Your happiness through reduction
March 3, 2010 by Christian · View Comments
This post may piss you off and it’s not really about creating joint ventures, but something I had to share with you. It’s that important. This information will indirectly lead to reducing what’s not working in your life while simultaneously bringing you closer to your major objectives both in your personal life and your business life.
It’s not something that I usually write about but it’s something that I feel you can benefit from while you’re building your business as well as something to think about in your daily life to bring you closer to a state of happiness.
If you consistently ask yourself, “why am I working on this project?” or “do I really have to sacrifice my time, beliefs and my sanity just to get by in life?” or “there must be more to life then this” then it’s highly probable that you’re spending your time working on the wrong projects with the wrong people so you can just get by with paying your bills. But in essence, are you really living, or are you just existing?
I hope I’ve got your attention because I think you’ll appreciate what I’m about to share with you. I’m currently reading, The Art of Being Minimalistic by Everett Bogue. This is a profound, eye-opening, short book by a young author with a powerful message.
Bogue’s book is about decluttering your life. It’s about getting rid of material objects that are holding you prisoner, spending more time on your passions and creating the life that allows you to work on meaningful projects. All this without being tied down by societal pressure to inventory materialistic possessions that are only holding you down.
You may be asking yourself how does this pertain to building my business or doing joint venture brokering deals, or even starting my very first business. That’s an excellent question! By approaching life with a minimalistic intention, this allows you more time, money and freedom of mind to focus on what really excites you. Being excited about something or someone gives us inertia. It helps us get to the next step to the next task and propels us to take action in the direction of where our minds are telling us to go, yet we abandon the concept because we’re too busy living, feeling guilty, and focused on what we think we should be doing and not listening to our inner voices. Ironically, these inner voices that are talking to us are exactly what we should be listening to.
Imagine on working on projects that you truly feel you can contribute to, make a difference in other people’s lives, or leave a legacy behind for your family and people dear to your life. This isn’t a fictional example or somebody taking this claim of living life like a hippie or a gypsy. This is the story of one man’s journey as he quit his job, moved to a new state (with only $3000 to his name), regained clarity, peace of mind and direction once he decided to live a minimalistic life.
In business, and in life we tend to complicate matters. We tend to make things much more complicated than they really are, spend too much time on the wrong projects and work with the wrong people. I have to admit, I too have wasted years complicating my own life and I’m still in the process of streamlining and reducing projects, roadblocks, and distractions in my life that are not leading me towards my primary objectives.
This is one of the primary reasons that I decided to be a joint venture broker. It’s a very simplified lifestyle where I can work in almost any industry, in a recession or a thriving economy in any location with only my computer and a cell phone. Through reduction, I only work on the projects that excite me and work with people who are positive, ethical and pleasurable to work with.
So if you find yourself struggling, asking yourself, “why am I doing this?” or just spinning your wheels and wasting time yet never really feeling fulfilled, I recommend Everett’s book as part of your process of reducing time and money wasting projects, tasks and activities that you’re working on today but you just don’t feel right about. It’s a quick read, only 67 pages yet I’m certain that after you read it you’ll approach your next decision with a newfound clarity, vision and agenda.
I hope you enjoy the book and find relevant meaning that can guide, assist and help you lead a happier fulfilling life not only for yourself but for the people in your life who are dear to you.
If you’re interested, you can get a copy of Everett’s book by clicking on this link.
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Sincerely,
Christian
8 Ways To Use Promotional Products Online
November 25, 2009 by article_marketer · View Comments
Reward Your Best Affiliates Take it into consideration to thank your top affiliates by providing them a promotional product. This shows them that you really appreciate and be grateful for the fact that they promote your products. You can assign gifts to your affiliate partners when they reach a certain purpose,or you can give gifts to youor top affiliates during the holidays. By rewarding your affiliates, you build a stronger relationship with them. They will thank you by continuing to promote your business.
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How To Make Money From Your Passions
June 6, 2009 by Christian · View Comments
To make money online many people jump right in before they are properly prepared. You know that to be a rocket scientist, a doctor, a brick layer, a construction worker, an office worker, a teacher there are prerequisites, things you must learn, before you can be successful, you don’t just jump right in unprepared.
The same applies to the Internet marketing industry even though there are unsavory people out there who’d have you believe it’s a “Walk in the Park” and requires no more than the belief that you can just do it.
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And I’ll have to admit, it is a walk in the park compared to what you have to put up with in the working world punching a clock being a subordinate to someone who does not have your interests in mind, but there are still rules you have to follow and pitfalls you must avoid to actually make Internet marketing work for you.
Most people will not make a dime online and yet there are others who will make more in one month than most people make in a whole year. Why is that?
My answer begins with the age-old chicken or egg question, “what comes first the chicken or the egg”? Personally I vote for, well never mind, each argument you or I make comes back to the same old conclusion – I have no clue and I don’t think many of us do either.
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But one thing I do have a clue about and know for sure is that to make money online you must first have Passion for the company products and/or service of any Internet business from which you expect to make money.
Passion in this sense simply means that you’ve researched and like the company and products or services. It is then that you translate that like (or Passion) into the education, excitement and work that usually accompany Passion.
I will have to say that many online entrepreneurs are so good at what they do that they ignore passion because they can sell anything. But I’m concerned about those of you who are not so knowledgeable at working an online business successfully.
Now, I’m not trying to make anyone believe that Passion is the only thing necessary. Because to be successful you must also have a good website, good marketing, widespread advertising, company support, effective keywords, and etc. Those things are often learned from the company you join – but sidestep Passion and you reduce your chances for success dramatically.
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It therefore follows that, if you have no Passion for the company and the products and services provided by that company, again, you won’t attempt to do the work you are being taught.
Internet marketing work is typically not all that difficult or time consuming but it does take motivation caused by Passion to get you off and running with a sustained effort so that you won’t stumble.
You have a great resource in the Internet search engines to search about the Internet Marketing industry for business opportunities, USE IT!
Your research should uncover a company that you like and have confidence in. It should be solid, founded on great principles, and easy to understand with great products and services that are sell-able for which you can have Passion. If you don’t find it move on,
You can find the right opportunity containing the attributes identified above.
Comments like, well, that one sounds good and the compensation plan is excellent so I guess I’ll start that business – does not sound like a decision based on anything near Passion. And remember when you hear that an Internet “guru” does that, don’t be tempted, because as I said earlier they are experienced and can sell just about anything, without being Passionate about the company products and services.
Note: By the way it’s your goal to get to the point where you can sell about anything online. That end skill and goal is a worthy one indeed.
Remember, there are other steps you must make before you step into Internet Marketing but if you don’t first find the right company products and services to be passionate about, all of those other steps may just cause you a lot of frustration instead of bringing you great success.
Not being Passionate about a company and products and services that has market proof that it will sell is a pitfall you simply must avoid.
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Are you spending the right amount of time on the wrong projects in your business
January 30, 2009 by Christian · View Comments
It’s all about minimum input and maximum output.
When I was first starting out on the Internet and as a business owner, I would sit in front of my computer for hours hitting the refresh button after every promotion, website tweak, or SEO hack I implemented. One day it finally hit me. I was spending so much time on activities that only garnished me a small output that I realized my efforts were taking me a long time. Hours and hours, and sometimes days, yet the output that I got from these activities were minimal at best.
I want you to try this exercise. Take out a piece of paper and draw two lines on that paper dividing one page into three columns. On the left side put the title on the top of the page and call it “input”. In the middle column, on the top of the page, label that “category”. On the right side, on the top of the page, put the heading of “output”. Now, on the right side, start listing some of your activities that you do on a daily basis to build your business. Use this as a brainstorming session. Just write down whatever you do starting tomorrow morning when you get in the office or when you start working from home. You could break your tasks up into a number of categories such as strategy, tactical, operational. For the sake of argument and keeping this article concise and to the point, we’ll label each one of your tasks on the left side with the three categories that we just described. So, for example, if you put down in the left column “modify my meta tags on my blog”, give this a category of tactical in the middle column. If you put down “split test my landing page offer”, this would fall under the category of strategy. If another one of your tasks is “prepare media Kit”, this would fall under an operational task. Then on the right column, write down what you got out of doing this task. Was it motivational, a desired result, a sale or maybe that activity resulting in no output at all. Whatever it was, just write it down.
By the end of the day, you should have at least 5-10 tasks that you believe are related to building your business that fall under the strategy, tactical, or operational category.
After you do this for just one day from the time you start work until you finish your work, you’re going to be very surprised at the number of activities that you spend time on that do not yield you a high output.
Usually these are tasks that fall under the tactical and operational category. These are certainly important tasks and need to get done, but more than likely, they are not contributing to increasing your profits, or meeting your income goals.
The point of this exercise is to make you aware of what activity you are spending your time on. This will allow you to determine if your current input (your activity) is equating to a high output (your results). I’m not saying do not do these tasks, since they are clearly important to you and your business. What I am saying is to be aware of the time that you’re spending on tasks that should be delegated to a coworker, employee, or virtual assistant so your time can be freed up to work on the strategies that will produce the most tangible outcome in the shortest amount of time.
Discover Underutilized Assets In Your Business
September 23, 2008 by Christian · View Comments
Which one are you?
A Business Owner?
An Employee?
A Consultant?
A Single Parent?
A College Student?
A Grand Parent?
Regardless if you have an existing business, are an employee of another business, are a consultant, or you’re someone who’s considering starting your own business, Joint Venture Deal Making can be one of the most profitable ways available to you to create “Income at will”. You don’t need any special education or lengthily training. You can start putting deals together with just a few hours a week. Once you understand the fundamental mind set of doing Joint Venture deals, you may just rethink the way you do business or create income for the rest of your life. It’s that powerful, diverse, exciting, and profitable.
If you’re a business owner, you can implement a Joint Venture Marketing strategy to create new profit centers with little to no money or risk. If you don’t have an existing business or you’re an employee of another company you can broker deals with your employer or create an additional profit center outside your full time job.
Let me fill you in on an overlooked and underutilized fact about 95% of all businesses out there (this is were you come in). It’s something so fundamental that it’s often overlooked and not given nearly the amount of attention, care, and time that’s needed to create additional profits.
Ready…
“The majority of all business’s have underutilized assets”
That may not be very exciting at first read, but let’s dig a little deeper. These underutilized assets represent huge opportunities for additional income for you.
Let’s define what an “asset” is.
A quick Google search defines an asset as being:
1. Anything owned by an individual or a business that has commercial or exchange value.
2. A possession of value, usually measured in terms of money.
3. Valuable items, encumbered or not, owned by a person, corporation, or entity.
So it’s basically something of value that a person or business has that is not being optimized. Now remember I just told you that the vast majority of business owners have “underutilized” assets. This is where it get’s interesting. This is where you can provide a way for these business owners (and yourself) to create income from the sale of their existing products or services by combing other complimentary type companies “assets” with their “assets”.
Let me give you some background and a quick example of what an underutilized business asset is.
“Simon opened his Web Design Company with a passion for creating websites, logos, and custom graphics for his clients. Simon was a skilled graphic designer, but his sales and marketing skills were based solely on theory and what he learned from a few books he had recently read. Simon wanted to do a promotion offering 25% off his services for new clients. Simon and I had a conversation about this promotion and asked me my advice and thoughts on this type of promotion. His objectives were to find new clients quickly without spending a lot of money on marketing. I told him that he had two primary objections to overcome since his business was new, he currently had only one client and his competition in the Web Design space was fierce and while competing strictly on a discount price point may work, I suggested he use a Joint Venture Strategic Alliance to keep his prices at a competitive market rate to obtain new clients.”
So we see that Simon has an underutilized asset, his time and his Graphic Design services. He’s only got one major client, which is a dangerous thing for Simon if that client decides to go elsewhere and stop using Simon’s services.
Remember when I said that a Joint Venture deal is about combining underutilized assets? Well, in this scenario lies your opportunity to make extra, recurring, residual income.
Let’s continue with the story.
I suggested Simon call local printers, illustrators, and web programmers in his area. I had him pick local vendors (so he could actually go meet these other business owners, which builds rapport and trust) that work in complimentary, not competitive businesses. Simon contacted a local print shop, introduced himself and offered to provide a “Web Design” division to the print shops existing base of over 300 clients. Within one week, Simon and the owner of the print shop wrote an email letter to his existing clients announcing the new service. Within two weeks Simon gained an immediate influx of client requests with an acquisition cost of zero!”
So you can see how Simon used his underutilized asset, his time and Graphic Design services to incorporate into the printing companies underutilized asset, their existing clients. This is only one type of Joint Venture scenario that can generate additional income very quickly. Simon only did this type of deal with a single company. What if he did it with 5 other companies that offered similar type services?
If your thinking, “Christian, that sounds all good and interesting, but how does that effect me or my ability to make more money?” Good question. This is why I asked you at the start of this conversation about “Which one are you?” You see, it doesn’t matter if you have an existing business or if you’re an employee, a student, or even if you’re currently unemployed.
Please take what I’m about to tell you very seriously…
“Just about every business owner is silently begging to find new clients”
Read that 5 times.
Business owners are constantly trying to increase their profits from their existing clients, yet they’re so busy running their companies, they don’t spend nearly enough time on this. This is where you can earn extra money, possibly a lot of money if done consistently and executed correctly.
Take a look around you and see if you can find any businesses that you know of that have underutilized assets that you can recommend to other companies. As I said, just about every business out there either needs or has assets that other companies can benefit from. You just introduce the two companies and make a profit for structuring the deal.
I hope this has gotten you intrigued about the possibilities of using Joint Ventures to create additional income for yourself in a very short amount of time.
I’ll be showing you many, many more examples of how to create these types of profitable relationships in the days to come.
Christian Fea is CEO of Synertegic, Inc. A Joint Venture Marketing firm. He exemplifies how to profit from Joint Venture relationships by creating profit centers with minimal risk and maximum profitability.
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