You Don’t Need To Be Einstein or Madonna To Succeed Online

Posted on April 29, 2012 by beesley

You Don’t Need To Be Einstein or Madonna To Succeed Online

madonna and success

We have been reading some great blog posts over the weekend – it’s all part of our personal development time.  This is an extract from a blog we read over at Forbes (actually you should check them out – they have some really interesting content)

The great thing is you don’t have to be Einstein or Madonna to succeed ….. here’s why

 

Albert Einstein’s was estimated at 160, Madonna’s is 140, and John F. Kennedy’s was only 119, but as it turns out, your IQ score pales in comparison with your EQ, MQ, and BQ scores when it comes to predicting your success and professional achievement.

IQ Head

IQ tests are used as an indicator of logical reasoning ability and technical intelligence. A high IQ is often a prerequisite for rising to the top ranks of business today. It is necessary, but it is not adequate to predict executive competence and corporate success.

By itself, a high IQ does not guarantee that you will stand out and rise above everyone else.

Research carried out by the Carnegie Institute of Technology shows that 85 percent of your financial success is due to skills in “human engineering,” your personality and ability to communicate, negotiate, and lead. Shockingly, only 15 percent is due to technical knowledge. Additionally, Nobel Prize winning Israeli-American psychologist, Daniel Kahneman, found that people would rather do business with a person they like and trust rather than someone they don’t, even if the likeable person is offering a lower quality product or service at a higher price.

With this in mind, instead of exclusively focusing on your conventional intelligence quotient, you should make an investment in strengthening your EQ (Emotional Intelligence), MQ (Moral Intelligence), and BQ (Body Intelligence). These concepts may be elusive and difficult to measure, but their significance is far greater than IQ.

Emotional Intelligence

EQ is the most well known of the three, and in brief it is about: being aware of your own feelings and those of others, regulating these feelings in yourself and others, using emotions that are appropriate to the situation, self-motivation,  and building relationships.

Top Tip for Improvement: First, become aware of your inner dialogue. It helps to keep a journal of what thoughts fill your mind during the day. Stress can be a huge killer of emotional intelligence, so you also need to develop healthy coping techniques that can effectively and quickly reduce stress in a volatile situation.

Moral Intelligence

MQ directly follows EQ as it deals with your integrity, responsibility, sympathy, and forgiveness. The way you treat yourself is the way other people will treat you. Keeping commitments, maintaining your integrity, and being honest are crucial to moral intelligence.

Top Tip for Improvement: Make fewer excuses and take responsibility for your actions. Avoid little white lies. Show sympathy and communicate respect to others. Practice acceptance and show tolerance of other people’s shortcomings. Forgiveness is not just about how we relate to others; it’s also how you relate to and feel about yourself.

Body Intelligence

Lastly, there is your BQ, or body intelligence, which reflects what you know about your body, how you feel about it, and take care of it. Your body is constantly telling you things; are you listening to the signals or ignoring them? Are you eating energy-giving or energy-draining foods on a daily basis? Are you getting enough rest? Do you exercise and take care of your body? It may seem like these matters are unrelated to business performance, but your body intelligence absolutely affects your work because it largely determines your feelings, thoughts, self-confidence, state of mind, and energy level.

Top Tip For Improvement: At least once a day, listen to the messages your body is sending you about your health. Actively monitor these signals instead of going on autopilot. Good nutrition, regular exercise, and adequate rest are all key aspects of having a high BQ. Monitoring your weight, practicing moderation with alcohol, and making sure you have down time can dramatically benefit the functioning of your brain and the way you perform at work.

What You Really Need To Succeed


It doesn’t matter if you did not receive the best academic training from a top university. A person with less education who has fully developed their EQ, MQ, and BQ can be far more successful than a person with an impressive education who falls short in these other categories.

Yes, it is certainly good to be an intelligent, rational thinker and have a high IQ; this is an important asset. But you must realize that it is not enough. Your IQ will help you personally, but EQ, MQ, and BQ will benefit everyone around you as well. If you can master the complexities of these unique and often under-rated forms of intelligence, research tells us you will achieve greater success and be regarded as more professionally competent and capable.

Source: Forbes – Author Keld Jensen

This all makes perfect sense although we have never thought to look at it quite like this.

We are always surprised that one of the first questions we get asked when someone approaches us to work with them in starting their online business is whether we think they are “intelligent enough” to to do it.  We always say that intelligence has nothing to do with it since it is more about really wanting to do it and being prepared to learn and apply the skills necessary.

Clearly intelligence is not the main criteria …. and we are not the only ones who think that.

If you want to do it enough and are prepared to learn, put into action what you learn and focus on your business to make it succeed then we can help.

We have a fantastic system at our fingertips to help you “earn as you learn” – all you need is to have the right mindset to get started.

To find out if you’ve got what it takes to own and run an online business  – just Apply here.

The rest is up to you!

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It’s Hard Work!

Posted on April 26, 2012 by beesley

It’s Hard Work!

Yes .…. that’s the truth of the matter.  Whatever you do requires you to “work” and at the beginning when everything is new it can be “hard work” … but it won’t be like that forever.  Starting an online business or bringing an existing business online is no different to any other new project… but it can bring real fulfilment and be great fun.

Now the reason we are writing this blog post is to dispel the myth that working online is about lazing about on a beach with a laptop by your side doing pretty much nothing.  In fact when we were researching an image for this blog post we were amused by what we found.  Great isn’t it?

So there it is – a laptop on the beach …. but someone has to operate it!  There were some even better pictures of women in bikinis with laptops on the beach but they didn’t look like they were working either …. plus we all know that sand and computers don’t really go together.

But the point is not to put you off the dream of working online from anywhere in the world because it is possible with determination, planning and hard work.  To have what is  often referred to as  “the laptop lifestyle” .  To be honest that is really what the images of a laptop on the beach are meant to conjure up.

We are lucky that we do live “the laptop lifestyle” and work from anywhere in the world – beaches included (although we prefer the mountains and skiing) but it didn’t happen overnight that’s for sure.  We worked hard to get to this point in our lives but by following a straightforward step by step system, learning the skills of internet marketing and working with a mentor we have been able to achieve just that.

But we were just like everyone else at the beginning of our journey online – we had to learn how to build websites, and lead capture pages (even understand what they were), learn how to create webforms, how to do blogging and article writing ….. phew the list seems endless when you start to write about it.   But … over time it all becomes easier and you can initiate automation into your business that releases that all important time we crave for (the lifestyle)

Working online from home is a fantastic business model and one that we believe will hold up the economies around the world in the coming years as more and more people realise that with the growth of the internet and all the technology now available there are more and more opportunities for them.  Opportunities to start a business, spend more time with their loved ones and their families and be totally responsible for their own income and no longer at the mercy of “the boss“, “the job” or “the government”

The one determining factor will be how big is your reason why… so the question you have to ask yourself is “why I want to start my own business“   To help you answer that let’s tell you a little about our reason why for those of you who don’t know us so well.

Two years ago we were working long hours – 50 + hours a week in our management consultancy business and whilst we actually loved our “job” and our clients we had no time to spend doing the things we loved …. like skiing.  Added to which our client base was not secure and with everyone tightening their belts our income was very much at the mercy of those we “worked for” and we knew that was not a comfortable position to be in.

So we set about finding an alternative and we matched our skills as business entrepreneurs with working online.  It certainly wasn’t easy to begin with and we learnt our skills and cut our teeth so as to speak just part time to begin with.  Part time mean working full time in our consultancy business and then spending 2 hours every night and weekends building our online business.   Hard Work!  But it paid off because within 6 months we were running a full time business online and because we love coaching and training that is our focus.

Now, because we know the work involved we are very honest when people contact us and we tell them how it is – that it is possible but that it will require working hard at learning the skills to be really successfull.  It is not something that can be done with no investment (in time or money) and certainly not for free.

We use the online coaching and training platform of The Six Figure Mentors to get our students off to a flying start – and to make sure that they know what they can expect they have to complete an Application first (just like you would if you wanted to become an Apprentice with Alan Sugar)  – because that way they know if it is going to be for them and if they have the right mindset to achieve success online.

So the moral of the story is – if you want something enough and you are prepared to put in the hard work it is possible to achieve success online – but you’ve got to want to do it enough!

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What’s Your Value?

Posted on April 22, 2012 by beesley

What’s Your Value

So how would you like to be chased down by people wanting to buy your products and services?

To know how other marketers, who might look like you, sound like you – and may have even been marketing for less time that you … are getting all those sign ups and customers that should be yours?

So how do you do that?

It’s SIMPLE when you know how and it’s really just a matter of demonstrating your personal value

That means …..

  • how you see you
  • how others see you
  • and what you have to offer apart from your products and business

This is what all good solid businesses are based on and why people buy from YOU -   because of who you are and what value you can ADD.  It’s why the multi level marketing business thrives – because people buy from those they know, like and trust.

BUT … when you’re brand new how do you do that?  You will be pleased to know that it is fairly easy to do …. IF you are willing to follow some simple suggestions

Here’s a video we’d like to share with you from a very successful entrepreneur and marketer and the founder of Empower Network – Dave Sharpe

We hope you enjoyed and took value from the video – we certainly did.

Having watched the video we hope that you can see that it is absolutely possible for you to succeed … from scratch ….. and be that ‘person to go to’ by demonstrating your value to your marketplace.   That you don’t have to as they say ‘fake it until you make it‘ as so many people try to do.  You don’t need to pretend to be that ‘Guru‘ at the top of the tree to build a successful business.  That may be your ultimate goal but it’s going to be a journey and one where you can share the value of your experience as you go.

We certainly didn’t wake up one morning and announce to the world that we were ‘gurus’.  Just like you we had to start from scratch, learn the basic skills, learn how to attract traffic, leads and prospects and show them through value based communication how they could also set up a business on the internet and learn the skills of internet marketing.

Now we run regular workshops teaching people how they can set up a business online, we have a webshow we air on a Tuesday night bringing free training to internet entrepreneurs and are joined by some very very successful experts in our niche who are willing to share their skills and experience.

All of this did not happen overnight!

Every single one of us had to start from scratch – building your first website, writing your first blog post, getting your first lead and making your first sale.

That puts you on the first rung of the ladder – your value building staircase.  You now have value you can share with the sea of people out there in the world looking to do the same as you ….. and because you have done it already YOU HAVE VALUE and you can share that value and experience.  You can talk about what you have learnt and how your ‘prospects’ (for want of a better word) can do exactly the same.  It really isn’t rocket science.

Don’t try and pretend to be something that you are not – just be YOU and add value to the lives of other people and day by day build your personal and business value so you can share it with more people.

Everyone has a story

story book

All of the students we coach and train started from scratch just like we did and their personal story, struggles and experience they share attracts people to learn from them and become a ‘lead’ in their business and a potential ‘sale’ in the future as they continue to develop that value and show this to their leads through communicating and sharing information on their blog, on social media and just talking to people in their network.

So this is what you’ve got to do to build that online business:-

#1  Start blogging on your website (sharing value)

#2  Think about where your customers are and get on “the same street as they are”

#3  Make your first sale your first goal

#4  Follow the system in your back office (whatever your back office is)

# 5 Share your success – first lead, first sale, first …..

Remember There is a very thin line that separates you from your competition – do one little thing that differentiates you from everyone else out there.

If you’re ready to get started and learn how you can share your value and start making money online JUST CLICK HERE

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Sharing Content for Free Traffic – Post Planner Review

Posted on April 16, 2012 by beesley

Sharing Content For Free Traffic

Post Planner Review

It’s all very well having great content that you have written but what if no-one gets to see it?  No eyeballs means no visitors to your content (blog post) or your website and that’s not good news!   You’ve got to share your stuff!  No question!

More Traffic = More Sales

We all of us know that social media is a great place to share your content but you want to do this in a time and cost effective fashion.

You can share your content on Twitter, Facebook, Google + then there are the bookmarking sites such as Stumbleupon, Delicious, Digg and of course the latest – Pinterest ……   and the list just goes on and on.

In our opinion it is best to concentrate on one or two to begin with and for us the main one is definitely Facebook.   In fact, we love sharing our content on Facebook – sharing value content  – that will help people in our niche (building an online business).  But as we all know, this kind of activity can be very time consuming especially when you want to share it on lots of groups – we were regularly sharing our blog posts in about 20 plus groups manually!  Now that’s not a good use of time that could be spent elsewhere doing profit generating tasks ….

Facebook Status Update Tips

But you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do so at least make your posts interesting and appealing

  • find an image that attracts attention to your post update and makes someone want to read more
  • Use an attention grabbing headline (can be different to your blog headline)
  • Make sure you say something about your blog post/link that will encourage them to open it

Here’s how a recent blog post we wrote got shared on Facebook (it pulled an image from our blog post – one that we designated to be the leading image)

That obviously got a few comments and interaction and drew attention because of the headline and the photo.

Now going back to how long all this takes ….. it occurred to us that there had to be an easier way and fortunately for us our good friend Mavis Nong shared a fantastic post with us just recently and we got to find out her secret to posting her content on 55 groups on Facebook in less than 10 minutes.  What’s more we discovered that she was branding her posts every single time – now that is very powerful.

Here’s the secret – it’s called Post Planner and with it you can share your content in all those groups in your niche in minutes instead of hours.   Better than that, you can even schedule your posts so you don’t have to be on Facebook for your content to be distributed.  How cool is that!

Here’s what you can do with Post Planner

  • Send you post to multiple groups & pages (only pages you are admin on though)
  • schedule dates/times for your posts
  • schedule updates/posts to repeat
  • get an email notifying you when your posts go out
  • use some pre-written updates

Here’s a video explaining how it works – because video just says it better – now this video does not show the “branded app” at work but gives you a better idea of how it works.  There are also a couple of other videos there which show you some of the other great features

Here’s a blog post we shared earlier which shows just what we mean

Post Planner on Facebook

We think this is a great value tool for you to share your content, create a buzz around your brand and give people more opportunity to build a trusting relationship with you ….. there is a small investment involved but one we think is definitely well worth it for the time you save.

And …. by the way their customer support is awesome (thank you Josh for doing a great job)

So all that remains is to wish you lots of luck with sharing your content – the more you get it out there the more free traffic you can generate…. and that’s we all want!

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Frank Kern The State of The Internet 2012 – Second Quarter

Posted on April 14, 2012 by beesley

Frank Kern The State of The Internet           2012 – Second Quarter

Frank Kern Spring Flowers

We have just listened to Frank Kern’s State of The Internet 2012 Address for the second quarter which he appropriately calls the “Spring Quarter” and we wanted to get this information to you as quickly as possible in case you had missed it.  WHY?

Because in it he shares with you how you can grow your business 500% in the coming months – that’s both in terms of revenue and in value.

Here’s the video so you can listen and take note – we’ve just summarised the key points.

The 4 Pillars (According to Frank Kern)

Frank Kern The 4 Pillars

Pillar # 1 – Shed All Encumbrances Towards Growth

This is the ‘big one’ – the encumbrances that rob you of FOCUS towards PRODUCTIVE WORK.   Let’s look at what that means …. it’s a favourite hobby horse of ours too and we are just as prone to it as anyone else – more so even!   We’re all faced with the same levels of distraction and working online to be honest  makes us even more susceptible to distraction.  We loved the phrase that Frank Kern  used “the internet is the biggest attention defecit disorder vortex in the history of mankind” – we could not have put it better ourselves!

Just think about social media as an example – he uses this too – but we’ll let him explain the the video we are going to share with you here.

We are all bombarded by emails and the offer of ‘opportunities’ constantly and endlessly …. and the thing is that they are probably all great but if we focus on them they will rob us of our real focus.

Key Point Stop Chasing Opportunities and focus on the fundamentals of wealth attraction.  Attracting money into your business and the way to do that is add value              “money is attracted to that which brings most value to the market place”

Think about how you can double your productivity and deliver the most value to the market place.

Key Point - DON’T focus on this stuff – you will lose money!  Focus on REAL productive work which is defined ast ‘stuff that gets customers and money’

Pillar # 2 – Embrace The 3 Master Strategies

These 3 master strategies according to Frank Kern in The State of The Internet 2012 address are:

  • Increase the average transaction size
  • Increase overall customer value
  • Increase the amount of customers

All of these things will  help you to massively increase your profitability and your income.  He uses the example of just 100 customers and you will be amazed at the figures revealed – imagine being able to use these strategies to increase an income of $10,000 to $20,000 – he uses the example of an average internet marketer working 6-7 hours a day and whose income is $10K per month.

3 Master StrategiesHe suggests you complete a chart and makes sure that each of your tasks (he uses his own tasks as an example) = 30 points!

Key point Think strategically because if you always do what you’ve always done you are just going to keep getting the same old results.

Pillar #3  Deploy Proven Strategies

This is all about taking action and implementing the proven strategies (Pillar # 2)  That means that you need to pay attention to your ‘upsells’ and have a smart and effective ‘back end” marketing system

With The Six Figure Mentors that is all taken care of for you which is what we love about the program and why the members speak so highly of it.

Frank is the master of back end sales and at the end of the video you will see just how good he is at it – he has tested these strategies and he knows they work.

In fact you have to fill out an application form to join his 5X Group.  Guess what?  In The Six Figure Mentors we do just the same.  You can see just what we mean by going to our Application (and get some fantastic training included)

Pillar # 4 Grow Towards The Sun

Frank Kern talks about pillar # 4 being the most important.  We’re not surprised actually.  Let’s explain …… we should all see ourselves as being propelled towards the sun and growing like plants in the sunlight.  How do we do that?  We do it by associating with like minded people, belonging to peer groups and mastermind groups where we all have the same aspirations.  Aligning ourseelves with these people will help us to grow way beyond our expectations.

At The Six Figure Mentors we have a fantastic peer group community where everyone helps one another no matter what level of success they have achieved and their mastermind groups which meet around the country (the UK) physically, and around the world (virtually) allow us all to raise our standards and learn from one another.

If you struggle to be productive and want to improve your focus in the way that Frank Kern suggests then check out our Improve Your Productivity Tips and download our consise handbook to help you get the best our of your productive hours.

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