Slow Down

Monday Morning Motivators – June 1, 2009
Enjoy your java with an eclectic collection of tips and ideas to use today and to get energized for the week ahead. Subscribing and unsubscribing at www.mondaymorningmotivators.com

“Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.” --David Bach

Table of Contents
1. Time Management for Slackers V - Linda Fayerweather
2. Graduation Rules #8-11 - Rebecca Booth
3. The Inspired Entrepreneurs Attract From Who They Are - Pat Altvater
4. 29% Solution - Paula Frazier
5. Fine Print

1. Time Management for Slackers V
Week Five! SLOW DOWN. Stop rushing around! There are two major causes to rushing around – distractions caused by you (think watching YouTube) or caused by others (your partner has to ask you one more time how to complete the request for proposal). If you can remember how long the last similar project took, build in some extra time to be disturbed. Some intense thinking projects or manual projects really require a break. Slowing down and deliberately planning a project will lead to fewer errors, happier staff and a saner you.

Review:
Week One! GET MOVING
Week Two! KNOW YOUR PERSONAL CLOCK
Week Three! START WITH SOMETHING FUN
Week Four! RENAME THE UGLIES

Copyright 2009 Linda Fayerweather
Outsource your Weaknesses
Changing Lanes LLC
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11 Rule for Living for Graduates III
We end our mini-series on the 11 Rules for Living for with the following 4 rules. Please use this article as an example of how you can touch your target market in an honest and innovative manner. Thanks needs to be given to New Accountant for featuring this article by Charles J. Sykes.

Rule #8 – Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they’ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule #9 – Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.

Rule #10 – Television is NOT real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule #11 – Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

Copyright 2009 Rebecca Booth
Marketing Goddess
Imagine That!
419.855.3399
Celebrating 10 years of delivering results for our clients.
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3. The Inspired Entrepreneurs Attract From Who They Are
For the next four weeks, I will be covering the four steps for attracting your ideal customer or client. To get the best results from this exercise, take the time to work on each step for the entire week.

Step 1 is to visualize your perfect client and determine the qualities, characteristics and attributes you want them to have. Take a minute and visualize someone that is currently your client and notice what you like about working with them. Write that down.

Answer questions such as: Do they pay you on time? Do they appreciate your work in some way? Do they refer others to you? Are they fun to be around? You get the idea.

Now to really activate the power of attraction, think about how you feel when you connect with your ideal client and even more importantly, how they feel when they work with you. Focus on those feelings as you read, and possibly add to, your list daily.

Finally, you can’t ask for clients that pay on time, if you don’t pay your bills on time. You can’t ask for appreciative clients, if you don’t show appreciation to your vendors. It’s necessary to be energetically congruent – you get what you put out.

Copyright 2009 by Pat Altvater
Transforming Bodies and Minds
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http://www.transformationsinstitute.com
http://www.ignitethepowerwithinbook.com
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4. 29% Solution
Dear MMM Readers,
As someone that relies completely on word-of-mouth to build my businesses, I’ve found The 29% Solution written by leading referral marketing expert Dr. Ivan Misner, to be instrumental in my success. He offers 52 weekly networking success strategies (one per week) and specific actions to take to experience success through focused, purposeful networking efforts. I look forward to sharing them with you in the coming weeks.

WEEK 4: RECRUIT YOUR WORD OF MOUTH TEAM

“Who constitutes your strongest WOM team? Look for people who can provide (unsolicited) testimonials to help promote [you and] your business. [Ideally] these are folks who have experienced your services first hand. They are influential people whose recommendations and testimonials carry great weight with your preferred clients and…they are willing to establish a reciprocal referral relationship with you.”

Criteria for the ultimate Word of Mouth (WOM) team members:

1. They share or have direct access to your target market.
2. They do NOT compete with you.
3. They know you, like you and trust you!
4. They have personally experienced the benefits of your products or services.
5. They are influential enough that others will take action based on their recommendations.

TAKE ACTION:

1. Make a list of the people you’re in relationship with that share or are connected to your target market.
2. Identify 3 people from that list that you have developed the most credibility with.
3. Let them know that you’d like to work closely with them to make strategic introductions and generate high quality referrals for one another! Invite them to be on your TEAM!

I agree with Jack Canfield. You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most of your time with. Are you investing enough of your very limited time establishing relationships with the people you’re counting on to help you build your business by referral?

Copyright 2009 Paula Frazier is a referral marketing trainer, consultant and keynote speaker. She is an Executive Director for BNI and part of a select team of Master Trainers for Referral Institute. Paula’s business networking articles have been published internationally. She is also acknowledged in the New York Times best seller, Truth or Delusion – Busting Networkings Biggest Myths. Check out #33, Delusion with a twist! Paula can be contacted at paula@referralinstitute-va.com