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How To Have A Successful, Productive Business Meeting That Doesn’t Waste Your Time

August 9, 2011 By Alex Mandossian Leave a Comment

If there’s one activity that entrepreneurs live into more than any other, which wastes more time or is more of a drudgery and drains their time and sucks their energy, it is business meetings.

In my experience, the reason for that is it involves other people, and other people may not honor your time as much as you do.

There is something you can do to have productive meetings: it all comes down to pre-meeting planning.

I like to spend five minutes of pre-planning time going over the points that I want to cover during the meeting.

Watch my video below to learn more:

Are you pre-planning for your meetings? If not, try it today and let me know how it works for you. Leave a message for me on my Facebook page.

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What Is An “Engaged” Entrepreneur?

May 6, 2010 By Alex Mandossian 10 Comments

Entrepreneurship is binary. That means you’re either engaged in growing your business, or you’re disengaged.  There is no in-between.

According to my colleague Greg Habstritt, if you’re a disengaged entrepreneur, then you’re probably exhausted.  And as an exhausted entrepreneur you probably face each day living into activities that are draining and unproductive.

The reason I bring it up is because if you want more money, more clients and more time-off from your business, then becoming an engaged entrepreneur means saying “No” more often.

Engaged entrepreneurs say “Yes” only to those daily activities, joint venture partners, seminars and educational products that are relevant to their immediate growth needs.

It’s never too late to surround yourself with engaged entrepreneurs and on June 4th – 6th, I’m co-hosting an event in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (founded by Greg Habstritt) that celebrates engaged entrepreneurs.

If you’re reading this post in time and it makes sense for you to say “Yes” (and you’re willing to say “No” to whatever you had planned that weekend) then click here to watch an important video I prepared for you and 11 other very special entrepreneurs.

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Action Guides Accelerate Your Learning

March 23, 2010 By Alex Mandossian 23 Comments

If you teach at seminars, workshops and Inner Circle gatherings, then you want to take advantage of the power of the Action Guide principle.

Click here if you’re in a hurry to watch, comment and share the video.

I’m writing here from my own experience when I say, “Action Guides accelerate the learning of your students, clients, patients or customers!”

Do what it takes to invest your time and money to create and get Action Guides into the hands of your audiences and the watch your sales and profits will grow!

I give my students Action Guides even when there are thousands in the room such as Harv Eker’s Peak Potentials events.  Click here to learn more about Peak Potentials and why their events have so much impact for lifelong learners.

If you attend seminars, then you already know how any speaker who takes the time, energy and makes the investment to put an Action Guide into your handswill boost and cement your retention on the content being taught.

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The Google Alert You Never Got

March 11, 2010 By Alex Mandossian 61 Comments

On March 11th, I received an email alert from my buddy, Marc Harty who posts his PR Traffic tips on this blog.

His email was disturbing because it was in response to an an email he received from my about my Virtual Book Tour with another buddy of mine, Harvey Mackay.

Here’s what Marc wrote me:

Alex, I wanted to let you know this right away … Gmail doesn’t show URLs with initial caps as link. This changed happened recently.  For a URL to be a link in Gmail it needs to contain:  1. the “www” and 2. all lowercase . Thought you should know.

Gee, thanks Marc … both  my emails for Harvey Mackay were in the queue and sent, so I couldn’t anything about it and I did get over 500 people on that VBT to listen in … but I wonder how many more people could have listened if I was aware of the recent change.

If you’re scratching you head right now say “Huh?” to yourself, then do yourself a favor and watch a 2 min. 5 sec video posted by Frank Bauer.  It’s the best explanation I’ve seen and he posted it back on Feb. 10th!

Click here for the video tutorial and please put a ton of comments on Frank’s blog and show him some love :-)  Tell him I sent you.  His “fluff-free” style of explaining the predicament that Google failed to announce is worth passing on.

What To Do Now: 1) Watch the VIDEO … 2) Comment and share … and as Frank says, 3) Have “an awesome day!”

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Holiday Greetings from the Mandossians

December 24, 2009 By Alex Mandossian 86 Comments

Holiday Greetings 2009In this video, I hope to demonstrate to you how “the evolution of a result is more important than the actual achievement of that result.”

Click here if you’re in a hurry and want to watch the video now…

Each year in late December, I’ve shared our Holiday Greetings videos from our home.  This video happens to be my favorite because I’m not in the video, but our newest addition to our family is … her name is Ginger and she loves unconditionally :-)

You can click on any of the pictures from previous years.  The faces may change and the teams may change, but what seems to remain consistent is the evolution of holiday spirit.

And as you watch and smile at how my children – Gabriel and Breanna – have evolved sitting on Santa’s lap year after year, I encourage you to think about what your #1 area of improvement was for 2009.

In what area of your personal or professional life would you consider yourself most improved?  What seemingly overwhelming challenge did you conquer?  What problem did you solve?  What predicament did you overcome?

Take and moment to think about it and then write it down and declare it publicly so others who are also reading this blog post can comment and share.

What To Do Now: Please comment and share your most significant improvement in any of these major 7 categories of your life – Business/Career, Finance, Fun, Health/Fitness, Relationships, Personal or Contribution.

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