Tips to MAXIMIZE Your Networking & Joint Venture Potential
By Danny Welsh, CMO of HIS, Greatest Real Estate Giveaway DirectorSTAND OUT!
Use curiosity to gain attention. People will go to untold lengths to scratch that itch: “Sorry, that’s classified”, wear a crazy t-shirt with your value proposition, pass out buttons that are irreverent but funny like Dustin Mathews with his “Are you Dirty?” buttons that market his speaker newsletter “Dirty Talk” or make it easy to follow up with you with a site like www.IMetTony.com (what would REALLY be cool is to hand out business cards with a link that says “IMetTony.com” at a seminar event and have a pre-loaded PERSONALIZED video welcome message that is tailored to attendees you JUST MET at the event…that people you hand out your card to can watch on that website after the event when they go home!).
Stay Present in the Here and Now
"Stay present" is a term in Personal Development. Minimize your distractions by not scheduling any outside appointments. I feel certain most of you have lives so keyed-up, hectic, and jam-packed with activities that... truthfully... you only have a fraction of your attention to give to any one thing at any one time. Fight that instinct. Stay present! When you’re networking on the look out for potential joint ventures then THIS is where the money is TODAY, right now, right here.
Decide What You Want to Accomplish Before you Step Foot in the Room!
I use the "5-5-5 rule" at seminars. No, that's not for Domino's pizza delivery. I look to discover 5 income and lifestyle-increasing concepts or strategies to apply immediately in the next 2 weeks. I look to find out from presenters or other attendees 5 books to read to grow as a person and an entrepreneur in the next 90 days. And most importantly I looks for 5 people to follow up with in the next 2 weeks days to work together this year.
I say anything beyond that is icing on the cake!
Whatever you look to accomplish, be specific and plan it out!
Bring Your "A" Game!
lot of organizations can give you networking opportunities on a local scale, but few can connect you with like-minded entrepreneurs at the highest level. If you get the chance to attend high-level networking events then make sure to bring you’re a game!
You're Where the Fish Are! Fish…
If you’re outgoing, passionate, friendly, and a good listener, I can definitely tell you that it’s possible to meet someone who might strike up a friendship with you and gladly agree to become apart of your network or a potential JV partner just about anywhere.
Take Full Responsibility for Your Success!
When you point your finger to someone else, literally the physical metaphor is that there are three fingers pointing back to you. Try it. We are where we are as a sum total of all the decisions we have made and the actions we have taken to that point. If you don't like where you are, realize now that blaming other people or circumstances is a victim's mentality.
Winners take full responsibility for their success.
Success Principles Taught in PT Barnum's Art of Money Getting
By Danny Welsh, CMO of HIS, Greatest Real Estate Giveaway DirectorThe “Greatest Showman in the History of the Universe” reveals his secrets for accumulating vast sums of wealth in an entertaining book made from several of P.T. Barnum’s famous speeches. Best known as a headline-grabbing circus promoter of Barnum and Bailey fame, it is unfortunate that popular history has forgotten much of P.T. Barnum’s contribution to the world of success and wealth-building, including the book I want to talk to you about today called “The Art of Money Getting”.
Did you know P.T. Barnum was recognized as among the greatest and most famous motivational speakers of his time? Few today would know he was one of the richest men in America in his day, or that he traveled extensively teaching success principles as well as promoting the circus he billed the “Greatest Show on Earth”.
After a wonderfully adventurous career in which he made and lost fortunes, entertained and entered the social circles of royalty, and used his genius, wit and networking savvy to establish a brand bigger than life, one of the biggest personality brands in all of commercial history up to that time, P.T. Barnum was certainly qualified to have written these golden rules for success and making money. I mean, did you know that in his ‘hayday’ he had greater name recognition than almost anyone else in the United States?
If your very life is a circus of uncertainty, repeated failure, or hard work for too little reward, doesn’t that sound like a guy qualified to get belly to belly with you and answer a few of your most burning questions about how to make more money, achieve more, and reach a greater level of success than you ever have before?
Sure he does, and that’s exactly why I seek out sources of wisdom like this not just to learn from myself but to share with others who are on this journey with me to financial freedom and a sense of making money while living your purpose.
Among the important principles you will learn when you read this success classic “Art of Money Getting” are these gems:
- The facts of how the successful businesspeople and investors of history are responsible for more of our institutions of learning and of art, colleges and churches than any government ever could be.
- How money is a very excellent servant but a terrible master
- The reality that you the business owner control your fate because there’s a customer born every minute. (Many have quoted Barnum as saying “there’s a sucker born every minute” while contemporaries who knew him claim he’d never say such a thing and serious historians also discount the second rendering in favor of the first phrasing using the word “customer”).
In the book “The Art of Money Getting”, Barnum gives 20 "rules" that a “money-getter” must abide by in order to be successful. If you are already striving along the path to success, and reaching roadblocks or ceilings, you will likely find that there is a “rule" that you’ve been breaking to this point that has hindered you from getting to the next level. When you read this book, you'll see it, and your success will accelerate as a result of applying what you learn. In fact, because I believe so much in Pt Barnum’s teachings in this book, I’ve had it created into a downloadable ebook available for you to grab at no cost. Simply visit any of my websites and contact us requesting it, and myself or someone on my staff will be happy to respond with a free gift of this amazingly powerful book.
P.T. Barnum’s quote that “There is nothing animate or inanimate that will work so faithfully as money when placed at interest, well secured. It works night and day...” got me thinking early in my business career that it sure would be nice to have more money to ‘place at interest’. As my business career has continued to grow and I’ve seen the possibilities available for the man (or woman) with a little capital to invest, it’s made me all the more driven to be an even better ‘money getter’ in my entrepreneurial pursuits, so that I can take this money earned through my sweat and smarts and put it to work for me.
What you do with the success secrets of this circus legend is, of course up to you. Don’t clown around!
Book Review: The Art of Money Getting by P.T. Barnum
By Jonathan Greve, Millionaire in Training, MMMChallenge.com"Art of Getting Money", P.T. Barnum, a Review
By Karli Grace, Millionaire In Training, MMMChallenge.comMost people are familiar with P.T. Barnum’s circus, the “Greatest Show on Earth”. He was called the “The Greatest Showman in the History of the Universe”. However, the fact that Barnum was one of the richest men of his time and taught success principles is not as known. Barnum’s, “Art of Money Getting”, is chock full of very relevant insight for any time. He gives 20 “rules” that a “money-getter” must live by in order to be successful. Barnum begins with noting the importance of mind set in being able to define, plan for, and then accomplish what one sets out to do.
Barnum noted “even though it easy to make money, it is much harder to keep it”. Simply put, to make money, expend less than you earn. Even though you might think this simple, he says, “perhaps more cases of failure arise from mistakes on this point than almost any other.” People only think they understand the economy and they don’t. “Economy is not meanness”, true economy is making income exceed the outgo. Cutting corners in a miserly way, and then splurging on the frivolous will not make one a success.
“Forego consumerism for consumerism sake”, stated Barnum; live more simply, consume less. Save pennies and dollars, accumulate interest, and save for a rainy day. If you have more month than money, he suggests a ‘cure for extravagance’. Barnum’s exercise will help assess spending habits, necessaries/comforts versus luxuries. Let go of the need to keep up appearances, unnecessary to prove self-worth. Vanity and envy lead to false standards of perfection, and just keeps one poor.
Barnum’s premises around making money, saving, and the economy rang so true. Taking a look at what is going on world-wide with economic issues, debt, and consumerism, it is clear that sound principles, basic truths, of living/business have oft been discarded.
Good health is wealth, according to Barnum. He called it the foundation of success, the basis of happiness. Being aware of the laws of nature, and staying close to them is key, as is avoiding alcohol and tobacco so as not to dull the mind and get in the way of clear business decisions.
Don’t mistake your vocation - be clear on what you are setting out to do, and then focus. Select the right location, look at the competition, and avoid debt, as debt will rob you of your self-respect. Debt means that your money works against you. “Money is in some respects like fire; it is an excellent servant but a terrible master.”
The “rules” that Barnum set forth are certainly worth reviewing for one’s self-inventory. Persevere; what ever you do, do it with all your might; depend upon your own personal exertions; use the best tools; don’t get above your business (borrowed money can be suicide); let your business be one of service and excellence; learn something useful; let hope predominate, but be not too visionary; be systematic; be versed in world affairs; diversify but don’t invest in that which you don’t know, or you’ll lose.
Barnum also said don’t endorse without security, or you’ll lose. I’m aware of a number of investors who have lost millions during the recent real estate downturn as they hadn’t secured their loans, a tough lesson to learn, the hard way.
Advertise your business, be polite and kind to your customers, be charitable, hold your business secrets close to the vest, and preserve your integrity, were other ‘rules’ Barnum espoused. Although this might seem to be a list of the obvious; it is obvious, that it isn’t obvious.
“The inordinate love of money is the “root of all evil”. Money, when properly used, blesses, enabling expansion of the scope of human happiness and influence. Wealth, requires responsibly, and using it as a friend to humanity, not to hoard or be greedy.
The history of getting money is the history of civilization; and, whenever there was the right use of money there has been proliferation of art, higher learning, cultural and educational institutions, and science advancements. The money-getters are the benefactors of our race. Today, the pendulum appears to have swung too far one way and is painfully finding its way back to Barnum’s “true economy”.
Barnum’s work was inspiring and affirming, providing principles for success that never change. Personally, I’ll be keeping a list of these rules in my business plan for periodic review. Though always striving for excellence, it is essential to make sure it is built into the business plan, while holding employees, or joint venture partners, to these standards. His call for focus and immersion were strong as well, so necessary when building a business.
P.T. Barnum’s wisdom and inspiration is strong, a must read for anyone who is in business, and seeking success. When writing, or reviewing, your business plan or manifesto for living, inculcate the “rules” that Barnum so adeptly set forth. Use them as a benchmark for your business, and life, and see where you might have strayed or failed to put some rule into place. I certainly plan to do so. To our continued success!
Financial Freedom as an Art Form
By Todd Peterson, Millionaire in Training, www.mmmchallenge.comFurthermore, I felt the book’s age. Barnum’s language is dated and clunky to my modern ear (the book is now close to 130 years old!), and even though what he was saying was true, I couldn’t find the humor in what was surely humorous writing at the time.
I think the things that most impressed me, at the outset, were the facts I did not know about Barnum. I was surprised -- and pleased -- to learn, for example, that “There’s a sucker born every minute,” the quote (in the intro to the book) so famously attributed to Barnum and which every school-age child learns, wasn’t Barnum’s quote at all. So much for “conventional wisdom.”
But the reality of Barnum’s thoughts and maxims upon me was: I have heard this before. I’ve heard these lessons time and again through many different business and self-betterment books, from a variety of authors, some well known, others more obscure.
Then it dawned on me; I’ve heard these lessons before because they came from somewhere! Someone said and thought and wrote them down. Were the people I’d heard these ideas from Barnum protégés (unwittingly or not)?
When I had that realization, I began to open up a bit more to Barnum’s slim volume. I started to appreciate these practical and important ideas -- because I never really found any fault with Barnum’s reasoning -- and read “The Art of Money Getting” as possibly the prototypical book for modern thinkers. Or one of them at least.
I cannot say with any certainty that ideas such as living healthily, avoiding debt, working hard and smart, focusing your energies, and the like were the creation of Barnum. Indeed, quotes like “Fortune always favors the brave” stretch back way beyond Barnum’s time. But still, the fact that Barnum organized and published these thoughts five or six generations before today -- and that they still have such relevance! -- matters quite a lot. How many ideas have that kind of staying power?
In the field of real estate for example, I wonder how many direct-mail marketers who stick to the “six or seven views” viewpoint of marketing realize Barnum was popularizing that idea for American readers so long ago? (That Barnum was apparently following in the footsteps of “a French writer” does not make it any less important.)
At any rate, by the time I’d read more than half the book, my view of Barnum as some sort of outdated philosopher shifted. Instead, I saw a man of vision, and one who so obviously inspired many people I respect today. And in that I found a thinker -- one usually relegated to the margins of popular American culture -- who is certainly worthy of further study.
Get your own copy of this book here.
Was It Worth It?
By Alisa Johnson, Millionaire in Training, MMMChallenge.comFormula for Success
By Dara Celestin - Millionaire in Training, MMMChallenge.com“As long as I KNOW I’m going to make it happen (a deal, this business, whatever), whatever holds me back (poor credit and/or no money) is immaterial to accomplishing my goals. In fact, I am BLESSED to have this challenge (poor credit and/or no money) because since I KNOW I will succeed that means I will have successfully defeated this challenge and developed skills and attributes (patience, tenacity, faith, creativity) that will take me far FURTHER than someone for whom this (credit/money) was not a problem. Nor will I, when I have bested this challenge (poor credit and/or no money) ever take what I have gained (good credit, wealth, financial independence) for granted and lose it—as some who never face challenges do.”
The above idea can best be summed up as “mind-set,” and it is fundamental to success. Mind-set addresses all the criteria an individual needs in order to move to the next level in his or her life. Chief among these criteria is commitment. As individuals, we must commit to reaching our full potential. Making this commitment is not easy, and we are faced with many enemies along the way: complacency, fear, doubt, and—the biggest of them all—ourselves. Yet, most of the obstacles that keep us from realizing our potential are not real at all. Where do they come from? They are imposed by our circumstances, our family, and/or our friends. We also have the limitations we place on ourselves: lack of education, our age (too old or too young), past failures, the list goes on...
Getting over these self-imposed limitations requires that we ask ourselves one question: “What does it take?” The importance of this question cannot be underestimated. It stands between you and your moment of decision; the moment when you decide to adopt the mind-set that will propel you forward. Because the fact is, it does not take money; it does not take encyclopedic knowledge; it does not take luck, or perfect timing, or an alignment of the stars. What it does take is a determination that you and you alone can make that says, “I want to move forward. I want to succeed. I will not succumb to my past or my failures or my doubts.” Once you have made this decision—this commitment—then half the battle has been won. You will have determined what is required not only to overcome the immediate obstacles blocking your way, but you will also have established the correct mind-set that will allow you to triumph over other challenges you’re certain to encounter in life. And having overcome these obstacles through properly adjusting your mind-set, you will then be able to build upon your experience in doing so. You will understand that from humble beginnings, great things truly do come, and never will you lose sight of the fact that you once started with little or nothing. You will know that having started with so little really meant that you started with quite a lot.
"You must believe to succeed" by Brian Bocchieri
By Brian5 Biblical steps to success
By Fabio Sekoff-Millionaire in Training,MMMCahllenge.comIf you read enough self-help and
personal development books AND the
Bible, you will find that the genesis
of self help topics are Biblical.
Regardless of what your faith is,
there's no ignoring this.
Be it the most popular mainstream
topics of goal setting and planning
to meditation and visualization to
the not so widely accepted topics
like the law of attraction and the
verbal creation process.
Ignoring the facts, don't change the
facts. (always go back to basics...The Bible)
That said, I decided to repost this
undeniable facts.
Courtesy of Stephen Pierce (Internet Marketer)
Review of James Allen's Book As A Man Thinketh!
By Fabio Sekoff-Millionaire in Training,MMMCahllenge.comThe Bible states that the good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks. (Lu 6:45)
People will say, think and often do accordingly to what's in their heart/spirit (controled by their unbridled emotions and enviroment), our upbringing, what we are exposed to, what we read, watch on TV, people we associate with everyday!
The road blocks we encounter along the way are the result of the conditioning of our minds, Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. Romans 12:2
Certaily anything that has been learned can be unlearned, that's what James Allen was referring to, as the mind as a garden cultivated everyday, pulling weeds out, trimming, fertilizing , planting good seeds so they produce good fruit, Jesus said "Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit. Mat 12:33
For what reason?
We become good trees or persons so we can provide good shade?...heavens NO!
We cultivate our talents and our mind so we can bear good fruits, its just like the tasks that we do everyday in the Tripple MII challenge, so we can yield great results and can teach others , leave a legacy, just like our directors and creators of the Challenge are doing now!
Therefore we can speak our future into existence, not merely speaking great and mighty things, but acting on them with purpose and systematically will yield the desired effects...Because faith without works is death, and by the renewal of our minds every single day we keep our garden in tip top shape, bearing good fruits!
Because doing fruit bearing tasks every day will keep the weeds out, like reading at least 15 minutes a day, reading your affirmations as you raise in the morning and before you lay your head to rest, associate with like minded peeps, spending quality time with your family, if you are a Christian praying for your country, City, for others, and of course for your family and yourself and do this with a smile on your face, watch, read uplifting funny movies/books!
But remember all the applied knowledge in the world won't mean a thing at the end of your life...What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? Luke 9:25
A friend of mine just sent me an e-mail and what is still EDGED in my mind is this
It's true,
what you know means very little in the
long run, and means even less still, when you don't have God in
your everyday life. It's the Who you know
that will make the biggest difference of
all.
My hope is that you can Live Connected with God each and every day!
That's just a minor detail with eternal consequenses that James Allen left out of his book!
If would like to download the e-book click the following link
http://hisrealestatenetwork.com/James-Allen-As-A-Man-Thinketh%20Free%20Ebook.pdf
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