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Gina Gaudio-Graves is the founder and CEO of The Abundance Group, LLC, the parent company of Directions University. She is the Dean & Founder of Directions University.
Online, most people know her as “The JV Queen”, a title she earned by organizing some of the most successful product launches on the internet, for clients such as Shawn Casey, Willie Crawford, Russel Brunson, David Garfinkel, Henry Gold, and many others.
Gina’s career online began in 1996 when a disabling car accident cut short her career as a litigator. She turned to the internet as a way to fill her days and afford her mounting medical bills while stuck in a hospital bed or wheelchair for almost 10 years,.
She’s been full time online ever since!
In 2005, Gina’s health had declined to the point that doctors gave her only 12 to 18 months to live. That’s why she hit the road in an RV to see the country before she died. Six months later, a massage therapist gave her a piece of advice that forever changed her life. Not only did it allow her to live, Gina completely recovered!
Gina calls this her “miraculous transformation”. She sees this second chance at life as a huge gift that she must repay! She is more focused and driven than ever on helping entrepreneurs, get what they want most… success in their lives and businesses!
Through Directions University, Gina is a coach, mentor, and consultant to small businesses looking to improve results by using the internet. For both online and offline businesses, Gina shows them how to get bigger results, faster, while living the life of their dreams. Her teaching focuses on topics including:
- Mindset
- Strategic Planning for your Online Business Presence
- Product Creation and Planning
- Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances
- Strategic Traffic Generation
- Strategic List Building
- Web 2.0
- Blogging
Gina’s mission is to help 1,000,000 entrepreneurs learn to live the life of their dreams through owning their own business, by the year 2013. In 2007, Dean & Founder, Gina Gaudio-Graves, experienced what she calls her “Miraculous Transformation” which allowed her to recover from a life threatening illness. Prior to that, Gina had been one of the internet’s most successful Joint Venture Brokers, organizing joint ventures for people such as Shawn Casey, Russel Brunson, David Garfinkel, Willie Crawford, and many others.
But after experiencing her miraculous transformation, Gina really saw just how precious every second of life really is. She realized that she had been given a gift that she felt strongly about repaying. She knew that if she was ever to repay her debt, she had to make a difference for someone other than herself.
That’s when Gina decided to open the predecessor to Directions University – “The IM (Internet Marketing) University” — as a home for entrepreneurs interested in building businesses that will be successful for the long haul!
The IM University’s Programs included courses on “Finding Your Profitable Passion”, “Leaving a Legacy in Your Life”, "Making a Difference Through Your Business” as well as more traditional internet marketing topics such as how to create info products, how to use social marketing, blogging with WordPress, and more.
The courses focused on 4 main areas:
1. Helping entrepreneurs shape the direction of their lives 2. Helping entrepreneurs define the direction for their businesses 3. Helping entrepreneurs give direction to their clients 4. Helping entrepreneurs impact the direction of the world
But students and prospects couldn’t really see this because of the name, The “IM” University.
So, in July 2009, “The IM University” formally became Directions UniversityItalic text when it opened the first ever Social Learning Portal. Although it has a new name, a new look, and a new home, "Directions University" Italic textstill offers the same quality education as it’s predecessor.
With the new name, "Directions University" is able to more intentionally help entrepreneurs find direction — for their lives, their business, their customers and the world! A current listing of courses is available at:
One of the EASIEST ways to stay up to date with everything DU offers, is to install our “Ultimate Marketing Toolbar”. This not only helps you research your competition, plan your strategy, and get great tips on marketing and growing your business — it also helps you to save TONS of TIME using our “Email Notifier”, the “Twitter Tool”, the “Facebook Tool” and the “MyBlogLog Tool”. Install your toolbar right now at:
Once entrepreneurs have a clear direction for their own lives through the courses offered in the DU "School of Personal Development", they move on to the courses in DU's "School of Business & Marketing". It is at this time that entrepreneurs will benefit most from connecting and networking with other like minded solopreneurs and small business owners through the DU Social Network and the DU Forum. These socializing areas allow business owners to gain leverage for their businesses by tapping into resources that other businesses already have.
In the DU sister school, TheJVUniversity.com, business owners can access the team of Certified Joint Venture Consultants who can help them to find the resources they need and assess the resources that they have so they can really benefit from the leverage that comes with joint ventures.
DU offers a wide variety of educational options for entrepreneurs at all stages of growing a business -- from those just starting out who are still in the planning stages to those who are already successfully making more than 7 figures per year but who are looking to achieve even bigger results with less effort.
Regardless of the stage your business is at, the best way to get started in "Directions University" is to take our FREE course, the "30-Day IM Challenge". In the Challenge, you'll learn a complete system for building and growing a business for long term success. Lessons cover topics including building a list, driving traffic, and making sales. The focus is on getting results QUICKLY — often times in only 1 short month!
You'll find the 30-Day IM Challenge FREE at:
Once you understand the system taught by Directions University through the Lessons in the Challenge, you can continue your education in Directions University’s Associate’s Program — a 12 month long course that helps you:
- Learn to focus and manage your time so you can be more productive and efficient and less overwhelmed,
- Create a success oriented/abundant mindset that allows you to achieve ANYTHING you want in a way that feels effortless and fun,
- Define the goals that you have for your life and business over the next 3 to 5 years,
- Build a strategic plan and profit funnel for your business that focuses on increasing the lifetime value of each customer,
- Use a blog at the heart of your business systems so that you can build relationships with prospects by helping them solve their problems and then turn these relationships into sales over and over again,
- Use a WordPress blog to drive as much traffic as you could ever need without ever spending a cent on advertising!
- Build a targeted list of highly responsive subscribers that want what you have to offer and will pay you handsomely for it,
- Find or create products that sell like hot-cakes,
- Establish Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances that allow you to use leverage to grow your business so you can work smarter instead of harder,
- Use more than 12 different types of traffic generation to grow your business in record time without spending anything at all on advertising,
- and much, MUCH more!
While the goal of DU's Challenge is to help you make just $1 in your business using this unique system, the goal of the Associates Program is a little bit different. It assumes that you have already been through the DU Challenge and have earned $1. So it's focus is on helping you to make $1 per day for 7 straight days. In the process, you'll build a solid 4-figure monthly income in record time. You'll find all the details of the Associate's Program at:
For those who are really serious and are looking for a solid 5- or 6-figure monthly income, Directions University also offers 2 advanced mentoring programs — the Bachelor’s Program and an “Invitation Only” Graduate Apprenticeship Program. These 12-month long, group mentoring programs offer more interaction with a coach and even with Dean & Founder, Gina Gaudio-Graves, herself.
You'll find the details of the Bachelor's Program at:
As you grow your business, you may want to focus on specific aspects of building your business. That’s why DU also offers other courses that simply focus on just one area of building your business. These include:
* Blogging – “21 Days to Blogging Profits” at [6] and “The Blog Systems Workshop” at [7] * Mindset - “Abundant Positivity – The Miracle Motivational Package” (with BONUS Goal Setting Course) at [8] and “Mindset Systems Workshop“ at [9] * List Building – “Giveaway Secrets of The JV Queen“ at [10] * Joint Ventures & Creating an Affiliate Force For Your Business - “Secret Confessions of The JV Queen” at [11] and “The Joint Venture Miracle Systems Workshop“ at [12] * Traffic Generation and Web 2.0 – “The Traffic Systems Workshop“ at [13] * Info Product Creation and Info Product Sales to Targeted Markets – “Abundant Info Products: How To Make Big Bucks With Info Products … FAST!” at [14] and “The Info Product Systems Workshop“ at [15]
Join us at Directions University -- FREE -- today and start getting the results you want and deserve in your life and business! You can get started NOW at:
Directions University welcomes you as a Student and hopes that you’ll find the direction and success you’re looking for through our Courses while connecting with the other like-minded entrepreneurs that are here in our Social Network and Forum, growing their businesses too!
