Allow us to introduce you to our Coach, Stephen Pierce, the Optimizer himself.

Last weekend, after speaking at the TIMME Conference, we wound up extending our travels and booked a round trip ticket to Ann Arbor, Michigan to strategize for an entire weekend 1-on-1 with our Coach, Stephen Pierce to optimize our business and strategize our upcoming book launch for our new book, “Secrets of Online Persuasion“.

Despite the fact that we had all been traveling non-stop, with barely any sleep, our minds continued to be energized with creative ideas to optimize our business. We had a conversation about this uncanny energy we were all experiencing, and credited this ability to think creatively, brainstorm and “out of the box thinking” to his new OptiMINDzation DVD series.

We set some of the wildest goals that weekend, completely confident they’re all achievable and reachable before the end of 2007. There’s a lot more to it, and I’ll cover it in my next post. Feel free to Visit the OptiMINDzation site to learn more.

By far, this was one of the most intense, strategic planning sessions I’ve ever been involved in; and it left us with so much energy that we enjoyed zero jet lag, and hit the ground running when we returned to the RPM Success Offices this week in sunny Hawaii.

Before I ask you about your optimization strategies and goals for 2007, here’s a glimpse into our strategic planning weekend with Stephen Pierce. (A little behind the scenes footage…)

(I’m the one behind the camera taking clandestine pictures.)

(uh-oh! I think they noticed the flash!)

(Crapola! — that’s an Italian word for dog-doo-doo– Now they’re on guard, protecting the secrets on the board. Ok, OKAY, I’ll put the camera away. Sheesh! What’s a girl gotta’ do to share some secrets with her readers to encourage them to optimize their business?!)

Alright, now that you got a glimpse into the behind the scenes action with Stephen Pierce and the RPM Success Team, let’s get YOU thinking about what you’ll do for your mind, your business, and your life in 2007.

If your wildest dreams were to come true in 2007, and we had the ability to grant them for you… what would they be?

And what are you planning to do to give yourself the edge in your business to optimize it, and plan for MEGA-Success this year?

Oh - and before you ask where I am in all of this… here are the women of the mastermind group:

Alicia Pierce with me. (HINT: She’s the real secret behind Stephen’s success AND the one who keeps us fully supplied with brain food to keep us all goin’!)

Now:
Share your dreams and goals in the comment section below… afterall… ya’ never know whose reading… and who might have the power to grant your wildest dream for your business.

Do it now and put your goal in motion!

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Deborah Micek is a Business Acceleration Coach. She and her partner have over 8000 hours of experience helping entrepreneurs like you get the profits, performance, and lifestyle you want from your business. She’s a published author (Secrets Of Online Persuasion,) a weekly columnist for the Honolulu Star Bulletin, and professional speaker.You can reach Deborah directly via [communicationcoach@gmail.com].

Next Stop for Coaches Deb & JP: Las Vegas to speak at the RPM Summit, the weekend of October 6th - 8th. This is the conference where internet marketers will be coming to get exclusive training in Web Publishing, Social Networking and our favorite topic: Creating Authority Sites for maximum influence!

This is our chance to connect with our West Coast friends, clients and readers. It’s always a blast seeing people face-to-face, especially when you’re hidden on the most remote island chain in the world most of the time.

Here’s our after-hours conference get together with new friends we met at last week’s TIMME Conference:

We’ll be sharing the stage with the top marketing and persuasion gurus, including:

Our persuasive friend Dave Lakhani, author of “Persuasion - The Art of Getting What You Want“, and the man who wrote the incredible foreword to our book,

Mike Filsaime, creator of the famous Butterfly Marketing campaigns that people couldn’t stop raving about at the recent TIMME (The Internet Marketer’s Main Event) Conference he co-hosted that we just spoke at in Baltimore, Maryland.

Greg Ceasar, from 1st Advantage Solutions, who provides superior Web site design and hosting for the top internet marketers and who also happens to be a very good whirrly ball player. (We won’t say anything about Lazer Tag though… he’s still perfecting his game.)

Here’s Greg and Deborah, after a competitive game of Lazer Tag at a recent event at the Thinkubator hosted by Stephen Pierce:

Once you watch the 30-second video, and enter the site, you’ll be able to see the amazing line up of speakers as well as the topics that will be taught at the RPM Summit.

Now, while all these speakers are amazing, I must admit… I’m MOST looking forward to Friday night - and not just because that’s when we’ll be speaking, but because there will be RPM Race Night with a trip to a club with a racing theme, great bar, and racing simulators. (If you’ve ever attended a Stephen Pierce Conference with me at the ultra-cool Thinkubator in Ann Arbor, you’ll know why these are my favorite conference activities, and quite frankly, the main motivation that compelled us to agree to speak at the RPM Summit event next weekend.)

Shhh! Just don’t tell Donna Fox or Paulie who invited us to speak at the RPM Summit after all the buzz we got from our Secrets to Online Persuasion Presentation last weekend. And for those of you who came up to tell us you regretted missing us at the TIMME Conference, now’s your chance to catch the re-run! And to implement what we show you BEFORE our book is released next month in bookstores everywhere, when your competitors will see the secrets we reveal in the book.

Here’s Donna Fox and Paulie Sabol with Coach Deborah & John-Paul Micek at last weekend’s TIMME Conference:

Oh! Before I forget… when you enter the RPM Summit site, you’ll receive the 21-page “Authoritative Guide To Building Profitable Authority Sites“.

Ready for a weekend of fun and learning? If your answer is YES, we’d love to see you next weekend in Vegas.

Ya’ never know WHAT you’ll win! Especially when you attend one of our presentations. (We’re really into giving REWARDS for people who take ACTION!)

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Deborah Micek is a Business Acceleration Coach. She and her partner have over 8000 hours of experience helping entrepreneurs like you get the profits, performance, and lifestyle you want from your business. She’s a published author (Secrets Of Online Persuasion,) a weekly columnist for the Honolulu Star Bulletin, and professional speaker.You can reach Deborah directly via [communicationcoach@gmail.com].

Picture this …

A delivery truck pulls up to your doorstep, a man gets out of the truck and hands you your first box of books, then within 60 days of that delivery - that book becomes an international best-seller and sells over 60,000 copies.

I’m about to tell you how you can make that happen for yourself, but first I want you to ask yourself this question…

What would be different in your life if you were a bestselling author?

Think about that for a moment because I’m about to give you private access to a Bestseller Starter Kit – normally $197 – absolutely free to the first 1000 people who grab it this week at:

www.Automatic-Bestseller.com

It explains the same system my friend used to turn his book idea into a bestseller within 60 days… without a list, without any experience, and without any clue where to begin…

His name is Christopher Guerriero, and he’s now an international best selling author, who’s about to spill the beans and let you in on all the insider secrets that helped him sell more than 319,000 copies of his first book in less than a year.

Chris started with no book writing or marketing experience, yet built a system that helped him sell more books in 60 days than most authors sell in a lifetime – and since then he and his clients have used that exact system to build an army of book empires.

Since you know our new book, “Secrets of Online Persuasion,”
will be released by Ingram next month, we thought we’d share the
system that we’re using to complement our book authoring with blogs to generate buzz that our friend Chris gave us access to in order to help us reach Best Seller Status over the next few months.

And now you can do the same!

I watched his video several times, and listened to the audios during our recent plane ride to Baltimore for The Internet Marketing Main Event - taking such voracious notes, I almost missed the meal that came around!

This kit details a system that will boost your credibility, your income, and make you a bestselling author in the process.

I’m not going to waste your time building this man up in your eyes because I’m not the only one who Christopher is allowing to give his Starter Kit away for free, and it’s only available to the first 1000 people who grab a copy.

I can’t believe he is giving this kit away… so we wanted to make sure we shared this link with our friends on our list right away so they could get it free this week.

But you have to get a copy of the ‘Automatic Bestseller Starter Kit’ today – before he closes up this link – which I’m told will be any day now.

Go on over to: www.Automatic-Bestseller.com

God-speed to your book authoring success!

NOTE: Be sure to let us know when you take advantage of his offer by posting a comment below, because we have a few surprise GIFTS for our clients and blog readers who seize the day and grab this private access video for free.

Deborah and John-Paul Micek

P.S. If you have any friends who might be interested in
becoming an author – please do them a favor and send
them this link to this blog post so they can get a copy of the starter kit
before it’s too late. I’ve been given permission to share this link
to all my friends, family and clients. So feel free to link to this post and forward to yours.

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Deborah Micek is a Business Acceleration Coach. She and her partner have over 8000 hours of experience helping entrepreneurs like you get the profits, performance, and lifestyle you want from your business. She’s a published author (Secrets Of Online Persuasion,) a weekly columnist for the Honolulu Star Bulletin, and professional speaker.You can reach Deborah directly via [communicationcoach@gmail.com].

Deb and I just wrapped up a whirlwind 3-day speaking event in Baltimore called The Internet Marketing Main Event where we spoke on New Media marketing. It was a terrific sold out event with over 300 online and off-line business owners and marketers in the audience. Paulie Sabol, Mike Filsaime, and Donna Fox did an awesome job with everything from the food to the clockwork-like precision of the entire event.

We’ve had a terrific time meeting dozens of new friends and partners from around the world, some of whom you’ll be hearing about very soon as we move closer to the launch of our book Secrets Of Online Persuasion.

One of the most exciting things about this weekend’s event was being ranked #1 by the audience out of the dozen speakers. We tied with our good friend and mentor, Stephen Pierce (which is just fine with us. )

We were honored to be ranked above such great speakers as speaking giant John Childers, Dave Lakhani best-selling author of “Persuasion: The Art of Getting What You Want”, and NY Times best-selling author Joel Comm (”The Adsense Code”.)

And we were totally thrilled with the reviews of our upcoming book Secrets Of Online Persuasion, which Ingram and Morgan James publishing had graciously given us pre-release copies of to start building buzz.

What’s even more impressive is that the New Media Marketing and business blogging presentation we gave was the buzz of the entire weekend. Just like the off-line business world, even in the internet marketing world is JUST catching wind of the practicality, ease, and exponential marketing power of blogs and New Media. The first tidal wave of transformation has swept over the marketplace, but the second wave is cresting setting you up for the perfect “ride”.

So grab your marketing surfboard and get ready for the ride of your life! There are some incredible things rolling in here at Advanced Business Blogging over the next few months!

We’re off to take the water taxi from Fells Point across the inner harbor to the landmark made historical in the war of 1812, Fort McHenry.

Enjoy!

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John-Paul Micek is a Business Acceleration Coach with four multi-million dollar businesses under his belt and over 8000 hours of experience helping entrepreneurs like you get the profits, performance, and lifestyle you want from your business. He’s a published author (Secrets Of Online Persuasion,) a weekly columnist for the Honolulu Star Bulletin, and professional speaker. You can reach J.P. directly via [communicationcommando@gmail.com].

In a profoundly timely fashion, technology expert Nick Carr shows why as a business owner you need to be reading the multi-part article series Blogging For Business: Dispelling Myths and Clearing The Muddy Waters. Blogging purists and blog evangelists are telling themselves lies, then living them out.

Nick points out the painful truth to the hopefuls of blogging fame in his recent article Nick Carr’s “The Great Unread” The truth is painful, but it’s still the truth.

I must commend Nick as he’ll probably take a lot of heat for this from blogging evangelists. But it’s high time that blogging purists understand the harsh reality facing them. Unfortunately many bloggers, including many unwitting business bloggers, will be left outside the castle gates if they ignore capitalist principles and suppress that drive.

Maybe it’s because Deborah and I are business owners, or because we exclusively work with business owners every day, and have the focus of blogging for business (not for readers) — but the points Nick make seem obvious. I mean come on … duh, even if you’re not interested in selling something but would rather have readers — how can you expect to get subscribers if you don’t market? Obvious, yes!

Yet it’s the obvious that can often be the most dangerous. Lies can be lived for a long time before a person comes to the realization that they’ve bought into a lie.

From my vantage point, this is the problem with the blogoshere — bogging evangelists have bought into their own lies. And their still trying to pull others down into their time-sapping pit of lack and unfulfilled desires by laying out a host of unrealistic rules.

The business owners on our subscriber list and even many of our clients are incredibly confused with what advice they read from pro-bloggers and other blogging evangelists. That fact is what has made us decide to take the gloves off and reveal the lies being told in the article series we’re in the middle of — Blogging For Business: Dispelling Myths and Clearing The Muddy Waters.

Enjoy!

John-Paul Micek is a Business Acceleration Coach with four multi-million dollar businesses under his belt and over 8000 hours of experience helping entrepreneurs like you get the profits, performance, and lifestyle you want from your business. He’s a published author (Secrets Of Online Persuasion,) a weekly columnist for the Honolulu Star Bulletin, and professional speaker. You can reach J.P. directly via [communicationcommando@gmail.com].

Alright, it’s a stretch! Blogs, podcasts, social networking and such compared to a v8 chainsaw.

But I couldn’t help sharing this video since I’ve been using chainsaws since I was 12. One of the chainsaws I still own is the Stihl saw shown in the comparison footage towards the end of the video. I use it to get my “weekly release” clearing trees on our North Shore Oahu property. it’s really quite invigorating after a rough week in the office. LOL

When our good friend Wayne Kelly (host/producer of the hit Wayne and Jayne Morning Show on KBS Canada) told us about his interview with Kyle MacDonald about his red paper clip nearly a year ago, I was pretty impressed with his trades. At the time using only Craigs List and his blog, Kyle had bartered his way from a single red paper clip to a snowmobile with just six trades. His goal — to barter his way up to a house.

Now, within just 15 trades and a little over a year’s worth of blogging and New Media marketing effort — Kyle MacDonald has turned that one red paper clip into a house!

Solely using the power of the internet and New Media Marketplace, Kyle’s unique marketing and bartering got him online and off-line publicity galore. Eventually that publicity got him noticed by Corbin Bernsen (”L.A. Law” and “Major League”) who offered Kyle a speaking role in a movie he’s producing. But instead of jumping at the opportunity, Kyle stayed true to his belief that all trades needed to be fair and provide something of value to the other person. There would be no perceived charity here.

Since he had nothing of relative value to trade Bernsen for at the time, he put the offer on hold and went to work. With research, and by using some online persuasion techniques Kyle discovered that Bernsen collected snow globes. Kyle (through a trade with Alice Cooper) got a very rare snow globe of the band Kiss so he could trade that with Bernsen. Now thanks to the power of online influence and persuasion he was on his way to some serious online and off-line media attention.

With all the buzz, Kyle’s blogging and the New Media marketing frenzy he was creating attracted the attention of the town of Kipling Canada. The city Council is capitalizing on the press, publicity, and online traffic generated by MacDonald’s story for their benefit as we ll as Kyle’s. In a very smart move the town Council voted to buy him a house in Kipling!

A very smart marketing move!

This one investment of about $45,000 US will easily bring half-a-million or more in free advertising and publicity to help boost Kipling notoriety. And that, the town is already planning to use to boost their marketing to get business owners to come back to Kipling. A ten-plus times return for buzz and traffic generation that was all made possible by New Media and online persuasion!

Pretty cool stuff!

The most interesting thing is that the real marketing and promotion power at work in this story is NOT in the technology of the New Media Marketplace. It’s in the in people, participation, and persuasion! Without the ability to build rapport or influence and persuade online, Kyle MacDonald would have never been able to wield the New Media technology to successfully reach his goal.

Technology is only a tool. The power is in people and persuasion.

What are some ideas you got from this story that you could use in marketing your business with blogs, or leveraging other New Media resources for buzz or branding?

What secrets of online persuasion and influence do you see at work in this success story? (Check out the resource links below to the AP news article “Blogger’s quest ends with keys to house” and to Kyle’s Red Paper Clip blog for more details.)

Maybe you’ve already had some wins with a similar story of your own. What was that win?

Share your thoughts with a quick comment. We’d love to hear how you’re using business blogs and New Media to generate free buzz, branding, and advertising for you and your business.

Links related to this article:

Kyle MacDonald’s Red Paper Clip blog
The Wayne and Jayne show on KBS Canada
Wayne Kelly’s blog
Craigs List
Blogger’s quest ends with keys to house

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Discover the only strategic online sales and persuasion system guaranteed to unleash the maximum marketing power of the New Media in your business — BLOG Interactive 360™.

John-Paul is a published author and weekly columnist for the Honolulu Star Bulletin. As a Business Coach and New Media Marketing Consultant 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].

I probably should have posted this notice sooner, but Deb and I have been putting in 16-hour days for the last two weeks getting our revised manuscript to our publisher to meet Ingram’s deadline for September distribution. Obviously updates here at Advanced Business Blogging have been on hold since complete creative focus has had to be given to the book and our NY publisher. For those of you who have been emailing us about what’s going on, I apologize for not letting you guys know at the beginning of this cycle.

We’ll be all wrapped up this week and the final manuscript for Secrets of Online Persuasion, along with the ultimate publication date of the book, will be in the hands of our NY Publisher and Ingram. Advanced Business Blogging should be back up on a regular schedule starting on July 10th.

BTW — we got the final cover from the publisher’s graphic designer last week, so for those of you who emailed us about that, or have been asking on the blog coaching calls — here it is.

Hi ho! Back to work I go! (yeah… I’m a happy little dwarf :D)

See you next week!

Aloha!

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Discover the only strategic online sales and persuasion system guaranteed to unleash the maximum marketing power of the New Media in your business — BLOG Interactive 360™.

John-Paul is a published author and weekly columnist for the Honolulu Star Bulletin. As a Business Coach and New Media Marketing Consultant 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].

The keynote on marketing with blogs and other New Media went great at last weekend’s Unleash Your Marketing Genius seminar. And we’re really excited about our initial meetings with some top political advisors and campaign managers for consulting on New Media strategies for a key senate race and a gubernatorial campaign.

Just got in late last night from a 9.5 hour flight back from Newark, NJ. I’ll be sharing some of the highlights of the UYMG conference later this week or early next week. On the political front, I’ll know in the next week or so whether I’ll be able to share any details prior to the November elections. If I’m allowed, I’ll give you some insights into the inner workings of two heavy hitting campaigns.

Congrats once again to Bill Knocke who won the contest we had for the $2,500 ticket to attend the UYMG! Way to go Bill!

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].