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Romance for Dummies

Christopher Eggleston — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:52:19 +0000

Let’s face it. When it comes to romance, some people seem to have all the right moves, while others are more romantically challenged. If you happen to fall into the latter category, don’t worry. There is hope.

1. Communication is Key

The #1 rule when it comes to romance is this: listen!

2. Make your Date a Priority

The simple act of being thoughtful can and will go a long way in rocking your romantic life.

3. Spontaneity Rules

Go ahead, do the unexpected! By embracing the art of spontaneity, you celebrate your inner romantic, not to mention rock your date’s world.

4. Laughter + Romance = a Great Date

Nothing brings two people closer together quite like laughter.

5. True Romance is Priceless

True romance doesn’t have to cost a thing. …showing your sweetie your sensitive side is a far more meaningful romantic act than showering your date with money, expensive gifts, or a flashy experience.

6. Compliment, Compliment, Compliment!

The point is to make your compliment genuine and fitting in the moment.

7. Give your Date Plenty of Space

…you give your partner plenty of space to enjoy his or her own life. As the old saying goes, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”

8. Master the art of Mood, Location, and Ambiance

The key to setting the perfect romantic scene lies in the subtle details.

9. Practice makes Perfect

Communicate with your date to find out what went wrong and how to remedy the situation next time.

10. Keep romance Alive

In fact, in a healthy relationship, romance never dies.

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Guys need all the help they can get!

Christopher Eggleston — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:35:23 +0000

It’s true, who are we trying to fool? Guys, I have learned that if someone is willing to give advice (not that all advice is good) listen, decide for yourself if it is good and if it is, why not give it some practice?

To make a lasting positive first impression, all you need us a relaxed confidence when you approach and the ability to sustain genuine interest in what she has to say…

1. Confidence is Key

On your approach make and maintain eye contact, smile and say hi. If she smiles and says hi back, she is giving you permission to talk to her.

2. Be Yourself (don’t be a player)

Women dig a guy who’s comfortable in his own skin, and isn’t afraid to approach a woman he’s interested in.

3. Pay Attention/ Listen

…when she shares information with you, let your responses reflect that you heard what she has to say and are genuinely interested in continuing the conversation. Whenever possible, interject light and playful flirtation.

4. Don’t Try Too Hard

* Give her plenty of physical space so she doesn’t feel crowded
* Listen intently without staring at her (look around every so often)
* Be playful and fun (and, when appropriate, laugh)
* Don’t talk too much (let her participate in the conversation)
* Cut the conversation short, leaving her wanting more (don’t worry—you can still ask for her digits before you walk away)

5. Learn How to Handle Rejection Smoothly

If you approach a woman and she rejects you, walk away with confidence. If you ask for her number and she declines, that’s okay.

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Being with people who understand you…priceless

Christopher Eggleston — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:18:19 +0000

With our business we can be sure that our blogs are used to ensure our customers that we understand them, and we are listing to them.

I saw this commercial a couple of weeks ago, and I saved it to my DVR. I have watched it several times and it has become my favorite commercial, mostly because I think it is hilarious, but last night I saw the commercial again and it was like a light bulb turned on.

It is a MasterCard commercial which has nothing to do with my ‘light bulb’ but at the end of the commercial it says “being with people who understand you, priceless.” We all need people in our lives who understand us, socially, professionally, personally, and sometimes physically.

Our closest friends understand us, we don’t usually have to explain our actions or the things we say to our closest friends, because they “get us”, they know us well enough to understand why we do or say the things we do.

In an intimate relationship we are often finishing our significant others sentences or perceiving their thoughts, knowing what they want or need before they ask.

Socially we associate with people who enjoy the same activities or events. We know that we can discuss any topic openly and those we socialize with, will join the conversation and enjoy the path it takes. There will be debating and arguing, but there wont be any miss understandings. You are with the people who understand you!

Professionally, if you are a business owner you hire the people who are willing to understand your philosophy’s and who are willing to understand the how and why of your business methods. When they understand you and you them, your will find a strong communication and a top notch working environment.

What ever the upfront cost of finding and building those relationships it is worth it! When we are with the people who understand us, we are secure, generally the most happy and usually the most affective.

So how can we tie this into blogging, and how do we find the people who understand us?

[...] If you study the blogs as a relationship development tool, you will start interacting with the bloggers through comments, sharing your thoughts, perhaps even debating with them on certain subjects through your comments. As you engage in this online “public” discussion with them through your comments, you will start to become noticed by them, and eventually be part of their online “network” or relationship. [...] LINK

Blogging opens the doors for us to communicate with people who understand us on a global level. Believe it or not there are people out there who have a similar opinion on specific topics, there are people who have been were you have been and who are going where you are going. These people will begin to communicate with you, as they read your blog they will realize that you understand them and a relationship will begin. \

Finding these people starts by searching topics that you are passionate about and reading other blogs, looking for that understanding. Then you start to comment, expressing your opinion and acknowledging that you understand them. Use you blog to discuss the same topics and invite your new friends to join your conversations.

With our business we can be sure that our blogs are used to ensure our customers that we understand them, and we are listing to them.

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Creativity, unity, trust = a crowd pleasing performances

Christopher Eggleston — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:04:46 +0000

Here is a creative group of people that have developed unity and trust with each other, resulting in a powerful presentation that inspires and uplifts others.

What would be different about our lives, our working conditions if we had this type of relationship with our co-workers, employees or clients?

Do you think that you could be more effective in performing your services or selling you products? Would you like to to feel like people cared more about you then what you had to offer? How would people feel about excepting your bid over your competitors lower price?

There are a couple of main concerns that people have when deciding which company/person is going to do the work they need done, or from whom they will purchase their new car.

First, (and probably most weighed, for the average consumer) THE PRICE!
Second, YOU, the individual selling the service/product.

They want a reasonable price and in today’s economy that is understandable. Now being in the service industry I realize that there are some people out there who want a lot of something for nothing. Some people that base their entire decision on the price and latter regret their decision, because in essence they got what they paid for.

For a reasonable person, who realizes the value of hard work and quality work, they are going to consider the price, probably look around for some other options, but they are going to remember you. They are going to add you to their scale of decision, whether it is for good or bad is going to be up to you. People want to know that you are friendly, trust worthy and not going to make a bunch of false promises. (Under promise and over deliver is the key to winning with people)

That’s when having some basic relationship building skills come in real handy.

Now back to the example from the video…

Why, Creativity, Unity and Trust?

Why Creativity – when developing relationships we are either a creator or a reactor. We should create the relationships we want, but often we just react to others and their decisions. Being a creator requires some creativity. It requires that we are willing to step outside the box, go the extra mile, and do the things we don’t want to do in order to have the type of relationship that we want. When we act as a creator we are in control of our results. Sometimes we need to be creative, thinking outside the box to show our customers/clients that we are dedicated to providing the best service.

Why Unity – it would seem that there are times when the only way to help someone or influence someone, is to unite with them. Working with a team (work or sports) requires that we know each other and understand each others unique attributes. It requires that as a team everyone works together to accomplish the same goal. In order to truly be united as a group or team, each person involved must be willing to support and rely on the others. Unity creates a bond that is often hard to break. It can be the glue that in tough times keeps everyone focus and together. Unity provides a reason to succeed, when others are relying on you, you do your best because you don’t want to let your team down.

Why Trust – without trust you will never take the time to build unity with anyone. If you cant trust someone, you will have a hard time uniting with them. Trust is the key to developing a relationship that will allow you to be completely open with another person. It is a blanket of security, trusting that we can confide in someone at our weakest moment and not fear rejection or disclosure. Trusting that the person who we agree to do business with, will follow through with their commitment. Giving away our trust is not an easy thing to do, we sometimes require someone to go through several test before we agree to put our trust in them. It’s understandable, this fear of trusting someone else. How many times have you been hurt because you trusted in another person and they took advantage of you? Unfortunately it happens all the time, people say what we want to hear, but they end up doing something completely different.

Summary:

Creating a work of art (like in the video) is no easy task. It requires commitment from more then one person. We all want to create a work of art, whether it is in our career, or personal life there are master pieces to be painted. Our relationships perfessionally and personally should all be treat like a work of art, a master peice in the making. All master pieces have the same ingrediants, a passionate creator! Start creating your master pieces by learning to be creative, build unity and trust others.

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Using traffic building strategies to build relationships

Christopher Eggleston — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:24:21 +0000

If you want people to take you and your blogging more seriously you need to focus less on the potential for income and more on the potential of establishing a relationship.

For example, I often get emails or comments from people, asking if I would like to do a link exchange with them. Before ever making a decision, I visit their site/blog and review their content, purpose and the other links in their blogroll. 9 times out of 10 my answer is no. And its because of a couple of things,

a. the blog/site would not benefit my readers
b. the links in the blogroll are not relative to the site/blog

In these instances the person asking for a link exchange is not looking to establish a relationship, rather they are only interested in benefiting from any traffic that my blog might provide their site/blog.

If you want to do a link exchange, the most productive way to do this SEO strategy is to target blogs that will be beneficial to your current readership and vis versa. This way you can build a relationship with the other blog owner based on similar interest. You would be able to feed off of each other, directing readers to not only the other blog, but to specific articles.

Commenting is another strategy that a lot of people use to drive more traffic. It’s another one that is over used by spammers too. I consider spam anything that is not an attempt to build a relationship. Saying, ‘hey i like your blog, keep up the good work!’ is not worth my time reading. I know that who ever left that comment is just spamming, dropping their links any chance they get.

In order to use comments more effectively and appropriately, we need to look for those articles and blogs that are related to our own interest or themes. Leaving a comment that is specific to the article you have read and letting them know that you have addressed the same issue, then providing a link to your article.

You will begin to see that by doing this you can start to build a relationship with that other author, sharing thoughts and ideas, sharing a readership and ultimately feeding off of each other for better and more creative post ideas.

I have recently connected with an article directory, called AffSphere. I highly recommend that you check it out! Article directories are another great way to get your articles noticed and drive more traffic to your site. But they are also a great way to target a specific audience that you would like to develop a relationship with. This particular directory, AffSphere does some unique things that will help you target a specific readership.

But here again the key is not to just focus on driving more traffic to your site, take advantage of this opportunity to build new relationships, and find new people that you can connect with.

Building relationships is the difference between one time blog visitors and subscribed readers!

The worst thing that we could do when working with people is to just use them. We take from people all the time, using them for the things that they are good at, or the connections they might have. It is the fastest way to destroy any type of a relationship, (taking, using) and we do it all the time. When we build real relationships we are expecting to give and take. To provide our best selves and to receive the support and equal effort from the other party.

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Are Your Relationships Real?

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Why do people fail in business?

Christopher Eggleston — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:42:44 +0000

Why do people fail in business?

Great question! One of our readers submitted this question to me. It’s such a good question I wish I could say that I thought of it, but I wont claim this one.

There are a lot of reasons why people fail at their business attempts, and I am not going to address them all, but I will provide you with a link to this post and FREE report that I found…

Read the article it is really informative…

One of my favorite topics to right about and and research is relationships.

So my theory is going to be based on how we tend to separate our business life from our personal relationship skills.

I suffer from this problem from time to time, in fact I think that my blog suffers from this too often. When I try to avoid getting personal in my blog post, because I write about business issues I might as well just ask you to not read my blog. Personal relationships is what blogging is all about! Its what healthy relationships are all about even the relationships we have with our clients or customers.

Someone once said that, “How you do anything, is how you do everything.”

For example, the way we create relationships outside of the work place is the same way we should create relationships inside the work place.

Trying to entertain to different methods will only lead us to failure. If McDonald’s said, “ok we are going to implement an alternate system for the franchise owners who are in the East Cost because the weather is different.” They would probably not have the success that they have been having. They already have a proven system that generates millions so of course they wouldn’t change anything.

Now you, you probably have some friends, and you might be married or have a significant other, so you must have done something right!!

The trick is to take what you did in those relationships and duplicate it, not to find a new system just because the situation is different.

“How you are with your best friend is the best you there is!” – Steve Chandler -

It could be that you need to change your system, or make some improvements to the system. There are people that don’t have many friends, because they are jerks or anti social, these people wont do to well in a business that requires them to interact and build relationships with other people unless they change.

Life is about creating relationships that last. If you want your customers to keep coming back, then you need to have a relationship with them that is deserving of their repeat business.

Everything we do in like is interrelated, let things break down at work and they will break down at home, improve things at home and all relationships improve accordingly.

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Relationships can be a funny thing.

Christopher Eggleston — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:35:19 +0000

Its interesting that most people will categorize their relationships, like relationships are different because they are established in a different way or place.
For example, I am willing to bet that when you develop a business/working relationship you treat it different then a personal friendship.

Now the exception to the rule is the relationship you have with your significant other it should vary from say, that of the babysitter or anyone else for that matter. And by vary I mean the intimate personal love and stuff that two people share with each other. (not that I personally know much about that) But essentially the way that you develop and establish those relationships is the same! You do it by being generally interested in the other person. Is there an alternative motive for the reason you treat your best friend the way that you do? The only reason I could think of for treating my best friend the way I do is so that he will treat me that same way.

Now with a business relationship we tend to put the cart before the horse with our alternative motives. Being interested in someone because of what they can do for us or what our services can do for them which will lead to the lining of ones pockets.

Think about your customers and clients and consider what things could change if you treated those relationships just like the one you have with your best friend.

Would that customer say with you long term? Would they call you with more then just problems or issues to deal with? Would they invite you to their kid’s birthday party? Would you send them gifts on their anniversaries and birthdays? Would you do all this without an alternative motive like, more sales or increased business?

YES! The answer to all of those questions is YES!

So way aren’t you developing “friendships” with your customers and clients? You do know how I am sure…to develop friends I mean, you do know how, right?

I am extremely passionate about relationships; I have yet to personally develop all types of relationships, speaking particularly about that of a spouse. But I have observed a lot of those types of relationships and I think that I have it all figured out! Ok, so if anyone says they have completely figured out the opposite sex they are lying to your face, really who can say they have women figured out?! I don’t think women even have women figured out!

This is one of the reasons that I love blogging! It is all about developing relationships and communicating. Problems start to arise for businesses when they stop communicating to their customers or fail to communicate the whole story. Friendships are about B.R.T (building relationships of trust) and you need your customers to trust you.

So why don’t you lay it out there for them to easily read by posting it on your blog? You want to raise the price of your products or services, tell your customers why. Break it down for them, be HONEST. You are so use to Corporate America teaching us to be secretive and not letting competitors know about our business strategies or techniques that you hide the important facts from the very people that keep you in business! YOUR CUSTOMERS.

The other 100+ businesses out there that do what you do are probably not taking advantage of this amazing tool that can help you and your company develop the friendships that you should have with your customers.

The idealistic advantages of creating friendships with you customers is simple, more business, increased revenue, less customer service issues, more customer satisfaction, and happier employees!

The simplest and most cost effective way to start developing these friendships with your customers is through a business blog!

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