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What Do Investors Want from A Start Up?

Posted in Entrepreneurs, Interviews with Experts, Secrets to Success, Your Success is Our Success and Our Mission at MSG by admin on the August 1st, 2010

Check out this video with Techcrunch and Y Combinators Paul Graham it is pretty interesting.

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Innovation Success Stories

Posted in Entrepreneurs, Guru’s, Interviews with Experts, Secrets to Success, Success tools, Your Success is Our Success and Our Mission at MSG by admin on the April 18th, 2010

This just goes to show you how abstract and interesting the Internet can be. I did a Google search on the keyword “why” and I found Scott Berkun a best-selling author and kick-ass speaker. He writes books and essays, lectures at Fortune 500 companies & top universities on creativity, management and a fun mix of everything else. It was late at night and I started his video lecture on innovation he did at Carnegie Mellon University. He went into several Innovation Success Stories and really dove into the real stories behind these successes.

The real stories were about failure, the desire to solve a problem and to keep trying new and innovate ways to get to the end result. One of the quotes he pulled out was a quote that is from the CEO of 3-M.

“As our business grows, it becomes increasingly necessary to delegate responsibility and to encourage men and women to exercise their initiative. This requires considerable tolerance. Those men and women, to whom we delegate authority and responsibility, if they are good people, are going to want to do their jobs in their own way.

Mistakes will be made. But if a person is essentially right, the mistakes he or she makes are not as serious in the long run as the mistakes management will make if it undertakes to tell those in authority exactly how they must do their jobs.

Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative. And it’s essential that we have many people with initiative if we are to continue to grow.”

We see progressive companies like Google allowing their employees to work on other projects 20% of the time. If there is success it might become another Google product. There are probably many other companies using this same philosophy. I think it is a great culture to embrace and the results can be enormous. So next time you feel like taking a risk, take it it might be the best thing I/you/we ever did!

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Small Business Lending and Loan Sharking

Posted in Entrepreneurs, Part time businesses, Small Business Government, Small business information, Your Success is Our Success and Our Mission at MSG by admin on the February 26th, 2010

This is a video that really drives home the point that the “bailout” Washington D.C. is doing DOES NOT WORK, and there are others who fill the void. No matter how you look at it, it looks like small business loan sharking, but it is better than no loan at all.

Would you do business with this type of guy?

So if we can’t find money from friends and family we might have to resort to these types of folks. The regular banks have seemed to turn tail on making loans to small businesses. What I am curious about is if small businesses are the engine that pull the economic train why isn’t there some sort of economic program set up by the SBA to get these types of loans in place? In my understanding the SBA does NOT make loans, they help guarantee the loans that the small businesses must get from the banks on their own merit.

While the lobbying efforts for Fortune 500 companies is substantial there really is very little lobbying for small businesses that is effective. If small businesses we just able to do two things:

1) be able to secure affordable loans

2) be able to get group coverage for health insurance at substantial discounts

We just might see the economy rebound significantly. Think about this just two simple things could get the economy jump started. Instead it seem like we have a snake trying to eat a horse with the new healthcare bill and the snake is not digesting it so well! ;-0)

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Integrity in the Workplace

Posted in Personal Development, Secrets to Success, Success tools, Your Success is Our Success and Our Mission at MSG by admin on the February 18th, 2010

Let me start off by saying I am “out of integrity.” I am out of integrity with myself on too many occasions. For example, I tell myself I will go to the gym today, and guess what? The exercise to the refrigerator is a whole lot more enjoyable. (However today I actually did make it to the gym!) But I can tell you I had a task on my written to do list and I have not done it yet, I chose to write a blog post instead. I’m supposed to call a client on their content and just don’t want to, it will require me to think about their content which I want to do but don’t want to actually have to think about it. Now I know I can wait another day to do this but it just makes the flow of the project and the organization a little messier.

My integrity in the workspace really has more to do with my personal integrity with self. Because no-one knows about this other than me. I do my best to follow through on my word all the time and every time weather it be personal or professional because I treat others differently than myself, I am kinder to them than to I. I follow through with them than to I and I think you will hear that if you talk to friends and colleagues.

But back to integrity in the work place. It is these little types of things that break down communications, they then break down relationships both personal and professional. A glaring example is Tiger Woods saying “I do,” but what he really did was something entirely different. He was out of integtity with himself and his family and who knows who else. How many times in the workplace have you had a boss or a client say I will call you tomorrow with the <fill in the blank> and the call never comes. Guess what? You are left hanging.

There was probably some justification for not making the call but that person is out of integrity in the workplace as well as personally out of integrity. S/he made a promise to call and did not follow through. I can guarantee you that this happens ALL the time. We tend to be blaze about it, and say “oh they are just that way.” But at the end of the day weather it be a promise to your kid or a promise to your boss we get much better results in life by doing what we say and saying what we do.

So I will make that call to the client regarding the content.

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Get a Mentor Get a Coach – Plural

Posted in Personal Development, Secrets to Success, Success tools, Your Success is Our Success and Our Mission at MSG by admin on the December 28th, 2009

Coach Bill Belichick

In this article published today in the New York Times they hit home on something we all can do, get a mentor or get a coach. Think about it. Joe Montana and Tiger Woods had/have coaches and mentors. Tiger could use some really good outside advice from some new folks. Guy Finley a mentor of mine said something to me either in one of the interviews I did with him here on MSG or in a telephone call afterwords, “that the only reason we ever feel any pain in life is when we have stopped learning.” And guess what? I have to catch myself each week on that truism.

At My Success Gateway we cover the 3 keys to personal and professional success:

1) invest in yourself

2) get a mentor(s) or get a coach(s)

3) expand your extended network

Getting outside of our comfort zones is a great way to start off the new year in 2010!

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Live Online Virtual 3-D Virtual Reality & Social Media Conference April 21st, 2009

Posted in Articles By Experts, Interviews with Experts, Secrets to Success, Your Success is Our Success and Our Mission at MSG by admin on the March 17th, 2009

Please join us as Jim Peake and Ron Goedendorp hold a Live Virtual Conference on Social Media Effectiveness Insights for Businesses

“Tomorrow’s workforce and consumers seamlessly use social media, and your company will either be a part of that world, or not,” said Ron Goedendorp, President of Social Metric Marketing ”Your very survival depends on what you are doing in that world today.”

Executives and participants can get exposure to the exciting and opportunity filled world social media networks present to brands and companies, including strategies for successfully putting together a plan and participating in better methods for leveraging resources such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Yelp and more.

On April 21^st we are sharing with the rest of the free world some of our findings/interviews re: social media insights for businesses in a Live Online Virtual 3-D Conference (if we can get enough people we will put it in a “virtual stadium.”)

Your registration(s) tweets are welcome of course. J

http://blockbustergraffiti.com

We have a Facebook group going on it as well.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=71160233407&ref=mf

@jimpeake

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Want to be successful? Here’s how. Art Williams Speech on Google video.

Posted in Entrepreneurs, Guru’s, Interviews with Experts, Personal Development, Secrets to Success, Small business information, Your Success is Our Success and Our Mission at MSG by admin on the February 6th, 2009

This meeting was a Jerry Falwell event, but don’t pay a lot o0f attention to him because the message in Art Williams speech is powerful. If your day is not going as expected and you want a “little pick me up” this just might do the trick. Powerful speech by Art Williams.

Learn from a average guy who made it really big, over $100 Billion big in 10 years. Art Williams talks about it, he says JUST DO IT. Harv Ecker talks about it. (Harv says if you have broken leg show up to work, and he is right, I know a guy how had a broken leg and was just starting out his drains business and he could not afford to tak a day off, today it is a successful small business).

Steps to being successful in business

1) Get excited

2) Have a dream

3) Gotta stand for something

4) Be controversial

5) Total commitment

6) Treat people good, make them feel special, we all want to feel that way

7) Have the desire and will to win

Be a leader

9) Do whatever it takes to get the job done

10) Just do it

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8976155746368663848

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Want to Manage Fear? What is Fear?

Posted in Articles By Experts, Entrepreneurs, Secrets to Success, Success tools, Your Success is Our Success and Our Mission at MSG by admin on the January 18th, 2009

Courtesy of http://robertgirandola.blogspot.com/

Fear paralyzes.

Fear makes real the problem not the solution.

Fear is the belief that a situation has power to harm, not enlighten or purify.

Fear is literally the suspension of the human mind to solve any problem no matter how large.

Fear is what causes stress, strain, greed, anger, violence, hunger, aggression, worry, pain.

Fear is the root of all evil in the world.

Fear inspires action without thought.

Fear makes what is unwanted, permanent.

We have many futures before us -

The one we choose will depend on how many of us refuse fear.

Refuse to believe that any event can’t be solved.

Accept the idea that even the worst things that happen can be invitations to greatness.

Greatness is accepting into your mind that you can and will overcome any obstacle if you refuse fear.

Be great today -

Refuse fear.

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Massachusetts Prisoner Seeks Entrepreneurial Future Upon Release – Needs Start Up Help

Posted in Articles By Experts, Entrepreneurs, Marketing tools, Secrets to Success, Small Business Government, Success tools, Your Success is Our Success and Our Mission at MSG by admin on the January 14th, 2009

I (MySuccessGateway.com) received a call today from the U.S. Department of Commerce requesting that I mail “how to start a business” print material to a Massachusetts prisoner. He wants to start his own business when he gets out. I do not know what he is in for, and I did not ask. However, I would love to see a success story here.

We have transcripts from The Ultimate Business Toolbox that teaches people how to start a business the “right way,” which we are going to donate to their success. If you too would like to send this guy information here is his mail address. It would be fun to overwhelm him with some entrepreneurial love.

Mike D.

W91555

P.O. Box 100

South Walpole, MA 02071

Please e-mail me if you want to send via e-mail and I will send it to the Dept. of Commerce. jim(at)mysuccessgateway.com My phone is 781-631-9691

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How To Make Money From Passions

Posted in Articles By Experts, Entrepreneurs, Guru’s, Secrets to Success, Success tools, Your Success is Our Success and Our Mission at MSG by admin on the January 13th, 2009

How To Make Money From Passions republished from Maverick Money Makers

To make money online many people jump right in before they are properly prepared. You know that to be a rocket scientist, a doctor, a brick layer, a construction worker, an office worker, a teacher there are prerequisites, things you must learn, before you can be successful, you don’t just jump right in unprepared.

The same applies to the Internet marketing industry even though there are unsavory people out there who’d have you believe it’s a “Walk in the Park” and requires no more than the belief that you can just do it.

And I’ll have to admit, it is a walk in the park compared to what you have to put up with in the working world punching a clock being a subordinate to someone who does not have your interests in mind, but there are still rules you have to follow and pitfalls you must avoid to actually make Internet marketing work for you.

Most people will not make a dime online and yet there are others who will make more in one month than most people make in a whole year. Why is that?

My answer begins with the age-old chicken or egg question, “what comes first the chicken or the egg”? Personally I vote for, well never mind, each argument you or I make comes back to the same old conclusion – I have no clue and I don’t think many of us do either.

But one thing I do have a clue about and know for sure is that to make money online you must first have Passion for the company products and/or service of any Internet business from which you expect to make money.

Passion in this sense simply means that you’ve researched and like the company and products or services. It is then that you translate that like (or Passion) into the education, excitement and work that usually accompany Passion.

I will have to say that many online entrepreneurs are so good at what they do that they ignore passion because they can sell anything. But I’m concerned about those of you who are not so knowledgeable at working an online business successfully.

Now, I’m not trying to make anyone believe that Passion is the only thing necessary. Because to be successful you must also have a good website, good marketing, widespread advertising, company support, effective keywords, and etc. Those things are often learned from the company you join – but sidestep Passion and you reduce your chances for success dramatically.

It therefore follows that, if you have no Passion for the company and the products and services provided by that company, again, you won’t attempt to do the work you are being taught.

Internet marketing work is typically not all that difficult or time consuming but it does take motivation caused by Passion to get you off and running with a sustained effort so that you won’t stumble.

You have a great resource in the Internet search engines to search about the Internet Marketing industry for business opportunities, USE IT!

Your research should uncover a company that you like and have confidence in. It should be solid, founded on great principles, and easy to understand with great products and services that are sell-able for which you can have Passion. If you don’t find it move on,
You can find the right opportunity containing the attributes identified above.

Comments like, well, that one sounds good and the compensation plan is excellent so I guess I’ll start that business – does not sound like a decision based on anything near Passion. And remember when you hear that an Internet “guru” does that, don’t be tempted, because as I said earlier they are experienced and can sell just about anything, without being Passionate about the company products and services.

Note: By the way it’s your goal to get to the point where you can sell about anything online. That end skill and goal is a worthy one indeed.

Remember, there are other steps you must make before you step into Internet Marketing but if you don’t first find the right company products and services to be passionate about, all of those other steps may just cause you a lot of frustration instead of bringing you great success.

Not being Passionate about a company and products and services that has market proof that it will sell is a pitfall you simply must avoid.

Maverick Money Makers is a private society that will teach you how to build a six-figure a month business on the internet.

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What Do Investors Want from A Start Up?

Innovation Success Stories

Small Business Lending and Loan Sharking

Integrity in the Workplace

Get a Mentor Get a Coach – Plural

Live Online Virtual 3-D Virtual Reality & Social Media Conference April 21st, 2009

Want to be successful? Here’s how. Art Williams Speech on Google video.

Want to Manage Fear? What is Fear?

Massachusetts Prisoner Seeks Entrepreneurial Future Upon Release – Needs Start Up Help

How To Make Money From Passions

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