A Thanksgiving Post for 101 Teachers in My Life
I enjoy making lists.
The list I want to reveal to you this Thanksgiving Day is my Gratitude List of 101 Teachers who have influenced my life and reminded me of the importance of being a lifelong learner.
This partial list is alphabetized by first name. Many of my Teachers are still living and some have passed on.
I consider this a “partial” Gratitude List because I’m absolutely certain that I’ve overlooked lots of people who have had deep influences on my personal and professional life. Forgive me if you are one of those people.
If you’ve taught me something, but don’t see your name on the list, again please forgive my oversight and help me complete my list by commenting & sharing what you feel you’ve taught me.
Sound fair enough?
My purpose in sharing my 101 Teachers list is for you to create your own. I encourage you to make a list of your Teachers and share it publicly as a declaration … just like I did.
The simple act of writing the names and what you’ve learned will put a smile on your face and make you feel great.
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The “Seminar Business Card” Design Revealed
My central premise about running entrepreneurial-centered business is that “Every business is an information marketing business.”
And the most fundamental and practical business building tool entrepreneurs have at their fingertips – especially at seminars and networking events – is their business card.
Because seminars provide the ideal networking climate of face-to-face conversations, your business card, if designed properly, can become a persuasive leave-behind to build your brand and expand your marketing reach.
I believe every entrepreneur must have two business cards. One for everyday use and one for seminars and networking events.
The purpose of your seminar business is to inspire, motivate and even persuade the people you meet to follow-up with you and take action.
To make that happen you need compelling content and even an irresistible offer (on the back of your card).
The problem is, most business cards I encounter are nothing more than mini-billboards with basic information. They’re information tools, but not marketing tools.
Take a moment and picture yourself at a seminar or networking event. You’re excited to be there. You can sense the energy from the other attendees in the room. And you have a stack of your own business cards to hand out.
During each face-to-face conversation you have, there’s typically that awkward moment when (more…)
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Why Multitasking Destroys Your Productivity
Most entrepreneurs I know are proud of their “multitasking” ability.
According to Wikipedia, “Human multitasking is the performance by an individual of appearing to handle more than one task at the same time.” The keyword that multitasking a myth is: “appearing.”
The term originated with computer multitasking – a CPU solves problems by scheduling tasks and switching from task to task until each task gets its turn.
The activity of switching back-and-forth may be a computer-friendly activity, but it’s anything but human-friendly when it comes to an entrepreneur’s personal productivity in the office or home!
Dave Crenshaw wrote my favorite book on the topic and I recommend it to any entrepreneur who still thinks and feels that multitasking is cool.
On page 29 in The Myth of Multitasking, Dave writes: (more…)
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Does Your Email Inbox Need A 60-Sec Cleansing?
It was a warm Friday morning in Kona, Hawaii … and there I was eating my breakfast with five of my TLC friends.
Suddenly, that all-important topic of distractions came up. So I seized the opportunity to ask all five thought leaders the single most important entrepreneurial productivity question that I routinely ask my students, friends, colleagues and even my mentors.
Here’s the question:
“What’s the #1 distraction you inevitably face each day in your personal and professional life?”
They went five-for-five and gave the same answer. It’s the same answer I hear from my students. It’s the same answer I hear from my JV partners, my colleagues and even my mentors.
Survey after survey, Ask Campaign after Ask campaign … Email seems to be everbody’s undisputed #1 distraction in their personal and professional lives!
Imagine that? The #1 distraction entrepreneurs and (more…)
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The 3 “Marketing Paradoxes” Explained (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this Marketing Paradoxes three part series, you learned about the Paradox of Distribution which I defined as follows:
“You can’t get adequate distribution of a product until you’ve proven it can sell; but, you can’t prove a product can sell until you’ve gotten adequate distribution in the market.”
The second Marketing Paradox I want to delineate here is what’s known as the Paradox of Choice.
In fact, it’s the actual title of a ground-breaking book that belongs in every marketing library called, The Paradox of Choice – Why More Is Less by best-selling author and social psychologist, Barry Schwartz.
Paradox #2: The Paradox of Choice
I define this paradox from a marketer’s perspective as: (more…)
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The “Magic Formula” Revisited
Whether you want to improve your marketing communications with the spoken or written word, I believe one formula – The Magic Formula – is your fastest, easiest and most reliable tool to influence more prospects and customers.
The Magic Formula was first developed by Dale Carnegie and in three simple steps it’s everything you need to know to become an incredibly poised, polished and masterful communicator – online or offline!
Here’s the formula in its simplest form:
STEP 1: Incident – What specific incident inspired the purpose surrounding of your topic?
STEP 2: Action – What specific action do you want your listener/reader to take?
STEP 3: Benefit – What specific benefits will your listeners/readers gain as a result of taking action?
It doesn’t matter if you’ve read How To Win Friends And Influence People or if you want to become a professional speaker. Carnegie’s Magic Formula is time-tested to hold any audience’s attention from the first time you utilize it.
The formula is practical communication tool that ensures immediate action taken by your listeners/readers. Make it your secret to begin to dramatically improve the pulling-power of your websites, teleseminars and online videos.
You’ll be surprised and even thrilled by how frequently you find yourself reaching for this powerful technique to help you achieve your goals faster and boost the impact of your personal influence.
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The $2.7 Million Giveaway (Recorded Live)
For the past 21 months, I’ve been looking into how I might assist Entrepreneurial CEOs in North America to transform their business dreams into reality … faster, better and with less effort.
On October 3rd at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern, my co-founding partner of SmartStartGiving, Linda Lopeke, and I recorded our first of three Teleseminars to launch the “Mandossian $2.7 million giveaway.”
Click here if you missed this history-making Teleseminar and remember to visit SmartStartGiving.org so you can read about our first of three rounds of winners.
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Are You “Open” with Your Marketing Interactions?
The Johari Window is an important “quadrant” model named after it’s two inventors, Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham (“Jo-Hari”).
Personally, I’ve found it to be the most useful “window” of opportunity to analyze the fascinating process of human interaction, especially in business interactions between Entrepreneurs and their prospects or customers.
The Johari Window has four panes (quadrants) and divides “personal awareness” into four different classes: Open, Hidden, Blind and Unknown. The lines dividing the four panes are like (more…)
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The Universal Language of “Flow Charting”
If you want to boost the impact of your marketing communications … then start turning your “static” mental ideas into “dynamic” flow charts.
Most entrepreneurial CEOs typically do not take the time to “flow chart” their marketing launches or business plans, yet no skill is more valuable in getting your point across faster, better and easier.
You won’t find the concept, “verbal vision” in Wikipedia or any online dictionary, but I utilize it regularly to describe two important concepts that lead to better business presentations.
To me, Verbal means ”words and ideas expressing movement” and Vision means “the act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be.” So then to flow chart (when utilized as a verb) means to graphically express the process and direction of your ideas.
Resource:
Glossary: A “flow chart” is a verbal and graphic description of a process or stages of a project that provides a useful language for communicating a personal or professional vision.
History Of The “Entrepreneurial Revolution”
That twelve-word sentence in President Obama’s speech isn’t about politics as much as it is about business. Your business. My business. And the dawn of a brighter new future of the ”Entrepreneurial Interdependence” era that’s now upon us.
Quick History Lesson: In the 20th century, Americans traded their Entrepreneurial Independence (which they enjoyed for the previous 200 years), and began a 50-year stint of dependence on the modern-day Corporation.
Think back to that famous scene that happened on September 17th, 1787 during the Signing of the U.S. Constitution.
The central figures who were present included George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and America’s first millionaire, Benjamin Franklin. These Founding Fathers were opposed by (more…)
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