“Ilise Benun, marketing mentor and author of Stop Pushing Me Around!, suggests that interested entrepreneurs check out these social networking sites:

Ryze.com - With 500,000 members in 200 countries, this free networking site aims to keep people in touch worldwide. The “Entrepreneurs” network on the site has nearly 9,000 members.

Tribe.net - Much like CraigsList, this site is city-oriented. You can use it to network with people in your own community or reach members around the country.

LinkedIn.com -This online business community with eight million members is a great place to meet new people through existing contacts and follow-up with people you’ve just met.

Doostang.com - This free, invitation-only “career community” is a place where you can connect with others through your friends and colleagues.”

Yes, I agree. That is why it’s so important to find “like-minded” individuals.

You will have to search hard to find committed people. Certainly there are such people around. For example, people in BNI meet once a week from 730-0900am without fail.

When everyone gives selfishlessly, inevitably you end up gaining much more. Sometimes when sharing your ideas, you might gain new insights or others might be able to chip in to further improve it.

I’m from Singapore—plus a fan of both Eastern & Western culture/ business environments alike.

May I share some thogs, IMHO..

1. Generally Asians are more reserved towards giving. Despite a culture rich in gentleness & friendliness, even servitude to their past colonial masters..

Getting like-minded individuals to share & contribute can be tough.
In Asian’s pursuit for material success, the call for recipocracy is often poorly heeded. This can explain the general lack of amiable, responsive service in developed, materialistic economies like Hong Kong, Singapore etc..

2. Also, in their fast development & growth, Asians generally can be hectic in their pace & pursuit. Work (or economic endeavours) usually get the highest priority in a person’s life.

Simply put, people may be too busy to pause & connect & contribute.

I have started a small group that focuses on a particular niche in marketing. It’s still a bit too early to say how it will turn out.

I suppose the greatest challenge is to find like minded individuals who are willing to commit to your group.

How far hv U gone and what’s been working n what’s not?
What’s a greatest satisfaction n what’s been a key challenge?

Thanks.
TA.

We have plenty of scope to lean but it does mean that we must keep asking “why am I buying this?”, “what else have they just offered me?” “Why did I say yes or no?”

The other way Jay encourages people to learn about different trades is by picking up the Napoleon Hill idea of Mastermind groups where like minded, similar status people can get together and discuss issues and share perspectives.

However, he also mentioned 2 other things:

1) Before we go outside the industry, we have to optimize whatever we are doing. I feel that if the current baseline is very low, it might be possible to drastically improve your results even before you go outside your industry.

2) To look at what the top guys in our current industry are doing and to copy/adapt what they do.

Once you have a good revenue generating process in place, I don’t think you should replace it completely with new processes from other industries.

Rather, you add on new revenue generating process in place to what you have already. That’s how you blow your opposition off the floor.

I’ve been listening to Mastermind Marketing this weekend.

He doesn’t say it, but I think he implies that you’ll never get big breakthroughs if you only stay in your industry, its a point I’ve thought alot about. Is it really true? Should you spend any of your time doing what everyone else in your industry does?

You could maybe be a little bit better…I see businesses all the time hang on to very small advantages over their competitors. A little bit better customer service. Or a little better in another area.

Any opinions on this quote…

Well, I figured out that a success process that is as common as dirt in one industry can have the power, the profitability, the pre emptiveness, meaning it can block or establish your superiority and your pre eminence of an atom bomb if you take it and other combinations from other industries and combine them, and you’re the first or the only one to unleash that hybrid on the industry that does everything the same way.

Thanks.