A couple of days ago I read an email from my brother, and I
couldn’t believe my eyes.  While he was away from his family,
two of his brothers killed his favorite dog, and were
barbequeing the mutt by the time he got home.

Oh, a little back story.

My brother is in Namibia, Africa with the Peace Corps right
now.  He’s living pretty far off the map.  Strange – they don’t
really have a road to get to where he is, but they have power
and television.

You see, in the back woods of Namibia, there isn’t a lot of meat
to go around.  So goats, chickens, pigs – and even dogs – are at
a premium.  My brother had been raising a dog named Ziggy, which
was one of the mangiest mutts you’ve ever seen.  He had stripes
like a brown zebra, and scavenged his way to a nice little
existence.

People around my brother thought he was crazy, because nobody in
Namibia treats their dogs very well.  At least not like we do in
the good ol’ US of A.  Around here I see dogs walking around in
sweaters when it is fifty degrees out, and poodles with
manicured toenails.

The fact that my brother was petting and naming the dog to begin
with was looked upon as a little odd.

So it came to pass that Jeremy (my bro) was away for the
weekend, and his two family members, a nine and a 12 year old,
decided that Ziggy had eaten too many of their chickens.

Being young boys, they didn’t do the nice thing, which would
have been to slit a dogs throat.  No, they decided to beat the
thing to death. Then toss it on the fire and chow.

Now put yourself in Jeremy’s shoes for a second.  You barely
make it home before dark, to your metal and concrete shed that
you call home.

Then you see a rare sight – the fire is going with meat on it.
Then you ask where the meat comes from.  And it’s Ziggy, your
dog.

Yikes!

One thing about my brother is that nothing is going to stop him
from experiencing something 100%.  So when this Namibian kid who
had BBQ’d his dog handed him a piece to try, he told himself,
“I’m going to eat Ziggy.”

And he chewed.  And swallowed.  And had some more.

The next time you’re thinking about doing something a little bit
uncomfortable or out of the ordinary to grow your business, just
think of Jeremy and his dog.  He took a leap of faith that most
of us would never dream of doing, and is better for the
experience (at least according to him).

We all have something that makes us feel uncomfortable.

But it’s important to push those boundaries to continue to
grow.  In these strange times of recession it’s even more
important to make a commitment to growth.

Take a moment to do something out of the ordinary, and take
the next step to growing your business with a money generating
website.  You’ll be ahead of 99% of the business owners out
there.  Here’s how.

You can do it,
-Wally

P.S. — He said that dog tasted like Roast Beef.

P.P.S. — Stretch yourself a little this week and check out my
new CD.

This weekend I spent a lot of time reading a new book called “A
Few Seconds Of Panic” by a guy named Stefan Fatsis.

As a 43 year old writer, he trained to become an NFL kicker, and
actually ended up getting to go through training camp with my
favorite team – the Denver Broncos.

It’s a fun adventure and an easy read, with a lot of funny
stories about him getting hazed by the “real” players.  And the
pictures of Stefan next to the big football players makes him
look like a little kid.  So that’s pretty amusing too.

The pressure put on a kicker in a football game is incredible.

There are thousands of people watching you, and you have only a
few seconds to perform and be the hero – or miss the kick – and
be a zero.  In the book he talks about how there are lots of
guys in the world who have the athletic skills to play in the
pressure cooker of the NFL, but only a select few make it,
because only a select few can get their head straight.

Makes sense to me.

If you aren’t prepared mentally, there’s no way you can be
prepared to perform on the field.  Same thing goes with your
website.  If you aren’t prepared to keep a visitor there -
they’re going to leave.

How to prevent that here.

Get the right know how and you’ll be sure to split the
uprights every time.

As the referee says, “It’s good!”

Reach for the top,
-Wally

P.S. –  The lucky few who have heard these secrets are already
using them in their business.
Get them yourself.

It’s a beautiful fall day here in Fort Collins, and the
construction that was going on in front of the house is finally
moving on down the street.

Pretty soon all the leaves will have fallen, and all those
damn campaign yard signs will be taken down with them.

Unless you’re living under a rock, you might have heard that
there is an election taking place today.  Try as I might, I
can’t always keep my head out of it, even though it just makes
me get all uptight and excitable.  Maybe it does the same for
you.

No matter where you stand on the vote, I wanted to share with
you why I think Obama is going to win.

It doesn’t have anything to do with  his positions, or good
looks, or his Chicago heritage.  Although I must say, if you can
win in Chicago, you can probably win anywhere.

It has to do with the way he’s used the Internet.

I’ve been pretty impressed, actually with both campaigns, and
how they’ve embraced the Internet.  But Obama really impressed
me because he’s been able to turn the web into a cash-generating
machine.

He’s gotten thousands of sales – oops, donations – at
$100 or less.  I’ve helped a lot of people do the same, and I
want to help you do it too.

Here’s a few things he’s done right that you can too:

He’s turned his personality into a website
He’s used the web and email marketing to stay in touch with
thousands of supporters
He’s asked for the sale, um, I mean, a donation

And so much more.

The beauty of our fine country is that we can take the winning
playbook and use it to our own advantage – no matter who we vote
for.

Today I want you to take a moment and Vote For Your SELF!

Commit to taking your business to the next step.  Let’s end this
talk about the bad ecomomy.  Make yourself the winner of this
election.

Let’s take a few pages from the winning playbook and generate
more sales over the next 4 years.  To do that, I’ve created a
new CD called the Secrets of Money Generating Website – REVEALED!

HERE.

In this power packed CD, you will learn how to pull more money
from the web, whether you’re an online or offline business.

You’ll learn how to keep your website visitors happy.

And you’ll learn secrets of money making web design that 99% of
the web designers out there are either too afraid or too
uninformed to tell you.

Most importantly, you’ll have a set of tools to use to win the
real contest – succeeding in an uncertain economy by staying far
ahead of your competition.

I teach you all of these things and more in an easy to listen
to, information packed CD that you can listen to in your car,
your office, at the gym – anywhere.

The lucky few who have heard it are already asking for more copies.

Vote for your own success and grab a copy here.

Reach for the top,
-Wally

P.S. — Vote early and often for yourself. Before it’s too late.

P.P.S. — No matter what happens today, remember that YOU have
FAR more control over YOUR life than any politician.