Tip of The Day:
What It Means To Be A Leader.
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” — John Quincy Adams
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Tip of The Day:
The Last Thing You Should Worry
About Is Grammar…
"I don’t know the rules of grammar… If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think." – David Ogilvy
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Whether you’re on a webinar, or reading a book, writing a blog, whatever…
So today I want to talk a bit about getting clarity in another area. It’s just as important as anything else, but like those other questions, rarely asked by entrepreneurs.
And then I want to share an idea about why it’s so important for you to be able to ask and answer your own questions.
This is going to be a challenging issue for you. But read and digest it and I think you’ll be richer for it.
So let’s get going.
To higher profits and beyond,
Rich
So how do you determine what “done” looks like?
The way you surface the answers to that is by asking a series of questions like, “if this project was incredibly successful, how would it turn out?” “If it was everything I wanted it to be, how would I know?” “If this was a smashing success, how would it end up?”
So those are the types of questions that you ask to get extensive clarity about what does done look like. Obviously if it’s anything that is more than just a few steps, it requires that you actually spend a few minutes at the very least writing out your answer to that question so that you can have greater clarity.
Now once you understand that, the next step is to figure out what “doing” looks like. To do this you need to really start listing all the steps that will get you to “done.”
I think I’ve probably shared this before, but what I like to do to determine what “doing” looks like is to brainstorm all the steps.
I don’t try and make it linear – first step, second step, etc. – because if I do that, I box myself in too quickly. So what I try to do is just brainstorm all the steps first.
Then as I’ve kind of exhausted all the steps, then I put them in order. As I put them in order, I realize I might have forgotten certain things.
Once I get all that down, I’m able to put it into a step-by-step plan that will lead me to this outcome that I’ve already defined by determining what would this look like if it was an amazing success.
Make sense?
That brings up a more difficult question of how do you know what you need to know, to get clarity on anything?
To answer that, I’m going to go a little bit more global here for a second; a little bit more meta-level.
The answer is really pretty simple, but it’s not that easy to do. I’m talking about the ability for you, as an entrepreneur, to trust your instincts.
Why is it so hard to do?
Well you see, you’ve been trained ever since you were a child not to trust your instincts; that somehow your instincts were bad or wrong.
When you were a baby you wanted all your toys and your parents made you share them. When you went to school, you might have wanted to stand up and walk around; but you were forced to sit in class and pay attention. If you decided that something was interesting to you if it wasn’t necessarily interesting to your parents or your teachers you might not have been able to study it or get access to it.
You’ve been taught over time to trust outside experts to give you certain answers that ultimately you should be developing yourself.
The bottom line is, and this is just my perspective, because people don’t trust their instincts, they don’t know what it is they want or need.
They end up looking for answers without knowing what it is they need to know.
So they end up joining a program, they buy some books, they listen to an audio but they’re not really clear what it is they’re hoping to get out of it. So they go to wherever it is they’re going; the program, the audio, the course, the book, etc. hoping to find out what’s there and what potentially they need as opposed to walking in knowing exactly what they need and what they’re there for.
When you don’t trust your instincts you end up deferring to others to tell you more and more of what you need for the clarity. Ultimately you’re not getting your own clarity. You’re getting other people’s clarity.
Most of things that you want right now, whether you really want them or not, have been ingrained in you. Someone else has told you that you need to have it. It’s obvious what those things are. You want more money. You want a good relationship with someone who loves you. You want a good business that makes you feel like you’re making a contribution and getting the security and freedom that you desire.
So here’s another big question. Do you think you need something that you currently don’t have in order to get something you want? Do you think you need something that you don’t have right now in order to get more money; in order to have a good relationship with someone who loves you; in order to have a good business where you feel like you’re making a contribution?
And if you do feel you need something, what is it exactly? If you don’t know what it is you need to have in order to get that, how will you ever find it?
Unless you’re hoping that someone else takes responsibility for knowing what it is you need and therefore giving it to you. That is a very dangerous position to put yourself in.
I’ll share a personal story about that in the next issue.
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Today I want to wrap up the discussion by diving just a little deeper and showing you a couple ways you can easily alter the stories that are holding you back.
So you can change your stories from one that’s pulling you down, to what’s driving you to achieve all the success you want.
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Rich
By asking yourself some basic questions about how you feel about what you do, and how you conduct yourself in those areas and by really, honestly looking at your story in these areas, you begin to get a better sense of what’s really going on.
I do want to take one quick sidetrack here before I get back into looking at your stories.
I want to talk about happiness for a second. Because I think that quite often, people confuse pleasure and happiness.
Pleasure is all about instant gratification. Pleasure is like that second piece of chocolate cake. Long term pleasure doesn’t lead to happiness. For the most part, long term pleasure leads to pain while happiness leads to more happiness.
Happiness is a feeling that you’re making progress; that you’re headed in the right direction. It’s the anticipation of joy. While pleasure doesn’t last, happiness does.
Every depressing story about a celebrity who dies of an overdose or anything like that, you can see they were chasing pleasure as opposed to happiness. So I just wanted to give you something to think about as we talk about your stories. Understand that when we’re talking about work, family, health, and friendships, we’re talking about happiness here, not pleasure.
So back to your stories.
Step one in trying to get a better handle on your stories and make the edits that are necessary, is to identify the areas of your life where the stories that you tell yourself or the story that you tell others is clearly not working. Areas where they simply won’t take you where you ultimately want to go. Where they aren’t currently getting you the results that you want. That could be in your business, in how you work. It could be in your family, your health, your friendships, or wherever.
The bigger question here is in what areas is it pretty obvious that I’m not going to get to where I want to go with the story I currently have.
Let’s say for example that you keep avoiding certain work. Well there’s a story there. So you’d want to focus on that. Once you’ve done that, what you want to do is actually articulate as clearly as you can the story that you currently have that’s not working. You want to put it down on paper. This is your old story.
There’s two ways that you can attack or alter or edit a story that’s not working for you.
The first is to identify the faulty elements of your old story. You can do that by asking yourself these questions:
Now once you’ve identified the story, the great news is that as soon as you alter your story, you should immediately experience a change. The challenge is how do you change the story?
One way to change the story is to take massive overwhelming force to the story. Kind of like killing an ant with a sledge hammer. If you’ve always told yourself a story that you can’t do X, then you want to focus a lot of energy on doing X.
If you tell yourself you’re a procrastinator, then for a day, for two days, for a week, you’re going to start to actually make massive action so that you can actually redefine your story.
The second way is to actually alter the story on paper first and then really think through how would you have to live in order for you to be on the path of this story. Ideally, you get pretty clear on that.
Now one other alternative that really kind of weighs into that second course of action is to create a turning point in your story. Take your story as it is up until now, and then you create some kind of turning point and then change the story. A lot of other elements relate to this. Your larger purpose becomes the premise of your story; your overall purpose in life and your values become important elements too.
But for right now, I think it’s a good start to really start getting your head around the idea that you’re living a story. We all do because we need a story to make sense of the world.
Right now, either that story is either helping you or hurting you. It’s either taking you closer and closer to your goals each and every day. Or it’s pushing you further and further back. As you develop your new story, you want to make sure that it’s taking you where you want to go and that it is founded in truth.
I really believe that confidence stems from your story. Your willingness to do what it takes stems from your story. How you approach your work stems from your story. Whether people are attracted to you or not comes from your story. Basically, pretty much anything that you do, feel, think relates to your story.
So here’s your homework. Identify the story that you’re living right now. And ask yourself if that’s the story that you want to live. And if not, start thinking about what has to change so that the story changes.
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How to Take a Quantum Leap in Income
The attitude of the business owner as to what his or her role is has an enormous impact on how their time and resources are allocated. The doer of the thing is severely limiting business and income growth. The marketer of the thing has virtually unlimited income potential.
The fact of the matter is that unless you have an extremely rare talent like Picasso’s artistic ability, Stephen King’s ability to write best-selling horror novels, or the voice of Pavarotti, just about anybody can do the thing whether it’s landscaping, providing accounting and financial services, even things that require advanced degrees like dentistry.
Certainly the technical skills related to the delivery of a quality product or service matter but they are not nearly as important as creating a constant flow of people interested in exchanging money those products or services. That’s why so many “smart” and “talented” people are a bust in the business world. They see themselves as the doer of the thing, not the marketer of the thing. Like it or not, the fact is you can hire people to do those things (the doers) relatively cheaply.
The money is in marketing the thing and that’s where smart business owners focus their efforts. After all, your income is largely determined by the demand for the thing you provide whether it’s a product or a service. The more demand, the more money you’ll make. Increase the number of people that want to buy your widget and watch your income explode. Increase the number of people who want the benefits of the service you provide and see your income skyrocket.
You can always hire more “doers” – more mechanics, more architects, more bakers, more consultants, etc. Why do you think big accounting and consulting firms hire so many recent college graduates? Because they charge these new hires out at $200+ an hour and pay them $50 per hour. Consulting companies (at least the ones making the big bucks) understand the better they market their consulting services, the faster their income grows. They can always hire more doers.
This paradigm shift is very difficult for some doers to accept. They’ve invested a lot of time and effort into becoming the best doer of the thing. The best butcher, baker, or candlestick maker – jeweler, chef, or computer programmer. Many doers love the doing of the thing and despise marketing so much that they ignore or worse yet even outsource the marketing to someone that doesn’t even understand their business. It’s a recipe for disaster.
The most successful business owners understand the critical role of marketing. They understand the importance of acquiring, retaining, and maximizing the value of each customer and see this as their primary role. Not surprisingly, the business owner who makes this paradigm shift from the doer of the thing to the marketer of the thing instantly takes a quantum leap in income potential. And the more your customers and prospects get to know, like, and trust you, the brighter your business future.
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In the current economic crisis, there is a business that is booming. In fact, there has never been a better time to get in on this opportunity.
Due to demand, there are plenty of customers to go around – and there will be for years to come. And the Internet makes it easy to run this business on your schedule and from anywhere in the world.
Think of all the people looking for jobs. What if you could help them land their dream job… and get paid to do it? I’m talking $1,000 to $3,000 per week for just part-time work.
The unemployed are looking for an edge. They’re increasingly turning to consultants to help them craft resumes that will help them stand out from the crowd.
You could offer this resume consulting service to this huge, hungry market. It’s a great way to make a side income while you’re working on your online Carefree Business. Or if you like it, you could make it your primary business – the income potential is there.
No previous experience in human resources is necessary. And you don’t have to already know how to write a great resume. It’s a science. You just need proven outlines and strategies for what details you should include on a resume to make them irresistible to employers. And you can run this business completely online (and maybe a few phone calls), from marketing your services to consulting with clients.
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The market is huge for resumes. There are 14 million unemployed Americans right now.
Everyone from college kids looking for their first job to executives laid off due to budget cuts needs help. And there are also the underemployed and those who just plain want a new job. Says Julien Sharp, who got her start as a freelance resume consultant after years in the corporate world:
“Many realize their current careers are not going to grow, so they decide to start a completely new career. They need a resume that reflects how their past experience can support the new type of job they are seeking.”
Even in the best of economic times, there are 50 million Americans out there looking for another job with higher pay. So there is always a high demand for this service.
What makes it work is that most job hunters would prefer not to write their own resumes – 79 percent, according to a recent survey. They feel more confident when a pro does it for them.
“Ninety-nine percent of people out of work for the first time in years do not have a current resume,” says Julien.
Many of Julien’s clients realize a bad resume has been holding them back. And they don’t know how to fix it.
“Tom” is a recent client of Julien’s. As a financial analyst who had been steadily climbing up to the executive level in his company, he was laid off shortly after the economy started crumbling. Like so many people today, he had trouble finding work. And with four kids (from 5 years old to 16) to support, he was getting majorly stressed.
Turns out, Tom had everything he needed to get a great new job, except for one vital component.
Sure, he had plenty of experience and expertise. But prospective employers couldn’t see that because his resume was done so poorly.
Julien sees this type of thing all the time. And it’s a major part of her business. She calls helping clients whose resumes aren’t getting them interviews her “sweet spot.”
It boils down to one thing, says Julien: unsuccessful resumes just show what the candidate did in past positions …but they don’t show how well they did them. Julien made that simple change for Tom after she took him on as a client. And within hours of posting the revised version to Monster.com, he had received eight calls and three emails from employers. Eleven days later, the client had received a job offer.
To rewrite this resume, Julien was able to charge $225 an hour.
You can charge upwards of $150 an hour for quick resume tweaks – something you can do right after you start offering this service. Tackle total resume overhauls, writing resumes from scratch, putting together cover letters… and you could multiply that amount by three or four times. With extra services, like interview coaching and helping people get their resume in front of the right eyes with promotional pieces, you can charge even more.
The more experienced your client, says a long-time corporate manager, the more you can charge. Their resumes will be more in-depth and filled with their experience.
Charles Bryant is one of Julien’s fellow freelance resume writers. Before he got into the business, he had no experience at all in resume writing. But he quickly picked up the simple techniques and strategies that anybody can use to craft quality resumes – the same techniques Julien knows.
These days, he makes between $500 – $3,000 writing resumes. And he maintains that anybody can learn what he does and have similar success.
As I said, no previous experience is necessary. You just have to learn how to ask your client the right questions to make sure the right details make it into the resume. Armed with a proven client questionnaire – this is Julien’s “secret weapon” – for getting the most important information, and you can craft a great resume that will get your clients interviews and jobs.
You can make great money in the resume business – up to $150,000 per year – and help people find jobs and get back on their feet at the same time.
In Julien Sharp’s Pro Resume Writer Program, you learn how to write a resume that gets results. She’ll tell you everything that goes into the perfect resume. Armed with her templates and outlines and a proven questionnaire for getting the most important information from your clients, you’ll have the makings of a lucrative Carefree Business.
She’ll also show you how to market your new business so that you can pick and choose your clients and still make a great living.
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Valerie Johnson, a college dropout with few prospects, was at a party when a child walked out in some “footie” pajamas. Another guest joked that they wished those pajamas came in adult sizes. And that gave Valerie an idea for a business.
But she didn’t want to hand sew all the orders that came in. So she looked online for possible suppliers online and found a website – an online clearinghouse really – that links manufacturers in China and other countries with entrepreneurs all over the world. There, she found someone to make the pajamas.
And a couple of emails later, she was selling her pajamas online at bigfeetpjs.com. Her first year, she made $360,000. That doubled the next year and the next … and today, after four years in business, she’s making nearly $2 million annually.
Not bad for a little business that Valerie ran from the home office in her basement.
“I think it’s awesome that someone can easily find international manufacturers from the basement of her home,” said Valerie. “I will always give credit to the website I found for enabling me to start my business quickly, easily, and on my terms.”
You can follow in Valerie’s footsteps with your own Carefree Business. The economics are simple: buy low (very low) from manufacturers in China and other sources of manufactured goods, sell at below-market prices, and keep the difference.
Yes, you’ve heard of this business model before. But I can bet you didn’t know how easy it was for small-scale, first-time entrepreneurs to make money with it.
The key is to find your suppliers using the same online resource that Valerie and thousands of other entrepreneurs are using. It’s a trusted source for high-quality products – manufactured in many cases by the same people who make products for big-name retailers. And this website is set up to make it easier than ever for manufacturers and sellers (that’s you) to do business.
Part two is to sell your products online. You never even have to touch the products themselves – if you don’t want to. They’re shipped directly to your customers from the factory. That means no shipping or storing a warehouse full of stuff.
And you don’t have to have your own idea for a product like Valerie did. There are thousands of factories already making thousands of “hot” products already. And you can sell just about anything: parkas, dog collars, MP3 players, nutritional supplements, board games … Think about everything you own that’s “Made in China” … that’s what’s possible.
Whatever niche your Carefree Business is in … you’re covered.
The website that Valerie used to kick off her business? It’s the leading online clearinghouse for importers (especially for new entrepreneurs like you) and suppliers: Alibaba.com.
Alibaba.com is where you find your suppliers. The site has 25 million members in 200 countries who trade $6 billion worth of goods every year. It’s kind of like eBay. But instead of dealing with one sale at a time, you can import products for pennies on the dollar and sell them at a huge markup online.
When you combine Alibaba.com with an easy system for running your own import/export business, you’ll have the makings of a very profitable business.
“Today, entrepreneurs can start an import/export business from the comfort of their home with a computer with Internet access and a phone line,” says Marc Charles, an entrepreneur who’s been involved in this niche. “The import/export market is a multi-trillion dollar market – and it’s growing by leaps and bounds every day, even in a horrible economy. On top of that, there has never been a better time to get into this business. The Internet has made it easier than ever.”
One couple, Kevin and Lisa Hickey, followed this business model and built a $25 million business in just eight years. They started by selling American flags from their basement “office.” Sales really took off after Sept. 11. And when the bird flu epidemic hit, they were ready with surgical masks. Today, they sell 10,000 products on several sites. (You can check out one of them at onlinestores.com.)
Caroline Lau noticed that several of her friends were avid scrapbookers. She did a little research and found that a full-fledged scrapbooking trend was sweeping the country. But nobody was selling high-quality supplies for a good price. So Caroline tapped into the same website that put Kevin and Lisa Hickey and Valerie Johnson in business. Her first year, she brought in more than $100,000 … and her profits are now over $1 million annually.
Yes, it’s possible for small-time, new entrepreneurs to succeed. You can get started with about $500 – much less in many cases. And, as you can see from the entrepreneurs profiled above, you don’t need any experience in business or import/export. You just need to identify a need or hot trend in the marketplace and start a business to take advantage.
In this business model, Carefree Entrepreneurs can find partners, suppliers, and manufacturers all over the world with Alibaba.com. (All verified to be on the level – or they wouldn’t be allowed on the site.)
You make contact and then set up deals. For most products, no licenses, permits, or government paperwork is involved. The agreements you draw up with your suppliers is all you need. And language is not a barrier. Everybody speaks English.
Not only that, you can also do everything online – from researching “hot” products using many of the same tools you’ve used so far to pick the niche for your online business to getting those products for pennies on the dollar and selling those products at enormous markups on your own websites or sites like eBay and Amazon Marketplace.
The import/export business is a potentially very lucrative second stream of income for anyone who’s looking for extra money now. It’s also perfect for those who want to sock away some cash for a comfortable retirement.
Editor’s Note:
There’s No Reason Why You Shouldn’t Be the Next Success Story …
It’s no secret China exports billions and billions of dollars’ worth of in-demand products to the USA (and other countries) every year.
Who’s doing all the importing? Well … you might think only “big corporations” are in on it.
But one of the most experienced business experts we work with (he’s launched more than 40 successful businesses over the past 28 years) has discovered a way for ANYONE … regardless of experience, education, or amount of start-up capital … to profit from Chinese imports.
He wants to show you how to get into the same type of easy-to-operate business. All you have to do is follow a simple and easy plan that walks you – step by step – through this online business that takes full advantage of our global economy and the Internet.
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Tip of The Day:
“A Kick In The Teeth May Be The Best Thing In The World For You…”
“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” – Walt Disney
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