There's Value in Marketing and Sales

One of my favorite questions is to ask people this question, "How many of your are in marketing and sales?"

If I am not working with a group of sales individuals, I often see few to no hands. Then I follow up with some other questions such as, "How many have ever asked for a raise, a promotion, interviewed for a job, sought a relationship, or, or, or...

Interestingly, hands start shooting up and eventually most of the hands in the room are raised. Then, I re-ask my original question, "How many of your are in marketing and sales?" Now 100 percent of the hands are up.

Acknowledging that we are all in some type of sales and/or marketing, can you appreciate how important it might be to increase your knowledge and skills in this arena?

Well, I for one know first hand the value of marketing. One of colleagues and a dear friend, kept pushing me to be more proactive in internet marketing and start a blog. She also gave me another valuable tip, please measure whether or not it is effective.

I started this blog back in May of this year. Before I started, I created a baseline for tracking how much traffic that I receive to my website. In tracking, I found that I was WAY down on the list(more later about how to find tracking sites to manage this information). The goal is to strive for Number 1. Google, for example is 16 today (only 15 sites receive more traffic). When I started blogging, my blog and website was more than 15,000,000 (that's more than 14,999,000 from number one. Today, I broke a million - the number for this blog - 993,463.

I hope I've helped increase your interest in the value of marketing and sales. This is just the tip of the iceberg!

Opportunities

What is an opportunity? (Encarta)
•An advantageous circumstance
•A chance for progress, advancement or improvement

Why seek opportunities?
We often spend a great deal of a time drifting along, oblivious prospects to have a happier life, a healthier life, yes even a wealthier life. We spend our much of our time worrying about being sick, unemployed, bored or unsuccessful in love and life rather than investing our time to identify the opportunities that surround us.

How can we identify Opportunities?
Create a process! First, consider the possibility that opportunities are available everywhere, so, be open! Secondly, use the opportunity seeking to help you solve a problem that you have. Not enough money, too much weight, too little time, no relationship. Third, set a goal for your self to look for the right person, the right tool, the right event to help you solve your problem. Finally, create a mini action plan so that you start focusing on being aware when an opportunity presents itself.

When we take advantage of situations, networking events, family outings, social networks, clubs or professional organizations that can provide us with an idea, a solution, support, a new contact, you name it opportunities abound. The chances are virtually limitless. Or you can find opportunities to “worry.” It’s up to you.

What opportunities can you identify for yourself today?

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When you take action on follow up on these opportunities?
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Promoting Health & Wealth - How & What do I DREAM?

"Dreams are a bridge."








As I spend some time yesterday re-reading The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly, this line struck a cord!

Needing more insight, I researched and found these two definitions for the word Dream from The Free Online Dictionary by Farlex:

A series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.

A condition or achievement that is longed for; an aspiration.

There are numerous studies to understand the meaning of our involuntary mind and what happens when we are asleep. While I am sure this is a valuable exercise, to interpret or evaluate the meaning of our sleeping dreams, I am going to focus on the conscious, waking dream, that achievement or aspiration that becomes a bridge to promoting our health and wealth.

Research has shown that the mind doesn't differential between what we actually experience and what we think (dream) we experienced. If this is true, and I'd like to believe it is, then making dreaming a conscious, purposeful action is imperative.

Let's start with some questions...

How do I dream?

How do I plan for dreaming?
How do I use dreaming to help me problem solve?
How do I use dreaming to help me grow and prosper?
How do I use dreaming to escape?
How do I use dreaming to overcome boredom and drudgery?
How do I use dreaming to help me overcome fear?

How do you dream?

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What do I dream about?

What vacations do I dream about?
What health issues do I dream about enhancing or changing?
What income or wealth opportunities do I dream about?
What talents or skills do I dream about expanding?
What significant contribution that might benefit humanity do I dream about?

What do you dream about?

How I dream, is early every morning before the world wakes up and I approach the day with hope, energy, purpose and passion. What I dream about is working with people to expand our extraordinary potential.

Thoughts, ideas, comments?

All the best in health and wealth,

Laura