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Want to succeed in life or business? Hang out with people that are already doing what you’d like to be doing. Get into a conversation with them.

I just recorded an audio for you that is a “conversation” with me. After you listen be sure to take my one question survey and then leave me a comment below with your questions or feedback.

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Links Mentioned in the audio (and other stuff worth seeing):

• One Question Survey
• Kevin’s Story  :A friend of mine that was nearly killed…and what we are doing about it
• MySilentTeam.com
• OfflineBiz.com
• Traffic Geyser: My Favorite Traffic Generation Tool
• My New Book: Best20Ways.com
• My recent “Home School Biz” Interview With Susan Whitehead Home School? Check this out!
• Proven eBay Course I  (We had a HUGE success rate…& Proven eBay Course II is coming soon)
• Most Trusted Internet Marketer…Me??
• Aweber.com (My favorite email list growth tool)

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1. Being an “author” will slowly stop being a big deal. Pretty soon EVERYONE will be an author. Ten years ago the idea of having your very own print on demand self published book was outlandish. Ten years from now it will be common place. For now it’s still impressive to tell people “I’m an author”. Take advantage of that. Get your ideas out there NOW. Use YouTube, articles, a blog, an ebook whatever…but be an AUTHOR. Be an expert. It’s NEVER been easier.

2. Real world business will continue to be confounded by the fast paced business style of the Internet. Take advantage of this trend by joining OfflineBiz.com.  Members of that site stay up to date on what works online without having to be a technical nerd to make it all happen.

3. The car you drive, the house you live in, the ‘toys’ you have etc. will mean less and less compared to your “influence” as measured by your online audience. Strange things will happen in the world of business as the “little guy” destroys the big guy. For example, A 13 year old in a small town in nowhere Nebraska will bring companies like Pepsi Co. to its knees because of the loyalty and size of his audience on Youtube. Influence is the new gold standard. Grow your audience and give them reasons to be loyal.

4. Good ideas, great ideas, bad ideas, wrong ideas and all sorts of other ideas will continue to pound and distract the masses. To get things done you need a clear mission and you must follow a clear path with supportive peers along side. That’s what MySilentTeam.com is all about. Find a community and support it. Grow with it. Start your own community. For goodness sakes BE PART OF A GROWING COMMUNITY ONLINE.

5. It’s going to get harder and harder to be a “scammer” online. The honest and worthy will rise even more quickly and the bad guys will fall faster than ever. Honesty will be very self serving to the point that even the dishonest at heart will start to catch on and use these strange new tactics called “honesty and customer service” as a self preservation tool.  Customers are already demanding the twitter feed of CEO’s before they’ll buy a widget…it’s going to get worse (or better depending on your perspective).

6. There will be no such thing as “bad content” online. It will get harder and harder for junk to raise to the top. The good will get better and the bad will disappear.

7. Those reading this article will be followed by HUNDREDS or even THOUSANDS who are eager to learn the secrets of this online business world that they’ve always scoffed at. Suddenly WE are the smart ones that have job security while they are getting laid off from big companies (like Pepsi that was forced into layoffs when it got nearly shut down by a 13 year old a few paragraphs ago).

8. Thousands of new ways to profit from all of the changes will continue to FALL INTO THE LAPS of those paying attention. Change = opportunity. This is going to be a decade of massive rapid changes on and offline. Pay attention and enjoy the ride! All of this “change” is stirring up a lot of business possibilities!

What is your favorite prediction? Any questions? Did I forget something? Leave a comment - click the comment button below to read comments left or to leave your own. The wittiest/most insightful/most honest (in other words my favorite comment) will get a $100 credit towards MySilentTeam.com or OfflineBiz.com or my books…take your pick. I’ll give you 7 days and then chose a winner.

Dozens of  readers voted and we’ve picked a winner! Andrew and Doug (comment #2  and #49 below) received first place with more votes than anyone among our readers. Here’s the top 5 vote getters (comment number and the vote total):

#2 Andrew: (tie 1st/2nd)
# 49 Doug: (tie 1st/2nd)
#16 Susan: (tie 3rd/4th)
#47 Jan: (tie 3rd/4th)
#14 Carolan: 5th place

Andrew and Doug - contact us for your $100 credit towards OfflineBiz.com or MySilentTeam.com.

Susan, Jan and Carolan - contact us for a $25 credit towards either!

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I have a theory to share and I think you’ll thank me later.

There is a good chance that your next computer MUST BE A MAC.

This is coming from a die hard PC guy.

For me 90% of what I do on my computer involves internet access. I need a reliable computer that turns on quickly, switches from screen to screen quickly, and doesn’t lock up. It needs to be fast and stay fast. That’s all I ask.

I’ve ALWAYS been a PC guy…until recently. My last real job was selling Microsoft software to 90% PC guys and we always scoffed at the Mac crowd as being artsy fartsy.

CONFESSION: A few weeks ago I bought an iMac and I LOVE IT. No going back.

Here’s how the mac trend sneaked into our home…

I won a mac notebook about a year and a half ago (in an affiliate contest where I was so close to beating Frank Kern for the top spot) and I quickly gave it to my wife so she could blog and do her social thing online with it.  I started noticing something though…when I would borrow her 6 month, 1 year and even 18 month old MAC to jump online and do something ‘quick’ it ALWAYS worked and was ALWAYS fast.

I’m not a mac geek by any means, but fast and dependable internet access are a must. I was so impressed that I bought my own iMac.

It took me about one hour to transition over…I’ve hardly touched my old PC notebook since.

It’s nice to be able to hop into my office to check something on my iMac and hop out 30 seconds later having completed the task. That was never possible with my windows machines except for the first few days out of the box.

At some point the few hundred more dollars you need to buy a mac really makes sense especially if it means taking back control of minutes or even hours of your day. I can get so much more done in a day now that a MAC would have been worth it even if it would have costs me three times more than it did.

What do you think? Let’s chat it out in the comments…please leave your thoughts below. Am I nuts? Are you thinking about a mac? Have I convinced you?

THE QUESTION: Who does Google like better?  eBay.com or little ol’ ME?

It looks like in at least one big example Google picks ME!

PROOF: Do a google search on the term ‘ebay classified ads’.

As of today (and for the last several months) eBay’s very own site with the SAME TITLE ‘ebayclassifiedads.com’ appears BELOW my youtube video on the subject.

Now to avoid confusion, my youtube video on the subject is about the classified ads that appear on the actual eBay site where there is actually a LOT of traffic that sees the ads. Watch the youtube video to see what I mean.

…while the ebayclassifiedads.com site is a pretty blatant attempt on eBay’s part to try to steal some thunder (aka market share) from craigslist.com.

Good luck eBay…I fear you are too late. NO ONE uses eBayclassifiedsads.com that I know of…but it is officially owned, promoted, and search engine optimized by the billions of dollars behind eBay.com…and they must HATE that I show up above them.

Hey eBay and Google…when you ‘do lunch’ sometime to sort this all out mind if I come along? If eBay is picking up the tab I’ll have surf and turf (lobster and steak). If Google is picking up the tab I’ll buy instead in exchange for a PR8 for my blog (PR8 = a lot more google love for lil’ ol’ Jimbo).

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You are being lied to!

Did you know that building a website is probably THE WRONG WAY to start your online success?

It’s such a shame that many people get fooled into starting at that point though. Listen to this short recording to find out the proper order of things. It’s about 10 minutes long and will be some of the best big picture advice I can possibly give you.

This is some foundational stuff I’m giving you today. It’s like a reset button for your brain if you find yourself a bit overwhelmed. Maybe you feel new to all of this and you are heading in a bad direction, or you’ve been around awhile and you’ve forgotten what the ground rules are for success online. Either way let me know what you think - I’m trying to keep it simple with my advice.

Some links I mention in the audio:

My FaceBook page

Aweber.com - the “autoresponder” or “buld email management” tool that all Internet Marketers need to learn to use

SilentSalesMachine.com - the book that is foundational to my concepts.

And finally - the “report card” site that ranks me at the TOP of all current Internet Marketing Experts! Wow - I’m honored!

Please leave me a comment or any feedback by using the comment button below - also if you use twitter click the green retweet button above and let other know about this free info!

UPDATE: I’ve added ‘Part II’ based on the comments left below. Here’s a link to the update click here

I’ve just recorded a short audio that I hope will help anyone that is considering starting a membership site. Since I’ve launched two of them myself I feel a bit more qualified than most to address the issue.

The play button is below, and a link to the full mp3 is below that.

Link to MP3

To see my two membership sites check out OfflineBiz.com and MySilentTeam.com

Did you find this helpful? Please leave a comment below - would love your feedback.

Many readers responded in a big way to my March 16th Blog post below.

There have been some very moving stories left in the comment section of that post.

As a reminder I’m talking about the blog post where I asked YOU how I could best help you out with the basics of success on the Internet.

At last count about 80 of you posted responses on my blog and now I’m responding back by inviting you to join me on a call this Thursday.

TOPIC: “Best ways to profit on eBay in 2009″
TIME: Thursday April 9th 2-3pm EST (New York Time)
Can’t Attend?: Look for the MP3 in the next newsletter

U.S. based Conference Dial-in Number: (605) 475-4850
Participant Access Code: 409093#
Once it’s full it’s full!

NOTE:

• Feel free to use Skype or a cell phone to connect
• The call will be recorded and made available
• I will be taking email questions during the call
• Random members of MySilentTeam.com have been invited to be on the “live panel” to ask questions and interact with me on the chosen topic so it should be quite fun! (To get on the “live panel” log in to MySilentTeam.com and check the announcements for details)

Is it really FREE?

No it’s not.

While I won’t be charging you to join me on the call I do have a favor to ask of you in return.

In exchange for this opportunity I am requesting that you forward this email to a friend and tell them to join your favorite free Internet success newsletter by visiting SilentJim.com. I’m using the honor system to enforce this rule!

Tell your friend to join you on the call so you can pick up some great ideas together.

My pledge to you:

This WILL NOT be a “pitch fest”. There’s no big “call to action” or hyped up product for sale at the end.

This is just you and me and a few other curious entrepreneurs on the phone together learning and growing.

Why listen to me?

Here are a couple links for some proof of my success helping others and my own success with eBay.

Book testimonials
My $10K auction
I hope you can make it the conference call, but we’ll record it for you if you can’t.

Do you feel new to all of this “Internet business” stuff?

Not sure if you can make this work?

Not even sure what questions to ask?

Is anyone there to help you get going?

Listen to this short audio message and then leave me a comment using the link below.

I’d love to teach you more about “affiliate marketing” and the other “building block” concepts of online success.

Do I know what I’m talking about?

I’ve got a decade of evidence I could show you, but check this chart out…it’s a recent affiliate marketing contest that I’m wining with several other big name online marketers playing catch up…

If enough people express an interest I’m leaning towards doing this as a phone in class at N0 CHARGE. I need your opinion though…would you listen in? Would you participate? Would you be willing to pay to keep the class smaller?

Please, leave your comment below!

I LOVE this course. It is actually one of the foundational tools I’m using the the $4,000 coaching class that I’m teaching right now. I’ve known Joel for 6 years or so and he’s been doing VERY well building simple niche websites for a long time. On average he earns $100,000 PER MONTH.Check out this one minute video and then steal this course at:

http://www.mini-site-formula.com

Click here to view “The Mini Site Formula” video on Youtube

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This week we emailed out the newsletter and I recorded it for you. Enjoy both or take your pick. Leave me feedback…which do you like? Want both? Click the comment button below to ask a question or leave a comment.