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Underground 4 Seminar - Los Angeles, 28th -30th March 2008

Just a brief update to say I and my Buzz Marketing partner Dean Hunt are appearing at Yanik Silvers Underground 4 Seminar

The event is Sold Out - but if you want to have the juicy details anyway - then see Dean Hunts post on the matter at: Yanik Silver’s Underground Seminar 4

Yanik’s events are always very good - pure entrepreneurial fuel and How-To advice on running a business online and offline.

In particular I am looking forward to hearing Eben Pagan speak and Yanik has not one, but two Keynote Speakers.

Keynote Speaker #1: Mike Faith, CEO Headsets.com

Mike is the founder CEO of Headsets.com, Inc. A company that’s grown from a $40 thousand investment in 1998 to $31 Million in sales last year. (On track to do $40M in 2007)

AND

Keynote Speaker #2: Tony Hsieh, CEO Zappos.com

Tony Hsieh is the CEO and Director of Zappos.com—the number one footwear retailer on the web with over $800M in gross merchandise sales last year.

But Zappos.com isn’t Tony’s first (or only) big success. A few years earlier, he started a business called LinkExchange. He calls it a “side business” that he started out of his apartment. I’ll take his word for it… but I don’t know too many “side businesses” that get sold to Microsoft for a whopping $265 million. But Tony’s done it.

Expect some updates next week when we return

What is the Matrix

The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth

As soom of you already know - The Matrix is one of my fav movies - the “sound bites” in particular have always inpressed me - and this trailer video has plenty of them - so ENJOY - but also, perhaps THINK a little - what is the message?

The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth

To my dear, wonderful, beautiful Children

Its that time of year again - and here is some advice I wish someone had gave me when I was your ages

12 Practical Ways for SELF-IMPROVEMENT this NEW Year

Please read them all - but in particular…..

#4. Establish a personal system using manila folders and labels. Label a folder personal and put in your important documents such as passports, diplomas. Keep a folder for credit card bills, bank statements, taxes, insurance and work documents. A system puts you in control of your life.

love

Dad X

Barry Dunlop Sponsors - Cycle India 2008

It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at
least the equivalent of what he takes out of it ~ Albert Einstein

On 2nd January 2008, Heal has 25 UK cyclists flying to Hyderabad to take part in Cycle India. This is Heal’s biggest fundraising effort to date with the hope that we will raise in the region of £100,000 which will go towards building a new school project in Andhra Pradesh.

L to R - Photo shows Matthew Glover (head of Fund Raising), Dr Prasad (the founder of Heal) and Barry Dunlop.

Heal is a UK registered charity which raises money for helping orphaned and underprivileged children escape from poverty in this region of India. I am passionate about Heal as virtually all the money we raise goes directly to helping these kids, as the charity has virtually no administration costs with no paid staff.

So far, Cycle India has already raised over £75,000 and we hope the final total will be over £100,000! With this revenue, which is a massive amount for a small charity, HEAL intends to invest in a new project, such as a new school or further Children’s Village.

For more information about Heal, please visit www.heal.co.uk

“Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.” – Jim Rohn

My son Michael tipped me of about the YouTube video - really quite clever and for sure, a Statement of our times - Enjoy?

The Web 2.0 “bubble” had it coming. A Silicon Valley music video by the Richter Scales

Shift Happens Video | Must Watch Video For Any Serious Entrepreneur

This is one of the most popular videos on YouTube - with Views of 2,336,011 at the time of my post

The Did You Know Presentation - Shift Happens - Globalization and The Information Age

Created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod; Globalization and The Information Age

10 ways of annoying Digg users. Break these rules at your peril.

Very good advice about how not to annoy DIGG users - but frankly, the advice applies to just about all webusers in my opinion. If only more websites could follow these rules.

read more | digg story

As some of you may know, I am a member of Yanik Silvers Mastermind Group (Highly recommended) - which means several trips to the USA each year.

I always enjoy my trips across the pond and in particular the feedback and inspiration that being a member of such a Mastermind group delivers. The group really is a very clever and inspired bunch of people. The benefits in terms of business ideas, joint ventures, insight and business clarity cannot in my opinion be over stated.

So if you ever get a chance to join any type of Mastermind Group, be that a group of local business people or salespeople or one of the growing number of Mastermind groups being put together by leading Internet Gurus (I hate that word) then I highly recommend you consider it.

You know what they say, two minds are better than one - but frankly 16 or 18 minds is better still - Well, as long as it is not a committee

Anyway, the real purpose of this posting.

One of the attractions for me joining Yanik’s Mastermind Group was the opportunity to do a little “adventure” side trip at the end of one of our Mastermind Meetings (Entirely optional - not everyone did it)

So on my last trip to the States on the 20th January, myself and my son, Michael joined Yanik, other members of the Mastermind Group and some friends of Yanik ( Rich Schefren, Tom Bell and Mike Filsaime included) on what was to be the most amazing trip of a lifetime in a Zero G Flight.

So what is a Zero G Flight?

Well, put very basically it is an opportunity to experience Weightless Flight (Just like an Astronaut)

The providers of this Experience are a company called Zero Gravity Corporation and they are I believe the first company to offer a commercial Weightless Flight termed The ZERO-G Experience�. These are the same types of flights used by NASA to train their astronauts and used by Ron Howard in the filming of Apollo 13.

Those of us who complete this “mission” become Zeronauts

To find out more about the whole experience please see Yaniks posting here: Zero G experience

Yanik rather nicely refers to the aircraft by its other well know name of the Vomit Comet. (But Yanik did not Puke!)

and for more all round info check out this article at USAToday

The following video can only give the most basic representation of what we experienced - in it you can see Yanik “Superman” Silver quite clearly and approx one third of the way in, my son Michael comes sliding into view.

If you ever get a chance to do anything like this, I highly recommend it

And here is a Photo of Michael and I Pre-Flight

As someone who has sons who are Young Entrepreneurs it is always pleasing to see Organisations etc offering incentive’s to The Young Entrepreneur

The following is a fine example on one such Organisation that is offering a helping hand to the Young Business Person.

British Small Business Champions (BSBC) is an awards ceremony that takes place every year run by the Federation of Small Businesses and this year they are looking for younger applicants for their Young Entrepreneur award.

The Federation of Small Businesses wants to hear from any young individual who has developed a business and whose vision of entrepreneurship shows promise for the future.

A panel of judges will decide the winner and they are looking for a variety of attributes such as a clear identification of a market opportunity, innovation, growth, as well as evidence of strong financial performance in terms of both sales and profit growth.

Application forms to win the Young Entrepreneur award must reach the federation by January31 and the winner will be announced at an awards dinner at a prestigious London venue in, June 2007.

Reference for posting: http://www.fsb.org.uk

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