A little bit on my background:
I was born in Oklahoma City, May 2, 1948, in a house at the corner of 3rd and Blackwelder. I was raised a military brat by my very sweet Mother, and my Step Father, who ended up being one of the toughest Chief Warrant Officers in the Air Force.

My real Dad was a cattle rancher in north eastern Oklahoma. The summers we weren't stationed in the Orient or Europe I spent on my Dads Ranch. By the time I was 15, I was pretty worldly and well traveled but still had that down home farm boy work ethic going on

I have a back ground in retail sales management, sales training and Asset Management. That all almost seems like it was from a previous life time at this point.

For the last 10 years, I have been a full time home office marketer, consultant, coach, trainer, web developer and a full fledged Internet Marketing geek. While I have learned a lot of tricks to all these trades, I will be the first to admit I have far from mastered them all.

I have developed multiple income streams along the way that have made life rather comfortable up to now. However, never being one to be satisfied with the status quo, I continue to learn and develop my skills in communications, marketing, training and make a concerted effort to share what I have learned with like minded people.

I rrrrrrrrreally enjoy communicating with like minded folks (At least as much as time allows that is.)

Helpful Freebies that don't HOG resources:
Speaking of sharing, over my 10year I have collected some of what the people on our management team, and our subscribers consider some of the coolest E-Biz FREEWARE programs there are. Some you no longer find on line. Or at best, they are extremely hard to find. I share some pretty solid Marketing Strategies through my weekly newsletter, the "E-Biz Freeware Gazette". FREE of course and you can un subscribe at any time. Not a lot of junky sales ad's either. (NOTE: This Newsletter is currently down while I'm changing domain hosting companies.)

As network marketing strategies go, what I have found to be probably the best, most definitive GENERIC training on how to empower your fellow networkers, to attract prospects from their target market is HERE, and there is a ten day course that is FREE! It will Train Your People How To Become The Hunted, NOT The Hunters. Yep, a little shameless promotion here, but it is the best I've found in 10 years.

Likes:
Well, I like helping other people succeed in home based businesses, the Internet, playing with graphics & graphics programs, adding new mods to my PT Cruiser, reading, (Primarily self improvement and marketing guides), taking drives up the coast or to the mountains with my wife to find unique Bed & Breakfast's.

Current Projects:
My Article Directory. If you are promoting a web site with articles submit them to Publishers Cloning House. If you need FREE CONTENT for your e-zine, web site, blog etc., I do have over 3,000 articles availble from almost 1,500 excellent authors.
More Coming soon/again(?). I'm going through a mid-cyber-life crisis.

Favorite Jokes:
I love sharing jokes with folks. My ALL TIME FAVORITE is:
"The Texas Chili Cook Off" ← ← ← This .pdf file will open in a new Browser window. No display? Check open windows on your task bar. (CAUTION: If you are a prude or puritanical, you will find niether this or other jokes I share appropriate reading. Nothing X-rated, but pretty spicy)

Dislikes:
Whiners that think life owes them a living. Marketing materials with blatant typos or stupid grammer mistakes. People that drive slow in the fast lane. Cyber Gremlins. People that don't use Anti-Virus Protection. People that think "to Back Up" means to walk backwards.

Pet Peeves:
Marketing "Teams(?)" that build, use and perpetuate supposed "Systems(?)" that market to other people's weakness. You will find several of my rants on this subject in Marketing Forums around the Internet. (Just GOOGLE my Username: DeadInToIt)

Suffice it to say, marketer's preying on the uneducated, naive, gullible, and/or the inexperienced GUMP's (Good Uneducated Money People) of this world, to make money, are loosers. Those using flashy ad campaign come on's, about how anybody can get rich on line, quickly and with very little effort, RRRRRRREALLY P*ss Me Off. They are VULTURES! The really sad part is, many of these VULTURES end up feeding off the very road kill others just like them create.

Regrets:
Missing out on the DOT COM BOOM! Yes, I was in a position in "96" to buy into a domain hosting start up company here in San Diego. 4 guys with the computer skills, intelligence and business plan to start their own domain registry and hosting company. All I needed was $5,000.00 and enough belief to take a leap of faith. Though money was a little tight, I could have come up with the money and been a full 20% partner.

The Internet was pretty new at that time and their marketing plan was in my estimation pretty weak. So, I passed on the opportunity. (WHo know within a year just about any marketing plan would make them successful?)

To make a long story short, the 4 gentlemen and the person that took my investment position (She had no problem affording the 5 Grand.) are all millionaires today. And the income is all residual.

Fortunately, I've been given a second chance. Only this time, the investment only requires my time and effort. And there is NO SELLING REQUIRED! You can find out about this second chance at serious money for FREE, right HERE.

Enough About Business. About Love and Life:
I'm married to Candy. of my life and the perfect woman for me. She has a sharp wit, great sense of humor and is an excellent judge of character.

She has consistently shown confidence in my abilities to achieve and succeed regardless of what I may endeavor to accomplish.

She has stood by me in the tough times and pushed me to believe in myself when things seemed to be going south. As well, she is there with plenty of accolades since I have turned it all around (Again ).

We make an excellent team. I could write a book just about my Candy. But you get the idea. Married 15 years and we are don't just love each other, we are still "IN Love" with each other. YEEEOOOWWWZAH!

How Time Flies When You're Having Fun With Friends:
And I guess that says it in a nut shell as to why I am net working through RYZE. I believe when you are "Thinking RIGHT …. NOW!" you will attract the kind of people into your life that can make a positive difference. In my way of thinking, RYZE can foster attraction of like minded people.

So, click on my guest book link, gimme a howdy how are ya and let's share some ideas, talk about networking or just have a couple of laughs together.

Well, that's a little about me, what I do and why I'm here. How about you? I'd love to hear your take on Networking and Marketing Online.

Here's hoping you are having an enjoyable, productive and prosperous day.

Sincerely,

Mike Claggett