-Sense of urgency makes your team more efficient and competitive every day irrespective of whether there really is an emergency.

-Everyone should be on a team that communicates according to plans. No orphans working solo or practically isolated who are not following proper communications protocol.

-Measuring services offered on modern dynamic web, blog and social sites, with extensive content and apps; with A/B testing, R&D, trial and error, using a “quick success/fail” methodology.

-Creating explicit business/charity plans

-Tailored presentations for prospects, partners, and investors; along with comprehensive, up to date, completed web sites, social sites, and apps.

-Focus on a greater volume of leads each day, and a higher closing percentage each day at the same time, using highly tuned presentations, leveraging sales and marketing best practices.

-Having every person and task and hour fit in with this plan, and their explicit brand’s business plan and budget; each as specific measurable profit centers; to be trained, delegated, documented and measured accordingly, with a clear hierarchy, in a uniform manner, forever. No orphans, of web sites, staff, to do items, accountability, blogs, apps, domains. etc. Yes to teams crossing among departments and brands when needed, always working together on same long term business plan with clear communications and commitment to evolution.

-Discovering additional leadership to create, follow, share, and delegate all plans, documents and other content closely; always benefitting from the best of Accountability, Communications & Leadership (ACL).

-To go viral (grow your corporation or charity quickly) you need followers, believers, cheerleaders. Just a few can start the whole chain, but they are hard to attract. Behaviors need to be molded over time with powerful truthful messaging in a variety of marketing media outlets and formats. Use Case Studies.

http://MakeMillions.com/

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Today the most powerful method to expand is leveraging Internet technologies, namely social media. Of course, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and others have a lot of low-cost potential viral activity at hand for you; and they are pretty easy to use. TikTok is associated with Chinese Communism/spying; so, although it may be a powerful viral medium in many respects, we would still not recommend it for anyone. And frankly Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are associated with left wing extremist activism; they have defrauded hundreds of millions of users by hiding truthful news and information postings and highlighting harmful and fake ones. They ultimately even changed the results of the presidential and other elections in a fraudulent manner, which has had devastating consequences to the economy, and has indirectly caused a huge crime wave. (This author would never consider voting for either of the main candidates due to their extensive histories of criminal, dumb, selfish and negative activities. Regardless, the people had the right to study the unaltered truth in advance.) Those companies are private so technically they have the right to edit the news on their sites and to highlight or suppress what they want; but it is actually illegal fraud because they lied to the public and government by pretending everyone was being treated equally and fairly, which is definitely not the case. Regardless, of all this, if you want to go viral you will still need to use those apps and try to overcome their biased algorithms and employees to make sure your messages are heard.

But we digress, back to the main point of the article…………….

Here are some of the best ideas to build teams in order to better accomplish your goals. We will discuss more about building followers later in this article. All of these ideas taken together and built upon is your path to success in spreading your important messages broadly, whatever they happen to be.

The right people must be involved. Define their roles in advance. Recruit competent team members. A team shares responsibility. Your team should have a unified commitment and each member should be empowered to contribute their unique skills and experience. Use the advantages of having a diversity of backgrounds and ideas on your team.

A team needs a strong focused leader to guide and coalesce the group. She should be qualified and principled. She should set a good example and encourage constructive feedback. A leader listening to team members, taking them seriously, and responding appropriately is as important as talking to and delegating to them. There is always lots more to learn, and apply to your mission, for everyone.

As the team leader, make sure you have a vision of the ‘big picture’ and have communicated it through the team; and they take individual ‘ownership’ for their role, plus mutual ownership for group goals. In this respect people should be accountable individually and collectively.

Identify, agree and plan for the right resources to achieve your goals, including whatever external support or consultants will be necessary. Set ground rules and expectations that are understood by all involved. The recommended actions and deadlines must be practical and appropriate. Manage team priorities. Manage time and energy.

Create a collaborative climate with mutual respect. Be open and truthful within the entire group. The foundation of any lasting relationship is trust. Express your feelings. Respect the ideas being presented, and your team members as individuals. But, be decisive and efficient; don’t waste valuable team resources, time and energy. Set up your team for success; to get the required results relatively quickly. ‘Results driven.’

Clear, effective communication is the most important part of teamwork. Build relationships. Understand others on your team. Create a culture that encourages feedback. Always keep your team fully informed of updated project goals. Hold regular 1-on-1 sessions with each team member. Motivate with positivity not negativity. Use feedback as a positive path towards further improvement.

Teamwork is non-competitive; a quest to make meaning. Teamwork is not a debate; it has no winners and losers. Be adaptable. Lead your team through change. ‘Change management.‘  Address and fix conflict.

Try to avoid information hoarding, ‘organizational silos’, or internal competitiveness.

Provide needed support for the requests of other team members. Look for ways to reward good work and offer recognition.

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Leveraging top Google rankings and high click through rates for your own website, by doing extensive “search engine optimization” (SEO), is just as important as social media utilizing the sites of those leaders. (Mann coincidentally owns the SEO.com consulting corporation with top SEO experts).

Your best bet is to hire experts to constantly help you improve your own in-house efforts, and learn together how to maximize your SEO opportunities, studying data and other results based on all your attempts.

In general, here are some of the basic top tips from experts:

Buy a great .com domain name. (Mann coincidentally owns a top domain selling corporation called DomainMarket.com)

Use a good web host.

Conduct thorough keyword research.

Create a logical site structure.

Use a logical URL structure.

Leverage ‘metadata’.

Have a link-worthy site. Get quality backlinks.

Use alt tags.

Optimize for on-page SEO.

Optimize for off-page SEO.

Optimize the website for mobile.

Speed up the pages.

Analyze all of your website data and adjust according to expert advice.

Install good SEO plugins.

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Some of the top apps to leverage for better Google results include:

Rank Math Plugin.

Yoast SEO Plugin

Google Trends

Ahrefs Keyword Generator

Ubersuggest

Google Search Console

Bing Webmaster Tools

Google Analytics

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Social media best practices:

Lots of followers and views on social media can lead to increased reach, engagement, and exposure for your messaging.

Plan to put in the time and energy necessary to do it all right; your mission and message are important to the world. So, create successful campaigns and a positive user experience by studying and practicing the ideas below, and doing your best.

Start by creating and optimizing your profile (Search Google for tips and examples). Include a professional catchy bio. Your profile page is like your business card to introduce yourself to the digital world.

Try to understand your audience and know what they want to see. Study their pages and popular ones they follow for insight. Stay up-to-date on overall social media trends.

Follow other social media users and stars with similar interests; as many as possible. Participate in conversations on other pages. Respond to comments on your own page.

Work with top social media ‘influencers’ and bloggers in your space. Reach out to them; cooperate with them; learn from them; and hire them when appropriate to create content or offer consulting advice, to help you out with your mission.    

Write engaging, shareable captions on trending topics. Then publish extensive relevant, outstanding, interesting, authoritative content. “Visuals are high-performers on social media, so be sure to include an eye-catching, colorful image or graphic with each post.”

Make it collaborative when possible; for example, with questions and surveys and the likes. Tell stories when appropriate. Don’t be afraid to show your unique personality. Get the conversation started one way or another, and keep it moving with yourself at the center of the action. Keep your audience constantly engaged; interact with them personally.

Benefit from the content of your most successful ‘competitors’. Reshare their content if it’s great, or create similar on your own. Make sure your content shareable by using the right settings.

Post beautiful, interesting photos. Follow photography and editing best practices. Utilize branded graphics, product photos and infographics when appropriate.

“Video is the most engaging content type on every social media platform, so if you can, it’s a good idea to create at least some form of video content to maximize engagement.” “Be sure to upload your video directly to your platform of choice, rather than posting a link to an outside website (like YouTube). This way, your video will autoplay as people land on it while scrolling through their feeds, grabbing more attention.”

Use hashtags; there are thousands of choices for each post; find ones that are relevant to your audience and your specific content to perfect your strategy. Use popular apps to help with hashtags, and to get more followers.

Promote your social media accounts in real life by showcasing them everywhere.

Stats:

The optimal volume is one post per day or it is possible your post will be buried in the social media feeds. The best time to post is between 1pm – 3pm during the week and Saturdays. Other studies expand the window from 9 am–3 pm. The best day to post on Facebook is Wednesday, apparently between 11am – 1pm.

“Not only do photo posts get more engagement than links, videos, or text-based updates, they actually account for 93% of the most engaging posts on Facebook. According to Kissmetrics, photos get 53% more likes, 104% more comments and 84% more click-throughs on links than text-based posts.”

“Statistics show that social media posts containing video get nearly 50% more views than non-video posts, and video posts on Facebook see roughly 65% more engagement than posts without video”.

“Content with relevant images rack up 94% more views than content without images.”

Compared to other types of content, “visual content is more than 40x more likely to get shared on social media.”

“Photos showing faces get 38% more likes than photos without faces.”

Best of luck to you in growing your audience and spreading your message as widely as possible.

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One of the principal objects of Fearless Leaders is to encourage others to undertake a life of meaningful charitable activities, and bring even more associates along with them. Charity is about easing human suffering; of other people who are ultimately not much different than you and your own family; since all people are fundamentally the same and deserve the same opportunities of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is not the case that you are responsible for the suffering of others. And you have no obligation whatsoever to serve others. And moreover, you have nothing to feel bad about or guilty about. Those are not the issues. The core issue is that you can make yourself feel better and actually be better by leveraging your opportunities and skills to serve, and to encourage and assist others in doing the same. If you serve, how you serve, who you serve, and how it changes and evolves over time is entirely a personal experience for you. We hope to be a small catalyst in moving you more in the right direction. You could even avoid it and skip it if you feel that is necessary, but that is contrary to our goals at Fearless Leaders. So, we will try our best encourage everyone to serve society for good reason; to ease the obvious pains we can see in our own communities and throughout the world, for the millions of sick and poor that need some help. Outside of serving your own family we can not identify anything more meaningful than a commitment to charitable works.

Charity has a variety of meanings to different people but the best description is an organization or activity that helps and supports people who are sick or poor; the sicker or poorer they are ostensibly the more they need assistance. There are plenty of other types nonprofit organizations that help people in a variety of ways, and provide tax benefits, like for the arts and for religious purposes. As good and useful as those usually are they are still not really charity by our definition.

Each person has a unique perspective on what charity means to themselves and the world. We will touch on some popular narratives and then focus on what we feel are the best courses of action to help the most people in need and make the world a better place.

Perspectives on charity include:

-I don’t think about it or care about it at all; or have anything to offer anyone.

-I am too busy and poor to deal with it regardless of its benefit.

-My taxes are too high and they should support sick and poor people instead of me personally.

-I give through my religious affiliations, not other outside groups.

-I help homeless and sick people I meet in the streets with money and food.

-I just do it when there is something in it for me or my business, like good press, socializing with certain people, or attending charity events.

-I try to donate what little time and money I have to support select causes.

-I sacrifice to donate a good portion of my time and money to support select causes.

-My life is dedicated to charitable works and donations, and I feel satisfaction sacrificing for others who are less fortunate.

If you are a loving caring individual or want to be, you should be concerned about charitable works and what you can do to assist; which includes convincing others at your business or in your life to help out too. Training future leaders to serve charity directly or indirectly is one of the primary purposes of our Fearless Leaders organization.

Under Section501(c)(3) of the IRS code there are different kinds of organizations that can qualify as a charitable organization.

-Private family foundations.

-Publicly supported entities (financed by donors).

-Charities supported by gifts, dues and fees.

-Supporting charitable organizations (that assists other charities).

There are several ways to fund your favorite charities:

-Donating cash is the easiest and most common way; and if you are a social entrepreneur, you can tie that in to your business success and programs conceptually. [See Mann’s book Make Millions and Make Change (www.MakeMillions.com; free download and viewing) for more information about social entrepreneurism.]

-Donating valuable assets including stocks, bonds, mutual funds and other regulated securities; plus, automobiles, real estate, art, etc.

-Planned giving and charitable trusts.

-Volunteering your time to help organizations thrive is just as important as financial support.

We encourage you to research charitable organizations in your area and around the world, speak with other interested parties, and start planning and executing your own life of service.

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“When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.”

“In conflict, straightforward actions generally lead to engagement, surprising actions generally lead to victory.”

“Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy’s army without battle … . They conquer by strategy.”

“Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy, but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.”

“In war, numbers alone confer no advantage.”

“To … not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.”

“What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity.”

“The general must be first in the toils and fatigues of the army. In the heat of summer he does not spread his parasol, nor in the cold of winter don thick clothing … . He waits until the army’s wells have been dug and only then drinks; until the army’s food is cooked before he eats; until the army’s fortifications have been completed, to shelter himself.”

“A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results.”

“If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy’s position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the enemy’s position weak.”

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We can all easily see that the economy is on a failing path recently; and we can predict the next phase.

The past performance and the future predictions are based on the fundamentals of basic macroeconomics, as we shall describe in this document.

The real covid disease caused an unrealistic overkill response, which was certain to help destroy the economy. Telling people that they should stay home and therefore not spend money in the economy; plus, not learn, train or innovate, because they are told not to go to school, causes another huge economic hit; which is made probably ten times worse by the government pumping trillions of dollars in to the economy ‘printing money’.

Most of this spending was unfair and unnecessary. Much of it was wasted on useless programs and pork projects for unions and other special interests associated with the party in power. All of it was put through a very wasteful, inefficient, ineffective bureaucratic filter. This lowered the value of money and therefore made everything much more expensive. Everyone had to raise prices in order to attempt to make profits, since all their own costs were going up, and their employees were performing at lower levels, with less hard working in person hours. Plus, liberal policies overregulated companies and mandated or pressured and financially burdened them with all sorts of absurd expensive rules, in the woke age.

A weak federal government, local governments, an expanding crime wave, and causal policies lessens consumer and business sentiment regarding the economy; in many respects this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and the economy begins to fail even worse. People begin to invest less and purchase less, to retain past profits and protect themselves from potential downfalls. So, the public helps perpetuate a dropping economy, even though it is started due to bad government employees, advisors and policies, with extensive pork and graft.

The projection of weakness in a multitude of American venues is perceived by foreign enemies who then seek to expand, knowing there won’t be consequences. In this example Putin correctly felt that there would be no serious military response to his invasion of Ukraine; Biden even said it out loud. Aside from the horrific genocide in the ongoing Russian invasion, this disruption predictably harmed the whole US economy. The perceived and real reduction in oil and gas coming out of Russia predictably raised energy prices world over (ironically the oil and gas companies are not being harmed at all; they’re taking advantage of the situation and making extra profits, which should be punished if possible. Plus the price of energy Putin sells has doubled for him.)

Inflation extends across all major product lines due to the extreme unnecessary government spending  mentioned. Massive inflation caused the US Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. Instability and rising rates encourage fewer borrowers, who are then taken out of the economy to some degree; essentially preventing the trickle-down economic growth which would be helping grow a normal healthy economy. (Creates jobs, creates a tax base, creates valuable innovation which trickles around and fuels growth everywhere in a normal healthy economy, based on fundamental popular economic theory and reality.)   

The government eventually realizes there is massive inflation once it’s too late to stop it, and despite denying the reality that they caused it. So next up is raising interest rates to slow down consumer spending, still without taking any accountability for government spending, and still idiotically recommending extensive additional government spending; always claiming in some miracle manner that “it’s paid for” and that money is free. What a horrible joke that is. But I digress.

Higher interest rates, high inflation, massive instability and extensive uncertainty harm corporations, and make investors rightfully fear there is more harm on the horizon, so they start selling off stocks on Wall Street; the market crashes and becomes a “bear market”, trillions of investor dollars are lost in a short period.

Now we are at today; and what is next? Next the companies will start laying off thousands of people, causing a greater burden on the government and driving us in to a recession. People won’t be able to afford the rising prices of basic goods; homelessness and poverty will increase.

This entire economic paradigm will begin to crash the housing market and broader real estate marketspace, mostly due to higher interest rates and more difficulty qualifying for loans. Plus, probably a lot of banks failing due to loan failures of their customers, and ever more fraud of their employees.

Of course, crypto has also crashed hard and will continue to do so; it was never a real asset in the first place; people will be unable to justify ‘investing’ more in it, and will just be heading for the exits until it is mostly worthless, where it belongs. Plus, very extensive criminal activity in that space will start taking a huge toll on the valuations; and people deservedly being fined and going to jail.

Higher taxes, and bigger government debt, in the form of trillions of dollars of bonds issued (money printing) the American people are on the hook to redeem, will further erode the economy on top of the other items mentioned.

So, what is the solution? Once we hit bottom, likely in 2023/2024, common sense economics, math, and policies need to take root. Firstly, by electing people that use math and who hire others that use math and leverage basic common-sense economics (not happening at all at present). The new political teams can stop the crazy spending; and use policies that encourage hard work, innovation, education and job training.

Eventually, all the hard work and innovation will create more employees, companies and more profits; which will improve the tax base again; and government will hopefully use that money to give us a chance to start rectifying all the horrors the current administration has caused, as mentioned above.

This is certain to take a couple years if we are lucky, and could be longer if voters and politicians keep making bad decisions. Don’t shoot the messenger; do heed the message.

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