If you want to start your day the same way Tony Robbins does, you only need to set aside 10 minutes. Robbins has spent the last three decades as the world’s foremost performance coach, taking on clients like billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones, tennis champion Serena Williams, and former president Bill Clinton. He’s sold millions of books and audio lessons, and thousands of people attend his seminars every year. Robbins recently offered a peek into his “Unleash the Power Within” event, a three-and-a-half day intensive course designed to give participants an action plan for overhauling their lives. Tickets run from $650 to around $3,000, but Robbins streamed over an hour of his talk in front of a sold out crowd in New Jersey’s Prudential Center over Facebook Live. One of the lessons covered was the most important aspect of his morning routine, an exercise he calls “priming.” It’s rooted in…
The 7 stages of business life cycle
Business Life Cycle Your business is changing. With the passage of time, your company will go through various stages of the business life cycle. Learn what upcoming focuses, challenges and financing sources you will need to succeed. A business goes through stages of development similar to the cycle of life for the human race. Parenting strategies that work for your toddler cannot be applied to your teenager. The same goes for your small business. It will be faced with a different cycle throughout its life. What you focus on today will change and require different approaches to be successful. The 7 Stages of the Business Life Cycle Seed The seed stage of your business life cycle is when your business is just a thought or an idea. This is the very conception or birth of a new business. Challenge: Most seed stage companies will have to overcome the challenge of…
Is Website Push Notifications Is Killing The Email Marketing?
Is Website Push Notifications Is Killing The Email Marketing? If you haven’t gotten yourself acquainted with website push notifications yet, now is the time to get on board – seriously, these welcome message for website things are going to be huge for lead generation techniques, increasing your conversion rates and maximising your return on your website investment. In fact, they’re already kind of huge, and they’re changing the game when it comes to online marketing trends. There are lots of tools out there to help you build your business quickly, and this is just another to add to that ever-growing list. So what is Website Push Notifications? And, is it an email killer? Keep reading closely to find out and how to get started today. In essence, a website push notification is a way to get your company’s most relevant information straight to a hot prospective customer. Read that again:…
Sharing Your Company’s “Why” Through Social Media
Make strong emotional connections with your customers by sharing your ‘why’ with them. It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day – the long to-do lists, the endless meetings and the overwhelming amount of emails. I’m sure there are times when you feel like working at your company is a drain; so why do you do it? If you’re like me, it’s because you love what you do. You have a purpose driving you – even through the not-so-fun tasks. Your organization also has this purpose – this overarching “why” driving the entire business. Your company’s “why” is different from your mission or vision. But it can sometimes be hard to define – and even harder to communicate and share with others. “Every organization on the planet knows what they do,” says Simon Sinek, leadership expert and motivational speaker. “Some know how they do it, the things that you…
10 Traits of Managers Whose Teams Are Happy to Come to Work
Work isn’t recess but it shouldn’t be detention, either. The last thing any manager wants their team members to do is dread coming to work each day. Because people spend the majority of their time at work, it is important managers do all they can to make that time enjoyable, exciting and well-spent. A dictatorial manager who lacks empathy or insight may produce but high turnover will cause them to ultimately fail. Excellent managers do their best to make 80 percent of the job rewarding, with a 20 percent balance of healthy stress. While this may not always be the possible, it is nonetheless their goal. 1. Knowledgeable To create a happy and successful team, exceptional managers make sure to be knowledgeable in every area of their field, and to have the resources necessary to gather the information they are lacking. They are responsible and thorough in their direction of…
7 Tips for Loving Your Career and Working With Passion
You’ve heard the Confucius saying, “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” But what if you have yet to figure out what it is that makes your heart beat faster — or, an even more common scenario — how to turn what you love doing into a lucrative career path. But before we explore this, I’d like to acknowledge the flip side of the coin. In one of Chrissy Scivicque’s Bad Career Advice articles, she argues that do-what-you-love career counsel is actually a bit of a fairy tale. “When something you love becomes work, it fundamentally — and unavoidably — changes the way in which you interact with it,” Scivicque asserts. “Instead of focusing on doing what you love so work won’t feel like ‘work,’ take some time to figure out what work means to you. What do you want to get out of…
How Important is it to Love Your Job?
My experience is that most people don’t love their work. Many like it, some tolerate it, but it is a minority who find work they love that also supports their lifestyle. Does that mean that everyone else is left to live in frustration, desperately seeking that perfect job they can be passionate about? Not at all. You can and should find enjoyment in your work. Doing so is very valuable to your life in many ways, including greatly increasing your probability of financial success. But you don’t have to love, or even like your overall job to enjoy everyday aspects of it. It is critical to distinguish between the job and the way you do it. This is important because every job has aspects that will be very unpleasant for you. You need to be able to get through them with a smile on your face. Let me give you…
Perception in Business
Perception is reality! Perception is not always reality! Perception is everything! We all have heard these statements, or some variation of them, at one time or another. Does perception play a role in business? If so, what is its role, how is it exercised, what is its impact? Perception is a major and old area of study in the field of Psychology. Perception is how we organize, understand and interpret the world around us: what we see, what we hear, what we feel, what we smell, and what we taste. Dependent upon the business you are in, all five senses may play a role or perhaps just one or two. There is the belief that perception alters and may distort our vision of reality, perhaps masking the truth. If people come to a situation with a preconceived notion of what should be, they might tend to see what they expect,…
9 Things Great Leaders Do Differently
Good leaders do things well. Great leaders teach and inspire others to do things well. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime, right? The same concept applies to leadership: Successful leadership must contain equal amounts doing and holding others accountable. The best-performing companies have leaders that do and teach, who instill confidence in their team and share their vision with others. These CEOs and executives manage at a macro-level, holding their teams and employees accountable while providing guidance and coaching to help them solve problems on their own. So what characteristics do great leaders all possess? They… 1. Face the facts, no matter how brutal they may be. Bad news is part of business. Great leaders don’t just wait for it, they seek it out. Rather than waiting until a task or project is completed, they look for red flags and identify when it’s off-track to…
15 Marketing Strategies That Inspire Strategic Thinkers
It takes a lot of time and effort to develop and maintain a marketing campaign that resonates with your intended audience. As a strategic thinker, however, the development of a marketing campaign takes even more consideration. After all, we’re always searching for ways to gain the oh-so important competitive edge. There are times, though, when we all hit the proverbial wall. If you find yourself in that situation, then you may want to check out these fifteen marketing strategies that will definitely spark your creative energy. 1. Partner with allies. Marketing partnerships have a number of benefits to push a marketing campaign. For starters, when you collaborate with someone else, you tend to deliver better content. On top of that, marketing partnerships are cheaper to create, see success more quickly, and expose your brand to a new audience. For example, prior to being acquired by eBay, Half.com worked the town of…