You’ve heard me talking about how important it is to share wisdom. Wisdom reduces the time and the distance between where you are and where you want to go. But people always think of wisdom or a having an owner’s manual as a hierchical thing. People think of wisdom as something directional where the people at the top have it to control the people at the bottom.

There’s a saying in classical music, “You can lead from any chair.”

In other words, it doesn’t matter if you are a King or an infant. You can rule and manage, even control your life 100% fully and happily. Think about it. Who runs a family? The husband or the new born baby? Who runs a kingdom? The president or that little old lady who can’t afford health care on the front page of the New York Times?

Learn how to manage and direct your Bosses and Parents with my new MP3 Audiobook: “How to Manage Your Parents and Boss.”

It’s regularly $27. But if you simply do me a favor, I’ll email you the link for free. All I’d love back is a link from your blog template (header or sidebar) to http://biodrux.org under “health myths” and http://bioprin.posterous.com under “health blog” – Please use the code below. THEN just leave a comment below saying what your blog URL is… 

CODE:

Mind and body health myths you still believe – the holistic health blog.

Make sure you comment below with your URL so I can find your link! I’ll send it out shortly! Thanks!

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My heart has been broken twice. Once by a vegetarian, the other time, by an angelic Italian girl with Lupus Erythematosus.

On good days, her eyes lit up dark rooms. Her smile radiated. Lifted.

On bad days, she took ten round pills the size of eyeballs. The day after I took her to the movies was a bad day. Her grand mother and my neighbor rushed her to the hospital. They poked holes in her body and started kidney dialysis. Her immune system was destroying her. I was not invited to the hospital. I was not allowed to see her again. I was told she would die before her 23rd birthday.

I’m proud of John Hibbs. I wonder, if more people simply read his blog, how many beautiful lives could be saved? Just read: http://lupusrunner.co.uk

This blog is produced by JBNI Genomics and Cancer Proteomics – The Maker of 100% Natural ZERO Side-Effect Bioprin, A Naturaceutical.

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It’s no mystery how to get to Google’s page one for any search. All you need are people to link to you using that key word you want to pop-up in Google.

The mystery is how to get people to link to you. With everyone’s short attention span how do you get them to link to you? Take the lead. Link to them first and help them spread their message. But be selective. Most people just take without giving back. Don’t waste your time with them.

These are the rare gems of people online who give back more than they take. Follow them. Contact them. Team up with them. I did.

I asked the team minded people below for a link to my blog because it’s currently on page 2 of google. They did it. I’m linking back from this url. Everyone wins.

Interesting keyword – not sure the reasoning behind it - Wordtracker comes up with 8-10 searches for that a month (maybes its wrong?) – but I have added Biodrux under those keywords to all relevant websites. 

I want to promote (further) the ebook I created on my site – here:http://www.humancure.com/yoga-qigong-secrets-advanced-detoxification-body-renewal-book/

If there is any way to link to that – would be brilliant! =) 

@Tyler – If you have a blog in tumblr.com even that would do – or you can just twitter your favourite article posts as well as Facebook – as Dardon said.

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I’ve never understood “the pitch.” Sure, I’ve been CD for several ad agencies and PR firms. But I’ve never understood “the pitch.”

You show up, you state why you should get “the account” and the prospect tries to blow holes in your “pitch (not in a good way).”

I’ve always been the kind of guy who’d rather have a 100% closure rate. Let me rephrase that. I prefer 100% consumation rates.

I’m the same way at a bar. I never approach women. Sure, it’s a numbers game. But it’s a loosing numbers game. I’d rather invest the time it takes to get rejected 80% of the time and perfect my reputation so that it precedes me. When I walk into my favorite dives and a woman approaches me, I have a 100% (ehem) closure rate.

Instead of showing up and jousting with your prospect and then shadow boxing with several other competitors, I prefer to spend the same amount of time just perfecting my craft. I focus on perfecting my craft to a point where I have no competitors. Prospects suddenly disappear. If they show up on my door step, they are not prospects. They are client-hopefuls. They can’t imagine anyone else providing what they need.

@Mike_FTW is my favorite example of this on Twitter.

He’s the opposite of the guy who shows up and tells you that your dad is a thief (because he stole the sparkle from a star and put it in your eyes). Mike has no agenda. Make has not pitch. He will never have to take the defensive because he is never offensive (ummm…).

His Tweets look like:

Because Mike never tries to sell you anything, you’ve actually gotta go snooping around to figure out what he does for a living, why he has 5,000+ Followers, and why all the post SF dot com execs tweet @Mike_FTW .

If you simply focus on delivering value (humor, knowledge, insight, news, etc…) without being commercial, eventually, you’ll have developed a deep rapport with your follower base. When they need what you sell, you’d better believe they will come to you first. That gives you first right of refusal – and a 100% closure rate (without buying a single Redwood Room $14 Cosmo).

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As I’ve mentioned before, one Facebook friend is worth 180 Twitter followers. How? They each generate the same CTR. So the obvious move to make your Posterous viral is to add a Facebook Share button and ditch the Twitter RT button. But you can’t…

Unless you manually modify your Posterous CSS.

<a href=“http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbioprin.posterous.com%2F&t=Im%20Amazed%20By%20My%20Body–”><img src=“http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/255/2249098212.png”></a><br>

Just modify and add this code above to your own Posterous template.

1. login to Posterous

2. go to Manage > Theme and Customize > Advanced > Enable Advanced Theming

3. paste the code here:

a: after “<div class=“posterous_header”>“

b: after “{block:Retweet}“

c: in your profile for the sidebar

4. click that Share Button below willya? It’ll bring another smile to my face!

To reach me directly, Tweet me @journik and wanmeditation

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Well, now you know… if you want someone to write for you, its:

http://twitter.com/DMMayland/statuses/9536244186 |

http://twitter.com/WOTDsctoo/statuses/9536251158 |

http://twitter.com/jill_pr/statuses/9535706988

Also, I dont know what @coolguygreg does but he’s lived up to his name so far! =p

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I don’t know if you realize that about half of your Twitter followers are automated spam bots. Then what’s worse, only about 2% of your remaining twitter followers are in your market sector. Basically, whatever it is that you are selling, if you have the average number of 100 followers, only one of your followers would even stand a chance of buying what you sell.

So, How do you get people who actually have more than a snowflake’s chance of buying or reading your blog? Simple. Do what I do. Since I’m in the web-tech and bio-tech industries, I simply follow the people who follow my biggest well known competitors. I follow the people who follow @mashable and @cnnhealth

I have a 40% follow-back rate. So what that means is that if I just follow 3 of the people who follow my well known competitors, I’ll have one more targeted follower. Going from just one to two is a whole 200% increase in the likelihood that someone will read your blog and order from you!

Figure out who is the well known top dog in your industry. Just follow everyone who follows them. It’s like stealing candy from a sleeping industry giant!

Im at http://twitter.com/journik … lets stay in touch and if you have ever RTd my tweets, I’ll return the favor!

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No, NOT get a job. It’s even simpler than that.

Sell what people are actually buying. If people are not currently buying your work, they will not start buying it. Hang onto your seats because this may sting a bit.

As beautiful and meaningful and complex and unique as your art is, people will not buy it.

When people buy, they are not buying beauty

When people buy, they are not buying beauty. They buy the negotiable currency that your artwork creates.

While there is certainly timeless fad resistant true beauty, for the most part, beauty is so subjective that if you want to be a professional artist, you must know what to sell. You must sell something that spans fads, seasons, and cultures.

In the agrarian era, it was beautiful to be pale. Pale skinned women were considered beautiful because they obviously didn’t have to work out in the fields. In the modern era, tan women are considered beautiful. Tan women are considered beautiful because they obviously don’t have to stay in a florescent room typing away their lives – instead they can lay out pool-side.

What you think is beautiful has a snowflake’s chance in spring of being converted into a negotiable currency. To increase the likelihood of selling your art, you must sell what people are willing to pay for. You must sell something your buyer can turn around and sell back out to someone else. You must sell currency.

The currency that you can sell along with your art is You. You. If you do not sell yourself with your art, you will forever starve.

When people bought picassos, they bought picasso as well.  And picasso had a lot of negotiable social currency.

Think about it.

Picasso was at every party. Picasso was a ladies man. Picasso traveled with 14 year old French muses. Picasso luncheoned with dignitaries, royalty, men of commerce and men of the cloth. If you bought a Picasso, you were bound to be the center of conversation at a picasso table until the next buyer. If you bought enough Picassos, he might even loan you one of his muses (in that culture, it was considered perfectly acceptable and honorable due to economic and lifespan issues).

Mostly, if you bought a Picasso, your name was bound to be PR’d to the wealthiest and most powerful people of the time.

You drink, study, and live where you do because of who you will meet there

People bought Picasso because Picasso offered social and business opportunities. You don’t drink $14 Martiniis because you can’t make a better Martini at home. You don’t go to Harvard because Harvard has some secret teachings. You don’t live in NYC because it has the most beautiful landscape and cleanest air. You drink, study, and live where you do because of who you will meet there.

The art work was more than a status symbol. The art was a legal tender note that was negotiable for access to the in crowd of the day. @gapingvoid understands this. Whenever someone purchases a @gapingvoid work, he treats them like family. He introduces them to his large and influential network of friends in the media and advertising world. Is it any wonder the buyers are CEOs of companies who want free PR and marketing? Build your network. Make friends. Build alliances. Introduce your buyers to your social sphere. Follow and mimic what @gapingvoid does.

Follow me at http://twitter.com/journik for the next episode on how to succeed as an artist or entrepreneur…

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You should join Buzz Right NOW because all the most influential people on buzz only have a few dozen followers. They are most likely to scan their entire follower base and add most of them back as followees.

If you buzz out a simple thought, right now, the top decision makers and influencers will get to know you. You will stand out in the crowd. In Twitter, you are a just another tree in the forrest. Or maybe just a blade of grass.

Follow me on Buzz. I’ll be following back for the next few days only http://www.google.com/profiles/wanmeditation

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I was once told in a sales seminar that if I want to sell bibles, sell to guys who already own 10 of them. Counter intuitive until you realize that people who have a pattern of doing something will continue to do it. So, here is the Dark Web Marketing Trade Secret of Getting Buzz Followers… Follow people who are following the big shots:

Do NOT follow the people they are following.

Then, follow me http://www.google.com/profiles/wanmeditation and at http://twitter.com/journik =) I’m supportive

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