You are in need of a HUGE thank you!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Because of you, I got to experience the WOW of a lifetime at an event recently.

(Here’s one part of it… Me catching a touchdown at Dallas Cowboy Stadium)

Without your commitment to my programs, events, products and services I WOULD NOT have been able to do this. I would not have been able to hang out and mastermind with Bret Michaels, Eric Trump (Donald Trump’s son and star of The Apprentice), Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple) and many others.

These experiences were a WOW of a lifetime for me and I just wanted to say thanks for helping make it possible.

There’s also a lesson in all of this… What kind of WOW experiences are you creating for your customers, clients and subscribers?

A WOW experience is something that can make you stand out from your competition.

A WOW experience can be that secret sauce to you making a huge, positive impact and creating a customer for life.

A WOW experience can be your USP (unique sale positioning) that brands you as “THE” authority in your market.

So leave me a comment below.

Tell me what kind of WOW experiences you can create or have already created for your customers, clients and subscribers.

If you don’t have any customers, clients or subscribers then no better time to think about the future than the present.

And again, thanks!

I look forward to reading your comments.

Cheers,
- Jeff Vacek

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Thanks for your feedback! This will really help me decide if I should come to London or not.

- Jeff Vacek

There is a reason New Year’s resolutions don’t work – it’s a lot easier to talk about changing a habit than actually doing the work to change it. So break the bad habit of setting New Year’s resolutions and start right now on your business planning for 2012.

There is a glaring issue I see from a lot of would-be successful entrepreneurs – people love to talk about their business ideas, but they never take the baby steps to set a plan into place and then execute it.

Another issue is that by the time you start on your goals on January 2nd, it’s already to late – 2012 already started! While you are now trying to plan out your year, your competition is already working on executing theirs. Plan now so you can implement your ideas starting January 2nd and get yourself off the ground and running in 2012 (or before!).

In my experience, my business is most successful when I plan ahead. In fact, if I don’t plan ahead, my ideas and projects fall by the wayside. I am very specific whether planning out my day, month, or year, because I know the success that persistent planning (and sticking to that plan) has brought me. You can do it too, you just need to be dedicated to planning and implementing.

Another thing is I am always brainstorming with my team about “what’s next” and how we can grow my business. It boils down to planning then implementing – over and over again. It’s as simple as that – but it’s something a lot of entrepreneurs don’t do enough. The planning part makes the implementing part a lot more rewarding, too.

It should go without saying that you should be planning for the future every day, whether that future is tomorrow or next year. A phrase that should always be in the back of your mind “is what I am working on right now going to lead to my long term success?”

Here are a few quick points to remember when planning (and working) in 2012:

• Clearly define your goals for the New Year, and then break it down into monthly goals.
• Before the end of each day, recap what you accomplished that day and what still needs to be done tomorrow. Write it down so you don’t forget.
• Stick to your goals and work to implement them. If they aren’t working, iterate and keep working.
• Recap at the end of every week and assess if you moved towards your goals and what you need to do next week to keep progressing.

It doesn’t take much effort to plan out your day, week, month, or year. Each task should ultimately be related to your year-end goal for 2012, anything else is just distracting you from what you set out to do.

A great way to think about planning your 2012 is to think about it in terms of baseball. If you are a pitcher, when do you warm up your arm? Before the game in warm-ups! Think of December as our pre game warm-ups, during which you are going to think about your ideas and plan for 2012. A pitcher wouldn’t be very successful if they waited until the 3rd inning for their arm to warm up, and neither will your business.

Think about that analogy, what you are going to do in December to prepare for 2012, and what your goals are for 2012. Post in the comments below and let me know your goals for 2012 and what you are going to do TODAY to start working toward accomplishing them. I’m going to draw 3 names from the comments and send you a signed copy of my book, so post now!

Happy planning and implementing,

- Jeff Vacek

If you do one thing by the end of the year and only one thing by the end of the year make sure you create your first partnership.

I’m not necessarily talking about going into business with someone else or getting a business partner if you will.

Nope, I’m talking about partnering with someone that can help you explode your business in a short amount of time.

Me and one of my partners, Raymond Aaron, at a recent partnering event.

Recently, I was in Chicago attending the biggest partnering event in the world. It reminded me how my first true partnership, if I trace everything back… STILL effects me positively to this day.

It was back in January of 2006. I had just been laid off for the 4th time in 3 years.

I was searching for something I could do on my own, when I started talking to a friend of mine. I didn’t even know he was flipping houses on the side. I thought it sounded interesting so we started flipping houses together. To protect the integrity of my relationships we’ll call him Mason.

Now, I’m not in real estate anymore, but guess what that one partnership with Mason generated and that I’m thankful for every day? A steam locomotive of partnerships and success.

Mason introduced me to a gentleman that helped me start my internet marketing business. We’ll call him Tony.

Well, Tony introduced me to more partners who then helped me launch my first Information Product on the internet that generated over $200,000 in 3 weeks.

The credibility of that launch brought in more partners, my company started expanding exponentially and since then we’ve doubled our profits every year for 3 years straight and are well into multiple 7 figures in yearly income. And now people are constantly coming to me wanting to partner with me.

But it ALL goes back to that first one… Mason.

Where would I be had I not met Mason?

Now, I don’t know how that first partnership is going to show up for you, but in my experience that person is closer to you than you think. You just have to be looking for him or her.

It may not be a friend like me. It could be someone close to. It could be someone you’ve never heard of or even met.

I know one thing though… You can’t sit behind your computer and wait for them to come to you. You have to go get them. Connect on social media, go to local roundtable and business networking sessions, join masterminds and go to big events.

Like I said, I was just in Chicago at the biggest partnering event in the world. I made new partnerships there. Do you know why I was there? Because of a partnership. Do you know how I met that guy? Because of a partnership…

And so on, and so forth. I think you get the picture.

Leave me a comment below. What could one good partnership do for your business? How are you going to reach out and find them? If you’ve already created a breakthrough partnership, please share your results.

I look forward to reading your answers.

Happy Partnering!

To your Success,
- Jeff Vacek

P.S. Do you want to partner with me? Come see me and some of my partners at our next LIVE training event. Let’s see what we can create together. Go to http://www.ultimateblueprintevent.com for more details and location.

Please answer this question after you watch the short video:

What’s REALLY stopping you from building your own Information Marketing business and achieving the freedom of Time and Money you desire?

I look forward to personally reading your response.

- Jeff

Hey Jeff here…

For the last few weeks I’ve been reading select chapters of Tim Ferriss’ new book, “The 4-Hour Body”.

Why would I only read “select” chapters you ask?

Well, it’s because of a Mantra that Tim Ferriss lives by that I’ve also adopted. It’s called M-E-D or Minimum Effective Dose.

You see what Tim did – he tested a gazillion different diets, exercise routines, etc. on numerous different people and body types AND talked to tons of doctors, athletes and health professionals with one goal in mind.

To figure the MINIMUM 99.9 percent of the population has to do to lose weight and gain lean muscle. And he shows you in his book how to ONLY read the chapters you need to reach your health and fitness goals.

Hence, Minimum Effective Dose or M-E-D for short.

When I read about M-E-D in the first chapter of Tim’s book my life changed forever.

Here’s why… I realized that “Minimum Effective Dose” could apply to just about anything – especially my business.

That’s exactly why I’m telling you about it and why I named this post so purposely.

Ask yourself… where in your business are you doing too much to reach a specific goal. Sounds weird doesn’t it?

Too much? Huh?

Yep, there is such a thing as doing too much. And it’s a very common reason why people don’t get anywhere in business.

You over analyze, you don’t take the shortest route possible, you waste time, you don’t have the CLEAREST, MOST EFFECTIVE, SHORTEST path to your goal. In other words, your internal GPS (Global Positioning System – you know the electronic gadget that can tell you EXACTLY how to get somewhere) is taking you the long way around.

Sound familiar? Did I just describe your business OR heck your life in general?

For those of you that are my Info Renegade students, you have M-E-D right in front of you. It’s in the form of our “60 Days to 10K” training module.

That module tells you the EXACT path you need to follow inside our training program to reach 10K in 60 days.

It’s not easy… For some of you it may take a complete mindset shift. But it’s definitely possible.

You might also be saying, “Well Jeff, M-E-D won’t work for me because of this or that.”

Bull crap… Go read some of the case studies in “The 4-Hour Body”. You’d be surprised what you can accomplish by just living by the Mantra of “Minimum Effective Dose”.

So here’s what I want you to do…

Below this post I want you to leave me a comment. Tell me one area of your business (or your life if you don’t have a business) that you can apply M-E-D to. You don’t have to change your whole business or life overnight. Take baby steps.

Again, tell me one area of your business (or your life if you don’t have a business) that you can apply M-E-D to. And tell me what you’re going to do to implement M-E-D. What are you going to take out, change, shift, transform, etc? Who are you going to delegate to, get to help you, etc?

Tell me, tell me, tell me. I want to know. I want to know how many of you are going to take on M-E-D like I did.

It sure has changed my life for the better – DRAMATICALLY and I would love for it to do the same for you.

I look forward to reading your comments below.

Cheers,
- Jeff Vacek
Certified M-E-D Specialist

Hey, Jeff here…

I have this buddy that’s in a mastermind with me that’s doing one of the coolest things I’ve seen in awhile… online. AND it’s in it’s infancy.

Have you ever seen the show “Flip This House”?

It’s about people/real estate investors who buy houses, rehab them and sell them for a profit.

Well, my buddy Ryan Moran… He flips web sites.

Now, he doesn’t have a TV show yet (who knows, maybe you’ll see him on TLC soon with “Flip This Website), but there’s NO DOUBT he’s the authority on flipping websites.

You might be thinking to yourself why I’m telling you about this.

Great question, I’m glad you asked.

You see, what gets my students stuck often, in getting their information business going is a handful of things.

Two of those things are creating a product and getting a web site up and running.

If you’re one of my students, you know that creating a product can be daunting (although we teach a proprietary way to get it done pretty easy in Info Renegades) and heck most of you are not technical juggernauts that can just easily throw up a website, connect all the wires and crank out cash.

Well, thanks to Ryan those troubles could be over for you.

He can show you how to buy a web site that’s *ALREADY* rockin’ OR easy to get rockin’ OR he can show you how to flip them and make a profit kind of like how the real estate dudes (and dudettes) do it. So if you could care less about having your own web site and product you can still make some cash with this… possibly a lot of cash.

Even better…

I’ve talked Ryan into showing you *EXACTLY* how he does this on a totally free training webinar this Thursday night, 4/28 at 8:00pm Eastern.

That being said, he only wants to show a few people how to do this so that this emerging market and strategy doesn’t get saturated.

So get your spot on the webinar now by registering here now:

Register Here Now

I’ll see you on the webinar!

- Jeff Vacek

P.S. Almost forgot, make sure you click on the link below and read the report Ryan wrote about this cool market. You’ll get A LOT more out of the webinar.

Click Here to Get Ryan’s Report on Website Flipping Called “Click and Mortar”

And again, definitely make sure you register for the training webinar on which Ryan will tall you ALL about it.

Register Here Now

To listen to the audio version of this blog post, click on the play button on the player below.

Have you ever heard the phrase, “Do what you love and the money will follow”?

I’ve heard it many times in my life… Usually at hyped up marketing events

Do you think it’s B.S.? (for you non-Americans, B.S. stand for Bull S#$t – Hey, my kids might read this someday… I gotta keep it clean)

Honestly, I always thought it was possible. After all, I grew up seeing ALL the sports heroes, rock stars and movie stars that were doing what they loved and making LOADS of cash.

Well, I don’t know about you but I play tennis 3 times a week and it costs me money and time (helps me stay in shape though) – my acting career ended in elementary school with a role in my school’s rendition of the musical “The Electric Sunshine Man” (although if you watch home videos of me growing up you might disagree about the whole acting thing) – my music career pretty much ended after I received my degree in music from my alma mater about 12 years ago.

So where did that leave me?

Well, after college I discovered a couple of new “What I loved’s” and now I do them full-time and earn a good living doing it.

The main one being coaching people to become better and to live the life they want through the amazing business of Information Marketing.

This new “What I Loved” became one of my main Passions in life.

You can find out more about my passions and why I do what I do on my no cost training webinar here: http://www.jointhewebinarnow.com/exclusive

Now, I didn’t discover this passion over night. Nor did I start making money with it immediately. It was an 11 year process.

You may be thinking, “Jeff, I don’t have 11 years… I need money now… I want out of my job now!” Or something to that effect.

Well, you may have already discovered your passion and you just haven’t translated it into cash flowing, viable business. Or maybe the FORM of your passion isn’t the appropriate form for a business (I know that’s one of the things that took me awhile).

I was also stubborn… Maybe you’re not.

I had a lot of naysayers in my way. You probably do as well or maybe you don’t.

Regardless of what your situation or circumstances are I’m living proof that anything is possible and that YOU CAN do what you love and the money will follow.

Heck, if a 4-eyed, Southern, husband, father of 3 (all under the age of 5 at the time of this writing), overweight, former band nerd like me can do it… You sure as heck can too!

(I should be giving you lots of hope at this point

Here’s the cool thing though… Another thing I’m good at is helping people move faster than I did… In other words, how to not get stopped by ANYTHING on your journey to manifesting your passion into a cash flow business. More importantly, the right way to turning what you love into a viable business that puts food on the table, day after day, month after month and year after year for you and your family.

I can show you how I do that on my no cost training webinar which you can register for here: http://www.jointhewebinarnow.com/exclusive

So what are your passions?

Tell me below by leaving me a comment. You may become one of my students soon or you may already be a student, so I want to know.

Thanks for reading!

To your success,
- Jeff Vacek

Join me on my next no cost training webinar by registering here: http://www.jointhewebinarnow.com/exclusive

Hey Jeff here…

Recently, my business partner Ken traveled to Las Vegas to sit in for me at one of the high level mastermind groups I’m a member of.

One of the topics that came up was very interesting and received tons of input.

The topic… What are the components of a SUCCESSFUL information marketing business.

So, this week Ken shared what he considers the Top 6 Components of a Successful Info Marketing Business on one of elite coaching calls (elite – as in you have to be one of our Info Renegade Members to be on the call).

I edited out the rest of the call where we answer private questions from students, etc. but thought it would be cool to share these components with you since I know a lot of you are building information marketing businesses.

It’s only about 17 minutes long.

Take a listen and let me know below… Which components are you missing? Which components are you currently working on? If you have some of these components, now that you’ve heard Ken, what will you change? What can I do to help you get these components in place?

Enjoy!

(Press Play on the Yellow Media Player Below to Listen)

Hey Jeff here…

Recently, two of my students (David and Kath) interviewed me for their book.

The main thing we talked about is internet marketing and information marketing is moving BACKWARD, not forward?

Sounds weird, but it’s true. “It’s so technologically advanced, how can it be moving backward?”

Also, I tell my story at the beginning. Some of you might be thinking, “so what, Jeff…Why do I want to hear your story?”

Well, that’s cool but the thing I want you to get out of it is that I was NO DIFFERENT than ANY of you when I got started (by the way, it wasn’t that long ago either).

Check out the interview below (press play on the player) and you’ll see what I mean about the direction of internet and information marketing AND where I came from.

Oh, and after you listen to the interview let me know how the fact that internet marketing and information marketing moving backwards is going to effect YOUR business and life.

Enjoy!