Introducing........The eKit

(Caution: Unabashed Commercial Ahead)

The simplest money management plan on earth just got easier to acquire, too!  Today, we are launching our, e-kit at only $4.95.  This represents the best value anywhere for a world class money management program.  We cut out the frills and all 'physical' product for this offer.  The eKit includes one copy of the eBook version of IOU NO MORE and a reproducible .pdf of the Transaction Register, Debt Assessment, Basic Spending Plan and the Cruise Control Spending Plan. 

The IOU NO MORE eKit is your Declaration of Financial Independence.  Join the revolution today.

Only available at our online store.

And Also Available In A Handy Kindle Version

I'm so psyched.  I just got the notice that IOU NO MORE is now available for Amazon Kindle users.  So there are three formats to choose from: paperback, Kindle and e-book.  I love this country!

IOU NO MORE E-BOOK AVAILABLE

We are making the e-book version of IOU NO MORE available for $1.95.  I'm tired of messing around.  I want this revolution to spread.  Please order a copy and tell your friends to get one, too.  You can order from our store.  Any of the links in this update will take you to the store.

I Love My Kindle.......But...............

I've had my Kindle (technically, Kindle II) from Amazon for about a year now.  I really love it.  Downloading books is simple, quick and generally less expensive than buying physical versions of them.  It is, however, not cheap to buy, and even Kindle books are more expensive than the FREE books we can check out from the public library.  In my case, the library rarely has the books I want to read, so my Kindle is an asset.  In the first year I saved enough money on the purchased books (I'm a fairly active reader) to pay for the reader.  So, it's all good.

The Kindle is not great for text books or graphic intensive books, but for novels and most non fiction, it's fantastic.  It is also great for newspapers (remember those?) and certain blogs.  The font size is easily adjusted and the entire experience is like reading a paperback, but without worring about the pages falling out, or losing your place, or having books pile up around the house.  So, while it's not perfect, the Kindle is a fun asset and tool.

Yesterday, I got an email from Amazon announcing "Kindle for PC", meaning, I could download an app that allows my kindle books to be available on my laptop in addition to the actual reader.  Just what I need, another distraction at work.  But I eagerly downloaded it.  The cool part is that the pc version and the reader, synch so that whichever one you open you are at the place you most recently left off.  So, you can bounce back and forth smoothly. How cool is that?

Here's the but.......... But what does that say about privacy?  The conspiracy theorist who lives inside me, sees 'Big Brother(s)' somewhere in the inner workings of all our new technological advances.  If we use computers, especially if we use the internet, we have no privacy.  Everything we do can be tracked to one degree or another.  Keep that in mind next time you are surfing or downloading.

We applaud when a pedophile or terrorist is captured and incriminating evidence is located deep within his(or her) computer, despite attempts to wipe it.  And rightly so.  But the same technology allows our 'private' time to be made accessible also. 

Technology is a boon.  But it comes with a price beyond the one scanned at the checkout.  I love my Kindle.  I love the worldwide web.  But in using it, I have compromised my liberty, or at least my expectations of complete privacy.  I'm just sayin'...................

Just Some Shameless Self Promotion

It's almost time to get ready for Church, but I thought I'd take a minute and introduce some projects I'm working on. I've mentioned some of them before, but they are worth talking about again, because I've been in the workshop with them this week.

First, as announced last week, "IOU NO MORE" is now available as an ebook. We are very excited about this development, because of the growth of popularity of ebooks and because with ebooks, readers have the ability to check out the references, materials and tools referred to in the book just by clicking on the active links in the text. With traditional books, you must lay down the book, open your computer and find the url. We plan to use both traditonal and ebooks going forward.

We have two other active websites besides IOU NO MORE. The first is, Sam Burton Presents, nicknamed, SBP. SBP will become the primary portal for all of our sub pages, books, materials, newsletters, etc. IOU NO MORE will become of of the service sites under the SBP umbrella.

The second is, Sam Burton Ministries, or SBM, for short. We felt that this was an essential step for the many services, products and information we develop especially for Churches and other Faith Based groups. SBM is very special to me and I'm looking forward to developing it.

Both those websites are just in development phase and really only have holding pages up. But go ahead and check them out, save them to your favorites and let me know what you'd like to see in them. There is contact information all over them. In fact, that's about all there is right now.

Besides websites, I'm currently adapting the "IOU NO MORE" material into a format and presentation especially geared to men. I'm calling it, "DEBT BEAT DADS: common sense financial and life principles for men (and the women who love them). There are some nice 'manly' insights added to the material along with some tweaking of the Spending Plans that will translate well to the 'male mind'. If all goes well, that will be available by Christmas.

My regular reader (yes, I think there's only one), will remember that I'm working on "LIFE LESSONS FROM A LEAD DOG: amusing anecdotes and heart warming tales from 30 years with sleddogs". The proposal is coming along nicely, as are the seminars associated with it. I want to shop this to some major publishers. People keep telling me this one has a populist appeal.

In early Spring, 2010, you should look for an ebook on vegetable gardening basics for urban and suburban dwellers. This project is being outlined, along with a seminar, and should be a lot of fun. It does not have a title as yet.

Finally, I have outlined a book and seminar (I've presented the seminar hundreds of times in the classroom) on optimizing your career as a call (contact) center agent. No point having all these years of experience if I'm not going to share what I've learned. Right now I'm calling it, "BYE, BYE, DILBERT: a quick start guide for turning the mundane life of cube world into an adventure and turning your headset into a gold mine." Can you tell I like subtitles? They help with search engine optimization, in case you were wondering.

Well, that's enough for the moment. Some of this is rerun. Some is new. Thanks for stopping by. Time for Church.