In my capacity as an Event Promoter, I have associated with a large number of extremely wealthy and successful people, and although I’ve read pretty much every wealth and success book on the market, no one has yet conveyed just how basic the process of becoming wealthy for life really is.

To a man (woman) the principles that I have noted are the same!

Its not what you believe, its not what you want, its not the things that you say to yourself, its what you do. In a word, its your BEHAVIOUR!

What will other people observing your behaviour say about you, “Well Gary, talks about becoming wealthy and successful, but he never gets his ass out of bed before 11 o’ clock.”

Or, if you desire to be a top athlete – “Steven has bought every exercise and fitness magazine in the shop, but he loves “the chipper.”

Or more ideally, “no matter how much cr@p is going on, the guy is able to focus on what he wants, and works on getting it.”

When we shine the brutal torch of common sense on our actions its only too obvious what the outcome is going to be.

Consider this – you’re driving your car and you come to T junction. Its 8.45 in the morning, and you’re trying to make your way into heavy traffic to your left. There are two things that you could do.

One, you could sit back with your foot on the brake and hope that someone will guess that you want to move into the flow of traffic today, and decide that you’re their good deed for the day, and let you in. Is this likely to happen quickly or ever? Is your life like this?

Or, alternatively you can turn on your indicator to show everyone where you’re going, seek to make eye contact with someone who may be able to let you in, and continue to edge forward until someone does in fact “choose” (because its obvious that you know what you want) to do the right thing and let you in.

Contrary to what many believe, people want to and enjoy helping each other, this applies to making money, getting the job or succeeding in whatever undertaking it is that you choose. However, they are much more likely to give you a worthwhile break or opportunity when you demonstrate that you know what you want and are determined to get it.

And just how do you demonstrate this?

By your behaviour of course, if you think about it, its the only way that people can really come to a conclusion about you, what you want or what it is that you’re about.

Some of the obvious behaviours that we have noted in people that are successful include

- the ability to make a decision and follow it through until they get their result,

- the ability to keep moving forward (no matter how slowly) in the face of strong opposition,

- the capacity to overcome obstacles – under, over around or through, and

- the desire to constantly learn more about their world, and the new or existing methods that they can utilise to more successfully adapt to what is unquestionably a fastly changing world.

A recurring word in this article has been the word “obvious.”

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With the economy in flux and companies laying off employees right and left, it is time to declare your independence as small business owner and get the ability to tap into millions of dollars of federal contracts. In this article learn how to complete the SBA 8a application successfully without paying someone thousands of dollars to fill out a handful of forms. I did it and my company is SBA 8a certified. You can do it too.

If you are a small business owner, you may have wondered how to increase your market share. One strategy is by becoming certified by the federal government as an SBA 8a company qualified to bid on large contracts. This program helps small business owners get organized to compete on contracts as a prime or subcontractor.

While most of us think of a small business as a “mom and pop” with a manager and just a few employees, the federal government has a different definition of small business. While the numbers may vary slightly due to industry, the federal government recognizes small businesses as those with less than 500 employees and a gross revenue (in the computer programming field for example: less than $23 million in three consecutive years. Now that is a BIG small business!

The ability to apply for and receive SBA 8(a) certification is attainable within a very short time. We are talking weeks.

Many women and minority owners want to get certifiied, but my be intimidated by the thought of filling out reams of paperwork. In reality, if you were to apply for the certification the application process takes about two hours, if you are registered in about five key databases, you have gathered all of the necessary backup paperwork (tax forms, incorporation documents, other relevant documents) and you meet the minimum standards of program qualification.

All of the information you need is online, but there is one issue. The SBA website is so large it is difficult to find the application quickly. And more importantly, determine the order in which you must complete the registrations to efficiently navigate the application process.

There are companies that prey upon small business owners and charge outrageous fees to complete government forms. I have received information from companies that attempt to scare business owners into thinking they cannot apply on their own or they will not get accepted unless they use Company X. That is hogwash! No company can guarantee your acceptance into the SBA 8(a) program. And more importantly, this is not a complicated application process.

If you are serious about taking your business to the next level, it is time to investigate how to get SBA 8(a) certified.

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One of the most guarded secrets to making money online is the email list.The alimighty email list of red hot buyers is the most well kept secrets to making money online and most internet marketers will not let you in on this secret. It has always been the key to making money online and it will always be the key.

You may be asking yourself , how do I build a red hot email list that is full of buyers.That is the golden question.

You could have a list with 5,000 people that do not buy a thing when you email them or you could have a list of 500 that buys averytime you email them with an offer. Which list do you think would be the most profitable?

The answer to building a red hot email list is not that simple and a lot of time and effort must go into this.

You will need to build a squeeze page. A squeeze page will tell your potential red hot buyer about your opportunity or product and give them a chance to enter their name and email address. In order to get them to give you this information by their own decision you will need to grab their curiousity and perhaps tell them this is the opportunity or product you will not be able to live without. Also you may offer them something for free for registering on your squeeze page. This is the golden ticket. What will you give them for free to get them to give you their information.That is what you will need to decide for yourself. You will decide what to give them depending on what opportunity or product you may be selling.

If you are promoting a business opportunity it may be a free ebook about making money online. If you are selling a particular product you may offer them some free information about that product and what the benefits of having such a product might be.

So the key to making money online is the almight red hot email list. Once you have a list of hot buyers you will sonn be on your way to making some serious money. Some marketers have you email list full of red hot buyers and may make as much as a few thousand dollars to tens of thousands everytime they email that list.

If you are doing business online and failing this may be the reason. Website traffic alone will not make the cut. You will need to build a squeeze page that catches peoples attention and gives them the desire to sign up. You need to find what your potential buyer is looking for and then give tham what they want.

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As a consultant, I’ve deliberately avoided making too big a deal about this recession we find ourselves in because.

First it doesn’t help a great deal to dwell upon problems when really you ought to be thinking about solutions; and secondly, you’re probably hearing plenty about it from everyone else.

I’ve been getting a lot of emails and calls from business owners who are having an extremely bad time of things at the moment. Everyone, it seems, is asking the same question: “can you help me survive the recession?”

Hmm. Well, first thing I’ll say is this is a hell of a time to ask. The time to be looking for new business is when you’re busy, not when things are rapidly going creek-wise and paddleless. But, there’s no point in worrying about what you can’t change. You can’t change the wind, but you can change the set of your sail. The economy is like it IS, so deal with it in that way.

So, let’s do what I always find it’s best to do with any threat and that’s to face it squarely: there is some pretty bad stuff going on all over the world right now, the economy is dire, it’s probably going to get worse, and just what can we do about it?

Well, let me ruffle a few feathers and annoy a lot of people by saying right upfront I actually don’t believe it needs to be that much of a big deal for us. There are some very powerful things we can do to not just survive this recession but actually to thrive and come out the other side in an even better position than we were going into it. But, does it mean we can just carry on doing things the same old way we’re doing them now and perhaps have been doing them for many years?

No, it doesn’t.

We’ve had it pretty easy until recently, and we could afford to be complacent about marketing and getting new business through the door.
But now things have changed, and if you don’t change with them, then you’re going to have a rough time of it, even to the extent you might go out of business.

So we need to ask ourselves some pretty tough questions: exactly what challenges are we facing? What can we do about them? And how can we still think ‘big’ and grow our businesses and grow our profits, regardless of what’s going on around us?

First, look back over the last few downturns we’ve weathered, and notice something interesting. Notice while there were a lot of businesses struggling, and indeed there were a lot of businesses actually going out of business… there were a few, perhaps 1% or 2% which did very well indeed. Believe me, this wasn’t down to luck.

Here’s the question: what did they do differently?

The answer may surprise you. Because you’re going to find the biggest single factor determining your success or failure in the recession is your attitude, or ‘mindset’. The most important thing these successful business owners did was decide not to knuckle under to the recession. They decided to succeed, instead.

Now, this might sound like a bunch of hippy, New Age woo-woo rubbish, but it’s not. I’m not talking about affirmations or ‘The Secret’ or anything like that at all. If you want to read a highly entertaining and deeply insightful bit of real scientific research on this, I recommend Richard Wiseman’s ‘The Luck Factor’.

Basically, good and bad things happen to us all in roughly equal measure, and the difference between so-called ‘lucky’ and ‘unlucky’ people isn’t what happens to them so much as what they pay attention to and remember. If I can sum it up, I’d say ‘you get more of what you focus on’. See, when you’re surrounded by bad news in the papers and on the television, when almost every conversation you have revolves around the dreadful state of the economy, something happens to you: you inevitably get drawn into all the negativity and unconsciously accept all this doom and gloom as being an unavoidable truth.

Consequently, most business owners are approaching this recession with the view they’re going to ‘just hang on’ and weather the storm. I tell you now: if that’s you, then that’s the BEST you can hope for. We rarely exceed our goals and expectations. As the old saying goes, ‘if you want to hit an eagle, aim for the moon; aim for the eagle and you’ll hit a rock’.

So, the very first thing you need to be thinking about is setting some ambitious and positive goals (and remember I am not taking about tree-hugging here), and so instead of thinking in terms of just ‘hanging on’, think in terms of doubling or tripling your profits in the next 12 months. OK, so you might not actually hit that particular moon, but you will no doubt bag a few eagles in the process.

Once you set this goal for yourself, your brain, which has evolved to be an incredibly powerful pattern-matching and goal-seeking piece of equipment, will start looking for ways to achieve what you want.

OK, once you’ve set your goal, what now? What about those opportunities I mentioned? Well, the chief one is linked to what I just shared with you about people’s expectations.

Your competitors are worrying and fretting and setting their sights on just ‘getting by’. That means their actions and strategies are all aimed at just ‘getting by’. And that’s the best they can hope to achieve. But really, the customers out there still buying are just as scared by this recession as everyone else, and they want to be buying from someone bold and confident.

They want leadership and certainty. If you have set ambitious goals and are acting congruently with your words, then that’s what you offer them. Following on from this, you’ll notice in their fear and panic, most of your competitors will have curtailed their marketing and dropped their prices.

This is great news for you. First, because low price is almost never what really interests us; and secondly, if they aren’t marketing and you are, then you appear to be the only game in town.

Of course, now’s the time people start to complain and whine about how ‘expensive’ marketing is. Fooey. Not so. Some of the best and most effective marketing you can do is completely free, or as close to free as makes no difference. And don’t make the mistake of thinking in this case ‘free’ means ‘cheap and nasty’.

Think on it: how much does a recommendation from a friend cost, and how effective is it? You see my point, yes?

You may have noticed clients have changed their habits a little, but that’s OK. I’ve noticed it in my own business for sure: more clients than ever, but the jobs tend to be smaller and my clients more frantic.

That’s not my ideal situation, but it’s easy enough to cope with and cash flow has increased quite nicely, even though I’ve substantially raised my fees (because I get results and people are happy to pay whatever I ask – there’s a lesson in there for every business).

In short: I’m busier now than I’ve ever been.

So, pull your chin out of your chest, straighten your back and get out there and GET MARKETING!

Jon McCulloch is the hottest marketing sensation in the UK and Ireland and is now taking the US by storm. Discover how YOU can turn the current downturn and recession to your advantage with 9 simple but highly effective strategies: www.RecessionIsOpportunity.com

Social Business Networks inexpensively interconnect professionals online, in particular, independent entrepreneurs and smaller companies. Social Business Networks also give you the opportunity to showcase your experience and achievements within your network. If you are an entrepreneur or small business owner, you need to be literate in the current world of social networking profiles, tools, and online connections to stay competitive and promote your business.

Participating in social networking is an often-overlooked small business marketing tool. In the real world, our networks are hidden. Social networking sites solve this problem by letting you see who your friends and connections know, who your friends, friends know and so on. You then are free to contact anyone that interests you by inviting them to join your own social network.

If you are looking to expand your contact base, LinkedIn and Facebook are two of the more popular services that facilitate business-oriented connections. Facebook showed a 270 percent increase in visitors in 2007 over the year before according to comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world. Ecademy and Xing are also popular business networking sites.

Here are 5 quick tips to successful social business networking:

1. Take the time to learn how to properly use the business social networking site that you join. Most social networking sites offer online tutorials. Many sites allow you to post your own user generated content in the form of blogs, pictures, slide shows and videos. Many users do not use the social networking sites to their fullest potential by taking advantage of these features.

2. Don’t let your ego take over and join in the race to build up a massive list of contacts to show off your “social power.” If you have more than 500 “friends,” take the time out to sort through these “friends” to be aware of the people you may be attracting to your network.

3. Build and manage your online reputation. According to a report on MSN, several companies are now using the “friends” on an applicant’s social-networking page as references. Not only are they looking at your page on sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, they may also take the next step in contacting your friends. The old days of a page with three references and three phone numbers on it that you controlled are over. With social business networking, you open up your rolodex for the whole world to see.

4. Be professional. Type your posts, e-mails, comments or chats in a professional manner and do not use internet slang such as “lol”, “omg”, etc. Type your email, comments or chat messages as if you were standing in front of the person speaking face-to-face. Let’s face it; this could be your first impression with a potential client or HR recruiter.

5. Establish a Routine. When logging on to your preferred Business Social Networking sites, set aside a designated length of time to spend here. Have some specific goals in mind when visiting the site.

Don’t take a pass on the whole social networking trend. Millions of professionals are learning how social networks work, how social networking works, and how shared applications can be viral and ever-present. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to create a successful social business network of your own.

Robin Matuk is an Internet Business Coach who addresses the needs of entrepreneurs and business owners looking to maximize the power of the Internet to build, manage, and grow a thriving business. She is the founder of My Digital Coach, and a a blogger at Creating with Impact.

The owner of a small manufacturing company has 29 employees. After growing to this size and being in this very competitive business for just 5 years, this owner is experiencing headaches typical for a company in this stage of its growth curve.

Issues include:
1. The inability of the CEO to release control to key employees creating a sense of distrust among every single person in the company.

2. Questions about growth go unanswered more than likely because the CEO hasn’t created a vision for the company or felt the need to share it with people if it does exist.

3. Decision making is only done at the CEO level because employees know that their decisions will be belittled, not just questioned, leaving employees thinking that not asking is better than taking a risk in asking.

4. Experienced employees wanting to step up and take a more active role in helping to run the company receive no encouragement and lack the motivation to pursue their own professional growth because of what is perceived as a lack of trust and willingness on the part of the CEO to let go of authority and responsibility.

5. The CEO firmly believes that people just need to step up and do their jobs and shows impatience, and in fact, considers it a weakness when people can’t make decisions, ask too many questions and appear to not understand what is expected of them.

This is a company headed for disaster.

Will it happen right away? No. And many companies continue to expand and grow with the issues outlined above. There is nothing easy about running a company and being in the shoes of a CEO is a demanding and difficult place to be.

However, if a CEO has employees, there is an expectation among the people that are hired that the CEO is there to lead, guide, direct, manage, coach and discipline the people that work for that CEO.

In James Fischer’s book, “Navigating the Growth Curve”, he introduces a unique phenomena that indicated there is a blend of confidence and caution in every company and successful CEOs understood this critical ratio. They understood also that it was their responsibility to provide the balance of this ratio in order to move their companies forward.

The Builder/Protector Ratio
This phenomenon is called the Builder/Protector Ratio (B/P Ratio) and is a measurement within a company of confidence vs. caution. It’s a critical measurement tool for a CEO and their leadership team to be able to assess the company’s ability to accept change, react with confidence to that change and help the company achieve its stated goals.

A Builder mindset creates new ideas, takes on new initiatives, and finds ways to expand the revenue and profitability of the enterprise. A Builder chooses to challenge and improve the way things are done. They are risk tolerant and highly supportive of growth. A Builder tends to be confident in the financial strength of a company and hold a high degree of confidence in the company’s processes and systems.

A Protector mindset is cautious and prefers to slow down the pace of change. They are risk adverse and highly suspicious of growth. Protectors may not feel confident in the company’s financial strength and are slow to embrace the optimism of the future.

Too much Builder or too much Protector mindset in a company can create unrealized obstacles to growth.

The CEO of this small manufacturing company is unknowingly creating a company of Protectors because of his need to control and his hesitation to bring his employees into the vision and strategic plans for the company.

His controlling nature has virtually shut down the Builder-like capability in every single employee. By not encouraging communication, the Builders in the company will not step up and take risks and will revert to Protector status quickly.

By not sharing with the employees any information about the company’s future plans or their current financial situation, the employees will always come from a Protector mindset, which can be interpreted by the CEO as an unwillingness to step up and get the job done.

A company that had huge potential for growth will suddenly find itself with a culture of resistance, high staff turnover and life for the CEO will become almost unbearable.

Determining Your Company’s Builder/Protector Ratio
There are specific signs happening today in your company that will immediately let you know how balanced your Builder/Protector Ratio is. A leader can get a good idea of their company’s B/P Ratio by 1) tuning into the voltage (think energy) in your company 2) talking to your leadership team and asking some pointed questions and 3) listening to your employees, really listening.

What are the signs? Are people engaged in open and active dialogue? Are meetings productive, full of valuable information? Are good decisions being made?

What are the questions? Does your leadership team or your employees appear optimistic about the future? Are they confident in the financial strength of the company? Do they have a high level of confidence in their co-workers?

What are your employees saying? Is there too much behind the scenes gossiping? Is there a high rate of absenteeism or turnover? Do your managers or employees complain about a lack of accountability? Are projects derailed or slowed down too often?

Creating a Builder Mindset
A leader can help create more of a Builder mindset in their company by doing one thing and doing it often. Communicate. Communicate where the company is going. Communicate why it is going there. Communicate what the goals of the company are today and for the future. Communicate to individuals daily. Get to know each employee. Share critical information all the time and do it often.

If a company is aware of its B/P Ratio it can 1) make good decisions in a timely manner 2) accept change as a part of the company’s culture and 3) engage employees in meaningful dialogue because they have helped design the strategic future of the company.

Remember, a confident company is a profitable company.

Laurie Taylor helps business owners solve problems that impact their ability to grow a successful company. Find out more about Laurie’s business growth programs at http://www.igniteyourbiz.com.

Most entrepreneurs rebel against following rules. It’s that go-for-broke attitude that has started many successful ventures and those ventures didn’t start out by observing rules.

However, a thorough understanding of what stage of growth your company is in will provide a business owner with critical rules of the road that help business owners, with fewer than 500 employees, focus on critical aspects of their company.

As the President of a $12 million company that grew beyond my expectations, I struggled to find ways to engage employees in understanding what was needed to manage that growth. And I struggled against the overwhelming feeling of frustration in trying to manage all the challenges being thrown our way every day.

Once I began to understand the stages of growth and could articulate the rules of the road for our current stage of growth, those challenges became easier to manage. Why?

Because I was talking a language each employee in my company could understand and I could carve out three or four areas of focus instead of 20 or 30. It was getting focused on the critical rules of the road for my company when the dot-com blowup of March 2000 took out 30% of my staff that saved us from the brink of bankruptcy.

I’ve outlined two of the five critical rules of the road for each stage of growth.

As you read them and identify your stage of growth, simply add these two critical areas to your current strategic plan and watch your focus get laser-sharp and your productivity rise.

Stage 1: 1 to 10 employees

– Generate, track and preserve cash
– Focus 80% of your resources on selling the 2 to 3 offerings with the best margins

Stage 2: 11 to 19 employees

– Sell absolutely every day
– Develop, without fail, three employees to be responsible, accountable and proactive

Stage 3: 20 to 34 employees

– Without fail, clarify and strengthen any and all communication with your employees
– Delegate responsibility and authority to capable supervisors and meet with them regularly

Stage 4: 35 to 57 employees

– Hire and effectively train professional department managers who are responsible and accountable
– Establish a strict company project management template

One rule that you may not want to know about says: What you don’t get done in your current stage of growth will not just go away. The rules in each stage of growth need to be addressed and if they aren’t, you will face them again as you move to the next stage of growth.

Stage 5: 58 to 95 employees

– Integrate the management team into an inter-dependent, executive-focused leadership unit
– Establish a fully integrated living budget by revenue group and by department

Stage 6: 96 to 160 employees:

– Without fail, establish a two to three day new staff orientation
– Without fail, secure regular one-on-one supervisor/employee meetings

Stage 7: 161 to 500 employees:

– Overhaul the business model to optimize direction and margins
– Set up an enterprise management/leadership succession system.

Growing a business demands every minute of your energy, resources and brain power. The good news is you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. By understanding your stage of growth, by knowing what the rules of the road are for each stage of growth, you will have headlights to help you navigate the curves and get ahead of the obstacles.

Laurie Taylor is a business growth specialist. Laurie specializes in a unique growth model ‘The 7 Stages of Growth’ and helps business owners successfully navigate their own growth curve. Learn more about the 7 Stages of Growth at http://www.igniteyourbiz.com.

If you hear of the word bookmark, you associate it with something that helps you remember a page in a book, so you can come back to read it again at a later time. In the case of websites and web pages on the internet, social bookmarking is the practice of saving web pages, in a way tagging them, so you can view and read them again. When you bookmark a page that is constantly updated, like a news page, each time you return to view it, there is something new for you to see.

Are there any advantages to social bookmarking?

The answer is yes! As said before, internet users benefit from social bookmarking as it allows them to come back to sites that they like, or pages that have very useful and relevant content. Also, according to sources, if a site is constructed well, and has very interesting and expertly written content, there is a higher probability that it will be bookmarked.

Think about it. Would you be coming back to a site if it didn’t have anything important to say? Such is the motivational factor that drives web surfers to stay within a site, and possibly even purchase items and recommend it to others.

The more times a site is bookmarked, the better it is for Search Engine Optimization. Search engine bots or crawlers are able to index more sites through this. In a way, the number of social bookmarks made can directly affect the page popularity and page rank.

In terms of the frequency of the returns of visitors to your site, it will be ideal if they bookmark your site by subscribing to web feeds. In this way, whenever you make changes or updates, your former visitors will be sure to come back.

Is this what RSS feeds are about?

RSS feeds are only one of the many types of web feeds available. Users who have aggregator programs on their computer are reminded or alerted every time an update is made on any of the sites they bookmarked or have subscribed to web feeds. RSS feeds are a common feature on blogs about political issues, news websites, online magazines, and more. Other examples of methods of social bookmarking through web feeds are Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and more.

How can your website benefit from social bookmarking?

Can you visualize your site with hundreds to thousands of visitors per day, and all of them coming back regularly to check out what’s new? You will soon find that the conversion rate of your site visitors to product buyers will be high, and who wouldn’t want that? With this method of social bookmarking, you can improve your site’s page ranking, since more bookmarks of your site will be made by users.

Robin Matuk is an Internet Business Coach who addresses the needs of entrepreneurs and business owners looking to maximize the power of the Internet to build, manage, and grow a thriving business. She is the founder of My Digital Coach, and a blogger at Creating with Impact.

It is hard to get excited about something if you don’t feel that you have a good reason to be doing it. I sometimes have that problem and I keep tuning my why(s) so that they are as clear as crystal to me. Let’s face it. Many of us get into the MLM industry part-time while still working a full-time J-O-B. On top of that job which takes most of our time (including travelling), all of us have many other big responsibilities in our lives so our time is valuable. Thus, if you haven’t done so, do it now because it will be your motivating factor when times are tough.

In fact time may be your burning desire: time with your family, time on vacation, time fishing, time on the golf course, or finally some time to yourself. Personally, for me it was time on my terms. I don’t want to be tied to someone else’s schedule all the time. Working for someone is basically about paying the bills, get to just over being broke and sacrificing your freedom for doing that. Mind you I do enjoy working in my profession as a CPA.

Financial Freedom is another popular burning desire and this is my number three reason of why. Many of us have signed up to make extra money to have the things we want or to get free from debt or leave a legacy for our children or to have comfortable retirement with good health. On a side note, if financial freedom is your burning desire, I strongly recommend that you get familiar with the works of Robert Kiyosaki.

Lastly but this is not all there is to it, some people want to develop themselves much further. The best way to becoming a successful entrepreneur without having to lay down a huge capital investment is to take up a home based business. That is my number two reason why. It not only helps me to develop my skills in leadership and marketing but also develop myself to becoming a better networker who has influence on others for a good cause. I say this now with ease but sometimes I have challengers for they put much of a demand on me.

Once you have determined your why, write it down and review it regularly. Put it on the places where you can view it regularly. For example, stick it on your refrigerator, on the bathroom mirror, on the corner of your computer monitor and etc. The key is to look at it often. Let it be a reminder of why you are working so hard and sacrificing so much.

Create some clear goals around it, follow your system, be persistent, believe that nothing can stop your burning desire and go to work.

Now, go find your burning desire and flame on. . .

Below are some simple questions to stimulate your thinking about your big, bold dreams. If you want a rich and abundant life, it all begins with a dream!

1. If time and money is not an issue:

What are three things you would like to do?

Where would you like to go?

What are two things you would like to purchase?

2. What dream have you always thought about in your mind, but never told anyone about it?

3. If there is a 100% wildly successful activity, what would you do?

4. Describe in details about your dream home – the outside, the inside, the feel about it and the surroundings

5. What three things are you really passionate about?

6. If you had $500,000 to donate, who or what organization would you give it to?

7. What are three things you want your dreams to do for your family?

8. What is the one thing that really drives you?

9. What would cause you to get up early, stay up late, and ignore fatigue?

10. List three things that will make you happy and full of joy.

Now that you have some good information about yourself, write them down on paper and write one dream you feel you can accomplish in one year or less.

Then work for it focusing with that end in sight. When you make that dream a reality, set another small dream in front of you and work for it.

When you work toward your small dreams you are also working toward that big, bold dreams too.

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Many business people become discouraged upon reading the headlines in the newspapers. They see predicted doom and gloom and ask themselves, why bother?

Your attitude and belief system affect everything you do. By paying attention to what you can do to improve your business climate and believing you can make a difference and succeed, you will stand a far better chance for succeeding. The following guideline will help you through tougher economic times.

The three easy steps you can take to boost business during tough times are:

1. Get the education for your business that you were putting off.

2. Call a minimum of 10 people per day whose name is in your database and whom you met personally.

3. Create and promote new product on days the phone is quiet.

Education comes in many forms: attending a university class, webinar, tele-class, seminars and conventions. Networking alone will potentially put you in front of a contact who has a brand new idea for you to consider.

Belonging to a mastermind group with members who have complementary businesses can bring about new ideas and insight on how to fast track your goals. Hiring a coach familiar with your business and your goals is one of the quickest routes to success and will pay back exponentialy.

Any piece of education will get you to your goal far more quickly and effectively than going it alone. As you continue to educate yourself and grow in confidence and with new ideas, you begin attracting more people to your business.

Everyone in business must be dedicated to a database management system or CRM (Customer Relationship Management) as it is referred to by many. The best advice is to group your contacts according to where you met them. In this manner, it is easy to reconnect months later with familiarity including where you met.

When you find your phone traffic has slowed, make it a habit to call a minimum of 10 contacts listed in your personal database on a daily basis. Most often, the person on the other end will be so glad you thought of them, they will begin to brainstorm with you as to how you can help one another. As this becomes an everyday habit, your phone will begin ringing again.

The days that are particularly slow are the days when you can easily give focused thought to writing articles, compiling a manual, recording the podcasts you have been meaning to do, and writing a manuscript.

Should one or some of these already be completed, the slower days are perfect for finding resources that will help promote your product(s). You can offer a free tele-class or webinar for your contacts; develop an affiliate program and pay a reasonable commission; speak to groups about your business and how your products will assist others; or become a vendor at larger venues to show off your new creations.

As you can see, by implementing the 3 easy steps listed above, instead of complaining about slow times, you will create good times on your own terms.

Through the years of entrepreneurship, I have followed all of the advice above. In particular, I hired coaches for a few months at a time when I was ready to get to the next level and get there more quickly than figuring it out on my own. Their fees were earned back exponentially.

While newscasters are predicting the economic perfect storm, many of us who follow the advice above are looking at our best year yet.

Elinor Stutz, CEO of Smooth Sale, LLC and author of “Nice Girls DO Get the Sale” trains others on her proven relationship selling techniques through services and products. Her book sells worldwide.

Services include training, coaching, and speaking. Her products suit all learning styles.

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Alright, I was daring enough to put sex in my title, but what does it really have to do with your online business and online marketing basics? Would you believe everything? I am not going to tell you how to use sex sites and other off color things to build your business. I will show how sex and harnessing its power will and does change your power to achieve online marketing success.

Nothing here is new. In fact, Napoleon Hill has already covered the subject well. Long ago, Hill studied and recorded in ‘Think and Grow Rich’ the power of sex transmutation. Now what does that mean? Sex transmutation is taking your incredible sex drive and transmuting (or converting) it to highly productive performance.

You know from your personal life that sex is a powerful influence, combined with love, channeled to positive flow, and controlled it can turn mediocrity into genius. In life, sex has very constructive powers including the continuation of the human race, maintaining good physical health and emotional balance, and propelling mediocrity to genius. Are you getting the point yet, or maybe you dont believe me and think I am just pulling your leg.

Sex and genius; what do they have to do with each other? If you look through history, (which I won’t do here since this is a short article for online marketing success strategies) you can certainly name many examples of greatness you are familiar with. You can even review the people you admire today and identify the creative genius.

Something known to be common to their genius is the ability to use the ’sixth sense’ or creative ability harnessed within. Your creative ability is essential in any business especially in developing your online marketing basics. Super achievers in any field have learned to stimulate their mind in a way that makes their brain function at a higher than average intensity. Genius functions by concentrating on known qualities and factors (of an unfinished product or strategy) and keeping this mind picture for the subconscious to capture and flash the answer to the mind.

Maybe it sounds hokey to you, but maybe it’s because you haven’t allowed your mind to focus and capture your ideas for your true genius to emerge. Maybe you believe this is not an online marketing basic, but the fact is, you must start focusing on your genius (you do have it) as part of your online marketing strategy.

What does this have to do with sex? Your knowledge of historical biographies, biographical movies, and people you admire today will clearly demonstrate that love and sex create a powerful drive motivating the creative genius. Everyone you can think of that experienced incredible success has a love and sex story that spurred the genius.

Everyone has a sex drive and it can be positive if controlled and channeled with love, or negative if allowed to be the motivation without love. Napoleon Hill analyzed 25,000 people and found that the majority of people don’t learn to control their sex drive until about 40 years of age. This is also the same time that most people achieve their real genius, between 40 and 50 years of age.

Harnessing sex and love will explode your creative genius. The earlier in life you learn this, the sooner your online marketing basics will convert to a genius online marketing strategy. What do you do about it?

1. Stop ignoring sex and love, you have to have it, it is biological
2. Stop chasing sex alone, it will destroy you and prevent you from achieving your genius.
3. Use the powerful energy of sex in your portrayed confidence: your handshake, your tone of voice, your posture, and your clothing.
4. Allow love to exist with your sex, this combines spiritual power (love) with physical power (sex) and creates an incredible chemistry to put you in touch with your creativity.

When the power of sex and love is part of your online marketing basics, your creative genius becomes infinite. Your mind is no longer finite and your online business propels to the next level.

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From time to time I am asked by business advisors, senior level managers, and successors in privately held or family owned companies, if I have any special insights that will magically get the owners of their company to lighten up.

Why aren’t they willing to delegate some of their authority, upgrade their technology to take advantage of cutting edge strategies the younger generation and their advocates are all fired up about, and give everyone a little slack – so they feel empowered to make decisions on their own once in a while?

Recently the son-in-law of a business owner told me he was really excited about a database driven addition to the company’s web site. All those time consuming frequently asked questions about their warranty procedures would be online and answered automatically. Customers would be able to schedule warranty service via an online form, their sales people would be able to periodically contact their most loyal customers with notices of private sales – and much much more.

He got together with the database engineer and the web designer and together they created a compelling PowerPoint presentation for dad. He said dad listened attentively to the presentation, asking relevant thoughtful questions.

Looking back, the son-in-law said that he should not have scheduled the presentation for 10:00 Wednesday morning because the instant it was over, at ten minutes before noon, dad stood up, reached for his sport coat and was heading out the door to his weekly Rotary Club luncheon. Reacting to the questioning look from his son-in-law, he motioned for him to come out into the corridor, where dad turned to him and said, “Tell him we’re not interested.” And that was that.

Over the years I have seen many ideas presented by successors and their advisors scuttled by the senior generation (the people with the checkbook) with the same response or maybe it’s the “wait a while” excuse supported by dads cronies (who are also resisting the inevitable), and often includes others inside the business who feel threatened by the younger generation.

Why are these forward-thinking ideas being rejected? Half a lifetime spent working with family businesses has taught me about the fears, concerns, and motivations of the typical family business owner.

Let’s look at things from dad’s point of view. Let’s face it, from his perspective, things are often going just fine the way the are. Probably 90% of the companies that were started when his business was launched have failed, disappeared, and are long forgotten.

The business is successful now because he kept his own council, stayed away from advisors who have never run a business themselves and who make money telling people like him how to run theirs. The business is successful because he has avoided the advice of others who really had no idea what they were talking about. And he is successful because he was committed to his mission to grow the company in spite of the odds and in spite of the folks looking to distract him from his objectives with their clever ideas.

A business owner told me that “my neighbors think everything I touch turns to gold” because they never learn about all the ideas I have tried that failed.

Successors and their advisor friends want to run the business thinking they can do it better than dad. What they are really saying is that they can take what dad has created over a 20, 30, 40 year period and leverage it into something that will really impress their friends. If they lose it all, well they’re sorry – but not as sorry as their dad. He loses face in the community and the industry plus he may lose his home and his retirement income.

Betting the business on junior’s big ideas – promoted by his peers and his advisor pals, could mean that dad ends up living in his son’s basement apartment. That’s not likely to inspire dad to get on board with an expansion of the plant.

Creating a successful company is not a straight line proposition. Dad has had to cut corners, try things that did not work, keep a smile on his face when he’s afraid that if the check from a slow-pay customer doesn’t arrive soon he can’t meet payroll, and he can’t tell anyone about it. If others find out how tough things are they might lose faith in him and the business. That loss of faith is just one more thing – maybe the final straw.

After years of juggling things get better. Dad really is on easy street. Since he has made it look so simple all along, outsiders have no idea how hard it was. And then the successors come along and want “introduce advanced improved management strategies” that change the ways things are being done.

The members of the next generation waltz in with their newly minted MBA under their arm and want to be in charge. They know from the books they’re been reading and from listening to professors who have never built a company from scratch – that dad’s company could be much more profitable.

They bring in the advisors who support the changes – people who are getting paid when they convince dad to spend money on these brilliant ideas. Often these are the same advisors (or their children) that dad avoided so successfully for so many years.

A tactic I have recommended several times when the successors want more room to make decisions – to be a more important part of the team, is to ask them to sign over their house, cars, and other assets as collateral. If the decisions work out they will share the benefits and if not they bear some of the very real responsibility.

I am not suggesting some informal agreement. I mean to literally have them pledge their assets to at least the same percentage as their dad – legally, contractually.

When people share the risks and the rewards they are more likely to communicate honestly with one other and look at the pros and cons of decisions very carefully. Maybe if your dad saw that you were as committed as he is, you’d get further with your ideas.

Fear of failure goes beyond the money. Often it is looking bad to their contemporaries and competitors– that causes them to hold back. One business owner said, “I’ve spent 45 years in this business and am on the Board of the national association. I’m thought of as a successful guy because I am a successful guy. I am not going to let go of things which, if they aren’t handled right, can make me look bad.”

Business owners have always faced challenges, today’s new technologies are not the first new technologies they’ve seen. Successful business owners know that some mistakes the business can and has absorbed. But that some mistakes will absorb the business.

Premature delegation offers too much risk to the business owners self-esteem. Delegating because the advisors say it’s the thing to do, turning the reins over to others to keep them happy hoping for the best really isn’t a very smart idea.

And if the ideas of the successors are right on the money – then what? The business owner knows that he will be asked to go to the bank for more capital to fund the successful ideas for growth. That puts him in even more financial jeopardy and ties up even more of his assets in the business – at a time when would like to be getting money out for a change.

When successors and their advisors ask me how they can get the old man to delegate more, give them more say in the way things are being done – allow them to implement 21st century strategies, etc. I tell them that frankly I am amazed when the senior generation is willing to do anything at all.

Successors and their advocates inside the family and out seem impatient to me and to dad.

Let’s consider this in the context of the military. Dad is the commanding officer and the successors start out as the lowest ranking officer possible.

In the military it takes years of on-the-job training, specialized schooling, and collaboration with colleagues up and down the chain of command in order for these young officers to move up through the ranks. Each step along the way is measured with responsibility, authority, and accountability added with each one.

Over time the decisions made at the top and those made by the rising young officer are more and more coordinated because each person is learning to trust the judgements and motives of the other.

What’s the bottom line solution for you the senior generation owner or the successor? Start today to develop the path, begin the collaboration based on mutual commitments both personally and financially to one another and realize that this is a process not an event.

Estate planning documents, life insurance, etc. are quite necessary because they guarantee the future you are seeking and should be drafted with that in mind. However estate planning documents are not a substitute for the years of co-developed strategies for the common future of the company.

If you have been unable to communicate in the past, why is that? What are you afraid of? If you have been unwilling to address uncomfortable issues together, why? Do you seriously believe you can wish them away, that time will make them get better? If you are so paralyzed by the past and so intrenched by your positions, then your company will be one of the successful ones that fail. It’s up to you.

If you think you need a non-biased third party to help you bridge these discussions and help you get the process started – someone with no ax to grind, no financial stake in the input they provide, and no advice to protect, engage the services of an experienced coach you both trust and respect.

Wayne Messick reports on how Main St. businesses are poised to succeed in the 21st Century on his blog
www.WayneMessick.com His updated peer-to-peer collaboration report can be found at
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Whenever you are ready to launch a new online venture, a great way to drive targeted traffic to your new website is to write a great press release. When writing a press release it is important to keep a few things in mind to avoid having your press release labeled as shameless self promotion.

Even though the press release is a form of advertising, it is important that it does not sound like advertising. A good press release should sound like a third party that has nothing to gain by the press release informing interested parties of a potentially interesting website or online business.

The first thing to keep in mind when writing a press release is that you want to convince the reader that you are providing valid, researched, information rather than presenting your opinion as fact. A great way to show the reader that the information contained in the press release is legitimate is to provide statistics. Hard numbers and facts will help give the press release some credibility. When providing statistics stick to simple numbers that help illustrate or back up statements made in the press release that will not be to confusing.

Secondly, make sure the press release is written in an interesting manner. Be entertaining even when facts are being presented. Write your press release in the same manner as a news article or something that is going to be read for entertainment reasons. A dry press release containing nothing but facts and figures is not going to make interesting reading and will not create the same buzz that a creative, entertaining press release will.

Third, when writing your press release do not constantly mention your domain name or website. Most press releases will have a contact area for media and that area will give you the chance to provide the relevant domain name. Mentioning the website domain name by providing the full URL once in the body of the press release is also acceptable. Having the domain name present in the press release anymore than that will make the press release seem like nothing more than a way to get free promotion and will be ignored by many of the people you want to read the press release.

Lastly, do not stuff your press release with keywords or sales jargon. Remember, a press release is not a sales pitch. It is completely possible to promote yourself, your product, and your website without sounding like an online sales person.

Robin Matuk is an Internet Business Coach who addresses the needs of entrepreneurs and business owners looking to maximize the power of the Internet to build, manage, and grow a thriving business. She is the founder of My Digital Coach, a blogger at Creating with Impact and a community builder at The Big Idea Community. Check out her website The Big Idea Community and her blog Creating with Impact.

The truth is neither small nor medium entrepreneurs need formal management consultants. It is surprising to see how experienced entrepreneurs and specialists are willing to exchange ideas and guide entrepreneurs in important decisions in which they can contribute. Do not be embarrassed to ask for help, you will be surprised with the generosity and spontaneity of some people. This time together will be a great humbling exercise and reflection; a training for the entrepreneurs to make good use of the benefits of a true administration advice in the future.

The number of executives that seek for risky capitalists for consultants in management is growing. The budget can include invitations for applications for potential counselors and some payment consultants for different categories.

The huge interest is probably related to the financial success of many entrepreneurs that started to invest in the stock market, which requires an experienced counselor. Although, many entrepreneurs began to view a consultant as a way to differentiate and demonstrate professionalism, as if by just being there it would make them a serious business.

Many entrepreneurs seek to ease the typical loneliness so often felt in leadership positions with a council made up of professionals that know each other through social means. Surely the friendship does not damage the purpose; however this should not be the main criteria when choosing the counselor. The most important thing to consider is the experiences each one has. These advice meetings were not created for executives to get together and have fun, but to share experiences which help to lead the business.

Some companies are interested in improving the perception in the market that they are looking for and to gain the endorsement of renowned businesses. They want to take advantages of the companies which have strong names in the market, relating themselves to them, to use their merits for future businesses. This is all part of the marketing strategy.

There are entrepreneurs that want to create a periodic check up. They hope that the formality required by a council management will bring discipline that they can hardly keep by themselves. They recognize this to be essential because many companies are not prepared to enjoy the benefits that this framework can bring.

Entrepreneurs that think for themselves tend to find good ways to make their plans work out without the need of consultants. Most consultants are usually retired executives from big multinational companies or those who do not want this kind of responsibility any more. Before trying these professional consultants you should check up the challenges your company faces, to see if it is necessary to form a board. This should be one of your priorities and not just to get together for fun meetings. Remember, a council can be great if it is necessary and does not take your attention away from what is urgent.

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Most people introduced to network marketing are often sold by the big dreams of the riches before being coached and trained properly as to what it really requires to become successful in this business. There are certain factors that do play a critical part to determine whether you are going to make it a hobby or build this into a huge Direct Sales business that will give you the time and financial freedom that you are seeking.

Watch out for some of the most common mistakes made by newbies in pursuing their dreams.

Before Joining

Number 1 Mistake:

Choosing the wrong sponsor. Often times, new distributors have no idea what it takes to build a successful home business especially if that was the very first time they were about to enter into the entrepreneurship world. Consequently they don’t know what attributes a quality sponsor should have. Most of the time, a sponsor seeks after them. They were being hunted instead of being the hunters. Very often they join because they have a good relationship with that sponsor. Because of their limited exposure to the direct sales industry, it is rather difficult for them to gauge the quality of potential sponsors and the MLM companies they represent. I was in that position. Even though I have worked with large corporate strategy and accounting forces during most of my career, direct sales industry requires a different set of skills. I did not have a clue.

I suggest to new people who are looking for a home based business before they sign on with any sponsor, they should prepare a list of questions which may help them to reveal the sponsor’s experience and strategy for building the business. The downside of this is they may not know the important questions to ask.

Number 2 Mistake:

Joining a sponsor that relies on the “traditional methods” of marketing. These include setting up home and hotel meetings, calling purchased leads and inviting friends and relatives for home parties. These strategies are highly ineffective nowadays and have much to do with the high attrition rate in network marketing.

Attraction Marketing is a better marketing strategy where you learn skills to become a leader in your field so that you become the hunted instead of the hunter. You are able to add personal value and provide solutions to other people’s needs. As a result prospects are attracted to you. They are curious to know how you do it and wanting to have the same success you achieved.

Attraction Marketing is a FREE members site that coaches people from all walks of life to do this business successfully. It is unique and it is NOT about selling and convincing.

After Joining

Number 3 Mistake:

Talking too much and trying to sell to everyone. It is best to learn how to ask prospects open-ended questions so that you don’t come across as ‘desperate’ to try to convince them. Instead be in a relaxed and confident position that you are a leader and this causes the right people to want to work with you. An open ended question such as “what do you mean by pyramid selling?” gives you a chance to speak less and make your prospect to talk more.

The reality is most people you talk with are not who you are looking for. They may appear to be keen “prospects” but actually they are only suspects, not prospects. They don’t have the drive, the persistence, the commitment or the focus to be an entrepreneur. They like their dreams but is not committed to do something to get to their goals.

Black Belt Recruiting is an inexpensive course that will help you to get out of “Sales Mode” and to be efficient in sponsoring without rejection. This course will help you to ask the right questions and thus will enable you to detect the right person to recruit.

Number 4 Mistake:

Talking big. This is a common mistake when a distributor oversells the business opportunity that they will be rich overnight or in a couple of years’ time. Most sharp people will detect this as phony and thus they will say no to you. Another consequence of big talk is imagine: a new distributor you recruited makes some quick money at the beginning and then nothing happens after that. What would he do? Probably quit in frustration.

What if you were to mention to the new distributor that to begin with this is a part time home business that may take 3 to 5 years to grow a residual income stream. During that time the prospect has new skills to develop. So if the person joins you and can see an increase in income over the months, it is less likely that he/she will quit as he/she understands that it will be a just matter of time before he/she reaches his goal of financial freedom.

Number 5 Mistake:

Talking too deep. Often times, new distributors will take upon themselves to want to learn everything before they talk to a single person. When your prospect hears your opportunity in such detail, they will back off. They have doubts in their minds, “Can I do this?” or “Do I need to know all this stuff before I earn a dollar?”

Remember, most people do not want another hard way of making money. They have struggled with just enough for most for their lives. Thus share with them just the basics of the financial opportunity and give them answers that are relevant to their questions.

Number6 Mistake:

Talking bad about another MLM company. This is not only self-defeating but you appear to be unethical in your profession as a network marketer. Never try to run another company down by saying yours is better.

Instead of talking bad about someone’s products or business opportunity you could say that you once felt the same too but found this and that which lead you to make a decision for your current opportunity. Be humble and respectful to your prospect’s situation. He/she may listen to you or give you a referral.

Number 7 Mistake:

Losing money. Net cash outflow. Many times a new distributor has not got much to spend on marketing. Instead of wasting the time chasing a few quick bucks from someone who is unqualified, it is better to invest in learning a skill that will truly benefit other people. Having an opportunity to pitch is not a valuable exchange for money. Think of your MLM opportunity as a product. In some cases it may cost $500 to $1,500 to join plus monthly maintenance of, let say, $250 to remain active to receive the sales commission. This is a highly-priced product which may be difficult to sell. Don’t start with it.

Understand that the cheaper the product you’re selling, the easier it is to sell especially Internet online. This is because different people have different spending abilities and willingness to spend. Thus, the cost of your product and the number of buyers is undeniably inversely proportional.

Business opportunity seekers want to earn money. They don’t care about your company’s products and compensation plan. Thus give them some generic information or tips or anything that has got to do with solving their money problem. In exchange for your free generic information, ask them for their email address by designing a special yet simple to the point capture page that will grab the prospect’s attention immediately and entice them to leave their contact information.

But remember this: Even if you do a good job on the capture page, expect to lose a few visitors. The secret is to compel as many of your visitors as possible to just leave their email address.

Next your job is to earn some money by offering an inexpensive information product, let’s say, $20. You can get this type of information product through affiliate marketing ( that is selling other people’s product and you earn a portion of the sales) or do it yourself eBook. Just make sure the product is complementary to your primary product which is the business opportunity of your network marketing company.

With a little practice, you can get a few hundreds of visitors coming to your site daily and turning them into firstly “free product buyers” by offering them inexpensive products and then later on offer them higher cost products. With these free leads, you promote your business opportunity to this smaller but well able spending group. Hence marketing your business opportunity is a drip by drip process. In this way you build a trust relationship with them to enable you to increase your personal value to them.

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The idea of starting a business is one that floats around in many people’s mind. It’s not new to life with the internet. I knew long before there was an internet and this thing called online business, I had a destiny to have my own business. But do you know what it takes beyond a positive attitude to make your vision flower?

Online business is just a business in a new surrounding. The surrounding is the world, the housing is a mystical electronic sphere. You can’t see it, but you believe it’s there. You don’t know what keeps it running, but you are willing to trust your online money making success to its existence. How can anyone succeed online in such a daunting realm?

What makes you believe in something you can’t touch, see, or feel? FAITH!

Faith is very powerful. As Napolean Hill so clearly explained, it is how “…the subconcious mind will transmute into its physical equivalent, by the most direct and practical media available, any order which is given to it in a state of belief…”

You are acting on faith!

Without faith you will:

- never acquire riches. Negative beliefs will stop you dead.

- you will never go beyond the rules that you know, those rules that throughout life convinced you that you can’t be rich

- you will never possess the one cure for failure

- without faith, you will never have the magic ingredient that allows you to act with infinite intelligence

These are, once again, Napolean Hills provable facts about faith. Read them again. Do you want to go on without these ingredients? I can make you this guarantee:

Without FAITH you will not succeed. You cannot even create your vision because you have to have faith that your vision can and will exist!

How do you get faith? I suggest you read “Think and Grow Rich” by Napolean Hill. It is the best place to start. Your faith in your ideas, your dreams, your accumulation of riches must overpower your life long beliefs that working hard for someone else will get you your rewards.

To get FAITH, you must create it. I use positive self-talk to create and sustain my faith in anything I have not achieved. My belief is my catalyst, and nothing can take it away.

Get FAITH!

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Your business success won’t just fall into your lap. It isn’t a result of luck. Key elements and factors are necessary in order to make your online businesses thrive. Do you have what it takes?

Persistence is the principle factor identified by the “get wealthy” gurus in ensuring your business succeeds. Napoleon Hill said it best, “Persistence is an essential factor in the procedure of transmuting desire into it monetary equivalent. The basis of persistence is the power of will.”

I almost don’t have to say anything else. Your will power defines your persistence. If you are weak, and easily swayed from one thing to the next, you most likely don’t have the persistence to make any life’s dreams a real vision you can achieve. If you cannot carry on, despite all opposition, then you are doomed.

What kind of opposition? Let’s start close to you. Are you married or have a long time relationship with someone? Do your closest friends call you nuts for striving to abundance? Most likely, you have problems convincing even your closest companion (spouse or significant other) that you will achieve your vision.

How about your friends? How many tell you that they think you have a great idea and if anyone can do it, it’s you? I am certain you cannot find 5 friends or family members that share your faith in your vision of success and abundance.

Is non-stop effort something you can do while marching toward completing your vision? Build a foundation of like-minded thinkers, and your strength and will power to achieve online success will multiply. Mastermind groups are the best place to go to find people who will encourage you with great ideas that build your confidence, will power, and persistence.

Without support, without like thinkers, you will have a massive struggle on your hands. How long can you hold out with everyone telling you that you’re wasting your time? Most can’t for long. Visions of abundance are realized by only 3% of the population.

Persistence is mandatory, and your will power must be strong to back it up. Find the online success mastermind group that works best for you, and you will change the odds. You can be an online success, your foundation can give you the persistence.

Remember, you don’t succeed by luck or hand outs. The tools you possess will make your business a success.

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It takes a lot to build a business. Whether it’s a work from home career where you’re still a parent, or a small office trying to set up contacts in a major industry, the obvious point is pressure. It’s the pressure to make money. What happens when you fail?
You rework your business philosophy:

1.Time:
Time is money in the game of business. Say you have a mindset for making more money doing the same thing. This means charging more per hour. It sounds simple, but depending on your vocation, rarely is. However, turning your time into more money in the beginning is simple: work more hours. It may be a drag on your personal life, but sometimes reworking a failed creative business means turning happy customers into very happy customers. The higher your product quality, the better the pay.

2.Money:
One way to satisfy your needs, beyond asking for more money for your time, is to build alternative methods for turning a profit. This means hiring out possibly for smaller projects, which then means hiring freelancers to help with the small game, while you focus on getting the big contacts within your industry. If you have a work from home business, for example, then you will see first hand how important certain clients are. Yet you want more clients, big and small. So hiring freelancers eases your burden and allows you to rework a slow creative business.

3.Building:
Even ten years into your business, you are still building. If you are an accountant, old clients hire someone else, sometimes for cheaper, while you move up to bigger companies with bigger pocket books. There is no reason to get discouraged, because a business will always have success and failure, usually more of the latter.

End Game:
The end is about all three of these points. You need more time, so you work more hours. You need more money, so you expand your work by hiring freelancers who are looking for work. You build the business around the mindset that it will always be in a building process. A failed business isn’t always about your failure; it means turning things around by setting priorities.

Whether you have a work from home career or an office with one hundred people, any business will go through failure. The difference is, where 1 in 5 new businesses survive, you have a better chance if you keep these things in mind.

Robin Matuk is a Business Consultant, Community Builder & Digital Coach. She provides a community for women entrepreneurs to network, learn, share, & mentor one another, offering the tools, strategies & systems to shift from a struggling woman entrepreneur to a successful woman business owner.
Check out her website The Big Idea Community and her blog Creating with Impact.