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Leverage Collective Knowledge with Virtual Mastermind Groups A SPN Exclusive Article

If you want to become a more effective, take-action leader who improves your business leveraging the potential and collective energy from a trusted board of advisors, you’re likely thinking about a Mastermind Group. You have a few choices to get involved, like… 1. Start one myself– recruit members, set up agendas and rules, arrange destinations, invest in technology 2. Join an Existing Mastermind Group or one being created somewhere else– pay for participation, but no headaches associated with recruitment and organization 3. Do nothing — continue to depend on discipline for your learning, action steps and personal accountability; save energy and costs associated with ANY type Mastermind experience, LOSE THE PERKS OF MASTERMIND GROUPS FOR SMALL COMPANIES A possibility we’ve developed falls under # 2 above

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5 Factors for Successful Mastermind Groups

So How Do You Know if Your Mastermind Group is Optimal? Great Business Mastermind Groups deliver quantifiable value for member companies, to be sure. It is often the qualitative value that becomes life-changing for business higher-ups involved. That qualitative value can be measured by the following results: Constant Member Progress By whatever metric assigned, all constituent businesses are constantly moving toward the accomplishment of their objective in the group, be it business growth in sales, developing a scalable model, or global growth. Purposes don’t have to be financial, but this is often a measurement that is easy to keep score of a common expected outcome for small business participants. Determination Mastermind Group members must be totally committed to their objective for joining and the aggregate objective of the group. One hallmark of a mature, high-performing Mastermind Group is a high level of attendance at all group meetings and training events. As we explained in an earlier report, commitment can also be seen in the level of active involvement in the positive resolutions for the challenges encountered by other businesses in the Mastermind Group. Groups that rally around one another, drawing out and resolving member problems, helping others with goal setting and attainment, celebrating victories and that don’t hesitate to take a poor performing member to task demonstrate great Masterminding proficiency

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10 Steps to Negotiating the Best Business Deal for You – A SPN Exclusive Article

Today in business you don’t get what you request– you get what you bargain for. You see, everybody asks “What’s in it for me?” So for you to get what you want, you’d better expect to answer that doubt for the people you collaborate with by learning negotiation know-how. I have had plenty of success in negotiating opportunities lately, specifically since I am not known as an expert negotiator. I have negotiated raises that were 5 times what was proposed, negotiated an executive level position worth thousands beyond the job description with triple the job security, and negotiated online services worth hundreds of thousands of estimated income for my company. How did an amateur like me accomplish these things and learn how to negotiate in business? Here are 10 steps that I use for effective business negotiation: Know What You Want … and What They Need How simple this sounds, but how difficult to realize. You need to know specifically what it is you want from the transaction or negotiation. Don’t wait for the other party to state their point of view to decide what yours is going to be. If you want a raise, how much?

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10 Things That Will Make Your Tweets Pop!

Every day we work at it: toiling away on our social media networks, doing what we can to reach our customers and broaden our client base. Twitter is one of the simplest platforms to use when reaching out to people, but you may not be tweeting to your best advantage. So, what can you do to make sure that people actually want to read your tweets and can get the most out of them? Here are ten things that you should be doing with your tweets in order to make them stand out.

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Google Rumored to Purchase Jambool

TechCrunch reports that according to multiple sources Google plans to purchase Jambool and its Social Gold payment product. Founded by veterans from Amazon.com, the virtual economy platform allows developers to create currency systems for games and other applications. If confirmed, Google’s purchase of Jambool would come only days after the search giant’s acquisition of Slide Inc., another app developer company.

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