How to be a Super Successful Scanner
May 21, 2010 Creativity, Making money, Productivity 2 CommentsWatch this video of Suzy Greaves, named as “One of the top 10 gurus to turn your life around” by the Daily Mail as she interviews me, John Williams, about the challenges of being a successful Scanner and the secrets to conquering them.
It’s time Scanners knew how to become that very rare thing - The Super Successful Scanner.
Learn the secrets of the Super Successful Scanner
I’ve spent all my working life searching for the solution to the challenges of being a scanner.
And I reckon I’ve cracked it.
Last year I won an international book deal (without all the usual slog that entails), wrote 70,000 words, and hit my deadline. Screw Work, Let’s Play: How to do what you love & get paid for it is published next month by Pearson.
Screw Work Let’s Play has been selected as a “Buzz Book” in Sunday Times Style Magazine this Sunday and described as:
“A compelling 10-step escape from corporate life that could spell a rash of resignation letters”
Fleur Britten, Sunday Times Style Magazine
Aside from this, I’ve been fortunate to achieve some remarkable things for someone so unfocussed and naturally lazy:
- I quit my job as Deloitte Consultant to consult independently to blue chip organisations like the BBC, often at a rate of over £1000/day (meaning I only needed to work for 3 months a year)
- I turned a full-time job offer into a 3-day a week freelance gig that paid me the same income - so I could do whatever I wanted 2 days a week
- Cold-called the Guardian newspaper to win my first piece of paid writing with no prior experience and had some of my experimental music played on radio stations around the world,
- I grew a meeting of a handful of people in a bar into the successful Scanners Night event with up to 70 paid attendees
- I’ve built and managed over a dozen websites and blogs, and used internet marketing to build an audience of 1000s of email subscribers, blog readers, and twitter followers
Now I want to share what I’ve learned in all these adventures to help you become that very rare thing - the Super Successful Scanner.
So you too can enjoy the creativity, variety, and idea generation you love andhave the shear buzz of real world results: seeing your creations out there in the world, reading your words in print, sharing your ideas and expertise on TV, or building a successful business - and finally making great money from it all.
Welcome to Scanner School
For the very first time I am running a Scanner School to show you how to achieve serious success as a Scanner.
It’s a 3 week evening course at a very special price and it starts soon.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
WEEK ONE:
How to choose the right creative or business project to do next - one that you’ll love doing and will actually make some money! How to choose projects that don’t make you feel trapped but instead feed your need for creativity, ideas and self-expression.
WEEK TWO:
How to follow through to get stuff done without making yourself miserable. How to complete important stuff even if you have the attention span and self-discipline of a 2 year old on coca cola.
WEEK THREE:
How to be successful (and even get rich & famous) for something despite the crazy random diversity of your interests and projects. How to attract new opportunities and income without the usual hard slog of relentlessly selling yourself.
Sound good?
How it works
Scanner School takes place as a series of audio masterclasses on the phone so you can take part wherever you are.
I’ll be on the line with all the participants explaining the critical strategies and shortcuts you need to be a super successful scanner. We’ll then have some time for Q&A before you go and put it all into action.
This isn’t some dry course where you listen quietly then go home to do your written homework. It’s a chance to get the buzz of connecting with like-minded ideas people and start using what you learn straight away.
This is what you get:
- 3 packed masterclasses including Q&A time
- Recordings of the masterclasses for you to relisten to afterwards (or if you have to miss one)
- My simple yet effective worksheets to help you with that most ghastly problem for scanners - choosing what to do next
- Be one of the first people to read Chapter 1 of my book Screw Work, Let’s Play to get you revved up & ready to go
Date: Mondays: 24 May, 31 May, 7 June 2010
Time: 7pm - 8pm London, England
Where: On a teleconference line (details on booking)
NOTE: All calls will be recorded for other scanners to listen to
PRICE
An hour’s one-to-one consultation with me costs £200.
This entire 3 week Scanner School costs just £97
Calls to the teleconference line cost just 2p a minute from a BT landline
I am NOT planning to run the Scanner School again in this form and this is without doubt the most cost-effective way there will ever be of working with me so if you do want to finally create a life as a successful scanner, grab your place NOW by clicking the button below.
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