The Simplest Success Formula Ever

April 25, 2012

Step One: Clearly define what you want to have, do, or become. Step Two: Do the work. The irony is that 95% of the population never does Step One. Complete Step One and the work is a pleasure. It’s actually not even work at that point. Work is doing something you don’t want to do, [...]

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You Are What You Tweet

April 11, 2012

In regards to our bodies, we know that we are what we eat. In our conversations, we know that what’s in our thoughts eventually comes out of our mouths. In Social Media, we can’t out-run our character. You are what you tweet. On Twitter, are you tweeting things of value that help, inform, educate, and [...]

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Flex Your LinkedIn Muscles

April 6, 2012

We all know that anything that’s not used, gets flabby. This applies to your body, attitude, and your LinkedIn account. With over 150,000,000 LinkedIn users, the average user being over 40 years old, and the average user earning over $100,000, can you really afford to let your LinkedIn utilization become flabby? This is an extremely [...]

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Be An Encourager

April 5, 2012

The only time most folks get any recognition is when they screw something up. And most of the time they already know they screwed it up and don’t need someone else shoving it in their face. I’m no management guru, but I know one thing that will help people perform better and make them feel [...]

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Who Are Your Five?

April 4, 2012

Years ago, a man I respect a lot told me to identify the five people who I spend the most time with, and add up their incomes. He said that my income would be about the average of the five. And when I did what he suggested, I found out that he was right. This [...]

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Opt-Out Of The Negative

April 3, 2012

We all receive email, newsletters, sales pitches and other forms of communication that we can opt-out of. We opt-out because we have no interest in what the person is sending our way. Sometimes we even wonder how we got on their list in the first place. When people around you start being negative, start complaining, [...]

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Social Media Is About Speaking To People Individually

March 30, 2012

Disclaimer: This post may sound like a rant, but it’s not. It’s a simple interpersonal tip that will produce massive results for you. I see a lot of people post things on Social Media platforms that have words in the message like, “Good morning everyone!”, “Hey folks….” and “Thank you all.” People who use Social [...]

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Timely Follow-Up Will Always Be Important

March 12, 2012

We’re all running faster than we’ve ever run before. And when we’re cruising at Mach 5 with our hairline on fire things tend to fall through the cracks. With the ever-increasing amount of LinkedIn connection requests, Facebook posts, tweets, and a million other things including email that come at us every day, it’s easy to [...]

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Let Other People Toot Your Horn

March 11, 2012

There are a lot of self-professed “Social Media Guru’s” out there. I think that many people call themselves guru’s because they can’t spell “charlatan.” When you deliver massive value, the word gets around. All things being equal, people do business with and refer business to people they know, like, and trust. Not people who call [...]

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Ask And It Shall Be Given Unto You

March 6, 2012

There’s an old saying in the sales biz that goes, “You no ask, you no get.” And it’s an old saying because it’s true. There’s an even older saying from a pretty famous book that goes, “Ask and it shall be given unto you.” This is the positive version of the old sales adage. When [...]

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