Introducing My New Business Card
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There is one thing that I have not done in my business in the last two years, i.e, pass my business card around at the seminars & events. The truth is, I never had one by choice.
The last time around when I created a business card it was just a basic one with my name, address etc. It had my photo but that’s it. All in all it was imperfect. It did more damage than good.
I felt very uncomfortable passing a basic card around, hence I decided not to give out any. This adversely effected my networking.
All of this changed recently when I saw Joel Bauer in action( watch the video below and you will see what I mean).
Then I met Alex Mandossian a couple of weeks ago after six long years, and was blown away by his “Google Card”.
One thing lead to the other and I’m happy to proudly present my new business card to you. In the last few days, I have handed over 70 of these cards and every time someone received one, they felt lucky. Amazing..
In the last two days I have received 4 emails from people asking me for my business card. I’m honored :)-
Here is a small video that explains the psychology behind this card. Thanks to Joel Bauer and Alex Mandossian without them project would have stayed incomplete.
Here is Joel Bauer’s infamous “Your Business Card is Crap” video. This video has over million hits on Youtube already. Pretty powerful stuff. Joel is just phenomenal.
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Embrace Life: One Of The Best Marketing Videos Of All Times
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I’m sure this video will put tears into your eyes, will make your heart heavy. This is one of the best marketing messages I have seen lately. Hats off to the marketing genius who created this
This video has been viewed by over 2 million visitors on youtube.
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SriniSaripalli.com Turns Two
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2004 marked the beginning of the creation of www.SriniSaripalli.com. My, how time flies.
It wasn’t until March 2008, that the wordpress blog really made an impact on the site and delivers everything that you now see today. Communication and marketing skills go hand in hand in delivering any type of product and this Mother blog has served me well in that aspect.
Being able to put forth my first Blogging Workshop in April 2009, my first multi-speaker summit in August 2009 , and the Six Figure Breakthrough Workshop is proof that blogging works!
Due to lack of classical english skills, taking ideas and turning them into tangible content in a short time had been my handicap. Yet over the years I have deliberately tried to overcome it. Blogging is self improvement in public.
Sharing ideas & thoughts and contributing to the success of others greater than your own is what blogging is all about. Lack of time and expertise are mere excuses.
Shoots from www.SriniSaripalli.com such as www.immigrantmillionaire.com, www.kickstartblogging.com, and www.gorichonline.com, have been started from this single beginning.
Each time the goal of 10 posts in a category was reached, I realized that a new blog was needed.
Marking a significant milestone in the history of this blog seemed the appropriate time to ask what my fellow bloggers thought should be focused on in the future and what type of improvements you would like to see.
Feel free to offer suggestions and ideas on how we can progress into the future to make this site more helpful and intriguing to others.
Join with me in celebrating the month of March when it all first started and to many more years of fruitful ambitions.
To Your Constant & Ever Increasing Success
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Your Income Is A Direct Outcome Of The Value You Bring To The Marketplace.
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You might have heard this saying “Income Reflects Value” in other words your income is a direction reflection of the value you bring to the marketplace.
On this video today, I share a small idea that made a major shift in my business. I hope you will appreciate it and if you do, please leave a comment below.
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Insider Secret To Delivering Back-To-Back Knock-Out Presentations
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A while ago one of my seminar attendees asked, how I prepare myself leading into a presentation. I shared several techniques with him, but he liked this technique the most. I thought I would create a video and share it with all.
On this video I show you how to record your presentations and preserve them on the mp3 recorder for later review. You can even create audio CDs out of it later, I have done that many times. You can pretty much create a bunch of information products that way.
I believe that a simple presentation when practiced and delivered with an impact can not only create customers but could very well become the foundation of a million dollar information marketing empire.
Enjoy and leave your comments below…
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Three Must-Know Stops on the Road to Online Success- Where are You At?
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Building a business is no easier than building anything else. There is saying “People Make Choices, Choices Make People”.
Everyone chooses the paths that they take. If your path has led you to business ownership, there are some things that you need to consider. While you could read articles all day about online business and internet marketing, there are three basic tips or stops on your journey that you must be aware of in order to succeed with your business ventures.
It doesn’t matter whether you have a marketing business or a shoe business, because the basic stops are the same.
Stop #1: The Foundation
Your business, like any strong and formidable building, cannot rise to the top without a solid foundation. You need to learn the basics. The fundamentals of having and running an online business are invaluable to your success. Take the time to learn anything and everything you can, no matter how basic it might seem, because you should always be prepared. Without a good, stable foundation your business will crumble.
Stop #2: The Marketing
Marketing is critical. You need to understand the latest trends, the best marketing tools, and what practices work best for someone in your industry. Some businesses might find great uses for certain tools, while they might not prove to be as effective for your business. Find other businesses in your niche, if possible, and figure out how they’ve used marketing to become successful in their business. Then, model your own business after theirs, and you will be all the more successful in the end.
Stop #3: The Customer Relationship
When you have a business, you need your customers to succeed. Therefore, building relationships with those customers cannot be forsaken. You must make time to engage with people, in a personal and professional manner. You need to be able to befriend them and earn their trust and respect by presenting yourself as an authority or expert in your niche, but without being stale and informal. Get down to their level and show them why they need you and your business. People buy people these days, so make sure that you’re worth investing in and there is no reason why you will not prosper
A lot can be written and said but these three stops are critical on the road to business success. There are many other things that you will need to consider, and most of them will end up going back to Traffic Generation, List Building & Conversions. After all, without these three your business will eventually fail.
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Eat right, Exercise Regularly, Die Anyway.
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No idea who said that..but this title I guess is befitting to this post.
This is my second post of 2010 on this blog. The first post was a gratitude post I wrote on the new years day. It had been 10 days since I did anything with blogging, internet marketing or anything for that matter.
I had great plans of starting 2010. I even announced the dates for my blog monetization workshop for February.
..But it loooked like everything came to a standstill on January 2nd.
That evening I went to my friend Rabin’s house to help him with a computer virus problem he was having. My friend is a doctor and he hardly knows anything about computers.
We were meeting for the first time in an year.
I spent several hours dealing with a spyware problem and finally was able to restore the machine to some acceptable performance. In between, I casually mentioned to him about some rash developing under my left ribcage.
He looked at it asked me two questions
1) Did you ever have chickenpox?
2) Did you have a mild fever lately?
When I said Yes, he instantly concluded it to be a case of Shingles
He immediately called the local Walgreen’s and made sure that I pick up the medication with in hours.
Seventeen years ago while traveling in a train in India, I got chickenpox. At that time I was told there was no medication or cure for it and that I would recover fully with in six months or so, which incidentally I did. Little did I know then that the same chickenpox virus would stay in my body and will resurface in the form of shingles in later part of my life.
Here is how wikipedia defines shingles…
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Herpes zoster (or simply zoster), commonly known as shingles and also known as zona, is a viral disease characterized by a painful skin rash with blisters in a limited area on one side of the body, often in a stripe. The initial infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV) causes the acute (short-lived) illness chickenpox, and generally occurs in children and young people. Once an episode of chickenpox has resolved, the virus is not eliminated from the body but can go on to cause shingles—an illness with very different symptoms—often many years after the initial infection.
Varicella zoster virus can become latent in the nerve cell bodies and less frequently in non-neuronal satellite cells of dorsal root, cranial nerve or autonomic ganglion,[1] without causing any symptoms.[2] Years or decades after a chickenpox infection, the virus may break out of nerve cell bodies and travel down nerve axons to cause viral infection of the skin in the region of the nerve. The virus may spread from one or more ganglia along nerves of an affected segment and infect the corresponding dermatome (an area of skin supplied by one spinal nerve) causing a painful rash.[3][4] Although the rash usually heals within two to four weeks, some sufferers experience residual nerve pain for months or years, a condition called postherpetic neuralgia. Exactly how the virus remains latent in the body, and subsequently re-activates is not understood.[1]
At first the medication I took made me drowsy and weak and for the last 10 days I had been confined to my house
Today I’m fully cured and all the rash is gone. Thank God, I have also not developed any postherpetic neuralgia or pain.
My friend as categorically warned me not to take a lot of stress, cut down my late night internet marketing activities and exercise at least 60 minutes everyday.
As a result of all this, I will be making a lot changes the way I operate. I don’t know the specifics yet but will keep you posted..
It was important that I take the antibiotics in the first 72hours of the appearance of the characteristic rash, which I did. Thanks to my friend Rabin and his computer virus problem without which I would have not gotten the antibiotics timely.
The reason why I shared this personal story with you is to encourage you to take care of yourself first in this new year and many more years to come. If you have made big plans for 2010, make sure they are realistic.
Just don’t kill yourself to create new realities. Live in the present to the fullest and welcome the future without conditions.
I close this post with a poem by Wayne Fields.
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The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they’ll ease
Your will they’ll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990
I hope you enjoyed the poem.. Now leave a comment ..:)-
To Your Abundance Health, Wealth & Success
Srini “Fully Cured From Shingles” Saripalli
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14 Books That Changed Me For Good In 2009
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Today is Jan 1, 2010 and a Happy New Year to you.
I woke up early for a reason and i,e to make a gratitude post on my blog.
While many bloggers and marketers have timed their gratitude posts to coincides with the year end, I decided to start the new year with mine.
Let me confess, It took a while for me to write this short post. This post is about a set of 14 power books that changed my life in 2009. These books are not new, some of them were published during my grandfathers time( early 1900’s).
Year 2009 was all about perspective for me these books helped me change my perspective about life and business in a big good way. Such was the impact that the later part of 2009 I witnessed tremendous success in my business, friends, relationships and most importantly family.
Here they are..
- Everyday Greatness by Stephen Covey
- The monk who sold his Ferrari by Robin Sharma
- The Power of focus by Mark Victor Hanson, Jack Canfield & Les Hewitt
- The Magic of thinking big by David J Schwartz
- Put Your Dream To The Test by John C Maxwell
- The Key by Joe Vitale
- Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E Frankl
- The 48 Law’s of Power by Robert Greene
- Success Through Positive Mental Attitude by Napoleon Hill & W.Clement Stone
- Maximum Achievement by Brian Tracy
- Unstoppable by Cynthia Kersey
- The Answer by John Assaraf & Murray Smith
- The Quest of Happiness by Newell Dwilight Hillis
- The Art of thought by Graham Wallas
I had many of the above books with me for years and I do plan to read them again and again for many years.
Now go and buy these books, some are out of print and are hard to find but that should not be an excuse . Your kids, grand kids and even your great grand kids will thank you for many many years.
Before you go.. Did you read a book that helped you big time in 2009 or is there is a book that you would like to recommend, please mention it here.
I promise to buy and read it.
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Make Friends to Make Sales- Social Interaction as a Business Tool
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One of the hottest trends in marketing is social media as a marketing tool. Many businessmen of years past might be turning in their graves at the thought of mixing business with pleasure, but today it’s the norm, and what you need to truly succeed in business.
People have changed, and how they get the things that they need is completely different than it used to be. The fast-talking, well-dressed salesman of the past are out, and the social butterflies are in season.
If your business is going to be successful, you need to make sure that you take the time to use the tools that you need to get it there. Today’s tools are of the social nature. If you can make friends, build relationships, and get people to trust and respect you, success is yours.
With so many different tools, from blogs to social networking sites and more, you can guarantee that there is plenty out there for you to choose from when it comes to marketing your business.
As long as you can find the tools that work for you, you’re going to be successful no matter what you do with them :)-
Just do what I say, don’t do what I do i,e not actively participate on Facebook & Twitter as often as I want to. Set up an account on Facebook, MySpace, or other sites that will allow you to connect with people in your target market.
You can use status updates and sites like Twitter to let people know about specials, updates to your business, and even personal updates about your role as a business owner. The options are nearly limitless. And I haven’t even gotten to blogs yet.
Blogs are an invaluable tool for any business, you can turn yourself into an authority in any subject practically overnight, and still do it in an informal way so that people feel like they can really connect with you.
Remember People buy people, point blank. Convince them to buy into you, they will buy into your business. There are so many different ways to socialize with your target audience and get them involved in your business, but the ultimate key is to be passionate.
If you are passionate about what you do, others will be persuaded automatically.
Make every opportunity count, and become the social salesperson that you were born to be. Remember if you can make friends, you can make sales, and that’s all there is to social networking and using social media in your internet marketing and beyond.
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Page 1 On Google for Information marketing
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I’m excited today for two reasons..
#1. I finally took some time out from my busy schedule and make a blog post on this blog after nearly six weeks of silence.
#2. My blog is ranking in page #1 of google for the term “Info Marketing” with over 222 Million competing pages.
Just recorded a video to demonstrate this
If you carefully study this blog, you will see its not that well optimized. My other blogs have taken away a lot of my time and hence I have not focused much of my time here. The only inference I can make from this is.. if you tell Google that you are about information marketing you better have content in your blog relevant to information marketing. You cannot mention “Information Marketing” in the title tag and stuff your posts with a completely unrelated keyword called “Animal surgery”. It will not fly.
Also density and seasoning of content matters. I’m reasonably sure that I can walk away from this blog for three months and come back again to see it rank high for keyword like “information marketing” and any other extension to it such as “Information marketing Library” or “Information marketing Course”
That’s my hunch.
As you see the term “information marketing” is not a buyer keyword as such, there are not that may paid ads either, but the competition is extremely high.
For Information marketing, I’m still ranking in page 2, at 11th position, I’m close to getting into page one. There is a reason why I have mentioned “information marketing” so many times in this post, even the post slug is “Information marketing” and so is the category. Lets see if this post will push me into page 1 for the term “information marketing”
In the meantime while that happens, I’m enjoying all the joint venture requests I’m getting from other information marketing gurus!
Keeping my fingers crossed :)-
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