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Do You Have The Qualities to be a Successful Entrepreneur?

Succes in your hand

Being an entrepreneur sounds great when discussed around the dinner table or with friends but be aware, being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. After personally being an entrepreneur for over thirty years and successfully coaching hundreds of entrepreneurs and wanto-to-be entrepreneurs I have distilled down ten common qualities that YOU HAD BETTER POSSESS, or you need to find a stable job.

  1. Entrepreneurs love what they do. It will always be true that a person gets out of their business what they put into it. A lack of enthusiasm or commitment will easily reflect in your business’s success or failure. If you don’t find  EXTREME joy in what you’re doing, chances are you won’t be doing it long. The bottom line is an entrepreneur eats, breathes and lives what they do, and they do it 24/7.
  2. Successful entrepreneurs take what they do seriously. They believe in the products and services they sell. They see the “big picture” of how their good or service will change the world.
  3. They plan. No stone is left unturned. They know what they have to do and they find the discipline to get it done. They are organized and they delegate. They get a full sixty minutes out of each hour.
  4. They know how to manage their money. To them, it is always about a return. They don’t spend frivolously but they understand that you have to spend money to make money.
  5. They are not afraid to ask for business. Advertising and marketing are worthless unless you ask for the sale.
  6. They remember that it is always about the customer. Products and services exist for only one thing—the customer. Everything is customer-focused. They get the words “I”, “Me” and “My” out of their vocabulary. The conversation is always about “You,” “They” and “Them.”
  7. They maintain a professional business image at all times. They know that a first impression is a lasting impression. They maintain the attitude that every time a customer receives service, it’s administered like it’s the first time.
  8. They know their customers. This way, customers can receive personalized attention. Eighty percent of business is repeat business. Repeat business comes from knowing your customers and delivering a personalized experience.
  9. Entrepreneurs aren’t afraid of new technology. They build competent teams and surround themselves with the right advisers. They use business coaches, financial advisers, accountants and attorneys as the core of their team.
  10. They’re considered to be experts by their peers and customers. The nurture their expertise by reading, blogging and telling the world how their goods or services can help.

Being an entrepreneur is not an easy path to follow but it does offer a true path to financial freedom and purpose. For example, while  most people were in their 3rd episode of REM sleep, this blog was written at 3:30 AM. An entrepreneur is willing to work 24/7 if needed. We love working with entrepreneurs like you and being an integral part of their team.

If you still feel that you are struggling, you will be thrilled to know that Dr. Paul S. Inselman, CEO of Creativecoachingllc.net  has formulated a specific step by step process that will help you to become a more powerful business leader. Our clients income has grown on average 150% since 2008. In twelve years, I haven’t seen one business that executed the steps above and that utilized our procedures that failed to grow their business. We take a top down approach that consists of increasing income, decreasing expenses and protecting your assets. Why am I so confident (100% certainty) that these tips will create better growth and a more successful and fun business? Two reasons: (1) I coach business owners just like you everyday and have seen excellent, duplicative results and (2) Every single day I get a call, email or text from an existing client telling me that since they implemented these procedures and suggestions, they have more money than they ever had before; they love their staff; they are having more fun in business; or they had a record day in sales. Or, they had a record week in collections. Or, they had a record month across the board! Please don’t take my word for it. Click here for a complimentary no-obligation consultation and find out for yourself how I can help you grow your business ethically, legally and with integrity; get more free time and have fun again.  Get to the next level and beyond. Stop wishing, praying and hoping and take the meaningful step that will get you to where you want to be.

How to Make More Money by Organizing in a Chaotic World

Face it: The daily demands on a business owner are difficult at best. Making sales, while finding opportunities to market, train staff, and create quality family time can be tough to balance in this era of our fast-paced world.
The rules seem to continually change, which puts further demands on your already-stressed schedule. Therefore, organization is one of the major components of success. Typically, when starting to get organized, the first task is to put out fires. Emergency situations arise when you are not proactive. If you are disorganized, it is impossible to be proactive because you are constantly squashing fires — and so the cycle continues.

But if you follow the steps below, you will become proactive and prevent most (if not all) of the time drains that plague you and your business every day. Follow all of the rules, not just the ones you prefer. It will take about four to six weeks before your new system is working smoothly. Stay the course and then enjoy the rewards of heightened profits and more free time.
Rule 1: Choose your calendar method. Consider an electronic version like Google Calendar. It is free and syncs with an Android phone and PC perfectly. And it will work with an iPhone, too, or you can use an Apple-based calendar. Whatever you use, make sure it syncs with your smart phone and computer or laptop.

Rule 2: Use your calendar as a check sheet for completed action steps.

Rule 3: Set your entries to alert you 15 minutes in advance of upcoming tasks. When a task pops up, you have three choices:

  1. Perform the task and check off as completed
  2. Move the task to a later time that day
  3. Move the task to a later day

Do not dismiss a task as completed unless it is. By keeping the item in your calendar, the rules will force you to accomplish it.

Rule 4: Don’t move a task more than three times. On the third time, you make one of three choices:

  1. Perform the task and check it off as complete
  2. Move the task to a later time — on the same day
  3. Dismiss the task and remove it from your calendar.

Rule 5: Don’t go to sleep until every­thing on your calendar for the day is completed. This will act as a backstop even if you have moved tasks three times. It forces you to either perform the task or take it off your plate. This rule is designed to ensure you stick to your agenda. Successful businesses are built on the execution of meaningful steps. Being held accountable is a recipe for success.
The rules described above can work infallibly. If you dismiss alerts for uncompleted tasks, chances are you will forget to attend to them. If you move things more than three times, you probably won’t accomplish them. If you fail to complete your list before bed, you will be guaranteed poor outcomes.

This system takes about four to six weeks to master as you experiment with the proper number of tasks for your schedule. During the first month, give yourself some extra leeway until you know the right amount of work to put on your calendar.

You deserve to be happy, respected, and living the life you desire. Disorganization is a detriment to happiness, respect and wealth. Systematize everything and then workthe system. Your reward will be more steps completed, a better feeling of self-worth, a larger business, and ultimately more money and time to spend with your family.

If you still feel that you are struggling, you will be thrilled to know that Dr. Paul S. Inselman, CEO of Creativecoachingllc.net  has formulated a specific step by step process that will help you to become a more powerful business leader. Our clients income has grown on average 150% since 2008. In twelve years, I haven’t seen one business that executed the steps above and that utilized our procedures that failed to grow their business. We take a top down approach that consists of increasing income, decreasing expenses and protecting your assets. Why am I so confident (100% certainty) that these tips will create better growth and a more successful and fun business? Two reasons: (1) I coach business owners just like you everyday and have seen excellent, duplicative results and (2) Every single day I get a call, email or text from an existing client telling me that since they implemented these procedures and suggestions, they have more money than they ever had before; they love their staff; they are having more fun in business; or they had a record day in sales. Or, they had a record week in collections. Or, they had a record month across the board! Please don’t take my word for it. Click here for a complimentary no-obligation consultation and find out for yourself how I can help you grow your business ethically, legally and with integrity; get more free time and have fun again.  Get to the next level and beyond. Stop wishing, praying and hoping and take the meaningful step that will get you to where you want to be.

Stop Selling Your Prospects and Educate Them Instead

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A common and rightful complaint from many business owners is, “I hate selling, it makes me feel slimy.” Good for you because you should never have to sell your customers or clients on anything. Your prospects should CHOOSE to use your services, or buy your product because they want to. Them wanting to choose you is the thrust behind this article.

Rules of Educating

  1. Change your verbiage from selling to serving
  2. Ask questions
  3. Determine what the person’s problem is
  4. Create a clear-cut well-defined specific plan of how you will solve that problem
  5. Educate about how your services will solve their problem
  6. Compare and contrast the benefits of using your services vs. the penalties that they will incur if they don’t
  7. Always make the words that come out of your mouth about the other person and never about yourself. Use words like you, they and them; instead of I, and me
  8. Try and use independent referenced data instead of you stating your opinion
  9. Create different educational forums-websites, newsletters, lectures,webinars, articles, etc.
  10. Know the end result of what you are looking to have the person do with their new-found education

Once you have educated your prospect, give them choices of how to move forward. Make the choices about THEM not you. Serve, Serve, Serve, and watch your business grow.

If you still feel that you are struggling, you will be thrilled to know that Dr. Paul S. Inselman, CEO of Creativecoachingllc.net  has formulated a specific step by step process that will help you to become a more powerful business leader. Our clients income has grown on average 150% since 2008. In twelve years, I haven’t seen one business that executed the steps above and that utilized our procedures that failed to grow their business. We take a top down approach that consists of increasing income, decreasing expenses and protecting your assets. Why am I so confident (100% certainty) that these tips will create better growth and a more successful and fun business? Two reasons: (1) I coach business owners just like you everyday and have seen excellent, duplicative results and (2) Every single day I get a call, email or text from an existing client telling me that since they implemented these procedures and suggestions, they have more money than they ever had before; they love their staff; they are having more fun in business; or they had a record day in sales. Or, they had a record week in collections. Or, they had a record month across the board! Please don’t take my word for it. Click here for a complimentary no-obligation consultation and find out for yourself how I can help you grow your business ethically, legally and with integrity; get more free time and have fun again.  Get to the next level and beyond. Stop wishing, praying and hoping and take the meaningful step that will get you to where you want to be.

Want More Free Time? Then Do These Simple Things!

Hamster wheel

Do you feel like you are running on a hamster wheel all of the time? Do you feel burnt out and stressed out? Guess what you are not alone. While misery loves company, that kind of misery I think you can do without.

It is interesting to note that 1% of the population (1 percenters) have controlled 99% (99 percenters) of all of the wealth of the world since the beginning of time. Here is another interesting tidbit. if you were to re-distribute, that is take the wealth from the 1% and give it back to the 99%; within a few years the wealth would go back to the 1 percenters. This is evidenced by lottery winners. The majority of lottery winners who win 10, 20 and 50 million dollars end of flat broke within 10 years.

It is not luck that makes a 1 percenter a 1 percenter. It is the way they approach life, think about life and act on opportunity. To get off of the hamster wheel and add more productivity and free-time to your day try these suggestions:

  1. Focus on one thing. What task will have the biggest impact on you reaching your goal? Once you have found that task-work on it for at least two hours everyday without interruptions. This will allow you to hone in on that major task that will give you the highest return and the greatest amount of satisfaction.
  2. Stop procrastination. Procrastination is the killer of dreams. Make a schedule and stick to the schedule. If something pops up on your calendar for the third time either do the task or remove the task and never look at it or do it again. This will force you to take action. Let me repeat, if you fail to perform the task after the third time you either do it that day or you are forbidden from doing it in the future.
  3. Make it home for dinner. Highly successful people create a balance. Yes they work long and hard but at the end of the day they know that relationships and family time are the most important thing that any of us have. Money is nice but relationships are the fuel to allow you to earn money. I promise you that there will always be more to do. There will always be another meeting. However your children won’t be three forever.
  4. They say no to almost everything. Warren Buffet was quoted as saying, “The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.” Remember you only have 1,440 minutes each day. Unless giving that time is going to help you achieve your goals, don’t give it away.
  5. They Have a Morning Routine. I like to teach my clients “habits of excellence”. That is to say they create a morning routine that puts their mind-body and soul in the right state so they can accomplish their greatness.
  6. They touch things one time. How many times do you touch a piece of mail? Do you open it, put it down; start reading later; get interrupted; put it down again etc? Highly successful people “touch it once.” If they touch it–they deal with it immediately. Doing so reduces stress since they don’t have to think about it anymore, and it’s more efficient since they won’t have to re-read or evaluate the item again in the future.

Please take a look at that list again. What will you do differently as a result of reading it?
Are you living in fear? Are you afraid of investing time and money in yourself? Are your communications skills and relationship skills in need of improvement?

If you still feel that you are struggling, you will be thrilled to know that Dr. Paul S. Inselman, CEO of Creativecoachingllc.net  has formulated a specific step by step process that will help you to become a more powerful business leader. Our clients income has grown on average 150% since 2008. In twelve years, I haven’t seen one business that executed the steps above and that utilized our procedures that failed to grow their business. We take a top down approach that consists of increasing income, decreasing expenses and protecting your assets. Why am I so confident (100% certainty) that these tips will create better growth and a more successful and fun business? Two reasons: (1) I coach business owners just like you everyday and have seen excellent, duplicative results and (2) Every single day I get a call, email or text from an existing client telling me that since they implemented these procedures and suggestions, they have more money than they ever had before; they love their staff; they are having more fun in business; or they had a record day in sales. Or, they had a record week in collections. Or, they had a record month across the board! Please don’t take my word for it. Click here for a complimentary no-obligation consultation and find out for yourself how I can help you grow your business ethically, legally and with integrity; get more free time and have fun again.  Get to the next level and beyond. Stop wishing, praying and hoping and take the meaningful step that will get you to where you want to be.

Do You Have The Same Traits that Uber-Successful Business Owners Have?

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I consult and coach people from all walks of life. My clients are scattered in 47 of our 50 states and I have a handful from Europe and several from the Middle East. When I was thinking of what I would write today, a thought came to me. What qualities do the most successful people who I coach have that others do not? I am confident that you will find the article interesting. More importantly than just finding the article interesting, I hope it sparks you take different action steps then you might be taking now.
In discussing with my most successful clients (those earning well north of 7 figures per year, who are happy, balanced and have great relationships) why they are at the levels they are at? It is interesting to note that they all told me basically the same things.

  1. They get up each morning for a specific reason(they have a purpose)
  2. They have a daily routine that they follow without fail
  3. They have written goals and action steps
  4. They are not afraid to make mistakes as long as they learn from their mistakes
  5. They look for the good in every situation
  6. They don’t watch TV
  7. They study about their market, or product, constantly
  8. They surround themselves with great people and ask for their opinions
  9. They make decisions-it does not matter if it is a good or bad decision they don’t live in the world of indecision
  10. They invest time and money on improving themselves
  11. They donate heavily to worthy causes
  12. They donate their time to help others
  13. They read a tremendous amount and on various topics
  14. They play chess or other thought-provoking games (bridge, gin, poker)
  15. They get professionally coached to be held accountable
  16. They have great relationships
  17. They are spiritual
  18. They never give up and they never take no for an answer
  19. They admit when they are wrong
  20. They take full responsibility for their successes and failures
  21. They enjoy life
  22. They take money management very seriously
  23. They do not boast
  24. They do not waste
  25. They live below their means

Please take a look at that list again. What will you do differently as a result of reading it?
Are you living in fear? Are you afraid of investing time and money in yourself? Are your communications skills and relationship skills in need of improvement?

If you still feel that you are struggling, you will be thrilled to know that Dr. Paul S. Inselman, CEO of Creativecoachingllc.net  has formulated a specific step by step process that will help you to become a more powerful business leader. Our clients income has grown on average 150% since 2008. In twelve years, I haven’t seen one business that executed the steps above and that utilized our procedures that failed to grow their business. We take a top down approach that consists of increasing income, decreasing expenses and protecting your assets. Why am I so confident (100% certainty) that these tips will create better growth and a more successful and fun business? Two reasons: (1) I coach business owners just like you everyday and have seen excellent, duplicative results and (2) Every single day I get a call, email or text from an existing client telling me that since they implemented these procedures and suggestions, they have more money than they ever had before; they love their staff; they are having more fun in business; or they had a record day in sales. Or, they had a record week in collections. Or, they had a record month across the board! Please don’t take my word for it. Click here for a complimentary no-obligation consultation and find out for yourself how I can help you grow your business ethically, legally and with integrity; get more free time and have fun again.  Get to the next level and beyond. Stop wishing, praying and hoping and take the meaningful step that will get you to where you want to be.