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]]> By: Recession? What Recession? …I Refuse to Participate. « The Promotion Guy Blog http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/comment-page-1/#comment-1757 Recession? What Recession? …I Refuse to Participate. « The Promotion Guy Blog Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:39:45 +0000 http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/#comment-1757 [...] written a a couple great post on this topic and things you can do.  I encourage you to read them here, here and [...] [...] written a a couple great post on this topic and things you can do.  I encourage you to read them here, here and [...]

]]> By: Forrester: Recession not ‘cancelled,’ will hit tech industry in late 2008-Industry Trends,Technology Marketing http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/comment-page-1/#comment-1712 Forrester: Recession not ‘cancelled,’ will hit tech industry in late 2008-Industry Trends,Technology Marketing Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:38:19 +0000 http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/#comment-1712 [...] Would you like to join others in refusing to participate in the recession. Find out more here: http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/. [...] [...] Would you like to join others in refusing to participate in the recession. Find out more here: http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/. [...]

]]> By: Shontavia - Internet Entrepreneur http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/comment-page-1/#comment-1673 Shontavia - Internet Entrepreneur Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:01:45 +0000 http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/#comment-1673 Continuing to network with my current customers and prospects through my e-zine is what I've been doing. I don't feel the recession at all. Interesting post though ... Thanks, Shontavia G. http://www.internet-entrepreneur-resources.com Continuing to network with my current customers and prospects through my e-zine is what I’ve been doing. I don’t feel the recession at all. Interesting post though …

Thanks,

Shontavia G.

http://www.internet-entrepreneur-resources.com

]]> By: Rick Duffy http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/comment-page-1/#comment-743 Rick Duffy Mon, 19 May 2008 23:05:46 +0000 http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/#comment-743 I did not know we were in a recession in 1991,2001, or 2008 hope I did not miss out on the fun I did not know we were in a recession in 1991,2001, or 2008
hope I did not miss out on the fun

]]> By: Shelly Peacock http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/comment-page-1/#comment-728 Shelly Peacock Wed, 14 May 2008 14:38:00 +0000 http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/#comment-728 Three CHEERS for someone actually verbalizing what I have believed all along... "Recession" is another word for drama, and negativity never breeds success. My husband and I are both in the Automotive industry, and are constantly inundated with the dregs of the "recession". As a country, America isn't programmed to scale back, and even when forced, we will still find a way to spend money. Maybe someone can't buy a new house or car right now, but they can go get a tube of lipstick or a new haircut and feel immediately better. This is called the "Lipstick Effect", and I have friends in the beauty industry whose business is booming out of control. The internet, while definitely useful, has become inundated with so much, that grassroots marketing, i.e. networking, has become a fresh idea again! And, you just might make a few friends along the way! Remember... it's not who you know, it's how many you know! Three CHEERS for someone actually verbalizing what I have believed all along… “Recession” is another word for drama, and negativity never breeds success. My husband and I are both in the Automotive industry, and are constantly inundated with the dregs of the “recession”. As a country, America isn’t programmed to scale back, and even when forced, we will still find a way to spend money. Maybe someone can’t buy a new house or car right now, but they can go get a tube of lipstick or a new haircut and feel immediately better. This is called the “Lipstick Effect”, and I have friends in the beauty industry whose business is booming out of control.
The internet, while definitely useful, has become inundated with so much, that grassroots marketing, i.e. networking, has become a fresh idea again! And, you just might make a few friends along the way!
Remember… it’s not who you know, it’s how many you know!

]]> By: BNI Singapore, Raffles Chapter » Blog Archive » I Refuse to Participate in a Recession! http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/comment-page-1/#comment-682 BNI Singapore, Raffles Chapter » Blog Archive » I Refuse to Participate in a Recession! Thu, 08 May 2008 09:31:47 +0000 http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/#comment-682 [...] don't forget to read his follow-up article about many with the “Yeabut syndrome“ saying “Yea but things are different for me” or “this is different in my [...] [...] don’t forget to read his follow-up article about many with the “Yeabut syndrome“ saying “Yea but things are different for me” or “this is different in my [...]

]]> By: Samuel French http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/comment-page-1/#comment-675 Samuel French Wed, 07 May 2008 17:56:18 +0000 http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/#comment-675 Well I thought I wrote a "brilliant" piece on this blog and it seems like it disappeared in the sending..although..ya neva know what will show up. These are the high points: 1. Dr. Misner, whom I have met several times, is a genius! 2. I have been in BNI in Studio City, Thousand Oaks and Santa Rosa, CA over a period of 15 years and I have never been wanton for business through wars, pestilence, plague and recessions. 3. There is a poem whose ending line is "and only God can make a tree" Well only man/woman can make a MARKET or a RECESSION. We create what we have; thought is creative; pass around, oh whoa is me often enough and get oh whoa is me! Talk about a shrinking economy and pass it to all you know while talking about a recession and passing that as dessert, pretty soon you a a flopped soufflé. I wrote because after talking to my wife last night, I opened Dr Misner's article, which I have read before and his blog which I have not. The essence of it was how I responded to my wife about her fear about improvements on our house, buying a car, going on a vacation. If we all flush at the same time, we all go down the drain. I have been A CPA, Marketing Specialist and Business and Life Coach throughout my time in BNI. I was never lacking for business and I sometimes had to refer to someone else or turn down business because I had more than I could handle. I derived my name, Coach Zorro and my Tag Line, "We Bring Good Life to Things" out of the principles taught by Dr. Misner and BNI. I saw that leading my clients out of "darkness" and going with them to a place of light and joy and promise, was the highest and best thing I could do; I learned that in BNI. I made up a song that I used to sing at all of the meetings during my 60 second infomercial. My fellow BNI Members, after a few times, learned the words and sang along with me, every time I sang it. It was joyous, it was the spirit that Dr. Misner taught me to bring to BNI, to my client's and to French-Connected-Coaching. Life is not a down-turn, although you might experience some. Life is not a recession, unless you choose it. Life is to be lived to its absolute fullest, joyful and for me, I would like to have on my tombstone, "Here lies Coach Zorro", of the people, by the people and for the People. BURNED OUT! USED UP! JOYOUS! Well I thought I wrote a “brilliant” piece on this blog and it seems like it disappeared in the sending..although..ya neva know what will show up. These are the high points:
1. Dr. Misner, whom I have met several times, is a genius!
2. I have been in BNI in Studio City, Thousand Oaks and Santa Rosa, CA over a period of 15 years and I have never been wanton for business through wars, pestilence, plague and recessions.
3. There is a poem whose ending line is “and only God can make a tree” Well only man/woman can make a MARKET or a RECESSION. We create what we have; thought is creative; pass around, oh whoa is me often enough and get oh whoa is me! Talk about a shrinking economy and pass it to all you know while talking about a recession and passing that as dessert, pretty soon you a a flopped soufflé. I wrote because after talking to my wife last night, I opened Dr Misner’s article, which I have read before and his blog which I have not. The essence of it was how I responded to my wife about her fear about improvements on our house, buying a car, going on a vacation. If we all flush at the same time, we all go down the drain. I have been A CPA, Marketing Specialist and Business and Life Coach throughout my time in BNI. I was never lacking for business and I sometimes had to refer to someone else or turn down business because I had more than I could handle. I derived my name, Coach Zorro and my Tag Line, “We Bring Good Life to Things” out of the principles taught by Dr. Misner and BNI. I saw that leading my clients out of “darkness” and going with them to a place of light and joy and promise, was the highest and best thing I could do; I learned that in BNI. I made up a song that I used to sing at all of the meetings during my 60 second infomercial. My fellow BNI Members, after a few times, learned the words and sang along with me, every time I sang it. It was joyous, it was the spirit that Dr. Misner taught me to bring to BNI, to my client’s and to French-Connected-Coaching. Life is not a down-turn, although you might experience some. Life is not a recession, unless you choose it. Life is to be lived to its absolute fullest, joyful and for me, I would like to have on my tombstone, “Here lies Coach Zorro”, of the people, by the people and for the People. BURNED OUT! USED UP!
JOYOUS!

]]> By: Samuel French http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/comment-page-1/#comment-674 Samuel French Wed, 07 May 2008 16:58:32 +0000 http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/#comment-674 Dear Dr. Misner, I have been a member of BNI in Studio City, Thousand Oaks, and Santa Rosa, CA (up and down the California Coast). I have NEVER been wanton for business, in and out of recessions, primarily due to my participation and Networking in BNI. I was at BNI as a CPA, as a Marketing Specialist for Service Businesses and as a Business and Life Coach(retired but for that spark that fires me to a client who is really willing. I can't say no, so I work with a few). I say all this only as background because my real reason for writing is to let you know that I sat down with my wife last night and we were talking about going on this vacation, buying that car, doing this to the house and in a very alarmed way she stated, very emphatically, "don't you know we are in a recession?" I explained ..er or tried to tell my loving wife that there isn't a RECESSION, out THERE! I told her there isn't a MARKET, out THERE! I said that without people, us, you, them, there is NO MARKET and there is NO RECESSION. We talked about how that fear is created and snowballs; you watch and read and listen and then you pass it on to your colleagues and workers and friends and tennis partners and social friends and they pass it on and so on and so on (and we aren't even aware that we are doing that or what we are creating) and wallah!..like the old Toyota Theme: "you asked for it, you got it! Thought is creative, market is creative, recession is creative. It exists if we say so and ONLY if we say so. We might have to reallocate some resources, we might have to look at our budgets from a different perspective. THEN I READ YOUR ARTICLE, which I have read before, AND YOUR BLOG, which I have not and I said: "I always thought you were a genius and after my experience and reading your article, it just confirmed it. Do I think it is coincidence; my discussion with my wife and your blog? I don' believe in coincidence..maybe sometimes good timing. We have actually met on several different occasions and each time, I left a different person. "You the man" when it comes to marketing. Your marketing methods and strategies have produced profound results in my life and now in my wife. I helped find my profession, thanks in part to you, and my e-mail name and my tag line because I believe in what they stand for, which coincides with the principles that you have taught me. Zorro was a man of the people, as I believe we are, he was a person striving for social change out of learning and doing what is right, as I believe we do and have, and he brings it forth to create harmony, change and light into the darkness. THAN YOU IVAN. CoachZorro@sbcglobal (Business and Life Coach) "We Bring Good Life to Things" Dear Dr. Misner,
I have been a member of BNI in Studio City, Thousand Oaks, and Santa Rosa, CA (up and down the California Coast). I have NEVER been wanton for business, in and out of recessions, primarily due to my participation and Networking in BNI. I was at BNI as a CPA, as a Marketing Specialist for Service Businesses and as a Business and Life Coach(retired but for that spark that fires me to a client who is really willing. I can’t say no, so I work with a few). I say all this only as background because my real reason for writing is to let you know that I sat down with my wife last night and we were talking about going on this vacation, buying that car, doing this to the house and in a very alarmed way she stated, very emphatically, “don’t you
know we are in a recession?” I explained ..er or tried to tell my loving wife that there isn’t a RECESSION, out THERE!
I told her there isn’t a MARKET, out THERE! I said that without people, us, you, them, there is NO MARKET and there is NO RECESSION. We talked about how that fear is created and snowballs; you watch and read and listen and then you pass it on to your colleagues and workers and friends and tennis partners and social friends and they pass it on and so on and so on (and we aren’t even aware that we are doing that or what we are creating) and wallah!..like the old Toyota Theme: “you asked for it, you got it! Thought is creative, market is creative, recession is creative. It exists if we say so and ONLY if we say so. We might have to reallocate some resources, we might have to look at our budgets from a different perspective. THEN I READ YOUR ARTICLE, which I have read before, AND YOUR BLOG, which I have not and I said: “I always thought you were a genius and after my experience and reading your article, it just confirmed it. Do I think it is coincidence; my discussion with my wife and your blog? I don’ believe in coincidence..maybe sometimes good timing. We have actually met on several different occasions and each time, I left a different person. “You the man” when it comes to marketing. Your marketing methods and strategies have produced profound results in my life and now in my wife. I helped find my profession, thanks in part to you, and my e-mail name and my tag line because I believe in what they stand for, which coincides with the principles that you have taught me. Zorro was a man of the people, as I believe we are, he was a person striving for social change out of learning and doing what is right, as I believe we do and have, and he brings it forth to create harmony, change and light into the darkness. THAN YOU IVAN. CoachZorro@sbcglobal (Business and Life Coach) “We Bring Good Life to Things”

]]> By: Bob Donohue http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/comment-page-1/#comment-673 Bob Donohue Wed, 07 May 2008 14:53:28 +0000 http://networking.entrepreneur.com/2008/04/24/i-absolutely-refuse-to-participate-in-a-recession/#comment-673 Thank you for the tag line of our times. I'm a big fan of mental tools and tricks to keep me focused, and declaring out loud that I will not participate in a recession is brilliant. I haven't allowed myself to get caught up in the sob stories so far, and I've actually been having the best year of my 11 year career. Your post here helped solidify my thinking and keep me in the zone. Thank you. Thank you for the tag line of our times. I’m a big fan of mental tools and tricks to keep me focused, and declaring out loud that I will not participate in a recession is brilliant. I haven’t allowed myself to get caught up in the sob stories so far, and I’ve actually been having the best year of my 11 year career. Your post here helped solidify my thinking and keep me in the zone. Thank you.

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