but this must also mean there is still a huge flaw in the information that is being sold and shared already.

Hence the reason for this report. As with everything I do and teach, there is work involved. If you still expect to grow your business by doing nothing then this report is not for you. If you are willing to follow what I discuss in this guide then I see no reason why you cannot build massive lists and make money off those lists whenever you need to.

Let me stress, it is NOT hard. Nothing in Internet marketing is HARD. It is merely time consuming and can be very mentally exhausting. Those who take the time to set up the systems will be more successful than those who do not.

There are 4 key components to building a massive money generating list;

Market Research > Traffic Generation > Conversions > Follow Up

1. First of all you simply need to find a market that is hungry for information and one that is spending or has the potential to spend money. You may have heard the saying; “The riches is in the niches!” Well that’s certainly the case here and you must do your research to find a hungry crowd and specifically what they want. What I refer to as an inch wide, mile deep niche… Which is just a small segment (niche) of the market with an abundance of people wanting your product so you can monetize your list. The golden rule to remember is Market first, Product second!!

2. Once you’ve found your target market your next crucial step is to drive traffic to your webpage. There are many effective strategies for driving traffic to your website with the main differentials being paid traffic and fr*ee traffic. The most common paid for traffic methods include pay per click, banner ads, ezine ads and press releases. Some of the Fr*ee strategies include forum marketing, webmaster alliances, Yahoo groups, article writing and social networking. I go into these strategies in detail in my List Building Blueprint Report

3. The third critical step is to convert your traffic to opt-ins so it’s not just wasted traffic. Here’s where knowing your market pays dividends. I like to call this step my “Ethicle Bribe”, where I offer something of good value in exchange for a name and email. A very effective strategy here is to read the forum FAQ’s and simply write a report covering the top 10 FAQ’s. And in your squeeze page copy use bullet points highlighting the fact that your report is answering the specific questions they want to know… This ensures you’re hitting their hot buttons!!

4. The fourth and final step is the all important follow-up. Once you’ve captured your prospects details, you have the ability to follow-up with email auto-responder messages to further build the relationship and send out promotions. The marketing lesson to remember here is that most people when you first come into contact with won’t be ready to buy. The beauty of capturing details and adding people to your database is it allows you to stay in contact with them and build the relationship and ensure that when they are ready to buy you are there right in front of them. Auto-responders are great for this because you can pre-load as many messages as you like and set them to go out once every few days or once a week for example from the time the person joins your list.

Follow those 4 steps and you’ll be well on your way to building a BIG profit generating list of subscribers. Now there’s obviously a bit more to it than I could fit into this article and maybe some of the jargon I used might not make sense to you depending on where you’re at with internet marketing so here’s the link to my List Building Blueprint Report

Simply Click Here, claim your copy and start profiting from this little goldmine.

P.S. All this and much more will be covered in detail at The Business Commandos Boot Camp. Click Here and use “Member” as your special promo code to claim your F*R*E*E ticket now.

What a big few weeks it has been. Our Boot Camp was a great success with everyone being overloaded with massive value to catapult their business results and uncap their earning capacity. The dream team speaker line-up pulled back the curtain revealing how they’ve made their fortunes and The Business Commandos Boot Camp attendees had all this priceless information handed to them on a silver platter, shaving years off their learning curve… A BIG congratulations to those who made it and remember those who take action always reap the rewards.

Here’s a couple of video’s from the event…

Mastery
Mastery in our careers (and in our lives!) requires that we constantly
produce results beyond and out of the ordinary. Mastery is a product
of consistently going beyond our limits. For most people, it starts with
technical excellence in a chosen field and a commitment to that
excellence. If you’re willing to commit yourself to excellence, to
surround yourself with things that represent this excellence, your life
will change.

It’s remarkable how much mediocrity we live with, surrounding
ourselves with daily reminders that average is somehow acceptable.
In fact, our world suffers from terminal normality. Take a moment to
assess all the things around you that promote your being “average.”
These are the things that prevent you from going beyond the limits
that you’ve arbitrarily set for yourself.

The first step to mastery is the removal of everything in your
environment that represents mediocrity, and one way to attain that
objective is to surround yourself with people who ask more of you
than you would ordinarily give of yourself. Didn’t your parents and
some of your best teachers and coaches do exactly that?

Another step on the path to mastery is the removal of resentment
toward the masters. Develop compassion for yourself so that you
can be in the presence of a master and grow from the experience.
Rather than comparing yourself to (and resenting) people who have
mastery, remain open and receptive. Let the experience be like the
planting of a seed within you that, with nourishment, will grow into
your own individual mastery.

You see, we’re all ordinary. But rather than condemning himself for
his “ordinariness,” a master will embrace that ordinariness as a
foundation for building the extraordinary. Rather than relying on his
ordinariness as an excuse for inactivity, he’ll use it instead as a
vehicle for correcting himself. It’s necessary to be able to correct
yourself without invalidating or condemning yourself to use the results
of the correction process to improve upon other aspects of your life.
Correction is essential to power and mastery. By Stewart Emery.

The top 5% of people in any field reap all of the rewards, whether it be sport, business or anything, it’s the masters who are in the elite 5% who make all of the money and get all of the recognition and rewards.

Those who’ve been to one of our Boot Camps already know, it only takes 1% for Mastery.

>> Click Here to join our elite inner circle today to step up to Mastery.