Why is it that 95% of businesses fail in the first five years? You would think with all the information and help available to any new business that their success would be virtually assured. How can it be that only a select few have all the success and the rest die slow painful entrepreneurial deaths?

The answer is a simple one and the solution is more complex. You see most new business owners won’t put the time into learning something new each day to help them in their business. Instead they keep doing they same thing each day and expecting different results. By the way is that not the definition of insanity?

Posted in Business, Personal Growth, Make Money

One of the easiest and quickest ways to become the expert in your field is to write your own book. It is easier to write a book than most people realize. Not only is it easy, it can bring in more and better paying customers quickly and yet almost no business owners, sales people, consultants or coaches are doing it.

The reason many say they have not written a book is they come up with excuses such as they don’t have the time or that they are perfectionists. Both excuses are just a load of crap expressed by business owners who don’t know how easy it is to write and publish their own book.

Posted in Success, Marketing, Business, Small Business Marketing, Lead Generation

Marketing your small business should be the task you spend most of your time on. Most small business owners spend most of their time on activities that could easily by given to others and very little time on the most important activity which is marketing their small business.

Following are 3 secrets to use to make sure you are spending your time where it will bring the best results for your business.

1. Make sure that what you are doing is not a $25.00 per hour job that can be done by someone else because if you are you will be doomed to a financial life of making only $25.00 per hour.

Posted in Create Wealth, Marketing, Business, Money

Being an entrepreneur most of my life has meant I have learned a lot of great information. How has the great information helped me? Well first let me say that I love to learn but on the path to success some of the information has probably hurt me more than helped me. Let me explain.

Posted in Create Wealth, Marketing, Business, Personal Growth, Online Business

Consider this! 95% of all new businesses go broke within 5 years and another 80% of those still left standing go under in the following 5 years. Now depending on how you look at life it could be a curse or a blessing if it happens to you.

You see once you go broke it makes you a little more focused on how you’re going to buy your next meal. Sad that it takes this kind of wakeup call to get our attention but at least after a bankruptcy we are more open to learning a new way of doing business I hope.

Posted in Pricing, Create Wealth, Success, Business, Money

Good customer service can be achieved from any situation. We just had a situation in our company where there was a miscommunication about whether a carpet should be salvage or replaced in the customer’s home. We are in the fire and flood restoration business and were called by the insurance company to handle a water damage claim for this customer.

Well to make a long story short the insurance agent thought we should have replaced the carpet rather than dry and restore it. It was his opinion that we should also pay to replace the carpet and that the insurance company would not be reimbursing us the $3,000.00 it cost for the new carpet.

Posted in Create Wealth, Success, Customer Service, Marketing, Business

You know how all of the gurus tell you success is easy? Well, failure is easy too. In fact, it’s easier. It’s so easy in fact, that people do it every day, every minute, and every second. In setting goals, the surefire way to fail every time is to follow these five easy steps:

1. Lack Conviction
Goal setting without absolute conviction that you can attain the goals you set is never successful. When you begin any endeavor with even a small measure of disbelief, you are sabotaging your goal before you begin.

Posted in Self Help, Success, Goals, Business, Personal Growth

You’ve read the sales letters, heard the audio sales pitches, and seen the books pushing the idea of multiple streams of income. Gurus of information marketing maintain that you can become wealthy when you divide your efforts and capital into multiple areas. It may sound good at first. After all, don’t all of the financial experts recommend diversification of your portfolio? That’s pretty much the same concept, right? Wrong.

Many of these “get rich quick” programs recommend investing in real estate, stocks, and you own Internet company in order to “maximize” your earning potential. A diversified retirement plan is one thing, but building three separate businesses – and succeeding at all of them – is something else entirely.

Posted in Create Wealth, Success, Business, Money, Personal Growth

A friend of mine worked on the security team for the recent visit by the Dali Lama to Canada. The Dali Lama personally met with each person in attendance. My friend said the energy vibrating from this man was truly amazing.

The Dali Lama also gave everyone a prayer scarf and also a small book of information that he personally autographed for each person. I quickly read the small book when it was shown to me at a house party. There was a question in the book that asked:

Q. What is the purpose of life?
A. To be happy!

Posted in Self Help, Quantum Physics, Consciousness, Business, Personal Growth

So many so called financial Gurus tell you to get yourself on a budget if you are struggling financially. I haven’t taken an actual statistical count but it is probably better than 99% of these guys dole out the advice that you need a financial budget.

What seems odd to me is that most people by the time they retire need financial assistance to support themselves. This would indicate to me that personal budgets or even household budgets don’t work.

Posted in Self Help, Business, Budget, Debt, Personal Finance