2012 -Time to Renew with Social Media

December 25, 2011

Happy New Year!  Here we are with 2012 just a week away.  Time just goes by so fast!  Happy New Year!  My calendar just seems to be on Steroids and my life! Do you relate?

With another year upon us we have so much to be thankful for yet our economy is not looking to well these days.  More than ever one needs to market their business as competition is stiff out there.  People are expecting to pay less while still getting more.

It is a great time to renew your Social Media business plan for the upcoming year and take a look back on this previous year in business.

About Social Media:

Social Media – The Next Best Thing to Being There in Person

While meeting with your clients and prospects in person is always the best way to build relationships, you might also consider Social Media.  Facebook is a wonderful place to get to know your clients and engage with your audience.

It has created an opportunity for anyone, anywhere, to have a voice.  Getting a message out no longer depends on how large a marketing budget is; in fact, it’s forced many companies to be creative; many have even hired social media consultants like myself to manage their social media campaigns. The good news is that anyone can learn how to benefit from social media.

You can Blog, Tweet, Facebook or create videos to draw in your targeted audience. What ever you do, you MUST jump on the social media wagon because Internet marketing has never been more necessary for small businesses that want and need an online audience.

Announce new products, post coupons, get to know your clients and their needs.  Don’t just sell them, get to know them!

If you want to brand yourself online please contact me. 

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Happy New Year!

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Wisdom

September 11, 2011
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Abraham Lincoln said it best: “I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

 

Wisdom?  It means so many different things to different people.  Lets look at wisdom from the standpoint of how it affects us, what we do or what we don’t do. First, understand that we do things according to our belief not our wisdom or understand or education or intelligence or or or.  To say it a different way, REALITY IS NEVER AS NARROW AS ONE’S BELIEF. Doesn’t this open our minds to why we can’t change, why we won’t venture into new areas–why that circle of fear is so real to us?

 

OK, then knowledge is the answer. NO, it is potential power until we do something with that knowledge. If you have more knowledge than anyone else in the world and won’t change–what good is it?  Our actions have a cause and that cause is our belief system–how we think.  We are amazing–we have a thought then we think about it, draw a picture of what it means to us–our belief–and then act not to the thought but to the belief. We actually interpret the thought and what we believe is our truth.

Wisdom?  It is like the verse I hear people quoting “the truth will set you free”.  NO, it says “KNOW THE TRUTH” and then it will set you free but–but–but–whose truth do you believe?  How does this work?  Does it seem confusing?  When we hear you have to change the real question is change what?  If we don’t know the truth we picture what is not true and act on false information that we belief.

Read the article “Circle of fear”.  Why do so many adults act like children when it comes to how they change? Could it be that those beliefs were put into us at an early age??  If that is true or the truth, then how do we change our belief?

 

Bill, why the questions?  It worked for Socrates so THINK ON THESE THINGS.

 

TB

Author Tremendous Bill Pike

 

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The Circle of Fear

September 8, 2011
Circle Of Light (Lens Flare), Wisley

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Why can’t some people change even when they know that they know they need to change?  What holds back some people from ever doing something new?  Why some in a dead-end job won’t venture out and try something new that has more potential?  We all know that any change can bring its counterpart–fear.  A fear to change what is comfortable.

 

There is a painting called “The Circle of Fear”.  It shows this beautiful little girl within a large circle.  She is happy and holds a rose in one hand. Outside the circle are evil-looking monsters.  The painting shows that as long as this little girl stays where she is there is nothing to fear, all is well but–but–to go outside that circle of change invites all kinds of negative things. It is interesting that outside the painting are words like NO and DON’T and CAN’T.   This painting was for those who cannot change because they live within the circle of being good, doing exactly what their parents tell her to do, to never question anything outside of ones own experience.

 

When we “cross that line” with change we recall all past experiences of our life–we ”see” what happened when we disobeyed or starting something new that did not work out.  The painter had a goal–to enlarge our circle and grow.  This is why William James the father of American psychology said there are only two emotions–fight or flight.  When we “cross that line” with change we then have to make a decision–do we draw back within our circle of change and accept everything as it is or do we enlarge our circle and enlarge (CHANGE) our life.  WE all decide which path we are going to take.

Author – Tremendous Bill Pike

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Missing Ingredient

July 6, 2011
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Years ago I recorded a tape “Secret of the Missing Ingredient”. 

Today, the idea is stronger than ever—that there is always a secret ingredient that makes average become treeemendous.  The idea???

There is a German restaurant in Milwaukee named Mader’s—the best in this country.  Well, one day I was reading a magazine and there was a recipe for Mader’s favorite meal.  I asked donna why they would do this and she said “its simple.  They leave that one little ingredient that makes it work”.  Well, I was off and taping a series about this missing ingredient in our lives.

In Pikeology I have always taught that the real secret to success is Pike’s Law # one: WILLING TO DO WHATEVER IT TAKES EVERY DAY.  This is truth BUTT–BUTT-BUTT—we all have that one “thing” that keeps us from doing better. In sales, it could be the introduction or the closing.  In our work it could be a habit we need to change.

Today’s assignment, if you are not where you want to be sit down and write out the ingredients for your success and see where you can add just one little thing.  Know what I did years ago on this?  I started getting up an hour earlier every day to study.  I have found it is hard to burn out if you are always developing yourself.   When President Theodore Roosevelt died, under his pillow was a self help book.  Interesting, and he was our president.

What’s your missing ingredient?

Author: Tremendous Bill Pike

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Think BIG: Habits

June 23, 2011

What are Habits?

Habits

Are

Bits

What are BITS?

Belief of

Interpretation of

Thoughts

Study after study in human behavior and especially what it takes to change our direction shows–habits CAN BE the biggest stumbling block in our journey to new places. Think with me on this.

We are who we are because of our habits and we chose our habits. When we start something new or we want to change direction, our habits CAN BE killers. We will tend to solve the new situation by using our past experience which takes away the thoughts needed to change–again it is the thought cycle in process. We want something new but we use our past experiences to solve and problems.

I have run into many names describing this process like: “problem solving rigidity, mechanization, and set in our ways”. This is saying everything in our past creates old habits to solve new things. Now, the more successful we are the more we will hold on to these habits.

Habits are what? BITS. And BITS are what? Belief of the interpretation of our thoughts–and our past is the foundation for our beliefs. When habits stop us from doing what needs to be done it is time for what??? New habits–a new bit in our mouth, a new direction.

OK–one more “story” and this is entirely from memory so I hope it is ok.

A principle started a new program in education. He took the top 10% of the students and the top 10% of the teachers to show how the top 10% of each group working together would have a huge positive result in education. It worked. The results were double that of the 90%. Everyone was so proud and worked even harder.

At the end of the year the principle called in the teachers–those 10%ers–and told them that the students names were all put in a hat and that 10% group–was the names drawn out of the hat. It was not the top 10% of the students it was just the ones chosen at random. Now the teachers who were in the top 10% were really proud. They achieved these results with “average” students–they had to be the best of the best in education.

Then the principle told the assembled group of top teachers—” the teachers chosen for this experiment were also chosen at random”.

Now–lets play what if……. What if ALL the students were told they were special,l ALL the teachers told they were special, and they were put on display to show the world. What would happen to that school? Well, how about those people who work in your company or your organization or YOUR FAMILY? What would happen if we convinced those around us that they were special???

Habits are what? BITS. And BITS are what?

Belief of the

Interpretation of our

Thoughts

Want to change and or change those around you? Have people working for you? Children? Try this out, get in the HABIT of encouraging your people. Having positive thoughts about yourself. The HABIT of NOT finding fault. I DARE YOU.

Author Tremendous Bill Pike

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