 Every month should be mentoring month - 70% of small businesses that receive mentoring stay in business twice as long as those who don't. Nice post, Chase. Thanks. Great graphic Chase. We are just getting ready for publishing, reaching out and making connections as well. |
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Digital Currency Weekly Recap 5-15-2016Manchester Bitcoin Meetup Celebrates 200 Consecutive Meetups New Breach of Swift Security Shows Bank Vulnerability CoinFac Introduces New Quantum Mining Tech, Bitcoin Price Surges Russian Ministries at Odds Over Anti-Cryptocurrency Laws? http://dcebrief.com/digital-currency-weekly-recap-5-15-2016/
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Good question, I think e-mentorship seems fitting. Maybe Online / E-Learning or simply Business Membership. The Venezuela thing is very disturbing. It's hard to understand why a government would want this for their people when there are alternatives that could have helped keep the economy going. |
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Blockchain Weekly Recap 5-14-2016R3 Seeks $200 Million from Banking Partners NATO Alliance Expresses Interest in Blockchain Tech Swift Institute Finances New Blockchain Research Paper focused on Securities Kompany.com Reveals New Blockchain Solution for Managing Company Information Avalara to Explore Blockchain Tech for Tax Software http://dcebrief.com/blockchain-weekly-recap-5-14-2016/
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Aha, looks like they are starting to see the light. Bitcoin is not a good option for criminal activity, it may even be one of the worst options. |
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How Do You Go About Starting A Great Company?Ideally, your goal is to create the type of company that is almost impossible for your competitors to fully replicate. The thing is, though, that you cannot do that all by yourself. However, it all has to start with you, but at some point you will have to begin to rely on a team to help you achieve your vision. Ultimately, that team will end up being one of the most important factors in determining just how successful your new enterprise will be. While it is clearly important for any team to strive for the ultimate success of a business venture, there are far too many instances where even the best team fails to follow through on the company’s vision. Entrepreneurs routinely start out with great visions and expectations and then find that everything seems to unravel on them within just a few short years, if not earlier. The question is why? Why do even the most visionary entrepreneurs often find their best and brightest ideas failing to gain traction in the marketplace? In some unfortunate cases, successful and established companies took a sudden turn for the worst, and failed. Why do so many businesses fail so early? More importantly, what steps can you take now to ensure that you’re not just another one of those statistics? This book’s purpose is to answer that question and many more, while helping you develop a new way of approaching your own quest for business success. If there is one fact that is crystal clear, it is that your vision will be central to everything you do from this point forward. To succeed, you must start with a clear and coherent vision for your business, and you must be passionate about it. That vision, however, is not your mission. It is instead the ultimate goal that guides the strategic decision-making that you employ to reach your objectives. Do you have that vision yet? It’s fine if you don’t yet have that perfect clarity, as long as you know that you’re not fully there. Problems occur when people think that they have a vision, but later find out that they began without any real sense of the bigger picture. Too often, they discover much too late that what they had were short-term objectives and a sense of a mission, but no overriding vision to help them get to where they needed to be to achieve their ultimate goals. In other words, many entrepreneurs simply start out focusing on the wrong elements of the success equation, and then end up wondering why their plans fail. Start with your vision, and that will provide the destination that you are ultimately trying to reach. From there, you work on establishing initial objectives and goals that you want to achieve. Then you develop the winning strategies that can offer you the best opportunity to reach those goals. Subsequently, you learn to master the art of flawless execution of your winning strategies. Notice, if you will that none of the team members we mentioned earlier are even a consideration at this point in the process. There’s a good reason for that: you have to create the vision, mission, and short-term goals for your company before you even think about recruiting help. Those elements have to be firmly in your mind - or better yet, documented so that you have something to which you hold yourself accountable before you ever make that first critical hire. Only when you are done establishing your vision, mission, goals, and strategies can you actually begin to build a team. At that point, you have to find the type of competent people you believe to be most likely to buy into your business philosophy and mindset. You need people who are capable of being inspired by your exceptional leadership style and strategic vision, as that is the only way to ensure that they are in turn capable of helping you to create the type of business culture that your enterprise needs for success. That culture should motivate everyone in the company to consistently deliver their highest level of commitment and performance, and thereby contribute to the efforts to reach your business goals. Once you reach that point, you will have created a system that basically channels the mindset of its leader even when your attention is elsewhere. You will have designed a system for effectively cloning yourself. The key, though, is to ensure that the “you” that you’re cloning is the best “you” it can be! This book is designed to help you find that best part of you, so that you can begin to build a team with the type of unified vision and purpose needed to achieve true success. Stay tuned for more: Meanwhile, support my Kickstarter campaign and pledge as little as $5. Many small business owners are struggling and need help. Please join me in my quest to get the word out. Visit: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/124571891/the-four-pillars-of-business-success-book-by-alanFor more about the book including chapter summation visit:https://fourpillarsofbusinesssuccess.com/ All these years I am with Dnotes and this team,must say that I am proud to have Alan,Cindy,Joe like friends. At least what we all can do is to help kickstarter campaign succeed! Just do it. Best regards Nele Hi Nele, thank you for popping over and thank you for the kind words! Glad to see GMC holding well, you guys are doing a great job. |
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Amazing work, shared via Twitter and of course backed on Kickstarter  Shame that the hardback only ships to the US!! So grabbed myself the ebook Your website https://fourpillarsofbusinesssuccess.com gives a good overview and I wish you the best success! Thank you very much for your support and confidence in us, batesresearch. Perhaps one day, we will see each other at a conference so that you get a signed hardback copy. Thanks batesresearch! The support for our project is greatly appreciated and as always, keep us in the loop with your latest projects. |
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I know I haven't been on the DNOTES thread for a while now but I am going to try to actually buy the paperback copy, best way to advertise it is to buy and read ti myself and do a video campaign as well. Things have been pretty tough for myself and my family but am trying hard to snap out of it, got the ruddy flu at present lol but am always impressed with DNOTES. Good morning, qiwoman2. It is always good to see you. I have been working on the book for a while but have been devoting most of my time on the book the last eight months. I am glad that I did it and trust that it is the best accomplishment of my life. I often look at things from a different prospective. I believe that the more I can be of help to others, the further that I can reach out to the most people with a positive impact, the more valuable my efforts become. That is where I get my inspiration to keep going. We all will continue to have many good days but they always come with few a few challenging ones. We must always aim for the best that we can do and align ourselves with those who share that same mindset. I hope that there will be a lot more good days on your way. With DNotes and the book, we are now in the best position to be truly purpose driven to positively impact the long struggle of many, perhaps one at a time. Many may not understand what we are doing but if DNotes were to be truly useful to the masses worldwide one day, there must be a medium to reach out to them some how. Having built a trusted brand, the book is our best medium to reach out to millions with consistent, inspiring, and compelling messages. It is a book that not only inspires entrepreneurs and their employees but also anyone who believes that mutual respect, cooperation, and collaboration are what it takes to have many more good days than challenging ones. That is the hallmark of success and happiness. Good to hear from you QiWoman! Hope you and your family get better soon and thank you for supporting the project. |
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Bitcoin Weekly Recap 5-13-2016MtGox Bitcoin Addresses Will Not Be Made Public BitBank Group Launches Funding Effort for Bitcoin Mining Facility Malaria-Focused Charity to Accept Donations in Bitcoin TechBureau Raises $6.2 Million in Series A Funding New Brave Browser Offers New Browsing Options… and Controversy http://dcebrief.com/bitcoin-weekly-recap-5-13-2016/
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Doing a great job DNotes - these will be handy for posting around.
Could I recommend putting Alan's picture beside his name and book title - rather than below it?
Thanks, sure, I'm going to create a couple more variations. Probably tomorrow. |
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These are awesome! Are we free to share these now? (I probably should have asked before I posted it on Twitter - lol) Of course, lol and thanks! |
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The former commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Bart Chilton, can see the potential of bitcoin and blockchain technology and has a message for Obama: Obama needs to make a move on bitcoin nowSince the digital currency bitcoin and blockchain (the underlying technology) burst onto the scene in 2009, serious skepticism and palpable passion have played equal roles. Many bitcoin devotees wanted little to do with government legislators or regulators and regulators were dubious of this new currency. Since 2014, however, we've seen a serious and significant shift among government officials and within the bitcoin/blockchain community. The Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission have approved certain bitcoin/blockchain-related activities under their jurisdictions. The Internal Revenue Service has opined that digital currencies such as bitcoin are taxed as "property." The Chamber of Digital Commerce opened its doors in Washington, DC, about two years ago and has made huge strides in helping public policy makers understand the potential promise of blockchain technology. While these are all affirmative steps for the disruptive industry and for consumers/investors, more needs to be done. When the internet was being developed, an effort and initiative by the Clinton administration to ensure that the fledgling idea would not be overly regulated was put in place — the 1997 Framework for Global Electronic Commerce. The point: to ensure laws and regulation would not negatively impact innovation. Current CFTC Commissioner Chris Giancarlo recently (and rightly) called for such protection for digital currency. President Obama should heed the call. To make matters more complicated, many regulations in the U.S. are actually state-level guidelines as they relate to what are termed "money transmitters." Without some proactive step(s), such as a self-regulatory organization (SRO) and/or word from on high by the president, the U.S. could lose out on what are potentially enormous economic benefits. With an available supply of more than 15.5 million bitcoins, the digital currency now has a market capitalization of nearly US$7 billion, according an estimate by market-data site CoinCap. That's to say nothing of the colossal commercial value of blockchain endeavors which could help fuel-inject the economic engine of our democracy. The blockchain itself holds untold promise and potential for revolutionizing everything from banking and trading exchanges to real estate — even electronic voting. The European Union has developed a business-friendly regulatory regime for e-money and authorized payment institutions, which can operate across EU member states under the so-called "passport" system. This approach stands in clear contrast with our fragmented state-by-state regulation of equivalent U.S. institutions. There is a huge opportunity that can be tapped into if U.S. government officials and industry thought-leaders establish an appropriate balance between basic consumer protection regulation and an openness which not only permits, but fosters and promotes, innovation. We did it with the internet — and we need to do it now with virtual currencies like bitcoin. Commentary by Bart Chilton, former commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He is currently a senior policy advisor at the global law firm DLA Piper. He is also the author of "Ponzimonium: How Scam Artists Are Ripping Off America." http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/11/obama-needs-to-make-a-move-on-bitcoin-now-bart-chilton-commentary.htmlI'm not sure a move from Obama now would result in favorable action for the growth of the industry but I remain cautiously optimistic. |
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Here are some Banners I am working on. Feel free to comment / make suggestions. If you have a site you would like to advertise them on, feel free to use them and pick your favorite. They are all great, but my favorites are the ones with a book quote. Is The Four Pillars of Business Success website ready for members? If it is, can we also share information about it along with the book? Just to let people know that they are getting more than just a fantastic book.  The membership site is all setup and ready for people to join, there just isn't much in terms of content as of yet so we haven't really started promoting it. |
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These are great ways for everyone to pitch in, help out, and contribute to the success of DNotes! Would you like me to message this list to our DNotes stakeholders that haven't posted in a while - they may not even be aware of what is going on? Sounds like a great idea Chase! |
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Here are some Banners I am working on. Feel free to comment / make suggestions. If you have a site you would like to advertise them on, feel free to use them and pick your favorite. |
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