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Since publishing my last post, I’ve gotten lots of questions from people who want to start service businesses, who have marketable skills and talents, but who are either intimidated or even stopped cold by the idea of getting new clients.
Many of these otherwise bold, creative, talented individuals feel somehow inept or ill-equipped to convince people [...]
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The best way to make money online fast is to offer a service.
Ideally, the service you offer will meet certain criteria. It should be:
Something you can do remotely, via the web.
In high demand.
Something not many people do with excellence, but which for you is an art form.
A service that can command high dollars.
Not easily fulfilled [...]
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This one is for those of us who are freelancers, service providers, or who have ongoing relationships where we work with clients.
Gary Halbert – one of the greatest copywriters to ever work in the field – used to wear a hat that had two works embroidered on it: “Clients Suck”.
Do they?
A lot of people say [...]
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In the past, I have scoffed at the idea of affirmations. You know, “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me.” That sort of thing.
I don’t feel that way anymore, because I have realized every human being on the planet practices affirmations. It’s simply that most of us do it [...]
I’m not usually a fan of “what if” questions. That’s because most of the time, those words (”what if…”) usually precede negative prophecy about something. Negative prophecies like, “What if nobody comes to our new store? What if nobody likes the new product? What if none of our salespeople makes a sale today?” Those are [...]
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I ordered a sandwich this past week at McDonald’s, from the drive-through window.
After pulling out of the drive-through lane, I discovered that my sandwich was cold. The bacon was uncooked. I circled back through the drive-through lane, and explained my dilemma to the young lady at the window. She distractedly held out her hand, reaching [...]
Things got all stirred up here in Ray-land this past week, what with my post about the “gurus”. In today’s podcast I talk about what that was really all about…
As always, if you have feedback or suggestions I’d really like to hear from you.
Call in your questions or comments to our new, fancy “request line” [...]
I got a royalty check from a client in my mailbox. That always makes me smile.
And as I was looking at that check, it made me think about how much fun this particular client is to work with — and I was reminded that I had an audio interview with this guy somewhere in [...]
Wow, I got a lot of feedback on my last podcast about thinking bigger. And not all of it was positive.
So in today’s podcast, I address some of the biggest questions that keep cropping up.
Two main topics today:
1. A tool to help you breakthrough to bigger thinking.
2. A way to overcome your biggest limitation (it’s [...]
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