Fwd: Friday...‏

Last Friday I shot out a gargantuan-sized email that’s been getting a huge response on my Facebook profile. I’m re-broadcasting it below since a lot of folks were traveling for the holidays and missed it. The subject line was “What does North Korea have to do with your home business?” and it’s been getting some of the most passionate comments and feedback I’ve ever seen before. This topic is really HOT and I’d love for you to join the discussion that’s building. After reading the email below, would you come visit my Facebook profile and post your thoughts on the following questions: “How do you feel about today's economy and what kind of an effect do you see it having on your life and your business?” And... “Do you think we're on the right path or are you concerned about the direction things are headed?” Here’s where to go to post your comments: http://annsieg.com/economy Here's what just a few people have had to say... In my email I promised I’d be sending you some mind-altering information that would completely reshape your game plan when it comes to the future of the economy, your long term business strategy, your investments and even your personal banking habits. Like John pointed out above, there have been many excellent books written on this stuff. And I recommend you read them. But many of them leave you hanging with a feeling of... “okay, now what do I do?” This was exactly the problem I was running into. Well, I can assure you John, the stuff I’ll be sharing with you is truly new and innovative. To tell you the truth, I haven’t been this excited about something since I released The Renegade Network Marketer almost 4 years ago. The network marketing industry was completely turned on its head by the concepts of You Inc and personal branding. By taking control of your business assets like building your own list, your own brand, your own content and products... Network marketers saw quantum leaps forward in their results. Individuals began producing as much as entire downlines used to. It was like going from a horse and buggy to a fighter jet. Now it’s time to take that to the next level by taking control of your finances and investing by building what my friend calls the “Bank of You.” In order to protect what you have in today’s world and prosper no matter what the conditions are, the key is doing what the banks do... not what they tell you to do. This is seriously cool stuff and I think it will do for your money what The Renegade Network Marketer did for your business. It doesn’t matter how much money your business is making – if you’re not protecting it, keeping it and growing it, it doesn’t matter. I think this is the next phase in bringing about the new Entrepreneurial Age of the 21st Century. In the meantime, be sure to read my email below and then join the discussion that’s going on here: http://annsieg.com/economy I’ll be in touch soon! Ann Sieg -----------Last Week’s Email---------- Subject line: What does North Korea have to do with your home business? Quite a lot actually. So what am I, Katie Couric now? Not exactly :-) I just wanted to make sure I got your attention for what may very well be the most important email I’ve ever sent you. You may have noticed I’ve been talking a little bit about investing in my past few emails. And I’ve also been explaining that I take a holistic approach to life and business. In other words, I see everything as one big interconnected system (your family, your business, your health, events going on around us) rather than separate parts that have nothing to do with each other. Sadly, I think a lot of people never take an interest in things like history, economics, politics, and global events because they just don’t see how it relates to them. Or they feel helpless to do anything about it, so why bother paying attention to it? For a lot of people, it provides more shock and entertainment value than anything. But my purpose with these emails is not to start a political discussion. Quite the opposite in fact. My goal is to help bring more awareness to the stuff we see in the news headlines every day (or more importantly, the stuff we DON’T see) so that you can understand it in a way that makes you more money. Because as entrepreneurs, I believe the greatest impact people like you and I can have is by accumulating more resources (call it “money,” call it a “list,” call it a “team,” call it whatever you want) that we can then use to further the causes we believe in. We’re living through an unprecedented time in history and I’m just amazed to be a part of it. In our flat world, global events have a very real and massive impact on people like you and me and the decisions we make about our future. By switching to this topic for a little bit you may gain greater insights into business... marketing... psychology... nature... success... people (and possibly yourself) than you have in all your previous years combined. A couple weeks ago I sent out a survey asking people what other things they were interested in learning about. Investing was right at the top of the list and it couldn’t come at a better time. If you’ve read ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ by Robert Kiyosaki you know that the model he teaches is to build a business and to then take the profits from that business and invest them so that you have both people and money working for you. So my goal was always to move from the ‘S’ (self employed) quadrant where I was before, to the ‘B’ (business) quadrant, and then to the ‘I’ (investor) quadrant. If you’re like me though, you’ve probably always found the ‘I’ quadrant to be very confusing and intimidating. Well, with... -Daily headlines about the international currency wars brewing... -Another $900 billion recently pumped into the economy from the Federal Reserve... -Real unemployment numbers in the US close to 20% (at the peak of the great depression it was about 24%)... -And the average baby boomer’s portfolio having lost 30-40% of it’s value after going through what was the largest stock market crash in history (yes, bigger than 1929)... ...There has NEVER been a better time in history to make the jump into both the ‘B’ and the ‘I’ quadrants. So what’s going on with the economy anyway? I thought Ben Bernanke said the recession was over and we were officially on the road to recovery? People are still buying Caribou and everyone’s out shopping today so what’s the big deal? Well, in my very humble opinion... We haven’t even seen the tip of the iceberg yet. The 20th century witnessed more change than all the rest of human history before that. The invention of flight and the automobile, Two Worlds Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall, a man on the moon, the computer revolution, the largest spike in human population ever, the greatest learning tool ever created (the internet – a virtual miracle) and massive advancements in science, medicine, and all other areas of life. I think we’re in for some pretty wild, challenging and exciting times ahead (if you’re aware of what’s going on). And I believe it’s quite possible the next ten years will produce more change than the world has ever seen before. This is “the big shift” that everyone from Robert Kiyosaki to Paul Zane Pilzer have been predicting for the last few decades and it’s not something that MIGHT take place down the road or someday. It’s happening right now as we speak and it’s playing out exactly the way it’s been predicted. Events are unfolding and things have been put into motion that cannot be stopped... exactly as they’ve unfolded time and time again throughout history in the past. The latest headlines with North Korea are just one very small piece in a big puzzle. And it’s important to start getting “in-the-know” about these things now... rather than later. I’ve studied some of the stuff that I’m going to be sharing with you on and off for years, but by no means am an expert on it. I just know enough to be dangerous ;-) Fortunately, I’ve found someone who is. I’ve been wanting to refer you to some resources about this for awhile, but the truth is I never found anything I felt comfortable recommending until now. As a whole, I have a rule I’ve always lived by that has served me very well. It goes like this... ---------------------------------- “The majority is always wrong.” -Earl Nightengale ---------------------------------- One of my favorite marketing teachers, John Carlton says it this way... “Everything worth pursuing in life can be broken down like a game -- whether it's learning how to sell, or how to set up a profitable business, or how to become a fully awake and dangerously effective player. And each of those games has two sets of rules -- the rules that everyone believes are the "real" rules... and the very secret inside rules that most people don't even realize exist.” With that in mind, think about this quote from Jesse Livermore, who’s considered to be the greatest stock trader of all time: -------------------------------------------------- “Remember, it [the market] is designed to fool most of the people most of the time.” -------------------------------------------------- My friend that I’ll be connecting you with has figured out these “inside rules” for investing. I believe he has the most accurate view of how the world ACTUALLY works historically, economically, and psychologically – not how the government or the media says it works – and most importantly, how to translate this into profits for you and your business. We’re going to be giving you some solid gold information that I consider to be essential to survival – right up there with food and water. The number of people who truly understand this only numbers in the thousands. Now I know you hear things in marketing all the time like “only a handful of people know about these closely-guarded secrets” and stuff like that. But this is no joke and to show you what I mean, here’s one more quote I’d like you to think very carefully about. (I like to use a lot of quotes because other people have already said it so much better than I ever could.) Today’s global economic crisis is not about real estate or stocks or social security or any of that stuff. These are just symptoms. The real root problem is the very foundation of our entire economic system – the money we use. Here’s some insight that you will NEVER hear from the press about this from a man named John Maynard Keynes. John Maynard Keynes was a British economist and is probably one of the most influential persons of the 20th Century most people have never heard of. He’s considered to be the father of modern macroeconomics and his brand of economics known as Keynesianism is used by virtually every government on the planet today. Essentially, Keynesianism is the practice of manipulating the free markets by printing endless amounts of fiat (paper) currencies. Here’s what he has to say about it (brace yourself)... "Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." Well that’s comforting isn’t it! Especially when you think about the fact that the Federal Reserve has created more dollars out of thin air in the past 18 months than the United States has in the past 300 YEARS COMBINED. And they have no signs or intentions of slowing down. Another $900 billion was just pumped into circulation this month through the QE2 program and there’s already talk about QE3 and QE4. (Maybe they thought that would sound a little less ominous than $1 trillion) To sum it up, here’s what one of my favorite entrepreneurs of all time said: ------------------------------------------------- “It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” -Henry Ford ------------------------------------------------- Well, people are starting to find out. And it’s not going to be pretty. But this isn’t about gloom and doom. Because as always, there is a massive silver lining for those who are willing to think independently, educate themselves beforehand and prepare accordingly. I’m going to be sharing some information with you over the next couple weeks that I believe could very well be the most important you ever consume in your entire lifetime. It will define you, your parents, your children, and your family for generations to come. And don’t just listen to what I’m saying. I’m just one person and this is too big of an issue to not spend some serious time thinking about. Do your homework and do your research on it. In my opinion, everything else is secondary to understanding this. I know that’s a pretty hefty statement, so keep an eye on your inbox to see if I’m right. Most of the people who subscribe to my newsletter are very independent minded, self educated people – something I’m very proud of. As an entrepreneur, you’re unique mindset will allow you to be receptive to this information in ways that others may not. The concepts of personal branding and “You Inc” have revolutionized the network marketing industry over the past 5 years or so. You’ll be finding out the next evolution of this at a level never seen before – how to apply it to your personal banking, financing and retirement planning. This is seriously cool stuff. And while most people have lost 30-40% of the value of their portfolios, I’d like to show you how you can gain all that back and then some with an investment strategy that produced gains of over 3,641% the last time we were in a similar situation only much, MUCH tamer than this. As the famous investor George Soros put it, we’re about to witness the greatest bubble ever produced in history. It will make everything else we’ve seen so far seem like a cakewalk. Keep an eye out for the next message I send you. It’s a big one. To Your Success, Ann Sieg P.S. - Be sure to visit my Facebook profile and post your thoughts on the following questions: “How do you feel about today's economy and what kind of an effect do you see it having on your life and your business?” And... “Do you think we're on the right path or are you concerned about the direction things are headed?” Here’s where to go to post your comments: http://annsieg.com/economy 80/20 Marketing Inc.