Love is the killer App: Book Review

                                                                                         

                                                                                 Jim's Review

     This a thin book with a powerful message that Tim Sanders delivers with lots of strategies, tip and resources

                                                               10 out of 10 stars

                                                                                  About book

Are you wondering what the next killer app will be? Do you want to know how you can maintain and add to your value during these rapidly changing times? Are you wondering how the word love can even be used in the context of business?

Instead of wondering, read this book and find out how to become a lovecat—a nice, smart person who succeeds in business and in life.

How do you become a lovecat? By sharing your intangibles. By that I mean:
Your knowledge: everything that comes from all the books that I’ll encourage you to devour.
Your network: the collection of friends and contacts you now have, which I’ll teach you how to grow and nurture.
Your compassion: that human warmth you already possess—in these pages I’ll convince you that you can show it freely at the office.

What happens when you do all this?
* You become a rich source of information to all around you.
* You are seen as a person with valuable insight.
* You are perceived as generous to a fault, producing surprise and delight.
* You double your business intelligence in one year.
* You triple your network of personal relationships in two years.
* You quadruple the number of colleagues in your life who love you like family.

In short, you become one of those amazing, outstanding people to whom everyone turns, who leads rather than follows, who never runs out of ideas, contacts, or friendship.

Here’s the real scoop: Nice guys don’t finish last. They rule!  Learn more and buy book

Patio Power Summer Series: Event Review

             Saturday July 21,2018

         
             It was an awesome afternoon to learn, share and socialize at the REC Room (255 Bremner Blvd) Lots of great conversation, amazing food and lots of fun!

                                                                

(Left to right) Maureen Short, Jennylyn James, Sujit K Reddy, Jim Pagaimtzis, Emilio Morales, Hisham Q

Jennylynd James and the awesome napkin

                                    

Book Review: Networking is not Working by Derek Coburn

                                                         




There have been many books written on the how to network effectively and grow your network and business. Derek Coburn takes all these and throws them out the window!

 Getting into the specifics what you really need to do to  achieve results. This may upset and anger many networking professionals reading the book. As you go through his proven strategies and tips, it will lay the groundwork to create a foundational plan to generate results in your network.


 From creating new connections ( how to that correctly) and generating results to increase revenue and also be able to have long term reciprocity happening within your network.

 Throughout the book there are  links, websites that you can use and implement to create a long term winning strategy to have a vibrant and effective network of connections.

  There are relationship that can be created, nurtured with those there are possibilities to explore.

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Book review: That'll never work

                                                   
 Had the great experience to volunteer at the Globe and Mail Small Business Summit on November 22, 2012. It was great day listening and learning from entrepreneurs from various organizations share their success and failures and what made them succeed in their journey.

"Without this preserverance, I don't think we would have gotten started"

"In the early days we went to a lot of seminars and brought in consultants to guide us. We have always surrounded ourselves with right people. One of key success factors  is seeking advice, analyzing it, and then making proper strategic decisions. At the end of the day yo have to believe in yourself, believe in your team, and make things happen"

Wayne Renick, Alf Garvin, Brent Boyle
Retail Sports memorbilia & clothing
Founded Red Deer, Alberta 1989
www.jersey.ca/www.capz.ca/www.cflshop.ca

"Really , we're much more like a mattress store than, say, a pharmacy. You buy a mattress every eight years. You might go into the pharmacy every month. We don't have the luxury of that kind of constant contact. People actually buy glasses every three years, depending on their coverage, so we've got to kill them with kindness whenever we get the chance.

Stephen McIntosh
Factory Optical/ Optiks International/Eyecandy optiks

"I went to Australia, where I had a lot of "windshield time". I took buses, backpacked, and just kind of followed the countryside. And I read like a madman, searching for an answer to my many questions. One of the books I read was The E-Myth by Michale Gerber, which asked whether you planned to work in your business or on your business.

I remember I was in Townsville and there was this huge cyclone. It was out the road and the bus was stuck. We couldn't go back or forward, and I had nothing but time on the bus. I remember thinking right at this point, "if it's going to be, it's up to me." I had to decide I was not ready to quit. I needed to pull myself back up and make think work. I needed to listen. I needed to learn. At that moment, everything changed. A light went on.

Maybe it's kismet, but is was shortly after this that I connected with my first mentor, Kim McConnell, and soon after that we started landing some really good contracts. I had  a new mindset: I had made the decision to  succeed. We got through it, but it was an experience I will remember for a long time.

Jory Lamb
Type of Business: Software & Consulting
Founded. Calgary, Alberta 1996
www.vistavusolutions.com

"Some people say I'm lucky. There is some truth to this, but luck brings you is opportunity. I always say  opportunity knocks at your door. If you don't open the door to let it in, it's going to go and knock on someone else's door. As much as these early opportunities came my way, I also made them happen, relying on passion, drive and my willingness to put in a lot of hard work. The harder I worked the luckier I got.

Steve Gupta
Real Estate Developer, hotelier
Founded: Port Hop, Ontario,1979
www.eastonsgroup.com




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http://toronto.smallbusiness-summit.ca/


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Get Connected in 2013! with twist. Who will tweet it 1st?

 Go out and Get Connected in 2013!   #21CNT2013  and win copy  book Get Connected 21st Century!

Book review: Engagement Marketing: How Small Business Wins in a Socially Connected World

Author: Gail F. Goodman is the CEO of Constant Contact, a leading provider of e-mail marketing, local deals, and online surveys tools for  more than half a million small organizations.

Being the 21^st century it is becoming very evident that created sustainable interest on the internet will be an important area for any business enterprise to succeed.

There are three great parts of the Engagement Marketing that I found of value and especially impactful in creating more effective future campaigns using Constant Contact platform.

1^st

Gail F. Goodman says “ In this book, you’ll learn why Engagement Marketing is a real opportunity for fostering deeper connections with your customers, which in turn will drive new business, I can name dozens of books  on how to use social media. This isn’t one of them.  While  I’ll  cover social media tools and how to use them, this information will always be presented in the context of building and sustaining genuine connections with customers.”

Foster deeper  connections  is  such important comment made in the paragraph because it’s not just about creating more connections, followers or fans. The opportunity and the challenge is to create a long-term and deep connections that you can actually engage with campaign with them that can be something  of importance to them or it could be business venture, resource of information for upcoming projects.

Many of the connections I have made on LinkedIn have turned into speaking opportunities for corporate clients and being hired by New York consulting company to do paid consulting via phone to their North American clients.

Building and sustaining genuine connections with customers is a great objective to have in your growth to have products, service or specific events or information they may find of interest. They may know and link you and want to build the ongoing “trust factor” that they not just another connection but an important client that you actual engage and have a two-way online conversation. Ask a question or getting a recommendation.

Read the paragraph again and realize that all the new connections, fan and followers you make are contacts that important to having quality contacts and just have a quantity of connections.

2^nd

Gail  goes on to say “Your calls-to action have three major purposes. First is direct engagement with individuals. The more you can get people to participate, the more likely they’ll do business with you again in the future. You have reinforced the relationship, added more value, and reminded them about you. Second, participation from one person inspires participation from the next. If someone Likes and multiple comments on a post, they’re more likely to read the thread and to participate. The third purpose of a call-to-action is the engagement can drive visibility. Some calls-to-action, such as sharing, immediately spread your message or content to wider audience.”

The act of someone hitting the “like” button is casting a vote in your favour, so when you get them get excited!  Sharing feature is a close second due to the fact in creates a ripple effect in your networks of posting your initial information to larger network, the exponential grow beyond your control (that’s a good thing!)

                                 Marc Gordon Author of Edge Factor says “content is king”

3^rd

Chapter 8  goes into Engagement Marketing Tips and Tricks and have lots of examples and insights on how achieve attention for your brand in various ways.

Chapter 9 deals with Overcoming Common Obstacles and comes up with answers to questions that many first time users using social media may have  and creative ways to overcome them.

Engagement Marketing is terrific resource for the first time user and existing experience users due to the fact  there a always ways to improve your  email marketing campaigns, surveys and event management  initiatives, it provided useful reminders to assist you to create strong engagement marketing for years to come and provide lasting value for you new and existing customers.

For more information on how to order the book or and read sample chapter go to http://engagementmarketing.com/

 

Jim Pagiamtzis is Authorized Local Expert (Toronto,Ont)  & Solutions Provider for Constant Contact. He has done number corporate presentation and spoke to entrepreneurial group on the power of Social Media Made Simple, 3 keys to Email Marketing and How to leverage Email Marketing. If your are interested in having him speak to your group on the Toronto GTA, email at jim@pagiamtzis.com