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How Small Business Entrepreneurs Attract Success

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Perhaps you’re new to business. Or maybe you already own your own business - you just wish it were doing better. Either way, the Law of Attraction sees you as already abundantly successful. Keep reading and discover why.

I don’t claim this as a way to brainwash your mind through law of attraction fantasies (they aren’t very effective, as you may have experienced). The only reason I say it is that, as far as the universe is concerned, it’s the truth. Which gives you the opportunity to know it as truth also.

All you have to do is start to see your life through the eyes of your Inner Being, or soul.

When any person reaches the stage where becoming a business owner emerges as their preferred path ahead in life it’s such a stand-out win for self determination that the entire universe celebrates.

This is the case even if it looks like you got laid off, or you searched for a job for a year and couldn’t find one, and now becoming a small business entrepreneur seems like your only possibility.

When you see your life that way - through whatever circumstances you appear to find yourself in - you’re overlooking the major reason for turning to the law of attraction. Which is: knowing that when you ask the universe says yes. You now have the chance to experience the truth of universal law acting in your life.

Once you see how the universe loves and supports you always, you step into a place of freedom and inner security that’s yours forever. Why not allow yourself to receive your security from the universe and life from that awareness now?

As a small business entrepreneur you’ve already taken the most important step in attracting success. The fact that you are in a position to own (or plan to own) a business is evidence you’ve already succeeded beyond the dreams of nearly everyone on the planet. At the level of your soul, you’ve asked for the self expression, freedom, and opportunity to serve that small business owners are blessed to have in our society.

It’s not possible that you could attract the opportunity and desire to own a business out of nowhere. Whether you’re aware of it yet or not, you can only attract opportunity and desire when you already have what it takes - and when the idea of it feels exhilarating.

In truth, you have already removed the two major work-related stresses that exist. This makes you incredibly awesome.

Work stress #1: you’ve moved on from life as a powerless, worried employee. You’re not constantly expecting to lose your job. You’re not working frantically to get everything done - everything that three people used to do before 2 of them got laid off.

Work stress #2: you’re not worried and unemployed - doing everything possible to get a new job, desperately sending out resumes and hearing nothing back. You aren’t feeling the disappointment of being told that 2043 people have applied for the same position your interviewing for but you “definitely place in the top half.” And if you do manage to find a new job, you’re back living with work stress #1.

Hear this: 95% of all jobs are slavery. Congratulations on your liberation.

Whether you realize it or not, what you said to the universe is: I want responsibility for my income and my satisfaction in work. Then you attracted to yourself the idea of owning a business. If you could only see your angels cheering, clapping, and planning an ongoing series of astounding “coincidences” and unexpected good fortune on the road ahead.

So stop thinking like a slave. Your top responsibility as a small business entrepreneur is to do whatever it takes to remember that you are powerful and the universe always responds to you in a loving and generous way.

Your success is all around you. Look for, acknowledge and celebrate success in any area of your life. Too often, we focus on what we don’t have yet and completely overlook what we do have. I

When you change your focus even a little bit, you quickly step into the flow of success.

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Thinking of A Central Innovation Team?

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Central innovation teams are a model which have been well adopted in many industries. Pharma, for example, is typified by large development budgets which tend to be centralised in teams set up for the purpose of innovating drugs. In banking, as another example, there will regularly be many New Product Development teams who dream up new things for specific business lines. Even in Government, there is an increasing focus on central innovation in the never-ending pursuit of efficiency and cost savings.

It is not hard to understand the reason. Central teams are simple to set up, and very easy to measure in comparison to diffuse arrangements that rely on an “innovation culture”. It is easy to point at such teams and say “this is how we do innovation”. The team makes executives feel good that their innovation efforts are actually progressing, because when you can nominate specific individuals and assign accountability, you know things are likely to get done.

In the central team model, it is usually the innovation team that decides what and when innovations will be progressed. They will have an investment budget of some kind, and will be accountable for driving forward the innovation agenda. If they are any good at all, they will agree to a big financial return number which will justify the investments they have decided to make.

There is, however, a problem with a central innovation team that does everything. The problem is that in order to get more innovation, you are forced to add more people. In other words, central innovation teams do not scale well.

Generally, for most innovations, the amount of effort required to get an organisation to do radical versus incremental innovation is really not all that great. You still have to manage the politics, you still have to do all the influencing to get stakeholders on board, and of course, you still have to find the money to make things progress.

Incremental innovations, though they tend to be relatively risk free compared to their radical cousins, don’t generally make big returns individually. You need to be doing a lot of them before you can make a sizeable difference. With a central team, you often find the individual incremental innovations don’t pay for the time of the innovators.

On the other hand, doing things which are more radical can provide much better returns, though the risk level is much higher. For innovators, this makes it seem sensible to select more radical innovation for progression. The rationale is clear: do incremental and never break even, or do radical and at least have the chance to do so.

What is really needed to make innovation work in large organisations is a balanced approach which combines a portfolio with inputs from customers and employees. Participatory innovation, as this is known, helps the central innovation team reduce its costs per innovation, and is usually the best way to make an innovation programme work in large organisations.

Are you deciding on an innovation system? If so, you’ll want to review the notes from James Gardner’s free online innovation ebook when implementing your innovation team.

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Will Personal Development Help Improve Health, Wealth And Prosperity

Monday, November 30th, 2009

If you have started begin to change your life for the better in any way, then more then likely you have heard about Personal Development. Personal Development are steps for success to build self confidence and self reliance. Personal Development will teach you new skills and people will discover they have the power to control their own lives. Personal Development can be used by those people who want to improve their wealth, happiness and prosperity. Using these skills they can develop success strategies to deliver optimum results. Achieving your results and achieving your goals will boost your self confidence and will have unlimited effects in all areas of your life.

Personal development can definitely help you succeed with achieving wealth, happiness and health in your life. To fully explain this, it is helpful to reverse the order to health, happiness and wealth. One thing that personal development teaches you is to include all areas of your life so you have a balanced approach and this has a synergistic effect on the development and growth of the individual areas. Getting into shape and treating your body right is the most difficult step for most people, but it is also one of the most important steps. If your body is healthy and you are taking care of yourself by exercising and eating the right foods, then your mind will be clearer and you will have more energy. Once your mind and body is taken care of properly, then the other pieces will start to fall into place.

Once you have a clarity and abundant energy, naturally your happiness levels will increase. This is the time that you will develop your skills perfect your ability to control your thoughts and really focus on increasing your happiness levels. When you feel fantastic in body, you feel fantastic in soul and this positive affect will radiate and saturate other areas in your life.

One area that you will see a positive change in is your career. People who feel better about themselves physically, mentally and are happier in general and that happiness will start to show at work or in your career adventures. You will feel more confident in yourself and that will help you in your quest to achieve wealth and financial success.

Mastering Personal Development does not happen overnight but you will see positive changes nearly immediately. Every positive change is another step toward achieving your health, wealth and prosperity goals and take you to a higher and greater level then you have seen before.

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Ten Ways You Can Adapt in a Challenging Economy

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Here are some ideas on adjustments you can make to keep business up in a down economy. And they work in an up economy as well.

1. Focus on Relationship Build stronger relationships with your customers. Find ways to help them. Tap into the social networks like Twitter, Linked In and Facebook. Remember that business is like tennis?if you serve well, you will usually win.

2. Target Market Has your ideal client changed? Maybe it?s time to shift your focus to another target market or aim at a smaller segment of your current target market. Which ones want what you can deliver?

3. Benefits vs. Features Are you truly communicating your benefits? Oftentimes, what we think is a benefit is really a feature. And people don?t buy features. You have to interpret a feature for them into a benefit. ?It?s small? is a feature. ?It fits in your glove compartment for easy access? is a benefit.

4. Re-examine Your Top Marketing Strategies What worked ten years ago may not work well now?maybe not at all. List your top ten strategies and give them a good hard look. How are they working? How do you measure their efficacy? What might work better?

5. Watch the Expenses What expenditures are no longer giving you the pay-off they once did? In any business there are always expenses that continue but rarely, if ever, get examined for their usefulness. Look for automatic recurring charges you can eliminate. Think like someone who buys your business. One of the first things a new owner does is look for ways to cut costs and improve the bottom line.

6. What Are People Buying? Right now with unemployment in the U.S. approaching 10%, SOME market segments are seeing sales increase. Netflix movie rentals are up over 20%. Low-ticket indulgence sales are on the rise. Health care doesn?t seem to be affected by the downturn much at all. What does this mean for YOUR business? How could that change what you sell–or how you sell it? Think about the shifting priorities of your customers and shift yours where you can.

7. Update Your SWOT Analysis SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. Review the one you have or create one now. Get some help from staff or stakeholders on this. My wife and I just updated ours, and she came up with several assets that I had never listed before. Create strategies and projects that will help you exploit your assets and opportunities and minimize or combat your weaknesses and threats.

9. More/Less ~ Start/Stop A great way to dig deep into your strategic and operational methodologies is to list what you would like to see more of and stop doing what doesn?t work. Then you can also brainstorm what you would like to start doing and what you would like to stop doing. Sounds simple?it is. And it can be very insightful.

10. Stay Positive Being positive doesn?t mean to ignore challenges and difficulties. It just means not to dwell on them and focus on what you want. It?s never a good idea to bury your head in the sand. I like to practice the Stockdale Paradox: maintain the belief we will prevail while brutally confronting what challenges we face.

So be aware of your challenges, but never give a lot of energy to them. Instead, pivot from this awareness to what you want to have happen. Stay focused on where you want to go, not on where you are.

Michael Angier is founder and CIO (Chief Inspiration Officer) of SuccessNet–a support network helping people and businesses grow and prosper. Get their free Resource Book ($27 value) of products, services and tools for running your business more effectively. And most of the over 150 resources are FREE to access and use. http://SuccessNetResources.com http://SuccessNet.org

Ten Ways You Can Adapt in a Challenging Economy

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Here are some ideas on adjustments you can make to keep business up in a down economy. And they work in an up economy as well.

1. Focus on Relationship Build stronger relationships with your customers. Find ways to help them. Tap into the social networks like Twitter, Linked In and Facebook. Remember that business is like tennis?if you serve well, you will usually win.

2. Target Market Has your ideal client changed? Maybe it?s time to shift your focus to another target market or aim at a smaller segment of your current target market. Which ones want what you can deliver?

3. Benefits vs. Features Are you truly communicating your benefits? Oftentimes, what we think is a benefit is really a feature. And people don?t buy features. You have to interpret a feature for them into a benefit. ?It?s small? is a feature. ?It fits in your glove compartment for easy access? is a benefit.

4. Re-examine Your Top Marketing Strategies What worked ten years ago may not work well now?maybe not at all. List your top ten strategies and give them a good hard look. How are they working? How do you measure their efficacy? What might work better?

5. Watch the Expenses What expenditures are no longer giving you the pay-off they once did? In any business there are always expenses that continue but rarely, if ever, get examined for their usefulness. Look for automatic recurring charges you can eliminate. Think like someone who buys your business. One of the first things a new owner does is look for ways to cut costs and improve the bottom line.

6. What Are People Buying? Right now with unemployment in the U.S. approaching 10%, SOME market segments are seeing sales increase. Netflix movie rentals are up over 20%. Low-ticket indulgence sales are on the rise. Health care doesn?t seem to be affected by the downturn much at all. What does this mean for YOUR business? How could that change what you sell–or how you sell it? Think about the shifting priorities of your customers and shift yours where you can.

7. Update Your SWOT Analysis SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. Review the one you have or create one now. Get some help from staff or stakeholders on this. My wife and I just updated ours, and she came up with several assets that I had never listed before. Create strategies and projects that will help you exploit your assets and opportunities and minimize or combat your weaknesses and threats.

9. More/Less ~ Start/Stop A great way to dig deep into your strategic and operational methodologies is to list what you would like to see more of and stop doing what doesn?t work. Then you can also brainstorm what you would like to start doing and what you would like to stop doing. Sounds simple?it is. And it can be very insightful.

10. Stay Positive Being positive doesn?t mean to ignore challenges and difficulties. It just means not to dwell on them and focus on what you want. It?s never a good idea to bury your head in the sand. I like to practice the Stockdale Paradox: maintain the belief we will prevail while brutally confronting what challenges we face.

So be aware of your challenges, but never give a lot of energy to them. Instead, pivot from this awareness to what you want to have happen. Stay focused on where you want to go, not on where you are.

Michael Angier is founder and CIO (Chief Inspiration Officer) of SuccessNet–a support network helping people and businesses grow and prosper. Get their free Resource Book ($27 value) of products, services and tools for running your business more effectively. And most of the over 150 resources are FREE to access and use. http://SuccessNetResources.com http://SuccessNet.org

Business Success Tips…3 Special Tips To Stay In Business

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Every business is looking for the edge. They want to succeed and make a great profit for the long haul.

Of all the businesses that start every year, unbelievably 90% of those start-ups fail flat on their faces. What is the reason for that?

Be in the 10% group of successful business owners by utilizing these 3 indisputable business success tips. Just do it and stay away from that 90%

1) Make a definitive decision to succeed. What else can be said about this business success tip? You need to decide that losing isn’t an option. I recall listening to my high school history teacher talk about how the Vikings prepared for war. They prepared with that no lose option.

These Nordic conquerors would burn every last boat they arrived with till none were left. They left themselves with no other option, but go forward and conquer or be conquered. Their mindset was very focused and motivation was great.

So how does that relate to your business? If you thought like the Vikings of old, do you think you could succeed in your business? I would have to say…YES…to that mindset.

It’s extremely vital that you know where you want to go. If you have a clear vision of your outcome…then all you have to do is set your goals in a backwards fashion. You will then have the steps needed to progress in your business.

It’s so important that you take action…don’t disregard this business success tip. Make things happen, versus waiting for things to happen.

2) Build a customer list or database. This is another crucial one of the business success tips. This is going to be your #1 asset in your business. Even with this emphasis, I still can’t believe how this is not taken seriously. Building a list of prospects and customers is going to be the most important task you do to maintaining a profitable long-term business.

Having a list will guarantee you a ready source of buyers for every product or service you produce. And also other products from other businesses that are compatible with your business, but not in direct competition with you. It takes a lot of time and money to gain a customer and once you have them, they will buy from you over and over again, if you implement this business success tip.

A business success tip of doing the work once and get paid over and over from that effort. This is the kind of result I’m looking for in my business.

If you want to know what it takes to compile a large, responsive customer list… go to listbuilding.com. Tellman Knudsen practices what he preaches and knows all the ins-outs of list building.

3) Track and evaluate your business. The final one of the successful business tips is to track. Any successful business tracks everything…They know exactly what results they are going to get because of this business success tip. By knowing the real scoop on what’s working or not…..you can add or eliminate what’s working and not working and cut out losses that could eventually put you right out of business.

In conclusion, follow and do these business success tips. Take them seriously like the Vikings… you have to do them, because there’s no retreat or thought off loss. If you take this seriously, you will be in that exclusive 10% group of business owners that will reap the rewards year in and year out.

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