I’ve been fighting my perfectionistic tendencies for a month writing this up “right” and today I got two promptings to just get it out there. (Perfectionism in my writing does not play well with taking care of the family, finishing my dissertation, and finishing jobs for my clients. Here’s one small step for [this] man, and a giant leap for writing-productivity-kind.)
This year I’m fending off my own S.O.S. (shiny object syndrome) and concentrating on one business area at a time. While feeling the psiren’s call of the shiny product/course/software, I had a moment of clarity and committed to following through with the materials I’ve already got from people I resonate most with. Here’s the short list of my top 10 folks, in no particular order.
- Dr.Mani – passion, double bottom line, solo infopreneuring
- Paul Myers – writing, mental shifts, meta-basics
- Marlon Sanders – produce+promote, copywriting, high-level strategy
- Tinu Abayomi-Paul – traffic generation via twitter, facebook, blogs
- Dr. Letitia Wright, D.C. – real world media and publicity, contrarian online business
- John Childers – selling from the stage
- Rick Butts – keynote speaking
- Mark Joyner – big ideas, Simple·ology
- Brian McElroy – email marketing, webinars, generating high-end clients
- Jason Fladlien – “good enough” copy, webinars, prolific product and content creation
Of course, after making the list a bunch of other influential names came to mind including Willie Crawford, Mark Austin, Dave Lakhani, Lee Collins, Tellman Knudson, Paul Evans, Nicola Cairncross, Lynn Terry, Terry Dean, Stephen Dean, Ryan Healy, Stever Robbins, Jonathan Altfeld, T.Falcon Napier, Mike Jay, and many other friends and mentors.
The more “perfect” version of the list was quickly becoming a full blown report as I gave a little background on each person and further resources on what I find most influential from each of them. I’ll certainly release that stuff as I get it produced.
In the meantime, there’s my list (and if you can’t figure out my story-arc for the year, sorry, it’s all there between the two lists!). The interesting thing to note is that I have interacted directly with almost all of these folks in one way or another — most on the phone or gasp in real life! A couple of them are on my lists in spite of the fact that I don’t really like interacting with them — their info and example is so good that I set aside my random emotional reaction and study what makes me come back in spite of that emotional reaction. Yeah, they are that good at what they do.
Special thanks go out to Dr.Mani for the example of his Top 10 IM Ezines post and Nicola Cairncross for her article about her Top 10 Business Influences so far.
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Darn, missed the list again…
Good list, Wayne. Lots of names I agree with, perhaps one or two that we could “discuss”, and a couple of names I’ll have to go look up. Overall, I don’t think you could go wrong with any of them.
Best wishes for a prosperous 2011.
Best regards,
Tom
Thanks Tom.
I’m looking forward to putting you on next year’s list!
And I’ll add links to folks soon enough so others won’t have to search, but for the sake of expediency/inertia I just got it posted.
Thanks, Wayne, both for the list, and putting my name on it
S.O.S. is definitely something to avoid. It’s a great choice to abandon it in exchange for laser focus!
May your 2011 power you towards all your dreams.
All success
Dr.Mani
Thank YOU Dr.Mani, for the work you do directly with folks like us and, more importantly, for the impact you make on so many hearts.
And I’m not sure I’m coherent enough to call it laser focused yet, but I’m certainly headed that direction.
Dear Wayne, thank you so much….and I’m honoured to have been in such good company as Dr Mani to give you a loving boot up the butt! I’m going to throw down another challenge for you now….see my next tweet @NicolaCairnX LOL. Love N x
Ha! Thanks Nicola, boot and all. I guess this is fair-play after getting you up on that karaoke stage, ne?
I’m taking up your next challenge once the kids are asleep, even though it’s 2hrs so what good is clearing an hour in my diary?
Thanks for the mention Wayne, much appreciated! And you gave me a name to Google, thanks for that as well. Cheers!
You’re welcome Stephen. After that copy starter, you definitely deserve the mention.
Now I’m really curious who I’ve included on my list(s) that the other folks responding haven’t heard of before.
(I love being edgy, don’tcha know!)
Cheers again
And I’m very interested in Twitter traffic at the moment, so I did a search on top people #4!