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How to Spot the Next Big Trend (c) Charlie Page
Have you ever known someone who could see around the next corner … see trends forming before others do? What would you have given to know that Google wouldbecome the giant it now is or that YouTube would be sopervasive?
And yet, some people did see these things coming.
People who possess such foresight are often credited
with having a ’sixth sense’ for business.
Yet when they are interviewed they consistently state
that the only thing that makes them special is a keen
sense of observation.
Unless they are universally humble, not a description
that fits this crowd, perhaps sharpening our sense of
observation is in order.
One word of warning. What I am talking about here is
taking a bit of time to observe trends about what
people need, NOT about following what the marketers
push.
If you fall prey to the “next big thing” mentality that
the gurus count on you will find your wallet empty,
your brain spinning, and your prospects few.
Am I saying the $2000 home study course or online
memberships are a ripoff? Not at all.
I’m just saying that it is more valuable to *think*
about what people need and find a way to meet that need
than to follow the herd waving their Visa cards at the
next big thing marketers.
That said, let’s look together at how to develop that
kind of foresight.
1. Study trends and fads.
There are many great books on
trends and what’s coming next. Read a few and learn how
to spot the trends.
Just as economists look for ‘leading indicators’, you
look for leading indicators on the Web. What’s the next
‘killer app’? Does it hold up in the real world, or is
it being hyped? Answers to questions like these can
provide a keen insight into what’s next.
2. Start predicting.
Keep a notebook with your predictions of what the next
big thing will be in the next 3 months, 6 months and
one year. This step alone puts you way in front of 99%
of the general public.
3. Think globally.
The Internet has made the world a global marketplace
that you can attack. Don’t overlook opportunity by
thinking only locally. It’s as easy to sell across the
globe as it is across the street. Factor this in when
you study the market.
4. Position yourself to know the key players.
After you learn how to see trends coming, contact who
you think the key players will be and form a
relationship with them. It does NOT matter that you are
a small fish and they are a guru. Have the chutzpah to
contact them and you gain instant respect.
5. Become ’sales resistant’.
If you are going to get into the prediction game,
you’ll need a powerful sense of what’s real… and
what’s just smoke and mirrors.
The key is to be at the right place at the right time.
See the trend, get in and make your money.
Once you learn to do that, it may be you being
interviewed as the next innovator!
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Charlie Page helps people succeed online with products
that educate combined with personal support.
In the Past, many want-to-be cellular customers have been shut out of the contract wireless market because they were not deemed credit worthy. A major deterrent to ability to get a cell phone has been their inability to pass a credit check. Whether the issue was one of insufficient income, bad credit, no credit history, failure to provide a stable employment record, poorly established residence requirements, or whatever… many people in the past have been relegated to a position of having to rely on other solutions.
Some of these people who felt snubbed by the mobile companies have had to rely on friends and relatives to help them in various ways. Maybe it was “borrowing” a contact number, which left them dependent on the person whose number was used to relay a message. Maybe it was going on someone else’s calling plan with a promise to uphold their end of the bill. Maybe it was using a pager, which would collect a number they could then go somewhere and call. Or maybe, for some, it involved purchasing a prepaid cell phone with minutes programmed into it that could be recharged when used up.
These alternative solutions have all been used with varying degrees of success and at times with exorbitant expense and tremendous inconvenience to the users. Furthermore, equipment options on prepaid phones have been limiting and very basic until recently, and these company-imposed restrictions deprived users of service and companies of untapped profits.
To the market’s credit, however; improvisation and entrepreneurship devised solutions and opened up avenues of expansion, which bridged the gap and made available market options. Now, according to the Washington, D.C., think tank New Millenium Research Council, the last Quarter of 2009, the Prepaid Wireless Sector of the Cellular Phone Market enjoyed its most significant surge in the Communication Industry.
In that Quarter, Prepaid Cell Phone Users accounted for 65 percent of 4.2 million net new wireless subscribers. That means two out of three new customers during that time frame chose prepaid over postpaid. In other words, Mobile Service Contracts are now being rejected by some in the Market Place in search of economic remedies for a bad economy. As people who have Mobile Service Contracts are looking for ways to reduce costs, at least one solution that makes sense in this economy, is turning to Prepaid Cellular Phones.
One of the factors that has contributed to this trend includes availability of the best and most expensive external devices. As equipment options are improved and adapted to meet consumer demand in the Prepay Market, more people who could not afford the expensive Contract Calling Plans now have options to enjoy what they were deprived of just months earlier. And as more people move into the Prepay Market, prices tend to become more competitive. Another factor fueling this market has been the increase of people who can no longer, through no fault of their own, qualify for Contract Phones due to credit reporting limitations.
The timing is right… and the Market is ripe for a new kind of Cell Phone Company. Enter Zoom Mobile, a well thought out and carefully planned launch of a service driven, cellular product Company, poised to be a Giant in the Industry. Service driven because people matter. A product based Company, because it is time to focus on the technology as much as the finances.
Zoom Mobile’s time is now. With two thirds of new users choosing Prepaid Cellular over Contract Calling Plans, the Company that offers service without restrictions and limitations, without credit reports and without contracts has a huge advantage over traditional company structures. As credit-challenged users exercise their options to use Prepaid Phones, and innovative technologies including high-end devices are made available to this market sector, the Company that can do it better has a competitive advantage. And a Company that offers lower priced products with less confusion in its marketing and a reduction in overhead can expect to be on top.
Another innovation brought to bear on the Industry is Zoom Mobile’s Marketing promotion “With-3-Get-It-Free”! Both Customers and Reps (called Associates) can see their Cell Phone Bill disappear by enrolling three who buy a qualifying monthly subscription equal to or greater than their own calling plan. The prospect of getting Free Cellular Service is intriguing to say the least.
Zoom Mobile has consciously decided to use an established, non-traditional marketing structure. Recognizing that in a bad economy, home business and entrepreneurs flourish, Zoom Mobile’s Leadership has chosen an MLM structure. Choosing to allow its distributors to profit from doing what they do best, without requiring them to maintain a brick and mortar retail presence, is a huge step forward that traditional Cellular Retailers have not yet taken.
Zoom Mobile… a Company that has arrived in the nick of time, time to save some Customers from their restrictive contracts and others from excessive costs associated with hidden fees and baited offers.
While it is not outside the realm of possibility, and a Family friend reported this as true, this anecdote just stretched the mind a bit.
There was a lady in a town near where I live who had a Downes Syndrome child… the result of a late in life pregnancy. This child lived to adulthood and was high functioning enough so as to live on his own, however, he was not allowed to cook. So his mom took his meals to him and checked on him frequently throughout the day.
One day on one of her calls to just check up on him, he son told her he wanted her to come over to his house. Se tried putting him off and he said, “No mom, Come over now. I have a troll here I want you to see.”
Well, she did not believe him so she just put him off and said I will see him when I bring your supper. He again said, “I have a troll I want to show you.” She said, “Okay, you can show me when I bring your food.” And she hung up thee phone.
So when she went over to take his supper meal to him she went in and she heard a noise in the bedroom. When she went to investigate, she identified the noise as coming from the closet, so she went over and opened the door… and there was her son’s troll.
Out came a midget who identified himself as a Jehovah’s Witness. It seems this low functioning individual had indeed captured himself a troll.
Team ExSite Officiated… Zoom Mobile and BGM Said “I Do”
Team ExSite has recently been introduced to the dynamic duo that promises to drive Cellular and Internet Service for years to come. First there was Zoom Mobile. Zoom Mobile is poised to set the Cellular Industry on its heels as it runs rough shod over its competition. Fueled by the prospects of FREE Service, Unlimited Nationwide Plans beginning at just $39.99 a month, and a hybrid binary Comp Plan that puts huge money in its reps’ pockets, Zoom is a sure winner.
The Cellular Industry enjoys phenomenal growth and profits, usually at the expense of its customers. Zoom Mobile expects to save money for its customers in a variety of ways. First, its calling plans include all taxes and there are no hidden fees. Since all plans are unlimited and national in scope, there are no hard to understand equations of minutes, nights and evenings, and roaming to keep up with or stay within. What you see is what you get.
There are also no contracts. You buy the phone direct so there are no tricks like free phones to get your name on the dotted line. Existing contracts can be bought out with the savings you will enjoy on the calling plans so it usually makes since to change your service.
The “Get-3-Get-it-Free” provision is offered to anyone who maintains just three paying Customers at the $59.99 Level and up. There are established fees to become an Associate at four (4) different Levels, but the top level is time limited and will be phased out, maybe before this article is published. To participate in the Comp Plan one must upgrade to at least the Associate I Level; however, customers may participate in the ‘Get-it-Free’ program.
Much more can be said about Zoom Mobile. Suffice it to say here, this business opportunity is one that on its merits deserves your investigation as a Customer if you talk, text, download data, or tether using a cell phone. If you are also openly seeking a work from home business opportunity that offers a real product and a business structure, Zoom Mobile deserves your attention.
Team ExSite was not looking for another business; this next business found us and it happened just as we were getting started with Zoom Mobile. Trading under the name Biz Global Media, a new name used by an established, five year old internet company, it utilizes an advertising strategy using text messaging to cell phones. BGM is a glove on hand fit with Zoom Mobile as it uses the Internet and cell phones to accomplish its goals.
Biz Global Media operates similar to Twitter except that the 160 character, key word, text messages are transmitted via cell phones to targeted leads who opt in to a data base by giving their cell numbers. The Company offers us an opportunity to own our own Advertising Agency. There is compensation for retailing ads by establishing other Agencies, these being any business that wants to stay ahead of the trend.
Biz Global Media uses a 2×2, follow me matrix to compensate its reps for bringing on new agency owners. The result is a very generous pay plan based on the GPT Model… Get Paid Today.
The Product is based on key word advertising methods, utilizing SEO, Internet, Cell Phone technologies. See how it fits with Zoom Mobile.
NEWS FLASH… This just in. Team ExSite’s awesome Leader, Linda Helin Tangarone, just announced to the Team that Zoom Mobile has decided to join us in Biz Global Media. The best of two worlds just got better. Now we have three Home Based- Businesses we can operate from a briefcase, or from the comfort of our homes.
We have a Cell Phone Dealership, an Advertising Agency, and a Travel Agency.
Who on the Internet offer you more or does it better than Team ExSite. No One…That is who.
I wish I could say that everyone on Team ExSite is a person of integrity and character. I wish to God that were true of all men and women we have on this great Team. But it just isn’t true of all people and we are a Team comprised of people. Fortunately, as bad things happen in life, people show their true colors, and events in recent days have exposed some on the Team for what they are.
As a founding member and Board Member at Team ExSite, and one with a history associated with our Leader/Mentor/Team Owner, Linda Helin Tangarone, I can attest that she IS a person of character and integrity. In proof of that, she has had only good things to say about one of our Board Members who recently chose to leave us and make his bed by spreading falsehoods, misunderstanding, and misconceptions about her. She is NOT a Co-Owner of New Destiny 800, she has not misappropriated any monies, and she has given up most of her personals to the Team Build we are doing as a Team with ND800.
People who join our Team are asked to opt in to the Team build by signing agreements to our Terms or simply don’t join the Team Build. We have a Pay It Forward strategy that is working and will work if it is given a chance. New Destiny 800 had only been open in pre-launch for a week when the person in question bailed. His accusations had enough truth to them to convince some on our Team to follow him and make a lot of noise, but as any Leader who has been in pre-launch of a site knows, these things are taken care of in pre-launch. The purpose of a pre-launch is to take a trial run and work out the bugs and kinks. We at Team ExSite have been and are “exsited” to be a part of this awesome opportunity and we are seeing the fruits of our labor unfold as we were promised. It is not an over night thing and never will be. Do not be fooled, those who chose to leave us are going to be the butt of Team ExSite jokes for days and months to come (not that we will be remembering except to know that they will soon wish they had stuck it out).
Pre-launch can be trying and difficult, very frustrating… but it has its place and expecting perfetion then is unrealistic. Patrick, Owner of New Destiny 800 told us very clearly that we would not be able to access all the functions until bugs were worked out, and making false accusations against him have been unfair. He has gone the extra mile and bent over backwards to accomodate Team ExSite and anyone saying otherwise may be open to civil, if not criminal, charges for slander and false reports.
I thank you for visiting my Blog and watching the videos posted here about the awesome Team Build and Business Opportunity we are bringing to people who have been scammed and mistreated. Team ExSite gets stronger every time we face adversity because we are founded on treating people right… and we are building with the right people. Those who won’t give us time to prove what we say, are the losers in this game… as time will bear out the facts of the matter.
