The blog has been postless for a few days because I’ve been off at the World Internet Summit held in Auckland. It was a four day seminar with great speakers on all aspects of internet business and marketing. However I think it held a lot for bricks and mortar business owners as well.
Not least was being able to hang around with multi-millionaires and learnt how they grew and continued to grow their businesses. While most of them sold digital information products there were still a lot of marketing lessons to be learnt. Just a few little shifts in perspective gave me some great ideas for my own business.
What I thought might be interesting to share was the final session where each speaker was asked “What is the secret to your success?” Here are the answers from my notes:
Sean Roach - Never give up. You’ll hit walls but just keep going. Chase the dream, not the money.
Raymond Aaron - Find a mentor (he has 9) and use their experience.
Roy Carter - Have laser focus on a project until it’s completed. Don’t get distracted.
James Schramko - Ask better questions. Question everything. To make money create value.
Gail Bottomley - Focus. Don’t turn here or there… focus!
Alok Jain - Focus and persistence. Pick a proven model and stick to it.
Mark Ling - Paying other people to do what he hates. Hiring people who are better than him.
Shaune Clarke - Interviewing people accelerated his business. Don’t focus on what’s going wrong… focus on forward movement. Use dynamic leverage.
Simon Leung - Stopped taking notes and started taking action. Nothing matters if you don’t use it.
Dr Mike - Having a supportive wife and good support system. Be careful who you associate with. Becoming aware that there’s a different way to make money.
Koz - Do something. It doesn’t matter if you fail 100 or 1000 times. Every speaker has failed at least once if not several times. Increase your income step-by-step.
Scott Letourneau - Delegation and time management. Not having an open door policy with staff. Your time is gold. Take action.
In summary:
- Find a proven system for getting what you want
- Find a mentor who has walked the walk
- Take action
- Be prepared to fail but never give up
- Protect your time and delegate
- Surround yourself with supportive people
- Focus!
I hope you found this useful. I definitely enjoyed the weekend and look forward to staying in touch with all the people I met. Leave a comment on what you believe is critical to success or just say hi if you were at the event.
Now I’m off to take action on the ideas I learnt!
Interesting!
Doing business is not a rocket science, but maintaining business profitability is an important factor in any business. I will maintain my business profitability with online business and search engine optimization a supplement to it.