Liane Carmi

It’s been forever since I last updated my blog, so I figured I’d put something high quality here. I get a lot of requests for “how to focus,” “how to concentrate” and “how to get things done,” so I recorded this presentation that teaches you how to reach your goals. It’s a little long, but worth every minute.

I originally presented this (with slightly different slides, and more business focused) at Howie Schwartz’ last workshop (before his sabbatical). I’ll update shortly with workshop pictures, videos (including one of Howie as a pimp), etc…but for now, here’s this modified version of my presentation. This should work for you no matter what your goals are. Please leave your comments below!

You’ll understand that warning in just a moment.

Earlier today…
MUCH earlier today…
actually, at this point it was yesterday – 12 hours ago to be exact -

My good friend Thomas contacted me on Skype. I had gotten in from a 5-mile-or-so bike ride a few hours earlier and was sitting down to work, making phone calls, contacting clients, and speaking with the Assistant Superintendent of the school where I teach ESL – but more on my impending resignation later. I managed to fire one of my clients before I got Thomas’ request to “spam” me.

Anyway, let’s get something straight. I’m super focused. I set goals, and I reach them. I’ve been pitched to countless times, probably just like you, often by amazing people who I know I would love to work with. Yet I always find a way to stay focused on what I’m doing. So unlike hundreds of people I know, I market exclusively ONE business opportunity. It works.

But sometimes, no brainers happen.

This was one of those times.

You probably already know that it takes money to run business. Takes money to make money. That sort of thing. And when you’re in high-end sales like I am, sometimes you need a few k to get a good return. PPC is king when you can fund it properly.

So when Thomas offered me a way to fund my PPC campaign – I couldn’t resist.

Here’s how it went down.

An MLM company started in the UK.  It spread like wildfire – all over Europe, India and China.  The company paid out millions in commissions.  And then someone in North America managed to get in touch with one of the shakers in Germany.

The company’s site was not yet set up to accept orders from the US, but they somehow managed to work out a deal to purchase the guy’s vouchers in order to start a downline here in the US.  And start a downline they did.

I managed to get my hands on one of those vouchers.  20 minutes later, I was already bringing my own set of leaders in.

Here’s why this MLM is so irresistable:

1. It’s a ONE TIME $250 fee to start. And no monthly. $250, one time, and you’re in for good.

2. It’s a revolving matrix that pushes you up. Bring in two people (or heck, get two rollovers from your upline) and you’re qualified. Make it through the first matrix and you make your investment back – plus $250 in vouchers that you can use to start yourself another position.

3. Once you make it through the first matrix (or board), you’re in for good. You get moved over to another matrix where you cycle endlessly. And when you finish THAT matrix – every time you cycle back to the bottom – you get $15,000 – $10,000 cash, and $5,000 in vouchers (for travel, re-entry into the matrix, etc.).

I didn’t find out about all the other bonuses (laptops, cars, private jets…) until after I joined.  I didn’t need to.

All I needed to know was that I was working with an incredible group of people.  And that we were all committed to bringing only the best of the best to our team – the movers and shakers.

Are you a mover & shaker?

If so, you’ll find a way to reach me.

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This one time, when I was just starting to use Hubpages as a medium for marketing, I noticed that they have an area to request hubs. People who want answers to a burning question ask it in that area, and then people like you and me see the question and have the option of writing a web page (hub) to answer it.

I decided to try it out, and created a hub answering someone’s question:

How do you improve focus and concentration?

I sat down in my hallway, of all places, stared at my webcam (this is when I was still fresh at doing videos as well), and started to talk. As a yoga teacher, I’ve had plenty of experiences helping people focus and concentrate. If you’ve ever had “one of those days,” then you know how hard it is sometimes to just stop thinking about things and move forward – to let things go. But this is something I do regularly for myself – and something that I help others do as well.

So anyway, as time went on, I continued to focus on things that I thought were important to build my business. I continued creating hubs on hubpages, continued recording videos…

But the thing is, I kept getting more and more comments and views on my concentration & focus video. In fact, I’ve had more views on it and more comments than any other video I’ve ever placed online. Even videos I’ve embedded on squeeze pages and sent PayPerClick to.

Today, I went back to the video to respond to some comments. And I saw that the video has over 2000 views. No promotion – just people’s natural searches for some help.

And I thought, “you big dummy.”

So here’s a lesson for the rest of you, now that I’ve gotten mine: if you get a good response to something you do, and it’s something you enjoy, you should probably keep doing it.

Anyway, I thought I’d celebrate 2000 views by making the video available to even more people.  Here it is: how to improve your concentration and focus:

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