Success Mafia

Random posts mostly focused on how to build a successful business or organization. I have a wide variety of interests and will post other things outside of this area but closely related in some way. I hope I haven't confused you already. Enjoy!

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Easy Guide to WP Plugin Generator (by Robert Schulz)

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English Industry in Korea Dead?

I think it is. It's been dying a slow and agonizing death for several years now. Why? Don't Koreans need English? Most Korean children, for the last 10+ years have been forced by their parents to attend afterschool programs and academies, hagwon, to improve mainly speaking. Consistently over that time, studies and reports have come out that Korea spends the most in English education but has the worst results. Why? Parents think that to get ahead and more importantly, to attend an Ivy League university, their kids have to study English. English grammar and vocabulary classes have been a mainstay of the Korean public education system for decades now. The results are students who have large vocabularies, can read, but not write well and couldn't talk their way into a promotion or raise if their lives depended on it. Maybe I'm being too harsh. But, of all the Koreans I've met, only those who've been immersed in an English speaking environment speak well enough to have basic conversations. Everyone else (well over 50%) have wasted their money. This is especially true for adults. Most can and will never make good improvement to be remotely competent in English. The reasons are numerous and varied but boil down to the inability to focus on study and practice of the language they so desperately want to speak fluently. Most just aren't willing to put in the effort required and expect that if there is no noticeable improvement in a few days then the teacher is to blame. Regardless, of the reasons the fact is Koreans spend a large amount of money (over $1 billion USD) every year and get the lowest return in Asia on that investment. I'm not going to put the statistics here - use Google. A better investment, for adults and companies at least, would be to focus on more general concepts and soft skills. That is, train them on what success is and how to achieve it, then move onto skills like small talk and presenting. The practical usage of what they already have. Until Koreans are able to focus on improving English there is no need to waste money. I may have just wrote myself out of a job but I believe there s a much bigger market out there for adult education especially.

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Guess the tribute if you can.

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Success: Quote of the Day

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Vince Lombardi

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Success Step 1 - Desire

I've been reading and re-reading the book "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill.

For those of you who don't know what the book is about, it's a book based on 25 years of research and interviews with 500 successful people, such as Andrew Carnegie.

Napoleon Hill was a journalist who was put to the task of writing this book by Andrew Carnegie. The book goes into the process or steps required to be successful.

From the interviews that Hill collected and distilled, he developed 13 principles that when applied will lead to success. When Hill writes about success, he does not simply mean wealth and monetary riches, but a more general definition that includes relationships, goal achievement, happiness and so on.

The first step turns out to be desire. Desire is the driving force. For a person to be successful he or she must truly want it.

If you do not truly desire success, if you are content and happy in your life then desire for improvement doesn't exist and the pursuit of success in any form will only lead to failure. Worse, you may not even know you have failed in my opinion.

Desire for success forces you to focus on what you really want out of life. It forces you to get down to basics and plot an endpoint - your definition of success. Once you have your destination plotted the rest becomes much easier. The route you take may have several detours and the vehicle(s) that take you there may change - but the final destination will always be visible. You just need the desire to reach it.

Check out the book for yourself and start making your own interpretations of the information within. You can get your copy by clicking:

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Facebook will introduce Timeline for Fan Pages this month. By the end of March all fan pages will be switched to Timeline. Read more about the changes on our main blog, Success Mafia. The most important changes are the cover photo will be the main part of your page and your default landing tabs will become all but useless.

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This has been working for me.

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Want to know how to monetize YouTube?

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Set up a PayPal donation button on your website or blog.

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1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.

3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

Read on.

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Great stuff.

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I posted these contests before many others. But for some reason @cultofmac got a Techcrunch article for posting a link to the MacBook air contest. That was a good two weeks after I first posted the contest link. What does it take for a brother to get some recognition? Enter some contests. They are free.

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If you think about it, printers are probably the worst-designed gadgets in our homes (unless you own the same awful Samsung Behold as I do). But despite the mythical advance of the paperless office, nobody has been able to kill them off. Until now. A new survey says that the iPad has finally doomed the printer, and is even saving trees.

The survey, conducted by Morgan Stanley Research and named “Tablet Demand and Disruption,” shows that as tablet adoption in business has grown, so the use of paper and printers has dropped. And for tablets here we can read “iPad,” as nothing else is really selling in significant numbers.

Morgan Stanley surveyed 700 tablet users in the U.S and found that 46 percent of them had reduced their printer use. It makes total sense. Even the Lady, a die-hard paper user, took her iPad to some official place or other last month to have them scan a barcode straight from the screen.

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» via Cult of Mac

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Paul Higgins: has certainly happened with me. I will email documents to GMail that I need to read or take to meetings. I will send documents to my iPad that I use to run workshops - run sheets, timings , etc. Also send presentations to my iPad into Prezi Viewer so I can practice them on a train or plane. The important difference to my laptop is ease of carrying and the speed of opening and using. The other day I had a breakfast meeting in the city and another one at 11. In between I was going into the virtual office space we hire from Servcorp to do some work on end of month reporting . I needed the accounting software application that I have on my laptop rather than my iPad despite the fact that we share the back up files in the cloud via DropBox. I found myself really strongly resenting the fact that I had to carry my laptop with me. Made me think that the cloud plus tablet are certainly the way of the future and the laptops days are ending faster than I previously thought.

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This comes as no shock.

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Hey - nice blog! Hope you don't mind if I use some of your content, they're great. New follower, can you please follow me back?

Feel free to use the content. Please give is a link back is all I ask. Enjoy!I have followed you back.

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The guys at appsumo.com have a bunch of free to enter contests running. Like tickets to SXSW in Austin, MacBook Air, and the upcoming iPad 3 and more. Check out the current contests on our blog. The direct link is above.