Monthly Archives: November 2009

I’ve recently attended Alan Weiss’s Million Dollar Club gathering in beautiful St. Lucia. Surrounded by the gorgeous nature and an amazing group of people: My wife, Alan Weiss, seven other members of the Million Dollar Club and their spouses and partners. We met in the mornings, discussed business, best practices, intellectual properties and ideas to improve our lives and businesses. It was by far the most advanced learning experience I have ever experienced with honest and successful colleagues committed to help me grow. Below are my few takeaways and goals I have committed to. I am sharing this with you, with the hope that it is of help to some and a better way to hold me accountable.

Takeaways:

• Productize my business to complement the concept of the accelerant curve. (more on that soon)
• Commit to the things I must let go in order to reach the highest level of success.
• Be more directional instead of being opportunistic.
• Don’t tell people everything I know but what they need to know.
• To reduce my labor intensiveness: 1. streamline my work 2. transfer work to clients 3. delegate to staff and outsource 4. discard when unnecessary or turn down business you do not need.
• Determine what I want life to look like and then build the business to support it.
• Manage myself out of the business, increase my virtual team, clone myself as much as possible in sales & marketing, leverage my staff to the highest level possible and hold them accountable for outcomes and results. Delegate all that I should and could.
• Create more powerful alliances.
• When developing my marketing content, make sure it focuses on current times and my client challenges.
• Develop case studies that enable clients to relate to them.
• When promoting a book, offer an autograph option for extra charge.
• Create a list of journalists and send them press releases.
• I am a business strategist, who leverages technologies to help my clients accelerate their growth which fits beautifully with becoming one of Alan Weiss’s master mentors and developing a new coaching club for my best clients and push them to higher level successes.
• I am going to start promoting a new brand: “The king of all kings of social media.”
• Schedule systematic and better follow-ups with clients and develop an action plan which can be also delegated to one of my staff.
• I have great intellectual property (IP) which I will develop much more of and productize the heck out of.
• Print my goals and have them display prominently on my desk.
• When struggling with my long, 1st priority, to do list, I will pick out two and get started and then pick out two more. It does not matter which two I pick. Just do it.
• Find a quite place (often) and do all I can to finish my set priorities the quickest possible way and then enjoy the rest of the day. My colleague and client, Rob Nixon from Australia, uses this technique until his laptop battery runs out. With my new Macbook pro that is a problem. Battery lasts too darn long.
• Keep my schedule and calendar sacrosanct.
• Routinize my input and customize my output. Also, if it is worth doing again, systematize it.
• Send my ideas to my team and let them make it happen.
• Develop more diagnostic tools.
• On the last day, I asked each of the members of the group to take a couple of minutes, pull out our crystal ball and in our areas of expertise articulate the future as we see it. VERY POWERFUL STUFF. I then realized that we are our clients’ future and we represent their blueprint to success.
• All great things must come to an end to let in the WOW things.
• The Million Dollar Club is the most awesome think-tank / mastermind group I have ever attended. The relationships and friendships created are priceless. Thank you all and thank you Alan for making this an amazing reality.

My Goals:

• Purchase a focused and high quality database and market to it aggressively. Create web landing pages with videos and make special offers of value. Become a marketing machine. Better penetrate to my associated communities and help my clients reach higher level of successes. Leverage alliances and develop a new workshops with and without my alliances.
• Finish the book I am co-authoring with Alan Weiss and start thinking about my next book.
• Leverage NSA by speaking to local chapters and national conferences.
• Productize my business. Fill my accelerant curve with workshops, booklets, books, webinars alliances such as Alan & the Gang which will be launched 1st Qtr. 2010 and Million Dollar Web Sites and more.
• Push, re-invent and further develop my dream team.
• Promote by new brand of business strategist, master mentor and the coaching club.
• Launch the new amazing web site for The Chad Barr Group with podcasts and videos and …
• Fitness, spirituality and life balance upgrades with my wife, kids, grand kids, family, friends and colleagues. Help my wife pursue her passions.