Are You Independent?

Dear Fellow Independent Friends,

In just a couple of days, we will be celebrating Independence Day in the United States, which we commonly refer to as the "Fourth of July". It is during this time of year that I like to reflect and look at my own independence and I challenge you to do the same.

(Not to mention, it’s the one time of year I can set off fireworks for a few hours and NOT have the neighbors call the police. 🙂

As I’ve written in past newsletters, one of the people who has had a profound influence on my independent thinking and "wealth" thinking is Dan Kennedy, who I hope you are already familiar with.

Just in case you’re not familiar with him, Dan Kennedy, is a speaker, consultant, business coach, and author of numerous books as well as his famous "No B.S. Marketing Letter", which is considered the best business building newsletter of its kind. In fact, Dan is widely respected as one of the top marketing minds on the planet.

So, since I think we should all be thinking about our independence (especially considering the power we have in our home businesses), I’ve received permission from Dan Kennedy to send you one of his articles on this very subject.

Please take a few minutes to read the information below. I believe you’ll find it thought-provoking.

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"3 Ways To Accelerate Independence"
By Dan S. Kennedy

Most people reading this have goals. If you do not, you need to stop reading, close your business for a couple days, lock yourself away in quiet and private and figure out what you want and don’t want. But let’s assume you have goals. If you do, you would probably like to reach them faster. After all, we live in a lightning speed, amazingly impatient world.

What most entrepreneurs’ experience, at some point in their lives, is what I call the “wealth sprint to independence.”

Yes, life’s a marathon. But almost every highly successful entrepreneur has had the same experience I’ve had: a short sprint of 3, 4 or 5 years where you achieve more than in the previous 15, 20 or 30 years. What makes this sprint happen? If you knew, could you force it to happen immediately?

There are many factors in order to accelerate your independence and I’d like to discuss a few of the most important ones with you:

(1) INCREASED INVESTMENT IN VASTLY SUPERIOR MARKETING AND PROMOTION

Virtually everyone who’s done the ‘wealth sprint to independence’, kicked it off with advertising, marketing or sales breakthrough or related business breakthrough, such as premium pricing. For one, a TV infomercial; for another, joint venture alliances or ‘parasite’ opportunities with other entrepreneurs; for another, adding tele-seminars; for another use of the Internet.

One way or another, they found a new or better way to apply some proven marketing strategy or tool to their business and did so aggressively. This is why it is so vital to be a very, very serious student of successful marketing. To be on the constant hunt for that one idea, that one ‘tweak’.

(2) IMPROVED WEALTH CONSCIOUSNESS

I don’t mean to sound esoteric. But, believe me, us multi-millionaire ‘independent’ entrepreneurs do think about money differently from the rest of the folk. Profoundly so. For example, we know that money is infinite, not finite; that price is incredibly elastic; that everybody finds the money to buy what they are really motivated to buy; that it’s always a great economy for the adept marketer.

We have no hang-ups about sales, promotion. This is why it is very important to associate with such people any and every way you can, so their unorthodox thinking can become your thinking.

This is why tele-coaching and coaching groups, tele-seminars, tapes, books and newsletters from such bona fide sources are of such immense value. Quite frankly, if you’re not hitting your independence goals as rapidly and easily as you’d like, it probably has a lot more to do with your thinking than your business, its location, its customers, its competitors or other external factors.

(3) INTENSE EFFORT

We do a lot and get a lot done. I’m amazed and dismayed at how little others make happen, hour by hour, day by day. Here’s a good question: if I came to your business on a field trip and followed you around all day, every day, for a week, how impressed and in awe would I be at…

…Everything you do everyday to attract new customers?
…Everything you do to convert leads, to get more value from leads?
…Everything you do to analyze your business everyday?
…Everything you do to nurture the relationship with your customers?
…Everything you do to manage your time effectively?
…Everything you do to improve your knowledge and skill?
…Everybody you associate with?

Not just one or two things — everything — lots of things.

If I wouldn’t be all that impressed then you shouldn’t be either, and you should be striving to up the ante on your productivity.

— Dan Kennedy

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Thanks Dan, and Happy Independence Day to my valued subscribers and clients! One more thing, through a special arrangement that I have made with Dan Kennedy, you can test drive a 3-month FREE ELITE Dan Kennedy Gold Membership, which includes 3-months of his fantastic NO B.S. Marketing Letter.

For complete details click here: http://www.your4thofjulygift.com/zavadowski

Here’s To Your Independence and Success!

Chris Zavadowski 🙂

P.S. Please don’t procrastinate. I have *no clue* how long Dan Kennedy will keep up his FREE 3-month elite gold test drive, which includes The NO B.S. Marketing Letter. It could be for a few days – it could be for a few months. No idea. But, once it’s gone, it’s gone. To take advantage of this incredible FREE opportunity click here:

http://www.your4thofjulygift.com/zavadowski

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