The Muse Blueprint

I had the chance to interview the founder and CEO of Richard Branson’s latest venture, Virgin Charter, Scott Duffy yesterday afternoon for I Am An Investor.com. One of the questions that I asked him was about getting started. Listen to what he has to say.

We spoke about Virgin Charter, the how and why of the opportunity they have, why it makes sense for people to use their services, and advice on how to invest in what is perhaps your own best investment, investing in yourself.

What Virgin Chart does in a nutshell is that it works with operators of private jets and and helps keep them filled with paying passengers. Quite often, a jet will take a people to their destination, and end up flying back to home base empty. So, rather than flying empty with no paying passengers, Virgin Charter lets people bid on these otherwise empty trips.

You can book jets like a Citation, Lear, Gulfstream and everything else in the modern jet fleet.

The jet operator receives basically found money and the new Virgin Charter customers get a great deal on travel. How is that for a win-win situation?

In a truly free capitalistic society, inefficiency usually gets solved by someone making a profit for solving it! –Andrew Anderson

This is a much more efficient use of resources don’t you think? You can also book a regular charter flight there as well. So if you have an aircraft or use charters, you should definitely look into what they have to offer.

Also, if you have never flown by private jet, there is nothing like it. It can literally save you a whole day when traveling. You are normally able to fly directly into smaller airports which are usually closer to your actual destination. There is no delay or hassle with running the security gauntlet while they pat down old ladies in wheelchairs and you don’t have to jostle for a cramped seat next to someone that has not discovered that new invention called deodorant.

You can actually get work done while flying. It is nice to arrive fresh and ready to go close that deal. If you ever want to make an impression with a potential client, have them pick you up at the airport as you step off your charter. They don’t have to know that it did not cost an arm and a leg, or better yet let them know that it didn’t. They will probably appreciate the tip the next time they travel and be impressed by your thrift and efficiency.

If you are traveling with a group of 8 to 10 people with your company, this can really be an economical way to travel, especially with last minute trips.

Here is the interview.

If you want to look at booking an empty leg, you can bid on them here.Next week, I will also look to post a conversation on what it is like to work with Richard Branson. It is sure to be interesting and informative. Enjoy!

Opportunities abound in Chaos and Kevlar Umbrellas

If you listen to the news and I suggest that you don’t very often, you would think that the sky is falling with the economy. Well, parts of it actually are but it does not have to be so for you. I suggest that you think of yourself as the person selling Kevlar Umbrellas, like I do.

While you should be aware of economic trends such as the US dollar’s values falling like a rock with no end in site, it does open up opportunities.

I will give you just a couple of examples. As gas prices keep going up (and they will but more on that later) , it is going to make locally made products and services more competitive against those that are not local.

Do you have a product or service that can save people from driving for instance?

One of my Musi is one that does exactly that. www.888360Pixs.com . It is a service that provides pictures, virtual tours, and Videos of Real Estate, Boats, Cars and just about everything else.

Think about it. Why would you drive around wasting your time and gas looking at a house, a warehouse, office space or even a place to hold your friends wedding reception when you can go online and see if what you are looking at that fits your needs from the comfort of your own home or office in only two minutes? That answer is of course when given a choice you won’t which is why I am so excited about the growth potential of this Muse.

Do you have an idea that can save travel time, or money that can be turned into a Muse? If you do, your chances of success are good!

Gas prices are going to keep going up pretty much steadily for the next few years is my prediction right now. Even though this is an artifical shortage brought about in the US by overzealous politicians and environmentalists because we actually have enough Oil, Gas, and Coal reservers to last us for several hundred years. But as an example due to insane environmental rules and lawsuits, we have not had a new refinery built in the US for over “30” that is Thirty years! With the new clean technology we have, this is truly insane and perhaps when gas hits $4.00 a gallon people will see just how stupid and hurtful these policies really are and they will force the politicians to abandon these policies that are hurting everyone in the US and not really doing anything for the environment other than enriching a few politicians and environment movements pockets.

What can yo do with the dropping dollar? One thing is that you can effectively compete in foreign markets. I would much rather have a stronger dollar but, you make lemonade if you have a bunch of lemons. The dollar has dropped almost 40% against the Euro over the past decade making things in the US cheap for customers from Europe but not so the other way around.

Can your Muse sell its product or service in Europe or attract them to purchase here? I know that I actively market Real Estate here in the US to foreign buyers. Our Real Estate is dirt cheap compared to Europe and with the Canadian dollar worth more today that the US dollar, more Canadians can buy our “US bargains” too. As of today, 1 Canadian Dollar is worth 1.06 Us Dollars. For years, 1 US dollar was worth about 1.30 Canadian or as an example if a hamburger cost $2.00 here, it would only cost you $1.40 in Canada.

Let’s now touch upon a couple of other areas in the economy. You hear nothing but bad news about the housing markets. Having been involved in Real Estate since the early 80’s I have seen my share of cycles. Back then under the totally misguided interference of Jimmy Carter, inflation and interest rates were through the roof. With interest rates at 18% for a mortgage you would have thought that no one would have made any money in Real Estate or Business.

But they did! In down turns like that and the one we are now experiencing, there is more money to be made by the savvy Real Estate Investor armed with the right tools and knowledge in the next three years than what has been made in that last ten. But here again, it is not bad in all areas of the country. For the vast majority of people unless they happen to be in a big hurry to sell, you are going to be Ok in a couple of years.

There will be exceptions and I will just name a couple like Michigan and possibly Ohio where politicians have raised taxes to the point that there are scaring away businesses left and right, so property values may stagnate or go down for some time. Then you have areas like Florida, and Las Vegas where you had tons of speculation going on and you might see values continue to fall for several years yet. There were a lot of sheep piling into the pens thinking that they would never get full and they were of course wrong.

Florida has a bunch of whammies going against it including ever increasing taxes, insurance going through the roof, the threat of Hurricanes, a lot of crowding and lack of infrastructure. So, you will see a continued flight of people out of the state. And Las Vegas will eventually recover and stop losing value but the hangover is not over out there yet either.

But where there is chaos there is opportunity. Did you know that the Marriott fortune was started during the great depression which for the most part was again caused by government interference in the free market?

That same type if not to the same extent of interference is taking place today and again, opening up yet other opportunities.

When people can‘t afford their house payments because they failed to pay attention to the 2.5 trees that were used to produce the numerous warnings an other documents when they closed their house loan, they still need to live somewhere. This is why the demand for rentals is going to go up in many areas. That and the same goes for people forced out of homes that may even be paid for because of huge tax bills piled onto them by stupid politicians that don’t, nor care to understand basic economics.

Whatever the reason, you will also be able to purchase homes and commercial property at huge discounts for up to 30 or even 40%, or get owner financing at reasonable rates. Again for those investors that know how to do this, this is going to be a buying frenzy and thousands upon thousands of fortunes will be made in the next few years.

I love Real Estate…LOL

The point is not to let the doom and gloomers get your down or as I am fond of using Harv Eker’s term “Crap Magnets” about starting a Muse. Now is a GREAT time to do so.

This is because it is going to scare off a lot of your wimpy competition that lack a backbone, nerves, and the knowledge you need to compete. It will also force you to think out of the box. Plus, if you can succeed when there is a bit of a slow down, you can do quite well with your Muse.

Here a couple of things that you can do right now!

Instead of thinking defensively, how can you think offensively to promote your Muse or take advantage of economic factors?

Can you give away 100 samples of your product or service to people that can influence future sales rather than spending money on advertising? Even 10 or 20 might do the trick.

Have you looked up any trade associations or clubs that might let you make a presentation? If it is indeed new, there are a lot of organizations that would love to have you make a good, solid presentation about your Muse.

Can you hire commission only sales people to sell your product? They are essentially free in that you only pay them when they bring in money! I love these gals and guys! Yahooo….

A bit of advice, figure out what percentage you are going to pay them and make sure you can afford it and still be profitable and don’t change the rules if they blow out sales!

Do not get greedy and stupid at the same time. If you do, I hope you get two ingrown toenails for a year. But you are smart so that is not going to happen to you!

If you decide to give them 10% or 20% or even 40% of the sale and they sell the heck out of your Muse, be happy! Pay them the loot, they deserve it. So what if they make $300,000 off a million dollars worth of sales! That means they brought in $1,000,000 to you. Duhhh…

I have seen this happen though far too many times, OK let me be frank here, there is a word to describe people that do this and it is Moron. I have seen this happen with really good sales people and the owners start getting greedy and they start messing with their sales people pay. Dumb, dumb move on their part.

I know if I deal with a client that does this, I drop them. I don’t like hanging around stupid and greedy people.

If anything, if you have a great sales person that really helps you get your Muse off the ground, give them a bonus! Companies that take care of their sales people take care of themselves. It is that simple.

Where can you find a good sales person? Try Craig’s List or run and add in your local paper.

Do your numbers and make sure that you offer them the opportunity to make some good money if they produce. This will attract the best and the brightest and you will end up with people that can actually help you make it big! Get the right people and it can happen real quick too!

Right now I have two Sales positions open where the right person could quite easily make over $450,000 this year. That is a lot of money but guess what? I will be making quite a bit more than that and I bet we have a good chance of filling both slots soon! If you know of anyone, send them my way!

So, unless you Muse involves TV, don’t watch too much of it nor read the newspapers. Both are Muse killers. They take your mind off the prize which is to have a nice healthy Muse that will take care of you and your loved ones for the rest of your life and beyond.

Be thinking, how can I sell my product or service to foreign customers or take advantage of the current economic situation as it affects different parts of the economy?

There are tons of opportunities out there if you use your noodle. Get out there and get going! There is never a better time to start your Muse than right now.

Cheers,
John Feumet Anderson

I just want to give a heartfelt thank you to all of those that are and who have served in uniform for this great country of ours. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I know that freedom is not free. Thank you for paying my share. I don’t have words to truly express my gratitude for what you have done and continue to do, but thank you will have to do.

Happy Veterans Day!

A 4.5 Billion Year Old Christmas Present that is Literally Out of This World!

You are now looking at a very unique sculpture. The medium consists of a 52 pound Campo del Cielo meteorite. It fell about 5,000 years ago and the meteorite itself could be over 4.5 Billion years old. Also used is a piece of lighting struck American Black Walnut root on a Verde granite base. The meteorite is from Argentina and was originally part of the Robert Haag collection. The name of the find was the Campo del Cielo(field of the sky or heaven), hence a very fitting name for the location of a meteorite. The Indians believed that the iron fell from the heavens and rightly so.It is carved so that there were only a few hints that it was indeed carved and not totally natural. The piece is called “Heaven on Earth” and was inspired by a dream the Artist J.F. Anderson once had and he uses the wood in place of the trailing fireball. You can actually own this one of a kind gift. It can be yours for only $3,800 or highest offer. J.F. Anderson says “I like using meteorites in my works because then each work truly is unique in the whole universe, especially in these days of mass produced works of Art. You are not going to be able to whip out 5,000 copies of this each individually signed by the Artist. When I get done with one of these, there is only one like it. When someone purchases it, they know if they so desire that they can be the only people out of billions in the World to enjoy its beauty.” If you are interested in purchasing this sculpture, please contact the Artist by Clicking Here and make sure to include to “Sculpture” in the subject line. You can also go to www.MuseBlueprint.com and use the contact button there.

Hi all,

Normally I don’t knock on people. Especially other writers, as I have said before I am kind of the Forest Gump of writers are far as that goes.  But I just got done reading “Loral Langemeier’s  new book “Cash Machine for Life and call me dense but I did not get it.

The cash drawers were empty.  I tried, I really did but someone is going to have to explain it to me.  What is the lesson that has not been done better 100 times before, the moral, the theme, the stuff I can do now, where is the beef?  Truly, perhaps someone can explain it to me.

If you have not read it and want to, I will send you my only read once copy.  It is yours on the condition that you explain it to me.  I am sure she is a nice lady and she has a cool website but the info was just not there.   And I was so looking forward to finding a gem.  I hate when that happens…..

Anyway, as I find good mind feed books I will pass them on and let you know about the ones you should pass on as well.

How is your Muse doing?  Would love to hear about it!

How Not To Offer A Guarantee

I won’t hold you in too much suspense here. The Lamest Guarantee Of The Year Award goes to drum roll please……

And the winner is……. Match.com.  They  take this year’s prize for the Lamest Guarantee.

I have been thinking about handing out this award for awhile now and I thought I would give the company a break, but I just can’t take it any longer. Every time I see their commercial I just laugh myself silly and can’t believe that they paid someone to come up with the Schpeel like that. It is by far the lamest Guarantee that I can remember seeing…..ever…

If you have seen Match.com’s commercial you know what I am talking about.. They say that we are so sure you will meet someone special within 6 months that if you don’t, we will give you another 6 months for free.

Tell me if this is not what a non-happy customer would be thinking. “What? I have not found the “special” woman/man of my dreams in the past 6 months as you promised on your lame site full of weirdo’s and I spent $100 bucks and have answered 97 emails from people that are less interesting than my cat/dog/ferret/goldfish and you want me to spend another 6 months talking to people that post pictures that are 10 years old and their most creative hobby is collecting their own nose hairs? “ ….or something like that.

I personally can’t believe that they are still in business. How about Money Back Guarantee People? Duhh…

With all of the Free competition from MySpace, Ning, Facebook, and others, it is a wonder they are still in business.

Anyway, my point is not to pick on Match.com per say but to point out that as a very smart participant of the Muse Blueprint, you are not going to do dumb things like that!

If you want to get ahead and be competitive with your Muse (uberBusiness) , have at least a 7 Day Money Back Guarantee. It will pay off for you in spades.

Anymore, I just plain refuse to purchase anything that does not have one period. Every time I do it seems that I get ripped off.

As I say, “ If you are not willing to stand behind your product or service, don’t put it in front of someone else, especially me!”

I am going to be releasing some videos this week that I think you will enjoy and should find helpful on putting your product or service together or polishing up an existing one.

Happy Musings,

JFA
PS…I found the graphic by typing in “Dumb” at a US Government site.

More of the F Word from The Muse Blueprint

Fun filled action packed week so far. Hope this finds you doing well. I have 2 1/2 more F Word (that is FREE) products for you.

Here is 1 ½ - If you ever have to transfer huge, big honking, humongous files, here is a Free place to do it.

CLICK HERE . It is called Transfer Big Files of all things. They also have a sister site (hence the ½) for sharing photos which you can see by CLICKING HERE. By far the best sites available in my humble opinion for each category.

Ok, here is another one that came up because one of my clients asked me about a product that was being sold for $497 (Arghhh) that shows you how to use Videos on your blog, specifically your WordPress blog (which maybe on it‘s way out by the way) . More power to the guy, but here is the F word software that I think he is using as a base for his system. CLICK HERE to take a look at it You can also just insert an iFrame and accomplish the same thing or upload your video to YouTube and past the link in..duhhhh. But then again, maybe not so duhhh. If you are a newbee, I guess you won’t know these things….hmmm Need to remember that more….

The software is called PodPress. The reason I say that WordPress is on its way out as there is some pretty other cool software that I believe is going to knock it out soon. But, they might pull it out if there new release is up to snuff.

You should also have your Blog integrated into your site. We are doing that with all of our new site installs and you can have a whole site for less than what he charges for the software! LOL More power to him if he can sell it. I just hate to see people throw away money like that.

Hope you have a great weekend and happy Musings! Look for more goodies soon from The Muse Blueprint!

JFA

PS   Click on the arrow button to play! This took about 45 seconds to imbed. This is the quick and dirty way to do this by the way. You can have a nice frame and everything if you take about 2 minutes. I will post some videos on how to accomplish this in The Muse Blueprint and here…of course they will be the F word. 
PSS  If you use or have a nifty F word product, I would love to hear about it and I will pass it on.  Copious attribution will be given of course..

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^ By the way..the software that I am Demo ing here is only $9.99. Yep less than 10 Bucks.

Watch the video to see what it can do then Click Here to find out more!

After much ado and behind the scenes work, the new site is up and running for The Muse Blueprint.  We have gotten slammed with so much new work, it has taken a few more weeks to get her there, but what a wonderful reason for the delay.  Still have a ton of content to move but she is is there.

Also, we are looking are showing you how to get Free Publicity for your Muse.  Check out the site for more details.

Click Here to see her!

I Thought I Knew……….

As I sit doing my every once in a while inventory of what is swimming around in my noodle I come to think about what The Muse Blueprint does for people in changing the way they “thought” that a business had to be put together and run. It is turning what they thought they knew upside down for most people, including myself.

This is not something new for me. My mental world started getting rocked pretty early as my parents seemed to enjoy a somewhat different lifestyle than most. My Mom was a History and English teacher and my Dad worked in the Government with Computers way back when they were the size of a whole building and they were fairly well politically connected and because of this I got to do some very unique things at a young age. I was also encouraged to explore pretty much anything my intellect desired. Got to meet Governor’s, Senators, and Congressman and later on the Kennedy’s and I realized that there was something not quite right with all of them at a very early age.

I hung mostly around adults that were pretty smart for the most part but I actually got to grow up in the country. So, I think I got the best of both worlds in that the farm grounded me but hanging around a bunch of movers and shakers kind of rounded me out a bit. I learned to appreciate the farm much more than the politicians. At least the BS out there came out of the right end of the animals on the farm.

I remember one of the first things that disabused me of the notion that what is out there publicly may not necessarily be true is that you can almost take to the bank that Alexander Graham Bell more than likely did not invent the telephone. Thanks Mom. It was a man named Elijah Gray that in fact did the deed. They actually got to the patent office on the same day and eventually Bell was given the patent. But, Bell used a microphone invented by Gray and it was later admitted by the patent examiner on public record that Bell did in fact bribe him to let him look at Gray’s patent application and thus screw the pooch on old Gray. I was shocked when I learned this as a kid. Every time we went over that in history class I just laughed.

This was kind of when I started to question everything. Little did I know that I should have questioned even more things?

As for what many consider the first true motion picture, you may not know that Edison bribed a studio in France to obtain a copy of the Motion Picture De la Terre à la Lune. It had special effects and stop action footage. He then had it subtitled and made millions off it here in America. The original Director had great plans to come here to accolades and fortunes only to find it everywhere and he was paid nothing for it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbGd_240ynk you can see it with a modern soundtrack.

The other biggy that I actually discovered on my own by looking through some books from the 20s and 30’s was the in all likelihood the Wright brothers were not the first in powered flight and that in fact more than likely they were the 3rd in flight. Richard Pearse, in Waitohi, New Zealand flew in March 31, 1902. Even before Pearse, in 1899 there was Gustave Albin Whitehead that according to several Newspaper’s and eyewitness reports flew nearly half of a mile well before the Wright’s were in the picture. He did so with dozens of reliable witnesses and there is documentation that he did over 50 flights. In my book, he was more than likely the first in flight not the Wright brothers. Not only that, when the surviving brother donated the first plane to fly and other items to the Smithsonian in the 40’s he had it written in the legal contract that they could not investigate any other claims of first flight or they would lose the items. He thus put nails in the coffin of any other claims by not allowing them to interview or investigates the surviving witnesses and materials. Pretty smart when you think about it, but since this is true it makes the Smithsonian complicit in a cover up as far as I am concerned. Arghhh.

Did you know that the fax machine was actually invented in the late 1800’s and the TV was invented in the 1920’s by John Logie Baird?

The TV was kept off the market by the President of RCA whom started a personal vendetta and ruined the life of the man that invented it in order to “save” radio and was successful in suppressing the invention until the patent ran out and then he ran with it, nice guy. Baird also invented Radar.

The first remotely guided torpedo was invented in the 1890’s by Tesla and he demonstrated that it actually worked but the Navy thought it was too sneaky. Can you believe it?. Tesla also invented the electric motor that you use every day in your dishwasher and dryer etc.

More recently, did you know that the Doctor that discovered that ulcers are caused by bacteria almost lost his license to practice because the board thought he was nuts? He finally ingested the bacteria and gave himself an ulcer and had another doctor diagnosis him and then he gave himself a massive dose of antibiotic and then went back to the doctor to prove he was cured. Kind of cool, now that is Moxy!

Did you know that P.T. Barnum did not utter the quote “There’s a sucker born every minute” and that a guy by the name of David Hannum did while suing Barnum for something really stupid? Yes, bogus lawsuits were even “in” back then.

Did you know that when the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock to settle America that the Indians already knew how to speak English and Portuguese? There had been fisherman from Europe coming to fish the Grand Banks for years and had taught them. The Fisherman apparently decided that it was a nice place to visit but you would not want to live there, kind of like France or the District of Columbia. LOL

Did you know that scientists have actually invented a transporter like the one in Star Trek and that it has worked? They have only been able to send one photon so far but it does work. Have not heard too much about that one as of late as I am sure it is now classified, but they did prove that it was possible.

Did you know that by around 45-BC the Greeks actually had invented a mechanical computer that could predict the moons orbit and when there would be an eclipse and that it was not too much bigger than a watch?

Did you know that the US has given away more money to charity than all of the other nations in the world combined?

This one I just ran into the other day when I was double checking some work a VA was doing. I had to do a double check on this one in the US Department of Justice’s database. Did you know that over 80% of all hate crimes are committed against Caucasians by other minorities? That is not what you hear about in the media though.

Did you know that $1 back in the 1940’s was equal to about 20 dollars today? Did also you know that the effective tax rate back then was only 3%? That is why Mom could stay home and take care of the kids if she wanted to.

Did you know that around 1,000 years ago the Vikings were farming in Greenland where there are now Glaciers?

Did you know that since Al Gore’s movie has come out that over 19,000 of the world’s top scientist have signed a petition saying that he is wrong? While this is not surprising to anyone that has studied meteorology, apparently it is to the Weather Channel. http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p357.htm

You may already know this but, America has produced more millionaires than all of the other countries combined. Did you know that our “poor” live better than the middle class in 90% of all other countries? The US also has the highest percentage of home ownership, as well as the most car ownership.

Did you know that during the 1800″ the Robber Barron’s as they were coined weren’t robbers at all? They actually created more wealth per capita than any other group of people in the history of the world and that one of them actually bailed out the US Government with a personal loan? Andrew Carnegie for instance built over 1,000 public libraries with his own money. Many can be seen in towns all across the East and Midwest. This was before the government got involved with the redistribution of wealth in the 1900’s.

While the unemployment rate is about 4% to 5% here in the US, did you know that it is 15% in Sweden and some say as high as 30% in France? Yea, makes you want to move there..

Some of the other things that I have learned is that good friends are a rare find and that if you replace people that made you cry with people that make you laugh you are much better for it.

Some of the things that I am glad to know is that there still is a Santa Clause, an Easter Bunny, and Leprechauns though. These truths make me happy, especially when I see the smiles they put on kids faces, both young and old.

I also learned that people really can change their life and begin to start their Muse in just 4 Hours. I’ve learned that getting feedback from people that have actually done it is one of the better feeling out there. But then again, success has always been its own reward. I hope that you get to experience it very soon yourself. It feels great, you should try it sometime!

So, I am happy to help people realize what they thought they new about starting a profitable business is just plain wrong. This is a good thing indeed.

Learning something new everyday,
Cheers,
John Feumet Anderson from Muse Central
www.TheMuseBlueprint.com

Yeee Ha… Howdy everyone!

I love my Muse! There is no other way to put it. The Muse Blueprint has grown up faster and better than I could have hoped for and she is doing great. I am on revision 18 and from the response that I have been getting, people think it is a great tool and most importantly, they are using it as it was intended, to create their Muse.
Is she done yet? Nope, far from it but she gets better every day.

The new 7 Day FREE trial is going well, and I think that I will continue that quite some time. If at all possible as I have said previously, I suggest you offer a $3.00 or under, or FREE trial for you Muse. You will get a lot more customers and the ones that use it will be happy ones. Everyone wins with these types of programs.

I just found two killer apps that are going to really help people and their Muse. Doing some testing first to make sure everything is cool, but they are looking good. I have decided to post videos for nearly every single step of Muse Creation on the Members Website, so that people can follow along and make it that much easier to bring to life a profitable Muse. Will try and post the info on the new apps by the weekend.

Right now, if you have not downloaded the latest version of the MB, I suggest that you do so. There are some valuable goodies in there for sure.

Testing one more Affiliate program that I have been playing with for some time. Will let you know how it goes.

When you get your Muse done, I am going to show you how to get a bunch of good FREE advertising. So, make sure you send them to me.

Cheers!

I will leave you with this quote and a picture of some possums, and astronaut marketing, just because I can. And remember nearly all of us remember pictures better than words, so use them in your marketing, they work.

Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.
Ayn Rand