Well this is a little different and not just because it’s free!  It was sent to me by my sister this weekend & I just had to post it here for you with my best wishes.

Enjoy

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Not often someone does something that impresses me online. I say that not to boast or brag but simply because I’m a battle hardened internet marketer who knows only too well how easy it is to waste cash on pipe dreams of internet riches.

The vast majority of info marketers are only after your money - and to be honest I’ve no problem with people making money - as long as they don’t do it by deception.

I guy I met a couple of years ago at a speaking engagment actually gave me this software for free - and I’ve used it ever since on nearly 90% of my site.

I gave it my “Product of The Year Award” in its very first year and to be honest its never been pushed since.

Mike is now giving it away for free to anyone who wants it. It’s his world famous Butterfly Marketing Software.

If you haven’t got already GO AND GET IT NOW because as I write this blog there are only a handful of (100% free no catches) left

Actually thier is a catch - you have to sign up for his paid newsletter BUT 3 seconds after you sign up and get your copy of BFM you can cancel your subscription AND keep your software.

I’m not suggesting that you do this but I AM suggesting you at least get the software for free while you can. If you don’t then you are crazy!!!

Mike himself encopurages you to get the software if nothing else.

This is without doubt a golden opportunity for you - DO look a gift horse in the mouth!

By the way I’m not making a penny out of this.

This is not an affiliate link.

Copies ARE Very Limited - Do Not Delay!

Go and get it right now or at least listen to Mike in the video he has done for you…

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http://butterflymarketing.com/free/

All the best & Good Luck - Do me a favour - Once you’ve got it come back here and leave me a comment OR just leave a cooment today…Enjoy the weekend!

James.

Twelve differences between those who dream and those who act:

1. Wanna-be’s obsess about ideas. Entrepreneurs obsess about implementation.
2. Wanna-be’s want more web traffic. Enrepreneurs focus on sales conversion.
3. Wanna-be’s focus on positive thinking. Entrepreneurs plan for multiple contingencies.
4. Wanna-be’s want to get on TV and get “famous.” Entrepreneurs build their list.
5. Wanna-be’s seek a perfect plan. Entrepreneurs execute and adjust the plan later.
6. Wanna-be’s wait for their lucky break. Entrepreneurs engineer four, five, six plans and execute them in tandem, wagering that at least one plan will get traction.
7. Wanna-be’s fear looking stupid in front of their friends. Entrepreneurs willingly risk making fools of themselves, knowing that long-term success is a good trade for short-term loss of dignity.
8. Wanna-be’s shield their precious ideas from harsh reality, postponing the verdict of success or failure until ’someday’. Entrepreneurs expose their ideas to cold reality as soon as reasonably possible.
9. Wanna-be’s put off practicing basketball until they’ve got Air Jordans. Entrepreneurs practice barefoot behind the garage.
10. Wanna-be’s believe what they’re told, believe their own assumptions. Entrepreneurs do original research and determine what paths have been already trod.
11. Wanna-be’s believe they can do anything. Entrepreneurs do what they’re gifted for and delegate the rest.
12. Wanna-be’s think about the world in terms of COULD and SHOULD. Entrepreneurs think in terms of IS and CAN BE.

To Your Success & Prosperity In 2009,

James McConnell

There’s clearly no way I can avoid the issue of whether the credit crunch is real or not - because its patently evident that we are in the middle of a mini/major crisis/ressession HOWEVER everything is relative…

Let me throw a question out to you here…

Are you earning more or less money now than you did last year?

I take on board that the “cost of living” has risen, especially here in the UK, with the price of Gas/Electric & fuel. But really, nothing has changed that much…

Let me put it another way…*IF* and yes it’s a BIG if…But really try to imagine this…What if you had not watched the news on TV or Radio OR listened to anyone banging on about the econemy for the past 12 months…

Do you think you would feel or be any different?

I can assure you that you would - It’s hard to believe but its a fact. Think about it for a moment…

How did you feel 12 months ago? I’ll bet it was better than you’re feeling right now eh? BUT seriously whats different right now? Whats REALLY different in your personal world right now (That you have a direct influence over)

You see feeling is a state of mind - And you’re feeling like this because of the input from the outside influences…friends family media (TV Radio Newspapers Online)

You can change the way you feel by simply “Changing Your Mind”

YOU Make Up Your Own Mind…

There’s a saying, “Crap In Crap Out”…

It comes from the computer/IT world. A computer is only as good as the data WE put in it.

A lot to take in right now - but it a chance… “Changing Your Mind” is more than achievable.

Good Luck,

James

as promised here’s a quick update on James McConnell Internet Marketing Workshop 2008.

The dates are almost set in stone…we’ve provisionally booked out the first weekend in September 6th & 7th.
I’ll be back in a day or two with more pictures and info…

Pictures & Feedback From The “Internet Marketing for ‘Newbies’ Workshop 2007″

Hosted & Presented by James McConnell

Day One: “The Cool Before the Warm” or “Calm Before The Storm…!”
Seriously this was a superb environment to learn in.

Hard to make out the screen behind me but this was a real world live example website.
“Point & Click time!”

This is the kind of workshop that is DESPERATELY needed by ‘newbies/beginners’. Congratulations James on a brilliant weekend!

Chris Sieveking - Truro www.TheTaiChiCollege.com

]]> http://jamesmcconnellonline.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=156 http://jamesmcconnellonline.com/blog/?p=155 http://jamesmcconnellonline.com/blog/?p=155#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:19:58 +0000 James McConnell http://jamesmcconnellonline.com/blog/?p=155 Hi,

last year I ran two Internet Marketing Mentor Workshops which were very popular (both sold out two weeks prior) ANd now I’ve cleared my diary I will be putting on my third (AND Possibly Last - As I’m giving serious thought at “retireing” this year)

I’ve not finalised any dates as yet or venue but I’ll be updating this blog almost daily from now on…so if you’d like attend you’ll have to keep your eye out as one thing I have can confirm is that we will only release 10 places.

When I run an invent - I like to keep things very small, that way I can give as much 1-2-1 time to each of the attendees - which makes sure you go home knowing exactly what to do next!

I’ll keep you posted…

James McConnell
“The Online Internet Business Coach & Mentor”

I’ve often been asked about MLM and other scemes that seem to pop up every other month and have always given the same stock answer…

• DON’T Get Involved
• Build your OWN Business
• Learn The Ropes
• Treat Your Online Business Like You Would ANY Business

Now…I’ve just been lurking in the Warrior forum and came across this piece which IS an awesome piece of info and I felt I just had to share.

NOTE: These are not my own words/thoughts/experiences. Total credit is due to Josh Anderson

Here goes:

I notice a lot of fairly new warriors posting questions about things like “randomizers,” “investments,” and other scams.

These “newbies” are looking at these programs and their offerings with serious interest and feeling the temptation that comes when promised easy money.

I am going to be strait forward and completely honest:

1. When you are getting started online it is hard to hear the legit opportunities because of the multitude of scams and ponzi schemes.

2. Opportunities that offer you fast money by making an “investment” into a “matrix” or “randomizer” or other such Ponzi scheme are almost all illegal.

3. There are so many illegal schemes online that it may seem like very few are exposed and prosecuted by the authorities but this does not make them any more legit.

4. In the US 70% of your revenues must come from the direct sale of goods or services and only 30% can come from the recruitment of other distributors in order for the opportunity to be legal.

This is known as the 70/30 rule and is used by the feds when taking on mlm and other opportunities.

Otherwise the companies are getting into “ponzi” and “chain” schemes which are federal offenses in the US.

5. “Referral sales” are illegal in all 50 states. A referral sale is where you offer a discount or other value in exchange for “leads” or the names of prospective purchasers (do a search for legal info regarding “referral sales” on Google and you will learn some very interesting facts).

Here is a link to a page with some basic legal definitions for ponzi or pyramid schemes and referral sales:

http://ag.ky.gov/cp/367_830.htm

6. A program does not have to pay out in the form of a “pyramid” to qualify as Ponzi.

7. Just because their is a product or service offered as a front does not mean that a program is not Ponzi. Here is a good example:

http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com…ecom2000.htm

8. There are many involved in ponzi who will claim that their program “works” and has passed the scrutiny of the FTC… most of them have no clue what they are talking about and are simply subconsciously excusing a lie that they have convinced themselves to ignore.

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs…doznalrt.htm

9. Self deception is a destructive illness. I got on the internet for the first time in 2001 and began researching internet business. I was stuck by the amount of “investment” and “matrix” opportunities that were available. Many of them were “ground floor” startup opportunities that claimed they were going to sell a product or service once they got off the ground but that they needed a few “investors” to grab “top positions” before they “launched.”

I found that almost all of them never actually offered a legit product or service and operated as an unabashed and obvious pyramid scheme. Most sites would disappear within a year and I would see the same founders starting different opportunities with varying “payout” plans all of them Ponzi.

I also saw that some of these Ponzi creators spent time posing as “consumer advocates” for those who had lost money in other schemes. These ponzi scammers would lure in victims of other failed ponzi schemes by publishing submitted complaints on their websites in behalf of the victims. They would act as if they were trying to assist the victims in recovering their lost “investments.”

I would then see these very same “advocates,” after building a list of victims sufficiently large enough who trusted them, launch their own ponzi schemes with claims like “everyone gets paid” and “guaranteed not to fail.” They would tout themselves as saviors claiming that no one would get hurt and that they were out to help everyone who lost money when other companies failed.

10. A majority… let me say that again a MAJORITY of opportunities I see advertised in safelists are illegal investment schemes.

The reason for this is because most people who are attracted to these type of opportunities cannot build a mailing list to market to (the reason is because the mainstream business world immediately sees you as illegit) and they congregate in safe lists in hopes of spreading their opportunity virally.

Most members of safe list communities (the one’s who spend every day reading and mailing safelists and investing in ponzi) are inexperienced deceived and looking for easy money.

*I know I will get heat for saying that but I also know it is true. There are legit ways to use safe lists but the majority of the opportunities advertised in them are complete garbage.*

11. Light attracts light. Darkness attracts darkness. Scammers attract easy money seekers who have deceived them selves into believing their lies.

12. There are many members of this and other marketing forums making money in illegal investment and ponzi schemes. There are many members of this and other marketing forums loosing money in illegal investment and ponzi schemes.

13. If you align your self with such opportunities (even if you make money) your business will be seen as illegit and your own reputation will be tarnished by those whom you associate with.

14. It is illegal to offer an investment opportunity, collect funds, and then spend the money on other projects:

Read the Matthew Bowin example on this page:

http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/cyberfraud.htm

Not to long ago dozens of warriors were lured into investing in a software development opportunity run by a well known marketer that was never fully delivered.

I settled out of court with that marketer to regain my own investment back after I threatened to bring in the FBI and SEC.

15. It pays to educate your self on the laws that govern your business. I have personally interviewed attorneys, legal experts, authors, and a federal expert witnesse on the subject of mlm, one up referral, and ponzi style compensation programs during my own investigation into the online “money for nothing” phenomenon.

http://www.firstgov.gov/Citizen/Top…_Fraud.shtml

16. You should also read what the SEC has to say about “internet investment” schemes.

It may shock you to know that:

“…the following companies must file reports with the SEC: All U.S. companies with more than 500 investors and $10 million in net assets;”

Companies that fail to do that are in violation of federal laws and many cases send the owners of such companies to prison.

The SEC governs most “investment” opportunities and when their hammer falls on a company it is not pretty.

Anyone interested in online business opportunities should read this page about “internet investment fraud:”

http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/cyberfraud.htm

Also it may surprise you how many internet businesses violate these areas of the law:

Franchising - http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/franchise/netrule.htm

Endorsements - http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/guides/endorse.htm

Earnings Claims -

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/11/dojsweep.htm

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/11/wealthsys.htm

http://www.lawpublish.com/mlm.html

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1998/05/greenhorse.htm

17. Robert Fitzpatrick is one of the foremost experts and has served as an expert witness in many federal cases, been published on the subject of ponzi, and has been featured on nationally syndicated television shows speaking on the subject.

His website is one of the greatest resources for educating you self against ponzi and other related illegal scams:

http://www.pyramidschemealert.org/P…in/home.html

Mr. Fitzpatrick’s site is not another anti scam site where people post their grievances it is one of the most educational sites on the subject of ponzi and mlm legal battles on both side lines that you can read.

I don’t care if there are any detractors to this post. I am not going to debate what I have written.

I have written it for the benefit of those who are truly interested in educating themselves on the subject and making educated decisions based on the laws that govern the businesses they are getting involved in.

There are many on the internet and in this forum who will seek to excuse their illegal activities and continue to live in self deception.

That is fine. Everyone is entitled to their own decisions and opinions.

This post is to provide a powerful education to the multitudes who desperately need it including the newbies who keep posting questions about whether such scams “work” in various marketing forums around the internet.

Hi there,

with so many “wannabie” internet marketers telling you that you need a mentor or “to learn from someone who walks the walk…” I thought I’d just type in the phrase “internet mentor” in to Google to see how I faired…and guess what THREE out of the top SEVEN listings in Google were mine.

Not only that but the NUMBER ONE listing was mine…

See the proof…

Coinsidence?
Luck?
Money?
Magic?

Or just maybe…maybe I might know what I’m talking about…After all how competitive do you reckon this market is? Let me tell you…It’s one of the Top 3 most over crowded market places online.

Maybe you’d like me to help you get to number? Maybe not?

How would your business look if you were number one in Google?

One of the products that I use to build my sites that help me get listed fast in the search engines is Xsite Pro. You may know that Paul the founder of XSP is pushing V2 right now. You can get to see a free webinar here & SEE first hand how awesome this software is.

All the Best,

James.

Well I’ve finally got over my teams defeat at Wembley in the play off finals! And so thought it was about time I got myself back in to posting here…

Actually the truth is I’ve been wrapped up in a new business venture which is getting bigger & better by the day but unfortunately it’s taking all of my time up.

However today I just wanted to pop a little post regarding a Xsite Pro. It’s my No.1 choice for website building and it actually won our “Product of the Year Award 2007″. And I’m fairly confident when V2 comes out next week (having had a sneak preview) that it will win “best of 2008″ too!

I’ll pop some more details here next week when the launch is on :o)

Cheers,

James.

However here i am sat at my desk at 5:18am on Sunday morning waiting to be picked up by my mate as we are about to set off to London to watch Leeds beat Doncaster!

There’s my prediction right there…Leeds to beat Doncaster and go up back to the Championship. Not sure of the final score but I’m saying that Freedman & Beckford will e the ones to score and send us up!

When asked by fans and friends, “am I nervous about us getting a result…?” I have to say not at all. Why? Because I have a feeling, (which I strongly believe in) that we are going to win. I actually feel really calm if not excited about today

C’mon boys “Marching On Together!” On On On!! Leeds Leeds Leeds!