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The Master of eMail Marketing joins AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast host Judith Briles for this info-heavy session. Expert Tom Antion has never had a job. He's an Internet Multimillionaire who has sent out over a billion emails over the past 29 years with virtually zero complaints. He's the founder of the only licensed, dedicated Internet and Digital marketing school in the country and the subject of the Hollywood Documentary "The American Entrepreneur" premiering Spring 2024. His website is Antion.com. Don't start listening until you have a pad of paper and pen in hand. Ideals will come out you like a tsunami. It's a Master class in eMail Marketing. • Is email marketing dead like lots of marketers try to tell you? • What are some of the most important things to do when you broadcast an email? • Should you use a Single Opt-In vs Double Opt-In? What are they and what are the pros and cons? • Should you start out with free email broadcast systems? • Do you know the difference between a broadcast and an autoresponder? • Do you know what a sequential broadcast is? • Do you know when it makes open rate sense to drop graphics? • Would you like to see your open rate soar? • And there is so much more … Join in ... you will learn a lot! If you don't want you and your book to be ignored, then the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast is for you. Host Judith Briles has lots to share in this episode of the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast.

The Master of eMail Marketing joins AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast host Judith Briles for this info-heavy session. Expert Tom Antion has never had a job. He's an Internet Multimillionaire who has sent out over a billion emails over the past 29 years with virtually zero complaints. He's the founder of the only licensed, dedicated Internet and Digital marketing school in the country and the subject of the Hollywood Documentary "The American Entrepreneur" premiering Spring 2024. His website is Antion.com. Don't start listening until you have a pad of paper and pen in hand. Ideals will come out you like a tsunami. It's a Master class in eMail Marketing. • Is email marketing dead like lots of marketers try to tell you? • What are some of the most important things to do when you broadcast an email? • Should you use a Single Opt-In vs Double Opt-In? What are they and what are the pros and cons? • Should you start out with free email broadcast systems? • Do you know the difference between a broadcast and an autoresponder? • Do you know what a sequential broadcast is? • Do you know when it makes open rate sense to drop graphics? • Would you like to see your open rate soar? • And there is so much more … Join in ... you will learn a lot! If you don't want you and your book to be ignored, then the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast is for you. Host Judith Briles has lots to share in this episode of the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast.

Darnell and Antion discuss a topic some may need listen to...no spoilers --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baddsupermantv/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baddsupermantv/support

Welcome to the Serve No Master Podcast! This podcast is aimed at helping you find ways to create new revenue streams or make money online without dealing with an underpaid or underappreciated job. Our host is best-selling author, Jonathan Green.Today's guest is the host of Screw the Commute Podcast, Tom Antion. He is passionate about empowering individuals with disabilities based on his understanding that the internet opens up opportunities for them. Realizing that this idea would come with unique challenges depending on the individual, Antion had to strategize, making provisions to impart skills that would create financial stability for people irrespective of their disability. In this episode, Antion shares the advantages of working online, describing how it is unrestricted by the limitations of typical office hours or the inadequacy of jobs in the corporate space. He also discusses methods employed in his recruitment, as well as the maintenance of workflow processes when integrating new staff by keeping records of these processes.   Episode Topics[00:54] Meet our guest today, Tom Antion[01:54] Antion's passion for helping people living with disabilities. [04:30] Benefits of working online[08:06] The unkept promise of education; job security[16:17] How company bureaucracies slow down decision making. [19:16] Antion's approach to recruitment. [30:18] How Antion records business processes to ensure continuity. [34:10] Connect with Antion.Notable Quotes-       “Job security is a myth" - [Jonathan Green] -       "The price of education since 1980 has gone up 2000%" - [Jonathan Green] -       "College people would be in jail if they weren't colleges" - [Tom Antion]-       "Everybody at my level, the money is in email, so everything I do is get people the heck of social media on to my email list that I control" - [Tom Antion]-       "As a company gets bigger, the decision-making gets slower" - [Jonathan Green]-       "Employees don't stay forever anymore" - [Jonathan Green] ResourcesConnect with Tom Antion Antion's Podcast: Screw the Commute [34:32]Antion's Free Book: How to Automate Your Business [35:02]Connect with Jonathan Green Jonathan's book: Serve No Master Podcast Website: https://servenomaster.com/podcast/   Subscribe, Rate, and leave a review! https://servenomaster.com/itunesFree Gift - https://servenomastercom/1k 

Happy Monday beautiful people! New episode of the podcast with NC based artist, Antion Scales.

S4 E32: Dan Antion Reading “Knuckleheads: Book 1 in the Dreamer's Alliance Series” Welcome to Tea. Toast. and Trivia. Thank you for listening in. Bookstores, libraries, and coffee shops are great places for book readings. There is something extraordinary about hearing the voice of an author reading their stories. Their voice and intonation are nuanced by the many hours of effort putting pen to paper. They created the characters, structured the plot, and lived every twist and turn that creates bumps in the storyline. Public libraries and bookstores have expanded their reach into a global community. Book readings have gone virtual. We are learning to embrace technology in new ways. Welcome the podcast series, “Authors Reading their Books”, which brings authors and their books from across the world to your home. I invite you to put the kettle on and join the conversation on Tea Toast & Trivia. I am your host, Rebecca Budd, and I am looking forward to sharing this moment with you. I am delighted that Dan Antion has joined me from Hartford Connecticut as our guest author reading from his freshly published book, “Knuckleheads, the first book in the Dreamer's Alliance Series. This story introduces the main characters in this series, in which the next two books will follow in late summer and early winter 2022. Dan Antion was born outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He grew up and attended college in the area around western Pennsylvania. As many of you know, Dan has written and published the popular No Facilities blog since 2011. A lifelong interest in writing became a reality after he retired from a successful 42-year-long career in information management. This promises to be an exciting event so put the kettle and add to the conversation. Thank you for joining Dan Antion and me on Tea Toast & Trivia. Authors reading their Books. And a special thank you, Dan, for taking us on an adventure through your book Knuckleheads. I have enjoyed reading Knuckleheads – Book 1 and look forward to the next two books that will soon to be available. Listeners, I invite you to meet up with Dan on his blog, No Facilities, Amazon and Goodreads. Until next time, dear friends, safe travels wherever your adventures lead you. Music by Bireli Snow "Lightweight" Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/D6AkAa8fwM/ Music by Cody Francis "I remember Well" Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/LhfEcq46IM/

Season 3 Episode 43: Dan Antion on Random Thoughts, Life Lessons, Hopes and Dreams Welcome to Tea Toast & Trivia! Thank you for listening in! I am your host, Rebecca Budd, and I am looking forward to sharing this moment with you. I am delighted that Dan Antion, blogger, writer, woodworker, cyclist, photographer, geek, and I are connecting Hartford Connecticut and Vancouver British Columbia. This promises to be an exciting conversation so put the kettle on and stop on by TTT to join the conversation. Thank you for joining Dan and me on Tea Toast & Trivia. And a special thank you, Dan, for sharing your stories and your passions that present opportunities for observation and exploration. I am also sending my gratitude on the wing to Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene, my writer and blogger friend who introduced me to Dan. I invite you to meet up with Dan on his blog No Facilities Random thoughts, life lessons, hopes and dreams. I invite you to meet up with Teagan at Teagan's Books . Stay tuned for a podcast with Teagan that will be discussing the evolving adventure, “Dead of Winter,” that has come to readers in a series of Journeys Until next time we meet, dear friends, keep safe and be well.

This episode is loosely based on a eulogy I wrote for my father in the year 2000, where I wrote down 10 leadership tips I learned from him since I was a little boy. I'll be throwing in some other ones and some spin offs as we go along. What I plan on doing is popping back and forth from that eulogy to my commentary. I want to make sure you get some learning points on things that you can do to really be much more successful in your life and in business. Screw The Commute Podcast Show Notes Episode 500 How To Automate Your Business - https://screwthecommute.com/automatefree/ Internet Marketing Training Center - https://imtcva.org/ Higher Education Webinar – https://screwthecommute.com/webinars See Tom's Stuff – https://linktr.ee/antionandassociates 07:22 Tom's introduction to Antion Success Method 11:28 Busting myths 14:53 Tom's eulogy for his father 17:12 Leadership Skill #1: Build it strong 26:23 Leadership Skill #2: Don't take shortcuts 32:50 Leadership Skill #3: Don't waste things or people 35:54 Leadership Skill #4: Be self-reliant 42:42 Leadership Skill #5: Study 51:25 Sponsor message 52:54 Leadership Skill #6: You can have whatever you want if you're willing to work for it 01:03:05 Leadership Skill #7: Give before you get 01:08:39 Leadership Skill #8: You can overcome obstacles 01:13:15 Leadership Skill #10: Risk everything for something truly worthwhile 01:15:28 Balance 01:19:24 Being on time 01:23:25 Extra Success Principles Entrepreneurial Resources Mentioned in This Podcast Higher Education Webinar - https://screwthecommute.com/webinars Screw The Commute - https://screwthecommute.com/ Screw The Commute Podcast App - https://screwthecommute.com/app/ College Ripoff Quiz - https://imtcva.org/quiz Know a young person for our Youth Episode Series? Send an email to Tom! - orders@antion.com Have a Roku box? Find Tom's Public Speaking Channel there! - https://channelstore.roku.com/details/267358/the-public-speaking-channel How To Automate Your Business - https://screwthecommute.com/automatefree/ Internet Marketing Retreat and Joint Venture Program - https://greatinternetmarketingtraining.com/ 500th Episode Giant Celebration Sale - https://screwthecommute.com/resources/ USE COUPON CODE 500episodes Tom as a Baby - https://www.screwthecommute.com/baby QUOTE: "Take advice from people who's PAST is your FUTURE." QUOTE: "You're not too great to do the work that will make you great. If you think you are, the chances of you becoming great are slim." QUOTE: "You use others by helping them." Email: Tom@ScrewTheCommute.com Internet Marketing Training Center - https://imtcva.org/ Related Episodes Functional Fixedness - https://screwthecommute.com/499/ More Entrepreneurial Resources for Home Based Business, Lifestyle Business, Passive Income, Professional Speaking and Online Business I discovered a great new headline / subject line / subheading generator that will actually analyze which headlines and subject lines are best for your market. I negotiated a deal with the developer of this revolutionary and inexpensive software. Oh, and it's good on Mac and PC. Go here: http://jvz1.com/c/41743/183906 The Wordpress Ecourse. Learn how to Make World Class Websites for $20 or less. https://screwthecommute.com/wordpressecourse/ Join our Private Facebook Group! One week trial for only a buck and then $37 a month, or save a ton with one payment of $297 for a year. Click the image to see all the details and sign up or go to https://www.greatinternetmarketing.com/screwthecommute/ After you sign up, check your email for instructions on getting in the group.

We are excited to chat with Tom Antion with Antion & Associates and Screw the Commute Podcast. He's an Internet Multimillionaire "guy next door" and founder of the only licensed, dedicated Internet marketing school in the country. In this episode of the Rialto Marketing podcast, he is going to share a ton of his experience with us today so we can learn from his successes and failures.

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This week on Brown Suga we have Antion Scales, press play as we chop it up and talk about his journey as an artist, Audio engineer and creative director. I really enjoyed your energy and wish you the best on your journey.  https://instagram.com/antionscales?igshid=ruh9g65i1rl3

Antion Vikram Singh Aka Vic Briggs Guitarist with The Animals joins the Amigospc to discuss stories of his music career and his current yoga album a couple of which songs you can hear through out this recording (with his permission of course) His Mrs, Elandra Meredith joins in to discuss the up coming album Antion dropping later this year. More Of Antion: https://healthhealing.orghttps://www.facebook.com/antion.meredithhttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm0109094/For more Amigospc: AmigosPC Merch https://teespring.com/stores/amigospcBe sure to check us out at https://www.amigospc.net/Let's connect on Social Media.Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/TwoandahalfAmigos/Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/amigospc/Twitterhttps://twitter.com/AmigosPCWebsite http://www.Amigospc.netListen to us on iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-3-amigos-podcast/id1440367116Listen on Spreaker https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-two-and-a-half-amigos_1Listen on iHeart Radio https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-two-and-a-half-amigos-31154017/

From conversion, to Ambassador College, to training, and finally ordination, Gary Antion tells his story, sharing lessons and insights along the way. Send us your questions, comments, or suggestions at podcast@ucg.org.

“Give before you get.” Tom Antion takes pride in the fact that he never had a regular job. He is an internet multimillionaire and founder of the only licensed internet marketing school in the world. He is also the subject of the Hollywood documentary The American Entrepreneur premiering later this year. “If you only look at the big prizes and you don’t take the steps to get there, that’s called a dreamer. You want to be a doer, not a dreamer.” No matter what your goals in life are, you can learn a thing or two from Tom. In this episode, we cover various things Tom has learned and realized throughout his entrepreneurial journey: Starting from scratch in the real estate industry Making money by “shortening the learning curve” for other people Setting yourself apart from your competitors His personal philosophy on parenting and taking action in life Get in touch with Tom: Personal website: https://antion.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomantion/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomantion

Gary Antion and Victor Kubik discuss the creation of Ambassador Bible College. Send us your questions, comments, or suggestions at podcast@ucg.org.

TOM ANTION–THE KING OF KA-CHINGOur Favorite Multi-Millionaire visits Generation Gap to suggest Side Hustles For Seniors. Antion.com#TomAntion #kaching #screwthecommute #generationgap #jobsforseniors #seniorsatwork #hustlesmart #sidehustle #automate # automatedeverything #freemoney #mygenerationgapi.TOM ANTION is a business consultant and public speaker who helps small businesses thrive online. He is the publisher of Great Speaking, an online magazine on public speaking with 92,000 subscribers in more than eighty countries, and also operates the Great Internet Marketing Retreat Center in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is ourfavorite Multi-millionaire. He is our only Multi-millionaire.Last month Tom was here with ideas for how Millenials, boomers, and other members of the younger generations could make much needed money. So it’s only fair that today he’s going to talk about Side Hustles for Seniors.Free gift: Screw the commute.com/automatefree

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After being caught red handed attempting to steal from their noble host, Zan & Daphne awaken shackled in a Cairhien prison. Will Lemendora's rat-sister powers be enough to liberate her friends? Will Zan & Daphne be forced to try their abilities with the one power to force a way to freedom? And will Antion, the charismatic gleeman, prove himself friend or foe to the hapless Deven Riders?

How to Make A Fortune Speaking at Fundraisers Hi Winners! This is going to be a good one, so listen in! Everyone wants to ‘speak’ for a living! Travel the world, speaking. But, is speaking dead as a career? Not for Tom Antion! He still teaches at this Internet Marketing Retreat Center to people all over the world. I have known Tom since 2002! Listen into this wild ride! go check out Tom www.HeatherHavenwood.com/tom Like A Boss!  Helping You Rise To The Top Heather Havenwood Tom Antion Bio: Tom Antion has never had a job. He's an Internet Multimillionaire "guy next door" and and has been a professional speaker and entertainer since 1988 He says he's taught more professional speakers than anyone living and he's the founder of the only licensed, dedicated Internet marketing school in the country along with the only facility of it's kind in the world, "The Great Internet Marketing Retreat Center" where people come in from all over the world to study Internet marketing in the lap of luxury. Tom's new podcast "Screw the Commute" teaches people how they could pretty much live two lives for the price of one if they weren't sitting in the car on the way to work making other people rich. Support this podcast

There are two main types of affiliate selling. The first is if you become an affiliate for somebody else. You promote the product or service or refer it to others, and if one of the people you refer it to buys the product because of your referral, the product owner gives you a commission. The other is where you have a product and someone else becomes your affiliate. They promote your product, and if someone buys your product because of their referral, you pay them a commission. Screw The Commute Podcast Show Notes Episode 268 Kick Start Cart - http://www.KickStartCart.com How To Automate Your Business - https://screwthecommute.com/automatefree/ Internet Marketing Training Center - https://imtcva.org/ Higher Education Webinar – https://screwthecommute.com/webinars 04:45 Tom's introduction to Affiliate Marketing 06:22 You are an affiliate for someone else's product 13:33 Promoting affiliate products 26:45 Other people selling your products 32:53 Sponsor message 34:50 Tips to help you sell more Entrepreneurial Resources Mentioned in This Podcast Higher Education Webinar - https://screwthecommute.com/webinars Screw The Commute - https://screwthecommute.com/ Screw The Commute Podcast App - https://screwthecommute.com/app/ College Ripoff Quiz - https://imtcva.org/quiz Know a young person for our Youth Episode Series? Send an email to Tom! - orders@antion.com Have a Roku box? Find Tom's Public Speaking Channel there! - https://channelstore.roku.com/details/267358/the-public-speaking-channel How To Automate Your Business - https://screwthecommute.com/automatefree/ Internet Marketing Retreat and Joint Venture Program - https://greatinternetmarketingtraining.com/ Copywriting 901 - https://copywriting901.com/ Antion.com - https://antion.com/ Internet Marketing Training Center - https://imtcva.org/ Related Episodes Shopping Carts - https://screwthecommute.com/10/ Copywriting - https://screwthecommute.com/13/ Quality Products - https://screwthecommute.com/19/ Joint Ventures - https://screwthecommute.com/31/ Private Label Rights - https://screwthecommute.com/55/ Dr. Howard Haller - https://screwthecommute.com/267/ Residual Affiliate Programs - https://screwthecommute.com/271/ More Entrepreneurial Resources for Home Based Business, Lifestyle Business, Passive Income, Professional Speaking and Online Business I discovered a great new headline / subject line / subheading generator that will actually analyze which headlines and subject lines are best for your market. I negotiated a deal with the developer of this revolutionary and inexpensive software. Oh, and it's good on Mac and PC. Go here: http://jvz1.com/c/41743/183906 The Wordpress Ecourse. Learn how to Make World Class Websites for $20 or less. https://www.GreatInternetMarketing.com/wordpressecourse Join our Private Facebook Group! One week trial for only a buck and then $37 a month, or save a ton with one payment of $297 for a year. Click the image to see all the details and sign up or go to https://www.greatinternetmarketing.com/screwthecommute/ After you sign up, check your email for instructions on getting in the group.

Today's topic is success and leadership principles that you need to be able to tell the boss to take this job and shove it. If you already have your own business, I'll tell you how to take it to a much higher level. Also, these principles will also help you in any aspect of your life, not just business. Screw The Commute Podcast Show Notes Episode 200 DEALS for Wednesday October 30th ONLY DEAL ONE Tell me what my nickname was and you'll get my ebook "Kick Start Viral Marketing" (a $27.00 value) DEAL TWO Finish the Equation just below and you'll get my ebook "Kick Start Guide to Advertising Your Business Online" (a $47.00 value) Consistency equals ???????? DEAL THREE Listen for me saying the secret discount coupon code And take 50% off my products and services WEDNESDAY ONLY AT: https://www.ScrewTheCommute.com/resources How To Automate Your Business - https://screwthecommute.com/automatefree/ Internet Marketing Training Center - https://imtcva.org/ Higher Education Webinar – https://screwthecommute.com/webinars 02:31 Tom's introduction to Success Principles 08:10 Speaking Leadership Skills from Tom's Dad 10:52 Leadership Skill #1 Build it strong 19:19 Leadership Skill #2 Don't take shortcuts 23:57 Leadership Skill #3 Don't waste things or people 27:33 Leadership Skill #4 Be self-reliant 34:18 Leadership Skill #5 Study 43:54 Leadership Skill #6 You can have whatever you want if you're willing to work for it 54:38 Leadership Skill #7 Give before you get 01:02:03 Leadership Skill #8 You can overcome obstacles 01:06:34 Leadership Skill #10 Risk everything for something really worthwhile 01:08:27 Balance 01:12:08 Being on time 01:13:31 Extra Success Principles 01:22:07 Writing something like this for your parents Entrepreneurial Resources Mentioned in This Podcast Higher Education Webinar - https://screwthecommute.com/webinars Screw The Commute - https://screwthecommute.com/ Screw The Commute Podcast App - https://screwthecommute.com/app/ Know a young person for our Youth Episode Series? Send an email to Tom! - orders@antion.com Have a Roku box? Find Tom's Public Speaking Channel there! - https://channelstore.roku.com/details/267358/the-public-speaking-channel How To Automate Your Business - https://screwthecommute.com/automatefree/ Internet Marketing Retreat and Joint Venture Program - https://greatinternetmarketingtraining.com/ Tom as a baby overcoming obstacles - https://antion.com/baby.htm Internet Marketing Training Center - https://imtcva.org/ Related Episodes Noble Gibbens - https://screwthecommute.com/195/ In Home Video Studio - https://screwthecommute.com/199/ Jen Groover - https://screwthecommute.com/201/ More Entrepreneurial Resources for Home Based Business, Lifestyle Business, Passive Income, Professional Speaking and Online Business I discovered a great new headline / subject line / subheading generator that will actually analyze which headlines and subject lines are best for your market. I negotiated a deal with the developer of this revolutionary and inexpensive software. Oh, and it's good on Mac and PC. Go here: http://jvz1.com/c/41743/183906 The Wordpress Ecourse. Learn how to Make World Class Websites for $20 or less. https://www.GreatInternetMarketing.com/wordpressecourse Join our Private Facebook Group! One week trial for only a buck and then $37 a month, or save a ton with one payment of $297 for a year. Click the image to see all the details and sign up or go to https://www.greatinternetmarketing.com/screwthecommute/ After you sign up, check your email for instructions on getting in the group.  

This episode is loosely based on a eulogy I wrote for my father in the year 2000, where I wrote down 10 leadership tips I learned from him since I was a little boy. I'll be throwing in some other ones and some spin offs as we go along. What I plan on doing is popping back and forth from that eulogy to my commentary. I want to make sure you get some learning points on things that you can do to really be much more successful in your life and in business. Screw The Commute Podcast Show Notes Episode 100 Internet Marketing Training Center - https://imtcva.org/ Higher Education Webinar – https://screwthecommute.com/webinars 04:30 Tom's introduction to Success & Leadership 08:35 Busting myths 12:03 Tom's eulogy for his father 14:22 Leadership Skill #1: Build it strong 23:33 Leadership Skill #2: Don't take shortcuts 30:01 Leadership Skill #3: Don't waste things or people 33:04 Leadership Skill #4: Be self-reliant 39:52 Leadership Skill #5: Study 48:35 Sponsor message 50:05 Leadership Skill #6: You can have whatever you want if you're willing to work for it 01:00:17 Leadership Skill #7: Give before you get 01:05:51 Leadership Skill #8: You can overcome obstacles 01:10:27 Leadership Skill #10: Risk everything for something truly worthwhile 01:12:40 Balance 01:16:37 Being on time 01:20:38 Extra Success Principles Entrepreneurial Resources Mentioned in This Podcast Higher Education Webinar – It's the second webinar on the page: https://screwthecommute.com/webinars Screw The Commute - https://screwthecommute.com/ Screw The Commute Podcast App - https://screwthecommute.com/app/ Know a young person for our Youth Episode Series? Send an email to Tom! - orders@antion.com Have a Roku box? Find Tom's Public Speaking Channel there! - https://channelstore.roku.com/details/267358/the-public-speaking-channel Copywriting901 - https://copywriting901.com/ Internet Marketing Retreat and Joint Venture Program - https://www.greatinternetmarketingtraining.com/ American Entrepreneur Film - https://www.facebook.com/AmericanEntrepreneurFilm Tom as a Baby - https://www.screwthecommute.com/baby QUOTE: "Take advice from people who's PAST is your FUTURE." QUOTE: "You're not too great to do the work that will make you great. If you think you are, the chances of you becoming great are slim." QUOTE: "You use others by helping them." Internet Marketing Training Center - https://imtcva.org/ Related Episodes Lou Bortone - https://screwthecommute.com/99/ More Entrepreneurial Resources for Home Based Business, Lifestyle Business, Passive Income, Professional Speaking and Online Business I discovered a great new headline / subject line / subheading generator that will actually analyze which headlines and subject lines are best for your market. I negotiated a deal with the developer of this revolutionary and inexpensive software. Oh, and it's good on Mac and PC. Go here: http://jvz1.com/c/41743/183906 The Wordpress Ecourse. Learn how to Make World Class Websites for $20 or less. https://www.GreatInternetMarketing.com/wordpressecourse Join our Private Facebook Group! One week trial for only a buck and then $37 a month, or save a ton with one payment of $297 for a year. Click the image to see all the details and sign up or go to https://www.greatinternetmarketing.com/screwthecommute/After you sign up, check your email for instructions on getting in the group.  

Tom Antion is a highly respected professional speaker who is a veteran of more than 2700 paid speaking presentations. He has helped thousands of other speakers, authors, business presenters, executive and trainers learn how to be top platform performers. Tom is no deep theory guy. He teaches immediately usable techniques that anyone can learn to be great on stage -- and to get paid for it too.  Tom is also one of the top back of the room sellers in the country. He is typically the top selling speaker at every event he attends and sells even more than the celebrity speakers. He teaches his unique system for Back-of-the-Room Sales in his speaker training materials. How would you like to sell a quarter of a million dollars in one 90 minute speech? . . . Tom will show you how to do it! Media outlets around the world depend on Tom's keen business speaking insights. He has been featured on the Canadian Broadcast Network, the Australian Broadcast Network, the Tokyo Today Show, plus hundreds of radio and television stations nationwide. His public speaking training materials are sold in 40 countries around the world. Tom was the speaking expert asked by MSNBC to critique President Bush's speech to Congress. Tom is also the past president of the National Capital Area Speakers Association. Tom also publishes the largest electronic magazine in the world on public speaking  with over 80,000 subscribers in 80 countries. You can sign up for his ezine at Antion(dot)com.  "People think they can just wing it" says Tom. "They don't know what they don't know about pro-level speaking. They could be infinitely more effective if they knew the tricks of the trade to creating home run presentations every time." If you implemented even a small percentage of Tom's tips you would most likely be the hit of your next speaking engagement or business presentation. Specialties: Internet marketing, public speaking, publicity, online business building, training Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discover how Tom Antion built a multi-millionaire dollar business with a one-sentence mission stated based in RESPECT as he shares with host, Mike Domitrz   * You are invited to join our community and conversations about each episode on FaceBook at https://www.facebook.com/MutuallyAmazingPodcast and join us on Twitter @CenterRespect or visit our website at http://www.MutuallyAmazingPodcast.com**     BIO of Tom Antion:  Tom Antion is an Internet multimillionaire and lifelong entrepreneur who has built his business on treating people right. He's got a one sentence "respect filled" business plan he's lived by for 44 years.   Links to Tom Antion: Podcast: https://www.ScrewTheCommute.com  https://www.GreatInternetMarketingTraining.com https://www.IMTCVA.org YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/antion  Hollywood Documentary About Tom's Life: https://www.Facebook.com/americanentrepreneurfilm    Books Tom Recommends: "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion” by Robert Cialdini "Lost Conscience” by Alain Burrese   READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPTION of the EPISODE HERE (or download the pdf): **IMPORTANT: This podcast episode was transcribed by a 3rd party service and so errors can occur throughout the following pages: Mike:                       Welcome to The RESPECT Podcast. I'm your host Mike Domitrz from Mike Speaks dot com where we help organizations of all sizes, educational institutions, and the US military create a culture of respect. Respect is exactly what we discuss on this show so let's get started. Mike:                       Welcome to this episode. I want to get right into it with our guest here Tom Antion. I've known Tom for now almost two decades. He's an internet multimillionaire and lifelong entrepreneur who has built his business on treating people right. He's got a one sentence respect-filled business plan he's lived by for 44 years. Tom, thank you so much for joining us. Tom:                         Mike, it's been a long ... Too long, man. Mike:                       It has been too long. Let's start there. What have you been up to in the last 16 years since we originally met at the NSA ... Actually the very first time was the NSA [inaudible 00:00:52] event. Tom:                         Yeah. Even before that the last 24 years I got on the commercial internet when the commercial internet started around 1994. I've been selling like crazy on the internet. No spamming, no porn, but all kinds of products and services. Part of what I wanted to talk to you about today was a topic called excellence. Tom:                         I didn't know anything about the internet. Nobody did back in 1994. When we started learning about it it led me to a lot of other things. We can get into it later but the topic of excellence is really ingrained in me by my dad as do everything you can to the greatest of your ability. That's respect for yourself and it's projecting respect to people around you. Mike:                       Let's get right into that then because when a lot of people think, "Oh, I made a lot of money on the internet" you were doing it in ways that were common sense but going against the norm. For all of our listeners to get an idea, Tom, while people were trying to say, "Let's build beautiful amazing websites", Tom would say, "No, no, no. It could be the ugliest website in the world. If it gets people to my site and it helps them get what they need that's what's important." Mike:                       You built very content rich, very keyword-loaded sites on things like ... You had to once write ... This story I've never forgotten. You were giving a toast at a wedding and you started looking up, "Hey, where do I find toasts?" You thought, "Hey, people are constantly looking for this." You sold an ebook on toasts for weddings that did very, very well by just helping people find it and get what they needed. Tom:                         $72,000 a year for nine years straight. Selling [inaudible 00:02:36] Mike:                       Right. That's just amazing. Tom:                         I also had one, I don't know if you know about it, called Instant Eulogy. People were also desperate at the last minute. They're distraught. I helped them ... That was $42,000 a year for nine years straight helping people with eulogies. It's all based around helping people. That's what we all do is help people and there's a value to that. Mike:                       I'm glad you brought that up. I think a lot of times people think of internet sales, internet marketing. They have this negative stereotype that often as a company such industries as used car sales or that there's this ambulance chasing lawyer concept, that they're manipulating people to buy versus serving people, being present to what people need, and providing that too them, which is exactly what the eulogy situation was, exactly what the best man speech was. It was saying, "Hey, here's a need that somebody is not filling." Tom:                         Well, yeah. I will say that there is a respect involved in manipulating people. Think about that. Again, I'm always going to go the other direction, right? I know ... In fact, you talked about scams. I started a ... There's a TV show in development in Hollywood called Scam Brigade. It's me going after bad people. The industry is fraught with it. Tom:                         If I know that I'm going to take care of you as a customer and keep you from being robbed by other people I want to get you to buy my stuff because not only do I believe that it's going to help you, I know that I'm going to keep you away from getting robbed by unscrupulous people. There's a respect in there from my point of view. I call it manipulation but I'm manipulating you for your own good. That's the thing. Mike:                       Yeah. Let's discuss that, Tom. Are you manipulating or are you helping people find what they need? Why are you comfortable with the word ... Some people would argue. Why are you comfortable with the word manipulation? Tom:                         I'm comfortable because when you come from a position of goodness where you know you're in the other person's field, you've got a fiduciary relationship to take care of that person, I don't care what you call it really. I just know that if you go with me I'm going to take care of you. I'm going to make sure you get great value. This is my one sentence business plan I was telling you about. Tom:                         I've lived this way since I was 10 years old. If every business on Earth would live by this one sentence instead of spending $100,000 to develop a mission statement, this one sentence will do it. I create quality products that somebody actually wants at a reasonable price and I service them after the sale. Tom:                         Every piece of that is respect for the customer but it can make you a lot of money. There's no sin in that as long as you're given that great value, showing respect, not fleecing the people because they don't know any better, which is very common nowadays. I don't really care what you call it. I want you to do ... Anybody out there, not just me. If you really believe ... Tom:                         Like you, the work you do with the DATE Project and all that stuff. You know you're going to keep people from getting out and getting in trouble, right? You believed that for most of the time I ever knew you, right? Mike:                       Right. Tom:                         You better darn well get people to go through your program to keep them ... Yours has bigger ramifications than mine does. Mine you might have trouble making a car payment if you don't do it but you there could be lifelong ramifications or not have a life if they don't do what you say. If you manipulate somebody to get somebody to listen to you, I'm cool with it. Totally cool with it. Mike:                       I love this language. I think it's very fascinating. Would somebody say there's a difference in influence and manipulation? In other words, manipulation is getting you to do something you wouldn't otherwise do? Tom:                         It has a negative connotation. Mike:                       It does, right? It has a very negative connotation. That you're getting somebody to do something that they wouldn't do but as I say that I recognize that's not negative. To get somebody to do something they wouldn't normally do is not negative. It could be incredibly powerful. Mike:                       Maybe the difference here is that somebody is listening here and thinking, "Wait, wait, wait. You're describing education versus manipulation." Manipulation has a sense that it's only about what the seller wants, not about what's good for the buyer maybe, right? Mike:                       That if we're educating and that inspires people to take action they would not normally take that's different than manipulation, which means it's all about me getting you to do what I want you to do. Maybe that's the difference there? Tom:                         It's just semantics to me. As long as I'm coming from a good place and I can help you be in a better place you could call it whatever you want. I don't really care. Mike:                       Well, I love that about you, Tom. You've always had that approach of, "I'm not worried what people say about me. I'm not worried what people care about me." In that, if I know that I'm doing the right thing that's what matters in the end. You describe that in your one sentence mission statement that you've always had. Mike:                       You mentioned there briefly that there's this documentary that you're working on. I think there's two elements here, right? There's a show that you're working on about busting scams. I know of one that you worked on busting years ago. Then there's also a documentary about your life. Tom:                         Yeah. That is something where ... Do you remember Dottie Walters? Mike:                       Yes. Tom:                         Dottie Walters got me started in speaking in 1991. A bizarre story about how I got hooked up with her. I ended up being her right coast son because I would help her every time she would do her Speak and Grow Rich seminars on the East Coast. I would just go for free and help just to be involved and learn. Tom:                         I ended up speaking at her memorial service in California when she passed. A producer/director saw me and was introduced to me and it was, "Hello. How are you?" It was a solemn occasion. That was the last I thought of it. Tom:                         Then a couple years later she had been following me and she approached me. She has done 38 documentaries. She approached me about doing one. I thought, "Man, I thought you had to be dead to have a documentary done about you. They must be lowering their standards or something. I don't know." Tom:                         She said, "I'd like to do a documentary about the American entrepreneur. From what I've seen you're the man." I said, "Wow. What an honor." It's been three or four years in the making. It's going to premiere probably in the fall. The trailer is out now. It's beautiful. At Facebook dot com ... Well, maybe you can put it in the show notes or something. Mike:                       Yeah. We'll put it in the show notes. Absolutely. Tom:                         The trailer. Yeah. It's me and it's a celebration of the American entrepreneur, the American spirit. I just happen to be the figurehead but there's just you and there's thousands of people out there that could be the subject of this. It was a great honor to be featured in that. Mike:                       That's very cool. Now the show you're working on busting scams. If somebody said, "Wait a second. You just said that if I'm getting you to do something I want you to do, you call it manipulation [inaudible 00:09:52] What's the difference in that and a scam?" Tom:                         Well, the difference in that is that the person that is the scammer is manipulating you for the purpose of robbing you in some fashion. That's a whole different ... I mean, that's diametrically opposed to what I'm talking about with protecting people. Mike:                       Right. Tom:                         That's the whole thing is taking advantage of people. I mean, I think we've worked the figures up. 120,000 people, elderly people, last year lost their homes from the Jamaican lottery scam. They thought they were taking advantage of. They thought they won the lottery. They have to send the tax money in advance and, boom, there's no lottery and they couldn't make their house payment. Tom:                         A lot of younger people ... The reason I'm having a little trouble getting the show sold is because it's not in the demographic ... The elderly people are not in the demographic that TV likes. I try to explain to them, "Look, the young people are going to lose their inheritance if they don't teach and pay attention to their elders being taken with scams." They kind of got that. They told me for sure, don't quit your day job, because it's Hollywood, right? Mike:                       Right. Right. They're selling to a certain audience. Tom:                         Yeah. Yeah. Mike:                       We talked about this just a moment ago. You believe in excellence in everything you do, whether it's the documentary or a TV show. How do you feel that excellence and respect do go hand in hand? In my heart, I think, "Well, of course they go hand in hand because excellence requires you to respect your self and your mission and what you're doing." Tom:                         Well, excellence it also has hidden benefits. For instance, when I got started in speaking 1991, I had come out of a crazy entertainment company. I've had a lot of fun businesses in my life. A lot of people said, "Hey, you're better than a lot of people that have been charging $4000 and $5000." I said, "Well, I don't know anything about hotels ..." I was doing parties, birthday parties and stuff. I said, "I better study and learn how to be a speaker in hotel rooms and ..." PART 1 OF 3 ENDS [00:12:04] Tom:                         I better study and learn how to be a speaker, and hotel rooms, and corporations, and all that stuff. So I started studying like crazy and my library in here, I have probably 200 books on public speaking, every tape that was ever made, everything from NSA. I've got all of it. And so I started doing it just to make myself better and so that I could really compete in the speaking world. And, where excellence comes in, and this is what my dad taught me, he said when you're excellent people will notice. And so again I'm not trying to blow my horn but I got so good people started begging me to teach them how to be good, as a good speaker. And that led me to write the Wake 'em Up speaking book, the Wake 'em Up video professional speaking system, amazing public speaking took me a whole different route. Tom:                         Fast forward to 1994 when the commercial internet came along and I said, "Oh are you kidding me? It's hard enough to sell my stuff across the street let alone around the world from my desktop. I'm going to figure this out." So I started studying like crazy, didn't make a nickel for the first two years. Got good at it. Got some good training in '96. Four years later I was a multimillionaire and people were begging me to teach them this stuff, again trying to be excellent for me and respect me and what I can do for the world, showed other people that hey this guy is good. So it led me into this internet training path. I never planned on being Mr. Internet Guru, ever. I just wanted to sell my stuff around the world. Tom:                         So all of this is trying to be excellent for yourself shows such a massive respect for yourself and for the medium that you're learning, other people get inspired by that and so I believe that's a form of respect for them. Mike:                       Well I think there's also a respect in there that you were going to learn everything you could to be successful and then you sold people how to do that because you did it. Tom:                         Exactly. I wasn't selling a book report. Mike:                       Because for instance in the speaking industry there can be people who are barely speaking charging people a lot of money on how to be a professional speaker and that's not common but it happens and people need to be aware of like, "Whoa whoa whoa, you need to be watching who you're learning from there, that might not be the best resource." Where you were saying, "No I'm going to ace this myself, and then teach others how I aced it." Tom:                         Without even thoughts of teaching people. I want to do it extremely well because my dad, and I remember my dad I'm 10 years old he came from Syria back in the early 1900s he put the first electric light bulb in Carnage Pennsylvania, he had his own electrical contracting company at 13 years old at Carnage Pennsylvania. And I was, remember watching him one day, he was wiring a box and I said, "Dad why don't you just cut the wires across on an angle, save some wire." He looked at me like I'll smack you. He said, "You crazy? I'm going to make it perfectly lined up so that somebody looks at this job they'll know a professional did it." Boy do I, I'm getting goosebumps, good pimples, I remember it vividly. He said, "And also if somebody has to work on this later, it will be easy for them to work on. So don't you ever do something that's not great." Tom:                         We were blue collar, total blue collar. But I'll never forget that and that's the way I've lived my whole life. Mike:                       I love that, that you for sharing that. How do you think, or what's way to make sure you're living with respect in that everyday life. That's a great way in work, make sure everything I do is with excellence. Tom:                         Well to me, is that along the topic of respect, you will never see me at a restaurant being all snooty with my black Amex card and giving the waiter or waitress some kind of, or treating them like they're dirt. You will never see that. In fact if you were sitting there with me and doing it, I'll leave and hell with you, because you're not the person I want to be around. That person is doing a good work and doing whatever they're life is and trying to take care of me and give me respect there's no way I'm going to lord over them. So that's just an every day example of treat everybody with respect. Tom:                         There's another one. There's a student I have, I was speaking at a big event, nobody would talk to this guy. He was dressed like some kind of halfway hippy, halfway Indian, feathers hanging off, he had no teeth. I don't know. And nobody would talk to him. And I'm standing by there and he just started asking me questions and I'm happy to talk to him. He ended up being one of my best customers. He's a best selling author on some off beat topic and nobody would talk to him because he looked funny. So, that's not the way to treat people. Tom:                         I mean I'm very fortunate, you're fortunate, and everybody deserves respect. You know what, even people, rotten people deserve respect. I remember, I've been a lifelong self defense and martial arts practitioner, and I remember studying with an Aikido guy back way, way years ago, and this is one of these guys that had to go to Japan for two years to hold a bow. And he had to pull the bow for two years before they let him have an arrow. That's serious stuff. And he was teaching me this thing called an S-Lock one time and it's like, you could really put a hurt on somebody. And he says Tom you hold it like this and then you bow to the person, show respect to your enemy. Of course they're screaming bloody murder and that stuck with me too. Even your enemies. You can respect, you can't let them take advantage of you but you have to respect them. Mike:                       Yeah we talk about this in the US Military ... Tom:                         Were you in the military? Mike:                       No I didn't serve in the military but I work with the military. I'm working with the military. The Geneva Convention clearly states that if you run across the enemy and they are in dire need of help and you are safely able to help them, it's your responsibility to help them because all human beings are to be treated with dignity and respect and a big reason for that is prisoner's of war, if ours are captured they are treated with dignity and respect, which means we have to treat others with dignity and respect. Mike:                       So whenever somebody comes to me and goes well not all people deserve dignity and respect, well yeah they all do. The moment you think they all don't, means you think you're above certain people. That's not living from a space of respect that's living from a place of arrogance, there's a difference. Mike:                       And you've talked about in fact, when somebody pushes your limits of respect, what do you mean by that? What do you mean by when somebody pushes your limits of respect? Tom:                         Well, when you come from a place of power and respect for others you can recognize very easily when somebody doesn't have that attitude, right. And so without, and it all comes from probably my self defense and martial arts study in that ... Well there's a guy I can't think of his name right now but he has a program called You're Dead and You Don't Even Know It, and somebody is getting in his face and he is thinking of the 100 different ways he can just tear this guy to pieces and I have the same kind of skill, not at good as this guy, but ... Tom:                         And so when you have the kind of feeling, that I could do this to you but I, there's something in your system that doesn't deserve it, something happened to you to make you like this and as long as you don't cross the line I'm going to treat you with respect and treat you with, I don't want to say disdain I don't know the word for it, but I'm going to feel sorry for you rather than get all up and say, "Let's go buddy." That's what weak people do. Tom:                         So coming from that power, you could say they didn't reserve it, deserve it at that moment for what they were doing but as long as they don't cross the line and hurt somebody that's innocent or cross the line to cause me harm there's no reason for me to escalate it. I'm going to deescalate it and I'll walk away. If people are saying, "Oh you big sissy," well I saved that guy's life pretty much so I'll live with that. Mike:                       Yeah it's describing really leading with compassion and empathy over bullying or domination. Right? Because you have the ability to dominate in that moment but you decide wait there's got to be a reason this person is coming from this place. Something has triggered this behavior, somewhere. And that's so important because I run into people traveling the world doing this work and who'll say well you know you can't just do that for everyone and you have ... This one person I met they're so bad, yeah but how do you get there? Tom:                         Yeah exactly. I had good parents, I had you know a shirt on my back, food, you know, and some of these people I mean I did some fundraisers for these, I did a fundraiser, I raised a whole load of money for a bunch of homeless kids, homeless is considered you have a different place to live or no place to live every 30 days, for kids. I didn't have that. So when those kids grow up there's going to be some scars and it's going to come out in certain ways and so I just have to think man I had it good as long as they don't hurt me or hurt somebody innocent I got to say wonder, how they got there. What happened to them to make that happen. Mike:                       Yeah and I think that's so brilliant to recognize, I had it so good. And I think what happens is when you're in a position of, and that's the reference to privilege, where those kids didn't get control over that. We also didn't get Control, those of us who feel we were raised in a stable home with wonderful loving parents. We didn't get to chose that, that's what we were born into. They didn't get to chose their situation. And we're going to have different negatives out of our loving home. There are negatives that we're going to miss out, we're not going to see things that others, somebody would have saw coming from a different home. There's going to be pluses and minuses to that and to say, "Well I made it okay," well yeah but you made it under very different circumstances than that person made it. So I think it's so brilliant that you brought that up. For you, when you hear the word respect what does it mean? Tom:                         Well it's ingrained so much in me in that I'm not going to dominate the conversation, I mean just, I like that I'm a pretty simple guy, bring things down to just the, like I said I came from the sticks and a handshake meant something. So if I'm at a party, even though I'm Mr. Big Shot Speaker and I'm known everywhere I'm not going to stand there and talk about myself. I want to know about you. I want to show respect to you by bringing out you and what you've been doing and honestly not looking over your shoulder to, who's more important than you. That's a simple every day, I like to bring the every day things, how you can show respect and that would be a show up respect is ask the other person what they've been doing. And you can learn something from doing that. So, to me it's more of the every day little things. Tom:                         In fact when people ask me what religion I am, I really confuse them. I say, "I'm Poseidon." Poseidon? They're looking at their friends like, "What I've never heard of that, that must be some cult or something." I say, no back in the old days there was a move called the Poseidon Adventure, they have a remake lately but the originally was Gene Hackman and Shelly Winters on this ship that was kind of like the Titanic ... Mike:                       I remember it. Tom:                         Alright, well Gene Hackman, I was much younger then, I don't remember what year it was, but he was on stage, excuse me, on deck, doing a sermon and he said, "You take the little piece of God in you and do good for people," And that was like a sledgehammer to my head. I'm thinking you cannot go too far wrong with that attitude in life. And from that moment on that's PART 2 OF 3 ENDS [00:24:04] Tom:                         With that attitude in life and from that moment on, that's been in my mind. That's my religion, that's my spiritual guide, is take the little piece of God in you, do good for people. I don't go to church every Sunday, I'll admit that. You'd have to get maybe a lightning rod if I got near it, but take the little piece of God so that's respect for doing good things. If you have the attitude, I'm going to try to do good for you before I do good for me. That's another thing my dad taught me, give before you get. So all of these little things are everyday things that I live and I'm attracted to people that live like that because it shows respect all the time, not just when it's convenient. Mike:                       Is there a time in your life where you can you remember, where you failed to give yourself respect and the lesson you got out of that experience? Tom:                         Yeah. I think it was the time I went to college on a football scholarship to West Baygon Virginia University and at that time, I mean all the time, from the time it's midget football till everybody could kill you at that level, that level of athleticism, so I'm working out like crazy. And then when I got out of that, it was like, "Oh, my God, I never want to see a weight room again." I mean it's 15 straight years of that, two a day exercise, all that stuff. And so I let my weight. I went up of 360 pounds or something so I don't think I was paying much respect to myself there and I struggled with that a lot over the years. Tom:                         I had some trouble with my mother was, my dad was great, my mother not so much. But I got a handle on it now only by finding a certain kind of diet. I'm on a ketogenic diet, which is extremely low carbs, high-fat, which is opposite. Again, look at me, opposite of everything else all the time but it's the only thing that's worked so I dropped about 100 pounds and so I got a good handle on that now, but that was a long period of really not respecting the, luckily I got good genes from my dad and a strong foundation of working out for 15 years like a maniac. So I'd say that's my biggest obvious one. Mike:                       Well, and I noticed the difference right away when, for those who are listening, Tom and I can see each other because we always do these shows also on YouTube so you can watch that. As soon as I saw you, I noticed. Wow, I said, in my mind I'm like it looks like Tom has lost a lot of weight. Tom:                         Yeah. Mike:                       But what I think is beautiful about that is it was a choice you made to respect yourself, to take that journey. Tom:                         Yeah, it took a long time to do it and that's the thing about things, folks. All these aren't always easy. I mean, it might be time when your steak is cold, you want to give that waiter or waitress some guff, but you got to hold back and you got to say, you got to have your own self respect to say, no, I'm not going to make a fool of myself and embarrass that person over a steak that I probably ate too much already. So the delayed gratification, our friend that put us together recently, Caroline De Pasada, you knew her dad, right? Mike:                       Absolutely. Tom:                         Yeah. He's the one that made that famous, that marshmallow study about delayed gratification. And so for those that don't know, they showed these little kids some marshmallows and said, "Hey, we'll give you one if you don't eat it in 15 minutes, we'll give you two." And then most of the kids ate it and some didn't. And they followed them over a period of years. All the ones that had the delayed gratification we're successful and everything. And then the other ones were having problems. So I think it's the same thing with respect. In this case, I had to fight a long time to get that one piece of my life that wasn't working right to respect myself and had I given up or quit too soon, where would I be? I'd probably be in death row from a heart attack or something or diabetes or who knows. So sometimes it takes longer to realize the respect that you want to give yourself or others. Mike:                       Well, and I appreciate that because I think when people hear these conversations they think, "Oh, he's got it all." Right? Tom:                         Oh yeah. Mike:                       Right. That's the mistake, that because of this level of success, and they have these messages. They've lived by of respect. They've got it all. What they don't realize is no matter where we're coming from, there's some area we could be better at that we don't give the same kind of focus, respect of that we do other areas. And so it's constantly looking at our whole picture and saying, where is that happening now for me? Because it's happening somewhere, right? There's so many balls in the air. Tom:                         And you can always get knocked in the face. In 1988, I was living in a vacant house on a mattress. I don't want to say like a country music song. My dog got run over or my truck got stolen. But I had my nightclub when I had a nightclub for six years. Then the drinking age went from 18 to 21 in a college town. I was going to be a millionaire before I was 30, wiped out, lost $400000 and I was playing racquetball, tore my achilles tendon and a partner I had had not paid the health insurance. So I'm living in a vacant house on a mattress watching a black and white TV and a lot of your viewers don't even know what that is. And so I got knocked in the face really good. But that's when your true colors come through when things don't go so well, what do you do? Do you get back up, do you fight or do you give up? And so I had enough respect then. And I got all kinds of bizarre stories. I was watching candid camera on TV and you know Juliet Funt, Mike:                       I remember. Yes. Tom:                         She's from NSA. Well, her dad was Allan Fund from candid, and when I was laying there living off credit cards, busted up and had nowhere to go. I was watching candid camera on this black and white TV and that's when I got the idea for the entertainment company called Prank Masters that I moved to DC and that got worldwide publicity and got me into the speaking business. And then I ran into Juliet. And I'm getting goose pimples again. Ran into the Juliet at NSA and I thought, "Oh my God, I'd never be able to thank her dad." So I mentored her for a while just to the payback for that idea, that little spark that somebody else gave me because I was able to keep my eyes open in the face of adversity. And that's when your true colors show through. And that's sometimes the hardest part. Mike:                       I love it. And you have two books that you really recommend one is The influence the psychology of persuasion by Robert Cialdini. And then- Tom:                         It's pronounced Cialdini. Mike:                       Oh, I've always pronounced that wrong then. So I appreciate that. Yeah. And the other book is Last conscious by Alain Buris. Tom:                         Yeah. Buris. Mike:                       Buris there we go thank you. Tom:                         That's a man by the way, because it's spelled A-L-A-I-N and I thought it was the girl for years until I met him. It's a guy. It's a French spelling, but the influence of psychology persuasion is when we began this conversation with about manipulation and persuasion kind of going hand in hand. One's negative connotation one isn't but that is, I've read that book seven times because that is the way you can really get your products and services out there and get people to buy them. But again, because you know you're going to take care of them and help them. Tom:                         The other one is completely opposite the other end. You better not be faint at heart if you read it. It's a book about a friend of mine and it's a book about a sniper from the army who decided to go after pedophiles, so it's a whole different thing, but again, it was that pedophile who knows where he came from, but there came a point when you had the draw the line and couldn't let him hurt children anymore. So even though you have to have some respect, some people cross that line and have to be stopped. So it's a completely different ends of the spectrum. Mike:                       Yeah. And to stop someone from doing harm is not failing to respect to them. Tom:                         Right. Mike:                       In fact, you would argue the opposite- Tom:                         You're respecting everybody else that- Mike:                       And them by saying you can't do this, this is not acceptable, out of respect I'm going to take action now. Yeah. And so I want to thank you, Tom. This has been. We've gone all over, which I love and explored different areas. So thank you so much for joining us today. And for our listeners who want to make sure they can dive into this conversation so they can go to Facebook, look up The Respect podcast, discussion group and dive into this conversation. So thank you very much Tom for joining us. Tom:                         My pleasure. Good to see you again. Mike:                       Thank you for joining us for this episode of The Respect podcast, which was sponsored by The Date Safe project @datesafeproject.Org. And remember you can always find me at Mikespeaks.com. PART 3 OF 3 ENDS [00:33:03]  

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We're promising your listeners MASSIVE, and I'm talking massive with a capitol "A", massive increases in speed and productivity.  That's the main thing.  So that they can sell more, faster, automatically. You can either make more money, or make way more money, in the same amount of time, or you can make the same amount of money and cut your time down tremendously, ten times or more, if you use the business tools that we're talking about today.  A lot of times you can do both too. The way that I kind of developed this, I've always worked out of my home.  I've been in business, formally, for over 40 years, never had a job, always worked out of my home.  I was always averse to a lot of employees.  Now it has changed, but I got to $1.2 million a year with one part-time temp person.  This was, at the peak, about 150,000 subscribers asking me questions every day and 30,000 customers.  So, these are the business tools, what we're going to talk about today, that allowed me to do that with only one temp person. Here's the thing.  When I started hiring people, that's when my accountant called me.  He said, "Hey Tom, you've got too much retained earnings."  I said, "I've got too much retained earnings?  That's good right?"  He says, you're going to have to pay more taxes now because you've got too much retained earnings.  I'm thinking, "I'm keeping my nose clean.  I'm not buying yachts, airplanes, and everything else, and now I've got to pay more taxes?"  He said, "Yup."  So, that's when I got mad.  So I started hiring people.  I thought, "I'd rather hire people and take a load off of myself, instead of buying bombs."  That's when I started hiring all of these people. Speed The first thing is, I'm a big stickler for speed.  Speed to market and speed with customer service, because I'll tell you now, people hardly want to fill out a form anymore because they feel like no one's ever going to answer them. They figure it's going to be two months before they get a reply.  So I've built a lot of my fortune because I just Boom!  I really hit and take care of customers really fast, and prospects really fast, because nobody else will.  So, they'll buy from me because they get really fast service. One of the tools, that I have been using since 1997. I don't know how many years that is; that's 19 years.  We figured out the other day, just an estimate, the best we could. It has saved me 7 million keystrokes in that amount of time, and carpal tunnel for sure! The name of the program, for a PC, is called ShortKeys.  This is the first class that I teach at my big mentor program because I don't want people fighting with their computer.  There's only so much psychic energy in a day.  I want you to use it to create products, write sales letters, and talk to customers, and all of that, not fight with your computer. I was crying about, "I have to type the same crap over, and over, and over again."  So, my young geek, Ilya, the little Russian kid that I recruited out of high school.  He's a little smart-aleck too.  He'd say, "Shut up," and then he'd go, and he brought back ShortKeys for me.  Basically, it's called a macro program.  Now, for the Mac computer, the Apple computer, it's Keyboard Maestro.  But what it is, I can make a little keystroke combination, like G1, and that's GreatInternetMarketing.com.  It doesn't have to be just a website link.  It could be "War and Peace,", or anything that you type a lot.  My motto is that if I get the same question more than once, I make the answer into either a short key, which I use a lot. Anyway, ShortKeys and Keyboard Maestro will save you just an enormous amount of time.  There are days where you will be tired, and cross-eyed, and trying to get your work done.  Well, the short key is going to type the thing properly every single time.  In fact, we make our employees use it because I don't want to be paying them an hourly fee to just type the same stuff over and over again.  So, you should have your employees use it also.  ShortKeys and Keyboard Maestro.  That's your first tip.  We're only talking $20 for this thing.  A one-time fee!  It's crazy! Signature Files The next one is right in front of your face, and I use it even more than I use ShortKeys.  It's called a signature file, or a "sig file".  Everybody knows that's just an appendage to an email that has your name, and email, and a blurb about your stuff, but that's not all you can use it for. If you have a program, or an email client, that will have unlimited signature files, I have probably 200 or 300 stock answers to things.  Even if I had them in a file, where I had to think about it, "Where was that answer," and I had to go find it, copy, paste... No, I just lost my train of thought.  But, if you email me a question that I've heard all of these times, I can go "Reply > Insert Signature > Pick it Out of the List > Hit the Button > Boom!" That's the speed, and people can't believe it.  They can't even believe that the email got to me and they already got their answer back.  That's impressive to people.  In today's atmosphere, when nobody gives a darn about anything.  "We'll get back to you at our convenience in 48 hours."  I could be dead in 48 hours.  I don't have time for that.  I'm old!  So, signature files. Gmail only gives you like 4 or 5, but Outlook... If you have Outlook, for Mac or PC, you have unlimited signatures, and it will do all kinds of other stuff for you.  I don't know of any of the other ones.  I just know that if you use that function, it will totally transform your business at speed to market, and taking care of people. Automatically Selling Up-Selling The first thing is called "up-selling".  When you buy one product, they offer you fries with that, right?  But, that should be automated.  That should be, "Bam, Bam, Bam," and if you do it right, you're going to make 30-50% more.  Every time I do it, 30-50% of the people take advantage of the upsell. I'm just going to mention the upsell theory that I go by to get that result.  Let's say that Daniel was going to do a speech, and he wanted to buy a new suit.  He went down to Today's Man, and he's going to pay $600 for a suit.  He goes in there, and they say, "Hey Daniel!  Anybody that buys a suit today is going to get 2-for-1 on shirts and ties."  Thirty to fifty percent of the people will go for that deal, but here's why.  Daniel already had a $600 price point in his mind, and the deal that they offered him was a lower-priced product.  It was related to what he was buying in the first place, and it was a deal. If you do those things, a lower-priced product that's related to the initial product and it's a deal, you will always do 30-50% more business.  Of course, I can't guarantee it, but I can't remember one that I didn't at least do 30%, and I've been doing this at least 24 years.  A lot of times, 50% of the people will take that deal. Now, you need to automate that with your shopping cart system, or whatever you happen to use.  That's called "point of purchase," by the way.  So, you automate the "point of purchase upsell". Thank You Page Selling There's also "after the sale upsells".  This is a very little-known one. It's right in front of you.  It's called "thank you page" selling.  Anytime you sell something, you should have a "thank you page", right?  If you do, why just say, "Thank you for your sale. Goodbye," you know?  No. [bctt tweet="The easiest person to sell to is the one that has their wallet out already." username="danielhall"]  Of course, they call it, "Do you want fries with that?"  This is almost like  Columbo.  Do you remember Columbo?  He knows the killer, and then he walks away, and the killer is relieved, and Columbo is like, "Oh!  One more thing..."  That's what "thank you" page selling is like. On that page, I might have, "Thank you for dealing with Antion and Associates.  Why not check out these other fine colleagues of mine."  I might have a Daniel Hall affiliate thing on there, or something related to what they just bought, where if they click and go buy something, I get an affiliate commission.  That's all automatic.  You're wasting that "thank you page" if it just says "thank you". Add Finance Options Also, you must add finance options, automatically to your sales, or to your bigger-ticket sales.  But, when I say bigger ticket, I think we sold 700 of my WordPress courses for $97, or that was the price if you paid it all at once, but 180 people took a 3-pay deal at $39.  In some places, the economy is tough, and you've got to realize that.  They paid a $17 spiff just to be able to pay in three payments.  Let's say that if I didn't have the finance option, I still would have gotten 100 of those people.  I still would have lost 80 of them.  If you multiply 180 times $117, that's would come out to another $18,000-$19,000.  If I didn't have the finance option, and people were holding tight to their credit card, they would have said, "No, I'll just wait." You must have a finance option.  But, when I first did this, before I had the shopping cart, I was so disorganized.  I would take the first payment and then lose the paperwork.  Then, I'd find it six months later, "Oh God!  I was supposed to charge this guy $99 a month, and I didn't do it."  Now the shopping carts will do it automatically, every 30 days and pound them to death if their expiration date goes bad, but all of this is automated so that I don't lose any sales because of it, and it makes more sales.  So, you've got to get your selling automated, and then we can kick into auto-responders, which is selling after the sale. Auto-Responders Let's talk about automatically selling.  [bctt tweet="Auto-responders, obviously, are one of the most powerful things ever invented." username="danielhall"]If you ask a bunch of marketers that have been around as long as we have, it's just crazy-powerful. My philosophy is I give people service, service, service emails, so that they're used to getting emails that help them.  Then, when I ask them to buy something, they're not upset.  You see?  Auto-responders do that for you.  This is just a smattering of the things we use to automate the business.  There are tons more of them, and a lot of them are cheap or free.  You just have to implement them. You know, you get one or two additional percentage points in sales a month, that adds up over a year.  That can be a car payment.  That can be saved for your kid's college.  I mean, it's clear money.  It's money that was there, and if you didn't go and pick it up, it's your fault.  That's especially true if you're new at this.  The better you do these things right from the beginning, the faster you won't be new anymore.  The faster you'll be a respected member of our community, because you know these things, and you implement them, and you've got money in the bank. A few More Tips to Automate Your Business There are all kinds of things that we use to format things correctly.  I've got 20 or 30 of them in this new book I wrote.  It's a 60-page eBook that outlines all of the stuff that I cover in my mentor program that people pay like $8,000 to get. I was sitting down one day and thinking, "I've been teaching this for years to people, to increase their productivity, but I never turned it into a product."  The book is called: How to Automate Your Business. Another thing is, I used to have a book called Click that kind of dominated the speaking industry for 10 years.  But, it got so big that it was 1,042 pages.  By the time I did it in one part, the other part is obsolete, so I am trending my business with more and smaller products that I can get out fast, and edit fast, so that if they change I can fix them fast.  However, there's another important concept here called "consumption". At 1,042 pages, I was overwhelming people.  Especially in the early days, I was the only guy around.  With all of this stuff that you get hit with, from JV Zoo, and Warrior Forum, and all these places, you just get buried.  So, 1,042 pages were just too much.  I started doing very tightly laser-focused books, but not little crappy 10-page things, though.  These are like 60 pages and illustrated, and they teach you things like how to maximize your cell phone.  There are a bunch of cell phone tricks that people just haven't been taught, like how to go way faster with your cell phone.  I just came out with this, and people are loving it.  It's making them go way faster, and it's giving them the time to work on the stuff that brings in revenue.  That's the important stuff. Connecting with Tom The main website for my big mentor program, that has all of my contact information and a downloadable learning brochure that has lots of tips in it, and there's a video people can watch.  That's at GreatInternetMarketingTraining.com.  The other thing is, I invite everyone to attend my variety show at 10 pm EST on Sunday nights via Facebook Live.  I'd like to warn people that it can get a little bit out of hand, though, because one of the sections is "A-Hole of the Week".  So, I get a little bit mad at people who do some bad things, but then there's a hero of the week too. I also give a professional speaking tip, and internet marketing tip, a self-defense tip; that's because I have a site called Brutal Self Defense.  I've been a lifelong martial arts type of guy.  We also have a "Fake Sponsor of the Week,".  That's where I show you a place that's definitely not sponsoring us.  So, it's a lot of fun.  That's at 10 pm EST, Sunday nights, at Facebook.com/Antion. 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How do we use our voice as an instrument to self transformation?What do sound vibrations do for the human body, our DNA and memory?Elandra, early in life found herself in the movie industry in England and Antion who was originally born Victor Harvey Briggs used to be in the backing group for Dusty Springfield and later played with the rock group The Animals.However change happens and they both met through yoga, spirituality and Ram Dass, that took them from the hectic outside world to a more balanced inner realm.The ongoing evolution from music to using sound as a method of vibrational healing, from Indian to Sikh and the many ways of chanting, specifically ancient Hawaiian sounds that have been passed from an ancient lineage - to alter our frequency and shift us to a higher octave of being. Hawaiian cultural methods, such as lomi lomi, and spiritual healing modalities lead especially to sacred sound, chant and chanting focussing on the throat, the blue chakra to vibrate sound.That the breath ... the 'ha' in the Polynesian vernacular of both Aroha and Aloha is the invisible life force that brings prana into being. Chanting vibrates our temple garment and this allows and opens to a deeper knowing of self, of healing and a greater connection to being.That conscious thought and conscious action are now the imperative at this moment in time.Albert Einstein stated: "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant."We have forgotten the gift and honoured the servant.'Time to turn it all around.'Elandra & Antion Meredithhttp://www.HealthHealing.org     http://www.antionmusic.com