Unless you're brand new to me and this blog... you know that my new Do It! Marketing book is about to be released.
You may also know that we hit Amazon #1 bestseller status not once - but TWICE already - and the book isn't even out yet.
What you may not know is that I had help. Amazing help from amazing people. Gurus and friends and colleagues and people I consider my personal and professional heroes.
Some helped a little. Some helped a lot. Some helped WAY above and beyond my wildest dreams...
If you're interested in marketing success, business success, and life success - well, there are a lot of so-called experts out there.
Many are called. Few are chosen.
I've made the choosing easy for you...
Here are 37 super-smart, generous, prolific, sometimes contrarian, and always fascinating people worth following...
p.s. The best thing about them - none of them would CALL themselves a "guru" - they simply consider themselves lucky to be sharing their insights with others who can benefit.
Here they are in no particular order (although each of them is truly #1)
- Jay Baer - http://www.convinceandconvert.com
- Stephanie Chandler - http://www.stephaniechandler.com
- Corey Perlman - http://www.ebootcamp.com
- Melinda Emerson - http://succeedasyourownboss.com
- Chris Murray - http://www.chrismurrayeditor.com
- Henry DeVries - http://www.marketingwithabook.com
- C. J. Hayden - http://www.getclientsnow.com
- Scott Ginsberg - http://hellomynameisscott.com
- Dan Janal - http://www.prleadsplus.com
- Art Sobczak - http://businessbyphone.com
- Mary Foley - http://maryfoley.com
- Gene Marks - http://genemarks.com
- Viveka Von Rosen - http://linkedintobusiness.com
- Brian Tracy - http://briantracy.com
- Geoff Ramm - http://www.geofframm.com
- John Jantsch - http://www.ducttapemarketing.com
- Joe Calloway - http://joecalloway.com
- Jay Conrad Levinson - http://www.gmarketing.com
- Jim Meisenheimer - http://www.meisenheimer.com
- Mark Sanborn - http://www.marksanborn.com
- Marshall Goldsmith - http://www.marshallgoldsmithlibrary.com
- David A. Fields - http://www.davidafields.com
- Pamela Slim - http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com
- Mark Hunter - http://thesaleshunter.com
- Bob Bly - http://www.bly.com
- Sean Carroll - http://www.seancarrollspeaker.com
- Bob Burg - http://www.burg.com
- Jeffrey Hayzlett - http://hayzlett.com
- Sam Richter - http://samrichter.com
- Howard Lewinter - http://www.talkbusinesswithhoward.com
- Stephen Lahey - http://smallbusinesstalent.com
- Jose Palomino - http://www.valueprop.com
- Karyn Greenstreet - http://www.passionforbusiness.com
- Avish Parashar - http://www.dinghappens.com
- Michael Dalton Johnson - http://www.salesdog.com
- Greg Williams - http://www.themasternegotiator.com
- Marnie Swedberg - http://www.marniesfriends.com
Bookmark this blog post - stay connected with these people - implement their big ideas - and you WILL profit, prosper, and succeed.
What do YOU think? Please use the COMMENTS area below to share your advice, insights and recommendations on the people who have made the biggest impact on YOUR professional success...
As you may know, my new book is coming soon... and I need your help...
If you pre-order the book today, you will get over $747 in business-building bonuses RIGHT NOW and LATER, you'll also get a minty-fresh book jam-packed with savvy marketing, sales and business development strategies, tactics and tools. (You'll be among the first to take delivery of the book the moment it is released - on or about June 5.)
To check out the pre-order bonuses you'll get immediately when you buy today, visit:
http://doitmarketing.com/book-bonus
I'd love your help in climbing the amazon charts today - even before the book is released. Is it a good book? Obviously I think so... but fortunately, I'm not alone! Here are just a few other people's opinions...
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"One of the most practical marketing books you will ever read - so what are you waiting for?"
-- John Jantsch, author of "Duct Tape Marketing"
"Do It! Marketing is a complete system for effective marketing. It is a fun read and the ideas, tactics, strategies and exercises it provides will set you apart from your competition."
-- Mark Sanborn, author of "Fred 2.0" and "You Don't Need a Title to be a Leader"
"A terrific book packed with a gazillion smart ideas you can use immediately to supercharge your marketing. But beyond all those great ideas, Do It! Marketing shares key concepts and simple systems that will bring you more business with much less struggle."
-- C.J. Hayden, author of "Get Clients Now!"
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When you pre-order today, you'll get more than $747 in instant-access bonus material from some of America's TOP business experts. Everything is waiting for you here:
http://doitmarketing.com/book-bonus
-- David
p.s. Why should you buy today even though the book won't be out till June? Because in addition to the $747 in bonuses you'll get immediately when you pre-order today, you will also be invited to a series of private teleseminars, you'll get pre-order only bonus ebooks such as the Do It! Marketing Manifesto I'm creating for 800-CEO-READ, and more pre-order only gifts and surprises. As you know, I'm incredibly generous with folks like YOU who are fabulous enough to support my work and I tend to OVER-deliver like crazy. So pre-order the book today and then pop over to http://doitmarketing.com/book-bonus to claim all your goodies.
Thank you in advance for your help!
I go to a fair number of conferences, both as a speaker and as a plain old participant.
Some conferences are great - and some... well, not so much.
In my experience, a great conference combines three secret ingredients for success.
What are they?
Glad you asked.
Here they are...
1. Speaker management - Give me high-energy, high-content speakers who deliver the goods. Strong content delivered with authenticity, enthusiasm, and with a clear point-of-view. I don't want to hear speakers who deliver same-o, lame-o information (i.e. crap that I could just as easily read in a book or find in a Google search). I want to be shaken, stirred, riled up, smacked down, and taken for a ride. No vanilla speakers. I want you to bring the mango gelato, the sriracha sorbet, the oddballs, the freaks, the wild ones.
2. Engagement management - Don't (please don't) make me sit in a theater, an auditorium, or a meeting room and watch from my seat. I want to interact. I want to engage. I want to collaborate, communicate, and cross-pollinate with the speakers, the audience, the organizers. I want you to put the CONFER back into the word CONFERENCE. I want to strategize, conspire, and confab with all the amazing people in the room. Not just the gal to my left and the guy on my right. Not just during deeply misguided Q&A sessions that ruin even the best talks. All. The. Time. Mix it up - mini-seminars, peer-to-peer jam sessions, strategic mastermind roundtables. Put the intellectual talent of the room on stage and let's REALLY dig in.
3. Time and experience management - Never start late. Let me repeat that - never, EVER start late. No session or panel longer than 20 minutes. Less and faster is the name of the game. Take the sage off the stage and put the guide on the side. Move me around the theater - into the lobby, up on the platform, out in the hall. Mix, mingle, shake up the stale conference format. No more 1-to-many. Make it many-to-many. Or 1-to-1. Manage my time. Manage my experience. Connect me. Inspire me. Fire me up. Let me feel important. Let me plug in to the event and the people you've brought together. Stir my pot. Season my soup. I want to leave your event feeling like I'm a rock star who just played a set with the best musicians on the planet. I want to feel LUCKY to have been part of your event. I don't want to leave with information. I want to leave with insights specifically designed to help me kick some serious ass. I want to leave with my action plan for global domination AND a whole army of new friends whom I can call on to make it happen.
Can your event do that for me?
'Cuz if it can't... I won't be there. I'll just stay home. And read a book. Or jump on Google. Or watch videos on TED.com.
I don't need to travel and use up my time, money, effort, and energy going to your old school conference with a string of speakers who talk at me while I sit with a random bunch of strangers who'll never even get to know my name.
The bar has been raised. Those events are so past their expiration date that they're starting to stink like an old bucket of yogurt.
Want to experience something new and better?
Join me for the America Talks Business conference in Philadelphia on July 25, 2013.
The future is here. Now.
Join us?
What do YOU think? Please use the COMMENTS area below to share your advice, insights and recommendations on this topic and join the conversation...
Guest post by Dharmesh Shah, OnStartups
I get pitches every day from entrepreneurs, PR agencies and book authors who hope to get an article about them written on my blog, OnStartups (300,000 readers) — or on HubSpot's marketing blog (over 1.5 million visits a month).
It's sad that most of those pitches fall flat and are likely to be completely ignored. A waste of time and money for everyone.
Click here to read the rest of Dharmesh's article...
Thought for you:
It's Bigger Than You Think It Is
It's Not What You Think It Is
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Stop being put off by objections that stall your sales – and your income.
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During the Call:
"We're not interested right now."
"Could you email me something?"
During the Close:
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"You'll Do It When You're Tired"
Hmmmm... that may be the dumbest prediction you've ever heard...
You'll do what, exactly?
In a word: Succeed.
You know - get "it" done...
That pet project of yours, that book, that event, that special thing you've been working on, talking about, noodling, doodling, and planning for YEARS...
Tired? Tired of what, exactly?
- Tired of struggling
- Tired of excuses
- Tired of missing out
- Tired of complaining how hard it is
- Tired of striving
- Tired of faking it
- Tired of wishing
- Tired of hoping
- Tired of (day)dreaming
- Tired of fantasizing
- Tired of sketching
- Tired of postponing
- Tired of obsessing
- Tired of perfectionism (perfect time, place, people, conditions)
- Tired of being safe
- Tired of disappointment
- Tired of watching others zoom by you
- Tired of sitting on the sidelines
- Tired of keeping score when you're not even in the game
- Tired of talking
- Tired of planning
- Tired of noodling
- Tired of doodling
- Tired of starting
- Tired of choking
- Tired of quitting
- Tired of fear
- Tired of uncertainty
- Tired of self-doubt
So what the hell are you supposed to do instead?
- Launch!
- Go!!
- DO!!!
- Kick ass
- Take names
- Leap - and the net will appear
- Make it happen
- Get off your buts
- Climb in the cockpit
- Strap in
- Light the afterburners
- Jump out of the plane
- Figure out the rest on the way down
- Yes, YOU!
- Yes, really REALLY YOU!!!
Why am I telling you all this?
Well, because I'm kinda doing it myself...
After.
Ten.
Years.
The small business conference idea I had 10 years ago was a victim of a decade of noodling, doodling, planning, and dreaming.
Not any more.
Check it out: America Talks Business.
Buy an early bird ticket. Share the web link with a friend. Bring a whole posse with you.
Or don't.
'Cuz we're gonna have an amazing entrepreneurial conference anyway. (It would just be a lot more fun with YOU there to take part.)
Bottom line: I got tired. I'm doing it.
You can do it, too.
What do YOU think? Please use the COMMENTS area below to share your advice, insights and recommendations on this topic and join the conversation...
Here's another in my series of marketing and business book reviews - but not just any old business books.
Fire starters...
Game changers...
Show stoppers...
Books that will transform the way you think about your work, about your business, and about your future.
This time, we take a look at a GREAT book recommendation if WRITING a non-fiction business book lies in YOUR future.
Ready? Take a look...
What do you think? Please leave a COMMENT below to share your advice, insights and recommendations on this topic...