Have A Laugh Fridays – Treadmill Dance
Thanks to my wife for showing me this a few days ago.
I can totally do this:
I’m So Proud Of My Wife – Check This out!
My wife has been doing some very cool stuff for the past few weeks!
Check out this great post.
Inspiring, and incredibly motivating!
Brand You: How Your Personal Brand Matters
This is just a FANTASTIC post on personal branding! Take a few minutes to absorb this information over the weekend.
I came across this amazing slide show presentation on how to brand the most important brand to all of us: yourself. Brand you is more than just your hereditary characteristics and your physicality infrastructure; it’s your daily habits, how you present yourself, how you express and maintain your intangibles and what information you know and share.
Personal branding always stays with you, whether you’re cognizant of it or not. So make sure you’re aware of the implications that a negative brand can carry, and the rewards and opportunities that a positive brand can carry.
When people talk about your reputation and are asked to describe you, these are concise statements about what your brand means and how others perceive your brand. Make sure it aligns with how you see yourself.
Check out this incredible slide show, thanks to @BrianFanzo:
I’m FINALLY on Instagram! How ‘Bout You?
Hey Everyone!
Sorry I have been MIA for so long. I started a new job in February which I LOVE, but I have been very busy travelling and meeting everyone.
I am also working on a new project which is very exciting.
Hopefully all is well with you.
So big social media news from me. I have finally taken the plunge and joined Instagram 🙂
You can find me at:
https://instagram.com/timmushey/
When I had some time off over Christmas and in to January, I repurposed a lot of my blog content on LinkedIn Pulse. You can see it over at:
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/timmushey
Since we are on a roll connecting today, you can also find me at:
https://www.facebook.com/SellLeadSucceed
https://twitter.com/TimMushey73
https://plus.google.com/+TimMushey/about
https://www.youtube.com/user/TimMushey/videos
I will follow back.
Have a FANTASTIC Thursday.
All the best!
Tim
How Educated Are You?
We know it all
We have all the right answers
Our learning was done the last day we walked out of school
That is narrow-minded thinking!
- Our brain needs “exercise”
- Keep growing and learning
When is the last time you listened to a great podcast, grabbed a book or read a blog?
I know talk radio and music can be fun to listen to while driving, but schedule “educational windshield time” each week.
Need a new reference group?
Check out http://www.meetup.com
And see what groups are congregating in your community!
You might be surprised at the great new contacts that you make!
Let’s Connect!
You can find me at:
If you have any questions about moving forward with your business, I would love to hear from you. You can find me at: TimMushey@gmail.com
The 5 Star Five – My Best Selling Tips Ever!
When I was recently preparing a speech to up and coming sales reps, I realized that I had compiled a list of selling tips that I wanted to share today. Here are the best of the best:
#1 Consult, Don’t Regurgitate – better to listen to your prospect and find out what they really need, rather than “barf out” everything you know
#2 Share, Celebrate and Support – be a fantastic teammate!
#3 Manage Time, Plan and Prioritize – not the “sexy” part of selling, but crucial to success
#4 Fly Under The Radar, Don’t Be “On It” – if your boss does not have to follow-up with you about things not getting done, that is a good thing!
#5 The Path of “Most Resistance” Pays Dividends – anyone can do the easy stuff, but tough it out and do the difficult (or less desirable tasks) day in and day out
BONUS…
#6 Customers And Prospects Are Human Beings Too – get to know them on a personal level, make notes and show that you care about them as people too
Keep these close by and refer back to them when you need a gentle reminder of what it takes to succeed in sales!
Good luck!
Have a Laugh Fridays – “Office Linebacker”
“Terry Tate, Office Linebacker” was a Superbowl commercial in 2003.
Still one of my favourites.
Have a FANTASTIC weekend everyone!
Where Did It All Go Wrong?
This has been by far my most popular post in the nine months that I have blogged, and I thought it was time to revisit it and keep the conversation going. There are some incredible comments up for review. Some of my childhood friends even chimed in to challenge me with some of my content in the post. I would love you to take a read and respond with your honest feelings on the subject. Maybe I will turn this conversation in to a mini e-book or something in the future because it sure captivated my readers. Enjoy!
I recently returned from a trip to my hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Winnipeg is 8 hours north of Minneapolis, Minnesota if you are unaware. This is the first time in my career that I am able to work in my hometown since I moved away 11 years ago, and I was very excited to reconnect in my community.
Although most of the trip was awesome, I had a surprising conversation with somebody from my past that bothered me greatly. For those of you who know me well, I have “facial recognition software” engrained in my brain for remembering people who I grew up with. I was at the 100th anniversary of the suburb that I grew up in last Saturday and approached at least 15 people from my youth that I had not seen in 4EVER! That was so much fun. I digress…
I was at a trade show earlier in the week and ordered supper at a concession stand. I changed my drink order, and the person serving me smiled and gave a double take. They saw that I was wearing a name tag, and asked if I went to school in the suburb that I actually grew up in. I paused for a moment and said yes. Instead of saying that I did not remember them, I asked what their name was. After they replied, I instantly recognized their face.
The difficult part of the dialog is they hesitated to say their name out of embarrassment for the job that they were doing. I took a few moments to speak with them after receiving my drink, and saw them the next day as well.
21 years removed from high school, I was not expecting somebody to be working in that setting, and my “facial recognition software” was not activated at the time. If they were proud of the job that they were doing, and did not care what others thought, they would have had no issue telling me what their name was.
There is a silver lining for this person. It is never too late to change career paths. The generation of “go to school, get a job, find somebody, get married, have some kids, work at the same thing for 40+ years and retire” is long gone.
One of my best friends dropped everything in his late 30’s, started working towards a totally different career, and is now very close to completing his studies.
We can’t turn back the clock and hit “reset” to that day that we walked out of high school with that diploma in hand, but we can certainly hit the “reset” button RIGHT NOW and start working towards something more fulfilling.
If there is anything this experience really taught me, is that I have to keep working towards what I really want out of life, no matter how hard it seems sometimes. I would rather fall flat on my face and know that I tried, than think about it, and never do anything. I don’t care if you are in sales, management, general business, or doing whatever keeps you paying the bills, but be sure that you are happy doing it.
I will always keep trying, scratching and clawing towards surpassing my goals, no matter how tough things seem to get. Just ask those who played hockey against me when I was a one man wrecking crew pushing for victory as a kid!
- How is your job/career going?
- Are you jumping out of bed excited about what you are doing from the moment your feet hit the floor each morning?
- If you had an unexpected meeting with somebody from your past, would you be embarrassed to tell them what you are doing?
- If so, whatcha gonna do about it?
Are You Being A “Business Robot”?
They say that insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results!
• Things not go your way last year with respect to your business or sales territory?
• Have your tried and tested systems brought consistent lack-lustre results?
• Are you becoming less motivated every day, and need some new perspective?
• Have you been diagnosed with the “February Blues“?
Or….
You had a great year, but still want to take your success to another level?
GREAT NEWS!
You have come to the right place for inspiration and new perspective for 2015!
Check out these sales resources:
• Your Sales Playbook http://yoursalesplaybook.com/
• Bob Burg http://www.burg.com/
• Sales Playbook LinkedIn Group (40,000+ members strong!) http://linkd.in/1dbrsU8
Incredible Podcasts
• Michael Hyatt http://michaelhyatt.com/thisisyourlife
• John Lee Dumas http://www.entrepreneuronfire.com/podcasts/
• Pat Flynn http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/category/podcast/
A fantastic social media book!
• Jab Jab Jab Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk http://garyvaynerchuk.com/jjjrh/
If you need any other resources in sales, leadership, networking or social media, feel free to leave a comment or email me at: TimMushey@gmail.com
Let’s make 2015 the best year ever!
Oh yeah! If we have not connected on Facebook yet, why not stop by and “like” me?
The Five Star 5 – Just Go “Google” Yourself!
Remember way way back in the 1990’s if somebody wanted to find out what you were all about, they either had to ask somebody that knew you, or ask you directly?
Well this internet thing has been a real game changer for researching people quickly!
I hop on Google several times a month to see what shows up for my name, and the name of my blog.
What I look for is:
- What shows up on the first page (and what may have dropped off)
- What new search results are showing up
- What new “shares” of my content are showing up; where I owe somebody a thank you
- Is there anything negative being that I should look in to
- It’s just really fun to scroll through lots of pages of results as I reflect on my online journey!
Bonus – some people have very common names, so it is a good idea to see where your content may be getting confused with somebody elses’
Your brand can become very powerful, and what shows up on web searches can help big time by providing people with the opportunity to get to know you very quickly.
If what shows up online is all positive, then you are good to go! If you are seeing a lot of negativity, probably time to review your branding strategies and assess some changes for the future.
- When is the last time you “Googled” yourself?
- Were you surprised with some of the search results (good or bad)?
- Are you going to pay more attention to your online search results in the future?
The tools are there to take your game to the next level. You might as well embrace them and build as strong a personal brand possible!
Sell, Lead, Succeed! 