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Recently we got an e-mail from Tom Sasnauskas in Chicago letting us know about the Internet Business Mastery Mastermind that has formed there.

We were so impressed with how they ran it that we asked him to do an interview on the podcast. That interview will be posted later this month with a premium extended version available in the Academy.

Tom’s e-mail about the group offers a number of great tips that you can model for your own mastermind group. Here is what he had to say.

We’ve hit a ceiling.

It happens. In fact, I find it happens regularly along the entrepreneur’s journey.

It’s one of those moments when you realize that you’re not going to rise to the next level without a leap of faith.

It happened when I realized that the 9-to-5 was taking up so much time and energy that my business aspirations were severely limited.

We’ve built Internet Business Mastery into a six-figure business without ever paying a penny for a lead. Our customer/follower base has coming largely from the audio show. But that is about to change.

It’s time to reach further and take our message wider with other channels like blogging.

Though we have blogged some in the past, it’s never been focused and consistent. We know there are a lot of people that we’re not reaching because we haven’t had a well-defined blogging strategy.

So we’re developing a focused strategy now. As with any strategy, it’s a good idea to ask why are you doing it. What is it that we want to gain as a result?

Without going into much detail, here’s what I came up with today.

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Tonight my film premiers at a local theater.

As I think back on the experience, there are several great lessons that I’ve learned. The biggest lesson relates to having a Definite Major Purpose, not only in life but even in our daily activities.

I had no idea how much work it would be to create a 10-minute short film. Sterling warned me, but I still didn’t fathom the extent of work the project was going to take. Still, looking back it was totally worth it. I would do it again.

Before I committed to creating this film, I listed as many reasons as I could for why I wanted to do it.

I just whipped together a short video for you to show my new content creation tool in action.

The video also contains the Deal of the Year from Internet Business Mastery as well as…