{"id":4384,"date":"2017-09-07T07:03:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T11:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2017-09-07T12:55:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T16:55:21","slug":"stop-spreading-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/stop-spreading-bs","title":{"rendered":"Stop Spreading BS&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/No-BS.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/No-BS-205x300.png\" alt=\"No BS\" width=\"141\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/No-BS-205x300.png 205w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/No-BS.png 493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 141px) 100vw, 141px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s prevalent right now\u2026the BS that people are spreading and that others are buying and buying into. And, it has to stop!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3_xNe0TyfaU?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the old adage about if it sounds too good to be true it probably is?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It\u2019s true and you have to use your critical thinking skills and be aware and mindful all the time or the BS will slip under the cracks and you won\u2019t even know it crept in and got you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s easy to believe what\u2019s right in front of our faces without really thinking about it too much. Oh, look at that, her make-up is perfect\u00a0(as we say under our breath, isn\u2019t that nice for her\u2026she must have a great make-up artist) or wow look how successful his launch was (but do you really know the facts of their business\u2026even if you\u2019re in a mastermind with them and they told the results) or that person really has it all together, they have a great life \u2013 they travel and have family and friends that love them and they know all the right people in the industry (while you sit there thinking about all the challenges you have in your life and business and wish you had their connections).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Does any of that sound familiar to you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Or, you hear a pitch for a product or service and they say all the right things, the price\/investment is amazing and you jump in with both feet\u2026before you ask your critical thinking questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As marketers you want people to do just that \u2013 as long as you\u2019re telling them the truth. As business owners investing our money on things, we want to think before we act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For example, if you were investing in Pay-Per-Click advertising and a company said they could get you amazing results and a bunch of new clients every month and all you had to do was spend $500 on ads and their fee was $175 a month (35% of your ad spend) how much attention is your account going to get if they\u2019re only getting $175 a month?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>As opposed to a company who would charge you $500 a month?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s not all about the money but you do have to be mindful about things in your life and in your business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mindfulness isn\u2019t something a lot of people are talking about these days\u2026you hear about mindset and you hear about all kinds of business building and marketing stuff, but being mindful is so important\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And, it\u2019s one of the things I&#8217;m going to be talking about November 6<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> &amp; 7<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> at the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b><i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mindfulbusinesssuccesssummit.com\/\">\u201cMindful Business Success Summit\u2122\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/span>. <\/i><\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">Check out the details\u2026I\u2019d love to see you there\u2026there are less than 10 seats left of the 30 that were available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Make It A Great Day \u2013 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Diane<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s prevalent right now\u2026the BS that people are spreading and that others are buying and buying into. And, it has to stop! What\u2019s the old adage about if it sounds too good to be true it probably is?\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s true and you have to use your critical thinking skills and be aware and mindful all the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic; text-align:right; font-family:Georgia;\" class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/stop-spreading-bs\"class=\"readmore red-clr underline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":4385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[778,29,13,10,30,708,776,777,44],"class_list":["post-4384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bs-in-business","tag-business","tag-complete-marketing-systems","tag-diane-conklin","tag-entrepreneur","tag-articles-marketing","tag-mindful-business-success-summit","tag-mindfulness","tag-small-business"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4384"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4392,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions\/4392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}