Mentoring | Britt Phillips

Several years ago I got a telephone call from a guy who thought he would appraise the value of a CD I was selling for $39.95. He thought he would affix a value of $10.00 and I would jump at the chance to make something as opposed to losing the sale. He quickly discovered he was wrong. He also discovered an extremely valuable marketing lesson that he gladly paid much more for. And he was thrilled to do it!

Watch this video to see what happened…

How can you apply this to your marketing plan?

Here’s what I look for when approving comments:

1. Good Comments – I’m looking for comments that offer creative insight, add to the conversation, enage readers and inspire them to reply thus keep the conversation going.

2. Relevancy – I’m looking for comments that are relevant to the post. Review the tags links on the right side of the page to locate relevant posts to comment on.

3. Offensive Links – If your comment includes a link to any offensive site it will not be approved.

4. One Liners – If your comment is a short one liner such as “great post”… “good job”… “thanks for sharing” etc. I most likley will not approve it.

If I’m going to give you a permanent back link I believe you outta at least take a minute or two and leave a good comment in return.

Here’s why you should leave comments on this blog. (opens in new window)

You’ve most likely heard it said… “You must be willing to do the things others won’t do in order to have the things others won’t have.” And it’s true. After working with literally thousands of people either through one on one mentorship or in a group training or seminar environment, I know the reason most never do the things they should be doing to ensure their success.

It really comes down to the desire and adaptiveness of the individual. Desire by itself is great and it’s very important, but unfortunately desire is overshadowed by the assumptive reasoning (or lack thereof depending on how you choose to look at it) that in order to reach wealth building goals learning is involved and required. And people dislike learning. They tend to assume learning is going to be tough and simply not worth the effort when their is no guarantee of any success. People do not want to learn. They want everything handed to them.

So how do you reach these people? Simple. You remove their fear of learning and offer them the opportunity to discover. It’s extremely important to understand the difference between the words learn and discover. For the average person to learn something means things like tough, hard, painful, struggle, failure, disappointment etc. However if you remove the word learn you also instantly take away the associated words as well.

Allowing a person to discover then changes the dynamic completely. The word discover to the average person means excitement, fun, interest, laughter, easy, simple, success. And it also allows people to more easily drop their guard and when this happens they are always easier to reach.