Archive for October, 2007

The Work-At-Home Mindset

Monday, October 8th, 2007

No matter if you already have a work at home business or are just now thinking of starting one, it is important to know what mindset is necessary to maintain in your venture. Otherwise, your own lack of energy and determination could be your downfall. Is there a mindset involved with working at home as an entrepreneur? Yes, most definitely.

When you have some enterprise set up to operate, or a venture already in progress and moving, if slowly, you probably have experienced roller-coaster-like emotions as you move through your day-to-day activities. Entrepreneurs are well aware of the highs of success and the lows of potential failure. Those lows can really get you down, and sometimes make you think about giving up.

In any adventure you are going to get ups and downs; you are going to have good times and not-so-good times. How you approach these will have a lot to do with your overall success.

You can’t ignore the low points. You have to face them with all the enthusiasm of the high points. When something happens that indicates a weak spot in your operations, you must see what caused that to happen and work out what you could do to avoid it in the future. Once you have it pinpointed what the weak spot is, deal with it! Write it down, analyze it and then move on. Learn how to overcome it so that it will not happen again.

To give an example, let’s say you have a network marketing operation where two separate companies are supplying you with products you are selling online. One company gives you no problem and always ships supplies to you promptly and your customers are always happy. The other runs out of stock, you have to deal with your customers and end up refunding them and not making a sale, yet tying up too much of your time. How to handle? Quit using that network marketing company and find another. This is a pretty simple example but vital to know. Your customers are your life-blood and you have to service them the very best you can. You can’t spend your day handling complaints.

You should be prepared to work hard every day to keep your business up and running. If you neglect certain aspects of it one day, there will come a day that they will come up to bite you when you aren’t looking. Don’t neglect the fine points of your paperwork and record keeping. When they are up-to-date and in good condition, it will serve you well when you need to refer to them. The mindset here is to pay attention to the small details and stay organized.

Most important of all is the mindset of success. Every action you take in your business should be targeted at how to make it better, faster, smoother and more efficient. Entrepreneurs always try to be “working smarter” and save a lot of time. By getting more efficient, you will make more money for less time invested, thus when you invest a lot of time, you will make a lot more income. And really, isn’t that what it’s all about? Supporting you and your family and eventually having great wealth? You bet!

Wendy Stevens, Nashville, TN as a single mom vaulted to the top of the Direct Sales Industry in 8 months. Wendy is a former 3-time Division I All American Lacrosse Player, NCAA Division I National Champion and Division 1 NCAA Head Coach. Wendy is one of the top 1% earners in the entire direct sales industry. As Marketer, Trainer and Speaker, Wendy is in demand nationally. She earned 7 figures in networking marketing. For information on Wendy, visit www.coachyoutosuccess.com

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Results Coach – Get One

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Any entrepreneur wants to succeed in their endeavors and sometimes they just can’t do it on their own. Even if they are progressing in reaching their goals, they possibly aren’t doing it fast enough. There is an old saying that two heads are better than one, and this can apply to the small business or work from home business worlds.

Hiring a results coach could be your saving grace in expanding your business and taking it to the next level. Home-based businesses seem to have an unlimited potential at expanding, particularly in the multi-level marketing arena. With business coaching, you can apply a combination of talents to your small or large business, and get just what is “promised” by the very fact of hiring a results coach. Coaches can help you put together your vision statement, mission statement, setting your goals and other varied tasks that are needed to grow your business.

Whether you refer to the work of a coach as coaching or mentoring, the important thing is to get it started for your business and make more money using someone who is right there beside you, guiding the way with their expertise. By hiring a coach you can start to work smarter instead of harder. They can help you make your business run more smoothly and efficiently by setting out your goals for the day, week and month. Maybe you need to hire staff? Have you put together your team of experts yet? All of these things a coach can help you with.

In the transfer of your business coach’s wisdom, you will have double the education and double the applicable knowledge to put into your own creation – your work from home opportunity or any direct sales business or network marketing start-up.

Business coaching and mentoring have become widely popular for their impact on the business world. You have someone whose sole interest is helping you succeed. You are paying them to help you get results, and that is THEIR goal, to help you achieve your goals.

A business coach is not someone who will get involved in all your day-to-day concerns. He can’t get embroiled in anything but how to resolve problems in your organization, customer service, production lines, etc. Your business and its success is all that matters.

When looking for a coach, it would be best to find someone who themselves had accomplishments in their own pursuits. They should have traveled already the path you have embarked upon. Maybe they started their own network or multi-level marketing company in a successful work at home pursuit. No matter what their experience, they should take the time to listen to your situations and personal objectives so they really understand where you are coming from. If they don’t fully comprehend the way you think, you likely will not hit it off in collaboration.

How can a results coach help you? Take a look at this short list for just a sampling:

• Enhance the efficiency of your business.
• Can assist you in improving your profits.
• Your motivation and your morale will be boosted.
• Business coaching will get you on the right path to more productivity.
• Can give you new perspectives on your plans and even play devil’s advocate to ramp up your own confidence.

By hiring a coach you won’t be alone in your travels and can rely on other viewpoints to get a fresh look at how you are approaching things. And maybe, just maybe, you will get where you want to go much faster and with a lot less stress.

Wendy Stevens, Nashville, TN as a single mom vaulted to the top of the Direct Sales Industry in 8 months. Wendy is a former 3-time Division I All American Lacrosse Player, NCAA Division I National Champion & Division 1 NCAA Head Coach. Wendy is one of the top 1% earners in the entire direct sales industry. As Marketer, Trainer and Speaker, Wendy is in demand nationally. She earned 7 figures in networking marketing. Information on Wendy, visit http://www.coachyoutosuccess.com

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Multiple Sources Of Income For The Entrepreneur

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Starting out in business can be a quite challenging proposition, but for the true entrepreneur it is simply a matter of having a plan and sticking to it – and making it happen. With work at home opportunities abound, there are many ways to make a living at home and even accumulate great wealth. Many look into direct sales or multi-level marketing to make their fortune.

Having a number of sources of income is one way to approach your financial goals. If you currently work at home and only have one income source, you may find that it doesn’t quite fill your needs and even seems to have a ceiling of income connected to it. The way to overcome this is to get MORE remunerative activities going.

One entrepreneur who started out part-time in her home-based business tried to get her retail sales going enough to support her so she could quit her nine-to-five. It just never quite happened. But when about to get laid off from the regular corporate job when they were downsizing, this lady had to take some drastic measures.

She maintained and increased her retail business, and added on some other work from home undertakings. She became a travel agent, booking cruises for friends and neighbors. She started selling for a multi-level marketing company “part-time.” These additional sources of income in her work-from-home operation increased her income enough to support all her needs and more.

It takes almost an organizational genius to run three businesses at one time, but if you don’t mind a little hard work, it is more than possible. You won’t have time to do much relaxing or to spend a lot of time with family or friends – at least until you really get cash coming in on a consistent basis. It is always possible to put many things on autopilot and free up your time. As you get more efficient, you can get three work at home businesses earning cash at a great rate and only put in hours a week on them.

Sometimes you will need a little help in getting started, and business coaching could assist you in achieving your goals. A results coach can work with you to get all aspects coordinated and functioning properly.

Get a number of streams of income going for you and watch your profits soar and feel the happiness that accompanies success as an entrepreneur!

Wendy Stevens, Nashville, TN as a single mom vaulted to the top of the Direct Sales Industry in 8 months. Wendy is a former 3-time Division I All American Lacrosse Player, NCAA Division I National Champion and Division 1 NCAA Head Coach. Wendy is one of the top 1% earners in the entire direct sales industry. As Marketer, Trainer and Speaker, Wendy is in demand nationally. She earned 7 figures in networking marketing. For information on Wendy, visit www.coachyoutosuccess.com

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