Success in 2010

 

“Are you going to be a Success in 2010″

MBC Networking have been fortunate to meet with Matt Belcher from Life Turn Around Now. Matt has shared with us his keys to Success.

It’s easy, he is offering us a free 20 page guide “How to achieve success in life”. All you need to do is click on this link subscribe and download your Free ebook. Goals & Success Guide .

As a BONUS! You will have access to the following.   Brilliant on the Basics – By Brian Tracy (value $29) Think and Grow Rich – By Napoleon Hill Mind of Winners – Interviews with successful people  

Don’t delay download Now.

Articles

Thank you for joining us at MBC, and we all look forward to receiving your articles.

The idea is that business professionals come together to help each other with business decisions by sharing their expertise and research in a way that makes quality information available and accessible for the whole business community.

The MBC online articles allows you to connect with far more people than you would manage face to face and allows you to make contacts outside your usually geographical boundaries. It is now so easy to make contacts across the globe thus broadening your business opportunities from your local town to cities worldwide.

Helping out others

Helping out others

 

I have created this blog because “LinkedIn” can be a great tool for my business and indeed others. Because I work with 40 like minded businesses in Rickmansworth they are looking like you to do well at work. Using LinkedIn can help them connect and make referrals.

So if you or someone you know is looking for those on the list below or general recommendations, please give them a chance to quote. It’s better to do business with someone you know and recommend, it may be a better price and or better service.

Businesses include

Commercial Insurance broker (Giles group very good prices and services)
Web developer (brilliant)
Car single and fleet company (I use myself excellent)
Commercial Cleaner (carpets etc, again one I use at Osteopathic House and at home)
Printer (large jobs only)
Event organizer
Computer training (one of only a few credited in service development)
Kitchen installer (great prices and superb work)
Commercial Photographer (specialises in interior photos commercial)
Locksmith, works with synagogues, trusted and an expert.
Commercial Carpets, customers include The Ivy, London and various hospitals.
Marketing developers, ex Porsche and now independent
Office furniture from single bespoke units to pizza hut restaurants, excellent quality service and green credentials. (again personnel usage and recommendations)
Sound systems installations, home and office
Accountant

And a whole host more.
They all deal with the individual and large companies, so all jobs big or small looked at.
Please take a minute to think and if you can help them, they will help you.

Please contact me if any of the above business catorgaries can help you.

Enjoy the business
Philip Aarons

email  phil@theosteopathichouse.com 

Website http://www.theosteopathichouse.com/ 

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Managing the cost of your business with Auditel

Managing the cost of your business with Auditel

 

 

 

 

MBC is delighted to invite Simon Beechinor from Auditel to assist our members in saving. If they can’t save you money they don’t charge you.

Doing business in the UK is expensive. From growing energy and wage bills, to the increasing cost of legislation and corporate social responsibility, organisations of every size are feeling the squeeze on profitability.

Making sure you don’t waste money by paying more than you need to for your essential business overheads is the quickest and most direct way to mitigate this and put profit back onto your bottom line. However, unless you have in-house specialists, how can you achieve this without diverting existing resources away from your core business and adding to the overall cost of your overheads?

A cost-effective way to profit improvement

The answer is to work with Auditel to bring independent advice, unparalleled market knowledge and specialist expertise into your organisation as an additional management resource. Our contingency fee proposition means you will benefit from this specialist service at no risk and for no upfront investment.

Auditel is a leading specialist cost and purchase management consultancy. We help thousands of organizations across the UK to reduce financial waste and improve their bottom line profits. With a combination  of our unique Total Cost of Purchase business model and a “no-savings-no-fee” fee structure we make impressive and sustainable savings for our clients – without it costing them a penny.

So even if you think you have all your costs under control, it wouldn’t hurt to have a free business health check, just to be sure.

Auditel’s Total Cost of Purchase approach to cost and purchase management is designed to achieve ethical and sustainable savings for our clients. It takes into account all the costs – both direct and indirect – associated with making effective cost management decisions across a broad range of overheads such as:

Communications – Lending – Energy - Finance - Water and Sewerage - Environmental & waste Management – Energy Efficiency - Fleet management

Premises costs -  Human Resources – Insurance – Other Business cost areas

 Simon Beechinor is the personal business cost management adviser to MBC members. Book your free consultation now and start saving on those overheads. Call Simon, Tel: 01234 924379. 

Auditel Categories Brochure – Your free Business health Check from Auditel

Auditel Corporate Brochure – Lowering the Cost of doing Business (E-Brochure)

7 Keys to P.E.R.F.E.C.T. communication

 

For the last 12 years, I have been a leading guest presenter on QVC, The Television Shopping Channel, structuring and developing ’selling’ presentations that engage and motivate viewers to pick up the phone and order. As QVC’s leading guest trainer I coach other guest presenters to do the same. In the year 2006 – 2007 QVC’s turnover in the UK was in the region of £350 million and was $5.8 Billion worldwide. In this article I look at the key elements in creating an instant impression in today’s business arena.

Whether you are in the boardroom, addressing your staff at conference, in a business pitch, or like me, in front of the camera facing a live television audience, it is essential that you have the right impact from the very start because

“You never get a second chance to make a first impression”.

Who first said this? Was it Will Rogers a film star cowboy of the thirties, or Oscar Wilde? Regardless of who it was it is an incontrovertible truth that the first impression is the one that counts and horror of horrors it only takes 30 seconds for it to be formulated.

Being on television regularly I know that there are certain specific elements that create a compelling and influential presentation. So in today’s sound bite society we need to present more than just the facts. We need to engage, enrol, impress and retain our audience’s interest.

A good speaker entertains the audience. A great speaker moves them to action

With this in mind I am delighted to present to you my,

7 Keys to P.E.R.F.E.C.T. communication

Personal Impact

Non-verbal communication such as unease, uncertainty or nervousness can convey negative signals to your audience. These subconsciously perceived weaknesses can capture the audience’s attention so that what you are saying is lost.

Know exactly how you are going to start your presentation. Ensure that it’s powerful and engaging and be aware of you body language.

Emotional Connection

If you aren’t passionate about what your topic how can you expect any body else to be?

Engage people at an emotional level. Tell personal stories, use metaphors and let people into your life’s experiences. You will find that your audience will more easily join you in your pictures.

Right to Talk

What right do you have to talk about the subject you are talking to us about? Tell us your History and in doing so create authority?

As a child we were told not brag about our achievements. You then enter the world of work and what happens you are judged on your accomplishments.

When you identify your expertise and call on the ‘hands on’ elements of the matter being discussed you develop personal credibility and elicit an emotional response from those listening.

Facts

Once you have developed an emotional rapport, and a reason for them to trust and believe in you, then your presentation has to have defined facts and detail.

Don’t talk in terms of hypothetical situations. Make it relevant to your ‘audience’, their businesses, their hopes and concerns. Understand what they want to know, not what you want to tell them.

Encapsulate

We live in a sound bite society.

“Just do it”, “it’s the real thing”, “Am I bovvered?” We are programmed to expect information to be packaged in instantly memorable phrases. Encapsulate your message, the key elements of your presentation and translate them into succinct, influential language.

Credibility

Don’t make claims that you can’t substantiate. At a seminar recently a speaker used the following information.

“A first impression is based on 7% spoken words, 38% tone of voice and 55% body language.”

The speaker was questioned about the provenance of the quote but did not know the originator. His credibility was immediately blown.

If you are going to use quotes make sure you know who said it and in what context.

The Company

Apart from your individual right to talk on a specific subject it is also important to establish the credentials of the company or companies that you are associated with.

Use testimonials from delighted customers and the value you bring to the company. Is is a universal truth that those we associate with can give us even greater standing and authority.

The P.E.R.F.E.C.T. elements form part of a sophisticated influencing skills workshop used at QVC and in the corporate arena.

Those attending develop, presence, business-winning presentations and obtain a set of tools to enable them to be effective where they need to positively influence and motivate others to achieve their desired result.

The key to your personal and financial success is in your ability to positively impact others.

For more information on Dexter’s seminars he can be contacted by email:dexter@audiencedynamics.co.uk on 07973 635 670 or via his website http://www.audiencedynamics.co.ukDexter Moscow has over the past 35 years accumulated substantial experience and expertise working in the sales, entertainment and property industries.This insight working with major organizations, individuals and teams has enabled him to positively impact turnover and profitability.As an accomplished seminar facilitator, trained Dale Carnegie trainer and coach he regularly conducts presentation skills, team building, communication, negotiating skills and goal achievement programs. Those attending have gained new insights, renewed confidence in their abilities and determination to achieve their personal and business objectives.Acting as a consultant to the residential property industry he has developed strategies to improve their performance and customer relationships. These thought provoking processes have created a framework for greater fee earning opportunities. As a television presenter he regularly appear live on QVC The Shopping Channel, guest presenting for major technology companies and in addition conducting guest excellence and masters excellence presentation skills seminars. Graduates of these unique influencing skills courses are empowered to persuade and engage a diverse audience. The result of which is more sales and greater brand recognition.Working with Reed International he has designed, developed and conducted training programmes encompassing rapport building techniques, interview and media skills, and personal development courses.

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COULD YOU SELL GOD TO MILLIONS

Did you, like me, watch in awe the inauguration ceremony of President Barak Obama?

Were you amazed at how 2 million Americans of many colours, creeds and backgrounds came together in the freezing Washington air to bear witness to this historic event?

The Presidential address was excellent and Obamas rhetoric did not disappoint but for me the person who captured the mood and emotion of the occasion was the Reverend Dr Joseph Lowery the elderly pastor who gave the Presidential benediction.

It was not only the content of his presentation that captured my imagination but also the style of his delivery.

He started very haltingly but then his voice gained strength as did the power and poetry of his words. The following extract form me encapsulates the cleverness of his discourse.

“….we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around… when yellow will be mellow… when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right.”

2 million people then in a single joyous voice joined with him to chant Amen, Amen, Amen. How many of the countless millions watching throughout the world caught up in the moment joined with him in repeating the Amen.

Also in the speech were many cleverly crafted biblical references “when tanks will be beaten into tractors” (swords in to ploughshares) and noteworthy phrases that embraced many lifestyles “when every man and every woman shall sit under his or her own vine and fig tree” but in these few words relating to people of colour he painted a picture of disadvantage, discrimination and repression that had been suffered for decades.

What are the lessons we can learn from this speech to ’sell’ to our ‘audience’?

How can we introduce arguments and proposition to influence others?

Unless we can capture people’s hearts we cannot capture their minds.

I am a lifelong student of what creates power, impact and influence in verbal and non verbal communication and have developed ‘The 7 keys to P.E.R.F.E.C.T. communication’, which I use to coach others to create and deliver selling presentations of power and impact.

Reverend Dr Joseph Lowery’s benediction and the way he delivered it had each and every element of the P.E.R.F.E.C.T. framework.

Personal Impact – His own presence as he stood slightly stooped before the microphones

Emotional Connection – How we as onlookers, separated by thousand of miles still connected to the power of his words and emotion.

Right to talk – Because of his age, his race, and his creed bore testimony to his deep personal connection with the struggle of men and women of colour.

Facts – His illustration of how the attitude to colour has been used to keep people subjugated.

Encapsulate – In just a few carefully crafted words how he created a vivid picture and weaved an elaborate tapestry of persecution and discrimination.

Congruency – His body language, his voice and the words he used to convey his message carried with them an honesty and passion that was totally congruent and authentic.

The Company – The fact that he shared a podium with Obama, Clinton and many past Presidents reflected the respect, gravitas and esteem of others and validation of his position.

This for me was the highlight of the ceremony and an object lesson of how in a few words we can convey a wealth of meaning and engagement.

Whether we are in front of millions, in a board meetings or pitching to a client the power of our words, the way in which we convey them and the connection we make with our ‘audience’ directly relates to our business, personal and financial success.

90% of what you offer is the same as your competition.

So what is that extra 10% that is the difference between winning and losing that bid?

It’s YOU and how you and your team connect with your prospects

Dexter Moscow – download the 7 Keys to P.E.R.F.E.C.T. communication

A good presenter entertains us – A great presenter moves us to take action