In this short post, you’ll learn why it’s important that you stop focusing on short term fixes for your long term business problems.

In business and entrepreneurship, you need to keep your head out of the sand. It’s easy to keep sticking a band-aid on your business problems, but if you never address the core root of the business issue, you’re really going to do your business some long term harm.

The idea in you having a business, is so that you can solve problems for people and businesses, by selling your services or products to them, and generate some income in doing so. The idea is not for you to continue to create more and more problems for your business, ultimately driving it to the ground.

Looking at your long term business problems may not be pretty, in fact, it will most likely be very painful at first… but when you hit your business problems head on, you’ll always end up solving, or at least, bringing closure to them, thus allowing you to have the freedom to focus on what’s really important to you, which is to continue to grow out your business.

To sum everything up here: get your head out of the sand, (if) it is; stop sticking band-aids on long term problems; hit any business problems you have head on; find or create a solution; implement the solution; then focus on continuing to grow out your business.

Sound easy enough… no worries, we’re here to help if you need it, and want it. All you need to do, is fill in our [request a consult] form, and we’ll immediately follow up with you to arrange a convenient time to talk further… it’s that simple.

Read this post http://90dayentrepreneur.com/business-problems/ on the 90DayPro blog.

Stop Focusing on Short Term Fixes for Your Long Term Business Problems

In this short post, you’ll learn why it’s a good idea to keep your product or service simple.

When your product or service is simple, it enables clients and prospects to make immediate purchasing decisions. The more complex your product or service is, the longer, and more expensive, the sales cycle is going to be. The extended sales cycle is one factor that’s going to kill your small business.

When your product sits in inventory, it ties up your cash and credit line, and it will literally sink your ship. You have to get your product off the shelf, and quickly. The same holds true for services as well ie: software development, except that the cost is not in having a product sit in inventory, it’s in the cost to develop your software service.

For smaller businesses, the sales cycle needs to be almost instantaneous, otherwise you’re going to eat up too much money while your stuck in the extended and in depth sales explanation cycle. Ask yourself, if you’re not there to explain what your product or service provides, will the prospect or client be able to make an immediate purchasing decision. If not, this is going to be a problem, because it’s going to take sales resources ie: money, every time a client or prospect is interested in your product or service.

Once your business starts to grow, then you can get into the more in depth, longer, and more expensive sales cycles, but in the beginning, make sure you keep your product or service simple.

As always, if you need help in launching your product or service, rebranding your product or service, or learning how to make your product or service simpler to use, simply reach out to us by filling in our [request a consult] form, and we’ll immediately follow up with you to arrange a convenient time to talk more.

Why You Need to Keep Your Product or Service Simple

In this short post, you’ll discover why it’s important that your website has multiple “quick sale” items.

In short, you need to be able to keep your lights turned on… so you need to showcase a few items on your website that people can immediately make a purchase. Yes, we all know about the longer sales cycle items ie: software, and more complex items, but in this case, just list a few of your simple items for sale with immediate ‘buy now’ buttons next to them.

Your “quick sale” item can be a simple ebooks, or something along the lines of a how-to guide… it doesn’t have to be anything crazy, it just needs to be helpful or useful to your market segment.

The fact is, if you’re constantly stuck waiting for your perfect moment, to sell your perfect product, to your perfect audience, it’s most likely not going to occur. What you need to do is just get started with what you have ready to go, and list them on your site as “quick sale” items.

Once you have your initial “quick sale” items listed on your site, study what types of sales you get, listen to your customer feedback, and make tweaks as needed to sell more of your “quick sale” items.

As always, if you’re not sure what type of “quick sale” items you currently have in your arsenal of products, we can most likely make a few valuable suggestions that will guide you in the proper direction. If you’re interested in speaking further, simply fill in our [request a consult] form, and we’ll immediately reach out to you to arrange a convenient time to talk on a personal, one-on-one level.

Why It’s Vital that Your Website Has Multiple “Quick Sale” Items

In this short post, you’ll discover eleven encouraging entrepreneurial thoughts that will help you find great success in 2015.

If you want to propel yourself closer to your entrepreneurial goal in 2015, take action today, don’t wait for tomorrow. Here are the eleven encouraging entrepreneurial thoughts for you to digest.

Ultra successful people didn’t get successful doing average things

Look to find alternate means to accomplish your goals or objectives

If you do normal things, you’ll get normal results

If you do nothing, nothing will occur

Pave a new road. Do things the way you think will work best, you’re the one driving

Use the similar ingredients that ultra successful people before you have used, but put your own twist and spin in the recipe

Surround yourself with people that do things better than you

Continue to learn, and when you think you know it all, push yourself to learn more

Successful people fail, the only difference is they get right back up and continue going on

Successful people don’t drive looking out of the rearview mirror

Always remember, you don’t have to be great to start, just start to be great

Don’t worry about making mistakes as you go… they’re going to happen, it’s inevitable. Just keep your head up, your shoelaces tied tight, and enjoy every moment of your entrepreneurial ride. Also, make sure you’re involved in activities that move you closer to your goal, every single day… no excuses.

As always, if you need help in bringing any of these encouraging entrepreneurial thoughts to fruition in your life, we’re here to make it happen. Simply fill in our [request a consult] form, and we’ll immediately follow up with you to arrange a convenient time to talk on a personal, one-on-one level.

11 Encouraging Entrepreneurial Thoughts to Live By in 2015

In this short post, you’ll learn why it’s important that you build and maintain your personal social media profiles.

You’re going to want to build and maintain your personal social media profiles because it’s the way that people (clients, prospects, recruiters) are going to find out who you are, and what you’re all about. Yes, you may be happy in your current job right now, but the fact is, you may not be employed by the same company two years from now.

In today’s tumultuous business environment, companies are bought by other companies, corporate mergers occur, and divisions within companies are cut all the time. In most cases, this means change, and that change may well be with your position at the company.

When you build and maintain your personal social media profiles, you’re setting yourself up for future success… in short, you’re giving yourself a personal insurance plan for future career opportunities. Spending an hour a week updating your personal social media profiles will pay huge dividends for you, especially if you ever need to show a future employer, what you do, and what you’re all about.

What happens in most cases with people that don’t keep their personal social media profiles up to date, is that the “you know what” hits the fan, they end up losing their job, and they end up scurrying around trying to remember what they did five years ago, so that they can show what they achieved on their resume. Don’t be this person, it doesn’t work out well because there’s only so much you can remember when you’re under pressure to do so.

One important note for you to remember… you may want to have multiple social media profiles ie: a personal (professional) one, as well as a personal (family and friends) one. This way, your business information will stick with your business connections, and your personal information will stick with your personal connections.

As always, if you need help with building out, or maintaining your personal social media profiles, we’re here to assist you. All we need you to do, is to take the first step, by filling in our simple [request a consult] form. Once we receive your information, we’ll immediately follow up with you to arrange a highly personalized, one-on-one, live chat.

Why You Need to Build and Maintain Your Personal Social Media Profiles

In this short post, you’ll learn 5 ways to make sure your thank you notes stick out from the crowd.

Making your thank you notes stick out from the crowd is not that difficult… in fact, it’s rather simple… that is, if you know what to do. Here are the five (proven and successful) suggestions that you’ll want to follow the next time you’re writing your thank you notes.

- Always write your thank you notes by hand
- Always use custom stationary for your thank you notes
- Always share what you’re thankful for in your thank you notes
- Always keep your thank you notes short, and to the point
- Always keep your thank you notes unique and personal to the person you’re sending it to

Be sure you make it a point to send thank you notes to anyone that helps you out, and be sure to follow the five suggestions listed above… you’ll be pleasantly surprised with the responses that you receive back.

As always, if you want to learn how to write the most amazing thank you notes, we’re here to show you how. Simply fill in our [request a consult] form, and we’ll follow up with you to arrange a highly personalized, one-on-one, live chat.

5 Ways to Make Sure Your Thank You Notes Stick Out from the Crowd

In this short post, you’ll learn why you need to explode out of the gate with your entrepreneur plan.

One of the main differences between athletes that make it to the professional level vs. those that don’t, is the way that pro athletes explode into overdrive when they’re playing. Pro athletes have a way of “taking it to the next level” or “shifting it into the next gear.”

You need to take the same philosophy a professional athlete does, and learn how to explode out of the gate with your entrepreneur plan. If you’re not pumped up and enthusiastic about your entrepreneur plan, believe me, no one else is going to be either. As an entrepreneur, it’s really going to come down to you flat out throwing away the excuses and making your entrepreneur plan happen.

When you explode out of the gate, you’re jumping right to the lead, and you’re exerting a lot of power in a very short amount of space and time. This is the exact “entrepreneur zone” in which you can make a lot of money and connections, very quickly.

As an entrepreneur, the clock is ticking from the time you invest your first dollar in your entrepreneur plan. The odds are against you… so you need to do everything you can, as smart as possible, and as fast as possible, right from the very start.

As always, if you need help learning how to explode out of the gate with your entrepreneur plan, simply fill in our [request a consult] form, and we’ll immediately follow up with you to arrange a convenient time talk on a personal, one-on-one level.

Why You Need to Explode Out of the Gate With Your Entrepreneur Plan

In this short post, you’ll find out why you need to use the tools provided to you in entrepreneurship.

Being an entrepreneur is not going to be easy by any means. You’re going to have the worst of times, and you’re going to have the best of times. The trick is, when all is said and done, that the best of times, far outweigh the worst of times.

To be successful as an entrepreneur, you’re going to need to use the tools provided to you. The tools may be broken, the may be dull, they may be outdated, but in the beginning, you’re going to need to find a way to make them work. You need to be like a person that’s been lost out in the woods… you need to find anything that you can to survive, and use it to the maximum.

There are ton’s of FREE, and paid for resources available to you as an entrepreneur…. we’re one of them. The thing is, not everything is going to pop right up in front of you and present itself, you’re going to need to get scrappy and find ways to discover the entrepreneur resources that are going to help you out the most.

Using the tools provided to you in entrepreneurship is one of the best ways to get on the fast track to success. Don’t try and do it all yourself, get the help you need asap, and get moving closer to your entrepreneurial goal today.

Nothing is going to be perfect, so stop waiting for that special moment to occur… just go out and make your own luck by putting the rubber to the road.

As always, if you need help in learning (or finding) how to use the tools provided to you in entrepreneurship, simply fill in our [request a consult] form, and we’ll immediately follow up with you to arrange a convenient time talk on a personal, one-on-one level.

Original source: http://90dayentrepreneur.com/use-the-tools-provided/

Why You Need to Use the Tools Provided to You in Entrepreneurship

In this short post, you’ll learn fifteen super simple steps that you can take to become a successful entrepreneur.

You don’t have to get fancy with your entrepreneur plan, in fact, in most cases, the simpler you keep your plan, the better off you’ll be.

Here are the fifteen super simple steps that you can take to become a successful entrepreneur.

Be yourself
Be creative and unique
Find your strengths and focus on them
Do what you love
Be sincere and generous
Make the choice to be successful
Always continue to learn
Give back as much as you can through time, money, or knowledge
Have a written plan and follow it
Be ready to make changes on the fly
Be empathetic
Be understanding
Be personable
Be caring
Be forgiving
It doesn’t get much simple than this… it’s literally up to you from this point. Take what you learn here and put it into action in your life.

As always, if you need help in learning how to become a successful entrepreneur, simply fill in our [request a consult] form, and we’ll immediately follow up with you to arrange a convenient time talk on a personal, one-on-one level.

Original source: http://90dayentrepreneur.com/become-a-successful-entrepreneur/

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