Building the right Community!

You can get your inspiration and motivation from any source you choose when you are running your own business.  One frequently overlooked tool for motivation is your community.  Being an entrepreneur requires being in touch with your client base, peers and even competitors in the industry. However, It takes a special skillset to convert these contacts into a community. Key components in building community are communication and common interest.

Dean Grey created his most successful venture to date Skylab Apps based off of the concept of utilizing community.

His brilliant conception is now made accessible to the average person through The Skylab app, in fact, made it a simple task to convert contacts into a community by incentivizing engagement.

Taking a simple recognition and reward system known in the technology industry as Gamification and incorporating it into a platform based off of a social media concept of communicating.

Not only is it a great way to network, but you also learn a lot about the field, the competition, and customizing this data it for your own business. Most of the times, entrepreneurs share their ideas truthfully, openly and are fond of direct discussions.

You will always need to develop networking skills for the growth of your business. There are some entrepreneurs who have this skill naturally. However, you need not be disillusioned if you do not possess this skill. There is always room for you to develop your personal skillset and a chance to pick it up. The more you perfect the skill of networking the more you can expand and strengthen your community, adding new connections and maintain the existing ones through the Skylab apps

 Expanding and creating your own network for the betterment of your business is one of the prime reasons why Dean created the Skylab system; to empower entrepreneurs with the benefits of community.

“The Skylab platform is like nothing I've ever seen before. As a person with an entrepreneurship background who has worked with multiple different industries, this platform is so powerful that it can cater specifically to almost any industry with just a little customization. As apps and mobile solutions become increasingly more important, Skylab Apps has positioned itself for success for many years to come.”

Jeremy Wong, Global Entrepreneur, and Investor

A big function of the community for entrepreneurs is that members can encourage each other and pass on their knowledge based on real-life experiences to bolster the growth of the entire team.

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GAMIFICATION 101

Dean Grey is an international renown technology expert who specializes in the industry of Gamification.  His path to success was a multifaceted journey that began with the mastery of sales.

Having a solid foundation in the psychology of selling, gave Dean an undeniable advantage in motivating people to react to a manufactured desired results. Connecting this methodology to technology is where his genius was fully revealed.

Dean continued to test the limits of his comprehension of this Psychology; Branching into mentoring, Social Media, Online Marketing, and Mobil devices all which required specialized techniques to encourage people towards a highlighted goal.

“Mobile devices have already ingrained themselves into our daily lives, and business realizes that this is something that can work to their advantage.”

Dean Grey, Entrepreneur, CEO & Founder of Skylab apps

What Is Gamification?

Gamification is based on a few key major elements: it is a habit-forming teaching methodology that utilizes the simple strategy behind building a reward system for achievements.

Techniques originally developed for computer games, masterfully designed for motivation and engagement are finding their way into e-learning and mobile training platforms. Gamification is a global trend that is not just limited to children and education but is an excellent tool for adults and producing productivity in the workforce.

Why Does Gamification Work?

 Gamification is designed to motivate, and it works because it taps into human phycology and triggers an emotional response. It takes the entertaining elements of a game Intrigue and excitement and applies them to everyday tasks.

Dean Grey Understood the Benefits of Gamification and how this could be a powerful tool generically applicable across all industries to producepositive user experience leading to better engagement, loyalty, and higher sales.

Gamification is a relatively new industry and still holds a lot of potential for expansion. More International corporations are begining to comprehend its usefulness and seek the benefits for their company.

“Skylab has revolutionized the rapidly growing cheerleading industry by providing cheerleaders, coaches, and gym owners the best opportunity to train, learn, and develop their skillset as they strive to become world class athletes. By utilizing the Skylab platform, we are now able to use gamification to connect a global industry, and the result is extraordinary.”

Alex McCarthy

CEO and Founder of The Cheer Apps

Dean's foresight has proven to foster a super successful niche in an ever expanding field. For more information on the platform that Dean Grey developed check out https://www.skylabapps.com.

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Dean Grey: Entering Era of Gamification

When Confronted with the question: Why are so many young people are having issues being successful in this day and age? CEO of Skylab's App Dean Grey was candid in sharing the facts.

In this 21st century world of instant gratification, it is the unfortunate social expectation for an immediate reward. Technology has exacerbated this issue. Scientist have recently been able to explain how humans have unwittingly developed this phenomenon, and it all goes back to the chemical balance of the brain.

Dopamine is a major neurotransmitter that plays a role in human behavior. It is in charge of the brain’s pleasure-reward system. It is released in the body upon the completion of a goal and is enhanced when recognition is given for this achievement.

Before the development of modern conveniences such as electric, cars, and computers, it required more human physical activity and effort to complete anything. This encouraged individuals to do work to accomplish tasks to get that chemical sensation of satisfaction.

The continued speed of accomplishing tasks as technology advanced made humans lazier, causing them to seek faster and easier ways to get that desired feeling of accomplishment. The onset of Social Media totally sabotaged the entire process of working for rewards by eliminating the actual need of an accomplishment. Now the appearance of accomplishment is getting the desired reaction. Bypassing the need of real achievements and going straight for the enhanced sensation of social acknowledgment for this perceived "achievement."

Why do you think so many people lie about their lives on Social media?

At Skylab apps we have taken painstaking efforts to utilize this knowledge and the original culprits (technology and social media) to correct the problem.

Our app incorporates the concept of Gamification. Which simply put is goal setting, daily task achievements and social recognition for their accomplishment, all in one place.

Dopamine is kind of like sugar. A little natural sugar is ok, it produces energy and helps with productivity. But to much makes you sleepy and unmotivated.

The real problem with the younger generation is that they are dopamine addicts! They need to been taught how to produce this substance in their bodies productively.  This was my motivation behind creating Skylab Apps.  Any of these youth whom you are basically compartmentalizing as failures; who have a little desire and willpower with the aid our app can re-train themselves can be just as successful as I am.

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How to Maintain Your Daily Motivation - Dean Grey

Keeping yourself motivated daily is the mark of a successful person. Everyone faces tough times in life. The ability to overcome hardships and keep moving forward is what results in success. To do that, you need to keep motivating yourself to do greater things every single day.

Dean Grey, the CEO of Skylab Apps, knows a thing or two about motivation. He’s built companies from scratch. Skylab Apps is now the leader in its segment, helping achieve billions of dollars in revenue for its clients.

“It is important to take an active role in shaping our personal and professional networks in order to live the most fulfilling lives possible.”- Dean Grey

Make sure you follow your passion.

At Skylab Apps, we are passionate about making the world a better place through technology. This is how we are way ahead of the rest of the pack, and also why our clients love us.

David Vanderveen, the Global Vice-President and General Manager of XS at Amway says that Skylab Apps helps his company get the most out of social media. In business terms, it helps Amway get more bang for their buck, while also increasing the number of users.

Ride the wave.

You never know when the next wave breaks out. But those who are prepared are in a position to derive the most out of it.

The same holds true for technology, which is changing lives faster than you can count. Our philosophy is to be prepared.

As a result, our apps are ready for the next generation of technology.

Author and televangelist Robb Thompson admits to simply being blown away by the functionality and the features present in Skylab Apps technology. His first experience as an user left him speechless, amazed by the high quality of the app.

Don’t be too hard on yourself.

You will fail. The point is not to cry over spilt milk, about what you did wrong, but to pick yourself up and carry on. If you see every mistake as a learning opportunity, you will never make the same mistake again. This is how you improve.

At Skylab Apps, this is how we do things. It wasn't always a cake-walk, but when we made mistakes we learnt quickly from them and we're stronger for it. Today, our technology is world-class and we are a recognized leader in our field.

Alex McCarthy, Founder and CEO of The Cheer Apps, says that Skylab Apps helped him connect to a global industry, providing cheerleaders and cheerleading coaches with what they needed to train and develop their skills further. The results, in his own words, are extraordinary.

Reward yourself.

This is another way to stay motivated. Your journey shouldn’t be all work and no play. Rewards motivate you to continue.

This is what we do at Skylab Apps. We believe in going further and changing the landscape after achieving what we originally set out to do.

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Dean Grey on the Importance of Personal Development

What is personal development? It is exploring your potential and maximizing your gifts. It is building upon your strengths and minimizing your weaknesses.

Many people attempt personal development projects, but few succeed. Those who do find that the benefits of personal development are many. Personal development is worth it when it brings about change that you didn’t know you needed until then.

Having the right mindset helps.

Self Awareness

A self-aware mindset is important for personal development. Be fully aware of what you can do – and what you cannot. You cannot climb a mountain tomorrow, without any training. But it is possible, as long as you push yourself.

At Skylab Apps, we believe in pushing ourselves every day. This is how we have been able to achieve the extraordinary. Our clients only have high words to speak of us.

Alex Wong, a celebrated ballet dancer, instructor and an all star contestant on So You Think You Can Dance, had these words of praise for the technology that we use.

“The dance app platform is filling a void the dance world has had for many years, by uniting all dancers in one place to learn about the industry from professionals. With easy and clear navigation within the app, dancers are able to complete industry homework assignments and learn from professionals by discovering and furthering their dance education.”

This is exactly what Dean Grey, the head of Skylab Apps, envisioned doing when he founded the company years ago.

“The trick however is to find a way to create a sustainable solution to empower transformation that does not sacrifice the personal life of the influencers which is often the case.”
-Dean Grey, CEO Skylab Apps

Set a Direction

 After you have determined what you are capable of, you need to head down a direction you strongly feel will benefit others and bring about change.

Skylab Apps has been helping its clients achieve billions of dollars in revenues this way.

Glen Ledwell, the CEO of Mind Movies, believes Skylab Apps’ technology will be a game-changer for all businesses invested in the online part. Knowing how to connect with people in the digital age is what makes Skylab Apps unique, says Sharon Chen, Regional Manager (Digital Solutions) for Amway.

Develop Efficiency

When you know what you are capable of, and the direction you need to take, you will able to travel down the path better, sure of yourself.

Build Resilience Hardships will come your way. This is guaranteed in life. The point is not to give up, but to motivate yourself to carry on.

Changes in technology were difficult for Skylab Apps at the beginning. As soon as an app was developed, the next technology would emerge and we would have to do it all over again. We finally discovered how to future-proof ourselves and our clients against technology changes – by developing apps that embraced new technology on their own. We continue to do this, and those who use our apps are happy with the features and easy navigation provided.

Apolo Ohno, an eight-time medalist at the Winter Olympics says that Skylab Apps makes it possible to engage with his community in a more meaningful way that social media could never provide.

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Dean Grey, Providing Global Businesses with Tools for Success

There is no denying that the world is more interconnected than ever before. Not only do we have access to nearly immediate communication through email and phones, but also further developments such as text messaging and social media have continued to push the boundaries of what human communication means. This has had a huge impact on business, particularly international business, because clients and companies are more connected and more productive than ever before. In fact, according to some experts, the average individual has contact with a larger international community in one day than the generation before them had in their entire lifetime. This means that new industries, businesses, and technologies are being produced at unprecedented rates, and with exciting consequences.

For entrepreneurs such as Dean Grey, not only has this enabled him to build international organizations, but it has also enabled him to build devices and technologies for others to do so as well. Currently, he is working as CEO of Skylab Apps, a gamified social learning company that specializes in creating mobile applications in order to help business connect with their clients around the world. Businesses like Skylab Apps are taking advantage of the technology boom to better equip businesses and individuals around the world with the tools they need for success. For more information, view Dean Grey professional profile on LinkedIn.

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Dean Grey, Creating Dynamic Directories

For businesses with community-based sites that contain hundreds or even thousands of users, it is important that you have a means of managing your directory of clients, customers, or colleagues within the system. This problem becomes increasingly difficult when you consider that within a database, individuals might have similar or identical names or information. In these instances and for these companies, dynamic directories are important search tools that can help you define how you search for users.

Entrepreneur Dean Grey is the owner of the patented Dynamic Directory and Content Communication. His patent takes the process of dynamic directories one step beyond most others in that it allows for the association of a user with a private descriptor, further specializing the parameters in which one can look up information. The typical dynamic directory, however, allows for the display of user’s info based on their user ID  or any other variable that you choose to use. Imagine working for a company that has twelve different employees named Jennifer. A dynamic directory allows you to specify which Jennifer you would like to find information on based on any sort of parameters such as role or length of time with the company. They are a must for large-scale, community-based sites.

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Dean Grey, The Future of Publishing

When we picture professional writers in our minds, we often think of individuals holed up in a room alone and plugging away on some old fashioned typewriter. However, this concept is simply outdated and more often than not, writers are working in coffee shops, large-scale corporations, or on the go as they travel for business. The technological and digital revolution has completely changed the world of publication and freelance work because it has allowed anyone to become a professional writer overnight. There are a number of websites devoted to helping writers disseminate information such as WordPress, Medium, Tumblr, and BlogSpot. These sites are serving a new generation of entrepreneurial writers.

Take Dean Grey on Medium (and various other blogging platforms), for example. As an accomplished entrepreneur, he recognizes the power of online writing and uses it daily in his career of helping other professionals. Not only has he established a presence on multiple blogging platforms, his entrepreneurial background helped him establish his own publishing company. This is the future of writing. It is a highly entrepreneurial endeavor with fewer and fewer individuals seeking out publishing houses in favor of making it on their own. Everyone is familiar with stories of success where individuals (often stay at home parents or even teenagers) create a blog for their own personal interest, generate a massive following, and eventually monetize their writing and start pursuing it as a career.

Dean Grey is leading the way into the Future with Skylab Apps

Dean Grey, is building digital communities of entrepreneurs, with his company Skylab Apps. Dean founded Skylab Apps in 2015 and has already had great success. In the creation of SKYLAB Apps, he redefined the most positive social addictive behaviors such as WhatsApp, YouTube, Recognition Walls, and Content on Demand. He then integrated them into one platform allowing influencers to easily chat, educate, reward, and train their audiences. Serving as a mobile gamified social platform, SKYLAB Apps is exclusively designed for influencers and brands to empower their fan base and facilitate change throughout the world. With Skylab, Dean has been able to bring together thousands of entrepreneurs, individuals, and companies all in one community.

Skylab’s Success

Skylab Apps is only two years old and already has a Gamified Platform that is native to IOS, Android, and a fully functional desktop experience that is intuitive and elegant. Skylab can even effectively serve the needs of different industries, because their product is so versatile. They manage to land some of the largest companies in the, Coaching Space, Lifestyle Brands, Content Marketers, Mobile Medical, and Tourism. Their client base has grown to over a dozen with each client’s gross revenues between $5 million and $12 billion dollars. Skylab Apps also has a waiting list of clients with over 1.3 million dollars in contract revenue. They’ve clearly found extreme success for only just being around for two years.

Dean Grey, Skylab Apps and the New Marketing World

Dean Grey is tackling the tech Industry with the soul of a true entrepreneur. He founded Skylab Apps with a desire to be apart of the rapidly advancing tech world. He realized that creating a mobile application that incorporated gamification techniques would change how things had been previously done.

He discovered that one great use for gamification was in the workplace. It can be an asset in the workplace because it can provide employees with further work-related knowledge. This could be in regards to policies, standards, performance expectations, and so forth. Gamification makes learning about these various things actually fun and engaging, which in turn produces more educated and well-versed employees. Gamification can also help improve personnel engagement, due to the fact that it can make monotonous tasks more fun, thus motivating workers to do these tasks that they wouldn’t normally want to do. The beauty of using gamification in the workplace is that it can actually make-work feel new and interesting, thus providing an incentive and motivation to work and to do it well.

Dean Grey is Achieving Success with Behavioral Modification

Dean Grey is using behavior modification to achieve results with his company Skylab Apps that he founded back in 2015. Dean Grey with Skylab Apps continues to equip, inspire, and lead the organization, as well as lay its foundation for expansion. In the creation of SKYLAB apps, he redefined the most positive social addictive behaviors such as WhatsApp, YouTube, Recognition Walls, and Content on Demand. He then integrated them into one platform allowing influencers to easily chat, educate, reward, and train their audiences. How does Dean use behavior modification to achieve results?

What is Behavioral Modification?

First of all, what does behavioral modification mean? Well it is the changing of behavioral patterns through the use of various learning techniques such as biofeedback and positive/negative reinforcement. Skylab Apps defines five categories of activities that can be addressed with behavior modification techniques, which include, developing a new behavior, strengthening a behavior, maintaining an established behavior, stopping an inappropriate behavior, and modifying emotional behavior. Think about this in terms of social media. For example people will repeatedly post on Facebook and other social media if they are receiving social recognition such as, likes and/or shares of what they have posted. Thus when they are receiving positive feedback such as recognition they will continue to keep up this behavior. Skylab understanding this, thus takes this addictive pattern and pairs it with the most popular and effective features of major social networking apps like facebook, twitter, instagram youtube, and many others and integrates it all into a Gamified solution and platform.

Dean Grey, knows that gamified social learning can offer even greater achievements for all types of industries. In particular industries the technique of gamification has begun to replace other marketing and educational techniques, because they just aren’t as effective. Gamification has evolved into today’s society unlike these other marketing and educational techniques. The gamification industry is even expected to grow to $2.8 billion by 2016.

One great use for gamification is by incorporating it into the workplace. It can be an asset in the workplace because it can provide employees with further work-related knowledge. This could be in regards to policies, standards, performance expectations, and so forth. Gamification makes learning about these various things actually fun and engaging, which in turn produces more educated and well-versed employees.

Skylab Apps is Providing you with the Perfect Mobile App Platform

Why do you need to go mobile?

Dean Grey knows the impact of mobile applications on business today, which is why he entered the tech industry with his company Skylab Apps in 2015. So what is the impact of mobile applications on businesses today and why should you get a mobile app if you don’t already have one? In today’s society social media plays a big part. It is no longer enough for your company to simply have a website, everything is becoming mobile and the best way to go achieve this is through a mobile app. Approximately ¾ Americans will check their mobile phone every hour, not to mention that around 90% of that time on their phone consists of using an app. It’s even be proven that Americans now spend more time on their mobile phones than they actually do watching television. So what does that mean for small businesses? This means that in order to reach your customers you need to become mobile or your company will suffer. The benefits of mobile apps are nearly endless. They are proven to increase engagement with customers in the ways of repeat visits, a large variety of online transactions, and much more. This increased engagement with your customers is done through notifications, announcements, and other various tools. Engagement turns into profit and in order to reap these rewards your company truly needs to get a mobile application.

Dean Grey, knows that technology trends will continue to expand, which is why it is so important that companies keep up to date and continue to grow with these new technologies. As of today mobile applications is truly the best way to reach your customer base and Skylab Apps can help you with that.

Skylab Apps is a gamified social platform that allows brilliant minds to achieve greater impact by connecting, entertaining, and educating their international communities. In the creation of SKYLAB apps, Dean Grey took the most positive social addictive behaviors such as WhatsApp, YouTube, Recognition Walls, and Content on Demand and then integrated them into one platform allowing influencers to easily chat, educate, reward, and train their audiences. Serving as a mobile gamified social platform, SKYLAB apps is exclusively designed for influencers and brands to empower their fan base and facilitate change throughout the world. Skylab Apps offers you the platform and you get to customize and design it how you see fit, that’s what makes it so unique and successful.

Dean Grey is demonstrating Successful Career Diversification

Benefits of Career Diversification

Dean grey’s entrepreneurship and diversification presentation on Slideshare, shows that in order to be successful it’s important to have these two qualities. Having career diversification can be beneficial for several reasons. Firstly, having diversified careers allows you to combine all of your various interests. Most people like doing more than just one type of thing, so having a diversified career is a great opportunity for them to do those different things they are interested in. The other great part of a diversified career is that it provides people with the opportunity to reinvent yourself. For example if at one job you were known for working a lot of overtime and then decided at your next job you were not going to do this, there is no set expectation for you to do so, unlike at your previous position. If diversifying your career sounds appealing to you, here are a few things to consider. One of the most essential things is to be open to change. If you want this you have to truly open yourself up to the possibility of achieving it and be willing to keep an open mind. For some people a diversified career can be very stressful and uncomfortable, so it is clearly not the right fit for everyone. The next thing is to not be afraid to get the proper education you may need for you new career path. The other component is making sure to change the way you market yourself, as you will need to change this as you change careers.

Dean Grey, breaking into the tech industry, is a perfect example of successful career diversification. This is the case because prior to this Dean had worked with various companies such as Amway, where he primarily focused on sales. He then realized just how much opportunity was waiting to be grabbed in the world of gamification and decided to create his company called Skylab Apps.

Skylab Apps is a gamified social platform that allows brilliant minds to achieve greater impact by connecting, entertaining, and educating their international communities. He founded this company in 2015 and continues to equip, inspire, and lead the organization, as well as lay its foundation for expansion. Serving as a mobile gamified social platform, SKYLAB apps is exclusively designed for influencers and brands to empower their fan base and facilitate change throughout the world.

Dean Grey is Changing the Tech Industry

There is so much to learn about Dean Grey. Everything that Dean gets involved with he gives 100%, from raising his daughter as a single-parent to reaching Executive Diamond status at Amway. Most recently Dean Grey has entered the field of technology, which has opened a lot of new doors for him such as, founding his company called SKYLAB Apps. Skylab Apps is a gamified social platform that allows brilliant minds to achieve greater impact by connecting, entertaining, and educating their international communities. In the creation of SKYLAB apps, Dean Grey took the most positive social addictive behaviors such as WhatsApp, YouTube, Recognition Walls, and Content on Demand and then integrated them into one platform allowing influence rs to easily chat, educate, reward, and train their audiences. Serving as a mobile gamified social platform, SKYLAB apps is exclusively designed for influencers and brands to empower their fan base and facilitate change throughout the world.

Most recently, Dean Grey and his Skylab team were shown attending a show celebrating their first $100k client video on Dailymotion. Some of their clients include, Allysian Sciences, Alticor, EWA, Amway-Asia Pacific, Centerpointe, XS Energy, Trilogy Games, and much more. The success of Skylab Apps has been tremendous, this is so important because the App Industry by 2017, is expected to reach over 268 billion downloads and will generate over $77 billion worth of revenue. The app industry is huge and will continue to grow over the coming years.

So what is influencing this transition from Wordpress, email, and other social media to apps? This is the case because social media and email are simply not enough. Currently there is not a specific app for professionals to chat, which is quite problematic in today’s day and age. Another thing is that social media and email do not incorporate gamification tactics, which are extremely necessary. There is also no ability to customize your app, there aren’t in app purchase or subscriptions, there aren’t ownership options, and there is a low open rate as it’s only 2% for email marketing versus the 70% for App sharing.

Dean Grey – Helping to Build Professional Networks

In the world of marketing, it is difficult to find someone more modern and creative than Dean Grey. What he brings to the table is something unique, a combination of his extensive background in entrepreneurship, his personal skills, and a keen eye for emerging markets. He is a professional who has built a career based on sharing his success with others. Whether that means incorporating people into his sales force, working with them as a professional motivational speaker, reaching out to them through publishing, or connecting them with other like-minded professionals, Dean Grey is helping other entrepreneurs on their journeys to success.

Sharing Success

Dean Grey began his professional career at a very early age. He quickly rose to prominence in the direct sales world due to his ambition and personal skills. In direct sales, it is absolutely crucial that you have the skills and personality necessary to make connections with other people. You need to sell more than just your product or company’s professional philosophies; you need to be able to sell yourself. Dean Grey’s charisma gave him the advantage he needed to start making professional networks early in his career that have served him throughout his life. This ability is something that sets Dean Grey apart from others in his field. He quickly realized that this unique quality was something that he could capitalize on by sharing his experiences with others, helping them to find their own strengths and resources in life.

After leaving the direct sales world, Dean Grey founded KMI, later rebranded to Freestyle. KMI was a successful life coaching business that taught young entrepreneurs the vital skills needed to succeed that were not taught in a classroom. Entrepreneurship is about much more than having a great idea for a product or business. It takes a unique combination of personal and professional skills that are not covered in normal education. Over twenty-three years, KMI inspired more than two million athletes, actors, singers, and other entrepreneurs to reach their goals and equipped them with the best tools to do so.

For Dean Grey, gamified social learning was the next step in the evolution of the sales and marketing industry. Gamification is the use of game elements such as point scoring, competition, and awards outside of actual gaming. Social learning is the concept that people learn the best when they are engaged in social environments surround a topic. Dean Grey is currently using both of these concepts with his company Skylab Apps, developing mobile apps for entrepreneurs and companies hoping to build networks of customers.

Dean Grey, The Power of Skylab Apps

Dean Grey is an actor, artist, professional life coach, and entrepreneur who has built a consulting business for gamification. Gamification is the concept of using game design elements—point scoring, competition, awards, etc.—outside of actual games. The benefit of applying gamification principles to areas outside of games it that it creates engaging environments for individuals. Especially in the world of business, gamification is a powerful tool for helping build communities of engaged customers. Dean Grey’s company, Skylab apps, designs personalized gamified social platforms for businesses.

Skylab Apps

Skylab Apps designed gamified social platforms for business that are trying to empower their brand and engage their customer base around their company or product. What’s more, Skylab Apps is designed to function on mobile devices. As the world becomes increasingly dependent on science and technology in their daily lives, targeting mobile devices as a marketing strategy has huge potential for reaching audiences around the world, day or night. With Skylab apps, not only can be business reach and build their target audiences, they have the added advantage of making engaging with their company or product exciting and rewarding for their customers. The face that the platforms are social only underscores this strength and helps build the network. For more information, view Dean Grey professional profile on LinkedIn.

Dean Grey, Never Compromise on Your Dreams

One of life’s greatest challenges is finding a healthy balance between one’s personal and professional life. While some lack the ambition necessary to succeed in an increasingly competitive corporate world, others give everything they have to their careers while neglecting the people outside their work life. Dean Grey is an entrepreneur and business professional who was forced to find balance in his personal and professional life after he became a single father to his daughter Teagan. Without sacrificing his professional ambitions, Dean Grey has supported his daughter with unfailing love and devotion.

Spreading His Voice Around the World

According to Dean Grey on Scoop.it, he learned the value of balance while working in direct selling at Amway. Dean Grey joined Amway in his early twenties and quickly rose to success. He became the fastest and youngest IBO to achieve Pearl level within the company, landing him in the top 0.002% of MLM leaders in the world. Unfortunately, it was at this time that Dean Grey also went through a difficult divorce that left him drained financially, physically, and emotionally. As a newly single parent and devoted father, Dean Grey knew that he could never pursue his professional ambitions at the expense of his daughter’s well being. Despite homeschooling and providing his daughter with all the opportunities she needed, Dean Grey continued his career and in one short year after his divorce, received an award before more than 30,000 people for his professional accomplishments. Together, he and his daughter went on to being recognized on stages around the world as well as in multiple magazines with a global spread and readership.

Dean Grey next took his experience in entrepreneurship and decided to share it with the world. As a means of educating other professionals, Dean Grey founded Freestyle, formerly known as KMI. Freestyle was a successful professional life coaching business that provided resources and education for young entrepreneurs and established business professionals who needed guidance along their career path. Freestyle spread to over 28 countries in the 23 years that it existed, helping Dean Grey reach out to more than two million individuals around the word.

Defining Moments of Courage

Unfortunately, Dean Grey cannot be in multiple places at once. For individuals who have not had the pleasure of personally being mentored by Dean Grey, he is also a published author. His Amazon #1 Best Selling book, “Defining Moments of Courage”, is a collection of stories from a variety of successful professionals, himself included. This book aims to provide access to Dean Grey’s professional philosophies to people all over the world, at any time.

Dean Grey, Breaking into the Tech Industry

In the tech world, everyone is an entrepreneur. As one of the most challenging, inspiring, and rewarding industries in the world, technology is a rapidly evolving hotbed where creative minds and practical thinkers like Dean Grey on scoop.it, come together to create groundbreaking products that are changing the way our society functions on a global scale. Dean Grey has always been interested in being at the forefront of research, discovery, development, and innovation, so it comes as no surprise that the network marketing and keynote speaking star would eventually wander into the field of technology.

Dean Grey, Breaking into the Tech Industry

A Story of Determination

The tech industry is more than just coming up with new ideas, however. It is about finding solutions to difficult problems, as well as understanding how to make all of these ideas and solutions become tangible. Dean Grey has spent a large part of his career traveling around the world, building network marketing teams and inspiring people from all backgrounds with his encouraging stories of perseverance and determination. Dean Grey is no stranger to setbacks, but it is this quality that has made him such an optimal candidate for entrepreneurial undertakings. As someone who is skilled at identifying business opportunities and staying focused on them, Grey has excelled in the tech industry.

Dean Grey has exhibited inspiration in the face of adversity, proving that anyone can make it in any field, as long as they work hard enough. Though not professionally trained in technology at all, Grey has managed to establish two extremely successful technology-based companies, Skylab Apps and Zooplr. Through his travels, Grey has learned the importance of connecting with others and establishing diversified networks. With his tech companies, he has taken this lesson and applied it to a much larger scale, creating online platforms where companies and large organizations can engage and educate their audiences, as well as where creative minds can meet to discuss the potential of unique and inventive ideas.

A Dreamer at Heart

Above all, Dean Grey is a dreamer. He is able to look at the present and see the future. More importantly, he makes decisions swiftly and anchors his ideas in order to make them a reality.  Through his innovations in technology, Grey has continued to develop solutions to help make the world we live in just that much better.

Dean Grey, The Impact of Mobile Applications on Business Today

Before anything, technology has become a way for entrepreneurs and other business professionals to develop solutions for the myriad of problems businessmen face on a daily basis. This is the reason Dean Grey has stepped into the tech industry. Beginning his career by traveling around the world and building teams in 18 different countries, Grey eventually began experiencing the problems that many large organizations do when it comes to maintaining such a large clientele base. To combat these problems, Grey began studying social gaming and the explosion of mobile apps as a way to discover a solution.

Through his research, he developed a mobile application designed to promote brands by engaging a company’s fan base and community: Skylab apps. By redefining some of the most advantageous characteristics of social addictive behavior, Grey was able to create a mobile application that uses gamification as a way enable influencers to chat, educate, reward, and train their audiences. Dean Grey’s breakthrough into the tech industry is representative of his career as a whole. As someone who has always been driven by new ideas and the potential to develop solutions that improve the way our world works, technology is a very fitting field for Grey.

Dean Grey’s work with Skylab apps demonstrates the huge impact that social media and mobile applications have had on business today. For one, these technologies are a unique and effective way to gain valuable customer insight. Through daily active engagement and social listening, influencers can gather relevant customer data and use that information to make smarter business decisions.

Connecting with Customers

Social media and gamification applications also enable companies to increase brand awareness and loyalty. When you have an online platform and presence on social media, it makes it much easier for your customers to find and connect with you. Skylab apps focuses on engaging its customer base through features such as power chat, gamified training, and social recognition, which increases customer retention and brand loyalty. In fact, a study by The Social Habit showed that more than half of Americans who follow brands through a social media platform are more loyal to those brands.

Finally, online technologies allow brands to share content faster and easier, while also building relationships with their customer base. Unlike traditional forms of marketing, mobile applications act as a two-way street, where customers are allowed to give company’s feedback regarding their needs and desires. This makes it easier for brands to tailor their services to fit exactly what their audience wants.

Dean Grey, Introducing Skylab Apps

Even if you haven’t heard of the topic of gamification, chances are that you are living your life in it. To put it simply, gamification is the use of game design techniques in areas outside of actual games. This means using elements such as point scoring, competition, and awards in areas such as education, social media, and business. The power of gamification lies in its ability to create interactive and engage platforms for individuals to learn more about a company, cause, or topic. In recent years, a variety of companies have been established that take advantage of the power of gamification techniques in order to help individuals and businesses around the world.

Dean Grey, Introducing Skylab Apps

The Skylab Platform

One of the most exciting gamification companies in the world is Skylab Apps. Skylab helps to empower brands, coaches, and influence rs by training and building communities of individuals around a business’ product or cause. They use gamification techniques in conjunction with social media and mobile devices to allow customers and community members to comment, chat, rate each other, send videos, and generally engage around a given business. Established by entrepreneur Dean Grey, Skylab Apps is helping businesses around the world grow and thrive in a mobile society. For more information on Skylab, view Dean Grey professional profile on LinkedIn.

Dean Grey, Spreading Leadership Through Publishing

There is an undeniable power to the written word. It has the ability to inspire generations of individuals through time and space, allowing authors and collaborators to reach potentially unlimited numbers of individuals around the world. For people seeking guidance or advice, books that specialize in providing perspective or counseling have specific potential for creating a better world for all of to live in. In both our personal and professional lives, even the most stable and successful individuals benefit from reading about the lives of their mentors and others who have found success. This is why publication is especially useful in the business world.

Dean Grey, Spreading Leadership Through Publishing

Defining Moments of Courage

Defining Moments of Courage is one of a number of publications by entrepreneur Dean Grey on medium and in print.  It is a collection of stories from successful business professional that explain the moments that helped to shape their personal and professional lives. They are a source of inspiration that explain the steps it took and the characteristics that helped them overcome their life’s greatest challenges and stay focused in their pursuit of success. Such publications have reached millions of individuals worldwide and that is why it is important that leaders take the time to put their experiences down on paper and share their perspectives with a wider audience.