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By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Great Business Networking Tip: Don't Insult The Alligator

“If you build a network, you will have a bridge to wherever you want to go.” Those words are from Harvey Mackay, marketing guru and business person extraordinaire, and probably one of the world’s foremost authorities on networking. You know, I spend a LOT of time at networking events. That’s because I know that to achieve success, professionally as well as personally, you need to have a network.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

3,366 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Personal (and Professional) Success Tip: Failure Is Not An 'F' Word

Failure Stinks! Failure is D.R.A.M.A. – Dreadful, Ruinous, Awful, Mean, Atrocious. Failure should be avoided at all costs! That’s a MYTH that needs to be busted. Contrary to what most people think …FAILURE IS NOT AN “F” WORD! In my book A First Serving of Milk & Cookies For Success, I devote eight pages – nearly 3,000 words – to this topic. Why?

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

3,055 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Want Your Internet Marketing To Generate Record-Braking Sales? Simply Put These Two Tremendous TIPPPS™ Into Practice

Regardless of the methods or strategies you’re using to market on the Internet, it’s a tough go out there. Wouldn’t you agree? But let’s not talk about the problems associated with Internet marketing.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

3,046 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Great Business Success Tip: ThINK it, INK it...and INKubate it!

ThINK it... Here are three very important points I made in my book Milk & Cookies For Success: 1-The most valuable piece of real estate in the world (also the tiniest) is the small space between your two ears—that small plot that houses your brain (your mind) which defines who you are as a human being. 2-YOU (and only you) own that piece of property—it is ALL YOURS to develop as YOU want! 3-The mind is only as strong as its weakest think (like a chain is only as strong as its weakest link).

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

2,528 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Personal & Professional Success Tip: "Knowledge is Power" is a crock!

An interesting question popped into my mind a couple of days ago while I was driving behind a flatbed truck carrying a brand new Jaguar X-Type. I thought; as it rests now, is that really a car? Until someone sits in the driver’s seat, turns on the ignition, puts it in gear and actually drives it, is it a “car” or just an assembly of metal, plastic, glass, rubber, and electronics? Think about this. No, really. What good is the soft craftsmen-stitched leather until someone actually sinks into the seat?

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

2,143 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Great Success Tip: There Is No Security-Be Bold & Dare! (Part 1)

According to James F. Byrnes, “Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity.” I absolutely agree with him. The proverb “Seize the day (moment)” was coined by the Roman poet Horace (circa 20 B.C.) who wrote in The Odes: “Carpe Diem, quam minimum credula postero.” (“Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow.”) Now it’s used more often in the sense “take charge” … take advantage of the opportunity ... don’t procrastinate … DO ‘IT’ NOW! What IT?

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

2,031 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Great Personal & Business Success Tip: Feed Thy Precious Mind Well

What would you say is the most valuable piece of real estate in the world? Do you think we’d find it in Malibu? Manhattan? Monte Carlo? NO! I’ll give you a clue; it’s the most valuable, and also the smallest. The most valuable piece of real estate in the world is the small space between your two ears. It is most valuable because that small plot houses your brain—your mind—which defines who you are as a human being. It’s where your life really takes place.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,919 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Great Business Marketing Tip: Don't Let The Tires Crash Your Jumbo Jet

I want you to visualize a big 747 plane—big jumbo jet with whatever colors and emblems you want. As big and complex as a 747 is, the success of its operation relies in great part on a few small things. Things like tires for example—at least small in relation to the size and cost of the whole plane.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,899 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Want Phenomenal Ecommerce Success? Learn and Implement These Two Important TIPPPS™

According to Wikipedia, “Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at some point in the transaction's lifecycle, although it can encompass a wider range of technologies such as email as well.” Almost everyone in business these days conducts eCommerce to one level or another. Even professionals like dentists, lawyers and accountants.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,887 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

If You Want Your MLM Business To Be A Success, Learn To Avoid These Five Harmful BizzBlockers

It’s not at all a cake walk trying to build a successful MLM business these days. For one thing, you have a ton of competition. Good competition from all the other legitimate MLM home business opportunities.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,867 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Are Your Advertising Costs an Expense or an Investment?

Isn’t that a very good question for businesspeople to ask themselves? In our efforts to promote our website, we use a lot of different advertising methods to get our message out there. Like classified ads (online & offline), ezine ads, banner ads, safelist ads, solo ads, website ads, feed ads, social-business networks bulletins, blogging, postings in forums and groups, press releases, pay-per-click, and more. Whenever we post ads anywhere using one of the methods just listed, we always take the time to check out the other ads, some of which are from our competition.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,858 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Personal (And Professional) Success Tip (And reminder): You Were Born An Original

“Born an original” is one of the topics I’m more passionate about. That’s because I’m afraid people don’t really appreciate that fact. They “know it” at the intellectual level, but they don’t “get it” at the gut level.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,851 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Behold The Power In The Mirror... It Is The Source Of ALL Achievement!

I believe to my core that you, my reader friend, are an amazincredible force of nature, a source of outstandynamite power! Why do I believe that? Simply because you are a human being, a human thinking, and a human doing. As my speaker-friend Michelle Neujahr would say, “You are awesome!” Let’s look at the definition of the word awesome: inspiring awe. Ok, what exactly is awe? According to Oxford, it’s reverential wonder, amazement, and the Thesaurus says it’s admiration, astonishment, esteem, regard, respect, wonderment.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,838 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Great Success Tip: There Is No Security-Be Bold & Dare! (part 2)

The point was well made in the first part of this article, that there is NO security in this life, that “playing it safe” is not the best strategy to live life to the fullest. The best strategy, in my opinion, is to… Be Bold and DARE … “Don’t persist in the routine and the predictable simply because you’re too scared to try anything else. Don’t take care ... TAKE RISKS. We cannot progress unless we take some sort of risk.” Michael McKinley “There is nothing valuable that does not have inherent risk.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,788 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

If You Want Your Home Based Business to Be a Success, Learn and Implement These Five Invaluable BizzBuilders

Truth be told, it’s really hard to build a successful home based business these days. For one thing, you have a ton of competition. Good competition from all the other legitimate home business opportunities. And competition, in a way, from all the bottom-feeders of the world who pretend to be businesspeople when they’re only snake-oil merchants peddling gifting programs and similar schemes. There are hundreds of marketing gurus out there who can show you dozens of technical ways to increase your traffic, and improve your conversion and closing ratios.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,782 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Excellent Advice For Personal (And Professional) Peak Performance: TAKE ACTION TODAY!

In another one of my articles entitled Personal (and Professional) Success Tip: Do Not Do What Mr. Will And The Pizza Man Did, I relate the true story of a business owner who, having sold his business after 40 years of working in it like a slave, died within four days of finalizing the sale and never got around to doing many of the things he really wanted to do in life. Then I asked the reader these question: What is YOUR biggest wish, YOUR lifelong dream ... and what’s keeping you from going after it?

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,754 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Personal (and Professional) Success Tip: Do Not Do What Mr. Will And The Pizza Man Did

I’ve got some bad news for you; you won’t get the opportunity to read this incredible book entitled The Stevedore in the White Fedora. This novel, filled to the brim with stirring passages, was going to captivate your imagination and take you on a breathtaking adventure to some of the most infamous ports of the world. Replete with intrigue, passion, action, suspense, drama, and hot romance, this book was assuredly going to reach the top of the best-sellers list.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,722 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Are Your Advertising Costs An Expense Or An Investment?

Isn’t that a very good question for businesspeople to ask themselves? In our efforts to promote our website, we use a lot of different advertising methods to get our message out there. Like classified ads (online & offline), ezine ads, banner ads, safelist ads, solo ads, website ads, feed ads, social-business networks bulletins, blogging, postings in forums and groups, press releases, pay-per-click, and more. Whenever we post ads anywhere using one of the methods just listed, we always take the time to check out the other ads, some of which are from our competition.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,718 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Great Success TIP For MLM Networkers; How To Get Across The Lake

In regards to success and your MLM, Network Marketing or Direct Sales business, we want you to imagine the following: you are currently on the shore of a large lake (say one-mile wide) and success as you’ve imagined it when you joined your company (whatever level of achievement ‘success’ means to you) is on the other shore. Here’s a good question for you: how will you get there?

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,710 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Want Your Marketing to Bring You Sensational Success? Learn and Implement These Two Premium TIPPPS™

First, let me share with you a definition of marketing I found on Wikipedia: “Marketing is a societal process which disce s consumers' wants, focusing on a product or service to fulfill those wants, attempting to move the consumers toward the products or services offered.” (aka selling) That sounds about right. Let me follow that with a brilliant observation from Donald Cooper, one of America’s top professional speaker and corporate trainer: “We are all human beings selling something to other human beings.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,637 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Great Conversation (and Networking) Tip: Think WIN (or rather, W.I.N.)

In my bestselling book A First Serving of Milk & Cookies for Success, I devote a whole chapter to what I call The Know-Zone™—knowing what motivates people to buy, to join, to sign up, to participate. To do anything in fact. The Know-Zone™ is all about Human Motivators. One of the most important motivators is the Desire to Feel Important. One way to make people at any level feel important is to show them respect. There are many ways to show respect, but one surefire way is to show interest.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,618 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

To Do Networking Successfully, Avoid These 3 BizzBlockers And Practice These 3 BizzBuilders-

The truth about networking is that (according to an article in Profit Magazine) “…most people suck at it.” What follows are business networking tips (i.e. for people who network in person at networking groups events), but you can apply those as well to social networking (for people who spend a lot of time on networking sites). The purpose of these tips is to help you reduce your chances of “sucking at networking”. That is one simple, easy way to beat your competition.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,609 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Want Maximum Success From ALL Your Marketing Campaigns? Learn When And Where To Use WHY And HOW

First things first! If you’re playing baseball (or any ball game that involves three bases and a home plate), what is the first thing on your mind as you come to the plate? Yeah, yeah… hitting the next pitch over the fence and winning the game with one swing of your bat. Of course. But that doesn’t happen often. Back to reality. The first thing you want to do is get to first base. That’s a good start. You can’t bat a run in and you can’t score one yourself if you’re sent back to the bench with your head hanging low and your bat dragging behind.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,583 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Powerful MLM Success Tip: From Now On, Think Of Every Person You Meet Online or Off As a Filing Cabinet

Laurel (my wife and business partner) and I have bee “connected” to the MLM industry for a long time, either as customers, as business builders or as trainers. We love the industry, almost all of the products and services it offers, and most of the companies in it. But we disagree with much of the training. We think the training – or lack thereof – is the Achilles’ heel of MLM. It’s why, in our opinion, the vast majority of the well-meaning and hardworking distributors fail. Miserably.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,569 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

The Only Way To Be Truly Inspired Is To "Be There"!

Jim Rohn is one of my favorite motivational speakers. And here is one of my most cherished Rohn’s quotations: “Wherever you are, BE THERE!” It was Jean Webster who said, “It isn’t the big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones.” But you can only “make a great deal” if you’re “there.” So, when you’re playing catch with your son, roller-blading with your daughter, watching a movie with the family or enjoying a magical intimate moment with your partner, BE THERE!

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,569 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Personal (and Professional) Success Tip (and reminder): You ALWAYS Have The Choice

Let me start by sharing these words of wisdom from Tom Tobbins (in his book Still Life with Woodpecker); “Choice; the word upon which all adventure, all exhilaration, all meaning, all honor depends. In the beginning was the word, and the word was choice.” A few years ago, I read this book which really rocked my world – The 13 Secrets of Power Performance by my speaker & author colleague Roger Dawson. I read it twice. I agreed with 12 of the Secrets, but I had a hard time with secret number three – Power Performers know they always have choices.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,565 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

If You Want To Make Massive Amounts Of Money Using Internet Marketing, You Have To Get Very Good At This

It just amazes me how often I observe Internet marketers go through 95% of what they ought to go through to successfully promote their products, services or business opportunity online, and then fall short of the mark because of the 5% they omit to do. Unfortunately, that 5% is a killer. It’s like you and your family getting ready to take a once-in-a-lifetime month-long vacation somewhere exotic.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,560 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

If You Want To Market Your Home Based Business Opportunity Successfully, Avoid Making This Xorkian Mistake

Because I run a profitable and legitimate home based business myself, I have a pretty good idea of what a glorious day would look like for you. First, you wake up to find out you’ve had an abundance of traffic to your web site. From those hundreds of leads, dozens have indicated that they would like to know more about your products, and about your home based business opportunity.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,559 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Building a Successful Home Based Business Is a Lot Easier When You Practice These Two Tiptop TIPPPS™

It’s not easy to build a home based business successfully these days. There are many “exte al” factors like the economy, the competition from other legitimate home businesses, the competition from bottom-feeders trying to pass their gifting programs and other scams as “legitimate” income opportunities. By “exte al” I mean factors you have no control over. But there are also many “internal” factors that keep people from succeeding, and you have control over them.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,551 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Great Networking Tip For More Business Success: Skip The Set-up!

If you attend a lot of networking events, this will most definitely open your eyes. It makes so much sense! The next time you’re at one of those events where people are given 30 or 60 seconds to stand and introduce themselves to the room, you’re going to be thinking “What are they doing?” Here’s our professional advice: skip the setup. Everybody uses the set-up—be different. Know this: the most common way people introduce themselves is the worst way to do it. Here’s what most people say: ‘Hi, my name is John Smith. I’m an accountant.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,528 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

If You Want To Make Massive Amounts Of Money Using Internet Marketing, You Have To Get Very Good At This

It just amazes me how often I observe Internet marketers go through 95% of what they ought to go through to successfully promote their products, services or business opportunity online, and then fall short of the mark because of the 5% they omit to do. Unfortunately, that 5% is a killer. It’s like you and your family getting ready to take a once-in-a-lifetime month-long vacation somewhere exotic.

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,458 views

By Daniel St-JeanRecently published1 topic

Seeking Maximum Success Via Internet Marketing? Then You Must Add This Essential Ingredient To Every Element Of Your Campaigns

It’s very possible – more like probable according to the latest statistics – that as an Internet Marketer you’re you having PROBLEMS…rn-Grabbing and keeping surfers’ attention…rn-Driving lots of targeted traffic to your Web site…rn-Generating scores of quality leads and prospects…rn-Building a huge, responsive mailing list…rn-Making enough sales to cover your expenses (even though your goal is to make lots of money to do the things in life that you and your loved ones really want to do). If you’re experiencing ANY of the dish

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

1,415 views

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