Dr. Mani wrote a letter today describing the impact of the folks at NAMS3. It’s below.

If that doesn’t make you eager to be part of the impact of the NAMS community nothing will. Read it and then visit the NAMS4Kids website. You’ll be glad you did.

And by the way, be sure to check out the referral rewards. We have a special reward just for students at NAMS4.

Imagine…

A tiny little two year old girl in my out-patient clinic.  Bright eyes.  Long, curving eyebrows. Jet black, curly hair.

But her breathing is labored.  Her chest heaves and falls with every heart beat.

Her pinched, anxious face is intense with the effort it takes to suck air into her starving lungs.

I place my stethoscope over her heart… and can hear the loud roar of turbulent blood flowing across the hole in her heart.

It’s pushing twice as much blood into her small lungs, flooding them with fluid, choking her.

She needs treatment.  An operation to fix the hole.

Her family doesn’t have the money for it.

Imagine…

A large, brightly lit hall in a hotel halfway across the world.  Smartly dressed men.  Beautiful women.  All power-networking in a business climate.

There’s energy crackling in the air.  Here are some excited entrepreneurs, gathered to learn how to boost their business success, and generate more wealth.

It’s the NAMS workshop.

And David Perdew walks on stage.  He makes a short announcement.

Its impact will reach out to a little girl in India – and save her life!

Imagine…

A smiling little face, clutching a stuffed toy and hiding shyly behind her mother’s saree as she peers at me from her hospital bed.

The relieved smiles on her parent’s tired faces, as they look lovingly upon the relaxed, healthy face of their little girl.

Priyadarshini is no longer fighting to survive.

She had her surgery.  Her VSD has been closed.  The money for her treatment became available.

Because People Like You Cared Enough To Make a Difference!

Attendees at NAMS donated $1,300 in a day – to fund her treatment.

While they learned to build a business, they also saved a little life.

Imagine…

The feeling of deep satisfaction and joy that comes from being able to do this.

The sense of purpose and wonderment when you become part of a child’s future.

The excitement and energy that is a natural result of being involved in a worthwhile cause.

I Want That Feeling For YOU

That’s why I’m inviting you to join NAMS4Kids – on August 20th.

You can be a part of a massive giveaway event which will raise AT LEAST $10,000 to fund heart surgery for kids.

But first, I’d like you to listen to a rare interview I did with Roger Carr about this event.  Here’s the link:

Then, decide if you want to be a part of NAMS4Kids. I hope you will want to go here, and take the next step:

Thank you from my heart.

All success

Dr.Mani

It’s tax time.

So, like most people, I’m heads down with my accountant and my bookkeeper getting all my numbers together. For the first time in a long time, our corporate income jumped unpredictably through the roof.

Mark Hendricks at ISS

I may have to cough up some extra tax money this year.

And I blame Mark Hendricks. More about that in a minute…

My relationship with Mark has become much more than just a business coaching relationship. He’s a trusted adviser and a good friend. When Monday morning arrives, that’s my official Mark coaching time. But I can call him any time to go over specific problems or just to ask his opinion about anything.

He’s been instrumental in building the Niche Affiliate Marketing System workshop by pitching in whenever he can without any expectations.

And it goes way beyond the advice and support. When I started NAMS, I used his projector, his screen and his sound system that made the first one possible. He sat in the back of the room and ran the sound for the entire 3 days.

The first aids were my gold member colleagues from his Internet Success System program that pitched in to make it all work.

Again, thank you was all he required.

My investment in equipment by NAMS3 was nearly $20,000, but if Mark hadn’t been so generous with his time and equipment, NAMS1 never would have gotten off the ground. So, if you’ve enjoyed NAMS, send Mark a thank you note.

Better yet, join us in Orlando in April.

You see, Mark is my personal coach. I pay him to help mold my business and to keep me from doing dumb stuff. And I do plenty of that.

But Mark is too good!

Mark Hendricks and me at the Gold Retreat

If I had listened less in 2009, the tax issue probably wouldn’t be such an issue. But like someone said to me yesterday, “I’d love to pay a million dollars in taxes. What a nice problem to have.”

Luckily – or unluckily, I guess – I don’t have to pay anything close to that this year, but I’m paying much more than I expected.

So, why is Mark to blame?

When you dig into QuickBooks (assuming you do your accounting there), you can find out a lot of great information. And my discovery kind of rocked my world. (And this is the part that may get me fired! I’m not supposed to tell people stuff like this,but…)

My investment in Mark’s coaching over the last three years has been less than $15k. He is directly responsible for increasing my income many, many, many times more than that.

When I send Mark a payment, I do it with a very big smile on my face. And I assume he has one too. But mostly, I’m just grateful that he picked up the phone when I called a few weeks before Christmas about four and a half years ago because I had no idea then that it would be the turning point in my online business.

Just because of the way he talked – without hype or hard sell – I decided to visit his weekend workshop. Watching him and sitting next to the people in that meeting room with the same goals convinced me that making a living as a solo infoprenuer was not just a pipe dream. And I wasn’t as crazy as some of my friends told me.

That’s when I knew that what I wanted to do could actually be done.

Mark has been instrumental in every online success that I’ve had including the Niche Affiliate Marketing System workshop. He guides me at every turn. All I have to do is ask for directions.

Mark Hendricks - ISS Mentor

I’d really like to tell you that I get his full attention; that he has no other coaching clients; that I’m the most important ISS Gold Member he has. When we’re talking, I am the most important. But he is available to all.

And he connects us to the best people in the business.

For example, Mark connected me with Willie Crawford and Willie connected me with Lynn Terry and Lynn Terry connected me with her elite members who come to NAMS in droves.

Mark connected me with Cindi Dawson who connected me with Jeff Herring who connected me with his Article Marketing Club members and they show up at NAMS on a regular basis.

The ROI (return on investment) on my relationship with Mark Hendricks has been astronomical.

Wouldn’t you love to tap the guy who really changes online lives and puts a couple of zeros on your bottom line like he did for me?

You can. Very easily.

Attend the ISS workshop in Orlando in April – I’ll be there to hang out with a few of my friends and colleagues and to continue adding the tools that yield more zeros to my income.

Click that link now for The Internet Success System if you can make it for the full four days.

If you think you’d like to try ISS for free first, check out this link to get a free day on the front end with all the nuts and bolts of creating an online business.

But be EXTREMELY careful. You could end up with the same problems I have around tax time.

NAMS was a hair-brained scheme, and frankly I’m a little puzzled how the workshop came to be so popular.

But after watching this video I stumbled across on the web the other day, I finally realize what’s happening.

This is a pretty silly video with a really profound message. It’s only 3 minutes long. Watch it a couple of times and pay attention to the end with the people talking in the background.

The key elements are:

• Leaders
• Followers
• and the Movment

With any good, sustainable business with a life of its own, the Leader embraces the Followers in the Movement and is completely marginalized by the result.

I’d love to hear your opinion about this. Leave a comment below – what do you think?

When we last heard from farmer David – that was me last weekend – I talked about how important it is to find people who already know the tips and tricks that help you move through problems quickly.

Farmer David on the Dream Machine

What is that great quote? I think it’s something like this: The smart man learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from other peoples’ mistakes.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve made plenty. And finally, I’m ready to make fewer.

The problem I was trying to solve was how to use the big Kubota tractor – my dream machine – with a Box blade and a front end bucket to smooth my washboard driveway.

And with my friend’s advice (let’s call him my driveway mentor), I had the answer to smoothing my drive – drive backwards and drag the front end bucket to scrape the driveway smooth. And it was working very well until…my perfectionism kicked in.

That’s never good.

Perfectionism stalls me at every turn if I let it creep into my life. I’ll give you a few examples – the first is the driveway.

Following my driveway mentor’s advice, I got the drive fairly smooth – but was concerned about the loss of gravel. So, I wasn’t aggressive enough with the bucket and the driveway had a few bumps in it – maybe more than a few.

Saturday night, I was taking Charlsa, my lovely wife, to dinner and we bounced out to the road. She turned to me and said, “maybe you should call an expert.”

How did I go from a relatively, but imperfectly, smooth driveway earlier in the day to an almost unpassable quagmire again.

I forgot my main rule – good enough is good enough.

A few imperfections became big rolling gutters in the drive as I obsessed over getting it just right. Saturday evening, I was trying to finesse the ground with the box blade – just the tool my driveway mentor said to stay aware from.

So, Sunday morning I was back on the tractor really going after the drive with the front end bucket – no box blade.

I didn’t care if there was a ridge of gravel down the middle of the drive. Or if some of the gravel spilled over the edge of the drive into the gutter. The point was to get it 80 percent.

And guess what, within a couple of hours – it was very smooth – so smooth, I could drive 30 miles an hour down the drive without bouncing. (I don’t usually do that).

And I thought about my business…

How many things are not completed because they’re not perfect? The answer for me is way too many! It’s a good question to ask yourself too.

What’s keeping you from releasing your product or your article or getting your blog up? If you’re waiting for it to be perfect, you’ll wait be waiting until the day you die.

Let go of it now. I promise I will too.

Man, I was really frustrated this morning.

I had a great farm day planned at my house. My driveway was like a washboard even though we’d put nearly a 120 tons of gravel on it just 3 months ago. Yep, that’s a lot of gravel, but I’ve got a lot of driveway.

My truck – and more importantly, Charlsa’s Jeep – was bouncing all over the drive even though we practically crawl up to the house. And it was only getting worse.

So, I rented a tractor with a box blade and a bucket, and planned to level out the drive myself. How hard could this be, I thought. Just need a blade to drag the drive and all will be well again. And besides, this would be an opportunity to show Charlsa that I really need a tractor to maintain this 95 acre paradise and can justify the $20,000 price tag for my dream machine.

When I reserved the tractor, I had no idea what they would be bringing, but when they pulled in the drive this morning, there it was – The Kubota! The one I’ve been coveting.

So, I jumped in the saddle, cranked it up and began dragging the drive to even out the bumps. But as I made pass after pass, the bumps were becoming waves. The bigger the waves, the deeper the blade cut into the drive. It was getting worse not better. After three hours, driving around my 2500 foot U-drive felt like riding a ship in rough seas – up and down, up and down.

Popping some Dramamine for motion sickness crossed my mind.

And I was getting really upset. This machine cost me $250 to rent for the day. And I’m destroying my drive.

That’s where Mike comes in.

Mike and Daniel are two contractors that are working on screening in my basement patio. When it’s done, we’ll have an old-fashioned southern sleeping porch in the rear of the house overlooking the stream. Mosquitoes will no longer be an issue.

Mike and his partner returned from lunch. Mike walked over to the tractor. I shut it off and the conversation went like this:

Mike: You’re just playing around today, aren’t you?

Mike: I know. It seems wrong, but trust me. The blade is for finishing. The bucket is for fixing.

Within an hour, I had the driveway leveled out. And I was in reverse the rest of the day?

Who knew?

Well, that’s the point of this post. Somebody always knows. And yes, there ARE shortcuts, tips and tricks.

We always suspected there’s a shorter, simpler, faster, cheaper, more efficient way of doing things. Knowing who to ask is the key. That’s why Mark Hendricks is my coach and mentor. Every Monday morning he tells me when I need to go forward or put it in reverse. And sometimes, I didn’t even know there was a reverse. That’s why I need to talk to someone who’s been there and done that before me.

Mark’s my main mentor. Sometimes, I need a specialist. Today, Mike was my mentor – in how to drag a driveway.

At the Niche Affiliate Marketing System workshop, we bring together about 18 of the top mentors and coaches who will teach more than 150 students in a 3-day intensive. You should use the opportunity to shop for a main mentor.

You’ll find someone with whom you’ll click immediately. Hire them on the spot. Buy their products. Find out what they do and how they do it. The savings in time and money will be well worth it.

By the way, if you haven’t gotten your NAMS4 ticket yet, better hurry. The price jumps $100 Sunday night at 11:59 p.m. EST.

Just a couple of days ago, I had an awesome brainstorming session with Jeff Herring and Maritza Parra.

And I was carrying my handy-dandy Kodak Zi8 video camera with an external microphone so I could tape a 30-minute session about it and it was great. I thought you’d like to get a peak inside the inner workings of an intense brainstorming session, so I’ve got the video below…

It’s so nice to be home.

After 5 intense days in Atlanta for the NAMS3 workshop, I’m ready to take a long nap. The dogs were jumping all over me and the cat even climbed up on my chest for a quick pet before she went outside to keep our house safe from varmints.

Everyone was happy to be going home Monday from the workshop, but no one happier than our new friends from Venezuela!

We put together a 100% commission product on Saturday to give our students an opportunity to sell a brand new affiliate product called Strategies 4 Social Marketing.

It was a live 60-minute panel discussion with Kevin Riley, Willie Crawford, Jeff Herring, Maritza Parra and Joey Smith revealing their secret – and best – tips for driving traffic using social marketing.

We took the mp3, created the sales page in 90 minutes using tools and techniques that we taught studnets, added some great bonuses and started a 24-hour sales contest. Seven people made first-time sales including Rafael Sanchez who killed the competition with 26 sales. See his video below.

Rafael and his wife Luz made the trip from Venezuela.

This was Rafael’s first time selling anything on the internet.

He has no list. And get this – his country doesn’t allow credit card use on the internet. Nor does it allow the use of PayPal. So, he sent his affiliate link and ask his friends in Venezuela to send it to their friends in other countries.

In essence, it went viral on a smaller scale.

Sales started coming in. It was amazing to watch his excitement. When it was over and we were all heading home, I made a video of him talking about the experience. After the video, he asked what he was supposed to do with the $442 that he now had in his PayPal account from his sales.

He thought he was supposed to give it back to us!

He and 24 other people made 112 sales in the 24 hours. Thirty-five of those were from first-time sellers!

NO other internet mareketing workshop is like it. Willie Crawford said, “This was one of the best seminars/workshops that I’ve ever attended.”

All the speakers were raving and the 180 students were exhausted, exhilarated and excited.

Until Monday, Feb. 8th at midnight EST, we’re making available more than 50 hours of audio recordings to the three Niche Affiliate Marketing System workshops – NAMS 1, 2 and 3.  Be sure to check it out here.

What’s your big goal?

Yesterday, in the article about finding your niche, we talked about fun ways of combining your passion with your expertise.

It was fun. The Prosperity Scrabble game was an especially fun way to get the creative juices flowing. I hope you tried that out. And I hope you’re talking to other NAMS members about how it worked for you in the forum.

I hope you felt a little excited and a little uncomfortable as you tried to imagine your passions and your expertise. You should have seen possibilities that you haven’t seen before.

But today, I want to get serious! Real serious. We’ll start with one very important question…

Why in on Earth are you doing this?

What’s the point?

If you just want to make money, go get a job. If you’ve got a job, focus on doing a better job. We love people who do a good job. If it weren’t for those who do their job well, the big ol’ machine we call The Economy would come to a screeching halt.

But why are YOU so focused on building an independent business that may be risky, hard, and even require some investment? It may even require you to fail a little bit. Success is not guaranteed.

Everyone eventually fails. But how you look at it determines your success. (Topic for another day.)

You better have a Big Reason Why (BRW)you’re jumping into this world. Here’s mine above – one of mine. You’ll meet the other when you register at NAMS3 on Friday a.m. She runs the registration desk for me and much, much more.

It’s easy to say, “Well, I want to make money.” Or, “I’d like to quit my job.” Or, “I want to be able to travel.”

AND THEN WHAT?!

Many years ago, when I had a brick and mortar business, I sat with a coach who ask me that question for nearly four hours. I paid him a lot of money to ask me the same question over and over.

If I came up with an answer like:

“I want to make a million dollars.”

He immediately said, “Okay, it’s done. You’ve made a million dollars. And Then What?”

The question is maddening because it forces you to drill down to your core values and find a purpose for your business quest that goes beyond anything you ever dreamed. Sometimes, it can get way out there, but you’re discovering more about you and what’s important to you.

Ask Kathleen Gage, Mark Hendricks, Kevin Riley,Bob “The Teacher” Jenkins, Denise Wakeman, Jeff Herring…anyone who is on our instructor staff what their BRW is and you’ll find that it usually has nothing to do with business or making money. They’ve discovered a way – their business is the tool – for reaching the ultimate core goal.

In the forum yesterday, I posted a link to the Prosperity Scrabble handout. In that same zip file, you’ll find a handout to help you realize your BRW and ask that BIG question:

AND THEN WHAT?

Talk about your results in the forum or below.