Today is Independence Day in the US, and I’m taking a long weekend off beginning today. I hope you are having an enjoyable holiday if you are in the US, and a great day if you are not.
Happy Independence Day!
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Brand new, free training for you!
I’m really pleased to tell you about a brand new, free training for you taking place this Monday June 3 at 10 am PST/1 pm EST. I’m hosting Martina Zorc of Star Brand Studio who will be teaching “How to uncover, own and communicate your irresistible brand that attracts YOUR ideal, high-paying clients.” On this call, you’ll learn:
- The truth about what high-paying clients really want and what it takes to truly stand out in a crowded marketplace
- What to avoid at all costs if you want to skyrocket your business
- 5 ways you might be sabotaging your brand right now
- How to reinvent and refine your brand, and infuse your business with irresistible magic
- The one simple thing you can do right away to accelerate your brand success
I’ve worked with Martina before, and she is amazing! I’m looking forward to seeing you on this call.
Get the details and sign up here: Star Brand Studio training
Last day for launch pricing!
Last week, I announced the launch of my new system “The ABC’s of a Successful Solopreneur Business” along with special launch pricing. That pricing expires today, and tomorrow the price goes from $77 to $97. If you want to get your business set up and going so you can succeed, grab the system at this launch price and get started!
Introducing The ABC’s of a Successful Solopreneur Business!
Big announcement today! The ABC’s of a Successful Solopreneur Business has launched and is ready for downloading!
I’ve laid out everything you need to know about setting up a solopreneur business in a step-by-step format that is easy to follow and fully explained. The system is perfect for new or not-yet-started businesses and will help people who have been in business for some time but are flying by the seat of the pants.
To celebrate the launch, I’ve created a special offer. From now until Thursday March 28th, you can get the entire system including 5 bonuses for just $77, a savings of 20% off the final price.
Click here to get your copy and get your business going in a big way!
Skyrocket Your Biz giveaway event ends today!
It’s been a great month with tons of entrepreneurs grabbing all the high-value free goodies offered in the Skyrocket Your Biz giveaway event. You can still get your gifts today, but that’s it – the event ends at the end of the day.
My colleague Martina Zorc of StarBrandStudio.com has put together an exciting event in which more than 100 experts — including me! — are giving away more than $13,000 of business building resources!
Click here to register and be prepared to be wowed!
Over 100 gifts to Skyrocket your Biz!
I’m pleased to tell you about a giveaway event I’m contributing to. It starts today and so head on over to Skyrocket Your Biz and grab some great free gifts!
Are you ready to make this year your best year yet? Boost your business with the Skyrocket Your Biz Giveaway Event, live from February 1 through 28. More than 100 transformational gifts covering 9 hot entrepreneurial topics – mindset and confidence; brand building; marketing; publicity; collaborations; attracting, enrolling and keeping more clients; profitability; efficiency, and results acceleration – are waiting to empower and inspire you to reach for the stars and play a much bigger game! Register now, it’s FREE: Skyrocket Your Biz.
Solopreneurs, what’s your theme for 2013?
This is the third year for which I’ve picked a theme. It’s been a great way to push ahead on one big, bold area of my business that I want to work on. My theme for 2012 was my signature system, which is written in being finalized as we speak. I seem to get my theme project done every year but it usually takes all year. I recall finishing something relating to my 2011 theme last year on the day of New Year’s Eve!
My signature system is a comprehensive guide to setting up a home based, solopreneur business based on packaging and selling your knowledge. I’ve finished the first draft and need to polish the writing and get some feedback from my inner circle before launching a beta version sometime early next year. (If you are interested in being the first to know when it’s ready, be sure to sign up for my newsletter in the red box in the sidebar. I’ll be offering it there first.)
My theme for 2013 is speaking. I enjoy public speaking and seem to have been spared the fear of speaking that so many people suffer from, so I’ve decided that this will be the next big push in my business. This is an example of one of the most important principles I live by – use your gifts to serve others and improve the world. By luck of the draw, I have a gift of being able to speak publicly without big fears, and so my belief is that I should use this to help other people. Speaking is a great way to reach a lot of people in a short amount of time, so even small speaking gigs are really effective.
I’ll be crafting my signature talk after I finalize my signature system so I don’t have the specifics yet, but my talk will cover some of the same things in my signature system. I’m committed to the idea that people will benefit from the talk whether they go further with me or not, so you can be sure there will be loads of great information you can take action on right away.
So, I’ve shared my theme for 2013, and now I have a big, burning question for you.
What’s your theme for 2013?
What’s the single most important thing you could focus on in 2013 so you end the year with a grander business that moves your mission in the world further along? Share it in the comments.
If you’re not sure, let’s schedule a time to talk and figure it out together. Click here.
If you’d like to read last year’s post where I share my theme for 2012, click here.
Happy Independence day!
I’m celebrating this week and won’t be doing a blog post. I hope you’ve had a great week and see you next week!
How to Ditch the Overwhelm!
I’ve got something new to share with you!
You know how entrepreneurs spend a lot of their time feeling overwhelmed? By nature, entrepreneurs love ideas. We can come up with them in our sleep – and often do! Most of us have more ideas than we could get to in a lifetime. So what’s the problem?
Well, entrepreneurs also commonly suffer from “bright, shiny object syndrome,” or the tendency to get bored with something before it’s done and jump to the next thing that we’re sure will make us a smashing success.
What happens when an abundance of ideas and bright, shiny object syndrome collide? Lots of things – low income, scattered focus, dissatisfaction with the business, and perhaps the biggest problem:
Overwhelm!
Overwhelm happens when we have too many things going at once and there’s not only more than we can do but more than we can even keep on top of. It’s like a business treadmill – you are running harder and harder but not getting anywhere. It’s impossible to figure out what to work on and you aren’t making the money you want.
The good news is that there is a quick fix! I can help you Ditch the Overwhelm, get focused and get moving toward making profit quickly with a step by step plan.
We’ll work together to figure out what’s the best thing for you to do right now and create a step by step action plan so you know how to move forward. At the end of our short time together, you’ll be clear about what to do first, how to do it and how it will lead to profit.
Sound great? Click here for details, and I hope to help you Ditch the Overwhelm soon!
PS – This program is only available until the end of May, so if you’re interested check it out today.
How to use local networking to build your business
(Update: The live call is over, but the recording is available at the links below. Click the link to grab your free recording!)
One of my core business philosophies is to test and revise. I try something I think will work, measure how well it works and revise my plan after that. I did the same with a full year of local, in-person networking and decided it wasn’t worth it and I focused on the internet to build my business.
Another one of my core philosophies is to always be learning. I tend to change my mind a lot because I’m dedicated to truth, not consistency. What I’ve recently learned is that I didn’t network nearly as well as I thought I did.
During the course of my networking year, I met over 200 people (keeping track was part of my measurement process). I sent every one a personalized follow up email, met a few for coffee and offered some of my free material to people who seemed interested. I’m outgoing and curious, so conversation comes naturally to me and I read a lot of “how to network” articles. I thought I was doing great because I was doing so much more than almost everyone I met. Of the 200+ people I met, only a few followed up with me and only a few even acknowledged my personalized email.
At the end of that year, I decided that networking wasn’t worth it because although it was great fun it wasn’t generating business for me. I only generated a small amount of business from my efforts, and when you consider that each of the 2-5 events per month I attended was about a 5 hour investment the math just didn’t work out.
Fast forward to this year, and what I’ve learned is that I didn’t have the right knowledge or strategy going into my networking efforts. To fix this for myself and help you learn as well, I’ve asked sales and networking expert Don Talbert to teach networking skills for my community on a free teleseminar. Don is the founder of the Centurion Group, and after he built his own successful business using networking he began to teach this skill to others. I’ve had many interactions with him both in groups and one-on-one conversations and he really knows his stuff! I’ve learned so much just getting ready for this call that I cannot wait to see what he teaches on the call!
If you’ve tried local networking but haven’t found success, please join me on this call – you’ll leave with strategies and tactics you can use right away. As a bonus, he’ll also be sharing the best way to make sure you are the most disliked person in the room. I’m a little nervous about this one – I hope I didn’t do whatever this is!