Why Do You Want To Start A Business?

The title of this blog is the most important question that you can ask yourself when it comes to starting a business. The reason being is that your “why” will be reason why you stay in your business. The main reason why most people do not last too long as entrepreneurs is because they don’t have a strong “why”. How can you find your strong “why”. Start off with a general answer and go deeper with it.

Example:

Q: Why do I want to start a business?
A: So that I can make more money

Q: Why do you want to make more money?
A: So that I can pay off my debts and enjoy life more

Q: You don’t make enough money at your current job?
A: I make a decent amount but my job isn’t stable

Q: What else you don’t like about your job?
A: It’s too far, too controlling, and its hard for me to move up

Q: What do you like about your job?
A: I like my co workers

Q: What really excites you at your job?
A: The fact that I fix the technical problems at work

Q: What else really gets you excited besides work?
A: I like to travel, play music, go out dancing, trying new restaurants, working out, etc.

Q: What are your fears?
A: I fear losing my job and being put out in the street

Q: If you had all the money in the world what would you do?
A: I will teach and mentor others on how to become financially stable.

These are some of the questions that you may want to ask yourself and your prospects. You want to make sure that who ever you bring into your business that they have a strong why or they will not last too long.

Sherman Smith

Mentoring For Free
Success In 10 Steps

The Key To Prospecting

When you prospect someone, the goal is to get that person’s information like a business card or a name and phone number. There’s three things you want in order to get that persons information. You want them to get to know you, then like you, then trust you. How do you do that? You need to pique their interest. This is where it gets psychological.

The conversation starter is vital because the way that you get in is going to determine if you get the person’s information. One good way to start a conversation is could be a simple greeting like “Good Morning” or “Good Evening”. Then there’s the rule of reciprocity which states whatever I say to you, you’re going to in turn say to me. If I said “Good Morning” to you, then you in turn are going to say “Good Morning” to me. We do this unconsciously.

The next thing you may want to do is to compliment the person. It could be the clothes they wear, how hard they work, the car the drive, or their great bubbly personality. Just from this they start to like you. You may even make someone’s day from your compliment.

The next question is going to be the million dollar question. It’s either going to be “what do you do for a living?” or if you’re already at their workplace you’re going to ask “How long have they been working there?” Then you will going into a conversation about their job, they’re likes and dislikes about their job or boss, the hours they work. You may even go into their family life. The goal here is to get as much information about them.

The one thing about people is that they’re selfish. They may ask you what you do for a living, but they really don’t care. They only care about themselves. So if they ask you about how you make a living, answer them, then go back to talking and asking questions about them.

Now keep in mind the conversation should last no more than 5 minutes. By the end of the conversation they should be more than willing to give you a business card or phone number. Just a simple “Hey I have to get going, would you happen to have a card on you?” will work.

I hope this was helpful for you. If you have any questions, please feel free to write me at SKS_Success75@live.com or you can check out my links.

Sherman Smith

Mentoring For Free
Success In 10 Steps

The Bulk of Success is Personal Development and Branding

Why do you want to do business with anyone? How did you get attracted to the person you’re doing business with or want to do business with? Well, I’m about to let the secret out, it’s the law of attraction. And what’s the law of attraction? Well, who you are as a person is what you’re going to attract. Example, besides being an entrepreneur, I’m also a salsa dancer. I go to salsa clubs, listen to salsa music, take salsa classes, so evidently I’m going to attract salsa people. The same goes for you. Whatever you attract is who you are. Like attracts like.

In order for your business to start developing you need to attract people. And who’s going to be the middle man to attract people? You, of course. So how can you attract these people. Well you need personal development. What is personal development? It’s growing to becoming a better person each day in different arenas of life. How can you do that? You can start off by reading good books or listening to good audio CDs on personal growth. A couple of good authors are Napolean Hill, Claude Bristol, John C. Maxwell, and Anthony Robbins. The one I recommend that you start off with is “How To Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie.

You may want to ask yourself, what attracts people to you and what repels people away from you. Why do you have the friends that you have and what attracted them to you? Have you ever met someone for the first time and right off bat you either liked him/her or disliked him/her. There was something within those first couple of minutes that sparked it. It could’ve been what they said, how they said, or how they presented themselves. In any case, decide whether you want to connect with someone or not.

The one thing that make the rich unique is that they’re committed to personal development. Rich and successful people are open to many things. This makes them well rounded which in turn makes it easy for them to connect with people. If you limit yourself then you give yourself limited options which will hinder your success.

The fact that you will be well rounded will make branding easier for you. Like I mention before, in order for people to get involved in your business you need to be the middle man. People are attracted to people and by you being “The Middle Man” with a great amount of personal development, eventually people are going to become business partners with you. You have to give people good reasons why they would want to do business with you. Those reasons that you give is what we call branding.

There’s this rule of reciprocity or in other words “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours”. You need to let people know what you do with your team and what you do with new members to your team. You want to be able to build their trust in you and let them be aware of your support. You are going to be look upon as a leader to them.

Now we got this out the way. We need to figure out who we need to prospect and how do we approach them. This will be on my blog “The Key To Prospecting”

If you have any questions, please feel free to write me at SKS_Success75@live.com or you can check out my links.

Sincerely,

Sherman Smith

Mentoring For Free
Success In 10 Steps

Who Is Sherman Smith And How Can He Help You?

Hello everyone, my name is Sherman Smith and I reside in Sunny Southern California.  What I like to do is tell you a little bit about myself and give you my story on how I was formally introduce to starting a home business and give you some tips and insight on how you can become  success at any home business.

First of all, as of right now, I’m a Computer Tech/Salsa Dancer/Salsa Instructor/Entrepreneur all rolled up in one and then some. Just from this title you can see that my life is pretty full and I’m loving it. As you probably may have already heard, everyone goes into they’re story about how their parents taught them to get good grades, go to school so they can get a good job with great benefits. Well I’m no exception. Been there done that. Don’t get me wrong, there’s not wrong with getting your degree. The problem is that as soon as people get the degree and get the great job, they stop growing. They hinder themselves from taking advantage of all the great opportunities that’s out there. I didn’t want to feel “stuck” and I’m pretty sure that you don’t want to feel stuck as well.

My advice to you is to start a business and create passive income. Easier said than done, right? On the contrary, if you really have the mind set then you will look for the information. Evidently you are looking for something else or else you wouldn’t be reading this blog. Well my friend, I’m here to help and point you in the right direction.

Let’s go back some years so I can tell you why I started a business. Years ago after I graduated from college, I still had a hard time trying to find a job. When I did find a job, it didn’t pay that well. So what did I do? I went back to school so that I can find a job that pays me a dollar more an hour ????? Great plan right? Not!!! . After that low paying job, i found another job which payed 5 dollars more an hour. Now that’s a big jump right?? The only problem was that after nine months of working there I was wrongfully terminated and didn’t find a job for another 7 months. By the time I found another job, my unemployment almost ran out. After I found another job, I luckily found 2 more jobs just in case I get let ago again. Great security right? Yea, but it was a bit miserable because I didn’t have too much free time.

Those were the dilemmas. What I wanted to know was how can I have a “job” that pays well with benefits, thats secure, and where I don’t have to work so many hours. Well a friend of mine told me to read a book by Robert Kiyosaki called “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” and that’s where my journey to financial freedom began. So if you haven’t read it already, I recommend that you read it because of how simple makes you understand how money works.

Now since I got my business up and running my goal is to help you. The one thing I want you to know about me and my team is that we’re a strong team of individuals with different backgrounds. We make it an effort to help those that really are serious and want to help themselves. Our main goal is to help you and people like you to become successful and build a bridge to your dreams and goals. We have teams of mentors, coaches, and training to assist you with the growth of your business. If you have never owned a business we will help you get started as well as point you in the right direction.

Another thing I like for you to know about the team is that we always try to get together to do fun things. This is a good way to socialize so that we can build and maintain relationships. We may get together for bowling, movie, paint balling, karaoke, barbeque, or of course salsa dancing. We’re not about business 24/7 although helping one another to become successful is really important to us. But sometimes you want to let your hair down.

Now I like to know why you want to start a business and earn money from home. Is it because you want to fire your boss? Do you want to spend more time with your family? Do you want to not worry about your bills? Are you looking to supplement an income? Are you looking for more time for yourself so that you can accomplish your goals? Are you looking for a change of lifestyle? Do you feel like you’re not making enough of an impact on society? There are an endless amount of reasons why you may want to start a business and this is a good start because it helps you build momentum so that you can stay consistent.

What I’d like to do with the following blogs is give you some type of direction so that whenever you decide to start a business you will know to some degree what tools and techniques to use to run your business and become successful. Feel free to visit my sites below.

Sincerely,

Sherman Smith

Mentoring For Free

Success In 10 Steps