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Dear -fish this- member,

It has come to our attention that your account information needs to be updated.

Please send us your social security number, your checking account number, a pint of Jack Daniels, and a large paper bag filled with twenty dollar bills. We are only doing this for your protection, and even though we have no intention of stealing your identity,because we have a hard enough time dealing with our own identitys we have now, we sure could use some extra spending money for our upcoming phish…. errrr…. FISHING excursions!

We know it would be nicer if we actually worked as hard to make an honest living, as we do to bilk.. errr help protect your account information, but what fun would that be?

We promise not to have have account information problems in the future, because we are the “Gods of account information problems” and can control these sort of things. Besides, we won’t be able to monitor your account anymore, because we will be assisting Mr. Humongatus Batutti from Niger, who has been unable to find anyone lately that will help him out of the grave financial disaster his Pay Pal account has gotten him into.

If you don’t update your account information you may not be able to read worthless drivel in the future, your bumper will fall off of your car,and fleas will infest your armpits.AND…we will put a heebie jeebie hex on you that only a safe harbor ebay email can clear up. O.K.- O.K.– we will only suspend your account! That way we can send you another phony…. errrr…. follow up e-mail to protect your account. We will only temporarily spend the $20.00 bills you send us and will re-deposit two hundred bags of twenty dollar bills and some Papa John coupons into your bank account by—oh—let’s say Thursday.

Please don’t respond to this email- or blog letter for that matter- because we will be busy bouncing all over the internet phishing…. err bilking errr… updating other account info –and why would you want to have any dialogue about your terminated account anyway!!??

AND if you send us info now, we will send you a cheap knockoff Rolex that will impress some other phony, and also toss in a set of Ginsu carving knives!!

click here to update your account records.

The account dude at -fish this-

P.S. If none of this interests you, we have some hot stock market tips we will be glad to sell you…

user agreement blah blah,ebay,paypal,nigerian humonatus,Rolex, viagra,etrade, official looking mumbo jumbo, brought to you by the makers of pesty cola…

…Hard to believe- but every day people are still falling for those phony spams and e-mails that circulate the internet.A day is coming when the bilkers won’t be able to hide anymore and we will be able to track the phony solicitations down. In the meantime–be careful out there on the information highway, and if you really want to part with your hard earned money I know this Prince in Pottsylvania who is having some trouble with his finances, and if you could just help him out…..

A.J. Klott is the author of the Fish wRap-a humorous book on fishing and the people and events that surround the fishing world. You can visit his site at http://www.twoguyswithflys.com

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How can you render competitors totally irrelevant?

Answer: increase your business by using “blue
ocean” strategies, which provide almost infinite
possibilities for profitable growth.

“Blue ocean” marketing means you find new strategies,
new ways, new products, and new places to do businessall
yet undiscovered by competition.

Consider your “blue ocean” to be your “uncontested market
space,” where you can swim successfully and profitably
without running into large schools of hungry sharks.

“Blue ocean” marketing is characterized by both
exceptional value (real or perceived) and innovation.

A few examples:

Southwest Airlines’ successful “blue ocean” growth
strategy was not to compete with other airlines for
the existing market of flyers, but to create
a new market of flyers from non-flying car drivers.

Result: many airlines are in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Southwest is flourishing.

The Starbucks “blue ocean” strategy took the old
coffee shop concept up several levels. Starbucks coffees
are international, upscale and pricey. They sell marvelous coffee-related products as well.

It’s cool to hang out a Starbucks. It’s an inexpensive,
hip place to take a date. This coffee retailer even serve
non-coffee drinkers a line of milkshakes, Frappuchinos.

Starbucks, the world’s largest coffee retailer, offers an upscale experience, not just a mundane cup of cheap coffee,
in its thousands of stores internationally.

Starbucks has enjoyed huge profit increases, while mediocre coffee shops flounder and perish.

The alternative to “blue ocean” selling is to swim in
the “red ocean” of fierce, bloody competition where
there is little opportunity for new growth and robust
profits.

“Red ocean” markets and products experience slow growth, incremental (usually meaningless) product enhancements,
and heavy (often both inane and insane) price slashing.

How many “blue ocean” strategies can you develop and
implement in 2006?

Why compete in bloody “red ocean” situations against
inferior products, marketed by price cutting?

Merchants for years have referred to such products as
“schlock.” Now we can call these things “red ocean”
stuff.

You cannot find cheap Rolex watches, unless they
were stolen and being sold by a crook. So why ever
discount and give away your top-notch products?

Properly sold, a hefty price can reaffirm product value
and make the buyer feel good about his/her purchase and himself/herself, since it meets a person’s real or
perceived need.

So, business people, let’s make 2006 the year
of “blue ocean” excellence for ourselves.

The “blue ocean” concept was developed by W. Chan
Kim & Renee Mauborgne. It’s explained in their book,
“Blue Ocean Strategy: How To Create Uncontested Market
Space & Make Competition Irrelevant.”

The authors are professors at INSEAD, the world’s
second largest business school, located in France.

John J. Alquist and his wife, Shirley, own and operate Alquist Enterprises, a firm which promotes self-employment. John is a big believer in targeting upscale markets and competing on anything except price.

Vist John online at http://www.tell-it-well.com or email him at
john@tell-it-well.com.

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You’ve heard the expression that’s says: “Everyone loves a winner!”

But is it true?

Specifically, if you’re a success, and a conspicuous one, as a salesperson, consultant, or businessperson, with all of the goodies to show for it, including a Porsche, London tailored suits and a Rolex, will clients be pleased or will they think your services are too costly?

Likewise, let’s say you’re teaching selling skills. Should you be a persuasive devil, someone with the gift of gab, and be magnetic?

Or, do you need to be merely a teacher, a trainer, someone who can explain and interact well, but not be a star in your own right?

In other words, to be credible and therefore more effective in your assignments, must you talk the talk AND walk the walk?

Opinions differ.

I did a significant, six-figure consulting engagement in Houston. One of my trainees later became a top salesman for a financial services company in Ohio, and on the strength of his recommendation, that company hired me for what also turned out to be a serious six-figure assignment.

He remarked with genuine respect and awe: “Gary, I told them that when we met in Houston you were wearing the most expensive suit I had ever seen in my life!”

True enough, it was VERY expensive and very impressive to him, and I guess that suit paid for itself about 400 times over, with his help, alone.

Clothes surely “made the man” in that case.

But his companies respected high-earning salespeople and executives, and they felt better surrounded by reminders of success and affluence. If I’m good enough to get these things for myself, the logic says, I must be good enough to teach them, right?

But this sentiment isn’t universal. There are companies, quite prosperous ones, where they downplay all indicia of wealth while frowning on displays of opulence.

You can profit from your work with them, but don’t show it.

They could be in a cost-cutting campaign, asking the rank and file to economize, and your obvious displays could seem excessive or even undeserved, and you could engender resentments instead of cooperation.

But modesty has its limits, and overall, I don’t always agree with that famous line from the play and movie, “The Producers;”

“If you’ve got it; flaunt it!”

But suffice it to say that your choices of clothing, jewelry, autos and other things that can be seen easily, will speak volumes about you.

What do YOU want them to say?

Dr. Gary S. Goodman is the best-selling author of 12 books, over 700 articles, and the creator of numerous audio and video training programs, including “The Law of Large Numbers: How To Make Success Inevitable,” published by Nightingale-Conant-a favorite among salespeople and entrepreneurs. For information about booking Gary to speak at your next sales, customer service or management meeting, conference or convention, please address your inquiry to: gary@customersatisfaction.com

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