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Master Your Game: Reaching Greater Success

I hope you had as great a summer as I did. I have been busy finalizing five years of research for this next series of articles. But no need to feel sorry for me, this research was done during leisurely strolls on the golf course. The next four articles are focused on reaching greater success in our lives. I would like to share a personal experience and use my golf game as an analogy for the principles. We will explore: • Establishing your target - what do you really want to achieve? • Your technical game - what do you need to do to get to the target? • Your mental game - how important is who you are on the results you generate? • A consistent swing - what habits will assist you to achieve success?

Lesson #2: Commit To Failing In A New Way
“Well, I have tried to learn as much as possible from prior attempts,” says Musk. “If nothing else, we are committed to failing in a new way.”

From Busker To Billionaire: How Guy Laliberté Achieved Success

Until 2010, Laliberté will have his hands full with the opening of three new shows and a special Christmas production. “Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves,” he says. Just how did this one time street performer turn a group of young buskers into a performing troupe that has become a global phenomenon and a billion-dollar enterprise?

The 120 Day Wonder: How to Evangelize a Blog
I know a fair amount about evangelism and a little bit about blogging, so I've combined the two in order to provide some insights into the evangelism of a blog. Granted, I've only been at blogging for 120 days or so, but marketing is marketing, right?

A Mental Model For VC Investments
A reader asked me the other day if – in the words of Charlie Munger – I have a “mental model” for investing in early stage companies. I do, but I’d rather give examples of the two best approaches I’ve heard of from other people.

The Trouble with Theme-based Venture Investing
Pithy comments from Sequoia's Moritz on his trouble with theme-based venture investing:

4 Surefire Ways To Build Your Network Marketing Brand Online
In order to be successful in network marketing, you have to separate yourself from everyone else who is involved in network marketing as well as those who are also in your particular business. There are 4 basic techniques which you can put into practice starting right now which will help you at building your own brand: ME INC.

Primal Perception
Men and women see the world differently. That's a big deal for marketers, sometimes in the most unexpected ways!

My Story Marketing- What is it?
My story marketing is attraction marketing through story telling. Become the leader people want to follow.

Cloud Computing: Look Up! There's a Computer Cloud Storm Approaching
The barrage of information and opinions surrounding cloud computing is drenching the web. What do you know about cloud computing (if anything)? Does it excite you? Scare you? Are you an early adopter or will you wait for some of the fall out to settle before entering the cloud? The phrase itself conjures up both a vista of endless possibility and a confusing place where it is hard to see.

The Two Key Components to Living with Tenacity

Tenacity is a key component to success. We must have it to reach our goals. It’s the fuel that keeps us moving through the inevitable challenges. But how often do we take the time to stop and think about what tenacity really is? Let’s spend a minute to figure out what tenacity looks like and how we can create it to use to our advantage. When I’m working with clients I often use the analogy of getting your screaming baby strapped into a car seat to illustrate tenacity. Because, if you have kids, you have experienced tenacity! When you are putting your child in their car seat your purpose is to make your baby safe. Your baby hates to feel confined and wants nothing to do with it. You can not reason with a baby or explain your logic so you must just make it happen.

How By Being in the Bottle Is Keeping You From Reading The Label and Growing Your Sales
Being in the box is a common analogy. How about being inside the bottle? If your goal is to increase sales, what is more productive, reading the label from inside the bottle or outside the bottle?

Transformational Marketing
We’re living in a time where not only has marketing radically changed, but the medium is changing us. The internet is perhaps the closest we’ve come to a physical manifestation of the collective subconscious. To be effective in this new terrain, people need more than a modified promotional approach, they need a marketing transformation.

"How To Find The Top Online Home Based Business?" Part 3: Qualify YOURSELF.

Successful people are not born, they are made. Take me as an example, I never knew I was going to end up being an entrepreneur working from home. Like everyone else I studied, finished school, worked for a company and worked myself up to management. I got caught up in debt because I was not financially educated. Because I did not have enough income to pay off our bills and support my family, I had to find a way to survive specially that I have two children dependent on me and my wife. Even if my wife worked, she had her own credit card bills to pay too. I learned my lesson the hard way. I had to experience nights without peace of mind. The situation forced me search for other income sources. I tried working overtime, looking for a second job, searched the internet for opportunities that had low cost startup without any risk.

Profitable Online Home Based Business Ideas and the Recession; Why Most People Fail in MLM’s

In this article I would like to compare the success rates of a profitable online home based business and the average MLM. Most MLM’s don’t want the public to know that around ninety seven percent of individuals coming into their business will fail. Those are not very good statistics. It does not necessarily mean the MLM is a bad company. I believe it has everything to do with the marketing concepts and strategies of the traditional MLM.

Three Types of People Fail Starting an Online Marketing Business from Home

All of the talk is successful entrepreneur stories in the internet marketing articles, but with 9 out of 10 failures, it is time to analyze what people do, that keep them from succeeding. There are three types of people written into this article and I would like to use a mountain climbing analogy, as a tribute to my namesake, Jim Whittaker, who was the first American to reach the 29,028 foot summit of Mount Everest in 1963.

Qualify the Sale - Three Ways to Win

One of the many challenges salespeople face is getting to the finish line, only to find out they have not won anything. This can be a source of aggravation or a wake-up call that they are doing something wrong. Recently I was training a group of insurance professionals and they recounted numerous stories of how they gave a wonderful presentation, only to discover that the potential client could not buy their products or services.

Advertising Online Compared To What We Do, Online Marketing

Many people get confused with the differences between Advertising Online and Online Marketing and after having discussions about this topic on several occasions the conclusion is most believe them to be closely related or one in the same. I will try to shed some light on these completely different methods of "Getting The Word Out" about a particular product or business using The Bow and Arrow as an analogy.

Why Entrepreneurs Are Like The Long Shot At Del Mar

Entrepreneurs starting businesses in the current economic climate have a real challenge yet an opportunity at the same time. It separates them from others who would never take risks, especially when times are very tough. This sets them apart from the competition. Entrepreneurs start business usually for one main reason: They see a problem, they are passionate about solving that problem, and will do everything necessary to achieve their goal of finding a solution to that problem.

THE TRAINING GAP
If a new sales rep, or any new employee, with potential, talent and ability fails maybe it is the quality and nature of the trainer, coach and the program.

Planning & Goal Setting
The simple “how-to’s” of powerful goal setting so that your goals are achieved effortlessly.

The "Yeah, But......" Syndrome
Be open to new ideas and participate in the learning process inherent in seminars, training sessions and strategic retreats. Then it’s up to you as to how “rich” you become.

Your learning/self-improvement process is probably obsolete
I don't know enough. The pace of change in the world of sales, sales management and consulting is such that my traditional process for learning simply can't keep up. I know you're in the same boat. Guess what? We can help each other.

Listening to Hear What I Don't Yet Know
Many of you are writing me to say you want to invent what your future will look like 'cause you're tired of falling into life as it unfolds all on its own. How are you going to do that?

Comfort Zones
“You are either learning or dying” the saying goes. We meet some remarkable people in life. People in their 20’s and 30’s who are confident in who they are. People in their 40’s and 50’s who are alive with passion and commitment. People in their 60’s,70’s and 80’s who are fascinated, open and learning.

Course Correction
It takes a huge amount of time and energy to get a team off the ground with a project or strategy implementation. Its definitely a great undertaking to get to the point of implementation. Knowing how much time this takes, do you consider any necessary course corrections along the way?

Emotional intimacy - The Essential Daily Requirement for the health and longevity of your relationship.
“Into-me-you-see” Without intending to stereotype the genders, as soon as I sent out a “survey” and asked people to share their views on intimacy, somehow most of the women sent in their feelings of what Intimacy means to them on an emotional level and most of you guys out there sent me stuff that made me blush.

Sometimes its one slice at a time …
Rather than going at a large task head on, breaking it down into pieces can relieve stress and provide a clearer timeline to where you want to go. Check out the powerful steps you can take to reach those larger goals.

Dusting Off Your Dreams...
There was a time early in your adult life prior to all of your current responsibilities, when dreams abounded. If you had the opportunity to dust off just one of your dreams, which one would it be?

“Multiply Your Marketing Results – Exponentially!”

Can you imagine what it would be like if you could exponentially increase the return you get for every marketing Euro spent? If you have ever gone fishing for mackerel you will probably be aware that on each line there are many hooks, this means every time you cast your line into the sea the number of fish you can catch is multiplied by the number of hooks on your line. There is a way that you can apply this technique to your marketing so that each campaign is aimed not just at one prospect but many prospects for the same price.

Awaken the creative side in you
How to access a state of creativity instantly

The Race to Success by Cheryl A. Clausen
Are you losing the race to success? Would you like or even need some sales coaching to self improvement tips? Then look no more for this book has it all!

Advertising's Most Important Word

If you had to guess the single most important word in advertising what would it be: free, special, discount, sale, new, improved, bigger, better? So many words have lost their meaning or been corrupted by misuse or abuse that it is not an obvious choice. The words luxury, exclusive, and world class have been rendered meaningless after being applied to everything from eight hundred square foot condos to restaurants that serve microwave frozen dinners. We can't even rely on light, diet, or low carb to actually describe what's inside a package.

Cold Calling Should Not Create the Sales Catastrophe of Becoming a Commodity
Do you need more sales as service professional whether you are a business consultant, sales coach, financial advisor, insurance agent or realtor? Are you making those necessary cold calls? Did you ever think that you are potentially creating a sales catastrophe of becoming a commodity?

Mall Cop - The Sales Example
Have you seen the movie Paul Blart Mall Cop yet? It's Home Alone meets Die Hard. It has a great analogy to sales - especially in this economic environment.

Oil, Water, and Teamwork

Did you ever wonder why a professional sports team that seems to have so many outstanding players, never wins the championship? Often times they don’t even make it to the playoffs. Perhaps you live in a city plagued by this team. Frustrating isn’t it? The same malfunction occurs in many businesses today. You have an all star team, but you are getting a sub par performance. Does top management do more refereeing than managing?

Whats In A Name When It Comes To Your Business Plenty
In fact, deciding on a business name is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. The right business name can help you rise above the crowd while the wrong business name can leave you trampled in the rush.

Managing Employees Is A Little Like Herding Cats
I hope you have a full head of hair now, because depending on how quickly you get a grip on this situation, you could end up bald in a very short time. And if you're starting out bald all you can do is put on a cap and read on.

Learn To Avoid Ugly Baby Syndrome
Last week we talked about creating a "Startup Plan" for your new business idea. To catch you up, a Startup Plan is a detailed list of tasks and subtasks that must be completed in order to get you from the initial idea stage to opening day and beyond.

Business Lessons Learned At The Mall

No offense to my mall merchant brothers and sisters, but a trip into the deepest jungle is more appealing to me than a trip to the mall. I get no joy out of trudging from store to store, attempting to communicate with salespeople from other planets, browsing discount racks of last season's dollar merchandise and peering into windows at mannequins that seem to be in some sort of inanimate pain (why can't they make a happy mannequin?).

Basics of Search Engine Optimization part 2
In "Basics of Search Engine Optimization part 1" we looked at how search engines gather information from web sites and highlighted some common mistakes made by web designers in their build methods. In Part 2 we'll look at on-page tips for keyword placement.

3 Copywriting Tips - How To Edit For Mass Appeal!
3 tips for connecting with a mass audience...

Turning Order Takers into Salespeople

Salespeople need to make adjustments. New competition, new buying strategies, unfair competition, price competition and the resistance brought on by the recession all change the way they need to play the game and they need to make adjustments too. They need to be quicker, sharper, more strategic and much more effective with their use of selling tactics (skills, not tricks). This article explains how.

What Google Wants

There are so many articles out there on SEO and so many conflicting opinions. Some of those opinions are people just spouting off without any solid evidence to back it up and others are based on tests and experiments done by the author. It can be really confusing for someone trying to understand SEO. Who is right, who is wrong? Where should you focus your attention? Let’s answer that question by breaking things down…

Your Online Business-Multiple Streams of Income and Where To Get Them

One of the most daunting questions facing most would-be Internet marketers is..."What Do I Sell?" It is a question that can take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years or even all of infinity to answer, depending on the depth of your desire to get started and the inherent amount of procrastination in your personality. The answer is out there, but once again, finding it will take either doing your homework, or knowing which guru "not" to ask.

Internet Marketing: Swipe! Create the Ultimate Swipe File
In internet marketing, article marketing, great sales pages and great marketing emails it turns out the best written are not truly created, they are swiped. You have probably heard the term, but what does it mean? Is it okay to just copy someone else’s work and call it your own?

Patience As Your Virtuosity
What does sport have in common with running a business? Does this analogy still work?

The Power of Concentrated Effort
An article of 1137 words describing a three-step process toward living on purpose and taking your time seriously.

Making Money from Selling Advertising Space
how does the newspaper company make money? It is obvious that selling a copy of the papers at less than a dollar would not even be able to even fund the operations.

The Importance of A Good Design
If your website is put together shabbily and looks like a 5 minute "quick fix", you are literally shouting to your visitors that you are not professional and you do not care for quality.

S.O.S: The Single Most Powerful Shortcut to Make Your List Love You (And Buy From You)

We opened an email swipe file account recently and I've been going in daily to observe the various emails. It's interesting and eye-opening, almost like a "survival of the fittest" experiment with the best emails rising to the top and the ones not cutting the mark sinking to the bottom (simply because I subscribed to 140 marketing mailing lists). I've tried to reverse-engineer how and why these emails are so amazingly effective at capturing my attention, and even in some cases, my heart. I call this single most powerful concept 'SOS': Setting Off Sparks.

How Do Successful Entrepreneurs Become Successful?

Brian Tracy is a personal development coach; his talks and seminar topics include leadership, sales, managerial effectiveness and business strategy. In short, he helps people become successful. He said that the most successful entrepreneurs have a flight plan, and in a moment, I’ll describe what it looks like. In MindValley, we look at things differently and we have a different attitude for failure. Although not everything we do works, when we do something and it turns out a disaster, we don’t put shame on it. We celebrate it and say ‘thank you’ because we’ve learned how NOT to do it, and we’re going to change course. I hope you find Brian Tracy’s words as instructive and motivating as I did.

How to Maintain Motivation
The basic key to motivation is to enjoy what you are doing. Sounds simple doesn’t it? One of the major issues, however, is that we have so many options with how to spend our time that it is easy to find something that we will enjoy doing. The challenge is that it is very tempting to go for the instant enjoyment at the expense of the task that will lead to long term enjoyment and happiness.

Checklist of Provisions for an LLC Operating Agreement
This outline presents 20 areas of LLC ownership, operation and management that should be addressed in the operating agreement.

Send Out Ships
You’ve set up a home-based business. You have a product or service you love, and want to provide it for people for pay, in order to bring money into your life. You’ve gotten your business license, your business cards, stationary, inventory—all the tools of your trade. But it is not enough. Now you have to get customers! How do you do it?...

What is the Value in your Supply Chain A PI Q and A

Member Question: What is the difference between Supply Chain and Value Chain? My Response: To begin, the reference to supply or “value” chain is a misnomer in that it implies a sequential architecture. This is a term that is on its way out as an organization’s supply “practice” is actually centered on the synchronization of diverse stakeholders sometimes spanning multiple supply networks. This is an important distinction given the impact that real-world synchronization has on theories such as value chains. That said the concept of the value chain was first introduced by Michael Porter in 1985 in his book, Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance.

Do you practice "Business @ The Speed of Thought?"

Member Question: Almost 10 years ago, Bill Gates of Microsoft wrote a book titled "Business @ The Speed of Thought" where he laid out his vision for how organizations should utilize technology to become more responsive, adaptive, agile, etc. Specifically he drew an analogy between an organization's IT infrastructure and living beings Autonomic Nervous System. Now, reading this book over again, I'm struck by a perception that even now most organizations still do not have the level of IT integration that Gates speaks of. So my question(s) to you is this: Does your enterprise / organization have real-time reporting and notification of all important data?

No Medicine Cures Negativity Once It Starts Festering In Your Network Marketing Business.
You should encourage all of your team members to contact you directly, regardless of their position within your organization, if they find their sponsor to be unresponsive. Train them to “throw up” their negativity rather than “throwing it down” to infect other members of the team.

Dangerous Supply Chain Myths (Part 3)
Segment 3 – Multiple Supply Chain Networks: An Issue of Timing versus Concept Validity? Multiple Supply Networks The tail of the supply chain needs to be tailored to each developing market and this will require domestic partners to help execute fulfillment and delivery. In addition, good risk mitigation requires flexibility and diversity in your supply chain and supporting networks.

Shared Services Simplified or How Barry Bonds’ Bat Weight Explained GoC Thinking

I was recently asked to provide a contextual point of reference that would assist the uninitiated public in understanding the reasons why the GoC’s Shared Services program has become such a contentious issue. The Answer was Baseball! Rather than getting into a complicated dissertation of the differences between an agent-based model versus an equation-based model where the prescribed processes reflect and therefore adapt to stakeholder characteristics and objectives, I tried to think of what I would say to one of my sports fanatic friends. And it hit me, the answer is baseball!

Those With the Best Talent Win
In a talent war there’s only one way win. And that is to hire and retain the best talent! Can you imagine a sports coach hiring average talent! As a manager you need to develop a real distaste for average.

Why I Love Negative Feedback

We've all heard about feedback and why we need it. We've also heard that positive feedback is much better than negative feedback. In other words, if you want to achieve your goals and get others to work with you in achieving them, you must be positive. Unfortunately, this kind of new age mush obscures the real reasons for feedback. Even more important is the fact that negative feedback is infinitely better than positive feedback.

Make a Difference - Sweat the Small Stuff First
In 'Leadership', Rudy Giuliani makes a very important point about how vital it is to make a visible difference, however simple and even ineffective that might seem. Yet how much can we do to affect positively the businesses or organisations we lead and manage ourselves.

Lao Tzu - Give A Man A Fish...
This famous saying, steeped in thousands of years of wisdom, is a valid today as it was then, yet why is it so vital, especially in the fast-paced and technologically wired world we live and work in today?

Entering 2008 Thriving not Just Enduring

Dear Jane, What do you mean by “endurance” and what’s wrong with it? I always thought enduring was a good thing. As we approach a new year, determined to make and keep our New Year’s resolutions (this time), I want to encourage you to resolve to thrive, not just endure. When I’m interviewed on radio or TV, I am always asked what the distinction is. I use an analogy taught to me by one of my mentors, Brandon St. John, some 25 years ago. When I saw it used in Al Gore’s, “An Inconvenient Truth,” I was both surprised and pleased.

Organic SEO is not a Vending Machine

For some reason, some clients tend to look at Organic SEO like a vending machine. Almost as if they want to put their money in a slot and instantly want the prize. Organic SEO depends on the climate of the competition, the industry and variables such as the content on your pages, if your site is new, if your website has links or if it is virtually unknown. The list of potential obstacles that an optimization specialist has to overcome oftentimes seems insurmountable in comparison to the expectations of a client.

Completing the Learning Cycle – and Beyond
One of the most useful models I have found for understanding the learning cycle is the model described by Thomas Gordon as the “conscious competence learning stage model”. What I plan to do in this article is describe some of the “symptoms” of each part of the cycle, what learners need in this stage and give some practical illustrations.

How Are You Inspiring Your Value For Business and Personal Success
How do you value your lives whether business or personal? Are the actions that you are taking moving you closer to your dreams or further away? Read a simple analogy on how you can begin to increase your value and realize the future of your dreams.

How to Avoid Burnout and Gain a Fresh Perspective: An Uplifting Lesson From the Beach
A day at the beach is one of those American images of happiness and relaxation, but in reality, there's much more to learn from the shoreline. This brief analogy from the beach will help put progress and personal challenges in perspective, and for the believer, it's a reminder of the spiritual aspect of the success journey.

Easy Networking For Your Job Search
The analogy between the layers of an onion and networking – “the layers system”

The Synapse of Trust
I have an interesting analogy about trust between people. I would like to read your thoughts on this way of expressing trust. Do you agree? What would you add? Please reas this article and let me know your opinion.

Negativity is Like a Cancer
Negativity is evident in many workplaces, and it really saps the energy of an organization. I believe negativity is like a disease that will spread if not managed well. The analogy is developed in this article along with several antidotes to negativity.

To Improve Your Corporate Strategic Planning Efforts, Take Clues from NBA Coaches
It’s playoff season in the NBA so there’s no better time for an analogy between NBA coaching and corporate strategic planning. Reflecting on the season and the final games, it begs the question; what if NBA teams were run like many businesses are?

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