My friend Teresa Morrow is helping to organize two waves of Upbeat Blog Tour. This is the list for the first wave. Thanks to all those that are participating in the blog tour.
1. June 22nd – Starts with Teresa Morrow of Key Business Partners writing a book review of Upbeat.
2. June 23rd – Melody Campbell at Small Business Guru will share a video review.
For those of you who are joining late, I send out a newsletter every week.
This week’s topic is:
Please take me from P to Z or Ineffective pre-suppositions
The newsletter will go out on Sunday this time. Apart from one article, I will include a few Aha-Moments (inspired by my close friend Bill Sherman) for the week and a couple of announcements.
There will be more interaction with the newsletter subscribers than here.
Occasionally there will be some pre-announcements of products and special discounts from me or my friends.
There will NEVER be an obligation to buy or participate in anything, of course.
Of the few hundred people who subscribe, more than 50% of the people open the newsletter every week. So what I conclude is:
I must be doing something right to make more than 50% of the people to open the newsletter
There is a lot of room for growth as the other 50% are not opening the newsletter yet
The virtual blog book tour for “Upbeat” is scheduled for June 22nd-July 3rd and July 20th-July 31st. It’s coming up soon, but there is still time to get involved!
2.Your blog URL will appear on the blogs scheduled before and after you on the tour (and we will ask you to reciprocate the same “link love” for your two neighbors on the tour).
3. You will get a copy of Raj’s 90-minute DVD “The Fulcrum Effect” ($97 value) via snail mail as a thank you. Please send me your snail mail address.
5. Your blog will appear in the announcement in Raj’s “Life Beyond Code” newsletter that has a few hundred subscribers that are interested in these topics.
6. Of course, you will get a signed copy of the book “Upbeat” in your snail mail.
Your options:
1.Write a review of the book, Upbeat, on a specific day assigned to you. (preferred)
2.Announce the book in a blog post, on a specific day assigned to you.
3.Post an interview with the author on your blog on a specific day assigned to you.
Interview details:
We suggest that you ask 5-6 questions.
You can come up with your own questions, or choose from this list of sample questions:
A few weeks ago I wrote an article called Skip, Scan, Stop, Save and/or Spread – five ways people respond to your online content. It was well received. I also got a ton of feedback and new insights from the comments and emails.
Based on that feedback, I updated the article and posted as a guest article on one of my favorite sites by three of my friends (Mark McGuinness, Brian Clark and Tony Clark – all super smart people). Here is the link to the article:
A few hundred of you have already subscribed. Thanks to those of you.
I have been blogging since February 2005. Today, this blog has more than 1300 articles on wide-ranging topics. I have built a number of relationships because of this blog and that really has been the best part.
Now, I want to take this to the next level and build a deeper relationship with a few people who want to hear and interact with me via the newsletter.
The newsletter will mostly consist of what I am learning in the marketplace as I help build companies, write books, speak at conferences and meet interesting people. Think of it like a more personal blog.
So, what’s the bribe?
Why should you sign up?
The newsletter subscribers are a special group and my goal is to help them get a big ROII for subscribing to the newsletter. While this will evolve, here is what I am planning:
* Exclusive content for Newsletter subscribers
* Early notice and discounts of what’s coming up
* Deals from my friends and partners that are of value.
Please sign up here and look forward to engaging with you there too.
I was at SOBCon with my old and new friends last week and Upbeat was launched there. To get an overview of what Upbeat is all about, you can watch the four part video interview here. Steve Piazzale asks me a number of questions about the background and the need for a book like Upbeat now
A lot has happened since the launch but as you all know, the real work for me begins now. And, that’s where I need your help.
First, here are the links to where you can buy the book:
For the next three months, all the affiliate revenues from the Amazon link above will go towards creating the next SOBCon. SOBCon is a conference where bloggers take their game to the next level. If more bloggers produce great content, the more readers will benefit. You will be helping some of the best bloggers to increase the signal-to-noise ratio on the web.
Also, my publisher Rvive Books will match the contribution 1-1 doubling the funds raised during this period.
Also, Walmart has offered to match the contribution 1-1 basically tripling the funds raised during this period.
One More Offer
For those of you who have been following the blog for a while know that I am a big fan of “Leverage.” I rarely do anything alone and most of the people that I work with are spread all over the globe. I speak regularly on the topic of leverage – how one can get, grow it and help others get it. In simple terms, the more you increase the capacity of other people, the more your capacity will increase. In other words, if you give more, you will get more. Generosity is an amazing gift you can give to the world AND to yourself. My last talk titled “The Fulcrum Effect” was professionally recorded and produced by my friends at Kreative Vistas. There is only a limited set of DVDs that will be produced and the final sale price has not been set yet. It will be somewhere between $75 to $100 depending on the final production costs.
So, with that in the background, here is the offer:
If you buy 10 or more copies of Upbeat and forwards the receipt to me (Contact Details Here) will get a copy of “The Fulcrum Effect” for FREE. It might take a few weeks for us to send the DVD as it is still in production.
Also, since there are only a limited copies of the DVD, please check back on this blog post, before buying your copies for an update.
Steve Piazzale interviewed me on TV regarding my new book “Upbeat.” Here is the entire interview in four parts. We covered (parts of) two of the five chapters of Upbeat in these thirty minutes. Here it is:
Part 1 (9:39 min)
Note: The interview starts after the intro about the show. The intro lasts for close to 90 seconds.
“Absence of Leverage” in your life typically manifests itself as a “lack of time” problem.
Since everybody has the same amount of time and some people get a lot more out of that same time, those people should be doing something different or should have something different in them. And, I think “one” of that something is “leverage.”
Some people get that from their past accomplishments, some people get that from their network, some more get from where they were born, raised, studied and worked. It may be a combination of many things.
If we look at ourselves (honestly) each one of us can make an assessment about how much leverage we have in our life. If you are like most people, the answer is “Not Enough.”
So, where do we start?
My friends at Kreative Vistas are putting together my program on leverage called “The Fulcrum Effect” into a DVD offering.
This has been in the works for the last few weeks and hopefully we should have it ready for shipping in the next few weeks.
I will keep you posted and THANK YOU all for your support.
If you recollect your childhood memories, you loved change. In fact you were looking forward to it.
When you could not turn, you worked hard on turning around.
When you could not move, you worked hard to crawl.
When you could not walk, you didn’t give up until you were able to walk.
Then you wanted to run.
Then you wanted to ride a bike.
After that you wanted to go to school, college, work, get married (may be not in the same order) etc.
You were looking forward to these changes eagerly.
Then, one day (or may be gradually) you started hating change. You didn’t like it anymore. You just wished things stayed the same way.
There are many explanations for why this happens and here are a few of them:
1. The After Effects: Not all the change that you anticipated turned out to be great – meaning every change did not result in a happy ending. So there was some doubt about change.
2. Delayed Feedback: The changes during the growth phase (crawl-to-walk, walk-to-run etc.) provided immediate feedback on the progress. The changes in the later stages were not as simple as before. Many times the feedback about how you were doing with change came to you after weeks or months or sometimes it took years.
3. No guarantees: The effort that was involved with change could not be negotiated but the results were not guaranteed.
Example: You wanted to become a manager. You started learning the skills required to become a manager. You could not negotiate on that effort but putting in that effort would not guarantee you that you will become a manager.
4. External dependency: In the earlier scenario of crawl-to-walk, walk-to-run there was no external dependency. If you put in the effort, chances are you would get the result. However, most other changes later in life had external dependencies. Using the same example as above, if you wanted to become a manager, what starts becoming important is the relative effort. You can put in the effort but if your peers are putting in twice the effort, your effort falls short of what is required for you to become a manager.
5. Ability to Get By: You also notice that you can “get by” for a long time without paying the price for making the change. You notice that people around you are “getting by” and some of them are doing reasonably well (in the short-term) by not paying the price. So why should you?
My friend Teresa Morrow is helping to organize two waves of Upbeat Blog Tour. This is the list for the first wave. Thanks to all those that are participating in the blog tour.
A few weeks ago I wrote an article called 
I was at 
For those of you who have been following the blog for a while know that I am a big fan of “Leverage.” I rarely do anything alone and most of the people that I work with are spread all over the globe. I speak regularly on the topic of leverage – how one can get, grow it and help others get it. In simple terms, the more you increase the capacity of other people, the more your capacity will increase. In other words, if you give more, you will get more. Generosity is an amazing gift you can give to the world AND to yourself. My last talk titled “The Fulcrum Effect” was professionally recorded and produced by my friends at 
“Absence of Leverage” in your life typically manifests itself as a “lack of time” problem.
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