Professional and Personal Life Development for Males: August 2009

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Time to Start a New Business with YOUR Help!!

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I have a dream, okay...a vision! I don't want to sound cliche, but I have had these thoughts for way too long not to start discussing it in an open forum where I can utilize the WORLD WIDE WEB as my new network source to generate, incubate, and facilitate new ideas to create a new company; possibly multiple companies with a goal and mission statement to encapsulate some of the ideals I believe businesses today are severely lacking across our world. The great part about this concept is that I want YOU to be a part of, and benefit financially from your great idea!

First of all, I need your help! I want ideas. Not just any old ideas, but REAL ideas that can be massaged and turned into businesses. As it says here on my blog, I am an author for EzineArticles. Until now, I have been blogging, and copying my own blogs to post to EzineArticles. Well, I now plan to utilize my blog site to connect with you! Not only I am going to gather information, but I want to help YOU start a new business and create a joint venture where we ALL BENEFIT. I am "practicing what I preach" here by starting a new network of friends and business contacts made through this blog site to demonstrate what can be created simply by connecting people and ideas to other people.

I have connections from all over the world, and have the ability to get great ideas in front of the proper people to acquire capital for a new venture. As you can imagine, not every idea is business worthy that can generate a profit, but NUMEROUS ideas can!

Please post your comments on this blog, and we can start a dialogue to discuss your new idea. I am more than happy to sign confidentiality agreements, or provide them to you BEFORE we discuss your idea so you are confident it will not be leaked to anyone else. If you have been searching for an outlet, or way to have your idea come to fruition, I have the ability and desire to make that happen!

I look forward to hearing from you! You can email me personally at michael.tergerson@gmail.com .

Lesson #3 - Developing Your Personal Network

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Lesson #2 provided some very basic, yet practical steps in developing your professional network. As discussed, your personal network can also have a significant impact on your goals whether they be personal or professional. Let's take a look at why you need to develop both simultaneously, and how to do that.

Developing both networks at the same time provides exponential opportunity in achieving your goals, whatever they may be. As mentioned previously, I know your personal network is much more powerful than your professional network. Why? Because they people in your personal network have experience with you and can lend significantly to your abilities and credibility. These people can refer you for a new job, or act as references for previous work done. Also, these people can cast a net for you amongst their networks that are FAR further reaching than yours that stands alone. Remember, we are all thought to be connected through only six degrees of separation. In other words, I know someone, that knows someone, that within six people can connect to EVERYONE IN THIS WORLD! Amazing power in networking! So, let's now list a few steps on how to develop your personal network as well.

1. Make a list of everyone you know in your personal network.

2. Highlight those contacts that correlate with the objectives you are trying to achieve.

3. Make contact with those individuals and inform them of your ideas and goals, and let them know unashamed that you NEED THEIR help in achieving those goals.

4. Offer some sort of incentive for their help. Everyone in your personal network will more than likely want to help you achieve your goals, but offering them an incentive like a golf outing, or tickets to the next sporting event will provide a bit more motivation for them to help you out, and will more than likely assure they will help you again in the future. Try NOT to take advantage of any of your relationships.

5. STAY in contact with these people on a frequent basis. Where you only contact some of your professional network possibly once per quarter, you need to maintain consistent, frequent contact with your personal network.

6. Ask your personal network to share their goals with you so you can help them any way you can. "Giving back" not only helps your friends, but will provide personal fulfillment and satisfaction that can only be attained through helping others.

Again, these are very basic networking steps, but if followed, will insure you maintain your network that will always be available to you when needed.

Lesson #4 will discuss the available social and professional networking sites that are at our disposal in today's high tech world. Utilizing these sites properly will again help you achieve your goals much faster than ever before. Until next time...