From the Desk of Joe Vitale

Dear Friend,

Happy New Year!

This is an invitation to join an exclusive, high-powered group called Forbidden Secrets University.

We'll meet on a monthly conference call. Because of the way we're doing it, I believe this group can skyrocket your income and help you achieve goals you didn't even think were possible for you.

What makes Forbidden Secrets University different than any other conference call series in existence is our faculty. Maybe "guest list" is a better term. I'm going to interview little-known experts who use unusual, even exotic, techniques -- psychological, spiritual, financial, marketing techniques -- to get what they want, and help other people get what they want.

If you're looking for high-powered, proven ways to take your business and your life to the next level, you'll find them at Forbidden Secrets University!

Imagine you wanted $57,000. Maybe to buy a new car. Maybe as a down payment for a house -- or to pay for a home improvement. It could be to buy a guitar that belonged to a rock star. Or, you might want it to start a new business.

How would you raise the money?

Before you tell me, suppose I introduced you to a multimillionaire who privately admitted to me last year that whenever he wants money for a project (or a new toy), he simply writes the amount and the purpose for the money on a piece of notebook paper, folds the paper in half, and puts it in his desk drawer. Then he waits to receive inspiration on actions to take -- "it's amazingly easy," he told me. He follows his inspiration and the money always shows up!

How would you like to know all the details of his "practical spirituality" so you can use it yourself? That's just one of the valuable things you'll learn when I interview this multimillionaire later this year!

Here's another example. Do you have a product or service that requires face-to-face (or telephone) selling? If you do, you probably have prospects you know it's perfect for. They can afford it, and they want it -- but don't you know it, they always seem to throw obstacles in the way of closing the deal. And you don't know what to do about it.

Traditional sales techniques don't work with these prospects. The missed opportunities are costing you thousands of dollars in lost sales every year. Too bad.

But wait a minute. What if I brought you the secrets and step-by-step techniques of a little-known but highly effective persuasion expert who can show you how to eliminate virtually ALL sales resistance, and get even the most stubborn people to comply -- happily -- with each and every request you make.

This expert's persuasion methods slip "under the radar" of the most obstinate, difficult people. Shrewd sales managers pay him $5,000 a day to train their people. He'll be one of this year's guests at Forbidden Secrets University, and I'll make sure he gives you new, undetectable sales techniques to help you capture business you otherwise would surely have slipped right through your fingers.

This expert has discovered 10 "unconscious laws of unconscious communication." On of them is called the Law of Time. It goes like this: "When people change their time perspective, they change how they feel about something and the decisions they make in regard to it."

That may not sound like much to you until you see it in action. Here:

Suppose you sell Yellow Pages ads. An "unsolvable objection" you probably hear all the time is, "Last three times I bought a big Yellow Pages ad I lost my butt."

The comeback: "Understand. If we can create an ad that will pull in the future, will you be up for that?"

That's innocuous sounding enough, but in 19 words you have redirected your prospect's attention from the misery of the past to the promise of the future. Time-perspective shifting answers like that cut through a prospect's resistance like a hot knife through butter.

Want another example? OK. You know I have made millionaires of unknown entrepreneurs by writing a single press release. The publicity they got turned their start-ups into raging successes! But the publicity techniques I use seem shy and introverted compared to those used by another expert I want to tell you about.

This guy is outrageous. He knows how to get TV crews covering events like they are puppets on a string and he's the puppeteer! I realize you may not agree with everything he says, and you certainly don't have to. You don't even have to use all of his outrageous tactics, either -- but don't you think one or two of them might boost your business far beyond where it is today?

By now you're beginning to see how Forbidden Secrets University is different than anything you've ever heard of. Do you also see how valuable it can be to you in the year ahead?

And you'll be happy to know how affordable it is. Before I tell you about that, do you know what it costs to get a Harvard MBA these days? $54,800 a year, according to figures supplied by Harvard Business School. That translates to $4,566 a month.

I bring this up because one of our guests, who has a net worth over $10 million, also has a Harvard MBA. But he says very explicitly that his MBA never helped him make any real money. In fact, he made his fortune using unusual, little-known techniques he developed by trial and error by starting and running different businesses.

By the way, he's currently writing a book on how to double your money every two years using conventional investments in an unusual way. He's used this investment method successfully himself many times, although it's not the way he made most of his money. Maybe I can get him to explain his investment strategy when he's on the call.

What does this all have to do with Forbidden Secrets University? Here's what. Even if the information you will get on our calls is more valuable than what you would learn at Harvard (and I believe it is), it's not going to cost you $4,500 a month in tuition. Conference calls keep costs down, so you can get more for paying less.

You may remember that last month, I was on a conference call hosted by Jay Abraham. Along with me were Dan Kennedy and Jay Conrad Levinson. Listeners paid $125 to attend that call, and that was considered a reasonable price. In fact, a number of people told me the information they got from the call was worth far more than that.

But when you sign up as a Charter Member of Forbidden Secrets University, you don't even have to pay $125. At least not yet. You can get on each call for only $95 a month, and your rate is guaranteed not to go up for at least two years. But only if you apply and are accepted by January 20, 2002.

Why the low Charter price? Because I want to make this affordable to anyone who wants it -- and reward those who see a valuable opportunity and go for it!

Not only that. I want you to have full access to the information you learn for the rest of your life. So each call will be professionally transcribed, and you will get your personal copy of the full, unedited transcript, accessible to you over the Internet.

Plus, we'll post a high-quality digital recording of the call on a password-protected Web site, so you can listen to it again, as many times as you like, directly from your computer.

As a Charter Member, you'll also get special bonuses to help you get more prosperity sooner. I have some rare, out-of-print books on Forbidden Secrets University-type topics, like "Thought Vibration," and "Master Key System." I'll have these converted into e-books for you and you'll receive these from time to time to supplement your advanced education in the art of doing well and living well.

I have only one concern about all of this -- we'll be covering powerful information, and I don't want it to fall into the wrong hands. Neither do our guests. It's important to all of us that your intention is to use what you learn for the betterment of yourself and others.

For that reason, I'm asking you to fill out an application and email it back to me. It will only take you a few minutes. You'll have to sign a non-disclosure promising not to share the information you learn at Forbidden Secrets University with anyone outside your immediate family or your business.

Once you are approved, your credit card will be billed $95, once a month. You can leave any month you want, and, if you feel the most recent call was not worthwhile, you can get a refund on that simply by asking.

So there's no risk to you. But you can only lock in the low $95 a month price if you act now! For a list of times, upcoming guests and an application, please visit: http://www.mrfire.com/fsu

Yours for Success,

Joe Vitale joe@mrfire.com

PS -- Remember, Forbidden Secrets University will cover practical ideas that the traditional media and even traditional publishing would never tell you. This is unconventional, unusual, sometimes outrageous, but always practical. I'm only inviting people on my personal email list to join this select group--at least for now. Again, get your application right now at http://www.mrfire.com/fsu

PSS -- While I'm only inviting people on my personal email list (that's you) and kindred spirits they know (that's your friends) to join this select group, feel free to forward this letter to anyone you feel would like it. One by one, we can make a difference in this world!