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I stopped smoking over 15 years ago because the Government had jacked up the taxes yet again. I wasn’t going to pay (I think it was $2.00 a pack)! That was it. I had to stop smoking. <br>
Luck would have it that I wasn’t sitting with my father on the porch discussing fishing, when I noticed that he wasn’t smoking. Here was a man whose cigarettes were so strong and raunchy, that I even refused to borrow them from him. He had been smoking these air pollutants for over 40 years. I asked him why he wasn’t smoking. He informed me that the company he worked for had a program to help smokers quit smoking. He had taken it and he had smoked for over a month.<br>
I asked my father for a summary of how he quit. It was really quite simple. They were handed out a book “How to Quit Smoking” (the author escapes me), he gave me the book. Whenever I had a cigarette, I would read the book. The book revealed how much smoking controlled my life. I would go out in the middle of the night to get cigarettes, or even something simple like matches. Or I would wait until I had finished having a cigarrette before I entered a building. The worst was when I moved to the North-east and I had to smoke outside in an artic squall. It was so cold. It became unbearable.<br>
When the break bell ran at work I would jog to the nearest exit to have a cigarette, and if I was lucky enough I could quickly inhale 2 cigarettes. During lunch break I would wolf down my lunch and jog outside into an artic squall, have two cigarettes. It was quite pathetic when I look back on it. <br>
I had tried everything to quit smoking, I was even dumb enough to take the advice of a dear friend. He suggested that I should smoke a pipe or cigar. The logic was that I would smoke a cigar or pipe instead of a cigarette. This would replace the cigarette which was worse because you inhaled the cigarette, but not the pipe or cigar. What a great idea.<br>
Shortly, after I started this stop smoking program, I was smoking a cigarette, a cigar, and a pipe. I was smoking so much, I didn’t even have time to breathe oxygen. I smelt like an incinerator. People would turn the fire extinguishers on me. <br>
I chose a long weekend to quit smoking. I purchased 5 lbs of peanuts, this would help when I felt the urge to inhale. I made it through the weekend. I would still have an urge to smoke, but I would resist. Now 15 years later, I am one of those self-righteous non-smokers. Unfortunately, I think if I can quit a pack and half day, plus the cigars, and pipe smoking, everybody can. <br>
It is tough at the beginning, but if you can quit, the urges will pass. There are now so many inexpensive aids to help you, like the patches, the pills, hypnosis, etc. it can be done.
Richard McDuff has been selling full-time on the internet for seven years He has a blog at and you can read more about how to quit smoking at
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 sites. More traffic equals more .
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 , 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 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 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 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 ? 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 life insurance
How to health insurance
Different types of life insurance, who should 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, , 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
Perhaps it’s because there’s a close cultural connection between great music and smoky bars. Anyone who knows anything about jazz knows that its truly legendary improvisers – Coltrane, Bird, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie – cut their teeth playing in bars so smoky that it’s a good thing everybody was too busy improvising to need sheet music.
Or maybe it’s because both cigars and music are contemplative pleasures. A casual smoker can get a quick tobacco-fix from a cheap cigarette, just as a casual music listener can enjoy the background hum of pop songs on the car radio. But to really enjoy a great performance, or a good tobacco, sitting still and paying attention are necessary.
In any case, music and cigar smoking seem to belong together, and some of the most famous musicians are (or were) cigar devotees – just as, it turns out, one of the most famous of cigar devotees is also a musician. Avo Uvezian, the maker of Avo cigars, is also a respected classical and jazz pianist, a Julliard graduate, and even the one-time official pianist of the Shah of Iran. After a successful musical career based first in his native Middle East, and then in the contiguous United States, Uvezian moved in the 1980s to Puerto Rico, where he opened a restaurant and bar and dabbled in cigarmaking. After customers at his Puerto Rico restaurant told him how much they enjoyed some cigars he’d had rolled himself, from a blend of tobaccos he hand-picked, he opened his own Dominican Republic-based cigar factory, working with noted cigar maker Hendrik Kelner. Now his company makes three million cigars a year, and Uvezian himself still makes music – his first CD, Legacy, was released in 2004.
For another example, consider the great trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, who smokes, by his own estimation, four or five cigars a day. Music allowed the Cuban-born Sandoval to rise to fame in his native Cuba – and to defect from that country in 1990, during a long stint playing concerts in Europe (he now lives in Florida). Sandoval has played the horn for Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, Gloria Estefan and Johnny Mathis, Michel Legrand and Frank Sinatra. His technically flawless playing has resulted in his being the kind of musician whose work is often known by people who couldn’t name him – he is brought in as a session musician by some of the world’s finest and best-known (see above), and he often scores movie soundtracks. As his work with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Leningrad Philharmonic prove, he’s even proved able to handle the rigors of classical music as well as jazz – sometimes doing both in the same concert.
The cigar-music connection is especially strong in Cuba, known as one of the world’s cigar capitals. Both cigars and music are staples of island life (the cigar remains one of the island’s most prominent exports), and the strength of both in Cuban culture depends partly on the nimble and intelligent blending of elements from everywhere – wrappers and fillers from different parts of Latin America, rhythms and melodies from the African coast, South America, US pop, Western European classical, etc. In other words, Cuban cigarmaking and Cuban music have both survived, and flourished, by mixing and melding.
For generations, cigar rollers were entertained by the sound of paid musicians or by music from the radio. (This tradition continues even now in the Dominican Republic, where workers at the Arturo Fuente factory, among other places, are treated to the work of performing musicians.) With this tradition in place, it’s no wonder that some of Cuba’s music legends got their start as cigar-factory entertainers; and since tobacco smoking has been a part of Latin American life far longer than it has in some other places – Columbus’s sailors noted it being smoked in what is now modern Cuba in the year 1493, so there’s many more centuries of lore to draw on its psychological and emotional associations are deeper and richer, providing better material for songwriters to mine. Thus famous Cuban songwriter Beny More, himself a former entertainer for the cigar-factory workers, touches on the song in a number of his classic compositions.
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Renovation of your sitting room does not necessarily mean a long drawn process. Here are some renovation ideas for your sitting area that work quickly and effectively.
Change The Furniture
You may love to flaunt your leather sofas but an aesthetic approach towards the furniture will enhance the look. Instead of giving a cowboy look to the sitting area, try French floral prints as sofa covers. French floral prints come in subtle shades and bright prints. This will not only enhance the look but also the mood of the room. You can also opt for animal prints if you wish to give a wild look. It is very important to use bright colors in the sitting area. Bright colors symbolize positive energy.
Bright Colors To Add Spice
The fastest way to change the completely change the look is to get going with a can of paint. Paint the walls in bright shades to put life into dull interiors. Keeping in mind the theme of the sitting area, the colors should be bright. The area is all about guests and therefore the color should reflect warm hospitality. Shades of red, peach, yellow, orange and gold are good options to pick from. You may go creative with shading of the walls too. Most paints have mixed combination look too. All you need is to let your imagination go wild.
Matching Furnishing
If you do not wish to waste time and money in getting the flooring changed, go for easier and faster options. The entire look of the room can be changed by placing an interesting carpet. Try out traditional Persian silk carpets instead of geometrical pattern ones. Though it requires high maintenance, the exclusive look will be well worth the price. In case of cushion covers, try out the dull zari and brocade cushion covers. They will lift the mood of the room. Ensure that you are opting for matching fabric for the sofa cover.
Curtains To Bring In Panache
Curtains play an important role in lifting up the look of the room. The idea of putting curtain should not be similar to a veil system. You can opt for curtains that match the wall colors. Opt for silk curtains to add more glamour to your room. Mix and match color combinations work well. Bright colored will add a royal look to the surroundings. If you are planning for a casual look then opt for brighter shades. Light curtains in net and linen fabric that are ideal for the summer mood. Heavy fabrics work well for the doors and windows. Let the natural light come inside as it enhances look as well as spread positive energy. Go for as it will solve both purposes.
Highlight The Areas
Instead of showering the sitting area with halogen lights, go for highlighting. Highlight certain corners and areas to enhance the look of the décor. If you have an expensive painting, statue or even crystal, highlight that area. I’m sure renovation is not going to be a hassle for you anymore.
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