I’ve found Gideonshalwick.com to be a great source of information for building a web based business. He provides lots of useful information, tips and tricks that work.

When I say the information is useful, it really is. He doesn’t try to hard sell.  He provides information that is useful for free.  Sure there is information that you can sign up for as there should be will any web based business.

So if you are looking to get started jump over to GideonShalwick.com and get started.

Here is a link to a article on how he got started.

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I just finished a great little book, about a 45 minute read, about selling and life challenges. There are basically 4 steps, they are:

1. A Purpose – you must have a PURPOSE for what you are selling and that purpose must be spelled out in your head or written down.
2. A Desire – you have to have an overwhelming DESIRE.  a desire that is express in what you do, so much so others and see it and feel it.
3. A Plan – You must sit down and put a PLAN together, I needs to be written, and include all of the what ifs.  The plan you will use to keep you on track. As so many business owners know it is to ease to get side tracked.
4. Hard Work – Everything in life that is worth accomplishing takes HARD WORK and dedication. Success doesn’t come over night.
5. I know, I said there was only 4 steps but there is a 5 step and that is to SHARE THE ABUNDANCE some people call is Paying It Forward.  This is often time one of hardest parts of being successful and that is sharing what you have gained to make the life of someone else better.  I don’t meaning sharing your wealth but sharing your knowledge and the lessons you have learned.

The book was written by Kevin Allen, who has been in the direct sells business for over 20 years.  He has been a trouble shooter for direct sales companies, he has built direct sales companies, and with every company he has been involved with he has won top honors for his efforts.

Kevin doesn’t just write about these principals, but he lives by these principals.  Kevin has joined up one last time with a company to build it and make others successful along the way, check out the company here.

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DECISIONS

DETERMINE

DESTINY

by

Thomas Monson

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Seth Godin has an excellent blog post on just this.  Check it out here.

Finding funds to start a new business is one of the hardes things to do: 1) either have the money to invest or 2) you borrow the money to get started or 3) you bring in partners.

Each one has it’s advantages and disadvantage. What ever you decided on make sure everybody is in agreement.

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What do I mean by the title to this post?  Just what it says.

In business icons as well as in politics; as we will see from the short clip below, can play a big part in who people perceive you.  Do they Perceive you as stale and dead or vibrant and full of life.  At a look at the clip below and then evaluate yourself and your business.  Do you see any similarities?  If so what are you going to do to change?

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Every business needs a plan to be successful.  Basically this plan lays out the road map from point A to point B.  Everybody talks about having a business plan so here is a link to the layout for a basic plan.  It is a good start and will get you headed down the right road it is titled “Anatomy of Business Plan”. It is written by Rhonda Abrams.

She has written and entire series titled the “Six Steps to a Successful Small Business.  The link about will get you to the steps.  Enjoy the read I did and I realized I missed a few things along the way.

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Here is an excerpt from a post by Randy Gage I think is apropo today. You can read the entire post here.

To stay broke in today’s economy, you have to:

1.    Turn down the opportunity to join a network marketing business;
2.    Join a network marketing business, but refuse to take the actions that create success;
3.    Believe you have no knowledge, skills, or experience people would pay you for in an information entrepreneur business;
4.    Become an information entrepreneur, but price your products and services so low that you don’t make money.
5.    Refuse to stop relying on a job and go into business for yourself;
6. Not be willing to learn how to prosper in the current real estate market;
7. Not be willing to learn how to prosper in the current mortgage market; or,
8. All of the above. Read the rest of this entry »

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In building a business one of the things you need is a team. Not just any old team but a team that works together in unison and harmony.  That doesn’t always happen with ease but takes hard work and commitment on the part of all players.

Usually a team is put together buy one person who wants to excell at something.  They may go through a lot of team members before they end up with a campionship team.  It is your job as a that team builder to find the right people that will make everyone on the team winners.

Are you a team player?  Take a look below and determine if you are a team player.

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If you want to have a successful business, then be different.  Do things differently than others do.  Don’t be afraid to tell the big guy’s NO.  By being different you set yourself apart.  By being different you give people a choice that they didn’t have otherwise.  Take a look at the video below.

Now be different.

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This morning I received an email from Brian Tracy and I quote from him, “The future belongs to the risk takers, not the security seekers.  Life is perverse in the sense that the more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.”

This is so true, you look at the really successful people in this world like the Richard Branson, and they are risk takers.  But in taking risk the don’t through caution to the wind, almost every move they make has been thought out and planned.  That doesn’t mean that every they do is success, but it means they have taken precautions to protect what they have and if they fail, it is a learning experience and they go on.

Here is a great video to show you what I mean:

Salathe Wall from steph davis on Vimeo.

If you look Steph Davis is doing what only some people dream of doing, but she doesn’t through caution to the wide. She had the proper and necessary safe equipment and she has taken the time to learn.  You as a business builder need to do the same.

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