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A regular feature in our Newsletter highlights one of our very best clients and introduces you to their services.
I thought it appropriate to recognize BNI Nashoba this month. BNI is a referral organization (largest in the world) of which I have been a member for 3 years. This year I have had an opportunity to serve as President. It has been an awesome experience with many rewards. Not the least being the people I have met in my journey, which, by the way, is the theme this year. You can watch the YouTube video for more on this JOURNEY theme.
Feel free to check our group at
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Greetings!
First time readers, welcome! Returning readers, welcome back! I spent some time with some motivational people this past month. I wanted to tell you about a couple. We do not want to waste your time. Artilcles will contain generally less than 250 words. Please have a look and give us your feedback.
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Uncommon Application of Common Knowledge
This week at a regional BNI networking event held in Natick, MA, I had an opportunity to meet Dr. Ivan Misner, CEO and Founder of BNI, the world's largest networking organization. As many of you know, I am the  President of one of the 5,600 worldwide BNI Chapters, BNI Nashoba. Dr. Misner spoke about many things including the weekend he spent on Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island in the Caribbean and the "butterfly networking principle" which was the circle of events that caused him to be there. Very interesting the cards life hands out when you are open to accepting the deal.
One thing that really rang a chord was his statement that success is the uncommon application of common knowledge. He talks about this concept in his book, The 29% Solution. Just think about these simple words and what they mean in your business. You need to think long and hard to see if there is some way to apply this principle when you can't see the forest for the trees. Our businesses are built on some pretty basic concepts but it's very difficult to think outside the box and come up with a new angle, a new approach.
Take a half-hour and consider what you do as if you were your customer. Become an empath. What can you come up with. It would be great to hear your results. I'll post this on my blog, enter a comment with your results.
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Data Mapping
Maps are fun, informative and sometimes great for making a point. Add data to maps and you have information squared. Here is a map of Eastern Massachusetts and surrounding areas broken out into 3-digit zip code areas.
The map details where we have spent our time over the last 10 years. Other areas of the country have been omitted, but this gives you an idea of where our clients are based. The very bright red areas represent more than 20,000 man-hours, the bright pink is 1,000+ man-hours and the light pink less than 1,000.
It's interesting to see a long history of data painted onto a map and even more interesting if you look at the maps from year to year.
Think about your data and how you might evaluate your business on a map of the State, region or Country.
Creating this map took less than 10 minutes. Creating the data for this map took more than 10 years. Maps can be helpful looking at a decade, year, month or even a day worth of data. A word about zip codes, zip codes make mapping easy. If you are not capturing zip codes in your business, think again. |
The Recession is Over!
If you listen to the news, you won't hold this opinion -- so I don't listen to the news. If you listen to naysayers, you won't hold this opinion -- so I don't listen to naysayers. I have always felt that your business is what you make it and you are responsible for success or failure or worse, mediocrity. That doesn't mean there aren't storms or even tornadoes that rise up and swallow chunks of your time, money and energy. But, if you are optimistic, I mean really positive and always open to the opportunities that furthers your vision, somehow the sun will shine on your parade.
As I listened to Dr. Misner and to Frank J. De Raffele Jr. this week (Find Frank on his radio show Entrepreneurial Excellence), I became a
 | believer in the cycle of a recession and I am optimistic that this recession is pretty much over.
You can almost mark the end on your calendar. Does that mean that life is all good all the time for all of us? No. But it's time to open the curtains and enjoy the economic spring. Be prepared for money to start moving again. Be prepared for the opportunities that have been pent up for more than a year. Naysayers need not reply.
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Sincerely,
Robert McKay Jones
Transportation Resources, Inc.
50 Leominster Road, Suite #3
Sterling, Massachusetts 01564
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