Patch Adams coached on New Media Marketing?!

That’s right! Deb and I are coaching Patch Adams tomorrow (Thursday Feb 8th) live at 2pm Eastern. Yes — THE Patch Adams who Robin Williams played in the movie.

As a preview call for the incredible Hot Seat Seminar, we’ll be joining Dave Lakhani and Marlon Sanders as we consult Patch on his web site, marketing, and business model.

We’ll be in our offices in Hawaii, but you can be anywhere in the world. And you get to listen in and learn how to make your business a million-dollar+ business this year *for free*! Want to join us?

It’s easy!

All you have to do is register here:
–> http://www.thehotseatseminar.com/debandjp/

You’ll also get immediate access to three other Hot Seat Seminar preview calls. Including one where we consulted on one hot seat showing how marketing with New Media tools like blogs, podcasts, and social networks like MySpace can bring you thousands of new customers and cash every month.

Go to http://www.thehotseatseminar.com/debandjp/ now, then mark the time and access number on your calendar for tomorrow, Thursday February 8, 2007.

“See” you then!

Deborah Cole Micek, (the Motivation M.D.) and her partner John Paul Micek (the Commando Capitalist) are founders of the business coaching company RPM Success Group ® Inc.

After 17,500 hours of research and study working with thousands of business owners around the world — they’ve created a simple scientific system that maximizes your performance, persuasion, and wealth in just 60-Seconds. They both are in demand speakers, published authors, and certified trainers in persuasion and Self Influence™, and experts in Marketing with New Media. Their latest book ‘Secrets Of Online Persuasion’ is the definitive guide on getting more customers and cash online with New Media. You can reach Deb & JP by contacting [support@rpmsuccess.com]

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OK, OK… so I get back to Hawaii from 3 weeks in Australia and disappear. No updates to Advanced Business Blogging or your other business blogs for a while. "What’s up?", "Where’ve you been?", and "Where are the pictures?"

Well I’ve got a good excuse for not blogging (business or otherwise.)

I’ve been enjoying my life since getting back from a grueling 3-weeks tour criss crossing all of Australia and haven’t been blogging for business at all. As a matter of fact, except for a few coaching calls, I’ve been off getting into some new real estate deals, and hanging out at the Triple Crown of Surfing here at home on the North Shore of Oahu.

I’m actually headed out right now to Sunset Beach to watch some trials but saw yet another email (yes Evana, I did get your joke too ) and thought I’d drop a quick note. I’ll have some pics from Australia up early next week.

Local hero and three-time world champ Andy Irons took the first jewel in the Triple Crown of Surfing (the OP Pro) at Haleiwa on Wednesday this week.

For all our Aussie friends… sorry but despite some great surfing & a close heat, Australian Adrian Buchan fell out early of the runnings in the round at 32.

If you want to check out the waves, surfing, and of course the beautiful people on the beach — you can get a LIVE video feed over at www.triplecrownofsurfing.com. This year there are commentators doing an excellent job of hosting the video feeds. Just click on the "Live Webcast" at the top of the page. (Another example of New Media Marketing in action!)

Remember, especially during this holiday time — there’s more to life than blogging and business. Some business bloggers blog about life, and some live it! Remember to do both!

And if you’ll be in Hawaii over the next few weeks and you’ll be up in our area on the North Shore, drop me an email so we can hookup. Here’s the remaining dates for the Triple Crown of Surfing:

Men

» O’Neill World Cup of Surfing, at Sunset Beach, Nov. 24-Dec. 6, a $125,000 6-star World Qualifying Series finale.
» Rip Curl Pro Pipeline Masters, at the Banzai Pipeline, Dec. 8-20, a $280,000 World Championship Tour finale.

Women

» Roxy Pro, at Sunset Beach, Nov. 24-Dec. 6, a $67,500 World Championship Tour event.
» Billabong Pro Maui, at Honolua Bay, Dec. 8-20, a $67,500 World Championship Tour finale.

Yesterday I was interviewed by Hawaii Business magazine for an upcoming feature article in the August edition of the magazine. (Hope someone as cool as The Dog is on the cover that month. :))

In the 45-minute interview Lisa Ro and I discussed:

• the top five reasons business owners need to be blogging
• why New Media is rapidly transforming our culture (internationally)
• how business owners and marketers can keep up with (and capitalize on) the rapidly changing marketplace
• the top three mistake business owners make with blogging, and how to fix each
• three ways physical businesses in Hawaii can use blogs and New Media to grow their business

Since we live on the most remote island chain in the world, technology plays an even larger role in staying connected. I know the business owners here in Hawaii will get a lot out of the article when Lisa is done working her magic. And since many thousands more get the magazine on the mainland US, Japan, and Singapore, I know many more international business owners will have their vision expanded with how New Media nd blog marketing can help grow their business.

Thanks to Lisa Ro, Scott Radway, and Jacy L. Youn from Hawaii Business magazine for their time and attention. And watch for the article in the August edition.

Learn how to unleash the maximum marketing power of business blogs, podcasts, and RSS (in any industry, profession, or niche) with Marketing With Business Blogs™.

John-Paul is a published author and weekly columnist for the Honolulu Star Bulletin. As a Business Coach he helps small business owners market, manage, and sell more with self-influence and persuasion. You can reach J.P. directly via [communicationcommando@gmail.com].

Finally I’ve caught up from our speaking engagement at the Publishing 4 Profits seminar in Ann Arbor and trip to Hew York. (More on how the ‘Guerrilla Book Authoring With Blogs’ went over with the authors and publishers tomorrow.) It’s been a long two weeks so I just wanted to pop in and drop a quick post. It feels GREAT to be back home in Hawaii!

I was amazed when I got back to find what the rain totals were for March. (If you saw the pictures from all the rain and flooding we had in March you know we were waiting for Noah to show up with his ark. If you missed them you can check them out here.) Our area on the North Shore had 40.31 inches of rain!! Normal is about 9 inches.

For six weeks, the weather systems that normally spin and flow around the globe became locked in a global traffic jam that kept them in place across the Northern Hemisphere. Called “blocking” such gridlock is not uncommon, usually occurring once or twice a year causing weather systems to overstay their welcome for a week to ten days before they start moving again. However, this blocking persisted for an almost unheard of six weeks.

During the 43-day period, 111 flash-flood warnings were issued indicating that flooding had already occurred or would begin within the hour; in addition, there were 88 special marine warnings. A special 12-page report was included in the Sunday, April 16th issue of the Star Bulletin titled; “Listen to the Rain, 43 Days: Downpours, Death, Destruction.” It is available in a PDF format (5 MB) for downloading at: http://starbulletin.com/2006/04/16/special/story01.html

Anyway, I’ll be posting an update on our trip, sharing some notes from our and other expert’s presentations, and sharing the details of the new book and blog expansions we innovated with our publisher.

For now … Aloha!

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John-Paul is a published author and weekly columnist for the Honolulu Star Bulletin. As a Click-and-Mortar Business Coach he helps small business owners integrate offline and online influence strategies for rapid, reliable business growth. You can reach J.P. directly via [communicationcommando@gmail.com].

How about 30-plus inches of rain in 21 days and 800-foot waterfall whose runoff goes right through your backyard?!

OK, admittedly, when it comes to blogging for business, I’m not really a big fan of small, frequent posts. That’s fine when it matches your style and flows well with the way you work and compliments the way your company operates. Deborah and I however, both have styles that make longer, more educational articles and topical series flow easy.

Now that approach usually works well for us no matter what our commitments are for product creation, strategic partnering, or traveling to the mainland to research new real estate investments. But when weather like we’ve been hit with during March happens, even with an average posting frequency of 3-4 days per week on the blogs we use for business and marketing — it’s just not possible to keep up.

So since posting here at Advanced Business Blogging has suffered during March, I figured I’d share a few photos from our town on the North Shore of Hawaii over the past three weeks. They don’t do any real justice to the size, majesty, and in this case — run off potential of the mountains.

The height of the mountains here makes the size of the falls decieving on this shot. The main waterfall runs at about 30-40 feet across and about five feet deep in normal rains. The volume at the time of this shot was roughly double that. BTW - this waterfall has over a 1000-foot drop!

This is a view of the same valley, north west (right) side. You can see three waterfalls running. To give you scale, all are about 20-25 feet across.

Hawaii? Bad weather? Yes, Hawaii does get rain. And on the North Shores of all five of the main islands — get lots! And it can be very localized. For instance, in our town we got over 30-inches of rain in the past 21-days! Storm after storm came through with little rest in between.

One storm was such a heavy rain producer when it got stuck over the Ko’olau Mountains that it produced an average of 3-inches per hour for more than 4-hours!

One runoff area at a house in town. This is the type of water feature no one wants this close to their house.

All the water from the waterfall in the first shot up above needed to go somewhere. Well, here it is. Over 50-feet of the yard was swept away from this house in less than six-hours! (The house in front of it - not so lucky. It came tumbling down, and had the military out here watching to make sure the rest of it didn’t fall in the stream and take out the bridge.)

With mountain peaks jutting 2,300 feet into the sky in less than 3/4-mile from the ocean — there’s not really any place for the water to disperse. That gives us pluses, and minuses. The pluses are the 49 waterfalls in our town. It’s simply awesome to behold!

Simply breath-taking!

But quite a few of those waterfalls can do a lot of (more…)