Burton Kent

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I’m a former magical email address customer of James Brausch.  I liked it, but thought he didn’t like me.  I didn’t really take it personally - and his post The Magical Email Address program is back! explains that it wasn’t personal.   

Would I do it again?  Yes.  He’s tough.  I’m guessing his coaching style came from his experiences recovering from substance abuse.  But it’s worth it.

 So here’s the warning label I’d give James:

• Expect tough love, without the love.  Don’t try justifying yourself to him.  There’s a quote on my wall “The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count.” - Dr. Robert Anthony.  James hates reasons.  If you expect him to be reasonable, you’re in the wrong place.  Do what he says and get the results.
• He’s got a specific program he recommends.  It’s based on the Freedom Business System - a system for quickly creating your own product.  Forget membership sites, anything he doesn’t specifically recommend.  Expect to follow his system and get his results.  If you talk about anything else, he may call you a forum junkie or worse.
• Only email a maximum of once per day.  If you email more than once, he’ll answer only one each (of his) business days.
• Stick to the point.  Don’t expect a discussion, expect direction.  The man only works a few hours a day, a few days a week.  He doesn’t have more than a few minutes to devote to your email. 
• Don’t take anything personally, unless it will motivate you.

The funny thing is, I’m still doing what he teaches in his Freedom Business System.  It’s going well, in part because of the attitude he gave during my one month with him.  I’m running into obstacles, but obstacles aren’t allowed - only results are.  So I’m finding myself getting the results I need.  Nice.

 If you’re familiar at all with James’ methods, you’d be a fool not to jump on this at this price. 

Just talked to a friend of mine who is poor because she joined a “vacation club”.  Basically it’s a timeshare where you get points and can “buy” or trade weeks of vacation all over the world.

I sat through one of the presentations in Cancun once.  The math was complete and total BS.  Everything sounds good, except for basic finance.  They add up the total value you’ll get over the years, which sounds pretty sweet.  But would you pay $720 today for a week’s vacation in 10 years?  Even if it’s a beachfront hotel on the shimmering sands of Cancun?  I don’t think so.   That’s why their “grand total” ain’t so grand.

That’s called the time value of money.  Money now is worth far more than the same money in the future.  There’s a reason we earn interest.  There’s also a reason you can buy these things for about $1 on ebay, with closing fees of about $300. 

Salsa in Chicago.  Starts early…

… so I decided to start from scratch.  The MediaTemple folks seem to know what they’re doing.

Hope I’m right.

I’m running WordPress 2.3.1 with the Cutline theme.  Wordpress is cool - literally takes 5 minutes to install, 10 to set up.  Cutline is also decent - has a clean look.  Altogether an hour and a half to set up.  Beats the heck out of handcoding stuff that looks like crap.