Mark credits his parents with instilling in him the discipline and values that would propel him from the working-class Sydney suburb of Punchbowl to the boardroom of one of the world’s largest companies.

From these classically humble beginnings, Mark has acquired over 25 years experience in the finance and property sectors.

He founded Wizard Home Loans, one of Australia’s largest non-bank lenders, in 1996 and turned it into a financial powerhouse, taking on the big banks by offering consumers something different – smarter access to better value loans. Wizard was one of Australia’s largest non-bank lenders with its successful brand expanding into international markets.

In 2004, after eight years at the helm, Mark grew Wizard to a staff of 400 and over 250 branches. He then sold his stake for a share of $500 million and kept his job!

Since then, Mark has been committed to his belief that all Australians should have access to quality financial advice and has gained a well earned reputation for championing legislative reform for the benefit of consumers.

Mark has been Adjunct Professor (Banking & Finance and Business Law & Tax) at the University of NSW and also sits on the UNSW Advisory Board. He is a member of the expert panel appointed by the Federal Government to review Australia’s sporting system, a past trustee of Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum and former chair of the Federal Government’s expert group on consumer protection in electronic commerce. He is also an industry leader on consumer protection issues.

He has found time to be the author of ‘Wealth Wizard’ and ‘The Yellow Brick Road to Your Financial Security’. He is also a regular financial columnist in News Limited publications including the Sunday Telegraph.

Mark shares his wealth of business and personal wisdom with genuine, infectious passion. He has much to teach you on financial and business success, entrepreneurship, and life balance.

The Ultimate Success Summit is not (the same) for everyone

One size doesn’t fit all. It’s not enough to maximise just one facet – Ultimate Success requires optimum performance in all the various aspects of your life. That’s why we’ve assembled the absolute All-Stars – who aren’t just experts in their specialised fields but are the creators of the advanced success technologies that they’ll share.

You’ll be able to hand-pick from the world-leading strategies laid before you and manage your own, specific Ultimate Success portfolio. More about the program

RICHARD BRANSON (UK) - World famous entrepreneur & founder of Virgin Group of companies

Sir Richard showed his entrepreneurial streak early, setting up a student magazine when just 16. He was only 20 when he founded the now internationally recognised Virgin brand and soon displayed the unique flair that grew the group to over 200 companies worldwide. Starting out as a mail order record retailer, and shortly afterwards opening a record shop in London, Branson built the business signing up artists no-one else dared to touch, like Mike Oldfield, who recorded ‘Tubular Bells’, and the Sex Pistols. Going on to sign many household names from Culture Club to the Rolling Stones, helped make Virgin Music one of the top six record companies in the world. The Virgin brand can now be seen splashed across not just CD labels but phones, credit cards, drinks, hotels, trains, aircraft, and even spaceships. The Group has expanded into leisure, travel, tourism, mobile, broadband, TV, radio, music festivals, finance and health and is investing in renewable energy and resource efficiency through Virgin Green Fund. It employs approximately 50,000 people, in 29 countries with Global branded revenues exceeding £11 billion (approx. US$17 billion). The master of self-promotion, Branson has gained star status with his numerous high profile world record stunts (many successful) and flamboyant product launches – all the while building invaluable brand awareness. With a seemingly insatiable appetite for starting new businesses, especially a market dominated by a few major players, he has become popular for his ‘game for anything’ approach and philosophy of fun and value. He was knighted in 1998 for his “services to entrepreneurship”. Sir Richard holds strong convictions about humanitarian and environmental initiatives and devotes considerable time, resources and energy towards them He is always open and generous when sharing his business ‘secrets’ – the unwavering values and beliefs that have seen Virgin become almost as recognisable as Coca Cola (his goal). “My general philosophy in life is you never really go wrong saying yes.”

The Ultimate Success Summit is not (the same) for everyone

One size doesn’t fit all. It’s not enough to maximise just one facet – Ultimate Success requires optimum performance in all the various aspects of your life. That’s why we’ve assembled the absolute All-Stars – who aren’t just experts in their specialised fields but are the creators of the advanced success technologies that they’ll share.

You’ll be able to hand-pick from the world-leading strategies laid before you and manage your own, specific Ultimate Success portfolio. More about the program

The Ultimate Success Summit Featuring Tony Robbins & the Success All Stars
Friday 10th & Saturday 11th September 2010
Sydney Entertainment Centre | Darling Harbour | Sydney
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3 Ticket Classes have been announced
GENERAL | Executive VIP (2for1 offer) | DIAMOND

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	RICHARD BRANSON From the UK – World famous entrepreneur & founder of Virgin Group of companies
	ANTHONY ROBBINS From the USA – The World’s #1 Peak Performance Coach
	MARK BOURIS From Australia – Star of TV’s “The Apprentice” & Wizard Home Loans founder
	SIIMON REYNOLDS From Australia – Personal and Business Achievement Guru
	GREG SECKER From the UK – Founder of the UK’s #1 Trader Coaching Company
	ADAM GINSBERG From the USA – eBay’s 20 Million Dollar Man
	DYMPHNA BOHOLT From Australia – Author of “Confessions of a Real Estate Millionaire”
	BRETT McFALL From Australia – Australia’s “Money While You Sleep” Internet Expert
	JUSTIN BEETON From Australia – One of Australia’s Most Successful Share Market Investors
	JOE WILLIAMS From USA – Master Trainer working with Tony Robbins
	ANDREW BAXTER From Australia – One of Australia’s Leading Financial Educators
	MARK ROLTON From Australia – Australia’s #1 Property Option Authority
	KERWIN RAE From Australia – Australia’s #1 Expert on Influence

Have you ever thought about how you define success – on your terms?

Let me ask you a question that isn’t as simple as it first looks.

What does Success mean to you (& only you)?

Is it ‘things’? – A bigger house?… A prestige car?

Achievements? – Your first million?… Your first New York marathon?

Freedom? – Freedom to run your business empire?… Freedom to not have to?

“More”? – More zeroes on your bank balance?… More time with your family?

The answer you give will be different to everyone else’s – even your closest friends.

Even your partner.

If there’s no one definition, how can there be one secret to success?

There isn’t – there are many. Your own formula for success is putting the right ones together.

And how do you achieve that? Well, I have some exciting news for you:
You don’t have to search the world for the best answers – THE WORLD’S BEST ARE COMING TO YOU – armed with the next generation of achievement technologies.

Two days only in Sydney, Friday 10th & Saturday 11th September 2010 for one exceptional, unforgettable and undeniably life-changing event – Featuring:

- From the UK – Founder of Virgin Group companies: RICHARD BRANSON
• From the USA – The World’s #1 Peak Performance Coach: ANTHONY ROBBINS
• From Australia – Personal and Business Achievement Guru: SIIMON REYNOLDS

• From the UK – Founder of the UK’s #1 Trader Coaching Company: GREG SECKER

• From Australia – Star of TV’s “The Apprentice” & Wizard founder: MARK BOURIS
• From the USA – eBay’s 20 Million Dollar Man: ADAM GINSBERG
• AND?

That’s the biggest line-up of Success All-Stars anyone’s seen in Australia (or the world) for… well, ever?

These unrivalled leaders in advanced success strategies ALONE are enough to see the limited tickets vaporise before our eyes – But, amazingly, that’s only the beginning… I still haven’t told you all there is to know and can’t yet reveal the full “All Stars” line-up…
But here’s what else I CAN tell you now: “Ultimate Success Summit” Ticket Classes released

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As you can see there are 3 tiers on offer representing 3 levels of experience and enhancement – That experience starts at ‘extraordinary’ with General Tickets – then goes up from there! Ticket Class Features Price Now ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

GENERAL – The full immersive, transformative event experience $195 General Admission to the event Success Toolbox (e-downloads) – Designed to cement your personal strategies for lasting success ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Executive VIP (2 for 1 offer, for a limited time only)

More exclusive, more intense, more impacting experience $695

• 2 x VIP Admissions to the event
• VIP Allocation section (Directly behind Diamond)
• Success Toolbox (e-downloads)

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DIAMOND The Best, the Most, The Unique, $1495 Once-in-a-lifetime, Totally Exclusive Diamond Experience

• Best Seats in the house – Up close and personal
• Priority Access into the room – Diamond treatment from the word ‘go’
• Lunch and Q&A session both days with Key All Stars Speakers
• Evening Q&A with key speakers
• Anthony Robbins’ hot new program “The New Money Masters” – 2 editions, featuring:

Frank Kern – World renowned Internet Marketer Extraordinaire – super smart, super successful & loves teaching how to live life to the fullest making money online
John Reese – this Internet marketing pioneer was the first person to break the barrier and make $1 MILLION in sales in 24 HOURS

http://www.successallstars.com.au/cmd.php?af=1220527

But enough about that – let’s get back to YOU

Success – it means different things to different people, right?

And that’s OK.

But, if it really comes down to it, whose idea of success should be uppermost in your mind?

Yours of course!

And that’s more than OK – it’s the most important attitude to have for the greatest sense of achievement and fulfilment – not only for you but for everyone near and dear to you.

Booking now will not only assure you one of the fast disappearing seats but save you OVER 50% – time to act.

Yes, it’s time – time to discover the best of the best and assemble the Ultimate, unique, personal set of unstoppable strategies that will see you achieve YOUR Ultimate Success. One Event. One Extraordinary line-up. One Opportunity you do not want to miss.

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I’m looking forward to seeing you there!

All the best,
Alex Ryan

As a professional speaker and closer you will need to train your voice to resonate confidence while you’re speaking. If you speak too fast, too slow, too high pitched or don’t pause enough this will convey subtitle traits about your message.

This will stop you from gaining rapport and will impact how your message is received by the audience.

Your voice plays an important role from building a connection with a seminar promoter, business calls, meetings, conferences and of course your presentation.

Use these tips to train your vocals to achieve optimal resonance.

1. Start early. As soon as you wake up in the morning check yourself in the mirror. Notice where the air is displaced when you breathe, is it inflating your chest? Ideally it should be a DEEP breath that’ll inflate around your waist, not the chest area. You will need deep breathing when you speak. Are your shoulders rising when you breath, if they are don’t allow this to happen, make a conscious effort to stop this. It helps if you stand straight, allow your breathing to come in down low in your belly area and relax. I can’t stress that enough … relax.

2. Stop Slouching. This sends a bad message period. It looks like you couldn’t care less and it prevents your lungs from taking in the optimal amount of air. If you have full lungs it prevents your voice from cracking, and allows you to sound more powerful. In the future when you realize you’re hunching slightly, straighten up immediately and allow more energy to feed your voice and body, soon this will be unconscious and you’ll have a better posture naturally.

3. Keep it open. Our voice gets squeaky and high when we’re nervous which is not the confident image we want to project. The more we try to tame it by force the worse it gets. The simple cure: practice breathing into your lower diaphragm (around your abs), and always let your throat be open and free of stress. I find lemon and honey tea soothes my throat and helps it relax. An open throat ensures your voice is protected, projected and also not surprisingly produces a richer/fuller sound.

4. Keep them awake. Want to capture your audience and keep them awake? If you speak in a monotone voice, with no inflection, modulation, intonation you will send a group of 1,000 people off to fantasyland. How do you prevent this you ask?

Alex’s “Four P’s To Perfect Pitch”

Pace: If you speak too slow you sound like the village idiot or worse you’re not credible or knowledgeable on the subject. If the pace is too fast it will sound like you’re nervous or a salesman trying to pull a fast one on you.

Pitch: This isn’t a contest to sound like James Earl Jones…if you’re too low and deep nobody will hear you. Speak too high and you sound nervous and insecure.

Pauses: Create intrigue and curiosity by placing well timed pauses into your presentation- do this sparingly though.

Passion: This is critical to your success as a speaker and educator. This will sell more than anything else. If you love your topic the audience will see this and will love you for it. They’ll embrace you like no other speaker has ever been embraced. Passion sells more than knowledge for the topic.

5. Master the tone. If you are able to adjust your tone to suit any situational you will be a successful speaker no doubt. If you sound monotone you will sound bored and boring, if your tone is lackluster you may lose parts of the audience and it won’t convey passion. If you sound arrogant, aggressive this can put off a lot of people. If you learn to change and tune your tone to the occasion you’ll be successful at speaking. Learn to sound enthused even if you’d rather not be there at all.

6. Sell yourself and not your product. Being authentic is one of the most important takeaways from this article. If you’re authentic it will show through to the audience and they’ll buy from you.

Don’t try to sound like someone else, if you be yourself there is no competition for you. What’s unique about you? Convey this and be real.

Hey Folks,

If you have an online business that isn’t converting and making YOU MONEY then you should read this immediately. I’ll be there and so will some of Australia’s leading info marketers, web writers and speakers.

I’ll come back to this later …

Okay first I have to tell you a bit about Jesse Forrest, not only is he one of Australia’s leading copywriters but he is running an intensive training program in Sydney (November 21st 2009 Write This Down So You Don’t Forget).

He charges clients anywhere between $3,000 -$10,000 for a single sales letter and his clients have paid him these amounts! He’s worked with Alex Mandossian, Hans Jakobi, Dale Beaumont, Peter Sun and many more who have publicly endorsed Jesse and encourage many to take him up on his services.He’s that good and his writing sells faster than hot cakes.

Check it out here:

Sydney Web Copy Workshop

Now this seminar on November the 21st is going to be good … better than good actually its going to be out-of-this-world. This is something you don’t want to miss if you live in Australia and you have an online business or have been thinking of starting one. Now there is no catch to this … he’s running an intensive copywriting seminar in a few weeks from now and tickets are being snapped up like crazy as they’re so under priced. Tickets were going to be priced at $800 a head for the full day but he’s only charging $47 … this is crazy talk I know … but he’s one of those good ole’ crazy Australian Copywriters.

He’s running a one time only seminar in Sydney on Web Copy i.e How To Sell Via the web and it’s only $47 to attend for the ENTIRE day. No selling, no pitches just pure copywriting learning.

Check it out here:

Sydney Web Copy Workshop

See you there!

Alex Ryan

Now I’ve actually bought several products from Eben including his ‘Wake Up Productive’ course, his ‘Get Altitude’ course and his earlier dating products (was a different niche and his pen name was David Deangelo).

One of my close friends just sent me this info sheet on the Ignition Program. If you’re interested in it you should read it before investing in this.

Eben’s Ignition course is split up into THREE parts. The first part teaches you the basics on internet marketing and online businesses. The second part teaches you in a webinar format:

• How to outsource your business to virtual assitants
• Building and using membership site models and collect recurring income
• Finding niche specifc markets
• Using Social media such as Twitter, Google Groups, Face book,Youtube and more
• Getting traffic the cheapest way
• How to use webinars to build your business
• Using Ebay and amazon to launch and sell your products
• Much much more

Now as a reviewer you need to know this before you invest, Ignition is aimed at beginners in the online world. If you’re already an online marketer and making money then this CAN still help you, but there’s a good chance you know a lot of it already. You need to decide is it worth the investment considering you may know 80-90% of the content.

You should also know that most of Ebens programs are HUGE. They’re packed with large amounts of content and you should know that it will take awhile for you to devour it. Definitly worth it if you’re commited and take the time to watch/listen to it all.

Grab a Copy of Get Ignition Program

When there are many other speakers competing against you then your best bet if you want to make sales is to be the last speaker at the event, that way you’ll be fresh on their mind and will remember your presentation over the others.

Enjoy the video,

Your friend,
Alex Ryan

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Here is Joanna Martin an Australian Speaker who teaches how to be a professional speaker and build a million dollar business from scratch. I just stumbled on this new video she just released and it seems to be brewing up quite a positive storm.

Watch as Dr Joanna Martin reveals the methods used by some of the most successful speakers in the country to build their business and make millions evry year. All this without creating a business full of headaches and trouble.

Enjoy the video!

Warmly,

Alex

Fact is that some people would rather not think. They would rather others do the thinking for them and they live through the actions,lives and decisions of other people.

There’s a great book that addresses this very fact and that is The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini. He refers to this technique as “Social Proof”.

We all do this to some degree and there are a lot of people out there who pay a great deal of attention to what everyone else is doing. So you need to start using snippets in your next presentation that alerts the audience that “others” are implementing your ideas, buying your products or taking any action you want them to take.

This will compel them to do the same.

Q: How do I build social proof in my presentation?

How do you build social proof? Well there are many ways but the BEST way is through a live testimonial on VIDEO or even in PERSON if you can get it.

There are a number of other ways including:

1. Showing a video reel of you on television (if you have it)
2. Newspaper articles featuring you or your business
3. Video testimonials & audio testimonials
4. Endorsements from other known/or unknown authors (you’re leveraging yourself from their credibility)
5. Pictures of you with your customers and clients (who are happy and smiling)
Much much more! (just need to be a little creative here)

To your success and nothing less!
Warmly
Alex Ryan

What Happens If they DON’T Invest In Your System? Tell them!

If the audience don’t act on your offer or invest in your system have you considered creating fear about the other alternatives.

Don’t lie or make up facts to instill fear this is where you need to keep your integrity and character traits noble. But honestly reveal if they dont take action on your offer, “invest” in your system or any other action you require what would happen if they DON’T.

Fear of loss is more powerful than the desire to gain. People generally are more afraid if they have something to lose they will try to gain it back, this intention is more powerful than if they have something to gain from investing in your system.

For example … (Real Estate Seminar)

“If you invest today I can arrange affordable finance for you in no time, get a great interest rate arranged (plus other benefits) etc

“NOW … if you don’t invest today I should disclose that the rate is fluctuating day to day .. and I cant promise that today’s rate will be as competitive for you and your family tomorrow, it could be a lot higher and could possible jeopardize the affordability of this home for you and you may not be able take action on this…”

Also add … “Right now I could easily arrange finance for you at today’s rate … however if the rate turns against you tomorrow,the next day or even next week, of course considering each individuals personal financial circumstances it MAY be more difficult to arrange the finance and a higher rate”.

The ‘loss factor’ is they’re potentially losing the affordable interest rate today and you personally arranging the documents for them.

Now this is purely an example of how you can take the “fear of loss” and compel the audience to act sooner rather than later and how this is truly in THEIR BEST INTERESTS at a real estate seminar selling lots,houses etc

Outline what happens if they stay with the status quo, what happens if they do X and what could happen if they do nothing. Your purpose is to get the audience to decide AGAINST the other options rather than necessarily deciding for your option.

The American public makes a similar choice every year at election time.

Talk to you soon,

Your friend,

Alex

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