Attraction Marketing Excellence

Attraction Marketing Excellence Life Quote: Credibility

Both in business and in the business of life, few the importance of establishing and maintaining a solid sense of credibility can hardly be overstated.  If we are going to work toward the goal of being a success — and being a success on purpose — our credibility base simply must be kept solidly in place in the minds and hearts of those we seek to influence.

Allow my simple working definitions of credibility that I share with you below to be two simple, but all important, reminders to keep moving in the right “credibility direction.”

Taking It All In…

We establish and maintain our credibility because of our hearts and what they “say” to others, or practices and how people view what we do, and the words we speak (and often how we speak them).

• How are you seeking to establish credibility with those you influence?
• If someone being trained by you asked for you to share with them how to gain initial feelings of credibility in business or personal setting, what would you tell them?  (And… if you are training people: have told them?)
• If you had to name one person that gained instant credibility with you this past week — no matter how small that credibility was — what made that happen for you?  Could you learn from your observation and reproduce it somewhere in life or business?

And As Usual…

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Attraction Marketing Excellence Quote: On Winning With Grace

Whether we find ourselves training the team in our business, relating to our families, or continuing our personal development quest for success, we realize the necessity to win and lose in the proper fashion. We must win and lose with character.

The brief quote below should prove to be a positive motivational thought for you relative to what I mentioned above.

Several Take Aways (Comment if you like!)

• If you had to record and pass on the three most important aspects of winning to a team of people you were training, what would say to them?
• Should you happen to be pursuing the art of attraction marketing, how might you share your thoughts and ideas regarding the value of winning with character to those you influence?
• And what about your family?  Any thoughts there relative to how to help build or mold their character in this area?

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Attraction Marketing Excellence and Taking Right Actions

Any effort to live a “success on purpose” day — whether it be in attraction marketing or in our personal lives — can be dramatically enhanced by consistently choosing to plug our most cherished values into what we are doing.

Take about one minute to listen to the video below.

And Speaking Of Right Actions…

What high value actions could you plug into your week?

If you had to identify your most important values to make sure they “played in” to any aspect of your week, what would they be?

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Could you take just one small action in the next 27 minutes that would be value or mission centered and that could give you a definite encouragement boost for the next several hours?

All the best to you and those you love!

Lee

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Lee Wise, Renegade Professional: My Story

Below you will find my testimony regarding my experience with the Renegade Professional community of which I am a part.  It will serve as an expansion of my thoughts that are currently on my home page.

Briefly, my experience so far has been great!  Seriously, I am enjoying the ride so-to-speak.  In addition to what I share on the video, I would say that my feelings of “community” with the group continue to grow.  As I am now involved in their coaching program and getting to know the “Renegade Crew” more as time goes on, I would say that my relationship with them grows deeper as well.  I do appreciate them, their values and what I anticipate to be their future contributions to the online and offline marketing world.

Should you be on a similar journey as mine, I hope that the video will prove helpful to you.

Feel free to make comments below and enjoy your day!

Follow Up Comments

You will hear me give the example in the video about learning from other members of the Renegade Professional community and writing my article on The Power Of Story: click here to see my article by that title.  You also hear my refer to several newsletters that I write and how I learned a bit about where to locate that on a site: look to your left and you will see the one entitled A Beautiful Moment In Time.

Enjoy your day!

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Our Choices Determine Our Futures As Online Business Professionals: Make The Choice Now To Build Your Home Along With Your Business

Excellence requires commitment and whether or not we strive to excel in the areas personal development success, an MLM business or any form of attraction marketing, it requires an on going commitment to stay on target and finish well.

Allow this short video and the article below to reinforce your commitment to win at home as you strive to win in your chosen area of business and encourage others to do the same.  Read the Personal Declaration, reflect and make comments as you see fit.

Attraction Marketing Excellence:
Build Your Business Without Losing Your Home

As quality, purpose driven internet marketers we sincerely care about…

• Establishing an excellent web presence,
• Being a positive influence in the lives of those we touch,
• And representing ourselves and the products or organizations we represent in ways that reflect a winning number on the values scoreboard of our lives.

But in the end — success or no success in business — below are several representations of comments we never want to hear:

“I guess you cared, but somehow no matter how hard I tried I could never find a way to get a place in your daily planner.” (A son or daughter reflecting back on the her father’s presence in her life).

“I feel more like an interruption to your attraction marketing business than the one you are attracted to as your soul mate for life.  Somehow, I just don’t matter enough.  I feel like the person in the song ‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers Any More.’  You don’t, you know.  You really don’t.”

May I repeat?  May neither you nor I get to the place where similar words are being said about us whether we are dads, work at home moms, husbands beginning to build our business or wives successfully climbing the ladder of success in our MLM marketing pursuits.

With the above thoughts resting (I hope) very close to your heart, allow me to bring to you several simple, well known reminders about how to prevent such tragedies from occurring in  the places we call home.

As we begin, consider this quote regarding the value of quality reminders:

Simple Reminders

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Simple reminders taken to heart

can take me to paths

well understood yet much less traveled

than wisdom and heart-felt living would dictate.

Or said in another way: good reminders can become great encouragers to do the right things, at the right times, in the right ways, for all the right reasons.

Do not allow the simplicity of the following statements to side track the journey your heart may be prompting you to take — even though the concepts may be familiar to you.

Simple Reminders About Time, Communication and Sensitivity

Simple Reminder Number One: About Taking Time

Times change.

Demands increase.

Seasons of life fade from one into the other.

And the times of our lives advance right schedule.

They don’t always advance on our time personal agendas, but the unchanging platform of seconds, minutes and hours upon which the paths we take are chosen remains unaltered.

And so do the needs of those who need us more than the names in our customer base or prospect lists.

Since this article takes on the role of a reminder of what you already realize, you will not be directed to a discussion of “the ten steps you need to take in order to make time for those you love.”

Instead, I offer you this two word reminder: “Time Enough.”

Imagine someone who rightfully owns the deed to your presence explaining what they mean by your “being there” for them with these words:

“How much is enough?”

“It’s enough when you show me that you value my season of life and whatever it means to me at the time.”

In other words, when those in my most precious circle of influence feel their value to me by my caring enough to show up in their world of existence, that communicates what the heart needs to hear.

On Spending Time

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People know that they matter most

when the time that matters

is the time we spend with them.

Simple Reminder Number Two: About Communication

Teachers reflect to their students,

Girlfriends remind their boyfriends,

Coaches demand of their players,

Parents repeat to their children,

And children beg their parents to…

“Pay Attention To Me!”

When the art of communication finds its way to the top billing segment of any seminar, class or personal discussion, you will encounter some version of the need to pay attention.

You and I need to pay careful attention to that which is being said, is not being said but is being communicated, and what must be said at some point in time.

Which quite naturally means valuing and developing the skill of listening well.

Allow me, then, to leave these simple reminders concerning our response to the needs of those around as it concerns the subject of communication:

• Speak kindly and truthfully.
• Listen with understanding and compassion.
• Listen to hear and not just to be heard in return.
• Compliment more than you criticize.
• Support way much more than you demand.
• And make sure love fills in all the lines everywhere.

On Listening That Matters

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If true listening mattered

to more people most of the time,

then most barriers could be bridged

between more people in much less time.

Simple Reminder Number Two: About Sensitivity

My heart will drive me to take enough time to make it matter and prompt me communicate well…

If I nourish and value the virtue of sensitivity.

Define it, discuss it, explore it, examine its qualities or research its effects: but however you slice it up and serve it to others, at the core of being sensitive is…

Being aware with a caring heart.

Being aware with a caring heart alerts me to the needs, struggles, victories and everyday challenges of the people who either do — or should — claim the lead roles on the stage I visit quite frequently in the theater of my mind.

On Being Sensitive

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People know they matter most

when they sense that they, too,

are the heart of the matter.

Now here’s an obvious reminder: sensitivity is sensed.

You know it.

I know it.

And as people entrenched in business, we must recognize that truth and act on it.

I see no other way to jump start or continue to manifest my being sensitive to those I care for other than committing myself to do so: repetitively.

What I choose to see and respond to with a loving heart is sensed by the recipients of my focused attention.

Chances are…

• If they aren’t getting it, I’m not giving it.
• If they aren’t sensing it, I’ve failed to commit myself to make it so.
• And if they keep telling me I’m not, I may be standing precariously on the edge of a relationship fallout where the bottom is much darker than imagined and more destructively camouflaged than perceived at the moment.

With regards to being sensitive, my simple reminders would be to:

• Check your heart, see where it is located, and bring it back home if needed.
• Reaffirm your commitment to be aware of the other persons in your world.
• Correct that which can you can or must.
• Be more consistent in the little things than with once in a while overkill in the big things.
• Allow the hurts to be what they are: hurts.  Don’t dismiss them easily.
• Applaud the victories — both big and small.
• Remember the power of a caring touch, kind word and listening ear.

A Disclaimer

In sharing with you my ideas, let me be quick to add:

As you might expect, I have not “arrived” in the areas about which I have spoken.  I continue to learn and grow like anyone else: and by the grace of God I will continue doing so as I strive to be all I can be in these life practices that hold such a prominent place in my heart.

A Declaration

As I bring these thoughts to a close, you may want to consider allowing the following to assist your pursuit of excellence in business and the business of life:

Building My Home While Building My Business:
A Personal Declaration

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I choose to treasure my home relationships more than any financial profit I may gain in my business pursuits.  I choose so because I affirm that financial gain at the expense of tragic relational loss is a trade I am totally unwilling to make.

While I recognize the time demands needed for a successful business endeavor, I will seek to give whatever time I must to whoever needs it most, and to the best of my ability I will do so on their time table, not mine.  I choose to see those in my home as a precious people to share my life with and never as unwanted interruptions to endure.

When it comes to constantly being aware of the needs of those in my home, I will seek to consistently choose sensitivity over selfishness, compassionate listening over half hearted attention, and speaking with compassion and grace as opposed to speaking quickly without caring, decisively without understanding, and harshly without reason.

Realizing that varying degrees of failure accompany any worthwhile effort, I choose not to defeat my worthy purpose by demeaning myself when I fail.  Neither will I embrace any form of perfection as a needless, self defeating standard to pursue.  Rather, I choose to affirm my value as a person in the midst of setbacks, seek forgiveness for my genuine shortcomings as needed, and continue my growth as a person character in the process.

Because I care deeply about the legacy I will leave regarding my spin on life, I choose to honor the beauty of life by acknowledging laughter as a most worthwhile goal to pursue, seeking to capture “the joy of the little things,” demonstrating the value of gratefulness, and loving for all its worth because in the end it’s worth it all!

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Lee is an internet marketer and writer.  With a passion for on purpose living and making a positive impact the world, he seeks to encourage people in business and the business of life.  See more here: http://attractionmarketingexcellence.com

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Attraction Marketing Excellence and Action Producing Emails

While grazing through my list of emails yesterday, one caught my attention for two reasons.

First, I had interacted with the author previously. And, second, because of the title.

After skimming through the email, I ventured elsewhere for a few moments only to find myself returning to same location for a second round of investigation.  At which time I:

1. Took a more careful read of the email.
2. Thought about what I read a bit more.
3. Clicked on the link in email.
4. And followed that link with the suggested action (which was signing up as an affiliate).

Why Did I Do That?

During my next round of reflection, I asked myself from an internet marketing point of view: “Why did I do what I just did?”

And here were my answers:

• Because I the email impressed me as sincere.
• The brevity helped. It was not one of those “read 16 tons of pages and what do you get?” emails.
• It was far from hype.  You understand what I mean. It was not: “Should you fail to take this next step of action, count yourself among the countless others who in doing so later found themselves screaming ‘I repent’ only to discover that their desperate cries lie unheard at the feet of this god-of-all-internet-gurus.”
• It contained a personal story/testimony of how the resource had proven helpful to their network marketing business.

In Terms Of Attraction Marketing Excellence, What Did I Learn About Action Producing Emails?

In essence, the process proved to be a good review for me. And while certainly not life changing from an email marketing perspective, my self review proved to be beneficial because it reinforced the basics for me.

Much like an athlete keeps returning to the fundamentals of the game, my observations brought me back to several email marketing fundamentals.

• The power of Brevity.
• The power of being Personable.
• The simple power of reflecting Sincerity.
• The power of Sharing — especially what’s helpful.
• The power of Stories and Testimonies.
• The power of Suggested Actions to take.

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