Here are three new Ecuador opportunities.

The first is environmental as shown in this excerpt from an article:

Ecuadoran President Confirms Deal to Leave Oil Under Yasuni Park

QUITO, Ecuador, April 26, 2010 (ENS) – President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion.

Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government of Ecuador will refrain from exploiting the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini oil field within the Amazon rainforest park, which scientists have determined to be the most biodiverse area in all of South America.

The agreement between Ecuador and the United Nations Development Programme creating a trust fund to receive donations to the Yasuni-ITT Initiative was nearly signed in December at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, but at the last minute, President Correa instructed his negotiators to hold back until several sticking points were resolved.

President Rafael Correa of Ecuador (Photo courtesy Office of the President)

See a link to the entire article below.

The second opportunity comes in the form of a new shop in Cotacachi named Wakya. See Wakya here.

The third opportunity is beginning this September.

As of August 1st, Jean Marie Butterlin (whom we have been working with for some years) has acquired our Ecuador tour business.

Delegates at our Cotacachi Super Thinking plus Spanish Course.

Jean Marie has added some new tours and expanded the length of others, so see the new schedule below.

Jean Marie Butterlin, was born in France and after graduating in 1977 from the engineering college ICAM in Lille (France) moved to United States where he developed a homeopathic and dietary supplement business in Houston TX, with an aim at exporting the US made products  into Europe, with emphasis towards Belgium and France.

Jean Marie Butterlin.

After living part time on both sides of the Atlantic he moved back  in 2002 to Europe where he has a prosperous business in the natural health field i.e. phytotherapy, mineral supplements, specialty cosmetics, as well as Quantum medical technology, internet publishing for the anti-aging market.

This quest for anti-aging remedies, products and techniques has lead him to discover Ecuador with its valleys of longevity, where he is researching and developing new approaches to live longer and better and bringing the new products and techniques to more and more people in the United States and Europe.

Jean Marie moved with his family to Cotacachi last year.

International club members will still attend all 2010 tours free.

Delegates at a shamanic minga tour.

See the updated Ecuador tour schedule below.  * Indicates new added or expanded tour.

Delegates on a Coastal real estate tour.

Sept.   2-6   Ecuador Export Tour

Sept.   8-9  Imbabura Real Estate Tour

Sept. 11-12  Coastal Real Estate Tour

Sept. 14-15-16 Cuenca Real Estate Tour

* Sept 20-25th Women’s Event

Delegates on an Imabura real estate tour.

Oct.  7-10  Quantum Wealth plus International Investing and Business North Carolina

Oct.   11-12  Travel to Quito and Andean Tour

Oct.  13-14  Imbabura Real Estate Tour

Oct.  16-17  Coastal Real Estate Tour

Oct.  19-20  Quito Real Estate Tour

Oct. 22-23-24  * Cuenca Real Estate Tour (Expanded from two days to three).

Oct 26-27   * Mindo Exploration of Life in a Cloud Forest ($249 $299

Oct 26-27  * Quito-Otavalo Christmas Shopping ($249 $299)

Nov.    4-7   Super Thinking + Spanish Course Florida

Nov.    8-9   Travel to Quito and Andean Tour

Nov. 10-11    Imbabura Real Estate Tour

Nov. 13-14    Coastal Real Estate Tour

Nov. 16-17    Quito Real Estate

Nov. 19-20-21  * Cuenca Real Estate Tour

Dec. 4-5    Ecuador Shamanic Minga

Dec.   6-7    Imbabura Real Estate Tour

Dec.  9-10   Coastal Real Estate Tour

Dec. 12-13    Quito Real Estate Tour

Dec. 15-16-17  Cuenca Real Estate Tour

Gary

You enjoy discounts by attending multiple seminars and tours.

Oct.  7 Quantum Wealth plus International Investing and Business North Carolina

Read Ecuadoran President Confirms Deal to Leave Oil Under Yasuni Park

2013-2014 Super Thinking + Spanish – Writing to Sell – Investing & Business Course Schedule

Schedule 2013-2014  Super Thinking + Spanish  – Writing to Sell – Investing & Business Courses

Here are photos I took of Mt. Dora…

during…

its annual arts festival. 

Here is our Super Thinking + Spanish schedule for Summer 2013

May 17-18-19  Super Thinking + Spanish St. Charles, MO  (Teacher Mark Frakes) Get details here 

May 18-19-20  Super Thinking + Spanish Oshawa, Ontario, Canada (Teacher Rick Brown)  Get details here

May 30-31 & June 1  Super Thinking + Spanish  Atlantic City, NJ   (Teacher Rick Brown)

June 14-15-16  Super Thinking Writer’s Camp  West Jefferson, NC  (Gary & Merri Scott)

June 21-22-23  Super Thinking + Spanish  St. Charles, MO  (Teacher Mark Frakes) Get details here 

July 5-6-7 Super Thinking + Spanish  Sarasota, FL  (Teacher Mark Frakes) Get details here 

July 12-13-14 Super Thinking + Spanish Kelowna, BC, Canada  (Teachers Shawn & Suzanne Bandick) Get details here

August 16-17-18  Super Thinking + Spanish  St. Charles, MO  (Teacher Mark Frakes) Get details here 

September 27-28-29  Super Thinking + Spanish  St. Charles, MO  (Teacher Mark Frakes) Get details here 

October 4-5-6  Super Thinking International Investing & Business Seminar West Jefferson, NC    (Gary & Merri Scott)

November 15-16-17  Super Thinking +Writers Camp Mt. Dora, Florida (Gary & Merri)

 For information more contact Cheri Hall at cheri@garyascott.com

Attend all seminars and courses and more FREE or at a discount as an International club member.  See details here.

2014

January 10-11-12,2014   Super Thinking + Spanish  Mt. Dora, Florida  (Gary & Merri Scott)

February 14-15-16  Super Thinking International Investing & Business Seminar  Mt. Dora, Florida

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There was great wisdom in a lot of ancient thinking.

See below how symbols like this can help you find value in real estate today.

What goes around, comes around… so many of the ideas that are now called modern science have been with mankind for thousands of years.

Around 3500 BC, the Mesopotamians began to attempt to record some observations of the world with extremely thorough numerical data.

Records of Pythagoras’ law in tablets dated as the 18th century BC.

Babylonian astronomy is still widely used in Western calendars.

Ancient Egyptian science included astronomy, mathematics and medicine including analysis of the brain that have been called “the very beginnings of modern neuroscience”.

Vital legacies of science included factual knowledge, especially in anatomy, zoology, botany, mineralogy, geography, mathematics and astronomy; an awareness of the importance of certain scientific problems, especially those related to the problem of change and its causes; and a recognition of the methodological importance of applying mathematics to natural phenomena and of undertaking empirical research.

The influence of this thought led one generation of science to the next.

Great knowledge has been known for thousands of years and when we look back at this knowledge we find ourselves on the threshold of modern science.

Learn about Estella, the shamana at La Mirage,  and how Ecuador shamanic thinking is related to this ancient wisdom in ways that can help you find good real estate today at Ecuador Shamanic Thinking.

Gary

Learn how to gain earning freedom with Ecuador exports at our Ecuador Export Expedition Tour ($499 or couple $749)

Apr. 17-18   Imbabura Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)
Apr. 20-21  Coastal Mid Coast Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)
Apr. 23-24  Quito & Mindo Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)

Learn more about Ecuador Roses here

Learn how Fedex delivers Ecuador Easter lilies to your home.

May 9-12       Super Thinking + Spanish Course, Cotacachi Ecuador

May  13-14    Ecuador Shamanic Minga

May  16-17    Imbabura Real Estate Tour

May  19-20    Coastal Real Estate Tour

May  22-23    Quito Real Estate Tour

May  25-26    Cuenca Real Estate Tour

You enjoy discounts by attending multiple seminars and tours.

June 25-27    International Investing and Business North Carolina

June 28-29    Ecuador Travel & Andes

June 30-Jul 1 Imbabura Real Estate Tour

2010 Summer Schedule

July 3-4      Coastal Real Estate Tour
July 6-7      Quito Real Estate Tour
July 9-10     Cuenca Real Estate Tour

Sept.   3-6   Ecuador Export Tour
Sept.   8-9   Imbabura Real Estate Tour
Sept. 11-12   Coastal Real Estate Tour
Sept. 14-15   Cuenca Real Estate Tour
Sept. 17-18   Ecuador Shamanic Mingo

Oct.    7     Quantum Wealth North Carolina
Oct.   8-10   International Investing & Business North Carolina
Oct.   11-12  Travel to Quito and Andean Tour
Oct.  13-14   Imbabura Real Estate Tour
Oct.  16-17   Coastal Real Estate Tour
Oct.  19-20   Quito Real Estate Tour
Oct. 22-23    Cuenca Real Estate Tour

Nov.    4-7   Super Thinking + Spanish Course Florida
Nov.    8-9   Travel to Quito and Andean Tour
Nov. 10-11    Imbabura Real Estate Tour
Nov. 13-14    Coastal Real Estate Tour
Nov. 16-17    Quito Real Estate
Nov. 19-20    Cuenca Real Estate Tour

Dec.   3-5    Ecuador Shamanic Mingo
Dec.   7-8    Imbabura Real Estate Tour
Dec.  10-11   Coastal Real Estate Tour
Dec. 13-14    Quito Real Estate Tour
Dec. 16-17    Cuenca Real Estate Tour

Our main April conference is our Ecuador Export Expedition on April 12-15, 2010.

See how weaving stories into Ecuador tapestries enhances value.

Adding income earning power is important to many of us and Ecuador exports is one way to make extra money because they come in many forms.

At our Ecuador Export Expeditions we look at how there are three ways to create value in exports…

First, one can buy a product as is… like this

Ecuador carpet.  You can buy them in a number of markets. This shot was taken in Otavalo Market.  These carpets are beautiful… as is and you can bargain hard to get a good price.  Yet they are just carpets.

The second way to export and enhance value is to modify the product.

Most Ecuador tapestries have symbolic geometry so if you take a special tapestry like this…

double woven design and modify it… even with just a story… you enhance value.  For example the sacred geometry, animal protein of the wool and extra thickness could make this a special yoga pad.   Now the product is worth more than just a carpet.

The third way to add value is create your own product. Here is Merri at…

the Cotacachi museum at a recent course showing a full length vest she had made from…

a carpet.  Now this is much… much more than a rug and can be sold for much more!

Here is another… make from scratch… Ecuador export that will suit someone.

I did not own a suit for more than twenty years. My blue blazer is classic and the microfiber sport coat bought a decade ago or so has survived more miles crumpled in an airplane than I can guess. With these two pieces I always managed to get by.

I start our seminars with a coat and maybe… on a rare occasion a tie, but they are quickly abandoned for perhaps a  sweater or anything that lets the blood flow all the way to the head without any knots getting in the way.

Yet Ecuador export ideas are so good that I was forced a couple of years ago when our daughter Francesca was getting married to buy a hand made Ecuador suit.

I ambled just down the street from our Hotel Tierra del Sol (formerly Meson de las Flores) with a friend Todd Smith.  Todd was also in need of a suit and he took a photos of his and my brand new custom-made threads that cost only $130!

Here is David… our tailor,  a friendly man hard at work on the sewing machine.

Todd picked out a fine, gray, wool material for his suit… his was the finest material the tailor had available so his finished product was higher $210. (Todd splurged on the best. My more modest French wool rann only $130).

The tailor has a batch of modern men’s fashion catalogs that you can flip through and he makes any design you like.   If people send measurements, he can even make a suit for someone without them ever having to come to Ecuador!   They submit their measurements, select a material and a design, run their credit card, and two weeks later a new suit arrives in the mail.

Here I am with Todd and our new suits then.

Now our youngest daughter is getting Married.  Congratulations Ben and Ele!

This will be a summer affair in the Cotswolds so I figured that a light wool summer suit would be required.

I told David the tailor I only had a week. He delivered exactly on time.

I like it. A perfectly…

fitted suit of finer wool ran the price to $250… still a bargain.

Here is a great Ecuador export idea. When I lived in Hong Kong 30 years ago tailored suits there were great and cost about $150. Many business people made a living traveling Europe, the US and Canada to fit people for really great, low costs suits.

Now, I am not sure that travel is even be required.

A great Ecuador export idea is “The virtual tailor from Ecuador. Hand made suits for less than some US shirts!”

This is a business idea that should suit someone!

Learn more and meet David the tailor at our upcoming Ecuador export course.  Here are details.

Arrive in Quito for the Ecuador export course no later than April 11, 2010.

Your Flight Data:  As soon as you enroll, please send flight data so our tour guides can make all your arrangements.  Quito has a beautiful airport, easy passage through Immigration and on time arrival of bags.  There are carts available.  After collecting your luggage, just stay to the right and move slowly through the hall.  There is no inspection of luggage but there is an X ray scan for luggage at the end.

You will pass through glass automatic doors and start up a slight ramp.  An agent will need to see your baggage claim checks before allowing you to pass through.

The Radisson Hotel will be there with your name. If you were to be on a different flight or have any troubles, don’t worry, they will be able to find you.  If all else fails, take a taxi directly to the Radisson or catch their shuttle, which is just outside the Arrival Halls.
If you are going to the Mansion del Angel, the driver will be there with a sign with your name and will transfer you directly there.

If you would like to come early and/or just come straight out to Cotacachi (avoiding the high altitude of Quito), we can have a driver meet your plane and bring you on out ($55).

We will make the reservations for you at the Radisson or Mansion, our price is a lot lower than on the Internet ($120). Our price for this 5 star hotel is only $68 plus tax.  Just let us know your room needs.

Departure:  You will be returning to Quito in the late afternoon of April 15 and can depart on flights that evening or the next morning, April 16.

Schedule: Depart April 12 from the Radisson at 9:30 a.m. The course begins right there in Quito.  There are many interesting things to see and learn in Quito and on the trip down to Cotacachi. We start at the exquisite Olga Fisch Gallery and Museum with a lecture accompanied by the products themselves featuring the finest techniques, textiles, jewelry in Ecuador…and additionally the museum pieces from the private collection.

Hotel Data for the Course:  For the course, we will stay at Hotel Tierra del Sol (formerly Meson de las Flores) in Cotacachi.

At the hotel, you’ll enjoy our inn filled with flowers and sunshine, roaring fires at night.  It’s a 180+ year old hacienda converted into a small hotel.  The conference will be held here, and this will be our home while we travel around.  Meson de las Flores belongs to the Land of the Sun Foundation and is the seat of the foundation activities to help the indigenous. All proceeds from Meson go directly to the indigenous of the area and supports their projects.
Meson is $59 per room, plus 22% Ecuadorian tax including a sumptuous breakfast.

We have wireless Internet here so feel free to bring your own laptop.  The wireless works in the courtyard, rooms, balconies, all over.  We also have a free phone to call back to the US, Canada and all of Europe.  Everyone can utilize these no fee services to stay in touch.  We have a safe in every room and the water is good…although we furnish free bottled water also.

Tierra del Sol is the oldest of the hotels in Cotacachi by at least a century and was purchased by our foundation 4 1/2 years ago.  It is clean, comfortable, charming and full of character…but is certainly not pretentious or grand!  It is a country inn, where Gary and I live and where everyone is treated as part of the family.  We are grateful for your attendance and for your support in our projects and look forward to having you here in the the Andes.

Tierra del Sol (formerly Meson de las Flores), Sucre and Garcia Moreno, Cotacachi, Ecuador.  Telephone: 011 593 6 291 6009.  email: mesondelasflores@gmail.com

Calling from inside Ecuador:  06 291-6009   Also, you can call Tierra del Sol through a NC number 1-336-792-4767.  Be sure and give this number to your loved ones also.

Conference Itinerary and Schedule:  The tour starts at 9:30 a.m. from the Radisson.  Bonnie Keough, a very accomplished exporter and lecturer will be your guide.

This month we are happy to announce our incredible Bonus!  Bonnie Keough with Franklin Sandoval have created that makes it ultra easy for you to send goods in boxes back to the USA.   This is a great opportunity, unheard of in the country and from my point of view from any country!  Thanks to Bonnie!

Daily:  Full breakfast at 8 a.m. Tierra del Sol. Course begins at 9 a.m. at the Museum next door.

We welcome a guest speaker who is Maggie Swartz from Charleston SC.  She is an extremely successful exporter from Ecuador and makes a tidy $75,000 annually on her exports.  She will speak, demonstrate and answer questions…a delightful lady with worlds of experience.

Itinerary:  After 12 years of traveling, digging, exploring and enjoying ourselves all over Ecuador; we invite those of you who want to really get out there and experience the Export Trail.  You’ll gain exciting ways to increase your security, independence, freedom, wealth and well-being while helping this very deserving country and its indigenous people!  What a joy!

Each day we will have lecture with invaluable contacts, speakers, ideas and plans.  Then, we’ll head out to nearby stunning surrounding areas. We’ll enjoy the green patchwork mountains and the sacred province of Imbabura.

We’ll go to the markets, famous and obscure; visit the known and unknown…those who hand make, hand craft one-of-a-kind goods.  We’ll meet the artists, designers, creators, craftsmen and visit them in their workshops, homes and markets.

Otavalo (the most successful and colorful Indigenous market in all of the Americas) is a delight and we will meet a host of wholesalers.  We’ll also visit the charming and small village of the weavers, Peguche, where the sound in the air is the clackety clack of the looms. We’ll head out up the Pan American Highway to San Antonio de Ibarra for its world famous wood carvers and furniture makers.  This year we scored another win by being allowed into Diana Carrasco’s personal workshops…she is the leading designer of Cuenca.  Ah, the flower growers are everywhere….ready and packaged for export…we’ll host Roberto who will help all with the exportation of flowers and with the tips of selling/marketing/wholesaling/retailing of over 25 kinds of flowers.

And of course we are centered in Cotacachi with its famous leather market!

We have searched, scoured and scrounged our way across this tiny Andean country to find special products and goods that you can export in a suitcase and make outstanding profits. We’ll travel through the Andes Highlands on the search for that special something that will make your eyes gleam with delight…both for its uniqueness and salability.
Broaden your horizons as you increase your bank account. Help the poor and gain more fulfillment and fun. Improve the quality of your life, expand your horizons and reduce the tax you pay as you increase asset protection by having an overseas company and overseas income!

The goal of the course is to give you more than just knowledge.  The course brings you real, usable knowledge and the after course support so you can put the knowledge you gain into action right away.

The Andean Export Expedition combines experience, theory, practice and contacts Gary and I have over thirty years experience living, working, importing, exporting and conducting businesses overseas and 15 years of doing business in Ecuador.

This course promises to bring joys and wonders into your life as well as helping the indigenous.  Please let us know how else we can be of service.

Keep in mind, we will all make your reservations as soon as we have your arrival data.

Gary & Merri

Our Ecuador export tour starts April. 12-15 with our Ecuador Export Expedition Tour ($499 or couple $749)

Here are clay figurines that you will see on the Ecuador export tour.

These clay necklaces at the gallery are great models for Ecuador exports as well.

Stay on and look at Ecuador real estate opportunity.

Apr. 17-18   Imbabura Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)
Apr. 20-21  Coastal Mid Coast Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)
Apr. 23-24  Quito & Mindo Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)

May 9-12       Super Thinking + Spanish Course, Cotacachi Ecuador
May  13-14    Ecuador Shamanic Mingo
May  16-17    Imbabura Real Estate Tour
May  19-20    Coastal Real Estate Tour
May  22-23    Quito Real Estate Tour
May  25-26    Cuenca Real Estate Tour

June 24       Quantum Wealth North Carolina
June 25-27    International Investing and Business North Carolina
June 28-29    Ecuador Travel & Andes=
June 30-Jul 1 Imbabura Real Estate Tour
July 3-4      Coastal Real Estate Tour
July 6-7      Quito Real Estate Tour
July 9-10     Cuenca Real Estate Tour

Sept.   3-6   Ecuador Export Tour
Sept.   8-9   Imbabura Real Estate Tour
Sept. 11-12   Coastal Real Estate Tour
Sept. 14-15   Cuenca Real Estate Tour
Sept. 17-18   Ecuador Shamanic Mingo

Oct.    7     Quantum Wealth North Carolina
Oct.   8-10   International Investing & Business North Carolina
Oct.   11-12  Travel to Quito and Andean Tour
Oct.  13-14   Imbabura Real Estate Tour
Oct.  16-17   Coastal Real Estate Tour
Oct.  19-20   Quito Real Estate Tour
Oct. 22-23    Cuenca Real Estate Tour

Nov.    4-7   Super Thinking + Spanish Course Florida
Nov.    8-9   Travel to Quito and Andean Tour
Nov. 10-11    Imbabura Real Estate Tour
Nov. 13-14    Coastal Real Estate Tour
Nov. 16-17    Quito Real Estate
Nov. 19-20    Cuenca Real Estate Tour

Dec.   3-5    Ecuador Shamanic Mingo
Dec.   7-8    Imbabura Real Estate Tour
Dec.  10-11   Coastal Real Estate Tour
Dec. 13-14    Quito Real Estate Tour
Dec. 16-17    Cuenca Real Estate Tour

Ecuador Export Idea

This is the best era ever for earning and gaining freedom anywhere in the world.

This chess piece created an Ecuador export idea as Merri and I flew through the night on Delta’s redeye, Quito to Atlanta.

The Olga Fisch Spanish Bishop.

This Delta flight is a great way to get back and forth to Quito… Delta #680.  We lifted off to a nearly full moon and Quito’s cool night air at 30 minutes past midnight. We eased into Atlanta Hartsfield gate at 5:24am. I know the exact time because we could not exit the plane until 5:30am when customs and immigrations officially opens.  The entire weary plane load had to just sit and wait…

What a perfect time of the day to enter our great nation… fresh… awakening… no lines… no tired officials.  We moved straight through C&I, security and sat in the Delta Sky lounge for a bit  before easily picking up the Delta 6:55am, one hour Atlanta to Orlando flight.This brought us back to Mt. Dora and a sparkling day for a late breakfast around our pool.

What an incredible era we live in… to have this mobility and such expanded horizons…. which is what I was discussing with 385 attendees of  Americans, Canadians, Australians and Europeans in Quito the day before.

More on that in a moment.  Back to passions chess and Ecuador exports.

This has been a busy three weeks.  Merri and I enjoyed sharing a long weekend with 70 investors and business people here in Mt Dora, February 11 to 14. Then we hustled to Cotacachi on the 15th to start a week long Super Thinking plus Spanish course for a full house group of fledgling professional photographers organized by American Writers and Artists Institute (AWAI).

While in Cotacachi, we enjoyed the completion of the final condo in our Casa Blanca condo building.  This is a two story, one bedroom rental unit in…

a four story building (with three units) that we have for sale. See more on this at Cotacachi condo offer.

We completed the Super Thinking plus Spanish course on Feb. 23 and immediately drove up to Quito where I gave a series of five talks to nearly 400 delegates at the International Living Ultimate Event.  Here I am going on about Ecuador, Ecuador exports and roses.

A big part of talk was how to earn money in Ecuador by turning passions into profit with Ecuador exports…this finally gets me to to subject of the day… passion…. opportunity…. Ecuador exports and chess.

Chess is my game.  I love it and one of my greatest material treasures is an ivory chess set purchased in Hong Kong in the late 1960s, that has stayed with me through the decades.  In fact this is the only item I have held onto from that time in my life.

This set sits in our North Carolina farm.

Another Gothic set… circa 1950s… is in my Florida office.

I like to play chess with my kids (who are scattered round the globe) by email so other chess sets are set up… one set in pewter was brought to me by our daughter Francesca from Burma (Union of Myanmar).  Richard Goebel, who heads up North Carolina for us and I play chess every day.

I have another in glass and one in wood and one in marble and am always looking for unique chess sets.

You could say that chess is one of my passions.

This started the idea about a chess related Ecuador export idea.

I have had my eye on a chess set in Quito at the magnificent Olga Fisch Gallery in Quito.

Olga Fisch was a Hungarian artist and a collector who immigrated to Ecuador in 1939. She soon recognized the vast potential of the folk artisans in Ecuador. She was a humanist and a visionary who knew how to recognize quality in a work of art so she helped Ecuador’s artisans refine their artistic expressions and closed the the gap between folk art and traditional fine art.

We begin all of our Ecuador export expeditions at the Olga Fisch Gallary so delegates can see different interpretations of Ecuadorian ethnic tribes, mostly from the Andean region, represented in clay by well known Ecuadorian artisans.

Delegates will see many types of pottery, all hand made, one of a kind hand painted pieces, fine silver jewelry and then they enjoy her magnificent collection in the museum there.

Potters are a part of the Olga Fisch team; they work the clay to make utilitarian pieces that can be used both as dinnerware and as decoration. Often they use volcanic ash which they mix with clay to enhance the beauty of their work as they look for trends in reproductions of old things.

One goal in our Ecuador Exports Expedition is to put the potters and delegates in touch. Then we help delegates on the expedition figure out trends so they can create Ecuador export products that are easy to market.

I have had my eye on this wonderful chess at the Olga Fisch Gallery for 4 or 5 years…  yet never seemed to have time to get over and buy it.

This trip I made time.  The combatants are the Incas and Spanish conquistadors.

Here is the king and queen of the Spanish army and the…

Inca (a six inch piece) and his queen.

Bishops… Spanish…

castles and…

Incan castles and knights.

Two…

great…

armies…pitched for battle. We know how the conflict ended in times past… but what happens next?

So brought the excitement of pitting the past and the future into…

our Mt. Dora sitting room.

The set came in a sturdy…

box that easily defied the challenge of the trip back in Delta’s cargo hold.  Everything at Olga Fisch is…

high style united with function.  Each chess piece was…

individually wrapped in…

Olga Fisch…

paper.

The set comes with a fine painted board.

This set at $181 is too expensive to become an Ecuador export.

At our export expedition we teach delegates that the qualities for good exports are:

Portable  in size and weight
Durable
Unique Niche
Focused to Market
Dependable
Desirable
Profitable

Profitability is dependent on mark up and requires as low a starting price as possible.  $181 is a pretty high cost… yet here is the point.  There are hundreds… maybe thousands of unqiue niches to which  chess sets could be  adapted.  There are potters… so if chess is a passion… along with some other idea get your own potter… create your own design and create your own unique Ecuador chess set to export.

Or if saving the environment is a passion, an Amazon or Galapagos theme would be great.  Bird watchers might love a battle of the birds.   Fishermen could have a set of fish fighting to survive on the board. The themes are endless and this is the key to successful exporting adapting proven themes to new… tight niches.

We have never had such great opportunity to live earn and be free in Ecuador or wherever we choose in this wonderful game of life. Now the game of chess can create opportunity and help us be free.

Gary

Improve your Ecuador export skills by speaking better Spanish. Join Merri and me March 11-14     Super Thinking + Spanish Course, Mt. Dora, Fl.

Jon our Ecuador Living team and  travel to Quito March 15, 2010.

March 16 Travel Quito to Cotacachi

March 17-18  North Andes, Imbabura & Cotacachi Real Estate Tour

March 19-20    Cotacachi Shamanic Tour

March 21  Travel Cotacachi to Manta

March 22-23   Manta & Mid Coast Real Estate Tour

March 24 Travel Manta to Cuenca

March 25-26 Cuenca Real Estate Tour

March 27  Travel Cuenca to Salinas

Mar. 28-29   Salinas & South Coast Real Estate Tour

The Ecuador airfare war makes it cheaper to get to Ecuador than ever before… and there is still time to enjoy great Ecuador tour savings.

International Club Three Monthly Payments of $1,190

Our Spring 2010 schedule starts April. 12-15 with our Ecuador Export Expedition Tour ($499 or couple $749)

Here are clay figurines that you will see on this tour at the Olga Fisch gallery.

These clay necklaces at the gallery are great models for Ecuador exports as well.

Stay on and look at Ecuador real estate opportunity.

Apr. 17-18   Imbabura Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)
Apr. 20-21  Coastal Mid Coast Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)
Apr. 23-24  Quito & Mindo Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)

Here is the balance of our 2010 schedule.

May 9-12       Super Thinking + Spanish Course, Cotacachi Ecuador
May  13-14    Ecuador Shamanic Mingo
May  16-17    Imbabura Real Estate Tour
May  19-20    Coastal Real Estate Tour
May  22-23    Quito Real Estate Tour
May  25-26    Cuenca Real Estate Tour

June 24       Quantum Wealth North Carolina
June 25-27    International Investing and Business North Carolina
June 28-29    Ecuador Travel & Andes=
June 30-Jul 1 Imbabura Real Estate Tour
July 3-4      Coastal Real Estate Tour
July 6-7      Quito Real Estate Tour
July 9-10     Cuenca Real Estate Tour

Sept.   3-6   Ecuador Export Tour
Sept.   8-9   Imbabura Real Estate Tour
Sept. 11-12   Coastal Real Estate Tour
Sept. 14-15   Cuenca Real Estate Tour
Sept. 17-18   Ecuador Shamanic Mingo

Oct.    7     Quantum Wealth North Carolina
Oct.   8-10   International Investing & Business North Carolina
Oct.   11-12  Travel to Quito and Andean Tour
Oct.  13-14   Imbabura Real Estate Tour
Oct.  16-17   Coastal Real Estate Tour
Oct.  19-20   Quito Real Estate Tour
Oct. 22-23    Cuenca Real Estate Tour

Nov.    4-7   Super Thinking + Spanish Course Florida
Nov.    8-9   Travel to Quito and Andean Tour
Nov. 10-11    Imbabura Real Estate Tour
Nov. 13-14    Coastal Real Estate Tour
Nov. 16-17    Quito Real Estate
Nov. 19-20    Cuenca Real Estate Tour

Dec.   3-5    Ecuador Shamanic Mingo
Dec.   7-8    Imbabura Real Estate Tour
Dec.  10-11   Coastal Real Estate Tour
Dec. 13-14    Quito Real Estate Tour
Dec. 16-17    Cuenca Real Estate Tour

Ecuador Living has it all… the mountains… the sea, Galapagos and the Amazon.

For the past decade www.Garyascott.com and www.EcuadorLiving.com has helped readers gain valuable information and trustworthy contacts in Ecuador.

Now we can do even more.

See below how we can now help you in all parts of Ecuador.

Ecuador Galapagos

We can help you with contacts in Galapagos.

Because we do not accept commissions, our Ecuador Living subscribers not only gain contacts, but can receive a 15% discount on Galapagos cruises on the Athala, the most luxurious cruise ship in the Galapagos. For details contact Kjetil Haugan at kjetil@haugancruises.com

Ecuador Amazon

Here I am with Eric Schwartz of La Selva Jungle Lodge and Ecuador Highlights Travel and our tour coordinator Bonnie Keough.

Merri and I were in Quito last week with Bonnie Keough knitting up contacts for our subscribers in the Amazon… plus improving the Ecuador travel savings our Ecuador Living subscribers receive.  We have been able to dramatically lower internal Ecuador airfares.

This recent Amazonian and travel upgrade means that wherever you are in Ecuador, Quito, Cuenca, Imbabura, Vilcabamba, the Pacific coast south to north, Galapagos or the Amazon we have contacts who can help you save and assure you enjoy dependable service.

From the mountain to the sea to the jungle we can help you in Ecuador.

Palmazul Spa on Ecuador’s Pacific offers discounts to Ecuador Living subscribers.

One service we provide is to scan Ecuador newspapers looking for unique properties and put our subscribers directly in touch with sellers… thus avoiding middle men mark ups and brokerage fees.

We also help our subscribers by asking developers (since we are not brokers and do not to accept real estate commissions) to provide discounts to our subscribers if they buy property.

We conduct real estate tours to help our subscribers learn Ecuador’s real estate market in the most efficient way.

Helping subscribers find and save on real estate is only one part of our service.

If you have an interest in traveling, investing, living, buying property or doing business in Ecuador a subscription to Ecuadorliving.com brings many other benefits.

One huge benefit is our honest opinion based on 40 years of international business and 15 years of residence, travel ad business in Ecuador.  You gain access to our extensive contacts plus you get to share the input from over 20,000 subscribers who continually let us know what they see hear and experience… good and bad.

We share the experiences we have gained living, traveling and working globally for 40 years and have been investing living and doing business in Ecuador for 15 years. We have an active Ecuador business and have personally purchased a 962 acre hacienda, condos in the mountains, a house, a hotel plus condos and apartments on the beach.  Our Ecuador Living service shares our continual research and experiences in global business, living and investing in Ecuador.

You immediately gain numerous savings as an Ecuador Living subscriber.

Ecuador Living subscribers receive a free nights stay at Land of the Sun Inn (formerly Meson de las Flores) when they stay four nights or more.   The fourth night is free the first time three nights are booked.

Subscribers are entitled to free use of wireless internet at Meson and the VOIP phone system at Meson (free calls to Europe, Canada and the US) even if they do not stay at the hotel.

The Relais and Cheteaux La Mirage Cotacach Spa offers upgrades on a space available and other benefits.

Other hotels that currently provide discounts to subscribers include the Radisson in Quito.

We sent the Radisson over 1,000 nights of guest business last year and because we do not take a travel agent commissions we can normally get about a 50% reduction for you on the room rate (that reduces the room to $50 to $75).

There are benefits at the boutique hotel Mansion del Angel in Quito as well.

Boutique Hotel Mansion del Angel.

In Cuenca two hotels offer discounts to our readers.

Villa Nova Inn
El Dorado

You can learn more about Ecuador Living benefits and subscription here.

Gary

Join Merri and me or Ecuador Living’s staff in Ecuador in March 2010.

March 11-14     Super Thinking + Spanish Course, Mt. Dora, Fl.

March 15    Travel to Quito

March 16 Travel Quito Cotacachi

March 17-18  North Andes, Imbabura & Cotacachi Real Estate Tour

March 19-20    Cotacachi Shamanic Tour

March 21  Travel Cotacachi to Manta

March 22-23   Manta & Mid Coast Real Estate Tour

March 24 Travel Manta to Cuenca

March 25-26 Cuenca Real Estate Tour

March 27  Travel Cuenca to Salinas

Mar. 28-29   Salinas & South Coast Real Estate Tour

The Ecuador airfare war makes it cheaper to get to Ecuador than ever before… and there is still time to enjoy great Ecuador tour savings.

International Club Three Monthly Payments of $1,190

Our Spring 2010 schedule starts:

Apr. 12-15   Ecuador Export Tour ($499 or couple $749)
Apr. 17-18   Imbabura Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)
Apr. 20-21  Coastal Mid Coast Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)
Apr. 23-24  Quito & Mindo Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)

Here is the balance of our 2010 schedule.

May 9-12       Super Thinking + Spanish Course, Cotacachi Ecuador
May  13-14    Ecuador Shamanic Mingo
May  16-17    Imbabura Real Estate Tour
May  19-20    Coastal Real Estate Tour
May  22-23    Quito Real Estate Tour
May  25-26    Cuenca Real Estate Tour

June 24       Quantum Wealth North Carolina
June 25-27    International Investing and Business North Carolina
June 28-29    Ecuador Travel & Andes=
June 30-Jul 1 Imbabura Real Estate Tour
July 3-4      Coastal Real Estate Tour
July 6-7      Quito Real Estate Tour
July 9-10     Cuenca Real Estate Tour

Sept.   3-6   Ecuador Export Tour
Sept.   8-9   Imbabura Real Estate Tour
Sept. 11-12   Coastal Real Estate Tour
Sept. 14-15   Cuenca Real Estate Tour
Sept. 17-18   Ecuador Shamanic Mingo

Oct.    7     Quantum Wealth North Carolina
Oct.   8-10   International Investing & Business North Carolina
Oct.   11-12  Travel to Quito and Andean Tour
Oct.  13-14   Imbabura Real Estate Tour
Oct.  16-17   Coastal Real Estate Tour
Oct.  19-20   Quito Real Estate Tour
Oct. 22-23    Cuenca Real Estate Tour

Nov.    4-7   Super Thinking + Spanish Course Florida
Nov.    8-9   Travel to Quito and Andean Tour
Nov. 10-11    Imbabura Real Estate Tour
Nov. 13-14    Coastal Real Estate Tour
Nov. 16-17    Quito Real Estate
Nov. 19-20    Cuenca Real Estate Tour

Dec.   3-5    Ecuador Shamanic Mingo
Dec.   7-8    Imbabura Real Estate Tour
Dec.  10-11   Coastal Real Estate Tour
Dec. 13-14    Quito Real Estate Tour
Dec. 16-17    Cuenca Real Estate Tour

When choosing a new home, full or part time… the last few miles… even the last few yards and feet can be hugely significant.

A reader sent this comment about the importance of place in Ecuador… or anywhere actually.

Hi Gary, I read your newsletters every day.  Thank you.   Having read your article regarding the FARC in Ecuador it boils my blood to read about people making false judgment about a part of the world they know nothing about.

The same can be said for the trouble in Northern Ireland. Since the early 60′s this was said about the safety of tourists etc visiting the Ireland.   I lived 50 miles south of the border between the Northern Ireland & the Republic south.  There was never any trouble south of that  border.  In fact even for that matter 50 miles inside the border. The problems were  almost (not entirely) centered around the Belfast area.   Living at or south of the border there was never anything to worry about.   That’s not to say there were not incidents, but it never affected daily life or business in anyway.

Just like the Colombian & Ecuadorian border.  One incident makes headlines the whole world thinks the entire area is a bad place to visit.

This far from the truth.  Both places Ecuador and Northern Ireland are beautiful places to visit and  live.  I know this to be true. I’ve done both in both places and I cant wait for the day I retire to live in Ecuador south from Ontario Canada.

This reader is so correct. The reality as far as daily life is concerned… the FARC in Ecuador are a non event. I am reminded of a similar situation in Thailand in the late 1960s and early 1970s… the years I lived and worked all over Asia.  Everyone knew that there was a war going on and that it was not safe around the border because the Viet Cong used to cross it freely. The solution was… we avoided the border.  Heck it took a real effort to get to the border anyway. Forget it!  Life went on… busy… happy…. safe… except the crazy Bangkok traffic created enormous risks.

Another reader wrote:

Hello Gary, These houses look very interesting, but isn’t Ibarra near the border with Colombia, where there have been a number of violent incidents?

We do not recommend that readers visit as far north as Carchi which is right on the border, but Ibarra is quite far south of Colombia and does not have border risk.  This map shows why. The white line, starting at San Lorenzo, is the Ecuador Colombia border.

Ibarra, as the map above shows is south of  Carchi Province.  The main towns in Carchi Province, Tulcan, Espejo, Mira and Montufar are shown by the arrows.  Warnings to not to go into Carchi Province are already a stretch.  There are really very few problems there, but the US state departments says:

The US State department says: SAFETY AND SECURITY: The U.S. Embassy in Quito advises caution when traveling to the northern border region of Ecuador, to include areas in the provinces of Sucumbios, Orellana and Carchi, northern Esmeraldas, and southern Esmeraldas, south of Atacames.  U.S. government personnel are under limitations with respect to traveling alone and over-nighting in these areas due to the spread of organized crime, drug trafficking, small arms trafficking, and incursions by various Colombian terrorist organizations.

I personally would not feel uncomfortable in Carchi and have been to Esmeraldas many times… but why go to places that might be a bit riskier when there are so many alternatives.

Our world has increased risk, but…

the quiet Ecuador streets like this Cotacachi avenue have never seemed at risk to me.

The young Ecuadorian children who go to school early, alone don’t seem to feel much risk.

Even young children play alone in the Cotacachi Ecuador streets without much risk

Yet we must always take care… anywhere.

Parents in Cotacachi Ecuador do not feel much risk when they let their children play in the parks.

Yet there are places in every town where we should not be… so always be aware.

Mostly, places are not the cause of risk.  The causes of risk  are within,  our awareness, our actions, our  patterns and habits.

Young lovers in Ecuador can meet safely in out of the way places.

Ecuador people are by nature, caring, friendly and warm.

Sometimes I get letters like the one below from readers who have been victims of crime in Ecuador.  This reader lost her computer and camera when she forgot them in the business lounge at the Radisson hotel in Quito.

Dear Gary,  Can you believe, the Quito police, working with the Radisson hotel, found my  briefcase with the computer and other small items and had them sent by Federal Express to me.  I had provided them with the receipts of all the items stolen, for the items they were not able to send me  (camera and cellular phone) I was reimbursed via bank transfer. I still can’t believe it.  This was a good ending and so unexpected.  send you all love, and good thoughts. Laura

Place is important… wherever you are… almost as important… or at least related to fate. So werever you are… I hope its the right time and the right place… for you.

Gary

Join us at our place for our next Quantum Wealth Seminar June 24 to June 27, 2010 in West Jefferson North Carolina See more here

Or Join Merri and me or Ecuador Living’s staff in Ecuador in March 2010.

March 11-14     Super Thinking + Spanish Course, Mt. Dora, Fl.

March 15    Travel to Quito

March 16 Travel Quito Cotacachi

March 17-18  North Andes, Imbabura & Cotacachi Real Estate Tour

March 19-20    Cotacachi Shamanic Tour

March 21  Travel Cotacachi to Manta

March 22-23   Manta & Mid Coast Real Estate Tour

March 24 Travel Manta to Cuenca

March 25-26 Cuenca Real Estate Tour

March 27  Travel Cuenca to Salinas

Mar. 28-29   Salinas & South Coast Real Estate Tour

The Ecuador airfare war makes it cheaper to get to Ecuador than ever before… and there is still time to enjoy great Ecuador tour savings.

International Club Three Monthly Payments of $1,190

Our Spring 2010 schedule starts:

Apr. 12-15   Ecuador Export Tour ($499 or couple $749)
Apr. 17-18   Imbabura Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)
Apr. 20-21  Coastal Mid Coast Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)
Apr. 23-24  Quito & Mindo Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)
Apr. 26-27  Cuenca Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)

The multi tour discounts remain effective for the April tours.

See our weekly review here.

Join us for Super Thinking + Spanish  Mar.  11-14.  (Starts 9am in Mt. Dora Fl.)  $749.    Couple $999.

Our Super Thinking + Spanish courses are Spanish course that goes way beyond Spanish.

There is a way to learn Spanish that enhances health and wealth with Super thinking + Spanish.

Super Thinking + Spanish courses are taught at Cotacachi museum in Ecuador.

Spanish is the second most important language in the world.  Yet the North American educational system does not teach how to communicate with or understand this culture. Nor does it teach how to untap the mind’s unlimited learning potential.  This creates many one language people in a multi lingual world.

To solve this problem many Delegates are enjoying a week in the  Andean sun as they learn Spanish in a method so revolutionary that they will be able to communicate…and even dream… in Spanish… in just one week… plus know how to learn much more effectively in a way that even improves their health.

They enjoy a week of direct equatorial sunlight and solve one of the biggest communications problems that faces English speaking civilization.

Super thinking clears the memory plus enables a person to become skilled in Spanish (in just one week).  This course teaches how to unlock the power of the untapped mind and applies this knowledge to speaking Spanish.

There are numerous little known, but scientifically proven, ways to enhance the speed, accuracy and efficiency of the mind, memory, recall, retention and decision making process for greater wealth, health and happiness.

This is not a gimmick or a trick… just advanced education. At least three best selling books, Superlearning, the Mozart Effect and Superlearning 2000 have revealed insights about how to learn and think more powerfully based on systems drawn from the Bulgarian educational master, Dr. Georgi Lozanov.

In 1980 Superlearning sold over two million copies and showed how the Lozanov learning system blended long-tested sciences of raja yoga with contemporary physiology and psychology so people could learn faster and better.

The book exposed this fact and made the system so popular that Dr. Lozanov was allowed to visit the US from Bulgaria to teach this system to just a very few people so they could pass on this vital information on how to learn and think in a more natural, powerful way so we can enjoy life and enhanced memory more.

Merri Scott was among those few who learned and is licensed to teach the Lozanov system. Merri’s modified system teaches how to think and learn more powerfully in just a week plus Spanish.  The learning system expands on Dr. Lozanov’s original work and offers new insights into tapping human potential, drawing from ancient and modern tactics for quick learning such as subliminal memory, music, nutrition, and productivity.

For example, the course evokes the power of the senses thus gaining super-charged memory. Ever hear a song from decades past and in a snap know all the words, the tune and remember with whom and where you heard it years ago? Learn how to use ten cycle music to put this ability to work all the time providing almost super human memory  powers.

Improved memory is just one benefit gained.  The system teaches seven, easy to use learning techniques that help gain any skill, from computers to athletics to conversational languages…  in much less time than traditional learning techniques.

This course changes the way a person thinks and learns forever.

The Super Thinking course shows how to  learn two-to-five times faster, in exciting and innovative ways…but most of all it is a system that is stress free and full of fun.

The techniques help unlock the quantum potential that all people possess. This evolutionary program shows how certain types of music can enhance learning and how even altered nutrition can make anyone a startling 25% smarter, how subliminal messages can increase energy and thinking process, plus much, much more.

This Super Thinking system follows and builds upon what was taught in the Superlearning, the Mozart Effect and Superlearning 2000 plus includes techniques and strategies that Merri has gained in her 37 years of global travel and study with educational masters around the world.

This is a course that shows how to increase mental power for success in a 21st century that is overwhelmed by information. The system is built from old and new sources ranging from raja yoga to contemporary Russian science, and ultimate zone training already used by many Olympic champions.

“Super Thinking + Spanish” presents new ways to use subliminal memory, music and much more to supercharge the mind. Knowledge is provided about smart food and super nutrition that enhances productivity and creativity.

The courses uses unique lessons to provide Spanish fluency in a short time.  Here is one example that gives access to thousands of Spanish words in less than three minutes.

Most words in English that end in ION are almost identical, just pronounced differently. For example action is accion, education-educacion, manipulation- manipulacion, etc.

Anyone who knows this knows literally hundreds and hundreds of Spanish nouns. This is just one of seventeen Spanish lessons in the course.  The next lesson teaches how to pronounce each of the nouns. Then the third lesson teaches almost as many verbs, almost as quickly.

The fourth lesson shows how to avoid conjugating verbs by sticking with the infinitive (far easier than it sounds). This simple lesson leaves a person sounding like a Spanish professor without ever conjugating a verb. Lesson five shows how to sound infinitely polite and yet get almost anything desired in Spanish. Lesson six gives valuable connectors and the seventh lesson triples the Spanish capacity with three words for “yesterday,” “now” and “tomorrow”.

By the end of one week delegates feel comfortable speaking Spanish without stress!

Yet the Spanish ability is just one positive result from this course!    The new learning powers unfold in amazing ways. For example, one attendee one of  the Super Thinking plus Spanish courses wrote:

“Hi Gary & Merri, You two are the BEST!!! Your Seminar was fantastic! I am so excited. I had procrastinated fulfilling my continuing education for my Broker’s License and then just before my surgeries, I realized my expiration date isn’t Nov. 12th – it is Sept 12th. Well, as you can see prior to taking your course I had only completed 3 units of the required 45 units. I thought I would take your course and then complete my remaining 42 units over the next 2 weeks. However, I took one class exam on Saturday night, August 27th. I didn’t even take the cellophane off the required Course manuals until after I saw the two of you today less than 5 hours ago! I used your techniques and completed 39 units of continuing education today. I have now completed all 45 units. All of my test scores were in the 90.6-96% range. My course exam information is listed below. I just wanted to let you know how valuable your course was to me. Thanks again!” Suzy Kurinsky

Delegates are not stuck in a class room all day either.  Each day they tour and use what they have learned.   One day there is a visit to food markets… another to Otavalo the largest native crafts market in in the world.

Another day in Otavalo, South America ’s largest indigenous market. Each lesson prepares delegates for that day’s trip so they can use what has just been learned.

Delegates at Otavalo market see crafts and…

food.

Another day Chachimbiro hot springs is enjoyed .

Delegates stay in the colonial Meson de las Flores Inn next door to the Museum of Cotacachi where the course is conducted.   Here are delegates enjoying a coffee break at Meson.

Each lesson is customized to the daily event so delegates can put what they have learned into immediate action! What is more the hotel stay can be as little as $59 night (per room) and tax (including a magnificent breakfast)!

Another day provides a visit to the leather market of Cotacachi, the village of the weavers.

They also visit shamans.

Delegates at a shamanic ceremony.

Delegates see and hear local musicians and…

see local dancers.

They also enjoy exotic sites and the majestic Andes:

Finally this learning course helps eliminate the suffering of poverty.  Gary and Merri Scott, along with Dr Joe Spano and Joe Cox donated hotel Meson de las Flores to the Land of the Sun Foundation which helps the poor. Here are two of the many homeless that are fed daily at the hotel.

Land of the Sun also provide scolarships to educate Ecuador children like this.

We hope you will join us in Ecuador, the Land of the sun.

All group travel by coach travel to and from Quito plus during the course. Private travel, accommodations and food are not included.

Gary

Ecuador Spanish Courses September 2009

Course for one $799. Order here

Course for two $999. Order here

See our February 21, 2010 weekly review here.

Reduction of stress seems to be an important issue in this day and age.

I was recently checking the weather at www.weather.com and saw this picture and noted that the message below on reducing stress was one of the most read articles at that site.

This type of information can help us spot trends by tapping into the national psyche.

Observing the actions of  those who look at the weather… can provide clues to what a nation is doing… thinking and feeling because the weather affects such a large cross representation of the public.

Numerous messages at www.garyascott.com have noted how a friend inadvertently taught me how best selling book lists can help spot trends from the national psyche.

He recommended a book entitled “How to Survive the Upcoming Crash of 1995″. That book was on the NY Times best seller list and it sacred me to death as it told about how the U.S. economy would melt down in 1995 because U.S. government debt was out of control.

The book offered no solution to this dilemma.

I wrote a marketing piece with a headline “Are we 23 Months to Disaster?” that mentioned the book, outlined this problem and gave readers a way to find solutions by ordering a course on international investing.

Over the next two years this marketing piece worked unbelievably well creating millions in sales and profits.

Yet the data in book was totally wrong! There was no bankruptcy of the US economy in 1995. Instead the greatest economic boom in the history of mankind began.

This taught a valuable and simple lesson on how to see the buying public as a whole…perhaps understanding the public persona better than the public understands itself.  The trick is simply to look at the best selling book lists…especially those of large newspapers.

The profits and sales from my 23 Months to Disaster piece were not because the product or marketing were in tune with economic markets. The disaster marketing piece was a success because it was tuned to how investors felt!

Best selling book lists are windows into a nation’s soul.  Take the current example of…  Stephanie Meyer… the vampire writer.

Previously two very successful authors offer clues about the mood of today’s customers.

J. K Rowling had three Harry Potter books on the best selling lists at one time. No author had every accomplished this before! Then Dan Brown did the same thing starting with the Da Vinci Code.

Then, she even topped her previous record on the NY Times Best Selling List!

What special element unites the Rowling and Brown books? Harry Potter is about magic.

The Da Vinci Code is about hidden codes that lead to the Holy Grail. The common link? Secrets! Both authors write about mysterious, hidden secrets.

The success of these books can help us understand that the masses are seeking magical secrets. The public feel deceived. The average person feels that life has become too complex with too much pressure…not enough satisfaction and fun. Yet this same overstressed underpaid public see a few people getting richer…and having great lifestyles. This leads the majority to believe in hidden secrets to a better life. They want to know these secrets!

Fortunately there are many national psyches flowing in a stream of humanity all the time. If we spot a theme that many are jumping on… like vampires… but have no desire ourselves… we can understand but choose ignore it.   There are plenty of national psyches we can enjoy.

One way to spot these moods is at the weather websites. Watch what types of articles are popular at those sites.

In this way, the fact that beating stress is big business… revealed itself with that most read article above.

I stumbled across it about the time an article at money.cnn entitled “Low Stress jobs” captured my attention.

This article suggested that the lowest stress job was  a job in education or as a training consultant

Other low stress jobs included: Physical Therapist, College Professor, Software Developer, Technical Writer, Telecommunications Network Engineer and Speech-Language Pathologist.

Interesting how each of these stress less careers is somehow related to education or communication.

See how you can create your won low stress job in the field of communication at International Publishing Made EZ

The article outlined that the most important quality in a job was not money.  Job satisfaction came first. Good pay and benefits, flexible hours and growth opportunities came next in importance.

There is a link below to read that entire article, but… since our goal as investors and business people is to spot trends… these facts about what people are seeking are important to know.

When looking for investing or business opportunity keep the fact in mind… that a lot of people will be paying big bucks to… learn and to reduce stress.

Gary

Join Merri and me or Ecuador Living’s staff in Ecuador in March 2010.

March 11-14     Super Thinking + Spanish Course, Mt. Dora, Fl.

March 15    Travel to Quito

March 16 Travel Quito Cotacachi

March 17-18  North Andes, Imbabura & Cotacachi Real Estate Tour

March 19-20    Cotacachi Shamanic Tour

March 21  Travel Cotacachi to Manta

March 22-23   Manta & Mid Coast Real Estate Tour

March 24 Travel Manta to Cuenca

March 25-26 Cuenca Real Estate Tour

March 27  Travel Cuenca to Salinas

Mar. 28-29   Salinas & South Coast Real Estate Tour

The Ecuador airfare war makes it cheaper to get to Ecuador than ever before… and there is still time to enjoy great Ecuador tour savings.

International Club Three Monthly Payments of $1,190

Our Spring 2010 schedule starts:

Apr. 12-15   Ecuador Export Tour ($499 or couple $749)
Apr. 17-18   Imbabura Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)
Apr. 20-21  Coastal Mid Coast Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)
Apr. 23-24  Quito & Mindo Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)
Apr. 26-27  Cuenca Real Estate Tour ($499 or couple $749)

The multi tour discounts remain effective for the April tours.

Read the entire article  Low Stress Jobs