Posts Tagged ‘Unconditionally Successful’

One of the lessons I’ve learned travelling the path of entrepreneurship is how quickly time goes by. Sometimes, it flies. Have you ever felt this way?

You blink, and the week is gone. Before you know it the month, the quarter, the year have also come and gone.

Can we use this realization to our advantage when it comes to achieving our objectives? Although we can’t stop time, we can use it as an asset in attaining our goals and pursuing our visions, dreams, and aspirations. Here is how:

Besides being very clear and specific, about WHAT goals we want to attain, we also need to be very clear and specific by WHEN we want to attain them.

When you establish a time frame, you are constantly reminded that you have a deadline. You have a sense of urgency. This will challenge you to stay focused and take all the necessary actions to reach your goals in the predetermined time frame.

It is essential that your desired goals go hand-in-hand with specific timeframes and deadlines in which you want to achieve them. Even if you fall short, you will most likely be a step closer in making them happen than you would have been otherwise.

When it comes achieving your goals, use time as your asset.

Be clear and specific: About WHAT you want to achieve, and by WHEN. 

All the Best!

When it comes to growing your business, your current, past clients, and referral sources are by far your best source for creating multiple business opportunities and achieving breakthroughs. One of my clients, a small business owner, used this simple approach and DOUBLED his business in just 30-days!

This is your Most Valuable Market (MVM),  for a simple reason. You have already conducted business with people in this market, and most likely you have established the three essential connections:

            A Personal Relationship, Trust, and Credibility.

Creating multiple earning opportunities for your business will be less expensive; it will require less effort, and a smaller investment in time and energy than paying for advertising and searching for new target markets. Searching for new markets to broaden your client base, however, should also be a part of your ongoing business development strategy.

How to best cultivate your MVM is a focal point of my Unconditionally Successful Business Growth Program.  Creating multiple earning opportunities for ourselves and our businesses takes planning,  consistency, and empathy.

Establishing trust, credibility and a personal relationship is fundamental. Staying connected, learning more about our clients, their families their special interests, providing “added value”, asking for introductions and recommmendations, should be part of our daily business habits.

Moments after one of my recent presentations, a woman came up to me, warmly embraced me, and said, “Thank you! I really needed to hear that today.”

I felt a great sense of satisfaction.

A Zen proverb says that “When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear.”

It’s so true.

The “lesson” may come in different forms; that’s why it’s important we always keep our minds and hearts open.

I recall one of my “lessons” coming to me in the form of a quote I came across during a challenging period early in my career:

The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier—certainly no more difficult—than small ideas and small plans.”

                                                             —From the book The Magic of Thinking Big, by Author Dave Schwartz

It’s one of the most powerful quotes I have ever read. Brilliant! Eye-opening and definitely thought-provoking.

The secret to unlocking our true potential, living our purpose and serving the world the way that we were meant to may be summed up in these three words:

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!

Next time you feel challenged, remember to keep your mind and your heart open.

“When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear.”

What is the # 1 priority of a business?

Aside from consistently serving it’s clients at the HIGHEST LEVEL, the # 1 priority of a business is to generate revenue, and be profitable. Often times however, business owners tend to focus on activities that give them the false sense of “being busy” but do nothing to contribute to their revenue, and profits.

They get side-tracked.  It’s easy to get side-tracked. We are living in a busy world.

So, the question is..

How can you close strong in your business – every month? By focusing on what is most important, every single day. Here are four steps that can help you stay on track:

Step One: Set a challenging revenue goal  that you want to achieve every month. Be clear and specific.

Step Two: Define the most important – business growth – action steps that you need to take in order to make your goal happen. Take action!

Step Three: Put your goal and action steps in writing immediately, and post them everywhere. Track your progress daily.

Step Four: Celebrate the achievement of your goal. You deserve it!

You can FINISH STRONG in your business - every month!  Focus on what is most important, every single day.

Words can be powerful!

They begin relationships, friendships, business opportunities, war and peace. A few simple words can make an enormous difference in the way you’re perceived by the world, in the way you promote yourself, your services, your ideas, and ultimately in the results that you achieve in your business.

Be Prepared to Market Yourself

In conversation, being the first to ask what the other person does for a living can lead to business opportunities. Typically, when you ask about someone’s line of work,  the same question is asked of you. This might be a nice opportunity to begin marketing yourself by talking about your business and how you serve the world.

It’s a good idea, to always be prepared.

Your Professional Introduction Speech

When someone asks what you do for a living, do you simply state your job title? Most small business owners limit their response to their job title, or, line of work. You also may find it challenging to describe your business briefly, and in simple terms so that the person you’re speaking with can immediately understand the inherent “benefit” of your services.

Enter, your Professional Introduction Speech: a simple way for quickly describing what your business is about, so that the average person can understand the benefits, results, transformations your clients are likely to achieve.

The purpose of developing your professional introduction speech – isn’t so that you can “sell” your services on the spot during a meeting with someone you have just met (even though this might happen on some occasions). The goal should be to stimulate enough interest and begin a conversation – a dialogue – about your services. This dialogue may lead to a sale soon, some time in the future, or it could mark the beginning of a long-term business relationship that could benefit you in many other ways beyond the scope of making one sale.

Many times the true opportunity may be yet to come.

Business promotion and growth begins  with every single contact you make with the outside world.

It’s a good idea, to always be prepared!