Eben,
It looks like you have it covered.
Can't wait till the 14th.
Michael

Hey Eben,

My name is Arman Vakili and I am a 22 year old Persian Student who works full time and goes to school... AND for the past few months, I've been trying to learn everyhting that I can about starting a successful and profitable business from home.

I really can't stand my job or any job for that matter. I've never really been the type to be comfortable with the idea of going to work every single day at some ridiculous job and work my ass off, only to find out that they're giont to give me a $0.50 raise at the end of the quarter AND they're going to raise my goals as well.

$0.50 really isn't enough to do anything in the U.S. and I not only have my own debt collectors calling me, I also have my mom's. She brought me here from Iran 12 years ago and has always wanted me to be successful in this country... Just like any other good mother would want.

And though I've been following your newsletter and applying every bit of information that I can get about starting a home business, I can't help but feel like I'm still where I was when I started. I haven't gotten any major results to brag about and I feel like time is closing down on my mother and her ability to work.

She's a hairstylist and stands on her feet all day... and due to the constant pressure that's on her knees, her doctor said that they will have to amputate her legs if she keeps working the way she does for next 3 years... MAX. :(

Which brings me to your second question, "What are you going to do with this money?"

Honestly, I'm going to take every ounce of money that comes from my business and REINVEST it back into the business. I want to make it grow to a level that one day I can simply write a check from my profits and pay off ALL of my family's debts at once.

Once I've accomplished that... I'm going to start giving away at least 5% of my earnings to charitable causes, save some money for my mother's retirement, and put the rest back into the business and make it grow even bigger.

I've never really been the type to want the nicest cars and houses and such... I'm a sucker for achievement and I just want to grow personally and professionally to the highest level I possibly can.

Why me?

Well, I could go on a rant about all the great characteristics that I think I have and such but to tell you the truth... I just want to help people with their problems.

I'm the guy who sees a complete stranger on the street struggling with their groceries and I run over to offer help in carrying the bags. (Sounds really cheesy I know, but I really do get a high from helping random people like that)

I understand that the Internet is the highest form of leverage I can have and I want to use it to reach as many people as I can (preferably the WORLD) and make a dramatic impact on other people's lives. I know how hard it is to go on day by day not having any sense of direction in life... and there have been countless times that I've thought, "If only there was someone out there who could help me with _____"

I can't possibly be the ONLY one in that situation... more than 50% of the WORLD is in that situation right now and I want to take all the knowledge that I learn from you and use it to help them.

That's why I think I deserve this scholarship, Eben... because I KNOW that I'm a hard worker and I WILL apply whatever I learn. And there are people out there who aren't willing to put in the work but NEED the help financially... so I'll take the money that I make and donate it. At least I can help them that way.

I hope that my message sits on your heart Eben and I get a chance to work with you. I really do consider you to be a great person all together... not because of the knowledge that you share with people but because of the relentless commitment you have towards the betterment of us all.

Hope this wasn't too long... and I'm gonna keep an eye on my inbox. ;)

Warmly,

Arman Vakili

Dear Eben,

First, thanks for this great opportunity.
My name is Michele. I am a wife and mother.
I have had my own business since college working primarily as a freelance floral/party/holiday designer.
I have had an interest in learning about internet businesses since I first watched you on a video about 3 years ago. I got a link to your web site from Dr. Mercola.
I have watched many of your videos since then and have always felt excited and intrigued by everything you talked about. I even bought you Wake Up Productive Program.
I have to confess I have always felt a bit confused as well. Everything you spoke about seemed to be accessible to me, but the computer talk
complicated everything. I didn't know where to begin. I felt like you were describing a great party that I was invited to in New York City. You forgot , however, to give me an address. So I could definitely go to the party. I just had to find it on my own. In New York City.
I guess what I am looking for is the precise location of the party. What will I use the money for? The usual things: free time, tuition, food, clothes, car,etc. I really want the freedom, however, to continue to grow myself and use the knowledge I have gained over my lifetime and apply it to products and services that offer value to potential customers.
Why me? Why not me? I will use this knowledge to start the business I dream of starting.
Pick Me!!!

Thanks again Eben and keep up the good work.

Michele Tremblay

Hi Eben.
Thank You For This Opportunity.
1. Hi. My Name Is Alex.
I am right now 22 years old, I am a student in university studying Advanced Mathematics. I am trying to decide the questions of what greater things I am going to do in my life and how to do them. I know that a I lot of my greater goals will require capital, and business I believe is a great way to accomplish that, especially because I have great interest in it.
2. I want to win because I believe that I have great, great potential in benefiting from a program such as this one and in particular I have very specific goals of what to do with my money. I am a great believer in helping others before helping yourself, but also in becoming selfish before I have a greater ability to become generous. For me, it all comes down to influencing society and raising consciousness about issues, with applications of greater wisdom that I learn through books of accumulated knowledge. I think that this way we can be very effective.
3. I want to say a bit about my background. I was born in Vladivostok, Russia. I lived there for my first ten years and those tears were very interesting indeed. My family wasn't in a particularly bad situation but the kind of feeling that you get in such a country can only be described as defeat, regret and remorse for having such limited possibilities in life. We all know there is great potential in life, but because of a geographical fate, your probability of effecting anything great is diminished. This makes you feel defeated before you even start. My family always looked up to countries that offer opportunity. These things were like dreams from a different world. And it was very difficult to move from such a country. When I was 10 my parents found out about a very specific way to leave the country. Because this kind of information was simply unavailable anywhere and having stumbled upon it, we made the decision to move on that very day. Less than 4 months later we started out life in Canada. And it took us 6 years to convince the government to not deport us back, which was our biggest fear. Because of these experiences , my world view is very different. I have a unique appreciation of opportunities. I have accomplished many things in life, I have always been a very good student, and never understood how others let opportunities pass them by. I see a certain elusive value that you have to take advantage of life and take action. I believe that this mode of thinking, this switch, is what propels me to achieve great results. Other people may have similar intellectual abilities as me, and I believe I can be one who affects greater change, not only with my passion, but with the help of my upbringing also. I really want to do great things.
Thanks again for this wonderful opportunity.
Alex
alexgoncharov@gmail.com

Who am I, and what do I currently do?

I am a mother with a very lively 9 month old with a thirst for learning. I am currently teaching him reading, foreign languages, encyclopedic knowledge, and foreign languages, including my native language, Afrikaans, with great success. Being able to be at home to teach my son and not have a stranger raising my child has been the best gift I could ever ask for.

I am a wife with a wonderful life partner without whim I would not have had access to the knowledge and experience I have acquired and now share with others. My partner and I met in "The Landmark Forum" starting our relationship off very powerfully, both being committed to something bigger than us, and realizing our impact on the world around us. We are learning together and committed to our shared success and dreams.

I am a business owner and partner in a health and wellness coaching business that is focused on teaching people an alkaline way of living, eating, and thinking. We are now starting over with a new business model focused on "The Middle Way" - not taking the everyday "meat and potatoes" guy to the extreme, but instead teaching him how to make small and meaningful changes to his lifestyle in a way that sticks, rather than drastic changes all at once that would have the client yo-yoing like people typically do on most diets that exist.

In the past we have focused on free seminars which we used to promote Live and Dry Blood Analysis and we also gave coaching by phone and email - looking back, we realize that we have been working for free most of the time and we have gotten "burned out". We have put in a lot of man hours but have noticed our income decline over the years. We have a business that has AMAZING potential but lacks direction. We have access to information and education, but have been unclear to where to start. I want us to launch our new business in such a way that it would have out customers say "WOW!" because of the difference it makes for them - we certainly do have the "wow factor", it is just a matter of HOW? We are missing the skill and experience to put our specialized knowledge into information products that we can deliver directly to our clients.

I am also a Vegan, Vegetarian, Raw Food Chef/Teacher. I have taught raw food classes and done "in home"coaching, teaching people to effectively change their diet and giving them healthier options to the foods that they love, that taste just as good, and that feed them emotionally as well as physically. I've gone into people's homes and through their cabinets, helping them differentiate alkaline from acid and giving them alternatives for the products that they currently use. These past approaches have not worked very well as the cost of the services and the time invested did not equal the actual profit produced.

Why do I want to win the scholarship and what am I going to do with the information and the income?

I believe that this program is the key to our future, to turning our current failure into a success. I am not able to pay for this program, as we have spent all of our resources on "surviving" and having not yet replaced our income. After getting side tracked from our original (and once successful) business plan by an MLM opportunity that initially helped us generate a comfortable passive income, we lost our passion and sense of fulfillment and satisfaction (we just didn't feel authentic about what we were doing and realize in hindsight that we never did) and our business started to decline, slowly at first, due to company marketing plan changes, and then faster, due to limits imposed on us for what distributors "can and cannot do" outside of their MLM business (we were told we were only allowed to derive income from the MLM or risk violating P&P and being suspended pending termination). Tired of being limited and spending all of our energy "making people targets" (unsuccessfully, we were never any good at it) and wanting to refocus on our health coaching business that had been a great success, very fulfilling, and that we had seen make life saving differences for our clients, we gave up our MLM business, along with all of our income. The challenge is that we have been trying to use the old, tired business model that we are use to that in this internet market of today is just not working and we are about to lose "everything" - home, car, etc. - that we worked so hard for.

We are putting all of our attention on this business, refusing to become employees of someone elses business just to survive for fear of losing our dream. We have no choice other than being a success as we have "BURNED OUR BOAT IN THE HARBOR" as they say. The launch of our new business must be extraordinary! The way we share the information and experience we have must be extraordinary! I believe that your program will give us that. The information that you will be sharing, I believe, will help us be able to create the $100,000 a month business (to start) that we dream of and want to create, making a difference in the quality of people's lives, and give me the freedom to continue to home school my son and give him the very best education and opportunities, including how to be a successful business owner himself some day. It would give us the freedom to show our son the world and contribute to others beyond what they believe is possible. We are committed to donating 20% of our income (as a start) to charities and causes that are committed to giving people the tools they need to get ahead in life, this program will give us the head start we need, and so why not do the same for others.

Why me? What do I deserve the scholarship?

I believe that I deserve the scholarship because the information that we have to share will transform the quality of people's lives beyond what they believe is possible. We are committed to contributing to other and being a catalyst for "health freedom". I do everything I can to give my son access to a powerful life and a powerful future - a future that will make a difference for others. I am committed to the success of our business and the success of our clients and customers which can only be achieved by reinventing the way that we do business. I have no choice but to make use of every bit of information that is given. My future and the future of our family depends on this opportunity - we are simply at the end of our rope and without this training - the next stop may be a minimum wage job or the street...a standard I am not willing to accept for us!

Thank you in advance for the opportunity to make this work for us and for others!

With Gratitude,

Nandi Moore

I have attended seminar after seminar and listened to numerous CDs and believe this is the time to make money but I don't have any to get pay for the cost of getting started. I feel like I need a mentor and a partner. Please help me!!!!

Dear Eben:

My name is Zoe Jones. I live in Santa Clarita, CA and have a successful network marketing business and I also training network marketers.

I would love to receive the sponsorhip! I want to learn more so I can be more, do more and have more! I'm a person that takes action and will use the program in it's entirety.

As I said, I'm currently a network marketer and trainer. There is so much I want to do in life both for my family and for others. I need knowledge that can help me train people to be more, have more and give more! It's my passion!

I would love to receive your scholarship so I can grow my own businesses as well as pay it forward!
I will earn several hundred thousand dollars over the next year or so and will use the money in my community, my church and to help people in need. I have a passion for the hurting. At the present time, I can't help in the way we'd like. We need a stronger income to be able to truly help people. So, the money is for more. To help us, help more people and to teach and train others how to do the same! It's what life's all about!

Why me? Well, I'm not sure I really deserve it, however I'd really love a chance to grow in knowledge to blow the lid off my life and the lives of the people I get to touch each day! So why me, why not?

Blessings for a beautiful and care when making your decision on whom to choose!

Zoe Jones

Dear Eben

I am Susan Dyson, 52 year old co-owner of First Stop Secretarial a virtual secretarial/pa/admin and support admin business for interent marketers.

I have tried to "do" internet marketing but don't fully understand how to do "it". I have read various information for beginners which I can't get my head round so have gone round in circles.

I want to be succesful at internet marketing because I want a better lifestyle than I have and I work on average 10 hours a day 7 days a week. If I become successful at internet marketing I want to help my family members get into this as well because they are hurting in the UK recession and I am powerless at the moment to help them.

I don't know whether I deserve to win a scholarship. I think that is something for you to decide not me. However I know if I do win it I will follow it to the letter with you and become successful and help my family as well.

Kind regards,
Sue Dyson

Dear Eben, thank you for such a valuable contest and opportunity. I would love to win a full scholarship in order to improve my coaching skills, and help my students get more out of their time and efforts! Your videos are VERY instructive.
Hope you had a great time at the Galapagos Islands (I am from Ecuador).
Stay Healthy and God Bless!
- Patricio

Hey Eben,

I am one of your long time DYD students. I've attended your last 2 live DYD programs.

1. I am currently working as a software engineer. While I make a good living doing this, I don't have the "abundance" in life that I would like. I believe that it is important to do the best you can in life in the areas of health, wealth and relationships, and you have helped me tremendously in these 3 areas with your teachings.

2. My favorite organization is the Special Olympics. My goal is to be the prime sponser of the Special Olympics here in Colorado Springs in 2010. I am already very active with my time, and would like to be able to give them more financially as well.

3. I feel that I deserve to win, because I am the type of person that is willing to try new ideas (as I have done successfully with your DYD teachings), and I am sure as a teacher, this is the type of student that you are looking for. I know your teachings have worked for me in the past, and will for this too. I will sign up for the program regardless if I win or not, but a scholarship would be great.

I loved hearing that you were on stage with Tony Robbins. You and Tony are my two top roll models in life.

Cheers,
Tim

Hi Eben,
I'm Bob Janowski & currently attempting to gain some footing in the MLM arena while working another business in heating & air conditioning.
I have reached a point in my life where I feel I need to attach my efforts to another vehicle that will provide more significance to my life & allow me to better serve others in the process.
Thank You For The Opportunity!
Bob Janowski

Hi Eban, great fan of yours. I'll get right to the point. I am 52 years old, married with two kids. I got laid off last year and have been trying to figure out how to do internet marketing and make ends meet, but nothing seems to be working and I just keep spinning my wheels. I consider myself a bright guy, just need a break to get a program established and running the proper way.

I would like to be able to give my wife and kids the life they deserve, and being able to put my business on autopilot will allow us to enjoy life and do things the things we have only dreamed of. Also, if I can figure this internet marketing concept out, I would like to develop a similar system to help others. I have a real passion for nonprofit organizations and really see this as a secondary means for them to use for fund raising, if done correctly.

Why me? Because I believe in destiny and that God has a perfect plan for all of us. This opportunity you are offering is a once in a lifetime chance. Being successful on the internet would allow me to be the true philanthropist I want to be, giving to others and helping them be successful. I need to train up under the best, and I believe that you are the best when it comes to internet marketing. it would truly be an honor.

Thanks again for the opportunity!

Sincerely,

Joe

Hi Eben:

Janice Truppe here, I own 3 brick and mortar comic/book stores east of Toronto Ont. I have been running them for 25 years and would like to get more people into the store and more people on my website.
I like most people could use the extra money I make to pay off bills and fully stock the stores the way I would like them to be stocked.
I would like to win because I always, always have gotten the short end of the stick but still believe one day I will get my shot,and I've also usually find if something doesn't work something else comes along and this might be my shot coming along.
Thanks for the opportunity.
Jan
gnubooks@hotmail.com

my name is maros and I am from SLovakia. I started to surf more about online marketing and other stuff year ago, and know I found the mistakes I did, I am really quite overeducated as you said that in one video :) but the point is to do the exact details and conect the right info and systems + peopple together.

otherwise I am willing to learn, and I am checking online stuff daily. Hm what to say other, I do a webdesign and some project managing, but creating websites is only a small thing in all pieces of marketing online puzzle :)

Its on you how you decide, who will be the best to have one from your scholarrships :)

regards maros

Scholarship Application:

My name's Daniel Falk, and I wish to apply for the scholarship please?

For the last 6 years, I had been running my own nutritional supplement business with an MLM company, but my position with the company was canceled recently when the company changed it's policies on product claims.

So now I am completely without an income, which affects myself and my 3 children.

So I am highly motivated to devote everything I've got to developing a new online business as quickly as possible. In fact, failure is not an option... or I will be homeless.

I am a very quick study, I take directions well, I have some background in various Internet Marketing tasks, and I am a strong believer in giving back... so in addition to the modest income I need to support myself and my children, I would look to help others achieve the same kind of success I achieve with your program.

Thank you for considering my request for a scholarship... since I otherwise could not afford the program, even knowing how excellent your training is.

Blessings,

Daniel Falk

My name is Kevin Beucke I live in Springfield Missouri I am married with two grown children a boy and a girl. I am currently employed as a civil design technician in the Civil Engineering field. If I should be selected I would like to use the extra money to enjoy life more hopefully quit my current job, pay some things off and put my kids through college. Why do I feel like I am eligible? First I have been in the same line of work for thirty years now. It is not exactly exciting to me anymore. I have been trying for the last several years to figure out how to make a living from home off the internet. At times I feel like I am getting close, but just cannot quite get there. I feel I am dedicated and willing to put in the time necessary to make this work. I am willing to give you any testimonial you would like if you can teach me how to succeed.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Kevin

Hey Eben,

1. I'm Jose Gonzalez. I'm learning all I can about marketing to promote my how to e-books, and getting an teetering on the edge of information overload.

2. I would use the information from the scholarship to lay down the foundation for my business and make a 'blueprint' or a system for myself. The money itself is not really a motivation - being financially well-off to gain the freedom to enjoy life instead of working all day long to make ends meet is enough. Also, it goes without saying that I'd love to be in a position to help those closest to me in some way.
3. I'm tired. Tired of being 1 paycheque away from homelessness; tired of staring at my accounts and wondering if I will need to get a job stacking shelves next month; tired of investing huge amounts of time and money week after week, reading, listening and watching information which I can't always make practical sense of, information that I can use to learn about and reach and better sell to my target audience. I'm tired, but not tired enough to give up, because a wise man once taught me that failure is not an option, and not tired enough to ever stop searching, learning and getting every bit of help I can on the way. Thank you for being who you are. Jose Gonzalez.

Hi Eben

Thank you for this wonderful opportunity. My name is Chris. I'm 30 years old, physician by training. My passions are in business, entrepreneurship, and philanthropy. My mission in life is to learn how to create and grow socially-oriented businesses, and to give away my wealth to charitable causes.

I decided to pursue a medical career after college because of my upbringing. I realized, however, that my talents and skills were in business, and therefore left the medical profession to start and run a stock trading and real estate investing business. I'm creative, innovative, and a visionary.

I am interested in online business because it offers tremendous opportunity to leverage the Information Age with my talents in business to create massive value for other people. Online businesses are also interesting to me because of the low startup costs, the simple business models, and the opportunity it affords in reaching other people.

I plan on using the scholarship to actively apply what I've learned to grow my online businesses. I also plan to network & share ideas with other like-minded individuals, and possibly teach what I've learned to others. I plan on starting my own foundation and give to causes including: cancer, abused/neglected children, and to environmental causes. Finally, I plan on using the free time created by setting up these online businesses, to travel to third world countries and to help those with serious medical needs.

If you have any questions, I can be contacted at chl1357@gmail.com. Thank you for your time.
--Chris

Wuttup Eben

My name is Aaron Pederson. I live in Toronto, Canada... home of the LEAFS BABY.

Alright, here goes nothing. I'm a young buck.In grade 12, you changed my life. And I mean that in the absolute most LITERAL sense. Your business Double Your Dating transformed me. I bought a few of your products and you woudln't believe the overhaul I made in myself.

Then something magical happened, I found out that David Deangelo was actually "Eben Pagen". In your free videos over at "Guru Mastermind", I became inspired and motivated. Over the past year and a half I have been studying the 2 most fascinating topics under YOU: business and personal development. Currently, I am a 1st year student at the University of Toronto studying business management and psychology. You are the reason these passions ignited inside me before I went to college.

So anyways, you inspired me to show the world the transformation that you helped me make. My website is called winoverwomen.com... and is a dating and personal development site for high school and college guys. I have all the ideas, content and value to provide, but I jsut don't have the business acument to structure and channel those things into reality. I want to launch the blog portion of my site in about a month, so this timing for your program seems almsot like DESTINY to me, lmao. There is not a person in the world I'd rather study under for the rest of my life.

Thanks for the opportunity ma man!

Hi Eben

Thank you for this wonderful opportunity. My name is Chris. I'm 30 years old, physician by training. My passions are in business, entrepreneurship, and philanthropy. My mission in life is to learn how to create and grow socially-oriented businesses, and to give away my wealth to charitable causes.

I decided to pursue a medical career after college because of my upbringing. I realized, however, that my talents and skills were in business, and therefore left the medical profession to start and run a stock trading and real estate investing business. I'm creative, innovative, and a visionary.

I am interested in online business because it offers tremendous opportunity to leverage the Information Age with my talents in business to create massive value for other people. Online businesses are also interesting to me because of the low startup costs, the simple business models, and the opportunity it affords in reaching other people.

I plan on using the scholarship to actively apply what I've learned to grow my online businesses. I also plan to network & share ideas with other like-minded individuals, and possibly teach what I've learned to others. I plan on starting my own foundation and give to causes including: cancer, abused/neglected children, and to environmental causes. Finally, I plan on using the free time created by setting up these online businesses, to travel to third world countries and to help those with serious medical needs.

If you have any questions, I can be contacted at chl1357@gmail.com. Thank you for your time.
--Chris

Eben,
I've been in your Guru Mastermind program for the past year and have a 'bricks and mortar' business as a cosmetic dermatologist. You know part of my story but suffice it to say, I've put ALL of my retirement money into this business so I can still have a job. I own the company and have found it difficult to stay afloat. I believe I am where I am today due to decisions I've made along the way and hold no other one or thing responsible. I'm running out of time (63) and am tiring of trading hours for dollars.

What I would do with Ignition is put it to work immediately to make substantial amounts of money for debt reduction and wealth building. I've already (self taught) tried to do some Clickbank niche marketing of 'other people's stuff and it's too early to tell if this will pan out big time.
What I would do with the freedom gained from having money is to turn back to my considerable talents in cosmetic medicine and GIVE IT AWAY -- helping those not able to afford repair and restoration (women suffering from abuse, drugs and addictions in recovery) so they have a reason to have elevated self esteem at least from a physical standpoint in order to re-enter society as productive human beings -- a chance for personal happiness and rebirth. Given even more massive success and money, I'd recruit other professionals to join me in this effort nationally and even worldwide so my influence extends beyond my personal sphere.
Why me? I am motivated with a vision to make the world a better place for a lot of people.
I'm going to try to learn this stuff anyway (self teaching) but with your program I would stand a chance to shorten the learning curve.
Thank you for doing this.
James

Hellow Eben,

I am Ovi i'm 21 year old i'm a student at maritime university from romania.
What am I doing now: i'm evolving my phisical, mental and emotional plan for being an complete prepared men for any situation in business or life, from over 2 years i'm on this road and with this oportunity from you i will materialize my thoughts and i think this is what the universe is giving me for what i've been thinking and doing until now.

If i win i'd be very greatfull for the rest of my life to you like I am for the food i eat every day, for the shelter over my head, for my wellness(phisical,mental and spiritual)I now it might sound a bunch of fluf but god knows my thoughts. The money i'll use 30% for an investing fund, 30%for savings, 30% for giving away to the poor and who needs help, 10% for my parents to show them gratitude for raising me so well until now.

Why me? because i feel I have the resources needed for doing my best in helping others trough the internet because is the fastest way to spread anything in this world and contribute like no others could do 30-40 years ago.

Thank you for everything!
Your apprentice
Ovi

Mr Eben,

My name is Jason Poelman; fist I know that you are going to have a lot of responses so I will try to keep my answers to your questions short and to the point as I realize how valuable your time is.
You have asked what I am currently doing and the answer is simple. Struggling; struggling to keep food on the table and a roof over my families head. I am a carpenter by trade and have been for the last twenty years. I was laid off a year and a half ago due to the bottom falling out of the housing industry. I have been trying to find a way to make a living via the internet and attending the School Of Hard Knocks. Currently I am trying my hand at CPA advertising without much (any) success.
What will I do with the information.....put it to work in order to provide for my family. The answer to what I will do with the money is the same; provide for my family.
The answer to your final question is the easiest of all; because I will follow through with what I start. Quitting is not a luxury that I can afford nor is it in my nature. I will also take the lessons learned and try to help others that need help as I do now.
Thank you for your time and the opportunity. Weather I am chosen or not, what you are doing is kind and generous and my hat goes off to you.

Make It A Great Day!

Jason Poelman
408-741-1406

Hey Eben, Mike here. I was part of your GM program at the Gold level. I think I really need to take a step back from that insanely good program and get back to the basics... I am currently a full time business owner for a stationery site called http://www.rungtong.com It's in the early stages. I am going to be a new dad in May, and an entrepreneurial wife who say's you are the ultimate "ass-kick" in the pants to go and do massive implementation.

I want the scholarship to learn and implement the basics of starting, running and operating a business. I think having the knowledge as I implement and learn from you will be invaluable and it should serve as a straight forward plan to get results quickly and then use the profits to try and grow the business.

Eben I think a lot of training goes wasted. Christian Mickelson said to me that he did Altitude and GM because he wanted to "Stay in the moment". I like to think that my initial investment could carry me over to continue my learning with the same teacher and motivation to succeed.

I think I deserve this because I proved I can make a heafty investment, stay engaged and participate, and I know I don't know everything yet, which should help me in my insatiable need to learn and grow.

I think I suck less than most people at taking a concept, realizing the potential of it, and then just getting into action.

That should be the main reason why I am should be picked: I surround myself with people in action and I should be a good customer for years to come. I believe in building something far bigger and better than my own capabilities. If I can get grounded in the foundations of how to grow a business no matter what environment, or whether I have the money to do it, I know the exact formula used by you who has grown a huge business, which should bring me into a position to share this and grow from it far into other areas of life other than business.

Lastly, I am ambitious and know that spending the money on this program is better than paying some knuckle head who teaches from a textbook, and doesn't know real world principles to growing a business.

Hi Eben, I've been an avid listener and practioner of your techniques from the original DYD eBook, Guru CD Series, CNF, C&C and on and on. I'd love to go on talking about how instrumental you have been in improving my life and the respect that I have for you, your material, and most of all the drive to follow through with your goals... but that's not what's going to make me stand out and be chosen. We both already know how cool you are. I could also give you a detailed rundown of how much I could really use a jumpstart on my internet business empire by giving you my background and current situation and how much I need your help, but I'd much rather focus on the future possibilities and goals, rather than temporary setbacks. I could tell you about my very specific and catergorized goals for the future, my vision boards, visualizations, seminars, CDs and readings of everyone from Brian Tracy, Bob Proctor, NLP, Nightengale-Conant, Wayne Dyer to my personal favorites, Napoleon Hill and Tony Robbins, but that also will be similar to many of the wonderful people here searching for some assistance. So I will rest my case with the fact that I would like to help you. I have specific goals, talents and ideas that will be very successful with the correct online tools. Some of which, I feel can and will be beneficial to you and I'm more than happy to share my success as some form of appreciation for all you've already given to my life.

Regardless of your decision on the free seminar, I want to say thank you for all you've done and I look forward to having you introduce me on your stage sometime in the future.

Thanks, Greg

Hello!

I have to be completely honest, I haven't been following your program as long as these guys above me, however I have signed up on the mailing list of your other program DYD and I find it fascinating.

Okay Question number 1.... who am I and what am I doing?

I am a simple Canadian boy who recently turned 21, I am currently in college taking the "Business-Marketing" program and I absolutely love it.

In my spare time I watch marketing videos on youtube, and read up on stuff like body language and how to effectively market.

I got into marketing because I suck at it. I am an entrepreneur at heart and I record rap music... i somewhat started my own record company, but I lack at the marketing side of it. :P

I need help!

I also know that the music industry is starting to sell more and more downloads and less physical albums, so online marketing is relevant!

What would I do with the money?! Be responsible with it... I really have a desire to grow an EMPIRE with this and make sure I allocate my resources effectively to get there. On top of that I hold a strong belief with tithing and giving to the less fortunate! If I did ending up buying something for myself it would most likely be a house, since I have a car already, but want COMPLETE independence. :D

Why do I deserve to win?

Hmmm, thats a very good question. I guess the main reason is that I learn really quickly, and have a thirst for knowledge. I love to study the way the mind works and how I can capitalize on that to make profit. I want to know how to effectively use ALL the tools that the internet can provide, and CRUSH my competition.

Alright I guess that about wraps it up. Sorry it the message was too long, but you asked for it.

-wade
abs_oneil@hotmail.com

By the way if you want to hear the music its:

www.myspace.com/brokhomz or
www.soundclick.com/brokhomz

Hey Eben

I am a 31 year old South African. I have recently left the corporate world (software + banking) to pursue my dream of becoming an entrepreneur.

I have a really amazing project I am working on to change many lives of people who want to beat alcohol addiction. I am so committed to make available a program which really and truly transforms alcohol addiction forever and doesn't leave people stuck in the paradigm of being addicts for life. I have set up an incredible joint venture relationship with someone in the US who can supply the products required, what I now need is to shift my knowledge from very traditional corporate understanding of marketing into Internet Marketing and tactics that will get this product out there into the world. I just know after watching your videos that your program will give me access to what is required to succeed.

What am I going to do with all the extra money? My husband and I have always dreamt about running "paradigm shift" programs in Guguletu township in Cape Town, South Africa - and hire the big football stadium to do it :) We also dreamt about creating a new type of orphanage in SA for AIDS orphans called 'Parentages' where orphans are put into surrogate families and grow up with a mum and dad in a home. If I had tons of spare cash, I would no kidding commit to making that happen. But back to the Stadium thing, it would be amazing if you could come lead this seminar with us and we could cause transformation!

Why me? I have high integrity, am responsible and am extremely driven to get things done. I will use what I am taught and value it completely - also I know in applying for this that if I win the scholarship I have committed publicly to what I am planning to do and this makes me accountable to causing what I have given my word to cause. Although uncomfortable, I hate looking bad so I like that kind of motivation! :)

Cheers
Adele

Dear Eban,

My name is Seth Caskey, and I am an actor in Los Angeles. I was first introduced to your teaching by one of your previous scholarship winners, Laura Roeder. Immediately upon talking with her, I felt a connection to the spirit of the work, and was inspired to learn more.

Why Do I Want To Win The Scholarship & What Will I Do With It?
As an actor, I am a natural entrepreneur. Much of my day is spent in pursuit of work. As I meet and connect with other actors, I find that many of us are in the same place. We work multiple jobs, spend alot of time spinning our wheels and worry if we are going to be able to cover the bills each month. There has to be a better way. One of your principles that Laura has shared with me is the idea of adding value to everyone I meet. I am constantly looking for opportunities to build into someones dream. I want this scholarship so that I can learn how to create a successful online business that provides value to actors/writers/directors not only in Los Angeles, but across the world. And armed with that knowledge, teach others how to create these kind of opportunities for themselves. What will I do with the money? After replacing my car that just died and a much needed vacation with my wife, I will finance my own production company to create acting work for myself and friends.

Why Me?
As altruistic as I know it may sound, I am truly motivated by helping other people achieve their dreams. I believe that by getting this training, I can become the catalyst for dozens, if not hundreds of other actors/writers/directors just like me to create for themselves the kind of opportunities that will allow us to live the life we've always wanted.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter, and for your generosity in providing the scholarships.

Be well,

Seth

My name is Anthony and I am doing a startup dot com and I need all the good positive stuff I can put in my head. I have been unemployed for almost a year and can not find a job. I use to work for Wachovia Mortgage and I don't have to tell you what happened to my job. LOL With this full ride scholarship it will help me be self sufficient and do what I love is the internet. Please Eban PICK ME.

Anthony Mari

Dear Eban,

My name is Seth Caskey, and I am an actor in Los Angeles. I was first introduced to your teaching by one of your previous scholarship winners, Laura Roeder. Immediately upon talking with her, I felt a connection to the spirit of the work, and was inspired to learn more.

Why Do I Want To Win The Scholarship & What Will I Do With It?
As an actor, I am a natural entrepreneur. Much of my day is spent in pursuit of work. As I meet and connect with other actors, I find that many of us are in the same place. We work multiple jobs, spend alot of time spinning our wheels and worry if we are going to be able to cover the bills each month. There has to be a better way. One of your principles that Laura has shared with me is the idea of adding value to everyone I meet. I am constantly looking for opportunities to build into someones dream. I want this scholarship so that I can learn how to create a successful online business that provides value to actors/writers/directors not only in Los Angeles, but across the world. And armed with that knowledge, teach others how to create these kind of opportunities for themselves. What will I do with the money? After replacing my car that just died and a much needed vacation with my wife, I will finance my own production company to create acting work for myself and friends.

Why Me?
As altruistic as I know it may sound, I am truly motivated by helping other people achieve their dreams. I believe that by getting this training, I can become the catalyst for dozens, if not hundreds of other actors/writers/directors just like me to create for themselves the kind of opportunities that will allow us to live the life we've always wanted.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter, and for your generosity in providing the scholarships.

Be well,

Seth

1)Who I am .. What am I doing..
I'm Simon, I'm based in London, UK, running a small business called Web Domination, that teaches how to get qualified free leads independent of google, ppc, and the other things most people have heard about.

I spent 10 years working in the city, and doing other things, where I learnt from people with bigger brains and wallets..

2) Why I want to win the scholarship? What I'll do do with the money?

I have a 1yr old boy Noah, who I love with all my heart and wife of my dreams. I want to learn but right now it's a choice.. pay for food, or pay for learning.

I want to focus on the real goal but that means letting me starve - ok.. but them.. can't do it.. ..
(and that's metaphorical.. you already knew that)..

If you want people that are serious.. that will put in 24 hours a day, and that will take what you teach, every word as the grains of gold, and water them till they product fruit.. then I'm the guy you were looking for..

You remember that scene in Charlie and the Chocolate factory, when Willy Wonka just knows.. well I guess... you'll just know there's something special.. or not..

Either way.. I keep learning..

3) Why me?
I've been reading and implementing your tips from the days before there was a public "Eben Pagen".. I've spent time and money buying and working through all the content I can get, and I really feel like I'm a primed gun, ready to create ridiculous results, when the spark is "ignited"

Why me.. no special reason, no sob story, I'm just someone like most people out there, that wants to make a difference not only to me, but to others, and knows that it's easier to give away a million, when you've earned it first.

Whaddup Weezy!

My name's Dennis and I have a problem...

I have been brought up in the usual life cycle of Finish School - Finish Uni - Get a Job - Make a Career - Get Married - Retire - Die...

While I always knew that there must be something else then working 9-5, for a long time I could never image what and more importantly how...

A few months back Tim busted the doors wide open with the 4 hour work week!

So there he was. The little devil on my shoulder. Telling me to quit my job. Putting business idea in my head. Nagging me. And oh - nagging me some more...

Now the angel on the other shoulder was able to fight him for quite some time, talking about You lose your steady income, You could fail and simply Don't try it, it's not worth the risk.

Did I mention the little devil was nagging me...?

What was I to do?!

The 4 hour work week left many specific questions unanswered, it was more a 20.000 foot view of the fundamental idea of lifestyle design with a few case studies... But it didn't explain in detail how to hit ground running with an internet based business...

So I dug into the Internet Marketing niche in the hope for answers. And oh how many answers I have found... I even got a hold of some free videos and some tutorials of you, Frank and some others in your niche.

The stuff in those videos was amazing! Finally it all made sense! Or so I thought...

Full of excitement and drive to finally get my life designed the way I want it to be, I quit my job.

Yes, I can be a bit impulsive at times...

I tried a few things (CPA, own eBooks, etc), quickly finding out that I wasn't really sure where to start... And when I got started I didn't know what I was supposed to do next...

The little devil on my shoulder became quieter.

The little angel just smiled and said: I told you so! If it would be that easy, EVERYBODY would be doing it...

So here I am. The battle is lost. The most logical step would be to apply for jobs again...

But you always said that it is the counter intuitive things that are actually working for you.

Rather than being the submissive employee again, I want to take action in this situation and build a business of my own. I couldn't think of a better way than what you propose to do with Ignition.

I just need some help getting the devil talking again...

Help me IGNITE him.

He desperately needs it!

Cheers dude
Dennis

PS. I know my problems are nothing compared to the dude with the .50c raise somewhere at the top of the comments, so to be honest with you, I would feel horrible if you'd give ME a scholarship and not HIM. If it comes down to it and you have to decide between me and him, then by all means give it to him!

PPS. Seriously give to him then!

Dear Eben,

Thanks for the opportunity to to receive a scholarship to your Ignition program. I'm a father of three wonderful children who are all currently in college. I work full time as a financial advisor, tax person, and struggling internet affiliate operator. I have found that the internet is a great frontier where nearly everyone has a chance to make a business life for themselves as long as they are willing to learn and put in the effort to succeed. In my current business I come across all kinds of people that have tremendous success and others that have tremendous struggles to overcome.
Although I'm currently keeping my head above water, I would love to learn the right way to make an internet business succeed. I have very little money for myself but I believe strongly in education. If I could win a scholarship, I think it would help propel me to the next level, where I would finally realize success. At one point I was starting to succeed with an internet business, making $100 per month, having people added to my down-line, and getting my product for free. When the company restructured, they took away my 44 people in my down-line, I couldn't even add one person to my down-line, and I had to start paying for my product. That initial taste of success has made me want to grow an internet business again, but hopefully the right way.
Obviously if I win a scholarship, the additional money will help me pay for my children's college. Any additional money will help me expand my internet business. My current business is to help affiliates achieve success. One of the main things I recommend is to get help from the internet Guru's, since they have already achieved success.
Finally I will be able to help a number of people that I personally know that have nearly lost hope. I should have given-up long ago but something tells me that if you stay positive and work toward good things, those good things will come or I'll at least die trying. If I can prove it to myself and my family that the internet is a great place to have a business and it's not a scam, then I could teach my children, how to build their own business and I could teach those people I've met that have almost given-up that they too can achieve success. Specifically, if I win I will be taking some of my knowledge to a support group for the unemployed.
A friend of mine who was struggling when I was doing well at the time said to me, after I had given him my old car and $100, "I may not pay you back, but I will do something good for someone else and eventually you'll get paid." I didn't understand it at the time, but my winning this scholarship may be the completion of his profound statement.

Thanks for people like you who give back to the community.

Bob K.

Let's begin.

1. My name is Paul, 22, from Moldova.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova

I graduated International Economic Studies, currently i am a part of a journalism training. I get money only from stipends. It is not enough, and I want to improve the situation.

2. I am going to create a money making machine here in MOLDOVA (see the link above)and integrate all new hints in what I do now. Money? Reinvest it, create a financial base for me, my family, my future children.

3. - why me? I live in a country that is on first pages in many important newspapers in the world. We have a revolution going on right now.
-Why me? Cause i think that usual study programs suck and they make you become a great employee, not a great employer.
- Why me? Cause I am different and I don't write kilometers of "motivation letters"

Have fun,
see you soon, Eben!

Paul H.

Hey Eban,
I am a military spouse and have my own internet gift basket company. I have some great ideas for continuity programs related to dropshipping and gift basket businesses, but need guidance in how to get these websites up, running and making money. This is a totally different way of doing business then building a product based web site, and I am in no way a computer programmer or expert.

I want to do this now to give my family some options including early retirement for my husband so we do not have to move every couple of years. My oldest son will start high school in two years and I really want him to be able to attend the same school for all four years, and not be moved around because his Dads job requires it.

To pay it forward I want to help other military spouses who face many career and life challenges due to moving and other stresses that come from being "married to the military". A job that a spouse can do from home and that can move easily every time she (or he) moves would be a real blessing.

By picking me you will be choosing someone that has the ability to put into place the principals you teach. I won't let this scholarship opportunity go to waste, but will build a business that you'll be thrilled to list on your testimonials page!
Kim
kim@bookbouquet.com

Hello Mr. Pagan,
Thank you for giving us an opportunity to join your program. I am an Electrical Engineering Student and Chinese Language Major at Ohio State University.
You have always taught people to focus on the real, the now. I loved the idea of the "Elusive Obvious" and the older and more experienced I become I see that. It is everywhere, in politics, women, economics, business; in everything.
After I graduate I intend to move to China, confident that this is a new century and China will be the great country of the coming decades.
I would like to join your program to accelerate my road of self development and improvement. I believe that the great entrepreneurs of the future will be made in China. Please aid me in the process of becoming one of these people.
~Sincerly,
Joshua R. Melnick

greetings!
do pick the russian and the iranian... they are full of hope and dreams and seek the american dream.

i for one, hope that alex and arban score your generous offers. remember the old adage about the foreigner doing better in school than his american counterpart because of his hunger and fire in the belly thing? and because there was someone at home who had sacrificed to get him there? i know. i also am the immigrant's daughter and i appreciate their stories.

keep up the good work eban. you have a gift and yes, if you help others get to where they want to go, then they shall one day help you get to where you want to go!

cordially,
michele

Hi Eben,
My name is Ed and I'm a soon to be 42 year old husband of a very supportive wife and daddy of a set of 5yr old twins. I currently work a job from home where I sell computers and other technology to businesses. I've been doing this for 6 years now and the best part of this is that I'm able to work from home around my kids and wife. It's as close as you can get to a home based business I guess but I still have a boss ;)

The plans I have for using your course is to learn and implement the step by step process to getting an internet business started. Out of all the different options for starting a business online, I also hope to pick up a more focused direction into a certain business where I find excitement and inspiration. Not just to do it to make money.

But, as far as where the money will go well that's easy. My son has some very special needs. He's been diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy, lung disease, vision impairment, and other challenges that have been added a financial strain to our family. Now I'm not trying to play the poor me card but I mention my child because my wife and I have done things we never thought we'd do because of our situation. We have become different people also which have become more self reliant and self motivated because of our son. One thing we did is(and this is directly where the money will go) we started taking our son to a specialized form of therapy that costs thousands each year. We gave up living in a large home, racked up credit cards, and we both drive used cars to support this effort. We have also (and this is where more money will go) started a non-profit foundation to give our son and other kids with special needs the same above and beyond care that they normally wouldn't be able to afford. So the goal of money coming from a internet business is to make a big difference in the life of our son and other children like him and that's pretty darn exciting. :)

Why me? With the job I have you can't deny that I have the work ethic succeed in a home business. I owned a MLM business in the past and did so for 5 years and the #1 thing I always sao from people who failed was that they didn't know how to become self employed. I am self motivated to work from home and create an income without a boss breathing down my neck and only doing the work because I'm told to. Since my job pays me on a commission only, if I don't work I don't get paid, so it's somewhat motivation just like a home business would be. I also think that since I've used your teachings before (Wake up Productive) and have implemented them to make a difference in my life that your training will definitely be just the ticket for getting started with and internet based business.

I'm also going to say this and I may just get booted from the scholarship, but I'd gladly pay for it even if I'm not awarded the scholarship. Uh-oh I probably said too much :) It's just that I have experience in one of your courses already and if this is even 1/4 the detailed content then I'm in either way.

Thanks for the chance though to win a scholarship. That actually would be a greater motivator to me to succeed even more than paying for the course.

Looking forward to the 14th
Ed

Hi Eben,
My name is Luis LaLuz, I'm from Bridgeport, CT and I'm currently driving for a medical transportation company. My problem is that I have a felony on my record and have been unable up to this point to secure a decent job. I enjoy writing and I also have an associates degree in computer networking but as of late haven't been able to take advantage of it.

I will use the money I make from my home business to support my family and get out of debt. I would also pursue my writing dreams and other pursuits that I have long wanted to achieve. I believe in teaching people as well and I am in the process of finishing a book which will allow to help others who feel powerless.

I think I should receive the scholarship because I can do the most with the opportunity you give me as I have many goals beyond making money which I still want to achieve. I believe once you become successful
you must help others to achieve the same success or everything you have done has been for nothing. I hope I have made a strong case as to why I deserve a scholarship to your training program and thankyou for the opportunity.

Sincerely,
Luis LaLuz

Hey Eben,

Thanks for the opportunity to take a run at maybe winning one of your three scholarships to the new Ignition Training you are offering. We would love to have an opportunity to participate if selected. I don't know that our reasons for being selected would necessarily be as significant or as deserving as other's might be, but from our perspective they would certainly be valid. First, we recently experienced a fire and lost all we had, including our home and our established business.
We took what we had and purchased a new home for cash only to learn after the fact that we had purchased it from someone who did not own the home to begin with. So with very little reserve and no job, we ended up having to move into a small duplex where we are now pending me getting us back on our feet. It's all about starting over now with very few if any real prospects. I have always had an interest in internet marketing but have no knowledge about computers. I just know that there are a lot of folks making a lot of money on line. I have listened to a lot of your free videos but have run into snags along the way because I just lack all the knowledge I need to really get anything set up and off the ground. One of my biggest reasons for wanting to succeed with on-line businesses is so we will have more time for ministry; (my wife and I are both interested in various aspects of ministry). We are both interested in setting up a Bible Institute and I am interested in both teaching and providing personal counseling to those who want to overcome issues in their life, determine who they are and what's really most important to them and then begin to chart a course in their life that will lead to them being able to realize their potential, both for themselves and for their families. My goal is to continue in this direction with or without being selected; obviously, being selected will shorten the learning curve and help us realize our goals much more quickly that we will otherwise. And if selected, we do promise to give back!! Thanks, Jim

Eben,

My name is Betty. I am a single baby boomer with only a few years left before I "should" be able to retire. I have a mortgage that will probably last longer then I will. I also have for too much credit card debt created when trying to get started making money online. retirement now seems impossible.

Currently I work at a non-profit. Non-profits have suffered greatly in this economy as people have less to donate. As of December 1, my hours were cut back from 5 days a week to 3 days. I've been working day and night between the 3 days at the job, working odd jobs, and trying to get my business going online. It has been a scary time.

If I won and got my online business going successfully, what would I do? First I would get out of debt. Second, I would buy Mom (who is 86) new hearing aids. Then I would follow my dream of becoming a philanthropist. I will work with small organizations that focus on helping the elderly or helping children. Those two populations are the first to get cut in budget crises and really need help. Our elderly should not have to choose between taking medication and buying food let alone worrying about keeping their homes! And children are our future. There is no excuse for the poor education system we have in the U.S. There are third world countries that have better education systems then we do. I can remember when California had one of the top educaiton systems in the U.S. and now wer are near the botom. This makes no sense (or cents)! What kind of future can we expect if we don't educate the young, all of the young no matter what background or nationality? (I can go on a long time about this, but enough of my rant, you get the idea.)

Why me? Why should I win? First I would be a good example to ohter baby boomers who need Ignition as much as I do. I also believe that I am very close to becoming successful online and that Ignition will be the final tool I need to turn the corner reach my goals. Finally, I deserve to win because I am a good person. I believe that we have the responsilbity to create the kind of world we want to live in. I want to live in a world where we can trust each other, help each other in times of need and celebrate togther in good times. That is the way I live my life, even now.

Thank you for the opportunity to share a little of my story with you.

Eben Pagan,

My Name is Ike Lemuwa, former stockbroker/Real Estate Developer.

Currently, I have written three Unpublished Business Books

I am the founder of American Partnership for Rural Re-Investment Corporation IRS 501(c)(3) Certified as Housing and Economic Development Organization

www.aprrc.org

I am the founder and President of National Hubzone Incubator Managment, LLC, Obejctive, assist start-ups raise seed funds and provide back office support

I built my Investment Banking/Stockbroker book by giving live workshops. I personally, planned, designed and developed all of my investment seminar materials

I have written seminar and conference materials to offer to help communities attract their share of the Economic Stimulus Funds

Question: Why do I want to win this scholarship

Answer: I have finished my books and several backend products that I will offer "FREE TO COMMUNITY LEADERS" to help educate their respective communities on how to access the Obama Stimulus Funds.

Your program will help me develop these concepts and take them to the next level.

Community Web Site under Continued modification:

www.communitydevelopersclub.com

Question: Why Ike Lemuwa. Why do I deserve this scholarship? What would I do with the money?

Answer:

As a former investment banker and stockbroker, I have worked closely with Community Leaders and African-American Churches, to raise funds.

I helped community organizations register their organizations and become IRS 501(c)(3) Compliant.

Well when I retired, I became a real estate developer and founded, American Partnership for Rural Re-Investment Corporation. Bought and developed several properties before the collasp of the real estate market.

In March 10th 2008, I lost my Mother, due to financial difficulties, I had to place my mother in the mortuary until I can raise funds to burry my mother. While I was waiting to sell one of my property undercontract, the buyer backs out. On September 15th, 2008 My father died. Now I have two parents to burry.
The funeral home gave us until October 31st, 2008 to come and pay up and collect our parents, I was forced to us every money we had to bury my parent and lost all of our houses

While all of these were going on, all of my houses were facing foreclosure. I lost my houses, my primary home and all of my investment properties.

The sad news was that My lender IndyMac Federal Bank were working with me when my parent died, immediately IndyMac Bank went Bankrupt. Every negotiation and modification they had put in place for my primary home were cancelled and My house went into foreclosure sales on March 5th, 2009.

Despite the fact that my wife and I make enought income to hold onto our primary home until we catch up on our finances. The new owner of IndyMac Federal Bank. OneWest Bank, refused to work with us. We are still fighting to save our house and publish my three books.

www.gettinginonthestimulus.com

I had to suspend the publication of my books due to funds.

My goal is to donate the proceed from the book to help communities and individuals going through what I am going through. Or even hold nationwide educational workshop or Teleconferences on how to access the Obama Stimulus Funds.

Right now as we speak The Treasury Department has approved over 819 Community Development Financial Institution in every community in American today and fully funded them to provide lending to communities where they operate but not many people are aware about these orgainzations.

My book, workshops, and conferences will help communities start their own CDFI, and at the same time help them use my books to raise seed money.

What I would do with the money I make from this project?

First I will use the funds to expand National Hubzone Incubator Management center, to assist entrepreneurs register, certify and have access to cities, counties, states and federal projects that would help them get off the right footing.

Secondly, I will donate the funds to create community credit coaching outlet in every rural and urban areas in America.

Why Community Credit Coaching center? Millions of Americans with great credit, the collasp in the stock market and the real estate have devasteted their great beacons scores.

Third. I will create "Community Business Loan Portal" this portal will be made available in every community to help start up get proper education on how to package your loans so funding institutions will beg to loan you money.

Fourth: Create "Emergency fund raising Club in each community" this club will teach members how to raise funds before untimely financial crisis.

The Reasons I deserve to Win this Scholarship

1. Millions of Americans Can Identify with what I have gone through for the past couple of months

(a) Family tragedy( The lost of my mother and father in one year)
(b) Lost of my homes to Aggressive Foreclosure Attorneys and Banks who collects bailout money and still foreclosured on homes they are
suposed to help me save my home
(c) Lossing everything you have worked for under 12 months

(d) Pictures and Video Evidence of Lost Homes to make my points

(e) Compelling appeal letters to

President Barack Obama
Congressman Frank Wolf
Senator Jim Webb,
Senator Mark R. Warner

Results of helps: Absolute NONE

2. I would like my story to be told through this means than responding to Local News request for Interviews

3. My book will be donated to help communities in need use it to raise seed funds in order to organize local educational seminar to help them
attract their share of the Stimulus funds

4. Every claims supported by documentation and compeling evidence.

Eben,
I'm Nate Hansen. I'm a 24 year old student and I work at Verizon Wireless. From selling stationary door-to-door when I was 10 to selling mineral products on ebay during high school, I've always had an enterprising mind. I realize that makes you wonder why I need help starting an online business. I just know that if you want to be great at something, you should find the best person at that thing and learn from them. I heard about you from reading "The Game". I looked up David DeAngelo and ended up buying your ebook(which changed a lot of things for me by the way, thank you). I kind of followed you on the web and somehow figured out that David DeAngelo was a pen name. After doing some searches on Eben Pagan I figured out that you were a game-changer in internet marketing. I've known for a few years that I wanted to learn how to make money on the internet because of the wide, never-ending audience and the eventual "passive" income that can be generated. That brings me to your second question.
I want to win your scholarship for two reasons:#1, I won't be able to afford it by the time Ignition launches. #2, I want to experience life, as in actually experience it. While I'm working 40 hours a week for someone else, making them rich and spending my money on school, its hard to travel, spend time on my own interests, and be at my most productive and most creative. My family is fine. They don't need any of the money I would make. I would spend the money from my business on building it bigger, traveling, and then eventually working on projects I am really passionate about like teaching small business practices to people in the Philippines and doing small business micro-loan programs there(I lived there for 2 years).

Eben, you should pick me because I am determined to figure this out one way or another; I just think with your help I will have more time and resources later on to help other people progress.

Hi Eben,

My name is Kate and I'm 39. I currently live on SSI because of a disability that occurred when I was only 15. My passion is computers and try as I may it's impossible for me to work full time. I have been thinking about internet marketing for the last 3 years and have nothing to show for it. I came across your name one day while I was considering Stompernet and have kept an eye on you ever since. I believe the program was Get Altitude. Fundamentally we are similar in that I believe that thoughts are things and that we become what we think about. If there was one program I am considering it's this one and I want to win it. But you want a why I need this. I'd have to say I've seen the rest and I want to work with the best! Eben you're the man and I want to absorb all you have to offer, because you came from almost nothing and have made millions. I want it too, plain and simple. I want to continue to pursue personal development and see Anthony Robbins, I want to get off SSI and hold my head high and say yes I made something out of my life when everyone thought I couldn't. I want to finally buy that car and stop taking the bus! Metaphorically speaking ;) Thank you for giving me this opportunity even if I don't win Eben!

Take Care

Kate

Hey Eben,
I have recently turned 30 and have a wife and three children, I have been a successful manager for large retail outfits. In December 2008 the company I was working for let me go due to the economy. Since then I have vowed never to return to work for anyone else but myself. I want to be able to help others on my way to success.So far I have researched on Internet marketing, real estate, and infoprenuering, these are some of the areas I want to start in. I am currently working on several short sales and I am completely committed to do this with everything I got. I would greatly appreciate this opportunity to learn from you and to use this knowledge, not only to benefit my life but to benefit the lives of others. Again thank you for this opportunity, I greatly appreciate what you are attempting to do.

With Warm Regards,
Jason Tooley
jmt517@yahoo.com

Hi,

My name is Silvia and I am from Queens, NY.

I attracted to your work due to the fact you're about creating the online home internet and that I CAN DO IT! Just like you did.

Intention: "I Win One Of 3 Full Scholarships To Ignition! "

To you: Thank you for the scholarship!

ALL THE BEST, Silvia L

Dear Eben,

My name is John Culbertson. You can contact me at customerservice@mysticjohnculbertson.com
I currently reside in North Port, Florida. Currently in my life I do a variety of things to keep myself busy. I'm a ghost writer, a new age business owner, and I also am working on making it as a consultant/teacher in my areas of expertises. Besides all that, I'm attempting to run an adult web blog and a separate dating blog. Additionally, I'm engaged with an expected wedding date of June 12, 2010. Of course, as time permits, I try to find time to hang out with friends and enjoy watching movies and that sort of thing. I love theme parks and one day would love to own my own.

I have so many ideas and plans, I just have a hard time currently trying to focus on one particular idea and, more importantly, fleshing it out and marketing it. It would seems if I had the keys to do so I would have so many different business running successfully. I want to win the scholarship so that I have a chance to use the information that you used to create so many successful businesses.

I love reading Anthony Robins. One of the things he says, and I know you're aware of this, is that if you can find someone to model, you can accomplish anything. If someone else has been successful before you and they know the way to that success, just follow their lead and you'll have the ability to be successful too. It's almost a similar concept as being around successful people creates successful people.

Another person I love to read is Bob Doyle and he says that, by virtue of the law of attraction, if you set your mind on something and think positively about it, you have the ability to attract to you the right opportunity to make it happen. I'm hoping, Eben, that this is my opportunity. That one chance to have a mentor who has already been incredibly successful, that has paved the way before me, and that can provide the lighthouse light for me to follow.

You'd think with all the things I'm attempting to do that money would be flying into my hands. For some reason it's not. Something is missing and I can't seem to figure out what it is or what I'm doing wrong. Under the right direction and guidance I know that problem could be solved. I know that I could take my businesses, and future ones, even further.

What would I do with the money when the business (or businesses) were successful? First, pay for the wedding that my wife to be is wanting to have. She means the world to me, and honestly, that's one of the first things I would do. I would also like to use the money to continue to grow my businesses and to create other businesses opportunities. When there was enough money (and there would be), I'd even create a scholarship similar to the one that you are currently offering, so as to help others share in that knowledge. Sure, it would be nice to travel and have a house of luxury and all that fun stuff, but seeing more businesses come to life, seeing more people having the opportunity to expand themselves, while at the same time reaching a level of success myself that others have told me wasn't possible....... that would be so awesome.

You know... when one studies the law of attraction, as silly as it may seem to some, one of the first things you are taught is that if you don't believe you deserve something, you won't ever get it. I do believe I deserve this opportunity. I don't think it was a mistake that you've helped me in the past and that I had the opportunity to get to know some of your work. Nor do I believe it was a "coincidence" that I just happened to open your email today after talking to someone about needing to find the right person to help provide guidance to me. I believe that all this is happening because the time is right in my life for it to happen. I believe that if given this opportunity I'll blossom and I'll be capable of creating some very powerful businesses that will not only help others, but potentially be helpful to the world on some level.

I deserve the scholarship not because I "need" the money (although that is perhaps true on some level else one wouldn't be applying for a full ride scholarship), rather I deserve the full ride scholarship because I'm already working in this direction to be successful. I'm already showing dedication to this lifestyle.

In the future I see myself on stage or doing videos, similar to you. I see myself teaching others about a variety of different topics.... I don't know if one of them will be how to be successful in business or not, but I do know that if given the help you and your programs would be the first on my recommendation list.

To close, I can only say that I would kick myself if I didn't take the chance to do this. I think most anyone here would do the same. Everyone realizes it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. We can only hope that we, as individuals, are the type of people that you think will make good students and business owners. We can only hope that we are the ones that you believe have the potential to take your knowledge and put it to good use. We can only hope that what we've been dreaming of.......... is not going to be just a dream anymore.

Until the future,

~John Culbertson

Eben,

Man what a great opportunity! Thank you!! My name is Kelly. I am married and a father of a 2 1/2 yr old boy. 39 years old. I am in the Promotional Products industry and have been for the last 10 years. I have always done well until the economy went south. I am not one to complain so I looked into other ways to feed my family and joined a network marketing company. The products we market are personal development products. I am sure you know the company. I have been with the company for 2 years now and have made 8K. Pretty lame I know. This little number has nothing at all to do with the company as I believe that we are the best in the business but simply because I do not know how to market.

When I got started with the network marketing company I was told that the training was one on one and that if I do what the leaders do I will succeed. Well Eben, I do what the leaders say to do but again, I suck at marketing and clearly the leaders are really good marketers. I invested a ton (for me) of money to get into the highest ranking of the company so I can get the profits but,I repeat, I suck at marketing.

I want to win this scholarship badly. I believe that the step by step training I will get with your program will help me with everything I get involved in. I have tried click bank, pay per click affiliate, everything. I hate to admit this but I have basically lost my shirt on everything I have attempted online. I don't waste my time watching TV. I work my butt off and really want to be involved with your program as I believe it will change my life.

If I win the coveted scholarship Eben, I will bust my butt to be your top student. I will tell everyone I meet how I made the changes in my life and retiring my wife will be proof. She works really hard to help make ends meet and I would love to provide enough so she can spend her time with our son and not her boss. my son deserves to have us in his life full time. I also have two little brothers in College that are about to graduate and both will be in huge debt. I would like to teach them what I learn so they can get away from their debt quickly and live life they are supposed to. I will also teach my mother in law what I learn. She took early retirement to watch our boy and has zero money I would love to teach her "how to fish"

I am not out to change the world, just make my corner of it better. Get enough corners going and we will really have something. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Fingers crossed!!

Kelly

kellyheld@gmail.com

Hi Eben,

My name is Allen Sanders. I live in Austin, TX and have watched your blog posts, videos, etc. for several years now. I am going through a major metamorphosis in my life right now. I originally went to college for music, was very, very successful as a player and a teacher while in college at the University of North Texas, taught high school band for 6 years, then switched careers to go into the financial advisor/planner business in 1999. I am basically starting over again at this point since the financial landscape has been nothing short of catastrophic for many people.

Why should I win the scholarship? I want desperately to create some freedom for myself financially so that I can support my wife and triplets. It has been very tough since we had to switch to one income after our triplets were born, and my wife is still not able to work a full time job since they are home every day at 2:00. I want to build an online business and I know I can do it, but I need guidance. I am very short on cashflow right now so I'm in a Catch-22 of sorts. My kids deserve better than I am giving them right now, and I am deeply bothered that I have not been able to produce results in business like I was able to do in so many areas of my life while I was in highs school and college. I was All-State on Trombone twice in high school, I excelled at the State level in Speech and Debate, I was one of the leads in the One Act Play, Editor in Chief of the Yearbook, and had many other accomplishments. I went on to become very successful after high school in music, taking groups to championships and playing my instrument extremely well. But for some crazy reason I am lost most of the time with growing a business. I have "good" years with a 6 figure gross income, but after expenses there is nothing left. Quite frankly, I am sick and tired of this cycle I have been in for about 7 years now. I feel shallow and empty with my career. I need something new and I need to regain that spark I had when I was able to achieve almost anything I wanted to do.

If I am chosen for a scholarship, I will use the money to create a less stressful situation for my family first and foremost, but I have very large dreams to someday make enough money to create educational programs for kids that are from less fortunate situations. I want to teach them to be entrepreneurs, and to take matters into their own hands instead of being pulled down by their circumstances. I think part of my block right now is a belief system that was inadvertently instilled in me by my parents -- getting rich means you screwed someone. That's what they taught me. I have that "guilt" feeling every time I make a little money and I need to break out of this cycle somehow.

I know you are going to receive MANY requests that all will be deserving of the 3 scholarships. You are doing fantastic things for people and I will continue to follow your teachings regardless of whether I am able to particpate in this specific course. Thank you for everything I've learned from you so far, and I appreciate the opportunity to post this request. Thanks so much.

Hi Eben, I work at a law firm in office services. I'm from chicago. I'm out of my confort zone typing this because I have no knowledge of how to build a website. I'm mexican born here. I'll turn 37 this Easter Sunday April 12. I've attended Mantransformation and Mantransformation II (Become Mr. Right) seminar.
Prior to the seminar I attended The Mankind Project (New Warrior Training Adventure) from that weekend it changed my life to view myself of somebody of self worth, a direction in my life to be open to possibilities. From then on I came across your Double Your Dating information from Christian Carter program that I paid for my friend Angelia to attend a seminar hoping to win her over and it turned out that she never used the programs and went back to her boyfriend. I was that needy guy. BUT I felt in my heart as if it was the right thing to do besides my friends and her boyfriend saying I do not have to do this for her and I'm wasting my time.
I was hurt when she came back from the seminar and went back to her boyfriend.
So, I started watching the DVD programs From Casual To Committed, Ready For Love and Communication secrets it was then when I came across You...as if this was suppose to happen and my my friend Angelia suprised me and returned the favor by booking the hotel, flight and the seminar for my Birthday present with her tax money.
WHY I deserve this?
I want to give back.
I have a vision to help the less fortunate. My two sisters and my niece grew up poor with my older mentially disabled sister, mother mentally disabled and Grandmother Imigrant worked all her life working selling hot dogs at Maxwell street (side walk sales on weekends.Blinded from her right side and deaf from left side of her face that suffered abuse as we did from my aunt and her older sons and daughterthat we witness and endured our lives growing up and could not do anything about this because if we did call the police DCFS would have taken us away that would have seperated us. I did not have a father in my life or a mentor. I Always had a faith to be kind to people and give a helping hand. My vision is to build a shelter for abused men,women and children with broken hearts to give them the loving, nuturing, unconditional love...looking into the kids eyes wiping the tears and saying saying "You don't have to cry anymore...Your safe here". A place where children can be free and imagination soar. Mothers regain confidence,instilled family values and very well educated to become Doctors, Lawyers or Leaders in this world.
I also watched the law of attraction and believe this was meant for me in this world to start my journey and mission to leave my greatest gifts to make this world a better place. I love people. I see the good even in bad people. I'm on my second cd of The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz. I'm Making myself strong first before I can help others and enjoying my graditude crying...I felt I needed to say that he he. I feel this magic moment.

I Thank God for briging YOU Eben to cross paths in my life :")

1) About myself:
My name is Phoenix. I am a 32 year old full time web developer.
I spend an insane amount of time on the internet - reading forums,
learning about startups, programming and following guys like you.

I find that a lot of what is out there is complete snake oil. But
I continue to search on a daily basis for someone that is willing to
give blueprints to the "real deal" to someone who is ready to dedicate
real effort and execution to see it through.

2) What am I going to do with the money, you ask? Well, thankfully
I am not one of those people suffering from an insane amount of debt
or a mortgage where I bit off more than I can chew (through modesty) -
BUT, I do have family. I am expecting my first child in May.
I want to take this money and help build income generating
incomes/ online businesses with my family to help them
achieve what I have and WILL achieve.

In many ways, pay it forward. Be it charitable donations with the
profits, as well as take this new found knowledge and income to
have the ability to mentor others create financial security.

3) Why I deserve win: I do NOT take things for granted. With
that being said, I have always taken the tools presented to me
and make the most use out of them. I am VERY creative and insightful
when given a challenge.

Simply put, given the opportunity, I will certainly not be
lacking in the passion and ass kicking aspect. I have seen
the cruft of what's out on the net, and I am hoping that your
program truly "steps up to the plate". It would be a FANTASTIC
choice to select me as one of your scholarship recipients as I am
hungry to take my skill set to the NEXT LEVEL with Eben!

Hi Eben,

This is who I am and what I do:

My name is Jesse and I love music. While at music school, I was pulled into the world of music entrepreneurship. I currently work in marketing at an orchestra and general management/consulting for performing artist in NYC. Ever since, I've helped independent groups become more financially stable so they are able to produce music that matters, not music as a commodity. A number for measure, I've helped groups independently sell over 25,000 albums in "non-traditional" ways. This is extremely fun for me and I'm very passionate about it.

What's with the money:

I understand, Eben, that you are an amateur musician yourself. Perhaps you know: the music industry has changed and is continuing to change. It's a very opportunistic time for musicians who are just starting out, but many simply do not know where to start.

This is where I come in.

My goal is to be a part of the future of music. By that, I mean help musicians earn a decent living to help their productivity and build their career. The music industry right now is resisting change, so it starts with the independent musicians who have FANTASTIC music to share to the world. I help musicians who understand the drawbacks of signing with labels and large management, but don't know where or how to start. I help musicians who want to develop themselves artistically. I help musicians who understand the amount of work and effort that is required. I DON'T help the ones who are focused on their image and wanting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter.

I have a day job that is stuck in "traditional marketing." The organization I work for isn't taking initiative to move forward and to understand how behavior has changed. In fact, my opinion is that if they continue to be stuck in their ways, they will eventually fail - just like how the newspapers are failing as we speak. It's very difficult to convey my anxiety to the VPs and CEOs, as they are worried about the economy and short term sales. Thus, they take the ultimate risk by not doing anything. I cannot take the initiative that I would like because my job is at stake, and I am in no position to do so...what is a young person like me know?

The money I earn currently is barely enough to pay rent in NYC, my student loans, and to be able to place a small percentage in savings. It's difficult, but not the most important issue for me, as I can more than survive on my current salary.

The most important issue for me is that I feel suppressed. There are a limited number of people who is advocating this change, including myself. I have this incredible drive to just explode forward and become a part of and encourage the change that is taking place.

We need Music again. We need choice. Not Top 40 radio. We need music to become more of a social medium, not a commodity.

The power of music is incredible. It is a time that favors musicians, and not the "gatekeepers" and their laws.

The money I make will only help me take risks so I don't sacrifice my well-being. The money will help me reach out to the musicians who are dying for help but don't have the money to pay me (but who are so willing to if they did have the money). I've spoken at some top music conservatories to better inform future musicians, but this is not something that I can do full-time quite yet.

I've already set a path for myself, and what better way to support my goals with Internet Marketing and an Internet Business?

Why me?

I didn't like this question at first, because I had a hard time finding an answer. And then I realized the reason why I had trouble is because It's Not About Me. It's about the struggling music industry and musicians; and the way music affects society at large. To me, there is nothing greater than to be a part of a "tribe," to lead, to encourage others to lead, and ultimately achieve something very worthwhile as a whole.

My dream isn't to do everything...it's to be able to be a part of something that matters. Music is a powerful human expression and accomplishment. Music matters.

Dear Eben,
Well this is the first time I have EVER seen someone of your calibur actually do this.
I am a single mom who has an interior design business--but I really want to go after the internet business. As everyone knows, interiors are OPTIONAL in this economy. I have ridden the ups and downs before...but at 57 I am tired of it. I am encouraging my 15 yr old to start thinking of a business that he would like and could do. So the knowledge would be passed down to the next generation so HE would not have to take a job he hates for the rest of his life!I have purchased numerous e-books about this, but I am having a hard time linking all the versions of how to do this together. I have volunteered over the years and have made a great impact on the community--but there are programs I would like to start for the kids in my area.
I could help teach the next generation of how to put together a business based on their idea--and show them choices of how to leverage themselves in many markets--internet AND box store--or other versions that could make a difference-AND they are the ones that could be employing people!
Having been in the "harness" for many years, I would follow through with the knowledge..since being self-motivated is my middle name. My business would have failed years ago if I didn't have the commitment to day after day work. Perfer it!This income I could have from the internet would pay for my son's college--where he could pick up some more ideas to make into a business.
So I hope I am selected and will watch my email for a sign.
Best Regards, sally bradley

Hi Eban,

My name is Matthew and I live in PA., US. Due to the economy I am working for myself out of my home. I'm working hard to learn all I can about Internet Marketing and running my own business. There is a lot of information out there, and it is hard to know who actually knows what they are talking about.

When I win, and start making money first I will be able to pay off some bills that have accumulated. Second I will continue to learn all I can by attending quality Internet Marketing seminars and events. That will enable me to continue to build my business. Third, I will be able to spend more time with my family. Fourth, it will enable me to give back by speaking at presentations and seminars. Additionally when I build my business up more it will enable me to contribute to worthy causes and charities that I would like to, but can't contribute to now. Lastly, I would like to be able to travel.

I should win because I am really dedicated and hard working. I need to be able to follow someone I trust, and that I know will give me good quality instructions. I will dedicate myself to learning all the information in the course, and apply it to building my business. Once I have been through the course, I will go through it again because I know there are always things that are missed, and I'm sure it will be extensive. I will continue to apply the information to building and running my business over and over again.

Thanks,
Matthew

Hi!
I am Roxana, a teacher from Romania and a single mother of six kids. I love my job, I love kids, but I definitely need to do something to supplement my income in order to help myself and the others around me. I am addicted to info, but I really want to implement theory in practice, not only to contemplate the novelties I found about. When necessary, I take risks, but I also am cautious (you know, profession and I guess being a granny at my 41, even if a good looking one :), are to be blamed for that).
So, I`m waiting for your answer and I already know you are convinced that one of those three scholarships is going to be mine.

Your sincerely, R.F.

Dear Eben

I am responding to your invitation for a full time scholarship to your probram. Currently, I am a practing lawyer with my own practice. I have been practicing law for almost eighteen years. However, I am tired of practicing law. Practicing law does not give me the flexibility of doing other things with my time. Most of the time, I am working on weekends doing paperwork or catching up because I was in court. I see the frowns on attorneys' face when they have to wait for their case to be called or scheduling a case in light of a busy calendar.

I want to win the scholarship because I want to change the direction of my life. Plus utilize the talents that have been given to me at birth. I would like to build a business that doesn't require my presence on a 24/7 basis. A business that could run without me being there. To eliminate the current considerable size of paperwork, followup and correspondence that would not be attributable to an internet business. To transition from thinking like a lawyer but as an entreprenuer providing value to others through the products that are distributed. This is better than solving someone's legal problem.

What I would do with this information is build a business. A business that would allow me to shut down my law practice. Give me greater freedom to take vacations without worrying about losing a potential client. Nor be anxious as to when I would receive my next payment from a client. Nor worry about the next bill, payroll and any other obligation. This business would give me the opportunity to be debt free. I would be able to go on a missionary trip that I didn't have the time or opportunity to do as a lawyer. To be able to give more money to the church and others. To be able to experience life as it was meant to be lived.

Why me? I know that I need a change in my life. A change to achieve my potential that God has give me. I don't think that it will be easy for me. I want to be able to say at the end of my life that I took this risk and made it work by the Grace of God. This a hope for me to build something that may last for my lifetime and for others who come behind me. Finally to teach others the benefits of the lessons that I learned as a result of wining this scholarhisp.

Thank you for reading this comment.

Sincerely yours,

Robert F. Conley
robertfconley@aol.com

Eben,

I am seventy years young and am interested in making money on the internet as a way of supplementing my retirement. I won't give you a sob story about how tough it is to live on a fixed income.

I have started a blog, but have not monetized it as yet. It is my dream to help people realize the power they have to create the life they dream of and to make enough money doing this that I can live the life of may dreams.

I will do what ever it takes to make that dream a reality. Winning a scholarship and being a part of your program will drastically reduce my learning curve. I am well aware that every day counts and the sooner my dream is realized the more time I will have to help others and enjoy my life.

Another part of my dream, in this time where many are experiencing financial difficulties is to be an example of the saying, "it is never to late."

I will fulfill my dream, no matter what, but it would really be a blessing to win one of the scholarships.

Whatever the outcome, thank you for the opportunity.

Thank you for the opportunity.

I have a great biz idea. There is a dating service around the country called,"It's Just Lunch!" the biz is a matchmaker for busy professional singles and it hooks them up for lunch - no pressure on either side.

I am going to create a rival dating service called, "It's Just Casual Sex!" The way I see it, this just cuts to the chase and hooks people up. Find a need and fill it. No one wants "just lunch." They can buy their own stinkin' lunch.

My motto is, "book 'em and hook 'em."

Just kidding, Eben. Thought you'd get a kick out of that or your alter ego, David, would.

I've been struggling online for quite some time. I have had some breakthroughs here and there, but I've never been able to put it all together.

I've admired your success with your Double Your Dating business, and I know you are a great mentor.

So why me? I'm a hard-luck man who needs a break. I don't know of anyone who works harder who struggles so much.

But, I know that with the right coach, I can finally put it all together. Imagine telling others our success story - how you helped someone who struggled online for years finally break through to astounding success.

Thank you!

Cheers,

Mike

Hi, I'm Peter Butler. I help small business owners, mostly start ups to get new clients. Lead generation, especially 'warm' leads seems to be the biggest issue for newbies, hmmm... oldies too actually.

I've called it the "Smarter Websites" system which is basically websites created on the Wordpress platform. That's only one part. I also work with them to do some offline and online marketing to drive people to the site and opt in to get the free report. The plan is they become 'pre disposed' and a warm lead.

I make a living but only just. It's early days yet but the model seems to be working. I'm not a beginner as such but am having a hard time getting serious traction. The few clients I've had, 5, love it, plus they get to manage their own site.

I need to turn what I do into more of an automated online system so I can get to more people. I actually love the results people get but the model is flawed simply because i can't reach enough people and it's too time intensive.

The money? THere is a huge group of 'baby boomers' blowing their retirement funds on the search for the 'one thing' that will supposedly 'set them up' and it's downright sad. I see to many people blowing a fortune going down the wrong track, they pretty well have to give up and as I light heartedly say to them "get a haircut and get a real job" but it's damn sad.

My passion is helping and making a difference for people. With your help I could reach more start ups and people in trouble. So many people have the wrong idea and go all 'tricky' and get caught up with the 'next shiny object' rather than taking what they already know or do and just learn how to do it better.

Eban, I would love to do 'your stuff' but it's always the cashflow juggle. So in summary - the money would free me to help the ones who know they need help and are serious enough to invest in their future but aren't fully financial and I'd be in a position to 'bridge' the difference.

Kind Regards,

Peter Butler

Hi Eben.

It's me, Kimberly Fouts from Canada. I am so excited that you are offering this. OK... I am a 51 year old woman living on my own. I am a quadraplegic, and after half my lifetime of swallowing people telling me what I can't do I have learned they are wrong. This has really excited me and I am now in an MLM that I can do! I don't like my uplines strategy of the 80's, so I came to the Internet and found Mike Dillard and several other sucessfull people. Thanks to them I soon realized that I can be just as gogetting as anyone else. No one knows that I type everything with a stick in my mouth so it has evened out the playing field. After kissing bankruptcy and feeling like a failure again. My MLM is starting to take off, but I would love to show myself what I am made of. I now have the confidence in myself to do something just a little different. I hate to let it out that I am on government assistance and have been for several years. My dream has been to become sufficient and show others that if I can do this so can they. I have debts I need to pay back...they are like this huge dark cloud hovering over my head. I use a hat to decide which bills or credit cards to pay this month.
It may sound corny but I would like to put my parents mind at rest about me and finances. I'd love to have my own House and Van as well as travel. I have been to Greece and Mexico but there are other places I'd like to see and bring a friend along with me. Maybe someone that can't afford to travel on their own. Adopt several children from another country. Give them a chance to get out of their own poverty.
I'd like to be a coach and help others. I do have a councilling background. When I heard you were giving three Full scholarships I practically screamed. I still have not given up on finding a male to share my life with, but I won't go into a relationship until I am debt free(I's not fair to him).

I have wanted to take your courses and have been saving up to take them. If I am chosen it will be one more skill I can show others that need help.
Eben, I could say pick me, pick me but the truth is whomever you pick is very fortunate. (I do hope it's me though)

Sincerely Kimberly Fouts
Find me at, kfouts@telus.net

Hey Eben.

My name is John, I'm 21 years old and I work part time in a small local bar.

I was a student at (in my opinion) the best business school in Scotland. Everything was going fine at the school but I was complacent and my grades weren't great, even though the material was far within my capabilities.
When I was young there was insatiable drive in me to learn new skills and just to never stop advancing everything I could. Holes were created in my self esteem throughout my entire 14 years of school by bullies and I was socially outcast, every school has a kid that is the lowest status reject and that was me.

On my 21st birthday my first (and serious)girlfriend dumped me and threw a party for herself. My birthday was only 10 days or so before my years exams and needless to say I shut down and failed the Business school.

After gaining little ground recovering from this I took active steps to reclaim and better my life.

Tons of self help material helped me not just reclaim my life but totally transform the kind of person I am. Developed maturity, composure, dignity and integrity through Dr Paul's Mind OS system. Qualities I never valued last year. What could have been the end of my life turned out to be the making of me, without this huge failure in my life I would never have repaired all these negative, childish qualities that were keeping me to still live like a boy in a young mans body.

I have no concrete plans of what to do with the money I make from this business I'm starting, my ethos is one of the habitual entrepreneur. I like to always be challenged and create things of value. Very likely, I will use the money to fund other ventures rather than place money into my drawings account.

Why should you choose me?
Well, my first venture will be one that fits perfectly into what has been conveyed about ignition. I'm a high level technical guitar player and have recently written 5 ebooks that shine so high above any tuitional material I have ever seen. I have things of real value to share with the world in a subject very close to my heart.

I'm a strict practitioner of kaizen, the continuous and never ending improvement of all areas in my life. I'm humbled enough to adapt and not let my ego impose over decisions, grounded enough to try and always actively seek win/win deals.

There was only one reason I went to business school, to learn. I picked all the things there I felt weakest in to suitably equip myself for my inevitable life as either a Project Champion or a business developer. Without ignition I will likely re-start my 4 year degree but I feel that now I'm ready to just go for it but you are undoubtedly one of the pioneers of ebook marketing and distribution, this program alone could shave a year or two of active adaption with a live business model through your insights and experience.

Thanks.

Who am I ? I'm Angel 33 married and have 2 beautiful little girls. A little about me.
Dropped out of High School, Dropped out of a gang, I live check to check and
have always dreamed of having a succesful business, I just been lost in mind!
"You know what I mean" ...but I'm healthy and striving for knowledge so I can't
complain. Could be worse... Still be lost in mind!

What do I do? I'm a computer technician, not that I hate my job... but the notion
of residual income and having the ability to work from anywhere in the world
sounds to me like paradise.

Why do I want to win? The truth? I don't have the money for the program and
I really don't want to borrow it. But when you select me I'm going to devour
your information and put it to action and make my VISION come true.

What will I do with my money? Buy my freedom, so that I can read all the amazing
books in the world and become smarter than you. I just can't stand how smart you
are :) I'm just going to do what you did read books, make money, find experts
model them and become a bad-ass.

Why me? Is my passion, is what I was born to do, it's my vision... With or without your
help, diligence and faith will manifest.

Look forward towards your training!

I consider you the smartest man I've met so far... Not that we've met! You see this
internet is weird!!! I feel like I know you... What the Hell!

Angel
afgarcia@helloworld.com

Eben,
I am a furloughed airline mechanic tired of being a furloughed airline mechanic. I have been working in the Aviation/Aerospace industry for over 20 years, have been furloughed 7 times and have zero retirement built up. I am a 'grass roots' (I know that term has become cliche) kind of guy that will always remember where I came from. I am more than ready to take my destiny into my own hands rather than leaving it up to others to manipulate.
I am currently working at several home based business ventures that have yet to become profitable. In fact, I have gotten myself into pretty deep debt trying to get things going, debt so deep, I cannot afford to purchase even one more opportunity. This is why I could use a scholarship in your program. I am still young enough to be teachable and old enough to recognize a solid opportunity. I have read and watched several of your videos and heard nothing but praises about your techniques.
If you were to award me one of your scholarships and I became successful, I would first, of course, get myself out of debt. I would then invest in growing my business to a point I could then start helping others do the same. I do believe 10% at least, should go to Gods work. I do believe, as the bible says, "Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime." I would enjoy being self sufficient and independent as well as being in a position to teach other to become as I am/will be. Another thing I would use the money for is building up a retirement fund as well as travel. There are many places in this country I would love to see as well as places abroad.
Thank you for considering me for this awesome opportunity.
Tom

Hi Eben!

I want to thank you for the value that you have brought to my life through your recommendations and advise.
From leading me to great resources to "Father" myself as an individual, to using great tools for my mission in life such as "Wake Up Productive", "The Heart-Selling System" From Jesse & Sharla (I'm a bodyworker, and very passionate about empowering people to take control of their health!) and most recently, the Arbitrage Conspiracy. (Which I believe helped to get more energy behind this project...)
I took action on the AC training almost entirely because I believed that if you recommended it, I had to pay attention to it.
It has been great, but since I'm a complete newbie to the internet as a business, I noticed a lack of instruction for the beginner, in matters of understanding the potential of the technology available to me and how to utilize it to take advantage of the GREAT leverage that the internet offers.
The main reason why I'm SO excited about setting up a successful online business is the ability to attain financial freedom in a relatively short period of time, so I can stop being an employee, and start focusing my time into activities that are much more relevant to my purpose and mission.

Who Am I?
I'm Camilo. A young man who wants to be of great use to mankind by actualizing my own potential within the context of my mission in life. I want to inspire people to be responsible of their own transformation by reflecting to them how joyful life is when following your passion with conviction.
I chose Music and Wellness to be the media through which I'll achieve this.
I want to have all the resources I need for my projects available to me, mainly money, so I can have the freedom to use my time in ways I see wise. Other than earning a paycheck to cover bills.
This has been proofed unsuccessful by currently being an employee in a wellness clinic. I don't complain of my actual situation, but I realize it can be much better, and that's why I'm writing this.
After years of practicing, I found that I have something worthy to give to people through bodywork.
But the limit of what I can give is capped by how good I take care of myself.
I'm striving to design my life in daily increments, so I can progress in getting out of the way of my own FLOW in all aspects of life:
Mental, Spiritual, Physical, Social, Familial, Vocational and Financial.
Why Do I want to receive the scholarship?
I want to build businesses and organizations to spread key information and technologies to better the quality of life for ALL. In times where profit is more important than contribution (at least for the giant corporations of the world involved in Pharmaceuticals and Agriculture), action is REQUIRED from average people who want to change things for the better!
I want to create products and technologies that will help people become the healthiest they have EVER been, and also create a research center to investigate and study current technologies and therapies that the public can trust and use as a reliable resource when "shopping" for a specific modality or piece of equipment, without the risk of being scammed with the only purpose of increasing the scammer's checking accounts.

But none of this can be done if I'm in a situation where I have to worry about bringing bread to the table. I want to take care of my family, so they don't have to "work" anymore. Clear all our debt, and meet our needs.
When going through the AC training, I became aware of the fact, that knowing WHAT to do is not the only variable to solve the equation of success... I can know what I need to do to achieve my wanted results... does that necessarily mean that I'll actually DO it? NO.
I found that I was resisting myself from taking action. What a puzzling situation!
It lead me to look inward and ask myself why was I sabotaging myself... in my Path to Transformation...
I'm not usually a new agey-granola kind of guy, but my thinking process and self-contemplation took me to a place where we usually are not used to go. Self love. We want our loved ones to be safe, warm and cozy. To be joyful and fulfilled. We want to give them our best and facilitate their growth. Well, why are we not the same to ourselves? If we love ourselves, and exercise it, then we should let ourselves bloom and shine with splendor. But we don't. We are always last on the list.
Well, not anymore. In order for me to be of great value to society and ultimately the planet, I am my #1 priority. By loving myself, I am accepting and allowing all good to come to me. And not only that, I am learning to be OK with being abundant in all aspects.

This is the place I'm coming from when I ask you to consider me for one of your scholarships.
Besides, today IS my birthday... what a better gift than a scholarship? ;P

Again, thank you Eben!

Hi Eben,

I'm Richmond, I'm 26 and I completed college in the premium university in Ghana 2yrs ago. After school, I decided to pursue my dreams; though I had good grades I never wrote an application for an employment only because I wanted to be my own boss. I then joined a Network Marketing company to fulfill my dreams. I worked so hard to build my biz but found it difficult and involving especially the financial aspect. Coming across the internet made me realize that my dreams could be achieved by having the right training. Training indeed I could not actually afford since I NEVER had a job.

Winning this schorlarship will be a stepping stone to see my dreams come true. One of my dreams is to have the right mentoring, education to get me started on the right foot. I've always believe that EDUCATION is the 1st key. The right education will help me get to the level of an expert in my chosen field and this has been a strong desire. Since the internet is evolving,I believe one needs to have the right information to stop THINKING in an opportunistic fashion way and rise to the level of a Strategist.... and I believe you're the ONE to lead me on that path.
After acquiring the right Education together with the Experience needed as time goes on, I would like to help young people in my country where I've realized that such opportunity is not available. In fact, whenever the words " INTERNET MARKETING" are mentioned people in Ghana down here think immediately about "Scams". It's so incredible to see how many people absorb such lie though true in a way( scam on the internet are real too). My dream is to change such mentality and create the oppportunity for others to realize that indeed the Internet is a Gold mine.

What will I do with the money? To reach the level of expert that you are which I so desire, the one thing that I'm gonna do first to really build a business around me just like you did. Building a business as a real marketer and not as " a product seller" is what I'll use the money for- that's my PRIMARY TARGET.

I strongly believe I deserve this scholarship because in this part of our world we lack opportunities to develop ourselves; this will be an opportunity to make the difference in my community down here. My parents and friends tried to discourage in setting off for greener pasture in Europe rather than trusting the internet, therefore I believe this is my chance to prove them wrong and transform other people life thru Mentoring.

Thanks Eben,
Richmond

Hi Eben,
I’m Bogie and I’m a student of Theology. I’m working part time as a house painter to cover my living expenses.
I want to win the scholarship to the Ignition program because I cannot afford it. I need the information because I want to start publishing e-books, audio, and video materials of the best teachers in my field and make them accessible to other people. You’ll be getting a copy of every single one of my programs free of charge, so you’ll find out later what they are. I’ll use the money to pay the people providing the content for the programs, and the rest I’ll use to improve my living situation.
I hope you would choose me because the value of the content that I want to make available is tremendous. It will contribute to the emotional and spiritual growth of the many people who would use the programs.
Thank you,
Bogie

1. I am Rick MOntieth from Indianapolis, IN and I have owned and operated a natural foods store since 1973. I am still involved with the daily operations of the store along with my 2 sons and I highly enjoy helping my customers with their health issues, especially cancer patients.
2. I would love to win the scholarship so I can take my retail health and wellness business online which will allow me to be of service to many more health conscious people and to secure the future of my store for my children and the community. I want to improve the health of others and know I can reach more people online. I want to provide nutritional information on various health topics and health related products to as many people as possible. I know I can change people's lives. When I am fortunate enough to win the scholarship I am going to build an online business using a video blog as the primary method to communicate with my viewers. I want to learn all facets of building and running a successful online business and I know that the Ignition course is going to provide exactly what I need to accomplish this goal. I am ready to take action! Once I start the business and reach profitability I am going to use the profits created to help secure the financial future of my store as well as my children and grandchildren. I would also like to create my own line of nutritional products that are of the highest quality from the profits of this new online venture.
3. I deserve the Ignition scholarship because I have the knowledge and passion to help those that want to take responsibility to improve their health. This is about helping others. Now I need the tools to put it all together to create the online health and nutrition business I have wanted to do for several years. I know the Ignition course will allow me to make this dream come true. I just know it!
Thank you so much, Eban, for this opportunity.

Rick Montieth

Hi Evan,

I've been a musician for most of my life. I started gigging at 15 and had the opportunity to travel the world doing so.
Unfortunately the pay isn't that great so it's hard to put away when you're just getting by.
I would use the money I would make to expand my knowledge do some investing and probably spoil my new baby niece.
I deserve it because...... I will work hard and implement what I learn through to the end.
I have a basic understanding of marketing online and would love to learn powerful tactics to increase traffic and conversions and the methods involved with such.
So, pick me, pick me lol

Best Regards,
Tom D

Hello Eben

My name is Luis I am a senior in High school, im 18 years old, I was born in Tijuana, Mexico, but i live in the USA right now, and I work as representative for a Financial Serivces Company.

Ive been to figure out how to set up a bussiness online for about a year now, but with all the information and products, it only leaves me confused

I know that like myself theres many people that dont like having a job because it doesnt produce the freedom and wealth they tough it would, therefore working online is the perfect bussiness opportunity

what would i do with the information and money?I am going to reach as many people as i can and teach them how to overcome their online problems and concers that i face to. I would invest a fraction of it to make my business bigger, but also, get my family out of debt, i know like many families suffering right now my parents are struggling to make ends meet, it just makes me sad that they only work to survive day by day, another thing i would do is save it for me but also for my parents so they can retire happy with no worries, i just basically want to provide the best possible help i can, and with such a role model like you teaching me how to start a profitable bussiness online i know i can relief all that stress that my parents face day by day. another thing i would do with the money is donate it to cancer research, he reason for that is that i moved here to the US because my brother had cancer and needed treatment, unfortunately he did not make it, but i made a promise to him, that i was going to do everything i could to help as many people as i could, and make him proud.

I know that i deserve this schoolarship because i am going to use unselfishly and invest the knowledge and money to help and reach as many people as i can. I will make better a world for everyone and help those in despair, i will fufill with passion the promise i made my brother, i will change this world.

Thanks Eben and i trully admire what you do for everyone.

Luis.

Dear Eben,
Just wanted to tell you thanks for the opportunity to win this scholarship.
How's it going? My name's Richard.
Who am I? Well, I'm 45 years old and I'm currently in middle management in the paint industry. I have been with the same company for almost 12 years now. Before that, I spent 17 years in Radio/Broadcasting as an on-air-personality.
Lots of fun!
These days, it's not so fun.
Just like a lot folks out there, the company I work for is going through some major changes that I really don't want to be a part of.
Why do I want to win?
I want to win because I realize that, being on your end, you would want to have a good idea that the three people that you choose are going to succeed. I wouldn't want to hand somebody the "Golden Egg", only to have him or her take it, and promptly flush it down the pot. I know that it takes hard work to succeed in life. It also takes working the smart way too. I've learned these very lessons over the years being around successful people in many different industries. Given a true blueprint of "what to do and how to do it" with the Ignition Program, I honestly know that I would do whatever it took to make it all come together, and work like a charm.
What am I going to use the extra money for?
I realize that there are going to be quite a few people here that will tell you that they are going to "give a bunch of money to charity". Perhaps "I'm going to give it all to my Mom and Dad", or "my dying Aunt". That's all fine too. We all have our "feel good stories" of what we'd like to do with extra money.
Me?
I'm gonna grind up all of my extra money and fertilize my lawn with it, so it will be green too.
......just kidding.
Having been in the Entertainment Industry for a while, I would love to be able to start a personal venture of my own, whether it be a lounge, coffee shop, or a jazz club where people could go, have a good time and be entertained. I'd like to have the opportunity to be able to provide something like that for my community.
Why do I deserve to win?
In business, in relationships, and in life, we all should have a second chance. Of course, it's what you do with that "second chance" that truly matters.
Not too long ago, after many failures in my life, a "wise man" advised me to look at my life, turn it around and make the most out of it without the fear. Ya know Eben, this wise man "David" gave me a second chance with MANY things in my life. I would like to continue on this personal "second chance", take my life to a new level
and spread the joy along the way.
It would truly be a great honor for me to meet you when I'm awarded one of these three scholarships. I'm certainly looking forward to all of it.

I would like to win this scholarship in order to get start-up money for the home-business.I have realised that after 4 years of university, it is not guaranteed that you will have a secure place waiting for u.Plus, I have seen people who have dedicated their lives to their companies only to find out one day that you are being replaced by some newbie who will take less salary and whose suppose to be faster. The way markets are going, people are reacting, economy is running, only one word defines it BAD! The capitalists are not leaving any opportunities for anyone but only influencing everyone in their own way through the media. For that reason i would like to earn a scholarship in order to have my own stability in life not depending on anyone and being sure that if I lose it, it would be because of myself.$30,000 plus interest for a university degree,how am i suppose to pay that in 1 year in that kinda of insecure market? If I do, what about the mortgage, bills, car insurance?? I have lived with a single mother my whole life and have realised that you cannot depend on anyone in this world and I have always tried to help her both financially and emotionally. After trying to pay my university fees i doubt i will be able to be of any help. I am from mauritius, an island off madagascar. If i get the opportunity to win this scholarship, not only i will help my mother any all the ways i can but i will also make sure that i give the same opportunity to all those people on the island where the internet has not developed as much as it has in the western culture.
In anticipation of a favorable response,
Rahul

Hello Eben ,

My Name is Douglas R. Smith . I am 35 years old and I am an entrenpreneur . I am married ,my beautiful wife is sylvia and we have a wonderful son Tyler. I own a Lawn Maintenance company in Marlboro, New York and I have been buying and selling realestate since early 1999. In the last year lawn business has dropped off with the down turn in the housing market and I got caught with all the most recent pieces of property I bought at the peak of this last RE swing . Now I am struggling to maintain my lifestyle , keep up with the payments on 6 different pieces of property I probably wont be able to sell for 5-7 years .All of this has combined for a perfect storm crashing in on me all at once.I have seen some of the altitude videos and respect you tremendously!! When I saw you were doing an "ignition" program I signed up immediately. I said to my self I know Eben will get it right !!!I have been following Tellman ,Shawn Casey , Dean Graziosi , Ryan of the rich jerk , Ted Johnson and others , and I get it !!!! I have so many pieces of the puzzle yet all I need is a little help putting them together (let me see the picture on the box!Please ).Its always easier to put the puzzle together when you know what it is supposed to look like !

I need a scholarship because money is tight right now. To be spending money on something other than the mortgages is not really an option right now ;( . I am driven , I am positive , I really need to keep my head in the game right now and cannot divert my attention from earning the old fashion way , breaking my back to get the green that I need. There is only one teacher guru out there that could get me to take attention and work on IM , And you guessed it that's EBEN .I am so frustrated and stuck , and I know you have the solutions and can lead me right to the light !

With the money I will earn on line I am going to give my self a fresh start , first thing to go will be all the credit cards , and unecessary bills , I will never fall into this trap again ,if I don't have the money I will not buy it , I will get my self out of debt and provide some financial security for my wife and son !!!!The crushing weight this path has put on my shoulders has become to much , my mental state has suffered and so has my physical health , NEVER AGAIN will I be in this predicament !

EBEN , help me , I am so close yet feel like I am a million miles from the finish line. I know you will do it right and not leave me hanging after the sale ! I trust you ! LETS DO THIS !!!

My Mission Is Personally The Most Difficult Thing I Could Choose To Devote My Life To.

Yet, My Mission Is Simple.

It is simple because once I realized and accepted it, it is the only path that will ensure my personal evolution, and the evolution of the people that I will reach.

My name is Tancie, I'm 35 years old.
In life: I am undergoing a total and complete internal transformation. While I have been aware of the higher power for years, I can admit now that it has
been a surface awareness. This is changing very rapidly now. Recently a series of events ( I'm sure you all feel it too ) within me and within the world
have LIT A FIRE IN ME. What happened was, I've WOKEN UP.

And it is clear - I have been avoiding myself in my life for fear of what embracing myself and my life would mean. "The mission was too scary and too big!"

With this realization I am IGNITED to move forward with the mission of my soul for the first time in my life.

I am a very sensitive soul and a great warrior within. I grew up in a situation that was physically and emotionally abusive.
This has given me a unique perspective on life, men and women, success, happiness, subservience and power.
My parents had an extremely passionate, violent, destructive relationship. I have previously not been able to bring my self fully into my life because
I could not accept some of what I had experienced, UNTIL NOW. I cherish every moment now. I want to remember and I want to share it all.

Now I am awake, and I have finally taken sight of exactly what I must devote my life to in order to bring myself into my life.
This is crucial to my and everyone's evolution. In fact it is my responsibility and I feel that I owe this to my fellow humans.

I am studying the internet, technology, and have built a website and launched Queen Corps, a peaceful army of women dedicated to taking responsibility for violence.

With the information I receive and the money/energy I earn/raise I will develop Queen Corps into an organization that will provide :
1) education to young girls and young women about non-violence
2) education about inner strength and inner peace
3) intervention for domestic abuse, safe houses for families in danger
4) a corps of women who are committed to inner peace and to personally taking responsibility for any and all violence
5) a corps of women who are equipped to be spreading the message and tools of inner peace so that we may all be responsible for creating the world we desire.

Queen Corps has begun as a woman's business directory, I need more skills and more information about how to bring this vision into reality.
I need a mentor. I need a marketing education.I need to know how to band together a peaceful army of woman, for I feel that in large
part women blame others for things that they have not fully taken responsibility for. Myself included. Now is our time to change that.

A great teacher said recently when asked 'what do we do about the Hitler energy in the world' she said, " find that energy within yourself and begin there. Heal it
within yourself and you heal it in the world."

Here is the thing.
My mother ( the woman/the victim ) was as much to blame for our trauma as our father was. This was a co-created reality. Today she still has absolutely no idea what
this concept means. If my mother were able to see this at the time, all of our lives would be very different today. Maybe not better or worse, just different. Maybe better.

My mission is to teach women to locate an heal the violence within themselves in order to heal the violence in the world. To take FULL responsibility for their existance.
World peace through inner peace, beginning with women. Yes, the feminine has fallen victim to many evils over the ages, but I don't see this as any excuse in the modern world. When we, as women, have stronger commitments to our souls and to focusing on our strengths, we will not stand for abuse. We will not stand for self inflicted abuse, abuse from another or within our communities. I believe our world needs more louder strong nurturing voices of resourceful responsible women who can share in a
mainstream way. We need more women to look up to, men need it just as much as women do.

Queen Corps will teach women to make a commitment to themselves first to end the violence within, will create leaders in our communities who's voices can stand
against the violence that does go on and will educate and stand for non-violent leadership world wide.

Queen Corps will develop solutions for families who are in need of safety and mental support, and will create facilities for families to come to when they are in need of safety as I was as a child. This will support the men, women and children involved, as it is a co-created reality.

Why me?

I am a Queen atop a wild horse with a sword in one hand and a burning soul in the other. I am IGNITED. I come with no castle or crown jewels to bear, but what I lack in citadel I make up for in grace and grit. I feel personally responsible to show the world the value of non-violent leadership. I stand for world peace through inner peace.

And Ghandi is my favorite movie star.

With love.

Hi Eben,

What a generous offer.

I'm nearly 48 years old and working for my third insurance company. I was self-employed for a few years and really loved the freedom, flexibility, and sense of pride that went along with it. For many years I have pondered starting a business on the internet. I have read, studied and tried a couple of things that did not work.

With the money from my successful venture I would prepare for my rapidly approaching retirement years, put some aside to assist my aging parents when they need help, and give to some of my favorite charities. It would also be nice if I could free some time to do volunteer work and/or assist others starting their own businesses.

I enjoy working and love learning new things. I believe I could put training like this to use. Keep up the great work.

Thank you for the opportunity and your consideration,
Jami

Dear Eben,

Hey man, first off let me say thanks for this awesome opportunity. It's definitely not every day that you come across a highly reputable marketer that's giving away three FULL scholarships to his high value training program.

Pretty badass in my opinion. :)

So lets get things started. My name is Richard Young and I'm 23 years old. I turn 24 on April 16 actually. Currently, I'm a husband (you know that's a job man) but for income I'm a high voltage electrician for the U.S. Government on a Navy base. I used to be in the Navy and served 4 years (2004-2008) as an electrician and just got out last April. I did the whole deployment thing, dealt with a lot of bull while I was in, but also learned a insane amount about life, motivation, adaptation, and persistence.
Tons of good times and bad times, but NOT something that I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Nor do I want to be an employee for the rest of my life.

No way.

Towards the end of my Naval career, I started to learn about internet marketing and found myself intrigued. This whole thing is wild and I truly believe, in my heart man, that this is what I want to do with my life. This is it. This is me. It's not one of those brief driver emotions. I've never actually been a "great" employee because I feel like I'm just limiting myself by being one. I'm the type of guy that's never settled and I'm always constantly learning, trying new things and bettering myself. I want to own my own business, and I will.

So why on Earth would I want to win this scholarship?

Easy.

I want to build a highly profitable information business that not only is FUN, but will specifically have my prospects wants and needs in mind. That kinda sounds textbook I know, but seriously, that's it. Real entrepreneurs build businesses that actually HELP people. They don't sell crap, and they don't sell just anything. They sell stuff that's proven to work and has extremely high value. I want to have that kind of business.

The money that I make from my business I'll use to reinvest into the business. Whether it be outsourcing, PPC, investing into new marketing products, joining masterminds, etc.

A portion of the money will also be used to support my mother so she doesn't have to work anymore. She raised a good man (me) single-handedly for 23 years with no child support, no dad, and working two jobs. I know it had to be killer dude but she did it so I highly respect her and I want to take her away from work so she can finally relax.

And of course, a portion will go to my family and some material items. Hey, just being honest, why wouldn't you treat yourself nicely if you're making a whole bunch of money helping people right?

So your last question Eben is, why ME?

Well, here's why you should choose me...

I'm an individual that not only strives for personal greater achievement, but also achievement for others. I love helping people. And to be PAID to help people who actually LIKE you? Man it doesn't get better than that. Even though I know it's physically impossible to try to make EVERYONE happy, which you shouldn't do anyway.

That's why I want to be in the ignition program. I know the ignition program has what it takes to propel me to greater heights in my business and to help me overcome challenges sooner than if I were to do it on my own.

Personally, I know that owning my own business is what I want to do. "Ignition" would be like the road for me, waiting for me to walk it. Taking action is NOT a question because I've taken action before and I'm STILL taking action today, even though the results I've gotten in the past sucked. Failure is just a result to me, that's it. It doesn't stop me; in fact I just get up, learn from the past mistakes and get ready for another venture when the previous one fails. It's that simple, I'm highly self-motivated.

But that's about it, man this came out longer than I thought. :P

Talk to you soon,
Richard

Eben, grateful I am for this chance to experience YOUR training! (I've read some GOOD reviews of your efforts)

I'm Kerry Dean, dba online as Karridine, although that 'business' has been fragmented and only mildly profitable to-date...

World-Class Strategic Project Planner Terry Schmidt tells me I'm 'one of the most creative people' he knows, in our 11 years working together... and now I've turned to the online world, striving to create a better life for my Lao-Thai wife and our two bilingual sons as I live expat American life here in Bangkok, could-be hub of South-East Asia.

Currently focused on FOCUSING (that information overload hits REAL hard sometimes), I lead a 4-person, ad hoc team (California, New Zealand & Bangkok) in PPC & CPA efforts, where I'm a good leader but we're just now starting to see PROFIT...

So IF you can see in me a competent, committed, creative capitalist intent on bettering our world through good deeds AND good words, then I aim to create funded efforts to provide state-of-the-art prosthetics to (Strong Finish; YouTUBE) Nick and others like him!

My hard work, multi-lingual capacity (Korean, Thai & high-school French) and dedication to the Oneness of Humankind are reward in and of themselves. I do not claim that this DESERVES to study with you. Its all mindset, and mine is set on SERVICE: more service for more people more often!

If THAT touches, moves and inspires you to select me, then in His service, let's go for the Gold!

Hello Eben, I would like to be considered as a possible recipient of your Ignition Scholarship. I love to learn new things and apply them to real world situations.I don't envy your task at picking the three individuals for the scholarships. I just want to thank you again for your generosity, it is greatly appreciated.

Hey Eben,



I'm Chris Cho from Philadelphia and I JUST turned 24 years young. I dropped out college to start my first business when I was 21 years old with my best friend. I went from opening two stores within three months to closing down both businesses. Although I was in debt, it was the best experience ever because I learned that failing wasn't so bad. I wasn't afraid to fail anymore!



I'm currently an entrepreneur and my main income comes from real estate investing. After closing my first business, I was flat broke, in debt, and still refused to get a job because I knew exactly what I wanted. With that determination, I made 115k within the first 6 months with NO MONEY DOWN.



The reason I want to win this scholarship is to open my online business to help others to achieve their dream. I was once a thug, dealing drugs, and had NO HOPE whatsoever. I want to be that person to bring hope in people's lives and empower them to their own greatness. With the success and money I earn from my online business, I want to reinvest it to publish a book so I can move and inspire more people to achieve their dream.



The reason why I deserve this scholarship is because one day I'll reach out to another three or even more people with free scholarships JUST like the way you are doing right now. Those three people can reach out to another three people and change the world. I am the perfect example of a reluctant hero and I deserve it so bad because people are waiting for their lives to change.



This was an amazing experience to sit down and really think about what my purpose is. Thank you for being an inspiration to others and also for reading this.



Chris Cho

Hi Eben,

My response is going to be short and sweet.

My name is Rick Mann, I am 53 years old, a husband, a father and a friend to many.

Currently I am still employed full time as a restaurant manager but have built an online business which may be considered an authority site in the digital scrapbooking niche. It currently allows my wife to stay home with our 2 children and run this business.

What I will do with the money I make in information marketing should you choose me and even if you don't? I will leverage it to create more streams of income using other online business models.

Why me? I have worked hard this year to create an information marketing business. I am beginning to see some success with the business model I have chosen to start with.

My goal is to master each online business model I choose to use and then move on to a new one.

There are a couple reasons for this. First is that I don't believe in placing all my eggs in one basket and there are several models that are good and relatively easy to learn and become successful with as long as I put in the time and effort to learn and use the knowledge I gain.

The second reason is that I love to learn new things. I enjoy and always have enjoyed a fair amount of success with anything I have put my mind to.

Last but not least is the fact that I am now 53 years old and have a new child (1 month old) and an 8 year old and I want to be able to spend as much time as possible with them. This means I MUST get out of the restaurant business and create a business in which I can be home when I want to.

Thank you very much for this opportunity.

I am sure you will have many good entries to choose from but you will only have a few good people to choose from. I am one of those people.

Sincerely,

Rick Mann

style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Hi
Eben,

style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Before
I answer your 3 questions, I want to thank you soooo much for your
generosity
in offering the 3 full scholarships to style="">ignition
and in donating and being
involved in the drive to eliminate Malaria (I have been following you
on
Twitter). Your generosity, willingness and readiness to share your
knowledge
and expertise are inspiring.

style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Now,
who am I?

style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">My
name is Eliane and I am a 36 years old mother of 3 precious daughters
(all
under the age of 9). I am originally from Burundi (a small country in
East
Africa) and my family and I moved to the US from Rwanda about 6 years
ago. Two
months ago, I quit my job as a financial administrator for a non-profit
organization so that I could focus on building a successful online
business,
raise my children and start laying the foundation for my long-term
plans. Why
did I take such a radical decision? I realized that if I kept doing
what I
always did (having a job), I could not expect different results in my
life (the
very definition of insanity) and I will not be in a position to achieve
the
goals that I had set to achieve by the time I am 40.

style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Which
brings me to your 2nd
question: What will I do with the information
that I get at style="">Ignition
and what will I do with the money that my business
will generate?.

style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">I
will apply the information that I will learn from you to build and grow
my
online business, and once my business is profitable, I will use at
least 10% of
the profits to build:

style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The
success of my business will also allow me to free up my schedule so
that I can
devote more time to raising my children, coaching women and young girls
all
over the world, learning more from coaches like yourself, and to be
more
involved in giving back to my community both with my time, talents and
resources. Having lived in a third world country for most of my life
and having
been privileged enough to travel the world, to see people pursuing
their dreams
and succeeding, I feel indebted to not only my family but also to my
community
and really humanity; to give back and participate in sharing what I
have
learned so that the next person can do things that are even more
amazing and
continue to pay it forward for a better world, a better tomorrow.

style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Why
me?

style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Because
I have put everything on the line and I am committed to do all it takes
to have
my online business succeed. You can count on every bit of information
that I
get from style="">Ignition
to be put to good use in developing, prospering my
online business. By investing in me, you will be investing in the
wellbeing of
not only my 3 precious girls but also that of everyone who I will
coach, teach,
or come in contact with as part of my business, mentorship and any
other
appropriate avenues. As Maya Angelou said: “if you teach a
woman, you teach a
village”.

style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">I
will be more than happy to update you on my progress if you so wish.

style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Again,
thank you so much for your generosity!

Hey Eben,

My name is Gene Besse. I am a 32 year old unemployed, degree holding individual that has been affected by this recession. I have tried to start up an online business for quite a few month now with little success. I really hate to go all "Poor me" here, but this is my story. In the past I had always had really good luck. I was surrounded by friends, I had money in the bank, life was a big party that I had taken for granted. It seemed one day that all that I had disappeared. Everything from the love of my life to the car that I drove was gone. I started going really overboard when it came to drinking, which I ended up in jail more than once.I have been blessed with loving parents that allowed me to move back in until I can get back on my feet.

I tried to run away from my problems by taking the first job that came along in another state. Everything looked promising, so I made a leap of faith working for a catastrophe team that helped out people who were victims to hurricanes, floods, storms,etc. This job was very demanding. I worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week without a day off.(On top of that I had an hour and a half commute.) I was fine with it though because I was doing something positive and I was miles away from my troubles. After a month and a half, they started cutting people and I was one of them. I kept my head up and decided looking for work. I hit the pavement and found nothing; that was months ago.

I've always entertained the thought of having a home based business, but never really thought that I could pull it off. I'm still trying to this day, but it feels like I'm getting nowhere with it. I'm very persistent, and I know that even if I don't win this scholarship, I will get to where I want to be.(I don't have a job, so I have a lot of time to figure it out, right.)lol.

If I started profiting from what I learned, the first thing that I would do is buy me a new car. I do believe that you have to put money back into the world to keep things going. If you horde your money, what good is that. I do believe in giving back. I'm not going to say that I'm going to give a 100% to charity, but I will give to a charity that I believe in. I would also support local business because right now they are really struggling. Who knows, maybe I can help them out from what I learn if I win this thing.

The reason I want this scholarship, is because I'm familiar with your work as David DeAngelo and Double Your Dating. I bought that several years ago to improve on that aspect of my life, so here we are again. I need help on this new aspect of my life. You helped me in the past and you have a lot of knowledge to share. So, I'm ready to learn. This kind of reminds me of that saying "When your ready, the teacher will appear". Because of the things that I have been through in the last two years (which, by the way, I know people have had it a lot harder than I did.) I really want to inspire people to become their best. If people actually put out their best, I truly believe that this world would be a better place. No matter where you may come from, no matter what your situation is, you can be what it is you dream, if you work on yourself. I feel like we should be of service to people. If I can profit from it, that just a secondary benefit. I want to enrich the lives of people.

The reason that I deserve this scholarship s because I have always implemented what I learn immediately. I want to see what ever it is I learn in action right away. I have always been a good student and will try anything, no matter how out of my comfort zone it is. I am willing to take risks, and will gladly do so to learn.

Times are tough, but regardless if I win a scholarship or not, I'll get there. I remember that saying "This to shall pass". I'm been through tough times, but who hasn't. I've learned a lot about myself. I would love to win this scholarship. I would not take it for granted. I realize there are people who have more tragic stories than I have. I realize that other may be better writers than I am. (Oh by te way, I apologize for grammatical errors, the computer I'm using does not have "Word".) However, If I win, I will incorporate everything that I learn. I will give it a 110%. I will be a success.

Gene Besse

Thanks Eben for the generous offer. i'm just a hard working person .I'm working night crew now at a food market .I enjoy the work out and I enjoy learning and thriving to learn and do more in life I do have philanthropoic tendencies and would be good at giving to others that need and want to grow and prosper in life. I'm gradually making a better life every day so i do contribute more as a can . Looking forward to your new course to ignite more growth and prosperity . Gracias

Hi Eben,I admire you for taking a stand,reaching out and touching lives .My name is Robert Puntervold.I go to work at 4 am as a Merchandizer with the Pesico Corp.For many years I have learned from my father good work ethics and have/nt called in sick in 17 years .To become good one must work hard .To become great one must work harder and smarter than the rest. In High School and college in the sport of wrestling I learned what it was like to take state and national titles,become inducted in the Hall Of Fame , later to become a coach and referee for 35 years now. I have helped thousands of kids grow up to become productive.Losing a child with cancer and soon after her mom was not easiy to deal with as we are all dealth with lifes problems.How we respond can help us to become a better person .Before she passed I was able to make a world movie and a lot of money for charity .Having a good coach and a great coach is the difference of Sucess and failure .I Know Eben that you are that coach that I desire and am seeking that will help change my life but more importantly the lives that I touch .With this scholarship I can share this information with so many others so they too can live a better life . Knowledge is power only when applied .A champian starts with that first step , Knowing that he has been coached by the very best .We are all put on this earth to inspire and reach out and help others .Its all in the state of mind .Some times we receive not because we ask not. So I am asking you Eben for consideration to become a great student of yours so that I Can reach out and touch some one elses life .In so doing to help do my part in making some elses life a better place to live in this world . Thank you for your commitment to humanity and your consideration for your scholarship. Warmly Robert Puntervold, A Champanion In The Making !

Eben,

My name is Martin Lanzas and I am an Engineer by day and a superhero by night...well not really a superhore but I do feel like one somtimes:)

During the evenings and weekends I follow my true passion and purpose in life, which is NLP. I'm a bit more than interested in it; I'm addicted to it. I love it. If I'm not studying NLP, I'm practicing with people. I recently started my NLP practice officially.

I want to win the scholarship, because I will use it to learn what I can learn in order to accomplish my purpose of helping people transform themselves. I believe that your system can teach me how to better deliver my message so that I can have the biggest possible impact and to help people live a life of freedom, abundance and choice.

The money I earn from my business will allow me to have more freedom and help out my family and buy a cool ass house on the beach ;).

I deserve the ignition scholarship, because I will APPLY the information. In fact, I have already applied a lot of the marketing principles Eben teaches. I also deserve the scholarship, because I believe that my purpose realy makes a positive difference in people's lives you can help me do that.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Martin

Hi, Eben I love what you do and what you stand for and was very impressed with your time scedule I saw awhile back including the exercise and eating healthy. I couldn't agree with you more. I take care of my 89 year old mother who is nursing home care for about 1.5 years now. I have been staying here with her to take care of her singlehandedly for 5 years beforethat, 6.5 in all. Now I have help from the state but I can't leave because someone has to be here at all times and I cannot go out to work. i am now 65 and I can read and study VERY WELL and retain what i read very well, praise God. I would like to get certificates/degrees in various fields of alternative medicine. I am almost an RN from 45 years ago, having studied at Carney Hosp. in Boston. I realize medicine has its place but does not actually cure people and usually winds up creating more problems. Mom and I use badly needed health products thru various MLM companies and i already have people coming to me for help and advice. Even my mom's doctor said he would love to study alternative medicine but does not have the time, so he waits for me to fill him in on things as i learn them. I want to do so much more. Eventually I would like to take part in or start a wellness clinic in this area, Calais, Maine. We are on a fixed income and have credit card debt due to having to buy health products, and a mortgage as well. We are on food stamps at this time. Mom requires a lot of time and care. She has to be helped a lot at mealtime and this can literally take hours!!! I feel that I deserve to win a scholarship since I diligently study and work as well as the fact that I have put my life on hold for my Mom. I am an only child and I am doing what I feel I owe my dear mother who read to me a lot when I was young and fed me well so I would be smart in school plus nursed me for 3 months as a newborn. I also live a good clean Christian life. To God be the glory. Thank you for everything, Eben and God bless you and yours. Maureen Cartwright 207 454 2593

Dear Eben you are awesome and I know that I will absorb and run with your info and reach my goal of 12 million in three years.I am mentoring with my mastermind group I am forming of one of my goals is that you will be a part.I have spent countless hours online learning for the past 4 years online 24 years in mail order offline I am your man just go to my blog and look at my email I am really blessed by Google as a partner I am currently integrating many business together with the likes of Ted Nicholas Mark Joyner Jay Abraham and many others I love your stuff and if you give me this gift for Easter I know this is Gods will and I will help alot of other people to better their lives.I have a clear vision and path to reaching my goal of giving 1 million dollars to 12 minister doing Gods work around the earth and for the sake of gods will I need to take this up a notch thank you and God bless for your time Happy Resurrection day GOD BLESS!!!!

Hi Eben, style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">


First I would like
to thank you for contributing to the internet marketing
industry  the way you do. I can comfortably refer anyone to
you or your programs with full confidence that they will get the most
honest advise and guidance from you. I know you are a person of the
highest integrity and I feel honored to even be able to watch your free
video trainings or to join any program that you make available. I want
to personally thank you for making this program available to the three
selected individuals even if I am not one of them. I know you will pick
the very best submissions and those people will reap many rewards from
your generosity.



Who
I am



My name is Linda
Curtis and I work full time as an insurance agent in Florida. I have
come to realize in these turbulent financial times that while I thought
I had a very stable job, nothing is secure at this time. I am at the
mercy of my employer and his ability to maintain his business, his
finances and ultimately my paycheck.  Meanwhile I work as hard
as I can to grow the business not knowing if the doors will even be
open tomorrow when I return to work. WOW, that’s really heavy
considering I was recently given emergency custody of my infant
grandson and my two year old granddaughter along with the fact that I
am a single mom raising my own children.



My
Epiphany



I cannot put that
kind of faith, trust or confidence into anyone or any business that I
do not have full control or guidance over. I have way too much at
stake! My children are depending on me to provide their needs and no
one else will be doing this for me so I need to take control of this
situation in a hurry! style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">


What
I would do….



I can see the power
of the internet and I can see how small businesses can create
tremendous growth if they could “get on line” and
market their business to their niche markets. Connecting to their
markets on a very personal level and continually keeping in contact
and, as a by-product, continue to sell more and more products or
services. They would be leveraging their time thereby strengthening
their position and allowing their business to
“work” for them as it should. I would provide
services such as ways to reduce expenses, and increase productivity
while implementing time management procedures. I would also provide
marketing services, website creation, ad services, social media
programs, of course outsourcing the majority of these skill sets. style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">


How
would I spend the money I will earn…



I would create
college funds for all of my children including my grandchildren. I
would move us into a larger home as we have quickly outgrown our 900 sq
ft duplex.



I would reinvest a
good portion to continue the growth and expansions into other county's
and/or communities. I would like to create an automated program to
teach others how they can help their communities. style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">


I also work closely
with senior citizens and want to develop an outreach program operated
by volunteers to help our local seniors with services that are not
provided elsewhere, especially when they don’t have any local
family members. There is an incredible need here and our seniors are
quietly suffering from being on low fixed incomes with the rising costs
of their basic necessities. It deeply saddens me to see them suffer so.
I may not be able to change the world but I know we can find a way to
help those closest to us, in our own community. style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">


Eben,
you should pick me because…



I have an
incredible “why” to succeed! Succeed I must! I am
the “star” you describe in your programs. I always
go above and beyond what is expected of me. I treat any company I work
for like I own it. I am an entrepreneur to the core and have been
searching for my “niche” in life since 1989! I have
finally found it in internet marketing. I have been self teaching
myself all the skill sets I need to succeed at owning my own business.
I work hard at self improvement, mindset, clarity and time leveraging.
I would use your system to catapult me into taking the next step of
launching my own business and eventually quitting my day
“job” to formally be my own boss while helping our
local community. Thank your for reading my application for this
scholarship and I promise I will not let you down if you select me for
a scholarship. I will be a wonderful testimonial once I have achieved
my goals. Being successful to me means my grandchildren will be in a
safe loving home getting all their needs met and the lives of some of
our local seniors will improve. style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">


Sincerely, style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">


Linda Curtis

Eben,

I'm a fifty-five year old former warehouse manager. I've been unemployed for some time now. I liked what I was doing when I was working, but going back to it is an unrealistic hope for a few reasons. First, of course, is the economy. No need to belabor that one. Second, the geniuses with MBA degrees have decided that warehouse work is unskilled, so they can save a lot of money by hiring unskilled people. I've seen the results first hand. Lots of damaged and pilfered merchandise. The geniuses simply write that off. The really scary aspect is unskilled people running forklifts. Very dangerous. Not my problem anymore, since I'm too expensive to keep on the job. Lastly, I'm looking after an elderly parent with health problems. This has evolved into a full time commitment. There are simply no scheduling options that allow for holding down a job. All of this seems very negative, but I'm actually very upbeat, as I believe that a new chapter in my life might include unlimited prosperity.

I'm excited by the potential of a web based business. The first thing I would do with income from that business is reinvest in the business to promote growth. At the same time, ten percent of profits would be contributed to animal rescue, wilderness preservation, and wildlife protection organizations. Once the business is firmly established, I would start paying myself enough to cover my living expenses and pay down my debts. My ultimate goal financially would be to earn enough that I could live comfortably on ten percent of profits and have the rest go directly to a trust for financing special projects in my favorite causes.

As to the matter of deserving, I'm bound to admit that I'm no more or less deserving than any other applicant. I don't doubt that you'll read many compelling stories in the process of picking the winners. They are to be congratulated and wished every success.

Hello from Australia!
Short and sweet
1.I am a 50 year old fitness centre manager (I love it)
2. About four years ago my wife became unwell. She currently works in a job she hates and would very much like to leave it. And since I love her, I'd like to make it possible for her to do this.
3.Once I have mastered a business online and from home, I can teach and free others!
Thats it. (I am usually a great talker but wanted to keep this to the point and easy for you to peruse!)
Cheers

Jeff

Eben,
First of all, thank you. I have followed your work for the past few years and you are truly an inspiration to me and countless others. The Ignition program is something that is very much needed to help the beginners solidy a good foundation when starting their online business. There is so much information out there but nothing really stands out for the beginner.

I fell in love with the word 'residual' at an Amway meeting 20 years ago. I want to bring abundance theory to the masses, and destroy fear and worry in the process. The skills are there but focus and streamlining are needed. The challenge is more important to me than the money, empowering the 'Jenius Guru' in all of us is what I want to teach. Humor must play a role, self-righteousness makes me ill. I love the value and candidness Felix Dennis and yourself bring to the publishing arena. About five years ago I signed up for, then bailed out of, a Paul/Fleck/Casey venture that launched the career of one Tellman Knutson, back when he was bald and clean shaven. My mistake, but no regrets; for now I have the chance for reconciliation. Enjoy your cake. WJeff

Hello Eben
My name is Andre and I am 57 years old with many years experience in the Insurance and Tranportation field
I am presently a care giver to my elderly mother who is in the late stages of alzheimers.In this regard,I have to give up my employment..
If I obtain one your scholarships it with allow me the freedom to focus on the course instead of worrying how I will pay my credit card.
When I obtain my financial independence I will help the underprivileged and try to assist other obtain their financial independence.
I trust Iwill hearing from you soon
Best Regards
Andre

Hi Eben,

So, who I am? Normal gyu. I`m someone who is trying turn hobby in to business. I`m willing start from scrach.
Why I want to winn the scholarship? To be honest, I have no money to pay for it. And I think that this is great chance to learn and use high value informations.
What will I do with knowledge? USE IT and TEACH or MENTOR someone else.
What will I do with money? Invest in to company, team. To build something bigger then me and help other.
Why me?
Because I understood that website is the mirror, where customer should see him self.
Because I`m drinking water and doing other things every morning to build my rituals;-))
Because I need mentor to become a STAR.

Hope I didn`t disappoint you. But You know, some people write and other act.

Thanks

Jan

Dear Eben,

Hello there. My name is Eusebio Yu. You can call me Sebs for short. I work at home here in the Philippines as a project manager and QA lead for one of the top internet marketers. At the same time, I am studying in Bible school and serving as a part-time assistant pastor.

Recently, I have been quite focused on getting my own Internet business up. I have studied about diverse topics like driving traffic, using audio & video, PLR, continuity programs, effective sales copy, autoresponders, etc. I already have my own domain name, web hosting, WordPress blog site, and product ideas from PLR. I feel that I just need a push from you to really get things going. I need someone to "ignite" me and guide me towards getting one online business up and running. I believe your training course could do just that. That is why I want to win the scholarship. If I win the scholarship, I promise to apply the information that I will learn from you to get my first online business up within the year (or possibly within the first half of this year).

As I mentioned above, I am studying in Bible school and serving as a part-time assistant pastor. One of my goals in making money online is so that I would have more time in pastoring & leading people and not worrying about what my family will eat. When I start earning higher income online, I intend to keep our family's current simple lifestyle, save up for the future, invest in God's kingdom, and teach other pastors as well to make money online.

Of all people, why me? I believe that if you choose to award me with one of your scholarships, God may be using you to make a turning point in my life. I believe I am so close there already. All I need is a little more push and you may be the person destined just for that.

Thank you very much for your generosity in offering these scholarships. More power to you and your team.

With All Gratefulness,
Eusebio "Sebs" Yu
sebsgrace@yahoo.com

Hi Eben,
My name is Rebecca. I work in a bank. I've been trying to learn and finding ways on how to set up online business for years. There's so much tools and information out there that I don't know where to start. It's overwhelming. I believe that in order to be successful in this business is to have a mentor. I wish there will be schools for internet marketing. I'm so desperate to learn everything about online business.
I want to win because this will open up a new hope for me and my family. Once I'm successful I will set up funds for my kids school education and help my mom for her medical bills. I would also like to help some friends who are struggling right now due to lost of job just like me a couple of months ago and encourage them to have a business such like this because no one else can take care of us but ourselves.
Why me? Because I will be a good student of yours. I will listen and follow your instructions. I'll do the best I can because this was a great opportunity and my future lies within this program once I get pick. I can be your apostle and spread the news that this stuff really works. Thank you for giving us this opportunity.

Rebecca
rebercon@gmail.com

Hello Mr. Pagan, my name is John. I really appreciate what you are doing for those selected as from what I have read there are many deserving of your generousity.
1) I am 49, live in a small rural town in WVa, have 2 wonderful daughters and trust in our Lord to meet my needs. I began this letter over 1 hour ago and decided to take this time to think about what I wished to convey to you. I am a simple man in my personal needs however I have been working online for several years in an attempt to find an honest way to increase my income. I am retired from a company located in the "rust belt" as those inside the "beltway" coined it and eventually the company closed. I was fortunate to have been employed long enought to receive an early retirement but as you can imagine this cut my income to one fouth what it was so I dove into the Internet seeking additional income.

2)I am tossing hat into the ring on this because I have been scammed to the tune of $50,000.00 plus several years ago and while this was a hit finacially it was more of a slap emotionally to think I could fall for this. I say this because I am an intelligent guy who has always been very careful with money but I really got coned. Ever since I have tried more money making ideas than I care to remember and while I have made a few dollars none have lived up to what they promised. I realized, eventually, that I was not going to be able to do this on my own without a mentor who was up-front, had a proven program, and was honest. Hopefully I have found this in you and your program. Provided with a workable blueprint and support for questions I am certain I can do well. Monies I earn will be used to pay-off my home, beef up my savings, pay for college tuition expenses for both my daughters, help a couple of family members who are in need, and 10% off the top will go to the Lords work. I also have other charitable causes I give to so I will help them. And lastly I will purchase a new motocross bike! Use to race but sold my bike several years ago. I also would really like to reach a level of Internet business knowledge I can become a mentor to others who are in the same position I am.
3) Why do I deserve your generousity? I have been thinking about this question and anything I say would sound selfish. Don't get me wrong Eben, I know how to sell myself for a job but I am probably much older than many of the applicants and they have more needs than I. I can only say that if chosen I have the time, intelligence, and drive to provide a good testimonial for the viability of your program. This would be the answer to many prayers.
I wish all your applicants good luck and thanks Eben for your desire to help others.

Hello there Eben,

I guess in this situation there would tend to be a whole bunch of sad sack stories..... rest assured, this is not one of them.

My name is Darren Hart, I live and love down here in beautiful New Zealand. In fact, I live on the edge of the world, the most Easterly city on the planet, the first place to see the light of each new day, everyday.

I am a 23+ years IT and Business Management veteran. I started my first business at 21, was running 4 companies by the time I was 24 and have always been known as a "go getter".
After an "interesting" period with various business partnership breakups and a marriage meltdown I effectively had to start from scratch. Which I did. I developed an IT consultancy which I later sold to
a national IT service provider. I then ran their interests in the local area here for 8 odd years and grew that business from 2 staff to 12 people at the end of 2007. We did A LOT of cool and exciting things (more detail on my personal website and within my bio attached there).

However, when they were acquired by a mega corporation, I decided it was time to move on.
Hence at the end of June last year, I left with the view to start several Internet businesses.

So that's a bit about me - and now why me, and what would I do with this scholarship....

Throughout my life, I have been a student of personal development and self improvement - which has served me well and now I wish to share some of what I have learned...

My primary purpose in life is to bring hope and happiness to over 1 million people every day - using Internet and cellular technologies as the vehicle to achieve this.
This may seem like a humungous goal - unrealistic even - I say - why not? We live in a increasingly interconnected world and technology plays such a role in the lives of so many.

So in the past 6 months I have developed the first of several concepts that I have been kicking around for sometime.

The first is called txtThoughts.com - a service whereby I send inspirational and motivational messages via SMS to over 700 cell phone networks internationally - potential audience of around 3 billion.
This is operational now and well tested with people around the planet - although adoption is slow.

The second is a self development company that I've started with a good friend and multi-talented guy called David Martin. David and I have started a website called core-resourcing.com and we have just released our first product - Going For Gold - Goal Setting That Really Works. Which effectively helps people identify and disestablish the things within the beliefs and values systems that hold them back. This is being tested and rolled out as I type this....

The third is a mens health portal called "The Productive Man" which deals with bringing proven and natural health and energy solutions to the tired and stressed middle aged exec. This is a work in progress but the intention is to have this operational by the end of the second quarter.

So - that all sounds great Darren - why do you want the scholarship?
Good question! Well, I know I have achieved a great deal - however - even though I have worked hard - (and a long day for me is starting at 3am and working till midnight - which I did just a week or so ago and it's not unusual for me to work extraordinary hours if I need to get stuff done....) - I'm still not getting results.... there is something missing.... the last little piece of the jigsaw that will be the piece that allows me to earn (good) money just seems to be not on the table with the rest of the near completed picture....

I think you might have the piece I'm looking for.

So that's the intention - what will I do with this new found wealth? Well, these are just the first three projects I am rolling out. I have some even larger and even bolder plans for combining both this type of service and technology platforms that I honestly believe could well change the lives of many, many people - for the better - which is, I believe, what we are all here to do ultimately.

Hence I need the funds and the network of high quality people to bring this all together.

I also acknowledge that I need to increase my knowledge in the Internet Marketing space. I live to learn and moreover I know that the fastest way to success is to model someone who has already done it - in this situation - that's you!

I have absolutely no doubt that working with you will fulfill all of the above criteria.

Yours faithfully

Darren Hart

Eben,

First of all, thank you. I have followed your work for the past few years and you are truly an inspiration to me and countless others. The ignition program is something that is very muc needed to help beginners solidify a good foundation when starting their online businesses. There is so much info out there but nothing really stands out for the beginner.

My name is Juan Villarreal. I live in Chicago and have been working in banking sales for the past few years..definitely not my passion but a decent paycheck and good benefits...

The internet is something I have always been interested in and just recently began researching what opportunities are out there. NOw being in sales most of my life, I am wondering why I never used the internet as a resource to gain more customers. I mean you can literally get in front of 100,000 customers in just a matter of minutes. Do you know how long it would take me to meet that many people in my day to day activities? probably not in 50 years! Now that is the power of the internet, WOW! Only problem is, where do I start? Now I don't know if its synchronicity or the Law of Attraction working at its best but the day I asked myself that question, I received your email. It was like a blessing in disguis. I went ahead and responded to your emails, took Tuesday off work, rolled up my sleeves, and I'm ready to boogie! I then thought to myself, well what if I don't have the money when Eben announces the price? I thought long and hard and just knew that no matter what, it this is meant to be, the money will be there...then low and behold, I received this email about one hour ago.

I recently asked myself, do you think banking is where it's at? It could be, if I want to follow the corporate structure and eventually retire with a nice little house in the suburbs. So NO, banking is not where it's at(at least not for me)! But, all is nt lost...i I hae a very specific plan on what I want to do with the money I earn using the the tools provided in your course. My passion has alwsays been to help others and I truly plan on doing that.

I have this great concept to help people sty inline with their habits and goals. Being a student of personal development for the past couple of years, the one thing that causes most people to fail is not being able o follow through with developing and implementing new habits. To me habits are the foundation of accomplishing any goal and without them, we begin to sink.

My other idea...I come across so many brilliant people every single day. Some are friends, family, with great concepts but no direction where to start. It would be an honor for me to help others start their businesses or at the very least, be an inspiration to them...to show them what's possible when you truly believe and want something.

That is what I would do in a nutshell.

Why me?

I just know that this is part of the plan for me. Everything that I've worked for and believe in has brought me to this point. Eben, if you want to hand somebody the torch and run with it, I am that person. My will, desire, to be a success, and the passion to help others fuels every ounce of intensity for me. You can ask anybody that knows me.. who do I look up to and who I'd like to model myself after, and they would would tell you Eben Pagan.

Eben, I look foward to hearing from you and I tuly beleive whoever it is that you pick will do wonderful things with this knowledge.

Regardless, of your decision, I am all in!

Thanks Again,

Juan Villarreal
rourkechicago@yahoo.com

Hey Eben,

My name is Steve; I'm 24, Chinese, and live in Toronto. I'm currently trying to start my own e-commerce business; I have a few ideas that I'm going to put into action. I stop going to university for the last 2 years partly due to my family's financial situation but probably mostly because of my passion in running my own business. I spent the last 2 years doing sales jobs, direct sales, door to door, timeshare, etc... That's after reading the book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki. I believe sales skills can really improve communication skills, and personal skills. Another big part of my life for the last 3 years is the whole pickup(seduction community and self-development)yourself, Sean Messenger, Zan, Johnny Sporno, Anthony Robbins, etc.... For the last 1 month I choose to become unemployed and focus 100% on creating a profitable business. I've been doing a lot of learning on(HTML, CSS, PHP, SEO, clickbank, etc..)in the marketing field(copywritting, traffic generating), any and everything to do with e-commerce.

I want to win the scholarship because, I want to come and learn from you and everyone who attend this program. Once I learned the skills I'll use it to build my business first in e-commerce, than a public corporation. I'll also use the skills to help anyone who is also seeking this path but doesn't know where to begin. As for the money I'm not going to lie, I would use part of the money for personal gains, I'm not a super materialistic person but I do have an ideal life style which I like to pursuit. Another part of the money, I'm going to give it away to causes that I believe in, whether for medical research or scientific research. I personally believe in giving away 10% of my earning to contribute as what John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie did. Andrew Carnegie believed in using a 3rd of your life to make as much money as possible and then use the rest of your life to give away as much as possible. That is also my financial plan.

This is a hard and easy question to answer, as what Grandpa Joe said in the classic "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory", "Charlie you deserve it more than anyone, because you want it more than anyone." I'll be Charlie in this case, and luckily I don't have to go through 10,000 lb of wonka bars to find my golden ticket. P.S like I mention before, business(marketing) is one of my passion, I love doing it and well do it till I succeed.

Cheers

Hi Eben,

My name is Robin. I'm a 40-year old mother of 2 elementary school aged children. I'm in the middle of a divorce and am currently working as a web designer and office manager for my husband. I've also gone back to school, part time this semester and full time starting in the fall, and am working on a graphic design degree. While I've been creating websites for several years, I'm not too confident in my design skills and know I've got lots to learn.

My goal is to gain financial independence for myself and my children. I want to use the graphic design knowledge I'm learning in conjunction with the web business information from the Ignition program to run my own business creating websites. I want to set up websites for small businesses where I handle the creation, maintenance, and marketing of the site for a percentage of the gross. I envision a business model which entails an initial time intensive creative period followed by continued minor maintenance and marketing, but which will provide 24-hour revenue generation. This is a business model I can implement while being a full-time student, resulting in quicker independence for me and less worry about being able to finish school.

So, why me? Why should I be awarded a scholarship? After being told for the past ten years that I'm not capable of taking care of myself and can't possibly make it on my own, I want the chance to prove to myself what I know deep down - that I can do this. I can run my own business and I can take care of my children and myself without needing to rely on someone else. I just need a chance to prove it.

Thanks Eben. I appreciate all you do.

Robin Seaman
piri@mac.com

I won't give to long, sad story of what's happened to me over the last 32 years, leading to my being here. The very short story is that I am in a Nursing Home (on Medicaid), working to get my strength back, so I can rent an apartment again. I have the damage to my back under control now, and I'm looking to get my business consulting for small businesses, in advertising-marketing and selling. We need it badly.
I don't want to get rich, I wouldn't mind it, but it is not my goal in life at my age (60). I hope that you choose the most genuinely in need, for these scholarships.

Eben,

1.Who am I and what am I doing in life?
I am Travis a 33 year old construction worker. I have been
working construction for about 15 years. I am married and
have a 4 year old daughter. I have reached the top of the
construction business and I have to say it is a very good feeling
to look back at the construction projects I have completed
and been a part of. I believe it is time for me to move on to
something new that offers greater rewards. I want to provide
more for my family and create generational wealth. That's the
short on who I am and what I'm doing.

2.Why do I want to win and what will I do with the money?
Honestly I want to win for selfish reasons. I know if I am
trained properly I will succeed. It is not much different then
building a skyscraper, if you are trained properly the building
will get built but will you fill it with tenants, you probably would
but you could fill it much faster if say Donald Trump promoted
your new building. If I win the Ignition scholarship I'm sure you
would want to promote me and my success story and my business
would grow much faster. As far as the money goes I wouldn't
do much different then I do now. I'm sure I would save more and
make some investments. The money would buy time for me I am
away from my home 12-15 hours every day. Construction is very
rewarding but it requires a lot of time.

3.Why me you ask, Hell I say why not me I can already see the
headlines for the re-launch of Ignition "If A 33 year Old Desperate Construction Worker With Zero Experience Can Dominate The
Internet Marketing World Then Imagine What You Can Do..."
or something like that who knows. What I do know is it would be
great to win and get trained by industry leaders.

Talk soon,
Travis

Hi Eben,
I am a retired public servant (serving the Federal Government for 38 years)
and I am very much interested to explore new fields.My experience with business establishments,large and small,can be combined with the information of this course ,might yield good results in terms of increased investment,employment,etc..
I shall use a good portion of the money gained in helping other people,young people to get established,as well as charitable organizations.

Hello Eben,
My name is Carol Ricakrd and I am a social worker. I work with people who are sick enough to be hospitalized and teach them how to manage life & their illness rather than it manage the!

I want to win this scholarship so that I will be able to accomplish what I feel is my mission in life: to improve world health one person at a time!

My belief is that people shouldn't have to get so sick that they end up in the hospital to learn what it is I can teach and have had to live! To that end, it has always been my dream to one day find a way to reach beyond the walls of the hospital and make a positive, lasting chnage in people's health & wellbeing.

I have been able to pull bits and pieces of my dream together, For example, i have a registered trademark: Well YOUniversity. I also have a personalized 800 number: 888 LIFETOOLS!

I want to use the inforamtion I learn from you to finish making the dream in to a reality and use the internet to rech out to people across the world.

My plans for the income I generate from this business include being able to finally leave my 2 jobs and devote 100% of my attention and energy to this mission. I also have a committment to donating 25% of my porfits to charity and developing a foundation that assists people who are struggling financially due to a health crisis.

Why me? Bing a social worker, I have very limited discretionary income! I have invested what I can in training programs and other internet marketing resources. But the problem remains that I end up feeling MORE confused because none of them has really addressed the leve I am at: beginner!

I am grateul for the oportunity you are making available! Thank you! I hope to hear from you!

Wishing the best of health,
Carol

Eben,

If I'm awarded a scholarship I want to attend your class to finally hone in on a business of my own and leave the grinding dead end job I'm at now. I've taken steps to start a real estate/note business. I started a corporation, purchased a rental property that is finally renting. I just want to continue to follow through and stay focused on a course of action that will lead me toward my goal. It would be nice to mastermind with like-minded folks. Your course can keep me on track. Once I amass a comfortable amount of wealth like you I'd like to start a foundation and be a blessing to people. Thanks for the opportunity.

Hello Eban,
First off I want to thank you for the chance of winning the scholarship.
After working at many different labor type jobs, I went back to school and graduated from an electrical program with 3.9 average for the 2 year program (with wife and 3 small children) It was easy to study when i thought about previous jobs. I recently retired do to some physical problems even though i have no "nest egg" It is a struggle to survive on social security!
I would like to be able to pay off all of my debts and be able to live the "good life". I race a dirt track car and although I have never won a feature -lack of proper funding - i get a tremendous amount of pleasure And good feelings helping the less knowledgeable racers at the track even though it has cost me many good finishes.
I have been trying to get a business going on the internet for the past year with no success. there are way too many "deals' that are a total waste of money.
If and when i finally can say that i have succeeded in an internet business, my first priority is to help as many folks as i can do the same.
Again thanks for the consideration.........Bill Eller at ramchargerdi@gmail.com

Please approve me I want that scholarship.

Hello Mr. Pagan, my name is John. I really appreciate what you are doing for those selected as from what I have read there are many deserving of your generousity.
1) I am 49, live in a small rural town in WVa, have 2 wonderful daughters and trust in our Lord to meet my needs. I began this letter over 1 hour ago and decided to take this time to think about what I wished to convey to you. I am a simple man in my personal needs however I have been working online for several years in an attempt to find an honest way to increase my income. I am retired from a company located in the "rust belt" as those inside the "beltway" coined it and eventually the company closed. I was fortunate to have been employed long enought to receive an early retirement but as you can imagine this cut my income to one fouth what it was so I dove into the Internet seeking additional income.

2)I am tossing hat into the ring on this because I have been scammed to the tune of $50,000.00 plus several years ago and while this was a hit finacially it was more of a slap emotionally to think I could fall for this. I say this because I am an intelligent guy who has always been very careful with money but I really got coned. Ever since I have tried more money making ideas than I care to remember and while I have made a few dollars none have lived up to what they promised. I realized, eventually, that I was not going to be able to do this on my own without a mentor who was up-front, had a proven program, and was honest. Hopefully I have found this in you and your program. Provided with a workable blueprint and support for questions I am certain I can do well. Monies I earn will be used to pay-off my home, beef up my savings, pay for college tuition expenses for both my daughters, help a couple of family members who are in need, and 10% off the top will go to the Lords work. I also have other charitable causes I give to so I will help them. And lastly I will purchase a new motocross bike! Use to race but sold my bike several years ago. I also would really like to reach a level of Internet business knowledge I can become a mentor to others who are in the same position I am.
3) Why do I deserve your generousity? I have been thinking about this question and anything I say would sound selfish. Don't get me wrong Eben, I know how to sell myself for a job but I am probably much older than many of the applicants and they have more needs than I. I can only say that if chosen I have the time, intelligence, and drive to provide a good testimonial for the viability of your program. This would be the answer to many prayers.
I wish all your applicants good luck and thanks Eben for your desire to help others.

Greetings,
My name is Jon Orr, and I live in Sacramento, CA. I'm currently thirty-four years old, unemployed, and I live with my Mother (just kidding about the Mom thing, but it worked once for George Costanza). At any rate, I am a contract cable splicer, although I've been involved with a few sales and service jobs, as well. I began a business degree several years back, but gave it up for the instant gratification of a consistent paycheck (HUGE MISTAKE) So, yes, I'm still in the "rat race." In fact, I just returned from a side job digging trenches to the tune of fifteen dollars an hour, just to stay afloat. With that said, as soon as my unemployment kicks in, I intend to take a step back, breathe deeply, and find a way to work for myself, preferably via the internet. I can't wait for the day that I can sail the Meditteranean, experience millennia old structures, and live life as the adventure it's supposed to be, while still using my laptop as a cash machine and service provider.

My main purpose for winning this scholarship is so that I may earn the right to live the lifestyle described above. I don't know the particulars of the course, but if it includes modelling the online marketing and sales skills of those already enormously successful, then this IS the course for me! I haven't clearly defined the vehicle I need to take, yet (possibly an online t-shirt retailer where I create my own sayings), but I know I'll reap the proper rewards, if I can just leverage peoples' wants/needs and help them attain them.

Why me? Well, let's just say that I'm finally ready to step out of the mainstream and make something happen. I'm eager put some new principles into place and see my goals actualized! I've made a lot of mistakes in my time, bumped my head way too often, and am now ready to listen. In fact, most folks only have to make three right turns to get back to where they began, but my path has been more like an octagon than a square, and I'm starting over once again. Recently, I've been purging negative influences, doing my "inner" work, and implementing an exercise/nutrition routine to tackle other goals and to be prepared if a stroke of "luck" pops up on my radar screen. You should pick me because I am currently sitting here, covered and splattered with mud, testing out your "speed of implementation" hypothesis, in order to show you I'm a "doer." I look forward to transforming this opportunity into a great marketing campaign for you!! For now, though, it's time to hop in the shower. Take care!!

Hello Mr. Pagan, my name is John. I really appreciate what you are doing for those selected as from what I have read there are many contestants deserving of your generosity.

1)I am 49, live in a small rural town in WVa, have 2 wonderful daughters and trust in our Lord to meet my needs. I began this letter over 1 hour ago and decided to take this time to think about what I wished to convey to you. I am a simple man in my personal needs however I have been working online for several years in an attempt to find an honest way to increase my income. I am retired from a company located in the "rust belt" as those inside the "beltway" coined it, and eventually the company closed. I was fortunate to have been employed long enough to receive an early retirement but as you can imagine this cut my income to one fourth what it was so I dove into the Internet seeking additional income. The most productive work I have found online is as a paid blogger. I have been blogging for 3 years.

2)I am tossing hat into the ring on this because I have been scammed to the tune of $50,000.00 plus several years ago and while this was a hit financially it was more of a slap emotionally to think I could fall for this. I say this because I am an intelligent guy who has always been very careful with money but I really got conned. Since this experience I have tried a few money making ideas and while I have made a few dollars none have lived up to what they promised. I realized, eventually, that I was not going to be able to do this on my own without a mentor who was up-front, had a proven program, and was honest. Hopefully I have found this in you and your program. Provided with a workable blueprint and support for questions I am certain I can do well. Monies I earn will be used to pay-off my home, beef up my savings, pay for college tuition expenses for both my daughters, help a couple of family members who are in need, and 10% off the top will go to our Lord's work. I also have other charitable causes I give to so I will help them. And lastly I will purchase a new motocross bike! Use to race but sold my bike several years ago. I also would really like to reach a level of Internet business knowledge where I can become a mentor to others who are in the same position I am.

3)Why do I deserve your generosity? I have been thinking about this question and anything I say would sound selfish. Don't get me wrong Eben, I know how to sell myself for a job but I am probably much older than many of the applicants and they have more needs than I. I can only say that if chosen I have the time, intelligence, and drive to put your training to good use and I would be very happy to provide a good testimonial for the viability of your program. This would be the answer to many prayers.

I wish all your applicants good luck and thanks Eben for your desire to help others.

John

Dear Eban, I have followed your videos for a while now. I have been using some of the information you have given. After twenty years of bad marriage I have escaped and I'm trying to start a new, better life. I never finished High school but I've never lost interest in learning. At the moment I am unemployed, with a mortgage and supporting three children. It's not easy but I'm sure I can manage. What I really want is to not just manage but to really fly. I want to bring together all the things I have learned already and get a working system together. I need to integrate all the components(?) a get a working sytem.
I love working especially using a computer so even if I became a multi-millionaire I would still be interesting in developing a business.
My dream would be to live in a comfortable home, working from my home office, doing meaningful work or work which can produce benefits for all of my community.
I am hard working, keen to learn and I want to catch up on my life. I feel like I've lost most of the twenty years I spent married to someone who had totally different ideas for living. I need to catch up but I don't have the cash for one of your courses.

Dear Eben,
My name is Seyed Hossein Mahzouf (AKA Amir Mahzouf). I am 53 years old and single father of a 10 years old
daughter and 20 years old Son. I was working ad computer application programmer for 18 years until I had to leave
due to Brain Aneurism and following to losing my j ob, my married life was over (still going through the procedure).

I started working as a handyman just to make ends meet and that ended with a heart attack in 2007 and subsequent back injury.
To make the story short, I have the responsibility of bringing up a child (50% custody), and securing my families life and no income whatsoever.
At my age, with so many young minds looking for jobs, in addition to the fact that I have the responsibility of taking care of my child fulltime
for two weeks every month. The best option for me is to start a job at home so I can keep the custody of my child.
My first priority on how to spend the money I make from the online business, is to secure my children's future
to get a good education and also have a independent retirement years.
On Why I should be the one to be selected as one of 3 people to receive scholarship, might be a selfish reason.
I am broke and no light at the end of tunnel. but may be there are more deserving people out there.
No matter what the result, Thanks for reading this declaration.
Amir Mahzouf

Dwayne Lecky

Dear Eben

Currently
I study Product Design & I am unemployed and do personal projects like design my own T-shirts prints, help design promotional flyers and try educating myself in creating my own cash flow.

Why?
With such an opportunity I believe this would be detrimental towards my goals. With the wealth I would start creating an international design company. It would be nice to be able to help other people to achieve their own goals. I always say “when I go up I am bringing everyone up with me because success is best sheared”.

Why me!
I have always wonted to be a founder of my own Design company and that has been my aim ever since. The 9 to 5 of life, is same in same out every week and I value my time greatly. Being financially free would give me more time for my new child to be, finally move my mum to Canada (where she has always wonted to live).
I believe if you realy wont it, you have to go out there and get it. As soon as I red the E-mail I was motivated to show I have what it takes to creative great wealth with the right guidance.

Yours sincerely
Dwayne Lecky

D1tg@hotmail.com

I have been reading your e-mails and watched your videos and have really wanted to start an internet business. This sounds like the course I need! I have had so much fear because of my lack of understanding of how this works. I feel I have so much to offer to the public being an acupuncturist. I have great ideas to help people with their health. I will be very grateful to attend your program! Thank you, G.C. Gonzales, San Antonio, TX

Hello Eben,
My name is Bill. I had pretty much thought I had no chance for the program but was still holding on for a sign. I am almost sure I will not be able to finance the program, it will be out of range for me. Writing this is out of my comfort zone but I will give it a try anyway. Nothing special to write about. I am a hard working individual struggling to make ends meet, which is close to what everyone else out there is replying to your video. You and your staff have a hard decision to make. Others will be giving you the sob story of financial woes, I am no different.
This venture is not just for myself. My intention is also to help others achieve freedom when I have accomplished it. Freedom for me will have a different meaning than for the next person. I will accomplish it be it your program or continue on with my struggling means of doing things. Financial freedom is only a small part of what I am looking for. I will know I have achieve success (freedom) when I can get up in the morning and reflect on what I want to do for that day without the worry how will I do it. The financial part is only a vessel affording me the freedom to make decisions. The money is not what will make me happy it is what I do with it that will.
I enjoy the work I do at work, just not the enormous amount of hours I put in. This robs me of my freedom to be with my family. Presently I am a Mainframe Systems Programmer with good income but struggling to make ends meet because we are constantly helping other family members make ends meet to a point it is hurting us and now we are having difficulty making our own financial obligations. I sometimes lay awake at nights trying to think how to get a drop of blood out of turnip. I have been able to help my family so far but there will be a day I will not be able to since I have over extended myself helping them.
When somebody comes to me for help I find it hard to say no. I am hit up for money almost everywhere I go. Parking lots, street corners, stop lights, and gas stations there is always somebody asking for a handout. One time I did not have any cash and was going to write out a check for gas when somebody approached me for a handout. I told the individual I had no cash to give but was willing to pay for a sandwich and a drink they just needed go into the gas station and pick out what they wanted and wait for me at the counter. He did just that and was not shy about it he got the biggest drink he could and the largest sandwich on the self.
Why pick me? The real question is why not. I am determined to achieve my freedom, if not for me than for my family. The Ignition free ride will not go in vain. I hope to be one of your success stories and maybe on your stage telling people how you have changed my life. Who knows maybe a member of your staff down the road. My faith is in your hands. What you do with it is your decision.

Regards
Bill

Hello Eben,
I am Sun and I do consider myself as a very lucky person. My wishes always come true and I am content with myself and with my life. Right now I'm lucky to have opened your mail and seing this contest. Maybe I am not the person who you think to deserve your scholarship, but I feel that I have to give it a try.
Currently I am doing nothing. Or lots. As opinions are very personal. I took a Sabbatical year to invest in love. I haven't known it untill last year. Before I was running my own business, made from nothing but my idea, my believes and full commitment. I made the business plan when I was 16 years old and nothing could stop me to reach my goal. I was on the streets, because I ran away from home when I was 14 -violence, abuse, incest and very strange 'education' (underrate people just for their shoes/looks, no friends allowed from social lower class and so on. My parents were one of the richest of the village). I had the luck to be able to empty that lugage and fill it up with everything I wanted to know, to be. In fact since then I'm constantly self analysing and improving. I managed to earn the money for my education and living. After school I moved to another country to start my business in interior design, purpose made furniture and architecture. It grew to 2 millon euro sale/year after it's 1st year. After short time people came looking me up to hire my services. But I burnt out. My ex-societ was ruining the business with his arrogance, mistakes and his attitude. I left him the business after 8 years, in Dec'07. You see, I was the running motor of the business and he didn't want me out so I gave him the company in return for my Freedom. He could choose; for me to close down the company or for him to have it. Why? 'Cuz once I left behind everything I knew and loved,(my parents house) the second, third, forth time is much easier to do so. Material is nothing to me, but inner-wealth and my freedom is priceless. I gave the house for which I was paying the mortgage to an ex-boyfriend and to another ex I gave all my savings.. Just to get rid of them. If one thing is true: I feel aware I have more strenght then others for the facts and the lessons life has teached me. Since 1,5 years I invested (again) lots of time in myself, in my personal being and in having true love in my life. I understood that I must have had that company faillure, for me to open my eyes for so much more that life has to offer as having a succesful company and being 'succesful'. Well, one is not if there is nobody to share it with. Or don't know what to do in spare time and only think about work... It made me open my eyes that I do have more to offer to the world then only satisfying my own needs/dreams.
I would like to win the scholarship because after I found the true meaning of love I made up my mind to build a business again, but from home so I shouldn't worry for cutting again my carriere when I start with babies. I want to be a home maker and a business woman. Does that make sence? Anyways I started to browse some, saw some of your videos, from J. Butt and others and got started in e-business, I got a website up and running untill my upline closed down my website for a copyright conflict. (really the truth) I explained the rules of the game on my site and that guy came telling that the explanations of the rules of the game was copyrighted by him and asked my host to shut my website down. So what I found out about the Internet market is that you have to be a bigger shark as the rest. And that is what I want to learn. And use it quickly as I learn quiet fast.
The information and everything I will learn I want to apply to a few business ideas I have. Also I want to apply them to the companies of my partner's family, they do struggle now and are getting burnt out. They have 80 employees and I feel sorry, I can't make them listen to my ideas to improve things -my internet business experience was for them the sign that it's all BS and that one has to work (traditionally) hard to be able to pay the bills. I would boost up all my friends' companies and take some of their worries as well. At the end success is to share and I do consider myself as a generous person. I want to spent my spare time with my friends and their success.
I am a lucky person. I always get what I want, I don't need more money for myself, nor a bigger car, not a bigger house or more holidays. But I need money to invest in some projects, I have been doing lots of thinking work and I came up with some ideas to improve the life quality for lots of people. In fact if my business plan is made well, the concept could create a new era for mankind. (and I'm dreaming of other countries to copy my new concept which creates free houses to live in and free transport)
I'm 31 years old, full of energy, full of passion, full of love, full of experience, and ready to make changes happen. That is why I think you should consider teaching me... 'cuz I'm for sure a person who can pass it forwards.

Thank you for the contest. In case of you thinking that I'm the least person you consider to give a free course, I do thank you for your time in reading me. Maybe you or your millonairs friends consider to invest in my business plan?

I wish you luck in picking 3 persons. It must be hard to make a choise.

Kind regards,
Sun

== Who am I?
My Name is Stuart Fraser, currently residing in Australia. My background includes some time lecturing multimedia at university and more recently doing basic freelance websites for word of mouth clients. I do OK but don't have the passion to be the tech guy much longer. I would rather service people in a different capacity by helping them take what they have and know and turning that into a business that operates online.

I like to help people and because they know I do websites they come to me. In almost all cases though they need more than websites they need marketing and strategy advice. I can hold a conversation that looks like I know what I'm talking about but in reality I couldn't confidently piece together a full strategy or choose with confidence a set of internet tools that integrate properly to offer what they need. So I just build their website and offer them some advice knowing there is so much more that could be done

== What would I do?
I would take this information and build a business that helps other businesses get ahead online, most likely with a stake in the pie.

For instance I am engaged with some gentlemen that have a real heart for dealing with a growing epidemic in our society and we want to put together a powerful course with a continuity component. Great we know that would work well and they're looking to me, but just how do I do this without second guessing my every move whilst knowing someone like Eban Pagan could do this without thinking.

For me it is about two main things. Outlining the strategy of the business then commissioning an integrated machine to automate as much as possible.

I love Tim Ferris's book, the Four Hour Work Week, it calls to my desire to experience other cultures and languages. It also teases me with the apparent ease at which it can be done. I have had the chance to live, work and speak the language in Japan. Nothing has as much impact on your view of life and experience of people as living with them in a different culture. I would take the time to experience the mini-retirements Tim speaks of, firstly some where in Latin America to learn the language and the dance from there. I would also provide for my mother, we just lost our father and she needs financial assistance now.

== Why me?
I am at a cross roads at the moment, trying to transition from the technical guy people go to, to the strategist they go to. Someone who can make a real difference for them and their experience of life. I want to gift them with automated businesses and join in as they feel the weight of the daily grind lifted off their shoulders. You could say I want to multiply this course so that it makes a difference in more than just my life.

Dear Eben,

Your New Internet Business start up model is sounding great. I am very interested in learning the key concepts behind building an internet business. The techniques for building the various aspects of the business, the email lists, the cart, the affiliate programs, are all integral parts of a functional internet business system.

1. I am Blake Allen, 22 Emeryville, C.A., I am currently designing and creating content for an internet based business.

2. I want to win the scholarship because I can make healthy living a possibility.

3. My purpose deserves capital generated from creating an online business because it will help people live better, more affordably and provide income for further sustainable projects. Capital generated by the Internet based businesses will be used to invest in appropriate assets, such as real estate, other businesses, intellectual property and other true asset investments. My 5 year milestone goal is, by using the income generated by these assets to create sustainable, commercial housing, that will help people live healthier, be affordable and provide income for further sustainable projects.

Today the toxins in common households are up to 2 times worse than the air quality of outdoor air. If we are currently living in a toxic environment, is it any wonder many people have sub par or even appalling health? If I was able to help even just one family live healthier because of Ignition, wouldn't that be worth it?

The answer is Yes, and it should be implemented for hundreds of people, not just one family.

As a human, YOU should have access to a healthy living environment. Clean air, clean water and clean shelter; the necessities of life, and necessities we deserve. Yet sadly so many of us live without access to them, we don't have access to non toxic water, or live in chemically green houses. These toxins cause problems like poor energy, serious problems such as cancer, and are negatively affecting our lives right now. How can it be, that in the year 2009 with all of our amazing technology, we have essential living systems that are dangerous for our health? Or perhaps even more profound, how come safer options aren't readily available?

By giving me a scholarship you aren't investing in Blake Allen, you're investing in sustainable living. Through using the Ignition internet business system to provide the means for the lifestyle change we need, I am going to make healthy living a possibility.

I am very excited about this great purpose,
and Ignition will give me the tools to make it a reality.

Thank you Eben.

-Blake Allen

Hello Eben;
I just finished studying your
"Altitude" course. Excellent program.
The cost for the course, and the information that I was able to learn, has given me a broad perspective on the internet business. I'm new to the industry and felt the Attitude course was advanced for a new person to Internet Marketing. Now that I have this knowledge, all I need now is a beginners course. INGITION is the key. Would you please consider me for the scholarship. THANKS.
GLENN T. SMITH
Ready and Able

Hello Eben,

Wow, what an opportunity. I'm sure you will receive thousands of letters requesting your scholarship, but I'm going to apply anyway. My Name is Butch Wells. I retired from the military about a year ago and have a keen interest in Internet Marketing. My generation is what you call computer illiterate, however I have picked up many new skills this past year. I subscribe to every free Internet training program that comes along and have been very impressed with what I have learned from you. I live on a fixed retirement income and have been unable to purchase many of the courses available that I would love to have. I am very committed to learning how to generate extra income on the Internet. and will continue to study and will be successful. Some of the Internet Gurus rave about all they have learned from you and how you have mentored them to success. I have listened to several that say they learned more and received more value from your Altitude course than any other course they had ever taken. I would love to learn from you as well because it's almost a guarantee for success.

When I learn to generate cash with an Internet business, I plan on paying off my debt, including my mortgage, credit cards, my children's student loans and set up college savings accounts for my grandchildren. I also plan on serving a church service mission.

The reason I would love you to pick me is because I plan on teaching this exciting business to my children and grandchildren. You would not only be providing me with a wonderful opportunity and business, you would be providing an opportunity for generations to come. Thank you Eben

Sincerely,

Butch Wells

To: Eben
From: Chaachi Persad
1.) I am a voice from your past--& was a dear friend of yours from San Diego (CJ from Star Performance!!)
I want to thank you in ADVANCE for allowing me to be a WINNER of your Full Ignition scholarship! (Evidence of Speaking my Positive Affirmations to manifest such an excellent opportunity to meet up with you again soon!)
What I have been doing with my life fo many years now is rescuing people from crisis by instilling a new & clear vision of what life holds for them in the future -to unlock their potential- & empower them into a fabulously freeing existance. This includes going into battle to save people who are suicidal, abused, emotionally damaged, physically handicapped &/or mentally disabled...& sometimes some who just need a telephone friend who knows how to listen & really cares.
2.)I have my heart set on winning your scholorship so that I can LEARN & APPLY new principles & techniques which I know I can learn from you enabling me to take my passion to the next level in helping people. I will then not only be able to finally support myself financially by continuing to follow my heart but to take my gifts to a level where I am world renowned for being even more successful than I currently am in empowering others in the super impact of positive life changes. I will leverage some of my earnings to launch a new TV show, musical & CD's- all which focus on inner healing of hardship & traumatic life events.
3.)Why do I deserve to win? I believe YOU know the answer to that one as well as I do. Eben, I already know that I AM a winner & I believe in fate & good karma. I always continue to reach very high, and work enthusiastically to show God's kindness to others & create a new picture for them. This will never return void. It returns to me everyday in positive & magical ways. I love to get together with people I have helped many years later & share their joy! I've made many a perfect intro for people thru out my own life journey which has been very much a launching pad to greater success & happiness for them. I hold people gently & open my hands when it's time to let go. I am blessed by the success I see thru YOU now, & in the way you want to help others succeed as well. Thanks again--IN ADVANCE Eben, I can't wait to see you again & share new insights on life & love! :)

Chaachi

chaachi@chaachi.com
South Florida
Phone: 305-247-HELP

Hi Eben,

My name is Sean McAde. When I graduated from college in 1979 there were no computers in the classrooms. In the early 1980's I started using a MAC in a shop I was renting time in. During my years making furniture I used computers for keeping track of customers and word processing.

The last business I had taught woodworking to auto workers that received educational benefits. I used the computer more there than in other business. When the auto companies started offering buy outs, four or five years ago, I could see the end of that income. I have been actively looking for any work since November of 2005. Selling items online seemed to be a good way to begin making some money. In May of 2006 I started looking into setting up a website, I quickly realized that I did not know enough to do what I wanted.

My solution was to sell drop ship items and excess shop equipment on eBay. I also purchased a Site Sell site. Working on a MAC presented a range of problems on eBay. I worked out some of them and made about $300 a month in 2007. The Site Sell site did not allow me to build a site that looked like what I wanted and I gave it up when I decided to spend more time learning some of the things that you will be covering in Ignition.

Since Ford and Chrysler cut out their benefit payments well before the end of the union contract (the 2007 contract cut out the benefit altogether), I was left unemployed (self employed - no unemployment) and without any income. For the past two years I have been trying to build up a means to make money online. But I have not had the benefit of being able to purchase much in the line of mentoring and instruction programs. In fact if not for family and friends I would have found it very difficult to exist on the $1500 I made in 2007.

Although I've learned a lot the past three years there are still things that I don't have a clue on. Like tonight I saw a flash drive of my nephew's and asked "what is this?" I've seen much change in three years in making money online. My experience and abilities are different than someone that has grown up on computers and the internet.

By gaining some experience in a structured course, I really believe that I can get my feet off the ground and start making some money. I have one site up at the moment, but it is not yet structured to make money. As it or others do start making money, I look forward to applying some of the information that you have planned for Get Ignition.

So two reasons why this program will help me. 1; to establish and/or (jump start) an income online. 2; to allow me to purchase other services, software and programs to really get some sites making money.

And what will I do when I start making money?
1. Get a residence of my own.
2. Pay off some of my debts. (I still owe my accountant $600 for doing my taxes on 2006 and 2007 when I made a total of about $6000 for the two years)
3. Get back into court to define and possibly reestablish custody of my 12 year old son.
4. Fix my ankle that was severely broken in 2004
5. Continue to offer honest service to my prospects.
6. Get a drivers license and car.

That's my submission for your scholarship. Thanks for offering it, for those of us that can use all of the catching up we can get.

Sean
michwood(at)msn.com

Hi Eben :)

Who I am: Liane

What I currently do in life: I teach English as a Second Language in High School. I also recently started an online business.

Why I want to win: I'll take good training anywhere I can get it. I love studying, and I love trying things out, figuring things out, and making things work. Like putting together a puzzle.

What I'm going to do with the information: use it, of course.

What I'll use the earned $ for: I have a 50% chance of losing my teaching position after this year due to budget cuts. But I'd still like to be able to impact the kids at my school in a positive way. So first, I'd like to make more things available to them - and money does that. Second, some people may not agree with me, but I think it would be really cool to help some of my non-documented students do something with themselves other than working at McDonald's for $7/hour with a fake social security number. Their families could certainly use it. And it would keep them off the streets.

Why me - why do I deserve a full scholarship?: I don't think anyone deserves to win something like this over anyone else. To me, the real question would be whether the person would actually take advantage of the training. Wouldn't it just stink to award something like this to someone and have them never show up, never apply themselves?

Hey Eben,

my name is Eduardo, and I'm writing this from Brazil. I am 27 and would like to share with you a little bit of my story.

I've been working full time for a bank since I turned 18, and during that time I also managed to go through university and earn my degree in business administration. I've always dreamed of the idea of running my own business and having the freedom to contribute to the world my ideas and what I am good at.

Since kid, I've always been involved with technology in a way or another, and I have a true passion for understanding and creating things. I always knew in my mind that there's so much I can contribute with, and I always had the certainty that that was part of my meaning in this life.

As life unfolded, I took up that job in the bank. Since I was still working with technology, that kept me confortable to some extent. But deep down I always felt like that was not the place I should be in. I felt like I should be rowing my own boat and taking on my own journey. Throughout the years I worked to make some of my ideas work, so that I could achieve financial independence and have the means to budget my dreams. Instead, I couldn't see any of the ideas through and my expenses kept on growing as I took up more and more financial responsabilities in supporting my mother, father and sister. So, in the past six months, I've been dedicating myself to learning and doing affiliate marketing. I still haven't covered my costs, but I can see just how much potential there is. I'm now building a tool that I plan to launch in the 4-6 months timeframe, which I
think can deliver a lot of value to everyone doing affiliate marketing.

I know in my heart that your Ignition training would greatly help me achieve success. But I'm certainly not the person in the most challenging situation, and as such probably not the best canditate for getting your training for free.

As far as what I will do with the financial sucess I will achieve with my business, I obviously want to assure security to me and my family, but that doesn't take a lot of money. With the excess, I would use it to grow my business and to invest it in developing a project I've been working on and off for some years, which aims to develop affordable unmanned air vehicles to be used exclusively for pacific environmenal and social purposes. I would like to build and donate those to organizations around the world interested in preserving wildlife and nature, organizations interested in fostering climate research and any other that could put that fantastic technology to good use with humanitarian purposes (such as delivering medicine to hard to reach areas in my country), as opposed to enabling destructive military action. I already have a working prototype, but there's
still a lot of reasearch and development to be done before it can be operated safely and be useful.

Eben, I can tell you from the bottom of my heart that everything I ever learned from your was far more valuable and applicable than the 5 years of study I had in the university. You have a fantastic talent in mining, creating, modeling and communicating knowledge. I really admire your personal values, and I think you contribute a lot to making this a better world, a world of empowered and integrated individuals. You deserve every bit of the success you have achieved in life.

So, even if I don't turn out to be the winning submission, I would like to thank your for the working you've been doing, and invite you to try my tool when it is finally ready :) In essence, it is an automated campaign tracking tool that can produce a lot of high value information.

Thanks for your time!

Eduardo

Hi Eben,

My name is James Hilton, and I'm currently spending my time trying to create an online business that I can live off.

The reason I'd like to participate in the Ignition program is because after years of following you as an expert and idol in the dating and business world, I've learned that your products deliver exactly what you say they do, and I believe the Ignition program may be exactly what I need to get my feet off the ground in running my own business.

After achieving a stable, passive income from my first business, I want to use my time and money to either expand, or start more businesses that will provide me with a larger, stable, passive income with which I can live off while supporting my greater life endeavours.

I cannot list everything that I'd like to accomplish when I have the time and money to, but my main intention is to provide services and products that people and civilisations will benefit from, and to bring my leadership skills to a place where I can really make a difference.

The only reason I might deserve this scholarship opportunity is because I have a genuine desire to help people and with more time and money I can do this on a much larger scale.

Kind regards,

James Hilton.

Hi Eban,
I have a part time job taking care of a man who is paralysed from the neck down.It is a rewarding job.It makes you think things are not so bad.I only make $200. every 2 weeks,that is hard to live on. I am a hard working person.I would like to learn to make money at home. I am trying to learn things I just can't seem to get anywhere.I need help.I hope you pick me.You would have a real chalange.
Thank You
Bernice

Eben-
I own a small company, since 1996. I market to doctors, and personally fit their patients with prescribed spinal orthotics and knee braces. As the owner, I do everything. I market, personally fit the patients which requires me to drive approximately 200 miles daily, then I process the insurance claims wrangle with the adjusters and case managers, and everyone in between.
I enjoy what I do but I can't do it forever.
In my spare time time I have been working on TheSchoolofInternetBusiness.com
which was inspired by you, John Reese, Frank Kern, and Mike Filsaime, and some other name brand gurus.

I feel as though I am the best candidate for your scholarship to ignition, because although I have been voraciously studying internet marketing and business techniques from you and all the truly great marketers, I am way over my limit and can not afford to spend another dime on another course.

With the money I earn I will pay off my debts, and house, my children's tuition, reinvest in my business, dedicate my success in TheSchoolofInternetBusiness.com
to you ( you were the first guru I made mention of ) and engage in some heavy duty philanthropic stuff like Childrens Hospital In New Orleans, the American juvenile diabetes foundation, and fledgling internet marketers around the world.

Thank you, in advance for your serious consideration, and this scholarship award.

To: Eben
From: Chaachi Persad
1.) I am a voice from your past--& was a dear friend of yours from San Diego (CJ from Star Performance!!)
I want to thank you in ADVANCE for allowing me to be a WINNER of your Full Ignition scholarship! (Evidence of Speaking my Positive Affirmations to manifest such an excellent opportunity to meet up with you again soon!)
What I have been doing with my life for many years now is rescuing people from crisis by instilling a new & clear vision of what life holds for them in the future -to unlock their potential- & empower them into a fabulously freeing existence. This includes going into battle to save people who are suicidal, abused, emotionally damaged, physically handicapped &/or mentally disabled...& sometimes some who just need a telephone friend who knows how to listen & really cares.
2.)I have my heart set on winning your scholarship so that I can LEARN & APPLY new principles & techniques which I know I can learn from you enabling me to take my passion to the next level in helping people. I will then not only be able to finally support myself financially by continuing to follow my heart but to take my gifts to a level where I am world renowned for being even more successful than I currently am in empowering others in the super impact of positive life changes. I will leverage some of my earnings to launch a new TV show, musical & CD's- all which focus on inner healing of hardship & traumatic life events.
3.)Why do I deserve to win? I believe YOU know the answer to that one as well as I do. Eben, I already know that I AM a winner & I believe in fate & good karma. I always continue to reach very high, and work enthusiastically to show God's kindness to others & create a new picture for them. This will never return void. It returns to me everyday in positive & magical ways. I love to get together with people I have helped many years later & share their joy! I've made many a perfect intro for people thru out my own life journey which has been very much a launching pad to greater success & happiness for them. I hold people gently & open my hands when it's time to let go. I am blessed by the success I see thru YOU now, & in the way you want to help others succeed as well. Thanks again--IN ADVANCE Eben, I can't wait to see you again & share new insights on life & love! :)

Chaachi

chaachi@chaachi.com
South Florida
Phone: 305-247-HELP

O Dear Eben

I am not so young,61. I am with huge life experience in many fields, such as accounting, real estate, immigration laws and tax's and costumer service, and may be more then 10 all other profession or trades. Over 25 years I am living in US. Yes, I have my degree in economics, but this is not the point.
In my basket of believes the stronger point is ..win/win situation.
I decided to be a marketer. I have enough face to face contact with customers. I am to much vulnerable for other people problems - they show them and I am immediately involve - sacrificing my own goals and plans.

From June, 2007 I am learning - How to be a marketer. Guess what is my achievement? Zero. Maybe not, because I create to website www.Pyramidwealth.info and www.taksobie.com by myself. Oh, and I publish to books ( in Polish), self publish on www.Lulu.com.

I observe what is going on, on marketing. I know now, bunch of "gurus" and my conclusion is simple: they selling "hope" pinching people in every possible way by goods full of empty promises. I do not like to be this kind a milliner.

You look deeply in marketing and you see others in complicity: physical, emotional and intellectual level. You teach people what you believe and with own experiences. That makes you a good teacher.

When I see ward "secret" in any ad I am running of it by many unnecessary clicks. I do not care about "secrets" I care about real, useful knowledge.

What I will do with money - the list is sooo long. Yes I love luxury life - to not worry about bills, to have again my own house ( the last one has been eaten by dishonest, stupid and greedy CEO- joke), to travel a lot and writhe this books, what I have in my mind.

Well, I move to CA 3 months ago and I am still looking for a job. My money almost gone. Marketing is not brining any money, books needs to be marketing ( costly), so it is only reason why ask for your scholarship, and in the same moment - I think, this young people maybe more deserve than I?

Ah, is your offer, Eben and you have to decide. Sorry, but first time in my life I am looking for something for free. Very strange situation for me.
You see, my English is -- how is. My biggest dream ( this way or anther) is to learn well English - but I need time and of course money. So it is one more way for earning more money and spend them.

Be well, Eben
Teresa S.

Hello Eben,

My name is Robert, Father of two son's, Husband to a beautiful lady for the past 26 years and currently an Engineer in the semiconductor industry. I work for a Dutch company that manufactures photolithography equipment used to manufacture integrated circuits for all types of electronics such as computers to cell phones. I support colleagues across the U.S. to keep these expensive systems up to production, producing millions of dollars per day.

I've committed plenty of hours over the years and sacrificed Anniversaries, Family birthdays and entire sport seasons that my son's have participated in. Reaching the young age of 50 I've come to realize my family will have a comfortable life as long as I keep making family sacrifices, well, I'm not going to accept that fact any more. I've decided to change my mental program, step out of my comfort zone and go for it! I have a few ideas but realized I need training selling products on the internet before giving it a go which brought me to CarbonCopyPro and you Eben. Over the years, I've done plenty of research on starting a business which always leads to the same facts: Plan, educate, carry out, stay focused and don't give up will lead to success. I've only joined CarbonCopyPro two days ago and just received my BiB. My sponsor passed this opportunity to me so I'm not passing it up without trying. My "can do" attitude along with your training will pave the way to financial independence meaning freedom! Freedom to make sure my kids have an education, freedom to donate generous amounts to Cancer research, local community charities and little league sport teams. Freedom to decide when I'll work and when I'll spend time with my wife and family.

I'm sure you have heard the term: "You can't teach an old dog new tricks". That statement is simply B.S. If one doesn't make measurable improvements daily, the world will spin right on by. I'm focused and completely committed to making this new endeavor a success, my only regret is not committing the time sooner. Eben, your scholarship is exactly what I need to jump start my exciting new challenge in life, enjoying the positives and learning from the negatives, that this endeavor, will no doubt bring. Please consider me for an Ignition scholarship, you won't be disappointed!

Best Regards,
Robert

Hi Eban,

My name is Bijoux, and I am a cocktail server who attends school for broadcasting. I first heard of your work in January 2009 through internet marketing guru, Perry Belcher. I am new to internet marketing, and recently launched (February 2009) my passion at www.bStyle.tv (Pampering On Pennies)

Winning the scholarship to ignition will be a rewarding life changing experience for me and other women. I would apply everything I've learned through your program to leverage my website into a successful online business. As you're fully aware, a lot of people are experiencing economic hardships as we speak, and are truly depressed by this. With my website, I choose to reach out to mothers and daughters, and let them know that they can still have a joyful and fulfilled lifestyle even during this recession. I deserve it because my online business is still in development, and the ignition program would be the perfect road map for me to use so I can continue building (my website) a helpful lifestyle tool for women.

I am a Haitian native and come from a big family, 6 brothers and 1 sister. (And I am definitely the black sheep of the family...lol). Growing up, I had to get adjusted to a new culture, and it was not easy for us financially since my mom had 8 children, etc. But I've always known that I was meant to do something big and something that others can benefit from. Some of the money would go towards rebuilding my home (Port -au-Prince, Haiti), building my business, and creating the lifestyle I've already chosen for my life (and ready to manifest it).

Thank you for giving us all this opportunity. We definitely need more people like you in order to make this world a better place.

cheers,
Bijoux
bijoudeux@hotmail.com

Eban,

My name is Gary.

I believe in the power of intention.

I believe in helping people.

As an Americorps volunteer (a kind of domestic peace corps) I spent a year with the Red Cross as disaster program manager and also built an online client management system for the Disabled American Veterans.

It's life changing to stand at four in the morning, in front of an 84 year old woman, clutching the teddy bear and the blanket you just covered her night gown with, while she sobbingly watches her home and life burn to the ground. And all she can think about is her beloved and missing cat...

I'm searching for a new path in life, and intend that the internet be that path.

I have crazy skills across many areas covering everything from commercial organic farming to programming to writing to marketing to disaster management to business ownership and much more.

I'm a published paperback book and magazine article author.

I have had a very successful bricks and mortar business in the past (voted best in the community 8 of the 10 years I owned it), and understand that earning my living from the internet is a business.

I also believe that this business will be a lot of fun and look forward to the journey.

I primarily want to win this scholarship to help shorten my learning curve.

My first personal goal is to be making $20,000 a month within a year from now.

I'm not afraid of work as you can see from one of my websites at www.greatworkathome.biz.

I view the internet as a kind of frontier where I can creatively reach and help the greatest diversity of people.

My favorite quote is "Be the change you want to see in the world."

I think that your asking what I'm going to do with the money is a bit backward, as I've always found that money follows doing well the things you enjoy most. Money is a tool.

As to why me...well, imagine pointing me out in a crowd and proudly saying, "Gary's one of MY students."

Thanks for your consideration.

What Up, Eban

Who am I? I am the sleeping Genius! My name is Ryan Patrick Cloonan and i am a HUGE success, hear me out. I was practically born into a spiritual Community that teaches "A course in Miracles" and "The Law of Attraction" I have a unique important mission in life that requires endless wealth, and I will NEVER STOP working towards that vision, even if I lost all my limbs in a tragic accident. Currently; I have built my own business from scratch and out of nothing but skill and passion. I created a mission statement a week ago, and I have impressed its contents into my subconscious mind as if I have already achieved it. I have already made close to $1000 by yesterday! Prospects are coming out of the rug!!! I have a tarot reading business called "Mystic tarot". I give full, custom, life path readings over the phone and Internet for $50. And then I give them a detailed report and a personal recap from my database I've created.this way they can never forget and always know which direction to take.I live off of that income temporarily. I am almost finished with a website. And once I have it, I will implement multiple strategies I have created to launch my business to new heights. ( like giving FREE readings to blog owners and having them reciprocate by writing how amazing and impactful my readings were on their life, literally hitting thousands of viewers effortlessly. And we're not even talking about hitting up the metaphysical communities around the world". I found some of your other material on CDs in my dad's bookshelf when I was thirteen, I have been studying it to great success ever since. I am the age of twenty.

I want to win, because I know I can. And because I know that your program is going to "Quantum leap" me to higher levels of income WAY faster than I could on my own. Just like the story of you waiting and pondering on your own for seven years.my vision cannot afford that time, I believe strongly in "speed of implementation". Oh my god I love this next question. I am going to implement every savory detail into my "prime directive"perfect and fit it into my business model and then utilize it as soon as possible. "Recognition is the first law of learning, repetition is the second - James Arthur Ray" what I will do with the money excites me greatly.I am going to use 99% of it to perfect my business so that it can run on its own when I implement "managed staffing". I will then use the rest of the money, as well as the flow of income to create another business from the ground up and do the same thing until I have more sources of income than I can count. And of course reciprocate for YOUR service rendered. * insert huge smile * that's just the tip of the iceberg.

I not only deserve it, I also deserve to be your number one choice. I have not slept for three days; I shoved myself in a room with a pot of coffee and said: achieve results! Afterwards I laid down very comfortably in my bedfor the first time, feeling SOOOOO GOOOOOOD and then having an intuition to check my e-mail. Lo and behold! It's Eban telling me about my scholarship. Oh my god now I have to write A freakin Letter!

Besides the comedic expression, which I'm serious about. I deserve this because I am the prime candidate. I've been in college since I was twelve! My father worked in the University, I sat in the classes and raised my hand and gave the answers LOL I'm the perfect students! I have an extremely flexible, adaptable, open mind. I have a lot of knowledge the average man would take 20 years just to find out about. And on a more personal level, the vision I have for myself resonates perfectly with this. ( And I had to type this Twice because there was a Stupid error, due to Word 2007 )

I shall lift the spirits of man to the greatest heights of confidence and enthusiasm that of which has never been conceived. I will be such a shining example, that I will induce tears of joy to all whom abide in my presence.
the vision goes on and it requires my immediate wealth.I intended this to be short, sweet and unique. Whoops.

I look forward to meeting you, thank you

- Chicago -

MasterMindUnited@gmail.com

Eben,

My name is Wayne Pedersen. I am 29 years old, and a recent college graduate (Business-Computer Technologies, of course) and victim of our plummeting economy. A year ago, I lost my job as a Software Developer. Months later, still not able to find work and my savings nearly gone, I started my own business funded by credit cards.

Maumee Geeks, my business, is aimed at computer sales and service. Since last November, I have been barely able to live off of my business. If it wasn't for my fiances' part time job, I probably would have already lost our family house.

I want to win your scholarship because I know I am a worthy student. I have always wanted to pursue life as an Entrepreneur, running various little businesses throughout my twenties. However, none of them ever amounted to anything. I know that with the knowledge I can learn from your courses, I can finally achieve what I know I was born to do - run my own business.

From your courses, I would put the information into immediate action. From that money, I would first get myself out of the serious debt I am in. It took me ten years of going to class part time to earn my Associates Degree; I don't want it to take another 10 years to pay off that debt. My new business is barely surviving and I have gone though all of my savings. Nothing I seem to try online works - I know you can help me change that.

Next, I would be able to finish the repairs to the 100 year old house we are currently living in. That house is in need of many major repairs and many renovation projects have had to be put on hold in the middle of work because of a lack of income. My fiance has severe asthma, and living in a half torn apart house is not helping her health.

Finally, I want to finish by starting my family. Getting married and having children is very important to me, but my fiance and I have high morals. We will not bring children into this world if we cannot afford to accept the responsibilities that children bring. The financial stability this program can give me will be the foundation of my family's future.

You should choose me because I am a hard working American. I believe in helping other hard working people, providing them real value for real services / products. I believe in making my community better and stronger through free educational seminars. I do not believe in scamming people or charging them an outrageous amount- they have to live too. I know that with hard work and the tools your program will teach me, I will be able to learn how to get my business going to provide for my family and our future.

You should choose me because I am serious about running a business. And with the successful tools learned here, I will be running my own business, helping my community, and teaching others in the future.

Thank you for providing this opportunity not only to me, but to other hard working 'geeks' across the globe. We're all struggling here, and everyone deserves a chance at success. You're making that possible.

Kind Regards,

Wayne Pedersen
wpedersen@maumeegeeks.com

It is a pleasure writing to you Eben. Greetings.

My name is Karen. I have spent the last 33 years as a devotee of Adi Da. http://www.da-peace.org http://www.nottwoispeace.org http://www.globalcooperationproject.org http://www.daplastique.com

In the last 3 weeks I discovered a grandmaster, Dr. Effie Chow of qigong in San Francisco. http://www.eastwestqi.com I have started her qigong practice and have had private appointments. It is impressive how much I have changed in 3 weeks since starting this practice relative to past injuries and health issues.

I am interested in learning marketing online to create a great income so that I have the time freedom to communicate these websites I mentioned. And the excess

money will be used for futhering of that work.

My husband, a very talented contractor is relying on me to create a replacement income in the next few months to stave off the effects of the building industry in recession and wanting to avoid eating just beans and rice.

For some spontaneous reason I decided to apply for the scholarship. Your inspiration had me actually believe I could learn to make money online.

Best Regards,

Karen

Hi Eben,
My name is Cheryl and thanks for giving us this opportunity to change our lives forever. I am a farmer in Australia, which involves very hard work, and a lot of reliance on the weather. My husband has'nt been able to do much work, since he had a motorbike accident, so my daughter and I have been running the farm. I also injured my back 12 years ago and can't do any heavy lifting.
So I have been searching for a way to lessen our load, and I have been trying to start an internet business for a while. I have bought different programs, meant for newbies. The problem is that they all seem to miss certain vital steps, I guess, assuming that everyone knows certain basic things already. But in fact, if everything is'nt explained in detail, the real newbies just don't get it. I just go around in circles, buying the next thing that maybe will help me, and I'm so fed up. I am so dedicated to putting everything into the right program, and finally starting my business and seeing it grow, and eliminate a lot of stress from my life. After changing my life, I would love to help others who are struggling as well, to finally put an end to thier problems associated with money and freedom.
I would use the money to upgrade our very old farming equipment to make our physical work a lot easier, also a new house, car, holidays, help my family and friends and I would love to be able to donate to charities that I'm passionate about.
Thankyou so much for this opportunity.
Cheryl

Dear Mr. Eben
I am a srilankan living in srilanka. I have been trying many network programmes on the internet. But when it comes to payment for registration and membership payments the tricky thing is I dont know to whom we are paying and where it goes. After two or three payments the website or the contact get out of the seen. So I want to join someone genuine and do something for business. I can be the agent for your programme in SriLanka. So I strongly feel you must give me this scholarship to me, so that I can start up somewhere. I have the facility for promotion and capable of marketing. Therefore I have a great expectation that I am one of the three. Thank you for giving me this message.

Hi Eben,

I'm Barbara from New Hampshire. Three years ago, I was at the happiest time of my life because I was in my 7th year of the best career field I could imagine--teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (known as ESOL or ESL). I loved this field because I could use my best skills of creativity and service to others, and I could serve as a bridge of communication between peoples of the world. Best of all, I could "go on trips around the world" every day, just by spending time with my students and learning from them. Then, suddenly, I was struck down by two terribly painful disorders--Tethered Spinal Cord Syndrome (where spinal nerves get stuck in and damaged by old scar tissue), and Syringomyelia (where cysts form inside the spinal cord). I had to quit the career I so desperately loved and go on SSDI (social security for the disabled). I lost almost everything in my life, including the ability to walk. I had hoped a surgery I underwent in 2007 would have cured me, but it only eased my pain a little bit. I still cannot walk. I did a lot of soul-searching, reading, and research since then to decide where to go from here. I figured that, while the disability could cripple my body, it sure wasn't going to get the best of my mind, spirit, or will. I decided that learning to start and run an internet business would give me the tools I needed to continue my love of teaching and serving others. But who was going to teach me how to do this from scratch? Who could I trust to be the best possible teacher for me? Luckily, I came across your videos on the internet and found numerous testimonials singing your praises. I now know my teacher is you, Eben. And now it just seems like fate that you have crafted a course for beginners just like me.

I'd like to win the scholarship for Ignition for three reasons:
1) Since I'm on SSDI, I don't receive enough money to pay for such a valuable course. Winning this scholarship would lead me to make the first and best investment in myself.
2) I believe you're the best person I can learn this material from--you have a proven track record of successful businesses, and I enjoy your teaching and speaking style.
3) Winning this scholarship will create a domino effect of success in my life, giving me the opportunity to inspire and give hope to others who are disabled. I could help take the "dis" out of "disability."

With the information I get from Ignition, I will be able to finally get my plans for an internet business off the ground. I got the plans together by listening to what ESL students around the world want and need but are missing from other internet businesses. I'm ready to help them, I just need the Ignition tools to do it. And when my business grows, I'll be able to use the profits to create more unique and useful products and services for my students. I'd also like to spend some of my time speaking to disabled people to encourage them to follow their dreams despite their physical obstacles. If I can do it, so can they.

I deserve to win this scholarship because I'm determined to succeed, despite my physical handicap and lack of money. I have the will. I just need the way.

Thank you for this incredible opportunity, Eben!

Thank you for the video. I have been watching your program since one month before. I wanted to join it since then, but since I was and am unable to send money through credit card i could not get CDs from you. I am simply interested to be a member of you program. I have deep appreciation for whatever you are doing to educate the people to gain deeper insight into becoming a successful entrepreneur. Thank you again.

Hello Eben,

I'm Kurt from CO.

I'm 28 years old and currently live at home with mom and dad, yet again. I moved back about 15 months ago around last November in 2007.

I currently am running an online business and trying to get some decent and consistent traffic to my website. I average 5 visitors or less a day. I just set this site up in the last 6 months. I just went through a lot of the speed bumps to get my site up but its still not anywhere close to perfect. I did everything myself. Which takes major time when you don't know what your doing and don't have the money to pay for a $997 course to learn the new ways to get traffic.

I wrote the copy, did the niche research (which I could have done a lot better), created the product (a 90 page e book), searched endlessly in what tools I needed to use and how to use them. I just went through a really rough process of starting a new business online. I don't know if I would call it a business just yet. It takes up a huge amount of my time and I've only made two sales. One which I'm guessing came from a relative, as I told them what I'm trying to do, gave them my website and they probably felt sympathetic for me and had a friend purchase my product or something. Not sure where the other sale came from but they asked for a refund 5 days later.

Other than getting my online business to "make sales", I help people move twice a week lifting heavy furniture with my neighbor who is the local handyman. I use 75% of that money to pay credit card bills (in debt over $40,000), pay a little rent, and give mom a little money for food. In my other time I'm doing projects for my mom and dad fixing up house a little as their getting ready to sell their house this summer.

I would like to earn the scholarship because I just went through this process six months ago. And I'm guessing I didn't do it all perfect and theres alot else out there I can learn.

I currently try to study just about everything related to marketing that I can with any free time. But the problem with that sometimes is that I have to wade through everything and see where I can make it relevant to what I'm doing in my business or what I need to do or apply. I'm guessing or hoping your course is structured for every step a beginner needs to go through and would help greatly. All the best resources, best ways to do stuff, marketing and traffic tips, etc..

I will use the information you teach in Ignition to FINALLY help my business to produce sales consistently ( I may have to go into a new niche though). Clear my head from all the obstacles that are currently in my mind based on how to do certain TECH thing or help on how to use certain tools or resources so I might know how to use something more effective or efficent. Maybe change my strategy around. I'm open to suggestions and will use the information you give to see how I can currently help with what I'm doing.

I will use the money I start making from my business as follows:

5% Contribution - I will buy Robert Kiyosakis Cashflow 101 201 games and teach the game to people who haven't learned it. In turn I will give them the board game as long as they teach the game to atleast 5 other people.
75% Back into my Business
10% - MOM
10% - pay debt down, other investments and fun

I deserve the scholarship because I currently am taking action and will actually use the information you share. I'm not scared to put the information into practice nor do I have any weird fear things going on inside my head. Having a more structured learning system will help me a lot more than my current system. Read an email, blog post, a book, or teleseminar, then apply. All on different subjects. I will put your information to use and will put it to use fast...

Thanks, Kurt

Dear Eben:

Thank you for this opportunity, I've been hoping for something like this to come along. In this day of internet marketing there are many "Gurus" that promise a lot and deliver very little, however when I first ran across your video on sales letter writing and the psychic sales letter I immediately felt that you truly had a lot to offer. Not only was your video very informative but you gave away the software to create the psychic sales letter. At the time (and now too) I thought that it was a fantastic gesture on your part to do that.

I am a 46 year old guy on a mission to change my and my family's life completely around. We are not starving but currently the future is uncertain. The last career I had was a small construction company that I ran for about 10 years until my body began to give out. I needed knee surgery and began experiencing back pain that prevented me from continuing in that profession. At heart I am a perfectionist and since I was putting my name on the work I ended up doing most of the labor myself. The money that I had made from it was good but now it's almost 3 years later and we survive on my wifes income. I am extremely lucky when it comes to my Susie, she is supportive beyond belief. She believes in me and my abilities so much that she told me to not worry about working but to concentrate on becoming successful with my online efforts. For 17 years she has been telling me to make a career out of my knowledge of computers and the internet and she just wants me to do it now and enjoy what I'm doing.

And enjoy I do. I love everything about computers the internet and technology and I believe 100% that given the right information and training I can become hugely successful. The next guru with a lot to offer! But I need a mentor and I believe that anyone who wants to make a million dollars needs a mentor. I sit in front of my computer 16 to 18 hours a day almost everyday trying to learn as much as I can. The problem is that as a newcomer to internet marketing it's very difficult to know which program or course to follow. You could spend a small fortune trying to figure and sort it all out. I have 30 years of business experience but all of it in retail and management and construction. Do I want to win? More than anything!!! Do I deserve to win? Of course that's subjective. In my eyes of course I do, I have put so much effort into it already that I deserve some kind of break. But the greatest resource that I bring to the table is my determination and ability to learn. I would be an ideal candidate because my success will be directly connected to "Ignition" and you Eben. You couldn't get a better spokesperson than me! I'm motivated and I believe I am right at the turning point now. I'm not looking to make some extra money, I'm looking to make a million or better within the next 2 years. I would like to make one hundred thousand within 8 to 12 months. I KNOW in my heart that it is possible, and what would I do with the money that I make? That's a no-brainer. I would immediately reinvest it in you and one of your advanced programs. If taking the Ignition course makes me the kind of money I believe it can then I would half to be crazy not to follow up with an advanced course and more mentoring. Of course being able to help my mom & mom-in-law and both of my kids (19 and 24 and 3 grandkids) would be the cherry on top of a huge sundae. Did I mention Fiji and Europe? That has been Susie's and my dream for 17 years. When we got married over 17 years ago we had planned on a one month honeymoon to Israel and Europe. It was all paid for and we were packed and ready to go and then my dad died 2 weeks before our wedding and we never have been able to make it since. But that rest of that will go into my memoir's.

Eben I really really want this and I'll follow every step and dot every "i" and cross every "t". After watching the video I spoke about earlier I immediately started looking into your programs but you had nothing open for enrollment and I look at this as an opportunity of a lifetime and I will be a great addition to your network and organization.

I surely hope to hear from you soon,

Bob Waltman

Eben,

Hello!

[1]
My name is Jeff. I'm a 19 year old who has been following your businesses and techniques since I was 12 years old.

I recently from the Los Angeles Film School in Hollywood, CA with honors. Directly following my graduation day, I moved my entire life back to the east coast; The opposite of where my industry is.

A few months ago, we found out that my mother has cancer, and has a 3% chance of surviving to see 2010. I have moved home in order to take care of her, which means putting my own dreams on hold.

[2]
I have something that you aren't going to find in my contemporaries;

The understanding that success is built on goals and driven by ambition.

I have a lot to do in the next 80-100 year, and I am not trying to waste too much time getting started. I am focusing on a project that will use an internet business to completely fund and distribute a feature film using many of the tried and true methods that have made you a VERY rich man.

I plan to be up and running within the year, and admission into this course would prove a great jump start that, I believe, will assure success.

[3]
My family [Read: My mother and I] needs extra income in the worst way at the moment.

I am 19, unable to work due to my mothers need for 24 hour in-home assistance, having to find an alternative way to be the main provider for my family despite being it's youngest member, and still find a way to make payments on $100,000 worth of student loans.

If moms long term disability doesn't kick in, I will need to find a way to pay for all of her medical bills as well.

I am going to use the information provided by you to the very greatest degree to start an online business that will serve as the initial tests for my bigger ideas.

You are looking for someone who will be a worthy investment of your time, your energy, and your money. You are looking for someone who is going to really use your methods as a stride towards greatness.

I know that your expectations are driven by your desire to find someone who You will benefit from having your name attached to, who will help you sell more products as you help them sell their own.

I assure you with my every fiber of being, that person is me. Invest yourself in my work, and I will deliver.

I look forward to exceeding even the utmost of your every expectation.

Thank you for the opportunity,
-Jeff

Hey Eben,

Who am I?

My name is Mike I'm 25 years old and I'm a full time student at community college studying to transfer to a four year university right now. Since a young age I've been intrigued with psychology and found that watching shows such as Mc Giver (where he would save the girl using his mind, a paper clip, chewing gum, and duck tape) have inspired me. I would like to learn about those people that are really intelligent and help us all be better people from my work oneday...

I'm going to be a neurophysiologist and study the brain. To do such I'm going for my M.D. which is a bit ways off however I'm determined. There's a lot of research to be done in the field and I'd like to help those that have learning disabilities such as ADD, dyslexica, and mental retardation.

Currently have my real estate license, as you know the economy has been a bit bad, and I also work another part time job for the state. I also take care of my disabled single mom who suffers from illiness that makes it difficult for her to do many things or even walk short distances.

What will the money be used for?

The money that I would earn from this would go towards paying off my debt as I'm DROWNING in it right now. I am determined to make money and must do it somehow. I have over $29,000+ worth of it. It has become one of the things that has driven me to make changes in my life.

This is due to some medical problems that I have had, as well as trying to help my mom when she needed money, living expenses, and going to school. As well she's on a fixed income and it makes it hard for her to buy the things that she needs.

School is soo important and I'm continuing with my studies. The money will be used to pay for school as I have a long journey ahead me which I'm ready and excited to go after. I don't even have in my budget currently enough to go out and socialize with friends. When I go out with my buddies I usually order water at restaurants, because my monthly debt payments take more than my income. I'm DETERMINED to pay it off tho and to work hard and smart to do so.

Why should I receive it?

I should receive the scholarship because I WILL use the knowledge to make my life better, those around me and the world. I've read through some business related stuff already, however I have questions about making it happen for real! This program seems to be a perfect fit glove for me!..

The point that I'm at right now is one of those "That's it...I'm going to make this happen" point where I have to make the changes in my life. It seems as though I find myself being the person that never gets a break. I've had to endure quite a bit of hard times.

I do not blame anyone/anything for them like some dorky people might. I accept what has happened has happened for a reason. I believe that what doesn't break you will make you stronger. My goal is to master my health ( get more active, stick to a diet plan), wealth (use this program to build wealth for myself), relationships (thus the money that I get from this will enable to me to meet more people and have the type of social life that I really want).

Once I have this part of my life under control, I would also like to give back to those that are trying to make their lives better and are in the same situation that I am in now. I know I will succeed.

I DO NOT have the money to buy this program right now, and I would like the help getting started up.... Getting to school right now has been hard as well as other daily expenses, and I've been charging more and more on my credit cards and I'm considering taking on more debt so that I can keep going with school.

Hello, Eben.

I am Susie a 44 year old mother of 1 and have had a great career in health services which I love and where I am a Deputy Director. I have always wanted my own business and the Internet opens so many doors to the wise. I would use what I would learn from Ignition to look at how I could I could start an ethical, socially responsible Internet business linked to health.

As to deserving the scholarship, my comments are really to wish you and the other students good luck with the course as reading comments left already, there are some very worthy cases for scholarship out there deserving of your assistance.

Good luck to all, Susie

Hi Eben

Thanks for all your valuable information. I have seen your email just a few moments ago and inmediatly I opened it, thanks for this opportunity you give us.

My name is Abraham, I'm from Mexico, I'm 25 years old, I've been an entrepreneur all my life, since I was very young I've started different bussines, most of them have failed, but I've learned a lot in the process, I've been always passionate with the computer, but until last december I heard about Internet Marketing, I found here what I really want to do in life, a way to create passive income and help a lot of people at same time. I've been learning, applying, testing and practicing a lot, in fact, I left all what I was doing because I'm commited to succed in this bussines.

Almost two years ago I met the book "Rich dad, poor dad" by Robert Kiyosaki, that changed my life, I started a cashflow club (the game mentioned in the book) and that gave me the chance to help a lot of people in my city and learn from them, but since I found IM my growth as person has accelerated and i'm finding new ways to help other people.

My achievements in this field are not amazing yet, but I know they will, I'm a very persistent and competitive person and I hate to lose, and as I mentioned early, I'm commited to succed here, that's because my family is in a very precarious situation, my parents can't afford the university for my sister and I promissed her that I'm going to do what I need to do in order to pay for her school.

Maybe I should not tell this in public, but months ago my mother had recently retired and her pension is very small, then my parents was separated, and the day my mother left the home, I had no money to help her to dress the room to where she went. I felt really frustrated that I couldn't help her that day. Since then I've done all the possible to help her to live better.

These are my two main motivations to succed. When I achieve it, first of all, I'm going to help my family, and then, I want to help all the people that have become part of the Cashflow Club, and make it even bigger to help more and more people achieve their financial freedom, it's very fullfilling when some of them come to me and tell me that I've help them to change their life, I want to multiply that feeling hundreds, thousands or even millions of times.

Hope this letter has no big redaction mistakes, I'm still learning english. In spanish, my mother tongue, there is great need for guiding and advice, and I'm wanting to make a small contribution in the success of other people.

In my opinion, I deserve the scolarship because i'm going to apply every bit of information you can give us, I'm going to take action. I'm commited, and I'll show you that. You will not feel dissapointed if you grant me the scolarship.

Thank you for this awesome opportunity, I can't wait to start working with you.
Abraham

My name is Nido Abdo and I'm a 27 year old college student who's married and has a beautiful baby boy. I make a living by writing copy and helping local businesses with their marketing needs. Even thought I'm not a big time guru like Eben Pagan or Frank Kern, I do make enough money to stay home with my family and enjoy my passion of playing, watching and coaching soccer.

I've wanted to learn about making money online. I'm sure with the Ignition program, It'll
leapfrog my IM knowledge to the top and I'll be able to finally start making money online.
I can say that with great deal of confidence because I know you Eben teach the things that
you've actually "DONE" and not just theories like most other people out there. I'll use the
money I'll make with your program for 3 things. 1. Retire my parents. They've done enough to help me and
my 4 younger brothers and it's time they got to enjoy life without work now. 2. Pay off my debt. I, like most
Americans have debt to pay off. I want to pay off all my school loans and CC bills. And finally, number 3. Stop hunger. As a person who once lived in a refugee camp, hunger, especially when children are involved is something I've always wanted to stop. Even now
I send money back home to Africa and help those in need so it'll be great to help them with bigger contribution.

Ok so now I must tell you why I should be among the winners of this contest. well, I was
3 hrs away from being captured and killed by warlords in Africa during a barbaric civil war before we escaped by
taking 2 small fishing boats into the Indian Ocean for a 2 week Journey to Kenya. One of
the boats capsized once we got hit by a storm on the 9th day of our journey. 23 people lost
their lives. I was on the other boat that survived the storm. That experience taught me one
thing. Life is too short so you better take action on your dreams because tomorrow might
never come. I asked out my first girl friend when I didn't even know English. It didn't last
long but hey, I still asked. I write copy for businesses and English is my 3rd language. I quit a $60,000
per year "comfortable" job (without a BS degree) to pursue my goal of working from home and spend more time
with my family. Eben, I assure you I'm not the brightest cookie in the jar, but I can give
you my commitment that I will take this opportunity and do whatever it takes to make it work. I will
take massive action without any excuses. It'll be a waste to give such an amazing opportunity
to someone who'll not utilize it. Thanks for this GREAT opportunity.

Believe,
Nido

email: ZhnMarketing@gmail.com

Hi Eben,

I've been brainstorming a headline trying to get your attention, haha just kidding!

My name is Jeremy Lam from Hong Kong. I'm a university student about to graduate in 2 months. I guess the scary part (or the thing that really pisses me off) is that if i don't get my Internet business up and running and profitable, I have to "Get-A-Job". It bothers me a lot when families and friends ask me "What are you planning to do when you graduate?" and the only thing I could utter is "To Get-A-Job". Only if i own a profitable online business could I say otherwise. It's a shame.

I've been seeking and taking actions on different business opportunities since dec 2007. The one business opportunity, or should I say business model, that really fascinates me is the info-product business. I've tried affiliate marketing for quite some time now and have been failing miserably. My total revenue since then was about $150, wait, I've actually spent more than $800 on PPC advertising. Although I'm not as dramatic as some others who have lost significant amount of money in PPC or in huge debt, it's save to say that I'm an expert at failing.

The only thing I could picture myself doing if I've won the scholarship is taking massive action on your training. And I know I will succeed this time. That's how confident I am with you and your training. The first thing I'll do with the money I've earned is to treat my family and girlfriend to a nice dinner. Yes I do want to buy flashy cars and all that, but I realize that only comes second. I've always thought that would be my ultimate goal, but nothing beats putting a smile on others' face and having the freedom to live a happier and more fulfilling live.

I deserve to win because I will be your next case study.

Jeremy
seanadword@gmail.com

hi Eben
this is quite a hard letter to write., for everyone wants a chance
and only three get the opportunity. so without trying to sound like a bleeding heart here is my honest story
I started a pursuit to start an online business almost 23 months ago
the 2 main reasons were #1 was to get my folks to truly retire and enjoy what
little time they had left i this life and enjoy it.not work themselves to death. my father turned 80 last sept and still works almost full time at the private school his great grandaughter use to attend.my mother works three days a week cutting hair.and at 76 thats just too much time on her feet.
they have lived their lives for their children (my sister and i)but have had to raise ,their grandaughter and their great grandaughter and never complain about anything.i just wanted to put enough money in their bank account so they could do what they want and not worry about how they would survive,.and the second reason was so i would never have to worry about money again.
in hopes that i could help oters just like myself that had struggled to learn how to create a money makig home business.after being a general contractor /master carpenter for 25 years you would think i could jump in and conquer this. but its far different than any offline business in so many ways
at 51 years old i made a career change most would say i was a fool .but to see my folks.. who never said no to me,happy would be worth every bit of work it took

hopefully i can get a succeful busiesss up and running this year so that i can start to help others achieve the same success. since i started almost two years ago i have worked 20 hour days for weeks at a time until i was sure my brains were leaking out my ears and down the side of my head .i worked through info overload so many times it would make you head spin.and when i thought i couldnt get anymore frustrated ..i found out that i could ..i would take a step back, catch my breath ,and get right back at it.and when 99% of the people would have and did quit ..i never stropped and i never gave up
ive learned how to write html, how to use traffic exchange ,and email marketing
ive lost everything i own and then some .at this point im living in my business partners garage with my african grey parrot named ..."Success"and my partner has maxed himself out too.but in all this time has never had a negative word to say."i know your going to do it" is what i hear from him
everyday.pretty good for not making a dome in two years.
i wanted to shorten the learning curve as much as i possibly could and now
if i can get by the overwheilm everyday ..i think i can make it especially with A LITTLE GUIDANCE ONLY theres no money for guidance so this scholarship is a prayer
and why ?i think everyone could come up with a hundred reasons why they should get it.the fact is how many are really willing to put in the effort it takes to use the information you teach them and apply it at the moment they learn it and take action right then ?i know for a fact that i will and with the knowledge i acquire i will be able to step my own business level up at least one step and hopefully i can help some other people that are struggling so hard to make a better life for their families.so with that i will say Thank you Eben whether i win this scholarship or not its a pleasure to have to chance to work with you and if not today may be one day in the future my sincere thanks
Bryan Longlois

Hi Eben,
My name is Admas. Who I'm is a star in my life, courageous, determined, fun, play, wife and a mom.
What I do in life is I'm a Certified public accountant. Recently I start studying, reading and researching about internet marketing so your IGNITION training program fits exactly with my goals.
Once I make the money: I've a penthouse in New York city, I'm driving SLR McLaren Roadster, I'm building a big state of the art public library in East Africa...etc.
Why I deserve it? If it was my daughter her answer would be "because I want it mom". I must tell you that I started studying internet marketing with a very limited budget so I need all the support I can get to accelerate my learning curve. Which in turn provides me to do what I'm out there to do and make money as soon as possible.

Thanks you for the great opportunity
Admas:)
Admaskebede@yahoo.com

Hi Eben,

I'm interested, and here are my answers to your questions:

1. "Tell me who you are, and what you're currently doing in life."

My name is Felix, I am 22, and I live in Montreal. I completed a technical degree in computer programming, and I am currently doing an undergrad degree to become Software Engineer.

As soon as I got in my current school, I started involving myself in many activities, and I grew tremendously from these interactions. One thing in particular is that I was selected in my school's team for the Engineering Games competition. Only those who raised the most money got picked, either through selling promotional items, or getting sponsors.

I blew away the previous year's record, by selling twice as much. And the simple fact that I walked up to hundreds of people is great because I now know a bunch of future engineers, and even more know me. I did the same thing the next year, and got selected in the school's team again.

Now for my third participation in the Eng Games, I am in the executive committee: we will organize the selection. More specifically, I am the VP responsible of coordinating the design, purchase, delivery, and distribution of promotional items. I applied for this position because business interests me, and I found that concrete experience is what I learn the most from.

2. "Most importantly, tell me why you want to win the scholarship. What are you gonna do with the information, and what are you gonna use the money for once you start your business up and start earning a higher income working from home?"

I am very interested in the whole concept of building businesses that run themselves. I listened to Tim Ferriss' 4-Hour Work Week a few times, and I love his approach to life: time is the real commodity, and what's important is not how much money you make, but what you are able to do with the money and time you have available.

For now, I just want to complete my Engineering degree, not so much because I need it to get work (the economic crisis is a joke, in the tech industry, I still see job offers everywhere, all the time). I want to continue my degree because I'm having a blast doing so. The Eng Games alone are awesome, and I find that I am truly developing myself through the various stuff I'm involved in at school. The courses are boring, but the rest makes it worth it.

So I plan to finish my degree in 2011. Then for about one year I want to work and save some money, either through a personal business, or as an employee at a top Silicon Valley company (Apple or Google). Doing both simultaneously is not out of the question either.

I plan to be rich eventually and do grandiose things (like making space tourism mainstream), but this is not urgent. During that year or so after completing my degree, I just want to amass enough money to be able to go on a trip I've been dreaming about for a while. Starting at the end of 2012, I want to WALK all of Latin America, from California to La Tierra Del Fuego :)

Ideally, by then I would like to have setup a business that runs itself, that I need to check only once or twice a month, and if I can achieve that, I will probably continue to travel the world in various ways beyond my Latin American "pilgrimage".

These are my goals for the next three years, but I also have a short term goal: I am determined to break records again during the next Eng Games selection, next Fall semester. My focus will change, from selling, to supplying the sellers. I intend to teach them my tricks and mindset and turn them into power sellers.

I think I will learn a lot from this experience of managing supplies, and I want to make it "my first business". The profits are not for me, they will be used for our participation in the competition, but my paycheck will be the experience I get. I want to run it like a business, and if I am picked in the Ignition training, I want to use as much as I can from it to optimize my results.

3. "Finally, and this is also very important. Why you? Why do you deserve our full Ignition Scholarship?"

I have a feeling this section is going to be an exercise in humility, but let's put it this way: I think I have the mindset to make it work.

I've been following your videos on your various blogs for a while, and there are two key things I learned from you: Speed of Implementation and being a Driver.

I'm not sure if I already had those traits before. But one thing's for sure, I am consciously applying both principles now in my current internship, and I am among, if not THE, most productive (interns and normal employees combined).

I'm not a victim. If anything, B-players are MY victims. I take no prisoners, I say what's on my mind (I stole that line from Brad Blanton's Radical Honesty). I am blunt and effective.

I'm not perfect, far from it. I think I can still improve in many areas, but I have this knowingness that I can and will do great things. Which is probably a virtuous circle by itself.

Whew! I didn't expect to write this much, I hope I was able to captivate you thus far.

Let's end it with this. Another reason why you should pick me is: I will make you proud ;) . Many years from now, when I eat the first Big Mac ever served in a space restaurant (while casually enjoying a game of Monopoly), you will say to your grand-children: "you know, that extravagant kid, Felix, I'm the one who taught him. Plus he gave me these tickets for you guys to go in space and eat those dirty Mc' Chickens you like so much."

Thanks for being such role model for so many people.

-- Felix

"Who Else Wants To Earn Your Way Out Of The WobblyBox?"

Hello Eben,

My name is Richard Samples.
I am a husband and father of 4.

I've been endowed with Greatness.

However...this very minute I find myself writing this in a converted bedroom in our 'wobblybox' (we named our single-wide trailer---like naming a piece-of-crap car).

I work with a reptile vendor in Dallas which wholesales reptiles to pet stores nationwide.
My job is to call pet store managers and build the companies list. Fun-Fun-Fun.
Really, it has been fun to see the revenue grow for the company these past 4 months.

I want to win to provide the life my family deserves. I want my children to understand they can achieve anything they can envision in their minds. They are old enough to understand where we are now... and fully appreciate the change as it occurs.

I'm going to apply the information

The money will be used to continue to improve myself, my family's station in life, and to implement the 'Big Picture' I was inspired to bring to this world in December 2008. It's been a year in formulation but no traction thus far.

I believe Ignition(TM) can ignite this worldwide adventure.

I'm sure there will be many who deserve this valuable gift.
If I were to boil this down to one word...I'd have to go with---Desire.
I truly desire to change my life, my family's life, and the lives of others less fortunate than myself.

Talk soon,
Richard

Hi Eban,

My name is Andy Subir from Indoneisa but reside in Singapore. I am 24 years old this year. I was exposed to internet marketing and online business late last year when I attended a seminar conducted locally. Since then, I have bought many home-study courses and had spent an approximate of US$2000, to-date. I applied the things that I have learned but didn't get any result, in-fact I spent more because of advertisement costs. So, I told myself that there got to be something wrong with the things I have done hence I decided to find out more.

I began to buy some more courses and subscribe to many top gurus. Everyday my email is full of information which I read all of them. Without realizing, I am not moving forward because I was consistently banged with information and now overloaded. It is very frustrating because I don't know what the fundamentals of starting an online business anymore. However, I not going to give up because I don't want to waste all the efforts I have put in so far.

At the moment, I am waiting for my school in UK to start in September this year. I feel that is is ironic to be going back to school to get a degree when I am already 24 and I feel that going back school will not solve my desire of becoming an entrepreneur. But it is always my parents dream for all their children to get at least a degree and therefore I can't disagree with them. I have decided to use the money generated from my online business to fund my education and living expenses. Although they agreed to pay for my education and expenses, I feel that it is not right for a 24 years old guy to be still depending on parents. Any extra money will be reinvested to the business so that I will be able to expend it and become a full bloom business. In the future with the money, I am going to use it to fund organizations that will save the world. The world is suffering now due to the exponential growth of our populations and demand for food, energy and land. I wan to be the person who can make a different in our world and a better place to live in.

Eban, I believe your course will definitely able to benefit me fully. It is design in such a way that it suite for beginners only, like me, and it is not just an ordinary home-study course. I know the true value of your course because I have bought many home-study courses. None are like yours. Most of the home-study courses out there want you to study all by yourself. They give the whole chunk of information with no proper guidance. Where else for your course, you conduct series of webinars to enhance our learning and guide us along in order for us to start a profitable online business. There is personal touch and there is no other reason that I will not be able to become successful having you, a reputable teach in the industry, as a mentor.

Why do I deserve the scholarship? My only reason is that I know the true value of your course that will definitely enable me to reach my goal and become a successful entrepreneur. Furthermore, I am not a NATO (No Action Talk Only) guy. I am doer. Your kindness will be wasted and I will repay you in the future.

Kindest Regards
andy

At 53 Im probably your oldest applicant. Im a divorced Dad with 3 kid living at home with me. One will be leaving for college this summer. I can only work part time because of my controlled seizures and back and shoulder surgery. Most my life I did hard physical work and for the most part, enjoyed it. I have been a substitute teacher, and really enjoyed that. I taught my kids to play music.
If I am able to learn to work from home, I will gladly pass that on to those not able to afford it, or those who suffer medical difficulties, and might be better off working from home.
I couldn't think of a better gift to give!
I can't say I deserve it more than anyone else, but I may lose my License do to my seizures, and I just don't know what I'll do. I have a 15 yr old, who depends on me, so working from home would be a blessing!
Thank you,
Mark
banjoman@bellsouth.net

1) Who you are and what you're doing in life

Let's get this party started. Who I am is a fluid concept, and I got you to blame for that Eben, you changed my life 2 times already, and I'm looking for a 3rd time.

Who I *was* is just this average (kinda nerdy, fat kid) in some 2nd world country... then... you suckered me into selling me the magical "dating techniques" thing... and cleverly put me on the path of mastery. (I loved that bait and switch).

But its not the dating part that was most impressive. I got that area completely handled, it was more the personal development thing.

I'd try to have humility, but its kind of hard, thanks to you, I'd say I'm a 24 year old who has a higher emotional maturity than most 50 year olds.

I am a visionary... And I'm going to stop at the word visionary, because again, you successfully brainwashed me into thinking big, that I cringe at having to share how I see myself and what I know I will accomplish in contributing to the world... so I'll stop at just "I'm a visionary"

2) What are you going to do with the information, and what are you going to use the money for once you earn the higher income

Oddly enough, the same thing I am doing right now. For some reason when I handled those first 2 areas, most of my material desires kind of subsided. I invest all my earnings into developing my visions of what I can contribute to the world, through my entrepreneurship.

OOPS, I kind of gave my self away, I'm not a TOTAL newbie. In fact, i'm already making things happen in the personal development niche... The truth is, the reason I want this scholarship is because I want the leverage of having a support structure.

3) Why do you deserve our full scholarships, why YOU?

Why not me?

Truth be told, I don't "need" this scholarship, because I am getting into the program anyway, I'm committed. But somehow, I feel that if I were in through a "scholarship", that this whole "support structure" thing will work much better, and I'll be walking into a room and shaking your hand, that much sooner, saying yes, I... got my start all those years ago thanks to you.

That's one of my life-goals btw... Thanks to you this journey for the past 7 years has been nothing but amazing (in retrospect)...

See you Soon,
Alek

Eben,
Hello my name is Earl and I am a happily married 36 yr old father of 3 children ages 11, 9, 6.My current profession is a Millwright Apprentice which is basically Industrial construction with metal(conveyor systems, machine layout, all power generating equipment). A very techinal but hard and labor intensive career that can be somewhat fruitfull when there is work. My job is GM, Ford, and Chrysler based(50%) so work has been slow.
I would be honored to win a scholarship to the Ignition program for a couple reasons. First of all I have been looking for a way to supplement my income on the internet for approximatley 2 yrs now with no luck. As I mentioned I am frequently laid off in this economy and would rather not end up all beat up and broken down like the older guys in my field, basically so I can have a better quality of life. People in my field don't live to be very old. I have been on your email list for at least a good year now and I am always listening to anything I can for free trying to learn any bits of quality informatrion. I've wanted to join one of your courses for quite some time but they never seemed right for me and they were always very expensive and out of my budget which is next to nothing. Some of the things I would do with the extra money would include; putting my children through better quality schools(grade & highschool & college), eventually get out of my current field to enjoy a better quality of life for myseld and my family, and retirement before 60 would be great!
Why do I deserve this? I think I deserve this opportunity because I have a lot of drive and energy to contribute to this(not $) and all I need are the tools to do it with. Getting this scholarship would guarantee that I can be on the path to become successful on the internet. Thank You.
elookebill@yahoo.com

Earl Lookebill II

Eban, Hi.

My name is Georgiy and I'm originally from Ukraine.
I'm 20 years old now and at this point in my life I'm attending University of Arkansas to major in International Business,
while living with my girlfriend who nags me for not picking up my dirty clothes from the floor... :)

I have a special talent with women that I've been developing since I was 16 years old,
with help from many mentors... now I'm 20 and I am very good with women.

Since summer of last year I've been involved in the internet-marketing business,
marketing and selling information to help other men get to the level where
they can meet and attact great women.

Since I started making money with it, (And I've made $500 since I started a year ago)
I have given away 10% of what I earned to
eliminate malaria in Africa. I've never
been to Africa, but I can imagine what it's like there. Since I moved to US, I started observing myself taking more and more
things for granted, and when I "get altitude" and detach myself from the worries of everyday
life I see that something's got to change in the world...
...And for that I have to change first...

Even though my $50
donation isn't much, comparing to what other people and organizations
are giving, I can see a child or even a grown up benefiting from my contribution. I don't feel
especially proud about it (You're the first person I tell this to) and I truly believe that this is how
things should really be...

Now, what am I going to do with the money I make? Well, seems to me like money is just another form
of energy (woo woo!! :-), and I could apply it as a lever to make great things happen.

For example, I think that a lot of people my age and especially people that are younger
are ready now more than ever for a new educational system. People might not see it,
but the world is changing rapidly, and I'm not only talking about technology. We are on the verge of something completely different

and something new is awaiting for us. There are more subtle changes going on right now and there won't be much benefit to having
a lot of money unless you can help facilitate these changes.

In the near future (20 years) I see it like this:

There would be mentoring programs in schools, where specially trained people
could talk to students and reassure them that there is something else to this
world, apart from "trying to make it." No, not talking about giving them lectures about God or
participating in organized religion(no one ever succeeded doing that), but showing them that an option for courageous self-discovery

is always there for them...

Eben, the time will tell. I know that things most probably will turn out different, and I might contribute in some other way than

this, but having a parallel system of education, (As analogy - Gurdjiev's "Forth Way") that would give children and teenagers hope,

could benefit the society and the world at large. Seems like my generation does not see a real purpose for existing. And it will get

worse.

That's what I would be working on now, have I unlimited resources. But at this moment I'm only helping people by giving them the

right book to read or maybe asking them the right question, at the right time.

Eben, right now it's just a question of time. If I do get the scholarship and get to where I want to be financially, then I'll have

more resources (time and money) to make my vision come to life. If I don't get the scholarship - it'll take me more time to figure

this out by myself (on my own) and eventually the time will come when I'll be able to contribute fully and without restrictions. I

deserve this scholarship because I really feel like I can make my vision come to life fast. And you can help me contribute to the

world by giving me a scholarship to you program.

Also Eben, I'm usually humble about these things and there are only a few people that know about this, but I feel like you really

want to hear it like it is... So there it was.

P.S. I really believe in the power of mentoring. I have experienced it when I was learning how to meet and attract women from my

mentor (when we first met I was 16 and he was 35, but he still took me "under his wing") and I know how lightning FAST one can learn

things from people who are experts.

Peace and respect,
Georgiy

Hello Eben,

I want the Ignition scholarship for several reasons. 1. The ability to provude a financial fortress for my family,I am 54 years of age and I need a mentor, so that I can cut through all the newbie mistakes. i have been told that at my age it is too late and I should just give up. This presents a challenge and i would like to prove the critics wrong. The scholarship would provide the vehicle to help others as well,to serve without the distraction of a lack of money . I feel that I owe my family and others more than I have been, I need to prove that I can complete the task. I need you to believe in me and take a chance,I will not disapoint you. My goal is to be your best student and using the help given ,I will use the money to help myself first,family second and then use my ability to assist all others to break free from their limitations ,so that they can live up to their full potential. Once again you will not be sorry if you choose me for this privilege.

Thanks,

Tromie

Hi Eben,

I live in Barcelona and work as a coach for mainly entrepreneurs.

I'm currently working on an internet based project that helps people lose weight applying common sense. I will use a very intuitive video presentation for that. And to finance the making of that video I need around 10.000$ which I don't have. That video will be my sales-letter to an info product for weight loss. I hope to attract from 1 to 5 milion people to watch the viral video.

With the money I am going to make from this info product I want to build other info products that relate to health issues. My goal is to build a community of 1 milion people before 2012, and offer them value.

Why I deserve this? I value your expertise and I am open to be mentored/coached/trained by you. You have my respect and trust.

Thanks

Sergi

Hi Eben,

My name is Cedric and I am from France. I have been working as a computer programmer for the first four years of my working life. As I was finishing my studies, I discovered personal development and found myself studying passionately and decided that I would become a life coach in order to work with living humans to help them bring more consciousness in their lives and consquently to bring more consciousness into the world we're all living in. This is my mission, this is what inspires me and gave a meaning to my existence. I have now left my job to work on setting my life and business coaching practice. With the scholarship of Ignition, I will be able to get an education on how to promote my services through the internet and release information products and get started. I am currently living on my savings. Although the technical aspect of things is not a problem, I seriously need to get a better understanding of business models and a step by step system to get started and impact people's lives. I live in France and personal development is not a very developped thing around here and many people would need to change their attitude and reach their potential of consciousness rather than looking for external consumerist solutions.
With the money, I will be able bring a greater positive impact to the life of others and grow personally as well as take part to the growth of even more people. For me this is a source of great satisfaction and really make sens in the current world we're living in. Without a rapid growth of counscious awareness, our world seems in a very difficult position, and I want at my scale do something about it.

Cedric C.

Dear Eben,
I am Juan, someone who have changed so many times in life that no I have a collection of activities: Civil Engineering, Software consulting, Art Painting, Psychotherapy, Counseling, Sales of any type, and recently business coaching. As you can guess, this versatility, flexibility and creativity, has become more a problem than a solution.
Im am now 52 and in certain way, I've done what I wanted, but something went wrong and how I am having problems with my marriage, I have been worried about endless 'problems', now I believe that success in life is amatter of conquering our fears with love.
Why me?, I have been for trying for the last 20 years to succeed. I have taken many courses in order to improve my self esteem and enter in action but something does not work.Unfortunately when it is about starting action or making decision many things becomes blurry and solution are far away from my sight.
I am very interested in taking your course, and learning how to be more resilient , making money with the web, making social circles of relations, etc. I need money to achieve my personal goals and also some altruistic goals like helping institutions and giving my time to people who needs me. With the money that I will earn, I would start a new circle of love, donating at least one course to someone that you recommend me. With the resto I would like to rebuild my life, and help as many peple as I can. I think that our children, deserve a bettereworld, and that is made from our actions toward other people. I thank you in advance Truly yours Juan Manuel Ceballos

Hi Eben,

Up until a few months ago I was a Yield Manager in charge of a $12,000,000 annual revenue book of accounts at an online display advertising network. Since then I opened an ecommerce website focusing on ergonomic furniture and I am trying to wrap my brain around how to get it off of the ground, promote bodily health through ergonomics to the world, and hopefully make a livable income in the process. Right now I am also attending your leadership seminar to aid in my transition from team member to team leader.

I want to win the scholarship so that I can use the knowledge about how to really get into the nuts and bolts of starting a successful web-based business and transform my Ergonomics e-store from a hobby into a real business. I'm quickly running out of time and money, and I feel like I just need to break through a few sticking points that I can't see the obvious path through in order to gain some initial traction.

Once the company generates a livable income, the first thing I want to do is take care of my family and make sure that I can provide a nice home for my wife and future children. Once my family is taken care of, I want to take care of my community. With my ergonomics business targeted at high end consumers paying my bills and freeing my time, I want to shift focus to starting a non-profit for putting ergonomic desks in public schools.

There is no mystery to the fact that low back pain is near universal in people over 40--we sit in terrible chairs all of our lives and it catches up with us. More people have low back pain than failed marriages, and yet it's still the elephant in the room that no one seems to be talking about. Look at nearly anyone around you and they probably stoop with their head jutted out forward. Bad posture doesn't just affect your health it also affects your emotions because you just don't feel a winner when you walk around in a slump all day. Proper desk ergonomics from an early age can help kids develop lifelong habits and awareness of keeping their body healthy and pain free.

To borrow from Steve Jobs, "Do you want to sell ebooks for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" I think I would be a good choice for the scholarship first and foremost, because I would actually use the material. I am improvement driven and I want to improve myself and the lives of others through my business.

I envision a future where people realize they can do something about their physical health by using ergonomically designed furniture, and high demand and awareness causes ripple effects through public transportation and airlines to improve the quality of their seating as well. So few problems can be solved simply by throwing money at them, but an extra couple $100 for a proper ergonomically designed chair can save us tens of thousands of dollars racked up in unnecessary surgeries and monthly chiropractic bills later in life.

Hey Eben,

Who am I?

I'm a 21 year old college student from India whose been interested in Internet Marketing since September last year.My problem
is exactly why you released your Ignition program, there was a ton of information available and some have to be paid for but

no step by step concrete plans of action.
I bought a few products here which turned out to be completely outdated in addition to a data entry scam and an incomplete

pay per click product. Im here to succeed in Internet Marketing.

Why do I want to win the scholarship? What am I going to be doing with the money or information?

This is a great question and I hope to do justice to it.

I have a dream, that one day I might facilitate educational institutes across the globe where children from ages 3 to 10 are

taught to build character, are taught about themselves and the power inside their own body, are taught about the beauty and

glory of life, to them their latent natural abilities be revealed.

Me and you are aware of the effects of negative programming on the minds of young children, some wounds they carry their

whole lives. I truly believe by revealing the genius inside each child we will be taking the next evolutionary step.

Internet marketing is the most flexible and modern way to earn financial freedom, and the information may be very useful to

market my dreams to a worldwide audience.

Why do I deserve full scholarship?

I like to take action, I want to become the best man I can be. I'd be doing your program the greatest justice by giving it

all I got because I have the driving force of inspiration behind me. Most of the money I make goes in paying my tuition,

though I plan to be an entreprenuer for the rest of my life. The scholarship and the program is really going to fuel me to

the next level. I am immersed in constantly improving myself by finding the time and burying myself in success literature. I

have read Think and Grow rich 3 times and have watched Bob Proctor's Born Rich seminars over and over again, just to name a

few. I also took weekly lessons for 6 months from the Master Key system by Charles f. Haanel. If you have faith in me, Id be

committed to making your program a big success. You are my role model, in more than one way ;). I don't say this to impress

you, but I'd actually like to meet you sometime and just talk to you, and if you would possibly mentor me. A paid scholarship

for YOUR program is a dream come true. Pick me man, you'ld be doing both of us a great favor ;).

To,
Your happiness and success,
Aungeer Bhattacharya

aungeer@gmail.com

P.S- I would really appreciate your feedback, either way.

Hi Eben,

Thank you for the great opportunity. I am a South African product developer and I need all the help to successfully launch my products on the internet.

There are many pitfalls for internet novices like myself and I need to learn from the best in the business.

Hi Eben,
My name is Parvez and I am from India. I am 28 years old and right now I am working as a freelance developmental trainer. I left my call center job a year ago after working in it for 5 years.
I worked in a call center because I needed financial security for me and my family. But, a year ago I realised, I have lost my creative ability and started loosing interest in my job. I am unemployed for a year now and somehow managing my finances by doing some part time training projects, thanks to the recession.
My dream is to start my own company which gives advice and help to people. However, I don't know if I should join a job once again or keep struggling to start my own company. I have to find the answer fast.
Now, as for the internet business goes, this can do wonders to my aspirations. If I start making some money on the internet, I can also focus hard on becoming a full time consultant and have my own company.
I am very excited about the internet business thing and I have gathered a lot of information. I just need a little push from you and I assure you that I will be one of your success stories. I desperately need it Eben!!

Eben,

My name is JP and I'm trying to find some way of making money online, but I just don't know how I should do it. I recently changed careers, and after a year, I'm still looking for a job. It's especially hard when you don't have much experience, but have a ton of schooling. I think part of the reason why I haven't found a job is that I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR. All I get when I tell my parents that I want to start my own business is an 'eye-roll,' and a lecture on how I need 'experience' before starting off on my own.

The IGNITION program will lay the foundation for setting up a variety of online businesses, which is just what I need. Just like any class in school, if you don't know how to do the basics, there's no way you are going to pass the final. The program will give me insight into what direction I want to take. When I know what I want to do, I am very successful. With the success of an online business, I would like to do at least these three things. First off, I want to launch a online campaign to get people more involved on how their food is grown and processed. Secondly, I would like to design/create some eco-friendly gadgets/products. Finally, I would like to travel to get a better understanding of how the world works.

I have always looked up to my father who created his own business--I want to follow in his footsteps. Starting a successful online business will give me the reassurance that I am on my path. A while ago, I climbed Mt. Rainier and did it with a foot blister the size of a baseball--my determination and focus got me to the summit and back. I am determined to make the IGNITION Program work. I'm 100 percent CONFIDENT that I can put the IGNITION principles into action and that I'll be writing an UNBELIEVABLE TESTIMONIAL for your next project soon. I guess I'll have to chuckle at the disbelief of my parents too.

Thanks.

-JP

Hey Eban,
I admire what you're doing with the scholarships because in this day and age the information you have doesn't come cheap and what you're dong creates an opportunity for someone that wouldn't otherwise be able to gain access to what you have.
I'm not going to feed you a hard luck story; I just want to be the best internet marketer in Australia. I'm only very new to the whole scene and only recently learned how to do affiliate marketing and what CPA networks were but I do fully understand the potential and the leverage the ineternet has. I've paid to do a course with an Aussie guy who is fantastic but even he told me that the internet marketers over here aren't much compared to what you guys are doing and what's happening worldwide therefore I need to go to the world to learn from the best.
I'll win because I want to build a financial wall around my family, my parents recently came close to losing everything after a development they undertook went horribly wrong with builders, finance etc so that is what motivated me initially to become an Entrepreneur. I of course will have a nice house and car but I saw something a couple of weeks ago that for me has become a major kicker, motivation and an area I would like to be involved with and to give back. I saw an article where they had trained dogs with their keen sense of smell to be able to pick up the smell of cancer without having to go to the doctors because a lot of people don't have private health care and are scared or hesitant with doctors so if I can do this for free I think it will save many lives through early detection not only in Australia but also abroad.
I am determined to be the best internet marketer Australia has, that's why you should pick me. I of course would like nice things like everybody else but I'm not greedy and I will continue to help others as I always have, I haven't made the best business decisions in the past but I take full responsibility for them and also the responsibility and actions enabling me to move forward, I'm not in the best position financially but with your knowledge and my passion that's going to change.

Thank you Eban and I look forward to meeting you.

Brent.

Hi Eben ,
This is why I like to work with you ,every time something new , almost unpredictible .
I have graduate Psychology ,and the first degree in Reiki .In this moment I study Numerology ,via Internet .I also study management and how to build my own business .I am from a small mountain town and I want to open a business in tourism , to have my own hotel .I never give up , I like to work , I like challenge . I am a giver one .I know and I feel that beeing involve in a business project I can help more for others not only for myself . We all deserve a better life .I have this power inside my , I was born with this . I am the feeling type and I feel people around my ,I really want to help people .A business is not only a place where you can make money for yourself , but for other projects , such us > to help children , to protect nature , to make a place to heal people and so on . Is a place where can be connected with people who wants to make this world to be better . I am a a winer because I have this chance to be here with you all , and with you , Eben .Because I can love people unconditional , without to ask something for my. You know , If I shall have more money I could be involve in a project to save and protect nature and animals . Or to give a chance to children that are starving ,don\t have what to eat ,or to be heal . Can be a humanitarian project . If I win here is a cance for others too .
I always want to be better for others .
Money are also a special energy ,you have to know how to use this . In the hands of charistmatic person can be pure gold light !
My purpose in life is to make people around my to feel good , to heal them , to give my love from my soul .
I am a little Worrior that fights for good life with a Sword of Light and Love .

Thank deep from my heart for this chance , Eben.

You are a special Worrior too , in this world !

Light and Peace ,

Lydia

Hi Eben. I have always seen myself as a philosopher, though i work as a cashier in a restaurant (in a small city in Mexico; sorry for my english in advance). My passion is literature and the world of thoughts. It has always surprised me to find ideas I thought were originally thought by me to be already out there in the world . This made me see the reality in that most of what we think of as"original" is already out there, we just have to find the right source (my favorite example is wikipedia - internet, is the closest to what we humans have called telepathy, and perhaps collective consciousness). After this and other astounding breakthroughs I had in my life, I started to figure out what I was really looking for. And recently (less than a year ago) I made up my "Three pillars of life", which are, in this order: Money, Women and Spirit. I think these three words speak for themselves, strong as pillars. I then realized: Eben, you have already covered my first two pillars, you have "unlocked" my first two secrets of life. You have made me succesful with women and will undoubtedly make me succesful making money, I know that. My question is now, Eben, in the future, will you make a program about the Spirit? Eben, do you believe in God?
Well, I can see that this era is somewhat different to other times in history, because now, not only is information flowing like never before, but also are we applying this information, putting it into practice and transforming it into knowledge in our daily lives, noy just theoretically. That's why i'm asking you: Eben, do you belive in god? Maybe it will take you "years" to figure it out, but if you can answer this question just as you have figured out what the other two pillars are about, I think will you not only transform lives as you have done till now, but that history will be conducted by your teachings.
I want to win the scholarship because i dont know yet how much its going to cost. Ive already put my mind into it, i have convinced some of my closest ones to give me some money for my birthday to pay for this program. If its aroud 300 i wouldnt worry that much, if its more than that, maybe ill have some problems to get it. If its more than 500... the scholarship is my only hope.
Its been a long, tough road to find myself where I am. In the middle of "nowhere" but with the conviction that im not going back. I am in the search for something greater than myself. I see it as passing the baton in a relay race, a race which has been going on since humans are humans. I had a big epiphany recently and that is that our mission as human beings is to specialize in something, go deep into that and share that information. OUR MISSION IS EVOLUTION! - not exactly physical evolution, but evolution of thought! And when i finally got to understand the epiphany i found myself up to the point of not knowing what my mission is. Then I thought that if I could see this pattern in the evolution of mankind, maybe my mission is the ability to find the ability in others that will contribute to evolution! So here I am, trying to figure out exactly how can I massively help other people find the mission in their lives. I have done small experiments with friends and I've seen that I can connect with them. It works on some level!. Thats how im going to use the information in this program for; expansion.
Something that I will definetly do with the money, even if I don't win the scholarship, Eben, is to pay you back the Double Your Dating programs i have downloaded. I'm sorry. I never thought someome could give me something that would make me feel guilty when downloading it for free. I was always of the thought: "fuck it, I'm never going to pay for anything that I can download" Well, I'm in debt with you Eben, I dont have the money now (I wouldn't have a credit card to pay you even if I had the money today), and even if you are extremely rich. Im going to pay you someday soon.
Cheers!

Hi, Eben,

My name is Dominik Dobrowolski, and
I'm am 29 and 8 months:)
I have one year old son, and 28 years old wife.
Residence: Poland

Who am I and what am I doing?

It is a good question ...

I think I am good person indeed, and I really want to pick up my life to next level.

I had studied for years in traditional way in school and after that started "safe security job".
Now I woke up and realize that this road leads to nowhere, and is not leveraged for my purposes.

I want to feel free, do something really important that supports my growth,
which not only involve me
but also my whole family, so we all can growth together in well being.

What I do with money that I earn?

First I spend on my family,
Sencond I bougt a trip to the U.S., and meet you personally, I still do not believe that you exists:)

Why I should to win?

When I win, and pass through all steps successful,
I want to help others people around me to starts their own business.

I really want to know the rules stuff like: success, prosperity, wealth

Best Regards
Dominik

Hi Eben!
You are a hero on the Internet Marketing field and I just want to say thank you for everything.
My name is Lam and I'm a 21 years old kid came from Vietnam
I am a part-time student at salt lake community college and been serving food for peoples around 4 years at a Japanese Steak House called Tepanyaki(just like Benihana)
My family brought me to United States 6 years ago to start a new and better life far away from our country. To pay respect to my ancestor, to bring honor and pride to my family, I decided to start learning about how to make a lot of money online and get my family a really nice life that we had always dream of ever since we stepped foot in America.
I was born in a very poor and bad environment where I grew up. I always tell myself that I didn't get to choose what I was, but now I do have choice on what I will become. Therefore I want to become a wealthier person and having the ability to help others who have needs. That is my lifetime goal and I know that If I work hard and willing to learn everything out there; I will achieve my goal.
My story is just as a simple truth as it is. If you ask me for a reason "Why I should win this scholarship?" I only have one for you is that I've been trying to invest whatever I had and grow my business for almost a year now; but I don't have much to invest anymore. There's a reason for it is that I maxed out all my credit lines for my brother's gambling addiction:( It's nothing to be proud of, but I've done a good job for what I had to do(it's my family.)
Hey, on the bright side I'm pretty proud of myself. Peoples might think I'm stupid but I feel good about it cuz I help someone.
So now I'm just investing whatever I have from my part-time job. After rent and utility, I have around $200 a month ha only if I don't spend on anything.
No one is really know about my story except my loved one, I like to keep my life personal. But since you're offering a scholarship, I feel like it's okay to share a little of my personal story with a high level skill entrepreneur who have my honest respect.
Well that's all it is from me. Of course I hope I will get the scholarship but I understand that many peoples do not want to loose out on this opportunity so it's okay if I don't get it. Because I will keep on working hard until I achieve my goals.
Thanks!
Sincerely Lam

Dear Eben,

My name is Taural Rhoden and I'm an expatriate American living and working in Germany. Up until very recently I was a corporate management consultant working in the automotive industry. One short step away from making partner ("just two more years Mr. Rhoden") I felt compelled chuck it all and strike out on my own.

My clients and former colleagues don't get it. My parents and in-laws are worried. My best friend asked me "Why on earth would a father of 4, decide to give up the security of a safe corporate job in this economy? You're 39 years old for God's sake! You can't just start over." Germans are very risk-averse people, so I expected that.

I got bit by the internet business bug about a year and a half ago. I was doing some research for a client project, something about leveraging the internet to strengthen customer relationships to automobile retailers and I stumbled into a product by a well known IM guru.

At first it seemed kind of crass, a little bit too "used car salesman" in tone, but when I ordered and actually read the product, I was amazed. Here was a whole new world of business, new strategies and new concepts that I never knew existed. We never learned about this stuff in business school, I thought.

With that introduction to internet business I started out on my own journey of discovery. This journey has taken me from being a hard-charging corporate consultant, just a few short years away from making partner in my firm, to becoming an "unemployable-to-someone-else" internet entrepreneur wannabe. At first I just wanted to learn the business side. But you can't avoid the lifestyle questions that come from studying this stuff.

Was it really possible to make the kind of living that I was already starting to enjoy as a dark-suited corporate guy, without the 50, 60 and sometimes 70 hour weeks away from my family on client projects? Everything that I was learning told me it was. More importantly, I started to question many of the things that I had been telling myself about "making it" and having a good career. Come to find out, I was pretty unhappy.

I hated being away from my family. I hated the corporate politics and the ever increasing infighting that comes as a result of the thin air at the top of an organization chart. And I began to really hate using all my creativity, intellect and effort on other people's projects - especially when those people didn't actually apply the good advice I was giving them!

And that's why, at the beginning of this year, I left the corporate world. I've been working as an independent consultant with some of the same clients to keep my family above water while I start building up my dream internet business on the side. Frankly, in some quiet moments, I do ask myself if I really know what I'm doing. But, deep down, I'm convinced that if I can make it in a passionless and dry corporate world, than I can make it doing something that makes me smile to think about and which keeps me awake at night mulling over ideas and strategies.

That's me; that's where I'm at right now.

You also asked about what I'd with the information and the resulting money from a successful internet business. There are two basic areas of change in my life that I hope to make with the business model laid out in your Ignition program and the resulting money.

The first has to do with how I live my life, the private side. Right now I live with my family in a little farming village in the northern Black Forest. When we moved in, about 3 years ago, we increased the village population to 96 people. It really is that small.

Our neighbor across the street keeps chickens which wake us up every morning, there is a fruit orchard behind our house and the street lights turn off at midnight every night. Perhaps this is not a place where many people would want to live but it's perfect for us. My children have forests, streams and farms to explore and my wife and I love the quiet and slow pace, after decades in bigger cities. As a corporate man, the banks had no problem giving me a loan to buy our house. As a "freelancer" they are a bit more conservative.

So the first thing I'd do would be to buy the house that we are currently renting, to secure our future in a place we've come to love.

The second change is professional in nature. I want to take my online business and grow it to the point where I can positively influence other businesses in Germany with the Ignition business model. There's a small and easily overlooked IM community in Germany right now. I'd like to grow that community and market, which is currently in its infancy, into a full-grown viable and respected market similar to the one in the USA.

And I have a passion for story-telling, particularly using multi-media channels to convey those stories. There are many project ideas bouncing around in my head right now which I would love to have the freedom to pursue - the kind of freedom that a successful online business could provide.

Did I mention that I want to show all those nay-sayers that I had what it takes to make it in this weird and obscure business, too?

Why me? What makes me think that I've got what it takes to succeed?

I'd like to tell you that I have a knack for making good things happen and for getting results. And I do! I went from being a grunt in the US Army for 8 years to being an honors graduate from my MBA program in Vienna to being a successful corporate consultant in Germany (in a foreign language and culture...not easy!). But, I'm sure you'll find other stories as compelling as mine.

I'd also like to tell you that I'm going to be successful. My conviction of this point is deep and steady and I already have a track record of success. But everyone here believes they'll be successful, too.

Actually, the best reason that I can think for you to consider me for the Ignition scholarship is a marketing reason.

As a stuffed-shirt, traditional consultant my first impression of the IM market was not good. It seemed full of hype and hyperbole, "buy this and get rich in 1 day without trying and sitting around in your underwear." The IM market looked a lot like snake-oil salesmen and Wild West cowboys and not a lot like the solid businessmen I was familiar with.

Obviously I'm not the only one who had to overcome this image, which in the case of some IM gurus was actually spot-on. This perception doesn't help grow your market and although you and the other IM businessmen out there may be pulling in millions, you certainly would like to continue to grow and develop - stagnation, the mundane and, inevitably, failure are the other side to that particular coin.

One can argue about the validity of the solid image "traditional" businesses have, especially after watching some of the Wallstreet hi-jinks recently, but I don't think that you can argue that putting IM more into the mainstream consciousness will help to grow your market.

I believe that you are very much aware of this particular negative perception and that you have decidedly positioned yourself as the antithesis of the snake-oil salesman.

It is evident to me in how you position yourself in your sales letters and videos and it is evident in how your courses seem to be composed. And frankly, it was this "solid" business style which attracted my attention to you.

What does this have to do with me? Simple. I could be living proof to a market of skeptics that your program (and IM business in general) not only works, but that it is a viable, "real" business, so solid that even corporate types like me see it for what it's worth.

We've seen the food-stamps to six figures stories. As compelling as they are, they still smack of "get rich quick". Let's push the perception into more respectability together and make this market grow in new ways and places.

Who you are?:
Hi Eben, I'm a husband, father, artist, coach, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and good friend.

What do you currently do?:
I work a 9-5 job doing what I love but I am working for someone else trading my time for money. I also coach wrestling part time at a high school, my main focus is to teach the kids I coach about personal responsibility, character, gratitude, and honor. As an artist & filmmaker I use my creativity as a hobby for fun and play. In the last 8 months or so I have been asked (WOM) to work on videos for other people so I guess that makes me an entrepreneur.

What are you going to do if you win the scholarship?:
I'm going to jump up and down like a little kid full of joy!

What are you going to do with the money you earn?:
I will reinvest the some of the money back into myself and my family first, I will reinvest some of the money back into the business you help me create through this program, and I will invest some of the money for future growth.

Why you, why do you deserve to win?:
My desire is to peel myself away from my 9-5 so that I can use that time to do what I love for me, for my family. My father went through quadruple bipass last year and is now working part-time, my father-in-law was recently laid off - I would like to use what I learn in your system to teach them how to be self sufficient and to create a business for themselves. I would like to teach the kids I coach how to create money for themselves...especially the ones who don't know how they or their parents are going to afford college.

Basically, if you're looking for someone to take these concepts your going to teach and be successful with them and also help you shine a light on a persons true self worth by showing others what is possible for them - then I deserve to be chosen.

Thanks for the opportunity
Rick

I'm 33, young entrepreneur from Slovenia.

Although I loved the job that I was doing I had heard time with my boss. In July last year I felt a very strong push from within to quit the job and I did it. I felt I'm capable of doing much more and I deserve more.

On the day I quit I started to brows the Internet searching for new job. On that day I came in contact with a guy how knew Frank Kern. I must say his title Masscontrol is not pleasant ( I disapprove manipulation of any kind) I think it's useful to understand the way we function, but we should use this to help others reach there potentials and not with intention to make them do what we want them to do. We are where we are just because of this attitude. But I'm a big dreamer and I'm looking in the future with a hope.

Never the less Frank has a credit for introducing me to You and Jeff Walker. I like your sincere effort to do good and to change the way business is done. I think you are being one of the corner stones on which business of the future is being build.

To come back to my story, I got really inspired by Jeff Walker, but I could never afford to buy any of this Big Guru's product. On 7 of January I started my own business as a web designer. But my big dream is to motivate and inspire people to live there lives to the fullest. I have 11 years of experiences doing lecture and meditation seminars offline in my country all for free, but I would really like to expend and reach more people and be able live from it, doing just that.

I know this will happen, just don't know when. Your program will definitely help me, but chose the ones that deserve the most. If I'm among them great if not, I hope I'll be able to afford it.

All the best,

Klavdija

Hello Eben,

I would like to thank you for this opportunity.

My name is Keith I am 51 years old, I am a handicapped Father with three young boys 4, 9 and 11. I was a truck driver for many years, till one day a loading accident happened and it changed my life into a new direction. I have been running a Yahoo Store going on 4 year now, with very slow growth, but I keep plugging away at it because I do not have many other options in my life, I have learn many things in my journey in the e-commerce world, but I seem to be at a level I can not get past in growth.

I would like to win, because of my children, to give them a better life then I had growing up, so they can go to college one day and to give them some of the finer things that they are missing out on so much. I also would like to help other handicapped people have a better life, I would like to pay it forward, it can mean so much, I found out even let things.

The truth is I don't deserve winning more then anyone else maybe less then most, I am 51 and there are a lot of young people struggling in this economy with there hole life's a head of them.

Eben I would appreciate this opportunity you are offering.

Thank you! Keith

Dear Eben

My name is Michael Chimalizeni a young professional based in Harare, Zimbabwe. Currently I am working as a researcher responsible for the Electronic resources and Virtual library of our institution.

I want to win this once in a lifetime opportunity for several reasons.One is I, for a long time have had a passion for the web and the opportunities it presents, for example in my second year of college i managed to set-up my first website selling web-hosting packages www.netweb.co.zw when few people in this part of the world new about this process. Another reason is that i have an untapped market of buyers and potential entrepreneurs who would benefit from the trickle down effect of the skills and knowledge i would have gained from your ignition program. In fact, most of the money I will get and the success of my business will serve as a model for the training workshops that i eventually intend to organise for both established businesses in my country and other who have the potential but not enough resources to get into online business. Armed with the information and ideas from your program i intend on starting a mini-revolution in business approach and thinking in this part of the world. Of course i will also improve my quality of life and gain freedom from the money i will make. In addition i also have to win because for a number of years i have been reading about Internet Marketing but have been failing to implement the free ideas and suggestion due to lack of full information and also due to the shiny object syndrome. There are just too many "how to" programs out there and what i need is focused mentoring that will ignite progress from this current paralysis i am facing.

Why me? For a couple of reasons. First, i dont have the resources to buy your courses and programs, for years i have watched you release program after program and everytime wishing i had the money to get my hand on one, now this is my opportunity. Second i have the passion, potential and initiative needed to successfully implement the things i learn and make a success of my business. Third and most important, i am uniquely positioned to spread the benefits of your ideas and skills over to a geographical area which is not only a potential market but also stands to benefit a great deal from increased business and investment in online technology.

Looking forward to your favorable response.

Regards
Michael Chimalizeni

The opportunity sounds to good to be a truth. I'd like
to have a wider and deeper understanding of the program
you are offering for winers.
Thank you for your opportunity.

Eben, this looks cool(as it does always:) I work as an online marketer. I have been successful with ranking and traffic for many of my clients. But as you know, that itch to startup on my own doesn't let me sleep!
I have a gut feel that this course can help me with the 'right ignition' to venture out and be profitable in a short period. Can't wait for 14th ;-)

Thanks very much for your kind invitation - I will, however, adopt the Marxist doctrine: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs", although I suspect this pithy saying has its origins somewhere in the mists of time, probably during the golden age of Ancient Greek philosophy !!!

Hey Eben,

I'm Chris Cho from Philadelphia and I JUST turned 24 years young. I dropped
out college to start my first business when I was 21 years old with my best
friend. I went from opening two stores within three months to closing down
both businesses. Although I was in debt, it was the best experience ever
because I learned that failing wasn't so bad. I wasn't afraid to fail
anymore!

I'm currently an entrepreneur and my main income comes from real estate
investing. After closing my first business, I was flat broke, in debt, and
still refused to get a job because I knew exactly what I wanted. With that
determination, I made 115k within the first 6 months with NO MONEY DOWN.

The reason I want to win this scholarship is to open my online business to
help others to achieve their dream. I was once a thug, dealing drugs, and
had NO HOPE whatsoever. I want to be that person to bring hope in people's
lives and empower them to their own greatness. With the success and money I
earn from my online business, I want to reinvest it to publish a book so I
can move and inspire more people to achieve their dream.

The reason why I deserve this scholarship is because one day I'll reach out
to another three or even more people with free scholarships JUST like the
way you are doing right now. Those three people can reach out to another
three people and change the world. I am the perfect example of a reluctant
hero and I deserve it so bad because people are waiting for their lives to
change.

This was an amazing experience to sit down and really think about what my
purpose is. Thank you for being an inspiration to others and also for
reading this.

Chris Cho

April 8, 2009

Dear Eban:

My name is Jeff Baird and I performed as an undercover investigator(NYPD, Detective Investigator assigned to the Internal Affairs Division/Bureau) under Mayor David Dinkins Executive Order #42,which created the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Police Corruption and Anti-Corruption Procedures,which is also known as the "Mollen Commission". I am extremely proud to have played a part in uncovering one of the biggest corruption scandals in the history of the New York City Police Department. In October 2004 I was forced to retire from a career I truly loved. It is a tragedy that I received such treatment for my unselfish desire to make badly needed changes within the NYPD's internal investigative functions.My only goal was to make the institution that I loved a better place. For that I lost my career,my spirit and almost my family. So I am left with a very large financial burden one which cannot be met with the pension I was forced to take.

I assumed that my identity would remain confidential. However, such was not the case. The orchestrated hostile work environment,death threats and harassment continued up until my retirement.

Since that time I have tried to return to the work force but have been blackballed because of my work. I am a stay at home Dad and have been taking care of my two children 15 and 18.

To be direct I want to win the scholarship so I can reclaim my life back and continue on a path that is productive and fruitful. My desire is to utilize my investigative talents and experience. To re-invent myself and build my own business. Its a compelling combination your ignition training program and my drive,talent and experience.Ignition will be the catalyst to propel me into a profitable online business venture. I have thought about what the core philosophy of the business would be: "When it comes to our clients needs our philosophy is simple... Determine the clients needs,provide the solutions designed to satisfy those needs,evolving the solution as the problems change. And never quit providing investigative services and products that will work for you today, as well as work for you tomorrow.

I truly tried to make changes within a very badly corrupted system. I wanted to give back something to the city of my birth. Unfortunately,those who I helped were not there to support me. Now I would like to move on. The Chinese have a saying, Opportunity is always present in the midst of crisis". Great blessings lie ahead for the one who knows the secret of finding opportunity within each crisis. Ignition for my family and I is that opportunity!

All the best
Jeff Baird
drlmatters@gmail.com

Hi Eben,
I have to tell you I have watched a number of your videos on You Tube. You are truly gifted. I am thoroughly impressed with you professionalism, presentation, and passion. Thank you for sharing.

I am currently a marketing consultant for a broadcast television station. I have been in advertising and marketing in radio and television for a number of years. I have had success helping many other businesses and business owners achieve their goals, now it's time for me!

Should I be one of the few, one of the things I would do with my financial success is give back. I mention being one of the few. I served in the Marine Corps many years ago. We have troops fighting overseas, and families struggling here in the states. I would like to be in the position to be able to truly help in whatever way that I could, whether it's care packages to our troops, or supporting those in need here in the states that have loved ones overseas or have lost loved ones.
I would also like to continue my education and continue to expand my business to new and better levels, being able to continually do more for others as well as myself. I would love to experience success... and then be able to pass it on to others. SO MANY believe it cannot be done. I would like to be able to show that IT CAN!
It would be a joy for me to be able to travel abroad. So often we see life as what is around us, or in front of us on the television. Experiencing life from all points of the world would be a thrilling opportunity, and I am sure it would help me to appreciate what I have in front of me so much more!

I believe I should win one of your scholarships for a variety of reasons. You can show that a 46 year old CAN learn new tricks. I would be forever grateful for the opportunity. I will be able to apply my experiences in helping others win along with your education to WIN ONE FOR ME! I am slowly getting it, but believe you can help in guiding me along the path of success.

I could go on, but you need to pick 2 other winners.

Thank you for taking the time Eben, and for the opportunity!

Mark

Hi Heben!

Thanking you so much for this wonderful oppotunity.
My name is Phillipo. I am a husband and father of four children. In fact I have had my own business immediately after resigning from my first employment since I had completed the Technical College for my professiolism!. I had been there for about 3 years studying Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering. Nowadays I am working with the CAT Communication Limited with the position of Technical Director, actually I am the among of the shareholder of the above mentioned Company. I really want the opportunity of driving our Company to the high rank in this world and wants to do great things, however, to continue to grow myself and use the knowledge I have gained over my lifetime and apply it to Company products and services that not doubt will give value to our potential customers and partners.
I remain,

Phillipo

Dear Eben,

My name is DJ Nicke (nick-ee) and I am my fathers only son, though he is 'blessed' with 5 daughters. I was born and raised in Detroit Michigan, but after the sharp rise in crime (our neighbors were murdered in our driveway), my family decided to move around the country in search of a nicer community. We ended up in Australia; where the people are friendly but the wildlife wants to kill you.

I've done many jobs; from being a manual laborer and concretor, to animating for Walt Disney Animation, and even cleaning train stations. I aim high, and when I fall short I pick myself back up and try again. I am currently a professional animator, stand up comedian, public speaker, rescue diver and also now a web designer.

"When are you gonna get a real job?" is a common paternal plea. Yet, after having my name grace the credits of multiple Hollywood films, even my father conceded that I was doing something right when I did it my way. But my way was usually also the hard way.

At 16 I was kicked out of my computing studies class. After months of talking back to my poor teacher, he screamed in frustration: "DJ, why do you come to class just to debate with me?"

I humbly replied: "Sir, I think it's good to debate, it helps us learn. In fact, I think we should all be encouraged to come to class and mass-debate."

He didn't see the humor in my statement, and I didn't see my high school diploma.

Not stopping, I applied for a College course in Computer Graphics (CG). However, due to my age and lack of high school diploma, I was rejected.

Convinced that I belonged in the course, I borrowed train fare from my father, made the 5 hour trip to the College and convinced the board in person that I was qualified for their course.

Within 4 months I was getting paid to personally tutor 5 of my college classmates - at the ripe age of 16. By 18 I was hired by the Sydney Police Force to train their Forensics Department in the use of CGI (Computer Graphic Imagery) for CSI (not the tv show, REAL Crime Scene Investigations).

By 21 I was lead animator on Walt Disney's secret Australian team for researching CGI and converting their flagship characters (Mickey, Donald, Goofy & Pluto) from hand drawn into CGI.

However, I've always had trouble working for corporations and I left Disney after one year. My father constantly scolded me: "Son, there's a right way, a wrong way and the company way. As long as you're accepting a paycheck from the company, you do things the company way." Knowing my way was the right way for me, I always chose to stop accepting the companies paychecks rather than stop being me.

Finally, while working on the Academy Award winning film "Happy Feet", I became fed up with corporate restrictions once and for all. I was constantly trying to start up acting classes, drawing classes, sculpture classes; ANYTHING to help encourage and improve myself and my workmates, and they were extremely grateful. The company, however, viewed me as a nuisance and constantly black-balled me. Once they even transferred me to an empty building just to keep me from associating with my co-workers.

I'd had enough! So after scheming for several weeks, I took a few days off. I got a haircut, a 'special' shave and bought myself a brown suit, white shirt and black tie. I rented Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" and showed up for work remarkably resembling Hitler (or Charlie Chaplin's depiction of Hitler).

When my supervisor asked me what was with my outfit, I simply replied: "I'm just trying to fit in around here..."

I was fired immediately. But I was prepared. I sued for "Unfair Dismissal" and "Unfit Workplace" and won a nice chunk of money (I represented myself, avoiding any legal fees). With that money I started up my OWN production company, and was joined by a multiple Emmy Award winning animator and friend: Dwayne Labbe.

Together we formed major plans, we won many film festivals (including the New York International Independent Film Festival), but in the end, we ran out of money. I've been forced to shut down that company and admit my failure, but I'm not giving up! I've formed a new business and a new life plan. For the last 3 years I've been traveling the world, performing stand up comedy, giving public lectures on animation, and animating freelance on tv shows and commercials. I'm currently working and traveling between Valencia (Spain) and London, and I'm scheduled to give talks in New Orleans and LA.

Thanks to your (David D's) "Double Your Dating" products (especially the program with Dr. Paul), I have met and KEPT the love of my life. She is a Norwegian art student and belly dancer. I'll be hanging around Europe until after she finishes her degree (in June) and then we're both heading back to Australia together to pursue our businesses.

I've built a website for her belly dancing, my first ever website (it's harder than I thought):
www.eclipsebellydance.com

I'm helping her build a business for herself so that she will have the freedom to travel with me AND pursue her dreams.

I'm also building my business. I've paid homage to (ripped off) your blog format to start building my own mailing list:
www.AnimationSalvation.com

It's coming along, and I am building something even bigger within that domain (its a secret for now).

I need your "Get Ignition" course to help guide me though. I know almost ZERO about actually running and keeping a business running profitably.

I've been downloading your blogs (from Get Altitude through to Guru Mastermind) and studying them, but my business is not to a point yet where I am making money from it. I am missing a few pieces. I need guidance.

I trust you Eben. Your advice on dating and becoming a man literally changed my life! I have no doubt that what you teach in you "Get Ignition" course will be equally life changing.

Do I deserve this scholarship? Well, that's for you to decide. But I have proven that I will make the most of what I have, and I not only learned but APPLIED what you taught in your "Double Your Dating" courses. Plus I never give up.

I want to have access to "Get Ignition" to help teach and guide me in building my own business, and also the business of my girlfriend.

I personally want to help and teach animators around the world (my blog is translated into 9 languages) some of the knowledge that I have earned; knowledge that is kept locked up inside the big animation studios and expensive schools. Giving talks and lectures can only reach so many people. I am building a platform to deliver knowledge to anyone who is willing to apply it, not just whoever can afford it. But I need to build it RIGHT in order for it to succeed.

My girlfriend wants to spread her love for belly dancing and encourage women everywhere to embrace their bodies; to help them express their femininity rather than strive for magazine perfection. Her website is just the beginning. She is also actively organizing local classes and shows, and she will continue to do that whatever town, country or continent we are on. Having an internet business set up properly is the missing key that we both need.

I'll be 29 in June, and I am committed to having these companies running properly and profitably before I am 30. I cannot afford your classes right now (I am saving my pennies for a ring). If I do not win this scholarship, I will save up and purchase your course within the next year.

Whether you choose me for your scholarship or not, remember my name. Soon I will be one of your partners!

I know my story sounds unbelievable (my girlfriend keeps telling me to write a book), but I assure you it is not at all fiction.