Quotes I attribute to myself in my own business career / history.
If you find any that belong to someone else, let me know so I can correct the credit
SELLING
Career Path: It is always better to sell into your
customer's sales side of their equation ~rel
Selling is Like Planting Grass Seed - Days End - No
Results - Keep Planting - After a Month of Seeding You Will be Mowing ~rel
The Selling side of the business needs to lead with
content and relationship / engagement building ~rel
It so rarely happens (like never) that
someone you are selling to knows more about you, your product or your service
than YOU. ~rel
Engagement has as much to do with timing as does quality
content. Just like Life
"Great #Selling - Give the prospect all the #answers and then help them in asking the #questions" ~rel
"Top-Of-Mind" - #Key to selling anything - Personal Branding
- When someone hears your product, they think your name” ~rel
MEDIA
"The media opportunities have not been taken over by one, they have been given up by many" ~rel
MARKETING
The Power of a Brand - How well you know (hear) the
brand without anything more than the visual of the products ~rel
Advertising by itself isn't Collaborative. Collaboration
requires common cause where conflict is minimal & reward potential is high
~rel
"Knowing
why we do something is what allows us to adapt" ~rel.
Understanding #Advertising: People that used the Yellow Pages or use #Google today know what they are looking for - they are #buyers" ~rel |
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
"Who can" is an easy question to answer.
"Who Will" takes an Entrepreneur ~rel
"The Biggest Obstacle to Wealth is a Job" ~rel
- Be an entrepreneur
A true Entrepreneur thinks of business as a sport and
competes like an athlete - Everyone else is in the stands ~rel
"An True #Entrepreneur does not
think they can, they just don't know why they can't" ~rel
#Entrepreneur Thinking - I shall not
listen to past reason - I make new reason -rel
The 'whole' objective is made up of lots
of little objectives ~rel
What makes the Biggest Difference in ones chance of
success - Doing It ~rel
An Opportunist is Now - An Entrepreneur is forever ~rel
Think of being an entrepreneur as being the
Tip-of-the-Sword ~rel
Always Question Authority - Always Question Success -
Always Challenge ! This what an entrepreneur does ~rel
An Entrepreneurs biggest StartUp need is Cash flow - Cash
flow through their Wallet ~rel
| "It's
not teaching someone how to be an #entrepreneur - it's teaching them what
they need to know after they realize they are one" ~rel |
| "Getting
laid off from that #job and starting your own #business equates to being
pushed into the deep end of the entrepreneurs pool" ~rel |
"It
is the few that action their ideas - we call them Entrepreneurs" ~rel
"Just Do It -you don't need a #game plan to practice" ~rel
"There are two types of entrepreneurs in the world . . Those who have
nothing to lose and those who have everything to gain" ~rel
"Procrastination is the highest hurdle in that business track
meet" ~rel
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BUSINESS / TECHNOLOGY
If it weren't for Disruptive Technology, we would likely
be using improved Selectrics & a faster Horse & Buggy ~rel
Startup planning needs to include a "cost of
money" target. Raising money costs more than you think ~rel
Glass Ceilings exist in Job Titles - not in business.
"You must compete to know you have a competitive
advantage" ~rel
Is a Share Economy a fad or real (the Future)? It Depends on Social Media tools - Yes?
Costs in Marketing should NEVER be about cost; it IS
about diminishing returns on the next marketing dollar spent ~rel
Remember when Domain Names was a competitive biz?
Registrars fought for our patronage. Today they got us by the URLs and they're
squeezing ~rel
An impulse click will lose over 80% of it's users if a
2nd click is required. Take them to what they want to see – Deep Link always.
Why do I Love Twitter - It’s the ultimate
testing environment - Test Everything from Elevator Pitches to Pickup lines
~rel
Genius Nike Sports and Business Terms - JustDoIt NoFear
~rel
| Great Decisions will remain a MANUAL process...
There is no AI yet to automate judgement. ~rel |
Definition:
" Technical " How to use a tool. " Vision " What you
can do with it ~rel
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PRINT
Print comes from THE MOST renewable resource ~rel
HUMAN INTEREST
Boomers need to learn from Millennials - A Share Economy
is in the future - embrace it. (IMHO) ~rel
"As we age, time accelerates, with each increment
becoming a smaller percentage of what we have lived". ~rel Think about it in real-time.
There is a Big Difference Between Teaching Your Children
Not-To-Do the Wrong Things and Teaching Them To Do the Right Things
~rel
| "Empowerment is given - Power is taken or grasped. To Empower, once given, is contagious" ~rel |
"Breakfast
is your way of making tomorrow feel good" ~rel
"You know you have gone over the crest when you talk more
about yesterday than tomorrow" ~rel
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SOCIAL MEDIA
Social Media did not kill Privacy, it only proved we
never wanted it in the first place ~rel
We are in a new era of sharing our ideas & thoughts -
the outcome, IMHO, will be a new level of learning ~rel
Today's social selling tools and approaches are like
wearing Better Glasses - They give you better Vision ~rel
Social Selling involves engagement and
content - with honor - honesty and sincerity... Don't just shout
- be there to help out ~rel
Twitter can open doors - so when engaged - engage. -
no simpler formula for success - There is no older business process
~rel
| "Social Media is simply a tool - You do not measure the quality of carpentry by the
hammer a carpenter uses" ~rel |
"Understanding the differences between Internet and social advertising options requires you to understand the options first" ~rel
"Top-Of-Mind" - Key to selling anything - Personal Branding - When one hears your product, they think your name ~rel
SPEAKING
Public Speaking Practice Practice Practice. Being a
Cubmaster is what made me good at it ~rel
"Part of being a good speaker requires that your
mouth remember the words even when your brain can't" ~rel
Grammar is secondary to the message ~rel
LIFE
Google owns everything data about us - Does that mean
they own us? ~rel
The less you Live - the less you Live -rel
"You know you have reached the end of the trail - when they
stop talking about you" ~rel
Why is it that most people think they are underpaid and
the remainder of the people think they are overpaying? ~rel
Analogous Situations are unprecedented -- I get it now -
Historical knowledge does prevent making the same errors two+ times ~rel
"If They are Talking About You, You are Making a
Difference" ~rel
If you do not know what the questions are, how do you
expect to get the right Answers ~rel
Hiding in the Weeds Only Works if You are a Weed ~rel
privacy
Embellishment - The act of communicating that we 'want to
be little more' ~rel
"There are people who don’t care if something is
true or not. So long as it supports their position, they’re going to spread
it" ~rel
People who describe things, as they want them, and as
they want to be seen - Embellishers ~rel
There is a Big Difference Here - Teaching Ur Children not
to do the Wrong Things vs Teaching Them To Do the Right Things ~rel
I have never been able to hide my mood - my different
temperaments bubble through my skin without my mouth moving ~rel
| "Never
good enough" vs "there is always room to grow" ~perspective |
No
religion should dictate over people and no people should dictate #religion;
the #government body overseeing such should be #Family ~rel
"Knowing
why we do something is what allows us to adapt" ~rel
"Someone
who is 'always' innocent is usually guilty" ~rel
| "You
know you have gone over the crest when you talk more about #yesterday than tomorrow" ~rel |
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HUMOR
Why do people send Faxes anymore? Do they? Do Faxes even
send faxes to each other anymore? ~rel
I wish my body could still run as fast my brain thinks it
can ~rel
"Have you ever opened a refrigerator's door and slammed it
quick from fear of it walking away on its own?" ~rel
When you are young (40s) you ask woman, "Do you Like Older
Men?" When you are older (late 50s)
you ask "Do you APPRECIATE Older Men?" ~rel
Serendipity's Definition - " Oops :) " ~rel
Yesterday I said to myself, "self, you must stop
acting 1/2 your age." Luckily, today, I could not remember what I was
supposed to do. ~rel
Just an FYI - My tweets are an eclectic cornucopia of
ideas and actions - sometimes a bit eccentric ~rel
| "Waiting
for life to come to you is just so wrong" ~rel |
LOCAL
Identify yourself as, more than Local, but as a neighbor
Seeing Everyone’s Marketing Ideas Locally Makes That
Person a Local Marketing Expert - Buy From Your Neighborhood Printer.
Is a Share Economy a fad or real (the Future)? It Depends
on Social Media tools - Yes?
MOTIVATION
"When you encounter a first, don't
consider the task, consider it as a first - you have done 100s before"
~rel
When you take the time to Think and Dream, even just a
little, JustDoIt, Magic Happens ~rel
Sometimes we commit ourselves verbally to others, as a
challenge to ourselves, at risk of failure ~rel
Success comes quicker to people who work Differently
Better than people who do it the right way all the time ~rel
The difficulty in making a decision is directly
proportionate to the number of choices available - a contrarian fact ~rel
"It is not ours to make the choice, it is only ours
to provide the opportunity" ~rel
Henry Ford had it right: "... That model comes in
only Black sir..." Genius
The Definition of Vision: "Having answers to
questions that have not been asked yet" ~rel
"It's not our job to tell them what to do, but to
give them the tools so they can determine what to do themselves" ~rel
"You possess the seeds of
personality that will bloom in any soil"
~modified from a Louisa May Alcott quote
"What is the one thing most of us already have enough of? Regret". ~Borrowed "Try, even if you only try once (more)". ~rel
"I
am a professional athlete; I play the contact sport of business" ~rel
| "Just
Do It -you don't need a game plan to #practice" ~rel |
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Prediction Two - Financial instrument marketers will become more aggressive with the offering of more aggressive products. Aggressive investment capital was stifled for several years for two reasons, the media told us of impending doom and the investment / tax rules were in flux - we like to invest where we know the rules. Today, there is still huge pent up capital "waiting on the sidelines", but looking, for a place to flow. In the next 5 years it will flow, possibly like it has never flowed in the past and probably not peaking for 20 years - yes, a twenty year boom. This points to good times.
