"Reputation" VS "Status": What You Need To Know...

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Fellow warriors,

I was "hit" with this inspiration and thought I'd share it with you. I think it's important.

No one with a medicum of common sense will deny that being successful depends a great deal on "social power" within your niche. This is simply because, ultimately, success boils down to effective social engineering: Swaying people from being prospects into becoming your followers and supporting your cause and, where financial success goes, doing so with money in hand.

This becomes obvious when you ponder the difference between two enterpreneurs operating within the SAME niche. Every enterpreneur has valuable things to contribute. Every ebook owner offers incredible insight. Every home study course owner vehemently backs up the efficacy of their own creations. But ultimately, only ONE will manage to own the scene, and that is the enterpreneur who has managed to acquire a "cult following" through sheer personal charisma.

Charisma fuels one's presence in a niche, and presence fuels one's power to own it.

But how is charisma cultivated? The answer is very simple: It is cultivated through ABILITY. In the course of cultivating your ability, you will also hone your confidence in your ability to serve your niche (and in doing your homework to serve your niche) to such an extent, that when you stand before the camera to... say... give a YouTube presentation about what you are offering, you will do it as though you have been doing it for 20 years.

You will do so with charm, with poise and with strength of conviction, without flinching or trepidation. That in turn will give you precisely the charismatic presence you need in your niche, because it will serve to give you STATUS.

Do not worry, you do not have to look the part (Sean Stephensen does not look the part of a "dating guru"), nor do you need to even have a good reputation. Any enterpreneur can build a reputation as a hard-worker and a good "provider" for their niche, but said enterpreneur will always be financially less successful than an enterpreneur who backs up his presence in the same niche with a strong STATUS and is unaffraid to flaunt it in order to gain followers (customers, even more joint venture partners, etc.)

So, look at building a reputation simply as "Business Best Practice", and at building your status as a "Customer Attraction Best Practice" or, better yet, leave building a reputation as a "hardworker" and "good provider of information" to those you outsource, and definitely focus on building your status PERSONALLY.

Status gives you the ticket to own your niche.

In owing your niche, you BECOME the niche itself.

Becoming the niche enables you to bend it to your will (and provided you actually SOLVE the concerns of your niche, your followers will love the stretching!)

Cheers.

Rick
#reputation #status
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    • Profile picture of the author reynald2790
      I chose my reputation rather than status. It is ok with me if I'm born poor as long as my reputation as a person was not been destroyed by someone else.
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      • Profile picture of the author RickGueli
        Originally Posted by reynald2790 View Post

        I chose my reputation rather than status. It is ok with me if I'm born poor as long as my reputation as a person was not been destroyed by someone else.
        Well, both serve one another at the end of the day. Few things can undermine status as quickly as a tarnished reputation (like being known as a "guru" in your field and then starting to offer bad quality guidance and, as a result, watching the quality of your gurudom go on a downward spiral and your status along with it).So, reputation is important in maintaining good status, but when it comes to the enterpreneurial world, status means everything. You can have a good reputation for hard work, for making good on answering your client's questions, etc. but then nearly 99% of all enternrepeurs are generally decent, hardworking folks. Only an elite among them will own the scene though, and those are the folks who have status.
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  • Profile picture of the author barbling
    Confidence works wonders....when you believe in yourself, it shines in what you offer.

    Enjoy,

    Barbara Ling
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  • Profile picture of the author Kim Thomas
    reputation is what you make status is how people judge you regardless of what u do! be careful to get a good rep but dont worry about status it's all superfical
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    • Profile picture of the author FrontLineMentor
      Reputation and Status should
      come in parallel..which will
      make us a good person
      or businessman
      Nice article...
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  • Profile picture of the author Stevecyr
    I would surely opt for my reputation rather going for the status. I believe, its not about only earning money, U need some good amount of respect 2.!
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  • Profile picture of the author TristinTaylor
    Status is very important in life...especially your "self-status" or how u see yourself
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    • Profile picture of the author 1 Marketing
      I'll go for reputation. If you have got strong reputation, you can build social network. But if you go for status you may loose reputation.
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