You have to love technology, this information is unreal! I pulled this from Fast Future and had to post it on my blog.

Fast Future’s 50 Forecasts for 2010

In October and November we shared the first 25 of our top 50 forecasts for the world in 2010. We have had a number of requests to publish them all together for ease of access – so here is the full list of 50 – we’d welcome your feedback:

Global Challenges

1.Facing up to Ageing – In the developed economies, lifespan estimates are increasing by up to five months every year and there is up to a 90% chance that those under 50 will live to 100. These patterns will be emulated for citizens in the developing economies as their incomes, lifestyles and health outlook improve. At the same time we know our pension systems cannot cope – they were not designed for people lasting 15 years past retirement let alone 35. In addition, with population decline in many developed economies, we know that the ratio of workers to retirees is shrinking – reducing the pool of pension funds available to serve a rising level of demand.

Governments, businesses, the media, society and the pensions industry all have to accept that this is a crisis of our own making – it is not something that’s happened overnight. We have had warnings about an impending pensions crisis for over 20 years and have chosen to do little about it. Over the next two years we think the debate will move beyond the current search for blame as people begin to realise that their pension funds won’t be able to cope. We will all be forced to think about how we can fund ourselves for a 100 year lifespan. This might mean working well into our 70’s, looking at alternative financing and investment models, changing our lifestyles to reduce our spending, ensuring that we will be healthy enough to keep working and keeping our skills and capabilities relevant.

2. Dealing with Debt – The current- potentially temporary – respite in the financial crisis is allowing governments to take stock of the impact of rescue packages on public finances. We know that in 2010 the debt of the richer members of the G20 is expected to rise close to 100% of GDP. Tough choices will be required on how to service the interest payments and bring down the size of the debt burden. Policy options are limited and potentially unpopular. Cuts in public spending, reducing public sector workforces, higher taxes and encouraging inflation are the most likely instruments. These will have a dampening effect on the economy and slow the pace of recovery. It will be interesting to see the choices made by different nations. The impact will be severe on public sector suppliers – consultants, lawyers and other servi ce providers could experience some of the biggest cutbacks. Redundancies in these firms will be an inevitable consequence.

3. Sustainability 2.0 – While we expect a continued focus on environmental sustainability, we also think there will be a lot more debate about the long term sustainability of our governance and business models. What are the right set of processes, voter engagement mechanisms, funding approaches and controls required to manage a country in the 21st century? Is globalisation the right growth model for large corporations, what is an acceptable level of growth to target and what business and financing models should underpin these choices?

Politics Gets Complex

4. New Routes to Change – The range of challenges facing developed and developing economies grows ever more rapidly – as does the outpouring of ideas from every corner on how to fix them. Many governments seem almost clueless as to how to make progress on multiple fronts and how to harness a diverse range of inputs. Despite the scale of the challenges, many are still reluctant to ‘think the unthinkable’ on issue as diverse as effective governance for the 21st healthcare funding, banking regulation and environmental protection. Increasingly we will see foundations and independent initiatives funding such ‘clean sheet thinking’ projects – enabling them to sit outside the political process and consider a wider range of options than most governments would dare to. The results will then be used to facilitate public debate and influence governmen ts from the top down and ‘outside in’.

5. Embracing Complexity – The finance crisis has helped us understand that our world is increasingly made up of highly complex interconnected and adaptive systems whose behaviour is difficult to model or predict. Governments and businesses will increasingly start to embrace complexity thinking to help understand and plan for the world we now operate in. The real breakthrough will come when we start to teach our children about complexity and how to make decisions in an uncertain world with imperfect information.

6. New Rules of Engagement – The failure to reach any serious binding global agreements on climate change at the COP-15 Summit in Copenhagen in December 2009 could herald the end of an era on global agreements. Increasing attention will be paid to finding new models for reaching consensus that don’t require leaders and administrators to fly around the world desperately seeking to configure a deal which then gets ignored in practice.

7. Public Unity – Private Retrenchment -The G20 members will continue to talk boldly in public about collective global action and open markets. In practice, nationalistic attitudes will abound. This will result in more protectionist trade policy, greater competition to attract inward investment, a bias for awarding of government contracts to local suppliers and a tougher immigration stance.

8. Training gets a Boost – We anticipate a number of publicly funded initiatives to support training and retraining from developed economy governments. The goals will be to try to reduce welfare costs, cut or prevent unemployment and speed the economic recovery. Where elections are due, these may be seen as politically motivated acts.

Economic Power Shifts

9. Joyless Growth – A recovery has begun or will soon start in most economies. However, while the headline figures will be positive, sentiment will be slow to recover as markets remain nervous about the potential for a ‘double dip’ recession. Redundancies will continue, firms will struggle to cope with persistent lower price expectations from customers, and public spending cuts will bite. Even small items of bad news could see market confidence ebb away and economies head back towards negative growth.

10. Analysts find the Future – Investment analysts are still reeling from the client backlash over them missing the downturn and its impact on the companies, sectors and countries they cover. Many analysts are starting to recognise the need to assess far more than a firms’ past performance, order book and product pipeline. Greater emphasis will be placed on assessing the future readiness of a firm or country’s leadership, the quality of the foresight work they are doing, the strength of their external networks and open innovation processes, their preparedness for a range of economic scenarios and their resilience in the face of possible decade of turbulence.

Customer and Consumer Trends

11.Spending – The Playing Field Has Changed – The downward shift to lower priced products and less conspicuous consumption is unlikely to see a rapid reversal in 2010. The spike in sales for Christmas 2009 should not automatically be seen as a turning point. High levels of personal debt, uncertainty over job prospects and general nervousness about the economy could lead to a more permanent 3-5 year downward shift in market behaviour.

12. Savings in Fashion – Despite government exhortations to help spend our economies out of the downturn, many consumers in developed markets will look to reduce personal debt and increase their levels of savings. Economic uncertainty, pensions concerns and healthcare costs will all be contributing factors to this new found thrift mentality. Some may wait for a second downturn before adopting such behaviours.

13. Ethical, Green and Cheap – Consumers will be increasingly willing to buy products with strong ethical or green credentials. However, in the mass market, price will remain a key consideration and it remains unlikely that vendors will be able to charge a premium for such products in the near term.

14. Zero Tolerance – Customers will increasingly vote with their feet or their fingers in the face of poor service or website failure. Whilst they may tell their friends about the poor service experience, they will be less and less inclined to inform the vendor – particularly where the amounts involved are relatively small.

15. Customer Insight gets Neural – A growing number of firms will adopt neuromarketing and related techniques to develop real insight into the neurological basis for customer behaviours. Others will continue to do market research whilst ignoring the wealth of direct customer feedback already available.

Global Business

16. Internationalism Becomes the Norm – In ‘Globalinc. An Atlas of The Multinational Corporation’, Mederd Gabel and Henry Bruner suggest that the number of multinationals has grown from 3,000 in 1990 to over 63,000 today – rising to 820,000 if affiliates are included[i]. This number is expected to accelerate in 2010 as would-be multinationals from China, India and other emerging nations seek a foothold and buy-up troubled businesses in key markets. At the same time, developed economy businesses not already abroad will be looking to enter emerging markets and form foreign partnerships in an attempt to overcome sluggish conditions at home.

17. Africa Bound – In the search for new growth, businesses from developed and developing economies alike will make an aggressive push into markets across Africa. Entrepreneurs from Asia may fare better and see faster results as they are more able to adapt to local business practices to secure opportunities than less fleet-footed global firms.

18. Clipped Wings – The airline industry will continue to experience turmoil as business passengers in particular are slow to return. Casualty rates could be high – airlineupdate.com lists 90 airline failures and 7 mergers for 2008 and a further 31 failures and 6 mergers for 2009. We can expect 30-40 more failures and further mergers by the end of 2010.

Business Strategy

19. Customer Lock-in – Nervousness about the strength of the recovery will drive innovation in sales and pricing strategies. Where possible, suppliers will seek to lock customers in to longer term deals during the early months of the year – with options such as subscription models, long-term discounts and staggered payment arrangements. Equipment suppliers will increasingly have to adopt an approach of providing the product for free and then charging a rental fee or proportion of the savings or increased revenues / profits where these can be attributed.

20. Free or Fantastic – Vendors of both physical and electronic goods and services will have to face up to the fact that hyper-competition and almost unlimited consumer choice are driving prices down to zero. A range of alternative revenue streams are then required to make the endeavour viable. Those that want to generate direct payment will have to demonstrate that their offering is truly fantastic and worth paying for. For example in the UK newspaper industry, the Financial Times has successfully raised its hard copy cover price on a regular basis and charged for its premium content online. In contrast, the London Evening Standard has had to abandon the charging model and move to a free circulation model.

21. Accelerating Innovation – One of the most interesting responses to the downturn has been the rising focus on innovation. This has ranged from a wave of new product launches to radical rethinks of entire business models and operating systems. However, many larger businesses have found their internal processes a barrier when it comes to turning ideas into reality. We think the focus of innovation initiatives will increasingly focus on streamlining decision making to allow more rapid testing of new ideas.

22. Open Innovation – Wave 2 – While there are notable examples of businesses such as P&G and Apple succeeding with open innovation, the reality is that many have struggled to make it work. Internal processes, legal issues and a prevailing mindset of distrust have seen many such initiatives fail. We expect to see three dominant approaches in the next wave of open innovation in 2010. Firstly, some major corporations will bite the bullet and truly embrace the concept. The majority of large firms will followed the route of controlled experimentation to open up particular innovation opportunities around new product development using platforms such as Innocentive. The third will see a growing band of innovators who use open and crowd sourced approaches to conceive, develop and market their products and services.

23. Improving M&A Potential – The downturn has left a number of firms struggling for survival or at least significantly weaker than 18 months ago. The risk of a double dip downturn makes many even more vulnerable. Cash rich corporates, investment funds and even private investors will be more active in seeking out opportunities to acquire and integrate or break up these ‘bargain basement’ businesses.

24. The Quick and the Dead – In most sectors, over the next 12-18 months, we expect to see a wave of new ventures and industry level initiatives taken by entrants and existing players. These are entrepreneurs and firms who took advantage of the downturn to take or accelerate bold moves. The results of their efforts will come as a shock to many in the sector who ‘didn’t see it coming’. A second breed of ‘dead men walking’ will become apparent as traditionally successful businesses struggle to come to terms with a new world order.

Business Operations

25. Leaner and Meaner – Businesses that emerge successfully from the recession should be fitter than before, raising the possibility both of increasingly competitive firms and of a jobless recovery.

26. Sustainability Goes Mainstream – Google’s SmartMeter provides information on your Google home page on how you use electricity and how to be more efficient. The emergence of such applications, and the money they can help save, will appeal in a post recessionary world where sustainable products and services will be increasingly common. The challenge will be to demonstrate that products are truly sustainable in a clear and simple manner.

27. Responsible Investment – As the green credentials of company spending and investment increasingly come under the microscope, the need for a Director of Responsible / Sustainable Investment will manifest itself and become apparent in many organisations.

28. The Listening Organisation – We expect to see more Chief Listening Officers appointed to ensure companies are truly hearing and responding to customer needs, concerns and comments emerging from direct feedback and via the social media such as Twitter.

29. Skills Shortage – Despite unemployment rates of up to 10% in the U.S. and across the E.U., many industries will face continuing shortages in key areas owing to a misalignment of skills required and available qualified talent.

30. Travel Under Scrutiny – Cost pressures and nervousness about a double dip downturn will continue to impact corporate travel budgets. Despite the evidence about the value of face-to-face meetings, travel restrictions will be imposed, and investment will rise in electronic alternatives from teleconferencing to virtual events. This will drive the growth of alternatives to business travel, such as Telepresence and Halo rooms. Increasing political instability in various world regions may also have a restraining effect on travel plans.

31. Telecommuting Grows – Rapidly increasing worldwide broadband connections and real time technology connections now make it feasible to be fully effective from home. Globalised work teams also render the concept of ‘going into the office’ a pointless exercise if your team is on another continent. At the same time, the desire to reduce office space requirements and overheads, cut CO2 emissions, avoid gridlocked transport systems and retain happy talent will all drive the take up of telecommuting.

32. Rise of E-Learning – The desire to maintain skills and motivation while containing costs and responding faster to business needs will see firms and training providers make greater investments in the use of e-learning. Increasing use will be made of virtual worlds to deliver simulation-based training in fields as diverse as healthcare, auditing and financial services.

33. Growth in Software as a Service (SaaS) / Cloud Computing – A growing number of businesses of all sizes will adopt SaaS / Cloud Computing strategies. This trend to renting applications from third party providers over the internet will grow as businesses look to improve the functionality they can offer, increase flexibility and control costs.

Engagement with Social Media

34. Social Networks Harvested – A number of models will emerge claiming to offer approaches to monetizing individual or corporate networks. While some will be transferable from one business to another, many will not prove to be portable from their originators to other entities.

35. Business Gets Social – As yet there are relatively few examples of big companies that have scaled social initiatives beyond one-off marketing or communications initiatives. One exception is Best Buy’s Twelpforce, which leverages hundreds of employees to provide customer support via Twitter. Cost and service pressures will see more firms developing business-wide social media engagement strategies that encompass customers, prospects, suppliers and partners.

36. Internal Social Media Policies Tighten – With user rates booming across the social media platforms, and growing pressures on headcount, we could see growing restrictions on the internal use of the social networks. Even where the company understands the benefits and is making an investment in social media, strict controls may be adopted on how much time staff can spend visiting such networks in company hours.

Ethics and Environment

37. CSR Backlash – Product advertising is now full of claims about firms’ ethical and green credentials. However, consumers are becoming cynical about exactly what is being done. There will be real pressure for transparency on exactly how much of the item price is actually being donated to build schools, buy books, plant trees or train a teacher. There will also be a real focus on providing evidence of what is being done with the money.

38. Our Friends Electric – There will be a major increase in activity in the electric and hybrid vehicle markets. Existing car manufacturers will announce a number of new vehicles and concept development projects. New entrants to the sector will start to bring products to market and a number of vehicle projects will find investors. Activity levels in China will be particularly high.

Science and Technology

39. Serving the Masses – We will see rapid growth in mainly science and technology based solutions targeted at the needs of the developing world. Inspired by examples such as the Nokia Money mobile money transfer service, big corporations will increasingly develop offerings targeted at the low income mass markets.

40. Loving the Labs – The government stimulus packages announced in 2009 included a major boost for science and technology investment. Notable examples included 10Tn Yuan (1Tn Euros, US$1.5Tn) in China, 900M Euros in Germany, 731M Euros in France and 685M Euros in Norway. Business and the investment sector will also place a major focus on investment in science and technology ventures as a route to driving new growth opportunities.

Ten emerging areas of science and technology that we expect to hear a lot more about in the next year are listed below:

41. The Rise of Citizen Science – Public participation in scientific research will become increasingly popular. Amateurs will see and seek out greater opportunity to gather data, participate in collaborative studies run by both professionals and amateurs and lend their computers to large scale ‘grid computing’ efforts such as SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence).

42. NBIC-convergence – The convergence of the domains of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technologies and cognitive science offers the potential for truly transformational scientific breakthroughs in fields as diverse as brain science, energy, environmental protection and food production.

43. Synthetic Biology – Synthetic biology involves designing and building basic biological building blocks that can perform functions as diverse as cleaning up toxic waste, growing electronic circuits, and producing artificial drugs food and fuels.

44. Personalized Medicine – Commercial services such as 23andme.com are already available that can read and map a significant part of an individual’s genome for less than $500 in 2-4 weeks. Advances could see the price fall to around $100 to sequence our entire genome in eight hours or less. This would enable medical treatments to be tailored to our unique genetic profile.

45. Novel Energy Sources – As the level of government and private venture capital funding for green technology increases, so the range of candidate technologies will grow. Expect to see regular coverage of ‘breakthrough concepts’ as diverse as energy producing kites, liquid and printable batteries and a variety of initiatives attempting to capture energy from human motion.

46. Food Production Methods – A variety of approaches will be discussed for closing the gap between production and demand. Expect to see Genetic Modification back under the spotlight along with concepts such as vertical farming, salt water farming, precision farming using satellites to optimise seeding and harvesting and artificially reared meat.

47. 3D Printing / Personal Fabricators – Three dimensional printing techniques have been used for some time in manufacturing to create 3D items by bonding particles together layer by layer. As the costs and footprint of 3D printers come down, so the potential emerges for ‘print on demand’ fabricators to be deployed on the high street – enabling stores to offer a far wider range of products while reducing the physical stock holding. The ultimate would be the personal fabricator which sits at home next to the washing machine and which enables us to print items (for example a plate) locally – using ‘recipes’ we have purchased and our own designs.

48. Ambient Intelligence – The expectation is that everyday objects from wallpaper to carpets, furniture and our clothing will all have embedded intelligence and an IP (Internet Protocol) address so that our environments can interact with and adapt to us. For example, picture the scene, we are having a stressful phone conversation, our mobile phone picks this up and responds. It communicates to our clothes to increase the air circulation around our body, requests the wallpaper to display a brighter tone and instructs the photo frame to display a happy or uplifting image. While all of these may sound far fetched, each development is already being worked on in the labs and ambient intelligence is seen as the glue to help link these developments together and shape the environment to the needs of the individual.

49. Self Replicating Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Real world applications of AI surround us – from satellite navigation to aircraft autopilots and washing machine control systems. The next generation of AI programs to emerge from the labs will demonstrate ever greater capacity to learn, adapt to their surroundings and even replicate themselves.

50. The Singularity – The basic concept was popularised by futurist Ray Kurzweil. He argues that we can expect the continued application of Moore’s law – the doubling of computer power every 12-18 months – for many decades. Moore’s law coupled to advances in AI will lead to a point around 30-40 years from now when devices will have so much computing power that machine intelligence will exceed human intelligence. A film on this concept is scheduled for release at the end of 2009 and will lead to widespread debate on the issue.

[i] http://www.globalenvision.org/library/2/1179

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I had to post this on my blog after reading this, it’s so true.. I actually see this happening to me now.. Getting caught up in all the noise.

Facebook, Twitter, Employees, Online Friends, Skype. Do you and align yourself with what you want, don’t let the noise get in the way!

***THIS IS A EMAIL FROM BY BUDDY JOHN REESE****

If you’ve been on my newsletter list for the
past year (or more) then you know I’ve got through
quite a personal transformation…

In early 2009, I had moved from Florida
to California. I spent about 12 months there
and then decided I wanted to go somewhere
else. And I decided to do it in a bit of a ‘dramatic’
fashion…

I decided to get rid of everything I owned
(things) and just travel the world out of a small
backpack with just my laptop and a few days worth
of clothes. I called it my MINIMALIST ADVENTURE.

I travelled to 3 different continents over the
next several months, and technically I’m still
on that trip — although, I got a bit burned out on
living out of a small bag (and not having a home base)
and so I decided it was better to set up a
‘home’ and then travel to and from there, and of
course acquire some more clothes and normal
stuff to be able to enjoy myself a bit more. But
I’m still going to keep things to a minimum and
not acquire tons of things like I had in the past.

I’m back on the east coast and happy
to be closer to my family. But here’s my ‘point’
to this message today and what I’ve learned
from my little ‘experiment’…

During the past several years, as I’ve talked
about many times before, I failed to release many
new marketing products. Even ones I mentioned
were in the works ended up fizzling out when I
either changed my mind or got distracted with
other things; such as working on unrelated
business ideas.

I started out with a ‘bang’ back in 2004 when I
released “Traffic Secrets” (that most people
know me for) and then after that (I am willing
to admit) my popularity pretty much went downhill
from there because I did a poor job of releasing
a lot of new stuff — I’ve made it known how much
I hate product creation, and that had a lot to do
with it.

I ended up working on a lot on non-marketing stuff
during those years; I built a large content network
of sites (driven by articles and syndicated content)
and worked on some software projects.

But during the past 4-5 years or so something else
happened that affected everything I was working
on…

I GOT SEVERELY BURNED OUT.

I used to be a “marketing junkie” and maybe
you are too. I used to read everything about
marketing (online and offline) I could get my hands
on. I read Advertising magazines, Direct Marketing
periodicals, bought all the new marketing books,
you name it. I lived and breathed marketing.

And what used to be a “fun” topic for me turned
into something that I had lost my passion for.
I felt like my creativity and the ‘fire’ that fueled
me as a serial entrepreneur since I was about
10 (when I ran a BBS and other little businesses)
was fading.

But then one day I really started to realize ‘what’
the problem was…

TOO MUCH NOISE.

And this is the same premise as to why I decided
to do my little Minimalist Adventure…

I was spending 10-15+ hours per day online. Reading,
researching, and communicating with people. I was
getting over 3,000 emails PER WEEK, and was involved
in all sorts of ‘networking’ stuff with social networks, etc.

I quickly reached over 5,000 ‘friends’ on Facebook… over
25,000 ‘followers’ on Twitter. I was getting hundreds of
“direct messages” on Twitter and Facebook in addition
to all the emails that hit my inbox every week.

The Internet truly is like drinking from a fire hose. And
I think it’s just becoming a bigger fire hose everyday!

To say I had personally reached ‘Information Overload’
is an understatement. I had very little time to actually
THINK and to be creative. Basically, I was becoming
a data zombie — like most people are today.

So I Decided To Make Some MAJOR Changes…

If you’ve been on my newsletter list for the past year
then you noticed many of them…

1. I deleted my Twitter account.

I came to the realization that using Twitter just
wasn’t that profitable for ANY of the projects I
was working on. It was becoming more of a
‘chat’ service than anything and had me
wasting a lot of my time.

2. I deleted my Facebook account.

Facebook had me logging in many times a day.
(Like most people are doing right now.) It was like
“Extended Email.” Just another place people
were bombarding me with messages. And to
be honest, I was spending a lot of my time filtering
through information about tons of people that
I didn’t care about. I don’t mean to say I didn’t
care about the people, I mean I didn’t care to
see every ‘update’ that they were taking their
kids to soccer practice, or how their dog just
puked on their rug, or that they were excited
that their husband was finally taking them out
on a “date night” etc. I’m sure you know what
I mean. Facebook is really the “TOO MUCH INFO”
system of all systems. It exposes you, at least
in my opinion, to too much info about people’s
lives.

3. Several months ago, I left all the ‘mastermind’
and ‘brainstorming’ groups I was a member of.

I used to have regularly scheduled phone or
Skype chat sessions, usually multiple times
a month. I had a little ‘brainstorming’ setup
with a friend of mine that was in the software
business (not marketing related) and we’d do
a call together every other week to talk about
our latest projects, what our bottlenecks were,
and to encourage each other to keep staying
productive (or helping solve problems). But
I realized this was taking up a lot of my time
and after a few sessions, there wasn’t a lot
to keep talking about. So I decided to stop
doing them, and my friend understood and
actually was feeling the same way.

I was also a member of a mastermind group
that mainly communicated via email — like
an email discussion list where one person
could post something and everyone would
get it, then someone would reply and everyone
would get the reply, etc. etc. This was a
very influential group with some of the top
marketing ‘gurus’ but it also included some
other major infoproduct publishers – from
fitness, real estate, stock trading, relationship
advice, etc. The members in the same
industries would try and support each other
with cross-promotions and JVs, and the
entire group would share test results and
talk about their business goals, challenges,
etc. It was tough making the decision to
leave this group, but it was just another
thing adding to my inbox load as well as
just being another ‘pipe’ of information that
added to my overwhelm. So I resigned
from the group and everyone understood
as I was moving on to other things in my
life and was trying to ‘downsize’ everything
I had going on.

4. I changed my email address.

I just couldn’t take the amount of email I
was getting. It was just too much. It
gave me so much stress it wasn’t even
funny. Maybe you are dealing with the
same thing? So basically I declared
“email bankruptcy” and just changed
my email address. And I only gave my
new email address to my family, close
friends, my employees & outsourced
workers, and other ‘mission critical’ people.
I still get ‘some’ emails from people
that I had to contact for something (and
they saw my new email address) etc.
but overall I have greatly reduced my
email load.

Today I get less than *20* total emails
per day.

And considering that 50% are probably
from my Mom (Mom, I do like
your emails!) I don’t get a lot of email
from that many different people. And
I’m glad.

AFTER ALL OF THESE CHANGES, I COULDN’T
BE HAPPIER.

I’m now 100 times more creative than I have
been in the past 5 years. I have less stress
and most importantly I spend a lot
less time on the computer. I never realized
how much I was using the computer everyday.
It’s actually a pretty amazing thing to only
be online a short amount of time each day.
Go figure.

And as many of my long-time customers and
subscribers know, for over 2 years I’ve been
“in motion” of following a lifelong dream… to
be in the Video Game/Entertainment business.
I’ve talked for years about making games and
working on other ‘fun’ projects. It’s a much
different business than an Internet publishing
business, but I really enjoy it — even, though,
the new company has been slow with generating
revenue (we’re getting there, though.) That
industry has really changed in the past few
years. You still need some capital to build
a business there, but you no longer need
$20MM to create a ‘console’ game for the
Xbox, Playstation, etc. Small indie developers
are finding success with iPhone games and
Facebook too. I’d love to create the next
“Angry Birds” or “Doodle Jump” but we’ll
see. For those that don’t know, the
99 cent game “Angry Birds” on the iPhone/iPod
Touch has now generated over
$10,000,000 in sales! I think that includes
their $4.99 version for the iPad too. But it’s
amazing especially when the
game has barely been out for one year.
And they’re already talking about leveraging
the game into possibly a cartoon and other
merchandising opportunities. And that’s just
ONE game idea. I have tons of them.

I now have a little ‘Game Studio’ in the
Philippines, and setting that up and my
experiences with it is what really motived
me to do my “Outsource Force” class earlier
this year. I really think it’s a HUGE component
to building a scalable business — leveraging
labor costs and having others grow your
business for you. We’re also now in a position
to do contract work where we build games
(and other apps) for other companies — another
great opportunity. The demand for iPhone apps
and other mobile application development is
HUGE now. (And growing.) In fact, it’s one
of the fastest growing industries in the world.
So I’m looking forward to our future. This is
a really exciting time in history — the ‘shift’
from desktop computing to mobile computing.

The outsourcing advantages are common sense really.
Steve Jobs isn’t assembling iPads in a factory
somewhere. In fact, Apple itself doesn’t
really build many of their own products.
Almost all of their products are manufactured in China
now. It just makes the most financial sense. We
live in a Global Economy now and as a business
owner you need to tap into all the resources at
your disposal to have the best chance of survival.

So I’m spending most of my time on this little
game/apps company now. As I mentioned a few
weeks ago, I’m now spending only about 10%
of my time on this marketing business,
and I’ll probably shut it down within 6 months –
all my employees are in the process of moving
over to the new company and I just have less
and less time to spend teaching. While I do
love teaching (and of course all my great customers)
I ultimately love being an entrepreneur myself.
And I’ve made it no secret that I never
wanted to be a ‘guru’ anyway. Just not really
my cup of tea.

* I’m still working on the TS2.5 update that
all TS owners will get for free. You’ll get an
email when it’s done with download instructions.
(Thanks for your patience.) Aside from that
I won’t be producing any new marketing products.

I recently signed a ‘brokerage’ agreement with
Sedo, one of the top domain name companies
in the world, and they’re in the process of selling
my income.com domain. They’ve listed it at
$1MM but think they can sell it for more. We’ll see.
I want to use the additional capital to build the
game/apps company.

THE BIG ‘TAKEAWAY’ FOR TODAY…

I know my ‘moves’ aren’t the best for everyone,
but I do challenge you to think about minimizing
your communication with your online ‘friends’ that
you connect with on Facebook, Twitter, and via
email. They very well may be taking away from
your life and your business rather than adding to
it. We really do only have just so many hours
available to us in a day, and it’s really hard to
reach your goals if you spend a large percentage
of your time “communicating” and “researching”
and not “doing.”

Yours For Online Profits,

John Reese

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I want you guys to make a crap load of money with the landing pages i gave away, so i did some digging on offers for you.

Here are a list of offers i pulled from my affiliate network at http://www.ymultimedia.com

Grab your Free Landing Pages CLICK HERE

Credit Repair Reviews:

Freescore 360 $28.00/lead
CreditReport.com (Display & Email) $28.00/lead
CreditReport.com (Search) $28.00/lead
Free Bankruptcy Evaluation $10.00/lead
Score Assist $30.00/lead
CreditCard-OnePass.com – Email Submit Offer $1.75/lead
Credit Repair – Take Control – Lead Gen $4.75/lead
eDebtCure $10k + Debt $14.00/lead
eDebtCure No Minimum Debt $9.50/lead
Bankruptcy Rights! $7.50/lead
Experian FreeCreditReport.com $21.17/lead
National Credit Report $20.50/lead
CreditReport.com $21.00/lead

Anti-aging Reviews:

Cellulean Cellulite Gel – Global $40.00/lead
Neckline Slimmer $13.50/lead
Hydroxatone $45.00/lead
Timeless Secret $20.00/lead
Sibu Beauty – Proven Acne & Rosacea Treatment $34.00/lead

Online Dating Reviews:

Adult Friend Finder BBW LP $70.00/lead
PureCrush US $8.00/lead
PerfectMatch – Christian Dating (25+ only) $4.00/lead
Seniorpeoplemeet – Alternate LP & Form $3.25/lead
AmateurMatch.com $5.00/lead
TextNDate.com $2.00/lead
Loveandseek (Christian dating) $3.75/lead
Mate1 (Social) $3.75/lead
Cupid.com – AU $8.00/lead
Cupid.com – UK $8.00/lead
Big and Beautiful People Meet $3.75/lead
Single Parent Meet $3.75/lead
Singlesnet Big Beautiful Women 25+ (non-email) $4.00/lead
Singlesnet Male 30+(non-email) $5.50/lead
AdultFriendFinder.com – Free Sign up $4.00/lead
YourNextHotDate.com $1.75/lead
Cougar Junction $3.25/lead
Zoosk Facebook Online Dating (Spain) $2.50/lead
Zoosk Facebook Online Dating (Italy) $2.50/lead
Zoosk Facebook Online Dating (Canada) $4.50/lead
BBW Dating: Spicy or Sweet $3.95/lead
Spicy or Sweet – Gay $2.65/lead
Naughty Or Nice – Gay $3.50/lead
FunText Canada – Ready for a Date? $8.00/lead
FunText Netherlands – Ready for a Date ? $7.00/lead
Spicy or Sweet $3.50/lead

Get Cash Now:

Big Deal $45.00/lead
Home Employment Agency $56.00/lead
Job.com $1.35/lead
Cash4MyTimeshare $13.00/lead
US Financial Resources $22.50/lead
Your Debt Reducer $56.00/lead
EasyEarnSurveys.com email submit $1.75/lead
EasyEarnSurveys.com email submit – No Pop $1.75/lead
Stimulus Grant Approval $1.45/lead
MyGoldEnvelope – African American Targeted Page $20.00/lead
Instant Profit Explosion $30.00/lead
Online Market Essentials $30.00/lead
Ultra Profit Pro $30.00/lead
SelfStorageGenius $1.50/lead
Payday Loans – 1500 Payday Now (Short Form) yMultiMedia $8.50/lead
MyNextPaycheck.net – email submit $1.75/lead
LocalDataEntryJobs.com – email submit $1.75/lead
PaidSurveyCenter.com email submit $1.75/lead
Moms Next Paycheck email submit $1.75/lead
CashWire1500.net email submit $1.60/lead
LocalOfficeWorkJobs.com email submit $1.75/lead
PaycheckCentral.net – email submit $1.75/lead
EZ Auctions – Secrets to eBay Success! $34.00/lead
TheCashSource.com $24.50/lead
Emergency Cash Relief – Fast Payday Loan $11.00/lead
Regency Cash Loan $9.00/lead
Honest Cash Loan $9.25/lead
Project PayDay $2.50/lead
InboxDollars.com! $1.80/lead
Partner With Paul $3.15/lead
On Target Payday $11.00/lead
Federal Money Grants $31.00/lead
Federal Relief Club $31.00/lead
Home Job Placement $93.00/lead
Online Data Entry Institute $85.00/lead
My Profit Site $59.00/lead
My Payday Angel $1.65/lead
GoGreenCashAdvance.com $40.00/lead
OnlineCash911 $40.00/lead
Reseller\’s Heaven – INTL (All Countries) $65.00/lead
Online Loan Mod Service $15.00/lead
Work At Home Recruiters – No Exit Pop $75.00/lead

Gamin Reviews:

Play Sushi – My Wedding Dress v2 $1.00/lead
DegreeUSA Portal Game Design Page 1 Submit (CPA) – Social Media Only $15.00/lead
ArtBistro – Gaming Degrees $21.00/lead
Gamevance – Duck Hunt $1.85/lead
Retro Gamer $2.00/lead
Trivicell – Australia $6.60/lead
Trivicell – Australia (Incentivized) $5.90/lead
Trivicell – Denmark Details $2.20/lead
Trivicell – Denmark (Incentivized) $2.00/lead
Trivicell – Finland $8.50/lead
Trivicell – Finland (Incentivized) $7.30/lead
Trivicell – Israel $3.90/lead
Trivicell – Israel (Incentivized) $3.05/lead
Trivicell – New Dell – Norway $11.50/lead
Trivicell – Norway $11.20/lead
Trivicell – Norway (Incentivized) $10.00/lead
Trivicell – Sweden $8.50/lead
Trivicell – Sweden (Incentivized) $7.30/lead
Trivicell – United Kingdom $5.60/lead
Trivicell – United Kingdom (Incentivized) $4.90/lead

To your success,

Jay Styles

aka

Jose Rivera

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What in the World? Pandora’s box really opening or what? Are we going to be living in a world of mutants genetically mutated from bacteria. Kinda scary don’t you think?

Is the terminator really coming true? In my blog post yesterday i talked about the power of belief ,  how if ones believes in something eventually  it manifests itself into reality. Look at the Cell Phone & Now Virtual Reality Displays that where once just merely a thought.

So today’s story break out of MSNBC.

It’s alive! Artificial DNA controls life

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37256799/ns/technology_and_science-science/#storyContinued

hmm i see some Terminator & Matrix shyt happening here.

I mean let’s look at Facebook Data, Google Data, Yahoo Chat Data, Email Data, Twitter Data.. All user behavior.. Could artificial intelligence learn from our everyday connection to the world wide web? Because of the internet our everyday behaviors are now stored in a database. Think about it.. What’s a twitter post? Do you use gmail? Everything online is stored. Do you think if data was stored and easily available for us to access that things will become a lot easier for us?

Will we become  smarter and evolve because of the internet? I mean we now don’t have to spend years taking a class on php programming now u can find online tutorials that show u how to code in 24hours.

You know how they say we only use a percentage of our brain? I think that’s because we spend half the time focusing on the daily noise. What i mean in daily noise is the things that don’t matter.. like the 9 to 5 job u work to make the next person rich. The traditional ways we been taught of doing things because of what was laid out before us.. Like going to school and getting a degree and wearing a suit and talking properly in order to stand out and become successful amongst the rest of the world.  We find ourselves everyday focusing on the things that don’t matter or make much difference in our lives. Radio, News, TV, iPod’s, Xbox  ? -

These are all forms of triggering the human emotions in order to keep the wealth & privileged on top//. thanks to the INTERNET.  Seeing it first hand, by it being done to thousand of consumers per day by promotion of free trial products that fed into the emotional trigger that caused them to buy. Human beings can be easily manipulated and the ones before us have placed that noise to suppress us from reaching out and using our creative minds to do what we want in this world.

thomas friedman said it best. “Why do we as Americans worship Brittany spears & foreigners worship bill gates?”

Why do we have 22 year old kids waiting for that new ipod to come out, so they can spend all day listening to their jams and then u have 22 year old kids in Russia working on being a Rocket Scientist?

Maybe they don’t have much of that noise overseas?  Are they about flying jets, Ferrari’s, living in Mansion with a pool of blonde haired women like we are fed in the media? Nope.  * Don’t get me wrong that life is cool and what not but only for so long. Trust*

John Chow made a great post on his blog about the internet lifestyle. He made a good point how the park he went to was empty and how just a couple decades ago that park was filled with Moms.. Due to changes in the world and demand women now have to work with the husbands to put food on the table. Watch the video it’s good.

http://www.johnchow.com/the-dot-com-lifestyle/

This isn’t just the internet lifestyle this was the lifestyle before all the noise was handed down to us. Before we ever started focusing on the things that didn’t matter.  Actually it’s the small things that matter.. the simplest of thing’s.

I  feel that more of our brain capabilities will be used once we have to start thinking less.  Because of how the internet has indexed life..  Got a question ask google. Seriously try it now.

I mean im thinking way out there but then again i really don’t believe in anything being way out there anymore.. Let’s look at cell phones & Virtual Reality Screen TV’s and come on.. Artifical DNA controls life

forget what u heard! Believe in what u want just believe in it till the end.

if we can create Artificial DNA then shhhhhhhyyyytttttttt  I’m convinced we can do whatever we believe in.

Best,

Jay Styles

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Jose Rivera

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WOW has anyone noticed the micro-payments system integrated into Facebook? I mean i haven’t been on Facebook much but today as i was going through my profile trying to figure out how to get Walls posted to twitter.. lol.. I noticed in the settings there is a option to enter your credit card info and purchase mini-gifts for friends. That’s pretty sick to see where the future of business is going… I could so see a new Affiliate Network focused purely on micro-offers crushing it if it could be plugged into social networks via an api. Damn that could be a new project.

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