Internet Wealth Mastery Summit

Recently I attended the best seminar I have ever attended in my life - and I’ve been to a lot of them! On April 11^th – 13^th I attended Derek Gehl’s Internet Wealth Mastery Summit in Anaheim, CA. Now I’ve always been the type that attends a seminar or training and leaves wondering if I really learned something new or something that I can really implement right away that would change my life or business. I generally leave feeling disappointed and upset that I wasted my time as the speaker usually just gives you enough information to get you interested, but to really learn the strategies you have to buy whatever it is they are trying to sell. This time it was completely different and I was absolutely blown away by the information that all of our speakers shared over those three days.

This is me with Derek Gehl of the Internet Marketing Center

I ended up at this amazing event because I had purchased one of Derek’s products, his “Insider’s Secrets” course, so the whole weekend seminar was being offered for free to members of his Internet Entrepreneur’s Club which I was checking out on a two month free trial as part of my purchase. He had an excellent line up of speakers including Brian Tracy, Ryan Allis, Janet Switzer, Anik Singal, Eric Gruber, Tim Knox and Kevin Carr and one rule – No selling from the stage! Never before have I taken so many notes! I filled up an entire legal pad and started another one! I have so many great ideas and strategies that I really want to review my notes and cherry pick what I felt were the best ideas from each speaker. I will then devote the next few blog posts to sharing some of what I learned with you as I think the information shared by the speakers was absolutely phenomenal.

To Derek, his staff and all of the speakers - thank you for an amazing weekend! I can’t even put a price on what I learned from this seminar and I look forward to sharing my success story with all of you as I start implementing the strategies that I learned.

I’m off to review my notes so I can share all of this great info with you…

How Many E-mail Messages Are in Your Inbox?

I heard about the concept of the zero Inbox at a Microsoft Connections event a couple of years ago and have been using that idea ever since to more effectively manage all of my incoming mail. This has worked wonders for my productivity in managing all of the various messages that I receive for my own business as well as messages that I am handling on behalf of my clients. I did a quick poll of friends and clients to see how many others use this technique and was surprised to learn that most of them had an Inbox overflowing with unread messages.

Here is how I deal with my incoming E-mail:

Examine each message in your Inbox and immediately take one of the following actions.

• Delete it – pretty obvious right? If it isn’t something you need just plain get rid of it immediately.
• Delegate it – if this is something that someone else should handle on your behalf immediately forward the message to them and file the message away or set up a follow up if necessary.
• Complete it – if the message pertains to something you have to do and you can finish it in 2 or 3 minutes, just do it right away and delete or file the message.
• Add to Calendar or Task List – If the email pertains to a meeting, schedule the time on your calendar right away. In Outlook, you can drag the message from the Inbox to the word Calendar in the window on the left hand side and it will automatically bring up the window to schedule an appointment. If the message is a task then drag it to Tasks and schedule a date and time complete it. Note: When you drag a message to the Calendar or Task List in Outlook the original message stays in the Inbox so you can then delete it or file it away.

By the time I finish this exercise, my Inbox is empty and everything is either deleted, delegated, completed or has been scheduled to be completed at the appropriate time. I can then move on to working through my task list for that particular day without worrying about tasks that are scheduled in the future or wasting time wading through my Inbox to see what I have to do that day.

I hope you will try this technique out for yourself. I get such a good feeling when I look at my Inbox and there is nothing there. I know that I am controlling my E-mail and it no longer controls me.

So, how many E-mails are in your Inbox right now??

Venturing Into the World of Vista?

Anyone that knows me knows that I LOVE computers.  I spend so many hours in front of a computer screen that it’s ridiculous. On a recent shopping trip I purchased a new HP Pavilion dv9720us laptop with Vista so I thought I would share a couple of things that I think will help you as you are doing your shopping.  Since this computer is running Vista and also has a dual core processor I wasn’t as familiar with the new technology out there and found out some stuff after I made my purchase that may have changed the choices I made.  To keep you from making the same mistake as you contemplate your own transition to Vista, here are a couple of important things to consider. 

 A feature in Vista that shoppers will find helpful is a feature called the Windows Experience Index Base Score. This application will check the installed components of the system and give scores on Processor, RAM, Graphics, Gaming Graphics and Primary Hard Disk as well as an overall base score.  To check the score, click on the Windows icon in the lower left hand corner, click on Control Panel & System Maintenance.  Under System go to Check Your Computer’s Windows Experience Index Base Score.   This can help you compare different models with various components to see how Vista scores the setup.  For those of you that like to shop online, you can always narrow down your choices and then take a quick trip to the store to see which model has the best score for the features that are most important to you.    The lowest score is 1.0 and the highest is 5.9.  A base score of 3.0 to 3.9 is recommended to run the premium features of Vista including the new Aero features like the Windows Flip 3D which is my favorite feature of Vista.  Hopefully some of the online retailers will make the scores part of their product specifications to make shopping easier.

Another important thing to consider is the amount of RAM that your new system has.  In the case of Vista the more RAM you can afford, the better off you will be.  Make sure you check the requirements on your system to see how much RAM you can actually utilize.  My new model came with 2 GB, which I promptly upgraded to 4 GB.  I quickly found out after installing the new RAM that even though I had installed 4 GB of RAM, the 32-bit version of Vista can only access and use 3 GB.  To get full use of the RAM in my system, I would have to install the 64-bit version of Vista, which at this point can only be done by purchasing the full retail version of Vista Ultimate and doing a clean install.  You cannot upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit by using the upgrade version of Vista Ultimate even though it contains disks for both.

I hope this information is helpful as you navigate all the new computer choices out there.  Happy shopping!