In this blog Marketing Headhunter I found a post that Gary Halbert made about business strategy.  I found it so interesting as well as the Harry’s blog that linked to it I felt that I had to share it with our community here at My Success Gateway.  We have to thank John Carlton, Gary’s business partner for making this information available.

Click here for the interview with Chris Damsen, VP Business Development of Social Media Widget Economy Provider Netvibes.

If you want to get up to speed on the one of the latest trends and technologies on the Internet this is a great podcast you will enjoy. Chris Damsen and Netvibes are at the epicenter of the Widget Economy. Widgets are the “next big thing,” but not everyone is in love with them, there are some limitations. As Chris explains in our interview, widgets are simple to create (inexpensive too) and they have a lot of leverage since they can be distributed easily for the viral marketing and viral information distribution.

What Netvibes is doing well is allowing Netvibes users and developers to develop widgets on their open platform and on multiple other platforms like iGoogle, MS Live etc. What Chris was able to share is that there is a huge movement going on in the web and Netvibes is enabling the start page user experience to be a great one by allowing any type of content to be available or configured on one’s start page, probably the second most valuable piece of real estate just behind the e-mail inbox.

Netvibes is a Paris, France based company with millions of users visiting their web pages every month. Netvibes is rolling out a social media version of their platform on a new URL caller Ginger. Expect Ginger to get a lot of activity and the social media component of the widget economy will expand exponentially.

While we can create widgets on closed platforms but don’t you thing it would be easier to develop the widget once in an open environment to be shared across multiple platforms? Netvibes has a very robust solution now coupled with the social media component with global reach. Expect these guys to get gobbled up by one of the major players in the next year.

Nutrition Manual Interview

This could be a life changing podcast for some of us, we just have to put the information into action. I was fortunate enough to have Dr. David Kamnitzer, D.C. call me and suggest that he contribute to MySuccessGateway.com and I am grateful for his contribution and invitation. The vibration I got was he is someone special, and I knew he had some great information he wanted to share with our community. David has skills in so many areas that we could have covered a bunch of subjects but we chose to cover his free Nutrition Manual which is available at this link, click here.

In the manual David discusses the big 14 mistakes that we make as human beings and provides answers to how we can make the adjustment for healthier foods in discerning ways. Nutrition is just one aspect to health and well being. The quality of our thoughts and the quality of our nutrition are the two most important aspects in our lives. David also shares a couple of food resources including Ezekiel 4:9® Bread and pure Stevia which is a replacement for sugar.

Keep in mind that I am not the athletic build I once was in college. I’m 5’11” 235 lbs. and it’s time for me to take a long hard look at what I’ve been putting into my body and make a lifestyle adjustment. Recently I’ve ben exercising for the past 3 weeks and have lost 5 pounds. It is a start, but not where I want to be. My goal is to get to 200 lbs., which is still probably considered obese by the NIH, but I guess they’ll just have to get over it. So chances are there I’m not the only person in this category, over weight and middle aged at 49, this podcast is for all of us.

What David is really about transformation helping people remember who they really are. He comes from a radical spiritual tradition. This is My Success Gateway’s first interview with a natural healing expert. He has been in the healing arts for over 30 years and is gifted with teaching and healing talents, and you will know this when you listen to this call. David is a chiropractor and is working in or has worked in massage, transformational movement, natural healing, polarity therapy, nutrition, herbs, subtle energy fields, deep tissue, radionics, kinesiology, working with a pendulum and much more.

I look forward to doing more podcasts with David in the future.

About the Interview
If you don’t know about social media, this interview is for you.  If you know about social media this interview is for you too.  Not a lot of structure to the conversation however there are a lot of great nuggets to be learned about social media and the rules of engagement.

In this interview Jason is a twenty something and the perfect candidate that the Internet Marketers want a piece of. He is THE demographic, young, affluent and online. He is also in the business of social media, so he is tech savvy and knows the rules of engagement. He shares the rules of engagement in the social media space. It’s not too complicated we just have to be authentic.

He will help you get a really good feel for the “social media environment” and how to play and interact while you are there. Weather you are in Facebook, MySpace or Twitter, Jason provides a topical feel for what to expect and how to behave in these environments. Jason also bridges the gap of how marketers and businesses can engage users in social media without being a dork.

I checked out Jason’s profile on LinkedIn and pulled down a testimonial and it seems to be quite fitting. If there were a King of the Geeks, Jason would be his scheming but loyal Grand Vizier. His existence is a direct challenge to the presupposition that Pomona students are smarter than Oxy students. He could also be the exception that proves the rule. But on a more serious note, Jason is really a brilliant guy. He’s got almost bottomless knowledge of all things geeky, he’s a great writer and he’s easy to get along with. December 6, 2006
Teresa Valdez Klein, Project Manager, Communications & Blogging, Blog Business Summit

We ramble on about a bunch of different subjects all social media related. He shared with me that he would be happy to answer any questions and the best place to reach him is by e-mail. Make sure you remove the removeme from his e-mail address.
Jason Preston

My SuccessGateway guest Blogger Tom McCarthy.  I get a lot of newsletters and e-mail from a lot of people.  Tom McCarthy is one newsletter I always read, he has information that sticks and is meaningful in my opinion and I wanted to share this with the My Success Gateway community.  Tom also has an excellent podcast on MySuccessGateway.com.

TRUE Leadership Newsletter Issue 20 A Leaders Job Is to Guide the Way Their Team Thinks There are many skills and strategies that make a leader outstanding, but I think one of the most important strategies is to guide the way your team thinks. The way a person thinks is the most accurate predictor of the way they will act. Several years ago I was asked to work with a wonderful young lady who was a professional athlete. Her sport was one that I had never heard of before. It was called hydrofoil waterskiing. In this sport you performed tricks on a water ski that had a fin underneath it. The fin underneath the water ski allowed the competitors to hydroplane above the water and do breathtaking flips and twists. This young lady was ranked #2 in the world at the time and she was preparing for the World Championships that were to be held one month later. In my work with her, I knew I couldn’t help her with techniques or tricks for her performance because I was not an expert in her sport. The only thing I could help her with was her thinking. So I started off by asking her what was going on and why her family had asked me to work with her. She proceeded to tell me that she was struggling with her performances and making critical errors when she was in competitions. She said that she was getting very nervous before every performance and that when she got in the water and looked at the judges, who were sitting on the back of the boat towing her, she would begin thinking about how she knew she was going to make a mistake. She also said that she knew she could never beat the #1 ranked person, because this person was unbeatable (this person had not been beaten in several years of competition ), and that she was desperately hoping to be able to hold onto her #2 ranking because the #3 and #4 ranked athletes were very good and a threat to beat her in the World Championships. Now consider for a minute that you were her leader or coach. If she were to continue thinking the way she was thinking, how well would she perform at the upcoming World Championships?

What would her chances be of achieving her full potential? The answer is that if she continued to think these same thoughts she would almost certainly underperform and not get anywhere close to her true potential. I asked her a very simple question to help her start to change her thinking. I said, “In the upcoming World Championships, if you could have anything happen, what would you really want?” And she had a great answer. She said, “I want to nail my performance! If I do that, I’m not even concerned what place I finish because I will know that I did my very best!” We then proceeded to work on her thinking. I asked her, “If you were going to nail your performance how would you have to think about the World Championships?” She said, “I would be excited about it instead of nervous.” I asked her, “How would you have to think about the judges if you were going to nail your performance?” She said, “I would look at them, make eye contact, and think ‘you’re going to love this performance’.” I asked her several more questions to help her clarify something I call her “Optimal Performance Thoughts.” These are the winning thoughts she would have to think in order to achieve her true potential. We then set up a routine for her to practice thinking and feeling these thoughts on a regular basis prior to and during the World Championships.

I worked with her one additional session and then the day after the World Championships I got an excited call from her thanking me for the work I had done with her in changing her thinking. She said she had practiced the new thinking and that it had worked perfectly in the World Championships. She was the new World Champion! She had not only beaten the #1 athlete in the sport, who she had previously thought was unbeatable, but she also broke the world record for points scored! The point of this story is that what you and your team are capable of is largely decided by the way you and they think. As a leader, I encourage you to constantly watch and improve the way you think and help your team members do the same. When you do this you open up a whole new set of possibilities and who knows, maybe even a World Championship caliber performance.

Keep Living Your Dreams!

Tom McCarthy Website

In this interview with Lee Lorenzen you will learn an insiders game on how to profit from Facebook and social networking, especially if you are a developer or a marketer.

Facebook has been setting the Internet on fire with their explosive growth (70,000,000 users) and I wanted to interview one of the key players who has their finger on the pulse of all of the activity at Facebook and that is Lee Lorenzen, President and CEO of Adonomics and Altura Ventures which is one of the first strategic Venture Funds created strictly for application developers on Facebook. He is enabling small businesses, entrepreneurs and developers to spend full time development by providing funding and advice on how to succeed in this explosive market.

In this interview Lee Lorenzen takes Jim Peake through the Facebook world as a small developer and what is required to navigate the Facebook developer landscape. Lorenzen provides tips and insights on what types of applications can be fruitful, including Facebook lead generation. He even takes me through the scenario of what packaged goods companies need to start thinking about as they approach social media and how they can use Facebook as a launching pad as well as how they can make money on Facebook through lead generation.  Lead generation and Facebook go well together since they have so much traffic.  Successful small social media application developers have a huge opportunity as Facebook is providing the hottest platform today for development and eyeballs.  Others are following suit of Facebook’s business model.

Lorenzen provides a strong overview on how his Adonomics index works and how they are valuing Facebook application developers. Lorenzen also covers the controversial UADA premise and how it got started and why they are ranked as high as they are on Adonomics.  Lorenzen equates the UADA to the CAA (Creative Artists Agency for Developers) but better since the UADA will share profits with their members.

You will find that Lorenzen is well prepared and has an excellent grasp in the social media and the Facebook marketplace. He has really thought out the social media space and is providing a level of expertise to enable other entrepreneurs and developers to thrive in a very competitive environment.

Here is an interesting interview with Chris Anderson editor and chief of Wired Magazine and Michael Arrington of Tech Crunch on Charlie Rose.  The conversation talks about how the economics of the new networked economy.  This is a social media type of new buisiness model.  People are able to test drive for free and receive products for free in terms of developing the trust factors and the relationship.

We are living in an era of self promotion and attention.  Privacy no longer exists as we once knew it.  We are all living in glass houses, so we have to get used to it.  Enjoy these interviews.

This is a conversation about massive success in social media and online business. Ro is a seasoned Silicon Valley executive, well spoken, articulate and down to earth. In this brief podcast he shares some key principles on the road to success.

Ro Choy is not the typical internet entrepreneur, we kid around because even though he has had a couple of massive successes it was not all a cake walk for the Stanford grad. He and his wife worked together as a team in a few of the ventures. He shares the story of how he was able to get auto dealerships to warm up to his business proposition. It might have been something like reverse sex discrimination…if there is such a thing.

Ro’s automotive experience got him on the path to e-Bay Motors managing a $2 Billion parts business unit on e-Bay. Find out how Ro made his payroll using e-Bay, most entrepreneurs have to get creative when times are tough.

Ro is now with Rock You, a leading application provider on the web. Driving 40,000,000 — 50,000,000 users with widget applications and 700,000,000 page views on a monthly basis these guys are using some serious bandwidth. Reaching these kinds of numbers was no accident. One of the key ingredients to success at Rock You is a team that can dynamically engineer also called viral engineering, responding to client demands and requests. Meeting the needs of the user is key especially if you want to keep 40,000,000 – 50,000,000 unique users per month satisfied.

Jim Butz was with Bell Labs and Lucent and has evolved to an angel investor with the Keiretsu Forum, and a venture capitalist with California Capital Partners, and a blogger.    Jim will share with you what exactly the “investor” is looking for and what their thought processes are.  You will get candid information, you will get the truth, you might not like it but you will find this podcast informational and entertaining.  Jim shares the infamous story about why Bill Gates is the luckiest entrepreneur alive.

When I first read Jim’s article I knew that he was telling the truth, because I had been through the money raising process as an entrepreneur.  I blogged about his article and Jim Butz was plugged in enough to e-mail me back to tell me he was thankful for the post.  He and I then got on the phone and we spoke for a long long time.  What I got out of the very first call with Jim Butz was his passion to help small businesses.

Jim talks about too many small business topics to mention in this brief overview.  Sit back and learn from someone who has been there and done that.  Jim is approachable and likable and I enjoy learning from his vast experience.