George Madiou Interview

Welcome back to the UnHypnosis Interview Series.   This week I had the pleasure of interviewing George Madiou. George Madiou is a full-blooded Entrepreneur, complete with validating credentials, Degrees in Marketing and Management from SUNY and NYU (could ya guess he’s a native New Yorker!) To date George has owned over 30 businesses, and says they varied from wildly successful to outrageous learning experiences. Among other successful ventures George has achieved high pin levels in two …
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D’vorah Lansky Interview

As many of you may already know, I have embarked on a new project in which I will be interviewing some really top hitters in the Direct Marketing Industry.  I invite you to stop by my blog periodically and listen or download the interviews. This week I am pleased to be interviewing D’vorah Lansky.  D’vorah, known as “the marketing wizard” has a Master’s Degree in education and has been marketing on line and mentoring leaders …
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Conviction Precedes Reason

Direct selling is more of a head game than almost anything else. Both as a leader of others and a motivator of oneself, the degree of success you enjoy will be exactly proportional to your ability to create the right mindset. Knowing that is one thing. Being able to implement a change at the deeper levels of your psyche is something else entirely. The only way I know that you can gain entry to your …
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Why is it so hard?

One of the exercises I use in my programs is having the group divide into two halves, and then having each half line up facing the other. Each person stands face to face with someone, only inches away, and they look into each others’ eyes. The instruction is to simply gaze. Don’t add anything to the experience. Yet, invariably, people smile, giggle, fidget, break eye contact, squint, make faces, and all sorts of other strategies …
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How To Have An Effective Networking Business

What exactly does networking mean anyway? Is it going to Chamber mixers every week? Is it meeting as many people as possible? Is networking handing out business cards? Effective networking is not contacting as many people as possible, cold calling or shooting out emails. Effective networking (and very few people are really that good at it) is really connecting with the network of people who are connected to you and you do not know them. …
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