Our Son will be missed

by John Stiles

One of the hardest things in life is losing a friend, my friend was like a son to me. The son we never had, his name was Cottonball. He comes from Siberia, since we adopted him, we didn’t know until recently that our son was a Siberian cat.

Here is our son, relaxing and looking proud as he always did.

cottonball, our son, my best friend

Cottonball, our son, my best friend

The world of internet marketing can be a lonely one. Having a faithful pet to keep me company made working on the internet fun.

Saving his life many years ago

We met Cottonball at the Humane Society. They had him in a cage along side many other cats and dogs. He was slated to be put to sleep, which is what they do to animals that don’t get adopted.

He was not happy about being in a strange place, let alone in a small cage. When we tried to pet him, he growled and lunged at us through the bars of his prison. I suppose if I were in his fur, I would be pissed off too!

What can an innocent animal do to deserve the death penalty?

My wife and I looked at each other and said, no one is going to give him a home since he acts like a wild animal. We knew he just didn’t like being caged up, could be he knew his days were numbered and that made him mad too. We figured he must have come from an abusive home based on the way he was acting. That was nearly 12 years ago.

Our only concern in adopting him was how would he be with our grandchildren? We decided to take the chance and brought him home that day. While the first few days were a little touchy, he mostly hid and acted scared of his own shadow. It took a great deal of coaxing to get him to come out and eat.

It became clear that he was abused when he would freak out at the sound of paper being crinkled. Amazing that such a beautiful Siberian cat would ever be abused.

Here is our son sleeping peacefully:

Our son sleeping peacefully

We had roughly 12 good years with our son. Yes, I called him my son because he was a member of our family. Always there to greet you with his purr and innocent love.

We will miss our son

Cottonball came down with irreversible kidney disease and he may have suffered a stroke too. The vet said there was nothing they could do. Since he showed no sign of suffering, we brought him home. We kept him comfortable and he purred all the way to the end. We let him go out on his own terms, much like mom and grandma did, with dignity.

There is now a hole next to me where Cottonball would keep me company while working on our internet marketing business. I find myself reaching over to pet him and seeing shadows behind me when making coffee. In our hearts, he is still here and always will be. We miss you big guy, we’ll see you again when we get there.

John Stiles

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So where the hell does all the time go?

What is it with all the secrets anyway? Psst… Step inside this article for the secret to increasing productivity, saving time, and having more time for family, fun or just goofing off.

Let’s face it, time is a luxury that gets sucked out of us at every turn. In learning ways to increase productivity, maybe we can’t turn the clock back, but we can sure have more control over our time. We are all busy and it just seems to get more crazy the older you get. Just wait till you get to my age, it’s as though time flies by in dog years.

The elusive internet marketing lifestyle

Yea, many people dream of making millions on the internet. Starting a business has never been this easy. The secrets to success are everywhere, for a price. Not just the price in monetary terms either, many of the secrets to success are given away for free. The real cost is all the time that gets sucked out of your life as you work toward your dream.

The Rolling Stones wrote about time with the song Time Is On My Side. Wonder how Mick Jagger feels about it now? For me, time has become a luxury that I can always use more of. More time for spending with our grand children is a big motivator for finding ways to increase productivity.

Increasing productivity the easy way

No matter what methods are used to increase productivity, free up time and get more done. It is imperative that it is easy to learn as well as easy to do. If our methods for increasing our productivity are a pain in the rear, lets be honest, who will follow through and do it? That’s why most of the methods for getting more done and saving time, fall short.

Meet Michael Tipper

In looking for the real answers to getting more done in less time, I met Michael Tipper.

Michael Tipper

Michael Tipper

Better to find the real experts on things you want to know more about. Michael happens to be an expert on memory, speed reading, and mind mapping, just to name a few.

Michael Tipper is also a highly sought after speaker, helping thousands of people become more productive. In fact, Michael won the Silver Medal at the World Memory Championships earning the rarely awarded status of Grand Master of Memory.

Seems to me that Michael has the kind of knowledge needed to help anyone become more productive in anything they do. Exactly the knowledge I can use to free up time for our grand children.

When we met at a recent internet marketing seminar, it was as though a couple of old friends met again after being away for a long time. We’ve since become good friends.

The Secret to achieving the Internet Lifestyle Dream

Starting an internet marketing business is easy. You know the dream of automated websites, life on the beach, complete financial freedom. How are you doing?

For most people, the dream of a prosperous internet marketing business has become more of an expensive hobby, than a real profitable business. Even if you do make great money with your business, taking things to higher levels is the goal, right?

The real secrets to how the rich gurus do what they do are revealed in Michael Tippers Business Profit Productivity Blueprint. Want to see how the big shots really do what they do? It’s in there!

Business Profit Productivity Blueprint

Business Profit Productivity Blueprint

While my intent is not to turn this into a fluff piece on the course.

I do want to stress that Michael has gone all out to help people with this. At first glance, it may just seem like a mind mapping course. Yea, mind mapping is used as a tool, but the course is much more than that. Some people may even be intimidated in using mind maps for their business.

The thought of high priced mind mapping software may cause some people pause in taking the course. Michael thought of that too, and includes lessons on using free mind mapping software.

Want to take your online business to the next level? How about having more time with family or grand children, if you have any yet.

I’ve been through the Business Profit Productivity Blueprint from beginning to end. The impact on my life and time has been very cool, more time with my little buddies is a great bonus.

The course includes over 8 hours of videos along with illustrated manuals that make it all very easy to implement into your business. Remember earlier? If it’s not easy to gain from using these techniques, what is the point. Michael has made it simple, you’ll see.

John Stiles

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Brainstorming Techniques

by John Stiles

Creating a successful internet marketing business requires good brainstorming techniques. The ability to brainstorm ideas and get those ideas out on the internet will separate you from the rest of the competition.

Lately I’ve written some articles here about the use of mind maps for your marketing business. Let’s face it, there are many powerful ways to use mind maps in your business. Once you know all the mind mapping techniques that the most successful marketers use, everything you do becomes easier.

Brainstorming for Internet Marketing ideas

There are nearly as many ways to brainstorm ideas as there are people. I’ve used quite a few methods with varying degrees of success. Inspiration is all around us, we just need a good way to gather up the ideas, expand on them and put them to use. More about that later, lets talk about inspiration for a bit.

As internet marketers, it helps to get into the minds of the people in your particular market. We can also get a great deal of inspiration just spending time with our families. Attempt to see things through the eyes of others.

Marketing inspired by family

Marketing inspired by family

Our grandchildren are a great source of inspiration for me. Imagine expanding the circle of influence. Our grandchildren have friends and their friends have parents. We can learn about markets that are hot in a wide range of interests.

For our brainstorming exercise, make mental notes of hot products or jot them down in a notepad or journal. We’ll use these ideas later. When you get out with family and friends, just have your eyes open for marketing ideas.

Catching a hot trend is a great way to expand into many new markets. Opportunities are everywhere, we just have to gather them up and put them to use.

Brainstorming with a mastermind group

Mastermind groups are great for hashing out the many marketing ideas we come up with. Just beware that a group of internet marketers in a mastermind can become biased on what is hot or what will work in a business. As internet marketers, we tend to see things much differently than the rest of the world.

Having a solid group of differing personalities and skills in your mastermind will surely improve results. Tossing around ideas and digging into the possibilities is generally always better done with others.

Getting those brainstorming ideas out of your head

Marketing Ideas Inside

Marketing Ideas Inside

So what do we do with all these ideas we’ve gathered up? We’ve gone out with family and friends, observed hot trends, listened to the conversations and accumulated a list of ideas.

We’ve also had some discussions with our mastermind group. Perhaps we’ve hashed out some of the ideas or even come up with some new ones.

Our lists of ideas have grown with many ideas to choose from, perhaps these ideas are in different formats too. From ideas in our heads, lists on scraps of paper, notes in journals. Taking these brainstorming ideas and expanding on them can be a real pain, at least it used to be.

Brainstorming techniques using mind maps

Using mind maps to expand on our gathered ideas is an extremely powerful method to turn our ideas into products or new businesses. While I knew there were powerful techniques for using mind maps in many aspects of an marketing business. I recently had my world turned upside down, when I saw how the guru marketers do it.

There is a new mind mapping and business productivity course that explains it all in great detail. The real secrets to how the marketing gurus use mind maps are now available to all of us. No longer will these secret techniques be used against us to kick our asses in internet marketing!

Michael Tipper deserves a round of applause for making these well guarded secrets available in his mind mapping course. The kicker is that he put together a course that puts many of those expensive courses to shame. Michael has put a great deal of detail into this course, videos and manuals are provided for every module. He also made it so affordable, anyone at any level can now have access to the secrets of the top gurus.

Even the bonuses compliment the course

Michael has really thought through what he wanted to cover in his mind mapping course. All the bonuses included are a great fit and really enhance the entire package. Don’t let the low price fool you, the quality of training provided is usually quite expensive.

My impression is that Michael went out of his way to make this affordable to everyone. A real marketer who is genuinely trying to help people. All we need to do now is apply what Michael teaches and we have a real road map to success.

Thank you Michael Tipper! You’ve opened the world of the gurus to everyone.

John Stiles

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My Internet Marketing Insider site was long overdue for a makeover. Switching ti the Thesis theme saved time. As a grandpa, saving time is very important to me. The time saved can be spent goofing off with my little buddies at the beach. Sure beats the heck out of messing with theme code.

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