Ivan and Julie are a highly motivated business team. They have owned several businesses together and have a genuine passion for helping others get out of their day job by generating passive and multiple streams of income

Here’s a heartwarming story of a husband and wife who discovered their passion by showing up, networking and then capitalising on their relationships. With modest beginnings on a farm and not knowing anything about event management and filling up big rooms, they shared their journey’s greatest setbacks, lessons and triumphs.

In this interview you will discover:

- How to break free from years of bad financial conditioning and take the leap

- How to make the shift from doing what you hate (that pays the bills) to doing what you love (that pays for your living expenses and allows you to go on regular holidays!)

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Internet Marketing Strategist, Entrepreneur and Speaker

You’ve probably never heard of Greg, but that’s just the way he likes it. He’s the guy many big names go to when they are looking to take their online businesses to the next level. Greg shared some of the key observations he has learnt over the years working with some of the most recognised marketing brands and campaigns. I also quizzed him about getting started building a virtual team and how he is able to run his team effectively.

In this interview you will discover:

- The major themes business owners and clients need to focus on but rarely do

- Greg’s keys to online success for anyone looking to get serious about their internet business

- The key traits and characteristics of Greg’s elite marketers and high net worth clients have in common and how you can emulate them

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Here’s a presentation on outsourcing I did a while ago to a small group of private clients at a marketing workshop.

It’s packed full of great concepts and tips including:

* How outsource your content creation

* Which sites I use to find and keep great staff members

* How to decide what needs to be outsourced and outtasked

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Recently, Facebook out an updated version of their policies and guidelines.

I took the liberty of going through them with a fine tooth comb, so you don’t have to.

In this article I will point out some of the clauses that could cost you your account, if you overlook. So, ignore at your own peril.

I’ve personally been bitten badly by not carefully scrutinising these, and being an online marketer, that was a near unforgiveable mistake. Fortunately, the Facebook staff understood that I was not out to break the rules, merely ignorant. For a few months, I had hired a virtual staff member to basically, be me.

He did many things for me, including accepting friend requests, writing personal messages for me upon request acceptance, birthdays and other occasions, spying on competitors and other tasks. Not long after my account was suspended and I went into salvage mode. In the consequent months I heard of 4 separate well known internet personalities getting shut down and also going into salvage mode, some starting petitions and big online pleas to get back on Facebook.

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Everyone’s got their own thoughts on receiving emails, and when you ask them what they think they’ll say they get mostly unsolicited, badly written sales pleas asking for money. In this insightful interview, I asked Kurt blatantly what his 7 killer email strategies are to help you stand out from the average Joe’s in your industry. He shares some insider information that has worked for him time and time again. If you’re an experienced marketer with a big list or an absolute newbie who has never sent an email before, this interview will give you several golden keys.

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Mentors should play a strong role in your progression towards your goals. Every successful person I’ve met, interviewed or read about at one point had someone who was smarter, more experienced and wealthier than they are, regardless of how successful they are.

But guess what? Even mentors get blocks! That’s right. They’re human. They get held back by their own ‘stuff’. So, don’t be too hard on yourself if you know if you’ve been holding yourself back. The first step, is to identify that is even the case!

What I have for you in today’s post are the lessons I learned from a private coaching call I had with a mentor of mine (who wishes to remain anonymous). He shared freely and unreservedly about his own journey and growth through his projects. It’s quite amazing, because what I noticed is the same sort of ‘junk’ runs through most peoples heads regardless of whether it is only a small project or if they are playing a bigger game! It’s how you deal with it that counts.

For anonymity, we’re going to call my mentor Mystery Mentor (MM)

Distinction #1 – Don’t sit and hatch

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Ever heard about experts recommending guru.com as a fantastic site to find virtual staff to help you in your online business? It’s a fantastic site that has a good range of workers and the prices are very competitive.

If you’ve just dropped in you may have missed out on my personal video tours of rent-a-coder (now know as vworker.com) and also elance.com explaining how to best use those sites to gain staff and ensure the best results and outcomes for you.

Here’s an over-my shoulder tour of guru.com. I teach you how to use it, how to screen potential workers, how to sort through bids, how to minimise your risk when hiring and how to ensure a long term relationship with both the site and the worker at a price that is incredibly cost-effective to yo.

So here I share some of my most closely guarded tips and tricks on how to get the very best from the site.

Enjoy, and if you found it useful, please use the retweet button to share it!

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Blogging Expert, Internet Marketer, Author, Coach, Creator Blog/Membership Mastermind Sites, Speaker

With Yaro’s Blog an authorative site on business, marketing and blogging, I drilled Yaro for tips and advice on how he successfully runs certain parts of his online business, with a view for those listeners who are just starting out online. Every word he spoke was golden business advice tried and tested in the competitive online environment.

In this interview you will discover:

- How Yaro went from working behind an IT desk to discovering his passion for blogging that now makes up to $20,000 month!

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Ever wanted to use Elance to hire virtual staff? This is the second part in the series. In the first part I gave you a virtual of Rent-a-coder.com, now known as Vworker.

Here’s an over-my shoulder tour of the site. I teach you how to use it, what to look for when hiring staff and posting projects and share some of my most closely guarded tips and tricks on how to get the very best from the site.

Stay tuned for future video casts where I give you personal tours of my other favourite sites!

Enjoy, and if you found it useful, please use the retweet button to share it!

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The motivational material out there is many and varied. You’ll find thousands of books and programs on the topics and seminar speakers everywhere talking about it.

But motivation implies that it’s a temporary emotional state. That’s why you feel energised after reading a book or attending an event, but the next day it wears off and you’re back to where you started.

Why is that?

I believe it comes to finding your deeper core motivations, ones that aren’t affected by day to day activity.

Jim Rohn once said ‘If you find the why, the how becomes easy’. And that’s exactly what I’m referring to.

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