To celebrate Independence Day, including the independence from being a slave to your business, I wanted to pass this very special note to you.

As you probably know, for close to a decade my wife, Sylvie Fortin, owns an outsourcing and project fulfillment services company, Workaholics4Hire, Inc. Her client list reads like a venerable who’s who in the marketing world.

Recognizable names include Shawn Casey, Yanik Silver, Frank Kern, and many more (including yours truly), who use her services regularly and have done so for many years. (For instance, her company was featured in John Reese’s Traffic Secrets, in the “Outsourcing Mastery” video.)

Her company offers a variety of services to fit most outsourcing needs that allow you to focus on growing your business rather than micro-managing it…

… From conducting research, creating products, and designing websites, all the way to handling emails, managing customer support, setting up PPC ad campaigns, ghostwriting articles, and much more.

Well, I don’t normally talk about my wife’s services (her doors have been closed to the public for a long time), but just recently she changed her business model RADICALLY. (And it’s not what you think.)

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I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Russell Brunson at various seminars. Russell is not only an Internet marketer, he’s also a bright guy.

And recently, he’s proven my assessment to be true.

When he told me I was nominated as part of his Marketer of The Year 2006 Awards, in the copywriting category, at first I was somewhat reticent. But when I saw the list of those I’m up against, needless to say, I was stunned.

Nominees include the likes of Dan Kennedy, Yanik Silver, Armand Morin, Mike Filsaime, Mark Joyner, Rich Schefren, Perry Marshall, Shawn Casey, Joel Comm, Ryan Deiss, and a ton of others!

But here’s Russell’s brilliance.

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I’m conducting a very special teleseminar on Thursday. It’s part of what’s dubbed an “intensive,” which offers more practical, step-by-step, hard-core “how-to” copywriting strategies than most teleseminars. It’s hosted by Harris Fellman as part of his Success Intensives Series.

To signup, click here to register. And guess what? It’s free. There’s no hard-hitting pitch on the call, too — although there will be a “soft” opportunity at the end to continue your education with existing products.

I’m the first on the list, and my course is slated for Thursday night. Other teachers include Yanik Silver, Tellman Knudson, Jo Han Mok, Patrick Coffey and Brad Antin.

Click here for more details and to signup for free.

I do believe what Dan Kennedy says, when he says clunky copy outsells clean copy. But not all the time. And recently, a university study proves this point.

People have a tendency to forge not only a lasting opinion based on first impressions but also a blanket opinion that pervades all other areas as well. The adage, “a first impression is a lasting one,” is not only temporal (i.e., the initial opinion remains consistent and nearly impermeable for a long time) but also spatial. That is, a first impression is also a universal one.

Illogical? Yes. But it’s human nature.

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