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April 27, 2009 by 2 Comments

Hey Gang,

As you know, I have been orchestrating Coach Powell’s website for a while now. My real business has been the computer repair business and the Coach and I have traded a lot of services back and forth with each other.

Marvin never really intended to put up a website and have a strong web presence. In fact I can distinctly remember him publicly proclaiming that he didn’t have a website and didn’t need one.

But through a lot of prodding I managed to get him focused on building a web presence because as you and I both know, he has been a LOT more effective in helping all of us with his ideas and processes for business improvement.

I know that without his key ideas on vision I would have been heading for big trouble this year as my business begins to grow beyond my own ability to handle all the work! I don’t know about you, but my biggest fear was that I hadn’t properly thought through where I was heading in business and in life. I am working so hard to make things work that it is difficult to keep my barings on where I am working towards. But through the vision exercises that he has taught me in person and through this website’s content I have been able to know whats right and whats wrong in my own personal and business life.

The main thing we have been working on in the last few months has been trying to get the word out about a process that Marvin created called the VisionQuest90 process. His intention, originally, was to use it only with his Coaching clients to “coach” them through becoming better business owners. Gosh! How selfish is that, keeping all the good stuff for himself ;)!

However, as part of his website, he agrees with me that it would be best to teach you how to use the VisionQuest90 process by yourself. That way you would be able to utilize this powerful process he developed on your own time. That, by no means, devalues his coaching in your business, but this will give you the tools to be able start down the path to do some of the following things:

  • Properly set and reach business goals.
  • Learn how to consistently make the right decisions for yourself and your business. (And how to sleep peacefully at night knowing that they are indeed the RIGHT decisions 😉 ).
  • Get excited about where you are going.
  • Get other people excited about where you are going.
  • KNOW where you are going (this has been key for me, personally).
  • Stay focused on finishing your projects.

On May 7th in the afternoon he is going to be teaching this process in detail for the first time ever. I’ll be posting up a registration form later this week, but in the mean time, what I have done is recorded a 40 minute blueprint of the VisionQuest90 Process.

Marvin and I recorded this yesterday at the local Panera Bread (so forgive the background noise). And MAN the allergies were killing me, so if you hear me weeping over Marvin’s incredible process it is just that it touched me right where it counts (and I’m on allergy overload).

This audio file goes deep into how the process works. I asked Marvin as many questions as I could think of and tried to make sure that we got as much detail as we possibly could fit into the 40 minute audio. I know that there is a TON more to be taught, but this is essentially the core of the model which you can apply to your life tomorrow if you wanted :).

Just click here to listen. Right click to download.

Keeping your success in focus,
-Dan Kolansky and the Ninety Day Power Play

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Strategies for Speed Networking

April 21, 2009 by 2 Comments

Most of the topics we have covered on networking recently have been more abstract in nature. Today’s topic is the last one I had set under “week three.” It is Speed Networking.

I actually have never been to a speed networking session and from Coach Powell’s response which we’ll hear tomorrow it doesn’t really even seem like I will ever need to.

What has been your experience with speed networking? Did you meet the people that you wanted to meet? Was it profitable for you?

If you have been, what were the strategies that you employed to get effective results from this very specific form of networking?

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Day 14: How to differentiate yourself in a flooded market

April 20, 2009 by 6 Comments

This question was originally asked by a financial planner. For those who don’t know much of the financial planning industry, it is tightly regulated to help protect the population from fraudulent or, well, dumb financial planners.

So the end result is that you end up with a ton of people who essentially have the same service and product offering. So being different in that type of industry is incredibly difficult.

Coach Powell had a wonderful answer to this question which I’m going to post up tomorrow (yes, I said tomorrow. I’m putting the answers a little bit closer to the posts). Until the answer goes up though, what are some things that you have done to be different in your own industry? Maybe your industry isn’t flooded like this woman’s was, but there is almost always competition :). Why do you stand out? And can you sum it up quick enough to catch people’s attention?

I know my differentiation, it is right in my tag-line for my computer repair business. I help you love your computer again.

That gets people’s attention :).

Hit us up in the comments below :). Why are you different from all the other people in your industry?

Join the revolution!
-Coach Kolansky

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Why did you want to be what you wanted to be when you grow up

April 20, 2009 by 3 Comments

Lets continue the discussion which we started last week. As we are edging closer to Marvin’s seminar on the VisionQuest90 this topic is actually becoming more and more relevent.

We had some amazing responses (some people actually kind of found themselves again, that was pretty cool to be a part of) to last week’s blog post about who you want to be when you grow up.

Today’s question is more along the lines of why. Why did you pick the thing you wanted to be when you grow up? What was it about that profession which got your blood going?

I shared last week that I have been pretty one-track minded for most of my life when it came to picking out what I wanted to be. The reason why is this, I saw time and again (from my Grandmother running her own dance studio, to my first job where my boss ran his own computer repair company) people who truly were experiencing life. They all knew how to have a good time, and somehow they made a living doing it :).

I didn’t get into business to be lazy, by any stretch of the imagination. But I did see that if I wanted to be able to experience life, entrepreneurship would give me that chance better than anything else.

I also knew that those who were entrepreneurs did tend to be able to spend more time with their families. And not to get too personal, but that was something which I did truly miss as a child in my family. We have always been a whole family, but my Dad worked all week long and so his schedule ruled the house. I only saw him on the weekends, really. It didn’t sit right with me and I (kind of figuring this out as I type this) made a silent vow to myself to have things different when I had my own home.

Again, entrepreneurship provided that option to my household. To be able to work from home was a huge plus to me. And so I chose that profession :).

So…. that was my story. Your turn ;). Comments, please?

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What do you want to be when you grow up?

April 17, 2009 by 8 Comments

It is always interesting when I am at a networking event and I ask someone how they got into the line of work that they are in. I get all kinds of answers, but often the resounding thing that I hear (with a few exceptions) is that they did not plan to be where they are now.

I don’t know about you, but I am exactly where I want to be at this point in my life. There is (despite what my wife may think 😉 ) an overarching plan that I am following for my life which I have been developing since I was in my teens.

The plan has changed some, but overall, I have ALWAYS wanted to be an entrepreneur. I like business. Always have. Likely always will :).

The other night Marvin and I were discussing this because we had been talking about his VisionQuest90 process. I was asking him about what this process does for people that they might not already know about. He told me that the process helps people capture who they wanted to be when they were nine years old. How cool is that? I’m sure you knew what you wanted to be when you were nine years old. A fireman, an astronaught. As Marvin put it, it was the time of your life when you thought you could jump and then never have to come back down. That was magical, wasn’t it?

Why don’t you hit us up in the comments below. Are you what you wanted to be when you grew up? What did you want to be?

This should be a lot of fun :-D.

Join the Revolution!
-Dan Kolansky

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Community Day 13: Keeping your pipeline active.

April 17, 2009 by 5 Comments

This is a question which really pertains to all this doom and gloom going on regarding the economy. People are so afraid about not getting business right now, it is scary. Interestingly enough I have been getting a lot of feedback that small business has been doing exceptionally well at keeping their pipeline full.

What has been your experience? What are you doing right now to keep people coming back?

One of the biggest issues that I have is that when I go out networking I end up bringing in so much business that I just simply cannot handle it all. So I get caught up in delivering the service and then I forget to network, and then my pipeline goes dead. After a week or two I’m wondering where everyone went, lol :).

Do you all suffer from this issue? What have you done to keep your pipeline regularly full?

Hit us up in the comments below.

-Coach Kolansky

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Community Day 12: How do you stay in touch, personally?

April 16, 2009 by 3 Comments

Yesterday a marketing program launched called the Product Launch Forumla. This program has been revolutionary in marketing because it is all about how to use the internet to keep a “personal touch”. It is amazing too, because as the owner of the product says, the people who have purchased it have used it to make over $103 million dollars worth of income.

I’m not trying to make you go purchase it, what I’m really trying to do is illustrate just how important that personal touch really is. It is amazing in today’s day and age because it is possible to have such a personal touch in this impersonal world that you could have people think that y’all have been lifelong friends, yet you have yet to even meet each other. You might not even know their name.

I know Internet Entrepreneurs who have pull that off quite successfully. It is like the old adage goes, it isn’t who you know, it is who knows you.

So with all that said, the question of the day is, how do you manage your relationships? I don’t expect you to have a massive following of people who know everything about you, but I do suspect that there is a group of people out there who you want to maintain a personal interaction with. How do you go about doing it?

-Coach Kolansky

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Community Day 11: Finding Networking Opportunities

April 15, 2009 by 3 Comments

Today’s community question about finding networking opportunities.

This is more along the lines of the beginner who is getting started with networking, IMHO (in my humble opinion). I know that when I first got started I didn’t even know what a networking opportunity was.

Now I think that a networking opportunity is something along the lines of something that:

  • Connects me with someone who can help me develop my business.
  • Connects me with a group of people who will promote or help the growth of my business.
  • Puts me in a situation where I can help promote people who I am networked to.

I suppose it is about keeping your eyes open and being ready for oncoming networking opportunities.

But I want to hear from all of you. How do you find networking opportunities?

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Community Day 10: How many networking events should I attend?

April 14, 2009 by 5 Comments

Ooo…. We just went double digit on the 30 days. Go us!

Today’s question is pretty simple, what are your thoughts on how many networking events someone should attend?

I know for me, I have set the number at somewhere around 2-3 a week. But I know of some people that do as many as one every business day. I think that this is pretty heavily tied into yesterday’s question of how many people should you plan to meet at a networking event? Because it all comes down to the numbers. If you know that you need to meet X number of people in order to make enough money then you will need to attend Y number of events where you speak with Z number of people.

Simple algebra. Course, I never was a math guy.

Thoughts? Hit us up in the comments below. How many events do you attend?

Join the Revolution!
-Coach Kolansky

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Community Day 9: How Many People Can You Talk To At A Networking Event?

April 13, 2009 by 7 Comments

Hey Gang,

I know that this has been an area where I have been pretty bad about in my own personal networking. I know of people who attend a networking event and they buzz around the room meeting all kinds of new people. One person in particular is Marcus White. He’ll be at a networking event and it seems like he meets everyone that is in attendance, even if it is a few hundred people.

It is an incredible skill to establish a personal bond with all of those people because sometimes that means that he is only speaking to them for a minute at best.

For me, I tend to only build a connection with a handful of people. I’ll be doing good if I leave a networking event with five business cards with notes on the back of them. It has forced me to be pretty specific about who I talk to and why I speak with them. I know I should be doing better, but I enjoy deeper conversation so I’m always tempted to talk for longer than I should AT the event (I’ve been taught that the deeper conversation SHOULD come later when you meet the contact a second time.)

How many people do you think you should talk to at a networking event? Do you buzz around the room like Marcus or do you only meet a handful of people like myself?

Hit us up in the comments below!

Join the revolution!
-Coach Kolansky

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