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<h2>Create A Side Business To Produce 6-Figures Annually</h2>
<p>I’m a marketer and have been marketing ever since I left Wharton Graduate (of the University of Pennsylvania) in 1975 with my MBA in marketing, management, arts administration.</p>
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<h2>Create A Side Business To Produce 6-Figures Annually</h2>
<p>I’m a marketer and have been marketing ever since I left Wharton Graduate (of the University of Pennsylvania) in 1975 with my MBA in marketing, management, arts administration.</p>
<p>Hundreds of millions of dollars in personal sales. A billion or more dollars through my marketing skills. And a life-style that allows me to select the type work I want to concentrate on.</p>
<p>And since earning my formal degrees, I’ve been a student every day – learning from the best people I can find.</p>
<p>Two of them are Dave Dee and Alexis Martin Neely. <a  href="http://bit.ly/7myqm">Learn About Dave &#038; Alexis Newest Information – Click Here!</a></p>
<p>I am mentioned in more of Dave’s products than any of single individual. I was just listening to another of his very helpful products about email marketing and he mentioned me quite prominently and read some of my materials. He has done that on other occasions too.</p>
<p>Why is that?</p>
<p>Dave and I share a love of learning: learning from success, and then sharing those successes with others. </p>
<p>And I pay him when I learn from him. And he pays me when I help get people to learn from him. We know that what we pay for, we appreciate even more, and we work hard to use the information we learn.</p>
<p>Like me, Dave &#038; Alexis help business owners, like you, who&#039;ve already figured out how to bring revenue into your core business; leverage your business SYSTEMS, processes, and intellectual property; and then take what you’ve learned to help other people. </p>
<p>And if you learn how to do it and work at it, you can turn your “sideline” business into a 6 figure (or more) profit center within your business (by packaging the way you do things in your own business and licensing your way of doing things to non-competitors in your industry).</p>
<p>In this season of Independence Day, this could be the start of REAL independence in your life.</p>
<p>Here’s what I’ve learned through Dave &#038; Alexis:<br />
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* The exact five part blueprint you can use immediately to generate a huge cash flow surge into your new side profit center&#8230;Four of their students had immediate cash flow surges of $75,000, $63,000, $34,000 and $15,000 last month &#8211; the very first time they implemented the 5-step formula!</p>
<p>* How your side profit center will re-ignite the passion you once had for your business. (Remember how you felt when you first started your business? Now you can experience that excitement again because you will help others do the same thing!)</p>
<p>* How to uncover the six figure products that lie hidden in your business. Yes, right now you have untapped assets you aren&#039;t even aware of&#8230; Stop to think about that: how many things do you do in your business that other people would LOVE to know how to do! You uncover those assets and then learn how to turn them into big profits. Systems and methods you use now are valuable to other people.</p>
<p>* How to move beyond the income ceiling you&#039;ve either already hit (or are about to hit) with your current dollars-for-time trade-off. Let’s face it: there are only 24 hours in every day, so earning money THAT way MUST produce a limit. And even if you&#039;ve moved beyond an hourly billing model, as long as YOU are YOUR PRODUCT (and let’s face it, most of us sell ourselves as our real product), you&#039;re going to hit a ceiling on your earning capacity very quickly.</p>
<p>* The very best parts of sharing your information and knowledge with others in your industry has very little to do with the money (that&#039;s gravy!) &#8211; the best part is the fulfillment you experience when people thank you with tears their eyes for your helping them to do what they do better and more efficiently. Imagine being in a meeting away from your office and someone thanks you in front of your friends and colleagues because your help meant so much to her. Believe me, that re-ignites your energy and you know why are you put on this earth.</p>
<p>* How this side-profit business will not only give you the freedom to work less &#8211; a LOT less &#8211; but also to work from home or from anywhere in the world &#8211; and even retire faster than you ever dreamed possible (if you want to). And in this economy of “Where Did The Dream Go,” you will now see a NEW DREAM around which to build your life.</p>
<p>* The very first step you need to take that virtually guarantees your success when coaching others in your industry &#8211; almost everyone misses this step and it costs them dearly.</p>
<p>* How to escape forever exhausting one-to-one selling and move to the exhilarating experience of selling one-to-many and making a major impact on thousands (or even millions) of people&#039;s lives.</p>
<p>* How to turn your initial success into an ongoing, autopilot revenue stream. (How would it change your life if you had an additional profit center in your business that produced high six figure profits each year &#8211; year in and year out &#8211; while you slept?)</p>
<p>* How to break through into a new business model that will take your business to the next level and finally give you the freedom and independence you&#039;ve been looking for while at the same time bringing back all the passion you once had for your business.</p>
<p>Studying successful people lets you see patterns of success, which is what I did with Dave &#038; Alexis. </p>
<p>Keep your eyes open. You can learn from people around you. And if there is something I can do to help, please see my blog at <a  href="http://bit.ly/ZMXVs">http://bit.ly/ZMXVs</a></p>
<p>Dave &#038; Alexis have the step by step, rock solid, PROVEN blueprint for helping you turn your business experience into a six or seven figure a year cash flow stream that will allow you to go part-time or even retire from your core business completely (if you want to) in short order.</p>
<p>If you&#039;re intrigued and want to discover Dave &#038; Alexis&#039; &#034;5 Step Formula to Add 6 Figures to Your Business THIS YEAR &#038; Re-Ignite Your Passion While You Do It!&#034; learn more in my blog posts. <a  href="http://bit.ly/ZMXVs">http://bit.ly/ZMXVs</a></p>
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<p>Alexis Martin Neely<br />
Dave Dee</p>
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A Work At Home Dad since 1983, succeeding in this economy</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<h2>You never forget that time you&#039;ve been fired &#8211; but I HOPE you can make things easier for someone else</h2>
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<p>The Philadelphia Inquirer is probably like a lot of newspapers in the world &#8211; understaffed, losing money, trying to stay afloat.</p>
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<h2>You never forget that time you&#039;ve been fired &#8211; but I HOPE you can make things easier for someone else</h2>
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<p>The Philadelphia Inquirer is probably like a lot of newspapers in the world &#8211; understaffed, losing money, trying to stay afloat.</p>
<p>And as it does, it features a series of articles about Being Fired. Well, that&#039;s not what THEY call it; their title is <strong>Jobs At A Loss &#8211; Upheaval in the Region&#039;s Job Market</strong> but believe me, those PEOPLE who are listed as statistics know what it is: they&#039;ve been fired.</p>
<p>The Headline is:</p>
<h2>The ax falls, and then what?</h2>
<p>The article by Inquirer Staff Writer Alfred Lubrano is filled with statistics and anecdotes. And it&#039;s filled with one more thing: pain.</p>
<p>Human pain.</p>
<p>Human suffering when 13.2 million people in the USA are unemployed (that only counts those still looking for work &#8211; those who have given up don&#039;t count, it seems) and 210,000 in our immediate 8-county area. </p>
<p>&#034;But while the Philadelphia region is papered with pink slips, a layout can still hit with the potent surprise of an unforeseen meteor.&#034; </p>
<p>It has been known for a long time by psychologists that being fired is as difficult on the individual as a death in the family, divorce, or other traumatic, stress-producing situation. </p>
<p>And what goes deeper is what happens to the individual, and it&#039;s repercussions are long-lasting. </p>
<p>&#034;Shame, fear, and panic can barge into a person&#039;s head after the initial trauma.&#034;</p>
<p>People have pointed out that in this Great Recession people who thought they were recession-proof are now </p>
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<p>on the unemployment lines &#8211; in Philadelphia, as an example, a major law firm collapsed and closed. (And when I was selling investment real estate in the 80s and 90s, this was THE real estate law firm.)</p>
<h2>Where Did The Dream Go?</h2>
<p>I&#039;ve often written about and created a video about The Dream &#8211; <a  href="http://bit.ly/12cERw">Where Did The Dream Go?</a> It&#039;s gone for many people. </p>
<p>We were told to grow up, do well in school, select a major carefully, specialize, earn a good living, get married, raise 2.5 kids, help them grow well, get married, and the circle continues.</p>
<p>We did that, but things have come crashing down for many people.</p>
<h2>Savings, Never Done Well By Most Americans, Evaporate</h2>
<p>401(K) accounts are half what they were only 8 months ago. A friend say he now has a 201(K) and my good friend Neil Radisch (with whom I wrote &#034;The Hunchback of Notre Dame&#034; as a major musical) wrote me on Facebook that he now has a 4.01(K).</p>
<p>I know the pain there, with my own IRA dropping 50%. </p>
<p>The Dream may still linger, but the funds to make it happen are gone. (For now, at least.)</p>
<h2>Personal Memories Never Die</h2>
<p>The reason I started this website (and the business to support it) was because of the terrible crushing pain that many people feel when they are fired. I want to help.</p>
<p>Having faced it twice myself, I know the lasting, deep-seeded pain that lingers.</p>
<p>I still have images of my younger daughter, while she was in middle school, crying with covers pulled up over her head when I arrived home having been fired and saying, &#034;They stole your dream, Daddy.&#034;</p>
<p>That&#039;s the last time I worked for someone else. </p>
<p>Oh, sure&#8230; being a Work at Home Dad has it&#039;s tough parts too, but never again will my family suffer like that.</p>
<h2>Shame, Pain, And The Lasting Upset Of Being Fired</h2>
<p>This part of The Inquirer&#039;s article really got to me&#8230; a huge lump in my throat and tears in my eyes as I read it because I&#039;ve been there and understand the pain of both the child and the parent.</p>
<p>&#034;One recent day, he [Dan Perry, the subject of much of the article] stalked the rooms of his modest house decorated with family photos, no kids or wife about. &#039;It&#039;s eerie, weird,&#039; he said. &#039;I&#039;m used to hubbub. It&#039;s just a house, not a home, when I&#039;m here alone in the day.&#039;&#034;</p>
<p>That will change&#8230; at least it has for me. In fact, I thrive being here by myself for most of the day. </p>
<p>&#034;One evening not long ago, Perry say his daughter, Rebekah, 16, typing up the lesson plans of her advanced-placement history teacher.</p>
<p>&#034;&#039;What&#039;s this?&#039; he asked.</p>
<p>&#034;&#039;I&#039;m typing her notes for $80,&#039; Rebekah said.</p>
<p>&#034;That was the price of a class trip to Washington. Rebekah knew her father had lost his job and was loath to ask for money. So she asked her teacher for some work.</p>
<p>&#034;Later that night, Perry lay awake in bed at 4 AM, the small and desperate hour when, many unemployed people report, they are alert and anguished. He contemplated Rebekah and the $80.</p>
<p>&#034;&#039;My heart was heavy with sadness for how my daughter was regarding this,&#039; Perry said. Children&#039;s reactions are often profound.&#034;</p>
<p>And believe me, they never forget the pain of seeing their hero, their leader, their rock and support suffering.</p>
<p>&#034;Perry cannot not worry. &#039;At night, I go to this secret place in my soul, and it&#039;s like I&#039;m standing in front of a mirror alone. I have no one to hold to account but myself. And I look at myself and ask, &#039;What am I going to do?&#039; There&#039;s a mortgage and cars and other things to be paid, and no one&#039;s hiring. How am I going to help my family?&#039;&#034; </p>
<h2>Men Often See Themselves AS Their Jobs</h2>
<p>Men and women look at this situation very differently, with us men basing much of our self-image on our jobs.</p>
<p>I remember in the very early 1990s having had a nightmare that woke me up in a cold sweat. I dreamed that I would no longer be a Vice President of Jackson-Cross Company (then a huge commercial real estate brokerage firm in Philadelphia, where I sold $247,368,657.97 of Investment Real Estate and marketed more than $1 billion for others in the first as the company&#039;s VP of Marketing and Planning). I&#039;d been there for 13 years, done very well, was respected throughout the industry as a top salesman, but my mind was already playing games with me as the economy was rocked at that time, though not as much as now. </p>
<p>I wasn&#039;t fired, I went to work for myself. And I had been doing most of the work from home already (since 1983 when Liz was born). But the self-image was rocked and my whole body knew it.</p>
<h2>The Only Way To Get Through This Is Together</h2>
<p>Those who survive times like this find help in others. Others who have been through it. Others who can steer them in the right direction for new job skills. Others who are supportive, upbeat, have the energy for two people&#8230; since the fired person has lost much of the energy needed to prosper.</p>
<p>Mastermind groups. Small business support groups. And yes, even a group like the one found here on UltimateWorkAtHomeDads.com where we support Dads now working at home (or looking to work from home).</p>
<p>We&#039;re here. We hope you&#039;ll let us know how we can help. </p>
<p>And though we can&#039;t erase the burned-in images and the pain caused by your being fired, we&#039;re here to get you back on your feet as quickly as possible and make the transition to working from home a smooth one.</p>
<p><strong>If this information resonated with you, perhaps this short video will too: <a  href="http://bit.ly/12cERw">Where Did The Dream Go?</a></strong></p>
<p>The Dream? It changed. And now it&#039;s time for YOU to change and come up with a new Dream. </p>
<p>And we&#039;re ready to help.</p>
<p>Best,<br />
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<h2>Opportunities Abound For Work At Home Dads, Even In THIS Economy!</h2>
<p>How often do we have to hear it from or read it in the news? The economy is the worst since our parents (and for some of us it&#039;s our parents&#039; parents) were young. It&#039;s really awful.</p>
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<h2>Opportunities Abound For Work At Home Dads, Even In THIS Economy!</h2>
<p>How often do we have to hear it from or read it in the news? The economy is the worst since our parents (and for some of us it&#039;s our parents&#039; parents) were young. It&#039;s really awful.</p>
<p>All indicators are down. My personal retirement fund has shrunk by about 50%. Unemployment is rising (about 6.5% in my county), and if it hasn&#039;t touched your family, you KNOW a family it has struck. </p>
<p>What do they say: it&#039;s a Recession when your neighbor loses his job: it&#039;s a DEPRESSION with YOU lose your job! It sure feels that way! (Seems to me the only time you feel worse is when everyone tells you that the economy is GREAT but you just lost your job &#8211; that happened to me once and that feeling is burned into my brain and heart, still searing my insides.)</p>
<p>And the effect ripples through our town, county, state, country, and world. You can&#039;t escape that we&#039;re part of a SYSTEM, not a series of individuals. Someone losing a job in Maine doesn&#039;t buy as many groceries so the farmer in Texas doesn&#039;t plant as man crops and the family in California has to pay more. And on and on and on.</p>
<p>And Bernie Madoff can only account for about $67 Billion of this, so there are many other factors at work.</p>
<p>And when I was a kid, I remember my Dad talking about the economy (he later ran a major real estate firm and was on the Board of the Philadelphia Fed&#8230; so he had learned a thing or two).</p>
<p>And if there was one major lesson I learned from him it&#039;s that OPPORTUNITY is just as great in any part of the cycle (for indeed, economies are cyclical).</p>
<h2>So&#8230; that means that there are opportunities abounding right now.</h2>
<p>And if you follow Internet Marketing (especially Information Product Marketing), perhaps you just witnessed Frank Kern (one of the really good guys) sell more than $4,000,000 worth of CDs and booklets, teaching people how to succeed in today&#039;s economy. And this was in about 26 hours.</p>
<h2>But For Many, Where Did The Dream Go?</h2>
<p>But for people watching their 401(k)s being drained or their IRAs tumble, it certainly must feel like the sky has fallen. And if you&#039;re sitting at home instead of going into that job in an office, store, warehouse, or factory, the pain can be intense.</p>
<h2>Or Perhaps You&#039;ve Been Saying, Take Me From The Rat Race</h2>
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Or, perhaps you still have a job but are nervous that you might be next to go. Here in the Philadelphia, PA USA area, apartment developer Steve Korman has pleaded with companies (many of which he owns stock in) to remember that firing people leads to more firing. He&#039;d like to see a corporation earn less, but keep all of its people working.</p>
<p>Not many corporations share his thoughts.</p>
<h2>Or, You&#039;re Already Working At Home And Think, How Can I Turbo Charge My Work At Home</h2>
<p>You know how it is to have the freedom of working from home. No commute. No expensive lunches out. No boring meetings that take up so much of your time.</p>
<p>But with the way the economy is now, you really need some help to turbo charge your results. Going back to an office job just isn&#039;t in the cards for you, even if the economy had any jobs available.</p>
<h2>I&#039;ve Been There Too</h2>
<p>As a Work At Home Dad since 1991 (longer, really, since from 1977 &#8211; 1991, I sold $247,368,657.97 worth of Investment Real Estate and though I worked for a large real estate firm, I did much of my work from home), I recognize each of these stories&#8230; and each of the opportunities they bring.</p>
<p>Oh, it may not FEEL like an opportunity when you&#039;re faced with being fired or the potential of a layoff, but it can be.</p>
<p>So, I&#039;ve dedicated myself (with the help of some of my very smart friends) to help Work At Home Dads.</p>
<h2>Dads Have Been Forgotten &#8211; But NO MORE!</h2>
<p>When you search the Internet, there are all kinds of opportunities for Stay At Home Moms, but the Dads have been forgotten. And with the economy the way it is, we Dads can use all the help we can get. It&#039;s said that 82% of all the recent layoffs were to men!</p>
<p>I have created several family-centric sites (RaisingGreatFamilies.com, ILearnedItAllFromMyKids.com, FathersAndTheDaughtersTheyLove.com among them) and my professional photography business was all related to families (Family Portraits, Weddings, Bat and Bar Mitzvahs, Theater).</p>
<p>Over the next few months, I will openly share information to help Work At Home Dads. The site just starting, so be sure to enter your name and email address and I&#039;ll be sure to let you know when those resources are available.</p>
<h2>Time We Banded Together, Men: Form Our Own Mastermind Group!</h2>
<p>There&#039;s nothing like the power of when creative and hard-working men join together. Hey, not being sexist &#8211; my wife would smack me if I did that (to say nothing about my two successful daughters), but it&#039;s time for us men to band together to make the family economy work for each of us.</p>
<p>I look forward to hearing from you &#8211; hearing your ideas, your greatest concerns about working from home, hearing about some of the solutions you have come up with. Let&#039;s share this information to help all of us.</p>
<p>Best,<br />
<img src="http://ultimateworkathomedads.com/gold/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/charliesignvlettersm1.gif" alt="Charlie" title="Charlie" width="150" height="47" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-173" /><br />
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A Work At Home Dad, succeeding in this economy</p>
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		<title>Welcome To Charlie Seymour Jr&#039;s Blog on Ultimate Work At Home Dads</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlie Seymour Jr</dc:creator>
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<p>This blog is devoted to guys like me who are working at home. I&#039;ll have musings, new products, reports, quick notes, and other helpful tidbits of information to help all of use thrive in this economy as we work at home</p>
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<p>This blog is devoted to guys like me who are working at home. I&#039;ll have musings, new products, reports, quick notes, and other helpful tidbits of information to help all of use thrive in this economy as we work at home</p>
<p>I hope you&#039;ll write me, let me know what we can do to help you. Your ideas and suggestions will be passed on to our readers. </p>
<p>This is just the beginning!</p>
<p>Best,<br />
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A Work At Home Dad, succeeding in this economy<br />
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