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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
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Some Surprising Home Based Business Practices
More and more people choose to work from home these days. The level of the development of modern technologies can help you organize your home-based business just like in a regular office space and even make more efficient.
The major benefit is that you can organize your home office it the very way you want it. And this means that you can handle any kind of business practices you are able to imagine. Let’s see some amazing example of what you can do from your home based office.
Be a multilingual advisor
This may be a customer service, technical support and even a professional adviser. In most cases you communicate with your client remotely so no matter if you do it from home or from office. This is just if you are doing a support service for a foreign language clients who can’t visit you in person anyways. And if you deal with partners from overseas from different time zones working from home looks like the best solution.
Remote fitness coach
This sounds rather unusual but quite promising. You can organize a neat and cozy gym right in your basement and set a online classes for your clients. Imagine how many people can join your online class from all over the country or even abroad – this is how you easily go nationwide with your business.
Vocation consulter
I bet everyone has his or her special place on the planet where he would like to go for the rest of the life. Why wait? Go for it! And combine your business with your pleasure. Without any doubts there could more people who would find your place lovely. So become their vocation consultant. Be the one who knows a thing or two about this place and ready to be a personal guide. You can travel from place to place after all.
These are very few examples of home based business just for a correct mindset. You actually imagine any kind of business from home based on your own experience and according to your interests.
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What Is Business Coaching and How You Can Profit From It
It doesn’t matter what your fired of expertise is. The principles of coaching will always be the same. Every coach is trying to push you to achieve top results, help you to avoid mistakes on the way and supports you in moments of despair.
So why do should a business owner considers to having a business coach?
There could be some simple answers: some people just not ready to take responsibilities by themselves, some of them just want someone to back them up, some just feel more comfortable when someone is around to answer arising questions.
One of the most common delusions is that business coach should obviously be an expert in your field. It’s not really so. Business coach is more like a mentor or a philosopher. The main task of any business coach is to make you making right decisions and actions, choose right solutions and strategies. It not them improving your business, you are doing it yourself but under a careful supervision.
In many cases you need not a business coach but a good partner who you would trust and wish to communicate with on any topic. Business is a tough environment where you can always do in your own. You need someone to look at things from different perspective and give you a hand in allocating your inner resources.
You can start with your business coach at any moment of running a business. Business coach can help you with your leadership abilities, manager skills or simply help you with speech coaching or career planning.
Sometimes we really need just a little push from someone who knows how to do it professionally. In most cases personal qualities and motivation abilities as well as compatibility are what you have to pay your attention to when choosing a business coach.
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Monday, March 2, 2015
[MoonShots]-If you aren't disrupting yourself, someone else is.
In this blog, I want to teach you about a powerful tool you can
use to disrupt yourself.
Your survival as a company and as an entrepreneur depends
on it.
On todays Success Team Alliance Call,
I share with you how to disrupt yourself and
have the courage to shoot for the moon, even
if you miss you will hit something!
Video of Today's Team Call
http://fccdl.in/cdRWJFT48 (Audio Recording of Today's Team Call 3-2-15)
See if you can spot how Greatness is born...it will change your
life if you can spot the 4 steps to create it on purpose=
It all began at Lockheed in World War II…
In 1943 the defense department called Kelly Johnson,
the head of engineering at Lockheed, with an impossible
task.
The German fighter jets had just appeared over the
skies in Europe and America desperately needed a
counterpunch.
Johnson accepted the critical mission and designed,
tested and delivered America's first jet fighter, the P-80,
in a record 143 days.
Today you can't even negotiate a contract in 143 days,
let alone deliver a final product!
Johnson's success and his team (Lockheed's Skunkworks)
changed the course of the war.
It also created a philosophy for rapid innovation which
is still used by the most innovative companies today.
"Going Skunk":
The 4 Secrets to Innovation
Today, "going skunk" is often used to describe the
creation of an especially enriched environment that
is intended to help a small group of individuals
design a new idea by escaping routine organizational
procedures.
Beyond Lockheed's skunkworks, incredibly inventive
companies like Google's GoogleX organization use the
same principles.
In general there are 4 big secrets to their success
that are worth learning and repeating.
Secret #1: Big Goals – Setting Moonshots
Companies do not "go skunk" for business as usual.
They do so to tackle Herculean challenges.
Skunkworks are built around what psychologists call high,
hard goals.
Big goals lead to the best outcomes -- If you want the
largest increase in motivation and productivity, then
form teams around "moonshots," as Google calls them.
Big goals significantly outperform small goals, medium-
sized goals, and especially vague goals for two reasons:
focused attention and increased persistence.
The team is more willing to try again if they fail the
first, or second, or third, or one hundredth time,
failing on purpose leads to breakthroughs.
Secret #2: Extreme Isolation
Steve Jobs famously said, "it's better to be a pirate
than join the Navy," as he hoisted a pirate flag outside
the building housing his Mac development team.
This may be the most important key to success in a
skunkworks.
You have to wall the skunkworks off from the rest of
the corporate bureaucracy.
Isolation stimulates risk taking, encourages weird and
wild ideas, and acts as a counterforce to organizational
inertia.
Meaning of Organizational Inertia-
Organizational inertia is fear of failure writ large.
It is the reason Kodak didn't recognize the brilliance of
the digital camera, IBM initially dismissed the personal
computer, and AOL and Radio Shack barely exist anymore.
Astro Teller, the director of Google X (Google's skunkworks
innovation lab), says, "In any organization, the bulk of
your people will be climbing the hill they are standing on.
That's what you want them to do. That's their job."
"A Skunkworks does a totally different job. It is a group
of people looking for a better hill to climb."
"This is threatening to the rest of the organization. It
just makes good sense to separate these two groups."
Secret #3: Rapid Iteration – The Importance of Rapid Feedback
Loops
As many very successful men and women likes to point out,
"the road to BOLD is paved with failure."
This means it is critical to have a strategy in place to
handle risk and learn from mistakes.
As the unofficial motto of Silicon Valley goes, "Fail early,
fail often, fail forward."
Instead of launching a finely polished gem, companies now
release a "minimum viable product," then get immediate
feedback from customers, incorporate that feedback into
the next iteration, release a slightly upgraded version,
and repeat.
Instead of design cycles that last years, the agile process
takes weeks and produces results directly in line with
consumer expectations.
As LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman says, "If you're not
embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've
launched too late."
This is rapid iteration.
Trying out crazy ideas means bucking expert opinion and
taking big risks.
It means not being afraid to fail – because you will fail.
Secret #4: Intrinsic Rewards
For most of the last century, science focused on extrinsic
rewards, that is, external motivators.
These are "if-then" conditions of the "do this to get that"
variety.
With extrinsic rewards, we incentivize the behavior we want
more of and punish the behavior we dislike.
For example, in business when we want to drive performance,
we offer classic extrinsic rewards: bonuses (money) and
promotions (money and prestige).
The problem is: a growing plethora of research shows that
extrinsic rewards have greater costs than benefits.
Once people's basic needs are no longer a constant cause
for concern, extrinsic rewards lose their effectiveness
and can crush the high-level, creative, conceptual abilities
that are central to current and future economic and social
progress.
Intrinsic rewards, meaning internal emotional satisfactions,
become far more effective.
Meaning of Intrinsic Rewards-
The secret to high performance is our deep-seated desire to
direct our own lives, to extend and expand our own abilities,
and to fill our life with purpose.
Gaining autonomy, mastery, and purpose are motivators enough
to make us work to our highest potential.
Being Bold, Going Skunk (It Works!)
Since Lockheed's massive success, everyone from Raytheon and
DuPont to Walmart and Nordstrom has gotten in on the skunk game.
In the early 1980s, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs leased a building
behind the Good Earth restaurant in Silicon Valley.
He stocked it with twenty brilliant designers and created his
own Skunkworks.
The result – the world's first Macintosh computer.
This approach can by applied to any business, group, organization
that wants to innovate and go bold.
To ensure you have proper content and attention material to
market correctly, I invite you to join our live Team Call
M-F at 11am Est. for a fun, empowering 15 minutes that will
change you and your life Forever.
Dial 712-775-7031
PIN 375401198#
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with minimal upfront, 1-time-ONLY!
If you enjoyed this content or the recording please blog, share
or comment.
your circle will be truly grateful.
To your best life, Today...
John Pate
The PMS Expert
P.S, PMS Stands for Permanent Money Solutions, Ready? The solution
is located here:
http://HotNewIdea.com
Friday, February 27, 2015
Are you making this critical mistake?
If you are making this critical mistake
you are doomed to constant failure and
stress.
Ever been fired up to take charge of
your destiny to only get frustrated
when no one else feels your excitement?
Struggling to make a sale?
So what is the critical mistake?
The mistake is your trying to sale without
offering value first.
Hard Selling your potential client right
out the gate! That is a huge mistake!
You are not alone! I have done it too and
it caused me alot of useless stress.
On todays Success Team Alliance Call,
I share with you how to overcome the
critical mistake that stops most success
and why offering "Value" instead leads to
sales!
http://fccdl.in/OEiWzoS2x (Recording of Today's
Team Call 2-27-15)
So how do you alleviate this critical mistake?
Lots of do-it-yourself small business owners make
it, even experienced five-time entrepreneurs make it.
•This mistakes causes would-be clients to flee for the hills
•It destroys your opportunity at building a relationship
•And it flat-out kills sales
Here's what it is:
•Asking for the sale right away rather than working to educate
and build trust first.
It's ok if this describes how your approach is currently set-up.
I used to make this mistake too.
When I was marketing my previous companies, I used to work
super hard to drive traffic into the top of the funnel. But
then I'd be left scratching my head when I saw no one was signing
up--zero sales!
Hard-selling new visitors right away like that is a mistake because
this means there's no opportunity to follow-up, the visitor is now
gone and no contact info was even collected.
Having your sales funnel setup like this, is like shooting yourself
in the foot... on a daily basis.
For example, I have a friend who own runs an personal training
fitness website. His website gets over 100,000 visitors per month.
But NONE of them convert on his paid offers! This is because his
sales funnel is designed to hard-sell them right up front.
From the first moment visitors are arriving on his site, he's asking
for a sale.
Granted, you have to respect anyone willing to be bold enough to sell--
to put an offer out there and get rejected. And selling is good as long
as your product provides the promised value and is a match for someone's
need.
Hard selling right away to cold traffic to your website shows you've
assumed that everyone who arrives on your site is ready to buy. In
reality, especially if you provide a service or you're a B2B business,
your prospects need to be nurtured and educated first.
So how do you do it?
The best, basic, back-of-the-hand formula for this is:
value... value... value... BOOM offer
Giving people value in the form of information and content
they want, triggers them to have a more open mind to your offer
(assumed what you're offering is directly related to the value
you've just given them).
Let me ask you something. Let's say you went on a date with someone.
And that person asked you to get married right after that first coffee
date–what would you say?
No, of course.
But why?
The main reason is you don't know if you're right for each other yet.
You don't know if you're compatible.
And the same way that couples "level-up" their relationships overtime
(first date, dates, boyfriend / girlfriend status, living together,
marriage, family..,) your relationship with prospective clients should
be approached in a similar way.
So, put yourself in the the shoes of your website visitors and--
Stop trying to "marry" all of your potential clients on the first date.
When you offer value, value and more value you are standing out
in a very large crowd so it makes it easier to "sell" as you
have done what others won't do, educate and make an effort to
show genuine concern for the new person. Namely you offered a
solution to there "how to" problem.
To review it briefly: across markets and industries people prefer to
buy from businesses who are interested in them, the client, and in
their needs. Using "We" for instance, and talking about how awesome
"We" (you the business) are does a disservice to your goal of engaging
potential clients.
Once again, the best place to start implementing this change would be
your homepage. Your first impression could be your last if you do not
change the message you are conveying. Offer value instead of a hard
selling sales pitch, this will keep your efforts of bringing them
back very high.
The more value you give, the more sales you will receive, Every time!
I invite you to start today, if you have not, to share Your value
with the perfect customer or persons you want in your life, so that
way you gain traction and begin to have the Success you long
for, it is really just that simple.
I.L.T.P=Success
To ensure you have proper content and attention material to
market correctly, I invite you to join our live Team Call
M-F at 11am Est. for a fun, empowering 15 minutes that will
change you and your life Forever.
Dial 712-775-7031
PIN 375401198#
If your looking to monetize your content, Now, feel free to
browse around here http://HotNewIdea.com a simple, yet powerful
business model that anyone can afford, with a very large return
with minimal upfront, 1-time-ONLY!
If you enjoyed this content or the recording please blog, share
or comment.
your circle will be truly grateful.
To your best life, Today...
John Pate
The PMS Expert
P.S, PMS Stands for Permanent Money Solutions, Ready? The solution
is located here:
http://HotNewIdea.com