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Seeking couples, NASCAR and free agency and just getting started

We covered a lot of ground in this show with me seeking couples to work with, announcing an interview for next Tuesday's show with NASCAR star Kenny Wallace, then a long chat with Andy Traub on the necessity of just getting started.

Yesterday I made a post that I'm looking for two couple to work personally with on the journey to free agency. I was alerted this morning that the submission form was not working, so if you went to apply and couldn't, my apologies. The details are posted here and the submission form is here.

Next, our professor of ROADMAP at Free Agent Academy, James Woosley, is joining us on Tuesday's show (May 24 at 11am Mountain time here) to interview NASCAR racing start Kenny Wallace. James is a big NASCAR fan and appreciates the fact that Kenny is a true, blue free agent. We'll talk about his journey and what being a free agent means to him.

The bulk of our show today was with Andy Traub, whose business is at www.MoreProfitTechnology.com. Andy is our 'ONLINE' professor at Free Agent Academy. He's a free agent, a family man and a great paradigm shifter regarding the realities of free agency and business.

Our primary focus was on the need to just-get-started. This is a soapbox for Andy, and rightly so. You owe it to yourself to listen to what he had to say in the show replay below. Here are a few quotable quotes Andy rolled off:

"Failure is an option, as long as it's not fatal." - Andy Traub
"Perfection is an excuse." - Andy Traub

Then he took us through these stages of starting and building your business:

• Permission = You believe you can create something and you start the process. Gotta give yourself permission.
• Unprofessional = Don't put that crap out there and expect to make a living or change lives.  If you're going to do something then care enough to do a good job.
• Good Enough = You can start here but you better keep learning.  You can ship at this point.  Most people spend 90% of their timeline between Unprofessional and Good enough.
• Professional = You've had to refine what you're doing but you're a pro in other's eyes and in your own mind.
• Perfection = It's a myth and an excuse.  It doesn't exist and we use it as an excuse not to create things that matter.

Andy is also the host of 'The Unofficial Linchpin Podcast' and co-host of Business Tech Weekly with Cliff Ravenscraft.

Enjoy!
Kevin

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You don't want to make the effort to come, but probably should. True?

On Monday we'll be hosting our Show at 9:30am Mountain time to discuss all the replies to my post titled, "What HAS caused you to take action and change and grow." If you haven't yet, I'm asking you to share. It will really help us share the combined truth, I'm as eager to know as you are. Read and comment here "What HAS caused you to take action and change and grow."

But in discussing the subject of 'change' the other day with my two great friends Scott Stearman and Todd Zeller, we admitted that in truth, we (as a people) don't really WANT to change ourselves. We just want a different/better result. If we could get it without personally changing, great! I'd rather my wife just fawned all over me without me making any effort to change my habits of being a donkey towards her. Doesn't work that way. You do reap what you sow for the most part, though thank the Lord for grace.

That's my preface to the following enticement. You don't really want to make the effort to come to this free agent event in 14 days, but you want to be a successful free agent. I guarantee the value you'll get here. You just have to want the benefit enough to say to yourself (and probably your spouse), "Shoot. I really want to stay home and chill, but this is an opportunity that I know will catapult me ahead in really becoming free." That's me at least. I'm usually seeking a reason why NOT to take a big step, like attending a profoundly impacting event. Dumb, but true. I have to really, REALLY feel like I'll be missing out and nearly shooting myself in the foot to let it pass. Almost to the point of feeling guilty for my inaction, procrastination and laziness towards bettering myself. My flesh would rather watch a movie and eat pizza like I want to do EVERY weekend.

In two weeks, I'll be spending 48 hours with a group of people to intimately get to know them, their dreams and business ideas. And give counsel on how to make their efforts pay off, specifically online. We all know that most business transactions are decided upon and acted upon, online. Yet most people seeking to succeed in business, miss the mark. The ultimate point at this event is making sure your idea and business converts to a sale by what you do with your website and online presence.

But even aside from the content of the event, you won't have many opportunities to get so much, for so little relationally. It's not what you know, it's who you know, remember? Lots of truth in that. I don't think you CAN know much, if you don't know the right folks. Wisdom comes from counsel. The event is a decent cost, but aside from a bit of sleeping at the camp, you'll get 48 hours straight in a small group of other aspiring free agents, alongside the following leaders:

• Andy Traub bio / personal website
• Jimi Gibson bio / personal website
• Justin Lukasavige bio / personal website
• Chuck Bowen bio / personal website
• Me bio / personal website

You can't get a single hour with any one of them for less than $200. With 28 hours of scheduled, interactive time all together, that would equal $28,000. Now true, it's not one-on-one, 100% focused time on you, I won't claim apples to apples. But in reality I think the combined brain trust and other attendees equate to better value than one-on-one. Your true cost for the class time is about $45 per hour.

You come, and we'll all be invested in you and your business…long term. We all specialize, in launching people in successful businesses. Our relationship with you is as much or more value than the event itself. It's events like these that got myself and the guys listed above to become successful free agents, hands down. Our most successful students are those that make the effort to take action and show up.

There it is. Think deeply about it. Any questions you have for more clarity? Email me personally right now.

(click this banner for the event info page)

Why did we do what we did...at these two websites

We continue our discussion from last week on what ingredients a website needs to convert people to sales in today's marketplace. If that mere sentence makes you feel uncomfortable...like everyone communicating online merely has the ulterior motive to get your money...then I must admit...YES!

Come on folks. Even if we feel like our product or service is pure ministry, can you afford to devote yourself to it without making a dollar? I can't. And further, if you have anything that can fill a want or need for someone else...if it has any value, then people can and should pay for it. Have you ever taken on a job and been willing to work out of the goodness of your heart? Doubtful.

Justin Lukasavige just launched his revised website here: http://www.coachradio.tv and I just launched our new website for the Academy at http://www.freeagentacademy.com.

Join us to hear why we did what we did, why our sites are pretty different, but how they are the same. The point? To better understand what you need to do to make your online efforts pay off. Otherwise, it's just a lot of busy work, isn't it?

We had about 40 people in the live chat and answered some of their direct questions, including a quick review of another site. Due to the questions, the show went to an hour...finally stopping when my wife came to pull me to lunch. She just rebranded her blog on parenting and marriage to www.StumblingAroundInTheLight.com.

The audio for the show is below.

This is behind the scenes folks, it's what we all end up wondering with anyone attempting to 'speak' and 'lead' us.

Agent Kevin Miller
I like my 'busy work' to pay off...so does my family who likes to have food to eat.

 

 

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Nailing your online presence and discussing our Jan. 28 'Online' workshop

In this Free Agent Underground Show, we had 111 people join us in the live chat while Justin Lukasavige and I discussed the necessary, personal strategy everyone must have for their online presence to convert to sales, and specifically covered the curriculum for our Jan. 28, 2011 "Online Foundation & Strategy Workshop" in Colorado.

If you have anything online now, or expect to...this info, and this event is the absolute best resource I can offer you for making it produce. And this is the only time we are hosting this event this year...next time will be 2012. Listen to the audio below and check out the event info here (click the logo):

 

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You better invest now, you better not wait…

…you better plan something now so you escape the things you hate (in 2011)

Read that with the melody of 'Santa Claus is coming to town'

What do you hate? Your job? Lack of time to spend on things that inspire and fulfill you so you are a 'whole' person? Not spending enough time on being a quality spouse or parent? Don't have enough margin in your finances or time to really give to…anyone or anything beyond your immediate needs? Just going through the motions and know you're not creating anything worthy of a legacy? General unrest in your soul?

I have my list too, and it's what motivates me to push through.

It's Christmas time now, full swing. I adore Christmas, I truly do. Some of the most meaningful family and relationship and experiential times of the year.

Yet I find myself trying desperately to prepare now for this next year where I want some new realities in my life. I know that in many ways I won't get a ton of work progress done over the next three weeks surrounding Dec. 25. I'm trying to prepare now, and even plan for small deposits to keep the flame of progress lit. To force me to commit. I have some big visions and expectations for 2011 and I'm pulling long hours to set them in place now.

Hope you are as well. Don't let your quest for 'better' go…don't let the slowing momentum of your personal progress come to a stop. The people you'll bless as a result of your progress need you to stand firm.

Here is an opportunity to commit to progress in your free agent pursuit. Something you can put into place now so that when you wake up Jan. 1 from the stupor of the holiday whirlwind you know that a giant leap of progress in your life is at hand:

This Jan. 28th we'll converge for the first event of the year up here in the mountains, for a first ever event: 
Online Foundation & Strategy Workshop

Here is the lead in information on the event page:
Somebody has a need, and they get word that YOU...your product or service, might be what they need. What a tragedy if they visit YourWebsite.com and don't connect with you. They don't subscribe or email or call or click BUY NOW.

The space between what you have that can truly help someone, and them believing it and committing to you (and giving you money!)…is life and death to your business pursuit. This event is about mastering your online presence.

Learn what powerful tools and resources your unique online presence should consist of, and how to implement them so you convert as many prospects as possible into paying customers and raving fans.

We’ll teach you what aspects of the online world fit you and your business, how they work and what it will take to make them work for your personal business.

Check out the full event now: JAN. EVENT PAGE It will not be repeated during the year, so this is your shot. Questions? You can post them here in the comments section or email my assistant directly: email Brenda

Merry Christmas and a more than merely Happy New Year...a New Life Year,
Agent Kevin Miller
My egg nog tonight, I toast to you!

*Pictured at the top, attendees to one of our 2010 events. Folks who put action to their dreams/goals/callings. And who had a blast up here in the mountains.

What a biz website is really for today

Saying you need a website for any business endeavor is old news, like saying the real way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you eat. Duh.

But the purpose of a website has changed significantly. It's moved from being a basic online store…to being a living room. Understanding this is key.

Next…getting a website done still has a big discrepancy. To have a fully custom website with all the bells and whistles is costly, $3-$5,000 easy, and you can ramp up much higher.

On the other side you have all the 'easy, do-it-yourself' platforms for only $49.95 (plus a Turnip Twaddler!), if not for free. And you end up wasting lavish amounts of your time to end up with total crap that won't help you sell $100 bills for $1.

There is a big VOID in the middle of that.

In this quick, 7-minute video with Andy Traub, we hit both of these points.

*NOTE: Andy is the Professor of 'Tech & Web' at Free Agent Academy, and a personal friend. So while this is truthful counsel, I also runneth over with personal bias. As the video says, it's an endorsement of him. FAA members get a discount on his services as well!

A web tool to help folks understand you and your business

Helping folks discover their idea and create a self-employed business with it...is a great joy to me. And I love putting the pieces together.

However, I spend a large amount of time purveying the relevance, opportunity and RESPONSIBILITY of self-employment. That's what most of the blogs here are focused on.

Today though...just a neat tool. I was trying to get info on a tech solution and found a girl who did this online tutorial that included a video of herself...it was really slick. She explained how to do it...and now I've done it here. It's a shame that for the life of me...I can't remember who/what it was where I saw the example.

So here, check out this video that tells...how to do a video like this! Hit the 'full screen' option to really do it justice (it's the little screen link to the right of the 'HD' link):