The Power of Doing

We have a new member who joined GKIC at the “An OUTRAGEOUS Evening With Bill Glazer” event back on May 12th who is going gangbusters putting everything she’s learning into action.

With a short Strategic Marketing Consultation, I was able help her identify WHO her best and ideal clients were, what she was doing right and what she was going not-so-well, and gave her three immediate strategies for making money fast.

Want to know what those three things were? :) Read the rest of this entry »

Take Your Business from Ordinary to…

My mentor Dan Kennedy says that Renegade Millionaires™ ask themselves,

“How do we take this ordinary business and make it into something entirely different than what it is now?”

If you run your business just like every other person in your industry, then customers have no real reason to choose you versus anyone else. It might only be because it’s convenient, or your price is lower, or whatever. But, what happens when another business like yours opens up and they are more convenient to do business with, or their price is lower, etc.? You’re going to have a big problem, won’t you? Read the rest of this entry »

The Power of the Mastermind

This past Friday at our May 2011 Peak Performance VIP Mastermind meeting, members shared some great successes and revelations since our last meeting in April.

For instance, here are few updates from some our members:

Peak Performance VIP Mastermind Member Jonathan Mitchell who is the College Test Prep biz geared towards more affluent families launched a direct mail campaign using a tear-sheet mailer using 3rd Party data that was mailed to a list of about 2000. He and his wife spent under $2500 and got 11 responses back with 9 setting Read the rest of this entry »

What Members Say about Craig Valine… and, GKIC!

Watch these short clips by ambitious and successful members of our Glazer-Kennedy Insider’s Circle Local Chapter in Pasadena.

PEAK PERFORMANCE VIP MASTERMIND MEMBERS

Here’s Jonathan Mitchell, Co-founder of UCan Plan-4-College in Pasadena, CA

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Life is a Roller-Coaster, Ain’t it?

Hey there!

I hope you had a great day today. Mine just got better because Mini-me is home from school. :)

This past weekend we treated Mini-me to his belated birthday gift by taking him to Six Flags Magic Mountain. He has this fascination with roller-coasters. None of his friends have the ‘guts’ yet to go on most of the rides there. So, guess who had to go on ALL the rides? Yep. Daddy. Read the rest of this entry »

Another Lesson from Mini-me

Mini-me

Last weekend Mini-me accomplished a great feat. If you’ve been with me a while, you may remember last year when he started running Track at school, he had a very tough time getting around not only once, but twice around the track (400m & 800m).

When he finally did accomplish his goal for making it around the track, I was so proud I had tears in my eyes.

Well, Track Season is back and he’s participating in his timing trials to see just where he fits in on the team this year. This past Saturday, his first time running the 400m and the 800m for the season, he made it around with ease… without stopping once to catch his breath.

Again, I love that boy, and I was so proud to seem him grow. Last year it seemed impossible for him. This year, because he’s practiced, he was able to do it with ease.

My friend Scott Evans says, “Pride in ourselves comes from a daily sense of measurable accomplishment.” I agree.

Mini-me has grown and is Read the rest of this entry »

What Are Your Customers Saying About You?

I’m just back from a funeral at Forest Lawn in Hollywood Hills of a long-time business friend. He was a great man, admired by all that knew him. If you didn’t know of him prior today, you would have gotten that immediately by #1. All the people in attendance, and #2. By all the great things people said about him during the service.

I went to the funeral with Local Chapter Member Dr. Dennis Buckley. In between speakers, he whispered in my ear, “I wonder how many people will attend my funeral?”

I thought to myself, “I wonder what they would say about me after I’m gone.” Read the rest of this entry »

7 Quick Rules to Succeed in 2011

Have you been struggling over the past year or so with your business because of the economy or otherwise? Or, are you doing OK, but looking for the slight edge to take your business or practice to a whole new level?

Here are few quick rules you should understand and adopt as we move forward in 2011:

  1. A buyer is a buyer is a buyer. This is important to understand. You need not make offers to all of your customers all the time. There are customers who are more predisposed to buying than others. You need to identify who they are and then sell to them more often. Don’t waste your efforts on people who don’t or won’t buy. Read the rest of this entry »

Los Angeles Area Entrepreneurs: One Year From Today…

Today, for a few reasons I’m just going to hit you with a very quick post, as a little “year-end” finale.

I’m busy, head down, full speed, pedal to the metal, trying to finish up and push hard to get some things done, planning in place, and projects ready for launch come the first of next week.

Actually, while the Holidays have been happening, I had one of my most successful months, getting more done in 30 days than I had the entire year.

I have several projects in the works, near completion, that will benefit you MORE as a member of our local chapter. Read the rest of this entry »

Where Did My New Year’s Resolution Go?…

Here’s a timely guest article from my mentor, Dan Kennedy. – “No BS” Craig

Where Did My New Year’s Resolution Go? 9 Strategies To Rescue Those Resolutions! - by Dan Kennedy

Resolve comes easily on December 31st.

By June of the New Year, the resolutions made are in disarray, compromised, abandoned. And the resolute determination to make this year, finally, the year you stick to ‘em, forgotten altogether.

This is not about guilt over this abandonment. Instead, it is about the real reasons resolutions and the determination Read the rest of this entry »