When it Come to Making Your Small Business Plan, is the Online Aspect Giving You Chills?

I’ve talked to many Spiritualpreneurs who seem to have a great fear of running the online aspect of their business, but (and this is coming from a real ‘techno-phobe’ here), having an online business is a lot less complicated than you may think it is!

Having any kind of business starts first at the Inner level – and if you don’t believe you can know what you’re doing when it comes to running your business online, there are a lot of other piggybacking beliefs that are riding on that…

• I don’t have what it takes
• I’m not good at technology
• Everybody else knows more than me
• I don’t have the time
• I glaze over when it comes to learning things like this…

You’ve got all these things rolling around inside your head – it’s sort of like Prego Spaghetti Sauce – ‘It’s all in there’!

So the first thing you want to do is get clear on what the beliefs are that you’re telling yourself – get really honest with yourself – what are you telling yourself about why you can’t have an online business?

Then, while you’re putting together your small business plan, start to identify the areas that you feel like you need more support on. If you’re feeling like, “Oh I just don’t understand blogging. Social Networking – it gives me a headache! I don’t get how to do this or that…”

Well, start out with identifying the areas YOU think are important to having in an online business, and anywhere that you feel you are lacking.

You also want to identify the areas you feel belong in an online business that you really do feel like you have some sense about, because there are things that are really serving you at an inner level with your beliefs, and at an outer level you do have competencies and skill sets and brilliances that are serving you.

People tend to focus on everything they can’t do, everything that don’t know how to do, everything that’s confusing or overwhelming – but you have to remember that for everyone that says they can’t do an online business, there are both inner and outer level reasons you have to address in areas that are both serving you and not serving you.

It’s very important to look at it from both sides.

A good starting point for having an effective online business, whether you understand all the ‘technology’ involved or not, is to simply map it out. Take a piece of paper and make a flow chart.

• OK, someone comes to my blog or website. What happens?
• What do I want them to experience?
• What do I want to have occur?

Map it out all the way down to all the different levels of all the different things you want to offer. Think of it as your online small business plan.

Online business are often based in having an effective profit funnel – you introduce yourself to people through free or lower end products and begin building relationships and credibility, eventually going all the way up through to higher end products – programs, seminars, continuity programs – it goes all the way through. Read more

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What Does Maturity About Money Have to do With Manifesting Money?

If you’re like most people, you’re probably interested in manifesting more money these days.

A quick look around online and you can find classes promising everything from “Get Rich Quick” schemes to programs that teach you how to invest in the stock market, buy and sell real estate or even get your inventions on Oprah!

Even in our current economy, I believe that there have never been more opportunities for manifesting wealth, but at the same time, there are not many opportunities available that support you in developing a maturity about money.

A person with “money maturity” has a plan for their long-term wealth that includes more than just a balanced portfolio.

It also includes a life plan in which you are doing work you love and creating and spending your money in ways that are aligned with your Life Vision.

Top financial advisor, Cynthia Fick, offers you three tips to create a relationship with your money that is based on a deeper connection to your own Inner Guidance and a solid financial plan that reflects what is important to you.

Her Financial/Life Plan considers how your beliefs about money impact your financial decisions and your level of confidence in your ability to earn money and let money work for you.

Cynthia believes that every Spiritualpreneur needs to create a Financial Life Plan. Check out her three suggestions for creating your own: Read more

Are You Manifesting What You Want in Your Business?

Greg Braden, a former earth scientist and author of the Isaiah Effect, has this to say about the power and value you can find in visualizing and manifesting:

“The Soup of Creation exists as a state of all possibilities. All of the components for all the things we could ever conceive of, including life itself, exist as this state of possibility.

Although the components are there to build them, there has been no trigger to “nudge” them into motion.

The idea is very similar to making rock candy from a jar of sugared water. WE may place many tablespoons of sugar into the water and watch as sugar dissolves and disappears. Though we no longer see the sugar, we know it is hidden there somewhere in the water.

The sugar remains in the same state–invisible–until something comes along, a catalyst that triggers a new opportunity for the sugar and water to interact.

That trigger can be as simple as placing a fiber like a string into the water. The sugar-laden water seeps into the string, it evaporates and leaves behind the sugar.

In the absence of the water, the sugar now crystallizes into a new expression of itself. Read more

How do You Make the Shift From Entrepreneur to Spiritualpreneur?

The greater your ability to tune into, trust and act upon your Inner Guidance – even when logic would seem to dictate otherwise – the more you can experience your life from a place of ‘connectedness.’

Learning to connect in this way is a big part of making the shift from ‘entrepreneur’ to ‘Spiritualpreneur’!

You hold the intention to develop this ability by searching for ways to regain conscious access to what you already know intuitively.

You can find motivation in this search by discovering a ‘sense’ of what living a life from Spirit would look or feel like. Read more