10 Ways you need to adjust Instant Messages for cultures? Personal Coach
A few days ago my mentor client Jimmy, asked me to hold him accountable. He told me he would report LESS instant messaging during our next meeting.
I asked, “Jimmy, why do you want to do that?” He told me he was using Instagram Messages and Facebook Messenger to send instant messages (IM) his clients.
Jimmy said it was taking too much of his time and he didn’t think it was valuable. I asked Jimmy if he had heard of automated chat apps called Chatbots. He had met a chatbot sales guy at a conference but he didn’t feel too trusting.
It seems Jimmy felt the guy was ‘telling and selling’ hype and thought the guy would just take advantage. Yes, sales people can take advantage of you, but Chatbots are new and developing quickly.
Keeping up with new technologies can involve challenge and change, but we don’t want to let ourselves get scared of that change. The point here is that IMing can waste time if you don’t know how to use it wisely.
The biggest mistake I see Gig business owners make with IMing is they write texts for their own cultural preferences. They don’t adapt their writing for other cultures and non-native English speakers.
Over the next few minutes I showed a few simple ways to adjust to his target cultures and he took action and tried it. He reported back that he had tripled his response rate and was spending less time instant messaging his customers.
All you need to do is make a few simple adjustments to connect with your target cultures. To give you an example , I have included these 10 ways you must adjust your emails for different cultures.
DEFINITION: Giggers – those who have started their own Gig to live the New Gig Economy Lifestyle.
As Russell Brunson says, can you? More later.
How do you rate? How do you channel your frustration into power?
Remember…
Quiz yourself at this end of this blog to see how you fair?
Doc Warren Lifestyle Coach here…
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With my personal coach and mentor clients, and in classes where I teach a How to Become a Life Coach Certification course, we channel frustration into power.
Giggers, channel your frustration into power. As The New Rich are effective Entrepreneurs, they have learned to channel frustration into power for experiencing optimal lifestyles.
Today we are aligning our Gigger Success Skill #7: Do not let people take advantage, with Gig Business Success Step-3: Automate and outsource.
A lifestyle friendly biz can’t happen w/o this… It’s no secret that in order to get what you want in life, it can involve challenge and change. For some, the challenges we take on may seem odd, or nonsensical.
Like the guy that scales everest. Or the friend that runs marathons. Or, the guy that builds a million dollar business from the ground up.
When asked why they’d do something so crazy and out of the box? Often they’ll say, “because it’s fun.” And within their answer lays hidden a big success tip.
To enjoy the journey, and to achieve the success you want and deserve? Make it a game. Seriously.
Science shows it take the pressure off of you. And a game, you can track. Win or lose. It worked or it didn’t.
And success in any venture must be trackable.
- Did we lose the weight we wanted this month?
- Did we get stronger? Run further or faster?
- Did our side-biz get X number or leads or sales?
Only when we’re able to track and KNOW, can we then adjust course and play the game to get what we want. No reason we can’t have fun in the process to get reach our goals, right?
If you’d like to build up a profitable lifestyle friendly biz, treat it like a game of Mario Brothers or Chess. Try a strategy out.
If an opponent gets you? Hit start. Play again. Pretty soon, you’ll WIN. And maybe very big?
Just like automating and outsourcing, try new ways like you are playing a game.
Don’t be held hostage by the nerds you used to tease in High School. Russell Brunson
All the Best,
Warren Linger
Do Not Let People Take Advantage. Exercise #4:
As a Gigger in the global Gig economy, how can you automate and Not Let People Take Advantage to build your Gig business to the next level?
Look at these examples where Giggers say they got support to not let people take advantage and found ways to overcome them to feel confident and build their Gig business to support their customer clans.
- I was letting my customers from other countries take advantage, so I’ve automated so I get regular feedback and analytics
- I’ve found I my affiliate program was taking advantage of me, so I hired a mentor to help me see what’s best
- My suppliers from other cultures were taking advantage of me, so learned to use analytics and asked for what I needed
Write 3 ways you could get support to not let people take advantage and create your flow systems to have time to feel fully engaged developing yourself in your Gig and for your customer clan.
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Look at your list and attack 1 (only one at a time but do try a new one every month) idea to apply this week:
- Write your your idea where you could not let people take advantage.
- List steps you see to overcome (e.g. digital media) to see opportunities and values for your clan.
- Give yourself a metric to measure progress. (e.g. I will set a webinar for my customer clan feedback and learn from them when they want.)
- Reward yourself after you have completed your steps to channel frustrations into unstoppable power.
Debrief: The point here is to get over your own “NO, I can’t,” response and develop yourself so you can have your business success and your optimal lifestyle.
If you are looking at this exercise and saying, “this feels awkward,” that is good. The important part is you will get used to it, as your life, family, and business depend on it.
Don’t be held hostage by the nerds you used to tease in High School. Russell Brunson
NOTE: If you don’t learn to not let people take advantage, you may soon join the 80% of small businesses that fail within the first 5 years!
PS: Next time you will learn another step to your Gigger success as you learn to not let people take advantage. If you would like more developing your Gig business to the next level and living your optimal lifestyle, email me at drwarren@cict.co.
Hope this helps.
Doc Warren Linger
@DrWarrenLINGER
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We’ll all be there to celebrate your big successes, and to help you up if and when you should ever fall…
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Engagement background of Optimal Engagement Lifestyle
As a trainer and university lecturer in the USA, I had great success in my coaching, training, and classrooms by engaging my learners in ways I had learned from my Dale Carnegie Instructor Training. (optimal engagement)
After earning my Doctoral Degree researching engaging instruction in adult education and training and development, I started a training business in Hong Kong.
But something was wrong, I was struggling in this new culture (I’m a cattle rancher’s son from Colorado, USA) to find ways to inspire and motivate my coachees and students in Hong Kong.
With my coachees and in the classroom, I preferred having clients engage in learning activities instead of just talking. This is especially effective to keep clients engaged between coaching calls.
I struggled through trying several paper worksheets and workbooks to guide students, but I wasn’t getting the results I wanted. (junk engagement)
When the smart phone with the ability to search the internet came along, I could see my clients were curating (i.e. searching, finding, collecting, commenting, changing, remixing, and sharing.)
I thought, “Why not do that for learning?”, so I started asking them to answer questions, interact with information and colleagues, and go find examples of the learning content using their mobile devices.
eWorkbook development and success
I began searching for possibilities and I struggled testing several apps, until we created best practices using eWorkbooks, and after testing them, began to use eWorkbooks as my clients always had their devices with them.
Then we used eWorkbooks (Google Forms with the training slides as well as interactive questions, curating links and tasks, example images and videos, etc.) This became powerful for my coaching clients as they were able to share ideas and get the benefits of social learning even though they were not in the training course or classroom.
My clients [Engaging Screenagers] completed eWorkbooks using their mobile devices as they were learning interactively while, at the same time, they were developing habits of learning with their devices (optimal engagement) instead of killing time with them. (junk engagement)
Students used eWorkbooks to while I lead the discussion and guided them, and after they submitted their answers, they would get their responses sent to their inbox so they could review their learning Moments of Growth. (optimal engagement)
Because the students’ responses from eWorkbooks go right into a spreadsheet in real-time, as the teacher I can monitor what students are doing to give them guidance in the moment, as well as track their learning develop over time.
Since those early days, I’ve had great luck supporting my coaching clients and entrepreneur friends use Google forms for 360° reviews for evaluations as well as use eBrochures and eMenus to test new ideas and actively engage and actively interact with customers.
All client info has been scrubbed of identifying information unless they have given me specific, written permission to quote them.
Culture success skills adapted from: Cultures and Organizations: Software for the Mind 2nd Ed. (2005) Geert Hofstede and Gert Jan Hofstede, McGraw Hill, New York.
*Entrepreneurial Foundation>Success Skills adapted from World Life Skills Expert, Jill Raiguel’s awesome book, “The Next Step,” (1991) Amethyst Books, New York.
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