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The Meaning Of Success

August 4, 2017 Brian Satterlee Academics, Management

Success, as defined by Dictionary.com, is the achievement of wealth, position, honor, goals, or the like. This actually sums up several definitions in one. Many people think of success and being financially wealthy, or at least having the appearance of wealth. But can a less fortunate person be successful? Let’s dive further into the meaning of success.

Charitable Success

My daughter Chelsey has worked in charitable endeavors for a while. She worked at an orphanage in Tanzania, she spent time at a Young Lives camp in British Columbia, she’s been employed by Young Lives, and she even gives of herself to the homeless in Nashville. By all accounts, she has had success being charitable.

Stream Of Consciousness Writing

July 28, 2017 Brian Satterlee Academics, News

This blog post is all stream of consciousness writing. The house is quiet. Everyone gets to play except for me because I have to write a blog post. Luckily I am finishing up with a client today so I am only monitoring them, checking my email every once in a while. You would think that writing a new blog post with all the time in the world would be easy. But no.

So I am just doing my stream of consciousness writing hoping that a subject will come out. I know I have been working hard on my experiments this week. I completed some PDF training that I had been working on. It is for sale, we will see if sales occur.

New Capture Page

I created a capture page about a month ago, along with a 12 unit email course, to come up with a new strategy. Ultimately I have no idea where this strategy will go but it looks promising right now. So I have been writing, just not for the blog. And I have to tell you, I am a little burned out and ready for a break. But I have no post for next week, so writing.

How To Write A Blog Post

July 21, 2017 Brian Satterlee Academics, Creating Value, Technology and Internet

This is how to write a blog post, according to me: First I start with stream of consciousness writing and see where that leads me, I ultimately make sure I have enough words, I edit my blog post several times, I come up with 2 or 3 links to other blog posts that have their own information, and then I try to find a picture that relates, usually a picture I have taken or one of my family after I get their permission.

Stream of Consciousness Writing

How do I describe what stream of consciousness writing is? Well, I just write stuff. Good or bad, right or wrong, I just put down my thoughts as I think them. Often the best writing is done as you think of stuff, and if not you will edit later. Write and write and write, if you think about flying a kite, write about flying a kite. If the weather is good and you wish you were outside, write about it. Get those flying thoughts down.

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How To Avoid The Spin

July 14, 2017 Brian Satterlee Academics, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing Research and Strategy

Sometimes online marketing is like gambling. No matter what you do you cannot get ahead. Get some activity and you are looking for more. Not getting enough activity makes you fearful. This is similar to winning and losing at gambling. Win and you want to go back and gamble your winnings. Lose and you think you are due a win. Either way you go back and try again. This is a spin. Doing the same thing over and over, when it really makes no sense. How do we avoid the spin?

Good question… but there is hope. Consider what you do that is productive and what you do that is not productive. Going into Google Analytics 6 times a day is not productive. Posting your link on a new website is. Looking for a new lead every 10 minutes is not productive. Writing a new blog post is. Do you see the difference?

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The Advertising Onion – An Explanation

July 7, 2017 Brian Satterlee Marketing Research and Strategy, Selling

The advertising onion is something I just made up. But it can be so true. Advertising is like an onion. Either you only make use of the surface, or you make use of additional layers.

For instance, Goodyear can advertise the features and benefits of their tire, or they can advertise how their tire works on the newest Corvette. Perhaps they can talk Chevrolet into co-paying the advertisement so that each pays for half. So Goodyear just spent half the amount on the ad to get the full benefit, perhaps even more than they would normally get.

In the above example, Goodyear also gets more benefit from the advertisement because they show it working on the new Corvette. It shows the product demonstrated in an exciting way rather than just showing a tire and describing its benefits.

What Is Independence?

July 1, 2017 Brian Satterlee Entrepreneurship, Finance

Independence is “freedom from the control, influence, support, aid, or the like, of others” (from Dictionary.com). So independence is freedom from something. Children become independent when they are no longer under their parents’ control or funding. You may be independent from a boss when you start your own business. But the ultimate independence is when you answer to no one and you are financially capable of supporting yourself with no help at all. So what is independence? It is your next step to being capable without the help of others.

Having a Job and a Place of Your Own

Your first independence is when you get your first job or jobs and you are able to move out and have a place of your own. This is independence from your parents. You will be of legal age to be on your own and you will no longer need to take money from mom and dad, at least not on a regular basis. At this point you are still dependent on your job for an income but you are able to make a lot of your own decisions – live where you want, date who you want, not date, possibly have a few drinks, or do what you want when you want… except when that interferes with your job.

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You Already Have Abundance

June 23, 2017 Brian Satterlee Academics

Do you want to abandon snow?

You have a goal for the way things should be in your life. Perhaps financial. Unless you believe you already have financial abundance, you will never have it. Because the truth of the matter is, you are already being taken care of very well. How do I know? Somehow you have internet access so that you can read this.

Our problem often is, we want things we think are beyond our reach. Things that money can buy, more money than we have available today. So how do we get the money or things we want? The first step in the process is being grateful for what we already have.

Be Grateful For Your Current Abundance

Take a look around you. Are you able to eat, shelter, and clothe yourself? Be grateful for all that you have! Detail the things you have that you are grateful for and put them onto paper. Thank God for all you have. Feel the joy of knowing you have plenty of abundance right now. Of course you want more, we all do, but how are you ever going to be satisfied with things if you cannot be happy with what you have now?

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How To Come Up With A Product Idea

June 9, 2017 Brian Satterlee Creating Value, Entrepreneurship

So you want to make money from your own business? If you are in business, you are mainly selling a product for a profit. A product could be a physical product, a digital product such as software, an intellectual product such as information, a service, or any number of other things where you exchange something you have for cash. How do you come up with a product idea?

For somebody in tuned, opportunities pass by every day. Mainly you are looking for a problem to be solved, that can be solved by your product. Here are some ideas on where to start.

Something You Know

You can start with your own special knowledge or skills. What do you do now for a job? Are there opportunities for improvement that a product or service could help? Could you use your skill to service your own customers? Think about any opportunities you come up with and make sure that your product idea can be sold for a profit.

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Forgiveness And Healing

June 2, 2017 Brian Satterlee Academics, Entrepreneurship

I am not a doctor. Nor am I a priest or a minister. But I do know that people sometimes have a hard time forgiving themselves. That is really the first person you must forgive. If you cannot forgive yourself, take your case to God and ask for His forgiveness. Ultimately you must get beyond the pain you are inflicting on yourself by forgiving yourself. Without personal forgiveness and healing it is hard to achieve success.

Forgive Others Privately

The next person or persons you must forgive is anybody who has done harm to you. This does not mean that you tell the person you forgive them unless they are asking for it, you just need to forgive them privately, to yourself, and let it go if possible. Similarly to not forgiving yourself, not forgiving others does you more harm than you imagine. Go through the process of forgiving others. If God can forgive, why can’t you?

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