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

Many of us have at one time or another had goals we wanted to achieve but unfortunately most of us don’t achieve them. Of course the leadership Guru’s preach you must have goals because if you don’t have a destination you won’t get there. They are right but unfortunately only partly right.

The reason most people don’t accomplish their goals is because their goals are not who they are. Let me explain. If you were an Olympic runner how would you ‘be’ or live your life? You would ‘be’ a person who trained many hours per day, had a very disciplined workout regiment and breathed and slept Olympic running. Your passion would be that of an Olympic runner.

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

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

Anyone who owns a brick and mortar business and is not either online or preparing to go online in the very near future is missing the most tremendous opportunity of this century. I know we had the dot com bust in the year 2000 but the lessons we all learned are invaluable.

Taking your offline business online has never been easier to do or more profitable if you follow some common sense rules.

Discover 10 Secret Strategies for Taking Your Business Online So You Don’t Go Bankrupt.

Posted in Business Models, Success, Marketing, Online Business, Online Sales

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

Most people look at me funny when I tell them I haven’t had a job in over thirty years. I understand; who wouldn’t think thirty years is way too long for unemployment? Me, that’s who. Me and every successful business owner on the planet.

In fact, I really only had one job in my life, and that was for about one year during my teens. I realized early on that my job, and any job for that matter, was not going to get me where I wanted to go. A job could never give me the income, freedom, and control over my own life that I knew I couldn’t live without.

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

Consciousness level is always going to be a determining factor on how much money you make as a business owner. Your consciousness is your level of awareness and your level of awareness will determine how much money you will make in your business.

There are many examples of how a higher conscious level will bring in more money to your business but let me just give you a few simple examples of how it can work in my industry. I am in the fire and flood restoration industry and we also do painting and carpet cleaning for residential home owners.

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

Although I don’t watch a lot of TV I did get caught up in a new show in Canada called Underdogs. The premise of the show is to help consumers who feel; they have been wronged get satisfaction by cameras rolling and TV host going to the vendor and rectifying the problem.

Sort of reminds me of an old joke that said you know your having a bad day when someone calling on you says “this is 60 Minutes.” There were 3 consumer stories on this hour long show I have to tell you I was riveted from a human consciousness standpoint.

Posted in Self Help, Success, Consciousness, Business, Money