Thought some of you might enjoy this…

Particularly those of you who have met with some challenges along the way of your ‘dream acheiving’

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kevin-mastaw/2010/05/11/mike-klinger

–Mike

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Mike Klingler here.

As most of you already know, I’ve been studying social media marketing for over 2 years with tremendous success.

And I’ve committed much of my time to teaching what I’ve learned.

Now, the next chapter!!!

Over the last several months I’ve found some new ways to leverage what I like to call “The Power 5″ social media locations to accomplish even more with less time.  It’s exciting stuff.

To show and tell, in the style of teaching I love to do, I’ll be doing what I teach at my business Fan Page at Facebook, which is one of these Power 5 locations (this is different from the personal Face book page where you probably follow me at now).

I’ll be showing you how to use the Facebook business pages to duplicate what I’ve learned with less time.

Follow what I’m doing at Facebook business pages so you can stay connected to this next phase of my teaching cirriculum.  What I do here will connect with my next version of training at Renegade Professional.

Click to become a fan and follow the process over next few months.

By the way, if you’d like to be able to talk with me, now you can.  Ask me your question at the Discussions Area once becoming a fan.

Partners in success,

Mike Klingler

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Here’s a sports analogy that will really put things in perspective for you…

I (Eric Walker) appointed Mike Klingler as the field general to quarterback my business (even if he didn’t know it at the time) in June of 2008 when I became a Renegade Professional.

From my background in coaching youth sports and elementary teaching, I quickly realized Mike had a one-of-a-kind unique way of making everybody around him better.

And here’s where the sports analogy comes into play, Mike is like a great point guard in basketball, or the type of quarterback in football who will be the field general that leads your team to the BIG score.

How?

Because of his uncanny ability to successfully read the entire field to make an important call. He identifies it as having a keen insight.  Mike is the guy who will get you the ball at the right time in the right place so that you can do something with it.

In a game of inches, it’s this advantage that can make up for the extra foot needed for the big touchdown in your business.

With so many things happening all at once under the umbrella of, not only our nation’s economy, but the entire world economy, it can be hard to see the entire field.

With all this uncertainty, there has arisen a tremendous need to find a new way to earn income to support your family and lifestyle.

Security is no longer coming from getting a job from someone else; it has to come from YOU.

To do this, people are forced to learn how to create value so that they can give something in exchange for something in return. Because of the pre-conditioned “norms” that brought us to this crucial point in our economy, creating value from your own interests and strengths no longer is something that comes naturally.

Hence, we’re at the cusp of what is being called “The Entrepreneurial Movement.”

Being the field general that he is, Mike Klingler has seen this shift on the horizon for awhile.

He recorded a succinct, to the point, four minute video that explains this Entrepreneurial Movement, and how you can position yourself to score a touchdown at the other end of the field.

This is free, pure value-based content, and worth every penny! After watching, be sure to leave a comment with your thoughts and join the conversation.

Make your business a castle, not a temporary dwelling,

Eric Walker

P.S. Now it’s your turn, and your time to build a value-based, heart and passion centered business using the Internet. Focus on these things with Mike Klingler and Renegade Professional as your guide.

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I was there.

If only I knew then, what I know now.

But who hasn’t said that before?

I remember my mentality back then…

“I ‘gotta’ make this work.”

And judging by my circumstances I was right.

It was an all-too familiar and uncomfortable condition for me in business back then.

I hadn’t yet learned about the only REAL shortcut that exists.

I Chased Rainbows.

Little did I know that the pot of gold was in my own backyard.

What a stubborn one I can be.

That stubbornness has served me in one way at least (never, ever quite–right?)

But it has also cost me dearly, with a mentality that seemed to say–

“No, not me… I don’t have to work on my listening and communication skills, or learn how to lead. I’ll find a much easier way to succeed than THAT.”

If only I knew how hard that would be, trying to find the EASY way.

Because…

Looking for the “Easy Way” is the Hardest Way of All.

And, you could say…

What Most People Think to be the “Hard Way” is Actually the “Easiest”.

I read personal development books.

I went to leadership trainings.

But I never made it my #1 thing–not back then. I just thought I did at the time.

There I was at 30 years old with my six-month old daughter in my lap.

Chasing the dream from home.

Barely making enough to make ends meet.

I’d made more (much more) from home before that. But then it had shriveled.

I’d worked hard before… real hard.

And then after burning out–after working like a mad-man from age 22 to 27 (chasing all the bogus shortcuts most people still chase), I “checked out” for about two years as soon as the income was high enough.

–Burn Out–

I played catch-up on life.

The color returned to my face.

I smiled more without trying to.

I started a family.

I caught up on what I had been missing while ‘building the dream.’

But then, after watching my income slide back down I found myself in familiar territory…

“I gotta make this thing work!”

So I was working feverishly again… and had been for about a year since returning from world travels, reflection, and a bout with getting healthy and fit (I had needed to do that after the 5 year focused business effort).

I was really stressed out–working, working…

Trying…

Sitting with my six month old daughter beside me, trying to find the ’shortcut’ again. Trying to live up to my ‘big words’ to family and friends, most of whom had forgotten I was a winner.

Trying to justify my commitment to succeed.

The Million Dollar Chapter Comes…

But within a year from that challenging time, I had figured a piece of it out (the marketing part) and I started attracting business in a BIG way… though I still hadn’t learned how to keep it. I had to go through a very labor intensive learning process because I was still looking for shortcuts in all the wrong places.

By age 31, I had attracted over a million dollars to my new company within the first month of launch and had people joining my networking business before I even had time to make the first follow-up phone call. That was 6 years ago.

It was nice, though there was still plenty of stumbling (as I was still learning what I’ll share with you today).

It was actually quite rough… but it WAS a great experience because it forced me to finally–eventually– realize and take the only REAL shortcut that exists… the very thing I was avoiding the entire time because I thought it would be harder, when it was actually much, much easier.

If only I was getting emails like this.

Fast forward 6 years, I now head up a growing multi-million dollar enterprise. Solid, stable, growing incredibly fast. Enjoyable. In alignment with my values and intentions.

From struggle to now business bliss, I have learned and lived the only REAL short-cut there is, and how to get people to not just stand in line to join my business… and not just stay… but to duplicate in ways that extend far beyond what I imagined possible.

Finding the REAL Short-Cut… And Taking It.

I have always looked for the shortcuts, which would have been great, if only I was looking in the right place.

In my earlier years in business, I was constantly trying to use some new system to generate leads for me. Or to ‘qualify’ them for me. I even worked hard to create such systems.

Its not that there wasn’t value in what I was doing, and in qualifying prospects and using systems to help–that IS a small part of the equation. But this aspect of it is SECONDARY to what is most critical for one’s success.

Here’s the “Essential List” most avoid making their #1 priority in business:

Focus on Developing…

* A Keen insight
* An ability to influence others
* An ability to choose the right opportunities for you
* An ability to create and communicate value
* An ability to attract people to you through networking and marketing
* An ability to inspire others by truly connecting with them, by listening
* An ability to cultivate partnerships

You CAN develop these things rather quickly, but only if you make that your main aim.

The list is so alien when you’re not ready.

Its like hocus pocus.

It might even be scary.

It makes success seem really far away. But that’s only if you’re not ready to take responsibility for it.

The truth is that when you look at this essential list square in the face, that’s when success gets close.

That’s when you’re getting warmer.

Then, if you don’t take your eyes off this list… that’s when you get hot.

Attractive Marketer Hot.

Doing so puts your butt on the shortcut… The only REAL shortcut you’ll ever find.

I Wasn’t Ready…

I wasn’t ready to look until I had worked so hard for so long trying to bypass ‘the list’ of essentials, that I finally just stumbled into it here and there, over time… over a long period of painstaking time because I didn’t know it was IT.

I thought it was just “part” of it.

Somehow I had exhausted everything else and I just decided to focus only on that list for a while… that was about 3 years ago.

I buckled down on ONLY it.

I connected with the right coaching, training and people and developed my skills (the essential list) as QUICKLY AS I POSSIBLE COULD.

I did it because I had to. I was exhausted. It was that or admit failure. And that’s not me.

This is where my stubbornness helped.

And maybe its why I relate so well with the majority out there who struggle… because I was on that path with such intense determination for so long, avoiding the essential list just like most do.

My Point In All This?

My message to you is that it doesn’t have to take you as long to find IT as it took me.

It took me a long time because I was stubborn in believing the B.S. because I wanted to believe it, just like many people reading this want to believe that a system is the answer.. and not you. You don’t want to follow through on this advice because you’re like I was… you’re where I was.

But some of you will move on it. And that’s who I’m talking to here.

Don’t get me wrong…

The vehicles you use (the opportunities, systems, etc) ARE important obviously… but they are motionless without the list of essentials above.

Like pushing a car uphill versus stepping on the gas and zipping down it. That’s what I’m taking about.

I’m talking about finally being able to navigate yourself from where you are to where you want to be with absolute control, safety, comfort and EASE. Every time with ANY system.

And…

I’m talking about accomplishing everything you want FASTER by making it your #1 intention to focus on the essential list.

Are you ready for that?

You are already addressing some of this if you’re moving through the Start Here Checklist in your Renegade Professional back office.

But are you consciously addressing the entire list head on?

Is it your #1 aim?

There are 5 things we’ll be introducing to you over the course of this fall and winter. You’ve likely heard about some of them already. Mysuggestion is to study what they offer you.

They are:

1. Coaching Cognition
2. The Live Event in January
3. Super Guides Training & Collaboration Program
4. PBN (Becoming a Trainer for the Professionals, Businesses and Non-profits section of Renegade Professional)
5. Renegade Professional News — Pay close attention to the students who grow in this community. Connect with them. Know them.

Infuse yourself into the leadership here.

First, see how others are developing their brand & gaining exposure by closely aligning with this open community… then follow in their footsteps.

We’re creating an ever-expanding economy here that you can take part in.

Pay close attention to these 5 development opportunities over the coming weeks and months–each is designed to help you attack the “essential list” and take the only REAL shortcut there is.

Take a moment right now to learn a little more about each of those 5 collaborative opportunities by clicking on the links above.

Success doesn’t have to be hard.

But it will be if you don’t take a very proactive stance to attack your essential list head on.

Here it is again:

You Must Have…

* A Keen Insight.
* An ability to influence others
* An ability to choose the right opportunities for you
* An ability to create and communicate value
* An ability to attract people to you through networking and marketing
* An ability to cultivate partnerships

You have to initiate all this.

It’s all on you and it always will be.

But the people and assistance is here if you’re ready for it.

Partners in success,
Mike Klingler

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A while back I wrote about ‘Influence Factor’ – it’s a missing piece to the success puzzle I notice most overlook.  That’s what makes it so important for you to review (again if you’ve reviewed before).

Everything we do here at Renegade Professional and Renegade Breakthrough Mentoring Program is to develop your ability to influence.  So that regardless of what opportunity, business, or circumstance you find yourself in, you can make whatever it is you want to happen HAPPEN.

Click to review Your Influence Factor

Mike Klingler
Co-Execuative Producer
Renegade Professional News

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How did we do it?  How did we create a multi-million dollar company out of thin air in less than 2 years?

Does it have more to do with being a “Go-Getter” or a “Go-Giver”?

Which is more powerful?

Which makes a business grow at the speed of light?

Two years ago I was learning how to create my first blog.

Now I have a network of them getting tens of thousands of visitors each month, producing thousands of leads to date, and they still roll in.  I don’t do all the work myself… In fact, I post less than 1% of the content to those blogs.

How did that happen?

I’ll share the real secret to ‘fast’  success with you here.

One and a half years ago I was learning how to post my first Squidoo lens, Ezine Article and use my first social bookmarking site.  Now I can take credit for co-founding the #1 training resource for beginners getting started in social marketing.

How did THAT happen?

Answer:

I gave A LOT to others FIRST, and for quite a while, with little or no compensation upfront.  I didn’t jump around… I focused on who I gave to and continued giving.

A multi-million dollar company was ‘magically’ manifested, in LESS than 2 years from the day I ‘got a vague idea’ and started on it.

Now it’s your turn…

You might not want a multi-million dollar company–but it doesn’t matter if we’re talking about an extra $30,000 a year, $100,000, or millions–there’s a way to do it fast–real fast (and by the way, 2 years IS fast when we’re talking about changing your life to be what you want it).

If you’re realistic, you can change things quick.  But to ensure it, you have to ‘get’ what it means to be a go-giver.

In order for this to work, it has to become as crystal clear as a glass of water.  Once that happens, you can’t help but do it right.

So, exactly what DID I do (that you can do) to speed up the success process?

Go-Getter vs. Go-Giver…

Yes, I worked hard.

I ‘went after it’ with a determination and focus that conjures up the image of a go-getter.  But it goes so much beyond that.

Teaching…. Collaborating… Participating Without Direct or Immediate Payment

It was in the “learning something”  that it all started.

I became a constant student… so much it literally hurt sometimes initially.

Stuffing a lot into your brain at turbo speeds is intense.  Overwhelm is a way of life during this phase of it.  This is the go-getter part, but it was always driven by an inspiration to then give it… to pass it on.  To contribute it to other people I wanted to partner with or service.

Often in the beginning I gave my knowledge only so I could learn.

Often I gave tremendous investment, long-term, just to ‘see’ what might happen (again, to learn).

Then, it was in the “teaching what I learned” where I found the secret to stratospheric success.

It was in the ‘faith oriented’  collaborations (working with others without an immediate or clear financial gain) that I found this secret.

It was in my PARTICIPATION that I found this secret.  Here, I’m not talking about just posting content on a social site, commenting, or doing stuff you should be doing–that’s a small piece of participation.

I’m speaking about highly evolved levels of contributing to the work of others… long-term, without losing focus, so I could develop deep relationships and partnerships.

How many times did I spend hours on the phone assisting people when I started 2 years ago?  How many hours invested only to give, learn and grow.

How many times did I spend learning something that was not easy for me to learn, only to share it on a Webinar (often for free).

We built Renegade University to help Ann Sieg sell more Renegade e-books (giving the affiliate commission to others), without asking for compensation or recognition.

Why?

THAT’S the go-giver secret.

Why did I email my entire list and send hundreds of people to Better Networker to assist Mike Dillard and Ferny Ceballos to grow Better Networker?

It’s the go-giver secret.

And guess what?

It worked.

It always works.

It will work for you.  IF you do it consistently, with all your focus, heart and soul totally in it.

In the book, “The Go-Giver,”  by Bob Burg and John David Mann, they teach it.  This is a book that Ann Sieg sent out to her closest friends, partners and employees–I got one in the mail with a little note.

“To Mike.  Looking forward to your input in our Marketing Merge Professional staff book study!” — Ann Sieg, July ’09

It included a letter about how we could choose to partake in a monthly book study that she would help facilitate.  Why spend the time?  It’s again the go-giver secret!

Think of the time investment on her part to put this together… to purchase the books, make sure they’re sent.  To write the letter describing some of her life experiences and to share this idea with us.  To personally hand write a note to each person she sent it to!

Ann knows the secret.

The secret is sprinkled throughout every training tutorial you find in the Renegade Professional back office.

It’s at the heart of what makes our community stand out–and why people are accelerating so quickly in their business development with us… so much so we hardly have time to keep up with them all (though we try to so keep ‘em coming!)

Being a go-giver is at the heart of everything that grows at the speed of light.

Those who are open to this secret can succeed.

Those who are not open to it will struggle.

When I communicate with one of our new students I know immediately if they are open to the secret or not by the way they think.  I can see it in an email.  It’s in their tone and posture.

Some ‘almost’ get it–and these are the people we really work hard to assist.

And that’s the purpose of this letter.

I’m inviting you to become a go-giver within the Renegade Professional community.

There are a number of opportunities to contribute.  You’ve seen plenty of people doing it… and they’re moving forward fast!

Consider joining one or more of these ‘go-giver’ roles:

* Super Guides Program
* Become a Trainer
* Become a Coach
* Become a Content Expert

It may not always be obvious at first what the benefit is to you by becoming a Go-Giver.  It requires a little faith along with the determination.

It requires you to GIVE.  Not just a little.  But a lot.

I highly recommend you pick up the book, Go-Giver, and I’d love to see your story unfold before our very eyes.

I hope to see you become a go-giver here within our community and to help us literally develop out this new industry as partners.

Don’t just be a customer–and don’t just be a student–become a teacher here!

We’ll have more details for you soon about how to become a Super Guide, Trainer, Coach or Content Expert.

In the meantime, you know exactly what to do!

Learn, Teach, Grow, Contribute!

It IS that simple (or that difficult) depending on who you are and your value system.

Choose your value system wisely, it has everything to do with the speed of your success!

Partners in success!

Mike Klingler

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