Mirek’s Blog

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I am still shocked reading that Canadian government banned importing Canadian Flag from China. Shocked not by this ban, but by the fact alone. What are we not being able to produce that on our ground? What about national pride?
Living in this country for almost 20 years, I observe that although being a multinational country, Canada is unable to build national entity. While American citizen will say “I’m an American” no matter what his background, Canadian will say “I’m Irish Canadian, Italian Canadian” even if being Canadian citizen for couple of generations. Why?
Is Canadian culture not strong enough for outsiders to fully assimilate to new day-to-day reality? Not that I am again multiculturalism, but I am also a great believer in two things: balance and logic.
Again these two comes great fascination with China. Surely it went well from balance not only because of Canadian Flag. Why the most technologically advanced country in the world, USA, cease to produce TVs with market much bigger than China? If nothing changes, cars may follow sooner than we can expect.
The irony is so rich you could cut it…
And simultaneously, we have a massive inflection point in the world.

It used to be that the countries of the world looked to America- the champion of free enterprise- to lead the world out of recession.

Now they look to a Communist led country: China.
China is moving world markets, including American. The Dow is moving according to what Chinese leaders say about their economy and stimulus programs. You may hear voices that China is manipulating course of dollar, thus putting in jeopardy economic conditions all around the world.

Speaking of China and her US debt, the Chinese premier publicly stated he was “worried” about the integrity of the dollar and how the US was inflating away the value of it.

The balance of trade between both countries is going rapidly apart, with advantage of China and put America in huge debt.
US have the new President, people love him, and trust him, but what is he really doing to run out of depression?

Bailout is the last thing than can make any improvement, as is supporting the weakest industries and companies being in financial difficulties long before recession hit.
Bailout, in such situation, is nothing more that taking huge debt to be paid by this and future generations and without any guarantee for making economy any better.
So is Obama working toward becoming the healer of failing giant, or maybe the printer of the century. Printer of money, to be clear.The gap between Chinese and American military will also close as economies balance out between the two countries.

Most importantly, the Chinese have quickly learned that they can no longer afford to pin their hopes on producing products for Americans. Americans have slowed down buying and China must learn to consume its own products.

What is the main reason for fascination with China?
Huge market?
That what probably was in the beginning. But, in effect, world is flooded with Chinese product.
Looks like hunter become hunted himself.

Opportunity Cost

Warren Buffet – the world’s richest and most successful investor – has said that he considers this one factor above ALL others when deciding how to invest his money.

* Strength of the company? – no
* High profit margins? -no
* Price of the stock? -no
* Return On Investment? -no

What is?

Opportunity Cost.

What does that mean and how does it apply to us?
Well, opportunity cost means:
What else could you be doing with that money?
What other, possibly more important, opportunities are being missed (the cost) because your resources are tied up with another investment?
This same concept of opportunity cost applies to time and energy because whenever you spend your time on something, you’re making an investment. And if there’s one thing you’ll find that all highly successful marketers or business owners have in common, is that…

They all value their time more than anything else.

When most people think of “assets,” things like real estate, precious metals, bonds and stock portfolios come to mind.
Time is usually left completely out of the picture.
But the truth is, time is more valuable than all of these and smart business owners are more careful and selective about how they spend this asset than anything else!
Why?
Because it’s the ONE thing you can’t get any more of.
Unlike money and other “physical” assets which can literally be had in any quantity once you learn HOW to invest your time and WHAT to invest it in. Now the reason this idea of “opportunity cost” is so significant is because when you choose to do something, by default, that means you choose NOT to do something else.
And if the stuff that you choose to do falls under the category of low value activities, you’ve got a serious problem.
Not only is your time being spent on things that do little or nothing to advance your business, but it also means you have that much LESS time to spend on the things that do.
Have you ever had a day where you literally did 100 things and yet when you looked back on it, you had absolutely no idea what you got done?
This is called being busy without being productive and it’s a result of not knowing what the core money-making activities of your business are.
Here’s a great tip for you I learned that virtually guarantees every single day you have is highly productive:
Always take care of the high value activities FIRST THING every day – or as close to first thing as you can get – no matter what.
That way, regardless of what else you do after that, it’s already been a good day.
If you don’t take care of the most important things right off the bat… life will get in the way. Guaranteed.
Due to the inherent craziness of life, it’s inevitable that some things aren’t going to get done. It’s your job to make sure that when you do run out of time in the day, the core money-making activities are not on the list of things that got pushed off until tomorrow.
Okay, so what ARE the high value activities you should be focused on? Here’s how I’ve broken things down for my business:

Zero/Negative Value Activities.

Worry
Figuring out excuses/”reasons” why something won’t work
Idle chatter
Surfing the internet
Checking email
Instant messaging

Low Value Activities.

Prospecting
Cold-calling
Errands for business
Repetitive/Administrative work
High Value Activities.

Positioning yourself so that people seek you out
Setting up sales and marketing systems that simplify the grunt work for you and set out all but the best prospects
Simplifying up your follow up systems that build relationships with prospects and customers
Developing relationships with mentors and people you can learn from
Studying copywriting and direct response marketing.

-First and foremost, the heavy hitters only bothered with the people who were already looking for what they had.
-Secondly, they understood what people were really looking for in the first place. And so they offered more than an opportunity, which was just one puzzle piece in the overall picture. They offered their customers something of much greater value, something their companies could never provide:
Themselves and their expertise.
-They learned about sales and marketing techniques from sources other than their company. Because what they were doing was not taught by any company in the industry.
-They invested in their customers first before they asked for money or any kind of commitment. This might sound corny, but it is the formula that every great marketer has used to build enormously profitable businesses.
-They gave people a true marketing system with which to build their business. They gave them the “how” rather than the “what.”

Good marketing is about delivering the right message, to the right person, at the right time.

If you are not using Twitter for business, you are missing out on a
huge opportunity.

Twitter is one of the fastest growing Web 2.0 networks available
and smart businesspeople, just like you, are adding this to their
arsenal of marketing weapons every single day.

It is one of the easiest and fastest ways to gather a close-knit
group of prospects, customers, clients, business partners, vendors,
that the world has ever seen. When you have a few thousand people
you can send a message to, in literally half a second, you have
immense power to bring money to your front door.

Literally, it is a craze that you should be jumping on if you have
the chance. To help ease your transition into this new Twitter
world, I’ve put together a series of free videos that I’d like to
share with you at absolutely no cost and I sincerely hope you enjoy
them.

I’ve laid out, for free, the easiest ways you can get started
getting followers on Twitter. (Followers are people on Twitter
who get to see every message you send out into the Twitter
universe.)
Follow me on Twtter: http://twitter.com/sandman2386

You should have this kind of power.

There are two ways to build your business – pretend to know or KNOW it!
If you know your business (and everything related to your business) then you are valuable to your audience, whether that’s one person or 150,000 people. You will draw crowds of people because they want to learn from you. You in turn feel valuable and are valuable which is what gives you confidence.
Completely let go of the idea that your splendid personality is what causes people to listen to you and join your business. It is not – it helps, but it is not the reason. For people to follow you – you’ve got to know your stuff.
You will be valuable as a presenter because you know what you’re talking about, and that is the only legitimate reason that causes people to listen and follow you.
So, as rapidly as you can, learn your business. Don’t make excuses that you don’t know the business by claiming that you’re new! I’ve met people who tell me that they’re new; I ask them how long they’ve been in the business and they tell me three years. This is not new! A new person is someone who has been involved under a week or two.
There’s so much you will benefit by knowing your business in network marketing. So, don’t delay learning.
You see, for you to be valuable to prospects, you want to be able to unconfuse people. The first step in un-confusing people as a presenter is for you to be unconfused! This industry has way too much of “the confused leading the confused.”
If there is such a thing as “the best way to sell,” I’d say it would be named “The unconfuse the customer method.” Obviously, I just made this up right now – it’s not something that has been written about – not that I’m aware of, anyway.
You see, based on the current times we live in, there is actually too much information and not enough time to evaluate it. Evaluation means to determine something’s value or worth. If a person wants to know about a subject today, there’s no problem in finding information about it – but it’s knowing how to determine the most important thing or things about that subject that is missing today.
Read closely the following words because most people miss this:
Someone unfamiliar with something can not easily locate and discern what is important about a subject from what is unimportant. Your value to a prospect is your ability to do this. Never forget this.
So you could say that a person “unfamiliar” with a subject is a confused person and most of the time doesn’t even know what they are confused about. Here’s the problem – a confused person puts off buying your product or service; a confused person puts off joining your company.
You should not ask a person to make a decision on something until you’ve unconfused them.
A person’s ability to make a confident decision is based on there not being any confusion.
Someone who knows what they’re talking about can swiftly see how to unconfuse their prospect because they know all aspects and how they fit into the prospect’s life. They know what to present and when to present it.
In contrast, someone who is pretending to know what they’re talking about will increase the prospect’s confusion because they’re trying to hide the fact that they don’t know all – so they use big words to try to SOUND like they know what they’re talking about – but they really don’t. This increases the prospect’s confusion.
In summary, when you know what you’re talking about, you are a professional. Therefore you must know the subjects that make up your business.
In general those subjects would be network marketing, your company, and your company’s products – but obviously it goes much deeper than that.
Please leave your comments about this subject at the end of this article. Tell me what you feel is critical to know about your business as well as when you’ve seen this important quality violated. Also, please ask any questions you have around this subject.
I have seen network marketing change the lives of many people (mine included), and now you’re sitting in the responsibility seat of exposing to people a way out of the biggest hassles of life – no time and no money. Don’t take that responsibility lightly. Be prepared. Know what you’re talking about.

regards