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When Opportunity Knocks Are You Ready to Answer?
As you’ve been growing your business, have you been continually laying a foundation for continued growth or is it a more hit and miss approach you’re using?
Does it feel like you’re barely keeping ahead? Or maybe you even feel like you’re always trying to catch up?
If that’s the case, are you really ready for that growth as it comes? If a big opportunity dropped in your lap, would you be able to handle it or would you have to watch it slip away? The truth is that opportunity usually comes when you least expect it.
So what do you need to be ready?
You need systems – they aren’t glamorous and they can be some work to set up initially but they’re necessary if you want to grow.
A while ago, I made a connection with a woman who was potentially going to be able to connect me to almost 250,000 women. That is no small number… in fact I felt a bit intimidated and overwhelmed in the beginning.
But then I realized it was going to work, because I had systems in place to enable me to jump on this opportunity. I had already set up my website from the backend to support a large community. I also realized that if I needed to bring on additional assistants I could. And all I would have to do is take all the systems I had documented and hand the information over to whoever would need it.
The things that any entrepreneur needs to run a company are the same whether it's a few people or many people. And it’s a pretty incredible feeling knowing that you’re ready to handle the business growth as you receive the wonderful people who show up. That’s what being set up in that bigger way does for you.
The key to being able to step up to any opportunity is documenting all your systems in an operations manual.
It was having the systems in place that gave me confidence to meet that new opportunity. I realized that the systems equaled the website equaled my vision. All of that was in alignment. It would have been so frustrating if I hadn’t had those systems in place and missed out on that opportunity.
Are you thinking: “I’m not big enough. I’m too new to start creating systems in my business. I don’t need that yet. I don’t have the time to document everything.”
Yes, you do. It doesn’t matter if you’re just one person.
Even if you’re just starting a company and don’t feel that you need to outsource or don’t have the disposal income to spend on it, you still need to document your systems for your own benefit. That’s how you’ll avoid procrastination, overwhelm, and getting stuck.
It doesn’t take as much time as you think. And once it’s done you’ll save tons of time and energy in the future not having to go back to reinvent the wheel. Make it part of your schedule to document one system per week. Take one thing you do and write each step down.
For example, when you answer the phone, what information do you want to capture, what questions do you need to ask, where do you file it, how do you follow it up. Document each step and then create a form that captures all that information in one place.
If you’d like to learn more about the amazing benefits of systems click here to watch a short video (the 4th in a series where I highlight each of my 5 steps to get ANY project done) and I’ll explain why having systems allows you to focus your energy on the things that fuel your business and your soul.
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How to Keep the Joy in Your Business Alive
As an entrepreneur, the only way to be successful is to maintain your joy in what you’re doing. That comes from deep inside of you, believing that you have something of value to share with your community.
So, let me ask you a question. Are you in business for the one time sales or the ongoing relationship?
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How to Invest Your Dollars Wisely When You're Starting a New Business
In looking back over my years of being an entrepreneur, I see things I’m really proud of accomplishing and things I really wish I’d done differently. While it’s not always comfortable to reveal one’s own shortcomings, I think it’s healthy especially if I can help others by doing so.
One mistake was how I spent my money starting out. When I started out, I happened to have a lot of savings from my corporate life. And because of that, I spent very comfortably on my business even though the revenue wasn’t coming in. And looking at that in hindsight, I really wish I wouldn’t have done that.
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If Your Business Was a Pie, How Many Wedges Would It Have?
I attended a great conference recently that got me thinking about how entrepreneurs should set up their businesses with multiple income streams. We know that we can’t have all our eggs in one basket when it comes to being in business. It’s just too risky. We need to diversify and generate business in different ways.
If you can visualize your business like a pie cut into wedges with each wedge representing different avenues of generating revenue, how many wedges are you using? And what percentage of your whole is each one occupying?
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Stop Throwing Away Money! How to Optimize Your VAs Time
Successful entrepreneurs know that at some point you need to bite the bullet and start delegating those tasks that you don’t know how to do, aren’t good at doing or don’t enjoy doing. In today’s online world finding a VA that fits your needs is easier than ever.
I was nervous when I started outsourcing. At first, I set a limit of 10 hours a month. It wasn’t long before I saw a huge return on my investment. I soon realized how much more focused my energy was on the things I enjoyed, and how well my virtual assistant was covering the things I wasn’t good at.
And I realized something really important…
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Transform your Relationship with Money from the Inside Out
There are plenty of resources to show you how to make more money and how to invest and save it, yet millions of people don’t seem to manage to do it. Why is that?
If your financial situation has caught your attention, then money is one of your greatest teachers.
I believe the money we have, or don’t have, is a reflection of how much we’re serving others, and how we’re feeling about ourselves.
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Women Entrepreneurs - Your Best Business Investment is You
The beauty of an entrepreneurial business is that there is a direct connection between your personal growth and your business growth. Watch your business grow exponentially as you personally develop and grow.
As women entrepreneurs we're often looking for something better - whether that means spending more time with our family, making more money or pursuing our passion. We want to improve our lives...we may want a way out or a chance to change. As an entrepreneur, if you're willing to invest in your personal growth you have the ability to shape your own destiny. That freedom is what appealed to many of us when we started our businesses.
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How to Improve Your Relationship with Money [Podcast]
As a woman in business for yourself, who you are – including your relationship with money – translates into your business. A few months ago I interviewed my good friend and mastermind buddy, Linda Hunt, on The Language of Money – Understanding Your Language Around Money So You Can Change Your Relationship With It. I want to share just a few highlights from that call on how to improve your relationship with money. Grab a copy of this free audio.
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Women In Business; How to Improve Your Relationship with Money
Many of the women I speak with are feeling a lot of stress financially right now. The key questions become: How do you remove this stress when you're thinking about money, so you can do the work you're meant to do, especially in a time like we're in right now? How can we all replace a "lack" mentality with an "abundance" mentality?
The fact is your attitude about money is incredibly important when you're an entrepreneur. As a woman in business for yourself, who you are - including your relationship with money - translates into your business.
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The Story Behind My Confusing Relationship with Money
Based on my own money history, I am fascinated with money as a tool for personal growth. Let me tell you what led up to my decision to hold a Telesummit at the beginning of the year for motivated women entrepreneurs about all the confusing issues surrounding money.
Money has always been a highly charged subject for me.
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