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Dec. 31 is just three days away. If you're self-employed or own a small business, here's a handful of things you can do to optimize your long-term cash flow -- for yourself, your business and/or your employees...1] Open and/or fund a 401[k] or SEP-IRA account. The ShareBuilder 401[k] is an affordable, simple and flexible retirement program for small-business owners looking to save money while helping employees invest in their futures. Self-employed people might be interested in a SEP-IRA or other retirement vehicles offered by Schwab, Fidelity, E*Trade and other brokerages. NOTE: To maximize tax benefits and cash flow, accounts needn't be funded by Dec. 31. They simply need to be opened by year's end, then funded before taxes are filed.2] Is it time for your office to have a hot, new Mac? Tax benefits for business. Buy your new Mac by Dec. 31 at the Apple Store.3] Looking to replace your HP printers, print cartridges, etc.? Check out HP hot deals Winter '06 promotions.4] Resolve to boost your productivity in 2007 with a new PDA. Check out these deals on Palm handhelds and Treo smartphones.5] Stock up on pens, paper, paper shredders and other office must-haves at Staples.com.
6] Always wanted an ergonomically designed, award-winning Herman Miller Aeron chair [above]? Now's the time to buy it at HomeOfficeSolutions.com. Beat the 2007 Herman Miller price increase -- shop now at www.homeofficesolutions.com.7] Secure your computer[s] in 2007. Get Norton Internet Security 2007 today!8] Going global? Learn the language of your new clients, customers and colleagues with Rosetta Stone language software. 9] April 15 is sooner than you think. Have TurboTax Federal + State Home and Business 2006 Win/Mac at the ready to prepare your taxes.10] Feeling charitable? Charity Navigator's online evaluator will help you match your dollars with your interests, and determine which not-for-profit groups are likeliest to utilize your financial gifts most effectively.______________ Get a MacBook Pro -- 17-inch, 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo -- for only $2,499. That's 11% off the original price!
NFL fans probably know that the Minnesota Vikings are having their, well, share of challenges this season. In yesterday's Star Tribune -- distributed before the Vikes fell 13-26 against the New York Jets [on their own Metrodome turf, no less] -- sports scribe Jim Souhan penned a thoughtful near-postseason plea in his column: "Making the playoffs should not only be the goal," he wrote, "it should be the expectation."
Whoa! How familiar is that?! If you'll recall from our story about the international hit film, "The Secret" [Dec. 7 ProsperNOW post], the steps to manifesting whatever one desires are: 1] expectation, 2] gratitude and 3] visualization.
Hmm-m-m... Perhaps Vikings Coach Brad Childress and his team could take a 91-minute timeout to view "The Secret" before this Thursday night's game against border cheesehead rivals, the Green Bay Packers, at Lambeau Field?
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-- in DVD, hardcover and/or audiobook formats!
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Dr. Joe Vitale [AKA "Mr. Fire!"] is marketer extraordinaire, inspiring metaphysician, best-selling author and a seemingly all-around nice guy. [I've yet to meet him in person, but fully, uh, intend to sometime in 2007.] This CEO of Hypnotic Marketing Inc., based in Wimberley, Texas, is, a smart, compassionate and insightful gent.
Most recently, he made his "debut" as one of 24 master teachers/cast members in "The Secret" -- a film that's rapidly making its way across the globe -- via DVD, hardcover and audiobook. [See Dec. 7 ProsperNOW posting.] He also appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" last month, along with Jack Canfield, John Gray, Bob Proctor and other renowned experts from "The Secret."There's a reason Vitale's products -- e.g., books, e-books, personal development/training programs -- are bestsellers: They're practical and accessible to anyone -- regardless of education, profession, income status, ethnic/cultural background, geographic location. Value-added point: Vitale's products and services are all infused with a healthy dose of rags-to-riches, been-there-done-that humor.You and your friends and loved ones deserve to prosper in every way -- financially, professionally/vocationally, socially, physically and spiritually. Having had the great pleasure -- and, yes, rewards -- of experiencing Vitale's products, ProsperNOW wholeheartedly suggests that you give items from our list of favorite Vitale offerings:BOOKS* "Life's Missing Instruction Manual: The Guidebook You Should Have Been Given at Birth"* "The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth [or Anything Else] from the Inside Out"
* "There's a Customer Born Every Minute: P.T. Barnum's Amazing 10 'Rings of Power' for Creating Fame, Fortune, and Business Empire Today -- Guaranteed!"
* "Spiritual Marketing: A Proven 5-Step Formula for Easily Creating Wealth from the Inside Out"
* "The E-Code: 33 Internet Superstars Reveal 43 Ways to Make Money Online Almost instantly -- Using Only E-Mail" [Co-authored with Jo Han Mok]* "The Greatest Money-Making Secret in History"* "Hypnotic Writing: How to Seduce and Persuade Customers with Only Your Words" -- Due in bookstores Dec. 22PERSONAL-DEVELOPMENT E-BOOKS AND AUDIO PROGRAMS
* Attract A New Car -- Believe it!!* Dr. Vitale's Hypnotic Marketing Library -- This comprehensive home-study course includes all of Vitale's tried-and-true hypnotic selling secrets. Note: Just 77 kits left as of this posting!
* The Millionaire Mind -- This e-book offers the keys to achieving real wealth today
* eBook(R) Problem Solver -- Vitale co-developed this audio course with Pat O'Bryan to teach others how to e-publish
* Lost Art Of Pelmanism -- Vitale and Pat O'Bryan bring back an amazing mind-control success course from the 1920'sDr. Vitale is, himself, a real gift. His motto is "Dare something worthy." Do it -- and then take action now to make it happen to create far-reaching, win-win-win wealth!
______________Resolve to grow your business/income in 2007. Get Joe Vitale's top-selling The Power of Outrageous Marketing today. [P.S.: We're all marketers!]
By now, you've probably heard about "The Secret," the phenomenal Internet movie -- and in hardcover, audiobook and DVD formats, too -- that's changing millions of lives around the world by helping people get what they want in life. Since its Nov. 28 release, it's already a bestseller on Amazon -- i.e., #32 in DVD and #28 in Books, at the time of this posting.In local bricks-and-mortar stores, though -- including the big-box likes of Barnes & Noble -- it's tough to find. "It's been way more successful than our buyers anticipated," a B&N associate told ProsperNOW.
What is "The Secret"? Simply put, it's a 91-minute film in which an all-star cast of 24 great leaders and thinkers present instances of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.
"The Secret" reveals amazing, real-life stories and testimonials of people who have changed their lives in profound ways. Scientists, inventors, psychologists, business people, doctors, theologians, economists and best-selling authors and philosophers -- e.g., "Chicken Soup" series creator Jack Canfield ["Maximum Confidence"], Bob Proctor, Rev. Michael Beckwith, John Gray ["Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus"], James Ray, Hale Dwoskin, Joe Vitale ["The Power of Outrageous Marketing," "Dr. Joe Vitale's Hypnotic Marketing Library," "AttractANewCar," "The Millionaire Mind"] -- explain The Secret and its application in various areas of life -- from health and wealth, to career and relationships.
The Law of Attraction
The Secret, says Proctor in the film, is the law of attraction. "Everything that's coming into your life you are attracting into your life," he declares. "And it's attracted to you by virtue of the images you're holding in your mind."
Proctor and the film's other teachers/participants explain that, when you think of positive things that you want and focus on them intently, then, like a magnet, you will attract those good things you desire -- in unlimited joy, health, money, happiness, youth, love and relationships. On the flip side, if your thoughts are pessimistic and negative, you will attract bad things in your life.
Make no mistake: The Secret goes well beyond merely having a positive attitiude. According to the film, some of the keys to using The Secret are:
* Expectation: Expect the things you want, and don't expect the things you don't want.
* Gratitude: Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things.
* Visualization: Create pictures in your mind, imagining yourself enjoying the things that you desire as if you already have them. Then you'll attract them.
The film's creator, Rhonda Byrne, says she discovered the law of attraction in a 100-year-old book called "The Science of Getting Rich," upon which one of Proctor's most popular programs is based. Upon investigation, though, she found that The Secret had been known for centuries by many of the great thinkers; e.g., Plato, Galileo, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Edison, Einstein, Newton, Carnegie.
"Most people aren't aware of it at all," said Vitale, a world-renowned metaphysician, marketing specialist [AKA "Mr. Fire"] and best-selling author of "Life's Missing Instruction Manual," "The Attractor Factor," "Spiritual Marketing," "There's a Customer Born Every Minute" and dozens of other books and training programs. [His next book, "Hypnotic Writing," is due for release on Dec. 22.]"Now, this powerful information is being broadcast to the masses, to the people in the street, in a way they can understand and relate to," Vitale told ABC News. "They sit. They watch it. They absorb it."
Viral-Marketing Success Story
Vitale holds that, after just one week -- with nary a single TV or magazine ad, nor theater distribution -- "The Secret" has already made history via its incredible viral-marketing success -- mostly, via its Web site. "I think the marketing campaign behind 'The Secret' is going to go down in history as the greatest case study of viral marketing ever done -- anywhere," he told ABC.
Vitale said that "The Secret" first posted a short trailer on its Web site. "It was hypnotic," he declared."It was one of the most riveting teasers I had ever seen in my life. It made you drool. It made you want to know more. It made you curious. It was truly mesmerizing."
The site invited viewers who wanted to know the film's release date to submit their e-mail addresses. The producers then asked the film's participants, including Vitale, to invite their fans to the site.
"Within one day, within hours, there were tens of thousands of people going to see that trailer," said Vitale. "More importantly, they were all signing up to be notified when the movie was going to be released, which meant the producers of 'The Secret' suddenly had a fan base. They had a giant mailing list...In short, the whole world started to take notice."
"The Secret 2: The Next Step" is scheduled to go into production in January for release in August 2007. Stay tuned...______________
Want the source upon which "The Secret" is based? Click on this link for Bob Proctor's "The Science of Getting Rich" program!
Jim Cramer, former Wall Street hedge-fund manager and now a pop-culture icon via his CNBC hit TV show, "Mad Money," has just released his fourth book, "Jim Cramer's Mad Money: Watch TV, Get Rich."Published by the venerable Simon & Shuster, the book is destined to be yet another bestseller. In fact, as of this posting, it's already #4 on Amazon. A b-b-b-big "Booyah!" to you, Professor Cramer!______________
Buy your copy of Jim Cramer's "Mad Money" today!
Twenty-five years have passed since the virus later identified as HIV was discovered, yet the number of people infected with HIV/AIDS has relentlessly increased. In Africa alone, 5,500 lives are lost daily and unnecessarily to the deadly disease.
As ProsperNOW reported in October ["Apple Announces iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition; Portion of Proceeds Contributed to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS in Africa," Oct. 16], several companies comprise the Bono- and Bobby Shriver-led (PRODUCT) RED initiative to raise awareness and funds in the global fight against AIDS: American Express [U.K. only], Apple, Converse, Gap, Emporio Armani, Motorola, MySpace.com [U.K. only] and MTV Networks. Each partner has developed special (PRODUCT) RED items, and donates a portion of sales or profits from those products to support Global Fund programs.
ProsperNOW is proud to partner with two (PRODUCT) RED companies: Apple, which donates $10 from each sale of its sleek 4GB and 8GB iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition models; and Converse, which donates 5% of the net wholesale price of its distinctive, red-eyelet (PRODUCT) RED shoes. [See product sample, above.]
[Cindy, a Converse staffer, recently informed ProsperNOW that the company's (PRODUCT) RED inventory sold out "quite quickly," and doesn't plan to restock until February 2007. Till then, customers have the "Design Your Own -- MAKE MINE RED" option at Converse.com; i.e., choose from several syles, colors, materials, etc., and include the special (RED) eyelets at the top.]
According to preliminary tracking numbers, total (PRODUCT) RED sales in the U.S. during the first six weeks since launch have raised enough money to:
* Provide more than 40,000 men or women with anti-retroviral treatment for a year;
OR
* Provide more than 2 million peer educators with HIV training;
OR
* Provide a year’s worth of school materials and daily hot meals for more than 86,000 children orphaned by AIDS;
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* Provide more than 1 million Rapid Tests, which detect HIV and deliver instant test results.
Looking for current information about AIDS? The Kaiser Family Foundation has a wealth of fact sheets about HIV/AIDS -- on both the global and U.S. fronts.
To keep informed about (PRODUCT) RED developments, click here.
Also, tune into a special one-hour program this evening [Friday, Dec. 1]. Ashley Judd and Salma Hayek have teamed to create a documentary, "Ashley Judd and YouthAIDS: Confronting the Pandemic," which premieres at 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. CST on TLC.
Dec. 31 is just three days away. If you're self-employed or own a small business, here's a handful of things you can do to optimize your long-term cash flow -- for yourself, your business and/or your employees...
