Brainstormer

by Cindy Kludt

We got cable TV in December for the first time ever. It came in a bundle with our new FIOS internet, so what could we do?

I spent a lot of time channel surfing over the holidays, and the one show that I couldn’t stop watching was “The Dog Whisperer” with Cesar Millan. I had read two of his books and tried to apply some of his dog psychology toward my two miniature schnauzers, to no avail.

After watching Cesar deal with about 20 different dogs and their owners, I noticed an immediate improvement in the behavior of my dogs.

O.K. What’s going on here? I was doing the same techniques that he suggested in his books, right? So, why was I getting better results after watching him?

What was happening is what I deal with in my therapy and coaching practice all the time. It’s a difference between DOING and BEING.

I have a client who comes in every week with a specific problem. She wants to know HOW to handle the problem. We discuss it and brainstorm and look at all the angles, including habits and self talk from the past when she was a child. But, what she really wants is for me to give her the exact words.

“What should I say?” she asks.

When I query more about what would empower her, she demands, “But, what would you say in this instance?”

If I tell her what I would say, she takes a pencil and paper and writes it down and then practices what I just said. However, when the situation comes up again, she’s lost for words. Why? Because all she took from the session were the words, how to DO something. She didn’t get the other part. How to BE.

I watched Cesar walk up to a BIGGGGG dog who was out of control with his family. Cesar stood tall, put his head up, and BECAME the alpha dog. He didn’t have to speak or DO anything. That BIG dog became a pussy cat around him.

Before watching Cesar, I could not get my cute LITTLE doggies to stop pulling on their leashes when out on a walk, and I tried to DO what Cesar said to do in the book. After watching Cesar, I BECAME the leader and now, they walk behind me, unless I give them permission to walk ahead.

When we make a New Year Resolution to lose the weight we want to lose, we must BECOME the healthy weight first before we DO the diet. When we want to have more success in our business, we must BE the successful business owner, because we can DO all the right things and copy what other successful people DO, but until we BECOME what a successful person is, most likely we won’t be successful.

Next week I’ll talk more about this in terms of our negative and painful emotions. And, I wish to thank Cesar Millan (and all the wonderful canines) for showing so clearly on his show the difference between doing and being.

Cindy Kludt
http://www.articlesbase.com/motivational-articles/dog-whisperer-and-me-732829.html

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You can make a career selling information. Infopreneuring, or info-marketing, is a business trend that’s taking the world by storm. Infopreneur is a new term that has recently developed on the internet to describe a person who sells information.

It is a person whose primary business is gathering, selling, processing, and providing electronic information to advertising, marketing, and other firms. The term is derived from the words “Information” and “Entrepreneur.

Information marketing is an excellent online marketing strategy that can position you as an expert in your field. It helps you build credibility, generate revenue, and create a global community of clients and customers that you can market to repeatedly.  

These business savvy marketers collect information from several sources, and combines it into novel ways to serve the readers needs. Infopreneurs today have a wide variety of products available for their followers.

Information products are offered in a variety of formats including books, e-books, special reports, audio formats, videos, workbooks, booklets, and virtually any method in which you can deliver information.  

Infopreneurs wade through the myriad of information available on the internet weeding out erroneous or outdated information and consolidating and presenting current accurate information in easily accessible and understandable forms.

They are content-driven, marketing-savvy entrepreneurs that rely on newer methods of marketing, such as online marketing. They collect or sell information that solves the problems of others. Infopreneurship makes you a unique expert at something.  

These online services provide people the ease of accessing certain information and the flexibility to do things faster that might not be possible otherwise.  

Marketing is one of the only activities in business that makes you money. It must always serve the needs of both businesses and individuals.

Marketing is about creating value to satisfy the needs of your market through products or services. With marketing you can build a business around being THE expert information-provider (Infopreneur ) for your particular niche.  

Site Build It (SBI) has developed a systematic method of leading you through the keyword research (brainstorm It) to help you focus in on your best keywords. Site Build It takes care of all the mundane details of managing and promoting a website so you can concentrate on what you want to do and that is to publish information and be a great infopreneur!

Sharyce Arciaga
http://www.articlesbase.com/writing-articles/make-a-career-selling-information-752490.html

Of course the odds are stacked BUT if this man’s career has taught me anything its that strength and determination can do amazing things. If enough people in Philadelphia are as inspired as I am by Dawkins, we can work to get him back here. There is power in numbers. Any ideas anyone?

hazel12:

You and I can buy the Eagles from that crack head of an owner, and we can work out and deal which would see Brian Dawkins back in an Eagles uniform before training camp.

How bout:

Donovan McNabb

for:
Brian Dawkins

&
Jay Cutler (since he’s unhappy and the Broncos are looking to trade him).

But first we have to buy the team. What do you say?

Here’s 5 keys ways to maintain a positive mental attitude in RV sales.

1. Avoid toxic people.

What does that mean? Who are the toxic people? Toxic people can be well-meaning people but when they talk to you, they are coming from a negative attitude about money, finances, themselves, and especially about the current RV market.
They may be fellow RV sales professionals who want to gather at the popcorn machine or coffee pot, or well intentioned friends and relatives trying to “protect” you.
Here’s what you need to do: either change the subject or walk away. Better yet, speak up for yourself and mention that you want to think positively about the RV business.
The world is full of two kinds of people. Life givers, and life takers. Decide who you are talking to and make a decision. Remember our “Power of Association” training? Elimination, Limitation, and Expansion of our current Associations. And, adding New and Empowering Associations.

2. Avoid the media.

Why? Because their intention is to sell newspapers, magazines and commercial time. The more fearful and negative a picture they can paint, the more they sell.
They’re mantra is “If it bleeds, it reads”. Don’t subject yourself to slanted, negative spins on the economy when you can find just as much information to point to the positive. Is every industry slow? No. Real estate is taking a blood bath in the media but my friends in real estate are doing just fine. They’re “making lemonade” in the foreclosure market. If you have to read the news, get it online so you can read what you want and move on. Newspapers on the sales floor are a cancer. You will not be able to find anything in a paper that will help anyone make more sales and money. Eliminate them.

3. Successful sales people do well in any market.

Don’t use the excuse that “the market is bad”, for not making money. This is the time to bombard yourself with positive. If you focused every single day on getting positive input you will succeed in any market. If the business isn’t walking in the door, than go get it.
If you live off the floor, you’ll die off the floor. Does everyone you know, know you are in the RV business? If not, why? You don’t have to try to sell them anything, just make sure everyone you know, knows what you do. There are people with money just waiting to take advantage of a buyers market. If you sell them now, you will have them in your data base for repeat and referral business later.

4. Look for opportunities in todays marketplace.

Campgrounds this summer are filled to capacity. The price of fuel and travel has changed peoples plans. RVing is an economical form of travel, trust me, I travel. If you have an RV or access to one, spend some of your slow time camping where RV owners and buyers are. As a dealer you should be sending a sales person out in an RV every weekend to where Rv’ers go. Not everyone is slow. Local, state and government people are in the same position job and income wise as they were last year, maybe better. Everyone is not in commission sales, or in down industries. Have you lost any firemen, peace officers, postal workers etc. in your neighborhood lately? I have a neighbor who does stress management for cancer patients. She discovered a new market in stress reduction for corporations and her business is booming. I have another friend who just changed careers and became a corrections officer, their business is booming. My auto mechanic is busier than he has ever been, and he’s an active RV’er.
brainstorm and make a list of every business trade that has not been affected in a negative way by a downturn, and make a list of ways to pursue them. If you do this as a store using a mastermind concept you will get even better results. Sitting at your desk wondering how you are going to make your next car payment is not going to make you any money.

5. Remember that your success depends on your mindset, not on the outer conditions of the market.

Henry Ford said “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.”
Are you taking the time to create a positive mindset in yourself? Your beliefs create your reality. How? Your beliefs control to what extent you tap your potential. If your beliefs are mostly positive you will tap more of your potential, take better quality and hopefully massive action, and get better quality results. (income). As your results increase in a positive way your belief level will increase as well, taping more of your potential and on goes the success cycle. The opposite is the quick sand. If your belief level is poor due to negative input, you will not tap your true potential. If you don’t, you will take little if any action, and get little, if any, results. How does that make you feel, good or bad? Probably bad, and if you feel bad do you tap your potential? See how that works? Who controls which direction this circle goes? That’s right, you do.

Now Go Sell Something!

Chuck Morgan
http://www.articlesbase.com/sales-articles/how-to-maintain-a-positive-attitude-in-rv-sales-742885.html

This is the trailer for Natalie Wood’s last motion picture “brainstorm” with Christopher Walken and Louise Fletcher.

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I am looking at a change of career.

I enjoy being creative and coming up with solutions to "problems". What are some jobs where I would be required to be creative to solve technical or science related problems?

I don’t really want to sit around and do math all day, I would prefer to be brainstorming/being creative/inventing things/thinking outside of the box.

I’d like to create new forms of energy, participate in creating new space technologies and generally help make things that seem science fiction become a reality. How do I go about doing this?

Engineering.

As sales decline, sales survival has become the topic of discussion in many corporate boardrooms during this economic downturn. However, there are things that sales organizations can do to take advantage of the downturn and position themselves for the future.

1) Don’t panic.

Easy to say but not so easy to do especially if you are the bread maker and others are depending on you. Nonetheless, you must remain calm knowing that recessions do occur; recessions are out of our control and “this too shall come to an end”.

You stand a far better chance of winning in the long term if you avoid making careless decisions and adverse mistakes in the short term.

2) Think long term, not short term.

Where do you see your sales or your organization’s sales in a year, in three years and in five years from now? What must you do, that is within your control, to get there?

Without a doubt, you must brainstorm a long term plan; set realistic goals; position yourself for success, not failure; take action toward your goals; and monitor or measure your sales progress.

3) Stay focused on what you know and what you do best.

This is not the time to launch new products or line extensions but to aggressively market and sell your strengths. Keep your eye on customer service.

If you do introduce new services, remember to concentrate on the cost effective services. You must bring plenty of customer value to the table in order to enjoy sales success in this tight economy.

4) Stay in touch with customers.

Even if regular customers are not currently doing business with you or if they have indicated that budget cuts will keep them from utilizing your services in 2009, it remains an optimum time to ask for their feedback.

Then listen! Make it a priority to know what is on their minds and adapt to their needs. Stay relevant. The more you get to know their business and changing needs, the more likely you are to retain their business for the long run.

Send e-newsletters with articles of interest to key contacts and e-mail messages of thanks. Your customers will remember your fortitude and will appreciate the attention during this unsettling economy.

5) Work closer with your best customers.

Identify your best customers (A, B) based on your criteria. Then, approach your best customers and help them figure out ways they can thrive in this economy.

The long-term payoff is tremendous and your loyalty will be gratifying. Unfortunately, this is not the time to chase every possible lead, especially the C category leads. You need to concentrate on your most valuable customers.

6) Invest smarter on marketing. If you cut marketing out of your plan, then you risk a cut in profits. Don’t be tempted to stop marketing in this downturn.

Instead, use cost effective tools such as press releases, speaking engagements, seminars and e-mail marketing.

These are the least expensive methods of getting the greatest sales return and it gives you a quick and easy way to measure the effectiveness of the campaign.

7) Partner with customers, suppliers, charitable organizations and/or the media.

Everyone is operating in the same economy and everyone is looking for ways to reduce costs and maintain sales.

Identify and explore the win-win partnership agreements. Look for ways to benefit others and you will benefit in return.

Become more socially responsible and visible.

If you are already socially responsible, you are on the right track. If you are not, then get involved. There are several organizations and many individuals who are suffering more than you or your organization.

We all understand that by giving, we gain. Look for positive ways of helping others and in turn, you will be taken care of in ways you’ve never imagined.

Most of all, remember that what goes down will eventually go up. We have slipped into a valley but in time, we will climb the mountain to success.

Keep your entrepreneurial spirit and sales energy alive. History repeats itself and therefore, historically demonstrates how recessions do come to an end.

While we don’t know when this recession will be over, try not to be discouraged.

Focus on a positive direction for the long term. Stay in touch with your best customers, your suppliers and your professional network.

Do something positive to make a difference in the lives of others.

Bob Urichuck
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/8-timelasting-tips-on-sales-survival-during-the-economic-downturn-747953.html

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