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April 20, 2010
Vol. 9, Issue 30

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A Note From The Coach

This week I’m spending a few days in Palm Desert with my partner Travis Greenlee in a bit of a stealth mode – we are putting the finishing touches on a brand new program that I’ve been envisioning for a year.

It’s called The League of Extraordinary Results and I hope within the week to get out our VIP invitations to our Founder’s Level members. We’ve pretty much got our early adopter list complete but if you think you should be on that list for a pretty exclusive opportunity, shoot us an email!

So in between some serious chillin' time by the pool, we’ll be finalizing our plan to introduce this program. Don’t ya love the idea of brainstorming, planning AND having fun? Me too…

Oh, for those of you joining me for my one-time coaching group on Creating Kick Butt Teleseminars today’s the last day to join me live. I’m not doing this program again, so this is your last chance to have me coach you through this process and leave with your preview system all mapped out and ready for big results.

Enjoy this edition’s article and I hope you’ll share your insights on the power of failure on my blog. There’s nothing more exciting to me than hearing your input!

Happy Tuesday!

To your success,


Melanie Benson Strick
CEO, Success Connections, Inc

Upcoming Success Connections Events

The Go-Giver's Secret to Cultivating Endless Referrals, April 21st, 2010 at 3:00pm PT

Dorene Lehavi Recession proof your business by never running out of high quality prospects again. In this month’s Extraordinary Results Academy Live Training, my guest Bob Burg, author of Go-Giver’s Sell More, I’ll uncover Bob’s principles and system to equip your team to easily generate a constant stream of interested and eager referrals! This powerful program is based on Bob’s bestselling, Endless Referrals: Network Your Everyday Contacts Into Sales, which serves as the “textbook” of choice for many of today’s top sales organizations.

We’ll explore your biggest questions such as:

  1. How to tap into a new niche of people when your old niche is running dry
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  3. What a Go-Giver does that positions them at the top of the industry quickly

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Creating Your Kick Butt Program Preview System, April 21 - May 5th

Ready to create a preview system to fill your programs with clients you love? I’m offering a one-time pilot program starting April 21st for information marketers, coaches, consultants, authors and service providers who want the “edge” and an easy to follow system for “plug and play” preview calls. This is a one time only training with tons of live coaching and support so you walk away with your preview system completely mapped out. To find out more visit www.successconnections.com/teleseminarsystem


Secrets of Fast Track Millionaires, Tuesday, May 18th at 6:00pm PST

Join Melanie as she participates in this exciting high-content teleseminar series with Lance Hood of Heartland Success. During these seminars, we'll be laying out exact strategies people can use to immediately take control of their life by reducing their stess, mastering their time and automating how they make money. Too many people have a business or career that is out of control and actually lowering their quality of life. Melanie will be teaching you How To Stop Being the Bottleneck. You'll want to sign up right away for this NO-COST 30-day personal growth and wealth-building program... learn more here


Create Change Now Radio Show, Monday, May 31st at 3:00pm PST

Melanie joins Carli L Murphy on Create Change Now Radio Show. This show concentrates on spiritual awareness, remembering our truth and conscious living through consistently inspirational messages of individual empowerment. Learn more about the show at www.createchangenowradio.com.


Get Real Revolution Radio, Each Tuesday at 11:00am PST

Get Real RevolutionWe'll dig into how to have a wildly successful business based on your truth! If you are tired of the hype, exhausted by keeping up with the "Joneses", or just want a does of reality, this show is for you!

This week's show: Join Melanie and Travis as they chat about Creating Life Long Relationships that Open "The Right" Doors.

A Success Tip

Why Failure is Essential to Your Success

Last week on a member call a new entrepreneur asked me, “What do you do to not look bad when you are getting started?

My response was, “If you are worried about looking bad you are in the wrong line of work.”

Every uber-successful entrepreneur I know has screwed up royally at some time or another. Call it failure, experiments, breakdowns or whatever you want but if you haven’t had at least one massive failure then you are probably playing it too safe.

I’m not saying that making big mistakes is easy – I’m saying that when you make a mistake you are attaining one of the most important mindsets of top performers…

“Failing is a natural by product
of the process of seeking success.”

I actually read this recently in a fantastic book called “Go For No” by Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz. In one chapter they outline five levels of failure that humans move through (again assuming that we all accept the power of failing as good.)

In the five levels, read the rest of the article>>


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About the Coach

Melanie Benson Strick founded Success Connections in 2001 when she left behind a lucrative Corporate job to pursue her passion in life – transforming the lives of overwhelmed, burned out entrepreneurs. Having learned first hand the difference between a struggling solo-practice and a thriving six+ figure business, Melanie works exclusively with entrepreneurs who want to skyrocket their profits so they can experience more time off.

With over 12 years experience in Corporate project management, advanced results coaching and leadership development, Melanie turns her clients into profitable, high-payoff success stories. Melanie’s clients enjoy an average growth rate of 172% within the first year.

Melanie is the author of The CEO Factor™ Manifesto. She is also co-creator of the ULTIMATE Success Generator , Virtual Team Building Training, and co-author of Entrepreneur Press’s Start Your Own Information Marketing Business, Visionary Women Inspiring the World: 12 Paths to Personal Power and contributing author to Entrepreneurial Spirits. She is past-president of the International Coach Federation Los Angeles chapter and founding past-director of the Shared Vision Network Los Angeles.

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