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Received an email this morning which originated from a Petroleum Insider on how to cut you fuel cost:-

My line of work is in petroleum and has been for about 31 years now. So here are some tricks to get more of your money’s worth for every litre.

Here are some tips from the industry….

  
Only buy or fill up your car in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all Service Stations have their storage tanks buried beneath the ground. The colder the ground the more dense the fuel. When it gets warmer petrol expands, so buying in the afternoon or evening, then your litre is not exactly a litre. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the petrol, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products play an important role. A one degree rise in temperature is a big deal in this business but the Service Stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.
 
When you are filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode. If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3) stages; low, middle and high. In slow mode you should be pumping on low speed, thereby minimising the vapours that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapour return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes into your tank becomes vapour. Those vapours are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you’re getting less worth for your money.
  
One of the most important tips is to fill up when your tank is HALF FULL. The reason for this is, the more fuel you have in you tank, the less air occupying its empty space. Petrol evaporates faster than you can imagine. Petroleum storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between petrol and the atmosphere, so it minimises the evaporation. Unlike Service Stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every litre is actually the exact amount.

DO NOT FILL If there is a fuel truck pumping into storage tanks when you stop to buy, UP. Most likely the petrol/diesel is being stirred up as the fuel is being delivered and you might pick up some dirt that normally settles on the bottom.
  
Hope this will help you get the most value for your money. Remember to always fill your car when the tank shows ‘half’. Always fill up in the early morning. Always fill up in slow mode.
  
 Notes from a driver…. I tried early Saturday morning before I came to work. $30.00 from 1/2 tank filled up my car. Usually it is $55.00. Amazing…..this has got to be the most useful e/mail I have received all year.

Below is the text of a letter in the London Financial Times written by a friend of mine - personally I think it needs to be circulated far and wide! The responsibility for this credit crunch recession needs to be put where it belongs!

Accustomed as we are to branding pervading our lives from the Coca Cola Cup to the ambulance that rushes us to hospital on the fateful day that we require it, the media has chosen to brand events throughout history. This is especially so for those financial events that have punctuated our existence over the last 100 years or so. The Gold Standard, the Great Depression, Decimalisation Day, Black Wednesday, and I am sure there are more.

I am concerned that we do not miss the opportunity to allocate ownership for the current financial downturn that has us all looking for our parachutes, in the light of fading economic comfort, increasing unemployment and the likelihood that the next 12 months will put us back into post war style austerity.

It is, after all, the bankers who, through their careless, greedy and self-centred investments have broken the rules on prudent money management and exceeded their brief as guardians of our savings and our economic prosperity.

I propose and I hope many will agree with me that we should call this period economic instability ‘The Bankers Recession’.

Let us all hope that having got us into this state, they find the courage of their convictions and the balls to get us out of what is likely to be a prolonged and probably the most disillusioning period in Post War economics. Why should we all suffer for their selfish greed.

Let us hold them responsible and publicly remind them of their actions, in history, through the brand, “The Bankers’ Recession”. 

There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).

If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.

I’ll be frank; you want to be the expert.

Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven’t established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of preeminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it’s easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc… experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.

Most Bloggers Are Reporters

The thing with expertise is that it requires something - experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).

There’s nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it’s a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts - there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.

Don’t Replicate Your Teacher

If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a “guru” (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.

The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry - the Internet marketing industry - not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it’s next to impossible to succeed.

Even people, who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it’s fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche - Internet marketing - and rarely have any key points of differentiation.

How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things - email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing. It’s a saturated market, yet when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let’s face it - making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) - your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.

If the key is to become an expert and you haven’t spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.

Report on Your Process, Not Others

The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people’s work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.

It’s okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it’s fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not there’s. Frame things using your opinion - your stories - and don’t regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.

Expertise comes from doing things most people don’t do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.

You Are Already An Expert

Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don’t leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.

Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously; you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life, who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of…well fear.

Blogs and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven’t much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.

Reporting Is A Stepping Stone

If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from “scratch”, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.

Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.

Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it’s okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that’s all most experts really are.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

To get more information about Blog Mastermind click this link:

www.BlogMastermind.com

In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.

Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called “traction”, which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.

Top 10 Tips

10. Write at least five major “pillar” articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good “how-to” lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

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The Proven System

This is the most important chapter in the book where Ann takes over 4 pages to explain the problem with so called proven systems which have an inbuilt failure rate of 90%+ and how she developed her own system which has revolutionized the way MLMers build their businesses.

The system she developed is described in her ebook.the Renegade Network Marketer

I also wrote a blog post entitled It’s the System, Stupid! you might want to take a look.

Because this is the most important chapter in the book I cannot do it justice by trying to summarize here so if you haven’t already downloaded the free ebook all I can says is “You must be st….d!!!”

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If you apply the system Ann devised you’re business will take off like never before - just click on the link below and grab a copy now:-

Has she gone too far this time?

Frustrated by her lack of success in building her MLM business despite following the advice of her Upline for some two years, Ann began to question that advice and came to the conclusion that most of what she was told was downright lies! Has she gone too far this time? 

Some 90% plus on new joiners leave within 12 months of joining a network marketing business. Are these lies responsible for the terrible attrition in our business?

She identifies 7 Great Lies:-

Lie #1 - Everyone is your prospect!

Lie #2 - This really isn’t sales. We just share products with people.

Lie #3 - Anyone can do this!

Lie #4 - We’ll build your business for you.

Lie #5 - We have the best product ever!

Lie #6 - You just don’t have enough belief!

Lie #7 - The proven system.

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Lie #1 - Everyone is your prospect!

Ann struggled to decide which was the worst lie and this one came as close as any for that accolade. You must have heard it said that ‘if they can fog a mirror’ they are a prospect!

As Ann Sieg says this insane belief has led to the ridiculous practices of the ‘3 Foot Rule’ and to pestering family and friends. My feeling is that it good practice to tell them what you are doing and leave it at that - if your friends and family want to know more , they will ask.

Don’t you just feel bad about having to approach everyone and anyone to join your business? Would you really want just anyone in your business? I sure don’t.

It just isn’t true that everyone is your prospect - some folk love their job and wouldn’t give it up for all the tea in China (that’s an old English expression, folks).

This approach does not project an image of Professionalism and it rarely does much good for your friendships.

An important point Ann Sieg makes is that ‘No one is worth your time until they’ve shown an interest in what you’re offering and have asked for more information’

A final point Ann makes before I move on to Lie # 2 is

‘Who finds who first is very important’

 To quote Ann again

“When you go head hunting and chase your prospect, the whole operation is doomed to failure because you’re viewed as a nuisance! When they find you and seek you out, you’re viewed as an expert.

To check out the other lies get your hands on the FREE ebook here.

Do you remember the time before email and the Internet existed?  Possibly you are too young to know, but assuming my memory is not playing tricks on me I’m sure life was a little less hectic and pressured than it is today.

In the UK the Postman would deliver the mail in the early morning and if you were lucky you might have got another delivery in the afternoon.  You could count the number of letters on the fingers of one hand and as to unsolicited mail (spam) that went straight into the WPP without the danger of it corrupting your hard drive! - We just didn’t have hard drives to corrupt!  Aren’t I just showing my age!!!!

How different life is today!

Emails ping into your inbox throughout the day demanding immediate attention like a spoilt child!

If you have content on any of the Social Networks like Facebook or MySpace or content sharing sites such as digg.com or stumbleupon.com your email can mount up inexorably and leave you little time to attend to the important activities of the day.

So, how do you manage this activity? Well I can only tell you what I do and hope that you might find my ideas useful - working this plan means I can focus on the really important activities that I follow to make money on the internet.

It’s time for a spring clean of your email account.

• Create several email accounts with different providers such as Google and Yahoo in addition to that provided by your ISP which you will perhaps consider as your primary email address
• Use your primary email for important activities that may require your immediate attention such as from colleagues with whom you are working during the day and your immediate family.
• Use the other accounts for your Internet sign-ups, perhaps one for your Social Network activity and the other for your Internet business connections such as affiliate programs.
• Check these accounts twice a day unless you need to respond to an email conformations request.
• Switch off email notification of new friends and shouts from your social sites and deal with these matters at a convenient time of the day and perhaps only once a day at that!
• Delete emails as you read them unless they contain important information in which case create a folder within your email program.
• Use you diary system to remind you to check your email folders once a month to empty the folders of emails that weren’t important after all!
• Use a Spam Identifier such as MailWasher. This program identifies spam or suspect emails and allows you to delete them before they are downloaded onto you computer

Hope this helps someone.  And please add your comment and ideas too - thanks.

On Earth Day night, I couldn’t help but notice the ugly glare from the HUGE lamp standards at our local baseball field than burned for hours on end while no one played… AGAIN.

As a local taxpayer and someone concerned about the environmental damage caused by wasteful energy usage…

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I have to admit I stole this post from Dawne’s blog - Dawne and I have lived together for 20 years this coming June, so I don’t think she will mind if I borrow her excellent Post.  You can see more by going directly to her blog at www.dawnekovan.com

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This is a question that everyone first asks when they look at affirmations. They say - how can they work - they’re only words? They say - it’s all just positive thinking for the chattering classes - rubbish! To be honest, I’ve heard them all and more - some too rude to write down here for your tender eyes.

So, let’s start by ascertaining what an Affirmation really is. The Concise Oxford Dictionary says: a statement of fact; a strong assertion. (Note the word “strong”, there). It is also a legal statement for those who do not wish to make a religious declaration in court, but that’s not what I’m talking about here. It seems that ANY statement we make strongly about ourselves as if it were true is an affirmation - and nowhere does the definition mention positive thinking!

How then do you use affirmations in your everyday life - and why would you? What will you gain from so doing? And more to the point - do they really work? I have to say that they very clearly DO work. All those negative, self-defeating statements that arise from your unconscious on an almost minute by minute basis are in reality Affirmations! Think about that - EVERYONE tells themselves things that prevent them from being as wonderful as they can be. And it’s all because of the little devil sitting on your shoulder drip feeding poison into your ears.

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Mike Klingler reviews The Renegade Network Marketer in this 5 minute video on YouTube.

He explains how he came across ‘Attraction Marketing’ and how he is now putting it into operation within his own business.

He also recently - I think it was December 2007 - that he set up the Renegade University where he teaches exactly how to use the Internet to generate leads for your own MLM business, using a click-by-click system.

It is certainly the best tuition I have found and removes the stress of trying to work things out for yourself!  Bye bye brain ache!!

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