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Cigar rolling for beginners #5 The paste and other stuff


I think this will be my last video about cigars. I hope this For Beginners series was helpful. I originally made these videos for members of my Tobacco Talk forum but I can see that a lot of other folks have viewed them. I know that you will improve your rolling skills far beyond what I’ve offered on these five short clips. Your cigars will improve as you develop your own personal techniques. Good luck and have fun. Dan (aka joe6pack9) PS You are invited to visit my forum at: tobaccotalk.myfastforum.org

Into the "Kitchen of the Kingdom"

Jiangkou Town, Fenghua City, Zhejiang Province, is a small town on the Fenghua River. I do not know since when, it was noted that in this small town tepid appearance, modern kitchen industry, the “tap” is spewing wealth – in this only 10 square kilometers of the place, densely covered with 98 Kitchen manufacturing enterprises and more than 30 dealers, with nearly 1 million people engaged in kitchen production, 600 million yuan annual output value of industrial output value accounted for 25% of the town. Town on the production of thousands of kitchen accessories with annual sales reached 750 million yuan or more, nearly 70% of these products are sold to Hong Kong and Macao, Europe, America, Middle East and Southeast Asia and other markets.

Unique advantage of the unique industries nurtured

10 years ago, Chang played a well-run Ningbo Aolei Shi Sanitary Ware Co., Ltd., there were only 45 people, hired more than 100 square meters facade of small workshops. Today, Aolei Shi Sanitary Ware Co., Ltd. After several years of hard work, last year’s sales exceeded 1 billion yuan mark, the products are also among the top ten Chinese brands out faucet industry. Aolei Shi is with the kitchen industry, the rise of Jiangkou the rapid development of many businesses in one.

In 1972, the parties began to bridge the professional factory producing iron stove kerosene stove, which is jiankouzhen kitchen industry, the first seed, it fell jiankouzhen scarce metal resources poor soil, but the number of a decade in the jiankouzhen Under the careful cultivation, long the industry has become a fruitful tree.

Since the mid-80s of the last century, one after another, some employees being laid off from the two light system, stove business, they are taken and disseminated in the two systems to master the production technology of light, and more valuable market knowledge. We can say that two light systems provide development jiankouzhen kitchen industry, the earliest of human resources.

Of course, the first of these family workshops enterprises, product quality can imagine that in Jiangkou Town party, the Government’s strong support of the growing number of individual enterprises. After 1998, is set off a boom business. By 2002, jiankouzhen Wuling, Tien Chi, Tien-ma, Aolei Shi, Antya, large scale enterprises to emerge. Currently in the kitchen Jiangkou production enterprises in fixed assets in excess of 10 more than ten million yuan, tax of more than 200,000 yuan are more than 20 products are all exported nearly 10, high-tech products are more than 10?. More importantly, as market competition intensifies, more and more business owners Eguchi scale expansion began to shift from mere improvement of product quality, brand building, focusing more on content type development of enterprises. By strengthening management, improving technology, has been more than 10 kitchen jiankouzhen enterprises through an international ISO quality system certification, more than 40 products have national patents. Kitchen & Bath Industry This pillar has a real and strong.

In 2002, the town of relevant state departments Jiangkou named “National Kitchen & Bath accessory base.”

Jiangkou Town party secretary of Mao Yu Kun am not satisfied, he said that China’s kitchen and bath products in the domestic and foreign markets have a huge space, coupled with China’s labor costs have a cost advantage, and international manufacturing industry conversion, the general trend , as long as the Chinese enterprises to learn advanced technology, advanced management, will become the kitchen production power. China’s Kitchen & Bath industry for at least another 20-year development period. Therefore, Jiangkou Town will adhere to the development kitchen industry as the foundation for shaping regional competitiveness. Jiankouzhen in the next three-year period to continue to become stronger and bigger industries, and strive to sales of 20 billion yuan to build a true, the world-famous kitchen kingdom.

Great efforts at the local government, a full range of support, the last year, the new kitchen and enterprises jiankouzhen 32.

Industry cluster to create a leading position

Dealers jiankouzhen side Bridge Road, turn up everywhere on both sides of the soil, the town reported that older workers should be told the reporter that it was under construction in the industrial park, as park land is no output from the rivers, the need for formation into a industrial land, so costs are not low.

Then the old should be introduced, after many years in the market under the guidance of the self-development, Jiangkou Nearly a hundred enterprises in the kitchen, from the quantity in terms of basic everywhere. However, these enterprises are small-scale, layout disorder also scattered scale industrial clusters is difficult due to play. Town Party town government analysts believe that if the formation of industrial clusters in an early stage of mainly depend on the market this “invisible hand” to promote, then the companies reach a certain capacity and economies of scale, only through the government only the “visible hand” to be guide to allow for rapid formation of industrial agglomeration to play industry, radiation effects, highlighting the regional economic competitiveness.

According to the needs of the construction base, jiankouzhen were unified planning, the town’s decision-makers has built kitchen and three industrial bases in the professional market, the estuary has been developed industrial park in order to strengthen the combined effect. In order to guide enterprises settled in parks, the town government has increased investment in road network for all smooth, street lamps, green matching is complete, spent a billion dollars. Entering district so long as pay the full purchase land into five sections, you can apply for land certificates, to the bank mortgage lending, reducing the burden on the liquidity of the enterprise. In the electricity and so on preferential water, cutting a five-Sing Pao Daily News building costs alone in 2003, let it help enterprises to thousands of yuan a year. Opening the economy to the estuary for the “green passage” linking the town to implement the leadership point of contact system to provide a “nanny-style” one-stop service.

Hard and soft environment, significant improvements can attract businessmen to invest in an industrial. The first phase of the development of 500 acre industrial park sold out in less than 3 months, the second phase has just completed the formation of earth-moving craze appeared. Some had previously been a shortage of land, the factory moved to Ningbo, Fenghua business back “home.”

The town government to “support the strong to help excellent, cited” as the principle of promoting the kitchen industry to intensive, large-scale development. The United States, the United Kingdom is a leader in kitchen production, the town leaders personally led to the United States, learn English, CMB. Jiankouzhen committee secretary, said Mao Yu Kun, jiankouzhen level of capital investment in particular, highlight the main thrust of the industry, targeted investment through improving the industrial chain.

Divergent effects of building platforms in circulation

At present, the town has formed a stove, cabinets, blue, drums, taps and other kinds of hundreds of kinds of series of more than 1000 specifications. Because of the rise of industrial kitchen, located in Ningbo, Shaoxing, Taizhou, the intersection of the estuary town, as kitchen accessories distribution platform and information platform. The field every day to purchase up to 1 million customers, the daily average turnover of 50 million yuan.

Order fired kitchen product brands, to expand the broader market, jiankouzhen committee, the town government leaders speak a lot of heart, going door to door to mobilize enterprises to participate in Canton Fair, Consumer Goods Fair and international large-scale trade fairs in the international market from Society “swim” ability. In the town government and business efforts, more than 10 enterprises and Electrolux, 10000 and, combo, Di Lang and other international well-known enterprises to establish a good cooperative relationship has become friendly and cooperative partners, at present, Jiangkou Kitchen 70% of products are exported overseas.

In recent years, the town government invested several million dollars, opened the “China kitchen Network”, which can be said to be a never-ending transaction exhibitions, including foreign enterprises, including more than 100 members all the time available online bidding, negotiation, payment, deal.

Town has also funded the establishment of R & D center, which is in the business and scientific research institutes, and erected a bridge between markets. Technological transformation of enterprises in difficulty, or need to be addressed, R & D center will help them with tertiary institutions and research institutes to establish contacts to obtain the necessary skills and information; and domestic R & D results and market trends, R & D Center will promptly inform the Company. It is reported that jiankouzhen in the coming years plans to build a large-scale exhibition kitchen and bath products, and set up a kitchen and trade associations, which will be further exchange of information between enterprises play a role.

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Product Creation Part II – Get Others to Write your E-book for you

Another strategy for producing an e-book is to ask others to write it ror you. Some of the most successful e-book promotions have featured e-books with multiple authors.

Why would an author give you a chapter for your book?

Because you will encourage them to include their contact information and links to their web pages, that’s why. The more copies of your book that you sell or give away, the more traffic they get to their sales sites. More traffic equals more sales.

Here’s how I used this technique.

At our weekly mastermind meeting, I cracked a joke about The Myth of Passive Income (www.mythofpassiveincome.com). I was whining because I had spent two whole hours filling orders and answering customer service emails.

This was the internet age-I was supposed to be sitting on the beach smoking a Cuban cigar and drinking espresso while the money magically appeared in my bank account, wasn’t I?

The reality, as most successful internet marketers will tell you if you catch them out of the public eye, is that most successful internet marketers work long hours to create passive income. Especially in the beginning of your internet marketing career, passive income is a myth.

Joe Vitale laughed at my joke, and then decided it would make an interesting book. So he contacted several of the top internet marketers and asked them to write a chapter about their passive income experiences. In a couple of weeks, we had over twenty chapters, from some of the biggest names in the business.

You can see the final product at www.mythofpassiveincome.com .

This technique will work for almost any subject. For example, if you wanted to write a book about running a successful E-zine, you could email the authors of the most successful E-zines and ask them to contribute a chapter.

I suspect most of them would jump at the chance. Every copy of your e-book will be an advertisement for their E-zine.

When it came time to approach Joint-Venture partners for the e-book, we approached the co-authors. They were happy to make money from the e-book. Of course, it would be interesting to their lists- since they’re in it.

This generated a lot of sales, but more importantly, each person they sent to our site had the opportunity to sign up for our list. This is a great technique for “creaming” another marketer’s list. We were able to identify, and gain access to, the members of their list that were interested in our products.

This has led to some great relationships with our new subscribers, and subsequent sales of other products.

Get the idea?

Use Interviews To Write An E-book

A variation on having others write your book for you is to use interviews.

This is just a little more work, but there are a lot of benefits to this method. Remember that the interview can be conducted by phone, in person, by email- sometimes, the method you use to interview the expert can be a selling point. Be creative!

People who might not take the time to write a chapter are more likely to have a conversation with you, especially if you entice them with an ethical bribe-in this case, you can offer to include their contact and sales information in the chapter you create from the interview.

Remember, these interviews can be done over the phone or through email.

For example, suppose you wanted to write an e-book about the best way to buy a used car. You could arrange to talk with a broad range of used car salesmen. What are their tricks? What techniques do they use to get customers to buy? What should a customer ask? What should a customer be afraid of or concerned about?

Most salesmen will happily talk about their business, if you can convince them that it will attract more customers.

In this case, I’d ask them about the dirty tricks other salesmen use.

If you’re writing an e-book about a topic you’re very familiar with, you can interview yourself!

Once you’ve got your interviews, you’ve converted your authoring problem to a typing problem. You can even hire a transcription service to type it for you.

Writing your book from interviews has a hidden benefit-you nowhave an audio product to sell! You can use your interview tapes as the source material to create CDs or you can convert them to MP3’s and sell them as digital products.

One example of an interview mp3 product is at www.e-bookproblemsolver.com. I interviewed Dr. Joe Vitale on the subject of e-book production and marketing, converted the interview into mp3s and put them online. After listening to that interview, you should be able to come up with a topic, write the e-book, get it online, and sell it. The whole production took less than four hours to create- and was a lot of fun.

Right now, the most popular e-books are the ones that explain how to do something: how to save money, how to make a web page, how to fix a car, how to satisfy your lover, how to bake a great cheese-cake- even how to write an e-book!

You’re looking for an expert, but don’t get in a rut about what constitutes an “expert.” Here are some potential subjects for your interview. I’ll bet you can think of many more.

Real Estate Agent-real estate is the most expensive purchase most of us will make. People want information about how to make these purchases intelligently. how to finance your first real estate purchase, how to rent to own, how to sell your house yourself without an agent, how to prepare your house to get the best price when you sell it- here’s a hint- bake bread before the prospective buyer shows up!

how to qualify for a mortgage

how to get the most house for your money

how to make money on rental property

Insurance Agent-Insurance is a subject that is mystifying and scary tomost people.

How to buy life insurance

How to buy health insurance

Different types of life insurance, who should buy what?

Major medical versus full coverage

Day Care Center worker/owner-

How to find a safe day care center

What are the dangers?

Licensing of day care centers

Montessori vs. traditional

There is no limit to this- find a problem and solve it. Then sell the solution.

Coffee Shop employee-

How to make the perfect cup of coffee

The best beans

Easy mistakes everybody makes

Eco-Friendly coffee-why it’s good for you and good for the planet.

Grumpy customers-nightmare stories from the coffee shop

Internet Gurus-this is an area that is saturated. If you’re going to write about making money online, you need to have a unique perspective. One of the most popular e-books right now is a series of interviews with “unknown” online marketers. Find an angle that nobody else has exploited.

Here are a few I’ve come up with.

Secret lives-what’s unusual and unknown about internet marketing celebrities? Do they play guitar, paint pictures, climb mountains, write children’s books, work for charity?

People are interested in the human side of celebrities.

Rags to Riches- this one always works.

Unusual success-everybody markets information products. Can you find someone who markets something really unusual online?

Riches to Rags-Mistakes are how we learn. It’s less painful to learn from someone else’s mistakes.

High-School Students-this is a big market. When you add in their parents, it’s one of the biggest.

How to make great grades

How to use high-school to prepare for college

Social games and how to win them

How to be yourself and survive high-school

Fashion secrets for high-school students

College Students-

How to make money while you’re in college. See if you can get Michael Dell! How to start your career while you’re still in college. Many industries, including banking, financial planning, sales, and CPA’s have mentor programs for students studying their field.

How to survive college

99 ways to pay for college

How to get a grant, scholarship, or loan for college

Retirees-

Just because someone has reached the mandatory retirement agein their industry that doesn’t mean they immediately lose theirvalue. And because they are retired, they probably will welcomethe opportunity to help you with your book!

Industry survey- what jobs provided the most satisfaction?

How to retire with a comfortable income

How to survive retirement

Insider secrets to (whatever industry they retired from)

I hope you’re getting the idea that almost anybody can be an expert, and a resource for a profitable e-book, if you create the right questions.

Pat O’Bryan is the CEO of Practical Metaphysics, Inc., Director of the Milagro Research Institute, an award winning songwriter, recording artist, visual artist, author, video producer and internet marketer. He is the host and promoter of the “Your Portable Empire” Un-Seminars.


Work at home, or from anywhere – http://www.patobryan.com

Book Review – Richistan by Robert Frank

Robert Frank’s book titled Richistan is about the lives of the new rich and those who make up the wealth boom occurring in the United States.  The book is 250 pages long and is fun to read.  While we know there are millions of millionaires in the world, Frank exposes them in completely new ways, from how they hire butlers to the silly ways in which they make their fortunes.  Frank gives us perspectives that we never think about when it comes to the self-made, rich population. 

To start the book, the author gives the reader an idea of just how many millionaires there are in the United States; about eight million as of 2003.  This number has risen drastically between 2003 and 2009.  He also goes on to define the term “Richistan,” and divides his new country into three different categories based on household net worth.  Lower Richistan consists of households worth $1 million to $10 million dollars.  Middle Richistan consists of households worth $10 million to $100 million dollars.  The elite Upper Richistanis consist of households worth $100 million to $1 billion dollars.  There are only several thousand households in the Upper Richistani category. 

Chapter one is titled, “Butler Boot Camp: Housetraining the New Rich.”  This chapter serves as a great introduction to the secret world of the new rich households.  Frank talks of butler boot camps, especially the boot camp held at the prestigious Starkey International Institute for Household Management.  Here, men and women train to simply run the households of millionaires and billionaires and get paid a ridiculous amount of money to answer to the wishes and needs of the super rich.  These butlers get paid anywhere from $75,000 dollars to well into six-figure territory.  They must know how to please the super rich, and tasks include washing high-end cars, rolling cigars, setting up home entertainment systems, and the usual services such as cooking and babysitting. 

Chapter two is titled, “The Third Wave: The Era of the Instapreneur.”  There are thousands of people who are becoming instant millionaires every year.  In fact, in 2005 there were about 227,000 new financial millionaires in the United States alone.  Robert Frank describes in this chapter the six ways that most people acquire their wealth and points out several individuals who have instantly made millions of dollars through development and sales of several large companies.  Jared Polis, for example, has developed more than a dozen companies and sold them all for more than a total of $600 million dollars. 

Chapter three is titled, “Making It: Ed Bazinet, King of the Ceramic Village.”  This chapter is devoted to those who have made fortunes in an unlikely manner.  One person mentioned in this chapter is Sydell Miller.  Ms. Miller operated a hair salon and developed a shampoo line called Matrix Essentials, which she was fortunate enough to sell to Bristol-Myers Squibb for a mere $1 billion dollars.  Then there is the chapter’s title man, Ed Bazinet, who created miniature ceramic houses and ended up mass producing them for department stores.  By taking a chance and producing his line of mini houses, he is worth over $100 million dollars.  This chapter gives you the feeling that anyone can be rich if you have the will and a good idea. 

Chapter four is titled, “Living It: Tim Blixseth.”  This chapter talks about those who love their work and make their work their life.  Men and women like Tim Blixseth do not seem to have the capability to relax; they are always thinking about business.  Tim may be on vacation or relaxing on his yacht, but he never stops working on his business.  Blixseth started in business at a young age by buying and selling timber to various other companies, and eventually started the Yellowstone Club, which charges $250,000 dollars to join and millions of dollars for the right to build a house on his land.  This ultra-exclusive club has members such as Bill Gates and Dan Quayle who want their own retreat where privacy is at a maximum.

Chapter six is titled, “Barbarians in the Ballroom: New Money vs. Old.”  Formal celebrations and balls are popular in the world of the ultra-rich.  People are invited and expected to attend, knowing that a large monetary donation to the charity of choice is mandatory.  The rich must donate large amounts of money and when they fail to donate, controversy arises.  Not only are people expected to donate up to millions of dollars at a time, but there is also controversy about who is allowed or nominated to be chairperson of these formal events.  The chapter goes on to discuss homes owned by Donald Trump and Sean Combs and how much property in various parts of the country can sell for.  This chapter is the least interesting of the book, but still gives good information on the world of the ultra-rich. 

Chapter seven is titled, “Size Really Does Matter: My Boat is Bigger than Your Boat.”  The seventh chapter is all about comparing the property and expenses of the rich versus the ultra-rich.  Mega yachts seem like standard property for a rich person these days, and boats are coming in huge sizes with all kinds of crazy options.  Some foreign leaders are having boats made that are about 500 feet long, costing over $200 million dollars to build.  The boats come with smaller boats, helicopter pads, dozens of hot tubs, swimming pools, theaters, gold-plated bathrooms, etc.  The author goes on to mention how millionaires compare cars, watches, and homes, and spend vast amounts of money just so they can have the biggest and the best. 

Chapter eight is called, “Performance Philanthropy: Giving for Results.”  This chapter is intriguing, and it discusses entrepreneurial charity.  People like Philip Berber who made a vast amount of money with an online stock trading company which he sold for nearly a half billion dollars, are finding new ways to spend their money.  Berber started Glimmer of Hope, a company which uses large amounts of money to help make the world a better place.  Other millionaires and billionaires like Michael Dell have donated millions of dollars to help Berber build schools, health clinics, waters wells, and vet clinics in countries where poverty is a severe issue.  Men and women like Berber and Dell have high hopes to heal the world and have taken the initiative to help fight poverty with the fortunes they have accumulated.

Chapter nine is titled, “Move Over, Christian Coalition: The New Political Kingmakers.”  The ninth chapter deals with the money that drives politics and campaigns.  This chapter presents how policymakers ask for money to fuel their campaigns and the differences between the techniques Republicans and Democrats use to find their much-needed money.  Four Democratic supporters in Colorado helped to elect their candidate to the House of Representatives.  Not only did this happen in Colorado and the House of Representatives, but it happens all the time in the race for President of the United States.  The Republican Party often gains large sums of money in a public manner while the Democratic Party often collects money from the ultra-rich in a more private manner.  This chapter shows that people will stop at nothing to have their candidate nominated into office, even if it means donating millions of dollars every year. 

Chapters ten and eleven are titled, “Worried Wealth: The Trouble With Money,” and, “Aristokids: We’ll Always Have Paris.”  These two chapters talk about the troubles that come with large amounts of money.  For example, more than half of America’s super-rich agree that money does not buy happiness.  Money can dominate their lives and leave little time for personal time with kids and spouses.  Money can cause such concern that millionaires have started meeting groups to discuss financial matters and meet with similar people in similar situations to get concerns out in the open.  Who better to talk about your millions of dollars with than other millionaires?  The final chapter of the book talks about the super rich children, or those who are in prime position to inherit fortunes.  Kids today are attending classes to learn about manners and living the high-life.  They also are being forced to learn about finances and what to do with millions of dollars so when they do inherit the money one day, they will not make unwise decisions and blow the money away like many of today’s celebrities and heirs/heiresses are doing. 

Overall, Richistan is an engaging and enlightening book about today’s new rich.  This book will keep you reading as you learn facts about the rich that you probably never knew.  The chapters about prestigious butlers and how “bigger is better” are especially interesting and will give you a great idea how millionaires and billionaires really live and spend their fortunes.  This book is rated 4.5 out of 5. 

Daniel Breedlove is the owner and manager of Corner Office Books, the internet’s premier website for reviews and sales of hundreds of business-related books.

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