Wealth Mastery Melbourne 2008 – CANCELLED!
Interesting! This week Wealth Master in Melbourne, Australia 2008 was cancelled. It will interesting to see how EmpowerNet bounce back from this.
I certainly embrace the whole Anthony Robbins process, but at times feel that as a product, they fall short of expectations.
While I am sure that numbers were low, I still think It will be VERY expensive for EmpowerNet. Certainly any event I book through them I will
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Saying thanks in a conference
I couldn’t agree with Seth anymore when he says:
Prepare for the talk by taking pictures of each person. If they’re shy, you can even do photographs in groups of two or three. Good photos, clever photos, funny photos… photos that are interesting are best.
Then, create a new presentation. Put each photo on its own slide, preferably with a well designed ID below it (it should be on a black box, with a nice sans serif font reversed out. Like you see on cable TV news.)
String one after the other. Build a dissolve transition between each one. Program it to put up a new slide every two seconds–don’t go too slow!–and to loop the presentation.
Ten minutes before you’re due to start, while everyone is finding their seats, run the presentation. It’ll cycle 5 or 10 times before you start speaking. When you get up, start your presentation and just dive into the meaty stuff.
I have been to so many events like this where they thank the dog, thank your mum and then thank you the attendee…
A much better solution!
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Take & Get
I have struggled many times in the past dealing with staff.
In particular, Gen Y.
Seth Goddin did a post on Getting vs Taking
Most people spend a lot of time to get an education.
They wait for the teacher (hopefully a great one) to give them something of value.Many employees do the same thing at work. They wait for a boss (hopefully a great one) to give them responsibility or authority or experiences that add up to a career.
A few people, not many, but a few, take. They take the best education they can get, pushing teachers for more, finding things to do, exploring non-defined niches. They take more courses than the minimum, they invent new projects and they show up with questions.
A few people, not many, take opportunities at work
I think then the better questions to ask is: (As your Manager) What do I need to ask for you to take?
Why wouldn’t you take?
What do you think?
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Too popular
Ramit made a post here regarding a coffee shop.
To summarise:
Ramit goes to a coffee shop that has free wireless. At 11:30am, the waiter announces to everyone that the internet is going to be switched off.
At that point, some grumpy customers have a moan that they purchased all this food to do some work and now they can’t.
At the end, Ramit asks “What would you do?”
My response on these types of problems is always “how will this impact me (or my business) in 6 months time”
Certainly in Australia, wireless 3g cards aren’t expensive. I’ve been to a few Gloria Jeans where they advertise free wifi. For whatever reason I can never get it to work and have given up trying.
I always will use my 3g card.
So what would I do? I certainly wouldn’t make the announcement to everyone like that. But also I wouldn’t just plug in a $100 dlink wireless hub either and tell everyone to “enjoy!”
I think if your point of difference in a coffee shop is free wifi then you should convert to an internet cafe!
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Beware of turning hobbies into jobs
From Gaping Void:
James Goldsmith once quipped, “When a man marries his mistress, he immediately creates a vacancy.”
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Manly endowment
Replace Google and Facebook with whatever cheesy one liner you can think of…
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