<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/eec218ae-aba2-43bf-b542-eab6233fada3/A3344E6A-09DD-4DEE-A248-A1008DCCD853/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/02/04/teaching-sells-sell-what-you-know/" href="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/02/04/teaching-sells-sell-what-you-know/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.andrewdaum.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/02/04/teaching-sells-sell-what-you-know/"><H1><A title="Permanent Link to Teaching Sells ~ sell what you know" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/02/04/teaching-sells-sell-what-you-know/">Teaching Sells ~ sell what you know</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/02/04/teaching-sells-sell-what-you-know/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.andrewdaum.com/img/AC7BCA18-1814-44A9-BEBF-932F32B047F6" alt="teaching sells" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/02/04/teaching-sells-sell-what-you-know/">Teaching people a skill or how to do something has always been a great business model.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/02/04/teaching-sells-sell-what-you-know/">Problem is, most people do not know how to teach - they may know the subject matter - but they lack the communication and organizational skills needed.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/02/04/teaching-sells-sell-what-you-know/">Case in point — I joined a membership site this past November. I wanted to learn how to do what this person was teaching using his step-by-step plan.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/02/04/teaching-sells-sell-what-you-know/">He obviously knew the subject matter very well. He gave proof of the earnings he made using his methods and strategies — I was game to give it a go.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/02/04/teaching-sells-sell-what-you-know/">So I signed up — logged in — took a look around and immediately realized I had made a mistake.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/02/04/teaching-sells-sell-what-you-know/">This guy — while maybe having the skills to do what he said, had zero skills when it came to communicating how he does it.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/02/04/teaching-sells-sell-what-you-know/">As I continued to look around - I also noticed there was not a flow to any of the information - there was not any structure to it. But overall, the information was pretty good — but that did not matter.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A3344E6A-09DD-4DEE-A248-A1008DCCD853/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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