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ARTArticle5 MUST-ASK Questions When the Going Gets ToughHow do we know that things are not good? The biggest red flag about it is: lack of money coming in. But there are others: like lack of motivation, loss of vision, unable to meet plans or deadlines. Any time you see those signs, stop, and ask yourself those 5 questions:
1. What does money mean to me?ARTArticle5 MUST-HAVE Mindsets for a Million Dollar BusinessIntuitively we all know that “it’s all in our head”. If we don’t believe it’s possible, it simply IS NOT. If we believe it IS possible, that doesn’t automatically mean that it will be but at least we are in the right direction. In other words, what our mind believes as impossible is where our limits for to grow in our business are and where we actually need someone to pull us out of it. Here’s a nice start:
1. Your prospect NEVER rejects You.rARTArticle5 Must-Haves for HUGE Sales with NO SpeakingMy definition of a successful business is: Know-How with Know-Who and a Know-What. Hence, your marketing and sales consist of basically 3 main activities: networking, speaking and writing. This article is for all those who are just starting and feel shy speaking, who are sick and tired of going to networking meetings without much or any results and who are like me … love to express themselves writing and feel perfectly comfortable in the company of their laptop. Here are the 5 must-haves for a sky rocket sales without speaking at all.
1. Create ads with personalityARTArticle5 Persuasion Boosters in a Sales LetterA sales letter is each and every communication you have with your potential clients explaining what you offer and why do they need it. The thing is, even if you offer a great product or service it’s really your sales letter that is explaining exactly how you add value to their lives. And guess what, if you fail to communicate that in the sales letter (brochure, landing page of a web site, about section in a blog) the business will most likely not come to you in the numbers that you want.ARTArticle5 Pleasant Ways to Chill OutHaving a business, faced every day with the unknown and with having to constantly make choices for which you know what the consequences, although unforeseen now are going to come back to you is just not easy. So, what do you do to enjoy the moment and still be in the midst of a hectic results driven busy day? Few things come to mind:
1. Laughter Yoga –ARTArticle5 Questions to Ask Before You Promote Your BusinessWherever you are in your business, sooner or later comes in the huge need to promote. In the end without a promotion of your business, where are the clients going to come from? The questions that usually circle around when it comes to promoting your product or service are: Where to find the clients? What am I going to tell them so that they buy? What does my client really want- so that I can tweak my offer and give it to them? These are all the right questions, just asked in the wrong way. When you answer those 5 questions you will not need to ask yourself the usual ones.
1. Why this?rARTArticle5 QUICK Ways to Get ClientsIf you are starting out – from the ground zero and you want to start from somewhere, anywhere, here are the 5 things you can do:
1. Offer a specialr
Create a limited time special, cut a sweetheart deal or offer a deal that is so good and so irresistible that your potential client can instantly say: I want this. You can run a special even every week if you want, even if you don’t have a list. In fact you can build a list like that. Just make sure that the specials are time sensitive and on a good price.
2. Create an eventrARTArticle5 Quick Ways to Get Things Your WayThe quickest way to of being the best owner of your business is to be the best owner of your own life. How do you do that? By effectively claiming what’s yours. How?
1. Be clear on what you want
If you don’t know what exactly you want and you fail to communicate it to others in a way that even a first grader gets it, how will others know? Same thing with the things , situations, people you can’t wan to spend your time and energy on. Supposing that the others can read your mind is a great strategy but I just haven’t seen it work that much.
2. Keep an eye on your feelingsrARTArticle5 REASONS to work with a Start up Coach when Launching Your BusinessMy own definition of starting a business is: help others to solve a problem they have in a better,faster and more efficient way.. and being paid for that. Sounds pretty simple, right? And in fact it is, just that the complications come from the fact that it’s not the same to know how to do something (build houses, make haircuts, do tarot readings) and even loving to do what you naturally can do is a is a pre-requisite to keep going when things are not that perfect with your business BUT it’s just NOT ENOUGH.ARTArticle5 Reasons Why People Take Advantage of Your KindnessTell me if you’ve ever experienced the same. Just yesterday I had just met this lady. She was talking with a friend of mine how her coworkers constantly take advantage of her kindness and willingness to help. And I have had the unpleasant encounter of exactly the same kind of people in my personal life too. We all know how they look like: interactions between people are all about giving and receiving and they always queue up in the getting end only. Unfortunately, you get to be blamed for beeing kind, generous, “people pleaser”, helping. Why is that?ARTArticle5 Reasons Why You Are Not Rich and 5 Mindsets to Change ThatSeeing this over and over again, I wish I could text message with this everyone in the world: You can’t be Rich with a Poor relationship with money. The way you approach money, earning money, spending money speaks volumes as to how much you’re going to make and keep. So, if you want different financial situation than the one you are currently in, you’ve got to work on it.
5 Ways to do that:
1. Spending vs investingARTArticle5 Reasons Why You Are Stuck in Your BusinessSometimes it’s not the motivation, it’s not the lack of resources: energy, time, money; it’s not the economy, our experience or not knowing what you did that got you into a dead-end situation. Here are the 5 other reasons to be stuck in your business:
1. Expecting perfection, falling into guilt shame regretrARTArticle5 REASONS You DO NOT Move Ahead in your BusinessOk, you are determined to succeed, you wake up with the idea that today you’re going to make it, today you will succeed, you breathe with that wish and pray it comes true. But it doesn’t. Why? Of course it could be because of many things, some of which depend on you.
Here are the top 5:
1. Excuse makingARTArticle5 Reasons You Don’t Have ClientsSometimes, my clients come to me and tell me: Tsvetanka, I read every article out there, I go to every single free teleseminar out there and I still can’t find clients. What am I doing wrong?… Here are the top 5 things:
1. Being vague about what you offerr
There’s a very quick test – if an 8-year-old can’t understand what you do, your prospect will be confused as well. You definitely need to change that because what you really want is your prospect to spend more time on what are the benefits of what you offer and why they should choose you, not on: What is it again that you do?.ARTArticle5 Reasons You Need a Virtual TeamI won’t be claiming that all your problems will be solved once you hire a team of assistants. Just like in the corporate world: there are good employees and bad employees. The difference is that now you are the employer and you get to decide what’s helping your business and what is not. But there are at least 5 reasons that you need a virtual team and here they are:
1. Your work is done while you’re asleeprARTArticle5 Reasons You Under-chargeI often hear that: I can’t charge more because I am….. new, un-experienced, nobody knows me; and these are all valid reasons to start charging at a little bit lower price and to gain some experience and recognition before you raise your prices to what you wish for. Now, what I’ve found out is that I not only hear the valid reasons. I also hear some inner game tactics to be low paid and unhappy. Here are my top 5:
1. You don’t believe you can sell on this pricerARTArticle5 Reminders How to MAKE IT in BusinessThere are several reasons why people become entrepreneurs. However, just like the candler who went on the Island of Diamonds to get some diamonds for his family most entrepreneurs FORGET why they started all this in the first place. The candler was about to go home in 1 full year, as soon as he gt there – on the island there were so many diamonds that he forgot what he went there for and was appreciated for his skill to make candles. On his way home – he took the most valuable thing on the island – his tools to make candles.ARTArticle5 Rituals to Protect Your Business from NegativityNegative energy is coming from undermining the importance of your business or of your ability to make money in your business, constant criticism that you are not spending your time on the “right things” according to them, not really believing that you have it within you to make things happen. Negative energy is like dark matter – once you are exposed – it sucks in all light and positive thoughts and leaves you powerless. Here are the 5 things you can do to change that:
1. PrayerrARTArticle5 Secrets to Persuasive CommunicationsLet’s say you’re preparing to speak to your board of directors, present a budget for approval, launch a new initiative or rally the troops in the office. And let’s assume that each of these endeavors requires a persuasive conversation.
Like most business people, you approach this task as a straightforward process, consisting of:rnï§ A clear statement of what needs to be accomplishedrnï§ A strong statement of a solution with data based supporting argumentsrnï§ An assumption that the audience will readily agree with an understanding of “the facts”rnï§ A confident and engaging deliveryARTArticle5 Setbacks that Stop You BIG TimeHave you ever felt that you want to succeed but whatever you do there seems to be all kinds of things that are stopping you? While it is true that life happens, it’s how we respond to it that makes a difference. What usually happens is that we get accustomed to how we perceive the reality and unnoticed we react to it, again in a habitual way. Here are the 5 most common automatic reactions I see around me and how they influence your life.
1. Poverty mindsetARTArticle5 SIGNS That You Are Stuck in Your BusinessPart of being a business owner is to overcome challenges and bring your business to the next level while focusing on keeping it alive and profitable day in and day out. But sometimes what we cant to see as challenge is actually a state of being stuck – neither moving forward nor maintaining a satisfying results status quo. Here are the signs:
1.The list of tasks keeps growing but the old tasks don’t get done.rARTArticle5 SIGNS Your Dark Sides Control Your LifeWhen you go though situations, feelings, relationships, that are unpleasant or even painful to your core, that means that a button of yours have been pushed. The thing is – the more and the better you know your buttons the easier and more joyful life can be BECAUSE it won’t be other people or circumstances that will have a hold on you but YOU, Yourself will be deciding how to respond when others are pushing them.
1. LonelinessrARTArticle5 SMART Ways Your Emotions SERVE Your BusinessWe’ve all been there. You don’t feel good, maybe down, little despaired that things are just not happening, or not happening in the magnitude you wish to. And .. you’re stuck. Vision is lost as to where you want to go and how you’re going to be there. In one word: STUCK. This , of course, leads to – leaving today’s work for tomorrow or better yet- for when you feel much better. And in the end – work is not done and the results are not there. Why is that? Your emotions are ruling your life? BUT there is a way out.ARTArticle5 Social Media Must-DOsIf you run your own business, I’m pretty sure by now that you’ve already experienced that social media marketing (My Favorite 3: Linked in , Twitter and Facebook) can take all the time in the world and the results are still not there or it can be done by someone else for you but what do you instruct them to do. Let me tell you.
1. Be-friend Ping.fmARTArticle5 Sources of Web TrafficThe more traffic you have, the better, right? More qualified traffic means: client generation, hence – more money in your bank account. But where does the traffic come from? There are 5 different sources of traffic and the are:
1. Content MarketingrARTArticle5 Step Formula For COMPELLING Call To ActionEven the best article or video marketing in the world, even the best content in the world is not going to do anything much for your business if you don’t have a compelling call to action. The trick about call to action is: before you create anything: from article, to teleclass, to video, to sales page or a newsletter email, think FIRST what you want your readers to do NEXT once they read, listen, subscribe, watch your powerful content. Then, answer those 5 questions to ensure that people take massive action:
1. Here’s what I’ve got:ARTArticle5 Step Plan to Becoming a Millionaire ExpertMaking million dollars in profit naturally changes your status to a millionaire. But how do you do that? Here is a very simple, very straight forward plan to do it:
1. Create a consumer-priced productrARTArticle5 STEP Powerful Conversion Story FormulaI know FOR A FACT, that every single rich entrepreneur started from “scratch”, self-lea
ed and mastered all that they have discovered along the way into a signature system that makes them lots of money. And I know for a fact that they love to tell and re-tell their sobbing rags to riches story. Now, you get to choose if it’s a coincidence or not that retting rich is “by design” and not “by chance” when you discover this powerful story creation formula:
1. The “Difficult Times” SteprARTArticle5 Steps for a SUCCESSFUL Product LaunchThe big difference between those who are wildly successful and those who are just scraping by is that those who succeed make successful product launches. My firm belief is that when you have years of experience and a GIGANTIC mailing list, a single product launch can get you a MIL in sales and have all around you wonder what is that happy smile on your face all the time. The good news is – even if you are just starting, even if you do not have a product, you can have a product launch. Here are the 5 steps you shouldn’t miss:
1. Create Initial BUZZrARTArticle5 STEPs to Attracting a HUGE ListEveryone says that: The money is in the list. Then, some say – well, you don’t need a list in order to make money. Truth is – both are right. If you want passive income streams – you need a huge warm list. A warm list is a list that is responsive to your offers. If you send out an offer and nobody shows up for the party that you created – may it be a teleclass, an program, a talk show you host or you’re invited to, then you have a very cold list. Now, if you do not have a list- 100% of the work on finding the clients. Which is also ok, especially if you’re just starting up.