One of my favorite shows on TV of late is Shark Tank.

The show cen­ters on aspir­ing, brave, and some­times down­right idi­otic inven­tors and entre­pre­neurs who pitch their ideas in front of a group of mer­ci­less, seem­ingly heart­less mul­ti­mil­lion­aires, beg­ging for invest­ment capital.

Some of the advice that come from these “sharks” are pretty obvi­ous and com­mon­sen­si­cal, espe­cially to peo­ple who’s been in busi­ness for as long as I have.

But a lot of it is bril­liant. Bril­liant, but also brazen, unabashed, and bru­tally hon­est. It’s not for the faint of heart. If you don’t like see­ing peo­ple, along with their hopes, dreams, and busi­ness ideas being shred to pieces on TV, then this show is cer­tainly not for you.

The more I watch that show, the more I learn. It’s not just a fas­ci­nat­ing pro­gram, it’s a million-​​dollar edu­ca­tion in just one hour a week. And for free to boot. If you ever get a chance to watch that show, do it. You’re going to learn so much. It’s an amaz­ing show.

If an idea or busi­ness is dumb, dead, or down­right dread­ful, they will say it. Often, in no uncer­tain terms. They have to. After all, their money is on the line.

But then again, so should it be with you.

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I met Jason Fla­dien at a recent seminar.

He sat with Sylvie and me dur­ing lunch one day, where we had a chance to chat. One of the top­ics of con­ver­sa­tion was Sylvie’s breast can­cer. And there’s a rea­son why…

You see, recently Jason lost his brother Ryan to brain can­cer. Now, hav­ing had can­cer at 36, in Sylvie’s case, was atyp­i­cal. It’s rel­a­tively unusual for a woman to be hit with this dis­ease at such a young age.

But Ryan was only 8-​​years old!

It sad­dens me deeply when kids are hit like this.

They cer­tainly don’t deserve it. (No one does.) But while their fam­i­lies must cope with such a tragic loss, Ryan’s fam­ily was struck with another blow…

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I have been crazy-​​busy get­ting our newest prod­uct ready. It’s an all-​​in-​​one mem­ber­ship site that shows you how to cre­ate a mon­ey­mak­ing busi­ness online in just four steps.

We call it “Suc­cess Chef University.”

It cov­ers every­thing. Every busi­ness model, traf­fic type, and mar­ket­ing strat­egy. But do you know which ones you really need and why? What about out­sourc­ing any of it?

Like fol­low­ing a recipe, you need to use the right ingre­di­ents in the right order. Suc­cess Chef sim­pli­fies it all for you with step-​​by-​​step video tutorials.

Suc­cess Chef is still in the pre-​​launch phase. How­ever, we decided to invite you to join right now — long before we do launch — with a mas­sive dis­count.

Lim­ited to the next 50 indi­vid­u­als only.

The saleslet­ter is also inter­ac­tive, too. We’ve also recorded a spe­cial hour-​​long video to help you. That video is an edu­ca­tion in itself! In it, we share those four sim­ple steps to gen­er­at­ing income on the Internet.

Check it out if just for the learn­ing experience.

Michel Fortin: If you look at the laws and rules and all that won­der­ful stuff, they do exist for a pur­pose. And I under­stand that. But I also believe in edu­ca­tion because the more you edu­cate peo­ple the more you will change the world rather than forc­ing it to change. So, if you’re going to help out some­body in their own lives you need edu­ca­tion. If you’re going to help out peo­ple to real­ize maybe they are bad peo­ple and they’ve done hurt to oth­ers edu­ca­tion is the answer.

It’s not pros­e­ly­tiz­ing. It’s not try­ing to argue with them. It’s just teach­ing them and teach­ing them until they’re ready to be taught and they’re ready to change. I’ve met a lot of peo­ple who change their lives because they’ve learned and they’ve decided to learn and that’s the key. Edu­ca­tion is prob­a­bly the most pro­found answer I can give to that ques­tion. It’s just education.

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Michel Fortin: No, I think if you want to look at opti­mism in the best way is to look at it as an edu­ca­tional process. Learn­ing is part of it… sit­ting down with peo­ple, talk­ing with them, spend­ing time with them, read­ing books, spend­ing your time on learn­ing as much as you pos­si­bly can.

You will be able to go down the right road. Fast or slow doesn’t mat­ter and that’s not opti­mism. That’s just being. That’s just fol­low­ing your con­science. That’s just being a real­ist. It’s not being a pes­simist. It’s not being opti­mist. It’s prob­a­bly an opti­mal point of look­ing at it, an opti­mal point or way to look at things, but it’s not nec­es­sar­ily optimistic.

Ralph Zuran­ski: Do you think it takes courage to pur­sue new ideas?

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“Suc­cess in mar­ket­ing is sim­ple … Find the right mes­sage, use the right media, and deliver it to the right mar­ket.” — Cre­ator of “Mag­netic Mar­ket­ing,” Dan Kennedy, who’se my men­tor and the inspi­ra­tion behind this book.

Wel­come to “The 10 Com­mand­ments of Power Posi­tion­ing!” The fol­low­ing book is packed full of pow­er­ful mar­ket­ing secrets that will help you and your busi­ness enhance its image and increase its busi­ness… Effortlessly!

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In the sec­ond com­mand­ment, you learned that you should be the leader in your cat­e­gory or in your unique area of exper­tise. Now you need to be known as such. And one of the most effec­tive ways to do this is through publicity.

I met a fel­low once while work­ing in New York City who ran his own show on cable tele­vi­sion — his very own cable show! Cable and com­mu­nity tele­vi­sion sta­tions are won­der­ful medi­ums to get the word out effec­tively. This is an area in which you can get a lot of pub­lic­ity at lit­tle or no cost.

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