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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Avoid Information Overload - Here’s How
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Everyone wants to avoid information overload. But how do you do that?
Everyone also knows that working on your business tasks is important. Of course it is!
Even if you say you only work 4 hours per week, you still have to get things done in these 4 hours.
Like I’ve mentioned before in this post, the good thing about working only 4 hours per week is that your mind forces you to focus ONLY on those things or tasks that are of the utmost importance to you. You’ve heard the saying that “not all traffic is created equal”.
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Keeping A Positive Attitude
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Keeping a positive attitude - When you fall, do you have the strength to get back up?
I LOVE that question!
Today’s post is meant to give you inspiration and motivation in your life. If you’re currently experiencing the lows in your life, you want to read this!
Most people complain how unlucky they are or how unfavorable their situations are. Whether it’s about their life in general or about work or just about anything else, this is how most people feel about themselves and life in general.
Blame, Excuse, Justification
They blame it on other people when they fail or don’t achieve success. They find excuses to justify their failure. How often have you heard things like:
“If only I was born into a rich family. My life wouldn’t be this miserable!”
“It’s all the government’s fault for not doing enough to ensure that the unemployment rate is as low as possible!”
“If only I was born handsome or pretty…”
And so on and so on… You get my point.
Instead of reflecting what went wrong and what didn’t work out (that lead to their failure), these people spent time whining and complaining. They could have instead made good use of their time identifying and analyzing what went wrong so that they don’t repeat the same mistakes in the future.
Instead of keeping a positive attitude and learning from their mistakes to become better, they fill their hearts and minds with anger and hatred, as if the whole world owes them something.
Take a look at this popular quote by Randy Pausch:
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!
And also this one by Randy too:
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
The next time you try something and you fail (temporarily), remember these 2 quotes for they will strengthen you and make you want to get back up to try again and again and again.
Instead of cursing (that you fail) and complaining about it, accept the fact that your failure is experienced gained. Your failure leads you to learn or discover something that you had not known before.
Negative Energy
When you complain and whine to other people, you produce and spread negative energy to those around you. Take a look at the following scenario:
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Alex, John, and Peter are on their way home from the office and they meet at the train.
Alex: Hey how’s it going guys?
John: (giving a grumpy look…) Very BAD! Today’s a really terrible day for me!
Alex: (thinking to himself - a terrible day again? It seems that every time I meet this guy he always have a terrible day). What happened?
John: GOD is so unfair to me. I have to work long hours in the office and the pay is nowhere near what I’ve contributed to the company. The economy is so hard these days. The bills are increasing but I don’t get a raise. I hate my boss!
Alex: Yeah I’m no better off myself. I’m working from 9 to 5 every day in the office and I’m struggling to make ends meet too. Life just sucks! If only I was born into a rich family, all my troubles would disappear.
Peter: Yup that is so true! Life is just hard man. It’s getting more and more difficult to achieve the company sales target. And if I don’t reach that target, my job is in jeopardy. Life is hard and I sure envy those lucky rich b**tards!
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I’m pretty sure you’d agree conversations like this are taking place EVERYWHERE. If a person starts the conversation with a negative attitude, he WILL pass that negative attitude to those around him. RARELY do you hear Peter saying things like:
Peter: No I don’t think so. Life has been very good to me. Although I haven’t reached my sales target for this month yet, I’m going to work even harder to make sure I close more sales. You guys need to stop blaming other people and other factors that are outside of your control, and instead be responsible for your own actions. Find solutions instead of looking for excuses all the time.
The reverse is equally true - if you start off a conversion by keeping a positive attitude, the conversation is likely to continue and end up in a positive tone.
Next time you start off a conversation, be sure to start if off with a positive note. Think ABUNDANCE instead of scarcity.
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Are you happy and content with your life? Do you feel blessed? Are you keeping a positive attitude?
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Earn Passive Income Online - Here’s How
Friday, April 30th, 2010
Before I reveal how you can earn passive income online, allow me to tell you why I haven’t updated this blog in 2 weeks.
The reason for that is because I went out of town to my brother’s place, and at the same time took a short vacation to Bali since I haven’t taken one in ages…
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Internet Marketing Ethics - Will You Stoop So Low For Money?
Friday, April 9th, 2010
Internet Marketing Ethics: Some people (and marketers) will just do anything for money, even if that means using dishonest and unethical means.
They don’t really mind and they don’t really care about it as long as they make money. Their first priority is always about making more money and they will stoop so low just to be able to do that.
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Online Business Scams - How NOT To Be A Victim
Monday, April 5th, 2010
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
How To Be A LIKEABLE Person
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
In the last post, I mentioned that you should become a likeable person so that your audience like, know, and trust you - and the end result is that they’d want to buy from you. In this post I want to share 5 ways on how to be a likeable person. (more…)
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How To Motivate Others (And Yourself)
Monday, January 25th, 2010
There are 2 primary ways on how to motivate others, namely via pain and reward.
Pain means if you do NOT get the job done, or if you do NOT achieve the target, you’re going to get punished.
Reward means if you get the job done, or if you achieve the target, then you’re going to be rewarded with some kind of prize.
Which do you think is a more powerful force in motivating people to get the job done (or in other words get them to achieve their targets)?
The answer is PAIN, although there are some people who are going to be more motivated at the thought of receiving some kind of reward. Most people, however, FEAR pain more than they like receiving reward.
Let’s talk about reward
In general, humans can be divided into 3 categories:
1. People who MAKE things happen
2. People who WATCH things happen
3. People who SAY “what happened?”
Imagine you’re the sales manager for a large corporation. Sales have been slow for the last few months, and you want to motivate your sales team so that they can sell more products.
You say to them:
“Okay guys, sales have been slumping for the past few months and management is very unhappy about it. We need to drastically increase our performance by closing more sales and to do that they have come up with a very attractive compensation package.
If you can make 30 sales a month (that’s just 1 sale/day), then the company is going to give you an ADDITIONAL commission of $20/sale - that’s EXTRA money on top of what you’re currently already getting for each sale.”
For the first category (people who MAKE things happen)
They are optimistic and INTITIALLY they’re going to be excited about this extra commission and will probably go all out to make sure that they get the biggest commission possible.
I say initially because most of the time people can’t endure temporary setbacks and they expect to see instant results.
Even for this first category of people, who are deemed as possessing the best attitude compared to the other 2 categories of people, their perseverance and will is NOT strong enough and they’ll typically give up before achieving any results.
Only a very small minority of people can handle failures and setbacks well, and these are the people who will eventually achieve success.
For the second category of people (people who WATCH things happen)
They are FAR LESS optimistic as the first category. They are a LITTLE bit excited about the possibility of earning extra commissions, but not as excited as the first category of people.
They’re afraid that if they try to go all out they will fail, and/or they’re afraid that the company will not keep up its promise of giving extra commissions. They do NOT want to be the first one to go all out.
They must see and witness OTHER PEOPLE going all out, succeed, and receive the extra commissions first before they want to go all out themselves.
Their thinking is along the lines of:
“Rather than wasting my time on something that may not be achievable, let’s just wait if other people can achieve it. Even if they can achieve it, the company may not keep its promise by honoring the extra commissions. If someone can actually do it and get paid the extra money, then I’ll go all out. But until then, let’s just wait and see.”
For the third category of people (people who SAY “what happened”)
These people are oblivious to what’s happening around them. They don’t pay attention to what’s going on and they don’t really care.
Only when GOOD things start to happen to their co-workers (getting the extra commissions in this case) do they start to ask “what happened”?
Let’s talk about PAIN
Earlier I said that pain is a greater motivator than reward when you want to ask somebody to do something that he doesn’t want to do.
In the extra commission’s example, reward (the extra commissions) was used to motivate employees to work harder to increase sales.
If, instead of using a reward, you use PAIN to motivate them by saying:
“Okay guys, sales have been slumping for the past few months and management is very unhappy about it. We need to drastically increase our performance by closing more sales and to do that they have come up with a punishment system.
If you can’t make 30 sales a month (that’s just 1 sale/day), then the company has no choice but to fire you immediately.”
Now, how do you think your sales team will react?
Yup, they’re going to be both angry and scared at the same time. Angry with the company for setting such strict measures. Scared because they’re afraid that if they can’t achieve 30 sales/month, they’re going to lose their jobs.
(…this means no income - who is going to feed the family? Who is going to support them?)
In this case, all three categories of people - those who MAKE things happen, those who SEE things happen, and those who SAY “what happened” are going to be WORKING THEIR a** off! This I can guarantee!
BUT…
A better and greater motivator would be to use PAIN and REWARD together, like this:
“Okay guys, sales have been slumping for the past few months and management is very unhappy about it. We need to drastically increase our performance by closing more sales and to do that they have come up with a punishment system.
If you can make 30 sales a month (that’s just 1 sale/day), then the company is going to give you an ADDITIONAL commission of $20/sale - that’s EXTRA money on top of what you’re currently already getting for each sale.
However, if you can’t make 30 sales a month, then the company has no choice but to fire you immediately.”
Used together, PAIN and REWARD becomes a LETHAL combination to “force” someone to do something that he or she doesn’t like.
How can you use this in your internet business?
Set a pain and reward system in your Internet business. If you succeed in achieving your goal, give yourself a reward. If not, use SEVERE pain to punish yourself SEVERELY.
Example:
BOLDY tell your close friends and family members (especially those who have been ridiculing you that you should stop dreaming of making money online) that you’re going to achieve X amount of income from your Internet business.
If you succeed, of course you’ll be happy with all the extra income you’ve gotten - this is the REWARD.
If you fail, then you’ll be very embarrassed (especially with those who have been ridiculing you all this time) - this is the PAIN.
This is exactly how to motivate others and yourself.
What do you think? Have you ever used PAIN and REWARD to motivate yourself both in business or in life? Let me know in a comment below…
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Reciprocity Marketing – How To Use Reciprocity In Your Business
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
In this post, we’re going to take a look at how to use reciprocity marketing in our business.
But before that, let’s take a look at what the word “reciprocity” means.
Reciprocity, taken from Wikipedia, means:
“The norm of reciprocity is the social expectation that people will respond to each other in kind-returning benefits for benefits…”
In simple English terms, it means that we, as human beings, have a tendency to respond to other people the same way how they treat us.
If Bob is kind and nice to you, you feel the need to be kind and nice to him. Barring some exceptional rare cases, it’s just human nature to react that way.
I say barring some exceptional cases because there are a few rare people out there who do not appreciate the kindness other people are showing them, and instead of returning the kindness back, they simply do nothing, or worse, they return back with ill intentions.
However, today’s post is about the former - which is to return one’s kindness back.
Let me give you an example of reciprocity in action in our everyday lives
Let’s say your birthday is around the corner, and today you accidentally meet your long-lost friend, John, whom you’ve never met in 10 years.
John still remembers your birthday, and on your birthday he gives you a birthday present.
What do you do?
If you’re like me or most people, you’ll most likely feel happy and have a sense of guilt at the same time. Happy because your friend still remembers your birthday even though you guys never met for 10 years. A sense of guilt because John has just given you a birthday present and you feel the need to reciprocate - you want to give John a present back to express your gratitude.
Reciprocity In Business
In our business, if we use the power of reciprocity correctly, we can attract more customers and hence make more sales as a result. The way to do this is to give away for FREE cool and high quality content that other people would normally charge.
Who do you give away to?
Your subscribers, prospects, customers, and blog readers.
Give away unconditionally and expect NOTHING in return. Even though deep down inside you’re expecting them to reciprocate by buying your products in the future, now is NOT the time to think about: “What can I get from these people? Will they buy my products?”
Trust me, just give away UNCONDITIONALLY and the rest will take care of itself and everything will come NATURALLY.
During the initial stages when you’re giving away cool, high quality content all the time, you’ll most likely not see any results. Your efforts will SEEMINGLY go to waste. But I promise you, your efforts will not go down the drain.
(…even if it were to go down the drain, you can still repurpose the content in other ways so your precious time and effort in creating that content will not be wasted)
Give it time and be patient
All your efforts will pay off in the future when you start to gain momentum. It’s just like a snowball going down the mountain - initially the snowball is small and moves at a moderate speed. As the snowball falls down the mountain slope, it picks up more snow and therefore falls faster. In the end, what started out as a small snowball turns into a GIANT snowball.
Your marketing efforts are the same. You need to give it time to pick up momentum. NEVER EVER expect instant results!
As a sidenote, the power of reciprocity can also be used “wrongly”. An example in the Internet marketing or Internet business world is where the marketing gurus scratch one another’s back by cross-promoting one another’s products.
I’ve talked about this before, which is called “Crazy Guru Promo Emails“.
Basically Guru A promote Guru B’s new product that has just launched on a massive scale; and the next time Guru A has a new product that is going to be released, Guru B will return the favor by promoting it.
Please note I’m not against promoting products. What I have a problem is these gurus promote products without even reviewing the product being promoted first - they just do it for one reason, and that is so that their next product can be promoted by the guru whose product they’re currently promoting.
So what’s the takeaway for today’s article?
Answer: Use reciprocity marketing in your business and give away for FREE high quality content that your competitors would normally charge. This will make your subscribers, prospects, customers, and blog readers feel indebted to you, which will in turn make it easier for you to ask something back from them in the future in the form of asking them to buy your products.
Let me know your thoughts and comments below…
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