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One of my favorite thinkers/writers/teachers Mark Joyner has just launched an online elearning program for blogging and he’s giving it away to anyone who blogs about it. Pure genius. Why? Because I will do anything to get free access to whatever Mark is teaching–he is that good. Anyway, if you’re interested in knowing more about Mark, just Google him. In the next few days his blogging course will probably be the top listing… Here’s a brief summary:

I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you if you post about it on your blog.

It covers:

• The best blogging techniques.
• How to get traffic to your blog.
• How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it’s still free.

This week’s guest is Paul Gillin, author of the book “The New Influencers”, which teaches marketers and individuals how to leverage new Internet media to positively influence their specific target markets.

Paul is a veteran technology journalist with more than 24 years of editorial leadership in following the rapid advances of the information technology revolution. In this week’s interview, Paul shares how individuals can use the power of social media like blogging and podcasting among others to either build individual branding, or become one of today’s new influencers.

Coincidentally, he mentioned one of my favorite blogs “AdRants”, which I check for information for my advertising and marketing recruitment work, and how the person behind that is making a living from that blog! Small world indeed.

Are you interested in becoming a New Influencer? Check out the interview at www.powerupenglish.com and see what it is all about.

Last week while I was surfing the Internet for music clips that I can use for the weekly PowerUp English podcasts, I came across an article announcing Carlos Santana’s upcoming release of his latest album. I have always been a great admirer of his music and I look forward to getting my copy when it is available in Tokyo.

Here’s a bit of trivia about Santana. The Mexico-born musician, who sold 90 million albums worldwide, at first refused to leave his native land for the U.S.A as he wanted to pursue his independence as a musician at the young age of 13. His family prevailed over him and he went on to study high school in San Francisco. But surprisingly, he began to learn English not from school — but from TV. In one of his interviews he related the said experience, “We didn’t have one, but a neighbor did. The first English words I learned were ‘Stick ‘em up!’ It was Roy Rogers.”

Isn’t it amazing that someone who first learned English from TV would someday turn out to be a world-renowned and multi-awarded musician, selling millions of albums worldwide?

This week’s PowerUp English guest is Christine Beckwith. Christine is the co-author of “You Inc.–The Art of Selling Yourself”, a book which presents hundreds of usable ideas on how each one of us can improve our ability to present ourselves to the world.

In this interwiew I asked Christine about her idea of “living is selling”. Just the idea of selling yourself can be a daunting and difficult concept for people to embrace, but Christine reminds us that we all sell (even since we were kids) and why it is so important for all kinds of success in life. Enjoy!

This week’s interview is with TJ Walker, one of the foremost media and presentation trainers. TJ has worked with executives, politicians, and other leaders around the world to help them become better at dealing with the media and getting their key points across in presentaions and interviews.

In the interview we focused on the critical importance of how to make your message more memorable. If you are ever required to speak in public, are interviewed by the media, or even just make an internal presentation at your company, making your message memorable is a skill that you must develop. Listen in at www.powerupenglish.com and learn from one of the top experts in his field. Enjoy!

This week’s interview is with John G. Miller, who came up with a brilliant way of practicing personal accountablity.  John took that concept, called it QBQ and put it into a best-selling book called “QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life”.  Over 700,000 books have been sold and he’s now in high demand as a speaker worldwide.

Personal accountability is something that many of us recognize as important but often forget to practice.  He created QBQ to help people naturally and easily embrace personal accountability in a way that keeps them living with integrity and generating positive results.  What is QBQ?  Listen to the audio at PowerUp English to find out.  Enjoy!

As a basketball fan, I am amazed at how Yao Ming has come a long way from China to become one of the more famous NBA stars of our time. I searched the Internet for stories of his success and learned about his struggles in adapting to the Western culture and language.   I learned that his five years of English lessons and U.S. trips (for smaller leagues) explains why adapting to a new culture and language was quicker for him. In Yao’s first meeting with the Rockets, his teammates were even surprised to see that Yao could converse in English better that expected.

No wonder it was so easy to endear himself to basketball fans around the world. Credit for his perseverance goes to him and his ever-supportive parents who actually had him enrolled for English lessons as soon as they arrived in the U.S. Three points for Yao and his parents!

We recently had Dr. Ivan Misner on PowerUp English with a great interview focused on the Platinum Rule for Networking. Now this week we’re honored to have Dr. Tony Alessandra, who coined and trademarked the term, tell us about the Platinum Rule for salespeople. In our discussion he talks about the four basic business personalities and how understanding them can lead you to success. As you listen to the interview, think about which if the four type is your dominant type and how you can apply this understanding in assessing others to get better results. Enjoy!

Are you a remarkable leader? Do you aspire to become one?

This week’s guest Kevin Eikenberry is the first two-time guest on PowerUp English as he has come back to talk about his brand new book “Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time”.

Kevin is a leader of leaders. He works with experienced and aspiring leaders to help them develop the skills they need to achieve their loftiest goals. In his newly published book Kevin talks about the critical components of time and focus in developing a long-term strategy for developing leadership skills.

In the interview, you’ll come to understand why “one skill at a time” is an important proces. You’ll also be given a fun and useful action step for this week.

Also, check out Kevin’s new book (and there are a lot of great bonuses if you buy it) at http://www.remarkableleadershipbook.com to learn about the many other critical skills for today’s leaders.

You probably know the “Golden Rule”, but do you know the “Platinum Rule”?  Find out in this week’s PowerUp English audio about what understanding and using the Platinum Rule can do for you.

Called the “Father of Modern Networking”, Dr. Ivan Misner shares his ideas with us on how to apply the Platinum Rule in order to create solid relationships with people in your business network.  He also talks about the importance of trust in building these relationships and uses the common house key as a great analogy.  As the author of the New York Times bestseller “Truth or Delusion: Busting Networking’s Biggest Myths”, Dr. Misner has identified many of the major myths surrounding building a strong business network.

Not only has he addressed these issues in theory, he has also built the world’s leading business networking organization, BNI, in over 40 countries.  To hear the full interview (It is 12 minutes this week–a bit longer than our normal 10), click here:

www.powerupenglish.com

Enjoy!

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