Archive for June, 2009
Benefits of Joint Ventures
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Start a Joint Venture
Let’s imagine that we have two Internet marketers who know each other. One has a great product that they believe will sell very well but they have no mailing list. The other is a great marketer with thousands of subscribers in his mailing list, but the problem is he has nothing to sell to them. The very obvious solution here is to give the product to the great marketer with lots of contacts, and split the profits between them. This is the essence of joint ventures.
As more people start their own businesses online, the market is getting more and more saturated and the competition is growing. One of the most effective ways to build your business can be through joint ventures. That is, join forces with other marketers, entrepreneurs, infopreneurs, coaches, etc. to sell your product.
When you start a joint venture with an online colleague, you can ask him (or her) to send an endorsement of your product to his existing mailing list, so you do not need to worry about collecting subscribers from scratch. You already have an easily accessible target market. The key is to find the right JV partner whose subscribers will be interested in your product.
When you begin a joint venture with a solid player in the field, your perceived value and reputation will instantly increase because if this well-known person in the field is willing to work with you as a team, you must have some substance! When JVing with a big name or someone notable in your niche market, your status can instantly change from “marketing novice” to “guru status” overnight.
Last but definitely not least, you will get a chance to build a mutually beneficial relationship with a big figure in your niche market. The relationship alone will be worth more than the profits from that single joint venture.
If you have a dynamic info product, start looking for potential joint venture partners …you never know where it could lead.
Coaches Care Success Summit
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Coaches Care Success Summit
This is a telesummit like no other before it! Learn business success skills while your registration fee is going to help coaching non-profits around the globe.
The Business of Coaching is Changing. Will You Change With It?
The emergence of the coaching profession over the past 10 years has allowed a growing community of inspired, like-minded individuals to deliver their transformational gift throughout the world. Coaches now support thousands of clients and organizations in all walks of life, making a living out of their passion and making a difference with their daily work.
Yet many coaches are not achieving the true success that they desire or deserve, financially or in service. With a business to build (and a difficult economy to contend with!) many practices would benefit from new, improved models and techniques that are more in line with the collective sense of success both personally and professionally.
In a changing world, it seems inevitable that the business of coaching will change too.
The good news is it’s moving in an empowered, community-centered direction and successful industry experts are ready to share how and why with you. Help (and inspiration) is on the way!
In a few weeks, Coaches Care is presenting an Inaugural Event: The Coaches Care Success Summit, a 5-day teleconference series with strategic business education targeting individual and organizational coaching practices around the world. From June 22-26, 2009, 15 leaders in the industry will present powerful, timely insight on the latest coaching models, powerful marketing, social responsibility and much more.
Participate by telephone from the comfort of your home or office AND get access to all five days of Summit recordings for later listening at your convenience. You don’t need to attend live to receive all the benefits.
The Summit will seek to expose the valuable opportunities coaches have to achieve greater levels of success while simultaneously serving the global community. It is a strong commitment to service that places the coaching profession prominently in the vanguard of the human potential movement. Our goal is to help you build and sustain your business and deliver broad, community-based support to coaching non-profit organizations. Help us further the long-term sustainability and growth of coaching: an innate human capacity, a developed form of art and a catalyst for positive social change.
Join us for this groundbreaking event!
June 22-26, 2009 1pm EST daily
Go to http://www.CoachesCare.org to register today.
Defining Your Purpose in Life
Posted by: | CommentsWhen you are born, you instinctively possess natural instincts. Because you are young, you don’t recognize the value of these instincts in your life during that time. But, as you grow older, you recognize that there is more to life than eating and sleeping. You develop a life purpose.
What is your life purpose? You instinctively know how to live. Breathing and blood circulation is involuntary. As a child, you go to school and learn what you need to know to get ready for adult life. This is all a preparation.
Defining Your Purpose
As you learn and grow, you also yearn. Thoughts begin to fill your mind of a world beyond the four walls of your home and your school. Where do these thoughts come from? Every sphere of influence in your life feeds into those yearnings: parental care, friends, church, school and life in general. It is as much about self-preservation as it is about the other influences.
Each person develops a life purpose. Beyond what is expected of you in the early years, what you make of your life is up to you. All of these influences feed into your ideals. That’s your belief system.
You are taught right from wrong, but there are other traits like intuition, logic, perseverance and bravery that are learned through experience. That experience comes through goals, failures and achievements.
From your life purpose or belief system, you’ll begin to turn those yearnings in your life into tangible goals. Maybe you want to help people heal emotionally. That desire can change into a goal to become a licensed professional counselor. Perhaps you want to help others realize their business and/or life purpose, if you translate this into a goal, you may be best suited as a life or business coach.
The goals that you choose to pursue are in direct relationship to your life purpose. Goals can be shaped by good and bad experiences in life. An abuse victim may set a goal to help other abuse victims by starting a program for recovery. Positive experiences at college can lead to becoming a recruiter of the college and/or encouraging others to come for the same great experiences.
If you are looking to take your life in a new direction, consider your life’s purpose. What experiences and knowledge has shaped your life thus far? What do you believe in strongly? Use the answers to these questions to begin the quest for how you can enhance both your life and business.
Success – It’s Only For You To Define
Posted by: | CommentsSociety has its own standard of “success”. Some people reach it and some don’t. Before you jump on society’s bandwagon, learn to express what true success means to you and only you.
Your goals in life stem from your personal beliefs about life and business. What fills you will joy and a sense of purpose? Explore the Three Success Factors to get started on your personal definition of success.
What Is Your Definition of Success?
Three Success Factors
Several different criteria go into determining a definition of success. There is:
• Your Personal experience
• Your Upbringing
• Your Feelings
Your Personal Experience
Perhaps as a young child, your mother was a solopreneur. She made beautiful handmade doll clothes which were adored by her purchasers. However, while her clothes were loved by others, she didn’t want the spotlight or the praise. Your mother’s reward was not notoriety, but placing the doll clothing into the hands of a happy young child who loved it as much as she did.
That type of experience lets you know that success is more than money. Maybe those clothes netted a fair profit but the main reward was your mother’s talent well used. This is far different from someone who had another person take credit for their work and vowed to never let that happen again. Their goals may be to get all of the recognition for themselves for every little thing that they do.
Your Upbringing
This goes along with personal experience. Our parents were integral in dropping tiny droplets of wisdom in our lives. They taught us to turn the other cheek and help a person in need. All of these lessons roll into our philosophy of how we will search for success in our lives.
Achieving a goal for self satisfaction doesn’t involve money but it is no less a success. Climbing a mountain or learning to fly a plane actually take money but the return on your investment can’t be measured in currency.
Your Feelings
At one time or another we have all been a slave to our emotions. The key is not to let your feelings rule your life, but rather use them to define your life. Use determination to keep you focused on your worthwhile goals no matter what the obstacles. This takes strength of mind.
Use joy to find the silver lining in every cloud. Just because one plan didn’t work to achieve your goal doesn’t mean that another one won’t pan out. Use what you learned to avoid future mistakes but keep moving towards that particular goal.
What success means to you is something only you can determine. Once you establish that parameter, let it guide you through all of the goals you set and strive to achieve in the future.
