We humans have many experiences that defeat our ability to describe to a person lacking those senses.
It’s impossible to describe taste, sounds, things we see, or touch unless the other person has those senses and can relate.
We say things like, “it sounds like a big bell”, or “it tastes like honey”.
The problem occurs when the other person doesn’t know the comparison.
You have to experience those things or be aware enough of them to be able to make the comparison.
“It feels like running through treacle” can only be experienced if the other person knows how thick and heavy treacle can be.
It’s exactly the same when you are learning something new, you may have an academic understanding, but you’ll only know it when you put the learning into action.
That’s why I keep telling you, and me, to take action.
Staying stationary is not an option.
Even if you are on the road to success, you’ll get run over if you stand still.
Any direction of travel is better than standing still.
You can always turn around and go in the other direction.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. As I mentioned in my last email, tens of thousands of people are searching for ways to make money online, and you are in the box seat.
You are in the box seat because you already have some level of experience behind you.
I don’t know how much, but it would range from a month or two to years.
Anyone with some experience knows more than the rawest newbie and is in a position to help them.
You may not think you know enough, so I have an offer for you that I think you’ll like.
I have a PLR funnel for you that you can use to build your list, make some money, and help others make money.
This link takes you to a signup page to get the free training.
There is an offer on the next page to get the PLR funnel.
As a bonus for those who pick up the offer, I’ll give you the code to import the funnel into Convertri if you have an account.
You can get a 14-day free trial account here https://go.wm-tips.com/Convertri, but you do not need Convertri, or any page builder, to use this PLR funnel.
Don’t describe the taste of a banana. Taste it yourself.
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There we were, three young men lost and confused in the outback.
It was after midnight, and the moon hadn’t risen, so it was black as pitch.
When suddenly we realised, with pounding hearts, that we couldn’t see our car.
We’d stopped for a nature break and turned off the engine and all the lights.
Off the side of the road for 10 metres, we had little idea which direction to go back.
My hands were wet with sweat, nothing else.
Seeing my fellow travellers from a couple of metres away wasn’t easy, and the car had vanished.
Even the road had vanished.
What could we do?
Ouch. A small stone hit me.
The owner had started throwing stones in an attempt to hit the car but hit me instead.
Reluctant to move far from where we were standing, knowing that we could be getting further away rather than closer, the indecision crept towards fear.
We all knew how dangerous the outback could be for unprepared people, and we had nothing but the clothes on our backs.
Yes, we did have a car somewhere nearby, but we couldn’t see it.
We were resigning ourselves to sit down and wait until moonrise when we saw a vehicle approaching.
As they came closer, the headlights picked out our car, and it was with great relief that we were able to continue our journey.
You may never experience driving at night in the outback of Australia, but if you do and need to stop, leave your lights on.
Simple mistakes can kill.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. On the digital superhighway, no mistakes kill, but simple mistakes can kill your dreams of being financially secure.
The one that causes the greatest pain is not starting your email list.
There are multiple autoresponder services that you can sign up for and use.
For your first list, it probably doesn’t matter which you start with, but I currently think that the best place to start is with a free Systeme account. https://go.wm-tips.com/systeme.
You can set up your squeeze page and link it to your email autoresponder.
Even if that is all you do, you can begin building your email list immediately.
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The biggest opportunity for you right now is this.
By this, I mean an Internet business.
The statistics tell the story loud and clear.
In the USA, 40% of consumers cannot save anything, and another 19% have reduced their savings.
Employers are cutting staff, not hiring staff or looking closely at their payrolls.
All the time, inflation is climbing, and the Federal Reserve Bank has no idea what to do next.
Those who do not live in the USA probably see the same things where you live or are about to, as this is a globally connected economy.
You are in the box seat to capitalise on this squeezing of people’s finances.
They’ll be looking to save a buck wherever they can and to make a buck somewhere.
When you join Systeme for free, https://go.wm-tips.com/systeme, you automatically become an affiliate and can offer the same system to others for free.
Inside the marketplace, there are many products that you can also sell as an affiliate.
But the best thing about Systeme is once your visitor signs up for free, a series of automated emails are sent to them with your affiliate link included.
Any sales those emails make are credited to your affiliate account.
The system has everything you or your new subscribers need to build their Internet empire.
Now is the best time to launch your business, and this is the best tool to build it.
Regards, Brent.
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It’s not because they’re stupid, although it sometimes looks that way. It’s because they don’t ask the right questions.
You can never get the correct answer if you don’t ask the right question.
Most lawyers understand this, and they also understand that they should never ask a question to which they don’t already know the answer.
That’s not the case for you or me.
For many life and business decisions, we have to ask many questions before we can discover the correct question to ask and get the answers we need.
Usually, we make decisions based on limited information because if we wait to get all the data, the decision has been made for us, not usually in our favour.
I asked a few questions while reading a contract to sell our home, to which the salesperson said, “Oh, we never act on that clause.”
I crossed out the clause, initialled it, and requested the salesperson do the same.
He claimed I couldn’t do that because it was a ‘standard contract‘.
I informed him that there was no such thing, and if the clause wasn’t needed, it should be removed.
I then proceeded to do the same with two other punitive clauses.
Asking the right questions enabled me to eliminate potentially expensive additional fees.
The lessons for you are that each contract you sign is unique to you and the other party, and you can remove clauses you don’t like.
If they refuse to accept that, walk away.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. The new sales platform I told you about yesterday has hit Deal of the Day on Warrior Plus.
This is great for you because it means that a lot of people are promoting and a lot of people are buying the product.
Why?
With more people migrating to this new platform, the faster the buyers will turn up and the quicker you’ll be able to profit from your work.
Etsy has millions of buyers on the site every day.
They also have millions of stores set up.
In that environment you have to do some serious promotion of your store to attract the customers.
On this new platform you get the chance to stake a claim in your niche with much less competition.
You probably have heard about disruptive technology and businesses.
Things like Airbnb, Uber, Doordash, AfterPay, Bitcoin, and all the other clever things people are doing to get around traditional business rules.
Many of these are facing huge issues with regulation because they’ve skirted the rules but gone a bit too close and fallen into the orbit of being traditional businesses.
The same jostling for position happens online as well.
GrooveFunnels is trying to take a slice out of the ClickFunnels market.
Every new email platform thinks they do things a little better.
eBay is trying to grab a bit more of the business from Amazon.
Facebook is muscling in on TikTok, as is YouTube.
So it won’t come as a big surprise to find out that someone has taken a swipe at Etsy.
Especially because Etsy has been getting greedier since a bigger company has taken them over.
It used to be an excellent space for creators to sell their creations, but now Etsy makes more money from each sale than the creators do.
That’s ridiculous and has to stop.
It won’t stop, of course, because they are now too big for it to all fall over in a hurry, but there is now an alternative.
This new platform was launched on Monday.
I heard about it today and signed up immediately so I can move my store across.
There is an outstanding launch promotion, so if you or a friend have a store or would like one, you must check this out.
If Etsy’s fees have kept you from having a store for digital or physical products, your excuses have been removed.
When I was an office equipment technician and salesperson, I always told customers that they were better off having separate units for their offices.
I didn’t like the all-in-one units that were coming on the market.
My logic was that if your printer component failed, your incoming faxes and copier were also out of action.
If the scanner failed, your outgoing faxes and copier were out of action as well.
When you had three discreet units, one failing didn’t shut down the office or severely cripple it.
I feel the same about having a single company managing your hosting and domain name.
Any issues with one shuts down the other, and they’ll often hold you to ransom if you want to move your hosting or domain name registrar.
I was recently in talks with a person who has their domain name registered with Shopify.
They want to add a subdomain that points to a different host, but the Shopify people won’t allow that.
He can point it to another Shopify store or page but not another site.
He can’t even relocate his autoresponder service to any but a limited number of platforms.
No doubt they get a commission on his autoresponder fees in addition to the renewals for the domain name.
You never know when you might need to relocate any or all of your web assets, so you must retain control.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. The other thing you must retain control of is your links.
Whenever you put a link in a PDF, blog post, email, video comment, audio comment, or any other place you can put a link, you must have it set as a tracking link.
It doesn’t matter if you use the tracking data, but without that redirect, the link can go belly-up, and you cannot change where it goes.
The simplest method is a Javascript redirect, there’s no tracking with this, but it’s so simple a Google search will give you all the information you need.
The free Pretty Links plugin works great if you have a WordPress site and gives you a simple click count.
You could use bit.ly or one of the other link shorteners, but their tracking isn’t much better than Pretty Links.
You’ll get much better results with ClickerVolt, https://link.wm-tips.com/clickervolt, a WordPress plugin with excellent tracking for a free tool.
The best is ClickMagic, https://clickmagick.com/go/Burtm10, it is a paid service, but the data you can get and the tool’s flexibility is amazing.
It’s been a day of rolling mild chaos but great fun.
They were playing in a wooden firetruck when the oldest shouted, “My wrinkles are on fire!“
Apparently, I misheard her, and I still don’t know what she said, but I thought it could be a breakthrough in beauty treatment.
There are many instances of people mishearing things, particularly song lyrics, that make them more interesting than the originals.
One that has 70 million searches for the wrong lyric is “Take my horse to the old town road”, which is searched for as “Take my horse to a hotel room.”
It seems to be something the hoteliers would disapprove of.
Another that seems far safer is the line “I never stray too far from the sidewalk”, which sounds like “I never stray too far from the salad bowl.”
Queen sang, “Kicking your can all over the place”, but some people heard “kicking your cat all over the place”.
Not cool for cats, I suppose.
You can search for these yourself and find a bunch that will make you scratch your head in wonder.
You will have your thoughts about how this happens, but I suspect it’s a combination of the voice being a bit lost in the music, the singer’s accent, and the way the lyrics are pronounced to fit the music.
Mishearing things causes misunderstandings and can lead to far more issues than just humour.
That’s why it’s vital to improve your writing skills so you can present your posts, emails, etc., clearly to your readers.
One of the regular advertisements on the T.V. at the moment during the Tour de France telecast is paid for by Responsible Wagering Australia.
It also happens to be the catch cry of any ad from any gambling company ads.
I find this amusing because the R.W.A. is the group owned by all the gambling organisations, including the lotteries commission.
Of course, this means that the companies who want you to give them money tell you to ‘gamble responsibly’, which is like the fast-food companies telling you to eat healthily.
This is a fine example of virtue signalling.
They want us to think that they are looking after us when the reality is that if they were really looking after us, they would close their businesses down.
That’s never going to happen, and they will happily take every cent you have while telling you to ‘gamble responsibly’.
I’m not a gambler.
I don’t like the odds or the potential for losing everything in a wager.
I will happily invest in products and tools that I think will help me with my online business.
That’s not a gamble because it becomes my responsibility to make them work for me.
I have control, not some other person with who knows what motivations.
What are your thoughts?
Regards, Brent.
P.S. In yesterday’s email, I gave you a link to free training to make money without selling.
I’ll give you the same link today, but it will be for the last time.
There will be no further access to this without buying a product where this is a bonus.
Click the link today or miss out on getting it for free.
