Subject – Late night chiropractic fix in the parking lot… {strange experience}

I had a weird experience last night, in the parking lot of the hotel I am staying at.

Let me give you the background:

Last weekend, I went to a mastermind party thing at Jonathan Budd’s mansion… and,
when there was keg that needed to be moved downstairs, guess who volunteered?

ME! (stupidly)

Those things weigh a TON.

It completely screwed up my back… and I’ve been in pain for the past 5 days.

So then yesterday, a friend messaged me about another mastermind happening next
week, that was stricty ‘invite only.’

You can’t just ‘buy’ your way into this one… you have to be doing decent numbers in your
business (like half a mill to 10 mill a year), and, you have to sign an NDA.

It’s somewhere around 3k to go hang out for 3 days on the beach… guys like Frank Kern
are going to it, about 25 all up (send me a message on Facebook if you’re interested in coming).

So I decide to go.

The guy hosting (DK) happens to be a chiropractor… so when I have him on the phone, and
I’m doing my ‘interview’ to see if I get in, I mention my back problems.

He says, if I’m in for the mastermind, he’ll swing by on the way to see his girlfriend, and fix my back.

So of course, I say yes.

Keep in mind, in a few weeks I’m hosting my event AddTheNitrous.com, and I don’t want to be
up on stage barely able to stand.

So there we are… 9pm at night, in a deserted car park.

He swings in, we shake hands, and he pulls out one of those chiropractor beds right next to his car.

He asks me to lay down, on my stomach.

He starts feeling around at the base of my spine… and starts telling me how to joints are out
of whack, etc etc.

Without a whole lot of warning, he pushed down on my back with some serious force.

I feel my back crack…

He does it a few more times.

More cracks.

Then I stand up… miraculously… the pain is pretty much gone.

It’s an awesome feeling – and DK just became my favorite guy.

You see, I’m not a pro when it comes to fixing backs.

I didn’t have a clue what to do to fix my own back… I was thinking I’d just have to put up with the pain.

If you paid me to fix yours (if it ever got sore)- you wouldn’t get much of a result.

Even if I offered to do it for 1/10 the price of what DK charges (he said 497 / hour) you’d still be getting
a bad deal.

But when you’re dealing with a pro… they’re able to come in… and within 5 mins can diagnose the problem,
push a few pressure points, and good as new.

That is the difference between a pro and an amateur.

Now, here’s where this applies to marketing.

I see newbies come online all he time… they message me on facebook.

I ignore most, because I just don’t have time anymore…

Mostly, they want the result (big bucks), but they want to get a ‘bargain’ on the price they pay
for their advice.

When I tell them what I charge hourly (now 997) they balk.

“What!!  I can’t afford that!” they whine…

But after having been doing this for 4 years… and crossing the 7 figure mark
2 days back, I’ll tell you this:

Smart people, do NOT buy knowledge by the pound.  They go for quality over
quantity.  Every time.

They have no hesitation in paying someone with the right knowledge and experience
a grand or more for their time… because, they know how much time and hassle
having that knowledge will save them, instead of paying for it through trial and error.

A good portion of people on my list are smart marketers.

So far, around 1300 of you have invested 10 bucks in ‘The IM Revolution Handook.’

But, over 80,000 others have not…

(of course- a good 25,000 of those don’t count, since they’re inactive subscribers…
but still)

Contained in those 65 pages, is everything I did to scale my business to a million
dollar company in the span of 13 months.

The 3 years prior to that, I was paying the bill for some very expensive trial and error lessons.

So it’s your call…

You can let me save you 3 years of your life (for 10 bucks!), OR, find out these lessons the
hard way:

link

It’s your call.

Talk soon,

Matt

I hate writing posts like this, but unfortunately the is the second time this week, I need to use my blog to get good customer service.

By the way, I am willing to pay for good customer service, just please help me out.

I am a huge Mac fanboy. Fricken will die for Apple.

I own something like 6 Mac computers, 3 ipads, ipods and god knows what else.

All of us in the internet biz have hundreds of usernames and passwords.

I currently use Diigo for my bookmarks, and 1Password for my passwords.

Up till this week it has been a rock star program.

For some reason this week the Diigo short cuts started disapearing off of Firefox.

At around the same time, 1Password stopped being able to detect what page I am on.

I can double click on 1Password and find the password still, but it will not autofill.

Business has been expanding monstrously fast lately, and my production speed is through the roof.

Not being able to use the 1Password program as I usually do has brought my work speed down like 30 percent.

I emailed Agile Bits about this, I tweeted politely to them, and they did respond with how to try to improve it.

The problem is that their suggestion has not worked. I quickly tried it and emailed back stating the details,

painstakingly long emails with every detail described. It is now 48 hours later, and still it is unresolved.

I uninstalled 1Password, uninstalled firefox, updated all versions, removed all extensions in firefox, and still it does not work after a clean re-install.

Please 1Password figure something out for me quickly, or I am going to go look and find the alternatives. Fix this fast, and I will post how awsome you are here. The world wants to know what is going to happen next! LOL

Update! 2 days later they have it fixed.

It took one of their programmers, and then me spending 10 minutes following their advice.

Companies like this with an excellent but discounted product are going to have troubles like this.

If you really want the first class, super productive users, to use your product, I highly recommend that golden button in the corner for white glove treatment of high value players. I would have been happy to spend $100 to get that done in 15 minutes in the first place.

The below was sent to me at my chiropractic office. They got me on every level, even my vanity to treat a model visiting from Italy. Obviously at the end when they ask about charges because they want to pay in advance is the give away, but before that they even almost had me. Read the email and see if you can see what tipped me off before the finance part. My answer of what it was below in red. Clue, the incongruity between the job they said they had, and what they said about me. See if you can spot it.

“Greetings from Sydney!!

My name is Roberto Biancini I live and work as a massage therapist here in Sydney, I am originally from italy, I am 45yrs old. I have been doing massage since 1991. I do deep relaxation massage in which the muscles relax without pain. I also do energy massage that helps people feel great when I am done. I am also certified to do pregnancy massage. I have lots of happy clients here in Sydney.

I have been looking for a Chiropractor for over a week now till i met an old friend yesterday that referred you to me, so i decided to contact you to know if you will be able give my client some Chiropractic sessions.. My client’s name is Ms Christine Serhan, A model here in Italy who has been having episodes of low back pain and has lasted for a week now…She will be coming to the U.S in 3 weeks time for a modeling job and will be residing in your Area temporarily until the necessary arrangement for her job has been made before she leaves.

She will be needing 1hr Chiropractic session per day, 2 Sessions per week for 6 weeks. Ms Serhan, asked me to come with her to America but i told her i would not be able to go with her as i have a course i will be going for in a week time and also because i do not know much about Chiropractic sessions, so i promised to help her get a good Chiropractor in your Area.

Pls tell me a little more about your self, how long have you been a Chiropractor? Would you be able to provide her with the sessions from the 10th of next Month to the 25th of October, 2 Sessions per week for 6 weeks. I need you to get back to me with the amount you charge per session and also let me know if she can pay you with a Certified check drawn from a US bank?

You can view some of Ms Serhan Pictures from the link below:

http://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/2656390/viewall#/28436511

Till I read from you remain blessed.

Roberto Biancini
Wentworth Avenue
Sydney NSW 2000, Australia”

The tip off?

1 HR Chiropractic sessions. Chiropractors don’t bill in sessions, they bill in visits. Of course the “Till I read from you remain blessed” is classic Nigerian style.

Time to go back to the next installment of the info product, “Rip off Americans by studying their professions and vernacular advanced”. Can you imagine the emails they send out to their list? LOL

The kids have been using a 10 year old Dell computer full of viruses that show a Barbie ad every few minutes. 🙂 Either Go Mattel! or Go some spammy affiliate marketer who knows how to target kids! LOL Of course I can’t be too critical as whoever wrote it is probably a friend of mine. Of course, using a computer like this for the kids sends the wrong message, like using a PC instead of a Mac!

Anyway, I want the kids to learn to be Mac friendly, and I want them to learn how to program from an early age. The world of the PC is not the place I want them to get started. I also don’t want them to get lost in mindless games, where you can have fun spending your whole life, yet never accomplish anything but complete the quest for the princess of Zara’s brassiere ringlet or some crap. I know because I have wasted years of my life playing mindless games. I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand they are hella fun, but on the other hand, I know a lot of very unhealthy, both mentally and physically people who wasted huge parts of their lives as gamers, and somehow mistakenly take pride in their accomplishments online. Bottom line, if it didn’t make a bunch of money, it was entertainment, but not worth a crap.

I also didn’t want to buy a brand new mac computer for a couple of lower end school age kids, as I am sure this computer is going to get trashed.

I went to ebay and found a 5 year old macbook for $300 bucks. The thing came looking almost brand new, with the OS reinstalled and the disk wiped clean.

I also don’t want them cruising the internet looking at random things. I am all for this when they hit 13 or so, and have some good values built in, but the next thing you know you will have a 4 year old watching a Nazi propaganda video, and thinking they should learn it, and coming after their Jewboy almost step dad. (me).

I then googled firefox extensions for whitelisting sites. What I really want is a plugin that only allows them to look at sites I have pre-approved, instead of the more common, we block porn. In my opinion people looking at pictures of naked people is not nearly as harmful as people watching videos about racism, or hate. In fact, I am not too keen on them watching tons of marketing of junk products that have no long term value.

I found a firefox extension called Zoodles. That is what I am testing now. It has a free version, and you can do a paid upgrade. They were not too in your face about the paid upgrade, and they sell it to you before you log the kids in. It does not allow your kids out of the site easily to the rest of the internet. It is a browser of kid safe, pre-approved sites. Occasionally you can click on a link which tries to take you out of Zoodles land, and the browser just kicks you back in.

The downside is that the kid just needs to be able to read well enough to click an x, type leave and they can leave the site.

Update – After we used it a bit, there are sites the kids can play on easily, and others that don’t work within the system.

It seems like a perfect place to start for kids in the 4 to 7 age group. It has customization for different age levels.

ANNOUNCING dk’s PARTY ON WEDNESDAY

The Purposeinc Linkup Party!

The big event is going to be on Wednesday at 5:00pm.

Come hang out at a cool bar for drinks and link chat

or just shoot the breeze at the Purposeinc Linkup

We are going to meet up at the Intercontinental in the bar/lounge.

We will be talking about link building.

Click Here to RSVP

 Other cool parties during Adtech

Monday April 2nd

Mathmen Party
Mina Gallery 7 – 10
111 Mina
(no idea who these guys are?)

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Nami Media “Rouge” Rope Event.

7:30PM to 11PM

location disclosed when you RSVP,

open bar, appetizers and music

email to [email protected].

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Tuesday April 3rd – Every fricken party in the world is on Tuesday

Expo Hall
Networking 3 – 8
(I expect this to be a everyone the first 2 hours,
then mostly the people who didn’t get invited to the other parties.
The band sounds fun, but Expo hall parties are always lame in the fact
that they are Expo Hall Parties)

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Blumberg Investment Party 6 – 9
Temple Nightclub
540 Howard St.
(This one advertized itself as more mellow music,
and free food. I think this one will have more money,
and be more conservative than the typical Purpose Inc
reader. I am going to try to check it out.)

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Affiliate Awards 6 – 9
Minna Gallery
111 Minna st.
(I am a judge so going for sure. This party should rock.
Murray Newlands who is putting it on is one of the most
creative and brilliant marketers and business people I know.)

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Ads4Dough Party 7-10
Citizen Space
425 2nd Street – Suite 100
(I love my boys from San Diego. They attract a very friendly,
and very smart crowd.)

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Clickbooth – 9 – 2
Location Mighty
119 Utah Street
(Clickbooth is a monster.
THE ad:tech San Francisco Party FEATURING:
– Ying Yang Twins
– Sisqo
– Bumpin’ DJ
– OPEN BAR FOR ALL!!!
– VIP Tables
– AWESOME Giveaways
– Lots of SEXY Ladies
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Marketers Ball 9:30
1015 Folsom
with TooShort
(These guys did one in Vegas during Affiliate Summit
with Nellie. It was pretty uncrowded, and literally you
could walk up to Nellie and touch his shoe. I may very
well stop by.)

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Wednesday Night

Since no one else is stepping up for this,

I may be organizing something. Stay tuned!

If you have links for these parties send them to me.

If you have any other parties, send those as well.

Also, is there ANYTHING going on, on Wednesday?

This song is for Mrs. Soapbubbles.

I’ve been on mac for years now, through at least 5 computers. There is a spreadsheet I need to open, which only works with windows and excel for windows. So I installed Parallels which allows you to run windows on a mac. Then it came time to download the windows software.

All of a sudden everything came to a complete stop and it said something like it would take 24 hours to load. WTF? ROFL!

Jasmin sitting next to me who uses a windows computer says, “Welcome to the world of PC.”

What you are watching is a live streaming video.

Warren Buffet and Credit Report.com created a contest for kids to flex their entrepreneurial muscles.

If they go to the Secret Millionaires Club website, they can post their business idea.

The site will ask them questions about their idea, how they are going to raise money for it and how they are going to market it.

The deadline is tomorrow afternoon.

The winning kid gets $5,000.

Thanks creditreport.com and Warren Buffet.

CreditReport.com Party

First off, the CreditReport.com party is way booked over capacity. If you are an affiliate grossing over $100k per month in offers, hit me up at [email protected] and I maybe, might still be able to get you in.

Those coming, 4:30 to 6:30 Sushi Roku at the end of Ceasars Shops by Mirage on the top floor, take the round escalators up and up!

Link Research Tools and Purpose Inc Poker Tournament

The poker tourney should be tons of fun tonight. We are going to grab In and Out Burgers for all the players. It will go from 7:00 to 9:30. It is $100 to buy in. If you want to play, just bring cash, $105, when you show up. 🙂 It is at Mirage Poker Room at 7:00 tonight.