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The VisionQuest90 Blueprint

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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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 6: Starting with networking when you don't know anyone.

April 8, 2009 by 5 Comments

This is a fantastic topic. A year and a half ago I showed up at my current BNI group, and despite having lived in Northern Virginia for years I didn’t have ANY connection to the members of that chapter. My current network was relatively small and there was no way (at least that I knew at the time) to leverage my current network to break into this entirely new networking scenario.

So the answer to this question held a special interest to me because I have really been able to expand my networking, especially from what I have learned from sticking around Coach Powell :).

I have since gone into entirely new networks and worked hard to make myself known in those networks. But I have often been able to leverage my current network to usher that process along.

If you were suddenly without your current network, what are some strategies that you think that you might employ to get a new group of people to know you, like you, and trust you?

I know that I would work very hard to establish my competancy before anything else. That way people would be encouraged to try out my services or products and then I would have a chance to show them my character as a person. Thats what I have done with countless BNI chapters that I have visited and it has worked pretty well so far.

What are some strategies that you have used?

God Bless,
-Coach Kolansky

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Where should I go to network?

April 7, 2009 by 7 Comments

So we have come to the last topic from week one of the 30 days of Coffee Tea You and Me. I’m sure that you are wondering why we are ending the week on a Tuesday (actually the final topic from week one will be posted on Thursday when the Coach answers the upcoming question), that is because the event of Coffee Tea You and Me is on a Friday. So we are moving in sync with the actual event of Coffee Tea You and Me.

Today I want to get some feedback from you guys about locations that you go to network. Much like what we discussed yesterday about groups that we can go to in order to network, there are also places which aren’t “networking events” that we can become a part of.

What are some places that you have had opportunity to network in? Hit us up in the comments below. Be sure to be on the mailing list to get Coach Powell’s answer two days from now :). And as always, practice your networking skills by sharing this discussion with your fellow colleagues!

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Just what is the VisionQuest90 and what has it done for small business?

April 6, 2009 by 2 Comments

Hey Guys,

This was a quick video we shot at Panera to share with you about Marvin’s process which has changed so many lives :).

If you have been one of Marvin’s clients who participated (or are participating) in the VisionQuest90 why don’t you leave a comment and let us all know exactly how it worked for you :).

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6VjJV1H9yQ

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Networking Groups

April 6, 2009 by 2 Comments

Finding the right networking groups is not always just an easy process of finding the nearest business chamber and signing up. Networking is a very complex beast which rears its presence in many different types of groups and organizations.

I know that when I got started with networking (as we briefly talked about in Friday’s community question) I didn’t really have a plan as to where I should be going to network. All I knew was that in some rough sense: networking = business. So what did I do? I “shotgunned” it and visited as many networking events as I possibly could. It was expensive and tiring to say the least! However, I have managed to slow down and target my networking a bit more (as Marvin discussed in his answer on how to differentiate an advanced networker from a novice). Now I am looking for networking groups on a fairly regular basis, but I am often looking for networking opportunities when “networking” isn’t attached to the title. “Mixers,” “Networking luncheons,” etc, don’t always prove to be great networking events for me because they are often filled with people that I’d rather buy from! I want to be in a spot where my customers are socializing. That way I’ll be more inclined to sell or make connections, than to purchase!

While we wait for the Coach to answer this question (remember that you need to be part of the mailing list in order to get the Coach’s answer to this question) what are some networking groups that you have found useful for your own networking? Post them to the comments below!

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The 30 Days of Coffee Tea You and Me – Networking Strategies Workshop

March 22, 2009 by 4 Comments

Starting on April 3rd Become a Master Networker!

Coffee Tea You and Me is a live event which occurs every Friday afternoon at the Panera Bread here in Centreville/Clifton, VA. At this event, Coach Powell shares some of his secrets to using networking for your own success. Over the last few months, we have been recording these sessions where the Coach answers real questions from real people who are trying to make some REAL NETWORKING happen!

The idea behind this is to boost everyone’s networking abilities by sharing a 5-10 minute clip from Coffee Tea You and Me every morning. This tip will energize you and get you ready to go out into the wild world of networking and take down that prospect you have been going after for so long!

Some topics that you are going to see answered to are:

  • How do I get in the door to make a sale when they won’t even take my call?
  • How do I build a network which will be beneficial to me?
  • How do I build a network without spending all of my day JUST on building a network?
  • How do I get started with networking when I just simply don’t know anybody!
  • How do I increase the potential of my current network?
  • How do I communicate with my network for maximum results?
  • How do I stop wasting my time and money on networking and start making some magic happen?
  • How do I create some energy behind my personal and business brand with networking?

Remember that Networking is both online and offline. Networking is the most effective form of marketing because it is the best way to make “word of mouth” marketing happen. If you aren’t already on the Coach Powell mailing list then just stick your name and email into the form below so that as we cycle through these lessons you will be able to access them :).

Get in before April 3rd so you get every one of the thirty days of Coffee Tea You and Me :).

Name:

Email:

Join the Revolution!
-Coach Kolansky

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