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May 25 2012
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Discipline, Leadership

Cut, Lead. Cut, Lead. Cut, Lead.

Want to be the efficiency leader, be the cutting wasted time leader. The proverbial smoke break has swapped places with social media. Think about it.

Want to be the customer service leader, then lead your current customers and cut out chasing the customer that will never be yours. You current customers will be mainly responsible for your new customers in the years ahead anyway.

Want to be the profit leader, be the cost cutting leader. Do more with less.

More of something is always available when less something is around or being attended to.

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May 24 2012
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Leadership

Leadership and Fruit Judgement

Love,  joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Sound familiar?

These are the fruits, or lack thereof, where one’s leadership will be judged and attested to.

Leaders – check your nourishment (exposure to new ideas, exposure to old ideas, mentorship, reading, etc) to your roots. They will greatly affect your fruit production.

Collectively, these fruits create music that any follower would dance to and provide the music leader with great fulfillment.

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May 22 2012
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Business

Dorm Idea, Connectedness, Growth, 900,000,000 Users, IPO, Hype, & A Crystal Ball

Now that Facebook has reconnected all of us, the challenge ahead for the company is more connecting the corners of the world while becoming profitable.

Remember, the dorm room idea had nothing to with profitability – just connectedness.

No other company, other than Twitter (today), is better positioned to create more connectedness.

We need more connectedness to ideas, solutions, great (emphasis on great) products, news, etc. If Facebook can do this, $30/share will be a steal.

At 900,000,000 million users, it is safe to assume that a billion users is just around the corner. There must be a dollar to two to be made in this pool. Would you give 100 pennies a year to have access to this pool??????

Like we discussed a few days ago, the future belongs to the companies that give. This includes those that will market their products and service on Facebook. Marketing in this platform will work for the companies that listen to the conversation instead of screaming and interrupting the user’s current conversations.

Is it possible that one day you will have to log into Facebook to watch the Today Show, Gray’s Anatomy, or whatever the fad of the day is? I think so.

No one has the crystal ball, but one day I feel you will hear/see something like this: “Reporting from Palo Alto, I’m Tom Brokaw – Facebook Inc.”

 

 

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May 21 2012
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Business, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

Sales Meeting 2.0

Pardon the last post. It published on its own.

Good morning again.

We are all in sales. The lawyer, the dentist, the banker, the Realtor, the doctor, the pastor, the mom, the dad, the artist, the mechanic, the poet, the musician, the coach – all of us.

You don’t just have to have a product, thing, or widget to sell. You can sell you, your service, your thoughts, your ideas, and even your brand.

Three things lead to successful sales careers.

1) Contacts

-Do you have enough contacts/people/potential customers? Remember 99 no’s typically equals 1 yes. Put another way, you may need a database of 1000 contacts for 10 deals.

2) Appointments

– This could now also involve web/social interactions and conversations. Who’s on the books for today? Tomorrow? July? Spring 2013? Question – are in you on the conversation? If you are not busy today, something went wrong yesterday (go back, dig in, replay – watch film on yourself).

3) Sales/Contracts/Closings/etc.

-AKA payday.

If you’re light in the #2 category, you’ve got a #1 problem. If you’re light in the #3 category, you’ve got #1 and #2 problem.

If you’ve got a #1 problem, you may be the problem.

Happy monday. #LTMP

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May 18 2012
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Business, Leadership

Follow the Eyes

The newspaper has mutated into Twitter. And it didn’t ask for permission from its Publisher.

Wal-Mart is now in the palm of your hand via the Amazon App. I wish Sam were here to respond.

We have become our own travel agent at Kayak.com.

And those billboards you love??? Just remember most are looking down rather than up these days.

Every time you look at a computer screen, smart phone, or iPad ask yourself how can I make my business presence here better, more streamlined, more efficient, and more customer focused. This is the destination for your mercantilism.

The future companies that get will be the ones that give.

Look where we’re looking and don’t be blind to what’s happening right in front of your eyes.

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