Connections

Seminar Follow-Up… How We Sort Through It All To Take Action!

In our previous post on Maximizing the Value of the Seminars You Attend, we talked about some of the benefits of attending seminars and how you can maximize their value. We outlined that "the benefits include the information the speakers present, the people you meet, and the relationships you build while you're at the seminar…".

We just came back from Mike Klingler's "Marketing Funnel Mastery" event in Las Vegas (extremely valuable event), where we gained a whole lot of new information… along with some very cool new contacts.

Taking at look at this part of the seminar follow-up:

How do we make this happen?
We could become overwhelmed with it all… but why do that? Instead, we take all this new business and social media contact information and organize it into our digital memory (aka "The Brain").

Yes, we could file away the business cards, or organize the names and contact info into Outlook or another similar program… but how many people actually review the business cards they collect? And where in Outlook can you put people's Facebook, Twitter, or other social media addresses (where they're easy to find)?

When you create valuable relationships with like-minded individuals with whom you can establish win-win ventures, or even a mastermind group, you want to be able to get and stay connected with them. Business is all about relationships… take care to nurture them well. That is why we make sure we can find and stay connected with these people through the information we store in our digital memory.

So you can better understand what we're talking about, we created a dynamic knowledge information mind map showing the connections we made at the Marketing Funnel Mastery event. This is one small portion of our entire digital memory. After all, this is how we keep track of all our connections, information and knowledge.

Go ahead and discover (it's interactive) this map below:

For a larger version of this dynamic knowledge information map: Click Here
(You'll need to go to the larger version to display the web page)

Filed Under: Cool Knowledge, Pat and Lorna Shanks Tagged With: Connections, Dynamic Information Map, Mike Klingler

The Power of a Tribe… And So Many Connections

By Pat & Lorna 16 Comments

Tribe. The word brings to mind thoughts of a group of people working together for a common goal.

In the online world it is no different. The "goal" or purpose of a syndication tribe is to get the great content and messages of the tribe members spread a lot farther than if they did it on their own.

By having your tribe members comment on your blog, and letting their followers, friends and fans know about your content, the reach of your content grows exponentially. This is a good thing… because people want to associate with people they know, like and trust; and their purchases are based on the same criteria.

Knowing how powerful this is and because we want to help and support others, we joined the Tribe Syndication Association.

Of course, the result of the added exposure from the tribe is a lot more connections and new-found relationships. With all these new connections to people comes the challenge of how to manage them. Basically, how to ensure you keep these relationships viable… that you're connecting with these people on a regular basis, and how and where to connect with them.

Yes, you can bookmark their blog or any of their other social sites, you can put them into a contact organizational tool such as Outlook, or you could enter all their information into a spreadsheet. But keeping track of each of their websites, various social media sites and other modes of contact are difficult and not very easy to retrieve in any of these organizational tools.

But there is a way to store and organize all these contacts and all their relevant information that works the way you think, is visual, and has search features that make information retrieval a piece of cake.

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Filed Under: Cool Tools Tagged With: Connections, Dynamic Information Map, Relationships, Syndication, Tribe

Connections and Relationships… And Other Things We Are Thankful For

By Pat & Lorna 6 Comments

As we sat here in the comfort of our home office, we thought about how thankful we are to have a house to live in. Others are not so fortunate… they do not have a place to call home.

So then we asked ourselves… what else do we have to be thankful for? A LOT!

We've outlined a few of the things we're thankful for in this mindmap:

So who said Thanksgiving comes around only once a year? We can be thankful (grateful) for what we have all year round. Think about and write down what you are thankful for, it's a very uplifting experience.

For us, our connections and relationships are especially important. On a daily basis we connect with so many people… in person as well as through all the wonderful social sites and technologies. Without even really being conscious about it, we are continually connecting with others.

These people teach us, support us, enable our success, bring us more joy… and basically complete us as human beings.

That is why on our blog we invite you to "Be Social With Us"! It is also the reason we organize and manage our relationships inside our knowledge maps. It is important for us to develop new relationships and to keep our established relationships alive.

It's all about relationships… how do you stay connected?

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Filed Under: Cool, Cool Knowledge, Cool People, Cool Tips Tagged With: Connections, daily basis, Gratitude, Independent Professionals, Informative Sessions, knowledge maps, mindmap, Relationships, Small Business Owners, Social, Social Media, Thankful

A Glimpse Inside Alex Mandossian's "Brain"

By Pat & Lorna 3 Comments

Information, knowledge, and connections… what Alex Mandossian is all about. The question is… how do we keep track of all of the information, knowledge and multitude of links that Alex reveals to us?

The answer… we store it in Alex's "Brain".

What we've created is a very detailed, very large, dynamic mind map (Alex's "Brain") where we manage the information and knowledge Alex has imparted on his students, as well as his relationships or contacts.

From that large dynamic mind map (or "Brain") of over 8,200 thoughts we have extracted a "Public Brain", or scaled-down version to show you how "The Brain" can help organize your thoughts and knowledge… as well as the thoughts and knowledge of those you follow.

Go ahead and wander through "The Brain" of Alex Mandossian below and get a glimpse of the amazing amount of information and knowledge Alex sends out to the world and some of the "movers and shakers" he knows and associates with.

For a larger view of Alex's "Brain", Click Here

(You'll need to go to the larger view to display the linked web pages)

We delve into more details about the tool we used to create Alex's "Brain" and other dynamic mind maps in our blog post at: => http://TheCoolestCouple.com/cooltool1.