That's been around for awhile. And yes I know who it is...

The first time I saw Schefren unveil that at a Big Seminar, I really thought it was brilliant. Ray Edwards did something similar a year or longer ago...

I had to FORCE Schefren to use that as his cover.

He thought the slide was too good to give away.

You should see the first addition of the manifesto....
before I made him hire the graphics guy and before
I rewrote it.

Peace.

Right re no it's not me. I'm The most ripped-off trading guy in the industry myself (look at all the people who copied my online "university" concept I launched back in '99 for example... since I was the top #1 testimonial that Corey had kept at the top of IMCs site for 2002-2005+, many people in many industries copied my online university idea)... hundreds of thousands of marketers saw my testimonial here, as you can see:

Internet Marketing Center®

and many copied my university concept, for both trading and non-trading niches. To my knowledge, I'm the one who first came up with online university sites for non-academic/commercial ventures, in 1999 (from my 31st floor Waikiki condo).

so I never copy other people's stuff, I'm the guy who Gets copied, and watched, and imitated etc...it's a bit frustrating to see my stuff even copied on financial news tv, eg the phrases I've come up with and popularized, and names of my courses and much more.. ah well.

Like they say, it gets me to innovate faster than the marketplace can copy, so that's one strategy to deal with being copied endlessly. Does anyone else who's had their copy, business concepts, titles and the rest of it endlessly ripped off/copied/imitated, have any thoughts on how to look at it? I try to stay positive, but I don't like knowing that much of what I do always ends up being ripped off by competitors or others in other industries.

-k

p.s. to give credit where it's due, I first got the Idea for an online university from a college I was teaching at, where I was an MBA part-time faculty, and they had their new academic online university launched in the late 90s, and it was from that that I got the idea to translate the concept into commercial online universities outside of academia, hence my trading university. Then once my success story got out, in the early 2000s, publicized via my testimonial, people in all kinds of industries copied the concept.

Who Else Is Sick And Tired Of Being Imitated?

LOL - Sorry, just couldn't resist!

Having your ideas and concepts blatantly ripped off and/or stolen really does suck. The only thing you really can do is hold on to a positive thought and realize that they're forcing you to stay current and fresh with your business.

Otherwise, you'd probably grow fat and lazy from all your success and then your business would suffer.

When I first saw that cover, I thought it was brilliant. What a way to capture such a complex issue and encapsulate/distill it down into an equally complex picture (but one that conveys the magnitude effectively and show what they're up against)!

John