The # Rule A Multi-Millionaire Follows, And No It's Not Warren Buffet's Rule.

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Image Credit: Julius Armen, Internet Marketer, Marketing Guy, The Man

Without sounding like I love the mac guy, this is your proto-marketer today. Or design guy who looks the part. How does this have anything to do with internet marketing, marketing, conversions or business in general? I think picture of someone who is the face of ?one of the most popular commercials ever, in the entire world and ever created, seems to be a normal, down to earth person in the commercials.

In the not too distant future, I bet we see less P-Diddy’s and more Mac guys. Forget the Bentley, what’s the new eco-no-footprint-tin-can small suv or mini-mac car. I also bet Mac comes out with design for a car. Already talks, but it shows you the true genius of Mac people and it’s culture.

In a recent Inc. article, Jim Collins explains the simplicity around the best businesses on the planet have one thing in common: they ferociously focus on ONE thing at a time. That’s paraphrased, but he’s right. All the most successful individuals I know are locked in to what they do. Just recently I asked a marketing buddy of mine to help me on project, and he had the best answer I’ve ever heard (or excuse – depending how you look at it): He said, “Mike how does this fit into your overall goal of better coversions, more money, and saved time”. I couldn’t answer it… I didn’t know.

He sent me a spreadsheet that he built or had someone build for him. I’ll add that in an upcoming post. It bascially shows every minute/hour of his day broken down by tiers of importance. First tier shows all must-do, absolutely critcal. It wasn’t check e-mail, it was 12 prospecting calls before 9:00am PST, 1 appointment, 1 free report distributed, one-way link to an article, one submission to an article directory, video submit through TubeMogul, and to take a pee. Yep, all before 9. He does this in two ways:

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NO EMAIL IS OPEN. IT’S TURNED OFF OR CLOSE.

THE PHONE GOES DIRECTLY TO A MESSAGE THAT HE WILL CHECK MESSAGES AFTER 1PM

HE OPENS ONLY ONE WINDOW/BROWSER AND NO OTHER APPLICATIONS

I know this sounds silly. But he’s a multi-millionaire. No debt, huge assets and the most solid guy I know.

Just this week I will begin to do this. Today I turned off the e-mail and focused on calling. Got more done by just doing that and not getting distracted. Maybe Facebook, Twitter and everything else is a HUGE distraction. We’ll see in the end.