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		<title>I was a nerd in high school</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dr Marc Dussault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might not know this, but I was a nerd in high school. A total nerd. I was in the Mac I Computer Club, didn&#8217;t play any school sports, didn&#8217;t run for class president and was never part of the &#8216;in group of cool kids&#8217;. What do you call a nerd 10 to 20 years [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You might not know this, but I was a nerd in high school. <strong><em>A total nerd.</em></strong></p>
<p>I was in the Mac I Computer Club, didn&#8217;t play any school sports, didn&#8217;t run for class president and was never part of the &#8216;in group of cool kids&#8217;.</p>
<p><strong>What do you call a nerd 10 to 20 years after graduation?</strong></p>
<p>A millionaire.</p>
<p>How does that happen?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s either through technical genius or salesmanship.</p>
<p>Guess what? If you&#8217;re not born a technical genius, I can&#8217;t help you with the first way to become a millionaire, but I can help you with the second&#8230;</p>
<p>Salesmanship.</p>
<p>When I graduated from high school with honours, then went on to Pure and Applied Sciences in College followed by Engineering School, <strong>I morphed from a nerd to Geek.</strong></p>
<p>That&#8217;s Geek with a capital G.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s the difference between a nerd and a geek? A nerd is a &#8216;stupid&#8217; or unskilled/unknowledgeable geek. A geek is an &#8216;educated/skilled&#8217; nerd.</p>
<p>I started my professional career as a Technical Support Specialist in Road Design and Surveying, making $26,000 in 1985. Even though that was a LOT more than my fellow classmates who were making $15-18,000, I wanted to make more, a LOT MORE.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s when I came across Brian Tracy&#8217;s tapes. Yes, they were tapes back then.</p>
<p>I bought his tapes and while I was driving around (20,000 to 30,000 kilometers/year) I listened to them OVER and OVER and OVER again to transform my communication from Geek to PROFESSIONAL SALESPERSON. I listed to them so often, I actually had to replace a few of them because of wear and tear!</p>
<p>The transformation took weeks. Not sure how many, but within one year, I switched into sales and DOUBLED my salary to $52,000 which &#8216;back then&#8217; was an incredible accomplishment for a 24 year old, it&#8217;s like $100,000 today.</p>
<p>I bought more and more tapes and within one year launched my first company that I started with <strong>no money down</strong>, to building it <strong>3 times faster</strong>, with <strong>double the industry</strong> <strong>average sales per employee</strong>, with <strong>a fraction of the industry’s</strong> <strong>employee attrition rate </strong>while consistently producing <strong>twice the</strong> <strong>profitability of my competitors.</strong></p>
<p><strong>I haven&#8217;t made less than $100,000/year for the past 20 years.</strong></p>
<p>My secret for outstanding sales&#8212;&gt; Brian Tracy&#8217;s Sales Strategies.</p>
<p>Empowernet has just pre-released a classic bundle called &#8220;<a href="http://www.empowernet.com.au/find_solutions.asp?section=product&amp;productID=a0N20000000BwS6EAK&amp;campaignID=701200000002CIv">Secrets Of Self-Made Business Millionaires</a>&#8220;. The regular price is $117, but when you pre-order by clicking the hyperlink, it&#8217;s <strong>ONLY $39</strong>, saving you a whopping $78 or 65%.</p>
<p>The bundle includes Brian&#8217;s Classics:</p>
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<p>I know you&#8217;re thinking this is self-serving, trying to sell you something. Get over it. It&#8217;s thirty nine bucks. Plus you&#8217;re reading this blog because you want to develop and enhance your PERSONAL MASTERY.</p>
<p>Sales and communications is a KEY PERSONAL MASTERY SKILL. For $39 you&#8217;d be a fool to pass this up. I&#8217;ve always told people &#8211; LONG BEFORE I EVER JOINED EMPOWERNET that Tony Robbins helped me become the best person I can be, Jay Abraham assisted me to become the best business person I can aspire to be and Brian Tracy the best salesperson I can ever dream of being&#8230;</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t already know, I retired from the rat race in 2005 at the age of 42. That doesn&#8217;t happen by luck. It happens <em>by design</em>. One of the foundational keys to that happening is Brian Tracy&#8217;s sales strategies. $39 is an absolute bargain. I paid full price when I bought my tapes &#8211; do you think I&#8217;m complaining?</p>
<p>Go ahead and buy them now &#8211; time is money and with this recession, you need to know how to out-sell your competitors more than ever.</p>
<p><strong>Onward and upward</strong>!<br />
Dr Marc Dussault</p>
<p><a href="http://www.MarcDussault.com">Australia&#8217;s #1 Exponential Growth Strategist</a></p>
<p>P.S.</p>
<p>You probably don&#8217;t know <strong>HOW</strong> I was able to build my company <strong>3 times faster</strong>, with <strong>double the industry</strong> <strong>average sales per employee</strong>, with <strong>a fraction of the industry’s</strong> <strong>employee attrition rate </strong>while consistently producing <strong>twice the</strong> <strong>profitability of my competitors.</strong></p>
<p>I used to hold 2-day retreats with my employees. They were marathon sessions. All-day Saturday and all-day Sunday from 9 AM to Midnight &#8211; WITH NO PAY. That&#8217;s right, I didn&#8217;t pay them to attend. We would spend the entire weekend focusing on personal development strategies. We would do this every 3 months, or 4 times/year.</p>
<p>Their reward &#8211; PERSONAL GROWTH and the FINANCIAL BONUSES I would pay based on RE$ULT$. One employee DOUBLED his salary in one year and another got a &#8216;surprise&#8217; $8,000 bonus that made him cry. He thought I made a mistake on the cheque, that it should be $800, but when I told him it was correct, the bonus WAS EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS, he cried and said &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen a cheque for that much&#8221;. I can use this as the WHOLE down payment on a condo&#8230;</p>
<p>It was intense, it was life changing, it was amazing. I miss those days of total intensity and focus.</p>
<p>I made Brian Tracy&#8217;s, Tony Robbins&#8217; and Jay Abraham&#8217;s strategies available to my team and FACILITATED and MENTORED them as I now do with our Platinum Members. These are people who are still life-long friends.</p>
<p>That is how RE$ULT$ are created. Standing on the shoulders of giants like Brian, Tony and Jay.</p>
<p>We absolutely reveled in it.</p>
<p>Go on and get these classics and <a href="http://www.empowernet.com.au/find_solutions.asp?section=product&amp;productID=a0N20000000BwS6EAK&amp;campaignID=701200000002CIv">transform yourself into the best salesperson you know you can be</a>.</p>
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