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Keep Your Fire Stoked
| Guest post by: Carrie Langstroth |
Article Overview: In so many ways this fire can be compared to a marketing team of professionals. It is nice to sit and watch the fire, watch the flames flicker but soon if you only watch and don’t feed your fire it dies down. You start to feel the chill back in the air. You must get up and put on another log on the fire.
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Keep Your Fire Stoked
It was a cold, rainy day. I felt chilled to the bones. The house felt cold so we lit the fireplace. Soon the room took on the warmth and peace of the fire. I sipped on a hot chocolate and started to meditate on my marketing and my team.
In so many ways this fire can be compared to a marketing team of professionals.
It is nice to sit and watch the fire, watch the flames flicker but soon if you only watch and don't feed your fire it dies down. You start to feel the chill back in the air. You must get up and put on another log on the fire.
You need to feel like a roaring fire about getting a sale, about new members and about helping others. That is true leadership.
You are cheating yourself if you are not feeding the fire. When you have a good fire going people feel that. They want to join and work with you. They feel the warmth, peace and security.
Believe in yourself and your mission. Believe in the right thing. What you believe is what you will get. If you think you won't do well you won't. If you believe you will succeed you will have success.
Discipline is required so the flames within you never die down to an ember. Be a pro, be a leader and keep the fire growing within yourself. Don't let the fire burn down to coals that need a poke to get started again.
Examine yourself. Be honest. Do you have your fire blazing everyday? You need to put logs on your fire to keep it going. Be possessed by your fire. Do the things required to succeed. Work at your marketing, work with your team; educate yourself, read each day. Remember your goals and why you are here and what you want to achieve. You can't just sit back and watch the fire. It will go it. It has to be fed. Each day you need to put logs on your figurative fire.
Stay focused on your goals. Think of how it feels to reach your goals.
Keep your fire burning bright!
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Step 9) Keep your Board Members Informed
There's nothing worse than having a great team of advisors - who dont know what's going on.
Once you have your board in place, its important to keep them motivated and excited about your business by giving them updates at times when you arent soliciting their advice. The fact that they have agreed to be on your board means they care about your company - so keeping them up to date will help them be of greater value to you. They are champions and evangelists for your business - commit to giving them constant communications so they can share the message.
10) Fire Bad Board Members.
if you realize you have made a bad choice, get rid of him or her as fast as you can. Because your advisor board is not a formal board of advisors you wont have the typical legal issues - but you will have a good management/leadership task on your plate. Tread carefully and lightly but remember that the longer a 'bad seed' sticks around, the longer it takes to remove the 'stench' after they are gone.
Just think Omarosa - and cut em loose!
This can be very uncomfortable but if you act with integrity and are really upfront about what you need, you should be able to bypass having to let anyone go. Go slow in bringing your board together - perhaps have existing advisors talk with / interview potential new advisors in order to confirm your decision of fit.
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