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			</div><div style="clear:both"></div><div style="padding-bottom:4px;"></div><p>I just got off a <strong>LONG</strong> phone interview that is soon to become some of the most valuable and <em>potentially dangerous</em> material I&#8217;ve ever made available to the &#8220;<strong><a href="http://www.maximum-leverage.com" target="_blank">Maximum Leverage</a></strong>&#8221; Inner Circle family.<em> </em></p>
<p><em>What was the call about? Who was I speaking to?</em></p>
<p>What we talked about was some of the <strong>most dangerous</strong> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">personality marketing</span> strategies known to man.</p>
<p><em>Who I was talking to </em>will remain a mystery to everyone except those who devour the full training once it&#8217;s been made available to the <a href="http://www.maximum-leverage.com/letter.html" target="_self">Inner Circle</a> family.</p>
<p><em>Why dangerous? </em>Because, made use of, what follows can either be used for good or evil to create <strong>typhoon like income</strong> and fast with nothing more than your laptop and your brain. <em>Curious?</em></p>
<p>Before we go any further, I only require that you <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>commi</strong><strong>t</strong></span> to using what follows for good.</p>
<p>If you can commit to that, I invite you to<em> read on . . .</em></p>
<p>A new and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">vastly different</span> world of online money making is about to revealed to you.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Nothing <strong>makes more money </strong>or causes more controversy than a powerful personality unleashed</span> through the power or marketing through the simple and widely available medium of email.<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;5 Secrets To Getting Rich With Personality&#8221;</strong></p>
<p><strong>1. Be A Super Hero &#8211; </strong>When I consult with beginner, and even veteran marketers, one <span style="text-decoration: underline;">constant objection</span> I hear is that their personality <em>isn&#8217;t</em> interesting enough, or more commonly phrased as the question:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Why would anyone listen to me?&#8221; </em></p>
<p>The answer is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">because you&#8217;re the most interesting person in the world</span>, or at least your <strong>persona</strong> is.</p>
<p>Have you ever seen those Dos Equis commercials with the &#8220;<em>Most Interesting Man In The World?</em>&#8220;</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 490px"><img title="&quot;The Most Interesting Man In The World&quot;" src="http://www.daegansmith.com/personality-marketing-mostinterestingmanintheworld.jpg" alt="&quot;The Most Interesting Man In The World&quot;" width="480" height="360" /><p class="wp-caption-text">&quot;The Most Interesting Man In The World&quot;</p></div>
<p>He&#8217;s always surrounded by the most beautiful women on earth <span style="text-decoration: underline;">who can&#8217;t wait to hear</span> what he says next.</p>
<p><em>Why? </em>Because he&#8217;s the most interesting man in the world of course.</p>
<p>My question to you is . . .</p>
<p><em><strong>Is he real or is he fictional? </strong></em></p>
<p>I&#8217;ll answer for you, he&#8217;s a <strong>fictional</strong> character. And a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">damn good one</span> at that.</p>
<p>Just one look at him and you&#8217;re instantly intrigued. &#8220;<em>What&#8217;s this guy all about?</em>&#8221; In his character, lies the first and <strong>most dangerous</strong> tool in your arsenal for making mega bucks.</p>
<p><strong>Don&#8217;t be you. Be the &#8220;Super Hero&#8221; you. </strong></p>
<p>Create the most interesting character in the world to speak to your audience through and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">they will listen</span>.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s that I hear? <em>&#8220;How?&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Sit down and think about who you&#8217;d like to be, <strong>jack it up 17 notches or so</strong>, and then, <em>and this is key . . .</em></p>
<p>Write that character&#8217;s back story. <em>Where did the character come from? What beliefs does that character hold? Is he or she bold? What brought that character online to entertain through email? </em></p>
<p>Speak and write <strong>from this voice</strong> and an<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> instant magnetism</span> you shall create with your audience.</p>
<p>Mr. X actually runs <strong>five</strong> different email newsletters, within which, when he writes, he&#8217;s <span style="text-decoration: underline;">never</span> himself.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s always, for that niche &#8220;The Most Interesting Man In The World&#8221; and all five of his audiences eat it up.</p>
<p>Being a &#8220;Super Hero&#8221; pays.</p>
<p><strong>2. Controversy That Can Make You $500,000,000 &#8211; </strong>There is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">nothing more boring or worthless</span> than a person without an opinion on anything.</p>
<p>One of the <em>biggest mistakes</em> all new marketers make is to try to be exactly that &#8211; <strong>Boring</strong>. Never offensive, never taking a stand on anything, and never taking any risks.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 339px"><img title="No One Likes This Guy." src="http://www.daegansmith.com/personality-marketing-mostpeople.png" alt="No One Likes This Guy." width="329" height="334" /><p class="wp-caption-text">No One Likes This Guy.</p></div>
<p><em>Why would you want to know, let alone read emails, from him? </em></p>
<p>I, for one, delete every boring &#8220;white bread&#8221; email that shows up in my inbox and I suggest you do the same.</p>
<p><em><strong>There&#8217;s something funny about people. </strong></em></p>
<p>Most are scared. They never voice what they really think for fear of not being liked, <em>but . . .</em></p>
<p>If someone with the <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">balls</span> </strong>to say what they&#8217;re thinking comes out and says it &#8211; that same, weak, scared individual, will <strong>rally</strong> behind the fearless and highly opinionated person as instinctively as a moth being drawn to a flame.</p>
<p><strong>Your prospects are silently screaming to be lead by you. </strong></p>
<p>They want you to tell them what <span style="text-decoration: underline;">to</span> think. They want you to say what they can&#8217;t.</p>
<p>You do that and they will fall in <strong>love</strong> with you. Think hard about how you can be more controversial and maybe one day you too can get $500,000,000 deal too.</p>
<p><em>Let me put it to you this way . . .</em></p>
<p>Howard Stern, THE most opinionated radio personality in history didn&#8217;t make a $500,000,000 deal for his radio show by NOT having strong and controversial opinions on everything.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 449px"><img class=" " title="Meet Howard Stern - The $500,000,000 Personality Marketer" src="http://www.daegansmith.com/personality-marketing-howardstern.jpg" alt="Meet Howard Stern - The $500,000,000 Personality Marketer" width="439" height="253" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Meet Howard Stern - The $500,000,000 Personality Marketer</p></div>
<p>The <em>average individual fears offending</em> others, the great one doesn&#8217;t because the &#8220;Super Heroes&#8221; of personality marketing know the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">secret power</span> of controversy.</p>
<p><strong>It polarizes your audience</strong>.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s them know where you stand, and whether they like it or not <span style="text-decoration: underline;">they <strong>WILL</strong> listen</span>.</p>
<p>The average Howard Stern &#8220;<em>fan</em>&#8221; listens to his show <strong>2 hours</strong> a day, the average &#8220;<em>objector</em>&#8221; listens <strong>2.5 hours</strong> a day.</p>
<p><strong>Controversy gets attention</strong>, entertains, gives people a reason to &#8220;tune in&#8221;, and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">makes you rich</span>.</p>
<p><strong>3. Which side of the bed did you get out on?</strong> -<em> I don&#8217;t know about you</em>, but every morning when I wake up I roll over to the right, wipe the sleep out of my eyes and step out of bed.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 456px"><img title="&quot;That Magical Moment Just Before Getting Out Of Bed In The Morning.&quot;" src="http://www.daegansmith.com/personality-marketing-wakingup.jpg" alt="&quot;That Magical Moment Just Before Getting Out Of Bed In The Morning.&quot;" width="446" height="377" /><p class="wp-caption-text">&quot;That Magical Moment Just Before Getting Out Of Bed In The Morning.&quot;</p></div>
<p>Never do I think about it. Never do I check to see if the ground is going to be there. I just get up, roll over, and put foot to ground. <em>Why such blind faith?</em></p>
<p>Simple. The ground has always met me in the morning as I stepped out of bed. I&#8217;ve never had any reason to think it ever wouldn&#8217;t.</p>
<p><em>In other words</em>, <strong>I blindly trust</strong> it&#8217;s always going to be there because it&#8217;s <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>ALWAYS BEEN THERE</strong></span>.</p>
<p>Our days are full of these <em>knee jerk habits</em> fueled unconsciously by blind leaps of faith built on experience.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Use this to your advantage in your marketing</span>. <em>Here&#8217;s what I mean . . .</em></p>
<p>If you consistently share cool stuff with your family from afar via your email newsletter do it daily <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>AN</strong><strong>D</strong></span> at the exact same time.</p>
<p>This <strong>consistent repetition</strong>, whether you know or believe it, is your <span style="text-decoration: underline;">secret key</span> to anything you want in life.</p>
<p><em>Here&#8217;s why . . .</em></p>
<p>Just like the ground meeting me every morning, if you show up in the inbox of your subscribers every day at the same time you&#8217;re creating that same<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> daily consistency</span> as all the other constants in your life, my life, and your prospect&#8217;s life.</p>
<p><strong>Over time it leads to trust. </strong></p>
<p>They know . . . you&#8217;re going to show up at a certain time and because you always do you&#8217;ve won their trust by shear consistency alone.</p>
<p><em><strong>A quick story from Mr. X -</strong></em> by applying this strategy he&#8217;s had people print out his personality based email massages every day and hand them out around the office.</p>
<p>Because he was consistent and writes with personality and a little controversy sprinkled he&#8217;s had singular people, by word of mouth and print paper, grow his mailing list by 153 people by hand.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Consistency creates trust, trust creates value, value creates wealth. </span></p>
<p><strong>4. Tell Me A Bedtime Story -</strong> <em>Did your mom ever to tell you bedtime stories?</em> Mine did. I remember as a small child I couldn&#8217;t wait &#8217;til bedtime. I would pull out my favorite book &#8220;<em><strong>Green Eggs And Ham</strong></em>&#8221; and I&#8217;d say &#8220;<em>Mommy read it to me again.</em>&#8220;</p>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 292px"><img class="  " title="My Favorite Book As A Child - &quot;Green Eggs And Ham&quot;" src="http://www.daegansmith.com/personality-marketing-green-eggs-and-ham.jpg" alt="My Favorite Book As A Child - &quot;Green Eggs And Ham&quot;" width="282" height="384" /><p class="wp-caption-text">My Favorite Book As A Child - &quot;Green Eggs And Ham&quot;</p></div>
<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;">one trick pony</span> of influencing the human mind is the power of story. It never gets old.</p>
<p>Get good at telling stories, use them often, use them over and over again and <em><strong>they</strong></em> will love you for it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a mistake to<em> think </em>that your stories have to be grandiose in nature to be effective.</p>
<p>Anything, as long as it&#8217;s a story, qualifies. I&#8217;ve personally shared stories about evicting crack heads, and Mr. X has shared stories about the quality of toilet paper at Morton&#8217;s Steak House.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 212px"><img class="   " title="Even One Play Toilet Paper Can Provide Fodder For Riveting Stories" src="http://www.daegansmith.com/personality-marketing-oneply.jpg" alt="Even One Play Toilet Paper Can Provide Fodder For Riveting Stories" width="202" height="282" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Even One Ply Toilet Paper Can Provide Fodder For Riveting Stories</p></div>
<p>The funny thing is, <strong>people just can&#8217;t get enough.</strong></p>
<p><em>A subtle</em>, but powerful thing, about stories is it&#8217;s not how epic the story is that determines it&#8217;s entertainment value, it&#8217;s the level of personality and realism. Be real.</p>
<p><em><strong>&#8220;How do you get good at sharing powerfully entertaining stories?&#8221; </strong></em></p>
<p>It&#8217;s simple. Read stories, newspaper columns, books, watch movies.</p>
<p>Take note of what&#8217;s powerfully compelling to you, and then simply adopt the styles you like and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">practice</span> over and over again.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no other option but to get good, and when you do . . . Shazaam! The touch of midas will be yours too.</p>
<p><strong>5. Do What Oprah Does -</strong> <em>What does Oprah do?</em> Whatever the heck she wants. And so should you.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 245px"><img class=" " title="The Queen Of Personality Marketing - Oprah." src="http://www.daegansmith.com/personality-marketing-oprah.jpg" alt="The Queen Of Personality Marketing - Oprah." width="235" height="360" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The Queen Of Personality Marketing - Oprah.</p></div>
<p><strong>Don&#8217;t</strong> imprison yourself to only discussing topics you <em>believe</em> relevant to your &#8220;niche.&#8221; Talk about what&#8217;s relevant to you. Oprah&#8217;s show topics are purely her desires and so should your &#8220;email episodes be.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a mistake to <em>think </em>that your reading audience wants to be educated day in and day out.</p>
<p>The truth is, they&#8217;d much rather be entertained for 5 minutes reading something riveting (<em>and what&#8217;s riveting is what you decide is riveting</em>).</p>
<p>Remember your audience isn&#8217;t made of robots. They&#8217;re people, <em>flawed</em>, <em>quirky, and real</em>. They gossip and have opinions on more than just the topic of your business <em>so yeah . . . </em><strong>go there</strong>.</p>
<p>The novice marketer is flat, they have no opinion and their emails read like the instructions on the back of a box of &#8220;<strong>Shake &#8216;N Bake.</strong>&#8220;</p>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 360px"><img class=" " title="Shake N' Bake." src="http://www.daegansmith.com/personality-marketing-shakenbake.jpg" alt="Shake N' Bake." width="350" height="350" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Shake &#39;N  Bake.</p></div>
<p><em><strong>Why?</strong></em></p>
<p>Because they <em>falsely believe</em> that their audience is as one dimensional as they are in their urgent need to earn a quick buck.</p>
<p><em>On the flip side</em>,  the wildly successful personality marketer <strong>does the opposite</strong>.</p>
<p>They <span style="text-decoration: underline;">know and exploit</span> the fact that we&#8217;re all human and we all yearn to be surprised and entertained.</p>
<p>They know that they can bridge any topic, any story, into a good reason to take another look at their product or service.</p>
<p>They know that even before anything else that entertainment, controversy, and being larger than life <strong>supersedes</strong> all.</p>
<p>They go there first and then simply bridge the gap.</p>
<p>If I can make money talking about evicting crack heads to a bunch of network marketers and Mr. X can make money talking about toilet paper quality to health nuts don&#8217;t you think you can to?</p>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 322px"><img class=" " title="Tyron The Crack Head Sprinkling A Little Crack On His PB&amp;J." src="http://www.daegansmith.com/personality-marketing-crackhead.jpg" alt="Tyron The Crack Head." width="312" height="290" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Tyron The Crack Head Sprinkling A Little Crack On His PB&amp;J.</p></div>
<p><strong>You can</strong>, and your level of belief in that truth will, at the end of the day, will put you amongst the ranks of the rest or the best.</p>
<p>Are you ready to be one of the best? Really ready?. . .<strong> </strong><a href="http://www.maximum-leverage.com/cs/watchme.html?w3source=972" target="_self"><strong>Let&#8217;s see &#8211; Watch this</strong></a>.</p>
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			</div><div style="clear:both"></div><div style="padding-bottom:4px;"></div><p>A little more than three weeks ago, I said goodbye to my beautiful ocean view home here in Maui to head back to the Mainland to undertake one of THE most extensive trips of my personal and <strong>internet network marketing business life</strong> and . . .</p>
<p>I counted, some <em>43+ people</em> who individually sent me a FaceBook message asking where I was and why wasn&#8217;t I sending my daily email updates like this . . .</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 491px"><img class=" " title="Like Aaron, Read On To Find Out Where Daegan's Been For The Last Three Weeks . . ." src="http://www.daegansmith.com/blogimages/61210/internet-network-marketing-facebook-where-is-daegan.jpg" alt="Like Aaron Read On To Find Out Where Daegan's Been For The Last Three Weeks . . ." width="481" height="219" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Like Aaron, Read On To Find Out Where Daegan&#39;s Been For The Last Three Weeks . . .</p></div>
<p>To all who wondered where I&#8217;d been I thank you for your correspondence, and for all those looking for a good story and where I&#8217;ve been <em>please read on . . .</em></p>
<p><strong>The internet network marketing world has changed me to the core.</strong> I am simply a new, better, and different person. The personal metamorphosis that has taken place has been astounding.</p>
<p>From an insignificant wage earner wondering what value my position in life added&#8230; now, to a person who awakes every single day happy, fulfilled, and ever hungry to create more positive change in the world.</p>
<p><strong>My one and only wish is for you </strong>to undergo that same core change. To realize your own significance. To <strong>live a life</strong> without worry, fear, or doubt. To help as many others remove the shackles of mediocrity and awaken with new eyes to a wondrous and abundant world that already surrounds them.</p>
<p>My trip began with an 11-hour flight back to my hometown of <strong>Washington, DC</strong>. <em>From paradise to the fast pace rhythm  of city life. </em></p>
<p>Once home, I decided to go out for dinner to a little restaurant named &#8220;Georgia Browns&#8221; for some good ole down south stuffed shrimp. It was there that I met Travis, my new instant friend.</p>
<p>Funny how life surprises you. My trip back to DC was to take part in a <strong>$20,000 per year mastermind</strong> group I committed myself to being a part of.  And there I was, the first day back, meeting a new friend.</p>
<p>Turned out Travis&#8217;s family owns the largest recycling company in the Maryland, DC, and Delaware area. A legacy business started by his grandfather, that in a little over 100 years has <strong>ballooned into a billion dollar company</strong>.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 480px"><img title="The Billion Dollar Recycling Business" src="http://www.daegansmith.com/blogimages/61210/internet-network-marketing-dc-recycling-center.jpg" alt="The Billion Dollar Recycling Business " width="470" height="284" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The Billion Dollar Recycling Business Back In Washington DC</p></div>
<p>Travis took me out to the <strong>largest of their 32 recycling centers</strong> and I was astonished. There amongst the trash and debris lay millions of dollars worth of value waiting to be harvested. In any economy, in any time, under any circumstances there is the possibility for any of us to create wealth, if only we open our eyes to see it.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 222px"><img title="Finding Billions Hidden In The Trash" src="http://www.daegansmith.com/blogimages/61210/internet-network-marketing-acres-of-diamonds.jpg" alt="Finding Billions Hidden In The Trash" width="212" height="290" /><p class="wp-caption-text">&quot;Acres Of Diamonds&quot; - Finding Billions Hidden In The Trash</p></div>
<p>Whether you&#8217;re just beginning your business, you&#8217;ve been marketing for a while and you&#8217;re still awaiting your own breakthrough, or you&#8217;re a seasoned pro, I challenge you to <strong>look deeper.</strong></p>
<p>There&#8217;s more abundance there, for us all, than we could ever fathom. My trip to the DC recycling center, 15-minutes from my home, reconfirmed this carnal truth to me and hence I share it here with you.</p>
<p>Time flies&#8230; and my mastermind meeting begins. I arrive at the hotel an hour early to prepare and have some breakfast &#8211; <em>a southwestern egg scramble</em>.</p>
<p>As I sit there excitedly going through my notes for what I&#8217;d like to share, I feel a tinge of fear strike me &#8211; <em>&#8220;What if I don&#8217;t have any value to share with the group? Will they accept me?&#8221; </em></p>
<p>When these moments arise and a little voice tries to shoot me down I simply respond to myself -<em> &#8220;Who cares, just go out there and have some fun!&#8221;</em> &#8211; and <strong>that&#8217;s exactly what I did</strong> . . .</p>
<p>Over the two days of the meeting<strong> I noticed my counterparts taking more notes from what I shared than anyone else</strong>. <em>&#8220;What a silly thought I had a few days ago,&#8221;</em> I thought to myself.</p>
<p>It appeared <strong>those five years of intensive study and action had proved valuable</strong>. I knew things they didn&#8217;t even know existed. I felt I had contributed my part. But, no time to gloat&#8230;</p>
<p>Next, off to Las Vegas for my best friend Ed&#8217;s bachelor party. I had reserved a room for myself and 4 other rapscallions at the &#8220;<em>Hard Rock</em>&#8221; it was time for Ed&#8217;s last stand as a single man.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 349px"><img title="View From Our Hard Rock Sweet Of The Massive Pool" src="http://www.daegansmith.com/blogimages/61210/internet-network-marketing-hardrock.jpg" alt="View From Our Hard Rock Sweet Of The Massive Pool" width="339" height="453" /><p class="wp-caption-text">View From Our Hard Rock Suite Of The Massive Pool</p></div>
<p>I arrive first. <strong><em>Quickly drink WAY</em></strong> more than I should have, and by the time the others arrive I&#8217;m already passed out in the room (haha). Vegas right?</p>
<p>A few hours later I awake, see they had called, and take my drunk ass down to meet them. <em>The party continues . . . </em></p>
<p>The next morning we spring for a cabana down by the famous Hard Rock pool. A good move and great day. Food and drink for all, and plenty of good people watching &#8211; <em>if you know what I mean.</em></p>
<p>My last night in Vegas we pull up to a Black Jack table and see a guy sitting there with<strong> two giant yellow chip stacks ($1000 a chip)</strong>. We sit down for about 30-minutes and play with him.</p>
<p>When we get up to leave, <em>his stack is about 85% gone</em>.</p>
<p><strong>A fool and his money are always quickly parted</strong>, but the biggest lesson I want to make sure you get is . . .</p>
<p>Going to places like Vegas is <strong>STRONG mental validation</strong> for the abundance of the world. Money flows in one direction &#8211; your pocket to the casino and . . .</p>
<p>Yet we happily go there time and time again fully knowing our fate. I&#8217;m still working on cracking the Vegas marketing code. It&#8217;s genius. It proves that entertainment trumps all else where cash flow is concerned.</p>
<p><strong>You entertain well and throw in a little marketing savvy and you simply get rich. </strong><em>Example &#8211; Vegas.</em></p>
<p>Our time together moves faster than a Cheetah in pursuit. <em>Next . . .</em></p>
<p>Napa Valley for the wedding. I&#8217;d never been to Napa, but I&#8217;m struck by its beauty. Wine country is amazing.</p>
<p>Ed&#8217;s wedding is tomorrow now. Again, there we are at the bar getting as many drinks as humanly possible down the gullet of the soon to be groom and our own. <strong><em>The next day we ALL pay for it (Especially me).</em></strong></p>
<p>Being the Best Man I had to give the Best Man toast &#8211; <em>ONLY problem is</em>, I&#8217;m more hung over than I&#8217;ve ever been in my life and I don&#8217;t exactly know what to say.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 370px"><img title="Thank God I Didn't Loose Those Rings" src="http://www.daegansmith.com/blogimages/61210/internet-network-marketing-daegan-smith-best-man.jpg" alt="Thank God I Didn't Loose Those Rings" width="360" height="270" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Thank God I Didn&#39;t Loose Those Rings . . .</p></div>
<p>The wedding goes off without a hitch. I don&#8217;t lose the rings, and faster than I wanted we&#8217;re at the wedding dinner.</p>
<p><em>5-minutes before I get up to speak&#8230; I&#8217;m nervous. </em></p>
<p>The Maid of Honor gives her speech which she&#8217;s clearly thought about. The clock ticks . . .</p>
<p>I take a deep breath and say <em>&#8220;Whatever happens, happens.&#8221;</em> Remove all fear from my heart. And <em>wearing my father&#8217;s Ray Ban sunglasse</em>s to keep out the brightness, I stand up. I&#8217;m handed the mic and speak&#8230;</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 370px"><img title="My Fearless Best Man Toast That Had The Whole Colbert Clan In Stitches Including Uncle Stephen Colbert Of The &quot;Colbert Report&quot;" src="http://www.daegansmith.com/blogimages/61210/internet-network-marketing-daegan-smith-wedding-toast.jpg" alt="My Fearless Best Man Toast That Had The Whole Colbert Clan In Stitches Including Uncle Stephen Colbert Of The &quot;Colbert Report&quot;" width="360" height="202" /><p class="wp-caption-text">My Fearless Best Man Toast That Had The Whole Colbert Clan In Stitches Including Uncle Stephen Colbert Of The &quot;Colbert Report&quot;</p></div>
<p>From the second I began,<strong> that crowd was mine.</strong> I had them cracking up, even . . .</p>
<p>Stephen Colbert, my best friend Ed&#8217;s uncle, and famous comedian (<em>I can&#8217;t go into all the sneaky from the stage marketing stuff I used to keep the crowd cracking up, but it worked like a charm &#8211; maybe a good topic for another episode</em>).</p>
<p>[<strong><em>Mental note</em></strong> - check off "make famous comedian fall out of chair laughing his ass off," from the bucket list.]</p>
<p>I sit down. Ed says <em>&#8220;I&#8217;ll remember that for the rest of my life,&#8221;<strong> </strong></em>I feel good.</p>
<p>The next day the newlyweds head off to Maui, of all places, for their honeymoon and we head to Santa Cruz for a little bonfire and beach action with a few friends <em>(nice beach, but the water is FREEZING &#8211; not like back here in Maui at all</em>).</p>
<p>The next afternoon we head off to an <em>ancient Redwood Forest along the coast</em> of northern California, deep in the mountains. <em>Breathtaking . . .</em></p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 279px"><img title="A Breathtaking View Of The Ancient Redwood Forest Of Northern California" src="http://www.daegansmith.com/blogimages/61210/internet-network-marketing-ancient-redwood-forest.jpg" alt="A Breathtaking View Of The Ancient Redwood Forest Of Northern California" width="269" height="327" /><p class="wp-caption-text">A Breathtaking View Of The Ancient Redwood Forest Of Northern California</p></div>
<p><strong>Some of these ancient trees are older than our modern calendar</strong>. Older than Christianity. They are of the tallest and oldest life on the planet.</p>
<p>Walking through this tranquil forest is almost beyond reality. Like nothing I&#8217;ve ever seen. Vast green and red everywhere. <em>In the silence, I feel how small I really am.</em></p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 236px"><img title="Me Sitting Front Of The Second Largest Redwood In Big Basin Park &quot;Father Of The Forest&quot;" src="http://www.daegansmith.com/blogimages/61210/internet-network-marketing-daegan-redwood.jpg" alt="Me Sitting Front Of The Second Largest Redwood In Big Basin Park &quot;Father Of The Forest&quot;" width="226" height="302" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Me Sitting Front Of The Second Largest Redwood In Big Basin Park &quot;Father Of The Forest&quot;</p></div>
<p>How short my existence really is, and I feel a warm rush of happiness come over me. We&#8217;ve each only got so much time, why waste it? I ask myself <em>&#8220;Am I living a life of significance, without fear, without want, full of joy?&#8221; </em></p>
<p>My mind responds resoundingly, <strong><em>&#8220;yes.&#8221;</em></strong> It was a good day. A day I&#8217;ll never forget.</p>
<p>In the blink of an eye I&#8217;m back on a plane. <em>This time to Austin, Texas. </em></p>
<p>The reason for this leg of my travels was for another mastermind meeting, <em>except . . . </em></p>
<p>Between the time when I bought my tickets and when I arrive in Austin the meeting has been pushed back a week. So now I&#8217;ve got four days in Austin (<em>one of the coolest cities in the US</em>) without a plan.</p>
<p>I call John, one of my mentors (<em>I&#8217;ve given him over $20,000 over the last few years</em>) who lives in Austin to see what he&#8217;s up to. He&#8217;s free.</p>
<p>We go to dinner at &#8220;Austin Land and Cattle&#8221; for one of the best steaks of my life.</p>
<p>We talk shop and I come out of the meal<strong> without </strong>having to write him another $10,000 check (nice feeling) and a few really powerful new marketing ideas. &#8216;Twas a good meal.</p>
<p>Earlier that day I had called and left a message for my friend <strong>Mike Dillard</strong> (of Magnetic Sponsoring and BetterNetworker), who also lives in Austin, to see what he was up to.</p>
<p>At dinner with John, he calls back and says <em>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got the whole Magnetic team in town and we&#8217;re doing a company retreat. You&#8217;re timing couldn&#8217;t be any better. Want to come join us on the houseboat and check out the new office tomorrow?&#8221;</em></p>
<p>I respond &#8220;<strong><em>Why not?</em></strong>&#8220;</p>
<p>The next morning, I meet up with him in the lobby of the Austin Hilton at 10am with the rest of his crew. We check out their new swank office overlooking the capitol building. Pretty sweet location <em>in my opinion.</em></p>
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<p>Then we jump in the Range Rover and head to <strong>Lake Travis</strong> for some houseboat fun. &#8216;Twas a good day.</p>
<p><em>I remember when Mike had <strong>just started</strong> his Magnetic Sponsoring business and to see it grow into an 8-figure business in a few short years with an entire staff and culture full of good people, was simply inspiring.</em></p>
<p><strong>One good sales letter, one good innovative product or idea can simply change your life and make the lives of countless thousands of others far better. Never discount that drive, that passion, and spark of change you want to make. It may change the world.</strong></p>
<p>That night we head out to the bars for some extended fun and I, for the first time in my life, eat my first <strong>$18 sandwich</strong> (<em>pastrami, coleslaw, egg salad, a fried egg, and russian dressing</em>). Ohh and it was worth every penny!</p>
<p><em>The next day </em>I leave for the final leg of my trip before coming back home here to Maui.</p>
<p>Time to get on the plane to <strong>Denver, Colorado</strong> to meet up with my business partner Rob.</p>
<p>In 4 days, we plan our next six months, shoot a new product, and watch Ray Allen hit 7 three pointers in a row. Highly productive time.</p>
<p>And finally . . . At long last . . . I hop on the final plane home to Maui. I&#8217;m happy.</p>
<p><strong>I get home and although I was so busy I didn&#8217;t get much of a chance to do any active marketing along the way, I arrive home to more money in the business bank account than when I left, and a cool $20k in extra checks in the mailbox.</strong></p>
<p>The<strong> <a title="Your doorway to the internet network marketing lifetsyle" href="http://www.maximum-leverage.com" target="_blank">internet network marketing</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> lifestyle</span></strong>, I must say, <em>ain&#8217;t all that bad.</em></p>
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