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Do you want to make more money doing what you're already doing? Do you want to serve more people doing what you love?

Do you want to love the life you're living?

One way to achieve all this and more is to be known as an authority in your niche. Here's the direction I recommend you go to be well seen and well heard so you can be well known and well paid.

You need to be a VIP with VIP ~ a Very Important Professional with Valuable Intellectual Property, AKA Valuable Information Products.

"Why this path?" you may be wondering.  ..

Darn, I had a great post going. Then, before saving what I'd written, I went to add new categories to tag this post - in the same window - so I lost it all.

Still, I think Marc Gordan's message to us service-providing solo-preneurs is critical. We have so much on our plates because we usually wear most, if not all the hats in our business, it's hard to do it all.

So please take my recommendation and read Marc's post, "Why No Business Should Be Involved In Online Social Networking" ~ all the way to the end. He makes some ..

I love Stephen Covey's famous line and strategy "Begin with the end in mind."

What does that have to do with how you're showcasing your passion?

To be the most productive (effective and efficient in the short- and long-term,) with whatever you're doing, you'll ideally align today's actions and decisions with where you want to end up. Knowing whether you want to share your passion as a hobby, job, practice, or business will help you decide what's important to do (even if you don't yet know how or you don't want to or don't like doing 'that' or whatever reason - ..

Are you a thought leader?

"Thought leaders don't watch for trends...they create them.

"Thought leaders don't wait to follow...they seize the advantage when they see it.

"Thought leaders are fundamentally curious, and that curiosity fuels their creativity."\

          Shared by Helen Graves, Grand Poobah of Crackerjack Internet Marketing

What does being a thought leader mean to you?

Here are a few interesting questions:

Do you have to be a thought leader to be successful?

Do you have to be a thought leader to be known as an expert in your field?

Thanks for reading, I'd really love to hear from ..

If there's one thing I know for sure, it's that "way back when, in the good old days" business and life were simple enough for us professionals to fly solo. If you truly want to be well seen, well known, and well paid because you are known as an expert in your field, I can just about promise this means you need to give up this "rugged Lone Ranger" mindset and replace it with a collaborative one.

CRITICAL COMPONENTS FOR TAKING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE NEXT LEVEL

Yes, today you need to bring others into your business in order to succeed ..

Whether you're offering programs, products, services or experiences/events, if you are surrounded by competition, and challenged to stand out in a noisy and crowded marketplace, you need to let your audience know you and your programs, products, services or experiences/events are special and superior.

This is exactly the subject  Michal Fortin wrote about in today's post, "Superior Value, Superior Sales." While his posts tend to be a bit long for my taste, he's usually got good things to say. Today's post, is no exception. Here's an excerpt:

"As sim­ple as it may sound, by com­mu­ni­cat­ing some­ ..

Seth Godin has done it again. He's articulated something I've known ... just below consciousness ... Seth has done his usual exceptional job of simplifying and articulating a concept all experts, all trusted advisers and service profiders need to KNOW so we choose to work with those who will benefit from working with us.

Without further ado, click here to read Seth's post.

Enjoy this post AND I highly encourage you to subscribe to Seth's blog. I get them in my inbox every time he posts (sometimes more than once a day.) No extra effort and great info, great food for ..

Today we had a very juicy call with my buddies, the other Web 2.0 Experts who write all the content-rich posts and many of the comments on this groupsite.

We talked about several relevant topics which I'll list here. They're so important that I'll be dedicating blog posts to several of them.

• How is Web 2.0 shaping the way experts and thought leaders promote themselves and share with the world who they're passionate about serving? We can now communicate to many instead of to one. This allows us to share messages designed to grab the attention of our ideal prospect while ..

How often have I heard the phrase, "Ready, Fire, Aim."

While I'm sure there are times when that's the right strategy, I think you'll get far better results from complex projects when you do "Ready, Aim, Fire."

I recommend you break a big project down into projects within projects within projects until you have mapped out the individual action steps in the order you need to take them.

I used Inspiration, a mindmapping tool to create my plan, and I'm glad I did.

I discovered some important lessons as I applied this approach to a large project with a fixed target ..

I've heard that people buy based on emotions, then justify with intellect. Emotions are a thread that connects us.

One way to connect heart to heart is through stories. In addition to what you'll read below, if this makes sense, check out Dr. Joe Vitale's book Buying Trance. I got it out of the library and was so impressed I'm going to buy it so I can mark it up...

So stories, I have to tell you... I've been hearing this for years, yet still have to get better at telling them - about myself and clients (the names will be ..