You are losing out on sales FACT!

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Simon

 

In today’s working practice, we only get paid when we work. So it stands to reason that when we don’t work we don’t get paid right?

This is called trading time for money. 

If in your business there is only one of you then there will always be a cap on your income.
There are only so many hours in the day and only so much we can do.

Limited time and limited resources always define how much we can earn.

So what’s the solution to increasing your income?
Well we could do one of 4 things
Join a networking marketing company and slog hard until we finally break through and start to make a small amount of money.
Marry someone very rich
Inherit a fortune from a relative
Or expand the business and take on staff but with that comes lots of challenges.
Or we could package our knowledge into a product and sell it online to generate sales 24-7.

Let me explain what I mean.
Think of when a pop star creates a record. Every time that record is played or sold they earn money. Same with an author, every time their book is sold they get paid.
I wrote my book back in 2011 and it keeps on selling today. I don’t have to do anymore work for that income, this is known as a passive income.
What this all means is that you do something once and then you keep generating sales from only having done the work once. Good huh!

Now you don’t have to write a book or create a record to generate an ongoing income. There are lots of other ways of doing it.
 For example you may give a talk for a group of business owners. This talk could be filmed. This film could then be sold as an educational DVD. Or you could take the audio from the recording and create an audio download and from that audio you could get someone to transcribe it in order to produce a book.
This means that you do something once (the talk) and then you can generate lots of different products and generate sales from them.

Why you’re losing out on sales

At present if the only way a client can work with you is on a 1-2-1 basis then some of your prospective clients won’t be able to afford you, so they go elsewhere and you’ve lost out.

That’s because you are only giving them one way to buy from you.
But if you package your knowledge your prospective clients who can’t afford to pay for your time 1-2-1 can still buy your services at a reduced rate.
This means you don’t lose out on valuable sales and you gain a customer.

Think about how many customers you’ve lost in the past because of money?

You now have the opportunity to stop this, read on

It’s all about leveraging your time and capitalising on your knowledge.
Just think what it would be like to be making sales around the clock. 
Waking up in the morning having made sales overnight. 
I can tell you it’s an amazing feeling.

I took my family on holiday last year and I made more money whilst being away than I did on the entire cost of the whole holiday.
Now that is a great feeling I can tell you.

 

 

 

So what can you package in order to sell?
If you are a coach for example and you help people develop a better mindset then you could write a short e-book (downloadable pdf) on 10 steps to creating a better and more focused mindset.
Another example is my brother who runs a very successful hair salon, now he could write a course on how to boost sales and have a constant stream of high paying clients coming through the door for your salon. The course could simply be a series of emails that go out at one every week automatically to the subscribers.
For your information – an email that is sent out automatically is called an autoresponder.

When you start to think this way it’s amazing what ideas you can come up with.

I’ve produced a number of products and courses which generate sales for me everyday and what this also means is that I’m not dependent on being in my office working away 9-5, 5 days a week to generate these sales. Having this kind of passive income means you have more freedom. Freedom to spend with your family, freedom to develop new ideas, freedom to do something else and it’s fantastic.

So wouldn’t it be great to have a passive income like that?

 The normal questions that I get asked about creating a passive income are: -
Where do I start?
What should I package and what would sell best?
How do I create the sales page?
How do I link the sales page up to a payment system?

Well here’s the good news – I’ve created a new package which will help you come up with the idea, package that idea. Then we will design, create and write the sales copy for your online sales page and then link it all to a payment system.
It’s a total done for you package, and the title of it is Your Ideas To Income Package.

It’s as simple as 1,2,3 and will have you generating a passive income in no time.

Want to know more?
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I look forward to working with you and helping you generate a new stream of income.

To your onward success

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Stop to move forward

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Simon

 

I recently had a birthday (I won’t share with you how old) but I decided to take the whole day off.
I got up went to the gym then after my breakfast I sat on the sofa in front of a roaring fire (joined by my dog Amber) and with a large coffee in my hand I read a book.
The house was empty and hence wonderfully peaceful.
I then had lunch out with Susie at a fabulous new restaurant and generally spent the whole day relaxing and having fun. Now this was straight after a weekend so I was extending the time off.

6 months ago I would have not have done this. 3 days away from work would have been too much. But this was my birthday and I wanted to step away from it and have some downtime.
The reason I write this post is because as entrepreneurs we find it tough to take time off. We feel guilty and restless when we are not putting our nose to the grindstone.
I will say to that that you need to show yourself more love. The world will not stop spinning and you can give yourself the permission to just STOP.
Now I’m no Doctor or Psychologist but I do know that time away will give you more energy to put back into the business.
When you work for yourself we tend to be our own worst critics and give ourselves the hardest judgments.

Plan your working time properly and you CAN then take the time off – see my previous post here about how I plan my working time.

My greatest ideas are when I’m away from the office, either walking Amber, in the shower or on my motorbike.

Many years ago when I was the Creative Director for a small Advertising Agency I would regularly go off for a walk and my boss would ask me where I was heading. “I’m going to get some ideas” I would reply.

If you spend most of your working time sitting at your desk looking at the same ‘stuff’ then how do you think you’ll become more creative.

When I used to work in London I would regularly go to work a different way once or twice a week. 
This wasn’t because of road works or anything like that; it was so I would get a different view of the world. I would see different bill board posters and different shop signs, these would all get absorbed by my little creative brain and then later on if I was thinking of ideas then I could recall on what I had seen and possibly pull on these images.
Your mind is like a bank so you need to keep filling it in order to draw on it.
 And your mind also needs time off to relax and absorb at it’s own pace.

So plan this week ahead and then come this weekend if you can, take a complete break and take a notebook with you, because you never know when that next brilliant idea will spring to mind.

Tell me how you like to take time off and where you get your best ideas.

Until the weekend have a great week.

Simon

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5 outsources to run a business smoothly

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Simon

 

5 things I couldn’t do without in my business and you shouldn’t either.
My clients often ask me how do I do what I do, what I use and whom I use.
Well here goes.
It’s taken me a few years to find the right resources in order for my business to run as smoothly as it does.

I have given you my affiliate links for each resource. They don’t cost you anymore but the money then stays within the family so to speak. Hey if you decide to join any of the resources below, you can get your own affiliate link and start earning that little bit extra if someone joins up using your link. Cool huh!

Resource No.1
If you have a website then you should also be gathering names and email from prospective clients.
The people I use to collect these details and also supply me with a shopping cart for selling my online products is www.SimonJordanCart.com (affiliate link).
They currently have a 28-day free trial. I love these guys because they offer an all-in-one solution and their support is superb.
You can also upload images for email newsletter headers onto their site, unlike other providers.
You can also upload a product, such as an audio or e-book and create a shopping cart very, very quickly and start selling straightaway.

I ran a webinar last year and created a sales page, which was basically a shopping cart. It was the laziest sales page I have ever done but it worked so well bringing in over £5k worth of business within 48 hours.

Resource No.2
When it comes to website programming I have no idea – yep hands up.
I am very untechy when it comes to writing HTML code. The only code I know is the one on my bicycle lock.

Many people have told me I should learn it, but my reasoning for not learning it is that why should I spend time learning something when I can get someone else to do it far more easily and cheaply. Outsourcing is the way forward I promise you.
Concentrate on the Pound jobs not the Pennie jobs.
So I use these wonderful people to work on all my sites and my client’s sites – they are just amazing and their pricing will blow you away. www.SimonJordanTechHelp.com (affiliate link)

Resource No.3
Hosting your website. My analogy of hosting is like hiring a plot of land and being able to build what you want on the plot. It’s the same with hosting. You choose a company to host your site and then it’s up to you to place your site in the hired space.

Now you may not know this but when someone comes to your site and as the site loads in front of his or her eyes, each bit of data that is loaded is coming from the hosting provider. This takes up what is known as bandwidth. Some hosting providers will have a set limit to how much bandwidth is available per month and if you go over that then an extra charge is applied.
So if you have videos or large files that are viewed on your site this will take up a lot of bandwidth. Add a few thousand people looking at your site in a month, and you will hit your limit and your wallet. I therefore highly recommend these guys www.SimonJordanHosting.com (affiliate link) who have unlimited bandwidth and they are also super helpful if you have any questions.

All my sites are hosted on here and you can select which part of the world you want your site hosted in. For UK customers its best to have your site hosted in Europe, for USA customers, host in the USA – these guys give you these options.

Resource No.4
Referring back to Resource No.2 who are the guys to help you with your website, I recommend that when briefing them that using an onscreen video can be very, very handy. It takes time typing out your instructions and can sometimes be misunderstood. I use Jing video, which is free. You can select a part of your screen and then record your voice as you explain what you need doing.
For example if you have corrections to be made on your website. Using Jing you can open up the webpage and then select what you want to make a screen video of, and then you can voice your instructions. When finished you can simply upload the video to the free site and then send the link to the guys who will need to carry out your instructions.

Here’s the software link http://techsmith.com/jing.html

Resource No.5
If you want to come across as professional then having your phone answered by a professional company will do it every time. It also enables you to focus on your work rather than have every Tom, Dick and Harry calling you asking who is responsible for your photocopier or office cleaning.
Here’s a great example of why having a professional answering service will win hands down. Your phone is answered properly without any noise in the background such as kids and dogs barking. I work from home and this is a fact of life with 4 kids, 2 cats and 1 dog in the house.
You can call the person back when it is convenient for you. It also makes you look great and that you have a well-run company.
Your phone is sometimes the first point of contact so it’s vital you make it the best.
You only get once chance to make a first impression.
The company I use are just amazing – http://tinyurl.com/2bapunx (affiliate link)
They will answer your call 24-7 and are brilliant value and you can be setup in less than 10 minutes. Setup is free and they have no monthly charge and only charge you when someone calls. You then have an option of receiving an email or text with the caller’s details on.

They also have an office in the States so if you’re there get in touch.
Here’s the link for the USA branch

So my friend there you have it. The people that help my business run as smoothly as it does. I couldn’t do without these guys and once you start to use them you won’t either.

Here’s to your onward success

Simon

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5 ways to engage with your target market

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Simon

 

Learning how to attract our target market is all about building up the three basic elements of Know, Like and Trust.
A sale is based on whether we Know the person, Like the person and Trust the person.

So how do we get that initial engagement with our target market?

1. The first thing is that we need to know is who our target market actually is.What their current issues are and what they are looking for.

The essence of marketing is to understand what your target market need that you can help them with.

For example when I slipped a disc some years ago and was hobbling around with a walking stick. I walked into a client’s office that had a host of leaflets in her reception. The leaflets were all offering different services such as Chiropractic, Massage, Reiki, and Acupuncture services etc. and by all accounts they could all have helped me. The thing is, I was not looking for any of these, or rather I wasn’t thinking about any of these services. All I was thinking about was how painful my back was at that time. Then amongst the leaflets was one that said, “Are you suffering from back pain? Do you struggle to get out of bed and live a normal life?” This grabbed my attention because it had written down what was on my mind, whereas all the other leaflets just had the name of the service.
The leaflet that had grabbed my attention was actually offering Pilates. The owner had understood that the needed to show the benefits over the features. The benefits were that she could help me with my back and relieve my pain; whereas the features were that the process was Pilates. This is the mistake everyone else had made. They believed that just by putting the name of their service on the front of the leaflet with their logo that this would make me buy from them.

The owner then got my business every week for a few months. It pays to know what your target market are looking for and how to engage with them which is exactly what she had done.

2. Following on from point 1 make your elevator pitch clear.It’s called an elevator pitch from the idea that if you met your ideal client in a lift that you would only have a very short time (between floors) to tell them about your business.

Your elevator pitch therefore needs to be clear, concise and telling the prospective buyer the following 2 items. 1. How you benefit your clients and 2. with whom you work with.
Leave out the features such as how long you’ve been in business, where you are working from, the process, type of equipment you use etc. etc. You can tell them about this later on down the line when they want to know how you do what you do. If you say this at the get go then 9 times out of 10 you’ll confuse them and a confused buyer is a non-buyer

3. Show off.
Now I know this is something my parents would always stop me from doing. “Simon, stop showing off!” I have still never managed to think of a good come back line even to this day. Maybe one of our 4 kids will think of a suitable retort.
What I mean by showing off in this context is to show your target market who you are. Show them a photo of you. If you are the face of the business then show them who they will be working with. I would even suggest going one step further and put a video of you on your website.
 By using a video you can demonstrate your passion for your business. and who doesn’t like someone with passion? Passion is infectious.
People buy from people. Video is such a high converting medium when it comes to making contact I can’t recommend it highly enough.
 If you’re not sure how to go about setting up video for your website click here >>

4. The next point to ‘showing off’ is demonstrating your knowledge.
That’s why having a blog is such a great thing. You can show off your knowledge and demonstrate that you know your ‘stuff’. Take this blog post for instance; I’m demonstrating that I know how to engage with my target market. You could also write a blog post on how to solve certain challenges that your target market have.

I can probably hear you saying right now – “But I don’t want to give my knowledge away Simon” My answer to that is ‘living is about giving’. The more you give the more you get. Apart from your current clients providing testimonials, how would your prospective target market find out if you know your ‘stuff’ or not? A blog can provide you with the space to demonstrate your skills and how you solve certain issues.
The readers of your blog can also leave comments after each post, which further increases engagement.

5. My final point is keep-in-touch with your prospective clients.
If you’ve not read my #1 Secret to growing your business then click here to grab your copy now. This is such a vital part to getting a constant stream of clients through to your door. So many business owners build a database of prospective clients then do nothing with it.

If you have a database and think you’re sitting on a gold mine but not keeping in touch with them, then it’s not a gold mine but a chair your sitting on.

If I asked you to name a fizzy drink you’d probably name Coke. Why? Because they are constantly reminding us of whom they are and what they sell.We don’t have their kind of budgets for national TV and Ad campaigns so we can do the next best thing by using email and direct mail to keep-in-touch with our prospects. So when the time is right and they are looking for someone like you to help them, because you’ve been regularly communicating with them, your name will spring to mind and they can make contact.

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To your onward success

Simon

 

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How to charge what you’re worth

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Simon

 

…and feel confident in asking for it.

Here’s the scenario – Buyer asks Supplier – ‘How much do you charge?’

Pretty simple question you might think, but this simple 5-word sentence can lead many a small business owner into panic.
Panic because you feel if you tell the buyer what you’d like to be paid that the buyer might think it too much and up and leave.
Or panic that if you say the price that the buyer may think that you’re too cheap. HELP! What to say? How to say it? Too much, too little?

In my many years of helping coaches and practitioners build their businesses, this question keeps coming up.
It’s all about feeling worthy and having confidence in knowing that what you’re offering is worth having.

I once worked with a practitioner who was only charging a small amount per hour. It was so little that I was amazed she could continue in business. When I asked her why she charged so little, she told me that this was what other people were charging and she felt it right to charge the same. She felt guilty to charge more and thought that her clients would leave if she started to charge more or that new clients wouldn’t come.

Here are some simple rules that I follow: -

Rule 1. Just because other people are charging a certain price doesn’t always mean it’s right.If they are following someone else who got it wrong then all you have is a lot of people all following someone who is charging too little. In essence – do what everyone else does and you’ll get what everyone else gets.

Rule 2. If you’re price is ‘too cheap’ then the perceived value of your product or service can be seen as not worthy. Prospective buyers will think that it’s not worth their investment.

Rule 3. It’s not always about the price. If you package your offering correctly and inform the prospective buyer what benefits they will receive from buying your product or service then the price is secondary.For example if I told you that for £1,247 I would help you create a product and a high converting sales page that would bring you in money 24-7 would you be interested in this investment?The answer I’m sure would be yes when you consider that such an investment would be returned very quickly. Telling them the benefits is key to all marketing.

Rule 4. Belief – So many people believe that their knowledge is not worth that much. For example I had a client who had created an e-book on how to be more confident. To write this book he had to draw on his many years of experience and the training that he had done which had cost many thousands of pounds. Just because the e-book only took him a few hours to write doesn’t mean it should be sold cheaply. It’s because of his vast knowledge and experience that led him to write it quickly.
Belief in your skills and knowledge is vital. Just because you find something easy to do, doesn’t mean it is cheap. It’s probably easy for you because you have developed the skill and invested time and money into it becoming easy for you.

I’ve been driving a car now for many, many years and also ride a motorbike. I don’t find it difficult to do. So if I were to teach someone how to drive or ride do you think that I should only be charging him or her a small fee?
If I think at how much our eldest is paying to have driving lessons then I can assure you that the price is certainly not cheap by any means.

My brother runs a very successful hair salon and every year he puts his prices up and he gets busier. People believe that if he’s charging that much then he must be worth it. His clients are also happy to pay the increased prices.

Rule 5. Practice asking for it. If you feel that asking for the right money is uncomfortable then practice until it feels comfortable.
Stand in front of a mirror and practice saying what you charge. Practice on your partner or friend. Get them to be ‘the difficult customer’ so that you can prepare yourself for when you do come across this type of person.
It may sound strange to do something like this, but how does it feel when you walk away having not got the price you wanted? Pretty low I bet. So it’s worth investing your time into being prepared.
When someone asks you how much you charge and you can tell him or her your price with total confidence, this will make the buyer believe that you are worth it and that this price is normal. Whereas if you stutter and mumble then the buyer can lose confidence in you and your offering.

You are worth it and you need to know that.
You have something that other people need so don’t sell yourself short.

Benjamin Franklin once said – ‘The best way to help the poor is to not become one of them.’

The more you have the more you can help other people. The more you can put back into your business, your family or charities.

Thank you for reading this post – I always love hearing your comments so please feel free to leave them in the box below.

 

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5 Ways To Increase Traffic To Your Site

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Simon

 


You’ve got your website up and looking good – now what?

Surely your prospective customers will now come flooding in through your new shiny site – right? Sadly not.

A website without traffic is like leaving a business card in the middle of a field and expecting someone to pick it up.

If you’ve got a website and by jingo I hope you have, then it’s important that you know how to drive your prospective customers to it.

Here are just some of my ideas on how you can do this.

1. First thing I would say for driving traffic to your site is write a blog. Have the blog as part of your site rather than a separate one. This means that when someone reads your blog, they can also look around the rest of your site. When a blog is on a separate site it’s like having the rooms of your house spread down the road. Whilst sitting in the sitting room you’d have to walk three houses down to go to the kitchen – it’s not practical and people will lose interest. Keep them in and on your site. It’s also great for Google and other search engines if you’re adding content to the site.
Content is king so also make sure that the content is relevant.There would be no point in me writing about cooking on this blog because it’s not related and it would confuse people. A confused buyer is a non buyer.

2. Second thing is I would highly recommend a Word Press blog. It’s what is known as Open Source. This means that the coding for the Word Press themes are available for any programmer out there to create some great plug-ins. One of the plug-ins that I highly recommend is called Tweet Old Post. You can set this plug-in to randomly select one of your blog posts and post it to your Twitter stream. The wonderful thing about this is, is that your posts no matter when you’ve written them will still have people coming to read them. Some of my posts on the TV site have had over 7k retweets. That means that over 7k people have watched the TV episode and decided to retweet it onto their followers. Without the plug-in they would not have necessarily found the post.

3. Post your blog post onto your Social Media sites. When I write a new post I post it on my Twitter Stream, my Facebook page including my Facebook Business page, My Google Plus page and if it’s relevant I will also post it on my LinkedIn page.
It’s important you tell people about the new post.
Don’t be a secret agent – go tell the world. If people are coming to look at your blog, they can leave their comments and also recommend it to others.
Recommendation is the mother of all marketing so I recommend that on your blog you do the next point

4. Add share buttons to the blog. These are the Facebook Like buttons and also the Retweet buttons and now you can also add the Google Plus buttons.
If you click on the highlighted words above they will take you to the pages where you can get the relevant details to create these buttons.

You could also use Shareaholic which has all the buttons plus loads more all in one place
I also like to have the Disqus plug-in to allow people to leave their comments. This plug in automatically lets me know – via email when someone has left a comment and this means I can then visit the site to leave a reply. This creates engagement with my audience and this is very, very powerful

5. Write strong titles, which will grab people’s attention. This post’s title is 5 Ways to Drive Traffic To Your Website.

I wrote this because I know people are always looking for ways to increase traffic.
So aswell as writing a strong title also make sure your content is good and adds value to your readers.In order to write compelling content, it’s important you understand what your prospective customers are looking for.
The first rule of marketing is

Find a need in the marketplace
Create a product or service to fulfil that need
Sell it at a profit
I’d also like to add to that list – automate the fulfilment process – but I will save that for another blog post.
What next?
I’ve covered some of what you need to drive traffic but if your website isn’t producing hot leads and generating an income then pleaseget your complimentary copy of my special e-book download titled – The 5 ways to profit from your website.

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I’d also love to have your comments on this post so please leave them below.

To your onward success
Simon

 

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Top 5 tips to getting more done

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Simon

 

Have you ever said any of the following?

“I can’t do it because…”

“I’m waiting for the kettle to boil
before I start”

“When I feel less tired I’ll start”

“I’ll clean my desk first, then I’ll get on with it”

“I’ll just finish reading my Facebook page then I’m on it”

If you have answered yes to any of the above then my next question is – do you really want success?

If you are giving the excuses and not getting on with growing your business then you only have yourself to blame.

Now I’m not normally one for getting angry in my blog posts BUT if there is one thing that gets me it’s people who say they want success but do nothing to actually get on with it.

START now, finish reading this blog and GO, GO, GO – you don’t need a clean desk to start. You don’t need all your pens in a nice neat line in order for you to get going.

Here’s my 5 top tips for getting your head down and staying focused

1. Give yourself an hour to focus on your work – set a timer

2. Turn off all Social Media – yes you can do it trust me, life will not collapse :)

3. Turn off auto send and receive for your emails – you’re not a paramedic or a doctor on call so the world and your clients can do without you for an hour.

4. Divert your phone to an answering service. Having a professional company answer your phone not only helps you focus more and stops you being interrupted, but also gives a great impression for your company.
 The company I recommend is Answer – here’s their link

5. Plan your day the night before. If you start your day trying to work out what needs to be done first then you’re losing valuable time. Starting your day already knowing what needs to be done saves so much time and stress.

Like most entrepreneur’s, being distracted by the latest ‘thing’ can be a curse. Before we know it we’ve spent a few hours surfing the net and those hours are now lost.

 You can always earn more money, but you can never earn more time. Follow the 5 tips above and see how much more productive you become.

Let me know how you get on and I’d love to read your comments below.

Need more help?
 Take a look at my Get More Done Today System here

To your onward and more productive success

 

Simon
Business Growth Coach, Author and International Speaker

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New Year’s resolutions – Pah I say.

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Simon

 

New Year’s Resolutions – PAH I say.

First off I want to wish you a very, very happy New Year.

I hope you had a wonderfully relaxing time.
I really hope you had time to unwind and recharge ready for the year ahead.
I took the whole time off to spend with my family. No work and all play. You probably saw that I didn’t even send out a single email.
When it’s family time, nothing gets in the way.

It was just great. I had time to totally unwind and forget about the busy life for a while. We spent the whole time together doing what we love to do.

I took my two youngest to see Cinderella and we managed to get backstage to get a photo and a hug from Cinders (just the kids not me).

We had friends over and the whole holiday was simply spent having fun and of course eating and drinking too much – probably like yours too huh?

I now feel fired up and ready for action once more.So how are your plans for this year or even this month or week ahead?

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New Years Resolutions – PAH I say

I was down the gym this morning and it was the busiest I’ve seen it in ages.
It’s the same every year around this time. We stuff ourselves with Christmas fayre and then come the New Year we all feel guilty so we hit the gyms
and roads in our lycra in order to shed those pounds and to get fit again.

Sadly as we all know this burst of enthusiasm doesn’t seem to last long.
Come the end of the month, or even just two weeks in, we lose the drive and slip back into our old ways. I know because I’ve been there before, just without the lycra.

We start off with all the right intentions and then pretty soon it all goes wrong.

So how do we keep it going?
How do we make a plan and stick to it until we achieve it?
I’m not just talking about weight loss because I’m certainly no expert in that field.
Although in my late twenties I went from 23 stone down to 13 stone in 18 months, but that’s another story.
I’m really talking about the dreams we have for our businesses. The ideas we start off with and the dreams we want to reach, 
but then excuses happen and all those things that get in the way that see us not achieving what we want and we are left feeling low and upset with ourselves. Now I don’t know about you but I don’t do New Year’s resolutions, I prefer to set myself goals, and I don’t mean easy ones either.

If I told you that I use a simple system that has seen me hit my goals every time.
A system that has helped me take my business from local to global in just 7 months.
That helped me write and publish my first book in just two 2 months.
That I work from home with 4 kids, 2 cats and 1 dog running around and I still manage to build my business like crazy.

Before you ask I don’t employ lots of staff or have servants doing it all for me.In fact I even make the supper every night (cooking is another passion of mine).

So what is this system?
Many years ago I decided to create something that would help me go for my goals and make sure I stuck to them.I wanted it to be simple (I don’t do complicated).
It worked so well I started to share it with my clients and then they suggested that I packaged it and sold it. So last year I did just that and I called it my Get More Done Today System. If you already have a copy you’ll know how good it is.It shows you how to get more time out of your day and how to get more money out of your time.

When it first went on sale it sold like crazy. So now it’s the New Year and I’m giving it away at a stupid price of just $19.97 / £12.68  because I want more of you to start hitting your goals this year and I know this will help.

It’s so simple you’ll wish you’d had it years ago.

Click on the link below and see what some of the people who bought it have said about it.

>> Click here to get your copy today

Join me in saying PAH to the New Year’s resolutions and start creating goals instead.

You will love this system I promise. It’s in 4 easy to follow parts, which will help you every day, week, month and year.

This system will help you make 2012 the best year ever.

I really look forward to hearing how you like it.

To your onward success.

Simon

P.S. If you’ve ever said “I need more time” then this is the system for you.

>> Click here to get your copy today

 

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The art of gratitude

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Simon

 

“I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man with no feet.” Unknown

We all take things for granted until we come across someone less fortunate than ourselves.
Success comes in different guises but I believe if we look around us and appreciate what we have and for whom we have in our lives and really connect with these feelings we can then start to truly feel successful.

We spend so much time thinking and worrying about what we don’t have, rather than what we do have.
If we feel happy and gracious then we attract more of it.

What is the point in saying “I’ll be happy when I have that car, that house or that income” Wouldn’t it be better to be happier on the path towards ‘that car, that house or that income’, I reckon so.

There’s not a day that goes by when I don’t look at what I have with my family, my dog, my home and my friends and think just how lucky I am.

I also feel so very lucky to work with some incredible clients and interview some amazing people for my radio show. I am indeed a happy chappy.
In my late twenties I almost ended it all (that’s another story) but now I feel very blessed for all that I have.

Shoot me if you think I’m getting all-spiritual but what is the point in being miserable because you don’t have something yet?

It’s such an old line but enjoy the journey, otherwise you’ll miss out on all the little things that are just as important.

There are days when I just stop working and take my kids out. We go to the woods with the dog, or we drive to the coast and watch the waves and buy some food and sit on the beach and just sit and ‘be’ together.
Now that is something you cannot put a price on.
But it is an amazing feeling and even thinking about these trips makes me smile.
The little things are the big things for me.

To feel and think ‘happy’ sometimes is as simple as focusing on what we have in our lives.

We are often too busy to stop and appreciate. So some time ago I developed my gratitude list. It’s something that really works and is very powerful.
It’s a list of 5 simple questions to ask yourself everyday.
Try it out for a few weeks and see the difference it can make.

Question 1. What am I happiest about at this moment?

Question 2.
 What am I most proud of that I have achieved in my life so far?

Question 3. Who are my friends?

Question 4. Who loves me?

Question 5.
What can I do today to make it a more joyous one?

Take a few minutes each morning to answer these 5 simple questions and you can enter each day feeling happier I promise.

To your onward and happier self.

Simon

P.S. Thank you to you for reading this post.

 

Business Growth Coach, Author and International Speaker

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