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To Plan or Not To Plan In reading the book “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur“, I came across a chapter titled, “You don’t need a plan or vision”. What is Derek Sivers talking about? Did I read this right? What about the following quotes? -
Top 5 Steps to Launch a Profitable Service Business By: Shane Bender -
5 Things Business Owners Desire Financially I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us. – Dave Ramsey -
3 Reasons Everyone Should have a Financial Love Letter What is a financial love letter? In short, it is a document with all the business and personal financial information including logins, contact information, and amounts. My thought is that some or most of you just got very overwhelmed at the thought of putting this together. -
How to Measure and Maximize Your ROI (Return on Investment) By Shane Bender -
How to Not Run Out of Good Ideas I didn’t order my son’s gift early enough. All he wanted for his 13th birthday was the new Nintendo Switch. By the time I went to buy it, it was sold out. His birthday came and went and the stores have continued to be sold out. The same week I was dealing with this issue, I read a book called Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini. There was a story of him going every January to buy a toy that he had promised his son, because they were sold out around Christmas. He kept meeting his neighbor there, which seemed to be a coincidence. The neighbor who had worked at a toy company told him that the toy companies ran out on purpose. They want people to walk into the store to purchase something when it is sold out and then come back a month later to buy the item they promised their kids. It is a profitable trick that works very well on consumers – even people who seem to know what is going on. -
5 Ways Tracking Will Bring Success By: Shane Bender -
Myths in Business – Part 3 Last January when I started my business, I came across a book called the Freedom Journal. I wouldn’t have thought it at the time but this book allowed me to focus for 100 days to launch my business. It helped me set aside any fears and distractions and do something I thought about for a while. Each morning, I would write down something I was grateful for and then my goal. The key to writing my goal is that is was in written as if I had already accomplished it. I actually wrote about my experience last May when I finished my first 100 days. -
Myths in Business Part 2 Do you think any of this?