Helping community based business owners get booked solid!
Please join me at Noon Central (1:00 pm Eastern, 10:00 am Pacific) on Friday, May 1, 2009 for my monthly First Friday Focus call.
Please dial 712-432-3900 and enter conference code 6904581#. 30 minutes plus time for questions after.
This month’s topic will be on the power of a Customer Advisory Board for your business.
I hope you can attend!
Coach Brent
My mentor, coach, friend and big thinker Michael Port releases his fourth (and best) book today, the Think Big Manifesto. Here is a note from Michael:
Calling all big, bright, forward-thinking, possibly still dreaming, hard core intellectual thinking, down-to-earth realistic-being, even and especially the secretive big thinkers. The world needs you.
The handbook for the Think Big Revolution in finally and fully available.
THE THINK BIG MANIFESTO:
Think You Can’t Change Your Life (and the World)? Think Again.
Think about it. What is more important than thinking big?
Besides free stuff? (wink :)) I’m not above sweetening the deal to incentivize you to get your copy today.
It starts here: http://www.ThinkBigManifesto.com (The giveaway list is insane.)
Buy your book and get loads of gifts, goodies, prizes and perks.
(Hint: Think NFL superstars, Emmy Award Winning Actors, Grammy Award Winners, Award Winning Filmmakers, the #1 bestselling authors in the world, CEO’s and Presidents.)
Yes, I know, the giveaways are amazing but that isn’t what this revolution is ultimately about.
You know I’ve written 3 other bestselling books about business— Book Yourself Solid, Beyond Booked Solid, & The Contrarian Effect.
But The Think Big Manifesto is about all of us coming together as a society…
as individuals who want to create change. It’s about being involved in a movement… a revolution—-the Think Big Revolution.
We all want to do big things in the world. We all want to leave our mark.
Thinking big isn’t about accumulating possessions, gaining fame or influence.
It is about building a life where we can do more together than we ever could alone.
We need you: http://www.ThinkBigManifesto.com
Thousands of revolutionaries are coming together to collaborate, cooperate and combine forces to think bigger about who they are and what they offer the world. And they’re doing it with The Manifesto:
http://www.ThinkBigManifesto.com
Be a part of history. Bring your big thoughts forward. Today is an exciting, electrifying day. There are an enormous amount of gifts and goodies you can take away that are congruent with big thinking. I’ll keep you posted on prizes and big news throughout the day…expect an email or two from me today calling all big thinkers to action.
See you in the Revolution…
http://www.ThinkBigManifesto.com
Think big,
Michael Port
Author of Book Yourself Solid, Beyond Booked Solid, The Contrarian Effect & THE THINK BIG MANIFESTO
I hope you will buy the book today and start thinking bigger about who you are and what you mean to the world!
Brent
My local Chamber of Commerce recently hosted a multi-Chamber mixer at the local newspaper in our community. I love these events because I get to connect with business owners from neighboring communities that I don’t see on a regular basis. That’s a good thing.
The bad thing was who I will call “networking guy”. He was wearing a cowboy hat (not the norm in my suburban Chicago community!) and attached to that hat was a flashing neon “Let Me Tell You” badge. I know, you think I am kidding, but I am not.
I don’t like to judge, but this guy has it all wrong. I don’t want to be “told” anything, and I sure as hell do not want to be told by a guy wearing a cowboy hat with a flashing neon light on it. He was engaging in many short, meet and greet type conversations, but what really ticked me off was that while he was talking to one person, he was not making eye contact, but looking around for the next person to talk you.
Have you all met someone like this? Probably. Do we avoid people like this when we can? Probably. Can we be different than this guy? For sure!
Here’s what I try to do at these events. The new members of the Chamber are given a different color name badge to wear when they come to these things. I seek out those new members, strike up a conversation to learn a little bit more about their business and then I ask them simple question, “What type of business or business person would be a good connection for you?” Now, because I know almost all 900 members of our local chamber, I can, at that point, probably walk them over to someone that meets the criteria they just told me, and make an introduction, “Joe meet Mary, Mary meet Joe. Mary said that knowing you might help her in her business, why don’t the two of you get to know each other a little better.” Did I get anything out of it directly? No, probably not. Did I make a great impression on Mary and Joe? For sure. The next time Mary or Joe need my services, will they be more likely to think of me? For sure. More importantly, does Mary feel better about her decision to join the Chamber? For sure. Was Joe reminded about the advantages the Chamber has for him? For sure. Most of all, I feel great about connecting two people who did not know each other previously. That’s part of what networking is for me.
So, the next time you are at a “networking” event, try and connect two people in your network. The payoff will not be immediate, but it sure will feel good.
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