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Let’s talk about getting the bag for a moment. Or rather, how we define the bag.
A couple reasons why pursuing 1,000 happy clients is more valuable than $10,000.
First let’s define happy clients. 👉 People who’ve received excellent client services, who love and identify with your brand, and enjoyed a demonstrable benefit, or had a need fulfilled by your product or service. Alright! Let’s go!
#1. What’s the value of 1,000 happy clients. Let’s assume the cost of your product/service is $100 on average. 1,000 x $100 = $100,000.
Attention is like the sun, where it goes, things grow. Shift your attention. But follow me here.
#2. 1,000 happy clients will repeatedly patronize you and invite their friends. Let’s assume 500 really happy clients introduce you to 5 referrals over a ten year period of time, and ⅓ of them patronize you. Yep, that’s an additional $82,500 conservatively speaking.
#3. What is the lifetime value of 1,000 happy clients? Let’s say you experience an attrition rate of 30% in terms of your repeat business from your client base (not amortized over 10 years because I didn't do the math, but I will), and we pretend like referrals don’t exist (but they do!)
Well, that could very well result in revenues in excess of $700,000
A commitment to outstanding, uplifting client services is the bag my friends. Help more people. Achieve lives of financial independence and satisfaction.
MYTH: You need to spend $1000s, incur tens of thousands if not 100s of thousands of dollars in debt to start up a successful business?
TRUTH: You can’t have it both ways. If not money, you may need to spend time reading, learning, acquiring new skills, and investing in yourself.
MYTH: You have to appeal to people’s vices, sell what’s trending, or appeal to people’s base selves to get the bag.
TRUTH: The bag is giving people more value than they expect 👉 resulting in happy clients 👉 followed by referrals 👉 who transition into admirers of your product or service 👉 who will promote your business, and if inspired enough, 👉 decide to join you. That’s the bag.
MYTH: You have to be good at sales, hunt and chase people, manipulate, outsmart, or outwit people to succeed.
TRUTH: Amateurs sale. Professionals sort. Be sociable. Go where there are people. Be genuinely interested in people. Listen intently. And when people reciprocate, educate them about your passion, who you want to serve, and the problems you want to solve.
MYTH: You can have it all. Riches will fall from the sky. And if these don’t happen for you, then there’s something wrong with you.
TRUTH: Attention is like the sun. What you shine it on grows. The inverse is true too. You will have what you prioritize. Entrepreneurship is about decisions, priorities, and consequences. And you can choose. You should choose what matters most to you, and only you.
It’s not just about how much you earn, but who you desire to serve, and how you earn it.
But can you have health, more time, better relationships, pursue your passions, and live a fulfilled life?
After all, what’s the point of escaping the rat race just to find yourself in a cage of your own making?
Are you just starting our entrepreneurial journey? Are you an established entrepreneur or high achieving professional looking to liberate yourself from a thankless grind? Do you want something to show for your work?
Or have you drawn the line in the sand, and you’re ready to work, get it out the dirt, and level up to the aspirations, commitments, and the future self and future that is waiting for?
Winter is coming. The cost of rent, mortgages, chicken, and milk have been steadily increasing. Incomes have flat lined for over 40 years. Professionals and entrepreneurs alike are giving up their life’s energies hoping for maybe…. Maybe, I’ll save enough, experience just enough happy days to offset the rainy days. Only to face an uncomfortable truth for too many, that it won’t be enough.
However, you can grow it. You can build it. Cultivate the life you desire for yourself. Provided you’re planting seeds in fertile soil.
What is fertile soil?
Being able to build your business from a coffee shop, your living room, the airport, or the park.
Run your business from California, Florida, Texas, Michigan, the UK, Ghana, Georgia, France, Toronto, Arizona, or Oklahoma. Just book your flight, go, and grow from anywhere.
Want to work from 8am to noon, visit the museum, participate in your child’s reading program or field trip, or take your spouse out for brunch? Done.
Desire financial independence and time freedom? Leave a legacy as opposed to pictures and memories? It’s in the bag.
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I encourage you to visit my online calendar at https://bit.ly/WeBelieveInUpliftingService. I look forward to speaking with you, and I celebrate your success in advance!
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It’s common to feel anxious or clumsy when sharing who you are, and what you do with prospects, especially when you’re just getting started as an entrepreneur.
Some freeze and become apprehensive about sharing what they do or how they can help others.
How do you overcome the fear and or not knowing what to say? How do you craft an effective approach to meeting new people (the lifeblood of your business) that doesn’t feel sale-sy or awkward?
I’m going to share how to overcome these challenges and more. 👇 👇
And as always, feel free to inbox me to ask questions, or post them in the comments to continue the discussion.
People have told me what I couldn't do all my life.
I was told I wasn't a good student, and I shouldn't aspire to be more than average. I attended U of M, spoke at one of the largest university graduation ceremonies in the United States, and as a student-activist changed the narrative of the campus forever.
I was told to be happy at a good paying bank job, pay my dues, and one day I'd be manager. Today, I train managers. And work with dynamic entrepreneurs and scaling corporations.
I was told to stay in my place, and those who were closest to me attempted to humiliate and sabotage my efforts. I learned that all my skinfolk, aint my kinfolk. And it's not lonely at the top, you just have to make new friends with those who dare to climb.
My journey has been littered with mistakes and stumbles. I didn't grow up in the right zip code. I learned and I'm still learning how to think abundantly. While financially literate, I had to cultivate financial independence habits. There's a difference.
But the further out I've continued to swim, the less chatter and debris I've encountered. The being is in the doing. Keep going. Keep growing. Keep swimming my friends.
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As small business owners, specifically if you are a sole prop or micro-business owner (3 employees or less) you're the marketing person, communications director, chief financial officer, copy editor, receptionist, social media and IT person, human resource officer, accountant, the attorney, put out the fire person, respond to the email, phone call, text message, follow up person, etc., etc. In addition to all the aforementioned, you still have to serve your clients. You most likely feel like you’ve left something on the table every single day, and there is simply not enough time.
To paraphrase Robert Kiyosaki, most entrepreneurs are going to get kicked in the teeth. If you’ve been in business longer than 2 minutes, you learn that you must have all the above resources if you’re going to be successful in business
The alternative? Let’s be honest, most people make google decisions or try to handle matters themselves because they don’t have the $200 to $400 an hour to $1000 to $3000 retainers to access the resources they need.
A recent interview with Danco Sotirovski, of "Ask the Neighbor" and JuJuan Buford, CEO of JSB Business Solutions Group & Co-Founder of NextOppSocial, regarding what steps entrepreneurs can take when they've lost that loving feeling for their business.
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