With so many people getting into business that have never really owned or ran a business before, I felt the need to share a big about setting up a business.  See, this is an area that can be critical to achieving success with owning a business. 

Now I know that this is not something that is talked about all that much but it is an area that if done well from the beginning, it can really increase the speed for your success.  Let me put it this way.  Normally, when someone starts a business they’re the ones doing most, if not all of the work.  And that’s fine if you want to be a self employed person and being a slave to your business. 

But if you don’t want to be a slave to your business then you need to set up the business so that you can get other people to do the work for you. 

Now I’m not talking about outsourcing your business to other companies here.  That is a good idea but you still need to manage the contractors to make sure that they’re doing a good job.  What I’m talking about is setting up the structure of your business so that you will not always have to be the one watch everything. 

See there are areas that every business needs to have and realistically, there should be a manager taking care of that department.  Then you only need to deal with that one person, the manager, for you to find out everything you need to know about what is happening with that area of your business. 

There are a couple of key sections that you should plan to have a manager looking after for you.  Things like Marketing/Sales and Finance.  These two sections should have someone looking after them and making sure that they are moving forward.

Now what about when you are first starting or you are very small, should you still have these sections? 

Absolutely YES.  It’s just that you will be the one managing that position in the beginning.  But you should still plan and think about what you’re going to need. 

Let’s put it this way.  If you go and write out your business structure, the areas or sections of your business, it isn’t hard to figure out what each of the posistions need to be doing and what their responsibilities are.  This way, as your business gets bigger, you’ve already set out what you will need in the way of an employee and what their responsibilities will be. 

So just to give you an example.  Most people don’t really like to deal with the finances but they know that they need too.  So you might want to structure this department with a bookkeeper/administrator and a CFO (Chief Financial Officer).  Like I said, you might be one or both of these in the beginning but by know this and what each of these people will be responsible for, you will know what you need and where your business will be heading.  (Plus, this is big for the Law of Attraction)

I suggest that you spend some time and look at this for your business.  This is one of those things that you hear about where you will be working ON your business and not IN your business.  This is also one of those things that will move your business forward faster because you will know where you need to be going. 

I would love to finish this post off with a bit of a story that I heard from Steven Covey, I think.

In the forest there is a group of people that want to put a road from one end to the other.  There are all of these different workers working away at choping down the trees with their axes, and others sharpening the axes, and others cutting all the branches off of the trees that have fallen, and even more people dragging all of the branches and logs away. 

Then there are managers that are out there making sure that the workers are staying fresh and are on the right track.  They are putting on courses and trainings that teach the workers how to be more effective.  These managers are making sure that the workers are following the plan that has been laid put for them, and so forth.

Then there is the leader.  This person climbs the highest tree in the whole forest and surveys the land to make sure that they’re going in the right direction.  Then this person yells down to the managers… “WRONG FOREST!!!” 

I really like that story because it shows how there needs to be people at every level of the business and how each of them has their own responsibilities.  Now with you being the CEO or the Owner, YOU need to be that leader and guide your people in the right direction so that your business moves forward successfully.

But to do this, you need to make sure that you have your business structure set up and planed out.  The sooner you do this, the sooner you will be able to effectively get other people to work for you to produce your business more money. 

Again, I suggest that you look at this for your business.  You will be happy that you did. 

Talk to you later.

Steven Downward

PS: I would love to hear about some of the things that you have done to set up and structure your business.  Leave me a comment below and I would love it if you could tweet this out and share it with other people that are just starting out with their business.  ;-)

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So what really gets you going when building your business?  Many people think that they know and that they are focused on it but, do they really? 

I know for a fact that many people think that they know their “WHY” but, they don’t.  They know the “why” that they have been told that they should have.  They never really looked with in themselves to really find out their “why”. 

Let me explain more in this video that I put together…

As I said in the video, many people say that their why is “to help other people”.  But to me, that is very small and what everyone says.  I believe that it may be to serve others but it goes deeper than to just help people.  Think bigger on this.  I’m sure that it is something that really goes deep.

I know for me, it’s the game of business that really gets me excited.  I get all fired up and high energy when I’m playing the game of business.  The more in-depth it gets, the better.  The contributing to people lives comes as a by product of what I love to do.  It’s like it’s a report card of how well my business is going.  If I’m not contributing to a lot of peoples live, then my business isn’t doing well.  Plain and simple. 

But what about you?  What really get’s you excited and fired up?  I know that it is something that’s really big and that’s worth your time.  So think about it.  I mean really put some big thought on this.  Find what drives your energy up quickly, easily, and powerfully.  If you start to think about it and you automatically smile with the excitement, you know that you are on the right track. 

If you know this already or you have a feeling as to what it is, share it below.  Write it down in the comment section below.  Through doing this, you will be putting it out to the world and the universe.  Having it in writing makes a big difference so I would love to assist you on this so please share it. 

Till we chat again.

Steven Downward.

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I hope that you are having a great day today because I know that I am.  But that’s not the reason for this. 

I have something that I wanted to share that can really help your business.  Now I don’t know if you realize this or not but you need to understand the value that you are bring to your market.  Now VALUE, what am I meaning by that?

Well I am talking about how you, your business, helps the people in your market, so the people that you want to become customers, how do you change their lives.  Because this is a very important question that you need to be asking yourself and you need to know the answer like you know the back of your hand.

You need to know this because this is why your prospects and leads decide to become a customer and buy from you. 

It’s the value that you offer.  but it goes beyond just you knowing what value you are giving to your market.  It’s them knowing what value you offer them. 

Nobody On This Planet Buys Anything Unless They Feel That There Is Value In What They Purchase. 

So you need to make sure that you’re conveying to your prospects what your business can do for them.  They need to know how you will be able to help them enrich their lives.  This is what get’s people to buy.

I have put together a video on this where I really explain this in full detail so that you can use this for your own business and for you to be generating more sales. 

The video is pretty short for what the subject is so just hit the play button and enjoy.

Now take what you heard in that video and apply it to your business.  That’s the key here for me.  That’s what I love to see.  I love watching businesses grow.  It gets me so fired up seeing how people build their business and how that business impacts so many people.  But you need to take this and get it on the road.  The quicker the better.

Enjoy the rest of the day and I will chat with you soon.

Bye for now.

Steven Downward

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Hey guy’s and gal’s

I felt like I wanted to share something with you that I feel pretty strongly about.  It’s just as the title of this post says, “What is even the point of starting a business”?

I know the main reason that people give for starting a business.  They want to be wealthy or they wanted control over their time.  But that to me is not what the essence of what a business really is.

To me, a business ends up having it’s own life energy.  Now I know that this sound a bit weird but if you have been around any business that is really moving and shaking, it has it’s own energy.  At this point, it is not about the owner or the shareholders, it’s about what “the business” wants and needs.

Now this energy that the business ends up having has nothing to do with making the creator rich.  That is just crap.

What it has to do with is the purpose for that business, the reason that the business was really started to begin with.  See every business is doing it’s best to improve the lives of other people.  Let me say that again,

EVERY BUSINESS ON THIS PLANET IS DOING IT’S BEST TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF OTHER PEOPLE

Now that to me is the real reason that someone starts a business.  They feel that they can make a difference in the world and they take action to make this happen.  That is what has happened with every single successful business out there.

Think about it for a minute, really, stop and think about it.  What is the purpose of companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, Sprint, Rich Dad, British Airways, and countless more.  All of these companies are out there trying to make other people lives better.

It just so happens that profits are a by product of creating success so that is what people see but it’s not the root.  The root is that some person, some entrepreneur, saw a way that they could improve or make someones life easier and that is why the business was created.

For myself, I know exactly why I’m building my business.  I know why there is a need for what I do.  I know this because I lived it for myself.  I hated trying to figure out how to build a business successfully and I want to make it way easier for other people.  It just sucks going through all that crap when there are far easier ways of doing things.

So as you go out there to your day to day activities of building your own particular business, make sure you know what value your business is bring to the world.  If the only purpose of the business is to line your pocket book, then you need to stop right now because the world is too smart for that and people will see right through you.

Take the time and really find out why you are building your business.  What is the real purpose of your business?  Because the sooner that you figure this out, the sooner your business will start to create an energy of it’s own.

Talk to you later

Steve 

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Now I do not know if you have ever heard of the Law of Vibration before but it is a Universal Law that is really powerful.  So I am going to explain it how I have come to understand it.

You see, there are many laws in this Universe and each one of them have their own point and purpose.  The Law of Vibration is the law that controls the well known Law of Attraction.  This is why there are so many people that are out there saying that they have tried to use the Law of Attraction but it did not work.  Of course it did not work, they were not using the Law of Vibration.

So what is the Law of Vibration anyways?

It basically boils down to this.  Every person and every thing in this universe is made up of one thing, energy.  Now energy is always in a state of motion and we have the ability to control that motion.  We do this through our emotions.

If we are wanting to attract something into our life, we can put all the thought that we want into it but if there is no feelings behind it, strong positive feelings, we will not attract it.  The energy waves that we put out will not be there if there is not feeling behind it.

That is why people are saying that the Law of Attraction is not working, these people are not really feeling the emotions of having what it is that they are wanting to manifest.

It goes like this, say you want to attract one million dollars.  Now you might say that you want a million dollars and you might even say that you have a million dollars, but if you do not actually believe that you can have a million dollars, you will not have the emotion that you need behind it to really attract it.

For me that is why I really like working on my belief system.  If my beliefs are in alignment then I have an easier time with being truly excited about what it is that I am manifesting.

If you are wanting to manifest anything, you need to be utilizing the Law of Vibration and getting your emotional self behind what it is that you are thinking of.  The more emotion that you have around the thought, the faster it comes into your life.

It is really that simple.

Check out this CRAZY video that I did a while back about this law and a movie that came out where I learned so much about the Law of Vibration.

So I urge you to learn more about this law if you are wanting to really use the Law of Vibration and the Law of Attraction.  Through understand them and understanding your beliefs, you can create anything that you want.  I am truly not kidding here.

If you want to check out this movie “Beyond The Secret” where I have learned a lot of this from you can check out the trainer at www.YouAndBeyond.com

And please, I would love to hear how anyone has gone out there and manifested things into their life.  Just leave a comment and share it with the community.  It is always great to hear other peoples success stories.

Talk to you later

Steven Downward.

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I wanted to share something with you that has made a major difference on the resulst that I have gotten for my busienss.  It’s called Website Optimizer.  I am not sure if you have heard of this before but it is soemthing that is very useful and powerful for any sort of online marketing. 

Think of it this way.  You have a website on the net and your goal with the site is to sell some sort of a product.  So you have your sales page all set up and you feel that it’s perfect.  So you go out ther and you are marketing that site to sell the product for you.  Low and behold, you sell some of your product from the site.  (That is what normally happens, right???)

But if we sit back and say, I am spending this much time and/or money to get people to come to my site, how can I maximize the traffic that the page gets.

This is were Website Optimizer is perfect. 

What this tool lets you do is split test your site.  Any site.  It does not matter what kind of site or the purpose of the site.  All you need to do is create a alternate version of your sales page.  Then you set up Website Optimizer to do the work for you. 

I grabed a tutorial from Google about Website Optimizer so take a look.  This tutorial is all about how to do a basic A/B test.  Check it out.

Do you now understand the power of Website Optimizer.  You can spit test any single page that you have on the net so that you are getting the best possible results that you can. 

I have used this to take one of my landing pages from converting at 2.78% to 14.29%.  That is a huge increase.  That ment that for every 100 people that came to that page, I was getting 11.51 more people to become a lead.  That is crazy. 

Needless to say you need to check this tool out if you are not already using it.  And the best part of all of this is that it is FREE.  Does not cost a penny to use. 

This is the link if you want to go and check it out.  http://www.Google.com/WebsiteOptimizer.  it is really worth your time to take a look.  It c=can really make a big difference on your business. 

To Your Success.

Steve

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I wanted to share something that happened to me today about taking action when you get these business inspirations.  Many people get these everyday but most people fail to act when they get them.  They have a thought or a good idea and they say “that’s great, I’ll write that down for another day”.  Then they write it down and normally forget about this inspiration. Let me explain what I am talking about in this video.

Click here to view the embedded video.

You see what I am talking about.  When these business inspirations and you do not act on them, they might be lost and you will never get that chance again.  So act on these ideas that come to you.  Most of the time you will just need to take a little bit of action and that’s it to start. 

I know that over the next week, you are going to get at least one business inspiration come into your head.  It will just fly in there and you will think that it is a great idea.  When this happens, TAKE ACTION ON IT, right then and there.  Don’t let anouther second go by where you do not take action and move forward with this thought. 

I would love to hear any comments or opinions that anyone has on this.  Please just leave them below.

Talk soon

Steven Downward

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There is a reason for every single business on the planet.  The person that started that business was wanting to do something.  They were wanting to achieve some sort of a goal.  But in order to achieve this goal they need to have some sort of an idea as to how they are going to do it.

This is known as your business vision.  The map, or vision, that you are wanting to have your business look like.  With out this vision, you are dead in the water.

So many people go out there and start a business because they have some dream that they want to acomplish.  But they never really create a vision for that business, so they end up running around like a chicken with their head cut off and never really reach their goal.

I created this video here to help me to explain it to you more simplistically.

Click here to view the embedded video.

So like I said, by creating a map as to what you want your business to look like, you start to engage the Law of Attraction and the Law of Vibration and your business starts to flow smoother.

Take the time to draw out what you want your business to look like.  It will make a world of difference on you knowing where you need to head and what you need to really focus on.

Have a great one.

Steven Downward.

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