Jason::Adams

I’m still having problems switching my sleep schedule over.  I revert back to going to bed late on weekends, which then throws my sleep schedule all out of wack.  I need to learn to wake up real early and deal with how tired I am all day, so that I can fall asleep earlier.  I have always been able to wake up whenever, but lately I’ve been taking my phone to bed with me so I can sleep for longer.  I’ve gotta learn to keep the phone over far away from me.

“It’s not about a Hand Out, its about a Hand” 

Give Value to recieve value essentially. Is “It’s not about a hand out” saying not expecting a hand out, but rather offering a hand?  Or am I interpreting it wrong? Heard from keith ferrazzi, where is it from?

Showing vulnerability can be a powerful way to relate to people.  Everyone has struggles in their lifes or points where they were Vulnerable to forces in the world.  Expand on this in the future.

This passage reminded me of this , it was taken from Keith Ferrazzi’s “Never Eat Alone” blog:

“In one of the most poignant stories of the evening, one of the invitees recalled a time during his youth when his family was homeless and lived out of a car for a period of time in order to survive.  An ability to channel personal struggles into fearlessness, a strong will to succeed, and compassion for others – as demonstrated by this brave guest – are common traits of authentic leaders, many of who were breaking bread, sharing stories and a bit of themselves around the dinner table that evening.”

Alot of people attend Networking Events really don’t know how to present their business cards properly.  Your first step would be to have some kind of attractive easy way to present your contact information.  The simple and most commonly used way is the business card, so always have some handy.  We can get into design and how to make it stand out in the future. 

Here are some don’ts:

Don’t hand out business cards like they are flyers.  Act like they are a scarce resource and people will want them more.

Don’t give your card without a grounding reason first.  Why should this person take your information? What would he use it for? What are some of the possible network connections?  What value would he want from you?  There are a million ways to ground the reason you are providing contact information, just make sure you do it to solidify your contact.  Ideally you want them to ASK YOU for your business card, but I’ll try to cover this in the future.

Don’t stick contact information in your pocket.  You hand your business card to someone, and without looking at it you see them stick it directly into their pocket.  What does this say? Most likely this person is going to lose the card, or surely damage the condition of the card.  When you recieve contact information, SHOW THEM THAT YOU CARE.  They are expressing an interest in providing value to you in the future, respond by showing that you APPRECIATE THIS OFFER.  Take care to look at their business card, perhaps comment on it.  You could also reaffirm the grounding reason for the future networking, or why you have exchanged contact information, and then if possible make sure they see you TAKING CARE to protect the card, and put it in a place you will remember it.  Maybe a folder, your suitcase, in front of your ID in your wallet, etc.

 

One of the most important things you can learn to do is BE ON TIME.  What does it say when someone is late for a lunch with you? Late for anything concerning you?  It implicitly states that their time is more valuable then yours.  You don’t want to convey that message to anyone.  You should also be early, if not for the advantage of having time to gather your thoughts, for the message it conveys to the people you are trying to add to your network, “That I care about your time.”

Took this from Keith Ferrazzi’s “Never Eat Alone” blog.  It’s something I had thought while watching Al Gore’s spectacular documentary on Global Warming.

“The group agreed that if Al Gore could tell stories during his days as Vice President and into his Presidential candidacy the way he’s doing today with global warming, the election would have looked very different.  Leaders must be able to communicate a vision, a story with genuine passion for the purpose.  It is a leader’s role to transfer vision, build trust and maintain character – all of which can be more influential and inspiring if a leader can develop an emotional current in which to communicate from.”

This is so true, if Al Gore’s campaigning had any of the passion of his documentary, then it would have been a landslide.  Where was this unique storytelling and vision ability during the election?  This shows another power of storytelling, the ability to convey a compelling and empowering vision.  Another quality I’d like to instill in myself.

This is a good breakdown of some things to learn from the infamous Stompernet Product Launch taken from http://www.productlaunchblog.com/

 

Take home tips:

1. Set up a blog for your prospective customers, drip useful information to create credibility for yourself.

2. Capture name and email of your visitors by offering free (and quality) information. This can build your list faster than anything. Remember that while you are paying commission for the sales, the list belongs to you.
2. Setup affiliate tracking on this blog so that the affiliates get credit when the visitor orders your main product.

3. Setup a separate blog for your affiliates (I am guessing they have done this but I cannot verify because I am not an affiliate).

4. Create powerful sales letters that your affiliates can send to their lists. I noticed that 80% of the mails were exact duplicates - a few super affiliates like John Reese and Ewen Chia sent original mails.

5. Affiliates also added their own special bonuses if one bought through them. A guy even offered an ATV (all terrain vehicle) for those buying through his link. Wow!

6. Send pre-launch notification. Some people may have forgotten to check out your sales letter at the launch time because they registered long back. So remind them.

 

     I’ve always talked about buying an old rv and turning into some kind of amazing fun mobile, as inspired by Herbal or betterthanyourboyfriend.com …. I just recently checked his blog and noticed he bought one of his own! 

Herbals Rv Auction

     This has inspired me, I mean seriously if he got this thing for a couple thousand bucks, why not get one of these myself? Maybe the grist brothers would be into something like this, we could paint it, just slowly work on making it dope.  Then we have the roadtrip vehical from hell.  We can go anywhere party all the time.  I bet we could find someway to turn this into a business expense, and make some money somehow on the road.  Why not.  I need to explore this thought path further in the future.

So I’ve been thinking about starting a networking site, but I wanted to come up with a cool name.

Maybe my first plan of action should be to think about how Im going to offer content.

Anyways, maybe

videonetworking , badassnetworking, professionalnetworking, businessnetworking, personalnetworking, peoplenetworking, systematicnetworking, highlevelnetworking, realdealnetworking , nobsnetworking, kickassnetworking, structurednetworking, geeknetworking, theartofnetworking (taon) ….

Went ahead and checked out my favorite theartofnetworking (taon) and it looks like a lady is already running a company from the website.  Possibility of buying the domain off her? Its probably going to be pretty damn expensive if she has a book and runs her company from the site. Not sure.  A related domain is expiring soon on the 28th of May, I hope the person who owns the domain isnt paying attention and the domain goes into drop.  I should go to enom.com, pool.com , or snapnames.com to plan for the buy closer to expiration.