Mukul Verma

Celebrity Apprentice is quite an amazing show to watch.  I believe there are no losers on this show, and that the apprentice has been set up to ensure that all are winners and this is how real business should be done.

In life and business alike, people believe that someone must win and others must lose.  This cannot be further from the truth, it should be about creating value.  In a deal, often both sides are not after the same benefits.  I read a book by Donald Trump book several years back and he gave one piece of advise that I base my business on.  And this business advice is also  reflected in this show more and more.

Donald Trumps advice is – In every deal, “both sides should walk away feeling like winners”.  The Celebrity Apprentice is a perfect example of exactly that, where there are soo many winners.

Lets start off with the charity, millions of dollars were raised for the celebrities different charities.  It is not relevant if you have the title of the celebrity apprentice or finished second or third.  What matters is that these charities are getting prime time exposure, building greater awareness and recognition that would have costed them hundreds,thousands or maybe millions of dollars to get.

Holly raised almost $600,000 and Bret almost $400,000 for there respective charities, and a lot more money was raised for other celebrity charities as well.  All the Charities are true winners.

Maria through Make A Wish made one little boys dream come true, if that is not a true winner, to have a child’s dream come true – to meet Donald Trump and sit next to him chatting on the season finale episode of Celebrity Apprentice, then what is more magical.  The children that Make A Wish help – they did not ask to be sick or in this difficult life struggle, however through the Make A Wish Foundation, we can change there lives by adding a sparkle, by building awareness and make their wish come true.  Now this is powerful, as Make A Wish is a charity that is closely personal to my heart as well.

Another great benefit of the Celebrity Apprentice is for the participating Celebrities to have the opportunity and remarkable chance to build there personal brand and rekindle their celebrity status to the world.  There is no doubt in my mind that being apart of the Celebrity Apprentice can take a great toll on these celebrities lives – from time, the great efforts and hard work that go into each task, however the great exposure they gain being on prime time television is well worth the costs.  Rod had guts to come back and face the public, Cindy selling a album next month, Joan Rivers fee’s went way up now she is a bigger star then ever before.

The companies that are featured during each task that sponsor the show and provide a platform for the celebrities to compete they too have a lot to gain from this show as the Celebrity Apprentice gives them greater exposure and great awareness for their brand name. And the opportunity to have such creative minds working on their products and brand awareness  is an added bonus for many of these companies.  I also liked that this year many of these same businesses felt compelled to gave to the show and the community and donate substantial amounts of their own money to the featured Charities.  Thank Snapples for the $250,000 donated towards Holly and Bret’s charities and the branding for Brett and Holly’s Charity.  This I am sure would have costed a lot more in primetime advertising, if done anywhere else other than the apprentice.  Companies like ACN or Zappos are becoming more household names after being featured on the Apprentice.

Lastly but certainly not the least, The Donald!  He is a marketing machine. He truely knows how to create a win-win situation for all and does a very good job at it.  He will sell more books, condo, ties, tours or whatever carries the Donald Trump name on it by building his brand and greater awareness of his NAME.   Donald Trump was a big name before, however now he is a even bigger and will continue to grow as the show progresses into the next season.

And Finally,  I too am a winner, because as a result of the very first Apprentice, I picked up the first book after a very long time, his book, Donald’s book and have never stopped reading professional development and self help books ever since. Another  benefit I gain from this show is the business lessons, I learnt from this show, which have helped me in my own business and everyday life.  I learnt several important business lessons from season 1 and 2 of Apprentice, a while back and applied it to my business and have seen great progress as a result of this.

One so lesson I learn was during an Celebrity Apprentice episode, where a fellow team memeber went in the golf store and asked the right question to secure the win – the question was “Have you ever given anyone a discount?” .  This simple question enabled their team to get a much better price then the other.  Simple, but effective.   I applied this same tactic into my own negotiations a few weeks ago and so the results for myself.

This show is what business is all about, creating winners in every one and in every way.  The Celebrity Apprentice has perfected this winning process and everyone is a winner especially the charities.

Cheers,

Mukul

The other night I got the chance to get a speak peak at a truly Canadian movie; Score – A Hockey Musical.

This movie based on a home schooled boy who is very good at shinny hockey and his journey.  It stars Olivia Newton-John, Stephen McHattie and Noah Reid.  It also starred Nelly Furtado and George Stroumboulopoulos; who has a very small part in this movie.

This was a post production review of the movie, the final theater release may differ.

The movie was truly Canadian to start and that may narrow the demographics to Canada with the opening scenes.  I think the story after that can apply to a bigger demographic and anyone who is a hockey fan will truly enjoy it.

I personally enjoy musicals and I enjoy hockey and this movie was the perfect mix.  It has a solid story line, showing many different angles on this next Sidney Crosby road to success.

The ending was brilliant; one of the main issue is the choice weather to play organized hockey due to the violence int he game; Farley, a home schooled kid who only played shinny hockey for fun would have to fight if he wanted to play organized hockey.   His personal believes were not to fight.  The battle between if he should play against his believes or do whats needed to make it in hockey? Both ways he loses, well I wont tell you how it ends, but in this movie there are no losers.

Overall this was a great musical movie; solid story, great acting, the many comparisons between home schooled vs public school, fighting vs not-fighting, shinny vs organized, romantic love vs finding the right person and the list goes on makes this film is well worth checking out.  The movie releases in Canada on October 22, 2010.  Tell me what you think.

A positive approach to live, a good laugh and a great lesson all in one here

With email being SUPER easy these days, forwards are a time a dozen, this one was clever and had a great lesson to it.  It made me laugh, my aunt (masi) shared this with me that I had to share with others, enjoy.

Cheers,

Mukul

Got back last night and it was quite an amazing time. Vancouver is a really nice city and the crowds, line ups and events were quite an adventure to experience.

You can see a lot more pictures on Facebook, I will share with you some of the highlights here.

We met gold medal winner Maelle Rickers the way after she won a gold medal for Canada. This was pretty cool to meet a gold medal winnet atht he Olympics where she won it in Canada….

Here is the speech she gave right before we met her

Here is a picture of us with Maelle Rickers (who won a gold for Canada at Vancouver Olympics 2010)

The first hockey game seeing Jagr live, this game was Czech vs Slovakia.  Then we also was Sweden vs Belarus & Quarter Finals (USA vs Switzerland).   The games were very exciting and lots of energy.  The Canadian fans were all going to the Swiz after the USA beating a couple days before. GO CANADA GO!!!!!

We watched the Canada vs Switzerland at the popular Cactus Club, here is the place going loud when Crosby scored the winning goal in the shootout.

Here is the biggest high 5 I could find, I loved these gloves.

FANCOUVER, This is the Yahoo zone for fans to come in, I loved the same and they took some cool pictures.  Some reason they messed all our pictures up and we could not see it online, but it was pretty fun to visit.  Fancouver…..This is in yaletown where we stayed.

Would you believe me if I told you this next picture was real, if so, lets talk about some land in Florida that I got….a cut our on Granville

This is the introduction to Our Lady Peace coming on stage at the Richmond O Zone.

They are bringing out Lord Stanley Cup which will come home to Toronto soon. This was Live City Downtown in the Canada Place. We started the line up here, the olympics were a lot about long long line ups, so we mastered lines by the end by creating new ones a few minutes before they are ready at the start of the event. Since there is little time between events, they only start line ups a little before and no one knows where it starts. So we offer to start it, this worked 3 times having us a lot of time

Here is a picture of Tim, Sam and I with lord Stanley cup, the mounty told he, she has to smile for 7,000 pictures a day

The torch in the day time, the wife may have night pictures on her Facebook profile.  You can see the mountains in the background, I LOVE the mountain views from downtown Vancouver (if you were with me in Vancouver, did I mention that, kidding)

I guess I got my sports mixed up, baseball meets winter olympics

On our way to Russia House (The Science Center) which was nothing exciting, however the walk was pretty nice and all along the water people were showing there Olympic spirit

Being Canadian, we are known for our mounty, so we had to get a picture with them.  I was trying to tag her on Facebook, but could not find the mounty.

We had to see Whistler, the village was pretty nice to walk through and the view was amazing here are 2 videos of the view we got

The view is nice and yes I had to do a fun picture up there, here are a couple pictures from Whistlers.  I dont even like beer, but there is something about being in Whistler that makes you have to have a Kokanee with a great view of the mountains

Stanley Park is a lovely walk, about 9 KM around the whole work.  It is known for its todem poles

This is only a small part of the pictures and what we saw in Vancouver for the Olympics 2010.

GO CANADA GO!!!!!!

Cheers,

Mukul

Here is a short video from Vancouver, I cannot find a quite place in this whole city, so I had to do it inside.  It talks about 3 things I have learned from the Olympics that I can use in my Internet Marketing business and you can as well…some great lessons

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I met a guy, Darryl last weekend and he had a list of people who he wanted to be friends with and I thought that was a pretty cool idea.

This is people you want to be friends with, not just meet once or know, I am talking about being friends with that you can call up and be like, Hey Donald, I am in town, lets get a coffee.

To here are 5 people I would like to be friends with.

Tim Ferris – He takes a lot concepts that are pretty simple however effective when in comes to life style design, which I think is pretty cool, one of his idols which I am reading now Seneca talks about not saving it all til the end, to enjoy life and how we waste soo much of life and thats why it short.  After reading 4 hour work week, my idea on business design and life design changed.  I am not saving it til the end, Olympics here I come.

Donald Trump – If you have read or studied anything by Donald Trump, you would understand he values time, fan of quality, has extreme discipline and believes in doing what he loves.  My thought here is that if I can have a friendship with The Donald, it must mean, I am a value to his time which would come from me valuing my own time and self.

Robert Kiyosaki - He is very good at making complicated methods and making them very simple.  His books are quite often are overlaps in material of other books he has written, however to drill across the core points are values.  If you want to change your physiology, he is the man to see.   I have had 2 changing points in my life after reading his material, years ago when I picked up Rich Dad, Poor Dad and about a year back when I read Rich Dads Guide To Investing and immediately made changes for me financially which is how I am doing it now.  The concepts are simple, it takes work and are totally doable.  He does not look at easy street, doing the work and meeting his the goals.

Marshall Mathers – Also knows as Eminem, this guy understands marketing like no one I have seen before.  The image he portrays and marketing he does is just brilliant.  Lady Gaga cannot do a # on him with her outfits.  He is very open about it, however he knows how not to kill his 15 minutes and to maximize is at the same time. Marshall Lets be friends.

Will Smith – Looking at Will Smith, you may notice he has been a star most of his life right? Well what you do not see with him is that he understands mastery.  Anyone who is successful has put in there time, even though it looks simple on the surface, well Will Smith is one who I believe understands mastering a task.

Well that is 5, I can list more, but here is the short list of people.  Hey Tim, Donald, Robert, Marshal & Will next time you are in Toronto, give me a call, lets do lunch.

Cheers,

Mukul

There are some massive changes coming to my blog.  The great response on the Internet Marketing information shared from my 6 years of experience online.

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Cheers,

Mukul

I am dividing my websites, as you know that most of what I talk about is Internet Marketing related, well I have opened a new website called Internet Marketing Crunch, please check it out and join the email list. Depending on when you read this that site may be still in process of being made or up.

When setting up a wordpress, I wanted to share my list of Wordpress plug-ins that I add to new websites

AddThis Sidebar Widget – This allows people to share your website with others (please share this one)

All in One SEO Pack – This allows more effective SEO to be built in

FeedBurner Widget – This allows people to add you through a RSS Feed

Google Analyticator – Tracking Stats

Google XML Sitemaps - This allows Google to see a proper Sitemap

Personal Favicon – This allows Wordpress to use your personal favicon (which is the little image in the tag)

Pretty Link – Makes your links look better

Secure WordPress – Cleans up some small errors and makes your website more secure

Twitter for Wordpress (optional depending on website) – Allow your Twitter messages to be updated on your wordpress page

Next time you make a wordpress website, please stop by here and remember to add these plugins

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Cheers,

Mukul Verma

PS – I will be doing most Internet Marketing related tips and blogs including traffic generation, videos and so on atInternet Marketing Crunch (once the websites ready)

Here is a video which was suppose to be made for Video Marketing Intensive members, however there is good information for Internet Marketing in general here.

I talk about why using popular videos and why it does not work work, a new keyword tool to use, dominating industries and how to leverage language skills to tap into new markets.

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Cheers,

Mukul

Are you putting yourself out there.  Here is a short video before I had to run this morning that I made on ways that we can put ourselves out there and get more results.