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Mike Z

Some sit and wonder, others take action

About Me

Let's start with the family: I have raised two great young men and now I am the proud grandparent of two. My family is everything to me.
Background: I have over 25 years of business experience having owned and operated several different types of businesses. My primary expertise is in information and technology with over 25 years experience in many industries, operating systems and programming languages.
Current: I program and maintain a website for a national healthcare claim clearing house. I provide various busienss services for Physicians and Hospitals relating to claim submission and payment. I am also an executive with NSE, an international marketing company.
I recently published two eBooks on business and network marketing: How to make money while you are sleeping and The Power of Five, 5 Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know about Building a Multimillion-Dollar Global Network. I also contribute to a blog (bigbizsuccess.blogspot.com) for this business and co-authored a complete training system.
Public Service: Over the past 12 years I have helped operate a 166 unit condominium association in Connecticut where I own a condominium, as the President of the Association.
I am also on the board of directors of Community Associations Institute's Connecticut Chapter, an association which supports and provides training for community associations and I function as the chairperson of the Public Relations Committee. I also write an article monthly for the publication Common Interest which supports condominiums around the state and I contribute to the CAICT.blogspot.com online blog.
I also sponsor and feed two children each month through The Nourish the Children initiative.

My Interests

Professionally: Keeping up with technology, Blogging, publishing, business.

Personally: Personal development, Boating, Jet Skiing.

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I'd like to meet:

Other people like me who are on the road to success, regardless what place they are on the journey.

Music:

I love listening to music, almost any music. Mostly Rock, soft rock, and R & B.

Movies:

Comedy, action, and happy endings. As long as it isn't a sappy love story.

Television:

I don't watch much TV because it is mindless entertainment. When I do: How they made it, almost anything on planet green

Books:

Robert T. Kiyosaki, Paul Zane Pilzer, Dale Carnegie, Lou Tice, Donald Trump.

Heroes:

True heroes don't believe they are heroes at all.

My Blog

Five ways to improve your profile to promote yourself online:

- Place a picture of yourself on your profile.  Add pictures of trips, events, activities, family. People connect better with people than things.  The most successful sales and business peop...
Posted by Mike Z on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:30:00 PST

What does your conversation sound like to them?

We often get caught up in our own excitement and our interest in trying to impress the prospect that we forget that they are the one who has to buy into what we are doing. When we start...
Posted by Mike Z on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:09:00 PST

Five Steps to connect with people online (The Power of Five System)

The biggest mistake networkers make is trying to make one contact and close a sale online. It is one thing if someone finds your site, gets excited, and orders, it is a completely different dynamic wh...
Posted by Mike Z on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:08:00 PST

Did you give them a chance? (Five ways to get results for your efforts - The Power of Five)

Something that happened to me personally inspired this thought. I was headed off to a phone conference, met with my client who scheduled the call only to find out I was an hour early. I rushed out for...
Posted by Mike Z on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:04:00 PST

The Real Secret

There is only one secret to business and it is making contact with people and forming relationships with those people. If you are not social and not willing to change then you can not survive in direc...
Posted by Mike Z on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:14:00 PST

How do you know you want me in your business?

We talk about how we are in our own business, but do we treat this like it is a business or a quick product sale?  We are constantly trying to recruit everyone and anyone and then we wonder why m...
Posted by Mike Z on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:07:00 PST

Do lead systems work?

There are dozens of lead generation systems and dozens of ways to obtain leads.  The bottom line on leads and lead systems is they are a great way of bringing people to your door.  If you ar...
Posted by Mike Z on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:29:00 PST

The ignorance of arrogance

We can learn many things from Asian culture and one I learned early in my life was not to be too arrogant. No matter how much you know, someone always knows more. No matter how much you do not know,...
Posted by Mike Z on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:11:00 PST

How can someone get a head financially?

There are only two ways to get a head finaically.  Invest a lot of money or invest a lot of time.  If you do not have one, you can fall back on the other.You can always do nothing and stay w...
Posted by Mike Z on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:36:00 PST

With change comes opportunity

How many times have you heard the saying change creates opportunity? Right now there is one of the largest opportunities to capitalize .. that has existed in history. The world is in the early stage...
Posted by Mike Z on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:10:00 PST