We all desperately need your help!

I don’t claim to be a Philosopher (but, maybe one day…)

and I don’t claim to be a Politician (far from it)…

But there are 2 things I know for sure.

1. It’s January 18th! My 35th Birthday – and I’m gonna raise some Hell today!

2. If the SOPA and PIPA are passed, Internet Entrepreneurs (that means you and me) lives will suck worse than you can possibly imagine.

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If you’re not up to speed – then read this:

SOPA: “Stop Online Piracy Act”

PIPA: “Protect IP Act”

Learn more about it from Wikipedia (today only)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Contact your congressmen HERE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more

Join the SOPA STRIKE HERE:
http://sopastrike.com/strike

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If you’re already familiar with SOPA then
you’re probably as infuriated, if not more-so than me.

So today, websites throughout the USA (and the world)
are “Blacking Out” their websites as a protest.

I firmly believe that Protesting is a complete waste
of time.

Protesters “bitch” about problems instead of doing
something about problems.

So, I’m going to protest the protest and actually
do something to solve this problem (that will ruin
all of our abilities to run our businesses the way
we should be allowed to…)

I’m going to do something about the fact that Congress
is even considering violating our most basic of Civil
Liberties by “muting” out free speech on The Internet.

Even considering SOPA goes directly against everything
that the USA, our great country stands for – and though
I don’t usually comment on Political B.S. – today it’s
my birthday for Christ’s Sake so I’m gonna make an exception.

It’s time to kick the politicians who would censor us
and “quiet us down” square in the nuts.

And I need you to help me make an impact that will resonate
through the walls of Congress.

Here’s what you can do right NOW!

This is only going to work today, January 18th.

If you go to this link tomorrow, you’ll just end
up on the normal wikipedia page.

I need you to contact your Senator and tell them with
the most desperate urgency you muster up that they MUST
vote against SOPA and PIPA.

Step 1: Forward this email to everyone you know right now!

Step 2: Go to Wikipedia and type in your zip code.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Step 3: All the phone numbers for your Senators will
show up on the left hand side of the screen.

Call all your Senators NOW and tell them to Vote AGAINST SOPA and PIPA

Here’s what SOPA will do to you:

1. It would allow anyone with money and power to immediately
shut your website down without notice (and without trial).

EVEN if you didn’t do anything wrong!

2. That means that ANYONE with enough money that finds you
or your website (business) threatening could shut you down
overnight!

3. That means that your BUSINESS can get SHUT OFF like a
light-switch without your say-so, by a bigger competitor,
without warning or TRIAL!

Do you want that?

NO! call your Senator NOW and tell him or her to do the right
thing for Internet Entrepreneurs!

Now, press the Share, Like, Re-Tweet and G+ Buttons (to the left) to spread the word about SOPA!

Then, throw-in your 2 cents in the comments below!

Here are some Facts:

Fact 1: Sites like YouTube, which publishes millions of user-uploaded videos each week, are worried that they would be forced to more closely police that content to avoid running afoul of the new rules.

Fact 2: “YouTube would just go dark immediately,” Google public policy director Bob Boorstin said at a conference last month. “It couldn’t function.”

Fact 3: Tech companies also object to SOPA’s “shoot first, ask questions later” approach.
The bill requires every payment or advertising network operator to set up a process through which outside parties can notify the company that one of its customers is an “Internet site is dedicated to theft of U.S. property.” Once a network gets a notification, it is required to cut off services to the target site within five days.

Fact 4: Filing false notifications is a crime, but the process would put the burden of proof — and the legal cost of fighting a false allegation — on the accused.

Fact 5: As the anti-SOPA trade group NetCoalition put it in their analysis of the bill: “The legislation systematically favors a copyright owner’s intellectual property rights and strips the owners of accused websites of their rights.”

Press Like, Share, Re-Tweet and G+ to spread the word!

Join the SOPA discussion in the comments below!.

(call your Senator first NOW)

SHABAMBO!
-Tellman

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As promised here is your New Year’s Resolution Hypnosis Video!

This is my first Hypnosis video in a long time – and I wanted to get it to you fast.
See if you can hear my son screaming in the backround…

If you liked it – hit Like, Re-Tweet and G+ To spread the word to your friends who want to make 2012 their best year ever!

Let me know your favorite part of The Session in the comments below –

Now that you’re awake – try a dose of my favorite coffee to wake up!

and if you’re feeling like you need another Hypnosis Hit…

Enter To Win A Free Personalized Hypnosis Session by filling out the Hypnosis Application HERE and if your answers are interesting enough – you may have the next session do be dedicated to you!

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I want to help you make your 2012 Resolution come true!

Watch this video (it’s only 3 minutes) and let me know your 2012
New Year’s Resolution below so I can help you out!

Spread The Word About The Resolution Revolution Project to all your friends by clicking on the Like, Re-Tweet & G+ buttons – then forward the link for this post to everyone in your email contacts!

Happy NEW YEAR!

SHABAMBO!
-Tellman

P.S. At midnight tonight my big gift to all my subscribers goes away for good.

It’s My Favorite Marketing book of All time – and you can get it for free until Midnight of 2011.

Take The Money Quiz now and I’ll give you all the details on
how to get your copy of The Marketing Book That Changed
My Life as my gift to you!
-T

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If you’ve been wondering how fund your dreams and turn them into reality – look no further!

Kickstarter and Crowdfunding hit mainstream yesterday:

If you have a cool idea you’d like to see get funded tell us about it in the comments below.

Hit the Like, Share & G+ Buttons to help spread the good word about Crowdfunding for everyone now -

Learn More About CrowdFunding NOW: Register for our Crowdfunding Webinar: How To Make An Absolute Fortune With Breakthrough CrowdFunding Technology!

SHABAMBO!
-Tellman

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What else is there to say?

SHABAMBO!
-Tellman

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Well, do you?

I’ve got this kinda crazy project I’m starting up with a few friends…

And yes, it involves The Paranormal…

But I can’t tell you anymore about it right now.

What i do want to know is…

What’s your Paranormal Story?

Do you believe in Aliens? Why?

Do you believe in Ghosts? Why?

Do you believe in Bigfoot or Sasquatch? Why?

Let me know in the comments below.

SHABAMBO!
-Tellman

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Here’s the link to The NPOD VIDEO everyone is talking about.

SHABAMBO!
-Tellman

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Like what Seth has to say in this video?

Hit the social share buttons to the left to help spread the word – and let me know your opinion in the comments below.

Ready to lead the tribe that’s waiting desperately for you to show up? – This video will help you take the next step.

And if you loved this video, you’ll love The Weird Interview I did with Seth Godin a few days ago even more.

Answer these questions in the comments below:

1. Who exactly are you upsetting?

2. Who are you connecting?

3. Who are you leading?

SHABAMBO!
-Tellman

P.S. In this brand-new presentation, I talk in depth about how to find that tribe that’s waiting for you.
You’re gonna love it.

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“here’s a photo of me, with hair, being weird, in a solo canoe, photo by
now famous photographer Jill Greenberg” – Seth Godin

We Are All Weird

A Weird Interview With Seth Godin
& Tellman Knudson

Seth Godin and I just did a 5 day E-Interview.

Each day I sent him a question by email.

Each day he sent me an answer.

…And on the last day he sent over the *weird* pic you see above.

Q1: Tellman:

1. You wrote “The Manifesto on Weird” – and as a long-time oddball-outcast – that usually feels out of place in almost any group – it really connected with me personally and was a breath-of-fresh-air as a Entrepreneur and Marketer.

Can you explain why “Weird” is overtaking “Mass” and how you think Internet Entrepreneurs should respond to this change?

A1: Seth:

The epic battle of our generation is between the status quo of mass and the never-ceasing tide of weird.

It’s difficult to not pick sides.

Either you’ll want to spend your time and effort betting on mass and the status quo—and trying to earn your spot in this crowded mob—or you’ll abandon that quest and realize that there are better opportunities and more growth if you market to and lead the weird.

Do you want to create for and market to and embrace the fast-increasing population that isn’t normal?

In other words, which side are you on—fighting for the status quo or rooting for weird?

and

Are you confident enough to encourage people to do what’s right and useful and joyful, as opposed to what the system has always told them they have to do?

Should we make our own choices and let others make theirs?

The opportunity for entrepreneurs starts here:

if you make average products for average people, if you are using a funnel analysis to figure out how to sift through millions to find the dozens that will send you money for something they could have bought for someone else, you are playing precisely the wrong game.

The internet is making it easy to find and connect tribes of outliers, to find the weird and connect them, amplify their voices and challenge them to become weirder still.

That only happens if you bring humility, passion and respect to the table.

The dignity you give to someone when you embrace their choices instead of pushing them to conform is priceless, but it requires you give up the mindset of factory and mass and the notion of merely churning it out by the book.

Q2: Tellman:

As Entrepreneurs, how do we figure out the difference between a “Weird” group of people that is worth taking the time, effort and energy to build a business around…

From a “Weird” group of people that is likely to be an energy “black hole”?

In other words – We knew what was likely to be profitable in a world of “Mass” – but in a world of Weird it seems like uncharted territory.

What have you found to be good ways of looking at The Profit Compass when going into Weird markets and tribes?

A2: Seth:

Part of the art of marketing is understanding good taste. And taste is the ability to figure out what your tribe, your audience, wants.

The assumption built into this approach to the market is that people within a tribe are somewhat homogenous.

That is, if ten out of the first fifty do something, it’s likely that 100 out of the next 1000 will as well.

This is less true of random populations, which is why it’s even possible to considering marketing to a tribe.

So, the way we develop taste is to test, to be part of the tribe, to see the world as they do.

Not what they should want, but what they do want.

In the world of net, testing isn’t just cheap, it’s free.

It’s cheaper to roll out slowly than it is to roll out big.

The quest, then, is to develop the good taste to continually queue up amazing stories that compel the tribe to pay attention, renew permission and spread the word.

Q3: (from 18,000 feet on the way to Phoenix) Tellman:

It sounds like you’re talking about Starting and Maintaining a movement within a tribe.

So, this one’s courtesy of Joe Polish:

How do you start and Maintain a Movement while embracing the growth of The Weird?

A3: Seth:

As far as I can tell, the only people who join a movement are weird.

Joining a movement IS weird!

There’s never been a movement that was joined by everyone, all at once.

Early adopters, by their nature, are weird.

Q4: Comes in from one of my subscribers, Joshua Brinckerhoff:

Tellman!
I’m stoked that you are doing this interview with Seth Godin. I just read purple cow a few months ago.

Question to include in the interview: What do you consider “sacred” in marketing? Is there such a thing?

A4: Seth:

I think the only place there is something sacred is in our own standards, our own approach to the world.

You’re responsible for what you do, how you say it, what you ask for.

Pointing to archaic standards, competitive behavior or the status quo is a cop out.

If it’s sacred to you (whatever it is) then preserve it.

Otherwise, it’s all up for grabs.

For me, then, what’s sacred is a willingness to sign your work, to own what you say and to do your marketing as if people are watching.

Because they are.

Q5: Tellman:

Seth, In We Are All Weird you talk about The Four Forces For Weird:

1. Creation is Amplified
2. Rich allows us to do what we want, and we want to be weird.
3. Marketing is far more efficient at reaching weird
4. Tribes are better connected

To wrap up this interview with an Immediately Implementable idea…

What is your best advice to solo (or small biz) Internet Entrepreneurs as to how to most effectively, and immediately implement The Four Forces For Weird in our Hyper-Flexible Internet Businesses?

A5: Seth:

The idea is that if you can push these things forward (instead of fighting them) the market will come to you and it will stay with you.

Creation is Amplified
–make it easier for your weird to step up, speak up and share their passions.

Highlight those in the tribe that are on the leading edge.

Give them a platform to brag or share or cajole.

Rich allows us to do what we want, and we want to be weird.
–give your audience choice, more choice than just large and extra large.

Figure out how to find and source and make products for your customers, instead of always looking for customers for your products.

Marketing is far more efficient at reaching weird
–whenever you have a chance to go for mass, walk away.

If it’s not obsessively focused on a corner of the tribe, it’s worthless to you.

Tribes are better connected
–build a community.

Hire a community organizer.

Bring together people in the real world or online.

Your job isn’t to be 5% cheaper.

Your job is to be 45% weirder and to be the organizer and leader of the tribe.

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Seth Godin is a GREAT marketer and fantastic author (of numerous best-selling books on marketing).

His Most Recent – We Are All Weird is a perfect fit for you, if you liked this interview.

You can get updates on all his most recent weirdness at http://www.SethGodin.com

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If you love Hot Peppers (or watching people suffer):

Hot Peppers and Hot Pepper eating contests are one of my favorite things.

If you’re a chili head click the Like, Re-Tweet & G+ buttons to help spread the word!

I’m heading out to Tempe, Arizona this morning for my quarterly 25k Group meeting with Joe Polish and 20 some-odd brilliant self-made millionaire marketers.

This is such an exclusive group that you actually have to do over a million dollars a year in sales just to get in!

Then it costs $25,000 (plus all travel expenses.)

I learned ListBuilding and used Email Marketing to build my company – and everyone you see in the room above builds their list and uses it as the core of their business as well.

I’d love to see you in the room with us sometime soon…

If you’re not Building Your List and using Email to transform that list into a great income, then you’re missing out.

SHABAMBO!
-Tellman

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