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What Does Abundance Mean to You? Well when you live in the country you are constantly reminded of the abundance that nature provides every day.  I love when I go on my walks - there is SO much I can be grateful for right in front of my eyes and I am blessed it is all so beautiful here.  But something that arrived this week made me incredibly grateful because there was a time when I was unable to afford this luxury item.  It is a pile of wood.  Some of you might think well that’s pretty ordinary Mz Margz but when I first moved up here I didn’t have the money to buy wood.  I froze the first winter and the second winter my friends worked out what was going on and bought me wood for my birthday and I rationed it out so it lasted most of the winter.  This year I celebrated a funny sort of milestone, but a significant one for me.  I was able to buy my own wood and in fact I bought two loads and my heart sings with gratitude every time I walk past that wood pile.  I thank the clients that made it possible, I thank Allan the woodman who stacks it so nicely and doesn’t run over my Daphne bush to get the Ute in.  I thank the Universe for the abundance it provides and I thank the trees that give me the warmth (although I do feel bad about the enviro effect) but for now it is my heating option until the abundance arrives to install a hydro central heating system.  There are many different things to be grateful for in my load of wood and I am VERY grateful for all of them.  What simple thing are you grateful for right now?? PS - Have you joined my new FORUM (business chat room for therapists). This is a complimentary community for ALL of my subscribers (yes that means you can join) to participate in. People are getting the hang of it now and we have had some great discussions. I've even got a category called "Shameless Self Promotion" now so you can tell others in the network about your wins and even if you have a course or something you would like to promote (within reason of course). Click the picture below to jump in and join.	If you aren’t getting the results you desire in your practice then you might need the M.O.S.H Pit the low cost group coaching program to help natural therapists become more Motivated Organised Successful andHappy details here   ONLY 5 PLACES LEFT THE MOSH Pit doors are closing soon - I've decided it's just too good value so am limiting the numbers in the program. Only the early adopters are going to have access to this extraordinary group coaching program - make sure that is YOU! Start rockin' NOW -oOo- YES! You can Skype Me -oOo- Not many sleeps until the Utopia International Retreat for enlightened souls begins get your tickets now! NB: Utopia is a not for profit event
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Creating Passive Revenue from Teleclasses

Any of you wise people in my MOSH Pit will now know the benefits of learning on the phone.  It is such an easy and inexpensive way to learn and it is a whole heap of fun.

What many don’t realise is the potential this simple tool has to provide you with passive revenue. 

%$firstname$%, would you like to make money while you sleep?

Passive revenue is the term for “making money while you sleep”

It is when you create a product or service once and then keep on-selling it over time with no further interaction in terms of time or effort from you. 

Music CDs are a grand example.  The artist goes into the studio or their sound engineer records them live so their fans can experience them after they stop playing.  But unlike my friends little boy who thought that the radio had all the bands playing each song live at the radio station, the band can often be sound asleep while you are buying and playing their CD’s – gotta love that.

Lets just get one thing clear = PASSIVE REVENUE ROCKS!!!!

It rocks because everyone wins.  You get money in your bank for very little effort and in most instances the person buying the product gets to learn something new or improve themselves or get help in some way.

Probably the easiest way for you to get started to create passive revenue is by using the technology on a teleclass bridge line.  I have no idea why it’s called a bridge but basically it is a virtual meeting place where multiple phone lines can “plug in”.  So instead of just one person being on the line, you can have as many people on the line with you as you like.  Some bridge lines will take up to 250 people before they even start to get slightly overloaded.  Can you start to see the potential here?  What is those 250 people had paid $10 each to be there.  What if they had paid $20 each – it is still cheap for them but it has sky rocketed your hourly rate.

Even if you don’t want to sell the audio you can use it as a value add to give away to your clients and we know how much I support value adding for your clients.

To get a bridge line you simply need to sign up with a company offering bridges online and guess what; in many cases there is no charge to sign up or no charge to use the bridges – yes it’s totally fr.ee!  Then you will be emailed a special phone number to dial and you are in business.

Some clever people have added audio recording facilities to bridge lines and all the leader of the call (that’s you) has to do is to log onto a website, log in and then press one button labelled “start recording” and it starts the recording of an mp3 file (which is just the name of the audio file that plays back).  Then when you are finished you either press the “stop recording” button or you hang up and the machine creates your file for you. 

It really is that simple to record basic audio these days.  Of course you can always go for all the hoots and whistles and go into a studio and have a sound engineer do it for you but the bridge option will give you a basic product at low or no cost that you can replicate for next to nothing on your website.  It will also give you a fair quality to put onto a CD.

Many therapists are using this to record mediations and teaching or even just to record sessions so clients can play back what you have said.  If you think about it like the old fashioned tape recorders called walkmans we used to use – bridges have all the same benefits but it also gives you the ability to load audio to your website or you can even podcast your audio and sell it on itunes if you are a little bit techy.

People sometimes freak out and think – what on earth would I teach.  Well I’ll tell you a big secret.  People are learning machines and you will be surprised what they will pay to learn.  If you start to think about how much knowledge you have already amassed over the years through the courses you have attended or the learning you have done at the coal face, you are starting to get an idea of some of the things you can put on audio.  It is about working out which parts people will pay money to learn and then picking up the phone.

You would be mad not to be using teleclasses and bridge line technology and it just happens that I have a teleclass you can join that will teach you how to use this technology. 

Be quick though because the classes start on Weds 18th June 08 at 8PM Melbourne time – but if you miss it you can always buy the audio of the class on my website!

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