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BRIDLING THE INFLUENCE OF DREAMS TO MAKE RICHES

“Hey, Hello You at the back of the class stop day-dreaming and pay attention!” Which one of us did not hear that phrase repeated many times in our school days? . I can see you are laughing. Having dreams and aspirations is an essential part of any successful entrepreneur’s makeup. But what do they do to utilize the power of those dreams? This article gives you some tips on using visualization, to achieve your goals. First to be successful in business, you need to define your personal definition of success. What is success for you? Which goals do you need to reach to be successful?

Imagine trying to sell TV advertising, in the early days when most people had not seen a television. It must have happened, or we would not have had any commercial TV today. The sales people in those days used the art of visualization to sell the concept that “a picture is worth a thousand words”

The key word here is “imagine”! I want you to imagine, or indeed create a picture of what success means to you. Sitting on a sun kissed beach or playing round after round of golf whenever you want – just create that picture.

Making that “picture in your mind’s eye” a reality It was once said that a vision without corresponding action is a mirage – great to look at but unattainable.

First to be successful in business, you need to define your personal definition of success. What is success for you? Which goals do you need to reach to be successful?

Write them down, think about them, and visualize them.

Visualization is much more powerful than most people imagine. By nurturing a desired image in your mind repeatedly, you will allow yourself to be successful –easily and simply!

How to plan your objectives

In this positive frame of mind ask yourself exactly what it is that you do well. Check this with your best customers. Ask them how they see what you provide. Why do they like it, how would they describe the benefits of what it is you do. Finally ask them what image, your products and services, conjures up. You will find after doing this, you will have a common theme.

Does doing more of this help you achieve your goals?

Now set your objectives. They should be based on doing more of what you are good at, to reach your goals. The good news is, that having done the previous exercise, you know it will be in synch with what the market actually wants.

You need to set milestones, or short term goals to keep you honest as your plan progresses. The more you plan your objectives, the higher the chances of success. Objectives need to be realistic yet optimistic, quantifiable to be measured.

Fulfilling a strategy through visualization.

What you will now have done is connect a dream with reality, by setting out a set of actions or steps to help you get there. This is what the business gurus call a strategy. In reality it is a set of actionable steps, turning a dream or goal into reality.

There will be bits of the business that you just can’t do well. Don’t even try and do them, if you are not good at accounts, use an accountant. If you do not know how to market or sell, hire someone who can, if you can’t afford a full-time person, someone like 3R can help you.

There are times when you dream will go fuzzy, or out of focus, when things go wrong – don’t worry, go back to your imagination, get the image of success and focus on what did go well. It’s what the rich and famous did, and you probably already do a lot of, without knowing it!

5 Steps to a Strong Personal Brand on Social Media

Personal branding in social media is not as simple as most people think. You really need to audit yourself apart from the branding of your business and the branding of your website. It is very personally, and directly communication/interacting with people in a more enclosed and scrutinized medium so be sure you have all your bases covered, including up-to-date profiles and an overall well thought out strategy.

Social media is everywhere and having yourself on it can be great; however, your professionalism doesn’t stop at your professional profiles.

If you’re an influencer in your industry or the face of your business, then paying attention to personal branding is essential in your social profiles.

So how do you get personal branding working for you?

Here’s 5 steps to ensuring you have a strong personal brand that will help with your business success:

Audit yourself
A simply quick audit of your personal profiles is a good idea so you can prune anything you wouldn’t want associated with yourself professionally. It will give you a chance to update all your profiles as well.

Make sure all your profiles are connected so users can easily see the relationship. The idea here is that you are an extension of your business and all social profiles clearly indicate to the user who you are and what you’re about.

When posting to your personal social media accounts, keep in mind your business goals and remember optics is key. When someone searches your name, what do they find? Don’t forget that anyone may repeat that search so if the results aren’t good you could lose a potentially warm lead.

Set Goals
Being the face of your business can also lead to you being an influencer in your industry. But that doesn’t just happen automatically. You need to set targets for yourself. And not just in terms of the metrics of measuring success but in how you will achieve the higher standing in your industry that you’re after.

Look at people already established in your niche. They may have a business profile but then on their own how are they presented? Clear stuff: Successful personal branding should show their personal profile is aligned with the style of their business.

Once you see what content has been effective and how often your peers have been successfully posting, you can estimate how often and what kind of materials you should post.

Also pay attention to where they post and you’ll see what platforms have returned results for them. Then you’ll know where to focus your efforts.

This element and the audit can be time consuming and confusing so don’t hesitate to reach out to social media experts if you require assistance.

Create Your Social Media Strategy
You have your goals set and you know how often you want to post and how many new people you want to see your content.

Now it’s time to incorporate the previous steps and develop a goal-based strategy aimed at realistic growth.

Achieving your goals is a dynamic process where you will consistently evaluate your successes and refine your approach until you start seeing the results you want.

Share other people’s content while promoting your own to establish yourself as an authority in your industry and not just a self-promoter.

There are various content aggregation tools available that will make it easier for you to find relevant content. And the bonus is you’ll get to read more about what you do!

All top and POPURLS are some favorites but there are many more you can choose from.

Try tools like Buffer or Hootsuite to help you schedule out your posts but remember to check in often for any engagement. The best thing you can do to establish yourself as an authority is to provide feedback and commentary on other users that shows you know what you’re talking about.

By making it a conversation you are becoming an influencer. Other users will see that dialogue whether its tweets or comments and they’ll see your expertise in action.

Each approach will vary but there should be consistent elements to any strategy such as choosing which platforms you are going to be able to log into on an ongoing basis and what kind of content is best suited to your industry.

Update Your Profiles
Having a professional headshot is a great idea for your personal branding. If you don’t have that already make sure you get one and place it as your avatar on each social media profile – both personal and business profiles.

Each & every platform’s profile should easily convey a connection to all others. Users should see consistency in both the visual elements and the content you’re posting.

If you’re having trouble with the various images and sizes required, it’s quite easy to set up a free account with Canva, which has predefined image sizes for all platforms and is very user friendly.

5. Hire a Mentor
It never hurts to have a third party review your profiles. While asking friends for help may seem like a good idea, an experienced, professional personal branding mentor will know what has and hasn’t worked in the past.

Look out for someone who has helped others achieve a solid personal brand and reputation in their industry and contact them for assistance. But make sure they know this is about your social media presence so you get someone with relevant experience to your goals.

Top Best Channels For Digital Marketing You Need To Know About

Digital Marketing raises the curtain out of your brand and brings it in front of a wide audience. It’s simple that if nobody knows about your company, so, how you will get the business. It is important for a marketer to understand it, before things get messed up and you have left nothing to regret on. Incorporating yourself in digital marketing is not enough, you have to do it correctly and there are many platforms available for the same. You have to decide among the available platforms before starting your journey to become a brand from the beginning. In case, you don’t have enough knowledge about these platforms, take a look at top 3 channels that are the way too perfect for serving the same purpose.

Website Marketing: Your website is one of the best digital marketing channels that open up the door of opportunities, but in an order to generate outcomes, it is important for you to execute each and every strategy properly. Make sure your website has all the bells and whistles like Proper Links, Unique Content, Quality Images, Meta Tag, Title, Description and all the elements which are necessary for the SEO and for driving traffic to it.
Email Marketing: Another Digital Marketing Channel that helps you hit the goal is email marketing. It is again a great platform to reach the targeted audience the right way. Create catchy headlines or CTAs and deliver your new offers and special discounts directly to the customer’s inbox as it increases their chances to come back to your website, which automatically increases the conversion.
Social Media Marketing: Social Media is the talk of the town. Nowadays, if you want to build your presence, so, it is crucial for you to make yourself available on these platforms. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. all these platforms work as a bridge that helps to cover the distance between the customer and the brand. It helps you make a strong business relationship that benefits your business long way.

These are top 3 digital marketing channels that drive in great results if you implement your strategy on them in a proper manner. It’s high time to jump on the bandwagon and you shouldn’t hesitate to take this step. In case of lack of knowledge consult an expert that leads you the right path and take your brand to the high position where it deserves to be.

WHY YOU HAVEN’T OVERCOME STRESS YET

The new year started fresh but I know a lot of you are still under stress. Good enough to start my first blog item with giving you the ability how to reduce stress from your mind, body and soul.

Sit back, relax and let me talk to you…

Don’t you forget we live in a world of stress, from childhood to old days at home, in the work place .it keeps us awake at night. Stress ruins our days and tons of other activities.

And so we often ask, how can I get rid of the anxieties of life.

How can I get free from STRESS.

Some people take exercise other takes yoga, other do meditation something, anything, but my understanding is this:

There is no getting away from STRESS, yes you can’t get away from it. The age we all living in is the age of STRESS.

This is a world of STRESS. A time of STRESS.

You breath it, you see it, you hear it and what to do ????

You can learn to manage it and to tolerate it how not to identify it and it’s effects.

Now how do you do that ?? Here it comes…..

Change your approach to the factor STRESS and change your approach to life by remembering this mantra : BE ANCHORED you got it yes BE ANCHORED

What do I really mean :

Envisage a ship or boat anchored at sea, Storms/ hurricanes may come one after another the boat may toss this way and that and furniture inside may go flying. Some people get seasick, but the boat doesn’t go anywhere.

Why ???

Clear…It’s Anchored !!

So you be anchored, find the place in life that you want to be in based on who you really are. Find what your inner-self really wants from life and anchor to that.

Once you keep bringing yourself back to that place by constant remembrance of your identity values and goals then you can learn to manage STRESS.

At the fresh start of this new year I would like to share ten tips how to be calm and reduce STRESS:

MEDITATE
Just a few minutes a day of meditation can help to ease your stress and anxiety.
BREATHE DEEPLY
When you are feeling stressed, take time to focus on breathing deeply. Close your eyes, sit up straight and focus on nothing but breathing deeply.
REACH OUT
Having a solid social support system is a good key to reduce stress.

Reach out to close friends and your family in time of need.
EXERCISE
Exercise has been shown to increase “FEEL GOOD” endorphins that can help reduce stress. A long walk can give you time to reflect, while an intense gym workout can let you release negative energy.
LAUGH
Laughter may not be the “best” medicine but it does actually lower cortisol – also known as the stress hormone.
LISTEN TO MUSIC.
Research has shown that listening to soothing music can lower blood pressure, heart rate and anxiety. Alternatively, listening to more upbeat music can also help by invigorating you.
BE GRATEFUL
These two words tells you a lot.
ACCEPT YOU CAN’T CONTROL EVERYTHING
This one is very simple – some times you just have to step back and realize that you can’t control everything. Some things are out of your hands, so why waste your time stressing about them.
STAY POSITIVE
It is not easy to stay always positive. But, you can make an active effort to try and to find the positively in your very own life. Do not focus on negative thoughts like “bad things are going to happen with me”.
DO SOMETHING FUN
Don’t forget to take some time to really enjoy yourself. Find yourself a nice hobby that can tune your mind body and soul. Do activities that you enjoy. Surround yourself around people that you have fun with.

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THE WHOLE SKUNT WORLD IS BLOGGING

Hello friends in this digital universe. I hope you all are doing fine wherever you are and what you do.

“I’m thinking today about blogging,” it is a common statement I frequently hear from my friends. “But what Skunt? And who will read that, because so much is being written already. And last but not least: how do I keep it full and with a high dosage of blogging passion? ‘

That’s why today I want to talk to you and others by writing the following…

Blog …About what?

You think: buyer/seller and so on! My blog must go about my field of course.

It depends on ..

Depends on? Yes. Sometimes you still have one leg in a job or your own company, while your attention always lies somewhere else. A person X – who was still employed at the time – started to blog about introverts one day because he/she had discovered that he/she was one him/herself and wanted to figure out how to deal with it. Person Y wanted to get rid of the mess in his/her life and started a blog about his/her own progress. Both persons now pass on their knowledge and experiences to others as entrepreneurs. You got me now how things might start about blogging.

Blogging = a long-term trip. You do not do it ‘a week’. Then it is useful if your subject can count on your attention for quite some time.

But there is something else. With a blog you make a connection. You want to reach people with it. That brings us to somewhere. Can you feel me better now !

Who will read that?

Three points:

1 First about the length of your blog

Who will read that?

Three points:

1 First about the length of your nice blog

This does not make a butt. As long as people find it interesting what you write or post, your blog can be as long as you want. There are readers who first have a cup of tea/coffee or rum in the Caribbean and then start reading blogs, as if it is the newspaper on a Sunday morning.

2 … But then it must be interesting for people

That becomes obvious when you share your experiences, whether or not supplemented with knowledge. These experiences are mainly about your view of things, your approach, your own research(es). Think of that much-given tip of ‘use a number in your blog title’: 5 extraordinary books about sexylulu shoes. 10 tips to survive holidays with friends and family. That tip works. But that only works once for you if you then come up with 10 clichés, devoid of any personalization. Yes hello. We do not travel all the way to your blog! Haha. I can see you smiling !

3 You should be able to find those people you want to reach easily

Share your blog via the social media you use. And your blog is public, so if you share via Facebook, for example, set your message institution to ‘public’ once. You may also use other social media platforms as well. It is up to you where you like your blogs to go public.

And will people also react?

Yes. But not always how you expect. Famous Bloggers are enjoying reactions among their blogs. But readers also respond via tweets, Facebook messages, old-fashioned e-mails or individual comments during a meeting in the style of ‘oh yes, I have been reading your blogs for the last three hundred years’. I always get a lot from the last two. I myself get my reactions the same ways too. Experience is that people do not respond if you ask them explicitly. What I find terribly funny again, because if you ask me something emphatically, I also have a tendency not to do it. Cristal clear !

How do you keep it full?

Choose a form that is closest to yourself. A form that ideally starts with a new blog. Or else the least effort of all forms takes place. If you are a poet, blog through poems etc. Some bloggers go further by shooting a blog everyday via a fresh daily on their website.If you are an artist you mayblog through cartoons as well. On the blog a photographer you will find many photos. Well. You understand where I want to go. A blog is not necessarily a mountain of text. Is allowed. Not necesarry. Make your videos? Blog with videos. 3D print designer? Make sure we can also view your latest fat gobbly shit 3D.

Also choose a tone that is closest to yourself. Not only because of the marketing tip that everyone is up to you: that you also attract the nicest customers/readers. Do it for yourself for God’s sake. It is tiring to always pretend to be different than you are. Nobody thinks: ‘I will become a freelancer, then I can finally be someone who I am not. I am so disturbed by being in paid employment but always being completely myself. ‘ I am still blogging which started as my hobby and my passion in writing.

With two comments. One : listen to the language Nazis. A blog full of game and language errors exudes everything except what you want it to exude. Two : avoid ‘wronged’. Complaining, expressing criticism, being grumpy – can all be on your blog. If you do it with an open mind, humor, self-insight, respect, substantiation of your complaint or arguments, and so on. I think I am clear enough. You may want to fill this list further.

What blog tip do you have for others, even if you are a fresh starter, others may learn from you. Nice if you put that in the comments under this blog. Or not. Do especially what you want skunt. You are finally big enough to decide what you like to do. Me done talk, meh a blog further.

The Caribbean Blog Authority

FYI : SKUNT

A word in the Caribbean culture used as an expletive/curse word. Most frequently used to express disbelief, anger or surprise, “Ooh skunt!!!” It can also be used to as a adjective when referring to an actual person, or their being. Can be used when referring to a woman or man etc.

WHAT THE USE OF YOUR MOBILE REALLY TELLS YOU

Seize your mobile phone, we do it all. Yet there are many of us who make excessive use of their mobile phone, some of which are useless. In the morning, when you wake up, look directly at your phone, many times in between and before going to sleep, just check mail, Whatsapp, FB and Insta? Recognizable? What does that have to do with entrepreneurship you might wonder? Enough to stand still.

Funest

We can no longer imagine a life without a mobile phone. This is also largely true for the generation above us. Children of today wonder “how did that go then?” Can not imagine a life without a mobile phone. For many of us this has also become reality. Earlier I wrote a blog about TV and how mind-numbing that occasionally can be. Many people sit behind the TV when they are bored. With the mobile phone that is partly comparable, there are many who constantly grab their phone. It is valuable to be aware of the impact of intensive and above all useless use of your mobile phone. By finding a better balance in the use of your mobile you will reap the benefits in your (working) life. First, let’s consider how you handle your mobile phone.

Use

In what way do you use your mobile phone? Consider what your day looks like, from early in the morning until late at night before you go to sleep. How often do you grab your mobile and what do you do? Go check it out; Tumble and also indicate the reason that you grab your mobile. Do not hold back, but be guided by what you would normally do. Without condemning yourself, it is only about observing what you do. And of course it is true that when you become aware that a lot is already happening. You step out of automatism and see why you do what you do. Only that perception is already valuable.

Sign on the wall

What are the things you do on your cell phone? Do you follow the news, and what news is that? Make your notes, do you record, do you use other business apps for your business? Or do you scan (nonsensical) messages on social media to kill time? Do you play games? And if you do that, which part of the day do you do that in particular? In short, pluck it out.

I also know the temptation of my cell phone too well. I know that the use of my mobile phone tells me a lot about how things are going; with my business and also how I feel private about myself. There have been times that I often checked online news. Occasionally I read a message that it was worth reading, but the majority was to be considered as nonsensical information and pure waste of time. With me, it was moments when I was not in my hum for a moment and I was less aware. A flight to fill the scarce moments of peace and quiet. And, moreover, with the intensive use of your mobile, the danger is that you do not pay any real attention to the people who are important to you.

Dot on the horizon

Just to fall in the house, I believe that having a powerful life mission and a great awareness as a person (and entrepreneur) help you to deal with your mobile in a healthier way. Healthier than when you live your life without a clear dot on the horizon of where you want to go and why. If your drive is so powerful you want to focus your energy on that. Then there are too many beautiful things in your life that make you forget your mobile phone now and then.

In addition, I believe that if you are very aware of who you are and where you stand in life that you have virtually no boredom. You live, work and enjoy and know what silence and peace mean to you. That you need to be truly yourself and to create from your essence.

Do not forget to check your phone

Choose

Just go get started to discover with yourself how you handle your mobile. Then you have the choice whether you want to do this differently or whether you like it the way it is now. Make it at least a conscious choice. It gives you so much more positive energy when you go from the inside out and not the other way around. Wondering what it will bring you when you become more aware of how you use your mobile phone? And realize, it is not something that happens to you. You choose from now on.

YOUR BUSINESS ON QUICKSAND?

Ideas are bubbling up and you do not know where to start from craziness. There is chaos in your head. And the impact is that your head overflows and that the efficiency of your efforts leaves much to be desired. Recognizable? A much heard problem with entrepreneurs. How do you create focus in your work, create an overview and create clarity?

Getting bogged down in chaos can be pretty crippling. Just when you have a lot of creative ideas and there is plenty to do. The result is that little really gets off the ground. In many cases this is because the structure is lacking and also the connection between the things you do in your company.

Fragile basis

A significant part of the entrepreneurs have actually built their company on quicksand or is working on this. Serious. I will explain to you what I mean. Many entrepreneurs focus primarily on developing ideas, launching new products and services and are in the process of marketing them. Meanwhile the flow of ideas keeps going, new ideas pile up and ultimately there is a lot of ‘unfinished’ on the shelf and the overview is lost. As a result, you no longer know where to start, so that you become paralyzed. And this can lead to frustration again.

It often appears that the basis of your actions and efforts is fragile. And what do I mean by that? I will explain that on the basis of a number of questions. Is it clear to you what the reason is that you do what you do, for whom you work and what your unique way of working is? And to what extent have you anchored this? What is the umbrella signature (or call it the umbrella) of your company? And how did you record this?

Signature

For me, my signature is the indispensable foundation of my company. All my knowledge, expertise and method are interwoven in this. It is the starting point for all my products and services and my earnings model is derived from this.

In my daily work I guide entrepreneurs in developing their own unique signature. The road to success. And why? Because it offers you clarity and overview. That gives you peace of mind so that you can fully focus your attention on what flows and gives you energy. Working with the customers that make you happy and build the growth of your company. Moreover, the connection between what you do is clear. Your signature is the pure starting point of everything you do from your company.

The base

In order to achieve the signature for your company, it is important to have your desire and your WHY clear. Why do you do what you do? What is your underlying motivation? Only when you build your signature from your deepest desire and your WHY will you lay a very valuable foundation for success. And why is knowing your own WHY so important for your signature? Everything in your company revolves around your why. Your customers come to you because they believe in why you do what you do. There are indeed many coaches and trainers, but nobody is exactly as you are. And nobody does exactly what you do for exactly the same reason. Do you have clear what your WHY is?

In order to come to your own signature you will have to figure out and understand a number of things for yourself. In practice I work with a 7 step model that has your WHY and deepest desire as a starting point.

A MINDFUL SNACK FOR MY FELLOW ENTREPRENEURS

DEAR ENTREPRENEURS IN THIS ARTICLE I WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE SO CALLED SNACK THE NEXT TIME YOU MIGHT FEEL STRESSED.

I KNOW AND YOU KNOW THAT ALL OF US ARE WORKING UNDER HIGH PRESSURE TO REACH OUR GOALS IN EVERYTHING WE DO.

BUT IT IS ALWAYS GOOD TO KEEP YOUR MIND UNDER CONTROL. THERE FOR I LIKE TO SHARE A SNACK WITH YOU ONLINE.

We spend much of our time struggling against reality, mentally fighting against traffic, unpleasant colleagues, or tantruming children. The end result is that we use up our limited time and energy wishing things were different or better or less annoying .

This SNACK will help you for sure to keep your mind in balance.

The SNACK is working like this :

S – STOP

Just stop with whatever you are doing.

Stopping, by definition require us to begin it again.

We can always start again from a beginning.

N- NOTICE

Take the time to check what is happening in and around you. Yes make a good notice of things.

A- ACCEPT

In my opinion this is a tricky one.

Whatever it is you are struggling with like; time,kids,frustrations, sleepiness etc., acknowledge it for what it is. Take a good break and give it a place.

C- CURIOUS

Ground yourself with questions about your very own experiences and your environment. What am I feeling, what do I need right now to undertake at the moment.

K- KINDNESS

Respond positively to yourself and others with kindness and observe how that help things to get back on track(s).

I do hope that this S.N.A.C.K will guide you further in life to succeed.

Always remember that Life is like music. It has high notes and low notes. No matter how high and how low your notes may be, keep in tune with the creator and you’ll never go out of tune in the entrepreneurial music of life.

Have a Great SNACK Life