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

READ YOUR COFFEE CUP AND GET INSPIRED.

Grande Decaf to go please. Usually I drink while walking on the sidewalk or while driving on the road but this time I was still drinking it when I got home. Sitting by my computer, waiting for something to come up, I noticed 'The Way I See It #283' written on my cup.

That probably means I missed the first 282 messages that Starbucks put's on their take-out cups to inspire their customers. This is great stuff, quote:

'The most important thing in life is to stop saying "I wish" and start saying "I will." Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.' -- David Copperfield, magician.

Who ever said coffee isn't good for you..

Well I think treating all possibilities as probabilities will make you very successful, especially due to the law of attraction where what you think about becomes reality. Remember though, it doesn't work quite like that.

You actually have to do something towards you dream.

While you are considering all the probabilities before you, it is important to think about a plan of attack. How will these probabilities come about if you don't create some action? They won't just happen by magic. Well maybe they do for David Copperfield but the rest of us have to help things happen.

In the case of #283 the first action was to buy a coffee at Starbucks. I'll be sure to read my cup from now on. I like all the inspiration I can get.

10 action plan items to consider.

10 ways to act on probabilities to create an favourable end result.

NO, NO, NO. NOT ANOTHER LIST OF 10 WAYS TO DO SOMETHING!!!!

By now you should be able to do it yourself. You've read enough, seen enough so let's get going.

Make up your own list of 10 things, then follow your own list. Let it be your guide to your dream.

Don't just sit there, do something or like they say down at Nike 'just do it'.

Rod Winning Promotional Products specialist

check us out www.winningfairways.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

NETWORKWORKING USED TO BE FACE TO FACE - Email and the Internet have changed that..

Network marketing was generally face to face.

This is changing with the times.

Network marketing has taken on a whole new look. You may not even know your network contacts personally, only by phone, fax, email, etc.

Internet & Email puts you right in your customers home or office. Now of course you can put your picture on your correspondence and even describe yourself if you like. You can put your full profile and let out all or some ofyour 'secrets' right on your website 'blog' or 'ezine'.

The good part of this is that you become a real person to whoever reads it. They can already relate to you in one way or another. Good or bad.

People doing business with people. Let's get back to the topic.

I spent a long time in the Steel Service Centre industry and did big business with steel mills all over the world. I recall meeting and dealing with managers but often my own buyers would not meet the suppliers office salespeople they were dealing with on a day to day business. The only thing they had in common was the product and the fact that they both new their manager managers had met and made an arrangement.

Often times a company will have a relationship or contract with another company for supply of goods & services. This would appear to be company doing business with a company, but it is really people doing business with people. If the people can't make it work, the contract ends.

A great portion of your business can be done with your Long Distance Contact. Someone who trusts you do live up to what you've said. Business will often follow the contact person when they leave the company and go to a competitor or start their own business.

Live up to their expectations. Give them more than they asked for, more than you promised, more than they expected.

Networking! It's all about people helping people.

I'm Rod Winning Winning Fairways Inc. Promotional Products

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

RECOGNITION and the PROMOTIONAL PRODUCT

THE THEORY OF RECOGNITION -

Promotional Products help!!

Recognize and be recognized.

Wear a name badge wherever you go. Let other people know who you are

and what you do. Make it easy for them to remember you and your business.

Make it easy for them to approach and talk to you.

A little recognition goes a long way.

Whenever you give someone the 'pat on the back' attention, you will be remembered for giving the recognition. The event will pass and be forgotten but the gesture will remain.

When you help someone, you help yourself.

The importance of recognition.

Pay attention to the recognition process and it will take care of you.
Recognition causes friendly ripples in the pond of life. I think here, we are saying the same thing differently but the importance is there. It works for all concerned.

Recognition of an employee or a friend flows in every direction,
as does the imprinted promotional item.
It flows:
-Forward through the recipient to whoever they meet and talk to,
-Sideways to all the peers and fellows,
-Backwards to you,
-Friendly ripples.

Call Rod Winning for Promotional Products to assist in the success of your event.

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

HOW TO DIFFERENTIATE YOURSELF? 1 customer at a time!

19,200,000 that's the number when I google 'promotional products' even if I narrow it down to Vancouver BC 945,000.

How do I differentiate myself? How do I build a data base of customers? A clientel list?

Well the best way is to start with 1 customer and do a good job. If that works, we do the same for the next customer. Hopefully my customers will actually mention my name to other prospects and they could become customers.

The ball is rolling now so don't get in the way. Be a part of the prospects solution and they will become customers too.

Look after them all. We used to have a little poem

Winter, Summer, Spring and Fall,

Big or Small, we look after them all.

Well it's not shakespeare but you get the idea.

Look after the small orders and the big ones will surely follow. Then when you get big, remember who got you there. Still look after those pesky small orders. That's where you really help the client.

-Take care of the clients needs.

-Make it easy for the client to deal with you.

-Be up front and tell the client what you're doing.

-People dealing with People.

So when does it change from customer to client? Good question.

I think the customer evolved from being a prospect and then they finally bought something and became the customer.

Then a funny thing happens. You get to know the people you're dealing with and they get to know you and comes an intra-trust between you and your customer which I believe brings about the feeling and change from customer to client.

In the same way I think the client will no longer think of you a supplier but as 'our promotional products company'.

PROSPECT - CUSTOMER - CLIENT = Clientel List

Always keep the pipeline full of propects so the customers can find you and the clients evolve.

Easy? No but it will happen with some steady effort on your part.

I'm Rod Winning

At http://www.winningfairways.com/ we try to do all the above. It's working. Please check us out and put us on your list to be your "promotional products company".

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