Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Would you like to have a business that makes a five figure income every MONTH? Most people are happy to make five figures in a year from their home business. Gaj Subudhi of superstarsmarketing.com built his information marketing business up to five figures starting with nothing. His strategy was simple. He bought courses, started using the knowledge, then he taught others what he learned from his experiences.
Rob Toth interviewed Gaj as one of the top information marketers as part of a project with Dan Kennedy’s Info Riches course. The full interview series is called “Future Of Information Marketing”.
As a software architect, Gaj had been working for a large company until he started his online business. Up to that point he didn’t know anything about business or marketing.
Gaj was like the rest of us. He started buying course after course so he wouldn’t make any important mistakes. He wanted to “know it all” before he started his business. Gaj says “if you put more information into your brain it creates more opportunity”. He was certainly creating more “opportunity” but unfortunately he wasn’t making any money from it. The money started coming in when he started applying what he learned.
When Gaj took action he found that there were a lot of things that were a little different from what the courses said. When he started explaining these subtle differences to people he became a man-in-demand. Gaj says to “use and apply information to create value in the world”. He found that by using the information he was buying, the things he learned from experience had value for other people.
There are so many sources of information that people have access to. They buy course after course but they don’t apply what they learn. Invariably, they get stuck at a certain point and they stop trying. According to Gaj the big money is in “helping people consume in the right way”. This is the most important thing…even more important than acquiring more knowledge.
There is a lot of information that a person can get very easily. Many courses and traininig programs that used to be sold for a lot of money can now be downloaded for free off the Internet. Acquiring more information just leads to “analysis paralysis”. More information doesn’t allow you to “have your own value or your own voice”, says Gaj.
People should “do something with whatever they know” and “try to expose the value of what you know to help people”, says Gaj. “Create your own value out of the existing information” that you already have.
The way Gaj sees it, people don’t have enough self-confidence to value their own knowledge. There will always be more and more to learn. The amount of information available to people is growing at an exponential rate. There is a video on YouTube that every information marketer should see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEnFwiqdx8 .
Based on this video you can see that the best sevice you can provide to people is to help them reduce their information overload by sharing what you know through experience. At some point you have to just trust that what you know will be valuable for others and put it out there. “Taking action is critical,” says Gaj. There’s lots of talk out there but information based on experience is what is most helpful for people.
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Everyone, at one time or another, has wanted to express his or her story. Writing a memoir to read privately, share with family or friends, or publish is an emotionally satisfying way to gain perspective on your experiences while sharing your unique voice. We’ve all experienced feelings and events in our lives that we are longing to write down. Giving in to that urge can give you an outlet for purging any frustration, anxiety, or long-dormant feelings. No one else has to read it. You may even want to write your story without reading it right away. Satisfying the need to tell your story is not predicated upon your writing ability. It does, however take effort to write down the truth in detail. Your memories, captured on paper as descriptive scenes, sights, sounds, and scents, may at first seem disconnected or incomplete. But rest assured that you possess the ability to shape your recollections into stories.
Everyone wants to be heard. Reading your story to others can meet that need. Writing your story can also help you understand your life experiences. And when you finish writing, you may be surprised at what you have accomplished. Your story can encompass as much or as little of your life as you prefer. You may surprise yourself with new insights, or you may find yourself exploring your roots, your identity, and your future through your words. Allow your writing to guide you and write as truthfully as possible. Don’t worry about what others will think of your personal journey, your style of writing, or your words.
Research has shown that writing a personal narrative filled with feelings and perceptions can create long-term health benefits. As you write, remember to have compassion for yourself, particularly when writing about traumatic events. If you are a young person, you can add to your life story as you grow older. Your writing may help family members know you better, or they may understand themselves more through reading about your experiences. More importantly, you are expressing yourself in a permanent way, giving a gift to yourself, and letting your voice be heard.
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Through out the time muse has been a phenomenon in the world of creativity. In different times different creative people have been enthralled by their muses. So the very first question comes to someone’s mind is who is a muse? The wikipedia says, “In Greek mythology, the Muses are a sisterhood of goddesses or spirits, their number set at nine by Classical times, who embody the arts and inspire the creation process with their graces through remembered and improvised song and stage, writing, traditional music, and dance”. The Muses are the Greek goddesses who preside over the arts and sciences and inspire those who excel at these pursuits. Daughters of Zeus, king of the gods, and Mnemosyne (”memory”), they were born at Pieria at the foot of Mount Olympus. Their nurse, Eupheme, raised them along with her son, Crotus the hunter, who was transported into the sky as Sagittarius upon his death.
For a common reader a muse can be defined as a woman who provides a creative person immense inspiration and energy to create and shape his dreams, ideas and thoughts through their creative passions. When some masters of their own craft finds and falls in love and beauty of a woman, it leads his urge to translate his passions into a creative piece say a painting, a novel or a poetry or anything else which catches the eyes of others. Time after time and behind every creation they gyrate their minds of those worshipers of their beauty. The spellbound minds of those worshipers always find a way to create and dedicate their creative urge to them. They depict their muse in canvas, in the words, through rhymes and rhythms. Singer Amanda Lear inspired famous surrealist painter Salvador Dali. Dora Maar was the muse of none other than Pablo Picasso.Camille Claudel reverberated August Rodin for his curls and curves in his great sculptures. George Sand drove Chopin to create every canorous note in piano.Henry Miller crocheted his beautiful dreams Anais Nin is his mind.Famous Indian painter Maqbul Fida Hussein found his colours and forms in actress Madhuri Dixit. And the list goes on.
Through out the ages, muses- the elegant beautiful human creature have been mesmerizing different creative people of different genre to remain in their pinnacle of creativity with cool presence in their mind. They provide obsessions, they create waves of imagination, they inspire them with love beauty and elixir of creative lives.
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt…” Sylvia Plath
Like any other art form writing is also a form of art through which someone expresses his or hers feelings that born in mind space. It’s an art which deals with the mood, passions and lust which together lead a person to create beautiful imageries through words. On the other hand it’s an author’s outbound emotional expression that flows like a stream from within. It’s a journey full of factual elements or imaginative ingredients that creates beauty in words. More or less it’s a kind of discovery of someone’s own self with words. American writer Richard Wright said “I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”
So to discover someone’s own self how one can proceed or in simplest meaning how the art of writing can be achieved, acquired or learnt. What are the important factors to be learnt to become a good writer? According to Robert Louis Stevenson there are four elements regarding this. They are choice of words, web, rhythm of phrase and contents of phrase. Since writing means expressions through words, so what matters most is the use of words in writing. Use of good mellifluous words makes a good article. Expressions of the writer become expressive only through the good use of words. An artist’s emotions expressed through colors and a composer’s through sweet notes. Likewise a writer’s expressions lie on words.
Web is none other than the style. Distinct style signifies the elegance of a writer and his merit. The style of the expressions of a writer is the taste of the writing. And that gives the significance and the distinctive outlook of the writings. It defines the school of his thoughts. The construction of sentences, use of words and the narrative style and translation of the inner voice always reflected in the writing and that is its credibility. And thus it metamorphoses into the art of good writing.
A good article means harmony of words and thoughts of a writer. Only a good harmony between words and thoughts can bring the taste and beauty of an article. Stronger the words, greater the aesthetics of the art and the art of writing. The art becomes stronger when the thoughts of a writer enriched with good words and phrases. A good write up means a sweet melody.
The nucleus of a good writing is the style. The flow of the words the rhythm of the words and the way it is expressed give any article its excellence and elegance. The architectural beauty of an article is always measured by the dexterity of a writer’s translation of moods, imagination, thoughts and expressive style of the writer. “A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?” as George Orwell opined would be enough to acquire the art of writing.
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