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It was a late night last night of updating and
improving and in the process of doing that it got me
thinking . . .

An online business, and even more so an internet
network marketing business, can really get you
scratching your head sometimes.

We're conditioned to think in a linear fashion. Do
this and get that result is really how we think.

Work 40 hours a week and get paid for 40 hours of
work. It's how we grew up and for most of us it's
how we were conditioned to think about our results in
life.

When it comes to business this isn't always the case,
and really most of the time it's not the case.

Business is not a linear thing.

Just yesterday I was sitting at my computer
scratching my head.

4 people joined my business directly with me as their
sponsor in the last 2 days. Not something to
complain about, after all I am the king of never
calling a single lead and that's the way things work
most of the time in my business, but this time it was
a little different.

You see during that period I had absolutely no ads
running for my business and still 4 people joined
with me as their sponsor without me having to do a
thing, meanwhile my first year in the business all
I did was prospect and call leads and nothing happened.

Why is it so easy now?

Well, once you have passive traffic coming your way
good things happen and you don't have to do
anything additional actively for those good results.

But this can get people confused. I know it did for
me for a long time. Some days would be great with
little effort and some days would be not so great
with a Herculean effort.

What the heck right?

That's business for you. It's not linear. You set it
up and once you get all the pieces in place
sometimes the results flow like the mighty Amazon and
others well just one lead would keep you going.

This shift stunts most. They still want to think that
their efforts should correlate directly to their
results and when it doesn't it frustrated the heck of
them. The best advice is settle down, know your
conversion figures, and just keep on pushing.

Let me tell you . . .

If you have a great marketing system, you're doing
the right things for generating interest in your
business via your marketing system you're on the
right track despite what the results show.

They will exceed your expectations in the long run.

Think about your business like this. It's more like
having a boat tethered to port by several ropes
than going to the J.O.B.

You may spend a huge effort getting one rope off and
you've made progress, but there is still 8 more
ropes to go and nothings moving.

You've made positive progress and you know it, just
don't let money be the only marker of your success
in the beginning.

That will come.



What if you could make a living online? How would
you're life change? What would you do? I took this
course and that dream has become a reality in my life
and because it I recommend it as a MUST have for
any truly interested. Go here now:
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Enrolments for our team co-op continue to come in, we are
about 25 at my last count, so reserve your share now
if you don't want to miss out.

http://mlm-successsite.com/training/Coop%20Program.html

But I have some BAD news for you . . .

When you join our team co-op just like everything else in
life you NEVER get what you pay for.

In life if you buy a house you don't just get a house.

You get a water bill, an electric bill, homeowners
insurance, and a lawn to mow, etc . . .

(Let's not mention the price you pay if anything happens to
break or go wrong.)

Well our team co-op is no different.

That's right!

I guarantee you're NOT going to get what you pay for!

But luckily, when it comes to our team co-op it all works
the other way around.

Not only do I take on all the risk of performance, place all
the ads, track all the ads, create all the marketing
material, and follow up with all the leads on the team's
behalf, but you also get something else . . .

My goal with every team co-op is to not only to improve upon
what we did the month before and leave you with little to no
risk, but I always want to ensure that you get MORE than you
put on the line.

So . . .

For this month once the co-op reaches over 40 shares sold I
will personally ensure that each and every member of the
team co-op get's more than they pay because once we hit that
mark I will personally put $600 of my own money into the
promotional pot to ad towards your marketing.

This means that for every member of the co-op that reserves
a share at $80 you will actually get $95 worth of
advertising done on your behalf.

Further . . .

If we reach our full cap amount of 50 shares reserved I
will personally add $1200 out of my own pocket to put
towards our co-op marketing fund.

I think I'm probably a little insane for putting myself out
on the line like this again, but it's worth ever cent of it
to me.

If I can help our team grow in any way shape or form I'm
doing it.

If it means putting a heck of a lot of my own money on the
line to do it I'm more than happy to do it.

Why?

When I tried network marketing the first time around on my
own and met with dismal failure with little real help I
remembered what it felt like.

I was the only one out there pushing for my success. I was
the only one putting my money on the line to try to improve
my life.

It was a very frustrating feeling to have to know that when
it came down to it I was alone.

Well you are not alone and as long as I am a member of this
team and you will never be alone on your path to success.

Let's make history together!

We are at about 25 shares reserved. Reserve your's now
before it's to late!

Use the links below to reserve your share!

http://mlm-successsite.com/training/Coop%20Program.html

To Your Success!

John O’Driscoll

The webmaster wrote one of the articles in the fifth issue of This Land magazine, coming out this Friday. Preview of the cover and list of stories at a link in GroupBlog 320.

Rita O'Grady and husband Eddie work at Ford Motor in 1960s London. She's a good mother, wife, housekeeper, friend... and a totally uncompromising shop steward for a band of rogue unionist females who work for much lower pay than their male counterparts. With Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, and Miranda Richardson. Now in limited release.

Gwyneth Paltrow as country singing star Kelly Canter. No you're not having a Jack Daniels flashback of "Tender Mercies", "Crazy Heart" and "True Grit", though you wouldn't be far off if you did. Now playing.

Two-track love story in which the now of it is shown alternately with its beginning six years before. Chew calls it raw, real, tender, touching, happy, goofy... and sad. A smart date movie for realists. Stars Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. Now in limited release.

"Glengarry Glen Ross" lite, updated for our times? Chew explains. With Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Maria Bello, Rosemarie DeWitt and Kevin Costner. Now in limited release.

Now online at This Land: Mazeppa: The Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting by Lindsey Neal. The article includes interviews with Gailard Sartain and Jim Millaway. Link in GroupBlog 321.

Jack told us why people are unhappy in a YouTube at a link in GroupBlog 321. Also there, see Debbie Drake and read about other exercise-related topics from the early 1960s.

All TV channels worldwide suddenly begin to show a nonstop, noninterruptible live performance by Buddy Holly originating from a Jovian moon. Oliver Vale is the apparent object of the broadcasts. Story elements relevant to TTM include TV, a drive-in theater, 60s/70s/80s pop music and culture, and the Kansas/Oklahoma setting. Free ebook. More in GB 321.

Sci-fi radio serial which aired on Tulsa station KMOD for one season in 1977. More in GB 321.

Majoring in stream-of-consciousness with a minor in death-obsession are Nick Stahl and Jonathan Jackson. Alona Tal and Beau Garrett help the medicine go down. Now in limited release.

The author of the original book, Bradley Denton, has an update on the status of the movie with a link to the movie's Facebook page in GB 321.

It's 1959. The career of the magician in this marvelous, artfully animated feature film is quickly slipping over the horizon. He is alone, but can still find joy in kindness to a young girl he meets along his tour. Now in limited release.

Barney Panofsky is a TV producer and thrice-married party dog whose life goes verkakte. From the book by Mordecai Richler, the movie is set in the same cynical Canadian milieu established in Richler's earlier opus, "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz". Starring Paul Giamatti, with Minnie Driver, Rosamund Pike and Dustin Hoffman. Now in limited release.

The best movie from 2010 that Chew has seen in 2011... and eligible for the Best Picture Oscar this weekend. With Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter. Now playing.

When discussion turned to this epic starring Robert Preston, Chill Wills and Susan Hayward, Lazzaro found the whole thing on YouTube, and posted it in GroupBlog 321.

Rebuilding should have the Twin back in service this year. Link to KTUL story in GroupBlog 321.

Scott Linder, a former projectionist in Tulsa movie theaters, tells inside-the-booth stories with the encouragement of TTM readers in just-archived GroupBlog 321.

A diminutive other-world alien gets encountered in the vicinity of Area 51 by two comic book geeks from England named Graeme and Clive. With Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jane Lynch, Jeffrey Tambor, Jason Bateman, Sigourney Weaver, Kristen Wiig, Tulsa's Bill Hader, John Carroll Lynch and Seth Rogen. Opens 3/18.

...is still outstanding. More about the "fabulous" prizes in GroupBlog 323.

Jake Gyllenhaal "Quantum Leaps" multiple times into an explosive trainwreck of the very recent past. Will he foil the mad bomber and find true love? The answer will become available to you on April Fool's Day.

Chew: "One could almost imagine that 'Hanna' begins where Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road' leaves off, except that the child with the father, both trekking through a post apocalyptic world, is not male, but female." Stars Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett. Opens April 8.

IMAX 3D documentary about animals whose destiny is to exist in the wild, narrated by Morgan Freeman. Opens wide on April 8.

Anchor of Channel 2 news circa 1960, an era before video tape and color. Photo of Mr. Martin with NBC national anchor Chet Huntley in GroupBlog 324.

Former KTUL director, current TTM contributor Jim Reid is interviewed in a story about the past (Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested there) and present of Texas Theatre in Dallas. Story link and video in GroupBlog 324.

TV executive, producer and talk show host David Susskind will be the focus of the next edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL on Monday, Apr. 11, 8 pm CST. The show will also be available as a podcast. Links in GroupBlog 324.

Jon Heder is the star of a movie now in production: "Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede". Plot recap: All TV channels worldwide show a noninterruptible live performance by Buddy Holly originating from a Jovian moon. Oliver Vale is the apparent object of the broadcasts. Story elements relevant to TTM include TV, a drive-in theater, 60s/70s/80s pop music and culture, and the Kansas/Oklahoma setting (book only). YouTube and links in GroupBlog 324.

Tulsa World article states that the Twin will be operational with a new screen, concession stands and restrooms by July. Link in GroupBlog 324.

Robert Redford's relevant, thought-provoking film about the immediate aftermath of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Stars James McAvoy, Robin Wright and Tom Wilkinson. Opens wide on April 15.

As part of a general discussion with veteran Tulsa projectionist Scott Linder about Tulsa theaters and equipment, we see a photo of the webmaster as Audio Visual guy in 1967 or 8 at Lewis and Clark jr. high in GroupBlog 325.

Take a heaping helping of 1956's "Trapeze", mix in mid-30s Gable/Harlow movies, and add a soupcon of 1955's "Picnic", and you have something much like this new movie starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon. Opens wide on April 23.