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Retiring with a 7 figure nest egg is the dream for all business owners, but many people fail to plan what they will do when they are millionaires.

Here is our suggestion…

Hi there. Do you fancy meeting for a chat and a beer with author of this blog (Dean Hunt) & my superstar, highly successful business partner Barry Dunlop? If so, SIGNUP HERE

“No?“

How rude!

Well what if I told you that world famous business superstar Eban Pagen would be there?

“Perhaps..”

Ok, well what if the biggest name in Marketing: Yanik Silver was going to be there?

“Yes, count me in!“

I thought so. But unfortunately, this fantasy scenario is not possible. I mean, how on earth am I expected to arrange that?

It is Impossible!!!

Well, to be honest, such events do happen, but they are always done behind closed doors, they are invite only for the elite entrepreneurs, hugely expensive, and closely guarded.

In fact, both myself and the superstar biz partner (Barry Dunlop) have been part of a group called ‘Yanik Silver’s Millionaire Mastermind Group’ for some time. But this is an elite group and it is done behind closed doors. No cameras, no video allowed, the waiting list is longer than the great wall of China, and all members have to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

This doesn’t seem fair does it?

In such an environment it only leads to one thing: The rich get richer, the successful get more successful, and the big names get even bigger.

It reminds me of Hollywood: Once an actor becomes rich and famous, people start giving them stuff for free. But when they are a struggling actor, they get treated like trash.

It is crazy! David Beckham gets given cars all the time, yet he earns over $1 million every single week, why on earth does he need to be given stuff for free?

Well the same thing happens in the world of business: the biggest names all connect with each other, and they share their best techniques ONLY with other big name gurus.

But what about the other 99.999999% of website and business owners?

Where does this leave the non-gurus?

They are left fending for the scraps of good information that are often hidden under the piles of utter crap that this industry can spew out on a regular basis.

No wonder such a high percentage of web business owners LOSE money on a monthly basis.

Yanik Silver spotted this problem a few years ago, and he created a public event called: ‘Yanik Silver’s Underground Seminar’. It is essentially an event where the experts share their best secrets, and it is the only major event of its type that is not sealed off from the none-gurus.

• You don’t need to be making 7 or 8 figures per year for an invite,
• You don’t need to be an Internet celebrity,
• You don’t need to have written a New York best seller,
• And you don’t need to own a blog with 6 billion feed subscribers.

Yanik asked us earlier in the year to do a public event with him, we declined. But persistence has paid off, and for the first, and perhaps the last time ever, we have agreed to share the tips and secrets of how we have become the most successful buzz marketers on the planet, and how we get literally millions of unique visitors to our sites for FREE.

Here are the juicy details

:

We will be presenting our ‘From LAME to FAME in 11 Buzz-tastic Steps‘ presentation LIVE at the ‘Yanik Silver’s Underground Seminar 4′ from March 28th to March 3oth.

This really is the ONLY opportunity where you can learn from myself, Barry, Yanik, Eban Pagen and more…

That’s right, the impossible fantasy scenario I discussed earlier, has just become a reality.

Check out a tiny sample of who will be there (please do not share this information):

Oh, and check out these two mystery expert speakers:

Mr X number 1 is clearly a young guy… I wonder who that could be?!?

Mr X number two is a little older… but let’s look at a further clue that is taken from the Underground Website:
Many of my Underground® events have featured a “Mr. X”… Someone SO Underground that they simply refuse to allow their identity to be made public. And the same thing is going to happen for Underground® 4.
But this time, there will be two major changes. First, instead of having only ONE Mr. X… there’ll be two. Actually, they’re business partners, which means: You’re gonna get double value for you money.

Here is the big news:

We can exclusively announce that Dean Hunt and Barry Dunlop are going to be speaking at this event. Are we Mr X 1 & 2? Well, we will be speaking at the event as guest-expert speakers, but to be honest, there may be more than two mystery speakers, we would be shot if we revealed the details.

So I will ask you the question one final time: Do you fancy meeting for a chat and a beer later in March with myself (Dean Hunt) & my superstar business partner Barry Dunlop?

The offer is suddenly a lot more tempting isn’t it?!?

If you want to see the biggest names in the industry reveal their secrets and techniques, then simply signup here: Underground Seminar Signup and book your place. As expected, there are not many seats left. So please, please be quick.

See you there, and don’t forget about the beer.

Dean Hunt & Barry Dunlop

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Why is ‘rich’ a dirty word?

Let’s face it. In our society, if a child decides they want to be ‘rich’, people will look at them a bit strange. A lot of people don’t think being rich is an admirable goal.

When we are growing up, we constantly hear people say things like “money doesn’t buy happiness.” Statements like that just make no sense to me. So being poor makes you happy?

I grew up with a different mindset. From reading books, I learnt that to be rich you had to help as many people as possible. To acquire great wealth, you had to be generous.

By creating a business you are solving people’s problems.
By investing in real estate you are giving people housing.

Being rich doesn’t shape a person. A person that is rich and greedy will be poor and greedy as well. If you’re poor and unhappy, you will be unhappy when you’re rich.

The moral of the story is not to let other people’s beliefs shape your own. It’s your life, do what you want with it.

Our recent post entitled: 7 reasons why working online is better than your job was a big hit. A reader called Super Mike had some additional reasons why you should consider working from home.

His reasons are so good that we thought they deserved a post of their own, so Mike, let us know your website URL so we can credit you properly.

From Super Mike:

* When you work 3x as hard for your dead-end cubicle job employer to meet HIS deadline, he reaps the benefit. But for yourself, you can work 3x as hard and reap the benefit yourself. In fact, as a freelancer, this should be one of the first things you do in your first few months. You’ll be surprised to find out how easy it is to make your last salary in the first 6 months of work or less. It’s amazing how much an employer can skim off the top of your back, making you believe that it is so hard to give you a promotion because there “just isn’t any budget for it this year”. Yeah, right. Meanwhile, the boss purchases another yacht, drives a fancy SUV, gets an expensive golf club membership, travels only with first-class accommodations, and gives his kids a fully paid ride through college.

* If as a web developer, then you get to stick with the language and tools you like to use, not whatever your employer wants you to use.

* In a dead-end cubicle job, when the boss wants you to hand you an impossible project and a ridiculous deadline, you often have to take it or suffer a bad performance review. As a freelancer, you get to deny those projects and even get a chance to negotiate a better rate or a deadline that you think you can meet.

* In a dead-end cubicle job, if you get a lame manager or lame HR rep. that cannot do their jobs properly, you have to suffer and take it. As a freelancer, you do not have this and you often can drop a belligerent client like a rock and have another client the next morning.

* In a dead-end cubicle job, if your boss wants you to work with a lame file server, lame computer, lame web development server, or lame database server, you have to sit there and take it. Not so as a freelancer.

* Occasionally on the Internet, but definitely not rarely, there are people on the Internet who have tiny little $75 computer tasks that might take them all day and cost them a lot more cash. As a freelancer, you can take these little tasks and knock them out in 15 minutes (and if not, then you can get better at this over time until you do). That’s $300 an hour — about the same as most lawyers make.

* At a dead-end day job, your boss’s client base usually was grabbed the old-fashioned way with cheesy sales guys on golf courses, telemarketer calls, or flights all over the place. But as a freelancer, clients see your listing on a board or an inexpensive ad, or read your blog, and send you requests in your inbox. It’s far more efficient and has far less overhead.

* Your appearance, race, gender, physical health issues, and many other factors are not important to your freelance clients, but they can be debilitating items in a regular day job that may cause you to lose a promotion, get you fired, prevent you from getting clients, or prevent you from even getting that job.

* In a dead-end cubicle job employee, when you get excited about the fantastic income opportunities about the next big thing on the Internet, such as a new programming language or a new technology platform — you often cannot jump on these opportunities and must watch it on the sidelines while others capitalize on these moments. But as a freelancer, you can read a few books, read some website content on the topics, run some tests, and jump right in within a week on these new platforms.

* When you have an illness or a death in the family, you can often negotiate better pauses in work schedules with your clients than you can when you work for a dead-end cubicle job employer.

* When you work in a dead-end cubicle job, your employer often brags to potential clients about your talents as if they are HIS. If he misses mentioning a talent to his client, he could potentially lose the deal and you never had a say in the matter. So you are limited. However, as a freelancer, you get to pitch your talents to your clients as best you can and more directly, and reap the benefit. Also, in that dead-end cubicle job, your employer used your talents to lure in new business, skims most of the cash off the top for the guys in the Executive Wing, and then tell you they don’t have a budget to promote you. As a freelancer, you don’t have to sit there and take that.

* Just as you said, clients are out there 24×7×365. You can literally wake up at 3am in any timezone, put out a cheap Internet ad for your services, and get a potential client email within two hours, if not more clients than that.

* In a dead-end cubicle job, when you are running late, you have to risk life and limb to drive faster to work, often forgetting things that are so far back at home that you cannot retrieve them. As a freelancer, when your client expects you at 9am for a conference call, you literally get up at 9am, flip on the laptop, and you’re ready for business — no rush, no fuss.

* In a dead-end cubicle job, you waste a lot of expensive fuel getting to and from work, and for many people it’s often as much as one hour to get there and back. As a freelancer with a business online, about the only time you worry about fuel is when you want to head to the beach!

* As a freelancer, you can take vacations any time you want, and as often as you want. You may have a client deliverable you’re still working on, but at least you can work on it easily while on vacation without having to have a physical presence in someone’s office. For many people in dead-end cubicle jobs, they get hounded on their mobile phones and pagers while they’re trying to enjoy their vacations. As a freelancer, you don’t have to have any of this.

* Getting sunlight, fresh air, or communing with nature is important for us as humans. Many cubicle day jobs don’t give you enough of this. As a freelancer, you can get as much of this as you want, relaxing with a laptop.

* There are many online businesses that, once you get started in them, can often work in autopilot without much attendance to them, earning you cash while you do something else. You can’t get that in a dead-end cubicle job in most cases.

I work on-line, it is a job that has many hidden benefits. Today I am going to share with you some of the reasons you should consider working online.

1 - The Value of Being Remote

I can work anywhere that has an Internet Connection. I have worked on the beach, I have worked in Spain, UK, America and more… I have worked from the side of a pool whilst the sun shines down upon me. I have worked in the garden whilst sipping a beer. You can work almost anywhere in the world, and if there is a wireless connection, then the possibilities are endless.

Note: I know a guy who has worked from the deck of the sunken Titanic. Amazingly there was a wireless Internet connection there.

2 - 24/7 Income Potential

The Internet is 24/7 365 days per year. So this means that you can go to sleep, and wake up richer than you were when you went to bed.

3 - Business expenses

If you work from home you can put certain aspects of your monthly bills etc through the company, resulting in tax savings. Consult an expert for more info.

4 - Informal Freedom

I have worked in my shorts on numerous occasions. The ability to work in any clothing can save a lot of time and hassle. Make sure your neighbours cannot see through your windows though

5 - Create Your Own Hours (within reason)

Sick of getting up at 6am? I tend to wake up around 9am each morning. Of course, I often work late into the night as well, so you can build hours to suit your routine.

6 - Expand

Do you own one website? Would you like to double your portfolio and buy a new domain name? It will cost an additional $7 for expansion.

7 - You rule

Within reason you can be your own boss. This means that your day is not dependant on whether your boss is having a bad day or not.

Overall, working from home has many, many great advantages. It is something that everyone should look into.

If you want to succeed in business then you need to network like a celebrity. But not all of us can go to star studded events full of influencial people. Below are 8 tips to help you on your way to becoming a networking celeb.

1 - Always, and I repeat always, have 5 business cards in your wallet or purse at any time… regardless of where you are going. You never know who you might meet, so be prepared or prepare to fail.

2 - Setup a free google account and use Google alerts for your name, your companies name and your websites name. Whenever anyone discusses you, use that as a reason to contact them.

3 - Interview at least one person per month from your industry. Ideally you want to interview the biggest names, but don’t be afraid of working your way up the ladder.

4 - Have a kick ass signature in your emails. Don’t make it too long, but make it memorable and include a call to action.

5 - Ensure you use at least one of the major social networks (Facebook, LinkedIN etc).

6 - Every time you meet someone new, both offline and online, look for the “Common Point of Interest” between the two of you. This will make you rememberable, and it creates rapport and opportunity.

7 - If you do not own www.yourfullname.com then get it before someone else does. It won’t cost much, and people will often search your name to learn more about you.

8 - Be remarkable - Aim to be remembered. Use creativity in your emails etc to ensure that people never forget your name.

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.

It knows that it must outrun the fastest

lion or it will be killed.

Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up.

It knows that it must out run the slowest

gazelle or it will starve.

It does not matter whether you are a lion or gazelle.

When the sun comes up you had better be running.

Life is not fair, and work is certainly not fair. It seems like the more successful you are the less work you have to do.

Let’s look at some other big differences between you and your boss.

Sound familiar?

Guess what, it isn’t fair, it never will be fair! So what is the solution? Become the boss. Simple!

Stick with retiredat21.com and you can be your own boss.

Today I would like to discover how smart you truly are.

Below are four questions and a bonus question. You have to answer them instantly. You can’t take your time, answer all of them immediately. OK?

Let’s find out just how clever you really are….

Ready? GO!!!

First Question:

You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you now in?

Answer Below…

Answer: If you answered that you are first, then you are
Absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person, you take his place, so you are second!

Try not to screw up next time.

Now answer the second question, but don’t take as much time as you took for the first one, OK?

Second Question:

If you overtake the last person, then you are…?

Answer Below…

Answer: If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong again. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST Person?

Third Question:

Note: This must be done in your head only.
Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator.

Take 1000 and add 40 to it.. Now add another 1000. Now add 30.
Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000
Now add 10. What is the total?

Answer Below…

Answer: Did you get 5000?

The correct answer is actually 4100.

If you don’t believe it, check it with a calculator!
Today is definitely not your day, is it?

Fourth Question:

Mary’s father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3, Nini, 4. Nono. What is the name of the fifth daughter?

Answer Below…

Did you Answer Nunu?
NO! Of course it isn’t.
Her name is Mary. Read the question again!

Okay, now the bonus round:

A mute person goes into a shop and wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing his teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done.

Next, into the shop comes a blind man who wants to buy a pair of sunglasses; how does he indicate what he wants?

Answer Below…

Answer: He just has to open his mouth and ask…
It’s really very simple…

How many did you get correct out of 5?

Retiredat21.com

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