Tips from the Top
Expert advice to help you on the road to success
Recently I learned that a good friend was making a move away from being a business owner to joining the traditional workforce. I was interested to understand his decision points that were taking him from devoting 100% focus to less than half his time. After all, this wasn’t a member of the Shark Tank panel moving along to invest in the next potential success story, but rather what I learned later to be a “Quality of Life” decision.
Should you expect leads each and every day? Of course, if you are selling money. So this morning, waking up to my normal routine of rolling over to check my emails, I thought “What was wrong with the number of leads I did Monday through Friday?” It never seems to be enough. I wrestle with being reasonable to the industry, not stalking them, yet I want to deliver for my clients the letters they pen and I believe are good enough to get the lead to respond.
Tomorrow is the Super Bowl and the match-up is set as the New England Patriots will take on the defending champion Seattle Seahawks at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Football fans are among the most passionate in the world and they know this game inside and out. When the conversation gets going, you want to make sure that you’re in the loop with everything that’s going on. Here are a few basics to get you started…
Imagine a world where you have the winning lottery numbers before they come out of the machine. You’re not going to be a mega-millionaire by simply sitting on that information- you have to go out there and play those numbers. You have to be in it to win it! The same theory applies to data and lead generation.
In terms of production, yesterday was a very slow day across America. Financial reports and Excel sheets took a back seat to corner kicks and a soggy field. Employees were sitting in conference rooms, but not for a meeting, it was to watch the contest between our beloved United States soccer team against Germany.
