Posts by Craig Ballantyne
How to Make Sales and Create Upsells
This is so juvenile, but I laugh at it every time I hear it. My buddy Frank Kern calls my friend Bedros, “Bedrofe”. It amuses me to no end. Like when I put peanut butter on the top of Bally the Dog’s nose just a tiny bit out of reach of his tongue. You get…
Read MoreThe Chair
The chair is where my father sat, On sunny summer days, Beer in hand, shirt undone, The paper had his gaze. The grass was never greener, Than in my memory, The shade was always coolest, On the days he sat with me. The Willow tree kept him in comfort, It wept in gentle breeze, We’d…
Read MoreBig Lessons from a Product Launch
Starting a new little feature today called, “What’s Working Wednesdays”. Each week you’ll get a real-world case study of what’s working for money making in one of my businesses. This fits in nicely with Motivation Monday and QnA Fridays. Now I have some cool stats of my own to show you next week about Facebook,…
Read MoreCoaching Will Cure This
I used to suffer from Monday Morning Anxiety. It started at about 2pm every Sunday, just after lunch, as my thoughts turned from relaxation to what I called, ‘the pressure’. It was a combination of knowing I had to get up at 4:30am to go work for someone else, to work on their schedule, to…
Read MoreYour Network Is Your Net Worth
There must have been enough food for an entire army. His team had filled jar upon jar with roasted nuts, chocolate covered almonds, and trail mix. There were a dozen bags of chips, and more candy was overflowing from the kitchen. Plus, he had a professional catering company on-site to serve up burgers, flatbread pizzas,…
Read MoreJoint Venture and Publishing Partner Tips
Time for you to start thinking big. Even if you’re just getting started, I want you to be thinking 3, 5, even 7 moves ahead in this game of business. You up for that? Good. Today’s QnA gets into some deep thinking, long-term planning, and frankly, what I consider to be much more important topics…
Read MoreThe True Definition of Success
“Success for me,” John McAfee explained in Fast Company in 2007, “is can you wake up in the morning and feel like a twelve year old?” That was before he lost 95% of his net worth. At the time he said that, as Robert Frank explains in his book, The High-Beta Rich, McAfee was living through a second adolescence,…
Read MoreBodyweight Metabolic Workout Finishers
His chrome dome was glistening. He was, as we Canadian Hillbillies would say, “givin’ er”. It was 8:15am on the Saturday morning at the 2nd Turbulence Training Summit in San Diego, and over 23 personal trainers were going through a bootcamp workout under my watchful eye. This included TT Trainer of the Year, Mike Whitfield.…
Read MoreDo All That You Say You Will Do… And More
My mother is not the type to get upset (that was my father’s forte). But I could sense the irritation in her voice when I asked, “How’s your new house coming along?” It had been over three weeks since I last visited the farm, and, unfortunately, there had been practically no progress made on her…
Read MoreNew 5-Minute MRT Finisher Workout
At the TT Summit, I crowned Mike Whitfield the TT Trainer of the Year, and for good reason. He’s made MASSIVE progress in the past year, just like you can make massive progress with his workout finishers. His big idea was to show the world how you can make small tweaks to ANY workout and…
Read MoreSet Your Goals Using this Plan
Do me a huge favor, will you? If, I mean, WHEN, you use the Internet Moneyball system that I gave to you on Monday, please let me know your results? Cool? That gets me fired up. Like how one of our Black Smith camp attendees contacted me on Facebook the other day to let me…
Read MoreThe Metabolic Blueprint
“I’m going to start eating right and exercising on Monday.” said YOU, just before the first Monday of 2012. Do you remember saying that? Do you remember visualizing going to the gym or your basement 6 days a week, listening to your Iphone’s “Workout” playlist (I know you have one… and I know the Rocky…
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