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Where are You Coming From? - A Question to Assess Your Dominant Intention y VITAL that you communicate with your clients on a frequent basis. I will argue to the death that you should be talking to your client base at LEAST once a month.When you are starting off on any kind of business, a question that you should ask yourself is “Where am I coming from?” This question is meant to get at the foundation of your business.The question may initially seem confusing, but what it is actually asking is “What is your purpose for creating or carrying out this business? What is your intention?”What you should re I do NOT, however, believe in making you "beg" for referrals...simply ask. You know, provide them with a referral sheet with ev Purchasing or Selling a Corporation Well, are you? If you aren't mailing your past clients and prospective clients at least a quarterly newsletter, you might as well take a wad of cash out of the bank and just tear it up! Get this. It may be COSTING you $800,000 or MORE in lost repeat and referral business to NOT send a client newsletter (I hope you cringed when I said that!). Many of us (falsely) believe that we render such an awesome service that OUR clients will naturally refer us, and wouldn't even THINK of using anybody else.When taking into account all pertinent tax ramifications, there are four basic classifications that must be considered when purchasing or selling a corporate business. These are;1. Transferring corporate assess in exchange for cash or notes2 .Acquiring corporate assets by use of stock3 .Acquiring corporate stock utilizing cash or notes4 .Acquiring the sto Dumb, dumb, dumb. It's a vicious world out there. Your competitors are constantly spending big bucks, secretly attempting to "steal" your clients away from you. Many of your clients may not know or "forget" about the other services you offer. Imagine driving up to one of your favorite client's homes to see another contractor's van in the driveway. When you ask her why she didn't call you, she tells you, " I didn't know you did air ducts too. I thought you just installed furnaces. I wish I would have known that before we hired XYZ to do our new....” Whose fault that you didn't get the job? Hers or yours? Yours! To maximize repeat and referral business, it is absolutely VITAL that you communicate with your clients on a frequent basis. I will argue to the death that you should be talking to your client base at LEAST once a month. I do NOT, however, believe in making you "beg" for referrals...simply ask. You know, provide them with a referral sheet with eve Powerful Phone Interviews letter (I hope you cringed when I said that!). Many of us (falsely) believe that we render such an awesome service that OUR clients will naturally refer us, and wouldn't even THINK of using anybody else.Phone interviews are de rigueur with many organizations.Companies conduct phone interviews for a number of reasons.It’s a way to screen out the dead wood.It gives the next interviewer baseline information from which to work.It saves money.So, how do you prep for a powerful phone interview?And how is it different from a face-to-face interview? Dumb, dumb, dumb. It's a vicious world out there. Your competitors are constantly spending big bucks, secretly attempting to "steal" your clients away from you. Many of your clients may not know or "forget" about the other services you offer. Imagine driving up to one of your favorite client's homes to see another contractor's van in the driveway. When you ask her why she didn't call you, she tells you, " I didn't know you did air ducts too. I thought you just installed furnaces. I wish I would have known that before we hired XYZ to do our new....” Whose fault that you didn't get the job? Hers or yours? Yours! To maximize repeat and referral business, it is absolutely VITAL that you communicate with your clients on a frequent basis. I will argue to the death that you should be talking to your client base at LEAST once a month. I do NOT, however, believe in making you "beg" for referrals...simply ask. You know, provide them with a referral sheet with ev Myopic Madness ing big bucks, secretly attempting to "steal" your clients away from you. Many of your clients may not know or "forget" about the other services you offer. Imagine driving up to one of your favorite client's homes to see another contractor's van in the driveway. When you ask her why she didn't call you, she tells you, " I didn't know you did air ducts too. I thought you just installed furnaces. I wish I would have known that before we hired XYZ to do our new....”Imagine, you have created something that is state of the art. The envy of the industry. You spared no expense and focused on every detail. Everyone says It’s a can’t miss smash success! Everyone applauds your launch, customers wishing they could be the first to use your product, and you are ready to make money by the vault-load. What could go wrong?Myopic Madness is what could Whose fault that you didn't get the job? Hers or yours? Yours! To maximize repeat and referral business, it is absolutely VITAL that you communicate with your clients on a frequent basis. I will argue to the death that you should be talking to your client base at LEAST once a month. I do NOT, however, believe in making you "beg" for referrals...simply ask. You know, provide them with a referral sheet with ev Find Angel Investors l you, she tells you, " I didn't know you did air ducts too. I thought you just installed furnaces. I wish I would have known that before we hired XYZ to do our new....”It is difficult to find angel investors, but a careful exploration of possible locations for prospective angel investors can help. Angel investors are inclined to stay close to university programs due to the high number of fresh business ideas they produce.Someone who is looking to finance a business idea should contact a nearby university that has an entrepreneurship program, Whose fault that you didn't get the job? Hers or yours? Yours! To maximize repeat and referral business, it is absolutely VITAL that you communicate with your clients on a frequent basis. I will argue to the death that you should be talking to your client base at LEAST once a month. I do NOT, however, believe in making you "beg" for referrals...simply ask. You know, provide them with a referral sheet with ev Invention Submissions y VITAL that you communicate with your clients on a frequent basis. I will argue to the death that you should be talking to your client base at LEAST once a month.You have an idea for a new invention and you’ve already developed it. However, you know you don’t have the resources to produce your invention and turn a profit. Well, companies ask for invention submissions on a fairly regular basis, so this could present some wonderful opportunities for you.Your first step before making an invention submission is to obtain a patent. Contact I do NOT, however, believe in making you "beg" for referrals...simply ask. You know, provide them with a referral sheet with every job but don't stop there, keep in touch and... A newsletter is a very effective, pleasant, and FUN way to open the floodgates to a stream of steady referrals, and repeat business. How To Put An Additional $10,000 To $30,000 In YOUR Pocket This Year, Automatically! Want to avoid blowing YOUR repeat and referral business and put a bushel of extra cash in your pocket to boot? I thought you might. Listen up. You must send your entire database something, anything, every month, to automatically stimulate referrals, create deep bonding and rapport, be different and unique to them, and, most importantly, to create on-going steady streams of income into YOUR pockets, automatically, -like clockwork. The best way to do this? You guessed it. A regular, interesting, informative newsletter, mailed to your entire database each quarter. Notice I said, "interesting"? See, the problem with most newsletters is.... Nobody Reads Them! Why? Well frankly, they're about as dry as burnt toast.
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