GET ON THE TRAIN Don't sit and watch it go by.

'Ideaspotting' How to find your next great idea, by Sam Harrison. It's one of those little books you keep handy as a manual.

'You can drift toward becoming the trainspotting type by sitting where you are, doing what you're doing and getting what your getting. Or you can start becoming an IdeaSpotter by climbing aboard. Because this train is leaving the station.


Want a new idea. Here's one.

A company called EYI at www.eyicom.com/winning has been selling a eco/fuel saving product to individuals since Jan 2007 and have been so successful they have been awarded an new 'industrial' product aimed at big industry, transportation, shipping etc. Both these products reduce exhaust emissions greatly, improve fuel efficiency and save the users money. Well I figured out there are always going to be a majority of people sitting at the train station watching, and not that many of us getting on the train.

Call me about Ultimate ME2 and Mach3.
If you know someone that works in a company that uses a lot of fuel, please pass on the name
and number to me.

Rod Winning
rod@winningfairways.com
rod-fairways@hotmail.com
rod.winning@gmail.com

10 GREAT IDEAS FOR YOU AND/OR YOUR BUSINESS

Since April this year, I've passed on some tips and ideas that would help some of you with your businesses.

Most of these tips are things I've done or learned along the way.

I started a 'service' business where I performed a service and sold a product. I bought an engraving machine and started a trophies and engraving business in my garage, built it up

to a full time business with 3 employees and then sold it off 9 years later for a profit.

Everything went with the business so when I wanted to start my present business, Winning Fairways Inc. Promotional Products, I had to litterally start over. New suppliers, New Clients, New Products and a new way of selling.

I've looked back over my blogs and listed out the following,

10 Great Topics to help you with your business.

-The Ideal Customers

-The Theory of Recognition

-Timing, Timing, Timing

-The Next Great Idea

-Inspired

-Need to Succeed

-Networking

-Ideaspotting

-How to differentiate yourself

-It Takes a Community to Build a Business

I keep thinking that there has to be more to it

but I think if you keep doing the right things,

your business will grow.

Focus on your business. Don't get strung out with

more new ideas than you can handle with ease.

Have fun, network, get other people to help you

while you are helping them. Build your community.

call me anytime for promotional products or just to ask direction.

rod@winningfairways.com

rod.winning@gmail.com rod-fairways@hotmail.com

WHY WOULD PEOPLE BUY FROM YOUR COMPANY? There's lots of companies competing for the business.

My Company provides quality imprintable promotional products, from qualified manufacturers and suppliers with excellent delivery records.

My Company is ready to serve customers with quick, quality work. With personal visit and catalogs we continue to be competitive.

Why should you consider My Company?
There are many promotional products companies all competing vigorously, many offering the same products with excellent prices and service.

What does My Company offer that the others don’t?
The short answer is nothing.

There are many similar companies that are just as good as My Company, by any objective measure.

But bear in mind the following. You didn’t search the world over to find your best friends. Your best friendships are fundamentally happy accidents.. chance combinations of compatibility, shared experience and time.

Likewise, it is meaningless to try & search out the “very best” possible promotional products supplier. A more appropriate approach is to verify that the company meets your technical & financial requirements, and then use your intuition about who you will be comfortable with.

Many business relationships are long distance affairs, by phone, fax and email, sometimes doing business for years without the people actually meeting face to face yet forming strong relationships.

At My Company a primary goal is to do business with people we like and respect.
Our plan—‘give the customer more than they expect’.

How does Your Company stack up?

My Company is Winning FairWays Inc. We sell Promotional Products for Success.

Yours in Networking

Rod Winning
President
www.winningfairways.com rod-fairways@hotmail.com rod.winning@gmail.com

Idea Spotting - Tightly linked to Networking

While looking at new products & suppliers, and gathering speed for our Promotional Products business, I came across a neat book at Chapters.

I've been reading this book called - 'Ideaspotting' How to find your next great idea, by Sam Harrison.

It's one of those little books you can read and keep handy as a manual. 18 chapters with several sub chapters each, filled with life experience, how to, suggestions, self tests, pictures and diagrams, this book will be on my desk for a long time.

Sam's opening page is 'Be an Idea Spotter not a Trainspotter'.
'You can drift toward becoming the trainspotting type by sitting where you are, doing what you're doing and getting what your getting.
Or you can start becoming an IdeaSpotter by climbing aboard. Because this train is leaving the station.'

The first chapter (like all chapters) has a unique title.
NOBODY SPOTS HOT IDEAS IN COLD OFFICES. SO WHY SIT THERE?

Where, Why, When, What & How.

Even some encouraging words in the title of the last chapter. YOU CAN DO EVERYTHING WE'VE TALKED ABOUT.

I'll keep this book handy for ideas on how to get new ideas. The promotional products business is everchanging. Our customers are forcing us to change as most customers want something different than the last order. What's new?

Any way I look at it, we'll always be looking for that new idea so I guess we'd better be looking around at all times. If we get complacent and comfortable with our current successes, we could find ourself slowly drifting out of the loop.

Surround yourself with the right network of people you require for the particular service or product you have.

It is important to know that you can have several networks going at the same time. Not everybody is interested in everything you do just like you are not necessarily interested in everything all your network people do.

ie You may have a musical interest & business and have created a network which works very well for give and get.

You may also be involved with a multi-level sales organization and find that your products / services aren't suited for everyone in your 'musical' network. Simply start another network of people for that interest. Your data base for each network could include some of the same people but each network would be a different list.

I wanted make an opinion about 'Ideaspottin' being linked tightly to Networking. Don't sit by the railway tracks and watch the trains go by. Get on that train. Look around, meet people and see what's out there.

At Promotional Products 101 we'll keep on 'IdeaSpotting' thanks to Sam Harrison.

I'm Rod Winning contact me at http://www.winningfairways.com/ rod-fairways@hotmail.com