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It’s day two of my conference DVD promotion and I have a little video of my daughter learning how to ride her bike.  There are some big time lessons and parallels about riding a bike and starting a business. Watch and see, then visit: Midwest Super Conference.

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Over the past few weeks, I did two separate surveys to my list regarding their preferences and abilities when it comes to online marketing and attending marketing events.

I was greatful for their feedback and the results reall surprised me.

Before I get into the 2 different survey details, let me just put in a quick promo to go to: www.midwestsuperconference.com now, and get one of the last remaining DVD sets of my super successful online marketing conference, which I did in the fall.

SURVEY RESULTS

The first survey I want to talk about is one I did last week regarding people attending live internet marketing conferences. Right now, there are like 12 conferences happening all over the world, and people are spending a fortune to get there. Here is what my list told me.

1. “What is the Best Price for 3 Full Days of Internet Marketing Training with Full Service Meals, VIP Networking and Personal Development?”

1. $500-$1000 - (54.8%)

2. $1000-$2000 - (30.6%)

3. $2000-$5000 - (8.9%)

4. $5000-$10,000 - (5.6%)

What do the results tell us?

Well, I wonder first of all, if people just gravitate to the lowest price choice and chose that? I am sure, if I would have put a lower catagory, $0-$500 that would have won hands down.

But basically people told me $500-$1000 is the magic price point for attending live events, but $1000-$2000 per ticket had a big following too. So I am seeing the magic price points for what people are willing to pay for events is around $0-$2000 really, when it comes down to it. And that goes along with what my Seminar Mentoring group has been teaching me.

In case you wondered, with all the conferences happening right now, there are many over $2000, some as high as $5000, and I have my new “seminar in a box DVD’s” priced LOW! You can pick up a set for $347 at www.midwestsuperconference.com, and you don’t have to leave your house, rent a car and sleep in an uncomfortable lumpy hotel bed.

The next question I asked was:

“Where should I have the Event? Which Would You LIKE to Attend MOST?”

The two choices were at a meeting space in the Mall of America, here in Minnesota or at a traditional hotel convention room.

These results shocked me too, and here is what people told me.

Mall of America: 38.9% of the votes

Hotel Meeting room: 61.1% of the votes

Very interesting, I was hoping the novelty of the Mall of America would be attractive, and it was to some extend, but people would rather go to a hotel meeting space rather than a big gigantic mall. I am glad I asked first and did not just “book the Mall”. It just goes to show you how important it is to ASK using great software like the AskDatabase.

My results could be a little skewed too, if many who voted already live in Minnesota, and go to the mall all the time, it would not be a big deal to them.

But I don’t think that would change the stats by much, so the hotel meeting room is the winner.

I was talking to Dave Lakhani on the phone a week ago and asked him if the MOA would be a great hook, he said, “no” and he was right! Thanks Dave!

What I will be doing therefore, for the next Midwest Super Conference is hosting it at a hotel, NEAR the Mall, so people can jump on a shuttle and do a 5 minute ride over, if they want to check it out. The Mall is a fun place to check out. It gets more traffic than Disneyland does in one year.

The final question I asked was:

What Speaker or Topics would you like?

Being that this was an open ended question, we had answers all across the board.

What was shocking to me, is that there were many random people mentioned but the most popular people suggested were NOT internet marketers. The most popular speakers were those who do motivational speaking for people in network marketing business, like Dani Johnson, Todd Falcone. Maybe those are on the minds of my readers the most, and the bigger internet marketing teachers are not very well known?

Also it tells me my list is more the Home Based Business type, rather than Internet Marketing Type.

But don’t get me wrong, many strong cases were made for some pretty good internet gurus, which I can now call and say… “My list wanted to hear you speak!”

There is alot of places I could go in my head to see what my line up for the next event should be, maybe a mix of these types of motivational business building experts and a mix of internet marketers… Will we all get along or will it be like mixing oil and water?

I think there is a strong possibility we could do a little of both. We’ll see who says “YES!” to speak at this next year’s event.

Thanks to everyone taking the survey, for those who did, they got a $50 off coupon to use to buy my seminar DVD’s. If you want to get a $50 off discount too, just take the quick survey, and go through this link:

http://www.askdatabase.com/campaigns/?a=30959&c=agf&b=4955

Survey Results #2 “Internet Maketing Technology”

My friend and marketing guru, Henry Griner put together a survey to see how new or old people are to the concepts of growing successful businesses online with technology.

Here are the results.

Quick numbers: Skill Level

Newbies          83.7%

Intermediate     11.6%

Advanced          4.7%

Time online business

Less than 6 months     58.1%

6-12 months               16.3%

12-24 months             16.3%

over 2 years                 9.3%

These are are great results for learning about your own list and from the stats here, most of my list are new people, just getting started.

They don’t want advanced stuff, cause they don’t even know the terms or the systems yet. They don’t quite understand autoresponders, talking websites and videos on websites yet.

So, they need more time to digest stuff and grasp it. What amazes me is how long these members have been online for.

I got online in 1994! wowwy, that’s like 100 years in dog years!

I know a lot, have seen a lot and from my vantage point, I can overwhelm people thinking they have the same knowledge and understandings like I do. Do you do that to you list too?

Well based on this approach, I am seeing a big need to offer beginner courses, and resources to help people out, in bite sized nuggets that won’t overwhelm them anymore.

So, watch for some new products from me, priced very low, which you can get for quick and easy marketing digestion, that won’t leave you left in the dust and wondering…. “so… I gotta spend 10 hours trying to figure out what you just said, and then another 10 hours to make it work for me?”

I think the DVD’s of my conference would be very beneficial to my list, as they take people through 13 concepts in about a 90 minute session, each speaker presents their expertise and then shows you step by step on how to take their knowledge and apply it to your situation.

It’s called accelerated learning through specialized knowledge.

Do you want to learn the slow, painful way, which is “trying to figure it out yourself?”

Or…..

Would you like to learn much faster and easier with a Coach or Mentor?

The DVD’s are your ticket and they are almost gone, so stop procrastinating, and get the DVD’s now before they are gone. Procrastination will never make you money, it only makes you lose your dreams. Don’t let that happen to you.

Watch over 20 video testimonials on my site of people who thought it was the absolutely best Internet Marketing Conference on the planet Earth.

Visit - Midwest Super Conference.

Thanks for reading!

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http://www.askdatabase.com/campaigns/?a=30959&c=agf&b=4955

Hope you had a great weekend, I am really excited cause today I am pre-launching my very own product…and I need your help!

Will you help me please? I would really appreciate it. (thanks in advance)

Remember that saying, “A Penny for your Thoughts?”

Well, I am willing to pay you $50 for your opinion and here is why.

I am getting ready to put the final details together for the next Midwest Super Conference, held in Minnesota. We rocked the house at the last event and I have over 20 video testimonials on my site to prove how well people loved my first event.

So, I want to ask you 3 very simple and anonymous questions regarding my next event, and your feedback will be very valuable to me and my future guests in hosting the next one.

If you fill out the 3 questions, which will take you a few seconds by the way… I am going to give you my Seminar DVDs or CDs with a $50 discount!

And you need to hurry, and this is not some lamo scarcity deal, I only am letting a VERY small amount of DVD’s into the marketplace and you need to ACT FAST so you don’t miss ordering them.

Now, if you would please honor me with your opinion by clicking on this link and going through all 3 questions. If you don’t finish #3, then I cannot give you the discount.

I really appreciate your help, Jeff, which is why I am offering you the $50 discount.

http://www.askdatabase.com/campaigns/?a=30959&c=agf&b=4955

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Back in May 2005, I was the 2nd person to get an ebook about how to podcast on the net. I am still stoked about it, and have seen the medium grow leaps and bounds since then where it is now an online marketing phenomenon.

The ebook is called Podcast Secrets Revealed. Want to get it FREE? KEEP READING…. go here and sign up - Podcast Secrets.

The ebook has gone through 2 major renovations and just recently added some video tutorials.

Normally, I sell it for $69.95, but I just reduced the price, and you can get it for a steal of a deal!

Check out the site, cause… I’ll also give you over $2000 worth of bonus software if you claim your reduced priced ebook Today!

Now, how would you like to get the book free?  Check out the latest Podcast Secrets course which is being put out by Paul Colligan and Alex Mandossian!

If you sign up for this course, send me your receipt, and I’ll send you my ebook and $2000 worth of “MUST HAVE” software.

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Frank Williams, fresh off his success with the Craigslist BlackBook has created another hit product called the MySpace Blackbook.Have you been on MySpace? It’s just crazy how viral it all is… but it is definitely a great source of people to talk with and SELL TO!

Get the soon to be famous best seller on MySpace Marketing, for less than a medium Pepperoni Pizza.

You need to understand, the volume and amount of people using myspace makes it one of the top10 most visited sites in the world, therefore, you should be there getting some of that action, or your competition will be.

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Back in 2004, I went to Armand Morin’s Big Seminar, and while there, I had some photos of me taken. I had seen what Armand created with his online branding, and I wanted to copy it. Now you see a ton of people with their “cross your arms” poses on all their websites. My friend Val Smyth told me these cross your arms photos make people look like they are ‘closed off’ but I guess I never thought of that.

Those photos cost me about $250 to take, and I am so grateful that I spent the money, as I was able to leverage those photos into a brand. Have you ever seen this picture on any of my sites? It’s back when I had hair, which is strange cause this was only 3 years ago when I took these.. Man, losing your hair sucks, but oh well not big deal.

So anyways, have you ever seen those really cool sales letters, which have all the eye candy on them, cherry red graphics and buttons like:

Well, I am really becoming a fan of Mark Monciardini.

He has some great photoshop tools and videos which show people how to make marketing graphics like:

• Headers
• download buttons
• newsletter subscribe buttons
• Order Now buttons
• Matching ebook covers to header designs
• 100% satisfaction guarantee seals
• website backgrounds
• footer graphics which match header graphics
• logos
• remove backgrounds from people
• Actions Scripts - these are worth buying the product alone!
• BONUS VIDEOS - How to Make Animated Graphics

Now, what is so cool about Mark’s work is that he provides easy to follow step by step video tutorials to help you learn how to use the power of Photoshop to create great marketing graphics to match the feel and branding you want on your sites.

I recenly paid out over $1000 for some custom artwork design and if I had this product then, and with a little study time and elbow grease, I would have been able to create my own graphics. But thanks to Mark, now I can.

So, test it out for yourselves. Click on the button that Mark made, see if it will work for you!

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I want to thank Yanik Silver for this great piece of work as he wrote most of it this article. I have personalized it for my situation, since our stories are very similar. If you boil down my biggest profit windfalls in my business (and the most astute marketers I observe) it has come down to selling premium products and services at premium prices. That’s how my business has leapfrogged from 5-figures to 7-figures in the last 3 years I really love high priced products and you’ll see why in a moment…

Personally, I’ve sold everything from $5,000 websites to $18,000.00 “Business In Box.” And lots in-between. My most recent high-end product is an $11,000 program for people who love to travel and want severe discounts.

Stick with me and I’ll share with you a few of the things I’ve learned…

First, let’s say you want to make an extra $1M this year - then you’d have to sell 20000 copies of your ‘doohickey’ at $50. Or it could be 2000 copies at $500. Or better still 200 copies at $5000. It’s a lot easier dealing with 200 customers than 20,000. Think of all the customer service and infrastructure, etc.

That’s why I wanted to share with you my newest insights about how to dominate the marketplace selling high priced products and services…

Yanik put together 7 reasons why selling high-priced products makes so much sense:

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Reason #1: More Profits
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Okay no surprise here. When you sell for higher prices you make more profits. Very few companies have been able to sustain a “low price” position in the marketplace. Sears couldn’t. K-Mart couldn’t. And now it remains to be seen what Wal-Mart does with that position. (Actually if you study Wal-Mart you’ll notice they are bringing in some significantly high-priced, high-margin products.)

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Reason #2: Better Customers
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Price qualifies your customers more than you might realize. The ones that pay $7 for an ebook are going to be the ones that whine and complain the most! They’ll tax and strain your customer support team. But in comparison the customers who spend significant amounts of money are surprisingly easier to deal with and less demanding.

A perfect example of this was last week when I took my Aston Martin into the shop for some minor work. I dropped off the car and needed a loaner. Usually they provide Mercedes loaners for their customers but they didn’t have one available. I told my service manager, Eric that I really didn’t care what I drove out with. He laughed and said the Aston customers are the easiest ones - just like
me they could care less what kind of loaner they get. But the C-class (cheapest model) Mercedes customers were the worst because they would rant and yell if they did not get a Mercedes loaner.

What’s more the fact that your customers spent more money means they’ll be more compliant and actually do what you tell them to do. As another example I’ve been to $500 seminars and I’ve been to $15,000+ seminars. Which ones do you think I pay more attention to and make sure I extract more value from? Of course - the more expensive one.

Think about the last time you gave free advice to someone - what happened? That’s right. Nothing. But if you had made them pay you for consulting - they would have taken it to heart.

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Reason #3: Psychology of Price Works In Your Favor
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We’ve always been taught “You get what you pay for”. It’s not uncommon for a prospective customer to discount a product or offering because it’s “too cheap”. If the price is not in line with what it should be you’d think there is something wrong. If I could buy my Aston Martin from the dealer for $25,000 - I’d immediately be working overtime on what could possibly be wrong with the car. There are certain products that artificially keep their prices at significant premiums because price is so highly correlated with value.

What’s more, you also gain instant respect and recognition. Only a “true” expert would charge high prices - so that puts you in that category immediately. (Of course, you better have the goods to back it up.)

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Reason #4: Can Deliver More Value
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Ultimately the value you provide will dictate the profits you receive from your customers. Increase the value and your revenues go up. By selling high-profit products with high-margins you have lots more wiggle room to deliver sensational value. You can really “WOW” your customers and buyers. Not only can you throw in high-value extras but you can afford to deliver truly unique unadvertised bonuses and follow-ups.[Jeff] – This is what I do for both my Coastal Vacation Club customers and also my Mortgage Acceleration Plus Customers.I throw on the value and bonuses, totaling over $30,000 in free stuff, when they buy $5000 worth of stuff from me. It seals the deal, makes me difference and allows me to stand out as providing the better service and value, and then makes me the only choice in a very crowded and competitive marketplace.–
Reason #5: Some Buyers Will NOT Buy Low-Priced Items
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It sounds crazy but some customers are only premium buyers. If you gave them a discount it would actually decrease the response. Plus, some customers are only comfortable buying in the high-end range. I was shocked when I discovered with my first high-priced offering. My Apprentice program was $14,500 and at the time this was head and shoulders above any other marketer.

I thought my best prospects for this program would be customers who had already bought from me and were happy. Surprisingly about half of the people in this program had *NEVER* bought anything from me before. Their comfort level was a premium offer.

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Reason #6: Create Big Paydays
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All the big numbers you’ve seen highlighted in the marketplace have all come from creating high-priced offerings. You’ve seen some of the numbers…$1M in a day, $900,000.00 in 8 minutes, $3.5M in one week, etc. etc. It’s way easier to hit these kind of big paydays by only having to sell to a small handful of customers at a premium price point.

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Reason #7: You Will OWN The Marketplace
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I think this is the biggest reason of all…

There are 2 big parts to this. First, you can afford to make big payouts to affiliates to push your product. Listen, if an affiliate has a choice between 2 relativelyequal products but one pays them significantly more – in most cases that affiliate will go with the higher commission.

With high-priced product you got the room to give affiliates such a significant commission that you’ll see a feeding frenzy of activity. (When they’re getting a big affiliate check the affiliates pull out all the stops themselves like incredible free bonuses, etc to make the sale.)

Plus, the other piece of the puzzle is you can spend more on your own to acquire a customer. This is huge! If I’m in the same marketplace and I’m competing against someone who only has $100.00 product at the end of their funnel and I have a $10,000.00 offering - there’s going to be almost no contest.  I can spend more on Pay-per-click, more on advertising, more on affiliate pay-outs, more on offline
follow-up, more on testing unusual advertising places, etc. etc.

And I can make bad results work for me. If I’m direct mailing for a high-priced product I only need a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the response for a low-priced product to make me money.

Fact is, the business owner who can spend the most to acquire a customer will WIN.

Period.

End of story.

(Please tape that quote somewhere where you can focus on it!)

Most people are undercharging for what they provide. My rule of thumb and one of my values I look at it every morning in my planners says “I get rich by enriching others 10x - 100x what they pay me in return”.

That’s a big deal for me. If you pay me $1000 for a product - I want to make sure it delivers $10,000 in value for my customers. I suggest you consider something similar. If your product isn’t good enough for you to raise your price on it - make it better! [Jeff] – When I first joined Coastal Vacations, back in March of  2004, I knew the value in the product would save me countless $1000’s off in my travels.Now, 3 years later, that $1295 investment, has returned over $14,000 in savings on incredible and memorable trips with friends and family members that I still cherish and have the pictures to remind me of.The incredible news is that, already, in 3 years, I have got my money back it seems, 10 times, in value from using the trips.

And I am just getting started, traveling the world and have a whole lifetime ahead of me to continue to save. I estimate, that by the time I am 50, I will have saved over $100,000 in cash savings from that one time $1295 investment.Here are just some of the high-end products I’ve successful sold:
* Designed a Peer-Advisory MasterMind Group. In the first year 18 individuals paid $15k to be part of this group which met 3x/year. In the second year I’ve added one more group and raised the bar up to $20k per person. (Just these
2 groups alone are worth an extra $440k in NET profits.)

I love MasterMind groups because if done right they require significantly less personal time and can create disproportionate profits for you. The big secret is when you bring the right people into your MasterMind group they’ll end up doing the heavy lifting and it actually works out better than any type of one-on-one coaching or mentoring.

* Sold-Out a $14,497 “Apprentice” program (Yes, before Trump!) and created a wait list using nothing more than email. Side note: Participants not only paid the hefty program fee but also a 12% ongoing royalty on sales!

* Initiated a group coaching program for $7,500 per student. Allows you to get paid more by going away from one-on-one coaching.

* Held numerous small workshops on specialized topics ranging from $4k to $5k per person. (What’s more, I packaged up the DVDs/Audios from these events for hundreds of thousands in additional profits that’s still selling strong.)

* Developed multiple high-end “e-classes” which were $2k for tuition and always sold out with days of announcing each new class. (One of the best ways of getting
significantly more for roughly the same content but only giving limited access to students via email homework assignments.)

* Created the “Underground Online Seminar(tm)” which was sold out every year weeks in advance of the actual event. (This single event has exceeded 7-figures in income each year.)

* Modified an existing information product (kit) for Cosmetic Surgeons into a high-priced, done-for-them service type business. Went from a $900 sale to a $43k+ per year revenue stream from those doctors.

* Licensed existing content Internationally and for other marketplaces where I’m not currently involved in for extra 5-figure and 6-figure windfalls.

[Jeff’s High End Product Successes}

* I sold Mentors in Motion for $500 per sale, and this was my first attempt to sell any products or services online for over $100. At first I thought I was crazy for doing it. My wife thought I was nutzo for putting $500 more debt on our credit card. But that $500 payment turned into about $90,000 in revenue. www.mentorsinmotion.com

* I sold a $1495 Mastermind Course on Internet Marketing. It was a short lived product and I was in a partnership with some other marketers, and I chose to go a different path.

* I sold $5000 website portals on one 75 minute conference call, amounting to over $75,000 in sales immediately.

* I have sold over $1.5 Million Dollars of Coastal Vacations Memberships in 3 years and have become one of the top sellers and marketers of their product. My costs are minimal, and the selling and fulfillment are all done for me by my call center! www.coastalvacationclubblog.com

* I have filled a room with 35 people all paying about $997 to attend my own Internet Marketing Conference, called the Midwest Super Conference and I am anticipating that I can double or triple the size of the event, this coming September with about 80-100 attendees. www.midwestsuperconference.com

* I have created a how to podcast course with my friend Paul Colligan, that sells for $697 and we sold many of them to newbie podcasters, showing them how to make money with their great content. www.podcastcreationmastermind.com

* I have sold many Mortgage Accelerator Plus products, which teach people how to legally and with real straight up math, pay off their home loans in about 7-12 years and really, truly become debt free! This product sells for $1295. www.FastMortgageEliminator.comWhen you understand how to sell big-ticket items it’s no big deal to create a 6-figure or 7-figure windfall practically on demand. It’s easy once you have the formula figured out.
And don’t think high-priced products can only sell if you are selling ‘how to make money’ related products. I have students and friends doing very well selling high priced products to the fitness marketplace, the dating markets, small niche obsessive-compulsive markets, self-help, career marketplaces and many more.

Now a lot of people think selling high priced products are a lot tougher than low-priced products. Not true. You usually spend about the same effort trying to sell a high- priced product as a lower priced product - but the rewards are significantly bigger!

You see, the real hidden wealth in your business is selling high-priced products and services to a select group of qualified customers. Just hold your breath and add an extra zero to your price

Now, how can Jeff Mills help you achieve your dreams and goals with a high ticket product that you can sell, running your own business from home?

Pick up the phone and give me a call for a free 10 minute consultation! 651-309-1091

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A dreaded email came to me, just months after I started to use Google Adsense on my sites in August of 2006.

CANCELLED DUE TO CLICK-FRAUD!

Huh? Wtf? (short on time? go here!)

You serious?  I was up to $600 a month with only using adsense on 3-4 websites total! And I had big plans to quintuple that amount by the end of 2006, but those dreams were dashed against the rocks and my little daily money maker was taken from me, falsely I might add.

Google has no appeals court, when they make a ruling, you get no chance at defending or stating your side of the story.

I heard of many online marketers with adsense driven sites go from $500,000 a year in adsense income to zero… all because Google decided to just ‘turn em off’.

If you are generating adsense revenue, what have you done to protect yourself from clickfruad? What have you done to tell your family, wife, child or roommate about clicking on Adsense ads on sites THAT ARE YOURS? They click, you perish!

Brandon Hong, who is an excellent blog marketer, just released a program that will save many people from losing their nest eggs and getting accused of click fraud.

It’s called Adsense Click-Lock.

Who else who has an adsense account, that is making money, is freaked out that your hard effort can be taken from you in a second?

Who else wants to discover the solution to click-fraud and provide protection to your online fortunes?

Go here for more details: http://tinyurl.com/yru89t

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Jeff Mills explains how he can help you with starting a home based business.

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This is not a joke, should go down in history as funniest post ever on Craigslist!

See it here: http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/wan/286781282.html

Get your BLACKBOOK about Craigslist postings yet? Get it here: http://tinyurl.com/3d5nws

 Well… Basically, if you want to just read this guy’s post… here it is for your reading pleasure. Don’t bust a gut and understand… Minneapolis got hammered with snow here up to 2 feet in some places, over the last 5 days… for a little context.

“Will the guy who bought my tractor from craiglist contact me.My drive is blocked and the dog is stuck in snow up to his shoulders he is a big dog and so is my driveway.I have made some bad desisions in my life.Want to trade the tractor for a boat I bought for my son with the money?I have to hook the tow strap to the dog to jerk him out before the wife comes home.I just crashed my truck into a tree as I slid off my drive.Real nice custom work.I forgot your number so if you see this please contact me so I can beg you for the tractor back.”

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