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Answered: Productivity Tips When Traveling

Rob Ryan — Thu, 26 May 2016 18:56:30 +0000

Answered: Productivity Tips When Traveling …. saves time and worry!! And makes for … peace and joy!!

Managing your time when you have a yearly calendar loaded with travel is not a simple thing to do. Based from my experience of a busy travel lifestyle annually, here are some tips to keep you on schedule despite of being away from home:

Before you go away there are a number of tasks that must be done or prioritized before you can focus on your a trip or vacation, you must entrust work to someone that can efficiently do it.

>> Here are several points to consider in hiring someone that may continue your work while you are away:

– Write down a list of tasks so you know what type of candidate you are after: you may need more than one person to do your tasks – it`s rare that the one person would have all the skills you need to complete the task.

– Interview candidates extensively and check references.

– It’s essential to test the skills your hiring for, set an example exercise to filter candidates.

– What you are looking for is that the task completed is accurate and more importantly returned in a timely manner.

Delegate Work Accordingly

It’s hard to delegate tasks to a new staff member but like any new staff there will need to be training involved first. Use free software like Jing to show the staff member what they need to do to complete the task this is handy if they are lost they can easily replay your video.

Reporting to you daily showing that they have completed your task will result in trusting them with more work until you are at a stage where you can build up to a weeks work at a time. When you are traveling ensure that you login in daily just to check progress and get feed back.

Trust Others

Trust is something that is built over time. Always praise on a job that is well done and encourage them to give you feed back on a task if they have other ideas they would like to input which sometimes you may not of thought of. Start building trust slowly and you will be rewarded with a loyal staff member.

Use Travel Time Wisely

For the times that you can’t hand over job to individuals in the workplace while you travel, here are suggestions on what you could do to remain on top of things:

When standing in line at the airport, you could take out a notepad and think of new business suggestions or take notes about essential company issues.

Instead of viewing the in-flight entertainment, you may use this time to work on your laptop. The best idea about flights is that you won’t be disrupted by work place telephones or any of your associates.

As a matter of fact, a few of my best ideas for “The Online Alliance” came to me throughout lengthy air travels. When I worked in Sydney several years ago, I would utilize the commute to perfect a big sales presentation or webinar by rehearsing and tape-recording myself.

Recreate an Office Environment

When you’re staying in a hotel, arranging your laptop and documents similar to your office setup may help. Instead of treating the hotel as an area of recreation, consider it as an area of “work-away-from-work.” Replicating an office setup will help you participate in work much better, thanks to an ambience that is now for performance.

Final Thoughts:

Working on many tasks is still possible while traveling. Nevertheless, it’s best to do the less important ones to raise productivity. For instance, you can leave tasks like non-urgent emails for flights and so that your office time will be focused on critical business matters.

Life hack reports that keeping e-mail programs open is disruptive to efficiency. Instead, checking e-mails five or six times a day will help you deal with them appropriately. So, either save those tiring e-mails for your travels or examine them occasionally throughout a typical working day. Better still have staff set up email folders so that you will have emails sorted and to look at when you are ready read your favorite subscriptions to important emails according to the author.

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Ascension in High Ticket Affiliate Marketing .. it`s a No Brainer!

Rob Ryan — Wed, 18 May 2016 01:46:24 +0000

Ascension in High Ticket Affiliate Marketing – what does it mean? It`s about ‘Ascension Tiered Product Mix’!

To be successful online selling your information products in the e.learning niche, you must have a sales funnel. Every successful info-product marketer has one, so you need one too. There are a million different ways to put together a sales funnel, but the ascension model is very popular among most top online marketers – the reason being, ‘they make economic sense when done right’.

Let’s look at the basic principles of an ascension marketing model and why it makes sense.

The basic premise is to move people through your sales funnel from low to high priced products. When people start in the sales funnel, they can’t advance without buying the product in front of them essentially. They get introduced to the first product at an ‘entry level’ price. That might be a $7 or $17 product (we call this a Trip Wire), most likely being a 1 hour product of high educational value to the target audience.

This has effectively allowed us to acquire a Customer with the objective of the trip wire product to establish enough trust with the Customer that they can be offer and sold another higher priced product.

When they buy, they’ll be introduced to the next product, which might be a 3 hour course for $97 (as an example).

After that, another product in the sales funnel will be offered essentially ascending in value to the end Customer and Price. This may be a 5-10 hour course ranging from $297 to $497 as an appropriate example for the third products in the tiered-product mix. Finally, the last product in the funnel is the top-tier product you have. Typically, this will be a 10-20 hour course for $997 to $1,997 or above. It could be group coaching, personal coaching, a home study course, whatever!

This model really only requires 4 different levels of tiered products to make it work. Think of the model as a filtering process, where only the right people for you buy your best products. Obviously you’re going to have fewer buyers at each level, but the revenue gained from the higher priced products is well worth it. If you do the math with 1000 subscribers and only 20% buying from each level, the money made starts to stack up the economics of the cost associated with acquiring customers (hence the term economics).

Ascension impacts Economics

Most Online Marketers struggle with the economics of their business for the valuable lesson you have learned above. Your marketing and sales funnel MUST have these key attributes;

value
ascension
tiered product mix pricing
filtering
automated follow up
conversion tactics / actions

Whilst the above example showcased 4 tiers in the product mix to a high ticket offer of $1,997 (as an example). The real High Ticket Affiliate Marketing models (known as the HTAM method), have ascension through a tiered-product mix like this;

$5k, $10k, $15k and up to $30k

These are usually associated with LIVE events, Workshops or Licensing business models similar to Franchising (so the Customer may be purchasing and end-to-end turn-key business system and ready to market products and services).

Conclusion

The good thing about the Ascension Model is it’s easy to start with. It makes the most sense because you only want people who are serious to buy your products. This model is also easy to grow with as you can add more products to each level as your business scales and grows (and also to meet existing Customer demands).

This model is also easy to automate with email auto-responder systems that do all of the follow up work and thinking for you (when setup correctly). This model is the easiest for consistent income, particularly if one of your products is a monthly subscription – continuity program. If you know where each level converts at (we call this conversion metrics), you can forecast your income for every 10, 100 or 1,000 subscribers to your email list.

YOU can find out a lot more about this very professional business set-up. You can get a look at it here.

8 Lessons Learned Studying World-Class Achievers

Rob Ryan — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 12:54:58 +0000

What We Learn From World Class Achievers – 8 Important Lessons, some new, but all to be consciously remembered!

I have always been curious – what makes achievers different from us?

We all have our own aspirations in life; we are almost ready to do anything to fulfill our dreams – but what happens – why do we fail?

Why do most of us fail and just a few move ahead to be ‘world class achievers?’

Well, a lot has been researched on this!

Indeed – achievers do things differently!

“Discipline” is the Number One of 8 Lessons Learned Studying World-Class Achievers.

—- World class achievers lead the most disciplined life. They have a set mission and they are not ready to compromise anything for their mission.

They are truly different and this is what makes them achievers! ……… I personally love #3 below!! Do you?

Learn more about the lives of these achievers. (thanks to those at Entrepreneur)

As someone who has aspirations but, admittedly, is not world-class at anything, I’m always curious about the origins of those who are the very best at what they do. I’ve learned eight lessons from studying the elite in professions from athletics to business and, occasionally, art to find out what makes them tick and how they reached such rarified air.
1. Live a life of discipline.

Despite his busy schedule shooting and promoting his movies, movie star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson religiously follows a strict diet and fitness regimen, eating seven carefully orchestrated meals designed for maximum health benefits. He wakes up daily at 4 a.m. to eat his first meal and start the day. His approach to fitness is extreme, but it’s a big part of how he’s achieved extreme levels of success. Simply put, he is more disciplined than those who would try to dethrone him at the box office.

Related: Why Self-Discipline Will Make You Unstoppable
2. Be on a mission.

The highest levels of excellence are a result of years of training and preparation. Great inspiration is required to maintain the unflinching discipline to chase, day in and day out, a goal that is unobtainable to the average person. This is a quest that propels you to march forward on your darkest days. Not everyone has a mission that stirs his or her soul. If you are fortunate enough to discover yours, you have the first tool needed to become world-class.
3. Bias towards action.

Thomas Edison once said, “Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.” There is no more succinct description of what drives the most ambitious and world-class among us. If you pause to consider the countless hours it takes to master anything, you’ll find that getting started now is a necessity. Time is the greatest and rarest of commodities. Those who aspire to achieve world-class status are intimately aware of how precious each day is and know better than to waste a second.

The last 5 can be seen here! (and much more…) Enjoy!

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/247757

Just What Are The Keys To Success .. Inner Strength!

Rob Ryan — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 20:25:00 +0000

Know these 7 ways to cultivate your Inner strengths and get active with them on a daily basis and you`re likely to see growth in all aspects of living – business and personal.

Yes you`ve seen this sort of list over and over! But this list is more significant then most.

It`s optimism is a crucial part, so this is why I`m sharing these ideas with you.

Here we seek to source the very best bits of information from across the web. This is higher quality than most.

Like all lists, it`s what you do with the info that counts. It`s all about “ACTION AND MOTIVATION”.

>>> Soon I`ll publish news about a ground breaking App that`ll help with both “ACTION AND MOTIVATION”.

For now, check out this article By Kevin DaumInc. 500 entrepreneur and best-selling author

If there is one thing you can count on in the business world, it’s inconsistency. The journey is always a series of ups and downs. Challenges come and become obstacles. Opportunities become triumphs. The one constant is you, and how you deal with all the change. If you are weak inside, you will be batted about like a rowboat in a hurricane. But those who cultivate inner strength are able to weather any storm and can travel great distances at speed when the seas are calm.

My greatest successes have come when I used my inner power to make the most of the good times. And when times were rough, ultimately it was a strong inner core that got me through the worst. You can tune up your inner strength with a few key exercises, just as you would your body. Here are some tips:

1. Know who you are.

Insecurity is an inner-strength killer. Your personality is the foundation of power. Get to know it well. Use tools like StrengthsFinder and the work of Kathy Kolbe to understand who you are and how you function best. Then, work on getting comfortable in your own skin. The happier you are with yourself, the less the outside world can do damage, and the more you can give in peace.

2. Spend time in silence.

The world is a noisy place. Distractions and disruptions can chip away at your core, leaving you frazzled and beat up. Take time to rejuvenate. Set aside one day a month to completely unplug from everything. That means no email, music, TV, or people. It’s a great time to connect with nature and just sit with your thoughts. The only way to calm your inner chaos is with 100 percent focus.

Read about Setting a routine, creating the right circle and More …covered in the whole article. Access it here now and stay tuned for more on “ACTION AND MOTIVATION”.

Is Your Inner Strength The Key To Your Success?

Rob Ryan — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 10:21:17 +0000