Travel Journal 10/12/2010

I’m heading out on the longest financial advisor speaking road trip of my career with 8 financial advisor speaking dates for Great West Life, Hub Financial and London Life leaving 10/17/2010 and returning 10/29/2010.

October 18th	Great-West Life Assurance Co.	Montreal, QC
October 19th	HUB Financial Inc.	Montreal, QC
October 20th	HUB Financial Inc.	Toronto, ON
October  21st	HUB Financial Inc.	London, ON
October 22nd	London Life Insurance Co.	Montreal, QC
October 26th	HUB Financial Inc.	Calgary, AB
October 27th	HUB Financial Inc.	Victoria, BC
October 28th	HUB Financial Inc.	Vancouver, BC

 

As I write this, I’m realizing that I am home for a week from 10/30/2010 – 11/06/2010 and then back out again from 11/07/2010 – 11/20/2010 with financial advisor speaking for NAIFA – Iowa followed by a week’s holiday in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico.

November 9th	NAIFA Iowa Sales Caravan	Iowa City, IA
November 10th	NAIFA Iowa Sales Caravan	Des Moines, IA
November 11th	NAIFA Iowa Sales Caravan	Sioux City, IA
November 12th	NAIFA Iowa Sales Caravan	Waterloo, IA

 

I’m taking this opportunity to start a list of Travel Actions To Stay Associated to being the best that I can be on this trip so that I can shift my consciousness to include extreme client care, speaking and being on the road combined with these projects that I have been working on that near completion for 2011;

• coaching product upgrade
• coaching terms update
• iOrganized
• October e-newsletter
• one page business plan certification
• product enrolment process
• rebranding
• referral coaching
• social networking plan
• web site upgrade
• Windows 7 bugs
• 2011 business plan

Please note that all of these projects are transparent to the coaching program that I offer my clients.

My Travel Actions To Stay Associated

• Locate camera iPhone App
• Locate travel journal iPhone App to assemble maps, pictures and thoughts – Trip Journal 5.3 iPhone App
• Foursquare
• Meditate and journal
• Convert my week at a glance PT calendar to ET to squeeze as much productive time out of this trip as I can
• Confirm that the hotel exercise equipment is less than two years old or locate a gym
• Hydrate
• Stay away from what I call “bread sandwiches”
• Deliver the 12 best financial advisor speaking presentations of my life
• Create 10 rapport building questions
• Building rapport with VIP’s, event managers, speakers and attendees
• Attend as many of the other financial advisor speaking presentations as I can and write notes for blogging
• ID the 3 best locations that are surrounding my hotels – vlog from there?
• Bring my projects list
• Bring a list of blogs to write

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Dear All,

I’ve been shortlisted for Advisor.ca’s ‘Name That Visionary Contest’: Who are the Top 10 leaders in the industry today?

Round One is over and the candidates have been narrowed down to 20 entries.

The next step is to vote for the top ten entries and you can do this by clicking here; 

http://www.advisor.ca/partnersuccesscenter/aca10/bioform.html

There are two ways I could have played this:

1. Pretending to be a shy and demure Canadian, because that is what Canadians do, in the hope that people will vote anyway – “I don’t take part in these celebrity competitions because it’s beneath me”
2. Bold, outrageous and provocative – “asking for the business” – vote for me because I love the exposure!

Another reason that I am doing this is to demonstrate the power of E-Nurture Marketing as you are a reader of my E-Newsletter and we were initially introduced through speaking or via the internet.

Honestly, it would cost tens of thousands to receive the exposure that this contest can create.

So I’m asking for your help.

The next step is to vote for the top ten entries and you can do this by clicking here and PLEASE VOTE FOR ME;

http://www.advisor.ca/partnersuccesscenter/aca10/bioform.html

 Again, why am I asking?

• The exposure is absolutely great for my professional career development
• The publicity is a vindication for all the hard work done with clients and the philosophy and ideas that we share in these and other pages
• The encouragement to me to keep fighting the fight for quality career and independent financial advisors
• My coaches and mentors all get to take a break as my unmet need of recognition is satisfied
• You will have to spend a few minutes thinking about your personal Top 10 leaders in the industry today 

To vote CLICK HERE; 

http://www.advisor.ca/partnersuccesscenter/aca10/bioform.html