How To Get People To Open Up

Have you ever met someone who is just simply closed to all ideas and suggestions?

One who is skeptical?

And one who cast a wary eye on just about anyone and everyone, maybe even his grandmother?

Actually, if you notice more closely…

You will notice one thing…

Most of these people usually exhibit this body language..

They Have Their Arms Folded!

Aha!

Arms folded. And their mind are also folded too.

If you unlock their arms, you unlock their mind.

Now…just how to unfold their arms?

Let me narrate to you a story…

I was having a meeting the other day at a company together with my colleagues and their management. We were presenting a collaboration plan.

A senior guy from the company just came in halfway to listen in for a while.

He had his arms folded – a sure tell-tale sign of skepticism and maybe to display his authority.

That caught my eye. Luckily, we had a hard copy of our presentation nearby, and I immediately grab it and went up to him. And presented to him with both my hands.

Up Close and Personal With Joel Christopher

Last Thursday, I had the honor and privilege of meeting Joel Christopher in person.

Here was this guy – a well established online marketer who is up there with the very best – standing right next to me.

My impression of him? Very warm. Very unassuming. Very down-to-earth.

He is a guru alright. He built his name on being a list-building expert. But he is not like other typical gurus. He really comes across as very real and genuine that takes interest in the person he is talking to.

Did I mention that his assistant, Mimi, is such a lovely lady too?

I met up with Samuel, Alvin and Martin, some marketers I’ve got to know recently in a mastermind group.

From left: Samuel, Martin, Joel, Alvin and Me (partially cut off…damn!)

Had a good chat together with Joel together with the rest of the gang.

Also had a chance to talk to Ian Del Carmen, an online marketer who is also a Warrior from the Philippines. Really friendly dude.

All in all, it was a very engaging session networking with fellow marketers

Words Of Wisdom To Success

Time is important to everyone so I’m gonna keep this post real short. And sweet.

Recently, I read a few quotes from Paul Myers of TalkBizNews (excellent newsletter with tonnes of value), a straight talking, no bullshit marketer, that left a big impact on me.

These quotes may be short but packed with valuable and powerful insights.

Here goes:

“Want to get a reality check? Ask to be judged!”

“Want to taste success? Take risk!”

“Recipe for failure? Listen to those who say you are not ready!”

Your Turn Now!

Do you agree?

You have a different perspective? Let’s hear it. Share it! Pay it forward!

[tags]Paul Myers, Success, Words of Wisdom[/tags]

Updates!

Alright the time is high for an update. It’s been 11 whooping days since I last updated my blog. The longest break interval ever since I started this blog.

Not that I’ve been lazy, just that I’ve been too busy with the setting up of a online marketing consultancy business with my partner. So many administrative issues to be settled.

The good thing is that the office and phone lines have been settled. Everything have gone without a hitch.

Met some clients who are proposing partnerships. Gotta see how it goes.

Now the difficult bit – getting content on the site. Doing up the forum and the blog. Lotsa stuffs to be done!

For sure, the direction of this blog will have to change. Most of my Internet Marketing articles will now go towards our new company’s corporate blog.

You can expect more and better informative articles. It is a good thing that my partner is pretty experienced in web development and marketing. He has handled government projects before and certainly, his contributions to the content will certainly gonna be vitally useful.

8 Random Facts About Me

I have not been blogging as I was away on a holiday. Now that I’m back, there is this sickening pile of work facing me. Argh!

Well, I guess I just got to grind through and bear with it. What’s life without work anyway? Utterly boring that is!

Anyway I’ve been tagged by Robin of FortuneWatch.com to participate in this meme, so here I am!

Actually I don’t really wanna bore you out with 8 facts about myself, but I need to do what’s gotta be done! So, do bare with me…!

• My idol is the late martial arts legend, Bruce Lee. Yes, I was a big Kung Fu fan when I was young. I even fashioned a nunchaku, Bruce Lee’s signature weapon, out of paper rolls and twirled and swirled it like a crazed madman!

• I ranked in the 27th percentile in a stock competition that I took part last year even though I only use 40% of the given budget. Till today, I still monitor the virtual portfolio, and presently my returns are in excess of 30%. Damn! Why didn’t I buy it in real life??

So Why Do I Blog?

I just got a double combo tags by the cool dudes from FortuneWatch and SmartWealthyRich to participate in this meme about the topic you see from this title.

So the million dollar question:

“Why Do I Blog?”

To be honest, I’ve never been into this whole blogging thing. Even when the blogging phenomenon was sweeping through the whole globe, where grandmas are also getting into the act, I was rather indifferent. I guess it reached a point where, if you can’t beat ‘em, you join ‘em.

Okay, here are my exact reasons:

1. To publish my thoughts, views, and present worthy information which are of value to the readers. Previously, I did content management with a finance website (still doing now actually, but more on the editorial and Internet marketing aspects), and I had the chance to publish my writings online. Without that platform, I really had no way to do so.

However with a blog, just about everyone has the power to publish his or her writings, easily and quickly, with a minimum of fuss.