The Little Extra to Being a Serious Entrepreneur
No matter what you read and no matter what people try to teach you about methods and strategies to become a serious entrepreneur, there really is only one key element that you need to succeed: effort. To make all your efforts worthwhile, you need another key element, and that is focus.
Lose By an Inch or Win By a Mile
Sometimes the chance for success or failure to become a serious entrepreneur passes by quicker than the blink of an eye. It could be that one inquiry that you chose not to answer, or one customer whom you did not take the time to build a relationship with. There are even times that you may actually be turning away an opportunity that could turn your life around for what seemed like a better deal at that time.
There is a saying that opportunity knocks only once, but in some cases, it just stands by the door without even knocking. If you’re going to give being a business owner a shot, you might as well put your back into it and give it all you’ve got.
Second Nature
It’s really not that hard to give the extra effort, if you have the right mindset, and that is the mindset of a serious entrepreneur. Here are a few things that you should always keep in mind:
- Treat all your customers or clients well. It does not matter whether they are buying thousands of dollars worth of products, or just a single item. Value their input, and treat one as well as the other. While it is a good practice to be reasonable, there are times that you have to stand your ground, and if you are able to do this with tact and grace, you will realize that there is almost always a way to compromise.
- Always see the big picture. The common problem with new business owners is that they dwell too much on one detail (commonly making profits) and miss the part of how each little thing is related to the other. The sum of the business will always be worth more than its parts, and this is something that a serious entrepreneur should always keep in mind.
- Play right and play fair. Don’t be the rotten apple that ruins the whole barrel. There is a difference between making money and wanting everything for yourself. In the end, you will be doing a disservice to yourself and the entire industry.
In all of these acts, the important thing is that you are sincere and that you have genuine concern for your clients, as well as the industry in general. The bottom line is not just about dollars and cents because businesses do not run on money alone.
Take a look at this video to see how you can apply the principal to your entrepreneur mindset:
Wishing you major health, wealth and happiness!
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Serious Entrepreneurs Make Mistakes…But They Never Lose Focus
It is never a question of potential. You can be a serious entrepreneur if you focus, have the stamina, and are willing to make the necessary moves to succeed. It is not necessarily about the amount of work that you have done, either; it is about the effect of that effort towards achieving your goals.
Make Your Efforts Count
If you are starting to feel like you are running around in circles but getting nothing done, it may be because you are. It’s time to get off that hamster wheel and start moving with real direction to get the results you need from all your work and be the serious entrepreneur that you can be.
Here are a few ways to help you realize your dreams:
- Stop everything that you are doing and evaluate them in terms of effectiveness and results.
- Work with what you have. Remember that only a bad worker blames his tools.
- Be ready to take some hits. Things will not always work as planned, and you can’t always be ready with contingencies.
- Ask for help if you need it. Take it if it is being offered.
These are the things that will help you trim down your workload and help you concentrate your efforts towards work that will end in good results and make the world take you seriously as a serious entrepreneur.
Stick to the Plan
You can compromise on your plan of action and adjust your moves to the demands of the market, but NEVER compromise your goals. Doing that would be like changing directions mid-flight; and if you make the wrong turn, you could end up crashing. If you want to achieve something, you must always keep that goal in sight.
Having a plan means you can minimize your risks, although it will be impossible to get rid of them altogether. That is why you have to learn to roll with the punches and learn from your mistakes. Accept the fact, too, that you will be making some mistakes…you just don’t want to make too many of them. Never act rashly or impulsively; costly mistakes are hard to correct, and it will make you look unprofessional.
Know What Your “Why” Is
If you are starting to doubt if your plans are working, remind yourself often why you are doing this and see how your current plans will bring you closer to your goals. Always set your compass as if the magnet is your goal and you are heading north.
This is the path to your future as a serious entrepreneur, and you should not shy away from it.
Wishing you major health, wealth and happiness!
P.S. Mike Dillard absolutely is one guru to follow. Mike’s Magnetic Sponsoring is indispensable as an Internet marketer. I refer to his products daily. At least check out his FREE Bootcamp videos at his site.
Mike has always said that if had to choose the one way to generate leads
above all others, it would definitely be PPC. The free training videos are worth taking a look at PPC Domination.
You CAN’T Be the Jack of All Trades and Be a Successful Entrepreneur!
I’m sure you’ve heard the saying, “Jack of all trades, master of none.”
Well, if you’re finding that you’re feeling overwhelmed with all that you have to do to be successful in internet marketing, the problem may be that you’re trying to do everything yourself.
To make matters worse, you’re asking yourself, “Why am I working so hard and not making any money?”
How do you think the big-wig gurus are doing it? Well, let me tell you right now they are not sitting behind the computer screen for 18+ hours slaving over all the tasks that are needed to make an online business successful.
They know that to scale their Internet Marketing business to a profitable level, they will have to outsource at some point. Rather than lose focus by tending to the time-consuming, tedious things (which cannot be ignored), they train people to become proficient in these areas.
As a result, top earning marketers get to keep their minds on the big picture. Outsourcing is not a crutch that you can do without, but rather, a helping hand when you need it most.
My business started to take off when we did two things: focus on what I did best and hire the most competent people I could afford to do everything else.
Realistically speaking, this is not a possibility for most newbies. My advice is NOT to outsource until you at least know how to do everything yourself; otherwise you won’t be able to teach someone to handle the tasks you don’t want or need to do, and you won’t know if they’re doing it correctly.
As your online business takes off, take a portion of your earnings and invest it in people…talk about great ROI (return on investment)!! Our economy may be in the toilet right now, but investing in people to help grow your business is the best place to put your money right now.
My good friend and mentor Howie Schwartz often says that his greatest strength is outsourcing: he surrounds himself with the best in the world…the best copywriters, the best web designers, the best coders and programmers – and then the best project managers to manage everything. That leaves him to envision his next project and set the wheels in motion to make it all happen.
Most are not financially able to scale their efforts on that level, but you can start small…I always say, “Why spend a whole week tending to a $20 problem?” Decide today that you’re going to give up control on ONE task, however minor it may be, and let an expert handle it.
Wishing you major health, wealth, and happiness!
P.S. Mike Dillard absolutely is one guru to follow. Mike’s Magnetic Sponsoring is indispensible as an Internet marketer. I refer to his products daily. At least check out his FREE Bootcamp videos at his site.
Mike has always said that if had to choose the one way to generate leads
above all others, it would definitely be PPC. The free training videos are worth taking a look at PPC Domination.
“No Leads? Get With The System!”
Do you ever feel like you bought a business in a box and half the parts were missing? And now you have NO TRAINING, NO LEADS, and NO MONEY in your pocket.
You were promised a turn-key home business with a killer product…what happened?
In contrast, McDonalds serves nearly 47 million customers daily. Billboards scream “I’m lovin’ it!” And Americans do…they buy McDonalds burgers and shakes whether or not the food is necessarily fresh, healthy, or even great-tasting.
Ray Kroc, the franchise master of McDonald’s was a genius…he sold an inferior product and created the largest, most successful franchise history!
Try wrapping your head around that concept…it runs counter to everything we consider good business strategies.
Think about it…when you invested in a networking business, you essentially bought a franchise.
If we can tap into the genius of Ray Kroc and apply his logic to network marketing, we could literally tap into a goldmine:
1. Mission (Not) Impossible: Ray’s primary mission was to sell McDonald’s franchises to franchise buyers who then sell the burgers to the customers.
Our job as internet marketers is no different. We sell our franchise opportunity to others, and collectively market the product to the end consumer. SIMPLE ENOUGH.
2. Give ‘Em What They Want: Ray knew the product wasn’t going to be the initial key to success for his franchise business, just as your product is not the initial key to your success in your mlm business.
Ray knew that the quality of the food he was serving wasn’t close to that of his competitors. He also knew that potential franchise buyers could have cared less about the hamburgers. What they did want was to make money.
Ray was a total genius to figure out how to give his potential buyers what they wanted.
3. All Systems Go: The key to McDonald’s success with both franchise owners and customers was its duplicable system.
So Ray sold them EXACTLY what they wanted…NOT a restaurant but a “machine.”
He didn’t sell them the food…he sold them a reliable system.
He fine-tuned that system until it could be run by high-school age teens! All they have to do is man the system…throw some switches that run the machine that does the bulk of the work all on it’s own…fully automated. No one stands at the grill flipping burgers anymore.
The competition was left in the dust! Investors literally tripped over themselves to get one of Ray’s magical “machines.”
So, as a network marketer, selling a business franchise, what are you selling to your potential buyers? Unfortunately, you are probably trying to sell them on your company and your product.
People get rich in this world by solving other people’s problems, and when you sell someone your opportunity, you are not solving a problem… you are giving them a bigger one!
Do what Ray did. Sell them a complete system which includes ALL the pieces that make for a well-greased machine: ads that bring in your customers and the marketing tools that sell them your product and deliver the goods.
This machines should be doing the work for you. All you need to do is push the “Go Button”… not because you are lazy but because a system is duplicable, and you are not.
Why do other networkers call my partner and me daily to join our team?
Because we are solving their problem by giving them a SYSTEM that produces results…more$ and more leads than they ever thought possible!!
Learn how to become the Ray Kroc of networking and leave the competition’s head SPINNING! It’s not that hard. It’s just that no one has shown you how yet…I will.
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Dedicated to your success,
Serious Entrepreneur
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Serious Entrepreneurs Make Money Using Social Media Without Being a Jerk
If you’re a Serious Entrepreneur who’s been involved in Internet Marketing for any length of time, you’re learning that using social media is a great way to promote your business for free.
The problem is…unless you know what you’re doing, you most likely are doing it incorrectly. Pissing off people who thought they were your
Online social networks are one of the blessings of Web 2.0. Plenty of people use them to stay in touch with their friends, meet new people, make work-related connections and more. Unfortunately, it seems like you can’t have something good on the Internet without someone coming along to abuse it, and that’s as true of online social networks as anything.
An Internet property is basically any kind of web page, and any Internet sites that allow people to people interaction are considered online social media. Web 2.0 is another term referring to sites that in some way allow people to actively contribute rather than just passively read from it.
A blog is Web 2.0 (for the blogger). Facebook and MySpace are Web 2.0. Flickr and Twitter are Web 2.0, and social bookmarking sites are all Web 2.0.
As internet marketing involved, people figured out that they were able to promote their businesses for free using all these types of properties and thought, “Wow…Free… Cool!”
Social media a broad word that encompasses many kinds of sites but there’s an online etiquette that dictates which web 2.0 sites allow you to have a slice of the Internet property for yourself and your business – without ticking off the wrong people and causing you to lose your reputation as a serious entrepreneur in the network marketing industry.
Let me explain it this way:
It’s the weekend…time to forget about work, catch up with old friends, possibly make some new friends. So you go to a party. You’re having a great time. Then someone comes up to you, introduces himself, and immediately tries selling you on some business opportunity.
How much of a turn-off is that? That is exactly what happens when you use certain social media sites for purposes they are not intended.
And if you’re involved in affiliate marketing, beware…owners of the products you are marketing as an affiliate do not take it lightly when you promote their products on sites like MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter. And they are increasingly shutting down the accounts of affiliates who act like jerks and don’t play fair.
So if you’re just learning how to use these sites to build your business, I want to share a video from one of the most brilliant marketers alive, Perry Belcher, who has MASTERED this realm.
He’ll give you the perfect approach when it comes to using social community sites to grow your business. If you’re using ANY of these sites, watch this video. It is probably the best explanation of how to make money with social media that I’ve ever seen.
I’m looking for people who want to move ahead of the pack and dominate in the internet marketing industry. It’s not hard when you know how.
Talk soon,
P.S. Besides showing you how to drive tons of FREE traffic to your business, Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring manual is extremely motivating. It’s a MUST if you’ve ever felt like throwing in the towel.