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How to Solve Business Problems

Michael Port — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:59:37 +0000

Audio Recording and Transcript of Seminar on How to Get More Clients with Michael Port, David Frey, and Meredith Liepelt

Michael Port — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:41:28 +0000

Here is the Day 2 Fearful2Fabulous transcript from a tele-seminar I did with Amy Palmer on how to get more clients and book yourself solid. Also included in the PDF is the transcript from tele-seminars on how to get more referrals with David Frey and how to raise your celebrity profile with Meredith Liepelt. You can also listen to the audio recording. Enjoy!

Michael Port’s Book Yourself Solid Wisdom

Michael Port — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:57:28 +0000

Long after people forget what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel. – Carl W. Buechner
When you’re fully self-expressed, fully demonstrating your values and your views, you’ll naturally attract and draw to yourself those you’re best suited to work with, and you’ll push away those you’re not meant to work with.
Marketing and sales isn’t about trying to convince, coerce, or manipulate people into buying your services. It’s about putting yourself out in front of, and offering your services to, those whom you are meant to serve — people who already need and are looking for your services.
You must offer what your potential clients want to buy, not what you want to sell or think they should want to buy. You must be able to look at your services from your client’s perspective—their urgent needs and compelling desires.
The greatest strategy for personal and business development on the planet is bold self-expression.
If you don’t want to make a difference, consider making y our living as something other than a service professional. The operative word is service.
We hear the question, “What do you do for a living?” all the time. Your professional category alone is the wrong answer.
When you’re passionate and excited about what you do and you let it show, it’s incredibly attractive. Real passion can’t be faked and there’s nothing more appealing and convincing than knowing someone is speaking from the heart.
Begin to think of and refer to yourself as a category authority—an expert in your field.
You are in the business of serving other people as you stand in the service of your destiny and express yourself through your work.
If you’ve been feeling like you can’t, or shouldn’t, be paid to do what you love, you must let that limiting belief go if you’re to be booked solid.
A connection with another human being means that you’re in sync with, and relevant to each other. Let that be our definition of networking.
If you feel called to share a message, it’s because there are people in the world who are waiting to hear it.
There are certain people you’re meant to serve and others you’re not. If you can help other professionals attract business through you, you’re creating more abundance for everyone involved.

Why People Buy – Anything and Everything

Michael Port — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:22:03 +0000

People want to express their values. Plain and simple. And they do so through the products and services they buy. If you saw a fat casino tab, Smirnoff delivery charges and a Hummer lease payment on my Amex statement, you’d know what I value. However, if my charges included yoga sessions, continuing education in MIT’s Birthing of Giants program and the compost for a backyard vegetable garden, you’d get a different sense of values.

Forget Self-Help. Will Rogers had the answers to life’s toughest questions…

Michael Port — Sat, 08 May 2010 13:41:32 +0000

Simple but Brilliant and full of truths from Will Rogers. Enjoy!

Will Rogers, who died in a 1935 plane crash with his best friend, Wylie Post, was probably the greatest philosophical sage this country ever has known. Never slap a man who’s chewing tobacco.

Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.
There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.
Never miss a good chance to shut up. Always drink upstream from the herd.
If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it back into your pocket.
There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
If you’re riding’ ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it’s still there.
Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier’n puttin’ it back.
After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring.
He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you’re full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

ABOUT GROWING OLDER…

First ~ Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
Second ~ The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
Third ~ Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me; I want people to know ‘why’ I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way, and some of the roads weren’t paved.
Fourth ~ When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.
Fifth ~ You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.
Sixth ~ I don’t know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.
Seventh ~ One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it is such a nice change from being young.
Eighth ~ One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been.
Ninth ~ Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.
Tenth ~ Long ago, when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it’s called golf.

And, finally ~ If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you are old.