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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I was asked in an online speaker chat recently about my speaking and presentation background and
how I was able to do it as frequently as I did and how I was paid. To answer that, it requires a little background and history and thus I wrote this for them.
