StevenDownward.com » goals http://stevendownward.com Stories Of A Traveling Entrepreneur Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:45:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 What Does Your Business Depend Upon, You??? http://stevendownward.com/what-does-your-business-depend-upon/ http://stevendownward.com/what-does-your-business-depend-upon/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:20:42 +0000 Steven Downward http://stevendownward.com/?p=909
What Does Your Business Depend Upon, You???

This is a very interesting and important topic.  What does your business depend on?  A lot of people think that a new business depends upon the owner or the creator.  Well, it does at the very begining but for a business to achieve real long term success, the business needs to depend upon systems. 

I put together a short video to explain this more.

I hope that you see the importance of having systems for your business.  Now, if you want to have a small business, you know, just a couple of hundred dollars every month, you might not need to do anything.  But if you want to really create success, you will need to have systems. 

If you have a bookkeeper, you will need a system to manage that person plus how you get all the financial stuff to them.  That is a system. 

If you have someone that does some of your marketing, you will need to generate a system to get the content to them that you want them to market.  You will also need to have a system to communicate with that person or company.

If you hire an employee, you will need many systems around them in the way of communicating with them and having them stay productive.  If they don’t work at the same location as you do, how will you manage the time that they work? 

These are all things that you will need to create systems for if you want real long term business success. 

I hope that you have found this usefull.  If you have, please share this by hitting the “retweet” button below and leave me a comment below.  I always enjoy reading what you have to say. 

Talk to you soon.

Steven Downward

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What Is Even The Point Of Starting A Business

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  icon wink What Is Even The Point Of Starting A Business

PS: I know that this is a bit of a departure from the type of posts that I have done in the past but this really has been something that I have felt is really important and I needed to get it out there.

So please, help me out with this and just hit that “ReTweet” button just at the top left of the post.  I would really appreciate it.  icon biggrin What Is Even The Point Of Starting A Business

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Re Setting Your Focus Daily Is Important For Your Business

One of the challenges that come about in the home based business industry is being focused.  When building a business, you end up needing to create the focus for yourself.  There is no one there that is asking you or telling you that you need to do something so you must create it for yourself. 

Let me explain how you can do this every day in this video training that I have put together.

Do you understand what it is that I am talking about here?  Having a routine in the morning really sets up your mental and emotional self on how you want your day to go.  You basically fill yourself up every morning with good intentions and good feeling.  This energy carries on throughout your whole day. 

When building a business, you need this kind of energy.  It is very important that you have an abundance of energy to keep you in the game.  Otherwise, you will just loose you motivation and you will quit.  I have seen it before so many times. 

Steven Downward

PS: This is something that I feel so many people that truly want success needs to hear so if you could do me the favour and pass this valuable knowledge along, I would be very grateful. 

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If You Want To Create Success, You Need To Know The Importance Of Motivation

As you develop your online business, you will find out that you really need to understand the importance of motivation.  Most people don’t even know how it works let alone the importance of it. 

So I have created this video for you so that you will understand.

Click here to view the embedded video.

So like I was saying in the video, motivation is a by-product of action and as you start to act, the motivation keeps you going to do more.  So without the motivation, you would have never gone to the end and made it work.  You would have stopped.  Through taking the actions, you get the desire and the motivation to keep on going.  To keep building your online business. 

Because you understand the importance of motivation and how to attain it, you are now unstoppable.  There is nothing on this planet that can stop you from reaching your goals.  If you start to lose hope, you can just change your actions and you will find more motivation to keep moving forwards. 

I would love for you to do me the favour and tweet this along.  Lots of people really need to understand this because they are truly wanting and deserving of creating success in their online business. So if you like it, please retweet it.

To your success

Steven Downward


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