Update, April 2011: StardustFactor is no longer available.
I still hear the applause echoing on the Web after Rick Butt's first StardustFactor Workshop.
That's what I have to say about Rick Butts:
I was on the on the call myself and I can tell you, it's great, solid information, and … as always with Rick, it has been fun, too.
I am already doing a couple of things Rick taught me in that one call. To be honest … it's too early to report back dramatic results, but he got me going and that's the big road block for most people. Right?
Rick gives you a big kick in … and gets you moving.
Anyway: The replay of this first call is already available and on-line.
In case you haven't heard about the StardustFactor before:
As I promised in the video. Here's my FREE report.
Easy Time Management
18 pages without fluff, 208 KiBytes (click with the right/secondary mouse button on the link above and choose, “Save Target As…”) The report was directly available during Darren's Twitter Marathon. It is still available for my subscribers.
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Yours
John W. Furst
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PPS. Thanks to @darrenmonroe and his 24 hour Twitter marathon #24hrtwittermarathon.
Let me be honest with you right up-front. My friends and I need your help. But, we've prepared something for you in return. All you need to do is to vote for “Stay Hungry” in the Johnny Bunko contest. And tell all your friends to do the same.
Update Sep 2009:
Becky Blanton's Site The contest is long over, but you can visit Becky's new site.
And now I'll tell you why
Did I tell you that we have a cool, free, funny, smart ebook for you. More about this later. However…
When going through the submissions for the latest edition of my Email Marketing Tips Blog Carnival, I though Terry Dean's article about “Cutting Through The Internet Marketing Noise” is fabulous. I emailed Terry right away, thanked him and let him know that it will be in the Carnival.
Then I prepared the Carnival and posted it.
Later in the evening I met with a business friend for a drink and we talked about many different things. At some point I mentioned the Carnival and recommended that he should read Terry's post.
Anyway, he emailed me this morning and asked, “Where's the post you were talking about yesterday?”
Ups!
I simply overlooked it. Shame on me. I'll correct the mistake in the next couple of minutes, but if you don't want to wait. Here is Terry Dean's excellent Blog article.
As usual I am posting my fake carnival of carnivals which have used my posts in their editions. You have guessed right, it's just about rewarding them with a backlink.
In previous posts about blog carnivals I have mentioned that I feel the quality of carnivals seems to degrade over time. More and more blog carnivals have become almost automatically created collections of links without much editorial effort. And I had to throw out a number of carnivals for todays post, because they simply did not meet their schedule.
Here is the list of reliable carnivals, that used my mind mapping post this month.
Right before the weekend I have some sound tips for you. I keep it very short, because everybody's time is very valuable. The tips are for the areas:
Personal Development
Search Engine Optimization
Getting Paid by Clickbank
I thought also, it is finally time to use that rainbow photo I had taken several weeks ago. It was sitting idle on my server for quite some time. Do you share my association between that rainbow and those tips?
A friend told me about an online mind mapping tool that helped him to organize the 1,000 ideas in his head. So let me pass on this little productivity tip to you.
Without further ado, here is the tool he recommended to me.
Mind mapping allows you to lay out your ideas and thoughts kind of visually. Related items are close together. Therefore, you don't need much space and keep the overview easily. I am not going into the details of mind mapping (sorry), but some advantages of using an online tool like the one my friend recommends.
A couple of days ago I have written, “Your Business Needs To Grow Continuously”. Today I want to combine that important fact with a very easy to do management or personal development practice, that helps you to achieve your goal, tune out distraction as you learn to focus on what's really important.
You will see it's not about time management or life management as some call it. You still have to come up with a way to use your time efficiently. Of course you can refer back to my original series of articles about Productivity and Time Management, “Touch It - Do It - Get More Done”. I wrote a total of 4 articles on that subject and they are available combined into a single PDF report in the download area for my newsletter subscribers. Actually the PDF contains some extra content that is not released on my Blog.
Might be the right time to sign up to my newsletter, right now. (To my existing subscribers: I'll send you the download info as soon as I have finished this post.) Sorry for the little detour.
Let's get back to productivity issues. The little, but nonetheless important advice I'll give you fits almost everybody.
It is the norm to think a virus or an infection is something very bad. This is true for most cases, but my ‘blogger-friend’Aaron Potts writes on his Blog today, that you actually should seek to get infected by a very special kind of virus.
I was drawn into his article right away and thought that you could benefit from that great post, too.
In case you get an “500 Internal Server Error”, just hit the reload/refresh button. It's a kinky technical issue that should not stop you from accessing Aaron's valuable content.
I have introduced my Fake Tit For Tat Blog Carnival in January as a means of saying “Thank You” to those editors that have used my posts. I thought it's time to do this right now. Therefore, I split February in 2 parts and will list the rest of the carnivals at the end of this month.
The main benefits of being present in the Carnival-O-Sphere is that you get more exposure easily. I just made up that term Carnival-O-Sphere. It doesn't take long to submit your current post to Blogcarnival.com. The Pro-Bloggers actually outsource that part and have their assistants do that rather simple task.
1. You get new readers.
Although this heavily depends on the quality and popularity of the Carnival. There are basically 2 types of carnivals in my opinion: