Having influence is NOT always a bed of roses!

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Along with influence comes a certain unavoidable degree of visibility, where you start living in a kind of fishbowl and are held up to a level of keen observation, and even criticism, that you probably weren’t used to before.
I personally dislike publicity. Have always […]

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I use Aweber for most of my autoresponders. One of the lists has a bit over 1,800 subscribers. Today, I got an email from someone who tried to subscribe to it. Here’s what it says:

Reading it, I realized this was a wonderful opportunity to share with you some powerful and valuable lessons […]

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Amitabh Bachchan at Madame Tussaud’s
As a child, I would have fantastic dreams about meeting
famous people.
Leaders. Performers. Writers.
Film stars.
The fantasy always ended there. I didn’t have any plans
for what to do when that happened!
Those wishful days are long gone. A lot has changed.
I’m no longer a starry-eyed fan hoping to meet a […]

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I’m a Jay Abraham protege. One of the most powerful methods to increase profits that Jay teaches is ‘continuity selling’.

If you trim borders and trees, you could set up an arrangement with clients to work on their garden every month - and bill them for it automatically.
If you’re a hair-dresser, offer customers a special […]

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As a kind of experiment and survey, I asked the 598 people who are ‘following’ me on Twitter WHY they did.
The answers were instructive and interesting.

Here’s what I find intriguing, though.
I repeated this question 3 or 4 times in the course of a few hours. 14 of 598 people responded - a 2.3% ‘conversion’ […]

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In 2006, FAST COMPANY magazine did a short report about my work online helping children with congenital heart defects. The article was titled:
“Dr.Mani - Spamming for Good”
Interesting headline, isn’t it?

Since then, I’ve also been ‘Social Networking for Good’.
And have come across some amazing human beings involved in wonderful work, in […]

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I hardly ever tell you to try out things I have
not personally experienced, tested and found
useful.
That’s because there’s an ‘opportunity cost’ to
all stuff - even free things.
In the time you take to ‘test’ something, you may
be better off doing something ELSE - that really
works!
Though I haven’t often presented it that way,
THIS is the REAL value […]

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Feed Analysis v1.1 Analyzes Your FeedBurner Feeds.
Yes, it lets you analyze anyone’s feedburner data. You can also view the number of subscribers, hits, views and clicks for every single day from the line chart. The best/worst day of the week is also available which is displayed on the pie chart.
It is free, and data […]

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On Friday, I listened to an awesome interview.
Ron Bates is a Headhunter, Executive Search Consultant & Recruiter based
in San Francisco, USA. He’s also widely known as LinkedIn’s most-connected
user - with around FORTY THOUSAND direct Connections. Ron was saying he
was spending 1 to 2 hours A WEEK managing them!
Gosh! I was spending more than that […]

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Amid the cluster of gurus proclaiming that you should “follow the money”, I’m in the minority who suggest first finding your PASSION.
There’s a reason for this. It works. And it makes ‘work’ more fun.
But the real power of being passionate comes from the magic that it weaves upon anyone who comes into contact […]

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