Fwd: President Clinton endorses Abundance

-------- Original Message --------

Subject:	President Clinton endorses Abundance
Date:	Sun, 28 Sep 2014 13:21:30 -0700
From:	Peter Diamandis <peter@diamandis.com>
Reply-To:	peter@diamandis.com
To:	Steve <stevescott@techacq.com>

Dear Steve,

Earlier this week, President Bill Clinton interviewed me about "moonshots" and "abundance."

I was honored to share the stage with him for the closing session of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).

I had no idea he was a fan of Abundance, but he had clearly consumed the book and quoted from his dog-eared copy.

***To watch this 12-minute conversation on Abundance, XPRIZE & Technology,  click here***

Leadership (whether you are the U.S. President, an entrepreneur or a CEO) is all about mindset… specifically scarcity vs. abundance and linear vs. exponential.

This blog is about the difference.

Scarcity vs. Abundance; Linear vs. Exponential Mindset               

As I teach at my mastermind ( Abundance 360), a scarcity and linear mindset is destructive and self-limiting.

Unfortunately, most people think in terms of scarcity, and linear growth.

They see "limitations," rather than "possibilities."

They forget that the world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

They see linear projections in a world where technology is exploding exponentially.

They forget that a Maasai Warrior on a smartphone today has access to more information than President Clinton had only 20 years ago (BTW, I loved saying that directly to President Clinton -- I think it caught him off-guard, but he agreed).

The Mental Game

Every innovator I talk to emphasizes the importance of the mental game, arguing that without the right mindset, entrepreneurs have absolutely no chance of success. 

I couldn't agree more. Mindset is everything. Whether you think you can or think you can't -- well, you're right.

Most of our great entrepreneurial leaders today are people who have created world-changing industries where none had existed before. 

Most of them accomplished this feat by solving problems that had long been considered unsolvable. 

Taken together, they are a group whose track record showed that one of the better responses to the threat of scarcity is not to try to slice our pie thinner; rather, it's to figure out how to make more pies.

Or as Larry Page famously said in his I/O 2013 keynote: "Being negative is not how we make progress."

This is not a passing sentiment for Larry, it's a core philosophy. "I'm tremendously optimistic," says Page. "I'm certain that whatever challenges we take on, we can solve with a little bit of concerted effort and some good technology. And that's an exciting place to be. [It means] our job is really to make the world better. We need more people working on this. We need to have more ambitious goals. The world has enough resources to provide a good quality of life for everyone. We have enough raw materials. We need to get better organized and move a lot faster."  

How to Think Exponentially & Abundantly

There are many important elements to setting your mindset.  Here are just a few to consider:

1. Change your environment -- Surround yourself with people who have an Abundance mindset. Work in places that reinforce exponential thinking. Your environment shapes your mindset and it is critically important.
2. Have a Massively Transformative Purpose (MTP): What is your mission and your purpose? Why are you on this planet?  My MTP is to empower entrepreneurs to create extraordinary wealth while creating a world of Abundance. What's yours?
3. Don't watch the news.  Take a media diet.  Our brain pays 10 times more attention to negative news (an evolutionary attribute that kept us alive thousands of years ago). Today the news media abuses this… they are a drug pusher and negative news is their drug.  Choose how and where you get your news feed. Proactively seek it out instead of being fed every murder, in HD, over and over again.  Let the data do the talking, and allow yourself to opt for abundance.
4. Continuous education on Accelerating Technologies and Mindset. With the time you save giving up the nightly news, find sources to educate yourself on the exploding technology world. Go to Singularity University, read blogs and/or take some online courses. 

FYI, every January I coach a group of leaders, executives and entrepreneurs through my Abundance 360 Mastermind. If you are ready to learn how to develop an abundance mindset, how to create your moonshot and how to build an exponential organization, apply  here.

We live in the most exciting time ever.

Let's create a world of Abundance.

All the best,

Peter

P.S. Every weekend I send out a "Tech Blog" like this one. If you want to sign up, go to www.PeterDiamandis.com and sign up for this and my Abundance blogs.

P.P.S. Please forward this to your best clients, colleagues and friends -- especially those who could use some encouragement as they pursue big, bold dreams.

If you wish to stop receiving our emails or change your subscription options, please Manage Your Subscription
PHD Ventures , 800 Corporate Pointe, Culver City CA, 90230

---

This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active.

Fwd: This is what we should be creating (Right Now)

-------- Original Message --------

Subject:	This is what we should be creating (Right Now)
Date:	Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:16:18 -0400
From:	Andy Jenkins & Mike Filsaime <training@marketinggenesis.com>
Reply-To:	training@marketinggenesis.com
To:	Steve <stevescott@techacq.com>

(Note:  1 - Because of some mainstream revenue figure illustrations in this email - it scored high on the SP4M score meter - so some of the numbers below will have odd symbols or phrases in them. Sigh.   2 - This is a bit of a long one...) In the last month, we've seen 3 industries again prove that perhaps THE most important marketing asset anyone can control is a "Distribution Network". In this email, I want to explore how small business like "Us" can model what massive, mainstream industries have accomplished. Consider this recent activity: Hollywood - The Film Industry The feature film "The Transformers: Age of Extinction" was given a 18% (Out of 100) rating by RottenTomatoes.com. As of today, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com it's earned just over 1 Brazillion Doll3rs in World Wide Box Office Receipts. The Video Game Industry A couple weeks ago, the venerable Video Game Studio called Bungie, best known for their hit game series "Halo", released a highly anticipated game called "Destiny".  One of the largest Gaming Portals, Gamespot.com gave Destiny a 6 out of 10 review. In it's first day of release, Destiny reportedly earned $Five Hundred MAHeLLYon Duckets in sales. The Music Industry With the release of the iPhone 6, Apple also announced that all iTunes users would receive U2's new album "Songs of Innocence" for free.  Metacritic.com has totaled an aggregate review of the album at 66 out of 100. U2 reported received north of $100XTen Thousand Beans for that maneuver. How Is This Possible? (How can 'We' do this, too?) Each of these industries has a deep-rooted and mature Distribution Network - a built-in and ever-present mechanism to propel content into the hands of consumers. Hollywood more or less controls the Theaters, the Video On Demand Networks, and entire channels on cable networks. The Video Game Industry has Valve's "Steam" Network, Electronic Arts has the "Origin" platform for PC's, and the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox platforms offer game purchases at point of play. The Music Industry's network consists of iTunes (and Beats Music) users, Pandora, Google Play, Rdio, Spotify… ...You get the idea. This is how even Low-Rated content finds itself in the 9-Figurez earnings range! And for eCommerce, and Intellectual Property?  Well, there's Amazon on the eCommerce front, right?  And lets not forget the Kindle app for I.P. - even Apple's newsstand has massive penetration. Then, there's "Us". Authors, Professional Service Providers, Trainers & Coaches, Consultants, Inventors, Teachers, Software Creators… What is our "Distribution Network"? Or, more importantly, how can we build a distribution network of our own?  One that drives our content into the hands of a ripe and eager market? There's 2 places we now have at our disposal: 1 - Social Media Because we can create groups and audiences and then advertise to them, places like Facebook, YouTube, Google Plus, Pinterest, and Linkedin are starting to provide a critical mass of eyeballs to people like us.  The issue of noise and topic selection still remains, but the segmentation of and accessibility to specific 'user interests' is becoming more and more mature. Groups, Likes, Shares-ers, Circles, and Social Media Channel Subscribers are becoming more effective as ad-hoc (created on the fly by Us) mini-distribution networks. But - by FAR - the most profitable and reliable distribution network is... 2 - Email Subscribers (If they're segmented correctly) Fundamentally, Email Subscribers - i.e. YOUR LIST - is a bonafide ASSET.  If you ever have the opportunity to sell your company, you'll discover that your list of customers and subscribers is one of the first things that a Dollar Value gets attached to. More importantly, when it comes to explicit marketing value, an email list is truly the most On-Demand Profit Generator you have at your disposal. I can tell you from nearly 15 years of Marketing Online that nothing holds a candle to - not social media, not paid advertising, not SEO - nothing (That's practical or affordable) can touch the capability and capacity for sales and profit… ...that Email does. I know - I know - you've heard and seen the same prognostications as I have  - "Email is dead", "Email is sooo Web 1.0"... But study online marketing as long as I have, and you start to see some lesser discussed realities with regard Email Marketing.. ...Think about this: What is the most important goal with your Social Media or Organic Search Engine Traffic? Get them on a List! What should you do with your paid traffic? Get them on a List! What do you want to accomplish when Affiliates send you traffic? Get them on a List! See what I'm sayin'?  No matter what the source of the traffic is, the best use of that traffic is to ALWAYS… ...GET THEM ON A LIST! Isn't that ironic?  LOL! Because fundamentally, what is an Email List of Subscribers that have voluntarily given you the ability to contact them? What is it when it becomes a built-in and ever-present mechanism to propel you content into the hands of highly-targeted consumers? It's a Distribution Network. Long Live Email Marketing! Now, lets just hope that we've seen the last of the Transformers sequels.  :-) The sustainability and revenue growth of your business (for people like us) is DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to the growth and treatment of your Email List Subscribers. Hey - I'm a topic expert too - like you.  I love creating content (Mike and I created over 100 hours of Video Content in the last 12 months).  Yes - it feels great to write, to record, to code, to GET BETTER at what we want to share and sell to our market. But what makes us the money is when we make offers - TO OUR LIST. Yes, we Advertise, and do Social Media Marketing - yes we've got Affiliate Support and SEO rankings... If there's only one Marketing-Centric thing that can do - in my Humble and Grizzled Opinion - when you're done tweaking your course, or debugging your software, or creating lessons and tutorials… ...use your brain to get REALLY GOOD at Email Marketing. Hope you found this email useful, or at least a little bit enlightening. XOXO Andy (With Mike cheering me on) P.S. I know you're busy - you're working on your products and services - it's what gives you a real sense of accomplishment.  And I know it's hard to detach from "Creating" in order to Market what you create.  That's normal. So - if you find it challenging to strike a balance between Creation and Marketing, then look at training that's "Template Based" - i.e. Much of the work is done for you - you just need to modify the templates and publish them to the network. I'm a big fan of "The Machine" for Email List Building and Marketing Training and Templates - it's available for the next couple of days, and I'm using it to create every Funnel, Evergreen Product Launch, and Advertising Campaign for every product in our portfolio. Watch this video to get the comprehensive overview of the Program. It's Highly Recommended.         Marketing Genesis LLC 7660 Fay Ave. #H184 La Jolla, CA 92037

You're receiving this newsletter because this email address was submitted to an opt-in form on one of our websites. When you no longer wish to hear from us, we'll be sad, but we'll always welcome you back when you're ready to work on your business again.  Just Click Here to Unsubscribe. ~Andy Jenkins & Mike Filsaime. Please read our Affiliate Disclaimer: From time to time, we will promote, endorse, or suggest products and/or services for sale that are not our own. Our recommendation is ALWAYS based on our personal belief that the product and it's author will provide excellent and valuable information or service. This may be based on a review of that product, our personal or professional relationship with that person or company, and/or a previous positive experience with the person or company who's product we are recommending. In most cases, we will be compensated via a commission if you decide to purchase that product based on our recommendation. In some cases, we will receive the product for free for review purposes, or just to use. In some cases, we have used that product to our personal satisfaction in our own businesses. IMPORTANT: Always Always ALWAYS do your OWN due-diligence before making any purchases, whether we recommend them or not. Never, EVER purchase anything that you cannot afford. Avoid purchasing products that do not have a clearly stated Guarantee, or that promise ridiculous results, like "Getting Rich Quick". Most people don't do anything with the products they buy, and most of the time, their results are zero - kind of like that Bowflex that I bought that is now serving as a clothing rack... No, there is no such thing as a "Free Lunch". Don't do drugs, stay in school, etc. Be safe out there!

If you wish to stop receiving our emails or change your subscription options, please Manage Your Subscription
Marketing Genesis , 7660 Fay Ave Ste H184, La Jolla CA, 92037

---

This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active.