Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Personal Brand Excellence



Every so often a wonderful blog posting that I like to refer to in my own blogs becomes my message of the day....well friends, it's right here....this is about BRANDING...but most important it's about You and branding with EXCELLENCE....

The 2 quotes in this blog are absolutely memorable and very much "on point"...I am therefore strongly suggesting that each of you read this....and take it to heart!

That's today's message....

Oh, and lastly if you want to see the LINK and source of the blog posting, just go here

Hope you have a wonderful inspiring day...

David

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Personal Brand Excellence

In the business and marketing world, brand excellence is the cumulative result of real-life actions taken by the company to support what the brand stands for. Brands often compete for Brand Excellence awards in their industries to firmly establish that they do in fact exemplify the “Gold Standard”.

“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” Founder of IBM, Thomas J. Watson (1874 ~ 1956)

Brand excellence is about performance. It is about achieving optimal performance by performing key branding activities in the best possible way and verifying the impact and value of those best practices. Brand Excellence is also about linking action to outcomes in a manner that produces competitive advantage.

Personal brand excellence

It is not a destination we reach, but is an unending process of constant improvement. Some people rationalize by telling themselves that they will strive for excellence later, when they have a better job. In fact, the opposite is true. As you strive for excellence, you attract better job opportunities. “Why should I do my best now,” they argue, “when all I’m doing is interning in an entry-level job, or waiting tables?

Wrong attitude. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.”

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Today's blogging lesson



Like many, I subscribe to many blogsites and one of the best is PROBLOGGER. In today's blog he discusses the benefits of leaving blogging comments on other blog sites for helping to generate traffic back to your own site.

Of course, he provides the following cautionary statement:

Warning!

It should go without saying but just having moderated the comments on my own blogs I suspect it needs to be said a day - DON’T BE A COMMENT SPAMMER!

More than that - DON’T LOOK LIKE A COMMENT SPAMMER!

Some of the benefits of leaving comments are:

The benefits of commenting on others blogs:

  • You’ll be getting to know what other bloggers in your niche are doing
  • You’ll hopefully read some great content that could spark ideas for your own blog
  • You’ll be reaching out to another blogger in your niche (often comments are the start of fruitful relationships
  • You’ll be creating a small doorway back to your own blog for the readers of that blog
  • You’ll be building your own profile in your niche - it’s a chance to show your expertise, knowledge and understanding of the topic.
He goes on to say...

A comment that simply says ‘great post’ and that then has a link signature back to your own blog adds little if any value to the blog. It looks spammy. The only visitors you’ll get back to your blog are people wanting to know who the spammer is!

  • Keep comments on topic
  • Let your comment show that you’ve read the post
  • Say what you like or don’t like about the post
  • Add an example or another point that the blogger might have missed
  • If you put a link back to your own blog in the comment try to make it a relevant one that adds to the post and will be useful to those who follow it.
  • Ask a relevant and insightful question
He goes further saying;
Comments are Mini Resumes
- Every comment you leave is like a mini resume for you and your blog .

Comments can Hurt Your Brand - On the flip side - every comment you write can potentially hurt your reputation and brand as a blogger. Here are 10 Ways that comments can actually do more harm than good to the brand of your blog.

Further Reading: I wrote a comment back in 2007 (which I think is still relevant today) with 11 Tips for Getting Your Comments Noticed on a Popular Blog.

Now for those of you interested in following this really bright and intuitive blogger, just click here to get to his website: CLICK HERE ..

If you would like to read the article, GO HERE ....

Now for those Remember....always choose success ....mediocrity is for everyone else!

David


Thursday, April 23, 2009

Are you Ready for the Search to Be Over?



These days, we’re all searching for a way to acquire an easy dollar. Basically, we’re simply searching for the solutions to our problems and usually believe that fast ways to cash in will be just the answer we’re looking for.


Of course the world is filled with many reasons why you’re trying to strike gold with business opportunities. Perhaps you’re just tired of having an empty bank account, your bills are overdue, and you want to start creating the life of your dreams. Or perhaps the boss is just too much of a jerk for you to deal with anymore. No matter what the reason is, there are some things you definitely must know.


Here’s the thing. All of those advertisements that you see for “Start Making a Million Dollars a Day by This Weekend”…or ever “A Thousand Dollars a Day Starting Today”, that should be a huge red flag that tells you that you’re on your way to heartache. If this were the truth then everyone would be wildly rich and living the life of their dreams already.


Here’s the deal, usually (not always, but 95% of the time) if a claim seems completely outrageous and way too good to be true, then most likely it very well is.


You need to know when you’re searching for business opportunities, there really is no such thing as get rich quick, or even easy money. There’s no free lunch unfortunately, and no matter what you’re told by those other guys, there’s always going to have to be something to do in order to make your money.


First you need to dedicate yourself to a number of things. One being to choosing the right opportunity; two being to follow successful mentors; and three being to commit to your business everything that you’ve got in order to make it work…even when there are bumps in the road. Business opportunities are plentiful; it’s simply what you do with those opportunities that make that biggest difference.


Now here’s the best way to finally get rid of your boss if that’s what you’re really truly looking to do. Your fastest track to financial freedom and freedom from the slave to the grind job – in the author’s opinion that is – is to consider a network marketing business.


Now, network marketing is a different beast from most business opportunities because most of the times they don’t make the claims of being able to make tremendous amounts of money overnight. To be fair, they do make claims of being able to make tremendous amounts of money, and this is by far the truth, but they are honest in their timeframe and in their expectations of hard work and effort.


If you do hear of such business opportunities in the network marketing or MLM industry making those types of guarantees and promises then you should probably run the other way as quickly as possible. Actually not probably, you definitely should.


Network marketing offers you a business model with an actual solid business foundation that steers you on the road to wealth. It drives into your head the ability to create a business that will make you money for a very long time, and not just get in your mind that you’re going to be wealthy tomorrow. These are the principles that you want with business opportunities that you’re looking into.


If you’re really looking at business opportunities because you truly want to put in great effort and work, and aren’t just languidly looking for a way to “get rich quick” then you really need to look no further than in working with Ann and David Feinstein.


Ann and David have had a wildly successful home based business in network marketing for 20 + years and are not ready to quit, but even more ready and willing than ever before to work with winners who want to change their lives and live the life of their dreams. This is what Ann and David live for. However, they can only work with a select few people to focus their attention on, so it’s recommended that you click here now and let them know that you’re interested.


Just think, your search for business opportunities may have just ended on a high note today.


Tuesday, April 21, 2009

10 Minutes Could Change Your Life








Unless you have been living in a cave, you’re realizing that our Nation and the rest of the world is going through a major financial crisis today.

My friends, massive changes are taking place in today’s global economy

* Inflation is robbing people of their potential purchasing power.
* Jobs are no longer guaranteed for anyone.
* Unemployment is growing each day.
* Your financial security is left hanging out there.
* Does anyone feel safe anymore?

Throughout every downturn in the economy, there are numerous opportunities for creating wealth…if you just know where to look. I like to say, when it seems everyone else is zigging, you want to be zagging.

Yes, just a few bad decisions by those at the top of the food chain have today snowballed into an avalanche. But worse is that you, like most everyone else, has learned about “money” from

this failing system.


Really, how much financial debt do you have today? If your job or career was lost (or downsized) today do you have your own “bailout plan”?

What I can tell you is that the big boys in Washington definitely DO NOT have a personal bailout plan for YOU….sorry to break the bad news, but it just isn’t going to happen.

However, there IS something you can do though. Although it may be hard for you to realize, but there are many today who are not worried at all right now…why you ask, Because, they have a PLAN B that works even during challenging times like these.

No, they’re not about to lose their homes or their cars. It’s time you learn and discover what they know…so read on.

It is TIME for You to be Creating Wealth in the New Economy!


You CAN have the solution. We have discovered the best Bailout plan there is….

So friend, here is your call to Action: To review this, please visit this website... SEIZE YOUR FREEDOM . That’s STEP 1.

Then I want you to visit this website YOUR PLAN B …Filling out this form will give us some information about You for us to see how serious you are about building a business together and see if you are truly a Good Fit!

So many people just plow through life without any preset direction and frankly, we do not want that to happen to you...so we really believe it is important for us to have some clarity about what You want to achieve...because we want to help you achieve your dreams and goals.

OK...now go there right away...this may just be the one time that when opportunity came knocking at your door you opened up instead of hiding behind the door...

I'll see you on the other side....
David

Monday, April 6, 2009

How to Finally Prove Yourself to All of the Naysayer’s!

Remember back in the day when your parents would tell you that in order to make a decent living…in order to make something of yourself you had to get good grades in school and get a secure job when that was done that would last you to retirement?

Now, I’m not advocating that anybody should drop out of school, nor do I think that people who are making their living at a job aren’t earning a very honorable and respectable living. Quite the opposite is true and those people who have given themselves to a steady job, and have worked hard should be proud of themselves.

However, the fact is that if you weren’t so lucky. If you for some reason didn’t get through school, and/or you didn’t ultimately end up with that secure “last until retirement” job, then it doesn’t mean that you’re out of the race. In fact, there’s still a very good opportunity for you. You obviously know that if you’ve read this far through an article about finding a work at home business opportunity. Apparently you’re looking for a better way, and that’s good. But, hopefully you know what’s at stake in order to achieve your goal for a better life.

Finding a work at home business opportunity certainly isn’t the hard part. In fact you can’t move your mouse online without having one staring you right in the face. However, the choice you make is crucial. Choosing the wrong opportunity could easily make all of them naysayer’s right, and put you on that quick route to failure that they all thought you’d be on. You do want to prove them wrong don’t you?

So the rest of this article is going to show you exactly the type of work at home business opportunity you should be looking at in order to prove everyone wrong, as well as give you a huge head start on your way to success. This doesn’t mean that the road will be paved in gold. It’s completely up to you with what you do with the information…and the blunt truth is…it’s not an easy effortless ride.

First of all you need to know that right now, your best shot at succeeding in a work at home business is by finding and joining a superior network marketing company that has an outstanding product, and even more importantly…someone to partner with who has a system for success that has worked over and over again. Now that’s it in a nutshell, but let’s break it down a bit more.

If you’ve been living under a rock for the last 10 years or so, or live somewhere that can’t access the internet (which you obviously don’t if you’re reading this) then there’s the chance that you don’t know what a work from home network marketing business even is. Network marketing is essentially a business system where everyday driven people such as yourself become independent distributors for a company, and are subsequently allowed to market and sell that companies products from the comfort of their home, working on commission, while often times simultaneously learning very vital business skill – not to mention changing other people’s lives with the superior products (often health supplements).

At this time, as a distributor you can go out and bring others into the business, and then train them to use the successful system that’s been handed down to you by your upline. This is why it’s so vital to find mentors who are successful with a system that is proven, because it’s the same system that you will use, as well as show your business partners to use, and on down the line so that success is duplicable. Makes sense right?

As your business grows, your downline grows exponentially, and can sometimes (and hopefully) become tens of thousands, to hundreds of thousands deep, giving you a nice income off of those people’s efforts, with everyone in between being able to make a nice living as well.

Okay so how do you know which company to join for all of this to happen? Great question! First you must do your research on companies. Is it a new company or older company? What length of time have they been around? You want to know who the founders are and what their story is.

It’s good to know that the company’s financial situation is on the up and up. This is to be sure that once you’ve made a load of money for that company through your own efforts that you are duly rewarded. Remember, your work at home business opportunity is what will hopefully be giving you a very superb living in the future, and you certainly don’t want to have earned money that you’ll never see.

The product is extremely important. Innovative products will usually do well. Make sure that the product is safe for everyone, especially if it’s a consumable nutrition product. Again, it’s always a shame to lose a substantial downline distributorship because the product was pulled for being unsafe. The easy test is if a product is good enough that the company could survive off it on its own… then it will likely sell like hot cakes through Network Marketing.

Hello my friends, my name is Troy Boyd and I am an author, copywriter and editor…I would like to add my own comments below about this blog article, it’s sort of a testimonial to Ann & David Feinstein …so just read on please and find out for yourself.

The last thing is a personal thing but most important thing is finding partners who are successful from this industry. Now that may seem a bit silly to say, but who would you rather be trained by…Warren Buffet, or some kid just getting his feet wet in the stock market? Finding people is simple right now, because since I promised a shortcut, I’m going to point you right to two of the greatest network marketers of all time right now, and thankfully they come together in a husband and wife team. They’re Ann and David Feinstein and they’re looking for people who want a work at home business opportunity, and are willing to do whatever it takes to succeed.

You really couldn’t have had a better opportunity fall into your lap than the paragraph that you just read. Two of the best in the world, want to possibly work with you if you’re willing to do what it takes to succeed. Go here now, to let them know you’re interested.