Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Fwd: Floating an idea: airport on the water


Steve Scott
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& Leadership Point Radio
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Friends and Colleagues:

Here's a very cool idea for relieving airport congestion in America's coastal cities:  build the airport on water, a floating airport.  Dr. Walter Munk of Scripps Oceanography believes it's technologically feasible, in fact not that difficult a feat, and he should know.  Read on for this week's INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL  and  let us know what you think.  There's been a lot of comment on the article already.

And check out the spanking new INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL website at  stevechapple.com  (a modest URL if ever there was one.)  You can also email us at intellectualcapitalchapple@gmail.com

Sincerely,

Steve

Steve Chapple

stevechapple.com


INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL (TM)

San Diego Union-Tribune

PO Box 1591

La Jolla, Ca. 92038

Visiting Scholar, Scripps Institution of Oceanography,UCSD


Floating an idea: airport on the water

Noted ocean scientist Walter Munk thinks it's the solution to future problem

By Steve Chapple, Special to the U-T noonSept. 21, 2013

Walter Munk of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has been floating practical and visionary ideas for a long time. John R. McCutchen 2010 U-T file photo

What happens when San Diego outgrows its new $1 billion expansion of Lindbergh Field?

Some 17 million passengers used Lindbergh in 2012. Noise, safety and environmental concerns become ever more vexing as the airport is surrounded by the high-rise city that San Diego is becoming.

Land is expensive. The Marines appear to have no interest in sharing space at Miramar for a new civilian airfield. It's a long drive to the desert, if the county were to build one there.

But the ocean is wide open, and it's right here. Why not build the world's first major floating airport?

This is the practical and visionary idea being "floated" by Dr. Walter Munk, who holds the Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Chair at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Munk is widely considered the dean of world ocean scientists.

At age 95, Munk has been floating practical and visionary ideas for a long time. His forecasts of surf dynamics helped guide the Allies in amphibious landings throughout the Pacific, in North Africa and in Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's decision to postpone the D-Day invasion during World War II.

Munk solved the mystery of why one side of the moon always faces the earth in its rotation, showed that Alaska's waves (and in the summer San Diego's) mostly start in Antarctica, pioneered advanced acoustical techniques to provide information about how the deep sea works, and discovered the ways winds shape currents, encapsulated in his phrase "wind-driven gyres."

To Munk, the idea of a floating airport for San Diego would be inexpensive compared with terrestrial alternatives, and it would help to brand San Diego as the great ocean metropolis of the future. It would be cool, iconic and great fun. A tourist attraction, even. He adds that San Diego and Tijuana could do it together.

"It would be nice to change something before everyone else does it, and it could become San Diego's trademark," he says in his soft Austrian accent, as we sit sipping chardonnay with guacamole and chips at his small estate overlooking Black's Beach. "There are several dozen coastal cities in the world that are having problems accommodating their airports with expanding use and growing populations. Let's be the first."

What would "Dr. Munk's Floating Airport" look like?

(Of course, Munk insists the idea is not "his," so much as a proposal by himself and two esteemed colleagues. One is Frieder Seible, the former dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego and an expert in expanding airports, such as San Francisco International, into the sea. The other was marine explorer Fred Spiess, a former director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and developer of novel ocean vessels, who died in 2006.)

First, the runways would be about twice as long, which would cut down on taxiing time, and save money. "You see," says Munk, "when you land, you would end up stopping at an entrance tunnel and when you take off you would leave from there so you wouldn't have to go to the end of the field. Now, when you land, you come in and stop right at the terminal, but taking off you have to taxi for 10 minutes."

The entire platform would be supported some 20 to 25 feet off the waves on columns he calls spars, giant versions of the spar buoy.

Munk knows much about creating stable ocean platforms from his relationship with Spiess, who helped to create the Floating Instrument Platform, or "FLIP." The famous 355-foot research vessel anchored in Point Loma flips from horizontal to vertical to allow data to be collected on whale sounds or temperature gradients hundreds of feet below the surface. He believes an entire airport would move very little, even in a storm, so pilots would not notice.

How would people get to the airport? In boats? No, suggests Munk. "There would be high-speed transportation tubes built on the ocean floor, much like San Francisco's BART system," he says. The tube would "come up" to the floating platform. All ticketing and baggage collection would be done at the current airport, which Munk likes because it's downtown. You don't have to drive far. "Narita, Tokyo's airport, already does this."

In fact, Munk points out that Narita was almost the world's first floating airport. A major model was even built. But planners decided at the last minute to build it on fill, which led to problems with settling. A real floating airport "remains to be done by some city with a little bit of guts."

He means us.

But what about fog? San Diego is a city famous for its marine layer, and that's just the coast. "There is a fog problem at Lindbergh Field already," Munk says. "But I have been told that within a very few years all landing and takeoffs will be instrumental." With the growth in sensor technology, as well, fog is not the problem it once was.

A floating airport would solve the problem of noise pollution, since it would be a mile or so from land. Noise is a major problem at Lindbergh, so far as neighbors are concerned, and to Munk's way of thinking, reducing noise increases nearby property values as well as makes the experience of San Diego's "wonderful" open-air theaters much more pleasant.

Best of all, Munk says, the floating airport could be built today. We already know how to do it. The Navy did pilot studies for other locations long ago. San Diego has world-class engineering schools. The talent is here. It would just take some practical vision — and a little bit of guts.

Pity if China, Brazil or — God forbid — Los Angeles steals the idea.

Researchers Cy Bates, Elizabeth Li and Subin Ryoo contributed to this column.


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Fwd: Floating an idea: airport on the water

Friends and Colleagues:

Here's a very cool idea for relieving airport congestion in America's coastal cities:  build the airport on water, a floating airport.  Dr. Walter Munk of Scripps Oceanography believes it's technologically feasible, in fact not that difficult a feat, and he should know.  Read on for this week's INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL  and  let us know what you think.  There's been a lot of comment on the article already.

And check out the spanking new INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL website at  stevechapple.com  (a modest URL if ever there was one.)  You can also email us at intellectualcapitalchapple@gmail.com

Sincerely,

Steve

Steve Chapple

stevechapple.com


INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL (TM)

San Diego Union-Tribune

PO Box 1591

La Jolla, Ca. 92038

Visiting Scholar, Scripps Institution of Oceanography,UCSD


Floating an idea: airport on the water

Noted ocean scientist Walter Munk thinks it's the solution to future problem

By Steve Chapple, Special to the U-T noonSept. 21, 2013

Walter Munk of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has been floating practical and visionary ideas for a long time. John R. McCutchen 2010 U-T file photo

What happens when San Diego outgrows its new $1 billion expansion of Lindbergh Field?

Some 17 million passengers used Lindbergh in 2012. Noise, safety and environmental concerns become ever more vexing as the airport is surrounded by the high-rise city that San Diego is becoming.

Land is expensive. The Marines appear to have no interest in sharing space at Miramar for a new civilian airfield. It's a long drive to the desert, if the county were to build one there.

But the ocean is wide open, and it's right here. Why not build the world's first major floating airport?

This is the practical and visionary idea being "floated" by Dr. Walter Munk, who holds the Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Chair at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Munk is widely considered the dean of world ocean scientists.

At age 95, Munk has been floating practical and visionary ideas for a long time. His forecasts of surf dynamics helped guide the Allies in amphibious landings throughout the Pacific, in North Africa and in Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's decision to postpone the D-Day invasion during World War II.

Munk solved the mystery of why one side of the moon always faces the earth in its rotation, showed that Alaska's waves (and in the summer San Diego's) mostly start in Antarctica, pioneered advanced acoustical techniques to provide information about how the deep sea works, and discovered the ways winds shape currents, encapsulated in his phrase "wind-driven gyres."

To Munk, the idea of a floating airport for San Diego would be inexpensive compared with terrestrial alternatives, and it would help to brand San Diego as the great ocean metropolis of the future. It would be cool, iconic and great fun. A tourist attraction, even. He adds that San Diego and Tijuana could do it together.

"It would be nice to change something before everyone else does it, and it could become San Diego's trademark," he says in his soft Austrian accent, as we sit sipping chardonnay with guacamole and chips at his small estate overlooking Black's Beach. "There are several dozen coastal cities in the world that are having problems accommodating their airports with expanding use and growing populations. Let's be the first."

What would "Dr. Munk's Floating Airport" look like?

(Of course, Munk insists the idea is not "his," so much as a proposal by himself and two esteemed colleagues. One is Frieder Seible, the former dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego and an expert in expanding airports, such as San Francisco International, into the sea. The other was marine explorer Fred Spiess, a former director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and developer of novel ocean vessels, who died in 2006.)

First, the runways would be about twice as long, which would cut down on taxiing time, and save money. "You see," says Munk, "when you land, you would end up stopping at an entrance tunnel and when you take off you would leave from there so you wouldn't have to go to the end of the field. Now, when you land, you come in and stop right at the terminal, but taking off you have to taxi for 10 minutes."

The entire platform would be supported some 20 to 25 feet off the waves on columns he calls spars, giant versions of the spar buoy.

Munk knows much about creating stable ocean platforms from his relationship with Spiess, who helped to create the Floating Instrument Platform, or "FLIP." The famous 355-foot research vessel anchored in Point Loma flips from horizontal to vertical to allow data to be collected on whale sounds or temperature gradients hundreds of feet below the surface. He believes an entire airport would move very little, even in a storm, so pilots would not notice.

How would people get to the airport? In boats? No, suggests Munk. "There would be high-speed transportation tubes built on the ocean floor, much like San Francisco's BART system," he says. The tube would "come up" to the floating platform. All ticketing and baggage collection would be done at the current airport, which Munk likes because it's downtown. You don't have to drive far. "Narita, Tokyo's airport, already does this."

In fact, Munk points out that Narita was almost the world's first floating airport. A major model was even built. But planners decided at the last minute to build it on fill, which led to problems with settling. A real floating airport "remains to be done by some city with a little bit of guts."

He means us.

But what about fog? San Diego is a city famous for its marine layer, and that's just the coast. "There is a fog problem at Lindbergh Field already," Munk says. "But I have been told that within a very few years all landing and takeoffs will be instrumental." With the growth in sensor technology, as well, fog is not the problem it once was.

A floating airport would solve the problem of noise pollution, since it would be a mile or so from land. Noise is a major problem at Lindbergh, so far as neighbors are concerned, and to Munk's way of thinking, reducing noise increases nearby property values as well as makes the experience of San Diego's "wonderful" open-air theaters much more pleasant.

Best of all, Munk says, the floating airport could be built today. We already know how to do it. The Navy did pilot studies for other locations long ago. San Diego has world-class engineering schools. The talent is here. It would just take some practical vision — and a little bit of guts.

Pity if China, Brazil or — God forbid — Los Angeles steals the idea.

Researchers Cy Bates, Elizabeth Li and Subin Ryoo contributed to this column.


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Fwd: Seth's Blog : Beyond geography




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Subject: Seth's Blog : Beyond geography
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 06:17:07 -0400
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Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect

 

Beyond geography

The original business was a lemonade stand. At least metaphorically.

Geographically based, this sort of business offers the following proposition: We are physically convenient to you, and you won't pass another business on the way here that offers you a transaction you will like more than ours.

Originally, of course, this meant on your block. Now, it means within a drive, with good parking. Or any choice that's based on scarce options due to proximity.

The geography-based business is real-estate driven. The right neighborhood with the right rent is a good thing, a natural disaster or the decay of your neighborhood, a bad omen indeed.

The local farm is all about geography, as is a pharmacy and a pizza joint. McDonald's was focused on geography as they grew, Ray Kroc knew that few people would drive past ten other hamburger places to get to a McDonald's.

A business to business organization can also be focused on geography, either because it's a provider to local businesses, or, to get just a little metaphorical, because it's built around just a few closely-tended customers. Those businesses stick with this supplier because it's easier than switching.

As information began to spread, a second kind of business came along. The commodity-based business says, "we sell what they sell, but cheaper." The commodity business requires that information be available and that you're able to actually produce a standard item cheap enough to win at this.

A commodity business always lives on the knife edge of cheaper. More information, bigger areas served and the combination of automation and cheap labor means that at any moment, you can be made obsolete. If a business is depending on winning the Google search sweepstakes and to win the price-shopping shopper, it's a commodity business.

And the third type, the modern type, the type that's the most difficult to build and the most stable once built is the community-based business.

This entity thrives because it's worth the drive, it's worth the cost and it delivers something hard to find just about anywhere--community, not convenience. The community-based business might very well serve a local (geographic) community, but it doesn't try to serve every person in the town, just those that have decided to eagerly join that community.

McKinsey is a community-based consulting firm. Their community is the boardroom of the Fortune 1000, and they can charge a huge premium over 'geographic' providers because the product is not merely the advice they dispense. Choose McKinsey because it says something about who you are and which group you are part of.

Community-based businesses tell stories. They create remarkable products. They sync up their tribe. They happily surrender market share to the commodity seller--if it's a lower price you want, good luck to you! The community business says, "people like us shop at a place like this." This is where brands live, and where work that matters gets done.

The geography-based surf shop sells surfboards and supplies to the grommets who come to this beach this weekend. The commodity surf shop sells the cheapest boards and wetsuits, online. And the community-based surf shop runs swap meets, has a newsletter, organizes competitions, commissions original artwork on boards, and yes, along the way, sells some surf wax.

All three structures can work, for schools, for non-profits, for companies big and small. But each is its own style, with its own structures and measurements and strategies. Choose!

       

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Friday, September 20, 2013

Fwd: How Can a Minimalist Buy an Island? | Tynan | Life Outside the Box


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Subject: How Can a Minimalist Buy an Island? | Tynan | Life Outside the Box
To: stevescott@techacq.com


 
   

How Can a Minimalist Buy an Island?

Considering the island story has eclipsed my next most popular story on this blog by almost 4x, maybe a follow-up is in order.

At this point I should admit that I have no idea what the public likes. I wrote that last post thinking that my regular readers would really get a kick out of it, but that the public in general wouldn't really care. I was wrong, of course, and the story stayed at #1 on Hacker News longer than I've ever seen a story stay there. Gawker also wrote a really cool piece about it., and other press inquiries have been coming in.

The strange thing is, the reception has been overwhelmingly positive. While me living in an RV triggered all sorts of pent up anger and resentment, buying an island was okay with everyone. There was one interesting question that was brought up a bunch of times, though: what the hell is a minimalist doing buying an island?

I think that this is a great question and that the answer touches on some important principles on living and minimalism.

All languages are imperfect, and certain words are inevitably overloaded. A generous person may be a fairly awful person who gives his money freely to certain charities, or he may be penniless but generous with his time. Someone who is smart may have a vast store of knowledge, or he may be clever at building things. Words, including "minimalist", can mean all sorts of things.

I love material things. I love my laptop, my backpack, my phone, my pants, my watch, my RV, my motorcycle, and many other things. I love people more, of course, but that doesn't preclude me from loving stuff.

Until six years ago or so, I didn't really think about the negative consequences of having stuff. Then I sold my house and was forced to deal with it all at once. Stuff had to be sold, transported, given away, and stored. That whole process gave me an opportunity to think about these issues, and also about the ongoing responsibilities of owning all that stuff: the maintenance, upgrading, cleaning, and organization.

That experience turned me off of stuff a bit. Rather than see material goods as unbridled benefit, I saw them as a compromise.

So when I moved, I had a lot less stuff. And then when I decided to travel, it was an easy decision to sell everything and live out of my backpack. I still had really great things, and still really loved them, but I just didn't have all that many.

Some people may be minimalists because they hate stuff, which is totally fine. I'm a minimalist because I want to minimize my obligations. I learned that buying things had costs beyond the dollars spent initially, and I became more careful incurring those costs.

The island, like everything else, has ongoing costs. Taxes are less than a hundred bucks a year each. We'll have to buy a boat and other things to outfit the island. More importantly, it takes effort to organize trips and do the work on the island that needs to be done.

The reason I'm willing and able to take on those responsibilities is because minimalism has given me space in my life for projects like this. I keep my costs to a minimum and my responsibilities (outside of SETT) to a minimum, so that I can spend money and time on things that matter to me, like the island.

Subscribing to a philosophy is a nice way to get a packaged set of beliefs to use as a guide, but when those beliefs start interfering with your own individualized preferences and goals, it's time to modify them. So while minimalism may mean having the least number of items possible to some people, to me it means only having things and activities that are overwhelmingly worth the costs they incur. For me, the island is easily in that category.

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If you're interested in more of the particulars of the island, check out the Hacker News thread where I answered a bunch of questions.

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Friday, September 13, 2013

Fwd: I want an easy life


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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Welly Mulia <wellymulia@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:50 PM
Subject: I want an easy life
To: Steve <stevescott@techacq.com>


Humans want an easy life. They want easy that. Easy this. Easy everything.

Hence you see them jump all over those offers that promise instant results without doing anything.

Now, while there is no free lunch and you need to work to get results, you can make your product be as user friendly as possible, so that it's easily understood and followed.

For info products and courses, you explain it in simple English and in a step-by-step fashion. Don't jump from one unrelated topic to another. Present it in a logical sequence that naturally leads from one section/chapter to another.

For software, you provide clear instructions. You make the user interface intuituive and clean. Make it so that even without a user manual or tutorial, people can still use it easily.

If your product is hard to use, people are not going to get get the maximum out of it. This means the value delivered to customers drops, which means customer satisfaction also drops.

Chances that your customers come back and buy your products/other products are slim. No repeat business = very hard to profit. Remember LCV (Lifetime Customer Value) that we talked about earlier? If LCV is low, profits (if any) are also low.

You might have the best product out there, but if takes an Einstein to understand your course or use your software, then it's pretty much useless.

Real Example:

In the small business sales and marketing software, there is a leading company whose software is VERY robust and sophisticated. I've never used them before, but from what I heard from A LOT of people who have tried them out -- they moaned that it's VERY hard and complicated to setup and use-- that you need to be an experienced programmer to setup and use it effectively. Some of them even have a dedicated programmer just to use their software!

Here at Get Profits Fast and XooGuu, when we develop software, one of the most important things we always focus on is to make sure our software is EASY to use. You might also have noticed that our tagline is: when you absolute want online marketing software that's easy to use. We put A HECK OF A LOT of effort making sure that even a beginner can use our software easily, even without a user manual.

What about you? Are your products easy to use? The easier it is you make your products to be used -> the more copies you will sell -> higher customer satisfaction -> more repeat purchase -> higher LCV -> more profits

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Friday, September 6, 2013

Fwd: Startup Reading List - StartupDigest - September 6th - September 13th


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Be sure to read the how to increase your luck surface area post. While not directly startup related, it's been one of my most useful posts during my startup journey.

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What do I do with an unproductive co-founder, 12+ months in?

Advice about a hard to discuss topic.

Why I Quit My Job To Go Full Time On My Startup

Todd Goldberg

A story about not taking the easy path but instead going for something you love.

What are some examples of great new-user experience flows on the web?

Andy Johns

Examples and general rules of thumb for testing and optimizing your new user flow.

DropBox's YCombinator Application (2007)

Drew Houston

A look into how DropBox originally pitched themselves.

2013 SaaS Survey

David Skok

A huge survey detailing all of the stats, growth rates, and analytics about SaaS companies ranging from $0 to $60M+ in revenue.

Advice on partnership with a large firm

"A partnership of equals can work but if the power in a relationship is too one sided then one of the "partners" is effectively the employee of the other."

How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area

Jason Roberts

"The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life, your Luck Surface Area, is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated."

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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Fwd: why 90% fail and how to break the odds




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Subject: why 90% fail and how to break the odds
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 19:28:41 -0400
From: Welly Mulia <wellymulia@gmail.com>
To: Steve <stevescott@techacq.com>


90+% who try to earn money online fail miserably.

There are 5 mistakes that they commit which result in their failure:

*****************************
Mistake #1 - They want instant results
*****************************

Most people want instant results. They read some Internet Marketing ebooks or video tutorials today and they expect to be making money tomorrow. They treat these ebooks or video tutorials or home study courses like some kind of magic pills.

When they don't see instant (or fast) results, they whine and say "I've tried everything, but all of them don't work!"


*****************************
Mistake #2 - They are very lazy and they don't want to work hard
*****************************

Typically, people are lazy. It's fine if they're just lazy and they don't expect any results.

But when you are lazy AND you expect to be earning lots of money online, then something must be really wrong with you.

There are no easy money, both online and offline, to be made. If it were easy, everyone would be rich.

As I've said before... there is no free lunch, my friend. If you want to earn big money online, then you must work hard and work smart consistently. You must be willing to pay the price.

I paid my dues by sacrificing my TV time, my hangout time with friends, my sleep time, etc.

Have you paid your dues?


*****************************
Mistake #3 - They give up too easily
*****************************

When these people fail to get any or little result, they simply give up.

They complain (yet again) "I've done everything, why is this not working for me?"

To be successful in anything, not just making money online, failure is a process one must experience. There is no one who is really successful at what he or she does who hasn't had any failures in the past.

Failure is a process one must overcome. Unfortunately, most people do not realize this and they simply give up when their efforts are not yet yielding any results.

Think for a second: when you were a little kid trying to learn to ride a bicycle, did you miraculously manage to ride it successfully without falling off the bicycle at all, or did it take you some cuts and bruises on your hands and knees before you eventually learn how to ride?


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Mistake #4 - They don't know where to start
*****************************

Most people don't have a clue where to start. They suffer from "information overload".

What is information overload?

Information overload simply means that the amount of information you receive on a subject is way too much, so much so that you eventually don't know where to start and in the end you don't do anything at all about the information you've absorbed.

This leads to action paralysis = NO ACTION = NO RESULTS!


*****************************
Mistake #5 - They try their hands at everything
*****************************

Today they'll read an ebook about making money through Adsense, and then they'll start implementing a few of the strategies covered in the ebook.

A few days later, they stumble upon this site about Forex trading, and they start doing some forex transactions.

Then a few weeks later, someone offers them a video course about marketing on Facebook and they'll try to implement the tactics in the course.

The point is: they'll try their hands at something new, without going deep on the things they've already learned before. Eventually they end up nowhere with a little bit of knowledge here and there.


Now that we've taken a look at the 5 reasons why most people fail to make money online, it's time for 3 tips on how you can reduce your failure rate:

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Tip #1 - You must work hard and smart
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Understand that to achieve REAL, TANGIBLE results, you need to put in conscientious effort, time, and dedication. There are no such things as overnight success.


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Tip #2 - Do not give up easily
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Do not give up easily. Strengthen your mentality. Realize that to achieve success, failures are inevitable. If you fail, you get up and try again. If you fail again, try again.

As the saying goes, "there are no failures, only feedback". Each failure is one step closer to your goal.


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Tip #3 - Focus on 20% of the work that leads to 80% of the results
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Do you know that not all techniques and methods of making money online carry the same weight? What I mean is that there are some techniques and methods of making money online that are more important than others.

Have you ever heard of the 80/20 rule: the Pareto Principle? This is how Wikipedia defines it:

"The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes."

This simply means that 20% of our work determines 80% of our outcome. Conversely, the reverse is also true, which is 80% of our work determines 20% of our outcome.

Your task is to identify the 20% work which will determine 80% of the outcome.

For example, if you're just get started, it would be silly to seek out big name joint venture (JV) partners and ask them to collaborate with you. You're still a nobody, and they are already somebody. 99.99% of the time your proposal will be rejected.

Try putting yourself in their shoes: what would you do if you're a well-known expert in your industry and a newbie seeks to collaborate with you?

Identify the techniques and tactics that you do NOT need right now. Once you've identified these techniques, be sure NOT to spend time learning them. Your time would be better spent on learning the things that matter most to you right now.

Once you've identified which tasks you need to do right now, use time management software to help you organize and manage your tasks for optimum productivity. Our software, My Action Generator, can help you do this:

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Recently I've also documented a list of 22 helpful business tools. It only takes 5 minutes of your reading time, but just discovering one or two of these tools could potentially save you precious time, effort, and money:

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My very best,
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Fwd: resend: Jack of all trades...master of none = you?


Steve Scott
Technology Acquisition Group
& Leadership Point Radio
New York 646.450.4730
San Francisco 415.633.6850


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bob Regnerus <bob@rjrcomputing.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:05 PM
Subject: resend: Jack of all trades...master of none = you?
To: stevescott@techacq.com


I have a few people considering this or already on board. This will only work as a small group, so if you want to be considered, please reply ASAP.

Here's the message in case you missed it.....


Did you realize that your biggest asset might be your biggest problem?

The fact that you can do most anything in your client's eyes actually works against you.

* Please read this note carefully all the way to the end. This might be exactly where you are right now.

When you are a Jack of All Trades, but Master of None, how does this affect you?

(1) You can never articulate and communicate your value to the market

When asked what you do, you laugh, you squirm, then you to ask the person if they have 30 minutes to waste hearing your long story. 5 minutes into describing your long list of credentials, the person you are talking to is reaching for their cell phone praying for a text or incoming call to interrupt you and hi-tail it outta there. 

It's far more interesting and productive to tell someone something very specific and interesting that you do.

For example:

- I help middle-age men with beer bellies lose 15 pounds in 90 days and restore their vitality and confidence

- I provide vacation homes in New Buffalo, Mi to high-income professionals who live in Chicago's Gold Coast area and want a quick weekend escape

- I offer job-placement services in the trades to veterans returning home from the Middle East

If you can't ramble off a statement like one of these, you are in trouble.

(2) You don't get to talk to good prospects

Quite simply, if you don't have a good grasp of what you can do for people, you won't talk to people that are best suited for you to help. People as a rule, rarely go looking for generalists. They're not impressed with someone that can do a little of everything. When the A/C is out, they are looking for a HVAC guy. When you have a heart problem, you're going to a cardiologist. When you have the IRS breathing down your neck, no ordinary CPA will do, you want a Tax Attorney who's an animal.

People don't care to employ generalists and wait for results. They want experts who can deliver something amazing to them in a short amount of time.

(3) When you can't say what you do well and don't talk to good prospects, you take most any job you're asked to do and you usually undercharge that gig

You gotta eat, so when someone finally gets on the phone with you, and they present you with an issue, because you are hungry (and you are a generalist), you'll take their gig no matter how miserable and out-of-the box it is for you. Oh, and by the way, you are also very suspect to be taken in by "opportunity offerers"...those very (ahem) persuasive people that dangle truffles in front of you to get you do work for them for almost nothing but a promise.

You will also get people on the phone (who cannot afford experts) that ask you do work for next to nothing because you have a good heart. I'm not against helping people at all, but helping people in need is charity or ministry. You need to separate your charitable activity from your business activity. If you constantly offer your services for way less than you are worth, you are being disingenuous to your self and telling the universe that you aren't worthy.

I'm here to tell you - YOU ARE WORTHY. You were born for something great! You deserve better!!

Be aware that the big players we see marketing around us can afford to market to the general public. It's the only way they can maintain growth. They are willing to sift through the messes (I mean masses) to find the diamonds. You and I don't have that luxury. We don't have the resources or the time to sift through 1000's of prospects to find the couple that we can help. 

Our big advantage is our ability to both exhibit and market our unique expertise and experience in the most narrow way possible so we attract LESS prospects, but end up speaking to MORE qualified leads.

So let me ask you a big question, are you a jack of all trades or a specialist?

Can you tell someone in 10 seconds what you do and make them genuinely interested?

Based on feedback from my webinar, I am going to offer a small, limited number of people to work with me in a small group setting to finally answer the biggest question you have yet to answer: "What do you do?"

  • If you want me to help you focus...
  • If you want me to help you create a 10 second engaging statement...
  • If you want me to help you work less hours, charge more for your services, and serve more people that appreciate you...

Reply back to this email and let me know you want to be considered. Don't reply if you expect me to do all the work. I promise you that you will get focus IF you promise yourself you will do what it takes to make it happen. 

This will not be a "class". You will not be learning theory, best practices, or models. We will work together to find YOU and help you get your voice and story.

Don't wait, I want to start this within a week. It will not be cheap, but it will not be as sizable of an investment as when you work with me 1-on-1. If your first instinct is to reply back with, "How much?", you probably aren't a fit. Here's a hint - it's south of $1000. 

So are you willing to invest time and effort into changing your career and your life today?

Look outside. Labor Day is over. Fall has arrived. It's a new season and the leaves are changing. It's time for you to change too.

Reply back today and I will let you know how to proceed.

Carpe diem my friends!!

Bob.



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