Showing posts with label business coaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business coaching. Show all posts

Saturday, May 1, 2010

What are the Chances of Failure?

Before you start any kind of business you’re probably going to think about what the odds are that your business is going to be successful. Nobody wants to invest time and money into a business if it’s just going to fail. So when I talk to people about starting their own home based business often the first question that they ask is. What are the chances of me failing and not making any money at all? Or even worse, what are the chances of me losing money in a home based business?

I can tell you from personal experience that the rate of failure in a home based business is about the same as the failure of a traditional brick and mortar business. The main difference is that since the cost to get started in a home based business is much much less than a traditional business… A) more people get stared in some sort of home based business vs. a traditional business and B) people are generally far less invested in a home based business and therefore don’t take it as seriously as they need to to succeed.

Let’s talk about B for a second. I firmly believe that the low cost of start up in a home based business is the biggest blessing and curse there is. It’s great because people who don’t have a lot of money to invest in a business can start their own working business for less than $1000 (usually) and it gives almost anyone the chance to make something of themselves. It’s bad for that very same reason. People tend to work less hard and take the business less seriously because it was so cheap and easy to get started in.

Out of all the people who want to work from home. The people who are successful are the people who treat their home based business like a REAL business (because that is exactly what it is) and the people who fail are the ones who treat it like a hobby or a little get rich quick scheme. (which it defiantly is NOT!)

So if you are willing to take your home based business seriously, and work it just like you would a real or “traditional” business your chances of failure are very, very slim. 

Thursday, March 18, 2010

It is Not That Complicated

What I have found through years and years in the home based business industry is that most people make it way more complicated than it actually is. When you make the business sound complicated people don’t understand it and therefore they don’t want to be a part of it. MLM is really not that complicated and once you look at it in a simplified way it will make it much easier to make money doing it.

MLM, or network marketing, or direct sales or a home based business is just simply marketing a product or service. That’s IT! And as you marketing that product or service you bring other people on to your team who want to market that same product or service. As you build a bigger team you will make more money because one person selling 10 products a month is a little money but 50 people selling 10 products a month is big money.

As you build your team you make money from what you’re doing as well as making money off of what your team is doing.

Think of it this way. If you had a business where you sold t-shirts and you personally went door to door or store to store and sold and many t-shirts as you could in one day it would never be as much money as if you had 100 people out there doing the same thing and selling your t-shirts for you every day. That is all network marketing is, simple huh?

There is a misconception that in MLM you get paid JUST to bring people into the business not true. You bring people into the business but it is only when you get those people working and making money that you really start to make money. So when you help other people get rich you get rich in the process. Sound simple? It is!

MLM might be a lot of things but it’s not complicated.
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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Ease Your Way into Internet and Network Marketing

Internet marketing is the way of the future. If you’re involved in a home based business but you don’t do anything online to market it you are missing out on a lot of business and a ton of money. If you’re use to the old school methods of marketing your business you might think that you don’t need to learn how to market online or you might think that it’s too tough and you’ll never be able to learn. Neither of these are true.

The fact is that everyone should be marketing their business one the internet. It allows you to reach more people for less money, and since the internet is always there 24/7 it allows you to work during house of the day when you wouldn’t be able to call prospects of do anything else like that.

Learning the internet can be scary if you’ve never done anything on it but once you take the time to learn it you’ll see just how valuable a tool it really is!

If you want to start learning internet marketing but you don’t know where to begin my advice is to start slow!

Don’t try to learn everything all at once because you’re just going to get frustrated and that’s not going to get you anywhere. Start be easing your way into the internet. Find one thing that you want to try and learn that one thing really well. Once you know how to do that and it’s not so intimidating try to learn something else. Soon you’ll be able to do lots of things online and none of it will seem so scary anymore.

Here is a short list of things that an internet marketing newbie could start out with:

A free online blog
Article marketing
Youtube marketing
Facebook marketing
Forum marketing

Any of these things will help you get more business and more free prospects for your business each and every month. Again, you don’t have to learn them all at once just pick one that sounds fun and work on it until you’re confident and comfortable with it.

The internet is a great tool to use for any home business. Don’t miss out on all the money you could be earning. Start learning how to market your business online today.
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Monday, November 30, 2009

Are You Setting Yourself Apart?

Are You Setting Yourself Apart From The MLM Crowd?

Let’s face it. There are a ton of people in network marketing today and for the most part they’re all offering the same thing.

Work from home, spend more time with your family, make six figures, take better vacations, be your own boss….

So if you’re going to jump into the home based business game you have to ask yourself something. What is going to set you and your business apart from everyone else?

Now before you say your product let me stop you right there. A product is never what gets someone into a home based business. Yes, some products are better than others. And yes, some products will have better conversion than others. However, what really gets someone truly excited about a home based business isn’t the great product it’s the great opportunity.

You can have the lamest product in the history of network marketing but if you can teach me how to make $100,000 a year with it I’m in!

What sets you apart for the other people in your company and all the other people in all the other companies out there is what is going to be the difference between success and failure.

This is especially true for people who want to build their home based business on the internet. There is so much work from home stuff online that if you don’t have a clear niche or a smart gimmick to make you stand out you will be lost in the endless sea of spam.

So now that you know you need something how do you go about getting it?

Well first I would tell you to think about who you are because 9 times out of 10 that’s the key to unlocking your perfect niche!

Maybe you’re a single mom who wants to stay home with her three kids.

Maybe you’re a blue collar worker who is tired of working hard all his life and having little to show for it.

Maybe you’re a teacher who loves the kids but hates the teeny tiny paycheck.

Maybe you’re a college student who doesn’t want to get a crappy part time job but instead is working from your dorm room to pay for school.

Whatever it is that makes you you… play that up!

If you’re a stay at home mom you should be talking to other stay at home moms! If you’re someone who has been in 10 different network marketing companies but you’re still trying to create true wealth you should be talking to people whose stories are similar. And if you’re a young 20 something you shouldn’t be trying to sell 40 year olds on the concept of working from home you should be talking to young adults just like you!

You don’t have to be all things to all people. Find who you are and what makes your story special and use that as the gimmick that will set you far apart from the network marketing heap.

Set yourself apart and be authentically you and building your business will become a breeze!
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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Are Your Fears Holding You Back?

Are you afraid of failing in your home based business?

Let me ask you something even more disturbing.. Are you afraid to SUCCEED in your home based business?

Whatever your fears are they could seriously be holding you back from greatness. Whether we want to admit it or not fear is a huge motivator. If you’re being motivated by fear of any kind you can never truly be successful in your business.

Here are the two major forms of fear and how to stop them!

Fear Of Failure

Fear of failure is a very common thing. Almost all people are afraid of failing on some level. However, the people I am talking about are the people who let their fear cripple them to the point where they don’t do anything at all. They are afraid to take a risk in any capacity because they are afraid if they do they will fail. This type of fear will never allow you to accomplish anything wonderful in your life. It will stop you every chance it gets. That’s why you have to stop IT first.

How To Overcome It!

Unfortunately there really is no easy way to face this type of fear. The only think you can really do is stare fear in the eyes and do whatever it is your afraid to do anyway. You also have to give yourself permission to mess up from time to time. Just because you don’t sign up the first few people you talk to doesn’t mean you’re a failure. In fact the only way you can really fail is if you give up and quit. If you refuse to do that failing is just not an option at all!

Fear Of Success

Nobody in their right mind would really honestly believe that they are afraid of success however many people truly are. People place all kinds of limitations on themselves. Many people believe that they will only ever be able to make $40,000 or $50,000 a year and so the idea of exceeding that scares them a bit. I know it sounds crazy but it’s really much more common than we’d like to believe.

How To Overcome It!

Realize that you have no limitations except the ones you put on yourself. If you put your ceiling at $75,000 how do you ever expect to make it to $100,000? You can’t… it’s impossible. But, as soon as you raise that ceiling and give yourself permission to be excellent you will be!

Don’t let fear control your life and your business anymore. Gain control from fear and doubt and your business will be much more likely to succeed!

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