Opportunities are on their way. Will you recognize them? Will you be ready for them or will you jump on them as the parade passes by?
The world is changing, and that’s scary. But like all change, it brings opportunities, making right now an exciting time to get in on the ground floor of major opportunities. The world right now is in an economic mess and that’s why you can be sure it’s going to change and quickly. So you can sit and lament or you can safely start taking actions to be in the right places to recognize and take advantage of what’s to come.
What if you invested or became a supplier to Google or Ebay, or YouTube 10 years ago? What if you invested d in IBM and Microsoft 30 years ago? Even with the market crashing, you’d still be doing very well. That’s because 10 years ago and 30 years ago there was new technology that was growing fast and Google and the others happened to be players running with that technology.
Today we are on the verge of all sorts of transitions – alternative energy, the green movement, different types of cars, as well as the continuation of the internet taking over everyday life. We also have all of the Obama initiatives – spending for bridges and infrastructure, alternative energy, education, healthcare, etc. These spending programs will be great opportunities to grow rich. And the beauty of all of these is the technology learning curves are over. These will be main stream very quickly.
So instead of complaining about the state of the economy today, one should be positioning for the arena they can best play in and invest accordingly. Now is the time to establish or enhance relationships with leaders in the companies you intend to work with. Where will they make their moves and how can you help your clients make them? What can you do to help them prepare? These are the discussions to have with top people. Now is your time to be seen as a resource that can help your clients protect or enhance their careers.
However, there are challenges, but as mentioned above my job is to help you protect or enhance your career. Therefore, I have solutions for you.
1. The first challenges you’ll face are getting to these leaders.
The solution is networking. My websites, blogs and videos are full of articles and information on the process of networking.
2. Another challenge is engaging senior executives to discuss openly their plans, ideas, and concerns.
The solution is in my TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER$ books, my CDs on interviewing, and my free articles, all on my website http://www.sammanfer.com .
3. Another challenge is convincing top level people you can help them and deliver what they need.
The solution is in my Winning Strategies for Proposals and Presentations videos, ebook, and 40 Tips manual and videos – http://www.sammanfer.com .
If you master these three challenges, contracts, projects, orders, etc. will be coming at you very soon and start escalating to an overwhelming pitch within 18 months. If you continue to do business as usual or more of the usual, you will get a share of this enormous pie eventually, that is, if you can survive another 18 months.
Now is the time for change. Learn new methods or old methods that work for the first time. Take this slow time to train, coach and mentor your managers and business development people, and doers. Timing is everything, but timing isn’t luck. Timing is being prepared to recognize the time and being equipped to take advantage of the time, and being exposed so that clients seek you out when it’s time. This is what makes timing right for a company, organization or an individual. God what a beautiful world we live in.
And now I invite you to learn more.
Bonus Tip: To get to the leaders you’ll have to deal with the obstacles so here is a FREE E-Book “Getting Past Gatekeepers and Handling Blockers”. Just click this C-Level Relationship Selling Link http://www.sammanfer.com/GatekeeperEbook.htm . Sam Manfer makes it easy for any sales person to be effective and feel comfortable connecting with and relationship selling C-Level leaders.
By: Sam Manfer
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C-Level Selling: The Proactive Recessionary Birds Will Catch The Economic Recovery Worms
November 1st, 2009Economic Stimulus Package Plan
August 18th, 2009The Taxpayer’s Dozen
There are 12 areas of the economic stimulus package plan:
Tax relief, child tax credit, jobless benefits, health care, energy, education, infrastructure, science and technology, law enforcement, jump start on jobs, business breaks and accountability. To Democrats, this plan represents stabilizing the economy where it will see the most progress – helping people help themselves. To Republicans, it is perceived as a huge loss of revenue where it will do big business and the military, two areas upon which Republicans base their version of financial stability.
A Networked Plan of Economic Stimulus
Unlike prior economic stimulus plans, i.e., millions to big business in 2001, tax cuts for the richest 1% and $350 billion to the bailout financial institutions, the Obama plan gets to the heart of why all other plans have failed…excising the middle class from benefiting in equal proportion. In the Obama plan, every area is carefully networked so that the results stabilize working class Americans. The middle class during the took several simultaneous hits taxes that incurred further debt, taxes on consumables and taxes that trickled down to create higher state income and property taxes. Allowing Americans to keep an additional $500-1,000 of their income reduces the burden of eroding paychecks and increasing costs of living. With added help from the child tax credit, working parents get to keep more of their hard-earned incomes if their salaries are under the $150,000 cap. So, the first two areas begin to immediately relieve the economic balloon about to burst from pressure of too many taxes at too high a rate. For those who are jobless as a result of economic layoff or job evaporation, the additional aid to jobless benefits may stave off the increase in the number of people living below the poverty level. Science &Technology, Law Enforcement, Jump Starting Jobs, Business breaks and accountability fit well into this network as definitely doable and pragmatic.
The Big Four of the Economic Stimulus Plan
There are 4 very big areas of this plan: Health care, energy, education and infrastructure. Health care, unless it is totally revamped will affect the outcome of all 11 related parts of this plan. Health care is unaffordable not only for average Americans but for business as well. Until that issue is resolved, none of the other areas of the plan can work. No job will be secure if health care continues to spiral out of control. No business will take the chance of hiring more employees they know will jeopardize the health care benefits of their existing staff. And, until age discrimination is resolved with regard to HMOs, older Americans who want to work past retirement will be considered undesirable and costly. The cost of education will increase as a result of increasing costs of benefits for education employees. Any revenues freed for other parts of the plan will be eroded by the cost of health care. Health care costs must be reined in before issuing revenue to education, energy and infrastructure. To overlook the ramifications of unaffordable health care is a serious loophole in the fabric of the economic stimulus plan.
For more information on the economic stimulus package, visit http://www.stimulus2.com.
By: John Parks
