I'd like you to take a step back, look at your business as an outsider would and ask the question "Is this a hobby or a business?"
Put aside the anger that immediately boils to the surface because, after all, you are working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week; eating and non-sleeping this entity known as your business with little financial return and look at it objectively.
There will come a time (if it hasn't come already) when you get up one morning, exhausted and overwhelmed, and ask yourself "What happened to my vision of carefree self employment where I'm my own boss, there's plenty of money and I'm a raging success? Did I take a wrong turn on the road to success?"
Be thankful for that day. That is the day you realize you have a great opportunity: to step up and act like a business (and recognize the limitless possibilities) or keep playing with your "hobby" (and be realistic about your income potential). Up until that point, chances are you've been more focused on your specialty (bookkeeping, massage therapy, virtual assistance, etc.) than on running your business (think "technician" rather than "manager").
As a "business", you must focus on the future and look at planning and revenue. As a "hobby", you focus more on today.
If you wish to create a business, especially a successful one, you must have certain success indicators in place (just ask the IRS):
1. You have a business and marketing plan.
If you want your business to be successful for the longer term, you need to define what "successful" and "longer term" mean to you. Your business plan must be written and adaptable to the change that will happen.
I strongly recommend that you have a separate marketing plan which outlines the activities you will do to attract more clients. Your business and marketing plans should be living, breathing documents which you use to keep on track.
2. You act like a business.
Your business has its own identity or brand. You have a "look", possibly a tagline and cohesive marketing materials.
Your email address has your domain name in it (e.g., Sandy@SandraMartini.com) rather than you using a generic account such as yournamehere@yahoo.com.
And, most importantly, you are not mixing money between business and personal. You track your business income and expenses in a software such as QuickBooks and not in a shoebox timidly carried to your accountant each year.
3. You're making money.
Your business needs to be holding its own and then some. OR, at the very least, well on it's way to profitability. You can't be drawing out of your savings or racking up credit card debt with no idea of when you will actually start making money.
Hobbies can cost a lot with no hope of financial return aside from the sheer pleasure of engaging in them. Businesses can not.
4. You have a team.
As a solopreneur, there is only so much you can do. . .and do well. To build your business to the point where you are focusing only on your core strengths (which should be the same things that bring in the revenue), you need someone to delegate to.
5. You continue to learn and improve.
As a business owner, you must continuously review what's working and what's not in your business and make changes accordingly.
Personally, I do two things to insure that my business (and I) continue to improve: 1/ I invest in myself by hiring good coaches -- I currently belong to a very small, high end Mastermind program run by Alexandria Brown in addition to working with another coach who consistently challenges me and 2/ I created a "Flash Report" for my business -- one of my virtual assistants populates the report and sends it to me each Friday. It tells me what's working and what needs tweaking within my business (more on this coming soon).
If you dream of a business where you fulfill your passions, work less, yet make more while making a difference in the lives of your clients, these are just a few of the indicators that you want to insure are in place. The proper systems will do more for you than a thousand networking meetings. :-)
I challenge you to take a hard look at your business over the coming days and see where you can improve -- make a list and choose one indicator to work on over the next 90 days.
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Sunday, 21 December 2008
4 "Must Know" Tips to Pricing Your Services
One of the worst moments in a business owner’s life is that silent moment between when you quote your rate to a potential client and his response. True, that hardly a second goes by, but it can feel like an eternity.
“Will he hire me?”
“Did I go too high?”
And when he says “YOU’RE HIRED!”, a new set of doubts creeps over you:
“Should I have gone higher?”
“Did I lowball the price just to get a client?”
You know the feeling. You’ve got the job, the project, the new client and it almost always turns out to be more work than you thought when you signed up for the task. Setting your pricing and determining where you fall in the range of your competitors can be one of the hardest things for a small business owner to do. Be sure you take the time to know your worth and communicate it to the client up front to save frustration later on.
1. Know your worth.
If you charge your clients hourly, how do you know what to charge them? Did you pick a number out of the air? What was your rationale?
For those who choose to bill hourly, I recommend the following approach to determining what you charge (you may want pen and paper for this one):
(a) Determine what you want your salary to be. How much will you take out of the company?
(b) Add to that any subcontractor expense that you may have. This is your “labor total”.
(c) List out and then add all your expenses: advertising, promotion, rent, self-employment (d) Add your labor total to your non-labor expense total.
(e) Add in any profit goal you may have for your business.
(f) Bullets (d) plus (e) equal your Total Required Revenue.
(g) Divide your “Total Required Revenue” by the number of BILLABLE hours for the year. Remember that you will not be billing 40 hours/week. The result will be the amount you need to charge per hour to make your salary goal.
If you bill hourly, take the time to complete the above exercise and, if necessary, increase your rates accordingly.
2. No haggling.
It can be hard when you have few clients or need more money, but whatever you do, do not haggle with your clients/prospective clients over your pricing.
You can haggle at a flea market. You can haggle for the price of a house. You can negotiate (a.k.a. “haggle”) for a corporate job salary. As a self-employed individual, you must not haggle over your pricing. To do so immediately lowers your perceived worth with that person and will set you up for a relationship of nitpicking over every nickel and dime.
3. Provide a “solution” and not a “service.”
Insure your clients understand the benefits they will receive from hiring you. You are not providing them a service; you are providing them a solution.
The difference being that people value solutions more than they do services. Whenever discussing price with a potential client, focus on the benefits, the “solutions” that she will receive as a result of hiring you.
Will she have more free time? Will her business see an increase in profits or clients? Know the benefits and speak to them!
4. Be prepared to say “Goodbye”.
Not everyone is going to accept your terms. Deal with it. They weren’t meant to be your clients anyway and would have just taken up the time that you could use for a better qualified client. Save your time and energy for those who recognize your worth – you’ll both be happier and more productive.
Pricing your services is one of the most emotional things you’ll do as a business owner. Be sure to take the time to review the project at hand before just blurting out a price – doing so will save you a lot of time and frustration down the road.
For the past 5 years, Sandra Martini has been showing self-employed business owners how to get more clients consistently by implementing processes and systems to put their marketing on autopilot. Visit Sandra at http://www.SandraMartini.com for details, compelling client testimonials and her free audio series “5 Simple and Easy Steps to Put Your Marketing on Autopilot”.
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“Will he hire me?”
“Did I go too high?”
And when he says “YOU’RE HIRED!”, a new set of doubts creeps over you:
“Should I have gone higher?”
“Did I lowball the price just to get a client?”
You know the feeling. You’ve got the job, the project, the new client and it almost always turns out to be more work than you thought when you signed up for the task. Setting your pricing and determining where you fall in the range of your competitors can be one of the hardest things for a small business owner to do. Be sure you take the time to know your worth and communicate it to the client up front to save frustration later on.
1. Know your worth.
If you charge your clients hourly, how do you know what to charge them? Did you pick a number out of the air? What was your rationale?
For those who choose to bill hourly, I recommend the following approach to determining what you charge (you may want pen and paper for this one):
(a) Determine what you want your salary to be. How much will you take out of the company?
(b) Add to that any subcontractor expense that you may have. This is your “labor total”.
(c) List out and then add all your expenses: advertising, promotion, rent, self-employment (d) Add your labor total to your non-labor expense total.
(e) Add in any profit goal you may have for your business.
(f) Bullets (d) plus (e) equal your Total Required Revenue.
(g) Divide your “Total Required Revenue” by the number of BILLABLE hours for the year. Remember that you will not be billing 40 hours/week. The result will be the amount you need to charge per hour to make your salary goal.
If you bill hourly, take the time to complete the above exercise and, if necessary, increase your rates accordingly.
2. No haggling.
It can be hard when you have few clients or need more money, but whatever you do, do not haggle with your clients/prospective clients over your pricing.
You can haggle at a flea market. You can haggle for the price of a house. You can negotiate (a.k.a. “haggle”) for a corporate job salary. As a self-employed individual, you must not haggle over your pricing. To do so immediately lowers your perceived worth with that person and will set you up for a relationship of nitpicking over every nickel and dime.
3. Provide a “solution” and not a “service.”
Insure your clients understand the benefits they will receive from hiring you. You are not providing them a service; you are providing them a solution.
The difference being that people value solutions more than they do services. Whenever discussing price with a potential client, focus on the benefits, the “solutions” that she will receive as a result of hiring you.
Will she have more free time? Will her business see an increase in profits or clients? Know the benefits and speak to them!
4. Be prepared to say “Goodbye”.
Not everyone is going to accept your terms. Deal with it. They weren’t meant to be your clients anyway and would have just taken up the time that you could use for a better qualified client. Save your time and energy for those who recognize your worth – you’ll both be happier and more productive.
Pricing your services is one of the most emotional things you’ll do as a business owner. Be sure to take the time to review the project at hand before just blurting out a price – doing so will save you a lot of time and frustration down the road.
For the past 5 years, Sandra Martini has been showing self-employed business owners how to get more clients consistently by implementing processes and systems to put their marketing on autopilot. Visit Sandra at http://www.SandraMartini.com for details, compelling client testimonials and her free audio series “5 Simple and Easy Steps to Put Your Marketing on Autopilot”.
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Simple Ways To Make Money Online
Right now it seems that everyone and their dog are looking for the definitive way to make money on the internet, and if you've ever wondered how to make money online you'll no doubt be aware of the number of scams and empty promises that are out there in cyberspace.
You're looking for that simple way to make money at home online and yet you find yourself chasing your tail, jumping from one project to another and seemingly never making any real progress. I know when I started out this is exactly what happened to me and I see it all the time in newbie marketers. In truth, you just need to wake up and realise that until you follow one project through, you'll never see any real results.
But whose fault is this really? In truth, the marketers and the consumers must take some blame each. Now the marketers are guilty of selling the products which position themselves as the ultimate solution to making money online. Sales page after sales page claims that their's is the only product you need to make a huge income. In actual fact there is no single ebook, piece of software or hot report that will make you a ton of money. No - it's only YOU that can make the money, there is no push button solution that will do it for you.
And this is why the consumers must also take the blame for the hype-filled merry go round that is internet marketing. 99% of people are hungry for that one thing that will make them money yesterday - but they don't want to do any work!
As long as consumers keep believing the hype, marketers will continue to accept their money. In some ways the two groups of people deserve each other!
With the development of the internet, many opportunities came along, and, of course, the "money" niche couldn't come less. Thus there are many ways in which someone could earn money online, but, just like in real life, it's necessary to enjoy your work in order to be a top performer. Therefore a turnkey in this money making endeavor is to choose the right niche for you, to make sure it will be a pleasure spending your time and energy resources doing it.
Now let me get to the point; so choose your niche carefully and then set up the website and, of course, get as much targeted traffic to it as you can. The next step is to sell or lend some "real estate" out of your website, no matter if that would be text links or banners; it's really up to you. This way you will be earning some good money by requesting a fee, and I would go for a one time fee, because these are higher than the recurring fees and you could grow your fortune faster; then again, it's up to you what kind of fee you're going to ask for. The money will come to you either way.
Also you can ask for a fee if you have a private forum. The key is to build this forum and develop its membership first. Then wait for the members to become regular and for the forum to become an authority in your niche and only then make it private, so you could ask for that fee.
The final piece of advice to you about how to monetize your website is to sell it. Simple as that. Never say "No" to a good buying offer; it will increase your funds over night and still you will know how to make money online.
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You're looking for that simple way to make money at home online and yet you find yourself chasing your tail, jumping from one project to another and seemingly never making any real progress. I know when I started out this is exactly what happened to me and I see it all the time in newbie marketers. In truth, you just need to wake up and realise that until you follow one project through, you'll never see any real results.
But whose fault is this really? In truth, the marketers and the consumers must take some blame each. Now the marketers are guilty of selling the products which position themselves as the ultimate solution to making money online. Sales page after sales page claims that their's is the only product you need to make a huge income. In actual fact there is no single ebook, piece of software or hot report that will make you a ton of money. No - it's only YOU that can make the money, there is no push button solution that will do it for you.
And this is why the consumers must also take the blame for the hype-filled merry go round that is internet marketing. 99% of people are hungry for that one thing that will make them money yesterday - but they don't want to do any work!
As long as consumers keep believing the hype, marketers will continue to accept their money. In some ways the two groups of people deserve each other!
With the development of the internet, many opportunities came along, and, of course, the "money" niche couldn't come less. Thus there are many ways in which someone could earn money online, but, just like in real life, it's necessary to enjoy your work in order to be a top performer. Therefore a turnkey in this money making endeavor is to choose the right niche for you, to make sure it will be a pleasure spending your time and energy resources doing it.
Now let me get to the point; so choose your niche carefully and then set up the website and, of course, get as much targeted traffic to it as you can. The next step is to sell or lend some "real estate" out of your website, no matter if that would be text links or banners; it's really up to you. This way you will be earning some good money by requesting a fee, and I would go for a one time fee, because these are higher than the recurring fees and you could grow your fortune faster; then again, it's up to you what kind of fee you're going to ask for. The money will come to you either way.
Also you can ask for a fee if you have a private forum. The key is to build this forum and develop its membership first. Then wait for the members to become regular and for the forum to become an authority in your niche and only then make it private, so you could ask for that fee.
The final piece of advice to you about how to monetize your website is to sell it. Simple as that. Never say "No" to a good buying offer; it will increase your funds over night and still you will know how to make money online.
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Friday, 19 December 2008
Super Affiliates Review
Super Affiliates Review - The Easiest Way To Make A Fortune From Other People’s Products Super Affiliates is a membership website developed by well-known Internet marketer Ewen Chia, where he trains his affiliates how to make money online and how to become a super affiliate.
Ewen Chia is known as the most successful Affiliate marketer worldwide. I especially like all his products, and Super Affiliates is not an exception. Highly-effective training provided by Ewen can make any person success at online business. Affiliate marketing is probably the best way to make money online, and it is becoming more and more popular, because everyone wants to know how they can work at home anytime they want. There are many reasons, why Affiliate marketing is so great, here are just some of the reasons, why you should do Affiliate marketing: * Affiliate marketing is not complicated, and anyone can do it * No special IT skills are required to do Affiliate marketing * You don’t have to sell and post any products * There is no need to have a huge budget to get started. You can even start with zero cash *
Affiliate marketing is not time-consuming, and you can work at anytime you like There millions of affiliates all over the Internet, but not all of them know how to make, for example, $1000 a day. That’s what Super Affiliates is all about. Ewen Chia coaches hismembers to give them necessary skills to learn how to make 4 figures a day. The problem is that in order to become a Super Affiliate and earn thousands of dollars every day, you need to know the right techniques and have the best tools to use. Below I will describe some methods that Ewen talks about in his Super Affiliate System.
Method #1: The Power of One The Power One is basically means focusing on one method of making money. You see, focus is very important when marketing online, because if you are trying to do many things at once, they you are probably spending a lot of your time working, but not getting good results. That’s why you need to concentrate on one method, and results will be much better. Ewen will show you, what methods to choose and how to use it properly.
Method #2: The Simplicity Magic This is all about how you can make your websites more attractive for your customers, which will increase your conversions. It’s quite simple. All you have to do is to follow Ewen’s advice, where he explains how you can create professionally looking websites using simple, easy-to-use tools.
Method #3: Active Brand Building Branding is very important, when you are marketing online. Branding means everything that is associated with you and your website. This can include: headers, website graphics, writing style, logos, etc. You will learn how you can build your own brand, which will help you to get easily recognized in the future.
Method #4: Lead Generation And List Building The money is in the list. I bet, that you have heard that hundreds of times from people, who are making money online. In order to build a list you need to know how to create a suitable website for it and how to take care of your subscribers. Ewen is going to show how you can quickly build your list and start marketing to it.
Method #5: Follow Ups And List Relationships As I said, if you have a list, it’s won’t make you a single dollar, unless you know how to look after your readers. You have to make them respect you, and gain their trust in you and your products. Building relationships with your readers will help you to greatly increase your conversion rates, when you try to sell something to your list.
Method #6: Conversions A conversion in Affiliate marketing, means when a customer buys a product. So obviously, you want to have as many conversions as possible, because you will make more money. In order to get regular conversions you need to have the right traffic going to the right website. If you can people, who are looking to solve a specific problem, and provide them a solution to it, then your conversions will sky rocket. Ewen will talk about this in more details.
Method #7: Back-End Affiliate Products This method is all about how you can make money out of the same customer number of times. You will agree, that selling something to a customer, who has previously bought a product from you is easier, rather then to completely new customer. Here Ewen teaches you the techniques of making money with the same customer multiple times.
Conclusion
There is much more to be learned in Super Affiliates System, and this article would be endless if I would keep writing the benefits and features of Ewen Chia’s membership website. Ewen is definitely the best affiliate marketer out there, and he proves that with his quality products and excellent support.
You should consider checking out Super Affiliates, if you think that you could be making more money online and if you want to learn professional money-making techniques. Remember, smart affiliates are super affiliates.
If you want to become one of those super affiliates, who are making successful living working online, please click here to learn more about Ewen Chia’s
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