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

Well along with the phenomenal success of the Secret and its skyrocketing sales spreading around the globe we of course are now getting the detractors. Last night on Larry King several of the Secret teachers from the movie were back to talk about the Law of Attraction. Included with the guests were some of the naysayer’s as well.

One naysayer went so far as to say that the Secret could be harmful and there is no proof that it works. This is a common theme that the naysayer’s bring up about the Secret, that there is no scientific evidence it works.

Posted in Self Help, Create Wealth, Manifestation, The Secret, Law of Attraction

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’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

I don’t understand why there is so many struggles in the making of profit when owning a business. The only thing I can really relate it to is it must be like life lessons. We are on this planet to learn and grow whether it be in life or business.

If we are dishonest in our relationships we pay a price and learn a lesson hopefully. If we are rude or discourteous in life we learn a lesson. If we fail to do what we say we are going to do then we sometimes pay a bigger price in lost trust.

Posted in Automated Sales Systems, Create Wealth, Customer Service, Experts

I have spent a king’s ransom on information products including seminars and books especially over the last several years. I use to just buy books because I thought why should I pay $2,000.00 for a weekend seminar that doesn’t have any more information in it than in the books I was reading. Of coarse that was a belief I had and my mindset at the time.

Posted in Self Help, Create Wealth, Success, General, Opportunities

There are many people who want to make their living on the internet. It is millions actually and growing each day. It is a great lifestyle with limitless possibilities. The information age and the internet will be an exponentially growing industry for decades to come.

At ‘What You Focus On Grows’ we have taken a very long term approach for how to reach and help the most business owners become Healthy Wealthy and Wise. We know that by giving you the best information that sometimes it might not pay us in the short term but always pays big dividends in the long term.

Posted in Self Help, Pricing, Create Wealth, General, Attitude

Intelligent business owners are in the top 5% of their markets because they think different than the rest of the stupid and broke business owners. Most of the really intelligent business people I know have a different perception when it comes to taxes as well.

In Canada we have a tax called the GST (Goods & Services Tax). It is currently a 6% tax that is paid for most purchases of goods and services. On a $40,000.00 car or $50,000.00 home renovation it can add up to a fair chunk of change.

Posted in Self Help, Pricing, Create Wealth, General, Intention, Attitude