Dan Kennedy's Super Marketing & Money Making Conference

Why would I fly across the country and spend over $3,500 to attend a marketing conference? Because it is one of the greatest investments I know of. Why? There are many reasons but the top 3 are:

• Revenue Potential: I made powerful new contacts that are excited to promote the new Virtual Team Building Secrets program we are launching. Many of the speakers talked about how a virtual team was key to their million dollar success. So of course, our program was a big hit!

• Connection: Dan Kennedy says that being an entrepreneur is the loneliest job on the planet. I reconnected with friends and colleagues that I don't often get to see. When you work out of your home and spend most of your time on the phone, face time with high net worth colleagues is priceless. Here are pictures from a couple of dinners with "the gang." It's amazing how much networking gets done and new opportunties open up -- even with people you already know!

Adam Urbanski (themarketingmentors.com), me,
Ari Galper (unlockthegamesuccess.com),
and clients Mary Pat Kavanagh (queenofmarketing.com)
and Michele PW (michelepw.com.)

From left to right: Ari Galper (unlockthegamesuccess.com),
Mary Pat Kavanagh, Dr. Jeff Hockings (leadingexpertstv.com,)
Michele PW (michelepw.com.), Adam Urbanski (marketingmentors.com),
James Malinchak, (collegespeakingsuccessbootcamp.com),
Ali Brown (ezinequeen.com), me and CeCe of SEO PR.

• Learning: I always walk away with at least five to ten new ideas that will help me run my business better or educate my potential clients about our programs. One of my favorite sessions was with a guy named Nido Quebin.

Nido Quebin, President of Great Harvest Bread Co
(and a lot of other stuff too ) with me.

Nido Quebin shared some really great points that really inspired me. Here are a few you might enjoy:

• Find out what poor people do - and don't do it!
• Throw the box out the window! (aka don't even try to have one.)
• The straightest line is the line between two points (listen to what you customer really wants -- and do that!)

My last great highlight was getting my picture with Wonder Woman! I have some clients who tell me I'm like Wonder Woman to them -- now I'm a little bit closer. =-)

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More Billionaire Bootcamp A-Ha's

I've just had so many opportunities to change my thinking and uplevel my standards since the Billionaire Bootcamp in Hawaii. It's actually been a lot of fun to share these learnings with my team and my clients. Here is another a-ha that has really been quite powerful for me.

One of the exercises we did was to research five billionaires on how they think, make decisions, what their habits are, etc. It's called Performance Modeling. It's a technique I've used for years with my coaching clients and doing this for myself was quite valuable.

After completing the modeling exercise, I realized that in order to grow my own business to the next level, I had to be willing to incorporate some values and beliefs of one of the billionaires that I have least resonated with -- Donald Trump. What I realized is that many billionaires share the same values but how they pursue them can be different.

The five billionaires I modeled are:

Donald Trump
Oprah Winfrey
Bill Gates
Richard Branson
Warren Buffett

Then I wrote out an index card with the 3 personal values/beliefs I am incorporating into my life.
Negotiate for win-win outcomes -- Donald Trumps value was negotiate to win. I believe that I could increase my profitability, revenues and accomplishments if I always negotiate to win-win outcomes. Sometimes I give up and feel as if I lost because I don't want to offend or push. It hit me like a ton of bricks that if it doesn't serve me, it will never ultimately serve the other person either.

Run a tight ship -- if the ship (aka my company) has a leak, it will be poisonous to me, my team and ultimately my clients. I asked my team if they would all agree to help me tighten the ship. That means new systems, keeping our word for on-time deliverables, addressing problems head on with better strategies immediately, etc.

Be tough -- sometimes I go for being nice over being strong. I know many females have the same challenge. I'm being honest here when I say that I realized sometimes I'm not tough enough and I end up forgoing opportunities that seem like to much of a hassle. I decided I'm willing to "toughen up" a bit and play the game with a bit more stamina. What could it hurt? =-)

I also have a personal value that I established as a new standard for my team -- Four Seasons Excellence. We've always had a commitment to excellence. However, if I set the bar higher at "Four Seasons Excellence" then we have a standard of consistent, client-focused excellence. If you've ever been to a Four Seasons Resort, you know what I mean here.

My coaches and my staff have all been very excited about these new standards. It's like I brought a Vitamin B shot to the team and we've all become even more inspired to take action! Imagine what could happen in your business if you incorporated this kind of cutting-edge technique into your life? If you are interested, check out some of our coaching programs at http://www.successconnections.com/.