Thursday, May 26, 2011
Business On A Budget
Starting a business in a shoe-string may sounds a little frugal. But if you're left with only a small capital and don't want to spent too much, here are couple of sites that could help you save while get your company set up with a good bargain prices:
(1) Computers & Electronics
- techbargains.com
- bradsdeals.com
- smalldog.com
- tekserve.com
- amazon.com
(2) Business cards
- Vista print
(3) Cheap calls
- skype.com
- google voice
- grasshopper (use coupon from AppSumo)
(4) customized facebook pages
- pagemood
- north social
- short stack
(5) Outsourcing or cheap employees
- internships.com
- urban interns
- elance.com
- guru.com
- oDesk.com
(6) Custom company logos
- 99designs
- hatchwise.com
(1) Computers & Electronics
- techbargains.com
- bradsdeals.com
- smalldog.com
- tekserve.com
- amazon.com
(2) Business cards
- Vista print
(3) Cheap calls
- skype.com
- google voice
- grasshopper (use coupon from AppSumo)
(4) customized facebook pages
- pagemood
- north social
- short stack
(5) Outsourcing or cheap employees
- internships.com
- urban interns
- elance.com
- guru.com
- oDesk.com
(6) Custom company logos
- 99designs
- hatchwise.com
Monday, May 23, 2011
Transition lines
I wish you could have been there........
I'll never forget when the God whisper in my ears
If you have ONE chance to say ONE thing to ONE of your peer ........
There is ONE more thing.......
If you were to (action), you'll (modalities).....
I'll never forget when the God whisper in my ears
If you have ONE chance to say ONE thing to ONE of your peer ........
There is ONE more thing.......
If you were to (action), you'll (modalities).....
Friday, May 20, 2011
List of Word & Concepts (in progress)
Word that need to be use in a speech:
I never forget.....
This alone is worth the entire cost of the seminar
Moses of math
lever
quadrant
100 days challenge
domains
breath life into your speech
color and light
heart of merchant proposition
close loop and open loop
key growth
if we keep doing speeches after speeches, we will be missing the forest for the tree
digital wallet
execution, adoption, architecture
talk about the market then comprehensive
skyvue las vegas super wheel
ishares
roller coaster
Ferris-styled wheels
gondalas
searching for the truth wisdowm the American way
keys to the kingdom
i'm not telling you i have all the answer but I ...
delivering the same kind of results in good shape
it's obligations but it's also an opportunity
stronger, drive engagement
resource guide
I never forget.....
This alone is worth the entire cost of the seminar
Moses of math
lever
quadrant
100 days challenge
domains
breath life into your speech
color and light
heart of merchant proposition
close loop and open loop
key growth
if we keep doing speeches after speeches, we will be missing the forest for the tree
digital wallet
execution, adoption, architecture
talk about the market then comprehensive
skyvue las vegas super wheel
ishares
roller coaster
Ferris-styled wheels
gondalas
searching for the truth wisdowm the American way
keys to the kingdom
i'm not telling you i have all the answer but I ...
delivering the same kind of results in good shape
it's obligations but it's also an opportunity
stronger, drive engagement
resource guide
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Kian's Gratitude Log
Over the years, the one thing that is highly recommended by Oprah and almost all self-help books on the "Art of Happiness" is this.
A gratitude log. So here I am building my 3rd gratitude log sheet. I have previously done this on paper and also started my gratitude log on a RED booklet. But I decided to go on and post my daily gratitude here:
Year 2011
5/14
Met with Olga to the Oysters Fest. It was awesome to listen to Rodrigo and Gabriella playing and enthralling almost few thousands audience with their guitars. Good stuff and fun time with Olga. I value this moment together because I know I wouldn't have enjoy it that much watching R&G alone. We went on to have a fabulous dinner at Morph.
5/15
I'm happy that I have my weekend off that I can do whatever I want. Wondering with my mind, browsing through youtube and found this by Vishen Lakhiani. Also found Simone's youtube sing & piano music to be mind relaxing. Met MJ in Impala and was happy that she is such a cool kid. At the end of the day, I did a 50 mins of Holosync meditation and it was such a breeze. :) happy!!
5/16
Woke up in the morning and feel energized and time to conquer the world. Still lingering in my mind the thought of long term skill building in content and video marketing.
5/20
Today's coaching call with Karen is emotional. She seems to be really sad that thinking I will leave her after the 1-year coaching contract ends. She says "what if one day there will be no coaching call and I'm not here, how are you going to get the freedom and strive for your dream/goal" I felt it and I'm grateful that she is in my life. Some idea come by that perhaps Dennis could also be my coach. I'll call Dennis and catch up on Sunday.
A gratitude log. So here I am building my 3rd gratitude log sheet. I have previously done this on paper and also started my gratitude log on a RED booklet. But I decided to go on and post my daily gratitude here:
Year 2011
5/14
Met with Olga to the Oysters Fest. It was awesome to listen to Rodrigo and Gabriella playing and enthralling almost few thousands audience with their guitars. Good stuff and fun time with Olga. I value this moment together because I know I wouldn't have enjoy it that much watching R&G alone. We went on to have a fabulous dinner at Morph.
5/15
I'm happy that I have my weekend off that I can do whatever I want. Wondering with my mind, browsing through youtube and found this
5/16
Woke up in the morning and feel energized and time to conquer the world. Still lingering in my mind the thought of long term skill building in content and video marketing.
5/20
Today's coaching call with Karen is emotional. She seems to be really sad that thinking I will leave her after the 1-year coaching contract ends. She says "what if one day there will be no coaching call and I'm not here, how are you going to get the freedom and strive for your dream/goal" I felt it and I'm grateful that she is in my life. Some idea come by that perhaps Dennis could also be my coach. I'll call Dennis and catch up on Sunday.
Monday, May 9, 2011
21 Lessons From Rory's Event
Few of us conducted a 2 1/2 hour session where we invited Rory, 2-Time World Champion of Public Speaking and here are the 21 lessons I learned from putting this event together:
1) To make something sustainable, you have to start small. Too big of an event will make create tremendous amount of stress and human couldn't possible sustain that emotional rollercoaster
2) There will be emotional roller coasters throughout the journey of the event, and we just have to persist and see it through
3) Working in a team is the best ways to keep the motivation level and to fight fear. Because, when you're in the downstream of your emotional roller coaster, some one else in the team in in the upstream. Only because of that, it brings everyone higher and higher up the emotional roller coaster
4) To keep team motivated, you must first know what motivates them before asking them to join the team. To do asked someone to join the team and you have to motivate them again and again. The team member must be self-motivated. In order to get them it, they must have invested their time, money or effort in order to make sure they don't easily quit. Start at the begining and tell them what they will face in the next couple of months and how we can overcome this together. The other member must have a reason for themselves to change. If there is no leverage point, there is no motivation. Member need to be given ownership on the project.
5) Do not trust your perception when you did just one project with someone. It often takes 2-3 project before you truly understand someones motivations, perserverance and concerns.
6) For refund of money or door fees, think about giving others option to choose (ie. either refund or bring other friends to join)
7) Introduce "bring-a-friend" program
8) The "Opportunity" e-mails to 115 clubs located 10 miles radious of zip code 94109 works. Follow the e-mail format.
9) If nothing else, I learned more about recording devices, which takes awhile. If not because of this event, I would not have learned about digital audio recording devices, audacity.com and editing audio, using graphic and disk.com for outsourcing of CDs productions.
10) Rory uses a method of "seemless click" to maneuver the slides presentation (using power point presentations in the pocket)
11)I'll need a few attempt of requests before I take action because I thot no one will response. But when I stumbled upon something that works, it will roll and I can leverage that and scale it (eg. to e-mail & ask Rory to promote, to e-mail all ppl from TMs)
12) Using Music before & after the esssion. Using music before speak goes on stage.
13) Do not let anyone control your sales and registration page.
14) Don't use graphic in eventbrite.com as the conversion ratio is substantially lower.
15) Crafted a letter to show excitement on signing up and what information attendess need to kno, plus a subtly upsell.
16) Never let other team members negativity affects your goal
17) Be clear on channel of promotion and who is organizing this. There are few weeks where this is not clear and it wasted time
18) Make sure speakers are responsive and have the capability to hold up to the present. If not, don't invite them cos people will cancel and disrupt your event, agenda and promotions. Allow adequate time to look for speakers and location.
19) It's easier to sell a 2-3 hours session than to sell a FULL day session. When it comes to public speaking, people are looking for action/participation and NOT passive listening.
20) Record your conversation with Rory during the time you pick them up, so you can maximized the time spent and extract more of Rory/speaker. One lesson during my drive with Rory, when Dave asked "you discover a new humor line?". They tested material again and again.
21) Things that don't work - meetup, facebook ads, zvent.com posting, yelp.com posting and other event posting. Plan full blast promotion during last 2 weeks approaching the event
22) Use clapping to direct a coupling group to sit down, or music to be on when coupling session is in play, then lower the music volume when complete. Give all instructions before asking everyone to stand up
23) Speak slowly one word at a time and finish your sentence.
1) To make something sustainable, you have to start small. Too big of an event will make create tremendous amount of stress and human couldn't possible sustain that emotional rollercoaster
2) There will be emotional roller coasters throughout the journey of the event, and we just have to persist and see it through
3) Working in a team is the best ways to keep the motivation level and to fight fear. Because, when you're in the downstream of your emotional roller coaster, some one else in the team in in the upstream. Only because of that, it brings everyone higher and higher up the emotional roller coaster
4) To keep team motivated, you must first know what motivates them before asking them to join the team. To do asked someone to join the team and you have to motivate them again and again. The team member must be self-motivated. In order to get them it, they must have invested their time, money or effort in order to make sure they don't easily quit. Start at the begining and tell them what they will face in the next couple of months and how we can overcome this together. The other member must have a reason for themselves to change. If there is no leverage point, there is no motivation. Member need to be given ownership on the project.
5) Do not trust your perception when you did just one project with someone. It often takes 2-3 project before you truly understand someones motivations, perserverance and concerns.
6) For refund of money or door fees, think about giving others option to choose (ie. either refund or bring other friends to join)
7) Introduce "bring-a-friend" program
8) The "Opportunity" e-mails to 115 clubs located 10 miles radious of zip code 94109 works. Follow the e-mail format.
9) If nothing else, I learned more about recording devices, which takes awhile. If not because of this event, I would not have learned about digital audio recording devices, audacity.com and editing audio, using graphic and disk.com for outsourcing of CDs productions.
10) Rory uses a method of "seemless click" to maneuver the slides presentation (using power point presentations in the pocket)
11)I'll need a few attempt of requests before I take action because I thot no one will response. But when I stumbled upon something that works, it will roll and I can leverage that and scale it (eg. to e-mail & ask Rory to promote, to e-mail all ppl from TMs)
12) Using Music before & after the esssion. Using music before speak goes on stage.
13) Do not let anyone control your sales and registration page.
14) Don't use graphic in eventbrite.com as the conversion ratio is substantially lower.
15) Crafted a letter to show excitement on signing up and what information attendess need to kno, plus a subtly upsell.
16) Never let other team members negativity affects your goal
17) Be clear on channel of promotion and who is organizing this. There are few weeks where this is not clear and it wasted time
18) Make sure speakers are responsive and have the capability to hold up to the present. If not, don't invite them cos people will cancel and disrupt your event, agenda and promotions. Allow adequate time to look for speakers and location.
19) It's easier to sell a 2-3 hours session than to sell a FULL day session. When it comes to public speaking, people are looking for action/participation and NOT passive listening.
20) Record your conversation with Rory during the time you pick them up, so you can maximized the time spent and extract more of Rory/speaker. One lesson during my drive with Rory, when Dave asked "you discover a new humor line?". They tested material again and again.
21) Things that don't work - meetup, facebook ads, zvent.com posting, yelp.com posting and other event posting. Plan full blast promotion during last 2 weeks approaching the event
22) Use clapping to direct a coupling group to sit down, or music to be on when coupling session is in play, then lower the music volume when complete. Give all instructions before asking everyone to stand up
23) Speak slowly one word at a time and finish your sentence.
The Perspective Principle of Faith
On April 23rd, 2011, Rory Vaden, 2-Time World Champion on Public Speaking share somthing that strike home for me. That's the Perspective Principle of Faith, one of the 7 Princples shared in Rory's 2 1/2 hour session.
Here I created a story of my own, which bear the Perspective Principle of Faith.
In Dec 2008, I was unemployed and the economy was at a slump. I visit 12 different Toastmasters Clubs around Bay Area to network, with the view of getting a job. I eventually found Golden Gate Toastmasters Club where I met Ben.
Ben, a close-friend of mine now, is an experienced Salsa dancer. He brought me to Cocomo, a local Salsa dance club. I was hooked and then started learning Salsa.
Through my almost 1 1/2 year of learning Salsa, I did pick up triathlon along the way, where I met Chris. Chris became my best Team In Training mate that we used to hang out after training. After the TNT season is over, we keep in touch and I introduced Chris to Salsa.
That's where I met Olga. Chris asked me to dance with her, so I offered my right hand and asked her to dance. After 2 dances I stayed on the side of the dance floor and Chris says "Ask her for the number!!".
I walked over to Olga and asked her... "Do you wanna hang out some time? What's your number?" I got her number and i left. Fast forward a week later, we were hanging out and that's how I met Olga and we are still together today.
I was entralled by myself with 2 of my hobbies - Toastmasters and Triathlon. Because of Toasmtasters, I met Ben and was introduced to the World of Salsa. If it's not because of Team-In-Training, I wouldn't have met Chris and I wouldn't have ask Olga for her number and I wouldn't have dated her.
I didn't understand why I was so consumed by both of hobbies for 2 1/2 years. Now I understand that everything happen for a reason, and sometimes, God have something install for you. You just have to look and search for it.
Sometimes, it comes right in front of you, but many times, it come along the journey you're taking. Regardless, of where you are in your journey of life, one thing for sure is that the higher power have things better in stall for you.
Bless you!!
Cheers,
Kian
Here I created a story of my own, which bear the Perspective Principle of Faith.
In Dec 2008, I was unemployed and the economy was at a slump. I visit 12 different Toastmasters Clubs around Bay Area to network, with the view of getting a job. I eventually found Golden Gate Toastmasters Club where I met Ben.
Ben, a close-friend of mine now, is an experienced Salsa dancer. He brought me to Cocomo, a local Salsa dance club. I was hooked and then started learning Salsa.
Through my almost 1 1/2 year of learning Salsa, I did pick up triathlon along the way, where I met Chris. Chris became my best Team In Training mate that we used to hang out after training. After the TNT season is over, we keep in touch and I introduced Chris to Salsa.
That's where I met Olga. Chris asked me to dance with her, so I offered my right hand and asked her to dance. After 2 dances I stayed on the side of the dance floor and Chris says "Ask her for the number!!".
I walked over to Olga and asked her... "Do you wanna hang out some time? What's your number?" I got her number and i left. Fast forward a week later, we were hanging out and that's how I met Olga and we are still together today.
I was entralled by myself with 2 of my hobbies - Toastmasters and Triathlon. Because of Toasmtasters, I met Ben and was introduced to the World of Salsa. If it's not because of Team-In-Training, I wouldn't have met Chris and I wouldn't have ask Olga for her number and I wouldn't have dated her.
I didn't understand why I was so consumed by both of hobbies for 2 1/2 years. Now I understand that everything happen for a reason, and sometimes, God have something install for you. You just have to look and search for it.
Sometimes, it comes right in front of you, but many times, it come along the journey you're taking. Regardless, of where you are in your journey of life, one thing for sure is that the higher power have things better in stall for you.
Bless you!!
Cheers,
Kian
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