Stop With Aggressive (aka Crazy) Deadlines: Time Perception Tip part 2

Over the years I’ve given the recommendation of motivating yourself via setting a deadline, or announcing a date.

For example, in August of 2006 I was considering launching a teleclass series for the fall (my first teleclass series!) and kept putting off the program because it was “not ready” (really because I was scared).  So my coach forced me to just pick a date & announce it to my list.  Started promoting, even though I had not finalized what I would be teaching, much less the handouts & spreadsheets.

And that worked pretty well.  Did not sell as many seats as I might have, since I only had 4 weeks to promote … but got the class done, some great testimonials, and TONS of content.  The idea is that I was not going to flake out on my clients, so I would be forced to Get It Done. 

These last 2 years I continued this principle of making aggressive deadline announcements, in an effort to motivate myself to produce drastic amounts of content & change.  Worked great for teleclasses, ebooks, new website launch, etc.

But here’s where I ran into a problem.  Read more

Ep #51 Three Mistakes You Are Making With Your Employees

Elizabeth welcomes Marcia Hoeck, President & CEO of Hoeck Associates, Inc. to share the Three Mistakes You’re Making With Your Employees and how to stop making those mistakes. Elizabeth then answers a listener question about hiring a Virtual Assistant, staff or employees and shares her Entrepreneur’s Success Tip of the Week: Time Perception Series #3, Every Project is not the most important project.

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Ep #50 How to Get TV Smart

Elizabeth invites Alice Collier, The TV Image Coach, who shares her 7 insider secrets to being a competent and compelling guest on television. Elizabeth answers a listener question about Personal Finance and Saving for Retirement as well as shares her Entrepreneur’s Success Tip of the Week: Time Perception Series #2, Stopping Aggressive Deadlines.

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Questions re Ali Brown’s LAST Online Success Blueprint Workshop?

Many of you have been asking questions about Ali Brown’s Online Success Blueprint Workshop, since you know that I’m a big Ali fan & have attended her OSBW twice already.  Oh, and since this November is the last time she’s doing the workshop, many of you who have been watching her for years are realizing that it’s now or never!  (btw, she sold out her original room & has expanded the ballroom, and is close to selling out that expansion… so don’t wait too much longer!)

So in the interest of being efficient, I’d thought I’d answer a few questions that have already been asked.  

Is the workshop appropriate for an internet marketing “beginner?”  Read more

Ep #49 Cash Flow and the Top 4 Mistakes Business Owners Make with Cash Flow

Elizabeth defines and analyzes cash flow and it’s affect on your small business as well as your personal life…not only the amount of the cash flowing in and the cash flowing out, but the timing. She explains how timing and looking forward affect your small business’ cash flow. Elizabeth answers a listener question about Identity Theft and what you need to do if your purse/wallet is stolen and shares her Entreprenuer’s Success Tip of the Week: Time Perception, Doing #1 First.

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What Do You Fantasize About? What’s Your Secret Desire?

As part of my season two of the 100 Days experiment, I’m taking two teleclass series — Ali Brown and David Neagle’s The 7 Mindset and Manifesting Secrets of Multimillionaire Entrepreneurs, and Marie Forleo’s Living in the Moment Bootycamp (what a great title!). Marie’s class starts on Wednesday … but on Ali and David’s calls last week I had a huge revalation.

I had been looking at visions for what to do with my business that were the next logical step in my business — great ideas that had the potential to make me lots of money. But I wasn’t taking action on them, and didn’t know why. The thing is, I know the HOWs of internet marketing — I don’t need any more info products or seminars on how to create or launch or promote stuff. I could write a book at this point. But I was very much stuck on what to do when my current projects were done in a few months. Have an event, write another book, teach a teleclass, create a new info product?!?

David Neagle was teaching about finding what you Desire (aka finding your Vision) — which I of course have journaled etc. about in the past. But he asked a question that shocked me. Not just “what do you want” or “what do you desire” … but “What is your Secret Desire? What do you Fantasize about?” — wooooh.  Read more

Books 101: The Right Way to Keep Your Small Business Bookkeeping

Books refers to the financial records of your business, kept in a way such that you can generate reports for tax purposes and for you to analyze the performance of your business.  The books include information about your income & expenses and your assets & debts.  

There is no one right way to keep books — you must choose a method that makes sense for how your business works, that you understand, and that you can use to create good reports.   Read more

The Dog Ate My Blog, or 5 Time Perception Tips, part 1

You may have noticed that I’ve been neglecting this blog … and may think, here comes the lame “sorry I’ve been neglecting my blog” post. Yes, things have been crazy (trying to get an info product & book out the door, relaunching all my websites, husband w/ a herniated disc, business, kid, house, cat, life, etc.), but that’s not the reason … really it’s all about internal time perception.  I felt overwhelmed & out of control, and so I was. 

Instead of just apologizing and making excuses in this blog post, I’m sharing the first of 5 time perception (aka time management) tips that have taken me from total overwhelm (and blog-freeze) to productivity & completion.   

Time Perception Tip #1:  Do #1 First 

I finally figured this out just this week, even though I’ve been hearing about this idea for over a year.  In the 4 Hour Work Week, Tim Ferriss talks about spending the first 2 hours of your day doing the most important thing for your business, instead of what most people do (check email, return phone calls, tidy your desk, eat a donut).  When I first read this book over a year ago, I thought this was a great idea, but instead of picking one thing I just wrote down all my to-do’s for the day and put a star next to the ones that were most important.  But of course, I did not do those first because they were So Big, and I have to check email to get back to my Virtual Assistants, blah blah blah, so I still wallowed in a bunch of sort-of-important tasks. Read more

Ep #48 How to Conquer Underearning

Elizabeth welcomes Mikelann Valterra, Director of the Women’s Earning Institute to talk about why and how small business owners underearn. Mikelann shares what underearning is; the concept of “Noble Poverty”; why women, more than men, undersell themselves; and how to change patterns to conquer underearning. 

 

Elizabeth answers a listener question of the week about how to get systems in place in your business and shares her Entrepreneur’s Success Tip of the Week: You Will Never be “Ready”.

 

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Ep #47 Creating the Perfect Joint Venture

Elizabeth invites MaryPat Kavanagh, aka The Queen of Connections and the Queen of Marketing, also the President and Chief Marketing Strategist of Strategic Results Marketing to discuss creating the perfect joint venture, even without a list.  MaryPat explains what a joint venture is and how distinctly different a JV is from an affiliate program; she also share her 3 key strategies to creating a long lasting, profitable joint venture.  Elizabeth answers a listen question on how a business owner can manage their time smarter and she shares her Entrepreneur’s Success Tip of the Week: Simplifying.

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