Here is a list of BOBS:

“Anyone can do this…”

“This is the next Microsoft…”

“This product sells itself…”

“Our endorsement by Mr. Bigshot / Mrs. Celebrity ensures…”

“You only need 3 others who…”

“There is no selling…”

“You do the work once and…”

PLEASE add more BOBs in the comments!

If you were hoping to find a few quick tweaks to make your old school marketing methods optimize your online business, sorry if I burst your bubble - but maybe I saved you from drifting out sea never to be heard from again.

You can read the whole article regarding online business optimization here

He and Ann Sieg give away some stuff, including 3 video trainings on the how and why of Twitter. He did this video training early this year and showed the growth of Twitter through January of 2009 where it grew to almost 6 millions users. 

He states in that video that it is going to continue to shoot up very rapidly.  He uses a tool - http://www.compete.com to show the stats.

I went back to compete.com on 15 June 2009 and was impressed with Mike's prediction. 

It has shot up to the levels he said it would - May 2009 Twitter had almost 20 million users!

Mike has a unique ability not just to see a trend (there are a few others that can do that,) BUT also teach marketers what it means and how to simply capatalize on the trends in internet marketing.

Mike's baby - Renegade is opening its doors again after a very successful launch just a few weeks ago.  I am personally assisting others on this journey that Mike Klingler and Ann Sieg are leading us on.  Join the journey to personal freedom we are on!

(If you want to see the Thank You page referred to above, here is the page with the free training.  Fill out the form and it will take you to the Thank You page.  Lots of links in this post - but if nothing else - be sure to get all the training given away here.)

If you missed out, or the timing wasn't right for you, there are other resources available to you to grow and learn until R-Pro re-opens its doors down the road.  Download my new free ebook, Coaching Coaches, and I'll get in touch with you regarding the WorksTeam training group that I founded a number of years ago and is currently run by Wendy Mills and Cammy Stubbs.

Knowing that this marketing training venue (Renegade Professional*) is destined to produce more successful leaders than ANYTHING ever has in the past - I had to ask how I could join with Ann Sieg & Mike Klinger on this quest of transforming an industry one leader at a time???

Here is how I decided to be a part of the coming Renegade Professional REVOLUTION:

#1.  Give away my new ebook:  Coaching Coaches.  I am making this eBook available to anyone without charge.  It is short, but filled with the wisdom and insight it takes to lead other leaders in this industry.  You will glean from Coach Curt some of the training that helped Ann and other Renegade leaders successful.  

#2.  F.ree Coaching:  For those who sign up for Renegade Professional through my links and on-line mentoring, I am going to provide f.ree on-going group coaching for all active participants of Renegade Pro.

This will be LIVE calls with me and a handful of other R-Pro members.  It will be interactive with lots of time for questions and answers.  This personal guidance will give you that edge to get further faster with your attraction marketing goals.

*Renegade Professional will be re-launched near the end of March.  To get started, be sure to get your copy of “The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto.”  Also - be sure to catch up and read “The 7 great lies of Network Marketing,” and purchase “The Renegade Network Marketer” ebook and system if you haven’t already.

Choose Your Attitude

Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say: When someone would ask him how he was doing, He would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"

He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how they could look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Michael and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"

Michael replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, 'You have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.' I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.

"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. "Yes, it is," Michael, said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. Your bottom line: "It's your choice how you live life." I reflected on what Michael said.

Soon after, I left the company to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.

I saw Michael about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied. "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.

"The first thing that went through my mind was the well being of my soon to be born daughter," Michael replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or I could choose to die. I chose to live." "Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.

Michael continued, "...the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, 'he's a dead man.' I knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked.

"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Michael. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes,' I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled...

"Gravity."

Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."

Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.

"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. After all, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."

You have two choices now:

1. Delete this.

2. Forward it to the people you care about.

I hope you will choose #2. I did.

ENJOY LIFE - IT'S THE ONLY ONE YOU GET !!!

If is often funny when cultures mix also.  When my wife and I first got here to New Zealand we were invited over someone's home for "supper" with some other people, and we were to bring something. The official and common language here in NZ is English, just as it is in the USA.   We assumed that "supper" meant a "potluck" like it would be in the USA.  When we arrived we saw some cookies and desserts, but we were the only one to bring a dish to pass.  We were to learn that night to the Kiwis "supper" is a snack sometime in the evening after the dinner meal.  We had a good laugh.

I've also been discovering as we Renegade Network marketers are expanding in numbers and influence in the network marketing industry that even though we have the same semantical base, we are speaking a different language, because we are definitely advancing a different " culture. 

"Marketing" to an old school mlmer usually is referring to the outdated practices of things like hotel meetings.  "Marketing" to the new professional renegade network marketer means the same thing as in does in most other industries - tried and true practices or methodologies of propagating their services or products - the things that lend themselves to mlm success in this new era.

There is a huge culture clash right now.  Just as we are adjusting to a similar, but also very different culture here in New Zealand, we are keeping our sense of humor.  USA culture is not better or worse than Kiwi - just different.  In the same way the new culture of mlm is different than the old.  Keep your sense of humor as you learn and grow in this metamorphosis.