I have been pondering the phrase “heart centered entrepreneur” lately. It strikes me as odd. ok, wait, here me out! First of all, I don’t know many entrepreneurs that aren’t heart centered. It takes heart to do it alone. It takes heart to build it. It takes heart to want to be successful. It takes heart to keep going when everyone around you says you should get a “day job”.
For me, being an entrepreneur is heart centered.
Second, I have noticed that many of the people calling themselves this, or saying they work with “heart centered entrepreneurs” use fear as their marketing tactic. Fear to get you to buy. Fear to get you to sign up. Fear to get you to optin.
Ponder this. Do we need to use fear if we are heart centered?
Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”
It is interesting how many entrepreneurs have a “million” ideas.
Millions, of IDEAS.
Not dollars. It takes converting the idea into something that can be bought, something that people see value in that creates the success. The idea, without implementation, is just an idea.
Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”
Getting a board of advisors actually saved my business in 2007-2008. Without them, I would not have developed a new marketing strategy and saved myself financially! In this video I share who and why I picked who I did:
Be care of thinking a group of “friends” with opinions are a BOA! (that’s another blog!)
Take time and find these people, who should they be for you?
Struggling to find the BOA? Still want a group to give input and cheer you on? Join our monthly mastermind calls, for less than $10 I will sit on your BOA and the group will give you feedback and support! Sounds too good to be true? Why not try it? We will even send you some recordings of the previous calls to listen too! Sign up today!
Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”
I believe in delegation; it’s critical for success and I have learned some lessons as a leader and business owner over the years! Here are some tips to think about when you delegate:
1-delegate to people that can create and think. Honestly, if you have to do all the thinking and creating, then you are pretty much doing the work! If you can hand off a project on a high level with clear expectations to someone that can take initiative, problem solve, and create and think for you- BAM!
2-hire people by the project, not the hour. I hire by the project. I always felt cheated when I hired by the hour. We always know we can do it faster, better, quicker, easier ourselves, right? That’s the whole thing about delegation. And if I thought to myself I could do it in 30 minutes and they charge me an hour‑and-a-half or two hours for it, it’s like “Dang!” There’s that feeling in the back of your head and yeah, it doesn’t feel good. People get better over time. They get faster at it. It takes so much time to do it but I’ve just learned that when I say to people, “This is the project. I’m willing to pay you this much a week or this much a month to do it. And whether it takes you 25 hours or whether it takes you five, I’m going to pay you the same.” And what I have found is that motivates people to get smart fast versus just do the work.
3-REPLACE the time you took doing that project with something new that will help increase revenue into your business.Is it a new program for customers to buy? Maybe you need to spend more time marketing? Whatever it is, don’t just sit and “watch” them doing it.
Most of my clients that are “stuck” bringing in more money to their business are not delegating. Is it time for you?
Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”
Recently I did a great interview with Louise Edington that inspired something that’s been brewing inside me for a while. In that interview we talked about the fact that often early on, because of your fresh new exciting business, you often “get a sale” right away. What we often think is: “that was easy”. And that is the problem – see, it wasn’t easy – it was probably lucky.
Sales aren’t easy. I’m not trying to scare you–> I want you to know that it isn’t magic.
My sales success comes from these basic steps:
1-build a follow up system
2-learn to ask for the business
3-break down your goals. If you want to make $10,000 a month, what do you need to do to make it?
4-develop multi levels to engage, upsell, and ways to ask customers who they know that should know you and what you have to offer.
I give additional tips in my post on how to “Prime the Pump”
What do you need to start doing to build a sales process for your business?
Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”
I have been pondering the phrase “heart centered entrepreneur” lately. It strikes me as odd. ok, wait, here me out! First of all, I don’t know many entrepreneurs that aren’t heart centered. It takes heart to do it alone. It takes heart to build it. It takes heart to want to be successful. It takes heart to keep going when everyone around you says you should get a “day job”.
