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		<dc:creator>Mark Brock</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>Thinking Of Starting Your Own Business?</h4>
<h4>Discover The Step-By-Step Advice That Will Ensure You Get It Right&#8230; Starting <span style="text-decoration: underline;">TODAY</span>!</h4>
<p>If you&#8217;re reading this, I&#8217;m willing to wager that you have an interest in learning how to <strong>further your business along the path to resounding success!</strong></p>
<p>As you are reading this, I&#8217;m sure <strong>you already know of the true power that effective market research can give your business</strong> in assuring you <em>make a name for yourself in your chosen market</em>.</p>
<p>All you&#8217;re looking for now is a way to <strong>ensure you don&#8217;t miss anything out when doing this research</strong>.</p>
<p>That means you want to investigate every aspect of your market to <em>ensure you enter it with all the knowledge of the current market leader</em>.</p>
<p><strong>How else are you going to claim their throne???</strong></p>
<p>Well, starting today&#8230; <em>right now</em> in fact&#8230;</p>
<h4>You can <em>put yourself firmly on the path to success!</em> All you have to do is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">take action</span>!</h4>
<p>If that sounds like something you want to start doing <span style="text-decoration: underline;">right now</span>, click the button below&#8230;</p>
<h4>COMING SOON</h4>
<p>At this point, I&#8217;d like to talk specifically to those of you that have wasted your money before on the various business guides out there&#8230;</p>
<p>You know the guides I&#8217;m talking about&#8230; the ones that promised you the world and didn&#8217;t even deliver you a pile of dirt &#8211; (<em>and not good dirt either&#8230; unfertile dirt&#8230; dirt that meant you couldn&#8217;t even grow stuff in it</em>)!</p>
<p>Well, for those of you that this resonates to, I&#8217;d like to share something with you&#8230;</p>
<h4>Here&#8217;s the story&#8230;</h4>
<p>A few years ago, I knew of someone that took it upon himself to go to university and learn all he could about business.</p>
<p>The course he took was geared specifically towards teaching him all he could know about starting your own business and running it successfully.</p>
<p>Throughout this course, every step of the business process was laid out in detail. It seemed like all he needed to do was copy what was taught and start using it in the real world <em>straight away</em>.</p>
<p><strong>SHOCK HORROR!</strong> My friend did just this. He went out and <strong>immediately</strong> started his own business.</p>
<p>Sadly, he chose to spend a great deal of money on various <em>get-rich-quick</em> schemes; (<em>effectively wasting it</em>).</p>
<p>My friend flushed a lot of money down the drain on these so called <em>&#8220;guides&#8221;</em> and (<em>surprise, surprise</em>) none of them gave him the results that they had promised.</p>
<h4>Can you guess what happened next?</h4>
<p>That&#8217;s right&#8230; his business failed faster than it had started &#8211; (<em>and that was faster than Superman rushing to the toilet after drinking a whole gallon of moo juice</em>).</p>
<p>Not only that, but he only had himself to blame.</p>
<p><strong>Do you know why?</strong> The answer to that question was said best with the words <em>&#8220;less haste, more speed&#8221;</em>.</p>
<p>Do you understand what that means? Basically, the more you rush things, the longer it eventually takes to get them done.</p>
<p><strong>That&#8217;s just for starters&#8230;</strong> the story gets <em>so</em> much worse.</p>
<p>Sadly there was more than that one reason for my friend to blame himself for his business&#8217; catastrophic failure. In fact, the reason already given is a pretty poor one by comparison to what I attribute his failure to&#8230;</p>
<p>What, you ask, do you attribute his failure to if not rushing into things too quickly?</p>
<p><strong>Check this out&#8230;</strong> my friend failed because he didn&#8217;t pay attention to what was taught to him through his three years at university.</p>
<p>You may now be thinking &#8220;&#8230; but you said he copied what was taught to him. Surely that means he <em>did</em> pay attention&#8221;.</p>
<p>You may have got me there. Perhaps the correct answer is that he did <em>and</em> he didn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>While he certainly paid attention to the majority of what was taught, the one aspect of his university degree that he surprisingly chose not to pay attention to was&#8230;</p>
<h4>&#8230; have you guessed it yet? <em>Research!</em></h4>
<p>How did my friend pass his degree in the first place?</p>
<ul>
<li>By researching thoroughly in order to complete all of his assignments to a high level.</li>
<li>By furthering his education in order to get to grips with what was being taught.</li>
<li>By learning all that he could about the subject at hand.</li>
</ul>
<p>So why is it that he chose to abandon this process when it came to starting his own business? No one knows.</p>
<p>Thankfully, upon realising his fatal mistake, my friend made amends.</p>
<p>He thought of another business idea he&#8217;d like to try out, and before he jumped head-first into it, he researched the market he wanted to enter &#8211; <strong>thoroughly!</strong></p>
<p><strong>It gets even better&#8230;</strong> he now runs a successful web design business and offers his marketing advice to those businesses in need of it.</p>
<p><strong>One more thing &#8211; <em>it&#8217;s important</em>&#8230;</strong> the friend I was telling you about was <span style="text-decoration: underline;">me</span>.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">I&#8217;m the idiot</span> that chose to disregard his knowledge of what got him through his university degree in the first place.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">I&#8217;m the idiot</span> that had his first business venture fall down on his head.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">I&#8217;m the idiot</span> that had sense knocked into me with that almighty bump on the noggin when my first business dropped on my head and has since gone on to gain success with his business.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m now the reformed idiot that is hoping you don&#8217;t fall into the same routine that I started out following.</p>
<p>Up next, we&#8217;re going to address a few questions you may have&#8230;</p>
<h4>What Exactly Are You Going To Discover Through This Research Guide That Will Enrich Your Life?</h4>
<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the deal&#8230;</strong> you&#8217;ll discover&#8230;</p>
<ul>
<li>How to <strong>find out whether or not your chosen market is profitable <span style="text-decoration: underline;">before you spend <em>any</em> money on your business</span>!</strong></li>
<li>How the global environment will <em>show you where the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">best chance of success lies</span> in your market</em>.</li>
<li>How to analyse these global factors to <em>ensure you <span style="text-decoration: underline;">know what to bring to your market</span></em> &#8211; <strong>No guess work needed!</strong></li>
<li>The <strong>simple yet effective technique</strong> you can use to build on this initial analysis to find out whether or not your market is in need of your product.</li>
<p>(<em><strong>Hint:</strong> Even if your chosen market doesn&#8217;t need your product, you can still enter it provided you complete the next analysis in this guide correctly</em>).</p>
<li>How to find out where the power lies in your chosen market, and how to <strong>ensure you gain as much of this power as possible!</strong></li>
<li>How to ensure you <strong>distance yourself from the fierce competition in your market and still <span style="text-decoration: underline;">get a healthy share of the profits</span>!</strong></li>
<li>How to steal (<em>ethically</em>) from your successful competitors so you can <strong>copy what they are doing right</strong> (<em>and ditch what they aren&#8217;t</em>).</li>
<li>What you should be paying attention to in your own business to ensure you are able to <strong>build on what is working, and correct the things that aren&#8217;t working.</strong></li>
<li>What you should be looking at to <strong>ensure your business adapts to the ever changing world</strong> in which we live.</li>
</ul>
<h4>COMING SOON</h4>
<p>Still undecided? Okay, let&#8217;s address a few more of your questions&#8230;</p>
<h4>Who Else Uses These Tools?</h4>
<p>The research tools you&#8217;ll discover inside the Research for Riches guide have been <strong>used by successful businesses the whole world over</strong> (<em>big and small</em>).</p>
<p>How do you think these businesses were able to gain their success if not through thorough research in the first place?! <strong>Without effective market research, the successful businesses in this world would never have reached the level of success they experience today!</strong></p>
<h4>What Does This Mean For You?</h4>
<p>How would <strong><em>you</em></strong> like to <strong>become one of these success stories yourself?</strong></p>
<p>How would you like to <strong>be forever recognised as an <span style="text-decoration: underline;">outstanding success in your market</span>; as a <em>true market leader</em>?</strong></p>
<p>Research done correctly can <strong>propel yourself to that success!</strong></p>
<p>Research done poorly (<em>or not at all</em>) can propel you to failure.</p>
<p><em>Which path would you prefer to be on?</em></p>
<h4>Why Would I Share Such Valuable Tools With A Stranger?</h4>
<p>The answer to this question is simple. The chances of you entering my market (<em>and entering my market in the location that I operate</em>) are very slim for a start.</p>
<p>Even if by some rare occurance you were to enter my market in the specific location I operate in, competition is to be treasured.</p>
<p>Competition is necessary in all forms of business in my opinion. There is nothing that will spur you on to success like competition.</p>
<p>Competition keeps businesses on their toes, and it is a factor (<em>granted a much smaller one in some cases</em>) in all known markets.</p>
<p>Despite this, there are ways that <span style="text-decoration: underline;">you can enter markets that have minimal amounts of competition</span>. <strong>The Research for Riches guide will show you how to do just that!</strong></p>
<h4>Where Did I Find This Information?</h4>
<p>The information available to you inside the Research for Riches guide comes from what was taught to me during my three years at university. I was taught these techniques week-in, week-out.</p>
<p>More importantly, <strong>I paid a handsome sum just for the privilege of learning these awesome techniques</strong> &#8211; (<em>you know how much a university education costs?!</em>)</p>
<p>I was taught to use these techniques to their full advantage. <strong>The fact that <span style="text-decoration: underline;">these tools and techniques taught to me are used by successful businesses the world over</span> should give you some idea as to the <em>true value</em> they can provide you and your business.</strong></p>
<h4>How Would You Like To Put This Information To Use For Yourself?</h4>
<p>Well if that is the case, all you have to do is <strong>take action today!</strong></p>
<p>Just click on the button below and <strong>get started on your market research right now!</strong></p>
<h4>COMING SOON</h4>
<p>One question does remain however&#8230;</p>
<h4>How Much Will The Research For Riches Guide Cost Me?</h4>
<p>Here is where you&#8217;ll usually see the obligatory <em>&#8220;this guide should cost you $1,000&#8243;</em> part of a sales letter.</p>
<p>Well, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">I&#8217;m refusing to play that game</span>.</p>
<p>Instead, I&#8217;ll just jump straight into what this guide will actually cost you and let you decide if it is <strong>good value for money</strong> or not.</p>
<p>Following along with this research guide will cost you <strong>NOTHING</strong> &#8211; that&#8217;s right&#8230; <em>IT&#8217;S 100% FREE!</em></p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like to <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">super-charge your business</span></strong>, click the button below to get started!</p>
<h4>COMING SOON</h4>
<p>Yes, I could have charged money for this information, but why would I?</p>
<p><strong>This guide is designed to help you &#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">not me</span>!</strong></p>
<p>This guide is designed to help those that have yet to gain success with their business. Wouldn&#8217;t a large price tag be the opposite of help in this situation?</p>
<p><strong>Either I&#8217;m <span style="text-decoration: underline;">right</span> or I&#8217;m <span style="text-decoration: underline;">mad</span>!</strong> Whichever it is, I suggest you take advantage right now and set about researching for your success <strong>today!</strong></p>
<h4>COMING SOON</h4>

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		<title>Punctuate Your Procrastination!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Brock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to get anywhere in this world (be it in business or in life), you&#8217;ve got to stop doing nothing and start doing something! In effect, you get out of life what you put into it! It seems a simple enough message, but you wouldn&#8217;t believe the number of people that continuously put off the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In order to get anywhere in this world (<em>be it in business or in life</em>), you&#8217;ve got to stop doing nothing and start doing something!</p>
<p>In effect, <strong>you get out of life what you put into it!</strong></p>
<p>It seems a simple enough message, but you wouldn&#8217;t believe the number of people that <em>continuously</em> put off the things that will move them towards acheiving what they want in life.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been there myself. When I started my own business, I wasted countless hours effectively doing nothing. I should have been using that time to build my business.</p>
<p>Thankfully, those days are far behind me. Now it&#8217;s time for those of you that suffer from this problem to put it behind you too!</p>
<p>That&#8217;s easier said than done though isn&#8217;t it?!</p>
<p>You may have already tried and failed to put a stop to your own procrastination. I know it took me a while to finally focus my mind fully on my business (<em>and I&#8217;m SO glad I did</em>).</p>
<p>It may sound strange but this inability to cease your procrastination may have something to do with your fear of&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; <em>wait for it</em>&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; <strong>success!</strong></p>
<p>I know&#8230; it sounds insane doesn&#8217;t it?!</p>
<p>If you think about this logically though, fear of success is tantamount to fear of failure. If you don&#8217;t do anything, how can you fail?</p>
<p>By sabotaging my own success, I didn&#8217;t have to deal with failure; (<em>at least not on a large scale</em>).</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t mind admitting right here that I was one of those that was afraid to succeed when I first started out. I wanted to own and operate my own business, but whenever the time came for me to close deals, I would choke.</p>
<p>I choked because psychologically I didn&#8217;t want to deal with the various tasks that running a successful business meant would be coming my way!</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t want the extra responsibility.</p>
<p>So what enabled me to change my way of thinking? What enabled me to start making something of myself?</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t really give a proper answer here. I guess the only answer I can give is that <strong>I finally grew up!</strong></p>
<p>My own procrastination was caused by my own fears. All you&#8217;ve got to do is seek out what&#8217;s stopping you from getting what you want out of life and <strong>STOMP DOWN</strong> on that barrier!</p>
<p>Forge your own path and let <strong>NOTHING</strong> get in your way! Let <strong>NOTHING</strong> stop you from achieving your goals!</p>
<p>In the immortal words of Rocky Balboa&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain&#8217;t all sunshine and rainbows. It&#8217;s a very mean and nasty place and I don&#8217;t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.</em></p>
<p><em>You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain&#8217;t about how hard ya hit. It&#8217;s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That&#8217;s how winning is done!</em></p>
<p><em>Now if you know what you&#8217;re worth then go out and get what you&#8217;re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain&#8217;t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody!</em></p>
<p><em>Cowards do that and that ain&#8217;t you! You&#8217;re better than that!</em>&#8221;</p>
<p>I hope this first post on my blog inspires you to &#8220;<em>&#8230;get what you&#8217;re worth</em>&#8221; in life.</p>
<p>If it does, my work here is done!</p>

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