Empower Your Assistant By Helping Them See What They Are Doing Right
September 30, 2010 by Simon · Leave a Comment
My client is feeling like their assistant can be doing more than they are doing because they have demonstrated that they have the capabilities. My client’s assistant is preparing client files for life insurance quotes, but my client is making the calls to the life insurance companies to get the life insurance quotes which includes [...]
Matt Anderson – The Referral Authority Walks His Talk
September 29, 2010 by Simon · Leave a Comment
Matt Anderson – The Referral Authority is someone that truly walks his talk. Matt and I met as fellow speakers at the Vancouver 2010 MDRT, we have kept in touch and are helping each other understand how our different and unique coaching programs work. Over the weekend, Matt referred me to four speaking opportunities for [...]
Social Media At Work, At Work, At Work
September 28, 2010 by Simon · Leave a Comment
Here’s an example of Social Media at work, at work, at work. If you have been reading, you will know that I qualified for the top 20 candidates in Advisor.ca’s ‘Name That Visionary Contest’: Who are the Top Ten leaders in the industry today? Click here to read the broadcast/approach that I sent to my E-Newsletter [...]
Marketing Outside The “Wall Street – Money Never Sleeps” Box Office
September 27, 2010 by Simon · Leave a Comment
“Two for the Wall Street – Money Never Sleeps show please” I said to the cashier at the Avalon Theatre in Nanaimo on Friday evening, September 24, 2010. ( Laura and I decided to go out on Friday evening as it seems to make the weekend feel like it is longer. ) The cashier said; [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-26
September 26, 2010 by Simon · Leave a Comment
Are you building a business or the next sale, planning or surviving, measuring success or failure, building a successful future or failure? # [Clear Your Roadblocks] 5 Steps & 4 E-Mails & 102 Questions To Accelerate Your Hiring Process http://aweber.com/b/21bPu # [Leading Advisor] Please Vote for me in Round 2 of Advisor.ca's Name That Visionary [...]
Please Vote for Me -Advisor.ca’s Name That Visionary Contest
September 24, 2010 by Simon · Leave a Comment
Dear All,I’ve been shortlisted for Advisor.ca’s ‘Name That Visionary Contest’: Who are the Top 10 leaders in the industry today? Round One is over and the candidates have been narrowed down to 20 entries. The next step is to vote for the top ten entries and you can do this by clicking here; http://www.advisor.ca/partnersuccesscenter/aca10/bioform.html There [...]
Business & Personal Balance
September 24, 2010 by Simon · Leave a Comment
This Friday’s blog is demonstrating a commitment to business and personal balance … and part of me is feeling absent of focus and material to blog about at this time because I am working ON the business projects versus IN the business given it is the first business month of the year September 2010-2011. The [...]
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Dates for 2012 TBA - stay tuned!
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Now Reading
Planned books:
- Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- The Book Of Air And Shadows: A Novel by Michael Gruber
Current books:
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Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon
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Paulo Coelho: A Warrior’s Life: The Authorized Biography by Fernando Morais
Recent books:
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Zafon
- The Outlander by Gil Adamson
- The Book Of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
