Sunday, July 25, 2010

BUZZ - Social Media In A Related Way

    GET YOUR BUZZ ON!

Splitting the atom releases huge energy
Some of the greatest guru's in this
industry may not see themselves
that way- simply because they may
not have people share with them
normally as conversation, or a thank
you note, how intensely they have
impacted  upon their lives.  Think
about the guru's you know who "turn you on"
to an idea- it doesn't have to be a
big idea to have incredible ramifications,
incredible power.  In fact, it is the smallest
of things natural, an atom, which has the
greatest of power within it, when it is
released; so it is with an idea.

The size of an idea, is not what matters,
that you can conceive of an idea, that; matters.
Think about how ideas even come to your mind in the
first place?  Where do they come from, really,
where do they come from?

The less complicated person will say, "well I just imagined
it and that was that," and they are right, but they aren't seeing
the setting, pull the camera of your life back a bit, to see the
images in a slightly more in depth way:  you got the
idea as you were driving down the street- and you heard a car
with the radio playing an old, old; Cream song, "Sunshine of
Your Love," an old Eric Clapton tune- wow; and your mind
heard it, and then the light turned red, and as you sat there at
that intersection, the sunlight coming through the window
was very hot, and bright, and you turned your head to avoid it,
and that's when you saw the little kid standing there, she had
on a blue dress, she looked really cute, really pretty, and that was
when you thought about that idea.



NOW- all those events had to take place in
precisely that order, or that thought, doesn't
happen, that idea, doesn't take place.  It is just that incredibly
powerful; in fact, if we get really honest about it, the most
powerful force in existence may well be, your mind.

"OK, I GET IT" ..."OH,DO YOU?"

So when a Dr. Bret Simmons says that he will be teaching
about how to do social media, on YouTube, you better believe
I am all over that.


When Chris Voss says anything, I am listening
with every fiber of my being.  When Mari Smith shines that
incredible smile, and laughs with that great accented
laugh she has, and starts teaching about Facebook, you
better believe I am all over every word, why; because
they are ideas, and ideas are powerful, powerful, beyond
measure; for they have within them, the results.

WELL IF ITS THAT SIMPLE?

Oh I know folks are all turned off about Jesus lately- but
His teaching on ideas, as water that is refreshing
in the heat and the desert and the way that an idea
about giving is so; powerful; is beyond what anyone thought
at the time, and even today, if one will really take the
time to listen to Him; they are incredibly powerful
ideas, for anyone, who will take the time to pay attention
to them. 




LETS THINK TOGETHER?

When Sean Donahoe sends me a video or
suggests I watch one, or study a certain type of process,
I get to it, right away, why; because he knows from
experience what will work.

This is a process that does take time, but do
you know any successful businesses
that don't take time?

What has happened with all the "get rich quick," hype
that is out there, is that people have gotten the idea that
wealth can be obtained without work, and that idea
is just not true.  Now it is true that it's almost 2 A.M.,
and I feel like it's mid-noon; why(?); because I just love
what I'm doing here, so it's more like joy than work.
In that sense, yes, it is "get rich quick," because even
if it takes me a year or longer to have any real significant
income from what I write and vlog- it won't seem
like it, because it is so much fun to do.  If this idea
has hit home with you at all, won't you take a moment
to let us know?

WE GIVE BECAUSE WE CAN


We honestly do have an incredible free
software package for you, and what's even better about
this free software is, as you use it, more, you get more-
now, that's unbelievable, but true- and the lady who
does the video explanation about how to set the
software into use on your system makes all that
absolutely clear- this is a gift we want to share with
you, just as all these ideas have come to you, free-
because we believe in giving you everything that we
possibly can of value- we give it to you free.  In
that is an idea that has tremendous power- and so
let me suggesto to you that you take in Dr. Bret
Simmons video on this, my promise to you is this,
he will bless your business with incredible ideas, and
then when you are done with Bret, let us know what
you thought about it?  We might have some ideas
that would stir you onto even greater things?

GOODNESS KNOWS NO TIME

Let me close this session by sharing a true story
with you about value- a friend of mine taught Sunday
school, came to me and said, "hey could you teach for
me next Sunday," I was a bit reluctant because that is
a tremendous responsibility, even more so than
teaching in school I think, because it is the Bible and
God which we would be teaching and sharing about.

As the Sunday school session came to an end, I realized
in my inner person that I loved teaching that session.  So
I went to the director of the Sunday school and volunteered
for a class if one came open, to teach.  "Funny you should
be here about that, you know, the person who asked you
to sub has cancer- they don't want anyone to know it-
they are keeping it kind of quiet for right now, but it
is wearing them out, and they asked me if I could find
someone to take their place?"  I must've looked stunned
because he paused before going on. "Of course my answer was
that doing such would be very difficult, because they
are so very good."  It was one of those times where you
think you understand - but really, you don't.

From that class a young man came up to me and
said, "hey man, I'm thinking about going into the
radio business, but I'm a little shy about talking to
folks about it, I think they might think I'm crazy, cause
nobody has done anything like that in our family."
My response was that it was a great idea, he should
go with his feelings, and follow up on getting with
the local station, and in fact we agreed to do just that.
He came up to me the next week and said he had made
an appointement to visit the local station and that
he was ready to go, I mentioned if he needed a ride or
any assistance it would be an honor to help him; young
people are the bricks upon which our society's future
is built, etc.  He said no problem he had it covered but
that he appreciated the fact that I'd taken him seriously
and had actually helped him get moving on it.  That was
that, we finished out the year, and sure enough, he did
go into radio.  Now, this is one of those times when
you believe you get it, right?  You are on the edge of
getting it, but the story doesn't stop there, as ideas
are powerful in ways we can never truly know in advance.

Fast forward ten years, my student has gone on in his
career, he has become a big time "radio personality,"
and my teenage daughter is with us as we are driving
back home one evening when we hear of a radio
remote going on at a bowling alley on the way home-
we share the story of my bud with her, but she
doesn't believe it could have happened to her old man.
We stop, she gets the tee shirt, signed by this friend,
and let me tell you, now you get it, don't you?  In the
eyes of my daughter, my stock went up a few notches.
An idea is a very powerful thing- and it all happens,
as a result of a very powerful thing, your mind.
You see, you are reading this right now, because
of, your mind, and it had to be written before that
could happen, it's sort of like when you were sitting
at that red light...



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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Make Money - Not Without This

It was Friday evening, she was in a hurry, she stopped bye
the dry cleaners and was told that they meant to get hers done
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but ran into some problems with getting the right fabric cleaner
and so they wouldn't be able to get them done until the next
day.  She asked them why they hadn't just called her cell phone
and left a number, or texted her about it, because she had gone
about fifteen minutes out of her way to stop bye and pick up
her dry cleaning which wasn't done?  She wasn't happy, but
can you see both sides of this - as they said, "mam we don't
normally do that with customers,"  "don't normally do what
with customers," she asked, now getting mildly agitated-
"we don't normally call them- because most folks don't
mind if we need to take a little more time to get it done right?" 

WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING HERE?

Now until this moment- she was only mildly
agitated, but now they had said some things that she didn't
like- the first of which was that most folks don't mind the
fact the dry cleaners doesn't notify them if the job won't
be done on time.  Here is what happened as a result of this:
they agreed, her next set of clothes would be on them- that's
fair isn't it?  But the most important thing that happened is
that they agreed it might be a nice service to let folks know
when something happened and their dry cleaning wouldn't
be done on time (how many of yours do that?). 

Three things set this scenario apart from being "just another
whiney customer," first, the ladies request wasn't too far
outside the bounds of good service expectations, was it?
Second she was a fairly powerful business lady who had
need of that dress which was really a ball gown for that
evening because she had a social event to attend, which
for many people isn't optional and isn't social.  Third,
and this is the most important of all; her trust with that
dry cleaners was broken as a result of this, when it
needn't have been?  Trust and integrity are hand in hand
items, you don't have one without the other, and you
wont' have one, without the other.

SO LETS DISCUSS THIS?


Before we condemn others, we might want to also
consider whether we really get what it is like in their
shoes?  Even when the issues are fairly dynamic, if
we consider - perhaps only briefly what it might be
like from their point of view, one senses that it would
be virtually impossible not to change your point of view?

My experience with this goes all the way from taking care
of baby- looked so simple on those commercials- only
when it came time to get it done, not so simple; to; complex
matters of properly communicating in business ( something
I'm still working on) while contributing to the success of
the individuals that you are dialoguing with.  All fun matters
that as others are seen doing them appear to be easy,
but one thing experience has taught me is, they are not
easy, and if I will walk for just a little while in the other
persons shoes, I'll get a better idea of what it is that
they accomplish, and my criticism will change.  It is
not that the criticism will cease, that's never good, because
feedback is so important; guidance is so important,
but when a person renders it without understanding the
other persons point of view, it's rarely as good as it
could be. 

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CONCLUSION (You mean he actually wrote one?)


In our story of the lady and the dry cleaning,
it might have helped her to know that cell phones were
useless inside the business due to intereference from
the surrounding machines- so in order for someone
to call her, they would have to go outside, which
actually did mean, stopping the conveyor and for
that brief period of time, ceasing their operations?
No simple task.  Was there a possible solution to this
one which makes sense?

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