Since my radio interview has been archived and made available, I'm going to share this post from May again. If you click on the listen here link below, it'll take you to the archive since it's not available live any longer. You do need to sign up for a free GNA login to listen to the archive.
It's a good thing I did radio instead of TV then!
I've got an interview that I did last Friday that will be airing today thru Sunday at 8:00, 1:00, 4:00 and 9:00 Pacific time.
There will be 4 segments to the program:
Introduction, my radio days and discussion of SendOutCards
My career at AT&T
The networking groups and events that I've been a part of
Paying it forward
Be sure to take some time and listen to my interview. I think it's pretty interesting, if I do say so myself. You can listen to it here.
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I had kind of looked at it, but not really until someone asked me about it when I wore it the other day, so I'll explain it to you.
We'll start with the three right triangles. A right triangle is any triangle in which one of the angles is equal to 90 degrees.The first shows the basic trigonometric definitions of the right triangle. In this case the angle in question, x, is in the lower left hand corner. The three sides are called the opposite, the adjacent and the hypotenuse. The longest side is the hypotenuse (which is also one of the sides next to the angle), the side opposite the angle in question is the opposite side and the other side next to the angle is the adjacent side. The basic identities are sine x equals opposite divided by the hypotenuse or in this example, sine x = opposite divided by 1 or sine x = opposite. Cosine x equals adjacent divided by the hypotenuse or cosine x = adjacent divided by 1 in our example, or cosine x = adjacent. The tangent is defined as the opposite divided by the adjacent or tangent x = sine x/cosine x, abbreviated tan x=sin x/cos x. As you may remember from your math classes, the slope of a line is equal to the rise over the run. In our case, the rise is equal to sin and the run is equal to cos, so the slope of the line is equal to sin/cos, which is also the tangent. So, the tangent is equal to the slope of the line. And the largest triangle helps to make this clear since the rise is the tangent and the run is equal to 1 we get slope = tan x/1 or slope = tangent.
Before we move on to the other two triangles, we'll introduce the three inverse trigonometric functions: the cosecant, the secant and the cotangent. These three functions are simply the inverse of the other three functions: The cosecant is the hypotenuse divided by the opposite or csc x = 1/sin x, the secant is equal to the hypotenuse divided by the adjacent or sec x = 1/cos x. And the cotangent is equal to the adjacent divided by the opposite or cot x = cos x/sin x or cot x = 1/tan x. For those of you who are interested, the approximate vales of the trig functions in our example are: sin x = 0.84147098, cos x = 0.54030231, tan x = 1.55740770, csc x = 1.18839511, sec x = 1.85081570 and cot x = 0.64209262
Now back to the three triangles. They represent the three Pythagorean Trigonometric Identities. For those of you who don't know, or don't remember, the Pythagorean Theorem it goes like this...in a right triangle the sum of the sides squared is equal to the hypotenuse squared or a^2 + b^2 = c^2 (where ^2 means squared), or in the case of our smaller triangle sin^2 x + cos^2 x = 1 which is the first of the three identities. The three identities are:
sin^2 + cos^2 = 1
If you divide both sides by sin^2, you get:
sin^2/sin^2 + cos^2/sin^2 = 1/sin^2 which is:
1 + cot^2 = csc^2 (represented by the middle triangle)
If you divide both sides of the original equation by cos^2, you get:
sin^2/cos^2 + cos^2/cos^2 = 1/cos^2 which is:
tan^2 + 1 = sec^2 (the largest triangle)
Well, that's all fine and dandy but what the heck does all of that have to do with pi? I'm glad you asked! Pi is defined as the circumference of a circle (the part around the edge of a circle...if you run on a circular track you're running around the circumference of the circle) divided by the diameter or pi = C/d and since the diameter is twice the length of the radius pi = C/2r. Now if you multiply both sides by 2r you end up with C = 2 pi r. If you look at the picture and imagine a full circle you can see that the radius (the line from the center of a circle to a point on the circle) is equal to 1 and our equation simplifies to C = 2 pi and since we're looking at half a circle, C/2 = pi, so the length of our curve is equal to pi radians (and the length of the arc within the triangles is 1 radian). I'm not going to get into radians in this article but suffice it to say that the angle x is approximately equal to 57 degrees, 17 minutes and 44.8 seconds.
How many of you have heard this while sharing your network marketing opportunity? I know I have! But fortunately for us we're in network marketing and not network selling! I'm going to share an example of why network marketing is all about the distribution and not the selling from Jordan Adler's book "Beach Money".
"Chapter 19 - Strategies for Creating Beach Money"
"Beach Money Strategy Number One - Focus on distribution versus sales"
In this section Jordan talks about why sales isn't the key to living a Beach Money lifestyle. The following is paraphrased from Jordan's book.
Sales perspective
You are offered the chance to buy as many 2 liter bottles of soda as you'd like for $1 each that retail for $2. The focus here is on sales...you need somebody to buy all of your bottles of soda from you. A good salesperson would love an offer like this, but the problem with it is that once you stop selling you won't make any more money.
Distribution perspective
You can purchase a vending machine for $1,000 that dispenses cans of soda for $1.00 and you earn a 10 cent commission on each can. But is that really a good value? You're out $1,000 up front and you'll have to sell 10 cans to earn the same $1 profit as selling one 2 liter bottle.
But suppose the rest of the offer was that the company you buy the machine from will always keep it stocked for you at no cost to you, the company will provide lifetime maintenance on the machine in case something ever goes wrong or the machine needs to be upgraded, they will also collect all the money from the machine, count it, tabulate an accounting report and send you a check every month. Is it starting to sound better now? Now suppose that other people around the world buy a machine for $1,000 and you now get a portion of the 10 cent commission on every can ever sold by every machine in your distribution network...now you just need a few sales from lots of machines. What would you think of this offer now? Now, this is what leads to a Beach Money lifestyle. You can continue to earn money without having to do any work at all. True, you have to market your machine so that you can get a few people to buy from your machine and to interest other people into investing in their own machines. But once that's been done, you won't have to work anymore.
That's how network marketing works...but instead of buying a vending machine, you buy a distributorship, usually for $1,000 or less (SendOutCards distributorships are $50). You then get a few people to buy your goods or services and you earn a percentage on their purchases (SOC is 20%) and if someone buys a distributorship through you, or someone below you, you earn a commission on their sales (2 - 27% with SOC). Once your distribution network is built, you can retire to the beach!
Learn how to find your true passion, learn about successful habits and meet and hangout with some awesome people. This is a great event for not only business owners, but anyone who wants to become a better version of themselves. Get your tickets here and I'll see you there!
Join us for Promptings Academy
July 15-16, 2016!
Kody Bateman, Founder and CEO of SendOutCards, has developed a powerful message with an unforgettable experience by instructing you to become your best self, and then act on who you are to change lives.
His signature training, Promptings Academy is held in different regions of the world throughout the year. This event will provide you with insightful personal development tools fused with pivotal business building fundamentals to help you in your personal and professional life. The purpose of the Promptings Academy is to align your mind with success by following the SendOutCards 2-fold mission; helping millions of people act on their promptings while providing a vehicle for financial freedom.
With an introduction to a manifestation process, along with an essential 5 Habit curriculum, you will gain core training on how to further develop successful habits and utilize them daily. This will help you to achieve expert proficiency in each of these areas: heartfelt card sending, smart phone use, the APA technique, training others and personal development. Kody also introduces guest speakers for expert education and hands-on training during the course of the weekend, to further instill the 5 Habits of Success.
You are invited to join us at this exceptional personal development event to:
- Learn about yourself and your true passion
- Set new goals for success that is in alignment with who you are
- Implement daily successful habits
-Create core purpose statements
-Learn and follow a manifestation process
- Learn more about Send0utCards as a personal and business tool
The personal development portion of the Seminar is Saturday, July 16th and is open for guests, as well as SendOutCards customers and distributors.
Agenda
Friday, July 15
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. - Business Building Training
Saturday, July 16
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Personal Development and Business Building Training
Promptings Academy Speakers
Kody Bateman - Founder and CEO of SendOutCards
Recommended Airport
McCarren Airport
Hotel Accommodations
To book your stay for the event, please contact the hotel directly.
WHEN
WHERE
The M Resort Spa Casino - 12300 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Henderson, NV 89044 - View Map
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