Sending a shout-out to all of you I’ve heard from on the Blog, Facebook and Twitter while I’ve been here having a blast in New York!  I’ve been meeting so many great people and having such a fun time – it’s been great!

But you know me of course…my mind is always on marketing!  Even while I’m here learning all I can, the wheels are turning for my soon-to-be-unveiled plan that is gonna blow your socks off!

If you’re dying of curiosity, I promise it’s coming so soon…but just to get you thinking…

Have you ever thought about hiring a virtual assistant, but really just feel like you don’t have the funds for it? Are you stuck in the entrepreneurial grind of running yourself ragged trying to do everything in your small business plan – by yourself – and yet you still feel like you’re falling behind?

I’ve seen it happen too many times (to myself and others) – and I decided it has to stop! Continue Reading

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Have You Read Anything Good Lately?

What was the last good book you read? Leading up to summer you often hear people talking of the best book picks for summer, for reading by the pool or while on vacation.   There are books on all type of topics from fiction, to memoirs to business text books.

What will you select to read this Spring-Summer 2009?

• Will what you choose to read help you gain massive exposure for your business or product?
• Will it assist you in finding international Marketing Partners?

Over the years, I have noted that the successful and savvy entrepreneurs, CEO’s and Business executives I have encountered all have one thing in common.  They are driven and passionate about what they do.  And as such they are eager to soak up as much information about the world of business as possible.

That said, I urge you to make YOUR Summer/Spring 2009 selection The Hartman Report.  When I wrote it, I knew that The Hartman Report contained information that would be transformative to those who were looking for ways to get their businesses off the ground or expand their growing empire.

The Hartman Report details the ins and outs of Joint Venture Marketing, which has literally built mega-empires.   Joint Venture Marketing is quite simply the surest way to improve the bottom line of your online business.

You can learn how to:

• increase business by 20%
• gain access to new customer markets
• partner with the right Joint Venture Partner

The tips inside also include how you can start to apply this system to your business or venture even if you don’t have a product to sell.  You may have a marketing idea or access to a client base that could be effective for another entrepreneur in a similar niche.

Even if you are already applying this marketing tool to your business, there may be uses or ideas that you have not yet applied or thought of.

Whether you have an internet based business, a book to sell, targeted or niche marketing goals, Joint Venture Marketing can facilitate those goals with virtually no risk.  Given all those advantages, I hate to say it, but you have to be crazy if you don’t take a look!

I hope you will jump at this opportunity to download and read the report.

I invite you to post comments to let me know how it has changed your perceptions of marketing and where you can see it’s already one of the most prevalent business phenomenons going on right now.

At 50 pages and with zero fluff, The Hartman report is 100% concentrated essential marketing and industry information.

Since it is chalk full of info, just sit back, relax and read it a few times while ideas on how you can apply this to your business start to percolate!

Inside the report are details on how you can learn the no-cost, no-risk marketing strategy that you can learn and put into practice simply.

Take advantage now and download, for FR.EE, your copy of The Hartman Report for your early summer reading and watch your business bloom!

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If your answer to that is not a big fat YES, than you’ve got some work to do!

Almost any business person or marketer’s knee jerk reaction when you mention the word ‘competitor’ is an inner cringe.  It’s just the way most of us were raised to think…you’ve got to get ahead or you’ll fall behind, work harder than that other guy, win or lose – you’re either at the head of the game or you may as well not be playing!

But business has changed.

The economic upheaval that is all around is proving on a daily basis how much the old patterns and ways of doing things are falling away – and NOW is the time to be a part of the New Evolution of Business – which means updating your marketing strategy to work WITH your competitors for greater exposure and profit than ever before.

What do I mean by that?

You’ve probably heard the term ‘Joint Ventures’.  Did you know that Joint Ventures are all around you?

When you go into Walmart and find a McDonald’s inside, that’s a Joint Venture.  When you go into Starbucks and use T-Mobile or Rogers WiFi, that’s a Joint Venture.  When you watch Major League Baseball on NBC, it’s a Joint Venture.

There are countless examples of how corporations are using this powerful marketing strategy to increase their profits and recognition in leaps and bounds.  If corporations are the epitome of old-style, crush the competition business ways and they are using this technique, you know there’s something to it!

The truth is, entrepreneurs and small business’ are NOT taking advantage!

I’ve seen so much exciting evidence that the entrepreneurs of today have a ton of heart – you have an amazing product or service that you just want to share with the world – you want to make money, but you want to serve people too.

You’ve gotten that part of Abundance mentality down…but when it comes to actually partnering with the competition, I still see that people either don’t know enough about the ‘how’ to put it into action, or they’re afraid that it will do more harm than help (I mean, why am I going to promote someone that I’m up against?). Continue Reading

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I was recently on a Private JV Club student call, and we were brainstorming about the idea:  Who is your Best Client or Customer?

This is an exercise that I give to entrepreneurs to be able to profile their best client/customer and use it as a way to amp up their targeted marketing.

Normally I would have them do this by looking at their past clients and “profiling” just like on CSI Crime Show, profiling who is their best client, the ones who spend the most amount of money and are the least trouble to deal with (plus more detail on how to duplicate them and market to them).  But you get the idea and you don’t guess – you use your sales reports to actually find out.

But on this consulting call, one of the people that was creating this profile of their best client/customer didn’t actually have a mailing list or past customer base yet, so we started coming up with other ideas of how to best figure out how to do targeted marketing for her business. Continue Reading

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What's Stopping You?

When I was working my way through university in the summers, I had a job at a totally rustic resort that was only accessible by sea plane – it was that remote!  This place catered to high powered American executives that paid quite a lot to stay in the lodge, fish, and just get away from it all.

There was no TV, no radio – it was a really peaceful place!

I was the only waitress working there, and I actually got to spend a lot of time sitting on the dock just chatting with these guys.  They were CEOs and top executives of some big companies – these guys owned tons of stock and they were very wealthy.

I was a bit intimidated by them because of that at first, but the experiences that I had as I spent time with these people through my summer job showed me that all these guys that were super super successful were really just like me – regular human beings (I know – I was surprised too!

They showed me that there was no difference between me and them.  Even though I was ‘just a waitress’, they never treated me any differently or showed me any less respect, and I learned a lot just from chatting with them!

I mention this because it really served me later on when I got into the business I am in now and started working with these big name gurus – the people on the talk shows, bestselling authors, etc.

I know that a lot of my students kind of feel they are somehow separated from that – that they’re very different or somehow not on that level, which is just so completely not the reality of it!

Successful people feel exactly the same way we do. When they do succeed, they feel happy about it, and failure feels just as bad to them as it does to us!

BUT, the main difference that I have noticed in super successful people is that Continue Reading

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I read an interesting book called “Blink”1 by Malcolm Gladwell, who was recently called one of the most influential thinkers of our time.

He wrote about “Thin Slicing”, or the ability to get a fast amount of information (in the blink of an eye) when you’ve immersed yourself in its study.

He illustrated this point with a story from the Getty Museum in California. They bought a marble statue for 10 million dollars and had a geologist test the surface of it to make sure it was authentic. After 2 days, the geologist determined that it was.

Then the Museum decided to brag about it.

Shortly thereafter, they were showing the sculpture to Italian Art Historian, Frederico Zeri, who served on the Getty’s board of Trustees, and Evelyn Harrison, one of the world’s foremost experts on Greek Sculpture.

When Zeri was taken down to the museums restoration studio to see the korus, he found himself staring at the sculpture’s fingernails.  They seemed somehow wrong to him, but it was in a way that he couldn’t immediately articulate.

When it was Evelyn’s turn, the curator took her down to the basement, swished the cloth off the top of it and beamed, “Well it isn’t ours yet, but in a couple of weeks it will be.”

To his shock, Evelyn turned to him and said, “I’m sorry”.

She had no idea why she said that, she just had a feeling, a hunch.  You see, these two individuals had spent most of their life pouring over original sculpture and art and had become experts.

Something got recorded in their brain that they were unable to explain.  They absorbed a complicated amount of clues along the way, and it turned into instinct.

This same thing happens to me with marketing, and probably to you within your own expertise.

When these experts looked at the sculpture, right away, in the “blink” of an eye, they instinctively knew it was a fake, although they couldn’t logically explain to the Curator why they had come to that conclusion.

This area of your brain is not connected to your speech.  In 2 seconds, they knew what eventually took the museum 14 months to confirm.

Successful people in business or even in stock investing can often get unexplainable feelings or indications that something is not right or when something is great and they should move on it quickly.

I bet you have your own unique expertise and instincts based on your life experience, hands-on experience and training, and that you could teach that valuable info to another human being who could really use your help and guidance.

What information or skill is literally immersed into your being, your brain that has become your instinct?  Answer that, and your life could change. Continue Reading

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