This Wednesday, October 8th, you’re invited to attend not 1, but TWO LIVE Teleconferences!  These calls are at 4pm eastern and 8 pm eastern, so mark your calendar!

On the 4pm Gold Challenge Call, I’ll cover “Goal Setting and Strategic Planning for the Entrepreneur”.  We’ll talk about how to plan your goals and then use them to build a strategic plan for building your business. It’s a topic that EVERY business owner needs to know about if his business is ever going to reach it’s potential.

You’ll find all the details in the Member’s Area after you join the 30-Day IM Challenge and Upgrade to Gold Member at:

—> http://www.askggg.com/30days-e6

On the 8pm Affiliate Training Call, my affiliate manager, Jeff Levesque, and I will be sharing our strategies for making money with Affiliate Marketing.  Between the 2 of us, we have nearly 20 years of experience in this field and we have a TON to share with you on this call!

You’ll find all the details at:

—> http://www.TheIMUAffiliates.com

Yesterday was my Dad’s 68th birthday.  Since I happen to be only a few hours away (something that happens only once or twice a year), we decided to pay him a surprise visit and spend the day with him.

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Have you seen the new addition to the sidebar of The IM University blog?  Look to the right … You’ll see it just above the “Categories”.

Do you see what I’m referring to?  You should see the “Upcoming Teleconferences & Events” widget listed in the sidebar.  Inside, you’ll find a listing of all of my upcoming teleconferences as well as the Live Events I’ll be attending.

So what’s coming up this month?

TONS!  These include a total of 2 teleconferences in the next week alone!  These are:

*  Gold Challenge Member’s Call on Wednesday, October 8th at 4:00 pm eastern where we’ll talk about “What Will Your Business Sell?  How Will You Make Money in Your Business?”

*  FREE Affiliate Training Call on Wednesday, October 8th at 8:00 pm eastern where our affiliate manager, Jeff Levesque, and I will give you tips for making money online in your Affiliate Marketing Business and we’ll share all the details of an upcoming Affiliate Contest that will let you WIN the chance to get The IM University promoting for YOU!

The following week, on October 17^th through 19^th, I’ll be at Ken McArthur’s JV Alert LIVE in Lake Las Vegas, NV hanging out with great people like Socrates Socratous, Ken McArthur, Willie Crawford, and tons of my friends!  A number of my Apprentices will be joining me for all the fun.  Will you be there?

You’ll find all the details at:

http://www.askggg.com/jvalert

If you buy through this link, I’ll even treat you for dinner over the weekend!

The following weekend, on October 25^th and 26^th, I’ll be on the other side of the country speaking at Fred Gleeck & Bob Bly’s Info Product Seminar in New York City.  This one should be a real blast!  I can’t wait to hear all about Fred’s strategies that have let him put out well over 1,000 info products in the past 10 years!  (Can you imagine how much you’d make from all of those info products?)

The same deal goes in New York, too — if you buy through this link, I’ll treat you to dinner with me and my apprentices:

http://www.askggg.com/infony

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I know I’ve been a bit quiet the last few days. I decided to take a short, impromptu vacation.

Before I tell you WHY I would decide to take an impromptu vacation, let me tell you what we’ve been up to the last few days …

The last time I wrote you, we were just leaving Burlington, VT en route to Las Vegas, NV.

We don’t have to be in Vegas until JV Alert Live kicks off from October 17th through October 19th. (If you’re able to join us, you’ll find all the details at: http://www.askggg.com/jvalert )

For the first time in the 4 years that we’ve been on the road, we FINALLY don’t have a super tight travel schedule! We can actually have a leisurely drive this trip and take our time getting to where we’re going.

That’s what got me to thinking …

As we left Burlington, VT we traveled south along Lakes Champlain and George, through the Adirondack mountains. We’d never been through this part of the country before and the views were simply breathtaking!

As we turned onto 90 traveling west through upper New York, I reviewed the GPS to see if we had any other mountains along our route. I couldn’t believe just how many really awesome places we’d be passing near or through! Places like …

* NIAGRA FALLS …

I haven’t seen the falls since I was 6 years old. My husband hasn’t ever been there. When I saw that our best friends, Doug and Teri Champigny, lived less than 15 minute from the Falls, I knew we couldn’t pass this stop up without saying hello!

* PITTSBURGH, PA …

Ok, maybe this might not sound like a place to see, but let me tell you, there’s some really cool stuff in Pittsburgh! And some great people, too, including our friend Mike Steup.

* CLEVELAND, OH …

Home to all of my cousins, aunts, uncles, and extended family. Maybe we can pay them an unexpected visit?

* NOTRE DAME, IN …

Not only my alma mater, but my favorite college football team as well! (My inlaws live only minutes away from the stadium too!) I had to wonder if there was some way we could arrange to be driving through on a home game day.

* MOUNT RUSHMORE, SD …

Ok, so this one isn’t directly on the route, but it’s only a few hundred miles out of the way. We’ve never been to this part of the country so we’ve never seen Mount Rushmore, the Badlands, or any of the myriad of other attractions and destinations. Maybe we should take the detour and spend the day?

I can go on and on with the hundreds of other places I saw along our route, but I’ll save them for my next email to you, so I can get to the point of why I’m telling you about all of this …

As I plotted the course and dreamed of the destinations, I was struck by one single thought … I remembered WHY we set out in our RV almost 4 short years ago.

… Back then I had only months to live.
… Back then I vowed to live each day as if it were my last and to make every second count.
… Back then, my primary goal in life was to spend as much time as I could creating as many memories as possible with the love of my life, with whatever short amount of time we had left together.

WHAT CHANGED?

Why is it that these days we almost never take the time to see any sights along our trips?

Why is it that today we almost never plan on going somewhere just because we haven’t been there before?

Why is it that today life seems to be nothing more than a Google Calendar filled with appointments and more work?

How easy it is to FORGET the things that are most important in our lives!

How easy it is to get side tracked from your life’s true purpose!

How easy it is to let yourself get so wrapped up in all of life’s distractions that you forget WHY you are doing all those things in the first place!

As I came to these realizations for myself, I also had one big AH HA moment as I concluded that …

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A few weeks back, I announced the winners of the 2nd 30-Day IM Challenge. Just as a reminder, these were:

1st Place: Edi Carlisle, Chile
2nd Place: Carl Tambeau, Canada
3rd Place: Lori Saulibio, Hawaii

The winners of the 1st 30-Day IM Challenge were announced back in May. They were:

1st Place: John Cussons, Canada
2nd Place: Duane Ford, Florida
3rd Place: Michael Spindelman, New York

The 3rd 30-Day IM Challenge kicks off this coming Sunday, September 21. (I’ll be making announcements both via email and here on the blog, so watch for details!) I always get excited when a new Challenge kicks off because it means that for an entire month — 30 full days — there will be hundreds of entrepreneurs excitedly taking action on their businesses!

One of the reasons that these 6 earned the distinguished title of WINNER is because each of them TOOK ACTION and implemented what they learned in the Challenge.

More specifically, one of the BIGGEST things that they learned is something that I’ve mentioned to you before …

That a BLOG is the heart of your traffic generation system.

What does it mean to make your blog the heart of your traffic generation system?

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Here’s your chance to sell a HOT, NEW Web 2.0 Product and keep 100% of the sales for yourself! “Your Web 2.0 Affiliate Hub System” dimesale has just started! You can download it now at:

—> http://www.askggg.com/ahsaffil

You’ll immediately get your affiliate link on the download page so that you can tell your friends, subscribers, visitors, and customers about it and earn 100% INSTANT commissions paid straight to your PayPal account! You’ll even receive 50% INSTANT commissions when your referrals purchase the one-time-offer too!

This dimesale is only on for a few days so grab yours now to get a jump start on the competition!

This past weekend I had the privilege of being a panelist at Michael Angier’s SuccessNet Summit in Burlington, VT. This seminar had some of the best quality participants I have ever had the pleasure of meeting!

What made them a high quality audience?

Well, first off, they were action takers! Every one of them took action by just attending the event in the first place.

More importantly, every one of them left the event with a clear action plan for what they would do to build their business.

And, every one of them left the event with the necessary knowledge for HOW to put their plan into action.

I attend at least 8 to 10 events per year. Some years, I go to more than a dozen events. I’ve been doing this for years now. So I consider myself a bit of an expert on seminars and who attends them.

I gotta tell you — most events I attend do not have an audience that is comprised of action takers.

All too often, the only real “action” that the attendees take is getting to the event, and then having a great time partying when they’re there.

But this crowd was different … they were all really SERIOUS about building their businesses. You could tell in the questions they were asking.

Every time I’m in a crowd of action takers like I was this weekend, I always get re-energized! You can almost “feel” the power of the energy within the room!

It’s almost “electric” … I keep waiting to see little sparks coming out of peoples’ fingertips and even their heads!

That’s some SERIOUS power!

If I’m re-energized by events like this, I’m certain that for the attendees the affect is even bigger. They all leave anxious to start building their businesses faster come Monday morning.

The thing is, there just isn’t any other way to duplicate that energy that comes from attending an event with “action takers”. That kind of energy just doesn’t exist in any other setting.

About the closest thing to the type of energy that comes from a group of action takers attending an event together, is the energy created in some forums and some social networks.

If you’ve got a group of like minded individuals, who are all focusing their energy in a similar direction, or on a similar topic — and all of them are also action takers — then having them participate in a site where they can communicate with one another and share ideas will usually come close to creating this kind of energy.

I see it happen in The IM University’s forum.

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You’ve probably noticed that I’ve been a bit quieter than usual.  That’s because I’ve been hard at work putting together a few surprises for you!

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I can’t believe it’s almost fall!  The leaves are actually starting to change here in northern Indiana/southern Michigan, nights are getting colder every day.  It’s only going to be 54 degrees F. tonight!

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It’s been awhile since you’ve heard from me and I apologize for that.

Things have been really CRAZY over here getting the Group 7 Apprentices started on their 1 year journey to success, getting my products ready to sell the Resale Rights (watch for them this week!), and getting the new membership sites ready to launch in September.

Hopefully you’ve had a nice little break, ’cause it’s time to get to work!

We have less than 2 months to get ready for something that I am really excited about!

It’s something that can not only help you to build your business, but at the same time, it can truly make a difference in the world.

There are a lot of people out there who are using their businesses to both profit for themselves, and at the same time, make a difference in the lives of others.

For example …

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The IM University Graduate Apprenticeship Starts Next Week!

The next group of Apprentices (Group 7) starts the week of August 11, 2008.  By the end of the one year program, students will have every piece of their business up, running, and getting visitors & subscribers every day, bringing them profits week after week, month after month.

Will you be one of the students who stops messing around and gets serious enough to get results in your business this year?  Or will next year find you still looking for some “magic secret” that doesn’t exist?

Listen to what the current students have to say and decide for yourself …

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The 30-Day IM Challenge is coming to an end!

One week from today, on Sunday, August 10, 2008, I’ll be selecting the 3 winners of the SECOND 30-Day IM Challenge!  Those 3 winners will join me in the upcoming JVAlert LIVE in Las Vegas, NV on October 17, 18, and 19, 2008.  One lucky winner will also win afull tuition scholarship in The IM University’s Graduate Apprenticeship Program Group 7 — the very LAST group that I teach before retiring!

Will it be YOU?

If you haven’t yet signed up for the 30-Day IM Challenge, you’d better get in NOW!  You’ve got a LOT of work to do this week!

—> http://www.askggg.com/30days

AND — if you’ve upgraded to Gold Member, then you’re also eligible for a FREE Strategy Session with me as well!  If you haven’t yet registered for yours, you can do so right now at:

http://www.TheIMUniversity.com/strategy

(NOTE:  Only Gold Members, SMIC Members, and those who have purchased any of my products or special offers in the last 30 days are eligible!)
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I’m on my way to dinner with Bill.  I haven’t spent much time with him in the last 2 weeks and I’ve GOT to give him some attention.

But before I do, I have been working on my upcoming travel plans for the next few months.  I have several events that I am either speaking at or that I will be a panelist at.

I’m also trying to decide what other events I should plan on attending as well.

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