This was a challenge for some of you. Congratulations to those of you who took action, and went through Jerry Chen’s four tutorials that lead you through the steps to complete of your own eBook. That is the next big step toward product creation, growth and credibility as a blogger, internet and/or social media marketer.

The purpose of this short post is to inform you that Thursday, April 1st at 11:59 p.m. PT we will no longer accept anymore entries. This is our “last call.” For your review…

eBook Contest Guidelines & Criteria

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1) You must be an upgraded member of Renegade Professional.

2) Send an e-mail to ebookcontest@marketingmerge.com so we can collect contestant information. The contest starts immediately. You have until April 1st, 2010 to submit your work. We will not accept anymore contestants after April 1st.

3) The ebook’s table of content needs to have at least 6 chapters. Steps on how to do this is in the tutorial video #1.

4) An actual mind-map created from Bubbl.us. Send us the screen capture of the minmap. Steps on how to do this is in the tutorial video #2

5) Have Open-office downloaded and set up. Steps on how to do this is in the tutorial #3

6) Have a PDF ebook compiled (doesn’t need to be finished). Steps on how to do this is in the tutorial #4.

7) eBook needs to be at least 50% written (by chapters). So if you have 10 chapters planned out, you need to have five of the chapters written.

Video testimonial uploaded to your own Youtube account with the headline, “Renegade Professional eBook Contest with Jerry Chen” and a link back to this page.

9) Once this criteria is met, Jerry and Eric will work together in a timely fashion to select the eBook winner. (Hint – the narrower the niche, the better the eBook).

Watch this Video Message from Jerry Chen in Beautiful Napa Valley

We are fortunate that Jerry filmed this video before he began wine tasting with his family. Thanks Jerry Chen for making your custom graphics designer available for the Renegade Professional eBook Contest.

Not sure you feel so comfortable creating a video testimonial? We received this video testimonial from Jason Siebold earlier this week. Study it. It’s a good example that will help you in many ways.

Watch this Perfect Example of Renegade Professional eBook Video Testimonial by Jason Siebold

Jerry Chen, Mike Klingler and myself will gather all eBook contest submissions this Friday, and begin the review process.

Make Your Business a Castle, Not a Temporary Dwelling,

Eric Walker
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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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