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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Business Success Strategies
At Alex Mandossian's Teleseminar Secrets Reunion, we did a "timeline" exercise. Alex started it by charting his highlights and lowlights from the past 20 years. It was fascinating to see this laid out for us and to know even someone like Alex was in the abyss at a couple of points. Even more importantly, I learned 2 important takeaways I wanted to share with you.
At Alex Mandossian's Teleseminar Secrets Reunion, we did a "timeline" exercise. Alex started it by charting his highlights and lowlights from the past 20 years. It was fascinating to see this laid out for us and to know even someone like Alex was in the abyss at a couple of points.
Even more importantly, I learned 2 important takeaways I wanted to share with you.
The first came from one of the participants. He remarked that the timeline exercise really put things in perspective. These were simply events, not good or bad. They were neutral. Whether you're in bankruptcy or just broke the 7-figure mark, it's just an event. A fact.
It's the story around it that turns it into something else. The story is where the emotions come in. And that's where it gets messy.
The event isn't the problem. The story is. If you can take the story out of what's going on, you can look at what's happening more objectively and objectively make a decision about how you're going to handle it.
You may have heard the quote that life is about 10 percent what happens to you and about 90 percent your reaction to what's happened to you. In other words, the event is in the 10 percent -- your story is in the 90 percent.
Bad things happen to everyone. The vast majority of successful entrepreneurs I know were either in debt up to their eyeballs or actually declared bankruptcy at some point. In fact, I can't think of a single successful business person who didn't lose a significant amount of money at some time in their life -- whether from a poor business decision, a bad investment, the market changing or a product that completely flopped. That's just the way it is.
But, the successful business person picked themselves up and went back to work. They didn't lay in the gutter and moan about their bad luck. (Well, maybe they did, but it didn't last too long.) They mostly focused on what they were going to do next to recover.
The unsuccessful business person is the one who allows failure to stop them. The unsuccessful business person is the one who gets so sucked up in the story around the failure they don’t get around to picking themselves back up and trying the next thing.
The second takeaway I learned was about the pattern. Alex's timeline (as those of people who shared) looked like a sine wave. It went up then it went down then it went up then it went down and it went up, etc.
And that's what life is like. You're up and you're down. You can't enjoy the ups without the downs. And you don't stay down because you'll end up going back up.
So, where are you in your timeline? Are you on a high? That's fantastic -- enjoy it. Eventually it will go down but don't focus on that, focus on enjoying being on top. Are you on a low? Well, celebrate that as well, because that means you're on your way up.
Even if you're on the way down, still celebrate, because you know you'll eventually hit the bottom and come back up. And life will be all the better because you just came out of the down.
Take the time to do this exercise for yourself. Chart out your most important milestones over the past 10 or 20 years. And take time to celebrate where you've been and how far you've come. And don't forget to celebrate wherever you are right now.
Good business strategies involve the execution of an ordered plan of attack. The development and implementation of your own strategies can insure that your business becomes -- and stays -- profitable, for many years to come.
At Alex Mandossian's Teleseminar Secrets Reunion, we did a "timeline" exercise. Alex started it by charting his highlights and lowlights from the past 20 years. It was fascinating to see this laid out for us and to know even someone like Alex was in the abyss at a couple of points.
Even more importantly, I learned 2 important takeaways I wanted to share with you.
The first came from one of the participants. He remarked that the timeline exercise really put things in perspective. These were simply events, not good or bad. They were neutral. Whether you're in bankruptcy or just broke the 7-figure mark, it's just an event. A fact.
It's the story around it that turns it into something else. The story is where the emotions come in. And that's where it gets messy.
The event isn't the problem. The story is. If you can take the story out of what's going on, you can look at what's happening more objectively and objectively make a decision about how you're going to handle it.
You may have heard the quote that life is about 10 percent what happens to you and about 90 percent your reaction to what's happened to you. In other words, the event is in the 10 percent -- your story is in the 90 percent.
Bad things happen to everyone. The vast majority of successful entrepreneurs I know were either in debt up to their eyeballs or actually declared bankruptcy at some point. In fact, I can't think of a single successful business person who didn't lose a significant amount of money at some time in their life -- whether from a poor business decision, a bad investment, the market changing or a product that completely flopped. That's just the way it is.
But, the successful business person picked themselves up and went back to work. They didn't lay in the gutter and moan about their bad luck. (Well, maybe they did, but it didn't last too long.) They mostly focused on what they were going to do next to recover.
The unsuccessful business person is the one who allows failure to stop them. The unsuccessful business person is the one who gets so sucked up in the story around the failure they don’t get around to picking themselves back up and trying the next thing.
The second takeaway I learned was about the pattern. Alex's timeline (as those of people who shared) looked like a sine wave. It went up then it went down then it went up then it went down and it went up, etc.
And that's what life is like. You're up and you're down. You can't enjoy the ups without the downs. And you don't stay down because you'll end up going back up.
So, where are you in your timeline? Are you on a high? That's fantastic -- enjoy it. Eventually it will go down but don't focus on that, focus on enjoying being on top. Are you on a low? Well, celebrate that as well, because that means you're on your way up.
Even if you're on the way down, still celebrate, because you know you'll eventually hit the bottom and come back up. And life will be all the better because you just came out of the down.
Take the time to do this exercise for yourself. Chart out your most important milestones over the past 10 or 20 years. And take time to celebrate where you've been and how far you've come. And don't forget to celebrate wherever you are right now.
Good business strategies involve the execution of an ordered plan of attack. The development and implementation of your own strategies can insure that your business becomes -- and stays -- profitable, for many years to come.
How to Turn Your Social Networking Friends Into Customers
Clearly social networking can take an awful lot of time. The question is, is it worth it? Will spending all that time doing social networking lead to an increase in sales? And the answer is, yes it can. But you need to be strategic about it -- just like you need to be strategic with all your marketing. And one way you can do that is to have a social networking landing page.
Isn't social networking fun? You get to meet all these people and connect with them and spend hours looking at their profiles and videos and photos and...
Okay, so clearly social networking can take an awful lot of time. The question is, is it worth it? Will spending all that time doing social networking lead to an increase in sales?
And the answer is, yes it can. But you need to be strategic about it -- just like you need to be strategic with all your marketing. And one way you can do that is to have a social networking landing page.
So what the heck is a social networking landing page? Well, it's a special page on your web site or blog designed specifically for your social networking folks. This special page continues the conversation you started on other social networking sites. (This is very important, you should always design landing pages as continuing the conversation started elsewhere, whether it's your prospects clicking on a Google ad or followers intrigued by something you tweeted about on Twitter.)
You see, many people send their social networking friends to the home page of their web site or their blog. And while that's not a terrible thing to do, you could definitely do better. You see, the home page of your web site or the first page of your blog is more general. It has to be. You don’t know how people are finding your site. They could be on it because they just heard you on a teleclass or read an article by you or someone referred you. You don’t know so you have to keep it pretty generic about the problems you solve and the solutions you provide (and of course, push them to give you their email address).
So by creating a landing page specifically for your social network buddies that continues the conversation already started in the social networking scene, you'll be that much closer to transforming them into eventual customers.
Okay, so what do you put on this social networking landing page? Do you try and sell them there?
In a word -- NO! Remember, social networking is all about building relationships and making connections. And, through those relationships people will naturally want to support you and become your customer. The last thing you want to do is send your social networking buds to a page and try to sell them.
(Now, that doesn't mean your page can't include a couple of links to some products so they can read more and buy, but no hard core selling.)
Instead, share more about yourself, your family, your interests and your business. Then invite them to give you their email address in exchange for a free gift from you.
By getting on your email list, you are now in a position to deepen the relationship. Along with getting your regular newsletter (you HAVE one, don't you?) which contains great information and content, you can also invite them to your free teleclasses, which also contain fantastic content but also includes an invitation for them to become a customer, or you send emails to them also inviting them to become a customer.
Social networking websites, they are all over the internet. While many would assume a large selection of networks is good, the selection often makes it difficult to find a quality social networking website. If you are interested in meeting new friends online, you are advised against signing up for just any social networking site that you come across.
Isn't social networking fun? You get to meet all these people and connect with them and spend hours looking at their profiles and videos and photos and...
Okay, so clearly social networking can take an awful lot of time. The question is, is it worth it? Will spending all that time doing social networking lead to an increase in sales?
And the answer is, yes it can. But you need to be strategic about it -- just like you need to be strategic with all your marketing. And one way you can do that is to have a social networking landing page.
So what the heck is a social networking landing page? Well, it's a special page on your web site or blog designed specifically for your social networking folks. This special page continues the conversation you started on other social networking sites. (This is very important, you should always design landing pages as continuing the conversation started elsewhere, whether it's your prospects clicking on a Google ad or followers intrigued by something you tweeted about on Twitter.)
You see, many people send their social networking friends to the home page of their web site or their blog. And while that's not a terrible thing to do, you could definitely do better. You see, the home page of your web site or the first page of your blog is more general. It has to be. You don’t know how people are finding your site. They could be on it because they just heard you on a teleclass or read an article by you or someone referred you. You don’t know so you have to keep it pretty generic about the problems you solve and the solutions you provide (and of course, push them to give you their email address).
So by creating a landing page specifically for your social network buddies that continues the conversation already started in the social networking scene, you'll be that much closer to transforming them into eventual customers.
Okay, so what do you put on this social networking landing page? Do you try and sell them there?
In a word -- NO! Remember, social networking is all about building relationships and making connections. And, through those relationships people will naturally want to support you and become your customer. The last thing you want to do is send your social networking buds to a page and try to sell them.
(Now, that doesn't mean your page can't include a couple of links to some products so they can read more and buy, but no hard core selling.)
Instead, share more about yourself, your family, your interests and your business. Then invite them to give you their email address in exchange for a free gift from you.
By getting on your email list, you are now in a position to deepen the relationship. Along with getting your regular newsletter (you HAVE one, don't you?) which contains great information and content, you can also invite them to your free teleclasses, which also contain fantastic content but also includes an invitation for them to become a customer, or you send emails to them also inviting them to become a customer.
Social networking websites, they are all over the internet. While many would assume a large selection of networks is good, the selection often makes it difficult to find a quality social networking website. If you are interested in meeting new friends online, you are advised against signing up for just any social networking site that you come across.
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