HARD WORK

I would like to share this post from Ronn Torossian's blog,
CEO of 5WPR. Looking a great PR Firm, please go to www.5wpr.com

I’ve been working tremendously long hours these last few weeks, and with the changing economy I’m even more knee-deep in client work than usual. I am emotionally invested and intensely involved with client work – A 5 hour strategy session today with a major financial client, followed by a 2 hour conference call with a technology media company for example. The work is fun and challenging, but emotionally and intellectually draining. Great clients are essential in these times – Great clients who are good, smart people, who allow someone who owns a service business like myself to feel appreciated… and give us that rush (and of course pay their bills on time).

It’s 11:15 PM and I have literally worked nonstop since 7 AM…and on top of that, I have an 8 PM client event tomorrow night, and two client events this weekend, but this is the price I believe is necessary for success.

Owning a PR agency, I am very blessed and thankful for us to be where we are and believe we are very well suited for the days, weeks and months ahead. Focused, aggressive, hard working, and in the trenches with our clients. There’s nowhere I’d rather be.

Ronn Torossian

5WPR


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Andy Rodie

Perfect time to start a business

Perfect Time" to Start a Business, Says Entrepreneur:
Tips to Becoming Your Own Boss

Posted Jul 03, 2009 07:00am EDT by Peter Gorenstein in Investing, Internet, Media Related: pcln, ^dji, ^gspc, qqqq
The worst job market in a generation is getting worse. The unemployment rate in June rose to 9.5% - the highest since the early 80s. All told, almost 15 million Americans are out of work.

So what's a new grad or a displaced worker to do? Create your own job. That’s the advice of serial entrepreneur Jeff Hoffman. “Now that there aren't jobs - high unemployment and it's just not as safe to be in big corporate America - it's a perfect time to be more innovative, more creative and plot out your own future.”

He should know. Hoffman was a founding employee of priceline.com before moving to Enable Holdings, the parent company of auction house uBid.com and retailer RedTag.com.

His tips for those looking to be their own boss:

Don't put your dreams on hold. “Wherever there’s chaos or crisis, there's opportunity.”
Be a problem solver. “When there are problems there are




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Success, Failure and Timing. - Shai Agassi

Shai Agassi was a member of the Executive Board of SAP AG until March 31, 2007. He is responsible for the global development efforts for all SAP products and SAP's portfolio of industry-specific solutions.

Before his appointment to the SAP Executive Board, Agassi was CEO of SAP Portals and later of the combined company SAP Markets and SAP Portals, which previously operated as a fully owned subsidiary of SAP AG. The subsidiaries were integrated into SAP in April 2002, at which point Agassi was appointed to the Board.

A software entrepreneur, Agassi founded TopTier Software (originally called Quicksoft Development) in Israel in 1992 and later moved the company's headquarters to California. He served the company in various capacities, including as chairman, chief technology officer, and then CEO. He managed the strategic plan, technical direction, and relationships with companies such as Baan, SAP, and Microsoft. TopTier was a leading enterprise portal vendor when SAP ac...





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Andy Rodie

SMARTS ISNT ALWAYS ENOUGH: SUCCESS TIPS

SMARTS ISNT ALWAYS ENOUGH: SUCCESS TIPS

Decided to share this post from one of my favorite blogs by Ronn Torossian,
CEO of 5WPR. I think it's dead on with regards to your immediate goals. Enjoy

The 90 second rule - the institution of the family.

This is a great video with a great message. Check it out. Let me know what you think.
There is always something new to learn.




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Andy Rodie

Wealth and Health Expo by Louis Lautman.

The wealth and health expo
Time: May 8, 2009 at 9pm to May 10, 2009 at 7pm
Location: Fort Lauderdale
Organized By: Louis Lautman

Event Description:
Come see the visionary of the Health and Wealth Annex speak and hear why people keep raving , and why America's TOP innovative entrepreneurs, leading speakers and educators are lining up to speak at this 3 day event!
Top benefits people say the get from attending the Health & Wealth ANNEX--
 Break through FEAR
 Discover their own talents and find their passion in life (priceless)
 Complete transformation of their HEALTH lifestyle, recondition their habits
 Get inner peace, fulfillment, and happiness. Get back the honor and power to their word
 Build the inner success mindset
 Create their game, start playing it in life, and the training & structures to win that game!
The cost is ONLY $149 to ATTEND. Three days of intense learning and discovery.

http://healthandwealthannex.com/home/

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Andy Rodie.

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Brian Tracy on Someday Isle.

Watch this video on Someday Isle

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Rules for success from a motivating taxi driver.

I found this article on www.successmagazine.com by Zig Ziglar and had to share it.

One morning in Houston, Texas, I caught a taxi (to go to a breakfast meeting) and during a short ride I heard one of the finest sales talks on America and free enterprise that I ever heard. The cab driver had been a professional healthcare provider in his native Nigeria, but he preferred living in a free society, with the opportunity to do what he pleased, and so he was very excited about being a cab driver in Houston.

During our conversation my migrant friend quickly turned to motivator, and his enthusiasm led him to give me some rules for success! I offer them here so that you might benefit from them, too.

Pay your bills.
Obey the laws.
Keep your eyes on God. God is in charge.
Run from lazy, crooked people.
Make your workplace your home.
Love and honor your boss.
Keep your promises.
Mind your own business.

I was motivated by the cab driver who was excited about his dream and having the opportunity to live it. He had set his goal long ago. He was living his dream. He wasn’t waiting until he could get into something better; he was performing with the opportunity he had. He was happy with what he had and was enthusiastically giving life his best shot. That, my friend, is marvelous preparation for a better tomorrow!


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Andy Rodie

Daily motivator - Jump right in .

If you don't make the attempt, you're not going to achieve it. Though you may have perfectly reasonable and understandable excuses, those excuses won't provide you with anything of value.
Life has so much richness to offer when you jump in with all you have and get yourself involved. Be bold, set your sights high, and move confidently in the direction of what you really desire.

Of course things will not always turn out the way you planned. In fact, they may very well turn out even better than you could have imagined.

Remind yourself of all the ups and downs you've already successfully been through. And realize that whatever you may encounter, you'll find a way to make the best of it.

Then decide precisely how you wish to live your life and begin immediately to start doing it. Whatever your dream may be, the first step can be taken right now.

Do it with enthusiasm, with joy, with the best of expectations and without hesitation. Jump right in and live the richness that is your beautiful, unique life.

-- Ralph Marston


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Andy Rodie

How I Did it - Entrepreneur Butch Stewart

Gordon "Butch" Stewart's voice is deep and slow, and he speaks with melodic phrasing, suggesting the sun-soaked climate of his native Jamaica, where he started Sandals Resorts, in 1981. Today, Stewart owns and runs 20 resorts under the Sandals umbrella, including the original Sandals all-inclusive, couples-only resorts, the Beaches resorts for families, and four boutique hotels. Stewart serves as company chairman, while his son Adam, 27, is now the CEO. The resorts are sprawling, with flourishes like multicolored pagodas, swim-up bars, and poolside Greek temples. One resort boasts 100 separate swimming pools. From its small beginnings, Sandals, based in Montego Bay, has grown into a multibillion-dollar company.

I was born in Jamaica. My mother had a little business as a dealer for appliances, and I used to go and help her. I loved it. I used to catch fish and sell them as a 12-year-old, and between fishing I used to love being in the shop with her.

I started working just before I turned 17, but then I went to England to round off my education and came back to Jamaica full of vim and vinegar. I got a job at a trading company and was in charge of the appliance department. After five years, I was able to save over $3,000. That was 1968. Then I realized Fedders air conditioners were not represented in Jamaica. I bought an airplane ticket and I headed to Edison, New Jersey. I met with the president's nephew. We really hit it off. He said to the finance people, "Look, he's paying cash for the first shipment, so there's nothing to lose; give him a chance."

I rented an old doctor's office in Jamaica, a secondhand car, and a secondhand pickup. I was able to buy 27 room air conditioners. Before they arrived, I had them sold. I would install them in half a day, and so we made our money out of making people happy. Today, that company, ATL Group, is also in the office equipment business, we are the distributor for Honda motorcars, and we have a newspaper called The Jamaica Observer.

Jamaica had gone through a period of upheaval in the '70s. It was a time of radical socialism, and the economy went to tatters. But we survived, and in 1980 we had a new government. We were so enthusiastic. I ended up buying two hotels. They were all in shambles. If I had known what I was doing, I would never have bought those hotels. The amount of Pandora's boxes that were in there! We had to find out how to market and how to cook the food, and the kind of décor and rooms people wanted. That was 1981.



We set about trying to provide more than people expected. I was in Italy and I saw this hair dryer in the bedroom. I found out the manufacturer, and we were the first hotel to have hair dryers in the Caribbean. It's not a big deal today, but in 1983, it was. We did our first swim-up pool bar in 1984. We were the first in the Caribbean to do it. When we were putting in our first hot tub, the people in the hotel association said, "Butch, take it easy, man, you don't need to waste your money that way." While they were talking, I was building a second and a third in different parts of the property, because I realized people like different locations to soak in the tub.

Everybody thought we'd be out of business the first month because the hotel is very close to the airport. We came up with the idea of everyone waving to the people that were leaving in the plane, and kissing the one you love when a plane flies by. I don't think we had five complaints after that. Then the Concorde started flying to Jamaica once a week, and it made more noise than any airplane I've ever heard. The buildings shook. So we turned all the beach lounges to face the airport, and that magnificent airplane would get up right in front of everybody on the beach. Guests would come rushing in: "Has the Concorde taken off yet?" We made a promotion out of it.

The first two years, we lost more money than I ever dreamt possible. We realized that we didn't have enough bedrooms. We only had 100 rooms, so I went in and built more rooms, and that same hotel now is 251 bedrooms.

In 1986, we were able to buy another hotel, Sandals Royal Caribbean it's called today. And we've been able to build more. One is Sandals Grande Riviera Beach & Villa Resort, in the area where I grew up; in fact, the piano bar is built right where my grandmother's home was. Sandals Negril ended up being the most successful hotel that the Caribbean has ever had. We opened it in November 1988. It opened full, and it has been full ever since.

Beaches came straight out of guests saying to me, "Butch, we have been here 15 times, 20 times. But now we have kids; we need a place that we can take the whole family." So that's how Beaches evolved, starting in 1997. We never realized that you needed to do so much to keep the entire family happy. Kids get bored if you don't have organized things for them to do. The smartest thing I ever did was to make my second-youngest son, Adam, chairman of the youth committee to come up with creative ideas to make the younger people happy. We have water slides, swimming bars for kids -- so it's only juice and nonalcoholic drinks -- and we have a little disco that converts into a movie theater.

We have spent $370 million over the past three years modernizing, redecorating, and expanding. Women -- I mean, I hope I'm not saying something wrong -- but women just want bigger and better-quality bathrooms every year. They want bathrooms that are like palaces, that have Jacuzzis in them, separate showers, bidets, twin basins, and now they want those big overhead showers, also soaking tubs. And our job is to please those requests.

My darkest period was in 1990, when I lost my son Jonathan. He was the third of my five sons; he was killed in a tragic car accident at age 24. And nothing meant anything for a while. But I've never had any doubts about the business. I run on gut instinct to a large extent, but at the same time I never make a major decision without bouncing it off of a circle of people that I work with. Right now, we have an organization that has everybody in it. You want lawyers; we have them. Engineers; we have them. Accountants; we have them. Marketing people; we have them. People that understand how to cook the best food in the world; we have them.

I get up every morning, I can't wait for the sun to get up. I don't have that much longer on the planet, and I'm just going to enjoy it in the way that I have for 66 years. I still water-ski. I love boating and fishing, and any opportunity I get, I do that. I play dominoes with friends. I love sitting on the veranda and talking absolute nonsense. I hope most of it will make you laugh.

How I Did it - Butch Stewart

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Andy Rodie

Why PR Is the Prescription - BusinessWeek

Why PR Is the Prescription - BusinessWeek

THE YES MOVIE - the secrets of entrepreneurship.

A great film which will be release soon features a number of young entrepreneurs giving their secrets of business success. The brainchild of Louis Lautman and help produced by Bernard Dino Bonomo, of Beano Vision Productions, this is sure to inspire a generation. Here is Michael Michalowicz, one of the entrepreneurs featured in the film.

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Andy Rodie

Daily Thought - Your Choice.

Just discover Ralph Marston and his blog and I just have to share what this guy is all about. Great daily motivators I will be sharing in the future. Enjoy.


Daily Thought

Your choice
+++++++++++++++++++

You can resent the amount of work you have to do. Or you can
get busy and use it as an opportunity to create great value.

You can see each setback as a fatal blow to the achievement
of your dream. Or you can learn from all the ups and the
downs and make the achievement of your dream all the more
valuable as a result of each challenge.

You can pounce upon each bit of bad news and extrapolate it
to portend the end of the world. Or you can celebrate the
fact that bad news is news only because it is so relatively
rare.

You can sit and wait and complain and convince yourself that
things will never get better. Or you can enthusiastically
jump forward and make life the best it can be.

Whatever the situation, whoever is involved, you always have
a choice. Choose each time to express the authentic beauty
of your being, and live in a world where life is so very
good.

Ralph Marston



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Andy Rodie.

Boom - why it's not business as usual.

Times has changed and it is not business as usaul for entrepreurs if you want to succeed this competitive enviroment. Just completed a great business book by Kevin and Jackie Freiberg titled BOOM 7 CHOICES FOR BLOWING THE DOORS OFF BUSINESS AS USUAL. I think it's a must read for employees and executives alike, looking for a fresh new way for doing business.

The book ends with the manifesto with gives the gist of the entire book and a geat summary of the 7 choices. Here it is

The freedon to choose may be the most powerful attribute and precious resource I have in my life. It shapes who I become, the success I achieve, and my influence in the world. I am a product of my choice, not my conditions.

Choice # 1 I choose to be player.

Choice # 2 I choose to be accountable

Choice # 3 I choose Service of Self-interest

Choice # 4 I choose to focus forward

Choice # 5 I choose to play to my genius

Choice # 6 I choose to get it done

Choice # 7 I choose to risk more and gain more


It's a ultrafresh approach to creating a culture of commitment and accountability.
People will realize their value at work and the difference they can make daily. Again, it's a companywide must read.


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Andy Rodie

THE DREAM

Gurbaksh Chahal started his first company at 16 and sold it at 18 for $40 million, then went on to start a second company and later that to yahoo for $300 million.

I've just read his book THE DREAM and I think it's a great read for all aspiring entrepreneurs. Check it out and get inspired by his story.

He ends the book with 27 lessons on entrepreneurship that I would like to leave you with followed with a video by Brass Magazine.


Listen to your heart.
Forget noble motivations
Adjust your attitude
Figure out what you’re good at
Trust your gut
Do your homework
Be frugal
But don’t be frugal with hiring
Hire smart people
Don’t expect perfection, but strive for it
Learn to listen
Own your mistakes
Never compromise your morality
Never lose sight of the competition
Watch your back
Don’t procastinate
Don’t do anything by half-measures
Be nice to people
Negotiate from a position of strength
Expect the unexpected
Perception is reality
Don’t get emotional
Be fearless
Pick your battles
Grow a think skin
Take chances
When you commit, you really have to commit





I hope you got inspired.

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Andy G. Rodie

How about joining twitter.

Hey what's twitter? Do you know what twitter is and ever used it? I had to find out so I opened a twitter account to see for myself.I can get addictive but it is fun to use.

Simply, twitter is an online tool that helps you to communicate with family/friends and associates. It is simply micro blogging in one or two sentences and allowing updates to your followeres and the folks you follow. It can be simple chat to inspirational content. Whatever you want it to be.

Millions of people use twitter everyday and the numbers are growing.I am absolutely sure it will become a useful tool in building your brand in the future.It is free to join so get an account and start tweeting.


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Andy Rodie.

Ronn Torossian - 5WPR

A young ambitious and aggresive, Ronn Torossian founded 5WPR in January 2003 and today is one of the fastest growing PR firm in the country. Here is inteview with him done recently by Jermey Hassel by Gakcity.


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Andy Rodie

The big idea - Jay-Z

Gainning great insights from great interviews.

Success leaves clues. A great interview with Jay-Z

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Andy G. Rodie

More quotes for the soul.

As I run into these quotes I try to publish them immediately just to share them with all. Here are a few more for the soul.


"Action is the foundational key to success." (Pablo Picasso)

"Having more money does not insure happiness.People with ten millions dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars." (Hobart Brown)

"Whatever you have spend less." (Samuel Johnson)

"Money isn't everthing - but it ranks up there with oxygen." (Rita Davenport)

"Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money." (W.J. Cameron)

"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile...initially scared me to death." (Betty Bender)

"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things that losers are uncomfortable doing." (Ed Foreman)


"Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something." (Fred Smith)

"Try a thing you haven't done three times.Once, to get over your fear of doing it.Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not." ( Virgil Thompson)


"The tax laws were written for the business owners and investors." (Rich Dad)

"Chase your passion nor your pension." (Denise Waitley)

Great, great quotes.

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Andy G. Rodie

A dose of inspiration

There's nothing like a few good quotes to inspire you from time to time. I remember discovering quotes the first time and being moved by the way the words were put together. Short, sweet and to the point. They inspire, motivate and drives you forward. As always, I am a big fan of quotes and I will be sharing them from time to time. Here are few more.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.(Plato)

Character is doing right when no one is watching. (J.C Watts)

It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space. (Thomas K Mattingly)

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible.(Richard Devos)

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience which you must stop and look fear in the face...You must do the thing you think you cannot do.(Eleanor Roosvelt)

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined(Leo Rosten)

Great quotes.

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Andy G. Rodie