by Suzette Austin

Fast Track Mentoring

There any many benefits of mentoring including clarity, focus, accountability but most importantly it is always designedto suit your specific needs.

In whatever you do,starting proves to be the most difficult part of a plan.   Whether  heading  to  a  new  place  or starting a business  -  how many  of  us have  struggled with finding the best place to start?    The best way to know where  to  go  or what to do is by asking,  and  even better is asking to be led  or  directed to  the  right  way.   To ensure success, a mentor can lead you and direct you on the right path.

Such is true when you embark on a new career or path.   There are and there will always be something new in the market.  In the current information age, people are relying on the internet to source information.  While this proves to be helpful, it can often fill your mind with information overload and no direction.

There are a lot of smart marketers on the internet who can make you believe that their product or service is the next best thing to help you or cure you or fix you.  More often than not, these products or services will not deliver what they promise in their sales copy.  Why?   Because nobody is there to  guide or  mentor  you to  the proper  direction  without  a  thorough assessment of  your plans.  Hence,  you are often misinformed  and the  worst that  could happen is spending lots of  your  cash w

mentoring and coaching with the hope and belief that you have got what it takes to start your new venture.

While the internet proves to be a good source – too much or too less of what you need won’t take you to where you want to be.  Having a mentor to guide and direct you with the full understanding of your plan can save you from a big disaster.  A mentor can save you from going down the wrong path spending a lot of your hard earned money on programs that will not deliver what the sales copy makes you believe it will provide for you.

Have you actually sat down and really read, word for word, a full length sales copy before purchasing?  Have you contacted the program owner to double check that the program is appropriate for your needs?  No-one does it, and more importantly, most people won’t even request a refund once they come to the realization that the program does not stack up to its sales message.

Acquiring the services of a good mentor can fast track you on the way to success and help you to achieve your dreams.  Would you prefer to spend 12 months working it out on your own, or achieving the more in 3 months or less?  A good mentor can show you the proper path to follow in realizing your goals.  If you’re  thinking  of  saving  money,   trusting your  DIY  attitude  then you’re  probably heading down the path to  doomsville   -  start right,  get ahead of the race  and  get  to  your  goal  with  just  a few  steps,  go  get  a good  mentor!

Suzette Austin runs a successful internet marketing business and is a certified coach. For more information visit the website http://www.fasttrackmentor.com

by Reine Clemow

Mentoring program is the most effective tool for success.
You wouldn’t want to go in a battle unarmed , right? Why do you think different players in the market seem to be grabbing each others neck in the hope of pinning the other one down? Is it just a game of chance?

Being in the competitive world of business specially in the age of information technology, you will notice that while others are always up on their toes , a few sits quietly and comfortably watching the world go by as their businesses grow. These few ones are those who understand that coaching and monitoring are the best tool to have from the very beginning of their venture. A good mentor helps you achieve your goals helping you plan and provide clarity of purpose. Acquiring the services of a mentor saves you time and a lot of money spent on useless products and information you thought was what you needed to start a business. Instead of struggling your way to success, see yourself lead the race with giant leaps, way ahead of your competitors being led to the surest and fastest way of getting to where you want to be with the help of a mentor.

A good mentor can partner with you to plan and adapt strategies early on the venture through every step of the way. Mentoring provides answers to all your questions and get guidance on the proper tools and systems including clarity, focus, accountability but most importantly, it is always designed to suit your specific needs.

A good mentor is able to ignite your passion and desire to succeed and keep the fire burning. Enjoy the benefits of a mentoring program and fast track your way to success.

Suzette Austin runs a successful internet marketing business and is a certified coach. For more information visit the website http://www.fasttrackmentor.com

Benefits of a Good Coach and Mentor
By Seppo A Lamsa

A person heading into business for the first time, whether online or offline, will often find the waters murky and difficult to navigate. It’s easy to follow the wrong path and hit a rocky outcrop, before ever reaching the shore and achieving any sort of measurable success. One thing that sets successful marketers apart from those who are unsuccessful is that the successes began their online marketing careers with an experienced mentor. While there’s something to be said for independence, in the world of online marketing being independent often just leads to failing alone!

When a person has an excellent coach and mentor who’s available to teach and guide them, they are already a leap ahead of those who don’t. Many people start bricks and mortar businesses after having worked for someone else, and through this employee/employer relationship, they’ve learned something of what it takes to run a business (even so, enormous numbers of bricks and mortar businesses fail within the first five years).

A lot of people who decide to become Internet marketers do so with absolutely no Internet marketing background. They may have clicked on a few ads on “making money online” but that’s about it. It’s really no wonder they don’t succeed when they actually make an attempt to sell online. For this reason, an online mentor is in many ways just as crucial as having a mentor in any other type of business.

A good mentor can really help teach you the ropes and guide you on the best ways of approaching your business, as well as what works and what doesn’t work. There’s a huge amount of misinformation on the Internet, and while there’s also some solid information available, too many people actually get information overload because they read too much information online and want to try everything at once! A great coach and mentor can help steer you in the right direction without boggling your mind with the various systems available online.

Perhaps you had some great ideas for starting an Internet business, so you jumped online to find out more. If you’re like a lot of people, you possibly spent hundreds of dollars (or more!) on programs with hyped up sales pages which made you feel that you, too, could start making $1000 (or more!) a day within just weeks of purchasing such and such a program. Then, of course, you bought the program only to find that it didn’t work the way explained, or that it was out of date (the world of Internet marketing moves fast, there was a time just a few years ago when people could manipulate the search engines to make thousands of dollars using what are known as “black hat SEO” techniques; however, after the search engines became aware of the manipulation they became smarter).

If you find a good coach or mentor right from the start, they’ll happily let you know what works and what doesn’t (as most of them have gone through the ups and downs themselves and understand better than anyone how easy it is to fall into one of these Internet marketing traps). You’ll also learn what program or programs you should bother investing in, and which you should steer well clear of. Never underestimate the benefit of a great coach or mentor in your Internet marketing, because ultimately you’ll not only save a great deal of money, odds are that you’ll start making a lot more too.

Seppo Lamsa is owner of seppolamsa.com and writes on a variety of subjects. To learn more about this topic Seppo recommends you visit: http://www.seppolamsa.com/

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The Five Myths About Finding a Mentor
By Robert A Henru

I read a good deal of message on mentor in the book DNA of Success from Jack M. Zufelt. It’s about being successful with the help of mentor. Journey of success is a journey of learning. However, is book enough for you to learn to be successful? Here is a quote from an ancient proverb that might remind you the importance of mentor…

A single conversation across a table from a wise mentor is worth a month’s study of books. – Ancient proverb

I’ve never got someone that I can officially call as ‘mentor’. My first impression of reading a message about finding a mentor is a kind of self-pity, something like finding myself having no mentor, and finding that it is very difficult in having a mentor. But is it true?

When I think again, I am reminded that I may not have someone that I can officially call or ask to be my mentor, but I do have few people that I am very thankful of to be connected with, people with whom I have learned so many things in life…, some through teaching and inspiration, some through encouragement, and some through questions that make me think.

With this perspective, rarely any of us will find difficulty finding a mentor. Here are five myths about mentor that you need to debunk…

1. A mentor must be a ‘mentor’

It’s great if you have a mentor that you can call as a mentor, someone that even you have officially/verbally ask to be a mentor, but the key of having many mentors are from whom you can learn, anyone who is more successful than you and whose achievement you would like to pursue, to become your mentor; you will end up with many mentors.

A mentor does not even have to realize that he/she is a mentor to you, you can have a mentor with the attitude of learning, looking forward of the things you can learn from anyone you’re having conversation with.

2. A mentor must be taking care of you

Another myth where we are putting too high expectation on our mentor, a mentor is not someone to lean on, mentor is someone to learn from. Appreciate the boundary of your mentor, don’t take any show of caring from your mentor for granted, appreciate and thank them, if necessary with gift to show your respect.

3. A mentor is there for forever

There is season for everything! Season of meeting and season of parting! I do have several mentors, not officially, but someone that is interested in sharing his knowledge to me, teach, inspire and encourage me a lot, but many has been separated by space and our own busyness and activities. Being separated from our mentor should not make us to be sad or disappointed. You can even learn from a one-day mentor, someone that you have opportunity to learn or meet up only for that point of time. For example, once I had a lunch with a principal of Singapore Bible College, and I’m learning about habit of asking from him, and that has inspired me even until now.

4. A mentor must be impressed by your success

A reminder from Jack in his book The DNA of Success,

I find that many people are more interested in impressing their mentors than in listening to them.

- Jack M. Zufelt (DNA of Success)

See, how many of us are willing to listen with a secure heart; many are trying to impress their mentor with their success. One of the core motive behind this that I can think of is how people afraid losing their mentor, if they can’t impress their mentor, they afraid the mentor will lose interest of themselves and hence, move away from him. Something we really need to learn, to be secure, to learn and to be mentally prepared to be separated or lose their mentor.

5. A mentor must be someone who is greatly successful

Success is relative, for one person, a person can be considered successful but not for the others. What I’m trying to say is that, you can learn from anyone, even if they are only one step ahead towards your goals and dreams. You can learn from the other pilgrims, people in the journey as well, it’s a good habit to look forward for even a small success that other person has achieved, hence we can pick up something to learn from them.

Everything starts with the habit, by making a habit of asking and learning from any people, you will eventually more skillful in learning from the masters, not missing it when there is a great successful person in front of you.

I believe when you debunk those 5 myths, you will easily have many potential mentors in your life, start today to learn from them! It can be your supervisor at work, your senior staff, your colleague, or your friend! The important thing is trust, once you’re able to trust them, you can start picking up their belief and knowledge. All the best for your journey of finding a mentor!

For your success,

Robert

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Thanks and regards,
Robert

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