I still remember being told this as if it happened only yesterday…. However time advances you and it’s a great healer… Life definitely has moved on!!!

At some point in the past, I was working for a very famous worldwide branded blue chip company that you would have all heard of (no names mentioned). Yes folks I was stuck in the corporate ladder just like you are now and working silly hours, getting stuck in traffic and losing all of my family and friends. Work and sleep, work and sleep, it was a really vicious cycle. I thought very naively that my hard work would be traded for fast promotions up the ranking hierarchy system and that I would be sat in some plush office in a couple of years….

The worrying thing was I saw the senior management totally lacking authority to give direction on a uniform basis and also they were totally aware of the detail – we were giving this to them by doing painful investigation work, and also working cross functionally with other departments and getting sucked up into work politics and they were getting all the high bonuses and perks. Is this picture already sounding too familiar? If your face fitted with the general realms of the office politics you were going places in this company, and you could get by without working. Others of us would be asking for more work and being denied. I was working to the personal business competencies of a chosen few that would unfortunately determine my remuneration and career.

Eventually I came to my yearly review and I was communicated my performance according to my Director boss at the time. He closed the pages on the review on what was a very sound and prosperous performance, given the changes continuously happening in the organization. Then the big bonging noise hit and he followed up with “You will only receive 2/5ths of your bonus this year”. My jaw almost dropped although I remained totally composed and neutral faced. I could tell he was struggling with why I was so composed when he knew I had done better and so did I. In what was a hilarious moment for me, I saw people who had done very little to add value being marked high for bonuses and myself being pulled down. It was to be expected in a company that was driving its mission statement and not letting the mission statement run the company. I had totally respected my boss up to this point but this was where I lost it. I thought of the millions of people that must also be going through this.

Lucky for me I had already started the work ages ago to get financial freedom and I briefly smiled to my boss, which must have caused him further discomfort. I eventually left the company and the rest as they say is history. You see folks; your subconscious mind tells you to be scared of management at work, because they typically shape your future. However, this way only a few people get to the top of the salary scales. Today, I am in a situation to shape my own future and anyone else’s around the world if they need it. I work the hours I want, I get into traffic if I want, and take the level of stress I see fit. I have a work life balance, a loving family and also friends and I have never looked back. You get one life and very few opportunities to reach all your goals, and financial freedom is clearly an important one. Today I can show you how to get a business up within 48 hours and work from anywhere in the world and be earning money in your sleep or in different time zones so that you earn money 24/7, I can show you how to write your own bonus figure!

If you have had enough of dominating unfair bosses, if you have been laid off, if you can’t take the work politics or if you need a new direction to make money fast at the pace you need it with very little outflow, check out www.thrivesuperconference.com or www.thethrivebootcamp.com or email me, Adnan Majid at admin@thrivesuperconference.com

Long gone the days when people used to rely on letters, to some extent telegrams and to a lesser extent fax to get their messages communicated to loved ones and also for any form of business activity. The onslaught of the internet has terrorised people with the pace of technology and what it can achieve. Similarly, the use of email now overshadows pretty much any form of communication to some degree even telephone and text messages to some extent.

Some research conducted revealed that somewhere in excess of 180 million Americans use email everyday, around 93% adults have personal email accounts and well over 60% of people have email accounts at work… these are shocking statistics, just imagine tapping into only 1% of the Americans using email everyday with one of your business ideas.

So it’s hardly difficult to understand why many people employ an email campaign with viable leads specific to their niche when they decide to market their business. Time after time I bump into people and they tell me that they are not getting the desired result on email campaigns so I decided to make it the focus of one of my blogs to get some pointers out there. Getting your emails open is only half the battles, you then also want them to be read so that you can have a call to action. However that is something I will tackle in a future blog, let’s just concentrate on getting the emails opened here though.

There are literally 4 factors that customers use to make up their mind on whether to make a call to action and buy your product or service, but there is one single factor that will make them open up your email and that is the Subject line.

Think about this for a second, you will have no doubt received dozens upon dozens of direct mailings that have these hot enticing offers that make you want to continue reading. In exactly the same way email subject lines are like gold dust, and they must capture your audience’s attention to increase the likelihood of them opening the email. My first advice would be to research what is out there and what you receive as well as looking at the potential competition to see what they are up to. I normally have a file filled with emails I receive as well as another file that has all my direct mailings received. Get into the habit of compiling such a file. Look at the media, magazines, periodicals, newspapers and websites – they will all get your thoughts going. Finally thing of the following to ensure you get killer subject lines:

• The best subject lines are brief and to the point, as long titles get cut of anyway
• Try and use your recipients first name in the subject line, it adds a personal touch and is easy to do with mail merge automated programs
• Don’t give to much away, try and entice but reserve something to keep the momentum of interest going
• Ask questions that people will want to know the answers to or that they are likely to be interested in
• Remember nobody cares if you have an Oxford University or 2,000 qualifications, what they want to hear about is the benefit of your product to them, ensure that you include the top one
• Try and be honest, do not exaggerate or it may be considered spam quite easily

Ladies and gentleman, I am the founder of Thrive Super Conference and also The Thrive Boot Camps, and it is my duty to ensure that you get the best possible teachings on internet and business marketing at either event. A lot of these are totally educational and with limited sales pitch at the conferences anyway. I offer true value for money by deliberately pushing our ticket prices down, thus making it more justifiable for you to attend. If you truly want to see your business thrive this year within an environment of economic gloom please find out more by visiting www.thrivesuperconference.com or www.thethrivebootcamp.com or email me at admin@thrivesuperconference.com We also cater for specific boot camps for specific meet up groups. So go ahead, what are you waiting for contacts us!!!

The last decade has seen a somewhat massive explosion in the use of social media and we are living in a conurbation of metamorphosis where these applications are concerned. Just as you turn your head for a minute something new is sprouting out. No-one could have ever expected the sudden change in which marketing would be conducted. Traditional marketing relied upon big multinationals pumping thousands of dollars and advertising what they wanted and the customers were fed this way like it or hate it.

The explosion of Social Media on the scene however has changed the very scope of marketing. Today it’s all so very different. It literally costs next to nothing to create content and to make it available for just about anyone on the planet. As the cost is little you can focus exactly on the markets you want to, i.e. what is more commonly referred to as the “long tail” niche market. With this level of definition, marketers put their messages in front of the defined audience that they seek to win and encourage them to build strong relationships and firm loyalty.

Twitter – the idea is simple 140 characters to say what you want, to market to express what you are feeling and to let anyone and everyone know what you are doing. Twitter allows you to search the specific niche areas you want and follow these people to see what they are talking about (known as tweets). Most people know how Twitter works and therefore I will leave that outside of the scope of this blog.

What I wanted to do however was to give a few tips on how you can use twitter to build up a Brand.

Create a story – Remember you are trying to get someone hooked like they are on a drug figuratively speaking to build an indefinite following, so the more interesting the story you build for your brand and the way you tell it, the more people will be interested in it.

Profile – Since you are trying to build a brand, why not put this in your profile. You can use  Twit backgrounds to do this, why not visit my twitter background to see how I have done this – www.twitter.com/adnanmajid I have kept mine simple but you can get all sorts of backgrounds which relate specifically to the brand you are trying to advertise. Look up red and green M&M’s made by Mars for example, they have 2 separate accounts on Twitter appealing to certain demographics.

Style of Tweeting – Remember Twitter is a personal thing, there are humans interacting, so people don’t like seeing a false image, they like to see the human side of the tweets. Twitter allows you to share personal random thoughts with the audience you want, it’s therefore up to you to communicate in a way to get inside of your prospect’s head. Think about what you would want to hear about what you are pitching and how you would want to hear it. You are about to implant a message about your brand into this audience forever.

As with everything else Repetition – Remember a customer never goes blindly to buy something he sees for the first time unless you are me and you love Porsches – even then I would not. Most marketing and advertising is about consistency and repetition enough times to register the thought into the prospect. Building a brand is all about putting it and its mission statement in front of your audience advertising all of the benefits you want the customer to know and doing it again and again.

Try using some of these hints next time you try and introduce a brand on Twitter, and you will find they will work wonders.

Ladies and gentleman, I am the founder of Thrive Super Conference and also The Thrive Boot Camps, and it is my duty to ensure that you get the best possible teachings on internet and business marketing at either event. A lot of these are totally educational and with limited sales pitch at the conferences anyway. I offer true value for money by deliberately pushing our ticket prices down, thus making it more justifiable for you to attend. If you truly want to see your business thrive this year within an environment of economic gloom please find out more by visiting www.thrivesuperconference.com or www.thethrivebootcamp.com or email me at admin@thrivesuperconference.com We also cater for specific boot camps for specific meet up groups. So go ahead, what are you waiting for contacts us!!!

During what was a very pleasant holiday to Egypt a while back to see the Pyramids and also The Sphinx, I spent a lot of time walking around Cairo, the capital city to marvel at all of the other delights the city had to offer. Being Adnan and always thinking about work to some degree, I was out one afternoon in a very famous market that had narrow pavements and I was wandering up and down just listening to the local pundits trying to sell their many dazzling items. I get offered many products on my travels and so I am always interested in whats out there.

Now for sure there were some very exotic gifts available and you could bargain hard to lower prices but there were also some very simple hand made basic gifts that were also being sold. What really amazed me was how the sellers were selling, they had energy, they were dedicated, they believed in their product.

Back home today as I write this blog, I recall a conversation earlier today I was having with one of my copywriters. The central issue for any product to begin with is an inner belief from the owner trying to sell it that it’s a wonderful and viable product. I often ask myself critically when I do a product appraisal to decide whether to market it or not, what do I really see in this product and would I as a customer actually buy it? You can be brutally honest with yourself. I normally follow a PMI approach where I list the positive, minus and interesting things about the product and also ask a sample of people to do the same in my testing phase. The PMI approach will more than likely give you a direction of whether your product will be successful or not. The testing element is crucial to your success and I am totally baffled at the lack of people not employing something like this before trying to sell.

All this said and done, what is then important is to have professional sales copy that advertises your product the best way and an aesthetically pleasing layout on your website that is easy to follow. Now we all think we can do this, but trust me the experts know their job better – leave it to them. Sales copy will either kill you and your product or sell your product again and again and again. Too many times I see people trying to take shortcuts on the copywriting side, and I always single this part out of the whole business process as the most important function in the whole process.

Ladies and gentleman, I am the founder of Thrive Super Conference and also The Thrive Boot Camps, and it is my duty to ensure that you get the best possible teachings on internet and business marketing at either event. A lot of these are totally educational and with limited sales pitch at the conferences anyway. I offer true value for money by deliberately pushing our ticket prices down, thus making it more justifiable for you to attend. If you truly want to see your business thrive this year within an environment of economic gloom please find out more by visiting www.thrivesuperconference.com or www.thethrivebootcamp.com or email me at admin@thrivesuperconference.com We also cater for specific boot camps for specific meet up groups. So go ahead, what are you waiting for contacts us!!! Don’t just survive…Thrive! Look out especially this year for our segments on Copywriting.

This morning I have had to bring my father into hospital for a pre assessment for a surgical procedure he needs. Nothing too serious but you only get one family in this life and so I like to help them out wherever I can.

Looking around the room on this Monday morning I see a full waiting room with people frantically on their cell phones making calls making excuses why they are going to be late and also already answering emails on blackberry. What a sad start to the week!

I on the other hand awoke and have been to the gym already and also have enjoyed a continental breakfast and checked 2 emails to see what money has come in. Society is geared to follow the masses and therefore it’s an accepted medium to see a whole room of employed workers. However, ever since I was a young lad, I have always learnt to challenge the status quo and not follow the masses. If ever I was told it was impossible to do something, it became a challenge for me to do it. I have always wanted to prove people wrong because when someone tells you that you can’t do something it’s an opinion, more importantly it’s their opinion. Noone should be able to do that to you for your career and more importantly in any walk of your life. You are the master of your own destiny.

Whilst I see patients this morning in hospital waiting to be seen, I see disgruntled patients that have very little tolerance as they need to rush to their jobs. This adds to stress and is not pleasant to watch at all. Remember these are the same people that will be told at the end of the year there is no bonus or payrise for some reason related to a bad underperforming economy. So much for job security hey?

If you wish to get out of this vicious cycle and have more meaning to your life and have a balance between work and leisure please visit www.thrivesuperconference.com or www.thethivebootcamp.com or email Adnan at admin@thrivesuperconference.com

One of the most frequent questions I get asked on my travels is how hard is it really to start up a business? I know you have most probably heard the saying a million times before but if I can pinch it and say if I could get a nickel every time somebody asked me that question I could actually retire… such is the frequency of that question.

Well it goes without saying that I can almost immediately tell anyone asking me that question to come to my Thrive Super Conference as one of my slots in that particular conference is all about how you can start a successful business from anywhere in the world and from a spare room within 48 hours of attending the conference.

That said, I wanted to give something to everyone who is daunted on the subject of starting up their own business and also is unsure whether to find another job or to be worried if they are about to lose their job. The first thing I will say is that no company out there started that way and no multinational got that big in nanoseconds… it took a lot of time and effort with a bit of luck I suppose at the end of the day. Let’s minus that luck part and we can still achieve extraordinary results by doing a few things.

Long gone are the days where you need to spend and hoard stock and pile it until you sell, thus removing the worry of obsolescence? Today you can do business from one side of the world to another just by sending a few emails and accounting for time differences. You have suppliers that are willing to drop ship for you and also the enormous costs of couriers have dropped significantly for anyone to be able to trade internationally. Coupled with this basic bookkeeping, taxation and legal service costs have plummeted as there is clearly competition to lowball fees to get more clients. In addition to this, due to many companies going out of business in the recession, many marketing costs have also fallen. You can actually cajole your marketing at next to nothing. So what exactly are you waiting for?

Ok, let’s assume you don’t even have a product to sell. Think about this seriously for a second. Let’s think of something that most of us use on a daily basis.. A hair brush comes to mind. Is there one variety of hairbrush? No way there are thousands and thousands. Even if you did not know about a hairbrush variety, just being able to market that in a unique way would open you to at least income from 1 product. You could hold a portfolio of these products and that would bring you residual income off these various products, if marketed correctly.

But let’s get even more basic and benign that that. What if you could not even source a hairbrush (pretty unbelievable but let’s humour the idea for a second). There is a whole world of Affiliate Marketing, where you can actually find other successful people selling goods and sell these on their behalf and earn a commission. There are several affiliate program websites that you can visit to see what are the most popular products, and then you can try selling these by signing up to the programs. This is one of the easiest ways to make money as in effect the work has been done for you by showing you which products actively sell. Imagine that knowing that a product is already successful before you get to sell it. By building multiple product streams via affiliate programs you can actually make a decent wage – and all from your living room marketing something that may be coming from China, Mexico or Australia! Look out for my future blog which will talk about also then moving forward and setting up your own seller’s affiliate program, when you have a successful product.

Author Bio:

Adnan is the founder of Thrive Super Conference. Please visit www.thrivesuperconference.com or www.thethrivebootcamp.com or email me at admin@thrivesuperconference.com

Whilst waiting to be ushered into his room, I am sitting amongst other patients waiting to see him and his team of partners. I can’t help overhearing some of the banter between the patients. I think to myself my goodness… with some of the advice being communicated between friends and relatives of the patients visiting, you cannot help feeling a certain worry with what everyone is saying… all of a sudden everyone’s a doctor now!!!

You see, we all consider ourselves a jack of all trades, but most of us are very lucky if we ever get to specialize in one thing in our careers with such hectic lifestyles. We can’t all be Will Smith’s and sing, act, rap, present live shows, model and hang out with cool A-list celebrity friends.

Nowadays, I run into several meet-up groups from various geographical segments throughout the world. What is a meet-up group I hear you ask? Well, in my experience a meet-up group is a collection of like minded business entrepreneurs or individuals that join a like minded geographic centric/business centric group called a meet-up group, with a specific, goal, objective or mission in mind to assist them with either starting up a business activity/venture or enhance their existing business via internet marketing techniques. The objective is to learn the latest techniques of internet and business marketing, but with like minded individuals to share experiences and, to save costs of attending seminars and boot camps.

More often or not I will run into such groups and be told that they are struggling with something or that there is a particular barrier preventing them from getting to the next stage of their business. It is these groups that tend to have the weekly meetings and go through topics but they lack the vital expertise that you would pick up at a seminar or boot camp.

I am a qualified Accountant by trade and have had several years of experience in Law, Finance, Accountancy and Tax, but only as I studied hard for the qualification and backed it up with several years experience. You would never come to me to look at the finances of your company if I did not have these criteria. If you are ill, you go and see a doctor, if you have a tooth pain, you see a dentist, if a dentist cannot help you see a specialist, if you have a car that malfunctions mechanically, you take it back to the showroom or to a qualified mechanic, with an eye to get best value for your needs. We always look for an expert.

Ladies and gentleman, I am the founder of Thrive Super Conference and also The Thrive Boot Camps, and it is my duty to ensure that you get the best possible teachings on internet and business marketing at either event. A lot of these are totally educational and with limited sales pitch at the conferences anyway. If you truly want to see your business thrive this year within an environment of economic gloom please find out more by visiting www.thrivesuperconference.com or www.thethrivebootcamp.com or email me at admin@thrivesuperconference.com We also cater for specific boot camps for specific meet up groups. So go ahead, what are you waiting for contact us!!! Don’t just survive…Thrive!

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