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Who else wants to be a part of the MyNoteTakingNerd Gold Mastermind Group?

Hello Nerd Fans,

This is not a sales letter just want your feedback.

We’ve experienced difficulty over the last few month’s.

Many of you have raised your arms and said you’d like us to do a premium service with updated consistent content and that is what we are doing.

So with this in mind we need your feedback to create the Ultimate Program for you.

Currently we have the following planned:

Announcing an Exciting New Coaching Experience Guaranteedto Jumpstart your Business…. Therefore Your Life!!

As a member of MyNoteTakingNerd Gold you will be entitled to the following:

Quarterly Group Buy: The Nerd’s will purchase the latest Launch that you vote on us getting. We will then compose a Nerd Report and everyone will receive and immediate copy. The value of these programs are from $999 to $5,000 generally. We feel our notes save you enormous time and expense. Valued at $2,000 Minimum

Daily “Live With The Nerd” Report: The Nerd will devour a program for 1.5 hours a day. At the end of every session we will immediately send you an unedited copy of the notes from the program. We are currently going to be doing some of the most recent successful programs such as Mass Control 2.0 etc. etc. These programs will be voted on by you the members and we will cover the programs you choose.  Valued at $199

The Daily Marketing Challenge: You submitt your questions to the Nerd’s and we will give you your best solution. We will answer one question per day but have found that over the course of the month most questions are answered as some are of similiar nature. Every day this question and answer will be sent to all members. At the end of every 30 days we will compile the answers into a Marketing Challenge PDF for your convenience. Valued at $59

Monday Morning Fax: During these weekly faxes you will get a much more detailed look into my life and personal business phylosophies. I will be sharing with you much of what I’ve learned that week and how I’m putting it to work in my life and business.

Monthly Copywriting Webinar: Nerd Number Two will be sharing his vast knowledge and amazing skill with you on a downloadable video once per Month. Nerd Two has filled his brain with every single Guru Program on earth and worked on projects for some of many of these very same Guru’s. This will be a curriculum style series starting with the Basics Musts and moving into the Elite High End stuff very few know about. Valued at $199

Monthly Q&A Tele-Seminar: Once per month we will host a Mastermind Teleconference. You will be given a Top Secret phone number and we will be on the phone for up to three hours to answer everyone’s questions. Valued at $59

Every six month’s we will host a Nerd Retreat. At no expense to you except for travel and hotel. This will be held on the West Coast then East Coast alternating. It will cover Two Days and a copy will be available for download for all members.  Valued at $999

**All New Nerd Reports are 50% off for Nerd Gold Mastermind Members. Valued up to $300

Over $3,500 in real value.

We will be charging $99 or more per month for this

However for those of you that get on the priority list you will be allowed in for $57 per month.

To do so please do the following.

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Are You Ready For The Extreme Nerd Makeover?

Watch As The Nerd Rises To Victory!!

Hi Nerd Fans,

Just wanted you to know that we are hard at work on re-launching the Blog within the next week.

One of the really cool things we will be doing is “The Extreme Nerd Makeover”

I’m going to be your Guinee Pig. Yep my life, my challenges, my business… all out in the open for you to learn from.

As I’ve informed you over the last few months I have had a few challenges to say the least.

Like Rocky Balboa I’m making a comeback. Better then ever and ready to take the title.

Starting June 13th you will see a link on the blog titled “Extreme Nerd Makeover”

Like Rocky I’ll be in training to get my life and business back in Title Contention.

You’ll learn as I start my Full Body Cleanse. My new eating habits… as the old daily Mcdonald’s plan has resulted in a “Massive Achievement” of epic proportions. Now i must get myself in fighting shape so that my mind has the machine to carry out my goals and desires. I’ll blog daily as to what I’m eating and share with you the best of what I’m learning.

I’ll also be testing just about everything on this Blog and business and sharing all the insights and take home ideas with you.

You’ll learn as I begin my quest to become “Super Nerd Dad” to my wonderful, super cool, Three Year Old Baby Girl. Well she won’t let me call her a baby anymore no matter how much i tell her she will always be Daddy’s Baby Girl.

You’ll learn all the strategies and tactics I use to attract the Lady of My Dreams. The Nerd’s currently a lonely man and am way to old to be haning out in clubs with the young one’s.

So there you have it. The Ultimate Remaking of a Champion Nerd is coming your way.

Oh i’m gonna nudge Nerd Two to do the same and we may be bringing on board a new Nerd in Training. He’s funny, witty, and full of commen sense yet often forgotten knowledge that many of you will benefit from. He’s our Chris Farley. You know the “Fat man in a Little Jacket” guy. Only minus the drugs and excess partying.

Do me a favor and let me know what you think of this idea. Also, let me know what i might do to make it more enjoyable to you.

email us at mynotetakingnerd@gmail.com

Your Chief MyNoteTakingNerd

P.S.  If you haven’t read the email title “Blog Updates Soon – Gold Mastermind” then do so now. We are creating a premium service Mastermind you will not want to miss out on. If you don’t have email and want more informatioin then email us at email above.

If I Could Hear The Questions You Ask Yourself Would I Think I Was In The Presence of a Leader Or a Victim?

I was cruising Dr. Mercola’s site again today and I came across a post about productivity.

It gave a list of questions you could ask yourself to get your act together.  The questions were plucked from David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” program.

This man is highly revered for what he’s done to transform people like yourself into lean mean productive machines.

The questions below are great but I’ve spotted a flaw in some of them.

What you say to yourself is the most important factor when it comes to your success.  Everything you do is a result of the conversations you have with yourself.  Everything.

Some people’s dialogue allows them to live life on their terms.  To do what they want, when they want, with whomever they want, for however long they want and wherever they damn well please.

Some people’s self talk is so rotten they’re convinced themselves there’s no way out of this problem, things will never get better and they should commit suicide because of it.

Think of the movie Shawshank Redemption.

Tim Robbin’s character “Andy Dufresne” is wrongly imprisoned.  For years he was beaten, tortured, and taken advantage of.  Circumstances that are prime breeding ground for suicide chatter.

But did Andy give up?  No.

The questions he asked himself allowed him one at a time to get juiced in with the captain of guards, the warden himself and to cultivate an unbreakable bond with Morgan Freeman’s character “Red.”

There’s more.

“Kids Always Take The Chocolate or Cheese Coated Option. Do You?”

"A stone is 14 pounds. Do the math and you'll have your numbers!"

Note Taking Nerd 2 back once again.

I’ve got a question for you.

Did you eat an entirely different diet than your parents did growing up?

I didn’t.

I ate and drank exactly what they did. Hamburger Helper, Cheetos, Tamales, Frozen Food dinners, Red Vines, Microwaved Popcorn, Fish Sticks, Ice Cream, Fried Tortillas, French Fries, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza, 32 oz Cokes bigger than my head etc, etc.

My mom died not ever diverting from a steady diet of garbage like this. My dad still indulges but as his body is starting to give him problems he’s opened up his awareness to the importance of eating healthy and exercising.

I’ve taken a different path.

I’m the only person in my entire family to have ever stopped eating meat and sugar for years at a time. The only person who has done a colon cleanse, a heavy metal cleanse, a liver cleanse, a parasite cleanse, a yeast and candida cleanse and a whole body cleanse.

They poked fun at me when I’d be eating salad on Thanksgiving instead of plowing my face full of turkey, stuffing and pie.

I didn’t give a shit.

The reason I didn’t was because I knew better. I studied health and shook myself out

Are You Coming Across as Too Much of a Smarty Pants To Your Prospects And Customers?

Hey Guys,

Number 2 back in the house.  Been buried in a clients project.  A financial investment product.

I sent him a creative overview which asked all the questions meant to pry out all the details about what we’re selling.  But while reading through the answers I kept stubbing my tongue on “corporate speak.”

You know, stuff like this blurb I just pulled off of Forbes.com…“General Motors moves higher as its finance arm gains bank status and eligibility for TARP funds.”

As elementary as this may sound to somebody in the finance field, it’s over my head.  I know if I really had to know all the jargon terms used here I could google them and find out their meanings in no time.

But if I’m busy, I might not even finish reading a sentence like this.

While continuing to slog through all the documents this client sent me, the very first and only salesletter he had written emerged.  I think he used Dan Kennedy’s “The Ultimate Salesletter” as a guide.

To my surprise, I read every single word of the ad.

Not out of obligation to the research but out of pure interest.  The ad has tons of opportunities for

Predictions For 2009 Part One

Could Food Lines Be That Far Away?

Hey Nerd Fans,

After a bit of a set back in a number of ways We are back and have a whole lot of cool stuff coming your way in the next little while.

Prediction #1: This Recession is here to stay. Yep, I believe we are headed toward a very turbulent near future.

I suggest if your hanging on to a piece of real estate or that stock you think is going to rebound you take the opportunity to get out while you still can and that opportunity may present itself in;

Prediction #2: Sometime in the early part of this year the stock market may rebound. It will not last for  a very long time. Maybe a month or up to three. Whatever it is take this opportunity to get out of any stocks you may be stubbornly holding on to.

Prediction #3: The Commercial Real Estate market will finally collapse. Over the last few years as the residential market collapsed, and continues too, the commercial market has held up fairly well. This will stop sometime this year and we will see many of those strip malls you saw sprout up over the last decade file bankruptcy and many will become bare of any tenants at all. My suggestion is that you get out of commercial real estate unless you are renting to tenants with world class credit.

Prediction #4: The Residential Market will continue to decline rapidly. Yes, the worse is not here yet. Many people have done everything possible to keep paying there mortgages and that will end very soon as they will have no choice but to give up there dreams. So if you think we’ve hit bottom I suggest you wait just a bit longer and see how things work out.

Tomorrow I’ll be back with Four More Predictions for 2009.

Long Haired Mexican Pot Head Shocks This Marketer With His Common Sense Sales Persuasion Tactics

Hey Guys,

#2 back writing to you from Gate D of the Phoenix International Airport.

In this flurry of holiday season travelers I had to plop myself down in a chair and write because I just had an experience I’d like to share with you.

As any of you in the United States know, all of our major metropolitan cities locate their international airports in the ghettos of town.

You can’t very well have jumbo jets screaming over million dollars estates can you?

So before I go to the airport today I need to fill my car up with gas.  As I’m pumping I see a man coming in my direction.  My first thought is… “Homeless dude wanting some change.”

I started cringing inside because I hate this marketing tactic.  Yes, homeless people asking you for money is a marketing tactic.  And an effective one too for the few people who have the balls to do it congruently.

Why?

Because out of the people who pass, you’re guaranteed to encounter the poor souls who submit to the powers of other people’s opinions of them.

When a homeless person is able to look this person in the eye and ask them clearly and concisely for money, they’re gonna get it.

These people cave because they fear this homeless person they might not ever see again will think they’re an asshole for not giving them any money.

Have you ever cared for a moment, maybe a couple of moments what a homeless person thought of you?  I have.  I’ve given money, bought food and given rides because of it.

And when I got hit up too many times in row I’d lie and say I didn’t have any money.  Why should I feel guilty?  Why did I feel like I had to lie?  Why didn’t I just look the person in the eye and say no?

Because I lent value to their 35 second impression of me.  This person would only remember me for less than a minute.  After this time their memory of me would fade to nothing.  Especially if they were blasted at time of their request.

I still give money to homeless people once in a while but not nearly as much as I used to.

I’ve come to the conclusion that I’d been betraying myself all those years by giving when and where I didn’t want to.  Giving out of fear, rather than on purpose depleted my self esteem.

And guess what?

This fear of what other people thought of me surfaced in every other part of my life.  Because of this I never stated my preferences and was living a lie.  I spouted lies to give people the impression I was something I wasn’t.

And while being fake, both the person I was attempting to mislead… and I knew the deal.  We both kept a silent agreement that they were in control because they could see through my paper machete front.  If they could get something from me the relationship lasted long.  If not, I was ditched and dissed as soon as I was found useless.

My cup was always empty and I was looking to others to fill it.

If you’ve ever felt like this before and overcome it you know that one of the major steps to clearing this issue up was to address your beliefs and values.  The way we give meaning to our experience shapes our experience.

Throughout my years of reading personal development material one of the best pieces of advice I heard was from Jack Canfield of “Chicken Soup For the Soul” fame.  The advice  was to state your preferences.  Be radically honest.

This Christmas one of my brothers gifts to me consisted of a T-shirt, a DVD with a homemade bracelet package revolving around the “Invisible Children” theme.

I had never heard of “invisible children” till I opened my gift.  If you haven’t either here’s what I gathered from my dad and my brother in a 3 minute discussion about it.

If I remember right, a group of Americans went to Uganda to shoot a documentary and ended up stumbling upon a trend going on there where the military were forcing very young children to strap on machine guns and go to war for their cause.

That’s about all I know.  It’s about all I care to know.

I love kids.  And I believe anyone who mistreats them should

Is The Story Behind What You Sell Potent Enough To Convince Your Customers To Risk Death To Get It?

Hey guys,

Number 2 is back with a doozy of a post for you.

If you are easily offended by R rated content please stop reading this now.

Seriously.

The topic of our discussion comes from someone I consider one of the greatest living storytellers on the face of planet Earth.

Quentin Tarantino.

And one word comes to me when I think of his movies.  Raw.

So if explicit language gets your blood boiling, distracts you from learning and keeping yourself in a resourceful state of mind… skip today’s lesson.

This post is about presenting your product or service in a way that makes your ideal prospects lock eyes on you, listen with their ears perked up and then feel like they’re betraying themselves if they don’t take advantage of what you have to offer.

As much as the lazy part of my mind wanted to drag the tired ass Claude Hopkins Schlitz Beer example out to express this point I thought I’d spare you what several older copywriters haven’t.

For those who haven’t heard the story here it is microwaved.  Back in the early 1900’s Schlitz beer was getting it’s ass kicked in the beer market.  They sought out the advertising genius Claude Hopkins.  He requests a tour of the their beer brewing facilities and after seeing for himself the elaborate process they go through to get you drunk he finds what he needs.

He tells Schlitz that the angle he’s going to take is to let the world in all the gyrations they go through to make beer.  The owner of Schlitz tells him “Everyone does what we do.”  And good ole’ Claude tells em, “But no one talks about it.”

And when they started running beer ads that went into depth talking about “Why” Schlitz beer was good they went to number 1.  End of Story.  Jay Abraham tells this better than I just did but you got the point right?

I love me some Claude Hopkins just as much as the next guy but my mind whails “Again. You gotta be fuckin’ kidding me” when I hear someone roll this aged fable out on stage in it’s wooden wheelchair.

This is one thing I respected about Gary Bencivenga’s Seminar.  He went out like a champ.  He spoke about the core fundamentals of persuading in print and did it with his own fresh analogies.

This means he actually put some thought into his presentation instead of puking up examples talked about by everyone and their sister already.

Some people rationalize a good story is a good story and if it works don’t break it.  I have a different take.  And that is…  people are lazy.  Thinking isn’t easy.  Recycling is.  This is why people don’t look at the hundreds of other examples you could use to bring home your point.

Like I did today.

I plucked this nugget directly from the wild fired bosom of the Pulp Fiction screenplay.

Folks this is writing. Every day and every way I aspire to write copy this sprited.

Remember when I mentioned a few posts back the idea of re-writing the money-shot parts of ads and screen play dialogue to get an unfair advantage when writing?

If you ever write dialog in any of your copy get your ass some Tarantino screen plays.  Dialogue is this man’s gift from God.

As a favor to you I’ve attached a copy of Pulp Fiction for you here.  If you’ve seen the movie you’ll be transported back to this very scene saying the lines in the same cadence as Christopher Walken did.

So in the name of a fresh perspective… Here’s my take on what a Foul Mouthed Vietnam Vet Can Teach You About Presenting What You Sell Provocatively.

33.     FADE UP:

ON THE CARTOON “SPEED RACER.”

Speed is giving a detailed description of all the features on

his race car “The Mac-5,” which he does at the beginning of

every episode.

OFF SCREEN we hear a WOMAN’S VOICE….

WOMAN’S VOICE (OS)

Butch.

DISSOLVE TO:

BUTCH’S POV

We’re in the living room of a modest two bedroom house in

Alhambra, California, in the year 1972.

BUTCH’S MOTHER, 35ish, stands in the doorway leading into the

living room.  Next to her is a man dressed in the uniform of

an American Air Force officer.  The CAMERA is the perspective

of a five-year old boy.

Super Bad Ass Stuff You Can Use To Make Your Life Dreamier

Hey Guys,

Number #2 here with a list of toys I think you’ll be pretty excited about.

I read Dr. Joe Mercola’s blog and today I was glued to his site ogling the list he called…

10 Useful Web Applications You Don’t Know About

He pulled it from a site called Lifehacker which from the list that follows tells me you might wanna check ‘em out.  Some of the links below go to their site.

Like I said, I spent more time on this site today than I usually do and by the time I had followed 3 of the links below I was sold on the idea you guys needed to see this.

So I copied it and pasted here for you.  Enjoy, and let me know what you think…

Wishing you speedy and spectacular success,

Note Taking Nerd #2

P.S. Don’t go directly to the site first. As usual tech geeks don’t do the best job of explaining benefits but the links inside the paragraphs go to the life hacker blog and they do an awesome job of showing you how powerful this is.

10. Qipit

Cameraphone image scan to PDF via email

Snap a photo of a whiteboard or document with your cameraphone and email it to Qipit.com, a webapp that scans your photo to a PDF document and stores it online automatically. You can also fax images of documents from Qipit, too.

9. Ning

Social network creator

Build your own social networking community site with Ning, a WYSIWYG web site creator that offers user registration and profiles, polls, blogs, photo albums, and boards at your own URL for free.

8. Jott

Voice to text reminders, blog posts, and calendar events

If you ever call your answering machine to leave yourself a reminder message, Jott’s for you. Call Jott to leave your message instead, and get it

Marketing Wisdom Discovered In Naughty Story – Finale Part 3

Hey guys,

Number #2 back with the final installment of our series on insinuation.

Today you and will see for ourselves how a professional seducer in print uses this technique.

Here is the surprise I promised you.

After spending hours in the Barnes & Noble Café hunting for and dissecting ads in my billion dollar digital swipe file… I plucked this gem for you.

It’s a letter from Jay Abraham’s Best Winning Ad collection.  In this copy Phillip’s publishing