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Speaking, Bullsh*t, and Billionaires: Post-#Shine Wrap Up pt 2

Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

(this is part 2 of the Post-#Shine Wrap Up … check out part 1: Do It With Your Eyes Open & Be Awesome)
More of what I learned after 5 days in Las Vegas:
I might be a real speaker.
I have a complex. (Okay, I have a few complexes, but let’s just deal with one at a [...]

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Do It With Your Eyes Open & Be Awesome: Post-#Shine Wrap Up, pt 1

Posted on 09. Nov, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

Last week I went to Las Vegas.
Why? Well, it’s Las Vegas. Okay, I also went there to throw a tweetup and hang with the other entrepreneurs attending Ali Brown’s Shine Event.
After 5 days in Vegas, here’s what I learned:
Sometimes you need to do it with your eyes open.
The first “event” after arriving in [...]

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Stir You Up (or, why I love Las Vegas)

Posted on 07. Nov, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

Do you want rapid transformation or change in your life?
Do you want to know why I keep coming to Las Vegas?
These two things have something to do w/ each other ….

What about you, what are you doing in your life to stir you up?

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Why I Never Want to Be Called a Guru … part 2

Posted on 01. Nov, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

Are you sick of trying to portray yourself as completely successful & perfect all of the time?
Especially since life is complicated. Sometimes stuff goes wrong. Or gets messy. Or gets harder.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could just tell the entire story, the whole truth, and people would still love you and buy your stuff?
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Why I Never Want to Be Called a Guru … part 1

Posted on 30. Oct, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

Have you been told you need to become a guru or an expert to build your business or speaking career?
That you must reduce access to you (not answer your own phone, not answer your own email, not speak to people at your events, have someone else manage your social media) in order to appear successful? [...]

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Why I Don’t Want Any More Customers

Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

Do you have clients, or do you have customers?

Are you engaging in one-off transactions, or are you building relationships?
Here’s what I’m changing in the culture of Potts Weinstein Enterprises LLC …
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What do you think? What words do you like to use to describe the people who purchase your services/products and the people on [...]

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Info Products Fail

Posted on 27. Oct, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

Come on, confess. You know you have information products, binders, CDs, sitting on your shelf unopened in shrink wrapped, or only partially used, or never implemented.
I know I do. Boxes & boxes of them.
Are we doing a terrible disservice by selling information products to our customers?
Are information products a failure?
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What do [...]

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Don’t Feed the Trolls

Posted on 25. Oct, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

Yesterday I was attacked by an internet troll. For those of you who are not familiar with the term, here’s the definition from wikipedia:
In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room or blog, with the [...]

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Living My Truth: Taking Uncomfortable to the Next Level

Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

I created this video for my 6 Weeks to Live Your Truth Project members (we are still accepting new members until Thursday, so check it out), but wanted to share it with you too.
I have always loved to sing, but stopped singing in public when I was in 7th grade, when another girl got the [...]

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