The paid advertisement below is for a new Ecuador beach real estate development.

The ad itself shows the power of writing to sell.  Note in the advertisement that one reason for the success of this development is “an aggressive social media marketing campaign initiated through their website at www.laspalmasedcuador.com,

Here is the advertisement

Gary

Palmera Beach – The newest beachfront community in Ecuador!

Views from Palmera Beach.

Palmera Beach is the second beachfront development in Puerto Cayo .

The area is fast becoming the vacation and 2nd home haven for the Ecuadorian elite. Many people looking to relocate or retire to Ecuador, have found that there is no other town on the coast that offers what we have found in Puerto Cayo.

Palmera Beach offers affordable lots in a beautifully appointed environment.  Please visit our website at    www.palmerabeachecuador.com

The first custom-home, beach-side development in Puerto Cayo, Ecuador was a resounding hit among expatriates around the world, and in just one year, owners Gary and April Scarborough had every lot  marked as “sold” !!!!
“We’ve been thrilled that families around the world are finding Las Palmas. It’s rapidly becoming an amazing development, and the lot owners are some of the nicest families we’ve ever come across.”

Las Palmas  —–  All Sold Out

Two key developments have prompted rapid sales. An aggressive social media marketing campaign initiated through their website at www.laspalmasedcuador.com, and an ever growing desire for quality community lots on the Pacific Coast has resulted in tens of thousands of hits from potential expatriates.

The sites, updated daily, offer important information and project updates in real time.

Maybe even more important to the exposure at Las Palmas was the October 4 airing of House Hunters International, featuring Gary, April and children Peyton and Carson, in a 30-minute show that chronicled their move from Atlanta to Cuenca to Puerto Cayo and their ultimate calling to create the magnificent development in the quaint fishing village of 3,000 residents. Since that show, there have been a total of 3 House Hunter episodes filmed in Puerto Cayo .

Get a behind-the-scenes account of their House Hunters International filming, check out this link.

Just more than 45 minutes south of Manta and 30 minutes north of Puerto Lopez, Puerto Cayo is far enough away from the big city of Manta to give you that quaint small town feel, yet close enough for all of your shopping and personal needs.

With controlled access and full-time gardener, Palmera Beach offers the security and beauty of  a 1st class resort community. With only 33 lots, we offer a very close knit community feel. “ We sold out so quickly in Las Palmas, that we realized we needed to begin another community.” So, Palmera Beach was born.

Las Palmas Community features a clubhouse, swimming pool, and tennis court. With concrete curbing and sidewalks, owners enjoy walking in the community and getting to know their neighbors. And, with miles of private  beach, you  feel as if you are in your own personal paradise! Las Palmas offers underground utilities (water⁄power) which preserves its natural feel. The streets are compacted, with crushed natural red volcanic rock. This aids in natural water filtration and prevents damaging water “run-off.”

Palmera Beach has 33 lots, all the same amenities:  Pool, clubhouse, Sports Court, Gym, 24 hr Guard, Gated Entrance, Under Ground Utilities, etc .

Prices start at $17,900 for nice size lots . Where else can you buy a lot in a gated beachfront community for $ 17,900?

Please visit our website at   www.palmerabeachecuador.com   for pricing and availability .  We can assist you in all of your design, building needs. From the planning stage and construction, all the way to decorating and furnishing, our craftsmen and professional team will make building your dream home an easy process.
Great Pricing for these lots = Great opportunity.

For direct inquiries contact Gary Scarborough  Gary@palmerabeachecuador.com . Phone inquiries may be made at 678-712-4121 (U.S.), or at 593-99407-5922 (Ecuador).

We DO NOT investigate properties when they are advertised so be sure to complete your due diligence and always use an independent Ecuador attorney who represents you (not the seller) when you buy real estate in Ecuador. Also we want to be sure that you check the claims of the developer/seller and make sure that you are satisfied. We also recommend that you rent before you buy and become familiar with Ecuador.

Whether you have or want to write to create a publication to offer a service or to sell a product like the real estate above, writing to sell can be a vital part of your success.

Learn how to write to sell with our Online Writers and Publishers Course or join us for a Writer’s Camp.

We have three places left for our June 14, 15, 16 Writer’s Camp.

Writers & Publishers Course

Profits can be kindled with this question… which would you rather have… 12% of $10 or 70% of $3?

The math to this question brings an obvious answer and creates a business opportunity.

Merri and I have loved our Kindles since they day they became available. Now you’ll see why we love them even more and how that passion can create profit and opportunity for you!

Plus you don’t even have to own a Kindle to take advantage of these profits and opportunities!

Growing numbers of “indies” (short for independent) writers are using Kindle to sell their publications.

There is a great story about a 26 year old who is cutting out BIG publishers by publishing direct to the  Kindle.

She is writing vampire stories and is one of the top selling “indie” writers on the Kindle store.

This means she does not have a publishing deal. This allows her to keep 70% of her book sales.  According to one article I read she is selling up to 100,000 electronic books a month.

That is impressive when you consider that  it only takes a few tens of thousands of book sales at launch to get on the New York Times bestselling list.

The heck with lists! How about just writing and publishing?  Her formula is to lower her sales price to between $.99 to $3.00.  This compares to the typically $9.99 to $12.99 for other books on Kindle.

The lower price increases volume…. plus this cuts out a publisher, distributor and book store who normally absorb up to 88% of the income created by a book.

There are no printing costs, no shelf space, no inventory, no postal delivery.  Most of the publishing expenses are eliminated.

The writer keeps 70%.

Amazon keeps 30%.

A typical writer earning 12% of the book sales makes about $1.20 per $9.99 book sale.  A Kindle writer makes $2.10 on a $3 sale.

Working as a group home worker she wrote novels in her spare time.

In 2010, she began self-publishing them as e-books.  Within a year she sold over a a million copies and earned two million dollars.

This captured the attention of St. Martin’s Press and she received a conventional publishing contract for four books, at a price of two million dollars.

Previously one of the best selling Kindle writers was J.A. Konrath, but it was assumed he was popular because he previously had a publishing deal and so already had notoriety. That was not the case with this girl (her name is Amanda Hocking), who published stories on her blog before turning to Kindle. In fact, out of the top 25 best-selling indie Kindle writers, only 6 were previously affiliated with a publishing house.

Imagine this… 26 year Amanda Hocking… a 100,000 sales at $2 average brings in $200,000 a month and her earnings are $140,000 a month.

That is a great income.

Hocking did all this from the small town of Austin, Minnesota. 2010 population 24,017 people.

Not every writer will do that well.  Most of us don’t need to!

This is a new exciting era for writers.  This is exciting news for those of us living in small towns.  This is not so good for the big city publishers and big bookstores who do not adapt.

However like small bookstores, small publishers have great opportunity as well.

Smart… publishers who use this technology gain the following benefits.

* Printing, shipping and disposal (of unsold books) costs eliminated.

* Shelf space unlimited and almost free with no capital costs.

* There is increased sales volume. Kindle owners buy more books than print readers and will spend weekly to get new chapters rather than entire books.

There are three keys to success in this type of writing and publishing.  We have repeatedly stressed them at our websites and in our business courses.  Focus…. focus…. focus.

Buyers of books fall into niches.

Those who succeed are those who focus on a niche and create trust with those readers.

Take Merri’s and my publishing business as an example.   Our readers know that the site content is about leading edge ideas related to fighting inflation, global investing, having micro businesses and being free to live anywhere.

These websites create a community of like minded souls around this niche.

Once a writer has become branded and has a list of readers,  it is easy to expand by adding authors and related topics, and editing the books of other authors, knowing that they can help them sell their books.

Some amazing websites and businesses will be built and Kindle will be the search engine… the jumping off point is finding the original readers who will become the core of your list!

I plan to also take advantage of Kindle publishing and have a great head start (our list) want to share what I learn in the process with you.

Technology especially favors small publishers today. Portable computers, the internet, wireless access, on demand printing smart phones and electronic readers all create enormous new potential for small publishers.

Let me share an example created by the nuclear events created by the Tsunami in Japan.  Merri and I had unfortunately been near Chernobyl when it melted down. We suffered from radiation exposure and have been in the past two decades learning how to cure ourselves.  We know numerous ways to help readers protect against excessive radiation.

The day of the nuclear event I spent the entire day writing and by the second day of Japan’s disaster had already published the report  “7 Steps to Protect Against Radiation Poisoning“.   My publication was the first to help in the this way and was available on Kindle just one day after the nuclear disaster. No big publisher could close to even thinking up a publication… much less publishing a valid report that fast.

This is why I am making one last special offer for our self publishing course.  When I announced this opportunity a large publisher wanted to put this course online. That deal  was concluded and they felt the existing price was too low so ask me to raise the course fee from $299 to $499.

I have not yet made that increase but shortly plan for the price to rise to $499.

You can save $597 and $200 extra… with this special offer.

Self Fulfilled Special $299

If you take advantage of this offer there is one more benefit… you’ll also receive Self Publishing 202… How to Publish on Kindle.

As shown above I have already started learning the ropes on how to publish via Amazon.com and Kindle.   I’ll have been adding additions to our self publishing course… Self “Publishing 202… Tidbits on Kindle.”

Those who take advantage of the special offer below will receive this new addition at no extra charge.

See below a special offer that save $597 normally… $200 extra now through the end of this week and get the Kindle course all for $299.

Gary

Embrace the Predictions of Disaster Zone.

Do less… Gain more as global trouble unfolds.

Online Writers and Publishers Course  “Self Fulfilled – How to be a Self Publisher”

Self Fulfilled Special $299

The last few years have seen the evaporation of many dreams. The global recession… rising gas prices…  massive home foreclosures… a weakened, falling US dollar and rising unemployment wiped out many hopes, ambitions and plans.

Who knows what could come next.   A double dip recessions, stagflation… massive job layoffs… more federal, state, county and city debt and government burdens on our lives. Demolished Medicare and health benefits. Rampant inflation.

Despite these disasters and the risk of more, one exclusive group of small businesses have prospered. They will continue to do so, regardless of the unexpected, abroad or at home.

In fact these businesses will do even better… gain higher respect and earn more profit as they help ease disasters… because these business are small publishers who can help their readers deal with global and local problems as they unfold.

Small self publishers are in a win – win situation for many reasons.

The massive expansion of information is overwhelming the world. There is so much new data coming in that the public cannot keep pace.   This forces us all  to be more discriminating… which is the worst thing that can happen to big publishers who rely on broadband where its best to send one message to huge groups.

The huge inflow of new knowledge favors broadband which works best sending many different messages to much smaller groups.

Self publishers have also gained an advantage as most of the big booksellers are going broke or in a slump. Barnes & Noble has had enormous challenges. 2010 Books-A-Million comparable store sales dropped nearly 5 percent and net income fell 35 percent. Borders has filed for bankruptcy and shut down along with 798 B. Dalton mall outlet bookstores and over 180 of the Waldenbook units. They are gone.  This vacuum creates a special opportunity for small self publishers.

This is why you should see three case studies below to help you be free, secure and fulfilled as a Self Publisher.

After these stories see how to get a second course worth $299 plus three bonuses when you enroll in our course “Self -Fulfilled – How to be a Self Publisher” on how to develop your own specific publishing business that can bring you  everlasting wealth.

Save $597 total. Self Fulfilled Special $299

Here are the three stories that show how the rise of the small self publisher began.   This knowledge can bring you secure income for the rest of your life. More importantly these stories can help you be happy and fulfilled and safe in this ever changing world.   With these case studies you help make the world a better place… in a small way perhaps… but better as you gain everlasting wealth.

Lets share how to create a fortune  in a rewarding career.

The first of these three stories contains the seeds of prosperity, richness, freedom and satisfaction for you.

The story begins with an excerpt from the December 16, 2010 Economist Article entitled “Rise of the image men” begins: (bolds are mine) that says:  As they prepared to face their second big strike in four years, America’s coal-mining bosses knew they had to do something about the newspapers. It was 1906—a time of rising resentment against robber-baron capitalism and the heyday of muckraking “yellow journalism”. During the previous strike the trade unions had fostered good relations with newspapermen and won themselves a sympathetic press. To help put their side of the story, the mining bosses turned to a former journalist, Ivy Lee.   Lee was to pioneer new methods—and, in the process, create a new industry.

Lee observed that the rise of national newspaper chains and syndicated journalism in America since the 1880s, combined with the extension of the franchise, had profoundly changed society. Now, for the first time, there was something that could accurately be called “public opinion”, a shared consciousness and conversation across the country—and it was to be feared. Lee noted how the emerging mass media were acting as the conduit for the anti-capitalist message of Progressivism, the liberalising reform movement that peaked in America in the early 20th century. He realized not only that it was essential for businesses to counter this message, but that the same conduit could be used to spread pro-business sentiment.

His idea, blindingly obvious now but a novelty then, was to send newsdesks a stream of statements putting the mining bosses’ case and rebutting allegations against them.

The seeds in this story, are rich with potential for your prosperity and are so simple. Lee observed that the rise of national newspaper chains and syndicated journalism in America since the 1880s, combined with the extension of the franchise, had profoundly changed society. Now, for the first time, there was something that could accurately be called “public opinion”, a shared consciousness and conversation across the country—and it was to be feared.  This is obvious now but was a novelty then.

The real seed is that a coincidence of many technologies changed the world (in the form of the newspaper)… at the turn of the 20th century. One technology was the ability to make newsprint… the paper of newspapers.  Paper was two thousand years old, but cheap newsprint, paper from wood pulp, did not come along until 1838 when Charles Fenerty of Halifax made the first newsprint while helping a local paper mill maintain an adequate supply of rags to make paper.  He succeeded in making paper from the wood pulp itself.

Plus technologies in transportation and communication then allowed… everyone, reporters to paperboys, to create public opinion through the power of the word.

This leads us to the second story that tells of another global transformation from broadcast to broad band… from large publishing to Self Publishing and how you can have so many good things you desire… freedom… material wealth…adventure… security… fulfillment… friendships…. status and fun as a Self Publisher.

Perhaps what Merri and I are most proud of this second story because it tells the tale of a student who used our publishing course “Self Fulfilled How to be a Self Publisher” to build a career.

David Cross was a meditation teacher in Edinburgh Scotland who taught our son Jake the art of meditating when Jake was at university there.   We meet David there and after talking he ordered our “Self Fulfilled – How to be a Self Publisher” course then in print… (now its online) and published a report.   One reader of the report had a new internet server business and was so impressed that he hired David to work for him in Sweden.   In the process of rising to become the managing director of that firm… David started our website (and is still our webmaster as well as business partner now).  During one business meeting in London, David met our daughter Cinda. ‘Love at First Sight.”

David Cross and Cinda Scott-Cross DVM.

David also met executives of International Living and went on to become Chief internet consultant for Agora Inc. one of the largest online marketing companies in the world.

David has since built an unparalleled, hands-on marketing experience that spans 25 years in 22 countries for companies and charities large and small. He’s guided many businesses and individuals to success in their business and helped them achieve their marketing goals, both online and offline.

As Senior Internet Consultant to Agora Inc. in Baltimore, MD, David worked closely with Agora’s publishers and marketers and over an 8-year period helped to propel Agora’s online revenues to over $300 Million in 2009.

Myles Norin, the CEO of Agoras wrote: ”I have found David’s knowledge and experience unmatched in the industry. Without David’s expertise and guidance for the past 7 years, we would not be nearly as successful as we are.”

David hails from England and now lives on a small farm close to Mount Hood in Oregon with our daughter, a veterinarian, their five children and a menagerie of animals. When not marketing or brainstorming you’ll find David following a dream of self-sufficiency for food, power and water within 10 years, tending the land and caring for the farm and animals. Not surprisingly, David is an engaging and knowledgeable speaker with many amusing anecdotes from his work and travels over the years.

Such is the power that Self Publishing brings.

The third story is of my wife Merri and me.

Merri became involved in self publishing over 40 years ago… first helping a veterinarian publish a book on a very specific market… animal acupuncture. Then she showed a needle point artist how to sell more books to an even more specific audience… “needle point enthusiasts”  about her needle point work to an audience larger than the population of the city she lived in.  This led Merri to eventually become Executive Editor of an award winning magazine in Florida.

My story allowed me to work and live from Hong Kong to London to Europe to Eastern Europe, then the Caribbean and then Ecuador… making millions in the process of following my adventures and having fun… while helping a large readership adapt to a rapidly changing world.

Self Publishing has created exactly the lifestyle I desire with a farm in North Carolina, orange groves and home in Florida… hotel and condos in Ecuador working at what I love and enjoy.

Hard at work in Florida during the winter.

Working during the summer on our North Carolina farm.

A shot from my work station  in Ecuador overlooking the Pacific.

Merri’s and my story also reflects how Self Publishing can enhance relationship.  Merri and I have not spent a night apart since we began publishing together over 30 years go.

Merri and I heading up to a seminar hall at our Blue Ridge farm to speak with a group about Self Publishing.

Self Publishing has entered a new era as a new business art form and we want to share with you how to start your own  self publishing business now.

Learn how to develop your publishing skills to turn your passion into profit!  If you can’t write… publish instead!

Whatever your passion, you can immerse yourself in it AND even create a six-figure income. This could be your direct ticket to the kind of fulfillment you’ve always wanted in life. Whether you want to travel the world or live as a recluse, work 12 hours a day or not work at all, learn more about golf or feeding the hungry… it can be yours if you’re willing to learn.

Self Fulfilled: How to be a Self Publisher will teach you our proprietary step-by-step plan for getting your publishing business going… full or part-time… right away.

How you can start with a very small amount of money and eventually work only four hours a day (if you are operating full-time).

11 steps to creating the perfect product, including how to review ideas, test focus, and aim at markets.

How to gain 1,000% returns on some of your publications.

How to choose a format—book, newsletter, list, audio or video—that suits you and your audience.

Frequently committed marketing mistakes and how to avoid them (plus, you’ll get samples of winning marketing pieces to study).

Personally, I like to write. And through publishing and writing, I have become wealthy beyond my dreams!

My wife, Merri, and I became multi-millionaires within 10 years of starting our self-publishing business. Today, we have more cars than we can drive, five homes and numerous cabins in North Carolina and Ecuador.  We have a beautiful lake front home on 16 acres (with an orange grove to boot).  We have no mortgages, not a penny of debt, and plenty of money in the bank.

But more important than the money, I enjoy the bliss of each and every day, doing what I love and hoping I can do it forever.

And why wouldn’t I? I often start my work days at 5:00 a.m. and wrap up by 9:00 a.m. That leaves the rest of the day to do mostly as I feel. If the kids are home, we’ll play. Other days, I just putter. Some days I take out a canvas and paint or concentrate on playing my flute. Other days, I just sit in the sun and read.

But even though my day’s work is often finished by the time many people are just getting started, I will still be thousands of dollars richer by the end of the day!

Of course I don’t always work just four hours a day. Some days I stay at the keyboard seven, eight, even 12 hours. But the thing is I love every minute of it, because I’m involved in projects that excite me!

Not only am I learning, writing, and publishing about things that I love, but I’m also making myself and the world a better place in the process. This life is as perfect as any I could ask for.

It Doesn’t Take Long to Start Making Serious Money

When I started my publishing business, I made a 380% return on my initial investment within a month. And it just got better from there.

Of course, no business is without its pitfalls. In fact, I’ve identified 17 pitfalls of publishing and they are covered in the course. It took me more than a decade of struggle to learn how to avoid them all, but I did it.

You see, back in 1974, I had what I thought was a good business, but to be honest, I could never get ahead. I was almost penniless, in debt and living from hand to mouth. Then I discovered the secrets to avoiding the pitfalls. Since then, our publishing business has brought in millions.

Now, Merri and I have packed over 40 years of global publishing and business experience into our course on how to have Self Publishing business.

Before I tell you how this program can help you create your ideal lifestyle, I want to make an important point. I’m not promising that this program will make you rich overnight or that you’ll wake up tomorrow with a more satisfying life. If you’re looking for a way to get rich while you sleep, you should stop reading right now.

But if you’re willing to invest a reasonable amount of time and effort into learning and applying this simple system, it will put you squarely on the road to becoming a wealthy and fulfilled publishing entrepreneur.

Through this in-depth program, I will share, teach, and guide you on everything you need to find a fulfilling path and start making good money right away.

I’ve structured the program to make it as easy as possible for you to implement. You’ll know precisely what to do from the very first day till the day you have a thriving publishing business.

You can start part-time with any dream, passion, and budget. Once you’ve created a product, you’ll enjoy the “multiple effect” of producing profits over and over again.

So the question is… What do you love to do?

What’s Your Passion:  Helping People Who Are in Pain?

Thirty years ago, a client of Merri’s developed a series of pamphlets explaining various chiropractic disorders in very simple terms.  For example: “What Is Whip Lash?”

The pamphlets contained solid information, but were simple 5″ x 7″ brochures with drawings and explanations. He sold them with a rack to chiropractors, who put them in their offices for patients to read.  These little self-published items have sold year in and year out for three decades.

There are thousands of ideas of this sort that can lead to big business. It’s just a matter of figuring out and then acting on your passion.

Although I can work when I please and go where I wish, for me the most important reason for being a publisher is the satisfaction it brings. I love the projects I take on, so work doesn’t feel like, well… work.

I’m passionate about investing, so I publish about that. But what matters is what do you love?

If you love golf, then you can publish things about golf.  Love travel, fishing, dogs, dolls, or art?  Publish about those things.

Are you concerned about crime, war, poverty or environmental issues? You can publish information products that help wipe them out.

Would you like to help the world be a more spiritual place? Publish a newsletter, write a book (or hire someone to write it for you), record a tape… do something that enlightens people.

Whatever your passion, you can immerse yourself in it and make a fortune by publishing CDs, lists, books, or any format you choose.

How to Build a Million-Dollar Business in Seven Years

The first time I exposed others to the secrets in Self Publishing: Your Complete Business Plan for Creating a Life Without Borders, it was in a weekend seminar. People from all walks of life attended—chiropractors, businessmen, investors, doctors, realtors, inventors, airline pilots, engineers, and housewives.

Merri and I were so overwhelmed by the response to the seminar, we decided to make it available to a larger audience.

Unlike programs that are put together by “experts” who have never actually done what their program promotes, this program is not theoretical. It describes step-by-step how Merri and I built a million-dollar international business in just seven years.

Another thing that is unique about us is that Merri and I decided to do the whole business by ourselves. Though we have tens of thousands of buyers and have made millions, we still work at home and do not employ a single person. You’ll be able to do the same—if you wish—because I’ve included everything we did—explained in vivid detail—in the program.

The program is also full of practical publishing ideas and case studies…

For example, you’ll learn about a pilot who published a book on the best airport cafés (suddenly all his flying became tax-deductible!)… how one couple who loved an island wrote a guide on the place and made enough money to buy a home on the beach there… and how another couple made millions with a simple legal idea.

What’s Your Passion: Travel and Tourism?

A client of ours amassed a fortune by starting travel guides for cities. He started with Sarasota, Florida, publishing a simple booklet with attractions, restaurants, etc. and plenty of advertising. Then he moved onto Naples, and on and on,until the whole state of Florida was done.

He didn’t have to put much work into the booklets as he could carry over plenty of generic information from booklet to booklet. But there were plenty of advertisers and plenty of people who wanted to obtain these booklets.

Finally, he franchised the whole operation.

* How to set up a computerized fulfillment center even if you’re computer illiterate.

* How to turn advertising dollars into a fortune by creating winning ads, direct mail pieces, and getting thousands of dollars in free publicity.

* Which printers to avoid and how to cut your printing bill in half by asking for quotes differently.

* How to use your computer and the internet to save hundreds of thousands of dollars in printing and postage.

* How to control inventory, check ad results, and keep overhead down.

* 11 financial hazards to avoid and tricks to stay profitable without a daily accountant.

* My secret pricing strategies that will help you sell more units of your product.

* Plus much, much more that I don’t have space for here!

Why This Unique System Is Guaranteed to Put You on the Road to Publishing Success

In Self Fulfilled – How to be a Self Publisher Merri and I give away every publishing secret we know and expect those who use this powerful program to reap a fortune and change their whole life for the better.

Why we’ll add the Self Published Kindle addition free.

If you’re wondering what a program like this can do for you, just take a look at how much my seminar on publishing helped the participants. Here’s what some of the folks had to say about what they learned:

“The course fulfilled all my expectations providing all the details necessary to start a publishing business from creating the idea, through marketing including the systems necessary to implement our ideas.” — B. C., Chiropractor  California

“Gary, your system is jam packed with vital information. My head is spinning. Thank goodness this is all backed up by your manual. This is a true and cherished gift. Your tips are a blessing! Thank you once again. The value far exceeds the price.”  — B. K., Investor Pennsylvania

“The course was excellent covering all the facets of publishing. The philosophy of keeping small with no employees alone made the course invaluable. Gary and Merri, you were excellent!” — S. K., Businessman
Georgia

“Your program gave me insight on what to do with widening my client base.”
– M.E., Real Estate Broker Florida

“We found the course interesting and informative. We were inspired to start work on a booklet. When we came down, we had no idea what to publish.”
– Employed couple from New York

“Your publishing course is outstanding! Just two hours of study on Sunday alone were worth more than the course price.”
– A publisher from California

“The course helped me in three ways. #1: To realize that it is not only OK but preferable to start small. #2: A small point but with big implications was Merri’s description of how she is going to make Gary an expert in the sport’s field. #3: I feel I have a workable program to have a newsletter — my own passion!”  – T. B., Professional Washington

These are just a few of the many comments I’ve received from people I’ve personally trained at my seminars to turn their passions into profits through publishing.

What’s Your Passion:  Expand Your Current Business?

You don’t have to reinvent the wheel with your publishing business. You can use publishing to expand your current business. That’s what I did — and it’s what the owners of a consulting firm in California did, too.

These business owners decided to write and publish books to establish credibility and attract new customers — and it worked like a charm.

Over the past 10 years, they have written two books, both aimed at establishing their company as the go-to source for customer service training. They credit the books with bringing in more than $1 million in new business!

Writing and books have turned into such a bonanza that they’ve recently added a new service to their business — coaching small business owners on the ins and outs of book publishing.

This brand-new home study version of the program is designed only for people who are serious about making a six- or seven-figure income, controlling their own destiny, or otherwise improving the quality of their life by publishing information products. It is not for idle curiosity.

Here’s How to Start Living a More Fulfilled Life As a Self-Publisher

With this hot-off-the-presses home study version of my self-publishing program, you get all the same information as people who attended that first seminar—but at a fraction of the cost.

They paid $2,000 to gain access to this information, but you can get the entire Self Fulfilled – How to be a Self Publisher for only $499!

That’s a real bargain considering that you will save thousands on printing and advertising alone. And you couldn’t duplicate the computer and internet knowledge you’ll gain for $20,000. For starters, you’ll learn:

* How to use the internet to publish

* How to define and target your internet market, and start getting visits

* How to develop your website

* The top 10 internet tips to use and the top 10 traps to avoid

I can tell you this: at $499, this program may very well be the best bargain and best investment you’ll ever make.

To this end, I have created a special offer… our course on how to be a self publisher, our course on how to use the internet and a website in your business  and three bonuses for you.

Bonus #1: Get the 50 minute Video Workshop worth $99 “How to Start Your Own Internet Business” presented by our webmaster David Cross,

This video is brand new and the first reader to read it wrote:  Muchas Gracias Gary, Just watched David’s video. It Was SUPER!  Thanks Again. Bill

Bonus #2: Get FREE, the $299 online course “The Tangled Webs We Weave – How to Have an Internet Business”.  To read more  about this course click here.

Bonus #3: Our Super Thinking Workshop in an MP3 file so you can listen on your computer, burn a disk or listen on you Ipod or in your car. This workshop was conducted and recorded last February 2011 and is a $199 value.

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This condo is listed at the Discovery Ecuador website of our attorney Floridalva Zambrano.

There is 24 hour security in the building and the Cuenca apartment has 3 bedrooms and 2 baths.

There is also an office and  a BBQ room.

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Attend our summer Writer’s Camp in Blue Ridge Mountains.   Start immediately with our online course Self Fulfilled – How to be a Self Publisher FREE right away. ($299 value).

Delegates  talking over books at last year’s summer Writer’s Camp.

Our Writer’s Camps help learn writing to sell… the business of writing and how to publish.

Our summer and autumn writer’s camps in North Carolina fill up quickly. Our winter writer’s camp was totally filled.

Join us Friday, Saturday and Sunday June 14, 15, 16 Super Thinking Writer’s Camp, Ashe County, NC.

Join us Saturday, Sunday and Monday August 31- Sept 1-2 Super Thinking Writer’s Camp, Ashe County, NC.

Single $799

Couple $999

Please indicate which camp you’ll attend in the comments section.

My wife, Merri, and I have possibly the smallest… yet one of the highest earning… self publishing company in the world.

Our high earnings come from writing, self publishing secrets we learned and refined over the past 45 years of writing to sell.  These secrets have worked so well they have earned extra millions for Merri and me and we share them at our writer’s camps..

Our goal at the camps are to help you “Get Started”… but to “Start Small” and maybe like us stay that way… small… tightly focus but highly profitable.

There I said it flying in the face of society hammering us to “Think Big”. This is the era where small is beautiful in a very big way.

At the camps we dive into this idea of smallness for profit.

I am stuck with this horrible fear of being broke. You know unfilled promises… tight finances… money worries…even costly groceries and bill collector stuff. I had all that decades ago and even though 40 years have passed it’s not forgotten.

I hate this for anybody. No money. No future prospects. Worry about the kids. Not knowing how to retire… or where to turn.

45 years ago I started writing because I was broke.  These problems over 40 years ago affected me for life.  In fact I am so hung up on this that that Merri and I (we are so thankful that we can) give away money to help create jobs… we have now donated close to a million dollars in our quest to reduce joblessness.

Merri and I are writers and self publishers. We have earned as much as $20,000 for a single day’s work… and have earned consistently year in and year out… while we do what we love… because of a few secrets.

We want to share these secrets with you so you can make six and even seven figure income each year in a matter that suits you.

There is more good news than the money.  The secrets we share make working fun. You are your own boss. You gain respect so your ideas are listened to.

Most important you can be self fulfilled as you make the world a better place by writing.

Merri and I invite you to share a writer’s camp we’ll conduct in 2013?   This will be a retreat high in the Blue Ridge for a select few that can help you create you own publications for profit.

Believe me… we will be relentless about three facts… serve well… be gratified… make good profits.

The retreat will be conducted in the seclusion of a forest.  We’ll meet in June  or August… but we want the work on your publication to begin right away…. tomorrow even.  I’ll explain how you can begin right away in a moment.

At the camp we teach super thinking as well as how to write and publish.  This secret “little system” creates a crack in the creative process… so you’ll not have just one idea for a business but many.  You may be flooded with ideas!  In fact a big part of the workshop narrows you down to deciding what to write first.

Merri and I are living proof.  We can’t open the darn paper without getting a new idea.

First, let me repeat…Start Small!

The camp by the way is called “Self Fulfilled – How to Write and Self Publishing”.   I am thinking of renaming it “Start Small but Earn Millions”.

Writers who earn the most are writers, like Merri and myself, who also publish.   We always make an annual six figure income but some years we net seven figures…over a million dollars. That’s because we figured out that the lion’s share of income earned from writing goes to the publisher. The publishing part of writing can be outrageously profitable.

One case study we’ll look at in the course reviews the book. “Who Moved My Cheese.” It’s so small! I love it!  The publisher had to push just to make it look like a book, yet 17 million copies in the first two years of release. No one is laughing. If the normal price is $19.95 a book, that’s $339,155 million in sales. If the author received a normal 12% royalty (on the wholesale price) he made a cool $20,346,500 (and much more as the book has continued to sell for years).

Pretty good, huh?

The $20 million plus will pay for quite a few groceries. Almost anyone would love to have this much income until they realize that this leaves the publisher with the other $300 million to spread around.

The neat thing about being a small, self publisher is that virtually all this money (the other 88%) is yours! (Sometimes the 12% too.) In other words, it could be all yours.

Merri and I began publishing with no money and little background. We started small! As already mentioned, I was bust and had no background in writing. I did not finish college.

Before we share the exact schedule of this exciting camp, let me outline a few of the benefits that self publishing has brought to Merri and me.

If you accept our invitation, we will hammer, even bombard you with the absolute, vital importance of starting small. We live in the era of epublishing that makes small “big”.   This plays perfectly into the hands of small businesses and copywriters as we just happened to have a perfect advantage right now in the marketplace.

Let’s begin to understand this with that old rule… follow the money. Our self publishing business has brought us millions. We own four houses, a farmhouse, six cabins and over 1,000 acres of land. Plus more money than we can spend, in the bank… safe, secure bonds and shares… no mortgages… no credit card bills and zero debt!

Now let’s get to the important stuff.  Our life is less stressed (not stress free – every business has stress) but Self Publishing can be a low stress business… no commuting… choose your own hours… immersed in your own passions with like minded souls. Work at home. How refreshing!

Here I am at our Florida home… at work?

You can have fun every day doing what you love as you accomplish goals that are important… to you… and are a service to your community.

Merri and I, for example, love helping people get jobs.  So we used self publishing to create a foundation (Land of the Sun Foundation) to help the indigenous learn how to get work. The foundation has donated nearly a million dollars in Ecuador to create jobs.

What do you love? Why not make the kinds of money I’ve just mentioned publishing your passion and do something good for the world at the same time?

Your passion and self publishing create…magic, wealth, happiness.

Three other things you gain.

#1: Respect. If you are not a recluse like Merri and me, you’ll find yourself the center of attention at social events and with your friends and in business because publishing is highly respected.

#2: Power. Everyone wants publishers to distribute good information about them. And everyone fears publishers a bit. The pen IS mightier than the sword!

#3: Protection. Writers are protected by the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. You do not need a license to publish. There is no government watchdog nor do you have bureaucratic red tape involved in publishing. Publishers enjoy almost more freedom than any other occupation because of the Freedom of the Press. This is so powerful because the first amendment is actually a part of the Bill of Rights. Just in case you missed this in school (as most students did including me) here are the exact words of this amendment:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

You become the press and you are set free. You cannot get more protection than that.

Shall we get back to the money and lifestyle? What can self publishing do financially for you?

Merri and I love nature so our home in Florida is set amidst and orange grove… just far enough from busy parts of the state that we enjoy wonderful peace and quiet. This makes a perfect place to study.  This is a winter shot from the front yard of our Florida home looking over our orange grove and lake…  that we bought with cash from our self published writing.

This is only where we live in the winter.

The Blue Ridge is our summer home.  That name is a slight misnomer for a large part of the year.  Correctly named in the winter, these mountains would be called “White Ridge”. The white comes from snow which begins with S as does South which is where we head around November…to Florida or Ecuador .

While it’s freezing in the North Carolina mountains, we worry about sunburn sometimes.

The Ecuador hotel, by the way, is one of the most satisfying parts of our self publishing business. We bought it from bankruptcy because a dozen wonderful people (with babies and kids and worries about education, medical bills and yes groceries) were about to lose their jobs.

Mostly right now… due to a elderly mom and many wonderful new grand kids we spend winters at our in Florida and visit family in Oregon and England.  So for your convenience (and ours) the next two writers camp will be conducted near our Ashe County North Carolina farm.

Why attend this camp?  Self publishing can easily fulfill all of your material needs.  More importantly it throws you together with fantastically interesting people from all walks of life.   You all share a common goal… to write… to sell… to earn.  This create magic for all.

You can enjoy this wonderful lifestyle.  Married, single, rich, poor, in good and bad health, educated and not, travelers and those who want to just stay at home. This is who self publishing works for… those who want a gradual part time improvement in life and those who want to make big enhancements now.

This workshop appeals to anyone who would like to write or publish or both.  We will look at how published products can include compilations, catalogues, CDS, interviews. Plus we’ll look at how to develop treks, tours, visits, products and services.

For example, you’ll see below how one delegate who attended the workshop used her publication to sell real estate.

This course is for individuals and couples. We include those who want their own publishing system together as a family business.

Self employed, retired, professionals and those who are employed who want to add extra income or who want to change their life entirely will benefit. Previous course delegates have included investors, chiropractors, doctors, dentists, lawyers, architects, other professionals and those who already own their own business and of course retirees.

This workshop is not theory. Merri and I share our real time experiences. We start at the beginning over 40 years ago but mainly look at how we earn hundreds of thousands and even millions a year in our exciting lifestyle…right now.

Let’s get our noses to the grindstone. The workshop provides a Path called the seven Ps. They provide a simple, small and easy path for starting your own publishing business.

The workshop has one focused, refined and relentless goal. To prepare you to start your first publication the day after the workshop ends!

May I add that this workshop has done a pretty good job already?  Here are a few examples of small self publishing businesses that started after attending this workshop.

Barry Weinhold who attended our Writers Camp wrote:   My first book sold over 200,000 copies in print. After attending your course I have published another book at Amazon.com.
Thanks for helping get the word out.   The First free download of Book One had about 900 downloads and we have sold about 90 books since then. I did get some great reviews on Book One. Now book two is ready.

You can order Barry’s second book ($2.99) on Amazon.com by clicking here. “Breaking Family Patterns: How To Change Your Family Patterns!“

Nicki Goff  who attended our writer’s camp wrote shortly after that she completed her first book “Easy Quinoa Recipes” with 13 quinoa recipes.

She had 10,000 downloads of the book in five days and obtained dozens of good reviews!

She wrote:  Hi, Gary,  Book sales are actually going well, and I’m having a lot of fun with this. I’m so grateful to you and Merri  for pushing me to get some action going!

The free promos really get things going, and seem to reignite sales.

Two more in the works – both on gardening topics.  Best wishes for 2013 to you and Merri.   Love, Nicki

What a joy seeing how helping and connecting people helps all create their own special success.  How beautiful to see friends turn their passions into profit!

You can get 13 more great quinoa recipes in Nicki Goff’s book at the links below.

You can order Nicki’s first book at Amazon.com.

Nicki learned at the camp that getting these downloads is step three in a seven step process. We (and others) have been helping Nicki and our delegates walk through these steps so they can earn income through writing and publishing again and again.

Nicki is now well on her way to wonderful self publishing success.   She just completed her fourth book, “Under Cover Gardening”

The Writer’s Camp helps people of all ages from their teens to their 80s!

The father of the family of four wrote:  Hi Gary and Merri:  Just thought y’all would like to know that today Doss published his first book.  It is called College Confidential and it is currently listed at number 42 on amazon. com.  He would not have done it but for our experience this summer at your Writer’s Camp.

So, here is thanking you both very much.

Bill Winter

This book is written by a student, for students, College Confidential: An Insider’s Guide to Success written by Doss Winter is filled with practical tips and insider information addressing everything from Academics to getting your Zzzzs.

Order College Confidential at Amazon.com here.

The writer’s camp refines both Merri’s and my 40 years of experience into its most essential points. All of us will have to work intensely to cram everything into three days.

This workshop is being conducted by Merri and me. We will be hosting the event near our North Carolina farm.   These camps are intimate which allows us to personally work with each delegate to assure that all who attend can create their own publication.

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Day one, at 9 a.m. sharp, we get to work.

What will you write?  Some of you know what you want to do…that’s great.  We’ll work on that.  Some of you just feel that you can succeed in this field…we’ll hone that and work on that.  We’ll create our own niches.

Your product? Your goals?  This is why we are inviting you to enroll in the camp now. This is a long term program and we’ll help you create your own product now that we can work on at the camp.

In the afternoon, we’ll dive into the 7 Ps of self publishing. Passion, Problem, Person, profitably priced Product, pathways to Prospects, Promise and Presentation.

Then we get down to brass tacks by placing the ideas you have fractured under the first magnifying glasses of Passion, Problem and Person. This is the beginning of your first perfect product so you can become your own perfect client.

I’ll talk about how your passions, your current knowledge bring you to your own niche create the stories.  We’ll look at the all powerful “Golden Rule of Simplicity…Your Passions Represent Markets”.

Merri and I will both show you how to follow your passion to the market and use your passion to find “Prospecting Pathways” and “Presentation Templates” that are the drivers of your business.

Merri’s publishing skills and history, by the way, far exceed mine. She began her own import business selling products form Italy , Germany and Mexico through her own advertisements she wrote in the New Yorker, Sunday NY Times, Smithsonian, House & Garden, House Beautiful, and other magazines. Then with her ad agency edited and published hundreds of books, brought a bankrupt magazine to award winning status as executive editor to Gulf Shore Life (which later sold to the Robb Reports for $22+ million dollars), has edited over 1400 writers and was even offered the top editor (the only female) at the National Enquirer working directly with Generoso Pope (which she politely turned down).  She lectured at Magazine Conferences throughout the South to help others bring their own publishing ventures to awarding winning and financial success.

We’ll then return to and chip away at your fractured writing and publishing ideas to refine the most valuable asset you have in your business armory… your imagination.

Finally around 5 pm, we’ll stop working as one large group. However, that is not the end of the educational, evolutionary process that will by now be whirling away. You’ll have enough momentum and information to refine your publication.  That’s what you’ll be assigned to do.

We won’t want you to work too late though.  We still have a lot to do in the next two days.

Day two, I already know what will happen. You’ll all be sitting around with others buzzing over your ideas. I’ll have to force you back to group work at 9 a.m. because you’ll have such a head of steam you won’t want to stop talking. However, I hope that you have followed Merri’s and my example and had a good night’s sleep. Experience suggests that some of you in your excitement, will have worked through the night. You might not get to sleep now because today we’re going to accomplish three days work in a day!

We’ll start with a review of your assignments. No red marks or stars by the way… just feedback and a gentle coaxing toward the ways to create winning writing and self publishing ventures.

Then we’ll get into how to turn your thoughts/desires/energies into reality with:

#1: Stories with authenticity, meaning and roots.

#2: Stories true to the heart.

#3: Stories with conflict.

#4: Stories with passion.

The “why” of these four qualities is fascinating and so impossibly important, yet simple, that knowing it is worth the entire investment you make in the workshop. Here it is quick, down and dirty… knowledge worth millions.

There are three main demographic subgroups in the Western World. One is dying out. One controls everything but the third is rapidly rising… growing so fast that it can take down even a big organization like Starbucks (which it did in England) if ignored. Yet this third group (whom you will write and publish for) is at least partially ignored by every large corporation in the world. They all make the same cheesy error and this huge mistake creates fracturing opportunities for you… which will be the tiny, but immensely profitable small publisher.

We go on to our next Story Review about small niches that Merri and I have fractured. How we beat a publisher that’s 1,500 times larger in this niche.

We’ll break for lunch. Then at 2 pm it’s back to work:

In the afternoon, Merri and I look at how to match your passion to the National Psyche by studying the NY Times & USA Today best seller lists. We’ll see how new indie epublishers are creating top selling books and provide magical clues that lead to successful products, stories and marketing.

We’ll work on epublishing…how it is virtually free of expense to start/continue/succeed.  Only things necessary:  inspiration, desire, hard work and follow through…actual cost?  Zero.

Then we’ll review how to use Twitter to develop viral marketing and… what’s next!

Getting your reports, books or simply ideas on the epublishing parade…that’s through Kindle, Book Nook, Apple, etc.

The excitement that builds by this time of the camp often interferes with the dream process.  Ideas for reports, publishing ideas, businesses, stories, new lifestyles and bigger profits come rushing forth even though you are trying for sheep.

Regardless, on Day 3, – as before, we’ll start at 9 a.m. sharp and remain intensely focused until mid afternoon.

Before Merri and I wrap up the entire process, we’ll outline our how we’ll continue to assist you for the rest of the year.

Let’s end this with a summary:  Merri and I will begin to help you develop your publishing, writing idea the minute you enroll.  Our goal is to help you create your own product so you can fine tune it in July.  The workshop will help you come up with new ideas… but we want you to start one now. Merri and I will be glad to help you with it.

Okay, how about your cash investment? The cost of the workshop.

As I said earlier, Merri and I have been self publishing for 40 years. This invitation provides access to information we share with only a very limited group.

The cost of the camp is  $799 or $999 for a couple. Travel, your accommodations and other meals are your responsibility.

Registration is severely limited due to the personal attention we provide.   We expect to be full.

Here is how to register immediately.

Click below:

Join us Friday, Saturday and Sunday June 14, 15, 16 Super Thinking Writer’s Camp, Ashe County, NC.

Join us Saturday, Sunday and Monday August 31- Sept 1-2 Super Thinking Writer’s Camp, Ashe County, NC.

Single $799

Couple $999

Please note which camp you’ll attend in the comments section.

We’ll send you an email giving you details and your preparatory assignments for the camp, travel, etc.

We’ll set up our line of communications as well as deliver our online Self Publishing course.

We’ll send you what you need to get started. We’re going to be learning from the first minute, and we want you to be ready.

Get started and work with us and the online course until the camp begins.

Best regards,

Gary

P.S. This is a chance to experience the dream life of a writer and self publisher.

We are going to work hard the entire time from now until the camp but the effects of this retreat won’t end on day 3. They’ll just begin.

One of the finest benefits you gain will be new like-minded friends. Our previous workshop delegates have stuck together…formed support groups and helped each other develop, grow and profit. This is called an “old boys network” in some places. Every major university and educational system has one…this invisible power because “who you know”, not just “what you know” works. We’ll encourage this so your alumni group can enhance your efforts whenever required.

May I share three final examples of how big, your little self publishing business can become from our workshop?

A long time friend, who had just retired from a 30 year career in the oil industry joined our program. His passion was to learn more about health and looking at the deep, more spiritual aspects of life since he had ended a financially successful career. He has gone on to publishing the leading healthy living magazine where he lives.

Not only does he publish 20,000 copies of a 48-64 page magazine on healthy living every month, he has been able to meet and work with leading health and spiritual leaders like Deepak Chopra, Dr. Wayne Dwyer and even the Dali Llama. What a thrill.

Michelle Toole, an at home mother, made a fateful decision… to attend our self publishing course.

Michelle was disabled when she took the “Self Fulfilled – How to be a Self Publisher” camp.

She took what she learned from our publishing courses and created her own successful global micro website.

Michelle wrote:  “I have some great news, my web site  http://healthy-holistic-living.com is now getting on average 2,000 visitors a day! Yup my little one man show web site now gets close to 60,000 visitors each month!  The power of the internet is amazing as well as the opportunities.  We have said it before but it deserves saying again the internet is truly the great equalizer.

“My web site is at a point now that it is growing without much effort and produces a nice passive income allowing me to continue working on my second site http://home-remedies-and-natural-cures.com and to get my third site up and running.  I am also working on various joint ventures with other web sites focusing on helping others start their own web business. I am doing monthly webinars helping disabled individuals start their own business on the Internet and will be starting a coaching club in the new year.  The opportunities are only limited by one’s imagination.

“Again I can not thank you and Merri enough, I look forward to many great adventures and new experiences in the coming years!”

Another successful self publisher who attended our workshop wrote :

“MY HEAD IS STILL SPINNING from all of the valuable input I received. Out in the boonies, 2 + hours from the airport in Charlotte , North Carolina it was not your typical setting for a business seminar.

“It was presented by a fascinating guy with an interesting career history. Gary Scott and his wife, Merri, split their time between their idyllic farm in North Carolina and their property in the mountains of Ecuador . I first heard about Gary through my interest in Ecuador .

“By his own admission, Gary is often ‘a bit ahead of the curve’ which is part of what makes his material interesting. You sense the authenticity of what he is saying but it has not caught on in the mainstream media or pop-culture.

“The input is that is already affecting my life was not just from the instructor, but from other participants. The small group, less than twenty, seemed to be intimately bonded as soon as the seminar started. People from all walks of life and all parts of the country gained insights from the information that was geared to create a ‘life of your choosing more so than just a successful business. A very simple but powerful concept. Why do we want the money in the first place?

“The lifestyle aspect of the course was taught by example. We, as a group, were temporarily inserted directly into the lifestyle led by Gary and Merri. No better way to learn than by doing.

“The course content suited my needs very nicely. It addressed issues pertinent to FilmTrips and my marketing company, MJ Media. New life has been injected into several FilmTrips projects that had been languishing on a back burner for quite some time. Gary talks about being open to ‘connect the dots’ and take advantage of distortions or discrepancies between economies and countries. I am in a very good position to do that. Telephone and Internet technology has certainly arrived to help make it happen. I will keep you posted!”

In the workshop we learn how to use the “Business Evolutionary Process.” Start with a small idea. Let the idea build enthusiasm. Let the enthusiasm lead you to an education. Let the education create action. The action will bring, deeper ideas…so you can start small and grow.

This is what so many others who have accepted Merri’s and my invitation have done and are doing now….as are we. A never ending process for all.

We hope you will join this growth process with us. If you do, this letter…the invitation and the workshop will be fateful and fun.  Register today!

Join us Friday, Saturday and Sunday June 14, 15, 16 Super Thinking Writer’s Camp, Ashe County, NC.

Join us Saturday, Sunday and Monday August 31- Sept 1-2 Super Thinking Writer’s Camp, Ashe County, NC.

Single $799

Couple $999

Please note which camp you’ll attend in the comments section.

Delegates from our last camp wrote:  My daughter and I had a fantastic time at the Writer’s Camp this past weekend.  We both felt we gained a tremendous amount of knowledge on “how to make money with our writing skills”!  Thank you.
 
Yours and Merri’s expertise on transmitting knowledge to others is phenomenal.  The warm, personal feel of being with you both along with the great people in the class was great!
 
Thank you again for all the added information gained in all areas of life and what I consider gourmet meals served to us all.
 
Donna/Jeanna

Another wrote: Have just returned from the writing seminar conducted at your farm in Ashe County, North Carolina, I thought I’d give you my take on what I experienced. To suggest that the location, hosts, seminar content, and accommodations were adequate would be an understatement.

This was my introductory visit to the northwestern corner of North Carolina and it appears, from looking at the map, that this area could be considered the “foothills” of the Appalachian Mountain Range. Remote? You bet! But a beautiful place for retreating when life or weather calls for relocation.

Corresponding as we have for the past two years was simply a forerunner to our one on two meeting and I am so pleased that we found this opportunity.  You are both most personable with dynamic and pleasing personalities. I was extremely comfortable the entire weekend and thank you for making that possible.

The seminar itself opened a whole new world that I hope to explore in the coming months. I drove away from your farm with a well inflated right rear tire and a wealth of information that could catapult me into a whole new profession should I opt to go that route. I still have a number of professional business ideas that I intend to pursue, however, the concepts and ideas conveyed in your seminar will serve to enhance whatever I undertake going forward.

But if there was one underlying common denominator that I recognized, it was the fact that you are both so well qualified to present in this field of communication. Probably my most prolific observation was how well read and knowledgeable you are. The breadth and depth of knowledge on so many diverse yet associated subjects kept my unswerving attention. It also opened my mind to a variety of fields that, heretofore, I would not have considered relevant to my interests. And as a presenter, Gary is prolific. I drove away knowing that not only did the seminar give me my money’s worth but I was introduced to some very valuable contacts.

The bottom line is your seminar was both eye opening and entertaining. I came, I saw, I learned, and I even ate healthy. Thanks for everything. John

The son of a father son team sent this note:  Hi Merri!  I just attended your writers camp with my dad this past weekend.  I didn’t get to express how much I appreciated all that you and Gary did for us this weekend because we were in a hurry to get to the airport. Letting us stay in your cottage and having us for your writers camp was an experience that I will remember for the rest of my life! Gary and Merri’s stories of adventure, success, your lessons, and advice are truly priceless!!

This camp has inspired me. Writing has always come naturally for me but I never was able to view it as a business opportunity.

This camp has shown me not only that writing can be profitable, but HOW to make it profitable! Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom with me. In my lifetime, I could only hope to see the success that you and Gary have achieved.

I not have only signed up for your newsletter, but I can’t stop spreading the word to my friends about my experience. Thanks again for your amazing hospitality,  Mitchell

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We share a David Cross video at the camp.

David has an unparalleled, hands-on marketing experience spanning 25 years in 22 countries for companies and charities large and small. He’s guided many companies and individuals to success in business and helped them achieve their marketing goals, both online and offline.   He started working with the internet from the getgo and we have been lucky that he helped us start our website in the 1990s.  He was also Senior Internet Consultant to Agora Inc. in Baltimore, MD.  David worked closely with Agora’s publishers and marketers and over an 8-year period helped to propel Agora’s online revenues to over $300 Million in 2009 until he came to work with Merri and me full time.

More who have written about the Writer’s Camp.

From Sandra, a restaurant owner:  “Dear Gary and Merri, Yes I did it! Without you and your wonderful writing class I would not have been able to see my potential!! I THANK YOU BOTH! You told me to write about what I know and I did. Thank you for all the encouragement. Starting today, we are taking orders and I wanted you to be the first to know! So here goes…..I have some exciting news to share! I have just written my first book and very much appreciate your help. This book would make a great gift for any bride-to-be or even the parents of the bride (especially if they’re paying the bill)! Please check it out. I genuinely appreciate you helping me spread the word! Thank you!! Sandra”

From Jerusha, an anthropologist:  “Hello Gary and Merri. I am the first in the class to publish! I published a calendar on www.lulu.com!

From Todd, a wedding photographer:  “Thanks, Gary and Merri name recognition is beginning. Here is my new photoletter that your program helped me develop. I’m getting more clear about my own marketing now, so I may be able to better advantage of it. I am planning now to send out an email once a week showcasing new photos and creating awareness for my products and services. By mid July, I will place my first greeting card order (with a printing company Merri recommended in Cotacachi). So, I will soon have an inexpensive product to offer along with the more expensive prints that I sell. So far, I’ve got 60 opt-on subscribers to my email list, and I am telling everyone I know about it, so it’s starting to grow nicely. My first goal is to have 1000 readers. I’ll see how quickly I can accomplish it. Take care, Todd”

From Micky, a real estate broker:  “I want to say thank you for the inspiration and encouragement that I received through your publishing program. I recently published a 28 page booklet” Naples is Priceless “. This FREE booklet is being distributed through the Chamber of Commerce, banks, hotels, etc. With over 25 years as a Realtor I can now let potential real estate buyers gain knowledge and inside tidbits about this beautiful area. Again, thank you for helping me develop my potential. Micky”

Meet other successful writers.

Mike Herron who atteded our camp and is now on his second book just wrote:   Hello Gary, I wanted to thank you and Merri for once again providing a wonderful and motivating experience at the Writer’s Camp last month.  As with your other workshops I’ve attended, it inspired me to return home and finish my second book and get it published.

I’m pleased to announce that Appalachian Gold is now completed and available for people to purchase and read.  It is available on Amazon in either e-book format or as a print-on-demand hard copy.

Unlike my first novel, Black Diamonds, the first book in the Colors of Alaska trilogy which takes place in Homer, Alaska, Appalachian Gold is set in the North Georgia Mountains.  As is my style, I interweave local legends with love and bring them to contemporary life.

Susan and I both hope to attend more of your workshops at your North Carolina camps, perhaps we can manage to get up to one this summer.  Maybe we can even work in a book signing at a nearby winery to help spread the word about Appalachian Gold.

Now I will turn my attention to completing the second book in my Alaskan trilogy. It will be called Blue Ice.  Susan and I will be visiting Alaska in May and June doing research for the book, enjoying the majestic scenery, and visiting our son.

If any of your readers are aspiring authors who have yet to be published I would strongly encourage them to sign up for one of your writing camps at the first opportunity.  I know the experience will provide them with the skills, knowledge and perhaps more importantly, the motivation, to return home and turn their dream into reality.

Best wishes always and we look forward to seeing you again soon. Mike

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The Multi Currency Sandwich creates a great interest in leverage. To borrow or not to borrow… that is the question.

Which is better? This (our latest real estate investment), or…

this.  www.finance.yahoo.com chart of US dollar to Japanese yen since December 2012.

A reader recently asked this question:   You pay cash for real estate but advocate the use of leverage in currency investments.  Why not leverage your real estate investments?

Kyle Bass, Dallas TX Hedge Fund manager, was recently quoted as saying the best thing one can do now to overcome the coming inflation is to buy an apartment complex and put long term, low interest debt on it…in so many words.  He also said short Japan, buy gold and go to sleep…everything will be fine when you wake up in ten years…again probably not a quote but you get the point.

My reply to this reader can help understand more about leveraged investments and when, how and why to borrow to invest.

I wrote:  The differences between borrowing to buy real estate and leveraging an investment account include management, risk protection and cost.

Let’s look first at management.  My report Borrow Low-Deposit High outlines that borrowing low and investing the loan high is mainly about earning positive carry.  For example you borrow at 3% and earn 7%.  You make 4% extra for taking the currency risk.  This can be managed very inexpensively.

Ideally the currencies do not fluctuate for extended periods so you maximize your income.   In a perfect scenario in the end after years the borrowed currency falls and one exits the position with a nice profit.

A good example was the yen in the 1980s when it was 111 yen per dollar and could be borrowed for 4%.  Dollar bonds at that time were paying 8% and even more.

The yen continued to strengthen and over several years rose all the way to 79 yen per dollar.  The losses on paper were terrible…. but all this time the borrowed yen was earning an extra 4% and 5% per annum.  Finally the yen collapsed and fell all the way to yen 145 per dollar.  I exited and enjoyed a nice forex gain after having earned the positive carry for years.

I had earned income even though I showed a loss on paper.  In real estate during times of loss, income flow is more easily cut off leaving an investors with a negative income.  

Next is risk protection.  The Borrow Low-Deposit High report has a schedule so investors can pre calculate forex profits and losses before taking a position.

The report recommends that before taking a position an investor set a stop loss and immediately clear the position if they earn a certain profit or suffer a certain loss.  The highly liquid nature of the multi currency sandwich allows an almost instant end to the speculation whenever one’s position moves into a loss position.

Plus leverage in the borrow low deposit high recommendation is quite low… a maximum of four to one, but more normally two to one.  Invest $100,000 and borrow $100,000 or $200,000 at maximum.

In real estate the leverage can at times reach 19 to one (5% down) and the value of the asset is imprecise and liquidity often low. 

The idea of leveraging real estate is a great one.  I have a number of friends who have made huge fortunes doing exactly that.

However I have also known many people who borrowed heavily on real estate and in the 1970s, the 1980s and mid 2000s went bankrupt.  

We have recommended buying rental real estate in Smalltown USA for several years  but there is far higher management costs to the real estate than currencies.  Jyske for example charges between 3/4% and 2% to manage a position.   Real estate managers typically charge 10% to 15%.   Real estate is not as fungible nor as liquid as currencies. 

Any one dollar or yen or euro is the same anywhere and is worth at any moment the same almost any place and can be sold almost immediately 24 hours a day.   This is not so for real estate.

The costs of entering and exiting real estate is also very high compared to currencies.  A currency turn can bu around 3/10s of 1%.   Buying and selling a piece of real estate can be 12% or more.

Currently it looks like the real estate we have been buying will do very well if the economy continues to recover as expected.

Yet in downturns there are multiple real estate carrying costs… insurance, taxes, maintenance, plus a vacancy rate.

Real estate sales prices can vary depending on multiple circumstances and the huge number of foreclosures and short sales that remain in the market speak of this problem.

My nephew was one of the biggest house builders in Oregon and had huge real estate loans when everyone went south in 2007.  He saw the problem and auctioned off every property he could.  Yet he still suffered great losses.

Buying real estate is a good business. There are many ways to do this and many use leverage.  We prefer to buy real estate with cash and find that most readers we meet would be better off thinking this way.

In the end this boils down to whether one wants to make an investment or have a business. 

I agree by the way with Kyle Bass on the yen.  This site posted a recommendation to borrow (short) yen in December.

This site often recommends buying rental real estate.  This site often recommends borrowing low and depositing high.    This site also often recommends having a micro business.

Real estate can form the basis of a good investment or of a micro business.   The difference is the amount of management you plan to put in.   If you are going to leverage real estate… be sure you have a a good base of renters and the ability to manage or a good management company because if the market turns the wrong way you cannot quickly get out.

Should you borrow or not?   If you have enough money to do what you wish without leverage… and the extra profit won’t really make a difference to your lifestyle, don’t borrow.   Investing with leverage increases risk and you should never borrow more than you can afford to lose.

Gary

Learn how to start a micro business in writing to sell.

Get the “Borrow Low – Deposit High” report free when you order our “Embracing Change: How to Invest in Changing Times”   This report is about Managing Risk.

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Missions Create Real Value Investments

Missions help define value and bring profits that go far beyond the bucks.

Some have used their mission to alter the world.

Jeff Bezos’ belief in missions caused Amazon.com shares to rise like this.

(Click on photo to enlarge)

There is more to this than money though knowing how to use missions to spot value can enhance financial stability and wealth.

In 1994 Jeff Bezos made a cross-country drive from New York to Seattle, creating  the Amazon business plan on the way.  He left a good paying job and started Amazon.com in his garage.

He had three simple ideas in mind.  Beat the tax man… use quirks of the internet and fulfill a mission.

Defying Gravity in Wealth

Having a mission is the most powerful of these ideas… especially in our existing era of rapid change.  What is reasonable today… may not be reasonable soon.  Take Bezos’s play on tax benefits.  Tax advantages  can evaporate on the whim of Congress.  How about change on the internet?   There is no place where change happens faster.

Right now four companies that may not have seemed reasonable just a decade or so dominate the internet… Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google.

Amazon.com is not even 20 years old.  Bezos started Amazon in 1994 in his garage.   Then he went billions in the hole.

Today, Bezos is listed as one of the wealthiest people in the world with an estimated net worth of US 22.1 billion.  He is ranked by Harvard Business Review as the the best living CEO.

According to Forbes, Amazon’s shares have “defied gravity”,  jumping 55% and adding $6.5 billion to Bezos’ net worth.

Yet Amazon could be gone in a flash.   The four internet giants: Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google are competing fiercely.  The chart below from a Financial Times article “Battle of the Giants is about this four way competition and shows that Amazon…on paper… is the poorest of them all.

Graph from Financial Times article on the “Battle of these Giants”  (see link below).

Amazon has the least cash and lowest profit but I am betting on Amazon because of its mission.    More likely in another decade all four internet giants could be gone… or they’ll be also rans beat out by new  disruptive technology we cannot even imagine right now.

If Bezos… and Apple and all these giants with their enormous resources are at risk to change… how can we as small investors and micro businesses invest and survive in such a rapidly changing world?

The answer is provided by Bezos.

Bezos built his fortune based around two ahas and one concept… about missions and missionaries.

Bezos’ first aha was to invest in areas of rapid growth.  He had learned about the rapid growth of Internet use.  The second aha was that rapid Internet growth coincided with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that online retailers did not have to collect sales taxes in states where they lacked physical presence.

His third and most important belief went beyond taking advantage of short term change.  He saw that long term success in investing and business relies on more than business acumen.

The key to lasting success is a mission.

Bezos said:   I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

He summed up the key to prosperity and survival in business and investing.   Care… invest in… and work at… something that is meaningful to you.

This is why I have updated my report… “Embracing Change – How to Invest in Changing Times”.   This report defines a formula for investing during rapid change.  You can  learn how to spot trends that emerge from change.  See how to unveil good value and find investment and business opportunities that can help you earn and fulfill your positive mission.

Money is no longer enough!

“Embracing Change” is about how to profitably embrace change and find a personal and meaningful business investing path.

The report provides a simple, common sense plan to understand the global economy so you spot trends of interest to you for investing and business for profit.

Here is what you learn from “Embracing Change – How to Invest in Changing Times”.

* Currency problems create wealth:  The Multi Currrency Sandwich.

The report starts with a look at currencies and how their purchasing parity threatens all wealth.  See why some currencies are not at equal risk. Gain ways to find extra value created by a strong (but fundamentally weak) currency with a low interest rate that is tensed with a weak (but fundamentally strong) currency that pays a higher rate of return.

The report begins by reviewing our January 2013 recommendation to borrow Japanese yen at 82 yen per dollar and invest the loan in US dollars and euro.  Within three months the yen had fallen to 96 yen per dollar and this multicurrency sandwich had created 21.5% profit in three months.

* Stock, economic and productivity cycles anticipate bull and bear trends in market and the global economy.

“Embracing Change”  tracks the Dow back over 100 years to reveal a consistent pattern of bull and bear markets that each last about 17 years.  The Dow has been in a sideways bear market since 2000.  Comparing the Dow from 2000 to 2013 to the Dow from 1966 to 1982 (the previous bear cycle)  shows why we could see another sharp retraction in the Dow now despite having  reached recent all time highs.

In 1974 (eight years after the bear began) the Dow collapsed nearly 50% before the great run up that began in the 1980s.  In 2008 (eight years after the next bear market began), the Dow collapsed nearly 50%.

The stock market had stormed upwards but a comparison of the Dow Jones from 1960 to 1974  and from 2000 to March 2013 was troubling.

1960 to 1974 Dow Chart from www.stockcharts.com

Notice four peaks representing over bought markets during a 17 year sideways bear market that ran from 1966 to 1982.

2000 to 2013 Dow chart from  www.stockcharts.com

Learn what to do if the Dow is ready for one more sideways bear crash in this down cycle.

* How to anticipate new waves of technology.

Spotting innovations is as important as the 17 year cycles.

See a review of some of the top innovations that have entered the market in the past decade.  One innovation reviewed in the report is fermionic condensate invented by Deborah S. Jin. This is a superfluid phase formed by fermionic particles at low temperatures.

Fermionic condensate is special because it is a new form of matter, the sixth known after solids, liquids, gases, plasma and a Bose-Einstein condensate.

The way the atoms act suggest there should be a way to turn this matter into a room-temperature solid that is an everyday, usable superconductor. This would allow electricity to be transmitted with no loss and no heat.

Superconductor technology is being fed into the development of magnetically levitated trains. Free of friction these vehicles glide along at high speeds using a fraction of the energy of conventional trains.

Another new technology takes living cells, loads them into a printer, and squirts out a 3D tissue that could develop into a kidney or a heart.  This is the first printer for embryonic human stem cells.

A research group at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has created a cell printer that spits out living embryonic stem cells.

The new printing method could be used to make 3D human tissues for testing new drugs, growing organs, or ultimately printing cells directly inside the body for use in regenerative medicine — repairing, replacing and regenerating damaged cells, tissues or organs.

Then the report deals with another major innovation factor which is… “How do we sort out the winning innovations from the bad?”

There are new innovations announced almost daily… some created by huge companies.   Take MSN Direct as an example.  This technology piggybacked on FM radio signals.  Microsoft said this was the next big delivery system for delivering data to portable devices and Bill Gates seemed particularly fond of watches that received the signals. Alas, cell,phones and their networks offered stronger signals, wider coverage, and more flexibility. The MSN Direct data folded years ago.

Another example is TheGlobe.com.   This was social networking before Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn.  TheGlobe started in 1995. Three years later the IPO stock was offered at $9 a share and skyrocketed to $65,  the largest first day gain of any IPO in history up to that date.  Then online advertising went bust, the stock price plummeted  and the TheGlobe.com was laid to rest in 2008.

How to Make a Small Fortune

Even spotting winning innovations does not always convert into profit.   The way to make a small fortune is to start with a large fortune and turn every $38 into $26.

That is what happened with the winning innovation… Facebook.   Though the innovation has worked well… many investors were wiped out when the stock’s $38 IPO price lost over a quarter of its value in less than a month and went on to lose over half its IPO value in three months.   All this time later, the shares are $26 per share well below the IPO launch.

 

* The report looks at YOU as a guide to trends and the world.

Warren Buffet showed how selecting good shares is a unique personal art that begins with what you like and know. The ups and downs of markets have almost nothing to do with your investing success at all.

Warren Buffet, one of the world’s great investors, confirmed that understanding  your mission is a key component of success when he shared tips that are the foundation of how he invests.  Here are the core points he shared:

1. Do what you like
2. Money isn’t everything
3. Work only with people you like
4. Invest only in what you understand
5. Don’t over diversify
6. Keep looking for new opportunities
7. Look for businesses that are available at a good price

“Embracing Change” looks at how to put invaluable information to work using a PIEC wealth system.   PIEC is an acronym for “Personal Income Earning Corridor”. This concept of financial prudence differs greatly from traditional approaches of accumulating wealth.

Traditionally people invest to create income and profit.  They invest and work to live and support their lifestyle and aim towards a future of doing something enjoyable without work.

PIEC investors reverse the priorities. Instead of investing for profit, PIEC investors learn how to enjoy investing in a profitable way.

For example, if a PIEC investor loves golf, they’ll focus and invest in some aspect of the golfing trade.

“Embracing Change” shares how PIEC uses the evolutionary cycle of business, the diffusion curve and the golden rule of simplicity.

Be Smarter

How do we get to the core of true success?   “Embracing Change” shows one example that was the core of Apple’s success… relaxed concentration.

Relaxed concentration helps you spot better trends that are interesting to YOU.  In times of rapid change, it is important to think beyond logic.  We need Super Thinking.

Super Thinking had a lot to do with Apple and why it has more revenue, more cash and more profit than Amazon, Google and Facebook combined.

Steve Jobs used Super Thinking.

I first started began my exploration of Super Thinking after hearing a quote from Aristotle Onassis.   He said that you do not need an astrologer to be a millionaire but to be a billionaire you do.  Astrology is a way of thinking beyond logic.

Later, I was a speaker at a Cayman Island investing seminar along with John Templeton.  He explained that he did everything to stay on top of trends but then also reviewed everything with a black box…. a form of thinking beyond logic.

Even later while conducting a book signing for my novel “The 65th Octave” I gave a talk about Super Thinking because this is the core of that book.   One attendee, began crying.  She explained that she had been Warren Buffet’s personal assistant and that she was so sorry because Buffet and Charlie Munger used these principles and encouraged her to use them, but she had ignored them.

My report “Embracing Change”  shares the results of my quest to gain greater intelligence by thinking outside the box.

With his passing, it became recognized that Steve Jobs was a mystic with mental access to Super Thinking wisdom.

Jobs’ biographer, Walter Isaacson, confirmed that Jobs  had a lifelong passion following basic precepts of Eastern thought, such as the emphasis on experiential prana, wisdom or cognitive understanding that is intuitively experienced through concentration of the mind.

Jobs loved “Autobiography of a Yogi” a book that helps us understand how and why we are more than our physical bodies.

Isaacson writes that on Jobs’ last holiday… just before his transition…  that this was the only book he read.

Jobs was integrating brain waves and we show why and how in “Embracing Change – How to Invest in Changing Times”.

Rapid change makes it impossible to logically understand what is going to happen.  In this report you learn how to escape the tyranny of reason. If you have 4.5 inches of information flowing through a 4 inch learning pipe, the solution is not to add another inch of information.  The answer is to first create a six inch pipe and then an even larger pipe…a never ending expansion of abilities!  This is super thinking!

* Getting safety and comfort from diversification and the six point command posture.

Finally after we think we are doing everything correctly, we diversify to protect against what we miss.  “Running Risk” contains case studies of where I have diversified and shows:

Where why, when and how to buy gold and precious metals.

Where in the USA you can buy overseas shares.

* How to use ETFs for multi currency safety.

* When and why collectibles make more sense now then before as a diversification.

* The report reviews  recent recommendations and our current portfolio of shares.

* The report reviews the shares of ADK Ammunition… shares where conspiracy and opportunity collided.

Look at these investment possibilities:

* Aegion & Hyflux investments in water

Our site featured Aegion on December 6, 2012 and the share immediately rose over 10% in three months.

* Jyske, Skybest & Axel Springer, two plays on a falling euro.

* Unicredit & Jyske shares in the shunned European finance.

* Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners… an ultimate inflation protector.

We first wrote about Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners LP in 2010.  The shares have risen over 70% and in January 2013 the company was named as a top 25 dividend stock, according the most recent Canada Stock Channel ”DividendRank” report. The report noted that among the coverage universe, BEP.UN shares displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics. The report also cited the strong quarterly dividend history at Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners LP, and favorable long-term multi-year growth rates in key fundamental data points.

* Singapore Real Estate Trusts… shares that are not a gamble on gambling but rose because of gambling.

* Why investments in smalltown USA have become big.

* How to move up as the global economy trades down.

This report is not a recommendation of these shares but offers case studies on WHY they were selected at the time we wrote and or invested in them.   “Embracing Change” shares ideas on how to be fulfilled in the search for value… and your mission through investing that can make the world a better place.

“Embracing Change” also reviews… the safest places to bank, multi dimensional investments that earn in two ways or more… the profit in natural health, sustainability and agriculture.

“Running Risk – How to Invest in Risky Times” was just brought up to date last week and renamed “Embracing Change’.  This report can assist you in gaining fulfillment and profit.   However to make sure that this is a satisfying process for you, as with all our products we always offer complete satisfaction of your money back.

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Enjoy this villa and a secret garden on Ecuador’s Coast.

The exterior is a tribute to local modern architecture.

Most visitors traveling to Ecuador’s coast land in Quito first and spend the night.  See an update on Quito’s new airport after this paid advertisement for a villa in Merri’s and my favorite beach village… San Clemente, on Ecuador’s coast.

This 2 Bedroom villa has an office, open living space, dining room & kitchen, hobby room and more… including a secret garden.

Interior: Classy, functional and comfortable.

The villa is close to the beach, close to public transportation in a safe neighborhood.

There is a “secret garden”: a hidden addition to the bedroom, completely screened in with a nice outdoor shower and room for 2 comfortable chairs.

The secret garden.

At the front of the house another room (a bodega) serves as a nice hobby room, with many electric outlets and for additional storage.

Outfitted to standards for US or Canadian residents including 4 separate air conditioners and a good hot water system.

Dining area.

The modern kitchen has a gas range, microwave, refrigerator, and exhaust system.

Kitchen.

The floor-area outside the house is completely tiled and easy to maintain.

Price $79,900

To see full details and more photos of this San Clemente villa click here San Clemente Villa.

or write Volkhard Neumann at volkhard15@gmail.com

We DO NOT investigate properties when they are advertised so be sure to complete your due diligence and always use an independent Ecuador attorney who represents you (not the seller) when you buy real estate in Ecuador. Also we want to be sure that you check the claims of the developer/seller and make sure that you are satisfied. We also recommend that you rent before you buy and become familiar with Ecuador.

Quito’s New Airport by Roberto Ribadienra

Change is always complicated and sometimes unwelcome. This is the trend for most people in Ecuador and with a new airport for Quito we all wonder if we will ever get used to it.  We will, right now the main problem is traffic.   Governments, both local and central, are building new roads to make this a short term problem.  Once the roads are ready, getting back and forth should be easy.  Not now.

When I used the airport for the first time it was easy, I was going to Florida and my flight was leaving at 07:10, which meant that I had to leave early in the morning. So I left home around 4:00 and it took me about 1 hour, of course there is no traffic. When I returned my flight arrive around 22:40 and it took me about 1 hour also, no traffic either.

So for most people that go from Ecuador to the USA this will be the case… unless your arriving and leaving is during rush hour (but it is usually not).

I decided to go on a random day at a random time to see what is like for people who go on business to cities in Ecuador or to work or just to see the new airport.

The random day was this past Friday and the time was in the afternoon, here is what happened, with pictures. This so you know how much it will take to get there and leave with enough time as not to miss your flight.

I left from the older airport at 14:35, just to see how far is from it. Traffic was mild as I took Amazonas Avenue going south. Traffic got a little worst as I got to the exit point at Redondel del Ciclista, which is the beginning of Simon Bolivar that takes you from Quito to Cumbaya. Keep in mind that this is the only access that we have right now to get to the airport from the north of Quito.

This is a two lane avenue that goes outside from the city to the valley, which means there are no houses or stops or traffics lights, but since is the only viable connection traffic was heavy as usual.

The first stop is at Cumbaya, traffic got pretty bad here, since most wealthy people in Quito are moving to that “satellite city” there is a lot of cars going back and forth.

Also since the new airport opened lots of businesses decided to open offices there, making the traffic even worse.

Once you get to Cumbaya you notice two huge new malls, millions of dollars were invested and they are spectacular, but contribute to the traffic problem that affects our city.

So the limit between Cumbaya and Tumbaco (another city) creates a bottleneck. At this place I spent around 15 minutes unable to move. Traffic was endless and people started to get frustrated… and angry.

At this point you have to go through Tumbaco in order to get to Tababela, where the new airport is located. Since Tumbaco is a busy town there is always traffic there.

After you leave Tumbaco there is a bigger highway and traffic goes much faster, but  we encounter another bottleneck, there is a small bridge called Puente del Chiche and is a two lane bridge, which means that traffic gets really bad, but after you cross the bridge there is another big highway and from there to the airport is a breeze.

The access to the airport is really good, the road is new and with two lanes on each side there is no traffic.

Seeing the new airport feels really good, after all the time and the traffic it actually looks great, the place is big, there is room to expand if needed, the hangars look impressive and the access is also much better than the older one. This is a great airport for a growing city, with more parking space, a better infrastructure and new buildings still to be finished.

I’ll tell you more about the new airport in a second report that shows the infrastructure and the services at the new Quito Airport.

In review, I left the old airport at 14:35, and arrived at the new 25 miles away at 16:00 traveling from Quito – Cumbaya – Tumbaco -Tababela.

Roberto

Learn Spanish in Three Days

Learn how to speak Spanish in just three days with Super Thinking.

Super Thinking tactics help us absorb… retain and recall information better and faster.  We prove this in our Super Thinking + Spanish course which teaches delegates to communicate on Spanish in just three days.

Merri and Pronunciation coach Don Childs teaching Super Spanish.

An M.D. who attended wrote:   We want to thank you plus all the others for making the class such a fun and rewarding experience.   I took Spanish as an undergraduate and lasted two days before dropping the class due to my own anxieties.  Over the years I have tried to learn French, Italian, and Spanish yet again using a variety of methods such as Rosetta Stone, Berlitz etc. and was never successful.  I finally feel like I can be successful at learning to converse at Spanish–in fact already feel successful!  Thanks so much for teaching an old dog some new tricks.  We’re both looking forward to continuing the learning process, having fun doing so, and taking more classes.

Enroll here.

See a ten minute video of Gary Scott and Pronunciation coach Don Childs showing how to get started creating Spanish sentences right now.

Click here for FREE Super Spanish video.

Here is our Super Thinking + Spanish schedule below.

2013

June 21-22-23  Super Thinking + Spanish  St. Charles, MO  Single $699  /  Couple $899 (Teacher Mark Frakes)

July 5-6-7  Super Thinking + Spanish  Sarasota, Florida  Single $699  /  Couple $899  (Teacher Mark Frakes)

July 12-13-14  Super Thinking + Spanish Kelowna, BC, Canada  Single $699  /  Couple $899 (Teachers Suzanne & Shawn Bandick)

August 16-17-18  Super Thinking + Spanish  St. Charles, MO  Single $699  /  Couple $899 (Teacher Mark Frakes)

September 27-28-29  Super Thinking + Spanish  St. Charles, MO  Single $699  /  Couple $899 (Teacher Mark Frakes)

October 3-4-5  Super Thinking + Spanish Atlantic City NJ  Single $699 / Couple $899  (Teacher Rick Brown)

November 21-22-23  Super Thinking + Spanish  Puerto Aventuras, Mexico Single $699/Couple $899 (Teachers Suzanne & Shawn Bandick)

2014

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

Enroll here $799.   Couple $999 

Attend all our Spanish and writing courses, plus investing and business seminars and tours FREE or at a discount as an International club member.  See details here.

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

Our Super Thinking + Spanish courses are Spanish course that goes way beyond just learning to speak Spanish.

Spanish is the second largest language in the world. Chances are a huge Spanish speaking population lives near you. Yet our language system did not teach us how to communicate with or understand this culture.

Learning Spanish is valuable and important.  Now there is way, to enjoy a long weekend as you learn Spanish at a very affordable price.

Unlock the power of your untapped knowledge.

There are numerous little known, but scientifically proven ways to enhance the speed, accuracy and efficiency of your decision making process for greater wealth, health and happiness. In just three days you can gain almost amazing learning skills.  Plus you become skilled in Spanish as a bonus.

In just three days?

Sound too good to be true?

This is not a gimmick nor a trick. At least three best selling books, Superlearning, the Mozart Effect and Superlearning 2000 have revealed insights about how we can learn and think more powerfully based on systems drawn from the Bulgarian, Dr. Georgi Lozanov.

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

This 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 was among those few who learned how and is licensed to teach the Lozanov system from this Bulgarian master. She has organized a practical course on how to learn faster and better.

With her modified system, you will learn how to think and learn more powerfully in just three days. To prove how good you will be with this process, you learn Spanish as a side benefit.

The learning system you gain 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.

There are three scientific reasons why this course will change your learning capacity forever (and help you speak Spanish in just four days).

This system uses music to integrate brain waves so the process of absorbing, processing and recalling information is vastly accelerated.  This brings forth the three C’s:  Calm, Clarity and Coherence.

Shawn and Suzanne Bandick teach Super Spanish in Mexico and Canada.

Here is one more rave from Shawn and Suzanne’s Mexico course.

The Super Thinking system works by focusing on the learner first… the data second.  The system “grows the learner” rather than just expands the information.  The explosion of data we must all process everyday means there is too much information to process already.    Let’s view this learning in terms of plumbing to outline what “Growing the Learner”  means.

If you have 4.5 inches of information flowing through a 4 inch learning pipe, the solution is not to add another inch of information.  The answer is to first create a six inch pipe and then an even larger pipe…a never ending expansion of abilities!

You learn how to evoke the power of the senses thus super-charging memory. Ever hear a song from twenty, thirty or forty years past and in a snap know all the words, the tune and remember with who and where your heard it decades ago? Learn how to use ten cycle music to gain almost super human thinking powers.

Dr. Lozanov was totally committed to learning without stress, to enjoy the thrill of relaxed, leisurely learning. These are just two, whole learning, super-thinking tactics you gain at this course.

What is your desire? Do you want to speak Spanish, French, German, Chinese or any language? Would you like to golf better or accomplish more in school? Would you like to easily, quickly zip through projects, chores, reports? Merri’s “Super Thinking” course can help you learn any subject two-to-five times faster, in exciting and innovative ways.

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

Merri’s system follows and builds upon what was taught in the Superlearning, the Mozart Effect and Superlearning 2000 books plus includes techniques and strategies that she has gained in her 42 years of global travel and study with educational masters around the world.

This is a course that shows you how to increase your mental power to better succeed in the 21st century when we can otherwise be overwhelmed by information.

The system you gain is built from old and new sources ranging from yoga to contemporary Russian science, and ultimate zone training already used by many Olympic champions.

“Super Thinking plus Spanish” presents new ways to use music to supercharge your mind. The knowledge you gain about smart food and super nutrition allows you to enhance productivity and creativity.

The tactics you gain enhance your ability to absorb… retain and recall information.

Once these concepts of enhancing your mental powers with music are understood, you will know how to create your own program and build new skills at work in study and play.

Second you gain seventeen, easy to use learning techniques that can help you gain any romantic language in much less time than traditional learning techniques.

Rick Brown will teach next in Toronto.

Here is our Super Thinking + Spanish schedule below.

2013

June 21-22-23  Super Thinking + Spanish  St. Charles, MO  Single $699  /  Couple $899 (Teacher Mark Frakes)

July 5-6-7  Super Thinking + Spanish  Sarasota, Florida  Single $699  /  Couple $899  (Teacher Mark Frakes)

July 12-13-14  Super Thinking + Spanish Kelowna, BC, Canada  Single $699  /  Couple $899 (Teachers Suzanne & Shawn Bandick)

August 16-17-18  Super Thinking + Spanish  St. Charles, MO  Single $699  /  Couple $899 (Teacher Mark Frakes)

September 27-28-29  Super Thinking + Spanish  St. Charles, MO  Single $699  /  Couple $899 (Teacher Mark Frakes)

October 3-4-5  Super Thinking + Spanish Atlantic City NJ  Single $699 / Couple $899  (Teacher Rick Brown)

November 21-22-23  Super Thinking + Spanish  Puerto Aventuras, Mexico Single $699/Couple $899 (Teachers Suzanne & Shawn Bandick)

2014

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

Enroll here $799.   Couple $999 

Attend all our Spanish and writing courses, plus investing and business seminars and tours FREE or at a discount as an International club member.  See details here.

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

Spiro Michas teaching in Motevideo.

Fluency in a language is considered to come when you know 1,200 words. To prove that it is possible to gain this and much more, let me share just one of the 17 tactics Merri taught me that gives you thousands of Spanish words in less than three minutes.

Here are the thousands of Spanish words lesson #1:

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

Now you already literally know hundreds of Spanish nouns. This is just one of seventeen Spanish lessons you gain. The next lesson teaches you how to pronounce each of these nouns. Then you learn in a third lesson almost as many verbs, almost as quickly.

Third, you learn how to avoid conjugating verbs by sticking with the infinitive (far easier than it sounds). This simple lesson leaves you sounding like a Spanish professor (believe me I know as I use this tactic every day when in Ecuador).

There are many other lessons. For example lesson five shows how to sound infinitely polite and yet get almost anything you want in Spanish. Lesson six gives you the valuable connectors and the seventh lesson triples your Spanish capacity with yesterday, now and tomorrow.

By the end of the three day course you will feel quite comfortable speaking Spanish without stress!

A delegate who learned Super Spanish outlined how this course can help you.   After three days, I can speak Spanish in complete sentences. In simple conversations, such as buying groceries or ordering a meal, I can make myself understood. I think that’s incredible!  Although I am far from the competence level of a native speaker, I feel I’ve taken a giant step forward in learning Spanish so that I can experience the people and culture of Ecuador.  The foregoing benefits would have more than justified the time and money I invested in Super Thinking Super Spanish. And learning Spanish was not the most important benefit I got from the course.  In recent years, I’ve rarely relaxed (No wonder I have had high blood pressure!) .   In class, the past three days, I’ve been introduced to the calming effects of Baroque music.  What a blessing! I’m inclined to make this a daily part of my life.   Rob Christi

The Super Spanish helps you start speaking and understanding Spanish right away.  This can help you speak Spanish faster and make your traditional Spanish course easier and more effective. 

A Livescience.com article helps explain why this course works and how delegates are creating Spanish sentences by the first lunch break and can communicate well in Spanish after just three days.   This article by Jeremy Hsu, LiveScience Senior Writer, is entitled “CIA Seeks Anyone, Anyone Who Can Speak 2 Languages”

Four important points in the article are shown in excerpts below with my comments to show what has been wrong with traditional Spanish courses and why the Super Thinking tactic is perfect for this program.

The article says: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Many Americans don’t learn a second or a third language from birth, let alone a language that the CIA or U.S. Foreign Service might want. The situation has forced U.S. government agencies to learn how to cultivate the most talented second-language speakers from among college students with little to no other-language expertise.

“In U.S. education, we don’t develop early bilinguals,” said Catherine Doughty, a language expert at the University of Maryland.

Doughty spoke as part of a panel on Feb. 19 during the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference in Washington, D.C. Finding the best.  Government agencies aren’t alone in trying to recruit multilingual speakers; U.S. corporations covet such skills for doing business in the era of globalization.

The article explained how Doughty and her colleagues used tests to train up cognitive processes related to language learning, such as the ability to hold information in the brain while using it for learning.  The tests sought to predict those who can succeed despite everything stacked against them.

The article reviewed changes in the brain.  Lee Osterhout is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Washington in Seattle.  His lab used electrodes placed on the scalp to measure the electrical activity created by the signals of brain cells. That allowed the researchers to see differences in the brain patterns among language learners and fluent speakers. They found some surprising results.

The article pointed out: Repeated studies of French language students showed that their brains responded differently to real French words compared with fake words after just two weeks of classes, even if the students themselves could not tell such words apart.   

“From knowing nothing to a little bit, [there are] huge changes in the brain,” Osterhout pointed out.”[From] knowing a little to knowing a lot, [it is] much more subtle.”  Another surprise came from studies of Spanish-speaking immigrants, because neither age nor language proficiency seemed to predict how quickly the immigrants picked up English. Instead, the fastest learners showed both the greatest motivation to learn and a willingness to use English at every opportunity despite being bad at it (at first).

MY COMMENT: This is the other reason why Super Thinking plus Spanish works. This three day course gets the delegates speaking and thinking Spanish all the time so they can use and/or think Spanish every day… and communicating even from the beginning. In this way the education grows even when Spanish is not being spoken.

The Super Thinking course first integrates the brain.  Students learn better with relaxed concentration. Then the course teaches them 17 simple lessons so they know 4005 words in Spanish and can use them to create sentences. In this way, you can communicate in just three days.

Travel, accommodations and food are not included.

Gary

Yet your Spanish will just be one result from learning how to think better!  You will be able to use your new learning powers in amazing ways.

Here are what delegates wrote about a Super Thinking + Spanish seminar. 

“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 by 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

John Sloan teaching Super Thinking + Spanish in Costa Rica.

Another wrote:  Thanks for the Spanish course.  This technique is truly a breakthrough in learning.  I believe I learned more Spanish in four days than I learned in four weeks in a previously attended Costa Rica language school.  The Costa Rica school taught a very limited number of memorized words and phrases. Ted.

Another delegate at a Super thinking plus Spanish seminar wrote:  The Super Thinking approach exposed us to a broad variety of works and the technique needed to expand the language.  Again, Thanks for the experience.

One attendee wrote: I just wanted to say thank you so much for everything during the seminar. You guys are indeed a shining example of having a business that truly serves others. And thanks for the extra time spent and good things taught to me personally. I have begun to implement them already and will continue to apply them. And you might be interested that waiting for my flight home I ended up sitting next to a woman from Quito and could understand some of what she said in a cell phone conversation. We talked a little and she said that I should visit Ecuador!  Thank you again for your real graciousness and acceptance! I will also write to Merri and thank her as well. And I wish that I could do something for you two!

Another wrote: Thank you!  We  always look forward to spending time and learning about so many fascinating things. Like Minded people and Vivaldi! What could be better?

Another sent this note: Thank you for the wonderful workshop on Super Learning + Spanish!  I really enjoyed the workshop.

Since I returned home, I have purchased some of the CDs of Baroque music and thought about which specific pieces will work best in different parts of my classes.  I am also reading Perfect Health by Deepak Chopra.  I found your discussion of this book to be very helpful in showing how to balance one’s life.  I have adjusted my daily schedule, and I can already notice a difference in my productivity.

Thank you for sending the file of the 4005 Spanish words.  This will be very helpful in my daily review of Spanish.

Another emailed this: Every day I’m becoming more proficient in Spanish.  As I get ready to do something, I think about how I would say it in Spanish.  Thank you again for a Super Workshop!  With love and blessings,

Another: It certainly was an interesting and intriguing four days for me.  I enjoyed the Spanish but even more so, all the tentacles that extended during those four days that went into so many different directions.

I grew up in a very SQUARE box with loving  and intelligent parents but my world remained within this box, unable to see beyond those walls, as I was never encouraged to “think outside the box”..  Mike has been opening doors and leading me outside this box but because of my upbringing I have not completely embraced or understood what was beyond those doors he opened for me.  As I have gotten older I have become more open to the world outside those doors yet those old tapes continue to play and I have not been able to completely release myself and experience all that can be.

Another shared this: Listening to the two of you during our time together has suddenly got me to thinking, and although some of the ideas still seem foreign to me,  I am at a point in my life now where I can say, “anything is possible” and I am now willing to embrace and allow myself to experience the world of possibility and let it take me in directions I may have in the past resisted.  I really don’t know where all this is going to lead me but I am now willing to explore, develop and grow.

I found all the information you offered on healing, realigning the body, nutrition, etc. so fascinating, have you ever thought about doing a course on just that?  With the aging population and the health care issues I think it would be not only an interesting course but one that would be very beneficial to so many.  I, personally, would love to learn more about what you talked about and plan on purchasing the book, “Body Renewal, the Lost Art of Self Healing” for my Kindle.

Thank you again for a wonderful four days!!

Another:  We had fun at Disney World on Monday and sat beside several Personnes Espaniol.  We could understand them however I couldn’t make sentences quickly, but could say one or two word phrases that were understood.  We arrived home at 3am yesterday – the airlines were very late in Denver due to a crew incident.

I found myself making up sentences all day yesterday as I was running errands.  John knows more vocabulary than I at this point as he has studied Spanish previously.  Today I will begin to review the lessons and construct sentences to send to you and the group – as you suggested below.  Es en BUENO sugestion!!!  I also received the email Merri sent with the 4005 words and started to scroll through those yesterday.

Another: Thank YOU for everything you have done to create and bring this wonderful experience to all of us.  It takes a well sychronized team of people to put on an effective, change producing seminar!  I have given many seminars and enjoyed the experience immensely.  The outcome is even better!  Estoy une infantil de Super Thinking and Spanish, y es possible aprender en tiempo.

John and I both thank all of you for the wonderful experience – we are working now to clear up things so we can leave for the Galapagos and Ecuador November 25th – December 20th.  Nosotros tiene muchos appreciacion!  Gracias y Abrazos,

Another:  Muchas gracias para la informacion!  I had a wonderful time at the Super Learning + Spanish weekend!… excelente!

I was impressed with your depth of knowledge on numerous subjects and your ability to speak about them with exceptional recall.  Con mucho apriciar,  P.S. Yo estoy enteresado en Espanol #2.

One delegate even explained how after our course they ended up as the accidental translator: Gary,  I have sent a couple of messages, and  a story of Mike being able to translate yesterday for a Spanish person  who couldn’t understand what a man was trying to tell him!

We loved the seminar, and are excited to put the super learning to practice, and especially the great company of like-minded people (especially G & M!)  Muchas Gracias!  Tiene an excellante dias.

One delegate communicated entirely in Spanish…. after just our Super Thinking + Spanish seminar: Buenas dias nuestra maestra perfectamente, Merri!   Muchas gracias por la lista espanol.

Claro, David y yo aprendemous mucho espanol el fine de semana pasada. Gary y usted nos hacen espanol muy facil aprender. Es importante continuar a practicar espanol cada dia. Gracias tambien!  Buenas suerte…hasta la vista! Con mucho amor,

Comments from another delegate: I wanted you to know that the Spanish course has proven incredibly helpful. Dealing with internet service providers and shopping for appliances, etc., normally would have required me hiring a translator to follow me around. While it may not be pretty or 100% grammatically correct, I am understood. Thank you!  Saludos!

Whether your goal is to reduce your cost of living… increase your income… enhance the return on your investments or all, being able to speak Spanish… enhances your opportunity and does the world good.

Lose Weight and Inches With Frequency Modulation

See an example from a Super Thinking + Spanish delegate who lost 55 pounds after taking our course.   See how Jim Reed used our Super Thinking + Spanish course to enhance his health and wealth as well as speak Spanish.

The ability to speak Spanish… even if you never leave the US is valuable in this day and age.   Spanish opens access to a good labor force and helps you communicate with a useful part of the American population.

Beyond Spanish… knowledge is bliss. Ignorance is dangerous in these times of rapid change.  The more knowledge we can absorb, retain and recall… the better our chances of success… higher income… less stress…. better health and more fulfillment.

So it’s little wonder that the attendance at our Super Thinking + Spanish and Quantum Wealth courses have grown dramatically.   Our changing world not only reinforces the need to speak Spanish but also requires us to be smarter.

Ernest Neuman and pronunciation coach teaching in Vancouver.

Attend all our Spanish and writing courses, plus investing and business seminars and tours FREE or at a discount as an International club member.  See details here.

Super Thinking plus Spanish courses are among the few I know that not only share valuable information but help the delegates become smarter so they absorb, retain and recall the education more effectively.  The course does this through the power of music… a power we all already have within. Let’s see some examples.   Meet Jim Reed.

Jim is a retired airline pilot who moved to Ecuador a year ago and lived in our Casa Blanca condos for a year.  He has become an Ecuador resident and built a house.   I interviewed him on one of our trips to Cotacachi.

Like so many others I have spoken with who have attended our Super Thinking + Spanish course… he claims to be much happier… more relaxed and has become healthier, shedding medication and weight.

Jim lost 55 pounds in the last year and, as reported by so many… without trying… without eating less… without any feeling of deprivation.

One fact that many who enjoyed wonderful positive changes when they have attended our Super Thinking course is they learned to use music in a very specific way to reach the quantum states of their intellect.

Here are more raves from delegates of this course:

I have so enjoyed attending your seminars.  I look at is as a place to gain  “tools for life” as well as  receiving a plethera of information on the topics at hand.

(So far we attended  Spanish and investing.) I get equally as much value out of the tools, and mindset in viewing the information that can be applied to life in general as well as the topic at hand. So thanks for enjoying what you do… it definitely shows up in real world application.

At each seminar we meet many interesting and unique folk – I think the audience you draw  can think out of the box at least a little bit! So again thanks for gathering such a wonderful array of resources for us.

Another emailed:  We so enjoyed the language class last weekend!

Carolyn came back with your simple, common sense approach and the new tools to start speaking.

Most remarkable is that she feels comfortable putting together sentences and ‘communicating.’ Somehow many of us seem to get caught in the trap of thinking we have to say it ‘right,’ and so we don’t even try. It is interesting that we do not see ourselves ‘creating’ communication in our native tongue; each saying it a little different than the other, and yet still all getting the ‘communication’ across the bridge in our own manner.

We delighted to know you both better, and greatly admire your passion for life and generosity sharing what you have learned.

We are planning to attend the next business seminar you offer. Carolyn is talking about returning for the Fall Spanish Super Thinking class with a girlfriend.

We are excited by the many new challenges we have found through your offerings.

Delegates during a relaxation session.

Another a dentist said: I was so delighted with my experience at the Spanish training.  I felt more confident of ability to pronounce Spanish than I ever was of French or German.  Funny… I did not think I remembered any French or German but when I cannot remember the Spanish words the German and French popped up.  Practicing my pronunciation made my trip home go faster. I never enjoyed pronouncing either of the other two, but this was fun. It is hard to fall asleep at the wheel when you are moving your mouth to speak Spanish. It does work your mouth in a different way.  I realized that you have to say each syllable slowly and correctly(until you get it perfectly) and when you do it is impressive.

It was amazing to see us all writing such advanced sentences after a few days and so much more enjoyable than having to go through the alphabet to build the words to build the sentences.

Another Wrote: I intended to give it a few days before I wrote to you about my experience in the Spanish + SuperThinking  Course. However, I had such dramatic results today, in the physical rather than the cognitive realm, that I had to share this immediately.

I started my day with Baroque music. Before I began my Spanish lesson, I went through the Mayan Waves Brain Refresher (Brain Sync). I also played an alpha wave composition while I completed a lesson in the morning. I repeated the process this afternoon. Before my high intensity interval training (HIIT) workout in the evening, I put on a gamma brain wave video from you tube faster reading gamma waves help with exercise. I preformed the “Halo Of Sweat” workout from an online fitness site. Around the world, people complete the workout and posts their scores, striving to meet or beat the personal trainer. Frankly, my reps have rarely come close to the reps of the woman featured in the video nor have I ever beat her. Until today.

Not only did I come close to her performance, I surpassed her quite significantly with several exercises. I performed my best in the last exercise, Abs Burn Out. Her scores were 38, 34 and 33 and mine were 60, 40 and 47!

I believe several factors allowed me to achieve this acceleration in athletic ability today:

1. My left and right hemispheres are now harmonizing.
2. The meditation and relaxed concentration techniques I learned are coming more easily to me and effective.
3. My focus and concentration are greatly enhanced.

I am a Pilates professional so to have my exercise regimen improve so swiftly is remarkable. Not only am I now able speak Spanish but I am experiencing optimal health as well. I am deeply grateful to you and Merri for your SuperLearning instruction.  Be well,

Mark Frakes with a Super Spanish class in the St. Louis area.

Here is our Super Thinking + Spanish schedule below.

2013

June 21-22-23  Super Thinking + Spanish  St. Charles, MO  Single $699  /  Couple $899 (Teacher Mark Frakes)

July 5-6-7  Super Thinking + Spanish  Sarasota, Florida  Single $699  /  Couple $899  (Teacher Mark Frakes)

July 12-13-14  Super Thinking + Spanish Kelowna, BC, Canada  Single $699  /  Couple $899 (Teachers Suzanne & Shawn Bandick)

August 16-17-18  Super Thinking + Spanish  St. Charles, MO  Single $699  /  Couple $899 (Teacher Mark Frakes)

September 27-28-29  Super Thinking + Spanish  St. Charles, MO  Single $699  /  Couple $899 (Teacher Mark Frakes)

October 3-4-5  Super Thinking + Spanish Atlantic City NJ  Single $699 / Couple $899  (Teacher Rick Brown)

November 21-22-23  Super Thinking + Spanish  Puerto Aventuras, Mexico Single $699/Couple $899 (Teachers Suzanne & Shawn Bandick)

2014

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

Enroll here $799.   Couple $999 

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

Attend all our Spanish and writing courses, plus investing and business seminars and tours FREE or at a discount as an International club member.  See details here.

Our courses and the pages at this website are about finding value for success, but contacts are also vital.  In fact contacts are so vital that an entire word was created for getting them… networking.   Heck an entire industry has been built around the importance of making good contacts.

The fact is nothing is more valuable than knowing a group of like minded souls who can help you.  Value comes from information and contacts that can lead to useful… successful… action.

Super Thinking + International Investing & Business delegates networking at an after-the-course reception in West Jefferson, North Carolina.

Our business is aimed at sharing ideas and contacts that go with them. The contacts are the key to making the information usable.

This is one of the reasons our courses and seminars have been so successful over the past 40 +  years.  They are melting pots for like minded souls.

We meet to share unusual ideas in out of the way places.

Last weekend we met at this lodge in a forest on the New River.

Delegates drove from across the US as well as…

flew in from Ecuador… Bermuda… Denmark… and Canada.

I did some talking and…

hopefully everyone listened.

However a great deal of the real learning comes during the coffee breaks and…

at the receptions and when…

delegates come to our home to talk personally.

When it comes to Ecuador we also have all types of contacts… MDs, dentists, shamans, healers, hotel owners, travel agents, cruise operators, cooks, exporters, drivers, customs agents, real estate builders and contractors,  farmers.  You name it… we probably know it or someone who does.

These are good contacts as well gained from 16 or 17 years of traveling to almost every Ecuador destination possible. Plus we have received tens of thousands of emails with recommendations… and warnings about good and bad contacts.

One of the most important contacts in Ecuador is a good attorney and one of the law firms we use in Quito is run by Drs. Andres Cordova and Sebastián Cordero.  They have created a website with information about Ecuador visas and real estate.

Dr. Andres Cordova

Andre’s site provides updated information and generate feedback about Ecuador’s legal position. Andres gets emails everyday with questions about visas, real estate procedures and such so he knows most new questions as they arrive.

Dr. Sebastian Cordero

The website is updated often and benefits from your questions and feedback.   Also, Andres provides reduced  visa and deeding fees for Ecuador Living club members.

You can access his site at  www.legalservicesecuador.com

Gary

Contacts & Repetition

Here are three notes from delegates at our course last weekend. note how they enjoyed the contacts and how everyone is coming to another course soon.   One wrote: Hi Gary,   Enjoyed my time with you and Merri tremendously. Am making plans for November in Mount Dora!

It was very nice to meet Roberto.  It was a fortuitous opportunity to bond with him!   Best,  Nathan

Another Wrote: Thanks for the picture and for a wonderful weekend. You are both wonderful hosts and genuinely nice people.  Was such a pleasure to be there. Made it home safely. A fair amount of rain. I look forward to Jan in FL.   Mucho Amore   Dixie

And another:  Gary/Merri,  Thanks so much for your time this weekend.  This was Diane’s first event and my third…a welcome time together and a spark of interest toward the future.

We had a fun time and really learned a lot.  Repeating the course for me was really beneficial…the timing is a bit better for me to implement a few of the strategies. 

I apologize that we left early on Sunday…I hated not being able to spend some time with our new friends before departing…really wished we had scheduled a few extra days.   Thanks again…see you in Mt Dora in DEC for the writer’s camp…the timing should prove well.  Jeff & Diane

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August 31- Sept 1-2 Super Thinking Writer’s Camp West Jefferson, NC.

October 4-5-6 Super Thinking Writer’s Camp, West Jefferson, NC.

November 15-16-17 Super Thinking Writer’s Camp, Mt. Dora, Fl.

January 10-11-12, 2014 Super Thinking + Spanish, Mt. Dora, Fl.

February 14-15-16, 2014  Super Thinking Writer’s Camp, Mt. Dora Fl.

In addition members receive discounts on Ecuador farm tours and Spanish courses conducted by our Ateam Ecuador and Super Spanish teachers.  For example Super Spanish courses that are normally $699 are $175.  Ecuador real estate tours are reduced 20%.

Here is the Super Spanish teacher schedule:

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

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

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

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

October 3-5  Super Thinking + Spanish Atlantic City NJ  (Teacher Rick Brown)

November 21-22-23  Super Thinking + Spanish  Puerto Aventuras, Mexico  (Teachers Suzanne & Shawn Bandick)

 

We conduct our courses in the peace and quiet of  Smalltown USA.

Part of the courses we conduct are held at Jefferson Landing where we conduct seminars in West Jefferson NC

Jefferson Landing

50 delegates joined us.

The seminar in action.

Here are photos I took of Mt. Dora…

After the seminar, International Club members join us at our home to talk with the speakers.

International Club members meeting in our home after a North Carolina seminar.

There are many benefits of membership.

Most members join us for at least three courses… one investing and business, one writers camp and one Spanish course.  That alone creates a $1,198 savings. Some members attend every course plus more.

You (and a guest of your choice) can attend all of the seminars we have already set for 2013 and 2014 plus any others we decide to conduct in the year ahead FREE.

As a club member you also receive seven online reports, courses and workshops worth $1,246 FREE.

The first of these seven online courses is “Tangled Web – How to Have an Internet Business,” normally sold at $299.

The second is our online course “Self Fulfilled – How to be a Self Publisher”, which has a $299 value. I am sending you this extra course free as I think it will help you have greater success. This is an extra $299 savings.

The third is our online course “International Business Made EZ” sold at $299.

You also receive fourth the 50 minute video by our webmaster David Cross on “How to Get Your Web Business Started”.

Your fifth course is the 50+ lesson course “How to Create your Own Website Using Sitesell” by Michelle Toole. (We are proud that this course was written by a student of our courses showing how well the 43 years of knowledge that Merri and I have accumulated and put into these programs can help you start your own global micro business.)

Sixth, you become a beta member in our newest online course “Event – Full Business – How to have a Seminar and Tour Business” currently offered at $349.

When you enroll, we’ll send you a password that makes the online courses easy to access at the Club website.  You can reserve as many seminars as you desire.

Five Positive Steps

Join Merri and me as we look at positive ways to prosper during 2013 and 2014.  Here are five ways to gain from the forces of change.

#1: Having your own micro business for extra earnings, freedom, fulfillment and fun.

#2: Living and prospering in lower cost countries or small towns.

#3: Multi currency investing through US brokers and bankers abroad.

#4: Commodities that rise with inflation.

#5: Good value real estate…. especially multi dimensional and agricultural property.

We have specialized for over four decades in helping our readers excel in these five inflation beating opportunities.

The big benefits of belonging to the International Club are the power of repetition, updates and international friendships.  As a club member, you become friends with other members as you meet again and again.

Your first saving is on waived seminar fees for the seminars over the next year.

As you will see above and below you can attend Florida & North Carolina seminars.  If you attend just two of these seminars, the $1,799 membership fee will have already created a savings for you.

Yet there is more.  Much more.

International Club members meeting in West Jefferson for a reception after the North Carolina seminar.

Enough…. Enough with the Bad News.

Our mantra is BE POSITIVE in this negative world.  There is nothing as valuable as rarity but we need to remember that bad news sells. This means the mainstream media has slipped into offering information with an adrenaline rush.  Mayhem, murder and natural disasters.   These negative events will happen…. globally. We cannot do much about this.  Dwelling on insolvable negativity is not good for our health or wealth.

A recent quote from the Abraham Hicks website explains why nicely.

Continuing to tell stories of shortage only continues to contradict your desire for abundance, and you cannot have it both ways: You cannot focus upon unwanted and receive wanted. You cannot focus upon stories about money that make you feel uncomfortable and allow into your experience what makes you feel comfortable. A different story will bring different results: My thoughts are the basis for the attraction of all things that I consider to be good, which includes enough money, and health, for my comfort and joy.

Make the Years Ahead Your Best Years Ever

What we can do is make ourselves Friendlier, More Compassionate, Happier, Stronger, More Energetic with greater intellect.  The way to start is to surround ourselves with successful, friendly, compassionate, happy, stronger, smarter, positive people who think as you do.

The International Club brings together experienced, like minded souls, who take a positive view and think outside the box… in constructive, thoughtful, doable ways.

Being in the club surrounds you with successful… positive… like minded souls.  This benefit alone is truly powerful stuff!

The courses you can attend free integrate Super Thinking with business and investing ideas and experience that enhance your health and wealth.

Focus on Ecuador & Smalltown USA & Canada

Learn how to create a BIG INCOME by thinking SMALL.   At the seminars you meet speakers who are attorneys and real estate experts for both Ecuador and small town USA.   You’ll rub shoulders with experts on global investing and pensions who can help you increase and protect your savings and pensions also how to increase the income you earn in positive ways you enjoy as you help your community.

(See a list of speakers you’ll meet at the club meetings along with other club members below).

Absorb  through  Osmosis

Merri and I are in our 45th year of organizing courses, seminars and newsletters about international and Super Thinking  lifestyles. The importance of this sharing… by like minded souls… was reinforced when a delegate from a course sent an email that said:

My Dearest Merri and Gary, Thank you for your most gracious hospitality last weekend. I am just thrilled at being a part of your group. You and Gary were exactly as I imagined you to be, warm friendly, kind, considerate, genuine, helpful, fun, sincere, what else can I say……I felt so comfortable in your presence and learned so much in your course. I was sad to leave the farm that Sunday afternoon. You made us all feel so welcome and cared about. You were so kind to make arrangements for a ride with the other delegates from the Charlotte Airport. They were so nice to me and so helpful, by the time the weekend was over I felt like they were my long lost brothers. Monday morning we all had breakfast at the airport together and I was so sad to see them go, I was sad the weekend was over, perhaps sad is not the right word for how I was feeling perhaps Gratitude is a better way to describe it. Grateful for having the opportunity to share the weekend with such wonderful, like minded Human Beings, in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina. Thank you Merri and Gary.  Thanks to you I now have new hope and a new direction to move forward in my life.  I know by attending your classes and conferences that through education and due diligence I will make the right choices.

This delegate’s comments about “belonging and feeling like a brother” to the other delegates is a wonderful refrain we have heard from our readers, year after year.

24 years ago Merri and I created a way that readers can join us to be immersed in a year-long learning program through our International Club.

The ideas behind this program began all those years ago in Vienna, Austria while we were conducting a course there.  One of our older delegates, had some sort of attack. The first fear was heart trouble. Several delegates took him to the hospital.  Others stayed with him there. I don’t think that delegate was alone for a minute!

What impressed Merri and me was that no one asked the delegates to help this man.

The friendships of delegates sharing many courses had just grown so strong that it was a natural reaction, just as if a family member was ill. Fortunately, it was only travel fatigue and the delegate didn’t miss a session of the course!

When you join our International Club 2013 you become part of a special family. The very first member to join the club all those years ago wrote, Thank you for the enjoyable and informative courses. I am pleased to be part of your international family and look forward to continuing my education at the next course.

His feeling struck a familiar chord. It has always been one of my greatest satisfactions to see how much fun delegates have getting together, sharing information and making friendships as we learn how to improve our health and increase our wealth.

The courses draw like-minded souls.  For this reason some delegates come back again and again. They come to learn, but also to be with their many friends made at the courses. When like-minded souls get together again and again to discuss a common purpose, magic happens! I can’t explain it in any other way-but it is true.

In a way our meetings are almost like family reunions. Perhaps it is getting together and reflecting on what has been said and what has been happening.

Learning with those who are also interested in the world creates thoughts that multiply the value of what we gain.  This is hard to describe but results are most powerful and wonderful!  This is to me is as important as the great financial benefit of attending many of our courses.

See the 2013 seminars in detail  below.

We started and have continued the International Club for 24 years because there are wonderful benefits from having repeat delegates at courses. Having repeat delegates makes the whole course somehow more exciting for all. Being a repeat delegate makes it easier to make and keep wealth and to lock in the knowledge you gain. It’s an exciting lifestyle. We have fun, gain adventure, discovery and friendships and share ways to improve our health and wealth!

You can see from the schedule above a very busy schedule for 2013. Very few club members actually attend every seminar.  Many  attend almost all of them!  Of course we hope you be with us for all of them, but even if you attend just two of the seminars, you gain considerable savings.

Another savings: Lifestyle for Two.

We want couples! As a member of the program, you are entitled to bring another person to every single course or tour. The cost for that extra person will be ZERO! You can bring whomever you wish. Bring your spouse, a friend, son or daughter, partner, accountant, adviser. You can bring the same person each time or a different person, whomever you choose to accompany you. (Accommodations and air fares relating to the courses are not included for members, delegates or their guests.)

The International Club fee of $1,799 is less than the price of two seminars.

I invite you to be a member of the International Club which allows you and your guest of your choice to attend all of these courses and tours.

Let’s prosper in these times of change. Won’t you join us in this exciting club and share Merri’s and my lifestyle for the next year? Join us at our farms and visit Ecuador. We look forward to seeing you at as many courses as possible and sharing this wonderful world of abundance and well being with you!

Gary

You can attend all of our seminar , courses online courses and more plus $1,246 of online value.  Club membership is $1,799. 

Become an International Club  Member $1,799.

Attend as many of the courses below as you desire.

August 31- September 1-2 Super Thinking & Writers Camp at Merrily Farms, NC.

October 4-5-6 Super Thinking & Writer’s Camp West Jefferson, NC

November 15-16-17  Super Thinking & Writer’s Camp Mt. Dora, Florida

January 10-11-12, 2014 Super Thinking + Spanish  Mt. Dora, Florida

February 14-15-16, 2014  Super Thinking & Writer’s Camp  Mt. Dora, Florida

In additional Super Spanish courses will be scheduled in Canada, Mexico. and the US throughout the year.

(Dates subject to change).

Join us in 2013 – 2014 and learn how to take advantage of the fact that the Sun Always Shines Somewhere

Here is the Super Spanish teacher schedule:

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

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

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

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

October 3-5  Super Thinking + Spanish Atlantic City NJ  (Teacher Rick Brown)

November 21-22-23  Super Thinking + Spanish  Puerto Aventuras, Mexico (Teachers Suzanne & Shawn Bandick)

 

Yes, I want to become an International Club Member. 

Annual membership $1,799. Click  here.

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We do not need rose colored glasses when we have real rose colored options.

This series is looking at the importance of following your dreams in Ecuador or wherever instead of running from your fears in Canada the USA or wherever you live.

Here is our manager, Derek Hylands, in our Florida orange grove checking on our Bio Wash experiments.

Let me share how our dreams led us into agriculture and Bio Wash.

The last message in this series outlined why we began selling everything we had in Florida in 200o (through 2007) and invested  in Ecuador.  Then in 2008 we began taking profits in Ecuador and buying again in Florida.  See this message at Orange Tinted Rose Colored Glass.

This message looked at how we followed our dreams into agriculture.

Simply put… Florida real estate prices were way down… food prices were rising and due to developers who bought orange groves and turned them into housing  shut down more and more agriculture  coming to market…and this presented a special opportunity.

This site had promoted the idea of investing in agriculture for more than a decade.  When Merri and I started investing back in Florida we looked at Lake County, which is surrounded  by fast growing, strong farming communities.

Why did we choose Lake County?  This is where following the leads that work for you began.  We centered our search around our daughter and grandson’s home.   This was our epicenter…    not opportunity… not farming… certainly not citrus.

When we found the home we loved near our family…. an orange grove was attached… so logic was not involved at all.

What does “Following the lead” have to do with this… we allowed ourselves to be open to such a foolish idea as buying a farm.

The second lead came in the form of Bio Wash.  We have written about the merits of this formula for more than a decade.

We immediately ran into grove problems.   About a third of the trees in the grove we purchased had root rot that everyone happened to mention before the purchase. They needed to be replaced.

We had to hire these machines…

to yank out about a third of our trees so our grove that looked like this…

ended up looking like this.

That’s farming for you!

We started spraying the trees that were left with Bio Wash.   Some of the results included super sized oranges.

Golden orange from our grove.  Better than gold in many ways.

There was more.   We just sprayed the remaining trees with Bio Wash.

After a year our grove manager wrote: “Last year we used your Bio Wash and we are prepared to use it for you again. The trees do look much better this year.”

By following that lead the grove’s yield increased despite losing a third of the trees.

The year before we bought the grove all the trees produced 1801 boxes of oranges.

We removed one third of the lower producing trees in a grove management plan. We sprayed the remaining 2/3rd with Bio Wash.

With 1/3rd fewer trees, the grove produced 2,484 boxes of oranges in our first year.

In other words, last year the average yield 2.4 boxes a tree… doubled compared from the year before.  This increased the income of the grove 37% with 33% less trees.

Our  grove  manager  is one of the largest in Florida.  Farmers are conservative so our dinky grove will have to do more than this to make them look at this seriously.

So we asked them to spray with Bio Wash twice in 2011-2012. We did and the harvest came in with 3,394 boxes though we still only have 2/3rds as many producing trees as 2009-2010.  Production is up from one box a tree in 2009-2010 to 2.83 boxes this year.  With strong citrus prices, we tripled the grove’s income while making it more environmentally friendly and perhaps letting the big boys in this business at least take a glance.

However I am continuing to follow the lead that has been presented to me combining low Florida real estate, rising food prices and Bio Wash.

When we remained open to new ideas, then two or more ideas started coming together to boost profits.

Ted Tidwell who makes Bio Wash wrote:  The owner of this farm bought a distressed grove, BioWashed it and I am told sold for substantial profit in 18 months.

This is what we are doing now…looking for distressed groves in Florida or agricultural land in Ecuador to buy… then bring back to quality production and resell.

Imagine this.    Some farmers who use Bio Wash have been able to get higher prices for their food because it is “pesticide free” and has reduced fertilization.

I believe enough in these observations to start some testing in our orange grove.   Recently my grandson, Garren, and I loaded up the Cub Cadet with flagging ribbon… went out into our orange grove and set up four test zones… each at an opposite extreme from one another.

Garren helping me set up our tests.

In each zone we selected sick, healthy and new trees.

A sick tree in our grove flagged yellow.

A healthy tree and…

the newly planted orange trees.

In just two weeks we began to see results.  Our manager, Derek Hylands,  looks after the grove and sent these photos of the sick trees.

Everyone is pretty surprised that in such a…

short time they can see results.  This is new growth on one of the sick trees!

I have asked the grove manager to confirm what…

we think we are seeing… recovery of the sick trees and accelerated growth of the healthy and new trees.

Follow the lead?

We could be onto something big, exciting and good for the environment.  Where did it all start?  With a vague idea that Florida real estate prices were low and that we wanted a home near our daughter and grandson.  That’s the lead we followed. How satisfying!

Your lead to follow should be satisfying for you as well.  Our nature is to seek the sweet aromas not run from the bad smells.

What is even more amazing is that when one follows the lead…and looks back it makes so much sense that one says… “Why didn’t I think of that before”?

The future only reveals itself  in the present and the past, but there is a rose colored future meant for each of us… that comes when we  follow the leads presented.

Learn how to see agricultural opportunity in Ecuador this September.

Learn how to follow the lead to your own micro business.

One More Thought

The propelling drive behind the leads that will present themselves when you are open is Your Purpose.

Seeking proximity to family was one lead that led us to unite Bio Wash and oranges.  Our big picture, rose colored purpose was the driving force as you’ll see in tomorrow’s message.

Gary

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

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

Join us.  Learn how to have better retirements with international investing and pinnacle careers.

We meet in Smalltown USA.

Here are photos I took of Mt. Dora…

 

Here is a business opportunity in Crucita, Ecuador. 

This Ecuador property is ideal for a  hotel or bed & breakfast but first let’s look at why B&Bs and BB&Bs (I am coining a phrase here) anywhere offer extra special opportunity now.

View from potential B&B.

Changes in the global economy increase the value in B&B opportunity.

A recent New york Times article “Family Net Worth Drops to Level of Early ’90s, Fed Says’ by Binyamin Applebaumoutlines the root of the problem when it says:   The recent economic crisis left the median American family in 2010 with no more wealth than in the early 1990s, erasing almost two decades of accumulated prosperity, the Federal Reserve said Monday.

A hypothetical family richer than half the nation’s families and poorer than the other half had a net worth of $77,300 in 2010, compared with $126,400 in 2007, the Fed said. The crash of housing prices directly accounted for three-quarters of the loss.

Families’ income also continued to decline, a trend that predated the crisis but accelerated over the same period. Median family income fell to $45,800 in 2010 from $49,600 in 2007. All figures were adjusted for inflation.

The Fed found that middle-class families had sustained the largest percentage losses in both wealth and income during the crisis, limiting their ability and willingness to spend.

“It fills in details to a picture that we already knew was quite ugly, and these details very much underscore that,” said Jared Bernstein, an economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities who served as an adviser to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. “It makes clear how devastating this has been for the middle class.”

The survey also found a shift in the reasons that families set aside money, underscoring the lack of confidence that is weighing on the economy. More families said they were saving money as a precautionary measure, to make sure they had enough liquidity to meet short-term needs. Fewer said they were saving for retirement, or for education, or for a down payment on a home.

The global expansion that has boosted the well being of so many for so many years was driven by expanding emerging markets which were driven by overextended consumer spending in the Western world… led by the USA.

The high leverage involved in this spending has come home to roost and left America and most of Western Europe and Japan in an over borrowed, stagflationary (rising prices and slowing economy) state.

In other words, people are becoming much poorer and are trading down.  The concept that “The consumer is king” is losing validity.

Simultaneously the consumer is also looking for something else they can trust.   Look at what has happened to all the institutions we have been taught to rely on, the government, our police, religious centers, industry, educational institutions, science, even our athletic leaders. All have been involved in scandals, defrocked and shown as immoral, using deceit, lies and fraud.

Yet man is a social animal that needs to believe and belong.  Mankind needs to feel it knows truth and consequently is looking for it in secrets. Maybe we believe that truth is being kept from us?

Assuming this theory has some credence, we can ask what kinds of trends will develop in people’s search for truth.  This creates a new niche for B&Bs… “The Thematic B&B”… a B&B built around a belief.

There is a growing trend for the purchase of immaterial goods, such as sports, entertainment, health, communication and spirituality.  Togetherness is a key motivator for emotional fulfillment. Many consumers have learned that just acquiring stuff is not enough.  More and more things don’t satisfy much or for long. At some point our material excesses turn into junk, worthless burdens that cost us to store, clean and insure.  Successful companies in the future will learn to attach symbols of love and togetherness to their products and services.

There will be a growing business in ties that bond people together.

Think about how this can apply to a B&B.   People come to stay because they will meet like minded souls who are also interested in whatever is the theme.

This is a strong trend and it will have an impact on many businesses. Keep your eyes open to man’s search for the truth because in spotting how this trend works can change the utility of many properties.

We have used this idea to change the utility of our farm from subsistence farming to writing by creating a center for our Writers Camps.

View from our mountain “cafe” at a writing camp.

Learn more about writing camps here.

Black Star Farms is another example.

Blackstar Farms in Leelanau County, Michigan is another example as they have combined an agricultural theme with a blend of small-scale farming and business practices.

Blackstar is small as farms go at 120 acres but has blended a winery, a stable, a cheese factory, and bed and breakfast into its theme.

They use several tactics similar to what Merri and I have used at our 250 acre farm in the Blue Ridge.

First, they cut out the middle man and sell directly to the user.

Second, they enhance their margins by adding value to their products. For instance, Blackstar helps his neighbors buying pears grown in a bottle for about ten dollars apiece as a first step to producing Blackstar’s high-end brandy.

They use their grapes to produce high end wine instead of selling the grapes.

They rent their old farmhouses at bed and breakfast rates instead of getting low income rents.

Third, they outsource to enhance their their wine-cheese connection. They rent space at the farm to a cheese company.   The cheese helps attract consumers to Blackstar and makes it easier for consumers to get great cheese.

BB&Bs

Combine this social thematic need to trading down (a poorer market) and you will see an evolving need for Boarding Bed & Breakfasts.

I have been thinking about this in Ecuador as real estate prices rise and as increasing numbers of North Americans look for a less expensive lifestyle.  They still want to be surrounded by like minded souls but cannot afford a house or condo.

Now let’s look in more detail at an Ecuadorian coastal property that could be an ideal B&B.

This building is ideal for a hotel, bed & breakfast or a home with added rental income.

The lot over 14,000 square feet (1,400m2).  This property has a great sea view.

The building consists of 6,000 square feet (600m2) of construction.

There are 12 beds and baths and an extra building in back is large with a full bath.

There are three floors, facing the beach front.

There is a garage for 2 cars, a large kitchen and an extra full suite with bath, for employees, plus two large terraces.

The asking price is $400,000 but is negotiable.

Ecuador Living Club members can get full seller details at their password protected site here.

Learn how to be an Ecuador Living Club member here.

Gary

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Family Net Worth Drops to Level of Early ’90s, Fed Says

Another real estate evolution is beginning.

Merri and I had lunch today with one of our bankers.  The consensus was clear  if you are investing in equities, the global gorillas with worldwide income, good cash flows and revenues will be the place to be.  Cash pays nothing, bonds are low yielding.  Commodities have done nothing for nine months.

Merri and I are lucky… several years ago we recommended investing in overseas government bonds and we invested ourselves  paying 8% to 13%.  These are good into 2015 and 2016 so we’ll hold them for now, but as liquidity comes in it has been going into US (mainly Florida) real estate.

This is the type of house we have been offering on… short sales.. foreclosures and just plain sales… 3 bedroom, 2 fl baths, 1,400 to 1,700 square feet in the $55,000 to $100,000 range… good for rentals or appreciation.  These offer enormous value in our opinion… but finally prices are beginning to rise.

Those who have been reading our site for some time know that beginning in the late 1990s through mid 2000s we sold much of our Florida real estate and began buying Ecuador property. .. much more than we had in the US.

Then in 2009 we switched and started selling some of our Ecuador real estate and began buying back in Florida.  Over the last three years we have watched a firmness start to take hold with prices in Florida.

A USA Today article entitled “Average U.S. home prices — down by a third since 2006 and still falling — will rise almost 4% a year for the next five years, according to a new forecast” by Amy Sancetta.  This fortifies my feeling that US house prices are on the rise.

Here is an excerpt: Market watcher Fiserv sees prices stabilizing by summer’s end and then climbing, quickly in some places until gains taper off. The forecast is based on an analysis of leading home price indexes.

Investors will drive much of the momentum, as they are now in cities such as Las Vegas and Phoenix.

First-time and trade-up buyers will eventually follow.

By the time home prices stop falling, they’ll be almost 35% below their 2006 peak, Fiserv says.

Separately, market researcher CoreLogic said Tuesday that U.S. home prices rose 0.6% in March from February, the first month-over-month increase since July.

Good affordability and declining inventories are key factors.

Conventional mortgage payments now account for just 12% of median family incomes vs. a historical norm of 20%, says Fiserv economist David Stiff.

The Fiserv forecast, done with Moody’s Analytics, assumes steady economic growth with no major shocks. Markets hardest hit by foreclosures will show the biggest five-year increases in home appreciation, it adds.

Six of the 10 markets where annualized prices are expected to rise most over the next five years had price drops of more than 50% from their peaks.

These markets expected to rise most and of course includes Florida.  Take advantage of low prices while you can

Rising US real estate prices will also increase the flow of Americans southwards into Latin America.  Ecuador real estate will be one of the benefactors of this move.  Prices in Ecuador will rise along with US prices.

Ecuador’s real estate and residence evolution is moving right along also.

A lot has changed in both areas since we began traveling  to Ecuador 17 years ago.

Now Ecuador real estate and the movement of Americans to Ecuador is about to get a boost from US real estate as it finally begins the upward journey again.

This increased pressure could also force tougher rules for visas. Buying real estate in Ecuador and through most of Latin America will cause changes.  Most Latin governments I believe are surprised by the flow of gringos and are now grappling with how to deal with and profit from this wave.

We are helping readers stay in touch with this change and recently shared an updated report entitled BUYING REAL ESTATE IN ECUADOR LEGAL REPORT by Dr. Andres Cordova, a prominent Ecuadorian attorney, who has helped hundreds of our readers over many years.

Ecuadorian real estate prices are much higher than a decade ago but still offer tremendous value in these uncertain times. Whether you are looking for a property solely as an investment, or to develop, or as a place to spend part of the year or to use full time; Ecuador has many options for you.

The financial and confidence crisis in North America and Europe and the demise of many former safe havens and hot-spots for real estate investing are prompting many people to look towards Ecuador to find positive distortions.

You can buy in the highlands or on the coast, in the big modern cities or in small, quaint towns. Ecuador has a fantastic cultural and natural landscapes, with great weather and warm and welcoming people.

The Ecuadorian Constitution establishes that foreigners have exactly the same rights as Ecuadorians do. Private property is a pillar of our legal system and therefore protected in Ecuador.

This report establishes general tips and elements of the purchase and deeding procedure. (It is not meant to replace direct legal advice.)

Previously this report was available only to our Ecuador Living Club members but I can now share this with all is now because Andres just wrote:

Gary, let’s give all your readers the report and let’s give a discount of $150 on all legal services to all Ecuador Living Club members plus send them an extra report with enhanced information.

I am getting many inquiries for visas and have been diligently attending to all of them. Changes are taking place in the visa process and I am preparing a report on this for your readers as well.

Click here for the full Ecuador Real Estate Report

This is just one more benefit for Ecuador Living Club members.

If you are a free Ecuador Living or Gary A Scott subscriber, the Ecuador Ateam works hard to happily provide a free daily message with over 2,000 free pages of information in our archives.  You can  access these at  www.garyascott.com  and www.ecuadorliving.com.

You can use the search engine at each site to check phrases related to any questions you have.

Our Ecuador Living Club gives you password protected access to personal replies to your questions and to our contacts developed over 15 years… guides, attorneys, doctors, dentists, alternative and complimentary healers, real estate sellers and renters, guides, airlines, hotels and so much more.

Ateam Ecuador can put you in touch with the many contacts we have developed over the past 17 years.

You can become a member and obtain a password and make the $150 discount on legal fees available by clicking here.

We encourage you to become a Club member because we can help you gain safety, efficiency, comfort plus great savings in Ecuador.

For example we help club members gain hotel discounts in the most visited parts of Ecuador.

One club member wrote:

Hi, I am in Cuenca with my family, wife and 2 little ones. Was wondering if you could help me with a driver from Quito airport at 9:20 am, Friday August 12, to Hotel Land of The Sun for 1 nite. Want to go to the markets Saturday on the way back to Quito and the Radisson( thanks for the great rate!). Will need a driver for that also. I was suppose to do your shopping deal after the Ultimate Event in Feb but missed the Event at the last minute, death in the family. Anyway, any info will be appreciated. We stayed at Palmuzul 3 nites at 40% off and reduced rates at the Radisson in Quito and La Piedra in Bahia de Caraquez. Thanks for already saving us a fortune! Looking forward to seeing Cotacachi before we head back.Thanks again.

Helping members find real estate to buy and rent is one part of our premium services.  If you have an interest in traveling, investing, living, buying property or doing business in Ecuador, membership in the Ecuador Living Club brings many benefits.

One huge benefit in using our service versus relying on brokers or travel agents is that we are not trying to sell real estate. For our modest subscription you get our honest opinion based on 43 years of international business and 15 years in Ecuador.  You gain access to our extensive contacts plus you get to share the input from over 30,000 subscribers who continually let us know what they see hear and experience good and bad. We sponsor real estate tours to help our members learn Ecuador’s real estate market in the most efficient way.

We share the experiences we have gained living, traveling and working globally for 42 years and have been investing living and doing business in Ecuador for 17 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.

For the modest membership fee, you immediately gain numerous benefits.

First, part of your subscription includes a copy of the $49 page report “Ecuador  Land of the Sun.” We email it to you at no added cost.

Second, you are provided a personal password to receive exclusive updates about what is going on in Ecuador… plus gain contacts and personal access to the Ateam Ecuador.

Third, you are entitled to a free nights stay (worth $72) at Inn Land of the Sun (formerly Meson de las Flores) in Cotacachi. (The fourth night is free when three nights are booked).

You are also entitled to free use of wireless internet at the Inn and the VOIP phone system at the inn (free calls to Europe, Canada and the US) even if you do not stay at the hotel.

See more on Inn Land of the Sun here.

The Relais & Cheateux La Mirage Garden Hotel & Spa in Cotacachi also offers upgrades on a space available and other benefits.  See La Mirage here.

We provide discounts at Quito hotels.

Most people who visit in Quito stay at least two nights (arriving and leaving) so the hotel savings alone can exceed the cost of subscription.

One of the hotels is Quito Stubel Suites & Café.

See more on the Stubel and its incredible views here.

In Cuenca two hotels offer discounts to our readers. One is the Villa Nova Inn.

Here is the Villa Nova Inn

In Bahia you save at the Hotel La Piedra

Plus club members can save hundreds… even thousands on Galapagos cruises… again because due to our large readership we can pass on travel agent fees to members in the form of savings.

See how to save up to $1,500  on a Galapagos tour on the Ocean Spray the newest. most luxurious Galapagos yacht

See more about Ecuador Living Club membership here.

The global economy is in a time of incredible opportunity when numerous basic investments such as agricultural and residential real estate are available at values far below replacement costs.  During such times it is difficult not be be caught in the doom and gloom. This is the fourth global economic downturn I have lived through (1970s, 1980s, 1990s) and each has created phenomonal riches for those who got in the flow of the economic evolution.

Our mission is to help readers in this quest.

Gary

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Read USA Today article Average U.S. home prices — down by a third since 2006 and still falling — will rise almost 4% a year for the next five years, according to a new forecast.

 

Ecuador Real Estate MLS – May 2012

New Listings

Rentals:

Cuenca Apartment Rental

Brand New Two Bedroom Cuenca Ecuador Rental Apartment with Incredible Views

Views from fully furnished Cuenca Rental Apartment.

This Cuenca Ecuador Apartment is owned by an American Family. You can talk to them in the USA.  This brand new 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom apartment is on the first floor of a 4-story bldg and is available immediately for short term (3-6 months)  or long term (1 year +) rental.

(Apartment Size:  102M² (1,098 Sq. Ft.) Rent: $600 a Month

For details contact Alicia Singerman at asingerman@hotmail.com
US Phone: 805-937-7946
Ecuador Phone: 011-593-09580-6459

See full listing on this Cuenca Rental here

 

Montanita Ecuador Beach Rentals

Villa de Los Suenos
La Entrada, Ecuador

Phone 080620934 (from U.S. call 59380620934)
Phone 091837453 (from U.S. call 59391837453)

Email: Villa.de.Los.Suenos@gmail.com

Villa de Los Suenos is located approximately 10 minutes north of Montanita in the tranquil fishing community of La Entrada.  Our Villa is a new facility completed in January of 2012.   La Entrada is a small fishing village with population of approximately 500 people.

Montanita is world-class surfing by day and restaurants/bars/dancing by night.  What are you waiting for?  Relax by the pool, walk the beach, enjoy the tranquility, enjoy the sunset.  It’s time to experience the magic of the Ecuadorian Coast for your dream vacation.  What are you waiting for ??  You need to be in Ecuador.

For full details contact the managers at villa.de.los.suenos@gmail.com or check out their listing on www.vrbo.com/398949

See all Ecuador property rentals here.

Brand New Cuenca Luxury Condo For Sale

Two bedroom two  bathroom  condo for sale near the historic center of Cuenca, Ecuador.

This new apartment is in a quiet, upscale neighborhood popular with Cuenca’s foreign residents. The building is just a 20 minute walk from El Centro and is right across the road from the Tomebamba River. Located near the Oro Verde Hotel, the building is close to a major supermarket, shopping mall and an indigenous market.

The 1170 sq ft (108 sq m) 2 bed/2 bath apartment is on the 7th floor and has its own balcony with partial river and city/mountain views. All rooms, including the kitchen, have large windows with great views.

The kitchen has an elegant feel, with dark brown (espresso) wooden cabinetry, offering plenty of storage, and granite counter tops. Flooring is tile in the kitchen and baths and floating wood in the living area and bedrooms. Both bedrooms have built-in closets. Both bathrooms feature granite countertops and the master bathroom has a separate shower and luxurious 2-person soaker tub.
The condo also features a laundry room/pantry and the building offers 24-hour security.

Included in the price is a bodega and parking space.

Asking price $109,500.

Please contact Shona Paget by email – shona@crazytrails.com  for more information or See Full Listing Here

Manta Ecuador B&B for Sale

This business opportunity is in the center of Manta.

The owner is open for some of the payment on terms.

This small but established B & B  has been totally renovated in 2010.

This B&B is located in the best area of Manta within walking distance to everything, just 150 yards from Playa Murcielago.

The B&B has 10 spacious rooms with high ceilings, all with their own full bath and hot water.

Each room has cable TV on 32″ flat screen, air conditioning, wi fi internet wi-fi and enclosed parking.

Price $ 295,000.See Full Listing Here

San Marianita Beach, Ecuador

This could be your sunset on Ecuador’s San Marianita Beach.

Now a Canadian custom home builder is creating a special situation at San Marianita Beach.

Get a free 16 page report on opportunity in Santa Marianita  a small fishing village about 20 minutes south of the city of Manta. There is a long sandy beach, over two miles long and nearly 900 feet wide here.  The beach is rarely crowded and though Santa Marianita is just a small fishing village it is world renowned for Kite surfing.  Kite surfers come from all over the world, even as far as Germany (great for rental potential).

You can see a virtual video made up of the Casa Blanca Condos by clicking here.

Get the free 16 page report on opportunity in  Santa Marianita Beach Ecuador here  Ocean Dream Properties info Brochure Feb 2012

Manta Ecuador Good Value Condo

This is a spacious apartment with a large terrace overlooking  Manta.  This unit is 30 meters ( 33 yards) from Playa Murcielago in the best part of section Umiña.   This is a  jewel with 4 bedrooms and 4 baths, (1 with Jacuzzi).  One of the bedrooms even has a private porch on the side.

The total living area is 280 m2 (appx. 3,000 square feet) plus a two car garage and storage, with a total over 300 m2.

Security plus the apartment is very well maintained.

The asking price of  $175,000  works out at $ 580 per m2 or less than $55 per square foot.

See full listing here

Ecuador Beach Real Estate Near Canoa

Ladera Pacifica is located in the protected dry tropical forest Hacienda el Recreo. 700 hectares bountiful with flora and fauna unique to this zone. There is much more to enjoy in coastal Ecuador besides ocean beaches washing up to your patio door.  Ecuador itself has miles of pristine beaches to explore as well as endless activities to enjoy…exploring the Galapagos and Isla de la Plata, whale watching suffing, climbing, paragliding, natural trail walking, horse riding, beach combing and enjoying your own private sunset from your new roof top terrace.

Beautifully designed homes  1666.307 sq. ft (154.805 sq meters) indoor area, plus additional 2150.52 sq. ft. (174.6 sq. meters) of outdoor living.

The areas include a roof top terrace, outdoor kitchen and shower, balconies, backyard garden, as well as 500 sq. ft. of pivoting full height and width windows, taking advantage of spectacular views and fresh ocean breezes .

Ladera Pacifica is happy to introduce pre-constructional price of US$93/sq. foot for first six (6) homes on first come-first serve basis!

See more details at  www.yumaeng.com/laderapacifica/price

See full listing here

San Clemente Ecuador Beach Condo Units for Sale

Located by the sleepy fishing village of San Clemente, Vistazul is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful developments on Ecuador’s Pacific Coast.  Currently it consists of 38 identical condos like those shown below.

Vistazul residents enjoy the use of spa and swimming pool at the Palmazul Hotel across the road, walking along the beach each morning as the local fishermen bring in their catch, and viewing spectacular displays of color each evening as the golden sun slowly sinks below the blue Pacific.

Units in blocks 3, 4 and 5 at the back of the Vistazul development have the best views simply because they are located highest up the hill leading back from the ocean.  And of the units in these three blocks, none has a better view of the ocean and sunsets than unit 401 which looks down directly through the center of the beautifully landscaped Vistazul complex with no other units close by to interfere with the views.

See full listing here.

Ecuador Coastal Condo Near Salinas

Ecuador coastal condo.

Two five bedroom condos each over 2,500 square feet.

This Ecuador coastal condo has great patios and is offered at about $72 per square foot.

Each condo has 5 beds, 5 baths, covered garage, large kitchen – full fridge, stove, micro, etc, large laundry room with W/D, a large full suite for guard and help.

Price $180,000 per unit. See full listing here

Cuenca Luxury Home for sale.

The location of this unit is just perfect.  It is only a half-mile from downtown on the south side overlooking Cuenca.

There are two rivers than come together right in front of the building.

It has great views from the outside terrace.

There are 3 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms in 1721 Sq Ft. There is also a 2 car garage and a storage room.

Asking price $135,000.  See Full Listing here

Let us help you in Ecuador

Here is what an Ecuador Living Club member just wrote upon arriving at the Inn Land of the Sun: Just Beautiful, Merri.  We safely made it to this gorgeous place and arrived around 22:00 local time last night. Consuelo is amazing and the roses in our room are stunning! 23 hours door to door with a 2-hour delay between Madrid and Quito. Quite a trip! Now we’ll do our best to adjust to the timezone and elevation and regain our breath. Exciting.   Thank you for your assistance in all this. Surely you made things a lot easier for us than they might have been otherwise.

Learn more about Ecuador Living Club services here.

See More Ecuador Real Estate Listings Below

 

See all Ecuador property rentals here.

We DO NOT investigate properties when they are advertised so be sure to complete your due diligence.  Always use an independent Ecuador attorney who represents you (not the seller) when you buy real estate in Ecuador. We also recommend that you rent, become familiar with Ecuador before you buy.

We have a list of Ecuador attorneys who have helped club members at our password protected Ecuador Living club website.

The Ecuador Living MLS is divided into #1: Ecuador real estate for sale and #2: Ecuador rentals.

See Ecuador beach rentals here.

Agriculture & Farmland

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Ecuador Coastal Real Estate For Sale

Cotacachi House

• See More Cotacachi Real Estate Here

Cuenca Penthouse

• See more Cuenca Real Estate here

Quito Golf Course House

See more Quito real estate here.

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Capture Cation Profits

Cations can bring financial stability in an unstable world.

Our mission is to help readers embrace change and turn it to their favor.  One way is through investing in value real estate. Another is to invest in agriculture.

Golden orange from our grove.  Better than gold in many ways.

When these two ideas come together (the two ways of value investing) and are boosted by a catalyst profits can be explosive.

Our orange groves are an example.   We purchased the grove at a good value due to Florida’s real estate crash.

The price of Florida oranges rose because of agricultural inflation and because the FDA halted all imports of foreign orange juice. The blockade was prompted by fears that some foreign orange juice — especially juice imported from Brazil — contained traces of carbendazim, a fungicide banned in the United States.

The news of the ban pushed OJ futures to an all-time high.

The catalyst was Bio Wash.  We have more than doubled yields in our grove as the price of oranges has risen since spraying with Bio Wash.

We have been promoting Bio Wash and its formative solutions (we used to call it Ted’s Stuff) because it is such a great product and is wonderful for the environment.

We use for all our household cleaning. I brush my teeth with it.  We spray our Hemlocks at our farm in North Carolina to eradicate the Wooly Adelgid blight and we spray our crops there.

So it was logical that we also sprayed our groves.  (Merri and I have been dedicated users of Ted’s Stuff for over 15 years.)

Now there is even more good news about this product that might be a catalyst for a way to gain extra earnings (or better gardens and crops) as you help the environment.

The news is spelled in the word Cation.

To understand the science we start with an Ion.

An ion is an atom or molecule in which the total number of electrons is not equal to the total number of protons, giving it a net positive or negative electrical charge.

An anion with more electrons than protons, giving it a net negative charge (since electrons are negatively charged and protons are positively charged).

Wikipedia says this about cations and soil:  A cation is an ion with fewer electrons than protons, giving it a positive charge.

In soil science, cation-exchange capacity (CEC) is the maximum quantity of total cations, of any class, that a soil is capable of holding, at a given pH value, for exchanging with the soil solution. CEC is used as a measure of fertility, nutrient retention capacity, and the capacity to protect groundwater from cation contamination. It is expressed as milliequivalent of hydrogen per 100 g (meq+/100g), or the SI unit centi-mol per kg (cmol+/kg). The numeric expression is coincident in both units.

Clay and humus have electrostatic surface charges that attract the solution ions, and hold them. This holding capacity varies for the different clay types and clay-blends present in soil, and is very dependent of the proportion of clay+humus that is present in a particular soil. A way to increase CEC is to favor the formation of humus.

The higher the CEC, the higher the soil fertility.

In short, if you have higher CEC your crops grow better. Bio wash increases the CEC.

Bio Wash protects against frost and really made some readers happy recently due to the late cold snap up north.   In North Carolina we call this a Blackberry freeze (because it ruins the blackberry crop).  The local gardening wisdom in our area is plant potatoes, onions, lettuce and radishes on Good Friday… but wait until Mother’s Day to plant the rest of the crops.

That wisdom is to avoid the blackberry frost so the early bird planters this year were clobbered… except those using bio wash.

Last week our front yard in NC looked like this… in April!  (Now you know why we are still in Florida!)

Bio Wash promotes growth. We have been receiving reports like this: Good news.  Tanya Reid, NY, BioWashed 35 acres of peach blooms for a grower and saved them from freezing in 26F. cold.  Tanya’s neighbor who is a farmer who grows plums, peaches, apples, raspberries, gardens flowers everything…… called our farmer who had success with bio wash freeze protection and is meeting with him today.

Harry the farmer said he’ll show him documentation and ride around his property to prove his success……….AWESOME………. we are very excited to say the least….I will be ordering more product I am sure this week like a 55gallon or a ton of gallons.

Tanya also told me this morning that Harry our test farmer told her he was very frustrated about the bad freezing weather coming  on the 24th of march.

Now he is the center of attention. Another farmer was coming over to look at his trees and marvelous success that has never happened in 165 years!

God is working. Its not just about money. Its about helping people be successful and bringing farmers together to increase their potential for higher yield and profit. Oh BABY AMAZING “UNBELIEVABLE

I’M SO EXCITED AND THINK I LIKE IT. I’M ABOUT TO LOSE CONTROL.

Another wrote:  Justin Wilkinson, Washington, reported three to five  full-sized ears per stalk. Now he is planning tests involving money-saving reductions in fertilizer costs. He also enjoyed an extra month of extended grass season, thus reducing the cost of buying hay for his dairy.

George Behlin,, NY, reported three full sized ears and one stalk with  four in his garden. Plus, amazing yields of beans and tomatoes.

Henry Morgan, Baton Rouge, reduced his fertilizer by over 50% and reported his greatest vegetable garden in 10 years.

Dr. Treloar, Iowa, reported general 20% yield increases on his test crops and  had amazing results.  He sprayed some wild blackberries and WOW!The berries grew larger than normal,tasted sweeter,and kept producing longer into the fall which they never done before.Also the vines kept growing until Xmas.

The patch he didn’t spray behaved  normally, regular size berries and the vines died by the end of October. A young lilac bush that normally has 3-7 flowers/season has 17 new buds forming! Tomatoes plants went crazy.We bought two plants of each type, one to be treated and one not treated.the treated plants produced about 50% more tomatoes.Also as the plants grew shoots, I pinched them off, soaked them in your formula,replanted them(this was in September) and they grew about a foot and produced a few baby sized tomatoes.AMAZING!

Bio Wash may also help resist drought.  We received this:  Alton Holt, Texas, enjoyed record oat yields in spite of last seasons extended drought. He applied no fertilizer nor used irrigation. His protein content measured 24% to 26%, compared to the normal 14% to 16%.

How does Bio Wash work?  Many highly trained agronomists are puzzled by the “out-of-the-box” yet obvious effectiveness.  The basis appears to be the incredibly small size of the sub-atomic particles that are able to penetrate and deliver nutrients to the plant.  It is not a fertilizer but apparently increases  the cation exchange capacity, electro-magnetic action of the roots and photosynthesis in the leaves.

This can improve the yield and increase the BRIX plus as a huge bonus is a  natural insect deterrent because it is an exceptionally gentle yet powerful degreaser,  it dissolves the lipid cellular membrane of small, soft bodied funguses and insects.

Bio Wash has secured Florida state permission to label our “Purely Green (PG) Oil Clean” as a soil amendment and Cation Exchange Stimulant.  To the manufacturer’s knowledge, the Cation Exchange Stimulant label is the first ever approved.

The benefits farmers are seeing include the fact that growers can substantially reduce the amount of commercial fertilizers while  significantly increasing growth, hardiness and yield.

At the same time the chelation of accumulated copper and other inorganics, redeems damaged croplands.

Last month, there was a test of the solution against insects on 90 acres of citrus.   After 10 days, a Florida state inspector searched but could not find a single Leaf Miner nor Asian Psylid.  Most aphids were gone, but a few survived.

Another benefit is that PG Oil Clean can dissolve PCBs in about one second.

Growers can actually boost yields while reducing the amount and costs of ferilizers needed.  Cristian Delano’s neighbor, Baton Rouge,  reduced his fertilizer application
by 80% and is enjoying the largest yields in ten years of gardening. His tomatoes are the largest, sweetest ones he can remember and continued to produce long past the normal harvest season.  His pepper plants normally produce about 12 peppers.  This year, single plants are producing up to 90 peppers and were still producing in late November!

Part of the benefits are likely to be temporary.  Bio wash breaks down the unused nutrients that remain in the soil.  Eventually growers will need to add additional nutrients. Considering the (1) increasing costs of fertilizers and (2) the environmental damage being caused by them growers are welcoming the reduced costs and increased profit margins.

Bio Wash is the catalyst that boosts the potential profits.    The good value is agricultural real estate where prices are low… such as Florida (due to the real estate crash and a lot of groves purchased before the crash for conversion to residential use). These groves were never developed and now the developers have abandoned or want to get rid of them at bargain prices.

Another place where agricultural real estate offers great value is in Ecuador where land has been inexpensive… the sun shines 365 days a year over rich volcanic soil.

There are opportunities in so many crops in Ecuador plus some farms have multi dimensional opportunity  a combination of beach front development and agriculture.

Delegates on Jean Marie Butterlin’s Ecuador agricultural expedition visiting a  beach front farm with…

multi dimensional opportunity.   See more on Ecuador agricultural opportunity here.  Low real estate prices… excellent climate… a growing local market and a relaxed lifestyle.

Good value.  You cannot miss making profit when you find and invest in it.   Real estate… God is not making any more for now.  Food.   The world’s population is estimated to grow from 7 to 9 billion over the next 50 years.  That’s 2 billion more mouths to feed… a huge increase in demand.

Throw them all together…  Good value in agricultural real estate improved with this non mutagenic, totally biodegradable solution and you have the prefect storm for steadiness and profit in a faster changing world.

Gary

Ecuador Agricultural Expedition

Ecuador Agricultural Property Expedition by Jean Marie Butterlin.

May 14-15-16, 2012

Sept 17-18-19, 2012

See Ecuador agricultural property by four wheel drive.

Merri’s and my first property purchase many years ago was agricultural land… over 900 acres… formerly in sugar cane, citrus, pineapples and avocados… the top soil deep and rich.

Here is a photo of Merri feeding one of our horses.  We still have that hacienda land, Rosaspamba, (the place of the roses).

Plus we have added more agricultural land… and are looking to add more.

An excerpt from a recent message entitled Beating & Benefiting From the Economic Crash explains why: In the seven years before its peak in July 2006, the US home-price index surged 155 percent. Since then, it’s fallen 33 percent.

This creates a huge opportunity. Economic history since before WWI suggests that we’ll see the final crunch of this 15 year bear in 2011 and perhaps 2012.  Then the light at the end of the tunnel will appear… slowly at first but picking up a head of steam aiming for the next bubble of something like 2030.

The way to beat this crunch is to set your affairs so you do not lose during the next crunch and have liquidity to take advantage of the low prices and high value the crunch could bring.

There are numbers of reasonably safe pockets of opportunity.  For example inflation during these difficult economic times has helped profits on agricultural property.

Excerpts from a May 31, 2011 article “Farm boom missing Main Street” by By John Gaps III, of The Des Moines Register show what I mean:  GUTHRIE CENTER, Iowa – Fifteen miles northeast of here, a quarter of a square-mile of farmland sold for $1.3 million this spring.

Farmers can lock in about $6.73 a bushel on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for corn they will deliver to market in December, nearly twice the price a year ago.

The sustained surge in corn prices has driven the average value of an acre of Iowa farmland to $5,708, according to a March survey by the Realtors Land Institute. That’s up 19.7% from the previous six months and up from $1,865 in March 2001, according to the Institute’s Troy Louwagie. The land northeast of Guthrie Center— where fields are flat and the soil is black — sold for $8,600 per acre, according to the county assessor.

“The rural economy is very good right now despite signs of a peaking commodities market and concerns about drought creeping north from Texas, flooding along the Mississippi River, and rain-delayed corn planting in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. American farmers who grow everything from rice to sugar beets have enjoyed a year of historically high prices, said Don Roose, a trader at U.S. Commodities in West Des Moines.

It’s not just towns surrounded by crop farming that have declined amid high commodity prices.

In heavily forested west central Alabama, the town of York has suffered as the timber industry has consolidated, said Auburn sociology professor Conner Bailey, president-elect of the Rural Sociological Association.

That’s despite steadily climbing timber prices since the middle of 2009 on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

This is why in the last several years I have been writing about and adding agricultural real estate to my portfolio.

There are few places with as much agricultural potential and diversity as Ecuador. It is not surprising that many readers ask us about Ecuador farmland or agricultural property there.

Our first reply to anyone asking is… agricultural land is hard to find and get it!   Finding our hacienda took us well over a year of dedicated search.  Searching for good farmland is not like viewing a batch of properties in a town or village.  First, it often takes hours just to get to the land.  Secondly, it almost always takes hours inspecting the land.  You do not do quick walk throughs on  100 or more hectares.  One is lucky to be able to see one property a day unless you can be really very organized.

Then once you find something that looks good… the hard part begins.  Of course there is always the price!

Then there is the research.  One seemingly great property we looked at “had great water rights”  we were told.  “Then why does it have cisterns all over the place?”  we asked ourselves.  A deep check of the deeds and talking with neighbors unveiled the fact that what’s on paper does not always match precedent and reality.  There were water rights on paper, yes, but they were disputed by numerous neighbors who had for years continually cut the water lines every time the current owner installed them.  It was just pure luck that we were suspicious and turned down this property, which still has not sold.

Buying agricultural property is not like buying urban property from a title point of view.  There are no rural land registers, so deeds have to be carefully researched by an attorney.

Finally if you buy it… what’s next?   Who do you hire. What do you grow… who buys the crops?

Yet because there has been such interest, I challenged Jean Marie Butterlin to create an Ecuador Agricultural tour.   He has been working hard at this for over 6 months, and I am proud to announce that he has set up an excellent program for those who are really interested in farming in Ecuador.

Here is what Jean Marie has explained about the Ecuador real estate tours he has created and conducted.

When I was 40 years old and told my friends that I would retire at 50, they were laughing.  They are not laughing anymore!

My name is Jean Marie Butterlin and I live on one of the nicest, most affordable coasts of all South America with my wife Pascale and although I consider myself retired, I still like to work… but only at what I really like.

How did I achieve that ?

I had a plan.

Part of that plan was to move to a nice area where it was less expensive to live and much less stressful than Europe.   I found that place after traveling and inspecting most South American countries.  We chose Ecuador and more specifically Bahia as our home.

We live now as well on $2,000 a month in Bahia than we did in Europe on $10,000 a month.

When you are planning to retire and live the good life, you should look at both parts of the equation, expenses and what you can earn.I have been able to lower my expenses considerably by living in Bahia.  We live in front of the Malecon enjoying the sun 320 days per year.

But the key to retirement is really in the INCOME part of the equation.   How can you generate income without working too hard?

The answer is to have an “outside the box”  plan.  If you do what everybody else does, chances are you’ll earn what everyone else does.

A lot of younger clients on our real estate tours ask  “How can  I generate a little income in Ecuador”?  They say they would move down immediately if they could. This started me thinking  about how to show a few select clients a chance to be part of that world of retirees in Ecuador who work only at what they like.

I have put together a special plan for those seeking to move and earn in Ecuador now!

Here is the plan and here are the facts:

* Every economist is currently saying that agriculture will be the next place to invest because :

• God is not making more arable land.
• The world is running out of food.  China has been buying and leasing arable land all over Africa and in South America for example.  A lot of the smart money is going into arable all over the continent.

* Ecuador has some of the cheapest yet best agricultural land in all of South America.  The climate is best for growing as well with 365 days a year of direct sunlight.  In many parts of Ecuador, farmers can get 3 and even 4 harvests per year, depending on the water available on the property.

* However, most Ecuadorian farmers have not yet learned how to produce and manage a farm. They are lacking higher education and management skills as well as equipment.  Some Ecuador farmers still plow with oxen.

*  Many Ecuadorian farmers do not know how to sell and do not treat the farm as a real business.

There is a great opportunity that lies in this combination of cheap, arable land, the geographical place of Ecuador on the equator and lack of good agronomical skills.

Here is the chance to attend the first agri business expedition, planned for October 17, 18 and 19.

This is a tour for those who want to have an active agricultural business in Ecuador and have $100,000 minimum to invest.

This tour will be conducted over three long, jam packed days to provide you a low cost efficient way to inspect Ecuador agricultural property that is legitimately for sale at a reasonable price.

Day 1 - 9 am to 6 pm: Detailed presentations by agri engineers and specialists of several type of agri businesses. These presentations  include costs, types of soils for each type of crop, risk analysis, potential profits, timing, where to find the buyers of crops,  introduction to buyers  looking for specific crops.

On the tour we look “outside the box” at crops that can for example produce “biofuel”. We’ll look at land where one company in Manta will buy every available crop at market price.   We know the owners of that company and you will be introduced to them.

Day 2: Visits farms for sale.  Here is one farm we inspected on our first tour.  This agri property has 203 hectares (507 acres) divided into:

28 hectares (70 cares) of balsa trees.  In 5 years these will fetch $30,000 a hectare.

30 hectares (75 acres) of African palm trees in production (the nuts fetch $250 per ton).

- 140 hectares (350 acres) of pasture sufficient for 200 head of cattle or other crops that can produce an excellent return.

- 3 small

and one large river along the property with water availability.

- Close to the main road

- $6600/hectare ($2,640 an acre) asking including a small casita for caretakers.

Day 3: Q&A’s with the agri specialists…with round table discussions. We break into small groups to discuss in more details each business its costs and potential profits.

We have inspected and investigated all properties prior paying special attention to three special issues:

* water on site
* access roads
* good port close

We only show land that has water in Manabi province near Manta the second largest port in Ecuador.

We have investigated electricity, pricing and title plus will have speakers during breakfast and dinners who will discuss these  issues and the legal matters pertaining to agri businesses in Ecuador.

These experts will be available for consulting during the tour and later… covering technical matters on which crops are best suited for each soil and what times of the year are best for planting and harvest.  The tour pays special attention to reviewing the marketing aspect of each crop and where to find buyers.

We use our contacts with local people were born in the area… who know the land owners… who know what the “market” price should be and we do not show farmland where the seller is asking an unrealistic price or if there are any doubts about ownership or clear title.

We also provide administration, accounting and legal consultants who will answer questions about owning and running a company in Ecuador, a civil code country and very different from the US and Canada which run on common law.

Included in the tour fee:

*  Agri engineers who can help you start your business, provide services and the follow up.

* Legal experts in incorporation, administration accounting etc..

* Experts in marketing agricultural crops.

Although we do not advise being absentee owner, we can provide all the services needed to run the business with our agricultural team.

If your agricultural knowledge is limited, we have the experts who will help you through the learning curve.

The big Question is “How much can someone make in agri business in Ecuador?”

The Answer:  We will not show any businesses that do not produce on a regular basis at least 10% net return. Many agri businesses you will see can pay off land costs within 1 to 2 years.

The Agri Business Expedition fee is $1,990/single $2,990 couple.

For efficiency and logistics, this tour is strictly limited to 16 people… 4 persons per four wheel drive vehicle.

Jean Marie

Ecuador has many Agricultural Advantages and we have been recommending the idea of investing in Ecuador agriculture for years.

Here is an excerpt from an April 10, 2007 message  at this site entitled “Ecuador Agriculture”: Ecuador agriculture can offer a better lifestyle and opportunity as good prices rise. Sometimes we forget the importance of life’s basics…such as food. Until those basics cost more.

Ecuador agriculture is important because Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal included an article that began: “Prices of farm goods are climbing – in part because of demand for crop-based fuels – pushing up food prices around the world and creating a new source of inflationary pressure. The rise in food prices is already causing distress among consumers in some parts of the world — especially relatively poor nations like India and China. If the trend gathers momentum, it could contribute to slower global growth by forcing consumers to spend less on other items or spurring central banks to fight inflation by raising interest rates.”

This is one of the wonderful benefits of Ecuador agriculture, the extreme supply of excellent but low cost food.

Ecuador is a Garden of Eden and here is a fact you probably did not know. The inhabitants of this region developed more than half the agricultural products that the world eats today. Among these are more than many varieties of corn and potato. These foods also include squash, beans, peppers, peanuts, popcorn, yucca and quinoa.

They even learned to use freezing night temperatures and warm days to freeze dry potatoes and create potato flour.

At the market, three blocks from our hotel where we shop.  Open air restaurants in the front of the market offer excellent meals, vegetarian, or chicken, steak, fish or pork for about $1.

There are numbers of  fresh picked vegetables offered by happy friendly people.

And every type of fruit you can imagine, from pineapple to coconut, papaya, mango, apples, pears, bananas, berries and numerous other tropical fruits all at bargains prices by Western standards and ripe all year round.

Many exotic spices at a 1/20th the cost in the US or Canada. This makes life especially wonderful and inexpensive.

This creates opportunity as well.

Ecuador’s geographical location gives it a distinct advantage in agricultural production. Its exports include asparagus, bananas, broccoli, cocoa, coffee, flowers, hearts of palm, lentils, papaya, passion fruit, pineapple, plantain, mango, red beans, and tomatoes. Ecuador has mainly an agricultural economy, though oil is its largest source of revenue, and industry has expanded. Agriculture employs 32 percent of the workforce. 6.4 million acres is used in agriculture. Permanent pasture covers 17 percent of the total area and forests nearly 43 percent. In the highlands subsistence agriculture and the production of staples for the urban areas are predominant (corn, wheat, barley, potatoes, pulses, and various vegetables). In the coastal lowlands tropical crops are grown to export. Ecuador is the largest exporter of bananas in the world and among the largest exporters of shrimp and roses.

Merri and I have been recommending Ecuador for almost 15 years…we have been recommending investing in agricultural property for even longer. Agricultural property in Ecuador makes excellent sense for those who like both ideas.  We are very pleased that Jean Marie has created this excellent tour.  We are happy to share this opportunity with you.

Gary

Tour price includes local transportation to the farms but does not include domestic airfare from Quito to Manta and lodging.  Meals are NOT included.

The Agri Business Expedition fee is $1,990/single $2,990 couple.

For efficiency and logistics this tour is strictly limited to 16 people… 4 persons per four wheel drive vehicle.

Who Will Benefit From This Tour

Attendees on this tour will range from those who want their own sustainable organic farm like Neverlands Farm in Loja to those who want a small agricultural property to enhance existing income… to those who want to run medium and larger agri businesses.

Small – Organic  – Sustainable

Neverland Organic Farms is a great case study of people creating an isolated sustainable organic farm

See about the organic farm here

Income Supplement – Beautiful Way of Life

A good case study for those looking for a way of life and income supplement is this  six acre organic tomato farm that delegates on on a real estate tour visited.   This shows a perfect little Ecuador retirement operation, so where should we start?

I think it is with the guinea pigs…

The farm has many of them in these cages.

Clover on the farm feeds them.  Their manure helps organically fertilize the corn.

The corn husks are mixed with manure to be used as fertilizer and the corn feeds the…

pigeons…

chickens and…

pigs.

All of these animals create more organic fertilizer that this farmer uses to grow tomatoes.

Here is the Ecuador organic farmer with our driver Jorge, Alberto Verdezoto and Peggy Carper.

Tomatoes grow quickly here it seems.  These newly planted organic tomatoes will be ready in three weeks. I find this hard to believe but this is what the farmer said.  Though my Spanish has been known to miss on occasion.

These will look like…

this and…

provide

income that…

would provide a nice retirement income… $25,000 a year we are told.

Other benefits include farm fresh eggs.

Trout are in the ponds next to the pigeon coops.

A good case study for a specific and large Ecuador agri operation is the farming operation set up by Young Living Essential oils.

After creating a marketing system for the oils and farming in the USA, Gary and his wife…

moved to Ecuador… began a large farming operation as well as…

there own processing and a health spa.

Ecuador is a perfect place for many types of agriculture… large and small.  Find your farm in the safe and efficient way on an Ecuador Agricultural Tour.

Included in the price is all transportation from the hotel to the farms.  Airfares to, from and within Ecuador, hotels and meals are NOT included.

The Agri Business Expedition fee is $1,990/single $2,990 couple.

For efficiency and logistics this tour is strictly limited to 16 people… 4 persons per four wheel drive vehicle.

Learn about the Ecuador Farm Management Program here.

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