Do you have trouble making it to your 7:00am meetings?

Take a deep breath.

Feel the air flowing in through your nose, filling your lungs up and rounding out your belly.

Now let it all out. Mike showed us this trick to get the blood flowing and mind going, even at seven o'clock in the morning.  Of course, being our personal trainer, this exercise also helps to strengthen your abdominal muscles and relieve back pain.

Another packed house. 

While there's much love to go around between the members, it's great to see all our guests' fresh faces and get a chance to learn about them.  Thanks to all of you for making the effort to wake up early and helping to make a great meeting:

• Nicolas de Segonzac - business coach
• John McConnell - Psychologist
• Jenna Materasso - Video phones
• Derek Patterson -  Foreseen
• Mary - Psychologist

We look forward to seeing you next week!

Showboater Showed Houses

Derek showboated this week and gave us a chance to see photos of his work and what he had done to dramatically enhance .  Many people remarked, "Oh, I wish I had that kind of bathroom," to which Derek replied,

    "You can."

Our New Printer, Brian Geffen

We're excited to welcome Brian Geffen of 'DudsByDudes' into our chapter.  Brian will be filling the  Printer category.  We look forward to meeting with you again as an official member next week!

Buying a TV vs. Buying a House

Think of how much time you spent buying your last TV, researching on the internet, at Best Buy, talking to friends and family.  Even though this is a $300-$1,000 purchase, the average consumer spends 6 hours over 3 weeks researching this decision. There are so many details to consider.

When you're buying a house, it's a $300,000 to $1,000,000 purchase and there are so many details that not only escape the average person, but also an average realtor.  This is where Seth's considerable knowledge and experience really come into play to help you get the right deal.

"Knowledge is free, experience is priceless"
                                       Seth O'Byrne

Myth of the Silver Bullet

There's a common belief that if you want to double your business, you need to get twice as many people through your doors.  Rich Yumul, our software consultant, showed us in our second talk how if you do a variety of modest improvements throughout your business, they will multiply together to more than double your business.

Rich then led us through an exercise to discover some of the places we can tune up our own businesses.  The exercise went like this for me (Llewellyn):

• First, select an area of focus (Leads)
• Next, think of five areas that affect that focus. (Leads)
  • Talking at user groups
  • Following up with clients
  • blogging
  • co-working
  • National talks
  • Next, select one of those (co-working) and repeat
    • Work with Platrasha
    • Blog with Dan Gilkerson
    • Lunch & Learn at Intuit
    • Ruby project with Mattetti
    • Sun spot project with Jason
• Now, take one of those things and identify a way to tweak it so it works better.
• My business would be better if I spoke regularly at Intuit.

Although at this point we've only identified one way to tune up your business, if you were to drill each level to the bottom, there are 25 improvements you will find.  Meaning, if you did this exercise one time a day for a month, you will have a dramatically improved business.  Rich then pointed out that if that 'improvement' involves computers, you should probably give him a call.

Latest from the Mikel Bruce Collection Raffled

We're both excited to see that Mikel has continued to make more pottery and disappointed that we did not win it in yesterday's raffle. We'd also like to thank Paul & Barbara for their donations, the other participants, and to congratulate the winners.

Networking Isn't Just On Thursday Mornings

On a sad note, this month's visitation had an unusual number of people that did not make the time to get to know their fellow members better.  Probably the additional pressure of tax time distracted us from focusing on each other and could also explain the low tip count (17).  We hope that this week that you will not only take the time to strengthen your relationships but also strengthen each others' businesses. 

Remember, what you get out of LeTip depends on what you put into it.

Next week we will be hearing from Matin and Derek as our featured speakers.  Jamelin will greet and Seth will show us  how a 'real' real estate expert showboats.

Try to make it out on Monday, for Llewellyn's LeTip  LeMondays (1121 Chalcedony St in Pacific Beach).  Work on your speeches, work on developing better power partner relationships, work on building our chapter.  

Have a great week!

Llewellyn & Rich

ps - Mother's day is coming up soon (May 10). Karen & Paul have specials to make Mom happy.