Dr. Joe Vitale’s Blog

I just read Dan Kennedy‘s September No B.S. Marketing Letter and was thrilled to see him talk about mindsets and language.

In one section he explained that talking about negative things makes your clients and customers feel bad, which in turn makes them less inclined to buy from you.

People want to feel good. I talked about this in my book, Life’s Missing Instruction Manual. Even Kennedy, who can be a grump, realizes that focusing on doom and gloom will simply make people tighten their hold on their wallets or purses.

Instead, focus on the good, talk about the positive, and help people feel better.

Dan’s back page essay — always my favorite part of his No B.S. newsletter — is all about how your own thinking leads to the reality you create.

Dan begins his article by saying the other day he deposited $802,486.00 in the bank.

Not bad for a day’s work. (It was for more than a day’s work, but you get the idea.)

Dan goes on to brilliantly explain that most of us — even him, even me — have a “secret barrier” within us that keeps us from bringing in a larger income.

Whatever income you have right now is there because you are comfortable with it.

You probably made far less money decades ago. As you grew more comfortable, as you raised your secret barrier, you could allow more money into your life.

In short, you are earning what you are expecting.

The way to sell more and raise your income is to help people feel good and to work on your inner secret barrier.

How do you change your secret barrier to wealth?

You read this blog. You read Dan Kennedy. You read books about the wealthy. You subscribe to magazines for the affluent. You read my book, The Attractor Factor. You watch the movie The Secret. You get into or create a mastermind group of wealthy people. You surround yourself with wealth and prosperity so you can begin to accept it, feel it, own it, and expect it.

In short, you get comfortable with the idea of wealth.

Two tips:

1. Subscribe to Dan’s newsletter. He’s a genius and a living legend. You can get a three month subscription, to try it out, at www.freegiftfrom.com/dankennedy/

2. Get the Milagro Manifestation Method CD’s and put them in your iPod or on your PC or Mac, or in your car or wherever you can soak up their music and messages. See www.milagromethod.com

These CD’s are so powerful that last night at dinner Bill Hibbler said when he puts one of the CD’s on, he instantly becomes a powerhouse copywriter.

I think the CD’s are so potent that I asked Pat O’Bryan at dinner last night to bring me another set, so I can send them to a company I know that may want to promote them.

Get your own set at www.milagromethod.com

Bottomline: You get what you expect.

Or, as Dan says in his newsletter, “You’ll only get to bank what your internal system permits you to accept.”

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – The October issue of my own newsletter, News You Can Use, is now online. Just go to www.mrfire.com and look on the left for “Past newsletters.” You’ll find seven years worth of past newsletters there. Click and enjoy.

PPS – One of the ways I lift my own secret barrier to wealth is by dreaming about attracting new luxury items, like the above picture of the Panoz sports car, the Panoz Esperante GTLM. I’ve yet to even see that beauty, let alone ride in it or drive it, but thinking about buying it (it costs about $120,000.00) stretches my mind to get comfortable with even greater amounts of wealth. After all, I already have two BMW’s. Getting a third luxury sports car would be a stretch for me, at least mentally. But I want to lift my secret barrier. You can do this, too. Go here or here for some help.

Decades ago I gave a talk on marketing for PBS television in Houston. It was recorded in their TV studio, complete with a studio audience, and later sold.

That very video has changed many lives, including that of Internet guru Mark Joyner, who said the presentation was the first to teach him about direct marketing.

One of the most popular aspects of my talk was a quiz show. I showed two different ads for the same product and asked people to vote on which ad pulled best. It was a big hit.

I jokingly said I was going to turn that quiz into a weekly game show. I never did (not yet), but someone just released something like it online.

Go to this cool site and take the quiz: http://tinyurl.com/s47y7

I think games and quizzes are proven ways to teach concepts and install change in people. This new site does both, right online, and is an educational and fun learning experience.

Check it out.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – News Flash: A terrific way to learn how to get more results using principles from the movie The Secret and my book The Attractor Factor is at http://www.chosensecret.com/cmd.php?af=495657 This site is worth a review, too, so please go see it right now.

PPS – The above old Charles Atlas comic book ad is a classic direct response type advertisement. Notice how the headline grabs you, the copy tells a story, and the ad has a coupon to encourage a response. Ah, those were the days!

PPPS – If you are trying to get yourself and your business in shape, here’s a way to do it. http://yourbusinessbody.blogspot.com/ Go see.

I got a round of appplause last weekend when I told everyone at Pat O’Bryan’s Un-Seminar II that I bought a Rolex.

That confused me.

Why did they applaud?

Later, at lunch, I asked the folks at my table why they applauded my buying a Rolex watch.

“Because you proved you are still stretching yourself,” one person said.

“Because you were once homeless and in poverty and you are showing us we all can change,” said another.

I was impressed. Still am. I had no idea my investing in a Rolex would become an inspirational learning experience to everyone else around me.

Had I known that, I might have bought two.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – The official Rolex website is at www.rolex.com/en/. I just learned that my Rolex will come from Switzerland in about three months — in time for either Christmas or my birthday (December 29) — or to start 2007 on the right foot. As Rocky Balboa once said, if you want to have a good time, you need a good watch.

PPS – If you want to know how to speed up manifesting things — so you, too, can order a new Rolex — you might want to look into the package that reveals a “lazy way” to get whatever you want. Go see www.milagromethod.com

PPPS – If you want to hear Pat O’Bryan and me play some blues music — me on harmonica and him on guitar while a rainbow forms above us and people cheer us on — you can now see a short bootleg video of us from this past weekend’s Un-Seminar II. This sweaty blues-rock rare performance of “Crossroads” will leave you smiling. I think the song is a metaphor for our lives. See http://www.imbluesband.com/ It rocks!

PPPPS – Notice the power of a PS? Notice you read every one of them?

I’ve been mentioning Karmic Marketing for a decade or more. It’s high time that I explain what it means.

Here’s a quick definition:

Karmic Marketing is giving now knowing that in some way, shape or form you will be getting later.

Here’s how it works:

You’re rewarded instantly when you give because of the good feelings you get. Those feelings act like magnetizers that will attract more good feelings.

You’re rewarded later because of the invisible law that says you will get from giving.

I looked at this topic in my books, The Greatest Money-Making Secret of All Time and Life’s Missing Instruction Manual, but I didn’t look at it from a Karmic Marketing perspective.

So let me give you an example or two:

This weekend, at Pat O’Bryan’s Un-Seminar II, I gave everyone a copy of the DVD of the movie The Secret.

I bought the DVD’s out of my own pocket. I didn’t ask any money for them. I didn’t expect any money for them. I gave from my sincere desire to share.

Later that same night I received an email from Rhonda, the producer of The Secret. She said she was sending me, as a gift, a box of 50 DVD’s of the movie.

That’s almost twice as many DVD’s as I gave out.

That’s Karmic Marketing.

At one point during Pat’s event, I magically turned a roll of life savers into a hundred dollar bill, and then gave the money to an astonished woman in the audience.

I didn’t ask for anything in return.

Two days later, that same woman asked me a question in front of everyone that let me plug my next Beyond Manifestation weekend.

That plug led to my making two thousand dollars in one minute.

That’s Karmic Marketing.

The idea is to give freely, from your heart, wanting to share and wanting to help, and not expecting anything in return at all from the people you are doing it for.

You simply trust that your good deed will come back to you tenfold, in time, in some surprising and wonderful ways.

I practice Karmic Marketing here on the Internet by giving people things that I believe they will love, such as an ebook, or a course, or an audio, or a coupon.

On one level it strengthens our relationship.

But on the unseen level, it starts a spiritual circulation.

My giving now — done from my heart, with no expectation from the people I am doing it for — leads to getting later.

Karmic Marketing is not done much because too many people are into survival. They are afraid to let go. To trust. They are desperate and they stay desperate because of this lack of trust in life. But once you let go and trust, you step into a flow that is prosperity itself.

This very blog is Karmic Marketing at work.

I write posts here about whatever I want, doing my best to entertain, educate, inspire and inform. No one pays me for this. I could make more money writing a sales letter or a book or a website. But here I am, writing for you.

What comes to me as a result of doing this?

Increased business.

Increased sales.

Increased fans.

Sometimes an Amazon gift certificate.

But I’m not doing it for the end result.

I’m doing it because I want to.

Because I love to.

Because I love you.

Ao Akua

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS — I enjoy the TV show Desperate Housewives, mostly because I love watching Teri Hatcher. (Don’t tell Lindsay Lohan.) But Desperate Housewives, like Desperate Marketers, are never satisfied. There’s a reason why so many of the episodes revolve around murder and deception. Desperation leads to more desperation. It’s The Attractor Factor at work. A better choice would be Karmic Marketing. Give from love. Receive in love.

PPS – This just in: See some cool pictures from Pat O’Bryan’s Un-Seminar II over at www.patobryan.com/blog.htm. It was a wonderful time with wonderful people. Thank you, Pat, and everyone who attended. Talk about love. It was in the air.

PPPS – I don’t have all the details on my appearance on Larry King. I’ll fly out to LA on Oct. 12 for the taping. Jack Canfield will be on the show, too. Larry King may do a two-parter with John Assaraf on another segment. The show is about how to change your life by changing your mind. I’ll let you know as I learn more.

Pat O’Bryan’s un-seminar was a smash hit.

Whether it was Bill Hibbler talking about master minds, or Craig Perrine talking about the inner game of success, or me putting everyone into a group trance with a few stories in order to teach them Hypnotic Copywriting … the entire weekend was off the charts wonderful.

One of my favorite moments was blowing my brains out playing the harmonica with Pat on the guitar, while the Austin sky turned colors and lit up with a thunder storm percolating off in the distance. A small crowd watched us and cheered us on. A rainbow showed up, too.

I liked the jam session so much that I told Pat we need to record a CD. Being the smart opportunist that he is, he instantly agreed. But we’ll record something with a “twist”. (Don’t ask. I’m not telling — yet.)

I think some of our fiery music session was caught on video. We’ll release it some day.

A lot of photos were taken. One is above.

Pat’s entire un-seminar event was recorded, so be looking for it soon.

It rocked.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS — I told the attendees the news no one else has heard yet: I’ll be on Larry King next month. (!) Stay tuned for details. Learn about Larry King at http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/king.larry.html Is life exciting or what?