Preneur Marketing Blog – Pete Williams | Author Entrepreneur

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose By Tony Hsieh.

The visionary CEO of Zappos explains how an emphasis on corporate culture can lead to unprecedented success.

Pay new employees $2000 to quit. Make customer service the entire company, not just a department. Focus on company culture as the #1 priority. Apply research from the science of happiness to running a business. Help employees grow both personally and professionally. Seek to change the world. Oh, and make money too.

Sound crazy? It’s all standard operating procedure at Zappos.com, the online retailer that’s doing over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales every year.

In 1999, Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) sold LinkExchange, the company he co-founded, to Microsoft for $265 million. He then joined Zappos as an adviser and investor, and eventually became CEO.

In 2009, Zappos was listed as one of Fortune magazine’s top 25 companies to work for, and was acquired by Amazon later that year in a deal valued at over $1.2 billion on the day of closing.

In his first book, Tony shares the different business lessons he learned in life, from a lemonade stand and pizza business through LinkExchange, Zappos, and more. Ultimately, he shows how using happiness as a framework can produce profits, passion, and purpose both in business and in life.

Hey Gang…

Just like plumber with the bad pipes, the gardener with the worst front lawn… it took us a while, but…

We finally got the new PeteWilliams.com.au site up…

It’s now live over at http://www.PeteWilliams.com.au (ironic right ?)

We’ll be making a bunch of changes to the blog here over the coming weeks as well … so stay tunned.

As you may already know….

I recently re-sold Australia’s version of Yankee Stadium, the MCG – a project I first did back in 2003 when I was just 21 — and how I got the tagline ‘Australia’s Richard Branson’ from the Aussie media.

It was a great success when I first undertook the project, but this time around, it was much more organised, and on may levels a more successful project – (the reason why is below)

… and that’s even after I received a cease and desist letter right in the middle of the campaign that threatened to shut the whole thing down.

When opened the doors to the online sales page, we received a very nice 5 FIGURE PROFIT in the first 12 hours – with out any affiliates !!!

Not bad for a project, I launched on-the-side for a bit of fun.. and to help get some of the remaining MCG carpet out of my mums garage.

The reason for the success – http://www.preneurmarketing.com/MCGsecret

It was a downright, good old fashioned Product Launch…

A Jeff Walker product launch…

If you don’t know Jeff Walker, he’s the guy with all the strategery (yes, I’m sure that’s a word) behind all the crazy online product launches.

… and Jeff has just released his Product Launch Blueprint for free.

You get the PDF Blueprint PLUS a video that walks you through the entire blueprint …

… the exact same strategy, plan and process I used just a month ago to resell the Melbourne Cricket Ground…

.. and it cost me a few thousand dollars to have one of his trained coaches help me out during the launch.

Obviously, you have to enter your email to get this… but there is no cost, and there’s no hidden upsells or continuity or anything.

Get it now before Jeff pulls it down on Tuesday: http://www.preneurmarketing.com/MCGsecret

IMPORTANT: be sure to print out the PDF so you can take notes as you go through the video.

Seriously, this is a pretty powerful document to have in your swipe files… whether you market online or offline.

It’s worked for me, and I know it will work for you.

Pete

P.S. There’s even a hidden “resources” section that Jeff must have snuck in at the last second – it doesn’t show up in the training video, but it’s in the actual Blueprint.

P.P.S. There are also a few other videos one the site you can watch as well – including a breakdown of Apple’s recent iPhone 4 launch.

I’m currently away from the office for a couple of weeks – primarily for a few meetings and speaking engagements in the USA.

In an effort to get a few projects that have been sitting on my to-do and would-like-to lists completed, I am trying something I’ve never done before…

.. disconnecting from the grid.

Well, the best I can anyway.

I decided to leave a week prior to any locked in commitments to lock myself away, remove as many distractions as possible and just work on ’shipping’ some ideas & projects.

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