• May 14

    My favorite story about how all learning happens and how you can short circuit the process as well as a free gift for you coming up on quicksustainablewealth.tv.

    Welcome to Quick Sustainable Wealth TV, I’m Robert Skrob and here I am at my pool. A place where I love to come to read, to relax, and to do writing. I have a special story for you. It seems like just a few years ago my daughter Samantha was learning her multiplication tables. And the teacher sent home a project. It was a sheet of one hundred multiplication tables or multiplication problems and it was just two plus four, eight plus seven, six plus four; those types of things. And that’s all, six times four. And my daughter had to learn how to do a hundred of them within five minutes.

    So, no problem. We sat her down at the kitchen table and said, “Ok, great. Let’s get started.” And all of a sudden the tears started flowing. She got from question one and she just “I can’t do it”. And then two. It was terrible! It lasted for forty five minutes, trying to get through these questions. There were tears; she erased the paper so hard she ripped it.

    And you know, no matter how many times we tried to explain, “Hey look, if you just tried and did it, you’d be done by now. But all of this crying isn’t getting you anywhere.” All of these tears, trouble never got anywhere. But finally after forty five minutes she got it done and we were able to move on. Thank goodness.

    But we had to do it again the next day. Next day, each one was just violently difficult. And she worked through crying, tears and frustration but she was finished. And this time was only twenty seven minutes. Almost half as long. A huge increase, but still drama, frustration, anger and tears all involved in this. Just getting this multiplication table done. Next day, not so bad. No tears but still a bit frustrating. But she got it done in eighteen minutes.

    Within a week she had it down to ten minutes and within two weeks of doing it every single day she had it in five minutes flat. There for a while, a couple of days she would get it done in five minutes. She’d miss one or two, but then within three weeks she was able to get the whole page done in a lot less than four minutes.

    Of course, I tried to explain to her, “Hey, you ought to go back and check your work” but she never did. She just got it done in four minutes and moved on. And it occurred to me that this is how all learning happens. You ever start something new, you’re learning a new skill, maybe it’s learning copywriting for the first time or website programming or you got a new piece of software that you’re trying to figure out how it works. And at first it’s like “OH!” and it’s painful I hate it. You just get that feeling on your skin and it just drives you crazy. That is learning.

    Unfortunately that’s the process. There is this physical reaction to trying to learn something new that your body rejects it. We don’t want this. But then you force your way through and as painful as it is then you finish. You do it again and it’s half as easy. And then in three weeks you can do it without even thinking. I mean think about driving. How many times, I mean I remember when I was driving down the road for the first time. I was scared to death. My mom had a full sized van. And the cars, they were coming up so fast on the highway. It was a two lane road and they were coming by, it seemed like they were going to hit me. It was all I could do to stay way on the right hand side of the road to try to avoid them. Now I go down the road and I don’t even think about it.

    How many times do you drive for twenty minutes and all of a sudden you realize, I’ve made turns, I’ve navigated and I didn’t even realize I was driving, I was thinking about something else. That is learning. That is what it is all about. It’s difficult at the beginning. It’s scary, there is even this negative physical reaction but once you get through it you’re able to do it so much more easily. That is learning.

    So the next time you feel that feeling, you feel that pain and you are like “I can’t do it”, do it because that is learning. Your succeeding. That’s the feeling you want to know so that you can break through and break free and implement in you business. Next week on Quick Sustainable Wealth TV is all about social media and my theory about how social media works and how you can work it in your business. But first before I go, I have a special gift for you. It is a video I recorded with my six criteria I use before evaluating any type of business venture that I am going to get involved it. A brand new startup, a joint venture, or a new business that I’m going to work with somebody or even buy. So those types of businesses, those types of criteria I always use to evaluate those businesses that I want to be involved in. So that I can choose whether that is a type of business that could be worth my time.

    Robert Skrob is president of the Information Marketing Association with members marketing products in hundreds of different business categories. For a free video that reveals The Number One Secret to Creating Quick Sustainable Wealth In Your Life, visit quick sustainable wealth at http://www.quicksustainablewealth.com.

  • May 14

    You finding for that printer that we all dream about, you know the one, you callthem up and request them to print some post cards and flyers, wait a few days then go and pick them up and they’re perfect, yeah that printer. Well If you are like me you know it doesn’t always go as planned and often hurts the wallet.

    In Brisbane where I stay this seemed to happen all too often, I do not know if I was just my luck or what but some of the Brisbane Printing companies I would use let me down.

    So after a lot of trial and error sifting through my local Brisbane Printing business’s I have found there are a few systems that can be applied to keep you out of harms way when choosing a printer.

    So lets get started, remember I am mainly addressing Brisbane print so there may be some products on this list that don’t apply to you:

    1. Ok I dont know how long I ignored this obvious rule but I tell you its not one to be ignored. So simple but we dont always use it and that is word of mouth. With Brisbane Printing once I asked somebody I thought might know about print media I was half way there.

    2. Check them out before you sign the bottom line. In this day and age there are many ways you can check out your potential printing business before you sign you’re life away. So before you choose check out forums online and see what other people say.

    3. There are a couple of types of printing out there and most firms, well alot brisbane printestablishments only print either digital printing or for the larger runs offset printing. If you are run is small choose digital otherwise choose offset printing. Knowing which one you need should cut your list of printers down a little or a lot.

    4. If they have a website then go and check it out and take particular notice of their clients. Existing and previous clients are a amazing way to gauge a printing companies competence.

    Now I know what your thinking, tell me something I didn’t already know but this is the point, alot of you already knew this but if your like me you didn’t apply it to real world when selecting a printing establishment and that’s where we go wrong. We know what we will do it is just doing it is something different.

    But there are times when none of these systems can be applied. Say for example I have to use a Brisbane print buiness for an product that no one else prints and therefore I’m forced to use one I have not used before. What can you do in this situation?

    Here are a couple more things to take into consideration when making your choice. They have assisted me in Brisbane and im certain will help you too.

    * How is the customer service? This may have nothing to do with the printing however if something goes wrong you want a print firm that’s there to help not just rob you.

    * A lot of Brisbane Printing establishments will show you a proof of you are job before they go ahead with the full run, ask for a proof first as you do not want a whole box of postcards you are never going to use.

    * Sometimes they will not print off an example of you’re job so in this case ask to see another example of something printed similar, e.g printed flyers

    * Remember cheapest isn’t always best and you might end up paying twice as much if you choose a super cheap printer that botches you’re work. This has happened to me with Brisbane Printing business’s.

    After saying all that I hope you have luck in your printing ventures, these rules have assisted me with Brisbane Printing I hope they help you with you’re print media too. And oh remember just to double your choosing process there are a lot of internet printers these days, I have dabbled with these as well with mixed results. perfectluck.

    Brisbane Printing Business’s and Information Brisbane prints

  • May 12

    I’ve got a very neat lesson that I learned from landscaping of all places. I don’t do landscaping myself. It’s you know, we’ve got a guy who does it all for us. But you respect him of that. I did learn by checking out what he does and by pointing, you know I want this bush trimmed back. We need to cut this way back or we’ve got these roses we need to trim back. I’ve found that by trimming, you spur growth. And growth happens.

    I wonder does that really happen in business. Well, I actually discovered that in fact it does. Just a few years ago I had a business and I had a lot of clients. And I bought it and after two years I had really worked these clients hard; really tried to grow this thing. But I wasn’t making anything. I wasn’t making any money. At the end of the year I had just a few hundred bucks to show for a years worth of work. And I really started analyzing my clients and figured out who was profitable, where I was making my money from and I figured out that I was making my profit, eighty percent of it was coming from only twenty percent of my clients.

    Well, it was difficult but I got rid of the eighty percent that weren’t making me any money. And that also required me to get rid of employees, to get rid of overhead, and to get rid of a lot of stuff that wasn’t serving me or my business. It was a huge pruning. I can tell you that process involved cussing, it involved yelling at me, accusations by the employees, they talked about I was destroying the company. But in the end, within just a few months, I was making thousands of dollars a month and all it required was a lot of pruning. And pruning clients, pruning expenses and all of a sudden I was spurred for growth.

    And I haven’t looked back. I’ve been able to multiply myself many times. I was able to have a whole lot more time. It was that pruning, while scary and trying and difficult as chopping off a branch would be to a plant, it was to me and it may very well be to you but it’s the secret to success.

    So many of us add things; we think we have to add a client, we’ve got to add more projects, we’ve got to add a marketing system, we’ve got to add a new system, we’ve got to add a new business process. We’ve got to add software; we think that success comes from doing more. Success and growth often comes from pruning. Look at what you can prune. Where does your profit come? Where are the most viable growth opportunities? And get rid of everything else. Start with only what serves your purpose and that is the secret to growth.

    Robert Skrob is president of the Information Marketing Association with members marketing products in hundreds of different business categories. For a free video that reveals The Number One Secret to Creating Quick Sustainable Wealth In Your Life, visit quick sustainable wealth at http://www.quicksustainablewealth.com.

  • May 12

    Welcome to Quick Sustainable Wealth TV. I’m Robert Skrob and here I am at my pool. A place where I love to come to read, to relax, and to do writing. And I have some, a neat special gift for you but first a story. Social media, I get a lot of questions, a lot of people say, “I see all of these programs about getting rich using social media. I see all of these things about building lots of customers and really lots of new growth.” Well, social media is a very important tool and let me tell you how it fits. Remember that Chamber of Commerce business after hour’s events where there, where you used to go and when you were new you didn’t really know very many people. Maybe you went with some co-workers or maybe you went with friends but either way you kind of got there and you sought out the people that you already knew. And say you found Jack from across the room. You go over to Jack, “Hey Jack, how are you?” and then pretty soon Jack and you were talking and somebody who might know Jack and someone else would come up to you and be Marci.

    And Jack would go, “Hey, this is Marci my friend” and introduce you to Marci and Marci to you and know all of a sudden you know two people at the event. And then somebody who might know you comes up and you introduce them to Jack and Marci and so four of you know each other.

    That is networking. It’s been around for years. It’s a very old form of marketing. And nothing really particularly is new about it. That is social media. You go online to Face book or wherever and you reach out to the people you already know. “Hey, here’s my Facebook profile. Here’s my online profile for your business”. You set up a fan page and you let your customers know that there’s a page that they can come and interact with each other. It is kind of like a business after hour’s invitation. Your customers can network together and then you can network with me and I can provide you information and ongoing updates, that’s all.

    Just kind of reconnecting via social media. Well what about the marketing? Well, it’s as useful as a business after hour’s event. It’s networking after all. And certainly networking has a place and all marketing strategies but getting rich? No. About generating floods of new customers? No. Where there are some people who did it? Maybe. I don’t know. I haven’t seen when you boil it down. I’ve certainly heard the stories. I’ve heard lots of stories for people who have done it. And then whether they were really successful and generated the real customers of any kind of value who’s to say they don’t have the numbers or they aren’t sharing them. They certainly have all kinds of hyperbole about how much money they may have made but it doesn’t, no one that I know has shared any numbers that had any results and I see a lot of business numbers.

    I see a whole lot of my coaching clients and consulting clients coming to me bringing me their financials, bringing me their marketing metrics. I can see where their investing in marketing, see what they are doing and the social media is a great strategy. Generate some customers. But you need to watch the return on investment. Watch it for yourself and the real marketing strategies are systems and processes to reach out to customers who don’t know you yet. Let them know that you exist, let them know you solve problems that they have and then invite them to be customers. Systematic step by step processes where they can get to know you, get to like you, trust you and then become a customer. That is what succeeds. That is what generates customers, not social media.

    Now social media can be one of the ways that they get to know you. That’s a good tool, that’s a good tool of social media and it’s very useful in that. But in order replace a marketing system or as a life rings that you throw out in order to rescue your business. Fortunately social media is not that. Hard work and creating a marketing system with a follow up sequence and still what’s required in today’s world.

    Robert Skrob is president of the Information Marketing Association with members marketing products in hundreds of different business categories. For a free video that reveals The Number One Secret to Creating Quick Sustainable Wealth In Your Life, visit quick sustainable wealth at http://www.quicksustainablewealth.com.

  • May 9

    I’ve got a neat story for you about my son and ten and under football. See, eight and under football, he was pretty much the fastest kid on the team.

    He scored touchdowns and man he was great. He loved it and he was able to run the ball a bunch and you know kind of with the football where if you ran right at a kid, they would kind of jump out of the way and work to grab your flag.

    Or, if a kid was coming right at you, they would try to juke around you in order to avoid you pulling their flag. Well, ten and under football is completely different. Now, it’s still a flag football game, but the players, the ten year olds, are so much bigger than the nine year olds which is where my son was. They don’t need to slow down or go around the player. They can just run right over him and it is kind of short you know, he’s not as tall as some of the other kids. And they didn’t think anything of just bowling over him.

    And when he is lying on the ground he can’t pull their flag. Well, it didn’t take but a couple of these and he hated football. And I’m sad to say he just despised it because they were just running over him. He was like, “But I don’t understand. They are supposed to go around me and not through me.” Well, no it’s part of the game. They can go through or around, it’s a choice and they choose to go through and you’ve got to be able to pull the flag in spite of that.

    But then he wasn’t getting to play when he wanted to play. He was running back before and now all of a sudden he’s not running back and he’s like, why when the coach is supposed to rotate us around. No, you know ten and under football is about winning. And it’s not fair to the good players to put the good players in less important positions because then the team wouldn’t perform as well.

    He’s got to put the good players in the best positions so that they can get the best results for the team overall. But everybody is supposed to play. It’s all about having fun. No, eight and under football may very well be about having fun. Ten and under football is about winning and success. And as I worked through that with my son and had that experience, I remember vividly sitting at the kitchen table and having that discussion.

    And then just a few minutes later, I was sitting out on my back deck thinking about that. I was enjoying a cigar and thinking about that experience and going, you know what? I complain all of the time and it shouldn’t be this hard. I should be able to generate more customers in my business. I should be able to do marketing and it generates results. Or, I should be able to tell an employee how to do something provides instructions, and they follow the checklist. I should be able to give a project to a vendor and they deliver it finished.

    Well, that may be in some other world but not in this world. This is the equivalent of ten and under football. It’s about success. And people bow you over. Coaches put the best players and even when you do your best, sometimes you don’t get the results that you think you deserve. That is life. That is ten and under football. And we have to suck it up just like my son did. Even though we don’t like it, we still have to deal with what it is. Not with what should be or we wish we were or what it happened to be or what we would like it to be.

    This is the real world. And unfortunately, it’s not fair. And a lot of times, it’s damn difficult. But, success comes through persistence through that and making it happen anyway. Entrepreneurs break through and employees allow those types of obstacles to stop them. And that is the difference. This is your entrepreneurial moment.

    This is a time where you can succeed. Don’t take no for an answer. If you get knocked down by a bigger bully, you jump up and beat them next time. If you don’t get the results you think you deserve from this speech, you make it better and give it again. If you don’t get the results you want from a sales presentation, do it again. Make it better, rehearsed. Get a new approach. Improve and win. That is where success comes from. And that is how you can break through no matter what.

    Robert Skrob is president of the Information Marketing Association with members marketing products in hundreds of different business categories. For a free video that reveals The Number One Secret to Creating Quick Sustainable Wealth In Your Life, visit quick sustainable wealth at http://www.quicksustainablewealth.com.

  • Jan 30

    If you are experiencing problems with the slow performance of your computer it is a very good idea to use a register cleaner. Register in your computer which is normally the central part of your computer tend to slow down because of the data it stores. This data comes from the different programs and utilities you run.

    A prime reason for your programs not to work is the register. It may have misplaced certain things or have some random pop up error or a host of other problems added with a slow computer interface.

    We will show you how to pick the best registry cleaner to speed up your computer for your needs and within your budget.

    Many people make the mistake of assuming that all cleaners will work on their computer and hence only check for compatibility after buying the cleaner. Thus it is very important that you check if your cleaner is compatible with your windows operating system before buying it

    The registry of each different version of windows differs in its set up from one and another. Hence you better make sure that the cleaner you are about to purchase is perfectly suited for your version of windows. There are certain cleaners which work with every operating system and you might want to go in for those as an easy solution.

    It is advisable to have a restore back to original settings feature in your program which can undo any errors caused by your cleaner. Your cleaner works by rearranging the register and hence is prone to misplacing data in the process of trying to make your register run more efficiently. This can lead to further problems as programs which worked before the cleaning are misplaced.

    An undo feature removes the bad changes made by a cleaner and keeps the useful changes performed by it. It is now a standard feature in all reputed cleaners.

    Review sites are a must view to know more about your product. They contain first hand experiences based on the usage of these programs by people.

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  • Jan 20

    For all those computers, who have become slow in speed, there is a dire need of a registry cleaner. This program will help ensure that the files that have been logged in the storage registry of the computer, over the period of its usage, are carefully sorted out and removed for more space and hence improved performance.

    It is highly possible that some of the files are lost in the process, making the computer stop working in some cases. This is one of the reasons why the computer loses its touch with time.

    So, you will need the best registry cleaner, to keep your computer safe and let you keep using it in the future.

    Pick out a registry cleaner, which supports your operating system, since most people don’t check that and it lets them down. Without the proper support, your program will be useless.

    With the windows becoming modified, the cleaners need changing too, so you will have to choose the right cleaner, which will work with your version of the windows. For that, you must go into details of the cleaner itself.

    It is also advised that you look for a registry cleaner, which makes the use of restoration, to bring back any files, which it may have accidentally removed during the cleaning process, since they may lead to your computer crashing down.

    Most of the cleaners do come with the undo option, since a lot of people need it, almost after every attempt to clean the system’s registry.

    In order to make sure that you have got the best registry cleaner, it is very important that browse through review websites, which will give you a better overview of what you are about to get with the registry cleaner that you have chosen or will be choosing.

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  • Dec 12

    With the iPhone 4G just days away from being announced MyfreeiPhone.co.uk are showing consumers how to get a free iPhone 4G, demand for the iPhone 4G will be massive so why not jump the queues and claim your free iPhone now.

    Having read the information on Myfreeiphone.co.uk you can see it uses an affiliate program to supply free iphones, they have been running since 2007 and are going from strength to strength. As Apple brings out new iphone’s the demand from consumers is huge, take a look now and see how easy it is to claim your own free iphone.

    The way the process works to claim your free iphone is an easy process, all the information you require is supplied. You join the website and you are then given an option of offers which you can complete, these offers range from completely free trials to joining an online gambling website. One thing to remember is that you only have to complete one of the offers displayed. Once your offer has been credited you can then continue and claim your free iphone 4.

    Myfreeiphone.co.uk can offer this to consumers as they are paid a commission fee from the affiliate advertisers, every time a new customer joins them they are paid from the big company’s a fee for finding the new customers. These large company’s are well known brands and with many such as LOVEFiLM and BlockBusters Santander Bank etc you can trust you are dealing with reputable business’s. The way this all works and why people continue to use this system is because everyone wins, the large company’s gain a new customer the advertisers are paid a fee and the consumers get a free iphone as their reward.

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  • Dec 12

    The iphone 4 is a unit that is unbelievably innovative to perform a wide variety of chores that in the past you required many diverse gadgets in order to have done. In a world that is focused on being compact and making the most that you are able to from your gadgets you’ll be ecstatic to know exactly how many things you are able to do with the iPhone 4.

    iPhone 4 Tips to boost Productivity

    * Tab the status bar which is positioned at the top of your screen where the battery pointer, time, and signal strength are situated to jump to the top of your display. This is especially useful with long pages you may be reading and works in a multitude of applications.

    * Screen positioning changes in line with the device’s position but should you like it to be locked then you can simply choose the multi tasking interface and lock it by double tapping the home button.

    * Tapping the space bar two occasions as opposed to one will really create a period for the finish of a sentence and then make the initial letter of the subsequent one capitalized. This increases your typing speed. Special characters could be found by holding down a letter.

    * Deleting messages through your email can be time consuming so delete many at a time by going to select multiple messages through the edit feature available.

    Extra Features you might not know about the iPhone 4

    * Through the map feature if you hold down a location a pin will get placed there to permit not only directions but a street view if desired.

    * Zoom in with your camera by simply tapping the screen which will, in turn, allow you to zoom up to 5 times by sliding the control.

    * Maps could be tough to follow if they are sideways or upside down so make it easier on yourself by double tapping location which can be discovered under maps. This automatically adjusts the map for your current position.

    More Unique Tricks with the iPhone 4

    * Saving images with the iPhone’s constructed in browser of Safari is quite easy, almost too easy. All you have to do is to touch and then maintain down the image.

    * Copying and pasting text can be very helpful in a selection of situations and is achieved by, like many other options, double tapping and dragging to select all the essential text.

    * When taking a image you may discover something you need to focus on. Simple tab where you want the image to concentrate and then you’ll discover that the settings are automatically adjusted for the object.

    Greatest Ways to Ensure you Utilize all of the Features on the iPhone 4

    * Read the user handbook that comes with your device. You may discover that there are very a few things that you by no means knew were feasible.

    * Search online. Occasionally there are extra cool ideas individuals discover.

    You wouldn’t want to lay out all that money on a device which only accomplices a few task which you need to complete, so make sure you choose the best device on the market.

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  • Dec 9

    Every time you see a fire engine or fire trucks come whizzing past you on the streets, you should know that they belong to a family of trucks all made with the one and only purpose of carrying water. Where their differences come in is in the reason as to why they are carrying water.

    In this family of water-bearing trucks, each of them comes with its own features that enable it to tactfully handle the tasks that they are required to do.

    As the name suggests, a fire truck is designed for carrying water used to put out fires in the city. Their cabin space is also made just large enough to transport a team of firefighters to the fire location with all their equipment on board as well. to be able to fit in all their equipment like the ladders and hoses the trucks are manufactured with a lot of specifications that bring the end price of such a truck to an expensive price tag. This is why it is always a charitable thing to give some funding to the fire department.

    When it comes to large scale outdoor fires like the type you would find in a forest, they are handled by fire tankers. These do not pump the water onto the fires but just bring it to the site of the fire.

    They bring the water to the location after which they can then be connected to the fire engine. They do not bring the firefighters with them and more often than not it is only the driver on-board.

    The third kind of water-bearing trucks are the water trucks. These will more or less resemble the fire tankers but are used near mines and quarries where there is a lot of dust jumping up into the air.

    The water captures the dust and falls back on the ground with it increasing visibility for the miners.

    Each of the water-bearing trucks is impressive by their own standards and is made for large tasks that could not be done without them.

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