How to Create a #1 Bestseller While a Hippo Eats a Dwarf

My latest book, Life's Missing Instruction Manual, shot up the Amazon bestseller list within hours yesterday -- despite some unexpected bumps in the road. For example --

We offered an "ethical bribe" to get people to buy my new book. We sent them to www.themotherofallbribes.com where the offer is explained.

Basically, get a copy of my new book and you'll get 59 original bonuses - worth over $13,500.

Good deal, right?

The thing is, my web guy didn't finish the site. He had the landing page done at www.themotherofallbribes.com but he didn't finish the download page. He was struggling with personal issues and gave up and quit. He left me an email saying he'd talk to me in a few days.

Days?

My promotions were in full swing. I couldn't turn them off. Yet the download page where people collected their bonuses wasn't ready. They would buy books, go to collect their bonuses, and see -- nothing.

I started to panic.

About then I received an email from Mark Joyner, Internet legend and dear friend. It was 2 AM in New Zealand, where he lives now, but he just "happened" to be online.

He said some wise words about how people will forgive me and how there is always a way to turn any negative into something good.

I felt better.

We then exchanged a fury of emails as we searched for a solution to the download page.

But then my computer died.

My main pc, the life blood to my business, just quit.

And this is all while I'm doing radio shows and answering emails and otherwise working on my book promotion.

What would you have done in this situation?

(Well?)

I took a breath and decided to get centered.

Since I had just spent several days with Dr. Len, learning his updated ho'oponopono Hawaiian method for healing, I decided to practice it.

I kept thinking of my web guy and how I wanted to send the police to his door.

But then I thought of how he and I are connected and how I have to take total responsibility for his and my actions.

This is not easy.

Blame is far easier.

But total responsibility is the door to freedom.

I then asked for forgiveness and sent my request within myself to the Divine (whatever you want to call that force bigger than all of us).

I did this for twenty minutes.

I kept saying "I love you" and "I forgive you" to the world, not to myself or even to my web guy, but as a general tonic to all that is.

I ended up feeling total peace.

When I checked my email (on my Blackberry phone) there was a message from my web guy.

I thought he was out of action for days?

He apologized, said he was back on his feet, owed me his life, and would work to get the site at www.themotherofallbribes.com done.

What a relief.

Oh. My book hit #1 on the Amazon bestseller list last night and is still there today.

This is the fastest I've seen any book become a bestseller on Amazon.

We even nudged Wayne Dyer off the throne.

And left Harry Potter in the dust.

And my book hit #1 at Barnes and Noble online, as well.

But this opera ain't over.

You've seen nothing yet.

Stay tuned.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS - I am reading a riveting book about all the modern day hoaxes online and off. This thing is eye-opening. It blows the whistle on "facts" you accepted as true, and makes you wary of everything brought to you by the media or an email. Covers eBay auctions, ads, politics, food, birth, death and more. Get this book. Get it! It's Hippo Eats Dwarf by Alex Boese, who also wrote The Museum of Hoaxes. See www.museumofhoaxes.com and www.hippoeatsdwarf.com I'm hoping my Great Lotto Hoax, reported on this blog yesterday, will make it into the next edition of one of Boese's books. Or maybe I shouldn't wish for that...

PPS -- Thanks to my friend Bill Hibbler for sending me the screen capture above. Bill and I are coauthors of a book you'll want. But beg all you like, I'm not telling you what it is -- yet.