I am speaking at the Entrepreneur Success Summit in Ocean City, Maryland I would like to see you there, meet you face to face if I haven’t done so before plus have the chance to sit down and talk with you face to face at the Rolland E. Powell Center, just stop by. 

I finished a training on Friday on monetizing your expertise, another speaker cancelled on Sunday so I’m doing a spontaneous talk on Joint Ventures.  OMG, you can watch me live,  wish me luck I may fall flat on my face!

See the Entrepreneur Success Summit in High Definition from the comfort of your home: 

http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=GkU5F&m=Ij3htocWiSz7cv&b=_RiszBm9YKuYWpwegvOnvg

Watch LIVE as well as access the On Demand recordings in 24 hours.  I’m speaking Sunday, August 15th at 8am PDT / 9pm MDT / 10pm CDT / 11pm EDT / 5pm GMT .

All the best, Stefanie

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Very soon, I will be speaking at the crème de la crème of events, as one of the handpicked Successful, Elite Entrepreneurs Tactics team and I would like to see you there, meet you face to face if I haven’t done so before plus have the chance to sit down and talk with you face to face.

Without any hype or B.S. this truly could be the best event I speak at all year after seeing the star studded line up of the other speakers . . . such as;

Mark Joyner
Joel Comm
Marshall Sylver
Matt Furey
Simon Leung
Mr. ‘Z’.
. . . and myself, plus many more.

At many seminars and events, there is a mystery speaker, usually referred to as Mr. ‘X’.

Due to who this mystery speaker is and the fact the promoter has managed to drag him away from his secret hideaway and come out of ‘speaking retirement’ for a one off speaking engagement . . . he is clearly not any old ‘Mr X’ . . . he’s so rare, he deserves to be called ‘Mr. Z’!

What I can reveal to you about Mr. ‘Z’ is this; When he speaks, you can hear a pin drop in the room because everyone hangs on every single word, not wanting to miss even the smallest nugget of pure gold which flows effortlessly from his lips.

He’s like the pied piper of entrepreneurs and someone you don’t want to be kicking yourself for the rest of your life because you passed on the rare chance to see him live.

I know I will be taking notes like crazy.

http://www.stefaniehartman.com/recommendation/bigevent

After looking at the website for the event and knowing what each and every other speaker will be talking on . . . you would be wise to investigate for yourself so that you can make an informed decision.

I can reveal to you, some of the Team of speakers do private consulting . . . and, on average, it costs $5,000 to $10,000 an hour to buy their time and advice, and you would probably have to get in a very long line and wait forever.

In reality, YOU would have more chance of going to the moon. Others NEVER reveal their strategies and business secrets, for any price . . . to anyone. Some teach other subjects, however they have kept their best kept success secrets locked away in ‘Fort Knox’ . . . until now.

If this interests you even slightly, I urge you head on over and get the full story at:
http://www.stefaniehartman.com/recommendation/bigevent

All the best
Stefanie

PS. I am very selective as to which events I will put my name to because it’s my reputation on the line. When I was invited to speak at this event, my decision was a no-brainer. Head on and see why.
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Well, if you’re feeling like me – time has flown by!

So many of my students admitted to me that they had SO many plans for their business this year. They were going to get their blogs up and running, create eBooks, do podcasting, and build an amazing relationship base with their customers – and they were going to have it all done by now!

It can be hard to get everything on your list done when you’ve got a business to run as well.

Well if you are planning to do 1 thing to BOOST your sales and get more customers I would recommend starting to Podcast – timing is important and NOW is the time to OWN your market on iTunes.

Right now you are MISSING 100% of a whole new audience for you – people who will seek you out and buy from you. And with the apps coming on the market they can buy from you right on the phone (I will reveal that soon to you) and you don’t need to be a techie person to do a podcast or sell – all you need to know how to do is basically talk into your phone.

And I know you can already do that. LOL.

How would you like to build an audience of 150,000 in the next year… with no advertising? No website? NO SEO? No PPC? No Affiliates? No cost?

How would you like to have a major Fortune 500 company give you $100,000 for simply “keep doing what you’re doing – just add their logo to your podcast”, like 2 stay at home mom podcasters did. These moms didn’t even have a product or business; they just chatted on the phone and posted them on iTunes (as a podcast). They created a following and now do videos as well.

I really believe that it’s important to have all of these business growth and marketing tools up and running – especially NOW before this market gets as busy as the internet. You may be the ONLY podcast in your industry! That’s amazing – and yet millions are listening.

PLUS….

Wouldn’t you like to spread your message virally via cell phones? Podcasting can do that.

With 100 million iPods sold and 10 million iPhones in use, the potential for podcasting is about to be realized.

The thing is, I love marketing strategy and techniques and teaching my students the behind-the-scenes secrets of how the super successful become well-known, generate massive leads, and well…make a ton of money doing it.

This made our hot marketing list as it is a top secret for building a list of subscribers, customers, leads as well as simple way to earn “extra” big cash – with no expense!

Here’s what I wanted to teach – what I set out to find and track down for you:

I wanted to show how ANYONE, even a 6-yeard old could do this – in fact the most technical you will need to do is “push record”, “push stop recording”, and it took you no more than thirty minutes a week.

And all you had to do was talk about a topic that you loved to talk about?

Well, lucky for you and me, I have been searching for the special people to help me with all this stuff, and I have FOUND someone really special – Scott Paton – The Dean of Blogonomics and Podology. Scott has been teaching 1000′s of entrepreneurs, authors, coaches, speakers and trainers around the world, how to leverage the massive popularity of iPhones, iPods and what he calls “The Un-Web”. He has co-hosted podcasts that reached 30,000, 50,000 and 150,000 loyal subscribers with no advertising, no social networking, no AdWords, no SEO, nothing but talking and following a 10 minute system. On a consistent basis.

By the end of the year, you’ll be able to cross podcasting off your list that you’ve been meaning to do since January (or before) to catch yourself up to the latest techniques and growth tactics!

Ease your mind and fatten your wallet in 2010. Make that your new motto! Stop by and check it out TODAY – you don’t want to miss out on this one!

Quick and EASY training to help you with podcasting
http://www.getitdonetodayseries.com/podcast

It’s all the training you will ever need. Simple. Direct. Effective.

Warmest Regards,
Stefanie

PS – You could do what this Hypnotist did….After his audience grew to 60,000 avid listeners, he offered them a chance to learn hypnotism from him on a premium show costing a mere $5 bucks a month. Ten percent of his listeners took him up on it and now he makes a cool $30,000 a month from his second show. $30,000 dollars a month for 1 hour worth of work. WOW.

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This is brilliant!

Before there was a term for it, I‘ve been teaching the power of ‘Heart Marketing’ for 10 years. In fact, I believe the reason my web copy won out in million dollar product sales, over more expensive copy writers (face it I had none), was because while others were ‘screaming’ at their consumers, I was dating them.

Now I didn’t read some kind of slimy ‘how to pretend to like my list to capture sales book’ to figure this out. I came by it honestly. I cared. Plus I respect other people and choose to believe that I am writing to highly intelligent, fun loving people. Good people. People I’d love to sit down over dinner and chat with for hours.

So I just treat them as such.

I genuinely care about everyone who takes a moment to read or listen to something I have created. I mean, how great is that they chose to spend 10 minutes with you? That should be appreciated not manipulated.

In your marketing, your emailing and your blog posts, I still have fights with others who say I should NOT post funny or casual posts in my blogs, just keep it business articles. For me that makes no sense. OK, I will put 90% business articles, but hey, we’re all human, so why wouldn’t we all want a more human experience.

As your coach, I hope you do as well with your consumers and marketing. If you have forgotten it – go to the MIT course and read up on the Oprah factor in emails, and in weeks or even days you’ll be well on your way to establishing an incredible relationship with the people you SHOULD be caring about – those that choose to read, buy or come see YOU!

Finally big corporations are catching on.

Comment and Tell me what you think below.

Warmest Regards,
Stefanie

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This week I am moving  my home office.  Looks like I am not alone…entrepreneurs  – enjoy this article from the Globe & Mail.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/your-business/start/location/the-end-of-the-office/article1607287/

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I have been approached by a few people to who would like to train on either my Joint Venture Program or my Millionaires in Training Program to their own clients or to audiences.

I am considering training and licensing a few people on what I did for my high level clientele.  These people would have a coaching business, plus be able to sell my products for 50% split.   This would be viable for you whether you want to train other speakers, authors, entrepreneurs or large corporations.

If you would be interested, drop me a note of interest and if there are a few great people interested, you’ll be first in line, receive the best price reduction PLUS work with me personally.  I would only give this opportunity to a handful of people per year.

You would have to pay for the training and license.  Please let me know if you are “mildly interested” or “very serious”, and ready to move forward with it.

Thanks!
Stefanie

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Many people are on complete overload. With today’s technology, there are many ways to market yourself as an author or entrepreneur. There is something new every day, LinkedIn, Squidoo, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, Articles, Blogging, Email Marketing, Joint Ventures and much more.

Well if you are finding you are short on time, you may want to think about what you should be doing YOURSELF as CEO and then what could you delegate or have someone else handle for you.  Why struggle doing everything yourself and just end up with no time and not much done?

Entrepreneurs can sometimes fall into the trap of feeling like you need to do everything yourself OR another one is because we are good at something we think we should be doing it.  But the truth is, we should be planning our business and marketing strategies, building connections and relationships, creating deals and products.

Its valuable to make a list of what you want to accomplish this year, and what are the tasks involved in that.  What pieces of that do you detest with a passion, what do you like, what should you be doing and then write down which ones you can (a) eliminate (b) delegate (to current staff or VA) or (c) out-source.

Your VA and outsourcer may be 2 different people or the same person – totally depends on what skills you need and who has them.

For example, I have worked with a VA – who said she could do everything for me – she was such a nice person but when she worked she was a spreadsheet and research queen but hated and avoided anything else – including writing emails for me, answering customer service inquiries, making calls or even making simple appointments with people who asked to have appointment. 

So someone making calls for you – may or may not be same person who does internet writing or research for you.  But there is a solution.  I met Daven owner of 123 employee and one of the events I was at and he has put together a pretty cool system where you pay for 1 VA or outsource (trained already) person and you could stay with that 1 person or (this is cool part) get 2 or 3  people for same price (basically you just pay for hours worked).  And you get to interview them yourself and NOT hire unless you are thrilled with candidates.

I am actually going to try them out this month and will let you know how I fare.

But think about them as possible people who can do your SOCIAL MEDIA marketing for you – blog for you, create a blog, write articles and submit with keywords to sites for you – make JV connections for you – send emails out for you – customer service reps for you – even sales team staff for you.  Big behind scenes SECRET for you:  In fact I know a VERY wealthy (and famous) internet marketer uses an outsourcing team just like this to call his customers to sell his workshops for him.

So if you are interested in checking them out, Daven has agreed to waive the two-hundred dollar sign up charge, so you only pay for hours worked – that’s money immediately in your pocket.  And by the way this sign-up fee is NOT a bogus charge – it’s very real and I witnessed lots of people who paid it.

So check out this e-book:   http://www.stefaniehartman.com/recommendation/outsourcing  Its a guide for outsourcing.  Yes they want your email and will want you to go with them, and in may be helpful for you to try it for a month, give it a go.  You never know how it will be until you try it out.  And remember you can opt-out anytime.

Please let me know how this has helped you.  By the way, I know he uses staff from the Philippines, and they are the BEST out there for outsourcing.  Even my friend Frank who created the multi-million dollar Traffic Geyser has been using someone from that country for years and loves him.  So professional and in-expensive.  American & Canadian dollar goes far there.

Daven’s people are trained already so my advice – try it out for a month, maybe go with one of their trained staff (so you don’t even need to train them) and see how you like it.  For $5 bucks/ hour – how can you lose?

Let’s toast to making our lives easier!

Stefanie

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Attention MIT & JV Training Students!!

I am publishing 2 books this year – and you have a chance to be part of one or BOTH.  There is no FEE to be involved or featured and you will receive national attention.  In fact some of you may be asked to go on TV with me.  You and your business will get Fr-ee Media attention!

What I am looking for:

I am looking for “case studies” to show as examples, as well as some results to showcase on my website.

(Titles of books – are not being released yet)

Book One: This book is ALL about Collaboration & Joint Ventures.
In a paragraph – tell me how you used the JV training to create products or sell your products or any way it helped you with your business.

Book TWO: This book is based on the MIT Program.
In a paragraph – tell me how you used the MIT training to create additional cash flow, found a new business, became an author, speaker or created and sold product.  I am looking to give examples and results.  Big or small.  How has it changed your life?

Please enter your information here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6YP3MNM

I can edit your story – so don’t look for perfection – just get it submitted – and QUICK!

THANK YOU!! Remember this is a RARE opportunity.  So enter your story quickly in order to be eligible for the book press date.

Good luck!!
Stefanie

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Wow.  Holidays are fast approaching – so my question is – Is your ‘to do’ list growing now that the holidays are just around the corner?  Well then, give yourself an energy boost and read this article by Dr. Oz (and me) on managing stress at work.

Here’s my tip:

Studies have shown that people will actually accomplish a task in the time allotted to them.  For example if someone said you have 10 hours to finish this report, people would work during that time, unproductively, unhappily – but it would get done. However if that deadline was to get that report finished in 1 hour or even a really crazy low time like 30 minutes or – believe it or not, people would still get it finished.

Have you witnessed this phenomenon in your life?

I was once at a hotel seminar and the leader gave us 5 minutes to go to up to our rooms, pack, and check out at the hotel front desk – and there were like 20 of us.  Results: We actually did it.  It stunned me.  It was like time stood still.

Often times we OVER-estimate how long stuff should take us to you.  My advice? Create your own mini deadlines with rewards at the end.  Say to yourself – I’m going to finish all my email correspondence in 20  minutes – then I can take an extra 30 minutes off at lunch or I can eat some chocolate or I will go to a movie tonight.  Anything that gets you motivated.  It is FUN and you will see results.

Here’s Dr. Oz’s advice:

While it would be a mistake for me to assume there’s only one way to work, I do think there are some traits and behaviors that can make time and energy management a whole lot easier. But here are three things you should consciously try to integrate into your workday if you haven’t already:
- Map your Day: Though you don’t have to stick to an exact schedule, you can get some stress relief if you can organize your tasks and not leave your day to total chance. Don’t work off the inbox…work off your plan for the day. (Only manage the inbox after you’ve done what you desire to do.)
- Break Often: Take a walk, have a bottle of water, clear your head. It’s all part of energy management. The few minutes you spend away from your desk will make you more efficient when you get back.
- Enlist Troops: We know that people are pretty stubborn when it comes to trying to accomplish goals on their own; they think it’s a sign of failure if they show weakness or an inability to do a job. But you’ll reduce stress (and save time) by asking for help when you need it.

What are your tips and advice?  Post them below for all of us to save time and create less stress in our lives and business.

All the best,

Stefanie

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“Are you ready to become the big fish in a small pond?” asks Scott Gerber of Entrepreneur Magazine. “From aquatic sporting goods for dogs to Michelle Obama-inspired fashion websites, niche products and services have the potential to generate big bucks if they capture the hearts, minds and wallets of a dedicated consumer base.”

As you know, I’m a huge believer in setting aside that “get the numbers -beat the competition” approach to business.   As our population ages — people aged forty and older now make up the largest adult population in North America — more and more entrepreneurs are looking for opportunities that are not only profitable, but meaningful.  This often leads to niche businesses — businesses that are tailored to specific markets that are often overlooked by the large franchises.

Mr. Gerber’s article, “Five Steps to Building a Successful Niche Business,” gives a terrific example of how the internet has changed the world, creating endless possibilities for entrepreneurs who are following their passion instead of the dollars.  He mentioned Google as an example of how niche businesses can find tremendous success by providing a simple service — a search engine ranked by backlinks — and doing it well.

So how can you profit by serving your specific niche?  Mr. Gerber says:

• Create a Simple Service. Rather than trying to be all things to all people, choose a specific market that has a specific, unmet need and meet that need.
• Become the leading expert of your niche.
• Be Specific, Distinctive and Relevant.
• Copy, Past and Repeat. Keep hammering that message home.

It’s a new era in business.  Consumers have lost interest in corporations that treat them as numbers or a prize to be won.  If you know what your customers want and set about delivering it with a customer service attitude, they will be drawn to you.  If you approach other entrepreneurs with an eye toward finding win-win ideas, you’ll both grow your business.  Thanks to the internet, you can do both of these in a way that hasn’t been possible before.

If you still wonder whether putting people above profit will dampen your success, remember Google’s declared Code of Conduct:  “Don’t be evil.”  The Google prospectus notes:  “We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served — as shareholders and in all other ways — by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains.”

Empower yourself and grow your business by learning more about the changing landscape of business.  Download your FREE copy of The Hartman Report now.

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