Be Different or be dead

May 6, 2024

Why You Need To Visit “BEDiFFERENTorbedead.com” NOW!

Why You Need To Visit “BEDiFFERENTorbedead.com” NOW.

Are you tired of the same old - same old textbook rhetoric and advice?

Feeling stuck and craving some inspiration and practical and proven advice from someone who has had a successful career in growing an early stage internet company to A BILLION IN SALES?

Look no further than BeDifferentOrBeDead.com!

This website is not your average, pedantic common platform; it’s a unique, unmatched and vibrant community dedicated to empowering individuals to embrace their uniqueness—being the ONLY ones who do what they do—and winning against all competitive odds in business, their career and their lives.

Here are three no-brainer reasons why you should visit BeDifferentOrBeDead.com NOW! and make it part of your daily routine.

1. Explore Practical & Proven Content You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

There’s a ton of content on my site that breaks down how I applied my BE DiFFERENT Audacious Moves to the many challenges in business, careers and your personal life.

▪️Leadership
▪️Business Success
▪️Careers
▪️Marketing
▪️Sales
▪️Customer Service
▪️Entrepreneurs
▪️Your Life

I’ve been actively sharing my experience and proven Audacious Moves for over a decade.
And it’s all “How To” material that is easy to read—“fog factor” is close to ZERO—and can be put to use immediately, unlike the theoretical CLAPTRAP espoused by many other sources.

2. Unleash Your ONLY Self

In a world that both teaches and encourages conformity, compliance and following the rules, BeDifferentOrBeDead.com celebrates nonconformity, contrarianism, disruption and how to introduce discontinuity as a key differentiation tool.

Through thought-provoking reality-based articles, personal stories and practical & actionable tips, Roy Osing’s blog and books inspire you to discover what makes you special, your quirks, passions, and individual authenticity and express them in a way that satisfies the needs of others—your company, boss and loved ones.

Discover the power of being unapologetically yourself and how it can transform your life and, more importantly, the lives of those around you.

3. Find Your Passion and Purpose to Get Out Of The Herd

Do you feel like you’re drifting through life with no clear sense of direction, being pulled to and fro by the populist narratives of the day?

BeDifferentOrBeDead.com provides practical and proven ways to help you discover your unique passions and purpose that will serve others in an exemplary manner.

From career advice to personal development strategies to successful business strategies, you’ll find guidance to ignite your inner fire, become The ONLY One who does what you do, and pursue your dreams audaciously and with confidence.

4. Join Others Who Want To Be Free Of Mediocrity

At BeDifferentOrBeDead.com you’re not alone on your journey to BE DiFFERENT and distinguish yourself from the “herd of sameness” around you

Connect with like-minded individuals who are also striving to break away from societal norms and embrace their unique path.

Share your experiences, offer support, and celebrate each other’s victories in a welcoming environment.

5. Take The Quiz To Find Out If You’re DiFFerENT

Do you want to differentiate yourself or your organization from the crowd around you and your competitors?
Take my Quiz to determine if you’re taking the right actions to achieve your objective.

My Quiz explores how you are currently applying the various aspects of BE DiFFERENT in your business planning, marketing, sales and customer service efforts. And it gives you direction on the area that needs the most attention NOW!

Have fun rating yourself (with no one watching you) HeHe.

Don’t settle for mediocrity when you can live a life that’s truly audacious, remarkable and extraordinary.

Visit BeDifferentOrBeDead.com today and embark on a journey of transformation from the norms of the day to a unique YOU that satisfies what others CARE about in a way no one else does.

Remember, it’s not about fitting in; it’s about standing out from the common herd and being proudly, unapologetically you.

Cheers,
Roy
My 100 Podcast Shows that will make your business and your career incredibly successful.

My Podcast Show Audacious Moves to A BILLION will share the specific Moves I made to achieve jaw-dropping growth in an insanely competitive internet business.

”The Audacious Un-heard of Ways I Took a Startup to A BILLION IN SALES” is the latest in my BE DiFFERENT or be dead Book Series.

• Posted 5.6.24 at 05:44 am by Roy Osing
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April 15, 2024

YOU do YOU. Why It’s Important. How To actually Do It

YOU do YOU. Why It’s Important. How To actually Do It.

“You do your thing and I’ll do mine.”

The statement implies that we will each do it a different way. Our own way.

The only thing missing is the notion of uniqueness. Is “our thing” really uniquely ours and no one else’s?

Are we truly the ONLY one who does it the way we do?

Or is it really YOU DO THEM in disguise?

This is an important question because we live in a world seeking popularity, to conform to the norms of the day.
To be politically correct, being careful to not step on the toes of someone else who seems to have more command of the narrative governing how one should behave than YOU.

The truth is, we rarely DO YOU! We may think we do, but we don’t.
We conform. We comply. We act according to a set of rules set by others. Heaven forbid we have an opinion that is different from “a marginalized” group in our society.

And when we do this we declare our individuality. This is fake! We’re not being individualistic, we’re being “herdaslistic”, joining everyone else who is afraid to break away from the shackles of conformance expectations.

It’s extremely important that YOU do YOU!
We need truly unique solutions to today’s challenges, not shrink wrapped boilerplates offered by custodians of popularity.

Here’s my playbook to DO YOU!

Play #1. Stop “Gargling Google”

Google is a great tool to discover someone else’s story. “How to” stories on how other people approach a problem and the solution THEY came up with are good learning sources.
But the problem is most people copy someone else’s story rather than discovering their own.

“Gargle and Swallow” Google is a DO THEM Move typical of a copycat. You become a member of the common denominator crowd.

“Gargle and Spit” Google, on the other hand, is a DO YOU! move.
You taste what others are doing, you suck every morsel of learning you can from their action, you decide on a different course of action and finally you Spit the Google play out.

Play #2. Put the textbook down

If everyone follows the same textbook rules and prescriptions, all that happens is the herd of sameness increases.
You won’t find your Special Sauce in a textbook; rather you will find the rules, algorithms, formulas and theories that everyone else uses.

Special Sauces come from stepping away from standard, “industry accepted” methods of doing things.

Special Sauces are the outcome of observing what the textbook says and doing something differently.

Play #3. Ignore Best in Class

Best in Class is a figment of some “expert’s” imagination. It’s a standard that someone with some level of academic credentials and presumed credibility says is the “right” thing to do.
Why on earth would you follow someone else’s prescription if you’re on the hunt to find the special YOU?
Crazy but most of the population does it.

I suggest you find someone or some organization who really sucks at something. Study them to discover how you might morph something they do to work for YOU!

Play #4. Avoid AI

And then there’s Artificial Intelligence which is being promulgated as the Magic Dust to solve the problems of the day.
Your clue to why I have several issues with AI is in the word “artificial”. Apart from the efficiency aspect of AI in the capability it has to process enormous amounts of data quickly, in the world of DOING YOU! AI is artificial in the sense that it relies on the opinions, work and results of others to produce an output that is nothing more than a super blend of the masses.

For example, if you want to write a blog post on “How to Develop a Brand Promise”, AI will create the post using information it gathers from sources on the internet by applying a predefined algorithm (written by someone who actually knows something about how to build a brand? Right? Probably not!).

The benefit: your post will be created quickly and expressed according to the language norms of the day (devoid of politically incorrect expressions and following basic English language protocol).

The drawback: the result will not be YOU! It will have ”rounded edges” of the many, not the Edges of YOU!
It will not offend anyone since the algorithm it uses is intended to avoid offending anyone. It will present no unique analysis or opinions; rather it will regurgitate a populace’s view of the topic.

To DO YOU! requires originality, audaciousness and creativity, not an artificial tool whose sole purpose is to aggregate common thought. AI is not the friend of YOU!

Play #5. Put your fingerprints on everything you do

Using any tool such as AI, crowdsourcing and population extrapolation is by definition YOU DOING THEM!
The only way YOU can do YOU! is to create something yourself,  ONLY YOU!

So, look at what the population says and…

▪️Do something DiFFEREnt.
▪️Go against the flow.
▪️Do a “right angle turn” to the path others are on.
▪️Disrupt common opinion.
▪️Don’t put your hand up and agree with what the herd is doing. Keep your Jan down and go find something gasp-worthy.
▪️Put your own twist to popular stuff.
▪️Be audacious and outrageous.
▪️Ask “How can I do this differently?” when confronted with a new challenge.

We need YOU to do YOU!

There are too many people out there who DO THEM!

The crowd is unimaginative.

The crowd is dull and boring.

The crowd will never create anything.

The crowd sucks (good thing I don’t use AI otherwise “suck” would have been deleted as inappropriate… HeHe.)

Cheers,
Roy
My 100 Podcast Shows that will make your business and your career incredibly successful.

My Podcast Show Audacious Moves to A BILLION will share the specific Moves I made to achieve jaw-dropping growth in an insanely competitive internet business.

”The Audacious Un-heard of Ways I Took a Startup to A BILLION IN SALES” is the latest in my BE DiFFERENT or be dead Book Series.

• Posted 4.15.24 at 03:44 am by Roy Osing
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January 22, 2024

The Truth About My Audacious Pithy Ways

The Truth About My Audacious Pithy Ways.

I’m done with exhaustive articles that placate Google.

I’m done with tiring narration that goes on and on and on…

I’m done with gargling the so-called “rules” for achieving a high ranking for posts.

I’m done with trying to placate someone’s algorithm that defines a “good” post.

I’ve been doing this since 2009 and I’m DONE!

So…. going forward my blogs will abound with pith.

They will be brief — maybe soundbites only. We’ll see.

Forceful.

Vigorous.

Terse.

Edgy.

They will cut like a knife.

Sometimes bordering on obnoxiousness.

And they might be outrageous.

And they most definitely won’t satisfy the rules of SEO.

With a few jaw-dropping links that will uncover more for those who want to dive deeper in my BE DiFFERENT or be dead world.

I will not spoon feed you my content.

I’m not your Mom.

You will have to explore, dig and work for my simple proven-to-work new ideas that will make you successful.

You will have to WANT to learn what actually works in the real world.

I will whet your appetite to discover more of the stuff that helped me grow a startup to A BILLION IN SALES!

So from here on in I’m giving you pithy.

Pithy Ways to “kill it” in business.

Pithy Ways to build a remarkable career and a great life.

Pithy Ways to actually achieve your journey’s end.

Pithy Ways to help you create a crushing tested brand.

Pithy Ways to earn the trust of the person next to you.

And much more pithy…

So BE PiTHY and join the Audacious PiTHY herd with me.

Stand out.

Be unmatched and unsurpassable—the ONLY One—who does what you do.

Be an achiever, not a rule follower.

Cheers,
Roy
My 80+ Podcast Shows that will make your business and your career incredibly successful.

My Podcast Show Audacious Moves to A BILLION will share the specific Moves I made to achieve jaw-dropping growth in an insanely competitive internet business.

”The Audacious Un-heard of Ways I Took a Startup to A BILLION IN SALES” is the latest in my BE DiFFERENT or be dead Book Series.

• Posted 1.22.24 at 04:57 am by Roy Osing
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January 2, 2024

3 Secrets to Start Your Journey to BE DiFFERENT

3 Secrets to Start Your Journey to BE DiFFERENT.

#1. Stop “Gargling Google”. — You can’t be different from the herd if you’re washing your mouth out with Google all of the time.

Gargling Google when you’re confronted with a problem or challenge is copycat behaviour.

You actually believe that if you copy what someone else did to solve their problem, their solution will miraculously solve yours as well.
Probability =

<5% (you may actually get lucky and be able to redeem a small fraction of the benefits others have received from their solution, but you’ll only get away with it once.)

And you’ve convinced yourself that you’re somehow being innovative and creative when you try to implement someone else’s solution.
Truthfulness = NIL. You’re fooling yourself and you’re being disingenuous to others.

If you can’t STOP! gargling, you will never be unique and special in a way others care about. So, accept your fate as a

“Constructive Emulator” and be content as a bland insipid member of a crowd of commonality.

#2. Ask “The Question”. — Rather than run to Google every time you’re faced with a task, ask yourself:
✔️ “How can I do this differently?”
✔️ “How can I approach this task in a way no one else has tried?”
✔️ “How can I disrupt the usual approach commonly practiced?”
✔️ “What could happen if I went in the opposite direction to the crowd solution to this type of problem?”
✔️ “What is the most outlandish way to solve the problem I’m facing?”

Open yourself up to the possibility that a unique and different solution is out there waiting for you to discover it.

Ask yourself ‘the question’ and be amazed with the answers you’ll be presented with.

Start NOW! to consciously look for a different approach to everything you do.

And revel in this behavior as it will soon expel you from the common crowd.

#3. SURPRISE! people. — Being DiFFERENT is not about delivering what people expect.

In fact it’s the opposite.

Being different is evoking the “OMG” response; the “WHAT?” look and a GASP! from another person.

Being different is doing what others DON’T expect.

The SURPRISE! Move has incredible consequences:
✔️ You get noticed.
✔️ Your “victim” tells your story to others and you get Five Star Reviews.
✔️ You attract other disruptors and your tribe expands.
✔️ Your behavior gets copied by others and YOU become Best in Class.
✔️ You outdistance your competition because your Army of Advocates turn into raving fans.

All from a SURPRISE!

Amazing consequences from such a simple act.

But….. you can’t SURPRISE! someone unless you know them….. INTIMATELY.

So pay attention to your ‘target’.

Learn everything there is to know about them: their secret desires, wants and cravings. These are the ingredients to a mind-blowing SURPRISE! show.

Try to SURPRISE! them using your own imagination but without the knowledge of their secrets and you will fail.

So, do the work…

Cheers,
Roy
My 80+ Podcast Shows that will make your business incredibly successful.

My Podcast Show Audacious Moves to A BILLION.

My BE DiFFERENT or be dead Book Series.

‘Audacious’ is my latest.

• Posted 1.2.24 at 06:30 am by Roy Osing
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