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Dan's Weekly Blog - 9 January

ralf@dpsworldwide-co-ltd.com (Administrator) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:18:44 +0000

Dan's Weekly Blog - Week of 9 January 2012

Lot's happening! New contract with Versata out of the USA, lot of fun working with top companies and helping to solve their problems, sell upgrades and new editions of software. Learning a lot, excellent business model, great people!

My good friend and business partner Mark McClure, Top 5 Sales, Marketing and Entrepreneurship Guru will be in Thailand in February. February 5th doing a cameo appearance at the Pattaya Expats Club, 6th and 7th at the Hotel Mercure doing short 2.5 hour seminars on his latest program called: Sitting on Millions. Go to www.SittingOnMillions15.com for all of the information, you can also register there! Also on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/events/205992139495068/ for February 6th, and https://www.facebook.com/events/206551366103969/ for February 7th. Huge value!

We just finished the hugely successful Save our Planet 5 conference at AseanAffairs with my good friend Swarup Roy, www.aseanaffairs.com, www.facebook.com/soptrust attended by the Governor who is a firm supporter of Save our Planet and partnered with BMA and BOI. Expect big things this year in the Save our Planet Movement, go to www.facebook.com/soptrust NOW!

2012 is time to focus, decide what you want and go after it. For me personally, lots to do, lot of opportunities so watch this space regularly! Great opportunities for sure!

Till next week!

Dan's Weekly Blog - 17 December 2011

ralf@dpsworldwide-co-ltd.com (Administrator) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:50:05 +0000

Dan's Weekly Blog - 17 December 2011

I have been remiss, too busy doing too many things to write! For those of you who read it and follow me I am sorry for not being as prolific as I should be!

What is happening, well a lot!

Firstly, Family First! My son Howard is now engaged to be married to his lovely fiance Casey! Congratulations to the both of you and I only wish you happiness. As soon as I know when the Wedding is I will let everyone know too!

Reflections, wow the year is almost over. It was a year of ups and downs, but is finishing out well. We have survived the floods, Thailand is on an upswing. I was lucky in our area there was a lot of flooding, all of it on the other side of the main road so our house and our office have stayed dry the entire time. My heart goes out to friends, colleagues and ordinary Thai people all of whom have suffered during this crisis and were inundated with water inside their houses forcing them to evacuate and now to cleanup and rebuild.

Everyone needs to believe in the Law of Attraction and to apply it! It sure works. Save our Planet 5 is coming on January 5, 2012 and it will be fantastic, working with my good friend S. Roy founder and chairman of Asean Affairs and Creator of Save our Planet, plus my other good friend and PR Partner, Karin Lohitnavy from Midas PR. This will be the Green Event of 2012, in partnership with the BOI and the BMA, with great speakers and well known personalities like M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Governor of Bangkok, Former Nasa Scientist, Dr. Art-ong Jumsai na Ayudhya, MD of Sirindhorn Research Insitute and Rangsit Disaster Centre, Dr. Seree Supratid to name a few of the notable speakers at that event.

We are also working with a large US Software Company now, helping them with their large and critical accounts. Lot of fun, lot of work.

My good friends at Hines Aircraft (Chris Bracey-Gibbons and Paul Hines) are moving forward full steam, look for more news here as the project takes off.

Everyone have a great holiday season, be thankful for all that you have, be grateful and focus on the good, so you will get more of it!

Dan's Almost Daily 5 October 2011

ralf@dpsworldwide-co-ltd.com (Administrator) — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 07:15:27 +0000

5 October 2011

Can't believe how fast time flies when you are having fun! (Or working a lot)!

Lot happening here...spending my time with my good friend and business partner S. Roy who runs AseanAffairs Magazine, I handle Business Development for him and we are working hard in putting together the 5th Save our Planet Conference on the 17th of November at Muang Thong Thani in partnership with BOI and BMA. This will be the Green Event of the Year here for sure.

More details at www.aseanaffairs.com/sop5 and the full series on www.aseanaffairs.com/sop

This is a great cause, we all must do our own individual parts, if we don't no one else will that is for sure!

Back to work, just wanted to do a quick note here for all!

Dan's Almost Daily 18 September 2011

ralf@dpsworldwide-co-ltd.com (Administrator) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:53:21 +0000

Bangkok 18 September 2011

Someday I will get this blog to close to almost daily, with all that is going on sometimes it is hard to find the time to do my own thing! Demands from clients, opportunities and even the occasional go out and have a good time and then get some decent sleeps intrudes on my time to spend sharing here!

Few things for today, one of which is something I do not normally do. I am very close to the founders and owners of Hines Aircraft out of Toronto (operationally based there, incorporated in BVI and also have a US company as well) which has a very special opportunity for my friends and colleagues. They are building a revolutionary new aircraft, driven by a patent-pending propulsion system that allows you to fly from Toronto to Miami and burn less gas than you would driving a car! They are in the final days before taking over an existing manufacturer which propels them significantly forward in both the new aircraft program and the existing aircraft manufacturing. There is an opportunity for regular people to invest in this, and with the takeover of the existing aircraft company the investment moves from a speculative Venture deal to a much lower level of risk. Of course any investing carries risk (look what happened to the stock market in 2008/2009) but the question comes what is the potential return. I will send out details to anyone who is interested to learn more plus for my friends/colleagues who participate will get a bonus issuance of shares.

Training is another subject of passion to me, I love to work with people and help them. I taught a speech class here at St. John's University a year ago, not for the money but to help the students and see how they improved their public speaking skills. Covey's 7th Habit: Sharpen the Saw focuses on self-improvement. I find it hard to understand why people are not as interested in training as they should be. In this day and age you are only as good as your skills and what you can deliver, just showing up and putting in time will not lead you anywhere. So you should be focused on how to improve, training is one way that will help you immensely, reading personal development books is great too, but how do you put the ideas into practice? Working with a trainer/coach will help you wade through it all and be able to focus on what is most important.

I did some coaching as part of a full week training class in late August, and have spent time with each of my coachee's following up. Amazing to see how they are putting their learning into practice. It is not easy, as we find out in our follow up as life happens, they are back at their offices confronted with all that they are responsible for. So working together we are getting them to implement what is important from their training to enable them to be significantly more effective.

The Planet is next on my mind, been spending a lot of time working on Save our Planet 5 Conference scheduled for 17 November at Muang Thong IMPACT Diamond Ballroom in Hall 9. Taking the message of Climate Change, Sustainable development, Air-Water-Earth (AWE-some) to the Thai people with my friend the Founder and Ceo of AseanAffairs and the guy behind Save our Planet, S. Roy. This will be a not to be missed event being held in conjunction with BOI Fair and in partnership with both BMA and BOI.

That is it for today!

Dan's Almost Daily 27 August 2011

ralf@dpsworldwide-co-ltd.com (Administrator) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:19:03 +0000

27 August 2011

Another busy and enjoyable week! Did some training work with this week, coaching and role playing helping the seminar attendees to practice new leadership and coaching skills. Lot of fun, love to work with people who are engaged and actively learning. The two scenarios were on delegation skills and coaching skills, very enjoyable. Then of course on to action planning and scheduling follow up discussions to measure progress again in a few weeks.

Everyone needs to follow Covey's 7 Habits, one critical one is Sharpen the Saw, get training, work on personal development, improve your skills because in the end what you have is what you are capable of producing, not a company not a job, you have yourself and your skills. So improving your skills will always protect your ability to earn money.

Hope many of you had a chance to see some of the previews and highlights of my good friend Mark McClure's new show: Sitting on Milliions which aired on Fox Business Network and will soon be available in Thailand as well. Just go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGG4lF3Qorc to see!

That's it for today, more to come soon!

Dan's Almost Daily - 18 August 2011

ralf@dpsworldwide-co-ltd.com (Administrator) — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:59:10 +0000

18 August 2011

1159am Bangkok Thailand

Blogging, Exercising, What is Important and Make Sure You Make the Time!

What to write about this week? Well I have been remiss in doing my own blog! Too busy doing work for everyone else, kinda like the shoemaker's wife who doesn't have shoes for her children!

Have to practice what we preach, Blogging is critical for our online success. You have to make it a habit. The inventor of permission marketing, Seth Godin, with his many clients, businesses, etc. finds the time to send out a daily blog, so what has been my problem? Just have to be disciplined and do it! Daily, Weekly or Monthly, create something of value for your clients, friends, subscribers.

It is not so difficult to do, just put your mind to it and write something useful. Each of us is an expert in our own areas of expertise, we read, we talk to people, there is always something useful to say, or why would our clients hire us in the first place? Set the schedule, and get down and do it, it is a lot like exercising! We all know we need to do it, but do we make the time? Another one for my list. A friend sent me a funny email today, it showed the doctor talking to the executive saying: So you don't have 1 hour a day to exercise? Would you rather have 24 hours a day to be dead?

Make the time to do what is critical to your success, to your health! A blog post takes maybe 5 minutes, we all can find 5 minutes a day or a week to do it! Same thing with exercise, 30 minutes a day, take a walk, do some sit ups or pushups, take the stairs instead of the elevator! All doable, just decide to do it!

Dan's Almost Daily 5 July 2011

ralf@dpsworldwide-co-ltd.com (Administrator) — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:15:59 +0000

5 July 2011 617pm

I am back.. have not been blogging here lately, too busy doing online and offline marketing work, running seminars, etc..

However, have to practice what I preach which is Consistency. You must be consistent, and that includes doing things you may not want to do but you know you need to do. Much like working out, have to be consistent.

So here I am today reflecting on the past few weeks/months and just getting down to it and writing my blog! This week is a very busy week, investor meetings with my client, drafted an IM to support it, BNI's Thailand National Convention on Friday at Crystal Design Center, My business partner from California arrives tonight and we will have meetings with prospects and then next week a special seminar with Todd Falcone a phenomenal success in Network Marketing and a dyamic trainer.

So keep watching this space, more information to come!

Dan's Almost Daily 22 April 2011

ralf@dpsworldwide-co-ltd.com (Administrator) — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:39:43 +0000

Dan's Almost Daily 22 April 2011

Well my almost daily has turned into almost monthly, having been remiss in publishing an update. Busy is good but never should be too busy to communicate with my readers!

Lot happening on many fronts, last week was Songkran, spent it working and mostly staying dry at my home and office plus few meetings when I did venture out. Time to catch up, reflect a bit, plan a bit. First full draft of my book on the Secrets of Networking for Success with my co-author Karin Lohitnavy and our Thai partner Wanida Tardivel who will be recasting what we have put together in English, into Thai on a practical basis for Thai's not a word for word translation. Great concept, stay tuned as we come close to completing and launching it! This will be a must read for all who want to grow their personal networks and connections.

I also just finished up a training class yesterday on Power Online Marketing, how to make the internet work for you and your business. Great feedback from the attendees, look for our next seminars at www.bangkokworkshop.com or www.facebook.com/bangkokworkshop.

That is it for now, almost daily will now mean almost daily!

Dan's Almost Daily 8 March 2011

ralf@dpsworldwide-co-ltd.com (Administrator) — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:57:50 +0000

8 March 158am

Another week, time to write my blog. I have been a bit remiss lately in posting here, promise to do better at this and practice what I preach.

Another very exciting day here in Bangkok (well Nonthaburi to be exact), opened up the week with two early meetings with a top publicly listed company here in Thailand with my client gathering information to enable us to create a variety of proposals. I love new business development, working with people to come out with solutions to new problems or creating new groups to solve existing problems. Then back to my office to work on some marketing for other clients and get a quick start on my presentation for March 18th at the 4th Save our Planet Conference.

How to put a presentation together? I just taught a seminar on it, so I spent a lot of time searching for usable images for my presentation to enable me to tell the right story. The latest and greatest thinking on how to best create impactful presentations is to find the right images to tell your story, then go about adding the few words per slide to go with those vivid images. The mind remembers pictures, not words and bullets, that is definitely the way to go. This all coming from a guy (me) who when Windows first came out would always switch to the DOS prompt to use the familiar commands.

Then onward to work on a major proposal for another client, the variety is fantastic, but a common thread runs through all that I am doing, working with people to help solve business problems, generating leads/sales either for myself or my clients. The better you get at this the more rewarding it is. Come to one of my selling or marketing seminars, I have pulled together material from top speakers like Mark McClure, Bob Urichuck and others to help you to sell more, generate more leads and make best use of your time. Speaking of time it is after 2am, time for bed!

Dan's Almost Daily 6 February 2011

ralf@dpsworldwide-co-ltd.com (Administrator) — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 14:42:38 +0000

Dan's Almost Daily - 6 February 2011

Boy is 2011 flying past, January is over and so is the first week of February! How is everyone doing on their New Year's Resolutions? Keeping them I hope. Just remember to stay focused on what is important, go after what you want and let the Law of Attraction work for you. Always focus on what you want and never on what you don't want as the Law of Attraction will forget that don't word and unfortunately you will attract exactly what you don't want. Why am I writing on the Law of Attraction? I was in Pattaya today and after the Pattaya Expats Club meeting I met up with my good friend and certified Law of Attraction teacher, Bruce Gordon. He is running a Law of Attraction Seminar tomorrow at 1pm, Markland at no charge to the participants. I will also have him up in Bangkok to do some short presentations on the Law of Attraction later in February, stay tuned here and on my Facebook for details.

Hope everyone had a great weekend and back to work tomorrow. If you follow American Football, the Super Bowl is 6am on Monday, lot of places to watch it, think this year I will watch it from home. Who are you rooting for? Packers or the Steelers? Two old time NFL franchises with a long history. Should be a great game.