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It’s Not Where You Come From That Matters Most

My mother passed away about six years ago and my father passed away two years ago.  My family was of modest means, but my parents were always loving and supportive. It never felt like we were poor. It’s not where you come from that matters most. Last week I was going through some of my father’s […]

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Tips on How to Return Voicemail and Email Messages

Tiffanie Kellog and Jason Avery discuss how behavioral styles affect how we respond to voicemail and email messages. So you received a message and you do not know exactly how to return it. Based on the book, Room Full Of Referrals, it depends on how people want to be treated, their behavioral style. Behavioral styles […]

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Change your WORDS, Inspire your WORLD…

In a previous blog, What is Your Verb?, I stated that my verb is inspire. Based on that blog, I wrote some material for the BNI Global Convention and for this blog that I thought I’d share here: I want to inspire people. I want to inspire people – who inspire people. I want someone […]

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Our Thanksgiving Message

Here we are, celebrating another Thanksgiving day in America. Beth and I have a lot to be thankful for this year, not the least of which is our good health. Just to bring you up to speed, we both received the “all clear” this year after learning about a threat to each of our health. […]

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Referral Coincidence

When it comes to networking, “luck” is where persistence meets opportunity.  There is no coincidence about repeat referrals.  It comes because every day you execute the activities relating to building referral relationships.  Although it can’t be measured as easily as tracking cold-call ratios – the results are dramatic and almost never coincidental. A misconception occurs when […]

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The Misner Plan – Healing Begins in the Kitchen

I get request after request to share my foods list and eating protocol—so many that Beth and I have created the Misner Plan in order to share this information with many more people than we are able to email on a daily basis. We all know and love far too many people who are obese and/or suffering […]

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The Networking Scorecard Mobile App

Network on the Go with the “Networking Like a Pro” Networking Scorecard Mobile App It’s easy to feel like networking is a waste of time —but that just means you’re doing it wrong. In this new edition of “Networking Like a Pro”, networking experts Dr. Ivan Misner and Brian Hilliard reveal key networking techniques to […]

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The A-Z of Networking: L is for… (by Andy Lopata)

This month, Andy Lopata shares his networking tips which begin with the letter “L” Learn Leave Let it go Leverage Like Link Lion Listen Long Game and more. Click here to watch this video Please click below to see Andy’s playlist of his networking tips from A to Z. http://ivanmisner.com/category/a-to-z... By knowing why you are […]

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Build Your Business By Building Relationships

Building Relationships should become one of the most important components of your business. You should build your business by farming not hunting. If your network is a mile wide and an inch deep, it’s not powerful. Social capital is like financial capital. To amass financial capital, you have to invest and grow your assets. You […]

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Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, and Six Degrees of Separation

What do Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and “Six Degrees” have in common? The idea that we are ALL connected by six people is a myth. Click here to watch this video People all around the world believe in these myths. However, being connected by six degrees of people is an urban legend. Please watch this […]

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