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Featured Article by Paul Counsel

Is The Greatest Economic Crash Of All Time Just Around The Corner? And if it is, what actions will you take in order to protect yourself?

Currently, there are many threats to our personal safety as we travel, work, live, learn and play in a world of political, social and religious instability. Such threats grab the media’s attention and are then compounded through endless reruns of terrorist activities because, not only is it profitable to do so, it serves a number of political and economic agendas.

Increasingly, however, there is an even greater threat looming, the threat to our economic futures. The irony is that we are not as exposed to this economic time bomb as we should be because it also serves a number of political and economic agendas.

The threat of the greatest economic collapse of all time is mostly hidden from the mainstream because if it were to be continually reported in the media, it would create an unprecedented stampede of panic throughout many of the world?s leading economies.

While not in the same vein as the potential ?loss of life?terrorist threats, the threat to our economic security is going to impact more people. The end of economic life as we know it, could soon be upon us. What you do from here will dramatically impact your future.

The extent of is impending threat is what interests me at present because if you are aware of what is coming you can take measures now and get financial strategies in place that will not only protect you from economic disaster, but place you in a position where you can take advantage of the downturn.

Make no mistake about it, if it hasn?t already begun, the greatest economic decline of all time is just around the corner. If you do nothing then, with all due respect to those who went through the hardships of The Great Depression, you will suffer economic pain to such an extent that it will make the magnitude of the Great Depression seem mild by comparison.

What follows are my thoughts about why an economic downturn is as certain as it is unavoidable.

It?s also about what you can do now in order to survive and thrive in the ?greatest economic collapse of all time?

My strategies are based on creating passive, leveraged, residual income, or in other words, a continual stream of positive cash flow. But in order to understand why cash flow is becoming so critical to living a life of financial security and time freedom, we have to gather some information and perhaps gaze into our respective crystal balls. Then you need to make a few decisions. These decisions will be crucial as to whether you live a life of financial independence and time freedom or struggle to make ends meet while attempting to survive untold economic hardships over the next two decades.

What you decide now, and over the coming years, is critical and perhaps the most important decision you will ever make.

As they say in the movies, ?The clock is ticking and the deck chairs are being reshuffled on the Titanic? Don?t hold your economic breath until the message ?all hands on deck?is called because by that time it may be too late. The time to act is NOW!

If you don’t take care of your financial wealth, NO ONE will.

By Paul Counsel, Author Of Infinite Wealth

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Featured Article by Joe Vitale

Evil Marketing? What A Buffalo Rancher Taught Me About Selling

Yesterday I met a rancher who raises buffalo and sells bison products. He clearly loves his job. He gushed facts. For example:

I didn’t know buffalo never get cancer. Or that buffalo meat is leaner, healthier and better for you than any other red meat. I also didn’t know that buffalo contains less calories than even chicken.

“Most people just don’t know how to cook it,” the rancher explained. “Since the meat is lean, it needs to be slowly cooked on a really low flame.”

He went on to add:

“People on the Paleo Diet, sometimes called the caveman diet, really love it. It helps them lose weight and get trim naturally,” he said. “I eat one to two pounds of bison every day, some veggies, and I’m fit and strong.”

Since I’m into wellness and just lost over 70 pounds, I was eager to hear all this. I was so taken by this new information that I placed a large order on the spot.

But the rancher also had some opinions that made me curious.

“I’m just a rancher,” he told me. “I run my ranch by myself and I work night and day, yet at the end of it all, I have to go out and market this stuff. I almost hate it.”

“You hate marketing?” I asked.

“I just saw the actor Billy Bob Thornton on television and he said, ‘Marketing is evil.’”

“That’s interesting,” I countered. “The reason Thornton is on television is he is marketing the latest movie he’s in.”

“Well, I don’t like marketing,” the rancher told me. “Maybe it’s because I don’t know how to do it.”

At this point, Nerissa came out and met the rancher, too. He offered her a sample of the buffalo jerky he made. He held it out in front of her as he said:

“You’ll eat this and you won’t want anything else the rest of the day. This is the most filling and satisfying food you’ll ever have,” he said. “There are no preservatives and it’s all natural.”

Of course, at that point I wanted some jerky, too.

When the rancher went to write up our order, he pulled a beautiful notebook out of his truck. He started to place it on the hood of my BMW Z3 sports car when I stopped him.

“I don’t want it scratched,” I said.

“Look at this,” he said, rubbing the leather on the notebook. “Go ahead and touch it and see how smooth it is.”

I did. The leather was melted butter soft.

The rancher then asked me something hypnotic:

“Can you imagine walking into a meeting with one of these under your arm?”

Of course, that natural question activated the visual part of my brain and engaged my ego. I instantly wanted the unusual product.

“How can I get one of those?” I asked.

“I can have one made for you, if you want.”

I ordered one of the buffalo notebooks, too.

I then paid the rancher, shook his hand, and he got in his truck, still muttering that he didn’t like marketing. He said he was so behind in learning marketing that he was prehistoric in his practices.

“Guess you’re doing Paleo Marketing,” I offered.

He laughed and drove off.

He didn’t seem to notice that his “non-marketing” made a lot of sales that day. I bought meat, jerky, and a notebook. I also bought a case of honey, which I forgot to mention. None of it was cheap, either.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Marketing is simply engagingly informing the people most likely to be interested in your product or service that it’s available.

This is what I teach people in my Executive Mentoring Program. I’ll repeat it:

“Marketing is simply engagingly informing the people most likely to be interested in your product or service that it’s available.”

It’s not about manipulation.

It’s about information.

The more passionately and sincerely you convey your information, the more hypnotic your marketing will be.

But if you try to market your business to someone who has no interest in it, you may be considered evil.

That rancher was marketing, though he’d never admit it. His love for his product was apparent. He eats buffalo, wears buffalo, raises buffalo, and talks buffalo. He doesn’t talk bull, he talks buffalo. And when he talks, if the people listening are at all interested in bison, they buy.

Marketing is only “evil” when you lie or mislead people to make a sale, or when your message isn’t appropriate for the audience you reached. No one should ever do that sort of mis-guided marketing. Ever. There’s no excuse for it.

If you’re offering a product or service you believe in, then share your excitement for it to the right audience. (If you don’t believe in your product or service, what are you doing trying to sell it?)

Said another way, if you have something that would truly benefit a certain group of people, and you don’t tell them, aren’t you doing them a dis-service?

Again, marketing is basically sharing your love. Your passion. Your belief. When you share it with someone who welcomes it, more often than not it leads to a sale. Naturally. Easily. Effortlessly.

And that’s no BS.

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Featured Article by Mark Harris

affiliate marketing is fast becoming one of the most popular home-based business opportunities today. With more and more people fed up with long hours, overly demanding bosses, and stressful, costly commutes, working from home is understandably growing in popularity.

Proven to be a reliable home-based business opportunity that anyone can tap into, affiliate programs can bring in a six-figure income, giving affiliate marketers the financial freedom they previously only dreamed of.

So if you?re fed up and growing weary of a life spent working for someone else, and are looking to finally achieve financial independence, look no further. Find out today now why affiliate programs have emerged as one of the most popular, most lucrative home-based businesses of our time.

Many students of James Martell?s proven 8-step system for affiliate marketing are now making 6-figure incomes from home. Appropriately named the Affiliate Marketers Handbook, this one-of-a-kind resource shows you to break into one of today?s most popular home-based business opportunities with almost no money.

All you need to start working from home today is a computer an access to the Internet. With that, you can build a Website in just a few short hours (that?s right, using low-cost website template designs, you really can build your own in no time at all). From there, Martell?s handbook arms you with the information, support and resources you need to join the hundreds of thousands of people just like you who are already working from home, enjoying more free time and more money.

Pretty simple in concept, affiliate programs have a lot of behind-the-scenes work, which is necessary to make them work properly. This is where the handbook offers unbeatable advice and help. It is packed with useful, easy-to-understand and easy-to-apply tips and information to propel you into the affiliate program arena, swiftly moves you through the most confusing technical aspects, ensuring you emerge a winner!

The handbook clearly explains affiliate programs, shows you how to keep track of the actual activity surrounding the affiliate?s link to the merchant site, even shows you how to get the traffic you need to ensure you get the clicks and the checks you deserve!

That?s right. Finally, a true one-stop-shop for amateur and professional affiliate marketers, one that clearly and concisely answers all your questions and provides information that only a handful of successful affiliate marketers already know. James Martell?s Affiliate Marketers Handbook is known in the most successful Internet circles as the resource on affiliate programs and because it in now available to the general public, you?ll soon be able to see why!

Furthermore, if you?re considering changing careers or supplementing your income with affiliate programs, you will be happy to know that there is no risk involved. Aside from being able to rely on Martell?s handbook, you can have the assurance of knowing that the bulk of work is done on the merchant Website end. Nonetheless, you will need to spend time and effort to ensure your affiliate program networks are a viable solution to your current job woes.

Like you will soon see, many content-based Websites get most of their money from advertisers, which are attracted by high traffic numbers. Explained in great detail in Martell?s handbook, this traffic translates into potential sales for your affiliate merchants and this translates into additional income for you.

The handbook shows you why affiliate marketing is one of the most popular home-based businesses. Using it, you can work from your own computer and Website, be it comprised of small personal pages or top-industry news, to choose affiliate programs that will make you money. While there are a handful of Internet resources that showcase large collections of affiliate programs, there is no single source that is as comprehensive, or boasts such a lengthy track record of proven successes, like this handbook does.

If you?re interested in working from home ?establishing your own hours and being in control of your future and your financial freedom, affiliate marketing is for you.

Now, the first thing you need to do is grab a copy of Martell?s handbook. From there, you?ll be able to make an informed decision on your next step, deciding whether you want to become an affiliate, want to acquire affiliates, or both.

If you run an e-commerce site and are interested in driving up your sales, you may even want to look into starting your very own affiliate program. If you run a smaller content site and are interested in bringing in a small supplemental income, joining just a few affiliate programs may work best for you. As far as affiliate programs go, the bigger the scale, the bigger the pay off! Of course, the bigger the scale, more time you will need to invest to ensure your goals are being met. Yes, even this is addressed in Martell?s comprehensive handbook.

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About the Author

Mark Harris is a successful freelance writer and a seasoned work at home professional providing valuable insight and advice to those desirous of earning a 6-figure income in a homebased business opportunity of their own. His numerous articles offer real-life tips and techniques for getting the most out of a homebased business.

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