The implementation temptation paradox

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When I went to my very first internet marketing seminar in April ’02, I came home with a scratch pad jam-packed with notes. It was a firehose of information. I spent the next several months feverishly implementing everything I’d learned.

I’d also spent some serious dinero on honing my writing skills. I’d bought a big box o’ copywriting stuff and I was busily going through that too.

September came along, and with it, another invitation to yet another marketing seminar.

I thought, “How does it make any sense at all to pile on MORE information when I’ve done less than half my notes from just 5 months ago?”

To Death’s Door and Back Again, in Auto Manufacturing

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A guy named John from Manitoba met me at a Ken McCarthy seminar in ’09, came to a 4-Man Intensive and joined Roundtable.

His company made aftermarket parts for trucks. He also supplied parts to specialty manufacturers who put them in their vehicles.

In the wake of the ’08 market crash, his customers’ businesses were melting down. John’s orders were falling precipitously.

He hooked up with me essentially out of desperation…