7 Priceless Lessons You Will Learn From The TV Show 'The Celebrity Apprentice'

7 Priceless Lessons You Will Learn From The TV Show 'The Celebrity Apprentice'

Entrepreneurs can learn a lot from Donald Trump‘s TV show ’The Celebrity Apprentice‘. Donald Trump challenges each contestant in a number of different surroundings with experiences that a Billionaire businessman would be faced with.

A lot of entrepreneurs swear by ‘The Celebrity Apprentice‘ series as they have felt inspired and guided in the right direction after watching a season of the show. Read on for 7 priceless lessons that ‘The Celebrity Apprentice’ will teach you.

7 Entrepreneur Lessons From Donald Trump’s ‘The Apprentice’

Be a leader even if you’re not in a leadership position:

True leaders stand out even when they aren’t in a position of power. This doesn’t mean butting heads with the real group leader or trying to take over, but showing that you’re invested in the team and want to step up when needed is valuable for any person in business. On Celebrity Apprentice, though the project manager gets the most credit for the job done, team members who showed initiative and leadership skills, while still following the leader’s directions, are often recognized by Mr. Trump. For example, in season nine, on a project creating advertorials, wrestler Bill Goldberg became increasingly enthusiastic and involved as the assignment went on and was praised, in contrast to Darryl Strawberry, who disengaged from the team and ended up going home.

Don’t let your emotions get the best of you:

When working with a team or with clients, you need to know how to manage your emotions and be aware of others’ feelings. This is a lesson we seem to learn in just about every episode of Celebrity Apprentice since watching rich people lose their cool makes for such great entertainment. NeNe Leakes in season 10, for example, was the project manager for a challenge and before the project even started, Nene went off on team member Star Jones — in front of the competition and the client. Even if her emotions were valid, she should’ve taken a moment to collect herself and notice that she was making the client (and everyone else) uncomfortable. Though she wasn’t fired, her antics put her up for elimination.

Play nice:

This tidbit fits along nicely with the previous one: sometimes you won’t like the people you work with, but you have to play nice to get the job done. Your boss doesn’t intend to hire people that you won’t get along with like the producers of the Celebrity Apprentice probably do, but that doesn’t mean that every personality will mesh on a team. If there’s one what-not-to-do lesson we learn from the show week in and week out, it’s that cutting down other team members and bickering internally will not lead to success. In the most recent season, Lisa Lampanelli and Dayana Mendozahad a fight-filled project, complete with name-calling and yelling matches, ultimately leading to a loss for their team (and plenty of drama for the ratings). If you find yourself working with people you don’t care for, make an effort to get along and act civilly; it will go a long way toward building team morale and a better end result.

Ask for feedback:

Going to a supervisor and asking how you can improve or why you weren’t chosen for a certain project or position can bolster your boss’s opinion of you. As long as you approach the situation with a humble, willing-to-learn attitude and don’t involve anyone else’s performance in the discussion, your boss will be impressed with your initiative. La Toya Jackson had been fired in a previous episode, but she requested a private meeting with Donald Trump, asked for feedback on why she had been fired, and ended up being brought back to the competition. You may not see results quite as quickly, but your supervisor will probably remember it the next time a project comes up.

Networking is important:

While your network might not land you a $300,000+ donation likePaul Teutul Sr. received from a contact in the season premiere of season 12, you can get opportunities, sales, and even more business contacts by reaching out and setting up an expansive network of peers. Though the networking we see on Celebrity Apprentice has more impressive names and bank accounts than yours probably will, you can see the importance of knowing people when it comes time to use a contact’s expertise or resources. Keep in touch with contacts so they won’t feel used when you need some help from them, and contribute to their projects when you can.

Take responsibility for your actions:

When you make a mistake, whether it’s big or small, your reputation will hold up much better if you just accept responsibility rather than trying to pass blame on someone else. Owning your mistakes and learning from them is a big part of growing as a person and as an employee or manager, and will earn you respect from peers and supervisors alike. Though George Takei was fired for the mistakes he made as a project manager, he took full responsibility and accepted the decision with grace and dignity. Trump and Takei’s fellow team members praised him for his class, and you can tell that if this was a normal working environment, Takei would’ve gotten to stick around.

Stick up for yourself:

Just because you’re humble and admit your faults doesn’t mean you should let people walk all over you or throw in the towel when you’ve gotten tripped up. We’ve seen it in the show’s boardroom time and time again: a person admits they had some problems with the latest project but points to their various successes in the past and their desire to continue on with the competition. And they’re spared from the dreaded Trump firing. Don’t be afraid to stand up for yourself if you’re in the line of fire and point out everything you’ve done right in the past; as long as you don’t try to throw someone else under the bus (or bring them under there with you), you may just get what you want.


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Top tips for the budding online marketer

    Top tips for the budding online marketer

Have you asked yourself this questions repeatedly, How can i use the internet to market my products? What do i need to know and do to be a successful online marketer or "Technopreneur"? How and Where do is start? 

The web offers savvy marketers the opportunity and free tools to help grow their business. Whether big or small, firms can easily leverage these free tools to successfully run and reap the benefits of an online marketing campaign. You will be amazed how some 1st timers are even using Facebook to buy and sell "knick knacks" and earn hundreds if not thousands at the comfort of their own home.

Here are five key questions and tips to help you plan  and execute your online marketing campaign like a pro. 

Five Key Questions to Ask Yourself
1. What is the goal of your campaign? Sounds basic enough, but specifying what you want your campaign to achieve can really help you narrow down the details your plan. While you may have a number of marketing goals, focus on the most important one to start. For example, a small shoe store may identify “selling 100 pairs of shoes in one month” as their primary goal, or an online gadget store may aim to “gain 1,000 unique visitors a week.”

2. What are you trying to market? Pick out the product or service you want to market. This may be your best-seller or one of your lesser known products or services. Picking too many products or services can lead to an incoherent and ultimately, ineffective, campaign.

3. Who is your audience? It is important to identify who your audience is, as this criteria will help refine what actions to take to implement your marketing strategy. Is your product or service best suited for women aged 20-30 years old? Or are you looking to attract new customers from a specific demographic?

Once you know who your intended audience is, you’ll be able to understand their online behavior and shape your marketing plan accordingly. For example, if your intended audience uses search engines to look for information on products and services, then a search marketing campaign may be just what you need to engage with them.

4. How is your audience accessing your site? It’s important to know whether your audience is looking for you via desktop devices or using mobile search. Google’s data shows that around 66 percent of shopping-related searches are coming from mobile. And Filipinos are increasingly turning to their smartphones for answers as well. Research shows that around  64 percent of Filipino households already own at least one smartphone and more -- over 35 percent -- Filipinos intend to purchase smartphones this year.

So even if you have a great desktop website, you may still be missing out on potential customers by neglecting to create a mobile-optimised site.

5. What’s your budget? Your marketing plan will affect and be affected by your budget. Find a balance between what your needs are -- perhaps you don’t really need that banner ad and instead a smaller text ad may do the trick -- and what you can afford to optimise your investment. 

Most importantly, most sites right now offer free advertisements and what really cost are the extra options, tools or added features to your campaign so manage and select what is more important. For example, www.Ebay.ph, offers free adverts and what really cost are extra's like themes, extra pictures and exposure. So check each option, dont just ignore or pick them all.

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8 Important MLM Tips for Success

MLM Tip #1

I am amazed at how many people start a MLM business and instead of following in the path of those who came before them and succeeded, they try it their way.

Tip: Copy the SYSTEMS, do not RE INVENT THE WHEEL

MLM Tip #2
Do not treat your MLM as a side hobby. If you treat it like a business and stick with it long term, you will likely find success.

Tip: If your doing it part time, make sure to allot time for it every day of every week. The last thing we want is for procrastination to set in. Focus!

MLM Tip #3
This tip is a spinoff of #2. Schedule your MLM marketing time. It is one thing to decide I will put in 10 hours a week, that is easy to say, but it is another thing to do so and stick with it over the long haul.

Tip: schedule your MLM time!

MLM Tip #4
Set goals, and I strongly disagree with the rational of setting “realistic goals”.

It is like having a “rainy day” bank account. If you save for a rainy day, that is exactly what you will get, rainy days. I invest my money. If I really fall into trouble, I sell.

So back to goal setting, I believe in the “law of attraction”. If you set your goals high and focus on it, the universe will somehow make it possible.

Let’s assume you set a goal to go to Mars, would you consider a failure to actually land on the moon?

I think you get the point.

Tip: Think BIG and Kick Ass! Impossible is nothing!

MLM Tip #5
Selling product is fine and I have customers too, but the real money in MLM comes from sponsoring distributors and helping them build.

Balance your sponsoring and marketing activities to find new distributors. You'll be amazed that products are a good attraction for most people.

Tip: Keep it balance. Retailing and Networking makes a great income, combined!

MLM Tip #6

Give a lot of support to your team. The more support your team gets, the more likely they will succeed and also the longer they will stay with you.

Many people think you need to sponsor an army but that is not the case. You need 3-5 key players that you sponsor and if you help them build, amazing things can happen.

My sponsor in my company is currently the second to highest rank, and he has only recruited 36 people into the company and most of them have dropped off. He has 4 key legs that is it!

Tip: MLM is a people business, Its all about the people, growing, helping and leading them.

MLM Tip #7

This next MLM tip is huge!

Do NOT do too many marketing strategies, that is what I did in the beginning and I struggled for a long time because of it. I did not find success until I focus on 2 strategies.

So find something that works for you and do a lot of it!

Tip: Copy the SYSTEMS, do not RE INVENT THE WHEEL

MLM Tip #8
Learn how to talk with people. MLM recruiting is a special skill that can be learned by anyone!

Tip: Practice, just think "im here to make friends" no pressure at all


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Why People join the Network Marketing Business?

Statistics say that the primary reasons why people from different walks of life join this business were accounted on one of the motivating factors below:

Extra or Supplementary Income

Financial Freedom

Establish own Business

More spare Time

Helping Others

Early Retirement

Personal Development

Meeting New People

Leave A Legacy

How about you?

Before answering the following Questions, Please spend at least 10 to 15 minutes to ponder:

What is your number one Priority?

Why did you choose it?

Why is it important to you?

What are the consequences of not having that opportunity?

Why would that worry you?

"Leverage Marketing is all about Building RELATIONSHIP; IT'S ALL ABOUT CHANGING LIVES; It's all about Free Life"

"In 1984 20% of new millionaires came from Network Marketing. By 1994 it was 50%. It was Predicted that by 2004 and forward, 70 to 80% of new millionaires will come from the Booming Business NETWORK MARKETING INDUSTRY"  - IRS (U.S.) Statistics

 NOW IT'S ALL HAPPENING....

Work Smarter, Not Harder

Suppose I am to build an artificial fishpond and I need to employ someone to excavate the field measuring one square hectare with a depth of one meter. I will pay you Php250.000 for the job using your own shovel. If you start digging now, you could probably cover the whole area at the end of the year. I am offering you a large sum because it is my obligation to compensate a laborious job.

Meanwhile, your friend learned of the offer and quickly applied for the same job. He plans to rent a digging machine for Php50,000 and projects to finish the job in just a week. Do you think he has also done Php250,000 worth of service? Who worked smart and who worked hard?

What you have just pondered on is an application of the Law of Leverage. The digging machine represents the lever to have the economy of movement and to give a minimum input that can achieve maximum results. Leverage creates speed and simplicity of work or activity performance.

HOW? The answer is LEVERAGE! Start leveraging yourself today!

21 THINKING PATTERNS

1. HAVE A BIG REASON WHY you want to be successful in network marketing that really matters to you. Let it be the driving force that motivates you daily. Let it be the wood for your internal fire.

2. PICK A FEW PERSONAL GOALS that really motivate.  Goals that you can accomplish by having success in network marketing. Write them down. review them often. Make sure they are YOUR goals & not someone else's. Use your REASON WHY to motivate you to accomplish your goals.  Having a big reason why & goals will drive you thru the obstacles you will encounter. Your GOALS literally force you to become the person you need to be in order to accomplish them.  The BIGGER the goals, the more you will have to go thru to accomplish them.

3. HAVE A WORK HARD MENTALITY.  There is a saying that ONLY time success comes before WORK is in the dictionary. The harder you work, the luckier you will get. Make sure it is intelligent hard work. If something is not working, dont keep doing it over and OVER again. Try something different. Not having success- TRY HARDER, TRY SMARTER.

4. HAVE AN ACTION MINDSET.  One of the biggest mistakes new network marketers make is they think they have to know EVERYTHING about their product or opportunity before they can work the business. That mindset creates inactivity. Once you make a decision to work a network marketing opportunity you should focus 90% of your time on action, 10% on learning. This is an ACTION BUSINESS. Learn the basics, use the tools, use the systems, plug into your upline who is having success and then GO GO GO!.  The only way to REALLY learn network marketing is by doing it not reading about it. This is crucial to your success.

5. DON"T JUST TAKE ACTION. TAKE MASSIVE< FOCUSED ACTION. Throw everything you have at it. Make a full commitment & GO. If you are just working network marketing as a hobby or to create part time income you can be casual about the business and that is OK. But if you want to create MASSIVE INCOME, you must take MASSIVE FOCUSED ACTION.

6. ACTIVITY is what create results. Not positive thinking. Do not wait to be positive before you take action. Discipline yourself to take action daily regardless fo how you feel. Do something daily to build your business. Have a daily ACTION plan of the activities that directly lead to acquiring new customers & distributors. Discipline to do it DAILY. Consistent, Persistent effort is MUCH more important to your success than beinga super hot shot.

7. HAVE A LONG TERM PERSPECTIVE. Stay within your budget on any & all marketing expenses.  Plan for the long term. Dont' take yourself out of the game by being a 90- day wonder.  It takes a while to build up your residual income base, but once  it starts coming in there is nothing in the world like it.

8. YOU MUST REALLY LIKE YOUR PRODUCT & OPPORTUNITY. There is no way you can have success in network marketing if you do not believe in & are excited about your opportunity & product. You don't have to have a wild maniac excitement. Just a solid enthusiasm that comes from really believing in it. A good question to ask yourself before joining ANY networking marketing company is " Would I buy this product at the retail price regardless of the opportunity?" A second question to ask is "Would I refer my mother to this product & or opportunity?" These two questions will save you a LOT of grief from picking the wrong opportunity.

9. YOUR BUSINESS WILL BECOME HOW YOU TREAT IT. And how you think about your business will determine how you will treat it.  If you think your business is P7000k a month business, then that is how you will treat it.  If you think it will make you P 100,000 or P1M a month, then that is how you treat it.  Treat your business the way you would like it to BECOME, and it will become that type of business.

10. DO NOT BE AFRAID OF FAILURE. You will most likely NOT have immediate success. You will make mistakes. You will not know all the answers. Realize success is built on failure. You only find out what works, by what doesnt. Through failure comes success. Learn from your failures, pick yourself and ATTACK your goals. Understand fear of failure is REALLY pride.  Success involves being humble enough to allow yourself to go through failure in order to learn.

11.New Distributors have a tendency to think everyone will buy their products or sign up in their opportunity just because they are excited about it. And when people don't, they are greatly disappointed.Operate from reality. The REALITY is MOST people will not join your opportunity or try your product. That is PERFECTLY NORMAL. It even happens to the TOP network marketers. they just don't let it emotionally affect them.  Accept that right from the beginning & you will save yourself a lot of emotional wear & tear.

12. BE TEACHABLE. You are in school. Everyday you will learn something NEW, if you are DOING the business. You have to be doing this business to learn this business. You can not learn network marketing any other way. When things are not working, check upline until you find someone who is being successful.  Listen to what they have to say. They are having success for a reason.  You will be temporarily uncomfortable doing new things as you develop the skills needed to be a TOP NETWORK MARKETER. Go through that process willingly & you will have success much faster.

13. KEEP YOUR PIPELINE ( lots of prospects going through different stages of being introduced to your business ) filled at ALL TIMES. The key is to be always be moving so fast you don't have time to dwell about failure or rejection because you are totally focused on some positive activity that is building your business. When you let your pipeline of prospects or customers run low, you operate from a position of lack. When you have a full pipeline, you operate from a position of abundance. With that comes confidence & when someone is not interested it does not affect you. If you only have one prospect in your pipeline, & they drop out, you are in trouble.

14. Ask yourself, "WHAT ONE THING CAN I DO TODAY TO MASSIVELY BUILD MY NETWORK MARKETING BUSINESS?"  Then do it.

15. The phone is is your BEST FRIEND. Master the phone & make a fortune. Be afraid of the phone & you will never make any significant money in network marketing.  Use the phone to follow up personally with all your leads & customers. Be yourself, be friendly, be enthusiastic, keep a smile on your face when you are talking. 3-way call your hot prospects to your upline.

16. HAVE A PROSPECTING MINDSET. Continually think about unique, creative new ways to acquire customers & distributors. And then do it. Thinking & action need to go hand in hand.

17. NETWORK MAR KETING IS NOT FOR EVERYONE. Don't try to talk people into the business or you will have to talk them into working the business. You can't build someone else's business for them. Your best comes from YOUR success story. Some people do not want to have what it takes to do to build a network marketing business.  Identify this quickly & move on. You are looking for people who WANT to do the business & are willing to do what it takes. Simple as that. YOU ARE A SORTER, NOT A SELLER.

18. START WHERE YOU ARE AT RIGHT NOW. You can't change your financial situation by dwelling on it or complaining about it. The only thing that is going to change your situation is you. Even if you are flat broke, you can become financially successful in network marketing. Just realize it will take you longer. You will have to use creative & sweat equity. But you can do it, if you NEVER QUIT. Opportunity ALWAYS comes disguised as work.

19. BE HONEST & AVOID ALL OPPORTUNITIES BASED ON GREED.

20. Look to GOD for help.

21. AS you have success & become a TOP network marketer, realize that you are not the ONLY person responsible for your success...BE GRATEFUL.

10 Words that can change your life

Words that i have learned earlier in my career and in a way i have appreciated more than before. Transitioning to a more relationship oriented and friendly culture is a phase that i think everybody goes through specially when you have been situated as the "Boss". 

Let me share words that are so simple that we tend to overlook and misunderstood.

BEGIN

Take charge of your life by beginning something

you’ve always wanted to do. 

If your goal seems overwhelming, start small.

“By daring to begin the life you’ve always wanted,

you become energized.”

BELIEVE

Set your mind to predict success.

Tell yourself you will succeed at whatever you’re doing at the moment. 

TRUST

You can’t grow if you don’t trust your inner voice. Trust others around you as well!!

IMAGINE

Your imagination has no boundaries...

“Dreaming about something is the first step 

towards achieving it. “ 

CONNECT

Relationships are what pull us through the hard times, and make the good times meaningful. 

Take time to nurture the connections that uplift you.

TOUCH

Humans need touch to survive and thrive. 

Don’t forget to hug your love ones. 

Pat your friends on the back

literally and figuratively.

FORGIVE

Forgiveness is life giving because it puts you in charge. 

You become empowered.

LAUGH

“Laughter is a direct route to the soul.

It broadens your perspective, keeps you healthy, and

makes an unbearable situation easier to deal with.”

GIVE

Happiness involves giving freely to others. 

APPRECIATE

Admire the good in yourself

and in those around you.

What my life was

I thought long and hard about my first post upon completion of "TheSeekersWill", and it would be best if i start my journey where i was prior to getting the guts and making decisions from a 15hour cubicle life to a real life. So what will do is excerpt both my experiences and what MLM is about from the basics up. 

Its been almost 8 year that i have worked in the BPO industry starting from the basic entry level of CSA climbing the ladder to supervisor, quality, training and then finally to a manager level with even  offers to go higher. It was an accomplishment that i can be proud of being an achiever and dreamer (but sadly it’s just a title at the end of the day) though my dreams never really concerned the BPO back then. I am and will always be a flyer by heart, a licensed pilot and free spirit. Like most colleagues and people who attempted the BPO, i can say that little percentage actually dream t of working there in the first place, like most people, unforeseen circumstances drove us to a decision and the lure of a higher income rather than the traditional "Day job". Think of BPO's as being a watering hole where a huge and diverse animals come and gather for their own reasons (...hmm not really..haha damn animal planet reruns scrap that )

Don't get me wrong, it paid higher and i was happy with the experiences that thought me so much. The work was a good starting ground for most people while building their career. I remember those days, in Peoplesupport (it was'nt Aegis back then and from what i heard it was better back then), HR would hire amass of new graduates from different courses to fill in the seats and demands of the clients. I always asked this people how they got to know, the BPO and like me they would all answer the same thing "a friend endorsed me", "a friend sponsored me in", " i heard..", " a friend shared to me a good earning potential while", it all sounded the same. Even to the point were people are now saying "dude, i heard its better in ", " my friend can sponsor us at ... they pay better". It was learning experience for me being a "fresh blood" may it be bad or good.

Sorry to stop short but i just heard my eldest daughter yell “Daddy! Eat pancake!" But as my last paragraph shows people really thrive in building networks or relationships. We even use that “networks or relationships" to advertise and promote even without knowing that we have been doing it subconsciously all this year. It’s amazing really, looking back and how things connect haha 

So lets connect again later, cheers!