Overcoming the Fear of Criticism

You have this great idea and can’t wait to tell your friends and family about it. Unfortunately, they don’t share your excitement and give you a thousand and one reasons why it won’t work and why you can’t do it.
Before you know, you start to doubt yourself and agree that the idea will not work and wasn't a good idea after all. 

Criticism is the one form of service, which everyone gives too much and tend to provide without a measure of consequence. 

For many, speaking in public is one of their greatest fear, why?  because of their fear of being criticized by the audience. The first step to overcome the fear of what others might think of us.

For some reason, what people think of us becomes a factor in our achievements. It can have such an impact, that unfortunately, many are limited by other people’s opinions.  In most cases, it affects people's personal life, professional performance, success, and achievements.

You have to decide who you want to be in control of your thoughts and life.  Who's it going to be? you or someone else?

Inspire and empower people in all aspects of their life is one of our core values as a company.
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TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More

Team Capabilities are part of your Social Skills - a component of your Social Competence.

While Social Skills, in general, are related to your aptitude at inducing desirable responses in others - Team Capabilities relate to your ability to create Group Synergy in pursuing collective goals.

People who have this competence usually:

• Model team qualities like respect, helpfulness, and cooperation
• Draw all members into active and enthusiastic participation
• Build team identity, spirit, and commitment
• Protect the group and its reputation
• Share credit for all accomplishments

As important as individuals are to an organization, the unified team effort is key - teams who tend to coordinate their efforts toward company goals are always more successful compared to companies where individuality is the norm. 

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How to Grow Your List

Collecting an email list for your company is crucial because unlike social media you own it. Don't get me wrong social media is very important and has its place, but if you don't have an email list you are losing a lot of potential clients. In order to start growing your list you are going to need to do three things:

 1. Provide Value!

Don't just assume people are going to give you their email address for no reason, a lot of times company make this mistake and it leaves them with fewer people signed up. Make sure to highlight what they will get if they sign up it could be anything (Video, Ebook, Skype Chat etc...). The best way to find out what they want is to put yourself in your target markets shoes and give them something they will find beneficial. Also once they are on the list only send them content that is interesting to them, nobody likes spam and that's a way to get automatically unsubscribed. 

 2. Require Less Fields

It is proven that the more fields you get a person to fill-in in order to sign up, the fewer people will actually do it.  So in order to maximize your results just have one field for their email address and that's it. You'll be surprised how much a difference that will make.

3. Use Landing Pages

Using landing pages will boost your results because they are simple and get the user to do just one specified action. In order to have this work in your favor, it is important to keep your landing pages clean and have only the necessary amount of information needed, to let them know what value they will get for signing up. Some great companies that let you make landing pages very quickly are Leadpages and Instapage.

If you apply these three things consistently you will start generating a lot more people on your list. Also, remember to keep testing different things and tracking them. If one landing page isn't working or the phrasing for your website is not providing results... change it up and keep tracking it, eventually, through trial and error, you will find something that will make your list grow to a point you never thought was possible.

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Happy Mailing!
Cheers.