Business Is Like Gardening

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today I posted a Tweet on Twitter about the phases of gardening.  I have been running a string of themes this week all week long on those phases!  Today’s Tweet -

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to cultivate, water, weed and fertilize in the summer

Todays’s focus today was on… fertilizing !  This year and this summer has been a real reminder of the persistence and patience one must have in building a home based business. Working with many new entrepreneurs – We are always reminding and encouraging them about constantly planting the seeds and taking care of their prospects.

And as I was planting a second crop of some herbs and flowers for late summer amd early fall I really was reminded how planting and sowing seeds continues through the year. And proper timing of planting to ensure a harvest and/or bloom before the frost.

July was a very focused month on communicating with our visitors via email, custom videos and one of my favorite tools Twitter.  The beauty is you even get some early harvest along the way! Check back in this weekend we will be talking about harvesting!

Part 2 Setting A Twitter Strategy

When you get started on Twitter you must set your strategy if you are looking to use Twitter to drive buisnessresults.  It is a powerful business tool for many business models.  When you are looking to build a fast growth high-margin business – you must look for every tool you can leverage to increase your results.  The focus of this will be on how I set my strategy – this strategy is a key component of my training program www.TwitterEntrepreneur.com.  In it you see exactly how I execute on the strategy I set.

 

As any strategy should be – it needs to be broad enough to give guidance and direction as you put together your operating plan and daily method of operations.  I have labeled my Twitter Strategy – The 9 Is Of Twitter.

My Nine I Strategy Is as follows:

• Introduce – twitter is like a giant business social function or cocktail party.  You have a great time and an effective business time when you are proactive – outreach and introduce your self to people you don’t know or that you want to get to know! Don’t sit on the sidelines. Better to be busy meeting many than spending all your time with one or two. I know this will spark disagreement – but as I started this is my strategy – feel free to copy or set your own.  I use tools to introduce myself on Twitter
• Interact – Get out and interact – the beauty of social media and how Twitter is currently structured – you can jump into a conversation and meet new people. Get out an do it!
• Interested – Like dating 101 – be interested in others! Don’t try to be interesting to everyone. Take dedicated steps to learn about others!
• Inform – Take daily action to share information with others – blogs, articles, news stories, pictures!
• Inspire – Look for ways to inspire others, quotes, books, videos to mention a few
• Ingenuity – be as different as you can – Remember the old TV show MacGyver. He is the definition of ingenious! he was a master at using things in different ways, combining things to appear creative and original.
• Interconnect – Look for people beyond your immediate group – look for introductions – maximize  things like #FollowFriday to meet friends of friends.  Such an open and easy thing to do! If you are friends with someone – you can bet their will be mutual interests with their friends. You get to check them out on Twitter by looking right at their followers!
• Integrity – Be who you are on Twitter – Don’t try to act like someone else. Guy Kawasaki says that Twitter shows your most authentic real person in all of social media. Make him right!
• Invite – If I have followed all the above - I believe I will have earned the right to talk with people about my business”at the right time” without appearing to be pushy or all business!

The 9 I’s Of My Twitter Strategy

Feel free to use the above outline. many times it has helped me with a decision I had to make by just re-visiting.  It supports me in my decisions not to use things like automated DMs – how impersonal and inappropriate – Ah another day another topic! 

 

Have an Amazing Day!

Success Mindset

 

 The motivation to succeed comes from the burning desire to achieve a worthwhile goal. That is the first element that must be mastered to create success mindset. The second is a strong belief that you deserve to achieve the goal and the rewards that come with it!

My Key Formula To Success – The first two are all about mindset and setting the mindset for success!

Desire > Deserve > Do

The third component is taking action just like the quote I posted earlier today on twitter

Your thoughts only tell you what you want, but your actions tell you what you get – Troy Fontana

This is a nice Powerpoint presentation I discovered on www.explorehr.org 

There are numerous good PowerPoint presentations on the site that can help you in building your fast-growth home business!

Outline:

• Seven Elements of High Performing Mindset
• Desire to Succeed
• Commitment : Integrity and Wisdom
• Responsibility and Taking Risk
• Hard Work
• Positive Believing
• The Power of Persistence
• Pride of Performance

Twitter Training

Part 1 – Twitter Entrepreneur Launch

Wow What a June! It truly was amazing – busy – very personally rewarding.   After 3 months of gathering information, testing ideas and being a learner 24/7,  I was able to wrap-up and roll-out “quietly” my amazing new Twitter Training Program.

Twitter Entrepreneur

This article is my first in a four part series about my learnings on Twitter since March 21, 12009.   The posts will be sharing:

1. Twitter Entrepreneur Launch (This Post)
2. My Strategy On Twitter - The Nine I’s of  Twitter
3. My Daily “Four C”  Twitter Business Formula
4. How I Commercialize Twitter

If you want to be notified of future posts make sure you sign up for an RSS.

Back to my Twitter Entrepreneur Launch – A bit of shameful promotion.  The program contains 15 videos where I actually show you all my strategies, plans, action and tools that I use on Twitter and my results!  You know there are hundreds of tools you can use on Twitter some free and some paid. It is totally overwhelming at times, with new things launched every day it seems.  Twitter itself has a blog identifying just a small portion of these tools and websites.

 

What I do differently in Twitter Entrepreneur is not only show you exactly what I use, but step-by-step in videos how I use them and the results that those actions generate. (Example How I drive on average 300 clicks every time I tweet a message with a link). The program carries a 30 day money back guarantee – No Questions asked. Try it out – if it doesn’t work you get your money back!  I provide personal coaching via phone, skype, email – I want my customers to succeed in growing a Targeted Loyal Twitter Following. If they can’t  – They can get their money back.  Following my programs people can duplicate my results – it’s totally in your hands.   Under the new Tiwtter rules I went from 2000 followers to almost 15,000 followers in 30 days!  Now you get a looksie inside to see exactly how I did it and what I used to accomplish that amazing feat!

 

One of my personal peeves is how many twitterers there out there sending tweets about programs they use that “add 19,000 followers in 90 days”, “400 followers everyday” and then when you go look at their profile they have a couple hundred followers!!!!  When I say I added 30,000 followers in 90 days I did – go check out my growth rate on Twitter Counter I continue to maintain that same growth rate – even though Twitter changes the game every 30 days or so.

In addition to my Twitter program I will include 5 bonuses for you to use in your business for joining my Twitter Entrepreneur Training worth over $300.  One of these items is a copy of Joel Comm’s Twitter Power Book

 

You really have 1000′s of new friends you can meet and nothing to lose except the time you waste now!

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