Monday, 11:11 PM Pacific Time
Dear Friend,
Here's a shout out from the man himself.

Sunday, 11:59 PM Pacific Time
Dear Friend,
Reactions from participants in John Carlton's mastermind meeting in San Francisco.

Thursday, 8:39 AM
Dear Friend,
I started a small coaching group recently.
It's a brand new experience for me… and I'm learning a lot.
The FIRST thing I learned was I drastically UNDER-charged for it. It's a lot more work than I expected.
I COULD make it a lot easier on myself by farming out the e-mail support, giving out template answers and "phoning in", as they say in Hollywood, all the preparation for the webinars. ("Phoning in" means doing a half-assed job just to get the gig over with as quickly as possible so …

Wednesday, 8:46 AM
Dear Friend,
I've never really had the luxury of having a lot of money to start most of my "kitchen table" businesses.
Even later in my career when I DID have a fair amount of capital to invest, I still did it on the cheap.
In fact, I started my very first direct response business (which is still going after 14 years) for only $200.
I'm the master of starting on a shoestring budget and "bootstrapping" your way to success.
One day, I'd LOVE to have a client say…
"I've got $1 …

Thursday, 9:40 AM
Dear Friend,
I once heard master marketer, Dan Kennedy say this:
"If you discard the message because of something you don't like about the messenger… you'll never learn or do anything."
It's true.
Gary Halbert knew a lot about health stuff. He researched it constantly.
He could tell you how to exercise and eat to maintain perfect health, new medical discoveries and breakthroughs, which medicines worked and which would kill you, etc.
He knew ALL that stuff.
The problem was, as long as I knew him, he never did any of it.
Since he personally chose …

Dear Friend,
I've been keeping a secret from you.
I have a very exclusive "Inner Circle" I've never told you about.
I've only offered membership to a handful of special folks.
The reason I've never told you about it is because I've had to restrict membership to just a few people due to time constraints.
But recently I've been able to rearrange some of my commitments to free up some time. So…
I'm going to accept a few more members into my exclusive Inner Circle…
Don't get your hopes up quite yet.
I'm only making a handful of …

Saturday, 6:07 PM
Here's a question I recently received. Since I get questions like this pretty frequently I thought you might be interested in my answer.
I've been looking for a mentor. Especially a Halbert trained mentor.
I just want someone who's "been there done that" to talk with. I don't need a lot of hand holding. I just want feedback on my copy and on running a small copywriting/marketing consulting business. For the right arrangement, I'm willing to offer great value. What would it take for you to consider mentoring a promising …

Dear Friend,
I've spent the last year in a state of semi-burnout.
Actually I should say I've had the good fortune of being ABLE to spend the last year in a state of semi-burnout. My existing projects are pretty much on "auto pilot."
And that's a good thing because I've had very little desire to do any real work.
Sure, I've done what was needed to keep things rolling along and money coming in (that only takes about an hour a day) but I haven't taken on any new clients or started any new projects …