Direct Sales Marketing – The Power Of The Mastermind
Posted by Nancy on Feb 15, 2011
It is said that you are most like the five people you spend the majority of your time with.
If your closest friends are TV junkies, you probably are as well.
However, if your closest friends are successful, ambitious business people, you probably are too.
We are attracted to people with whom we have things in common.
Keeping this in mind, how can this information help us in our goal of increasing our wealth?
Let’s start at the beginning … in order to be successful, you need a plan (please don’t count on winning the lottery), and plans are useless unless you take action on them.
You’ve heard the expression ‘two heads are better than one.’
This is the essence of a mastermind group.
Simply put, a mastermind is a group of people, working together, sharing their knowledge and expertise, making said knowledge available to all who are in the group.
Look at the people you associate with and see if you can put together a mastermind group of your own.
Now, if you take all the knowledge and expertise of the mastermind you will come up with plans that you would not have thought of on your own.
Here is another expression you have heard before ‘knowledge is power.’
Actually, knowledge is converted to power by organizing it into plans that lead to action.
So, get your mastermind group together, set a goal, make plans and take action. You will be surprised at what you can accomplish!
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We Live In A Social Media Era
Posted by Guest Author on Feb 8, 2011
Today we are living in the beginning of a whole new era that is going to reshape the world to a level that we haven’t seen ever since the late 1800′s when the Industrial Revolution began to take hold on Earth . This is larger than the 1960′s and it is bigger than the Industrial Revolution and it is even bigger than the creation of the first boat with a sail. No, social media is making changes that are going to rock the whole world all at the same time, shaking down whole nations and connecting generations across every divide known to man as they reach out to one another in ways that were never possible previously. This awe inspiring change in the way people today behave and interact is happening at every single level of our social and it is so powerful that we have hardly started to fully grasp just what it is that we are dealing with. When the revolution ultimately hits full stride it is going to mean that those who have failed to take an active part is going to be left literally in the dust and so that is why getting on board right now is so crucial.
If you stop to think about just how massive this is, you should consider the fact that age has a lot to do with the use of this technology and that of Earth’s nearly 8 billion human beings, completely half of them are under 30 years old. These people have grown up with technology as a totally integrated component of their lives and they are the ones who trust social media marketing, but they are still not the fastest expanding segment nowadays. Because they have already saturated their age range, it is now seniors and older adults which are joining in. In short, the whole population of the planet is coming aboard the web like never before.
If your business is not yet involved then there isn’t any better moment than right this instant to begin laying the plans to get involved since it is going to be mandatory in the coming years for any company that actually wants to play a role in the economy. The wonderful thing is you can discover how to make that happen easily and for free when you use resources like www.hughmccabe.co.za that can teach you how to make it happen. That’s right, this revolution might not be televised, however you can join in any time you like and it’ll be one amazing change for you.
The Origin of the Gin and Tonic
Posted by Guest Author on Feb 5, 2011
Enjoy another fine bartending mini-series , from Westchester’s PREMIER Bartending School, The Academy of Professional Bartending The Number 1 rated Bartending School in New York!
Gin and Tonic
Today’s mini-series will cover the all too simple Gin and Tonic. Well, easy to make but did you know…
A gin and tonic is a highball cocktail made with gin and tonic water poured over ice. It is usually garnished with a slice or wedge of lime or lemon. The amount of gin varies according to taste. Suggested ratios of gin-to-tonic are 1:1, 1:2, 1:3, and 2:3. In some countries, gin and tonic is marketed pre-mixed in single-serving cans.
Let us drift back into time .
The time 1650, English sailors set off to conquer the world! Two hundred plus sailors compacted on 1 wooden ship. No women, only men sailing the world in one vast fishbowl. Unfortunately England, as well as the rest of Europe, isn’t quite right for growing tropical fruits. Without vitamin C in your daily diet you can, amongst other things, develop scurvy. Scurvy leads to the formation of spots on the skin, spongy gums, and bleeding from the mucous membranes. The spots are most abundant on the thighs and legs, and a person with the ailment looks pale, feels depressed, and is partially immobilized. Scurvy was at one time common among sailors, pirates and others aboard ships at sea longer than perishable fruits and vegetables could be stored (subsisting instead only on cured and salted meats and dried grains) and by soldiers similarly separated from these foods for extended periods.
So, you now have 200 plus men on a ship, no women and all scratching themselves like a dog with fleas. They now steer their ships towards the tropics for none other than limes, which have a very high concentrate of vitamin c. Into the jungle they go, collecting all the limes they could store. One problem, along with the tropics come mosquitoes. Some mosquitoes carry malaria! The British eventually found out that quinine (an ingredient in Tonic Water) was useful for getting rid of the disease. If you have ever tasted real tonic water I’m sure you have found it less than desirable. Drinking tonic water by itself was more of an acquired taste and the British were having a hard time ingesting it.
So, you now have 200 plus men on a ship, no women, all scratching themselves like a dog with fleas, infected with malaria, sucking on limes and drinking tonic water. Great Job they had! One wise British seaman decided that by adding Gin to the tonic it would help smooth it out and make it more potable.
So, you now have 200 plus men on a ship, curing their scurvy (adding the lime juice to the drink), ridding themselves of malaria (drinking the nasty tonic water) and getting drunk due to the gin that was added. And you know what? They probably didn’t care if there were any women on board at this point!
As straightforward as it may seem the Gin and Tonic is anything but easy.
It’s a very simple drink, as is the martini. For that reason, it’s very easy to get wrong.
Because there’s so little that goes into this iconic drink — gin, tonic water, ice and perhaps a bit of lime — what really matters are good elements .
Yet even gin and tonic lovers face an uphill battle to find a good one. Even when done right, it’s not an easy drink to love — tonic’s slightly bitter quinine taste is a turnoff to sweet-drink lovers.
Atop the list of potential pitfalls is the tonic, a misunderstood beverage if ever there was one, and a potentially devastating blow to a perfect G&T.
The sad part is, it’s screwed up at 90 percent of the bars in America, and you know the reason? Ninety percent of bars in America use soda out of a gun that in no way, shape or form resembles quinine water.
The better bet is tonic from a bottle — preferably one of those single-serving jobs, which preserves freshness. Request it that way if you’re ordering in a bar; the best bars will at least stock club soda and tonic in bottles.
Gin vs. gin
The secret to the gin is the choice of botanicals. All gins have juniper as a flavor base in their distillation, which is what provides those foresty scents. But most use additional flavorings of citrus and spices. Bombay Sapphire has made its reputation on its use of 10 botanicals, from lemon peel to cubeb berries, a Javanese pepper. The mix makes Sapphire’s taste profile spicier than most — though Walker insists it’s the balance of flavors, not the number of them, that is key to its beauty .
If you prefer a more straightforward gin — any London dry such as Beefeater or regular Bombay — to the more aromatic options, which also include Dutch and Plymouth gins, and new options like Tanqueray Ten. Or if you opt for “something snappier” like the original Tanqueray.
The key to the drink’s classic taste is to balance the bitterness of the tonic against the juniper and other flavors in the gin.
As for the rest, choose a tall, slim, chilled highball glass, the freshest limes possible and — no matter how hot the day — solid cubes of the coldest ice you can get. Ratios for tonic to gin vary widely, from equal parts to 2:1. It’s really a matter of taste.
Variations abound, and none are beyond the pale: a sprig of mint, or a dash of Angostura bitters only add additional layers of flavor. But the humble gin and tonic is a hot-weather drink, best not to be over thought.
Keep it simple a gentle stir and a big ol’ hunk of lime and head for the hammock.
And now the recipe You will need:
1. Some Collin/Highball glasses
2. some lemons
3. ice-cubes
4. Gin
4. Tonic
1. Cut a lemon slice and squeeze it into the glass, to get out all its oil and juice and after this put it at the bottom of the glass
2. Full with ice cubes till the edges of the glass
3. Squeeze a half lemon above of the ice cubes. Wait for 30 secs.
4. Fill the 1/3 of the glass with Gin
5. Fill the rest of glass with Tonic
6. Gently stir the mixture with the knife you have cut the lemon
