Plan today for your most prosperous tomorrow! A 4-step blue print for success.

Over the years, I've had the honour of working with 1000's of business owners - new and established - on many issues. The outcome has been the creation of a process that helps them ALL get their businesses rejuvenated. Yes, it doesn't matter if they are currently an $18 million dollar business or a start-up! When you don't have a business plan you've looked at recently or a marketing plan you use daily, the rest of the problems are very similar - only the dollar amount changes!

I've created the list below to walk you through the process I've been using with my clients for about a year now. It works. In fact, it works so well, to help them increase income and help them focus, that I decided to create the You-Can't-Lose Guarantee!

You know the funny thing here? When I first completed the steps below I remembered my time in Corporate America and realized that if business owners (including myself) acted just a little more like corporations - you know the busy-ness part of a business - from the start, they'd be more profitable out of the gate. I know that because when I work with newer business owners that is exactly what happens. And I know it's true for more established business owners because most often they're missing some of the major components and there success has been blocked.


There is no cookie-cutter process here. It's important to determine what pieces are missing or in need of updating and then bring those parts into the business.

So, if it's time for you to take your business to heights that even you didn't imagine possible, start at the top of this list and locate what's missing from your business.

Leverage your time for maximum success

  • Create a vision and mission for your business.
  • Identify your client from hell.
  • Develop a niche and ideal client profile.
  • Prioritize the most important business objectives and strategies.
  • Learn how to create a propelling action plan that helps you complete your to-do list.

Develop a positive money mentality

  • Learn to fully trust yourself with your finances.
  • Be able to talk about money more easily.
  • Create a pricing strategy and package of services.
  • Set your hourly, monthly and value rates.
  • Confidently tell others what your fees are.
  • Discover how to easily raise your rates.
  • Raise your standards with your self.
  • Set boundaries with others - including clients.

Design systems to monitor your success

  • Create compelling ways to articulate what you do.
  • Build a follow-up system for efficient networking.
  • Design referral and affiliate systems.
  • Help develop your Ideal Client Profile.
  • Become comfortable networking
  • Learn how to "market with integrity" using a marketing funnel.
  • Create multiple streams of small business income.
  • Develop a hiring/firing process.
  • Design important business processes.
  • Build support systems that will help take you through any situation.

Leverage Your Success With Follow-up

  • Balance to assure all of the critical areas in the company have been covered.
  • Track your company's performance.
  • Execute the activities you've stated in your plans.
  • Align to ensure that everything is working together.
  • Resolve issues right away that are impeding your success.

 

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Want more traffic to your websites?

Not just a "few" extra visitors but 100,000+ extra visitors... every single month?

If so, use this:

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It's a hidden system within Google which hardly anyone knows how to use.

Oh one more thing...

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Better Customer Service Through Transparency, Tribes, and Talent

Today, technology is enabling new capabilities and I see three trends which are recreating customer service in a new, more responsive, and economically efficient manner: transparency, tribes, and talent.

Business Lessons we can learn from elephants

Be Money Confident ambassador, Antonia Kidman, gave a speech about business lessons we can learn from elephants. ...  Know how and when to use your strengths, develop your own thick skin ... and many more

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Start Your Own Successful Internet Business From Square One, With a Proven A-Z Program for Making Money Online

If you'd like to start making money on the Internet, but don't have ANY business experience, technical skills, or ideas for what you should sell, I highly recommend you take a look at Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet, a comprehensive, step-by-step program for starting a successful Internet businessfrom scratch.

Created by the Internet Marketing Center, Insider Secrets reveals the exact process they themselves used to generate over $100 Million in sales online.

Using simple, easy-to-understand language, and plenty of helpful video and audio tutorials, Insider Secrets walks you through the six steps to building a successful Internet business from square one:

  1. Find a lucrative niche market and decide what to sell...
  2. Easily create your website, complete with winning sales copy
  3. Attract your first eager visitors ...
  4. Take your first credit card payment
  5. Ramp up sales & traffic quickly
  6. Automate your business to be "hands free"

Then, once your website is live, and you're getting your first visitors, you can take advantage of Insider Secret's hundreds of ADVANCED strategies to improve your business, and drive your sales even higher!

And because Insider Secrets is 100% online, they're able to update it whenever there are new test results to add, or new techniques to try out, so it NEVER goes out of date!

When you become an Insider Secrets member, you get:

  • Over 1,250 pages of detailed, moneymaking strategies and techniques carefully laid out in easy-to-follow steps
  • "Real time" updates with the latest and greatest online marketing strategies
  • Streaming videos to make your learning even easier
  • Content you can print out, or download to your iPod, so you can learn new techniques, even when you're on the go, and away from your computer
  • A "private rolodex" of hundreds of Internet marketing tools and resources
  • A one-on-one 15-minute phone consultation with one of their IMC's marketing specialists
  • IMC's exclusive Ebusiness Road Map System

I give Insider Secrets an enthusiastic 10 out of 10! It contains every last tip and technique you'll need to start your money-making website. Thousands of other people have already used it to earn money online -- six figures annually, in many cases -- so you can be confident it will work for you, too!

It also comes with a 90-day, 100% moneyback guarantee, so there's no risk in giving it a try!

If you want to make money online, I urge you to get access to this proven online business building program now.

To find out how, click here now...

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15 Customer Service Mistakes to Avoid

Customer service, something we as business people and also consumers encounter every day. From grabbing our first cup of coffee at our favorite store to our first phone call of the day, we take part in the consumer experience as well as have an impact on our on customers experience. While not every customer will be signing our praise there are so mistakes to avoid to enrich the consumer experience and create loyal customers.

15 Customer Service Mistakes to Avoid

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Financial sites you want to know about

Many people wonder what kinds of references I use to manage money over the internet. The fact is that there is just a lot of great resources out there and now, more than ever, the average person can get to information that was once just the bastion of top level money managers and financial insiders - and all with the click of a mouse. So here are the sites and newsletters I use to manage finances. I want to be clear that I receive no remuneration for any of the sites I recommend here! This is simply what I use.

First, let me recommend the financial newsletters that I pay for. They are so good that I am willing to spend my hard earned money for them as opposed to the ones I get for free (some of the ones I get for free I would pay for too, but they haven’t asked yet!). I get two letters from the same company. The first can be found at www.cabot.net. This is the Cabot Market Letter and it has done great for me. They keep a model portfolio and they give specific buy, hold, and sell recommendations. This makes it easy. You can get a free trial for a few months for a nominal amount. I highly recommend it. They also produce an “Internet Stock of the Week.” This isn’t for the faint of heart, though, again, this has done well for me. You can try it free and then a year is about $300. I have more than made my money back in just a few weeks! Their site is www.icabot.com.

Other resources I use for my own information and decision-making are as follows:

  • www.superstarinvestor.com. Don’t let the silly name fool you. This is the real place to start for TONS of information.
  • www.clearstation.com. Another great site!
  • www.netbulls.com. This site is loaded with info on Internet Stocks. They have a free newsletter.
  • www.smartportfolio.com. Another good site. They have free and for pay newsletters, depending upon what you want.
  • www.barchart.com. This site is for the technically minded. Lots of technical analysis here but very helpful in seeing where things are going.
  • finance.yahoo.com. This is a good all around site that gives you a lot of information for free.

These are the basics. If you have any sites that you think we should look over and perhaps recommend, please email them, to me! Chris@chriswidener.com

 


Reproduced with permission from Chris Widener's Weekly Ezine. Chris Widener is an Internationally recognized speaker, author and radio host. Chris is the author of five books and 30 audio programs as well as over 350 success articles. In addition to being a featured contributing editor to the Jim Rohn One-Year Success Plan, Chris was the host emcee and guest speaker for the 2004 Jim Rohn Weekend Leadership Event held in Anaheim, CA - he received rave reviews not only from Jim Rohn, Denis Waitley and Brian Tracy, but also all the attendees! Chris demonstrates a style that is engaging and versatile while providing life-changing principles of leadership, motivation and success. If you would like to order Chris' products, including his Newest Release, The Angel Inside as well as Live the Life You Always Dreamed Of, The Secrets of Influence or his CD series, The Extraordinary Leaders Seminar, or to book him to speak at your next event, go to http://www.chriswidener.com or send an email to speaker@chriswidener.com or call 800-929-0434. Also - to subscribe to Chris's free Weekly Ezine, send a blank email to subscribe@chriswidener.com

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When leadership becomes a quest

From the ezine of Leadership Wired

People are your business's most important asset. "You can't find anybody in corporate America who doesn't agree with this, but their actions are inconsistent with that statement," Fairbank told his audience. An important part of a CEO's job—as well as that of any other leader—is recruiting and motivating employees.

Cast a compelling vision, but don't allow your desire to overshadow your humanity. People are more likely to work hard for and cooperate with leaders who are authentic. Fairbank says this involves "being vulnerable, being honest and showing your weaknesses as well as your bold dream."

Success isn't about an impressive title or large paycheck. Rather, "It's about having a dream, a quest," Fairbank said. "[My father] used to say that, 'It doesn't matter how big the quest is. What matters is how pure the quest is. You can own your own success by virtue of defining it as a quest.'"

People who work in a specific industry often don't see, or respond to, the changes taking place around them, according to Richard Fairbank, chairman, president and CEO of Capital One Financial. That's because the industry's conventional wisdom is so embedded in their brains that they don't notice how stale it has become. "There's an old Will Rogers saying that sums it up," said Fairbank, who gave a talk on leadership this fall at Wharton. "It ain't what he don't know that scares me. It's what he knows that just ain't so."

Read more of the article Registration is free.

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How to read a business book

For most of us, when we want to improve at something, we read. And this is no less true for those of us in business or in leadership positions in organisations. And, of course, there is a plethora of books to choose from. In fact, according to a report from Fast Company, 5,301 titles "claiming to be about business" were published last year, up 30 percent from three years ago. And for those of us who are busy, but want the answers NOW, it can be frustrating trying to absorb all of the information available. Fast Company has some answers. Check out the article How to Read a Business Book.

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Connecting with and selling to power buyers

Connecting with and Selling to
Power Buyers
with Josiane Chriqui Feigon


Josiane Feigon

You’ve increased your prospecting and marketing efforts but now realize you have invested too much time aligning with the wrong people. In today’s unpredictable economic landscape, it’s not unusual to spend time with buyers who have no power and no potential, yet make you believe they can actually do something.

There is business out there, you just have to work smarter to uncover it and get to the decision makers — the Power Buyers. It is harder than ever, but when you learn the right techniques, you’ll get more business. This session helps you focus on the Power Buyer: how to recognize them, what to say to them and if you really deserve to speak with them.

You’ll learn how to:

  • find the Power Buyers — how to recognize verbal and visual Power Buyer signs and what are common characteristics of people with high influence.
  • engage with Power Buyers — when you finally get to the Power Buyer, what do you say and how do you align and package your offerings with high value that creates curiosity and intrigue?
  • move out of the “No-Po Zone” — don’t get fooled into believing the ones with No Power and No Potential will actually do anything. Stop listening with your Happy Ears.
  • understand Power Buyer objections — you’ve been hit with a tidal wave of objections, but do you believe them all and where are they coming from?
  • determine if you are Power Buyer Worthy — do you have the self-confidence, knowledge and courage to believe you have something important to say?

Details:

Register for the 13th October or order the CD or MP3 recording. Note: Everyone who registers for the teleseminar will get the MP3 recording of the session for free.