The Best Of My Note Taking Nerd’s Blog - Volume One 870 BIG pages of practical, nitty-gritty tips, tricks, and tactics including 167 proven business building secrets Learned From the Guru’s that will Help you Achive your Life and Business Goals, Dreams, and Desires! Dexter Abraham and Nerd #2 Published by FastPencil, Inc. Copyright © 2010 Dexter Abraham Published by FastPencil, Inc. 3131 Bascom Ave. Suite 150 Campbell CA 95008 USA (408) 540-7571 (408) 540-7572 (Fax) [email protected] http://www.fastpencil.com No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior consent of the publisher. The Publisher makes no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this book and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Neither the publisher nor author shall be liable for any loss of profit or any commercial damages. First Edition Dedicated to Nerd Nation. Our Blog Followers. Thank you for helping us create something Special! ❧ Contents CHAPTER 1: Productivity Tools: The Kitchen Sink, The Kids, The Wife, and Oh…Just Take the Whole Damn House… 1 CHAPTER 2: Productivity Tools Part Two: The Kitchen Sink, The Kids, The Wife, and Oh…Just Take the Whole Damn House… 3 CHAPTER 3: Productivity Tools Part Three: The Kitchen Sink, The Kids, The Wife, and Oh…Just Take the Whole Damn House… 6 CHAPTER 4: Productivity Tools Part Four - Take Out The Trash - The Kitchen Sink, The Kids, The Wife, and Oh…Just Take the Whole Damn House… 9 CHAPTER 5: Sunday a Day of Rest! Uh Uh I Don’t Think So…. 11 CHAPTER 6: What Do Doyle Brunson and This Young Poker Player Have in Common? The Slight Edge! 14 CHAPTER 7: I Got Caught With My Pants Down and Nobody Would Help Me Pull Them Up! 16 CHAPTER 8: Introducing My Number One… Note Taking Nerd2 19 CHAPTER 9: Dan Kennedy’s Wealth Attraction Part 1 22 CHAPTER 10: The $20 Insurance Plan Seinfeld Says Is Responsible For His Becoming A Millionaire. 24 CHAPTER 11: “I’ve Never Had An Original Idea In My Life” - Dan Kennedy 27 CHAPTER 12: Do You Want To Live Life On Your Terms? 31 CHAPTER 13: Are You Sabotaging Everything You Write By Not Doing What Ted Nicholas And Other Super Star Writers Do Before They Even Touch The Keyboard? 32 CHAPTER 14: If You Haven’t Mastered This Professional Stand Up Comedian Skill Yet… You’re Making It Harder Than It Should Be for People To Give You Money. 38 CHAPTER 15: The Law That Makes “The Law of Attraction” Work 41 CHAPTER 16: Are You Unconsciously Repelling People? 44 CHAPTER 17: Part 1 - Are You Unconsciously Repelling People? - 4 Steps of Cultivating A Magnetic First Impression 46 CHAPTER 18: Part 2 – Are You Unconsciously Repelling People? 5 Steps To Cultivating A Magnetic First Impression 49 CHAPTER 19: Three Steps To a New You! 52 CHAPTER 20: Part 3 – Are You Unconsciously Repelling People? 5 Steps To Cultivating A Magnetic First Impression 54 vi Contents CHAPTER 21: Part 4 - Are You Unconsciously Repelling People? 5 Steps To Cultivating A Magnetic First Impression 57 CHAPTER 22: Part 5 - Are You Unconsciously Repelling People? 5 Steps To Cultivating A Magnetic First Impression 60 CHAPTER 23: Three Time Frames That Will Transform You For Better or Worse! 64 CHAPTER 24: The 66 Questions That Will Catapult Your Business To New Heights 66 CHAPTER 25: Do You Use The Blunt Force Trauma Of A Jackhammer To Sell? 69 CHAPTER 26: The Secret To Taking Your Business From Where You Are To Where You Want To BE! 73 CHAPTER 27: The Exact Wrong Way To Write An Email That Sells And How Rush Limbaugh Can Teach You The Right Way To Do It 75 CHAPTER 28: You Don’t Get This Right You’re Screwed! 78 CHAPTER 29: Are You A Wussy When It Comes To Asking For The Sale? 83 CHAPTER 30: Can You Craft A Solid Sales Letter Without A Swipe File? 84 CHAPTER 31: The Best Way I’ve Found To Spike My Energy When I Write 87 CHAPTER 32: Do Your Paragraphs Have Race Car Momentum Or Are They Clunkers? 89 CHAPTER 33: The One Skill You Must Learn To Succeed In This Recession Or You Can Just Get Your Place IN Line At The Soup Kitchen Today! 92 CHAPTER 34: “The Top Ten Mistakes You Are Probably Making In Business And What To Do About It…Part One” 95 CHAPTER 35: Part Two - “The Top Ten Mistakes You Are Probably Making In Business And What To Do About It…” 99 CHAPTER 36: Have You Ever Missed Something And Wished You Hadn’t? 102 CHAPTER 37: How Long Does It Take The World Class To Become World Class? 104 CHAPTER 38: 5 Small Things You Can Do To Improve The Quality Of Your Life Today 109 CHAPTER 39: Are You Merely Interested Or Are You Committed? 112 CHAPTER 40: The Fun, Quick and Easy Way To Get An Unfair Advantage In Your Ability To Persuade In Pixel Or Print? 117 CHAPTER 41: Ten Strategies From Frank Kerns Mass Control Program 120 CHAPTER 42: Marketing Wisdom Discovered In Naughty Story 123 CHAPTER 43: Marketing Wisdom Discovered In Naughty Story Part 1 1/2 126 CHAPTER 44: Marketing Wisdom Discovered In Naughty Story Part 2 129 CHAPTER 45: Marketing Wisdom Discovered In Naughty Story - Finale Part 3 133 CHAPTER 46: Super Bad Ass Stuff You Can Use To Make Your Life Dreamier 137 CHAPTER 47: Long Haired Mexican Pot Head Shocks This Marketer With His Common Sense Sales Persuasion Tactics 140 CHAPTER 48: Is The Story Behind What You Sell Potent Enough To Convince Your Customers To Risk Death To Get It? 145 CHAPTER 49: Are You Coming Across as Too Much of a Smarty Pants To Your Prospects And Customers? 154 The Best Of My Note Taking Nerd’s Blog - Volume One vii CHAPTER 50: Predictions For 2009 Part One 160 CHAPTER 51: If I Could Hear The Questions You Ask Yourself Would I Think I Was In The Presence of a Leader Or a Victim? 161 CHAPTER 52: “Kids Always Take The Chocolate or Cheese Coated Option. Do You?” 170 CHAPTER 53: Do You Have Rickets of the Brain? 174 CHAPTER 54: Are You Limiting What Is Possible For You? 176 CHAPTER 55: 10 Million Dollar Secrets of Renegade Millionaires From Dan Kennedy 179 CHAPTER 56: Baby Severely Burns His Hand On Stove … Yet Tries To Touch The Stove Again!! 183 CHAPTER 57: Sometimes The Best Gifts Come In Small Packages 185 CHAPTER 58: 5 Strategies to Help You With a Mass Control Launch 186 CHAPTER 59: The Real Story: Boobs Sell? 187 CHAPTER 60: Are You Using This Magic Formula To Explode Your Profits and Achieve Your Dreams? 191 CHAPTER 61: To Hell With The Gurus: How GoDaddy Broke The Rules And Got Away With It 195 CHAPTER 62: 7 Key Questions You Must Know About Your Business 200 CHAPTER 63: Your Most Deadly Enemy Revealed 202 CHAPTER 64: Do You Deserve The Respect of Your Customers and Prospects? Maybe Not. Find Out Now. 212 CHAPTER 65: 5 Principles Of Marketing Strategy You Must Know 223 CHAPTER 66: Part 1: Two Words That Allow You To Get Anyone To Do Anything You Want. Gun and Mask Not Required… 225 CHAPTER 67: Are You Spending All Your Time Stringing Your Instrument All The While A Masterpiece Resides In You? 233 CHAPTER 68: What You Can Learn From a Poor Little Nerd Boy From Po Dunk Gooding, Idaho? A Lot… 234 CHAPTER 69: Part 2: Two Words That Allow You To Get Anyone To Do Anything You Want… Gun and Mask Not Required 241 CHAPTER 70: A Couple of Lessons Learned From An Aging Bad Ass Italian Mobster and Young Punk Boxer About Pre-Framing 252 CHAPTER 71: Are You In Control Of Your Demons? 258 CHAPTER 72: The Nerd Beginners Kick Ass Guide To Becoming Like Oprah On Twitter Part 1 263 CHAPTER 73: “Why Can’t You Just Be Normal?” 265 CHAPTER 74: The Death Of Brands and The MBA….THE RISE OF MAFIA WARS.. 273 CHAPTER 75: Hey, Oprah’s on the phone asking if you want to be on the show. Whaddya want do you want me to tell her? 276 CHAPTER 76: How To Stack Trust & Desire Into Every Claim You Make About What You Sell 282 CHAPTER 77: Could It Be Possible That the Smoothest Way Known To Man To Get A Woman Open To The Idea of a Threesome Would Be The Same Technique You Could Use To Get Maximum Money From Your Ideal Customers? 294 viii Contents CHAPTER 78: How To Succeed In Business Without Getting Your Ass Kicked!! 305 CHAPTER 79: Creativity Is Waaaaay Overated 311 CHAPTER 80: The Secret The Guru’s May Shoot Me For Sharing With You! 317 CHAPTER 81: The Truth About The Software Running Every One Of Your Ideal Customers Thinking 322 CHAPTER 82: Manifesto To Myself! 334 CHAPTER 83: How You Can Make Moola With Webinars… Even If You’ve Never Done One Before 346 CHAPTER 84: The 7 Reasons Why Webinars Melt Your Prospects Resistance 353 CHAPTER 85: One Sure Fire Way To Lose Sales In a Tough Economy 359 CHAPTER 86: A Rant From The Chief Nerd About Today’s Kids And A Promise To My Little Girl… 370 CHAPTER 87: “Why Is It That Reasons Come First, Answers Come Second?” 375 CHAPTER 88: Sex, Drugs, …..Salesmanship and a little Psychology 381 CHAPTER 89: Get Real Deep… 385 CHAPTER 90: Your’s Free: $500,000.00 Clayton Makepeace Checklist 387 CHAPTER 91: A Kick Ass Article By Dan Kennedy 397 CHAPTER 92: Dan Kennedy’s Most Valuable Piece of Advice 400 CHAPTER 93: 5 Strategies To Help Get You Off Your Ass and Start Moving 406 CHAPTER 94: Online Video is the craze… Go To Mike Koenigs For Advice On How To Do It Right 409 CHAPTER 95: Clayton Makepeace’s 14 Crucial Elements of Outstanding Subject Lines 411 CHAPTER 96: Be Known as a Good Starter and an Outstanding Finisher 415 CHAPTER 97: “What a Stripper Taught Dan Kennedy When He Was 16 Years Old” 417 CHAPTER 98: Notes From Eben Pagan Modern Marketing Mastery 421 CHAPTER 99: Ryan Deiss And Perry Belcher’s 43 Proven, Brain-Dead-Simple Tweaks You Can Make To Your Site, So You Can Make More Money 430 CHAPTER 100: Do You Take A Fearless Approach To Life? 441 CHAPTER 101: Love Stinks 449 CHAPTER 102: Notes From Yanik Silver’s Latest Underground Seminar 457 CHAPTER 103: Life Isn’t About Dying a Peaceful and Calm Death.