Steve Miller's Blog, page 4
April 23, 2020
5 Tips To Look Great on Video for Zoom, Skype, etc.
Need I say more? NO! If you’re going to use any online broadcasting and/or streaming tool, you must look professional!
Watch Steve’s smokin’ hot wife, Kay, as she shows you exactly how to look and sound like the pros when you do an online call, presentation, recorded video, etc.!
Be sure and watch Steve’s recent video: What If F2F Sales Calls Are Banned?
And the Blue Yeti USB microphone Kay mentioned is here: https://amzn.to/2VRN2r8
April 14, 2020
What if F2F sales calls get banned?
If you hit “pause” on marketing, your prospects are already forgetting you. You don’t want that!
Right now too many companies, especially small businesses, stopped marketing campaigns because they think nobody wants to hear from them and they want to save money.
Marketing right now is EXACTLY what you want to be doing and for very important reasons. But don’t make the mistake thinking I’m advocating pushy, BUY NOW messages, or any type of hard sales tactics.
Absolutely not. You need to take a different tact.
Watch this week’s short UNCOPYABLE Business message!
Thanks for watching! Please share!
April 6, 2020
March 26, 2020
Massive Action: What Others Are Doing
Our objective is to help YOU not only get through this unprecedented situation, but be ready to hit the ground running when we all come out on the other side.
Today my smokin’ hot wife, Kay, and I share new examples of what other organizations are doing right now, even when they have literally laid off entire staffs, and closed their doors. An amazing story from Bennington Properties in Sunriver, OR.
Watch this right now and then share with us what YOU’RE doing to survive this crisis and what you’re doing to prepare for when the lights get turned back on!
If you aren’t already doing virtual meetings and events, you MUST learn how before this thing over. Virtual will be the mainstay of connecting with our customers, friends, and family.
Kay will show you how to use the Zoom platform on Tuesday, March 31, at 4:00pm ET.
Massive Action: What Others Are Doing
Our objective is to help YOU not only get through this unprecedented situation, but be ready to hit the ground running when we all come out on the other side.
Today my smokin’ hot wife, Kay, and I share new examples of what other organizations are doing right now, even when they have literally laid off entire staffs, and closed their doors. An amazing story from Bennington Properties in Sunriver, OR.
Watch this right now and then share with us what YOU’RE doing to survive this crisis and what you’re doing to prepare for when the lights get turned back on!
If you aren’t already doing virtual meetings and events, you MUST learn how before this thing over. Virtual will be the mainstay of connecting with our customers, friends, and family.
Kay will show you how to use the Zoom platform on Tuesday, March 31, at 4:00pm ET.
March 25, 2020
Massive Action: Managing the Unknown
When I was young, had an experience that terrified me about the future. I got through that one and we will get through this time, too.
Please watch this if you need some ideas for handling all this uncertainty. I share 7 Lessons I learned and took away from that experience that can help you better handle today’s situation.
Massive Action: Managing the Unknown
Steve shares 7 lessons for today’s crisis he learned while growing up with a supposedly incurable disease.
March 24, 2020
Massive Action: Get Smarter
I’ve reached out to a lot of really smart and successful people during this craziness. I’m really curious to know how they’re looking at this and what action steps they might be taking.
Interestingly enough, ONE thing has stood from almost everybody I’ve communicated with.
They’re using this opportunity to LEARN. Some of them want to learn more about a topic, or improve a skill. Others want to study something NEW that haven’t had time to work on, but now do.
And so this makes today’s Massive Action easy:
BE SMARTER WHEN THIS THING IS OVER THAN YOU WERE WHEN IT STARTED
The Interweb has a gazillion places you can go to learn something new. Here are some cool sites that will help you:
Khan Academy
This site is unbelievable. You can study everything from basic math to world history to storytelling(taught by Pixar!) to physics, and a lot more. If, by chance, you have kids stuck at home and want help home schooling them, this is place to to go. It’s FREE!.
TED
Ya, I know you know about this amazing community and their massive library of videos, but you might not know some of the inside stuff. I’ve attended TED and even spoke at the 2007 conference in Monterey, so I get the emails! Here’s one thing TED is doing this week to check out:
Hosted by head of TED, Chris Anderson and current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers, TED Connects: Community and Hope is a free, live, daily conversation series featuring experts whose ideas can help us reflect and work through this uncertain time with a sense of responsibility, compassion and wisdom.
edX
Access 2000 free online courses from 140 leading institutions worldwide, including Harvard, MIT, and more.
Coursera
Coursera has more than 35 million learners, 150 university partners, 2,700 courses, 250 specializations and four degrees. In addition to free courses, Coursera offers courses generally ranging from $29 – $99.
Take advantage of this unique situation!
Stay safe and take Massive Action!
March 18, 2020
Massive Action #3: Get Outside!
In this tip, my smokin’ hot wife, Kay, and I talk about the importance of taking breaks and getting outside!
(Yes, I get out of breath, but I’m not in bad shape!)
Be sure to watch my previous video, 5 Marketing Tactics You Can Do During the Crisis
March 17, 2020
Massive Action #2: the #1 Productivity Killer
One thing you don’t want to aspire to is to be a great time manager.
You can’t manage time. You can only manage what you do within periods of time. Managing time makes us look at the clock.
No, no, no.
You should want to be a good PRODUCTIVITY manager. Being productive is about IMPACT. It’s about RESULTS. Those are what matter most, so managing those really make the difference.
There are many reasons why we might be unproductive, but today I’m sharing the #1 culprit.
MASSIVE ACTION #2: ELIMINATE DISTRACTIONS
Distractions are dastardly, evil, go-to-the-dark-side, weapons of SATAN!
Think I’m going overboard here? Well, tell me this hasn’t happened to you:
You start working on a project.
Oh crap, my pen is out of ink.
Rummage through the drawer.
Can’t find a new pen, but you find those tickets to that basketball game you want to go to.
You remember you have to contact Fred and Lance about going.
You open ups your email and…
OMG, look at all this unopened emails!
You start looking through those and remember…
A pen! I need a pen!
Your phone buzzes with a notification.
Somebody sent you another hilarious cat video.
A pen…
You get up and head to somebody else’s office, the supply room, or the kitchen at home.
You’re in the kitchen.
You open the refrigerator. When you walk by you ALWAYS open the refrigerator.
Even though every shelf is packed, there’s nothing to munch on.
Now you’re hungry…but wait!
A pen…
20 minutes have gone by…
Okay you get the picture. We ALL fall into these crazy distraction traps. But the point is that distractions are THE biggest killers of productivity and impact.
No matter where we’re working…the office, at Starbucks, or at home, we must eliminate distractions as best as possible.
So here are some tips for doing just that:
Set a timer for how long you want to be productive — 30 minutes, an hour, two? (In my 34 years of working at home, I’ve found that two hour blocks are about the max for me.)
Turn OFF notifications on your phone and your computer.
Close your door. Put a “Do Not Disturb” sign on the outside…and tell everyone you mean it.
Get the tools together you need.
Start the timer
Just WORK
Rinse
Repeat as needed
Follow this plan of Massive Action and you will be surprised by how productive you can be.
Hey, most of us know this, we just don’t put it into daily practice. We allow other people, our phone, emails, texts, and social media to steal our attention.
It’s OUR attention, not somebody else’s to control!
Now go be PRODUCTIVE.
PS: BTW, I’ve got a full productivity product you can get right now for $1. Regularly sells for $197, but in these very difficult times I want you to have it for $1. Click here.
