Overcoming Mental Roadblocks Let’s talk about mental roadblocks and what we can do as entrepreneurs to get past some of the most common roadblocks facing business owners today. As an entrepreneur, most of us has something from our past that seems to creep up at inopportune times.  It may show up in a burst of anger, crying, buying something new, or just leaving.  If you are an entrepreneur, you have probably already discovered a few things [...]

What to do with all those business statements. In any organization how you communicate what your business is all about is vital.  Your employees and leadership must all be heading the same direction.  There must be a cohesive understand of what you do as well as why you do it. You could say, “we build widgets” or “we build the world’s best widgets” or “we build the most essential widgets the world needs to survive.”  You can readily see [...]

  Creating a compelling Value Proposition, or Value Statement, is crucial to reaching your ideal customer. A value statement should be front and center of your webpage or blog.  It should be printed on every piece of printed materials that you have.  The value statement becomes the hub on which you build your entire marketing plan. Let me give you an example.  When I come to your web site, I should know if ‘this site is for me.’  A good [...]

How Do You Clone Money In Your Business? I was recently talking to a client about her business.  She is in the service industry and needed to make more money.  I told her that her time is limited and if she could duplicate herself she could help more of her clients. Since cloning has not been developed yet, I suggested  she create videos and worksheets to guide her clients through her main process.  Then, offer to help them on an [...]

  What is an autoresponder? We talked about creating a digital product in the last article and I mentioned email autoresponders.  Then, I realized a bunch of people did not know what I was talking about, so I wanted to give you a bit of information about what an autoresponder is and how to use one. You have probably signed up for a newsletter or some sort of free report online.  Within seconds, you had an email from that website giving [...]

10 Steps To Creating a Profitable Digital Product Many business owners and bloggers realize that creating their own digital product is the best way to leverage their website and help their customers.  I wanted to walk you through the process of creating your own product.  I will also list some suggested resources so you can have all the tools at your finger tips, even if you are on a budget! How to create a digital product 1. Identify your [...]

How any business owner can write a blog? If you want to write a blog you can buy a course, get some training, hire some professional guru or get some coaching.  Personally, I would suggest coaching because you can get better results sooner.  That is what I plan to do in this article.  I will tell you what I tell all business owners who want to write a blog, but are not sure where to start. First, come up with some good information to [...]

  How to set goals and stick to them A plan of action for health and business goals (plus a bonus VIDEO!!) For my birthday my wife bought me some exercise cards. It’s a deck of cards with a different exercise on each one.  I asked for them because I get bored with the same exercise day in and day out and lose interest in exercising.  I love the concept since I tend to get distracted easily and these cards help me vary my routine. In the [...]

  The Shiney Object Syndrome I was infected this week with the Shiney Object Syndrome.  I bought a product that looked really good.  It was definitely something that I could use.  I had actually talked about creating something that this product did with ease.  I thought it was a no –brainer. Then, I began to learn this software.  Each step seemed to take longer.  Then, I had to buy additional products to ‘get the most’ out of this [...]

The ONE Key to Business Success https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtWJw73lA-U If you need help growing your business, contact me.  I love to help business owners create an action plan and get to success quicker. I have gone through countless training, read bunches of books, studied under some amazing people and I have been specifically trained to help entrepreneurs grow by growing over six businesses.  I continue to be an entrepreneur [...]