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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

Is it Hard to Get Into Joint Venture Agreement With Big Partners While You’re Growing Your Business?

As a Spiritualpreneur, you probably realize that working in Joint Venture Agreement with various partners is one of the best and fastest ways to grow your business, but it can sometimes seem difficult to find partners when you are still growing!

Many spend YEARS building relationships, trying to knock on the right doors,  hoping and praying to meet someone, anyone that could give you that big break in business.

While it’s true that it can normally be a long process, there are some ways to accelerate your progress - and you can discover one of the rarest opportunities available this Thursday - where you can learn some of the secrets of how the ‘big guys’ work together behind the scenes to create incredible success! Read more

Are You Ready to Transform Your Sales & Marketing Process?

Lessons 14 & 15 of the 30 Day Empowered Spiritualpreneur Challenge are ready for you now!

As you have gone through these Lessons on your path toward becoming an Empowered Spiritualpreneur, you have seen how important laying the energetic foundation is for every step of your business – which is the key to entering into the selling to serving process that you are learning now in the Challenge.

Getting to this point in my own life began with the Eyes of Love Activation within myself – the whole idea of moving across to the other side of the desk – seeing from the eyes of the person that I was selling to.

When I worked in corporate sales, selling always went according a script.  It always felt rehearsed – there was no sense of connection or authenticity in my conversations with people, so it was never something that I really enjoyed or felt right about.

But on the other hand, I could see the value in having some sort of guideline or template to move through the steps of a selling conversation.

I’m just that kind of person – once I do something well, I want to be able to repeat it!

And I would ask people that were really good at selling – what did you do in that conversation that made it so successful? And they couldn’t really answer!

It was the same with people that hated selling – I ask them, what are you doing that you hate it so much? I drew a blank from people every time.

It seemed like there was no process outside of these rigid scripts that just felt canned and un-genuine! Read more

How Are You Solving Problems?

Going through all of these lessons with you on the 30 Day Empowered Spiritualpreneur Challenge, I keep
remembering how it all began…

I used to work in corporate sales, and I was really very good at what I did – but I often felt like something was missing.

Most of these processes came from those same seeds that were sown years ago when I was in that place. I wasn’t as connected or really trusting that connection then, but I was asking (even before I knew I was asking) and I was getting glimmers of all these things that eventually evolved into what you are learning now.

The Problem/Solution Template covered in the most recent Lessons posted in the 30 Day Empowered Spiritualpreneur Challenge came about because of my own frustrations with trying to use the scripted sales material that I was being taught and expected to use.

There were all these scripts written on how to engage people and how to get to their pain and how to overcome their objections.

And the agenda that is at the core of those scripts is always to get YOU to do what I WANT you to do.

It always felt very uncomfortable to me, because I didn’t feel like I was being genuine.

Even when the script worked, it didn’t feel the best. I would think, “How do I even know if this is something they even want or even need?” It was all about just kind of regurgitating this pushy, scripted process.

I just always had this feeling that there HAD to be

a better way…

It’s the same with all of these tools – they came to me because of my own contrast and my own challenges and my own misalignment with the accepted way of doing things – the feeling in the pit of my stomach that this just doesn’t feel right – that there had to be a better way.

I knew that if I could just help people connect that really did ultimately want and need what I had that I would be an answer to their prayer and they would be an answer to mine.

So I started asking, “How can I do that?” Read more

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Are You Using Your Eyes of Love?

So often people say to me, “I just have a hard time talking about what I do – I am really excited about it,  but when I share my product or service, people seem to get that dear in the headlights look. It feels like I am interrupting them or selling them…”

I had these exact same issues when I was in sales representing different companies in the corporate world, and I desperately needed to find a way where I could be in alignment with languaging what I was offering in a way that felt good for me and for the person I was talking to!

The Activations you’re getting into in Lessons 10 & 11 of the 30 Day Empowered Spiritualpreneur Challenge that were just posted came to me as a response to some of the problems/challenges/issues that I had in my selling process that were causing an emotional reaction within me that was not serving me.

Essentially, it was causing me to not manage my energy – I was experiencing angst, fear, worry, and concern about sales.

When the solutions did come to me, it literally changed everything about what I was doing! That is why I want to share these lessons with the world – to let you know that there IS hope!

You don’t have to feel that you are not good enough, that you can’t do it, that you don’t have what it takes…

All you need is for someone to hold you by the hand and take you step by step through it – a way to shorten the learning curve, which is the Intention behind the 30 Day Empowered Spiritualpreneur Challenge.

One of my very first connections with partnering with Spirit in my work and life and business came with the Eyes of Love Activation that you will learn in Lesson 10.

I had an executive position in sales in a corporate office, and I was very good at what I did.  But something was missing…the entire sales process always seemed so pushy and manipulative and just like I was forcing my company’s agenda onto people all the time!

But one day, all of that changed. Read more

Do You Feel That You Are Alone as a Business Entrepreneur?

The journey to success is a bit like taking off an old tattered jacket and putting on an entirely new and different garment. Before you can enjoy the new clothing, you must be prepared to shed the old.

Your worries and feelings of living in a limited world of scarce resource, talent, opportunity, and luck are like that old tattered garment.

They can obscure your best intentions, literally robbing you of your dreams. You need to shed the old garment.

Have you ever awakened in the middle of the night worrying about…

“What if the clients don’t show up?” Or,

“What am I going to do if…” Or maybe just felt that sense of,

“What am I doing wrong? Why can’t I get a break?”

In my coaching business, there was a point where I could not break through to the success I wanted. I felt alone and it seemed I had to keep dancing as fast as I could or the money and work would just evaporate.

Sometimes my clients came in a rush and times were good. But when we had completed our work, the clients left, and it was as if I were unemployed, starting all over again!

If I was sick or couldn’t work, I didn’t make money. I constantly worried that it would all fall apart and I would have to go get a job.

Meanwhile, many coaches and other self-employed business professionals were doing well – they were enjoying healthy incomes and working the way they WANTED to work. I knew plenty of those people, and I started to ask, “Why? What were they doing differently that led to their success as a business entrepreneur?” Read more

Does Asking People to Pay for What You Are Offering as an Entrepreneur Make You Feel Bad?

One of my students came to me the other day to gain clarity on an issue with which she was having some contrast.

She’s been learning about the power of Intentions and attracting what you want in your life and business, and she came to me with the following question:

“If my Intention is to attract my ideal client who is willing and able to pay for my services and products, how do I reconcile this when I’m writing an article on creating financial independence and speaking to people who are finding that life is a continual struggle?

I find that many people today are stressed out, tired, feeling overwhelmed and depressed.  How can they pay for my services and products when they can’t make ends meet?

It seems as though I’m asking the Universe for one thing as an entrepreneur, and then doing something completely different. But I know that I have the solution to their problems!”

The first thing I said to her was, “Let me see if I understand this correctly. Your ideal client is someone who doesn’t have any money to pay you?”

She answered, “Right now, yes. A lot of them want the work – the products and services that I am offering – but they can’t pay for it”.

I came back to her again: “But my question is, is your ideal client someone that doesn’t have any money to pay you, or is not willing to allocate resources to pay you?” Read more

How Can You Make Writing Promo Copy for Local Joint Ventures Easy?

I wanted to continue a bit in the theme of doing your in-person workshop, as it’s such a great marketing tool to promote your product or service (and unique in these days of everything being online!)

When I did the in-person workshop for the Heavenly Meals concept (which I later sold for a good profit), my first goal – after managing my energy around the project – was to find local Joint Venture partners to support and promote the workshop.

This wasn’t as difficult as you may think!

On my first try, I just walked into a Curves – in a great jogging suit, with great hair and make-up.  I walked in and asked for the owner. 

I said to her, “As a business owner myself, I’m always looking ways to create money without putting any money out.  I’m looking for a few partners in a project that can expose you to a lot of women who would then be exposed to Curves.  Do you have a few minutes?”

Then I asked her, “Would you rather hand out the fliers and do the 10% option or do a hosting and get 20%?” 

She couldn’t do it the first month, but she did it the next month and booked for 2 months! 

You just have to do it, you just have to try. I wasn’t saying a lot.  I showed her in a couple sentences – Make more money without paying out, expose more people to Curves – when she heard that, of course she was going to talk to me!

Once you get the partners for your Joint Ventures, you’ll want to give them their promotional copy (one of the ideas I live by in organizing Joint Ventures is:  Always make it JOYFUL and EASY for your partners!)

It will always help to leverage your time when you can come up with a formula for writing copy.  Once you have the template, all you have to do is plug in the details – no need to re-invent the wheel every time!

Here is a formula that you can use for writing copy that a JV partner can use to promote your in-person workshop: Read more

What is the Energetic Element of YOUR Free Workshop?

When you use the Free Workshop Approach to market your product or service, you’re using the same consultative process you would use one on one, except that you’re doing it with a lot of people at one time.

You’re doing it with groups, which provides the platform for your products and services to be offered and sold.

These are groups of people that haven’t had the opportunity and the pleasure of connecting with you yet.

• You are moving as a Spiritualpreneur to that level where you’re standing in a more powerful place.
• You are letting your light come out from under the bushel.
• You are drawing attention to who you really are and what you have to offer in a bold way!

Creating and maintaining the connection of your individual personality to that of Spirit is energy.

It is the energy that these people are going to be served for the highest good of all and that they’re attracted to you because of who you are and what you offer.  Their pager is going off to your number and vibrationally, you are there to serve them.

There are so many of them out there and together that you need to create vehicles for them to you find you.  You can stay in your home office and hope they will get to you at some point but it will take longer.

Just get out there so they can find you and let the momentum snowball to your Vision!

Most people offering a free workshop go in with an idea of something that they want to impart.  Often they do this great workshop and they just workshop their heart out.

They go in and teach, teach, teach, teach, teach. Read more

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