Over forty million copies of “A Message to Garcia” have been printed. Made into two movies the first put into motion picture by Thomas Edison, issued in booklet form in editions of half a million. Reprinted in over two hundred magazines and newspapers. It has been translated into all written languages. .

This is said to be a larger circulation than any other literary venture has ever attained during the lifetime of the author, in all history—thanks to a series of lucky accidents!

I had this classic text formatted for online reading or listening read by a professional voice talent.

You can listen to or read this classic here:

http://contentdashboard.com/indexgarcia.html

Note – the site and all content is copyrighted.

Below is just one excerpt from the pamphlet for your reading pleasure.

HORSE SENSE

If you work for a man, in Heaven’s name work for him. If he pays wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him, speak well of him, think well of him, and stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man, I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of his time, but all of his time. I would give an undivided service or none.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn, and eternally disparage, why, resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart’s content. But, I pray you, so long as you are a part of an institution, do not condemn it. Not that you will injure the institution—not that—but when you disparage the concern of which you are a part, you disparage yourself. And don’t forget—“I forgot” won’t do in business.

-T

Remember August 1st Ed Dale Mankini Day

Team WaWa friendfeed room – http://friendfeed.com/rooms/team-wawa

Hendry’s 30dc Checklist – http://blogbuildingu.com/thirty-day-challenge-2008

Pre-season training – http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/members/preseason/

The July 31st kick off will be broadcast from here (I think) http://www.ustream.tv/channel/thirty-day-challenge-tv

http://meetup.com

http://upcoming.yahoo.com

Pump up the Volume and Play the podcast for details.

Tom

If your not watching the Thirty Day Challenge T.V. episode on Ustream.com you are missing out. Some people have trouble watching the episode without their browser crashing.

Here is a little tip to prevent that.

Before watching close all your browser windows and applications that you have running. Then run CC Cleaner to remove temporary Internet & third party files hogging your memory. You can get it here for free – excellent program w/no spyware http://www.ccleaner.com/

Now go to Thirty Day Challenge T.V. and watch the show To be able to comment in the chat box you do need to register with ustream.com (good idea).

You can now participate, meet people and ask questions. Hang around after the broadcast for the “After Show” lots of fun and usually several “gold nuggets” of information are shared.

If you miss it or have trouble viewing you can watch it later at the Thirty Day Challenge Blog – Pre-Season area or the rebroadcast (taped session) at Thirty Day Challenge T.V it is usually posted the next day.

Another tip is to subscribe to Ed Dales You Tube Feed http://youtube.com/user/eddale – just click the rss feed icon in your browser. If you have Google Reader setup you won’t miss anything. Same thing with twitter – subscribe to his twitter feed. he publishes everything to twitter – you will get some unrelated stuff but imho it’s a good idea.

http://twitter.com/Ed_Dale “if” your google reader is setup just click on the orange rss feed icon in your browser.

Getting by the Thirty day Challenge Forums would be a good idea now – start browsing the Teams section. You don’t have to be on a team but I would highly recommend it. Start looking now to avoid panic later!

You will want to know how the team communicates so you can be setup. They may use facebook, google chat, skype or a combination of things.

So…

You should have Flock setup, Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Google Reader, Twhirl & Friend Feed (it’s coming).

If you have questions ask in the Thirty day Challenge Forum, shy? ask me at thedeanreport @ gmail.com

How many times did I say “And Uhh” in the Podcast LOL? (right answer will get a uhh little prize).

Tom

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http://profile.to/tomdean/

http://tomdean.net

Week 4 kicks off this coming Sunday on Thirty day Challenge T.V. with a big announcement (all will be revealed) as he and Dan Raines say. Mind blowing even for experienced marketers is the word.

Links to everything are to your right in the Links To Get You There section, better yet install the thirty day challenge toolbar and have everything accessible from your browser.

Get it here (you will need to login) http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/members/toolbar/

So…

I have installed the flock browser, setup the add ons, already using twitter and google reader, thirty day challenge tool bar is installed hmmm…

Still not sure about google trends and why Ed dale is so excited about it. I get the demographics part and the fact it can be exported to a cvs file for data collection but many long tail keywords do not generate enough traffic to show on google trends.

Maybe I missed something? Still pre-season though and it will be covered in more detail.

If your behind – catch up. Better now than later. To use one of the Aussie terms – I would go ahead and be a “Girly Swot” and be ahead of the game. It will pick up considerable speed soon.

One last thing I’m trying out a new podcasting setup and practicing with it. Have a listen if you want – mostly just ramblings from the post and few ideas etc. podcast will be at the bottom of the post.

Thanks to the subscribers who joined this years challenge and the emails/twitters. Should be fun.

Later,

Tom

ps – just can’t say “Talk Soon” lol

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Thirty Day Challenge Day #9

Thoughts Podcast 9 (I said I was going to do it until I got it right lol – sorry it’s still not right).

Day #9 was laid back so here is the brief podcast for it.

Don’t you think that my primitive drawing looks a little like Evil from Big Brother?

Not this one with the smile but the previous ones. Day #10’s post will be up tomorrow. It was a busy day!

Tom

Hi Everyone.

Just doing a little more research and thought I would share a tool/technique with you. You may already use.

The first one is using Amazon to learn more about your niche phrase & the second is using Jing to make a quick on the fly screen cast. Jing lets you host the file on there site but limits you to one gig of bandwidth which can get eaten up quickly. The good part is you can download the file in swf format and just post it on your web page.

Click The Pic to watch the short Screencast – you can learn about Jing there to. They have some links at the end.

Tom

Todays thoughts are delivered via podcast – play it below.

See You Tommorow,

Tom

Thirty Day Challenge Day 7 – Thoughts

For the “Thoughts” post I decided to deliver it by podcast since doing them has been bugging me. This will be good practice for using podcast in the future.

Not very good at the podcast thing yet – I get nervous (podcastophobia) – don’t get my message across the way I intended but…

I will just do one take and let the mediocrity stand so that I can compare them as we go along and see if they improve Still don’t get”why” I’m nervous. I mentioned before a I can speak to large groups and teach people how to overcome their fear of public speaking. Maybe this is a niche “fear of public podcast” lol.

Here is todays amateur Podcast.

Tom

But first a few words.

I have the utmost respect for Ed & Dan’s podcast after making this short one. I am an ex Dale Carnegie teacher and have no problem speaking off the cuff to large groups. I have stepped up to the podium at a packed church and delivered a speech that had people waiting in line to hug me & talk to me yet… this little podcast seemed terrifying. I could not see the audience, that was disturbing somehow. That and when speaking I am usually the subject matter expert where here I am far far from that.

I was actually nervous and it did not go as I had loosely planned nor did I make my point the way I am trained to do lol. Good Lord fear of podcast? But it stands & you can hear it below.

If you stay in the comfort zone of your business or professional life you will eventually be passed by. You should stay at least a bit uncomfortable. The way to overcome the fear of jumping out of an airplane is to jump, just do it. Next I will do some videos (petrified of these but they will be done & it will get easier every time).

Anyway day 3 had a blip due to the enormous amount of traffic the Thirty Day Challenge is getting but the producers are handling it and ramping up the servers. These guys and gals are dedicated to this! Bravo to them. Serving a tetrabyte or 1,0000 gigabytes of content PER DAY wow.

Now is the time to get on board and have the weekend to catch up. Do it here http://thirtydaychallenge.com

Spent some of the day with a little market research and tweaking my web2.0 tools. The rest was spent tending to my business.

Ok here is my Audio Byte of the day.