Would you believe you can now launch your own TV Channel on the net for free? My friend Jay has been shooting great broadcast-quality time lapse footage of clouds and has launched a 24 hour TV channel called Cloud TV. It features some very nice chillout music as the soundtrack.
You can watch it below or go to his site Cloud-TV.com.
If you have plenty of content, launch your own TV channel at mogulus.com.
Barbara Sher writes: What if you don’t know if you (or someone you love) are a Scanner?
You can spot them easily: Scanners are some of the nicest, most interesting (and interested) people in the world; eclectic experts, delightful dilettantes, and totally under-rated geniuses who have the fascinating trait of losing interest in something once the learning part is over: good people who are tired of trying to change themselves and ready to find the life that suits them as they are.
With those measures, look around and see if you can find some Scanners in your life. Or in the mirror.
(From Barbara’s newsletter about her Scanners Retreat in Southern France, 19-24 April 2009)
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All profits from tickets sales for December Scanners Night will go to The Brain Research Trust.
Speaking personally, I have known too many people struck down by the terrible diseases addressed by the Brain Research Trust; close friends with Multiple Sclerosis and spinal cord injury, and lives (like my Grandmother’s) altered or ended by Stroke.
I am still shocked to think that I chatted with one of my favourite musicians Simon Jeffes of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra and only a short while after, a brain tumour claimed his life. And I have seen scores of fellow patients of the Human Growth Hormone programme destroyed by Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
The Brain Research Trust directly funds research into Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Brain Tumour, Head Injury, Stroke, MS, Motor Neurone Disease, and CJD. Pretty much all of us have known someone with one of these terrible diseases and will appreciate the value of research to find treatments.
The BRT supports University College London’s (UCL) Institute of Neurology by funding peer-reviewed research and PhD studentship programmes. You can read a list of current research in their last annual report (PDF).
Aside from all this, we Scanners are a brainy bunch – we like to think and learn and dream and create – so it seems appropriate to support this particular cause. Please book now to come along and please tell others about it so we can get as many people as possible.
I’m sure some people will want to know the details of how your ticket money reaches the Brain Research Trust (and how much of it) so in the name of transparency here it is:
You can choose to pay £7, £10, or £13. The ticket is exactly the same but you get to choose how much you want to donate to the BRT.
All tickets sales go through Paypal who take a small commission. This is 3.4% of the amount plus 20p. On a £10 ticket, this adds up to total charges of 54 pence. So your ticket of £10 donates £9.46 (over 95%).
Additionally, I have paid a £30 deposit for the use of the Lounge at the Old Crown Pub. I will only get this back if we spend at least £300 at the bar between us. If we don’t, I will deduct this cost from the total ticket income before making the donation. (So please drink a lot on the evening in the name of charity!)
I also pay over £50 a month for the systems that support the running of Scanners Night including shopping cart system, emailing system and website hosting. I will however absorb this cost myself and not deduct it from the donation.
The Paypal account for the ticket sales pays to my limited company, EG Consultancy Ltd. Once all the payments are in, I will make the a payment of the total profit within 7 days (probably sooner) from my business account to the Brain Research Trust.
According to my accountant, they additionally benefit from Gift Aid on the donation meaning they get back the tax I normally pay in earning that money.
I will email everyone on the Scanners list with confirmation of the payment when it’s done.
Hope that’s clear – phew!
Hope to see you with us on the 11th.
Click here to read details of the event and book your ticket.
John
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Going self-employed or starting your own business takes a lot of work in the early stages.
You can start to feel like a hamster on a wheel running faster and faster and not going anywhere.
Before you know it, you’re working all the hours available to you (and a few more) and still not seeing much return.
Part of this is inevitable when first launching something. Ask NASA; the Apollo rockets used the vast majority of their fuel just to lift off and travel the first 20 miles. The rest of the 240,000 miles were a breeze in comparison.
The problem is that it’s easy to get used to working hard and being very very busy – and not checking whether what we’re busy with will actually produce the results we want.
Unfortunately, the way we assume business works when we first try it for ourselves is not always correct. I know I invested considerable effort into projects early on that didn’t pan out the way I expected. That’s why it’s great to get tips from people who have been there before us, because it’s like taking a sneaky shortcut.
On Wednesday November 19th you can come and learn from 3 experts who have tried all the stuff that doesn’t work in launching a business and have then found the stuff that does. Mike, Judith and John of the Creative Entrepreneurs Club will be boiling down all those years of experience into 3 critical things that will help you make twice the money in half the time (and have some fun while you’re doing it).
Come to November Scanners Night and find out how to step off your own hamster wheel.
This picture shows the 4 step system to making money on the Internet. It shows how you can create a one page website, instantly switch on a stream of carefully targetted visitors to it and sell a product you don’t have to deliver and don’t even have to create.
The picture is from Daniel Wagner’s talk at October Scanners Night. If you weren’t there, you might need a bit of explanation! That’s OK, because we managed to record Daniel’s complete talk and you can listen to it for free right now.
Click the play button below to hear Daniel’s explanation of how you can implement this 4 step system on the Internet for yourself.
Daniel has made a special offer to the Scanners who want to learn this complete strategy for making money on the Internet. His one day workshop is normally £297 but if you use the special link below, you can save a total of £200 and grab a place on this intensive course for just £97.
PLUS you can take a friend for free (and that makes it less then £50 each)!
The workshop is nearing capacity so click the button below to read all about it and grab the discount now.
PS. Daniel’s workshops are the best way I know of learning how to productise what you know so you can start to make money from your expertise without turning up! If this appeals to you, please do check out this one day workshop.
Brevity is not just the soul of wit but the soul of entrepreneurship too.
We scanners have too many ideas to struggle alone implementing everything we think of. We need to take the fast track – and the best fast track is to collaborate with other people. If you want to engage other people to collaborate, you’d better be able to explain what it is you’re creating, what you need and why they should help you quickly.
At Scanners Night, you have a chance to get some advice from our guest experts on the spot. But you’ll only have 2 minutes to explain your project and what you need. Whether you’re coming to the next Scanners Night or not, start practising your “elevator pitch” now. And although this is a kind of selling, it’s not the old fashioned cheesy kind, it’s a statement that excites people about what you’re trying to achieve and makes it clear how they can help you.
You never know when you might run into a life-changing business contact – wherever it’s Richard Branson, Steve Jobs or the head of commissioning for the BBC. Can you engage their help in the 2 minutes you have with them in the elevator, on the tube, or in the loo? Start practising now.
NEW 2009 DATE: 19-24 April in Southern France. Read more here.
Would you like to spend a week with the world expert on Scanners in a nice spot in Italy along with 15 other Scanners?
Barbara Sher coined the term “Scanner” back in 1994 and recently wrote the book “What do I do when I want to do everything?“. If you’d like to spend a week with her in Puglia, Italy book for her Scanner Retreat now. It’s September 26 to October 1.
I attended her retreat in Autumn 2006 and thoroughly recommend it as a great mix of workshop and holiday.
Listen to Barbara talking about Scanners and the Retreat on this widgetabob:
Read more about Barbara’s Scanners Retreat here.
Or domains for that matter. If you’re a scanner and you haven’t discovered the joy of throwing together a website or blog for your new latest passion, it’s time to have a go.
My webhost 1and1 are celebrating 20 years in the biz by giving free hosting for a year, which is nice.
Go for the Home package and pay nowt for a year. Terms and conditions apply, no doubt.
I thoroughly recommend them because:
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If you already have a main website, there’s no reason not to get a domain for your latest side project and point it at a blog or simple website. Have a fish for domains below: