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In this day and age, it is extremely important to stand out in the market place. This can be done in a number of ways  – innovative products, excellent service, clever gimmicks and marketing campaigns – all of which display your company’s excellence, or unfortunately cause notoriety, and nobody likes having a bad reputation.

A company’s brand and reputation is often their lifeblood. Customers like to feel they are going to be looked after, be viewed as a name and not a number, and receive top drawer service every time. As the old adage goes, when a customer receives good service they tell two people, but when they receive bad service they will rubbish your company to nine of their nearest and dearest. 

As a company grows it needs to establish where it stands in the marketplace and its brand is an important step in this process. Your brand is not only your logo, it should be like an in-house religion. You need to decide what your business stands for, the unique benefits you offer to your clients, the promises you make to your clients and your image. When it comes to image, I’m not saying everyone should pitch themselves at the Microsoft level, as realistically not all and sundry can be Bill Gates. You need to look at your marketplace, prospective client base and market offering, then decide what is most befitting. In real terms, different things appeal to different people, not everyone wants a Ferrari, some people are happy with a Ford and (God only knows why) some people love Reliant Robins!

Once you have decided on your brand “values” you need to learn your religion and truly believe it. Now I’m not saying create a full blown cult or have your company logo branded on your rump, that would just be crazy. Confidence and conviction are attractive traits and not only work in nightclubs, but also the business world. Richard Branson is a classic example of a man who not only lives but also comes close to death for his brand. His activities as the figurehead of Virgin have seen him fly around the world in a balloon, pledge to devote personal profits to aid development of renewable energy technologies, and even shave off the infamous goatee and don a wedding dress.

 Just remember, your brand is a sacred cow, don’t sacrifice it to the god of apathy.

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Question by april: We live in st louis area and are going to branson what’s fun to do there?
Family friendly ideas please and educational things plz and ty in advance!!!

Best answer:

Answer by Pam R
Silver Dollar City, Ride the Ducks, Ripley’s Beleive it or Not

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

Question by TOUCH MY PIGTAILS AND DIE!: What was your reaction when you heard news reporter Serene Branson reporting live from the Grammy’s?
I’m going to be honest here. When I first heard it without knowing the circumstances, I did laugh a little. However, when I learned the details and the seriousness of someone experiencing a neurological event like hers, it was no longer funny. You? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qTLUUSHx58

Best answer:

Answer by *I ROCK UR VIRTUAL SOX OFF* suspended
That’s so sad

What do you think? Answer below!

Are you living an authentic life? How would you know where to find the answer to this question?

Frank Joseph said “Following a vocation, that inner call, is not self-indulgence or an excuse for laziness. Doing what one really wants to do is hard work, but it is self-fulfilling as nothing else can be. It is the ultimate key to personal happiness in the physical world.”

These words have given me much comfort at a time when my career and life have fused in a direction which I least anticipated. I am now following my inner call and it has taken me to a place which is mind-blowing. How big this change is, will soon be known to the world.

This has not come without sacrifice.

I have left dear friends behind – but I have the comfort of knowing that I am following my destiny and that my friends will catch up with me.

I have had to redefine relationships with relatives, some with ease, others with heart-breaking bravery. I asked myself many times whether following my heart should cause me heartache, but looking back, the heartache was necessary to make my heart grow stronger and to give me a greater capacity for Love.

I have had to face a number of issues related to abundance, but the funny thing is that I have not lost anything – in fact, I have gained immeasurable abundance and wealth on many levels. And I have had to learn to thank my teachers and accept the abundance that I am receiving every day.

I have had to literally shake off an old skin and grow a new skin, which was symbolized by a sudden and severe skin condition which cleared up just as suddenly. And of course following your heart does not mean bumming around and watching day-time TV. It means harder work than ever before, but working with a passion and a purpose that is difficult to put into words.

Does becoming authentic and following your inner call mean “leaving the world behind”? Yes and no. As long as I have a pulse, I will not “leave the world behind” but rather make a contribution to the world. On the other hand, following my inner call has resulted in me leaving behind a restrictive reality and building a new reality. I chose to no longer follow the herd, but to rather lead the herd in a different direction.

Living your passion does not mean going hungry or being frustrated. It means being energized and having so much more to share with the world, because you work from an energy base that you can only access when you have no more guilt or fear.

Living your passion also does not necessarily mean changing jobs. Richard Branson lives his passion for creation every day and it has brought him great abundance.

Following your inner call also does not necessarily mean doing things on the scale that Richard Branson feels comfortable with. You can be a nurse or a child minder or a dress designer or a domestic engineer and get great joy from doing what you do.

The secret is to stop giving energy to something that is not your passion, if that is what you are doing right now. Rather give half of what you have to something that makes your heart sing, than to give everything to something that makes your heart sink.

Are you living to meet the expectations of other people? If you are, how often do you fail? Meeting other people’s expectations requires a lot of energy and it is stressful. Meeting the call of your heart requires the same amount of energy, and it is a joy.

What prevents people from following the call of their hearts?

There are ultimately only two things, namely guilt over the past and fear of the future.

Guilt is a one-sided perception. For some reason our brains are wired to see either the positive or the negative side of an experience, but not both. This means anything you remember has a hidden side that you choose not to remember.

Fear is a one-sided perception. You choose to only expect the worst from tomorrow, and you often do not even realise that you can also choose to expect only the best.

Following the call of your heart has only one basis, and that is Love – the Love that you can feel in this moment, right now. There is no guilt in this moment. There is no fear in this moment.

When you live an authentic life, you will still have challenges, but you will accept them with joy and comfort and curiosity, and you will learn so much quicker from them.

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I just got back from driving through the hill country and listening to Dan Kennedy interview Gene Landrum. As a “gold” member of Dan Kennedy’s mentoring service, I get CDs every few weeks of Dan, or his partner Bill Glazer, interviewing a mega-successful entrepreneur.

Lundrum gave Dan a delightful interview full of amazing stories taken from his books. And he made me feel like I belonged to a group, which is a feeling I don’t get much- even when I’m hanging out with musicians. You’d be amazed at how many artists and musicians are just sitting around waiting to be discovered while they continue to do the same thing all the other musicians and artists are doing.

Losers, losing by following losers. Not much of a plan, but it’s pretty popular.

Until I discovered the internet marketing world, I felt like the only square peg in a world of round holes. Listening to Dan’s interviews makes me realize that I’m actually in good company- I’m a member of a group of entrepreneurs who follow Sam Walton’s Rule #1.

Do you know Sam’s “Rule #1?” He used it to build the most successful retail business in history.

Do you want to know the secret that he used to make WalMart unstoppable?

Keep reading.

His “rule #1″ has been my credo all my life, and I’ve caught a great deal of shit for it- it turns out that Ayn Rand, Thomas Edison, Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Ford, H. Ross Perot, Donald Trump, Richard Branson, and most of my other heroes had the same credo.

Want to hear a story?

Due to a bizarre and surreal series of circumstances, I found myself living the life of a high-school drop-out street hippie in 1973. I’d tell you the story, but you wouldn’t believe me.

Kafka’s an amateur compared to East Texas wingnuts- and I got on the wrong side of a town full of East Texas wingnuts and had to quit high-school at 17.

My best option at the time was to move in with a house full of hippie musicians in the Montrose area of Houston. It was shelter, and we usually could scrounge food- Anderson Fair, a spaghetti restaurant that featured folk music, would feed us in return for a few hours of music, but only the zucchini spaghetti.

You can live on zucchini spaghetti if you have to.

We played strip clubs and gay bars. We played for peanuts- literally.

After a year or so of this, on a hot and humid night, I accidentally drank a quart of mysterious tea, which caused me to take a psychic time-out. When I came back from visiting the red queen, I realized I needed to go to college.

So, I walked, in the early morning hours, through the darkest, most dangerous part of Houston, to the bus station and took the bus home. I walked into the house as my father was drinking his morning coffee and announced that I was ready to go to college.

Skeptical, he suggested I get a job. After a year or so of manual labor, I finally made my way to North Texas University- on the strength of a good SAT score and a better audition with the piano faculty.

After a year of cutting down trees, I was probably the “buffest” piano major on the campus. While I was there, I designed and -with the help of a physics major buddy of mine- created the first laser light show in the southwest. We had a running engagement at the Fort-Worth Museum of Science and History.

After three years at NTSU, I sent an audition tape to the University of Texas, and got accepted in their graduate composition program.

I still hadn’t gotten my high-school diploma, technically, I was a high-school drop-out going to grad school.

I loved college. I ended up with music and English minors, but that only tells part of the story. I was a photography major, studying under Gary Winnogrand. I studied journalism. I took art classes. I was in heaven. My degree plan was to not worry about getting a degree. I was getting an education.

After a few years, I got a glimpse of the naked under-belly of the modern classical music world and didn’t like what I saw. A showdown with a famous composer during a seminar was the final straw.

He accused me of prostituting my art by making money writing commercials. What a crock! This was the same guy who financed his studio by doing sound-effects for shampoo commercials. And some of the other ways he prostituted didn’t have anything to do with his art.

I bailed on college, and joined a rock band.

Wouldn’t you?

A short time later, we were touring with Cheap Trick, Heart, ZZ Top, The Climax Blues Band- it was a wonderful, exhausting, amazing experience.

At this point in my life, I was probably the best educated high-school dropout rock star on the planet.

What’s this got to do with internet marketing, writing e-books, and running an international online business?

EVERYTHING!!!

I think the most valuable benefit of my internet marketing lifestyle is the people I get to hang out with. After years of being a loner, I’ve got a “peer group!”

I get to hang out with Joe Vitale, who broke all the rules in the book publishing business, and went to number one twice on the national best-seller charts- while the authors who played by the rules sat around and complained.

I get to hang out with Cindy Cashman, who made a million bucks by “writing” and promoting a blank book with a great title.

I get to hang out with Craig Perrine, who has achieved amazing success by breaking the rules in the internet list-building business.

And there are many others- the internet marketing is world populated with wild, intelligent, brave, and interesting people.

These are the mavericks- the square pegs- I’m honored to know them.

All my life, I’ve heard “get a REAL job!”

The miserable, gray people- the ones trapped in the job they hate (which, according to Dan Kennedy’s research, is at least 2/3 of the population) wanted me to join them in their misery.

Parents. Teachers. Unsuccessful musicians. Bosses (musicians have lots of bosses- because we keep a day-job just long enough to book gigs, then we move on).

Television- Trump and Branson have TV shows, and that’s a good start… but they’re about hiring employees! The winners get a JOB!

You can bet your momma’s egg money that Donald Trump doesn’t want a job. Richard Branson doesn’t want a job. They didn’t get where they are by working for someone else.

I think they should award prize money to the contestant that tells Donald Trump to take a flying f**k at the moon, and starts his own business.

The education factories- imagine what would happen if schools taught entrepreneurship instead of wage-slavery? Our whole education system sucks lemons because it’s based on a 19th century model, and designed to turn out workers- for jobs that haven’t been available in decades! Factories that turn out waves of miserable, gray people- suffering through the week and living for the weekend.

What would happen if they taught people how to think, instead?

Family- here’s the big one. Anytime my family gets together, I get to hear about how I’m the one who’s always “coloring outside the lines” from one of my relatives- he thinks he’s insulting me!

That’s the thing I’m proudest of, and the key to my success. Nobody ever accomplished anything important, or grand, or OUTRAGEOUS by coloring inside the lines.

Following the rules is for losers.

Did you notice the list of heroes I put at the top of this article? They have a lot of things in common:

1. They didn’t wait for permission to be great- they just went ahead and did it.

2. They didn’t worry about credentials or diplomas. Richard Branson has an eighth grade education. Frank Lloyd Wright had about three months of formal schooling. All educated successful people, regardless of how much “schooling” they have, are self-educated. You can’t trust the educators to educate you.

3. They were OUTRAGEOUS! Branson and his hot-air balloons, and now space flights. Thomas Edison announcing the light bulb long before he actually had created one. Everybody on that list listened to sage advice from the gray people and called bullshit on it. Then they went on to create a better world.

4. They made their own rules. And then broke them.

5. They had grand failures, followed by grand successes.

I tell my clients at the Your Portable Empire University, and I’ll tell you- there ain’t no such thing as failure. It’s all data. To succeed BIG you may have to fail big. It’s just a stretch of highway- you may have to go through some bad road to get where you’re going.

The odds that we will be as successful as Thomas Edison or Richard Branson are small, even if we try… but if we don’t try, there’s no chance at all.

I’d rather fail big than live small, wouldn’t you? Especially knowing that “failing big” is just a stop on the way to “living large.”

And what was Sam’s “Rule #1?”

Here it is: “Break the rules.”

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Jim Stafford tells how how he saved the life of a pet chihuahua, and sings his classic “Wildwood Weed” live in Branson MO. This performance is from 1993 when Jim first moved to Branson. In later years, Jim’s jokes became more “family friendly”. Apparently, a coalition of chihuahuas picketed Jim’s theatre threatening him with non-stop annoying barking and yapping. Jim refuses to comment on the matter. Find more live performances at BransonMusicFactory.com

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