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A COMPLAINT FREE WORLD

Filed under: LIFE LESSONS — admin August 26, 2008 @ 1:10 pm

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I’ve been taking the A Complaint Free World Challenge that was created by Will Bowen for 2 months now.  The results are incredible!  Read on to learn more….

HOW IT ALL GOT STARTED
Will is a pastor at a church in Kansas City.  Back in 2006 he came up with an idea for a sermon that discussed the nasty impact complaining has on a person’s life.   At the end of the sermon he threw out a challenge.  Everyone knows it takes 21 days to create a new habit.  Will challenged the audience to go 21 days with out complaining. To aid those that were willing to take the challenge he passed out purple bracelets.  The idea was that you had to switch the bracelet to the other wrist if you complained.  The goal was to keep the bracelet on the same wrist for 21 days, signifying that you had gone 21 days with out complaining.

REALITY CHECK
Now I’m going to say something that might shock you.

You have NO IDEA how much of a whiny, sniveling complainer YOU ARE.  If I were to ask each one of you individually, I bet all of you would say, “At the MOST I complain once or twice a week.” You’d be SHOCKED if I followed you around with a tape recorder for 1 day and then replayed what came out of your mouth.  And believe me I know because I’m speaking from personal experience.

BENEFITS
So let’s talk about the benefits you’ll get from creating the habit of not complaining…

We’ll start with Pat’s favorite word “Entrainment.”  We are constantly synching up to people around us.  When you complain you are “entraining” i.e drawing other complainers to you.  Think about the people in your life right now.  Are they complainers?  If so that means you are too.  Stop complaining and you’ll draw fun, joyful, loving people to you 

Complaining is talking about things you DO NOT WANT rather than what YOU DO WANT.  When we complain, we are using our words to focus on things that are NOT as we would like.  Our thoughts create our lives and our words indicate what we are thinking.

By not complaining you get play at the leadership level of Gandhi and Princess Di and your peers will see you as a leader at a higher level.

Buddah said, “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.”  Most of your complaints don’t even escape your lips but you are still thinking them.  Guess what you are becoming?

Stop complaining.  Change your words, change your thoughts, and you will change your life!  When Jesus said, “Seek and you shall find,” it was a statement of universal principle.  What you seek, you will find. When you complain, you are using the incredible power of your mind to seek things you say you don’t want but nonetheless draw them to you.  Then you complain about these new things and attract EVEN MORE of what you don’t want.

Now let’s hear from a couple of people who have chosen not to complain…

TESTIMONIALS
I suffered from chronic headaches.  Every night I’d come home and tell my wife how much my head hurt that day.  While taking the Complaint Free Challenge I realized that telling my wife about my headaches did nothing to lessen their occurrence or painful severity.  I decided to stop talking about them.  To my utter and complete surprise my headaches stopped.  Today I’m headache free.
        Tom Alyea

In 1999, at the very young age of 39, Hal was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.  The doctors gave him 6 months.  In addition to his mortal diagnosis, Hal was facing other challenges.  Even though Hal had sold health insurance for a living, he had none.  His bills piled up and it was a constant struggle to keep the lights on and his family fed.  When Will (the pastor who wrote A Complaint Free World) found out about Hal’s situation he went out to visit him.  Will expected to find Hal in a pretty bad way but Hal spent the entire visit talking about how great his life was and how fortunate he was.  Will came back to visit him twice a week after that.  One day Will asked Hal, “How do you manage not to complain with all you are going through?”  Hal smiled and said, “Easy, it’s not the 15th of the month.  I decided that I’d allow myself to complain one day a month.  And you know what the great thing is? By the 15th of the month I’ve forgotten what I was going to complain about.”  Hal actually lived for 2 years past what the doctors gave him and he was an inspiration to everyone that even in the face of terminal illness you can choose to be happy.  That’s the health affirming power of living a life of gratitude rather than one of complaint.
        Will Bowen

This last one is my personal testimonial.  Like everyone else I thought that I complained very little.  Two weeks after putting my complaint free bracelet on I hadn’t even been able to keep it on the same wrist for one day.  Today I’m at 2 months and the longest I’ve gone is 3 days.  Now I know why the average time to win the Complaint Free Challenge is 4 to 8 months.  Even though I still have a ways to go to reach my 21 days I’ve noticed a dramatic increase in my daily happiness.  This was super surprising to me because I was already a happy person.  I feel like this huge weight has been lifted off me.  I’m floored and it keeps getting better.
        Namaste Faustino

In closing, when Will was being interviewed by an associate producer before he went on the Oprah Show he was asked, “What is your goal with all of this?”  He replied, “To transform the consciousness of our world.”  The associate producer looked at him and smiled sympathetically, “That’s a pretty big dream, don’t you think?”  He smiled and replied, “Do the math.”  The challenge started just over 2 years ago.  Today we’ve shipped over 6 million complaint free world bracelets to 80 countries around the world.  We’re now receiving over 1000 purple bracelet orders a day and those numbers just keep getting bigger.

It’s no accident that you are on this call.  You can change the world by simply becoming an example of positive change.  You can create a complaint free world.  As you become a happier person, you raise the overall level of happiness in the world.  You will send out a vibration of optimism and hope that will resound with others of similar intent.  And together–we will–change the world.

Go to www.acomplaintfreeworld.com and order your bracelets today.  However you can start immediately by simply putting a rubber band around your wrist and switching it when you complain.  Don’t wait.  Do it now. 

I promise you that it will be the most impactful thing you do this year. 

My Definite Major Purpose Updated

Filed under: LIFE LESSONS — admin August 21, 2008 @ 12:23 pm

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I first read Napoleon Hill’s famous book Think & Grow Rich when I was 19 years old. In that book he explains that knowing your definite major purpose is the key to success. What’s a definite major purpose? It’s the thing that you desire most in life. Why is it the key? As Napoleon Hill says, “Our brains our magnetized with the dominating thoughts that we hold in our minds, and these magnets attract to us the forces, people and circumstances of life that harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.”

Over the years I’ve spent a lot of time figuring out my definite major purpose. And I’ve learned some things…

1. You have to really want it. If you have to force yourself to think about it 10 times a day then it’s NOT it.

2. It changes. I’ve achieved my definite major purpose before and now I have another.

3. Spending the time to figure it out is worth it because you get exactly what you ask for (or extremely close to it).

4. If you read your definite major purpose statement, and it does NOT excite you, then you need to change it. Why? If it doesn’t excite you then you won’t do what it takes to bring it into your life.

All of this year my definite major purpose was to make $4000 a month building/supporting the Privateer Nation. When I first wrote this statement it excited me. Two weeks later it didn’t and I kept putting off changing it because I couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Finally, I figured it out. It’s not the money that excites me. It’s the lifestyle the money will bring me that excites me. It seems like I’m being overly picky about words but in my experience you have to be. Here is my new and updated definite major purpose (by the way I carry this around with me at all times and look at it a couple of times a day)…

Say it out loud, “My definite major purpose is to be

living with my girlfriend near the beach

in an energy intense city in Florida

while making $4000 + a month building the Privateer Nation

before I’m 32 years old.”

For fun I included my notes on creating a definite major purpose….

Is it definite?

Does reading my definite major purpose make me excited?

Is it a burning desire?

Am I continually intensifying my desire for it in my mind?

The main thing, is the keep the main thing, the main thing.

Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient & appropriate physical form available.

An intangible impulse of thoughts can be transmuted into material rewards by the application of known principles.

Truly “thoughts are things” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence and a burning desire for the translation into riches or other material objects.

Our brains are magnetized with the dominating thoughts that we hold in our minds, and these magnets attract to us the forces, people and circumstances of life that harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

You may as well know right here that you can never have riches in great quantities unless you uncover the white heat of desire for the money and actually believe you can possess it.

Thoughts + Words + ACTION = Creation

People Come Into Your Life For A Reason, Season or Lifetime.

Filed under: LIFE LESSONS — admin August 17, 2008 @ 6:11 pm

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An unknown author wrote the following lesson.  People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person…

When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.

They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support,

To aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are.

They are there for the reason you need them to be.

Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time,

This person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.

Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.

Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.

What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done.

The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.

Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn.

They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.

They may teach you something you have never done.

They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.

Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.

Other people come into your life for a lifetime.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons,

Things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.

Your job is to accept the lesson,

Love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life

It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant

Thank you for being a part of my life, whether you are a reason, a season or a lifetime.

Learn how to deliver a masterful Elevator Pitch by Startup Nation

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You can picture it – you step onto an elevator and standing right there is your dream financier. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Your pulse quickens. Your body temperature rises. You know this is your shot.

Elevator Pitch

To make sure you’re ready to seize the moment when fate puts you on that elevator with Mr. Moneybags, here we give you our advice on delivering an effective “elevator pitch” in as little as a one-minute ride. After all, Mr. Moneybags is always in a hurry and you’ve got to hook him quickly or you’ll never see him again!

You have to convey all the essential information in a clear and concise manner, communicating in a tone that’s likeable, passionate and also credible.
Remember, the elevator pitch is not designed to take the place of a solid business plan, but is simply intended to capture the attention of a potential investor. If you achieve that, the odds are good that you’ll get a chance to present your business idea in more detail at a later time (part of why having a complete business plan is also a must).
When you deliver an elevator pitch, you have to clearly and succinctly address the following points:

1. What’s the idea?
2. What’s the status of the idea or business?
3. What market or markets does the business address and are there any testimonials or customer feedback?
4. Why do you believe you have the advantage in the marketplace relative to the market needs?
5. What’s the competition in the marketplace?
6. What’s the revenue model (such as “e-commerce,” or “wholesale”)?
7. Who’s the team that’s going to make the business succeed?
8. What’s the longer term vision, the “end-game,” for the business and the projected return on investment for investors? (some examples are: “the business will distribute big profits to investors from cash flow by year X”, or “the business will be acquired by another company for $XYZ”)
9. What’s the total funding required to execute the business plan?
10. What amount of financing are you seeking initially and what are the terms of investment?

Your Elevator Pitch

Note that the order of these points can be changed around depending upon what your strongest points are. If, for example, you’ve got the most amazing and experienced team members, by all means, bump that up in front. Or, if you’ve got incredible initial sales results or testimonials, then mention that earlier. Whatever you believe is most compelling, you have to try to mesmerize Mr. Moneybags before he gets off the elevator!)

Example Elevator Pitch

Read the pitch out loud and time it - you’ll see that it can be done in 60 seconds or less. You’ll need to be able to pitch your idea in the same amount of time.

“Our company is called ConstructionBoots.com, an e-commerce website that sells brandname construction boots. There are currently no companies serving this niche exclusively. ConstructionBoots.com will drive traffic to the site by linking to other websites catering to the construction industry as well as through word-of-mouth. In industry surveys, over 90% of construction workers have these three traits: 1) they have a favorite brand of boots, 2) they know their size, and 3) they hate shopping at stores. In our own polling, over 70% indicated that they would prefer to buy their boots online and have them delivered. Accordingly, we expect a great market response and rapid sales ramp-up.

We need $1.5 million in funding to get to the point where the company is self-sustaining. This should happen in the middle of our second year. Right now, we’re seeking $500,000 of initial funding in exchange for a 30% ownership stake in the company. I am the CEO with lots of operational experience and deep contacts with boot manufacturers. Our Marketing Director was instrumental in the growth and recent sale of a very successful e-commerce clothing company. If we hit our numbers, we expect to be able to sell ConstructionBoots.com to a ‘brick and mortar’ retailer within 3 years.”

The Explorers Club: Travel’s Most Secret Society Revealed

Filed under: TRAVEL THE PLANET — admin July 16, 2008 @ 2:55 pm

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Many of the 20th century’s most interesting and influential adventurers were members of this secretive society.

What’s been to both poles, the top of Mt. Everest and the surface of the moon?

The official flag of the Explorer’s Club, that’s what.

So why has hardly anyone actually heard of the Explorer’s Club if they’ve had such a big role in so many important expeditions? A loose organization of intrepid individuals founded in 1904, the club doesn’t talk much about what goes on behind closed doors.

Help spread the word!

Even so, they make it abundantly clear that lavish dinners, awards ceremonies and explorations to far corners of the globe are the norm for members of the Explorer’s Club.

A good portion of the 20th century’s most interesting and influential adventurers were members of this secretive society, and the organization itself had a somewhat shadowy and ill-defined hand in their most important expeditions.

To name just a few:

Sir Edmund Hillary - After climbing Everest, Hillary made expeditions to both poles, rode a boat up the Ganges and flew to Antarctica when he was eighty-eight years old. He’s also the club’s honorary chair, despite being dead.

Tenzing Norgay – Along with Sir Edmund Hillary, one of the first two people to reach the top of Mt. Everest. Even though he was illiterate and had no idea when he was born, he spent his entire life climbing mountains and later founded a successful adventure company.

John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Sally Ride – The first man to orbit the earth, the first man on the moon, and the first American woman in space.

 
Thor Heyerdahl – Rode 4,300 miles (8000km) on a tiny bamboo raft just to prove he could do it.

Charles Lindbergh – Piloted the first non-stop, solo flight across the Atlantic
Chuck Yeager – First man to break the sound barrier.

And that’s just eight, the club has at least three thousand members.

What They Do
Like most ultra-elite associations, much of what the Explorer’s Club actually does is kept tightly under wraps.

Like most ultra-elite associations, much of what the Explorer’s Club actually does is kept tightly under wraps.The members hold a degree of secrecy – events are invite only, and photos on their site are behind a members only login page. There are a few awards given out every year and dinners that journalists are invited to, but for the most part the club retains a relatively low profile.

The Explorer’s Club headquarters is a gigantic rowhouse in New York City, with bizarre rooms filled with elephant tusks and stuffed wildlife (check out the virtual tour).

They also throw some crazy parties. The biggest and best is the Explorer’s Club Dinner, held with great fanfare every year in New York. Members from all over the world give talks, showcase their work and schmooze with some of the most adventurous people on the planet.

Most famously, a buffet of epic proportions is presented to attendees, reportedly consisting of exotic delicacies like fried cockroaches and spiders.

In 1951 (and this has been confirmed by the club archivist), they even went so far as to include bits of woolly mammoth meat that had been languishing in Siberian permafrost for ten thousand years. The dinners sometimes include displays of exotic live animals, often endangered.

While it’s probably in keeping with the spirit of the events, they’ve been criticized for making them feel like Victorian carnivals and bringing to mind the specter of European colonialism.

How To Join
 
Unfortunately, your last backpacking trip to South America probably won’t get you in. The Explorer’s Club is all about hardcore discovery, and usually admits only serious scientists, adventurers and journalists.

“A Member is someone who has evidenced a sustained interest in some aspect of field exploration and has contributed in broad terms to the cause of exploration, which includes furthering the scientific knowledge of the world,” says the application.

While you probably don’t have to summit Everest or land on the Moon you’ll want some real experience under your belt. It helps to have a specialty – graduate or post-grad level fieldwork is always a plus, or even just volunteering on a few expeditions.

Club dues depend on how involved you are and the exact amount is kept under-wraps, but you can bet they aren’t cheap. Luckily, you can take part even if you don’t have time to discover new species of moss in the Andes or eat bugs in India.

The Club offers two categories for us normal folks: “A Friend is someone who does not possess the qualifications and experience of a Member or Fellow, but supports the goals of the Club” and “A Student Member is at least 16 years old and enrolled in an accredited school full time.”

Since full membership requires the sponsorship of two existing members, the club says this can be a good way to network.

Pushing the Boundaries

The Explorer’s Club also hosts a good amount of intrepid tours through far-off lands, lead by scientists, adventurers and other people who actually know what they’re talking about.

These tours might cost a pretty penny, but they’re open to everyone and you can be sure you’ll get your money’s worth. Impressively, these include a tour to Bhutan, which is one of the most remote countries in the world and notoriously difficult to enter.

There are plenty of organizations for those with loose feet, but the Explorer’s Club is arguably more important than most. It might be secretive, exclusive and a little strange, but if you’ve got a thirst for adventure - you just might find yourself with a membership.

Article Written By Ross Tabak
Ross Tabak is a student in Washington, DC and is continuously looking for excuses to return to Asia. When not studying, he enjoys playing guitar, riding motorcycles and making sandwiches with more than one kind of meat. After graduation, he plans to flee to the far-reaches of the globe and support himself as either a writer or traveling organ grinder.

New Life Coach Experiences Success From Privateer Nation Accountability

Filed under: PRIVATEER NATION NEWS, PRIVATEER NATION SUCCESS STORIES — admin July 12, 2008 @ 6:14 pm

EDUCATION:
The Celestine Prophecy

Fiona is a Life Coach based in Denver, Colorado.  As a new life coach she decided to build her business through cold calls.  It sounded like a great idea until she actually sat down to do the cold calls.  She quickly found other things to do.  The next day when she sat down to do cold calls again the same thing happened.  Guess what happened the third day she sat down?

Cold calling alone is hard.  Cold calling alone with out accountability is insane.

Fiona got on to her second Privateer Nation krewe call and reported that she hadn’t done any of the cold calls that she said she would do.  I have a tremendous amount of respect for a person who can get on a krewe call and say, “I didn’t do what I said I would do.”  That takes a lot of guts and it also pays off.  Because she was honest about her situation we were able to get into action.  Because I am Fiona’s Krewe Captain I told her to call me next time she sat down to do cold calls.

When we spoke I had her run through her script with me a few times.  She did a great job.  I then asked, “How many calls are you going to make today?”  She said, “I’ll do 40.”  I said, “Ok, call me back when you are done.”

I got a call a few hours later and Fiona was super excited.  She’d done her all 40 cold calls and she got not 1, not 2 but 3 appointments with prospective new clients!  That’s the power of accountability.  We will make promises to ourselves and bail.  However the minute we tell someone else, we respect, that we are going to do something, we do it!  So simple but accountability makes all the difference in the world!  The plan from this point forward is for Fiona to call once a day and leave a message when she starts cold calling.  And then leave a message reporting her numbers when she is done.  It’s only a matter of time now before Fiona will have more clients then she knows what to do with!

 

A Story About Why Harsh Times Are Necessary

Filed under: LIFE LESSONS — admin @ 5:32 pm

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To give credit where credit is due this story came from Pat Finn at Rubicon Results.com…

A man found a butterfly cocoon. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further.

So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.

The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.

Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.

What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If we were allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly!

As you go into your fully relaxed meditation mode, imagine you are in a cocoon. Imagine that it is the physical representation of some challenge in your life that seems to have you trapped. First, get present to that feeling of being stuck. Then start to think about what you have done or are going to do to breakthrough. Think the thoughts, feel the feelings, and do the actions necessary to get out of that stuck situation. And as your non-conscious mind reveals to you what to think, feel and do; imagine you are seeing the light and breaking through the cocoon. Maybe that’s why we call it a breakthrough. Then feel how great it feels to be unstuck, to fly.

I HAD A BREAKTHROUGH AND THAT’S HOW I FLEW

I HAD A BREAKTHROUGH AND THAT’S HOW I FLEW

I HAD A BREAKTHROUGH AND THAT’S HOW I FLEW

Mom-and-Pop Multinationals-Improved software and services allow the smallest businesses to outsource work around the globe

Filed under: GET RICH — admin July 9, 2008 @ 6:01 pm

TRAVEL THE PLANET:
Vagabonding

Business Week Magazine

By Pete Engardio

From the outside, the gray Victorian with the stained-glass windows on a gentrified block in Dorchester, Mass., is a typical middle-class dream house. But it also is the headquarters of what you might call a micro-multinational. Randy and Nicola Wilburn run real estate, consulting, design, and baby food companies out of their home. They do it by taking outsourcing to the extreme.

Professionals from around the globe are at their service. For $300, an Indian artist designed the cute logo of an infant peering over the words “Baby Fresh Organic Baby Foods” and Nicola’s letterhead. A London freelancer wrote promotional materials. Randy has hired “virtual assistants” in Jerusalem to transcribe voice mail, update his Web site, and design PowerPoint graphics. Retired brokers in Virginia and Michigan handle real estate paperwork.

Global outsourcing is no longer just for big corporations. Increasingly, Main Street businesses from car dealers to advertising agencies are finding it easier to farm out software development, accounting, support services, and design work to distant lands. Elance, the Mountain View (Calif.) online-services marketplace that is the Wilburns’ main connection to the cyber-workforce, boasts 48,500 small businesses as clients—up 70% in the past year—posting 18,000 new projects a month. Sites such as Guru.com, Brickwork India, DoMyStuff.com, and RentACoder also report fast growth.

Forecasts that the Web would revolutionize work by creating a vast global market for professionals have been around since the early ’90s. Venture capital legend John Doerr thought so much of the idea in ‘99 that his firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, bet nearly as much on Elance as it did on Google (GOOG) and Amazon (AMZN). Kleiner managing partner Raymond J. Lane is chairman.

But while other forms of e-commerce caught fire quickly, Web sites for freelancers have only recently begun to generate much momentum. Market researcher Evalueserve estimates that revenues for online service marketplaces will grow 20% in 2008, to $190 million, far from the initial hype.

Why has it taken buyers and sellers of services longer to get comfortable trading online than companies dealing in physical goods? An eBay (EBAY) for services, says Elance CEO Fabio Rosati, “was a brilliant idea that started too soon.” But improved software, search engines, and new features are boosting the industry. Several sites now allow buyers to view detailed work samples and customer ratings for thousands of service vendors. Guru launched a payment system to mediate disputes and lets buyers put funds in escrow until work is received. Elance developed software to track work in progress and handle billing, pay, and tax records.

MOVING WITH THE MARKET

Those upgrades are starting to make a difference. Elance, which makes money by charging subscription fees and a 4% to 6% cut of each project, expects total billings to rise 50%, to $60 million, this year. Guru predicts similar growth, to $26 million.

Small entrepreneurs are the biggest source of growth. Queens (N.Y.) Lincoln Mercury dealer Ariel Tehrani hired Brazilians to develop a multimedia Web site to sell cars online. San Francisco real estate agent Jonathan Fleming uses graphic designers in Portugal, database managers in India, and writers in Hungary for his blog.

The Wilburns began buying graphic designs through Elance in 2000. They say they shifted to radical outsourcing after reading the 2007 Timothy Ferriss best-seller, The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich, which extols the merits of freeing up time by hiring cheap offshore “virtual assistants” to handle scheduling and other routine tasks.

Remote help has allowed 38-year-old Randy Wilburn to shift gears with the economy. His real estate business has slowed, so he spends more time advising nonprofits across the U.S. on how to help homeowners avoid foreclosure. Virtual assistants have handled routine correspondence and put together business materials while he’s on the road, all for less than $10,000 a year. He figures a full-time secretary would run $45,000. Nicola, a 35-year-old designer, decided to work from home after she had their second child. Nicola now farms out design work to freelancers and is starting to sell organic baby food she cooks herself. She is setting up a Web site for that business and offered $500 for the design work. Of the 20 bidders who responded via Elance, 18 are from outside the U.S.

The couple uses two main offshore vendors. One is GlobeTask, a Jerusalem outsourcing firm that employs dozens of graphic artists, Web designers, writers, and virtual assistants in Israel, India, and the U.S. It generally charges $8 an hour. The other is Kolkata’s Webgrity, which has a staff of 45 and charges $1 to $1.20 an hour. Five years ago, says founder Amit Keshan, 32, his company designed Web sites for Indian clients. Now he does all his business through Elance, handling up to 300 jobs each month for U.S., British, and Australian clients. For $125, Webgrity designed a logo for Wilburn’s real estate business that Wilburn says would have cost as much as $1,000 in the U.S.

A worldwide market where even mom-and-pop businesses outsource could still be years from attaining wide appeal. But micro-multinational entrepreneurs like the Wilburns may not be rarities for much longer. “People will do it the old way until it becomes a no-brainer to do it the new way,” predicts Elance’s Rosati.

Founder of Proud To Be Clothing.com Going After Privateer Nation Citizenship

Filed under: PRIVATEER NATION NEWS — admin @ 4:09 pm

CHANGE THE WORLD:
The End of Poverty

Life is good. The kind of people I’ve always dreamed of becoming citizens of the Privateer Nation are now opting to go through the citizenship process. At last it has begun…

This week Lara Kenoyer (www.myspace.com/22pears) decided to begin the citizenship process. Lara is the founder of Proud To Be Clothing (www.proudtobeclothing.com) and she is also an accomplished BodyTalk practitioner (www.bodytalksystem.com).

I first heard about the idea for Proud To Be Clothing in December of 2007. Lara called me and said, “I have a great idea for a new company!” I asked her to tell me about it. She noticed that there are all kinds of products that people can buy if they are proud to have graduated from a specific college, or proud to have gone on a vacation to an exotic location, or proud to be a part of a charity. However there are no products on the market that let orchardists proclaim to the world that they are proud to be fruit farmers. Her husband runs a very successful orchard in Central Washington. He LOVES being an orchardist and is super proud of his profession. But when she went gift shopping she couldn’t even find a tee-shirt that said “I’m Proud To Be An Orchardist.” At that moment the light went on and the idea for www.proudtobeclothing.com was born. Now anyone who is proud to be a farmer, cop, entrepreneur, photographer etc can go to the website and buy a shirt that tells the world what they are proud to be. I loved the idea because I’m extremely proud of being an entrepreneur. However there aren’t any cool tee-shirts for entrepreneurs. Proud To Be Clothing is now launching and I can’t wait to buy a tee-shirt that says “Proud To Be An Entrepreneur!” Ask yourself, “What are you proud to be? What brings you the most joy? What have you created that inspires you and other people? What are you Proud To Be? Now go to www.proudtobeclothing.com and buy a tee-shirt that tells everyone that today!

Lara is also an accomplished BodyTalk practitioner. What’s that? Your body can talk. I know how crazy that sounds but it’s true. I know because Lara worked on me and what my body told her was dead on. The certified practitioner asks your body questions and your body tells the practitioner what the priority is. The body is a self healing organism. The results are mind blowing. Things that medical doctors have not been able to figure out for years are identified in a single session. To find out more contact Lara today.
Lara Kenoyer Founder Of Proud To Be Clothing

1st Privateer Nation Krewe Meeting

Filed under: PRIVATEER NATION NEWS — admin July 6, 2008 @ 3:13 am

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When I set the phone down at 9:32 pm on June 28, 2008 I’d just made a dream come true.  I finally did it!  I did my first Privateer Nation krewe meeting!

Talk about a long journey.  The idea started back in the summer of 2002.  By the summer of 2003 a website was up, and we had people coming in, but my business partner and I didn’t know what to do with them.  We got to many responses and shut the project down.  In late 2004 we decided to start it up again.  At the end of 2004 my business partner opted out and I decided to go ahead on my own.  I spent the next 4 years learning everything the hard way.  I put groups together that didn’t work.  I put groups together that did work but weren’t right for the Privateer Nation.  I did it all.

Finally, I did it!  I was such a nervous wreck during the call.  I wish I could say I had fun but I didn’t.  The cool thing is that the women on the call came together like champs and our next call is going to be awesome.

It’s finally beginning.  History begins now….

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