Hi Everyone,

Exciting Times!

I have been up to quite a lot recently. For example, I have traveled to the USA for Yanik Silver’s Mastermind meeting and to interview Gary Vaynerchuk. Additionally there has been some exciting developments here at IncomeDiary.com plus I attended the Entrepreneurs Bootcamp in London last weekend.

Firstly, as some of you know, I have been to the USA recently — there was two reasons for this;

1) Yanik Silvers Mastermind Group

As some of you know, my dad (Barry Dunlop) is a member of Yanik Silver’s Millionaire Mastermind group, and I was fortunate enough to go along as my Dads Guest to the latest Mastermind Meeting on the 21st and 22nd September.

There are many definitions of a Mastermind Group, but one that I like is:

A mastermind group is a group of people who come together to mutually assist each other in their pursuit of success

Getting a chance to spend 2 days in a closed door room with some of the coolest internet entrepreneurs on the planet is as you can imagine something very special. Also because of the closed door environment and the knowledge that what is spoken about remains within the room these entrepreneurs are very open with lots of sharing of information – in particular share what is working for them right now and also what is not working right now, or what they need help with.

I even got to present to the group and get their feedback on what I was doing – AWESOME!

At the presentation I mentioned that one of my sites ranked #9 in Google for search term: “Yanik Silver” – which is interesting as I haven’t even interviewed Yanik so far. (But watch out for a Yanik Silver Interview coming soon) It was quite funny, when I mentioned my ranking for “Yanik Silver” because then Carrie Wilkerson followed by Ryan Deiss mentioned how I rank first page for their own names also.

At the end of the Mastermind Yanik mentioned to me that he is considering doing a pre-day to his next Underground Online Seminar which will focus on young entrepreneurs and how he would like me to be involved. Now I know I have a lot of young readers, so I would like you guys (young or older) to suggest anything you would like to see in an event aimed at young entrepreneurs. In particular, suggestions for Speakers for Yanik Silvers potential Young Entrepreneurs Pre-Day are most appreciated.

Expect to hear me speaking more about this event in the near future.

2) Meeting Gary Vaynerchuck

After the mastermind, my dad and I went to New York to interview Gary Vaynerchuk for his soon to be launched book “Crush It” which comes out Tuesday (October 13, 2009). We met Gary at his NYC office and interviewed him on camera about business, blogging and passion which you guys can see on Monday. We came prepared with a great camera and recording equipment but when we heard Gary does everything on his flip camera we decided to just switch to that and it came out great! I am including a taster video from the interview here — but look out for the full interview on Monday.

When we arrived at Gary’s Office I spotted Carrie Wilkerson and Perry Laurence who were also there seeing Gary, so after I interviewed Gary we all met up for lunch at this New York sandwich shop nearby which was really good.

Also, here is a short Video from our interview — Gary talking about his two passions, Wine and The New York Jets

FULL INTERVIEW TO COME NEXT WEEK

New Releases Coming Soon

You may have noticed I haven’t been around so much, well I have been working on a few really cool things and today I’m going to give you a little taste of whats to come.

Rich List – Our most popular posts are always our lists so in the last month we have been working on a web application which is a list of the richest internet entrepreneurs and has a wiki style page on each one of them. Very cool stuff that I hope you all enjoy and help spread the word about.

Make Money Blogging Book – We spent a week turning my email eCourse into a PDF for those who wanted it all at once. At first we had planned to charge $47 for it as it did take some time and money but in the end we felt it was best to just give it away free so I could help even more people.

Forums – For a long time we have had major issues with the forums here on IncomeDiary, getting around 50 new spam bots register daily. Finally I sat down and did some reading and after 5 minutes made some small fixes that has cut it down to 2 or 3 a day which is hardly noticeable now. We really are looking to push the forums hard now so would love to see you guys join me on them!

Gary Vaynerchuck Interview – As mentioned above, I met Gary and interviewed him. We will be publishing his video, audio and transcription on Monday morning so look out for that and buy his book. We may even be giving away a Crush It wrist band or two

Entrepreneurs Bootcamp, London, 2nd and 3rd October 2009

I attend several seminars every year and I was pretty excited about attending Andrew Reynolds Entrepreneurs Bootcamp in London last weekend. You see my father has always credited attending a workshop Andrew organized featuring Bill Myers way back in 1999 – as one of the pivotal moments in his own online career.

The event was at the O2 arena in London which was the Millennium Dome back in the day and it is a very big place, with something like 7000 entrepreneurs attending. By far the biggest event I have gone to.

Now for those of you who are not aware, most seminars these days (especially the low priced or FREE variety) are what I would call ‘Pitch Fests’ — basically speakers pitching (selling) their products from the stage.

This Entrepreneurs Bootcamp was relatively inexpensive (and indeed the cost of the ticket was donated to the Make a Wish foundation) — so I was not surprised to discover most speakers selling something. Nothing wrong with that of course – but I did wonder about some of the speakers products – and the value in them. One speaker in particular was speaking about his product and was saying how he had this revolutionary way of making money that he came up with — but when he went into it in a bit more detail, he was basically describing what I was doing.

Of course there was some great speakers and some good worthwhile products — but for me at least, some where being “Over Hyped”.

FOWA (Future of Web Apps) after-party

Also, when I was in London I got to attend the FOWA (Future of Web Apps) after-party. (Gary Vaynerchuk was at this event last weekend – but not the party). At the party I also got to meet up with Grant Bell who ran the young entrepreneur event that I spoke at a few months back and I also to meet up with Josh Buckley who I first interviewed nearly 2 years ago when he sold his business at 15 for around $100,000 I believe. The FOWA (Future of Web Apps) after-party was a very good laugh. It was basically 300 or so programmers in a night club all speaking geek and drinking alcohol. (Try imagining that!)

All in all a very busy 2 / 3 weeks – learned a lot and had fun as well – my favorite combination.

To Our Success,

Michael Dunlop

PS: Really going to be working hard on promoting my rich list application so any help you guys can give me will be really appreciated!

PPS: Suggestions for Speakers for Yanik Silvers potential Young Entrepreneurs Pre-Day are most appreciated — plus I am always looking to interview Young Entrepreneurs

The Internet lifestyle has given me the opportunity to lead the lifestyle most could only dream of, I get to do what I want, when I want! Here is a list of 8 cool things that the Internet lifestyle has permitted me to do.

Gives you time for more important things

Yesterday just after lunch I went out and did one of my favourite things in the whole world – Mountain Biking / Cycling! Quite often I climb to the top of South Downs here is Sussex, England (The South Downs is bunch of large hills running across the south of England).  You get the most amazing views and then comes the best part, the downhill, all I can say is, it is exhilarating! So whether your hobby is gardening or paint balling, the Internet lifestyle gives you time to do the things you really enjoy!

Here’s a photo of me on the South Downs yesterday – stunning isn’t it?

You get to hang out with really cool people

Have you managed to hang around people who run billion dollar companies? Celebrities? Some of the smartest and gifted young entrepreneurs in the world? Well I have and its super cool, If you want to see if who I have hung out with, check my about page!

You also get to do really cool things

You may be able to spot me behind Mike Filsaime , Yanik Silver , Mike Dillard and Rich Schefren . I have a quite a funny story about this adventure. At the time I didn’t know many of the BIG names in the Internet marketing industry and I actually sat next to Mike Filsaime on the plane. Unfortunately at the end of the Zero G flight I was sick (in a bag, unlike some people who managed to be sick while still in Zero G and had the lovely experience of seeing it float around before splashing down on the mats – guess that is why it is also called the Vomit Comit) Anyway I didn’t know who Mike was back then and on the way back down he was trying to talk to me and I basically told him to shut up, that’s like telling President Obama to shut up – LOL!

In fact Yanik Silver has started a business just to help Successful Entrepreneurs have so much more fun. These entrepreneurs get to do crazy things such as Baja Racing, White water rafting and even a chance to stay at Necker Island with Sir Richard Branson! If you are interested in any of the above, check out Maverick Business Adventures here!

Because nothing is holding me down, I can travel as often as I like. I proved that by doing some crazy fun trips last year including Volunteer work in Africa, Snowmobiling in Iceland and attending Seminars in America.

Here is a picture of me on a Glacier in Iceland:

Stroll out of bed long after everyone has rushed to work

I admit, its 1:50pm and I have just started work, that’s the great thing about being your own boss, you call the shots! Typically I only do an hour or so of work a day, could you just imagine how much money you would earn if you worked a whole day like the saps who have to do the 9 – 5!? Glad I will never have to experience that.

Freedom

You can do what you want, when you want! Nothing is holding you back, no financial worries and no set work hours, nothing! Here is a cool video by James of a bunch of Internet entrepreneurs being asked what they thinking the Internet Lifestyle is all about:

I Can Travel First Class

I now have around 120,000 air miles which should keep me going First Class a while longer and now because of this so called “Credit Crunch” its now cheaper then ever to live the high life! Here’s me chilling in the Virgin Atlantic lounge at Heathrow, note how stress free it can be:

You earn money while you sleep

Yes, pretty much everyday I wake up and get the lovely chore of accepting payments and looking at stats and its none of that working 13 hours a day to earn money while you sleep bullshit, I actually really don’t work very hard at all!

You can get everyone to do your work for you!

If I can outsource it, I do! I have a designer, a programming team, even a team of blog writers. Everything is self-run, even my content is written by other people, interviewees write the interview themselves and my forum is run by the users, my business is all on autopilot! I don’t even have to be around to pick up my paychecks, they do pretty much just come straight into my bank!

To summarize…

There really isn’t anything holding you back but a better future! You can teach a old dog new tricks so start your internet business today!

To your online success,

Michael Dunlop

PS. What’s your favourite part of the Internet Lifestyle?

PPS. The recession has only made me more money. Things can only get better!