They:
- Provide consistent and effective value to their clients.
- Innovate and raise the bar with new ideas through offering of products and services.
- Are prolific generators of new and revised intellectual property.
- Re-invent and repurpose older concepts and put a new spin or applicability on it.
- Speak publically, digitally and virtually on the web and also through webinars, teleseminars, podcasts and videos.
- Publish regularly on their sites, blogs, social media, columns, press releases, booklets and books.
- Create a huge variety of exciting offerings on their sites. Both for free and for a fee.
- Market effectively, consistently and in large volume of powerful output.
- Create strong relationships with their clients, colleagues, journalists and partners.
- Create and attract strong conversations in person or on the web.
- Position themselves as thought leaders and become objects of interest that inspire others.
- Invest in creating top-notch photos, videos and audio programs.
- Take risks and have no fear of failure.
- Have tremendous self-esteem and professional confidence.
- Are direct, persistent and do not fear rejection.
- Experiment with new concepts.
- Leverage the media effectively.
- Know the value they bring which they demonstrate through their value proposition.
- Know and have identified their buyers.
- Create pictures that speak a thousand words by developing charts or process visuals.
- Invest in themselves to improve their lives and businesses and are life-long learners.
- Ask for referrals.
- Receive testimonials.
- Are shameless self promoters.
- Masterful in their language.
- Seize opportunities and are great at planned serendipity.
- Associate themselves with other successful people.
- Leverage technology and the web to the highest level.
- Are pithy and succinct.
- Are committed to life balance.
- Build strong communities around them.
- Use social media effectively.
- Do what they say they would do.
- Master time management.
- Are disciplined and focused.
- Make sure everything they do and touch is world class.
- Think global.
- Think BIG!
- Focus on improving their clients’ life and business success.
- Make this world a better place.
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