Welcome to Episode 76 of Praestabilis: Excellence in Marketing

Welcome! In Episode 76 I discuss how you’re in the right place at the right time! Luck is where preparation meets opportunity and you’re approaching the intersection throughout each day. This is the first of the simple success strategies I’ll be sharing with you here. Your timing is perfect and you’re in the right place at the right time.

We create our own luck. We do this by understanding that luck occurs when preparation meets opportunity. I’d heard that for many years before I believed it. It was when I came online in 2006 and realized that everything – yes, everything I’d been involved in up until this point in my life had prepared me for the opportunity of doing business online. Soon, I felt very lucky, and that luck continues to build. I want this for you as well, but it’s your choice as to how you implement the luck that is ready and waiting for you to catch up to it. Believe that you’re in the right place at the right time, and know that my goal is to help you take action and move forward.

Embrace the Hard Parts of Everything You Do…  Because Skipping Through the Hard Parts of Life Won’t Serve You

Throughout my lifetime I have discovered that skipping past or through the crucial parts does not serve one well. These also tend to be the boring or uninteresting parts of the process, so it takes grit and perseverance if you are to achieve success and reach your full potential.

Some of the things I engaged in during 2006, the first year of my online business were born of necessity. I was a new online entrepreneur with no prospect list or connections. Also, I did not have an information product or course or even an eBook to sell and start earning some income. I order to get my new business rolling and bringing in some money, I knew I’d have to get creative. I came up with  few simple success strategies that continue to be effective today:

* I hosted a weekly “Ask Connie Anything” call. This was a teleseminar, so anyone could join me by simply dialing in to my conference line. They could also go to the webpage to ask their questions at any time, whether or not they were attending live. The replay was accessible from the same link, making this a stress free solution.

* Three times a week, I wrote and published a short post to one of the several blogs I had set up on a variety of topics. I hadn’t yet chosen my niche and was still experimenting with my ideas.

* I reached out to the people I was buying from through email primarily. If they had an affiliate program I joined it and then shared information about them with those who attended my teleseminars, as well as within and in the resource/author’s bio area at the end of each blog post.

These simple success strategies were only the beginning. I’m sharing more with you here…

Learn the “So What” Concept as One of the Most Valuable “Simple Success Strategies

While I was teaching school, my students taught me so much in the way of life lessons and setting and achieving goals. I taught elementary school for most of my twenty year career. Young children say and do things without thinking. Much of this can be hurtful to others over time. Early on, during my first month of teaching a 5th/6th grade combination class, I taught them two powerful words, when used in tandem…

“So what?”

And the even more effective, with the major emphasis given to the first word, “So? So what?”

This phrase became the answer to any behavior or action or comment from another student. Someone commenting in a negative way about the shoes you’re wearing? So what? Failed a test? So what? My goal and intention was to prove to them that everything in life was fixable, or do-over-able and that they could achieve every goal and accomplishment they ...