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Do you know that independent research has discovered that 95% of new businesses fail before their third birthday

March 6, 2010

Do you know that independent research has discovered that 95% of new businesses fail before their third birthday- You are about to find out what the 5% of businesses that survive do differently from those that fail.

… PLUS discover how to start your own business with little or no money down payment
as you use the power of leverage!

Dear Friend,

After working for nearly 16years for different top international and national organisations, supporting different types of businesses to develop and build capacity to serve their customers efficiently and improve their sales and profits, I decided to start my on business 2.5years ago.It has been a very exciting and interesting journey to say the least. Looking back, I wish I had started sooner, but quite frankly it took me sometime to ditch my fears and develop my self-confidence in doing what I always wanted to do and I am extremely glad I have done it now. I consider you to be a special friend of mine because you are reading this page. I know you want to start a business or help someone else do so, otherwise it will be pointless you reading this page. I have a very special story to share with you and I want you to take a short journey with me. I speak from the heart and I want your heart and mind to be involved in all that I have to say to you.

Before we start this journey, I want you to do something very personal. I want you to close your eyes and imagine what life will be for you, if you were to suddenly start your own business and it turns out to be extremely successful. I want you to think about what your new life will look like. I want you to see where you will be living, who you will be working with, the beautiful vacation you will have with your family as you now find yourself with more time to do the things you love to do. I want you to listen hard and fast to what people are saying to you as you now find yourself in this new life……… relax and let your imagination take you where you have never been in the mind. Please do this exercise before you move on. It is well established truth that you will never accomplish a goal you have not first established in the mind.

One of my mentors, who happen to start his business from scratch, forty years ago, and went on to make millions of dollars gave me this very exercise to do before I started his coaching and mentoring programme. It is amazing to note that no matter what you may think in your head, if you cannot see, feel, hear, taste and touch it in the mind, your effort to achieve it will be futile. In other words, if you cannot see yourself already accomplishing your new life, as well as a successful business, your effort to build a successful business will be undermined. This is the first secret to starting a successful business which many ignore at their peril, only to find themselves in failure. This is one of the hidden secret that the 5% of successful entrepreneurs understand and apply in their lives but unfortunately the 95% of entrepreneurs who fail in business are ignorant of this secret.

If you listen, hard and fast to any successful entrepreneur, you will hear them saying that they build their business first in the mind and then in the physical form. I will share with you more about this later. The likes of Robert Kiyosaki, Richard Branson, Andrew Carnegie and many others successful entrepreneurs have written many books to uncover this truth and I want you to understand it importance in the road map that will help you start your journey towards your dream of business start-up and success.

The question is simple, are you prepared to take the journey that will lead you to success. Are you prepared to do what the 5% of businesses that survive do or would you rather choose the path that the 95% of businesses follow only to find themselves in disappointment. These are the real questions you will have to answer for yourself and the path you choose will determine your destination.

But what is the price you need to pay if you are to start a successful business?

Good question. It is not a simple question to answer. You need to know that that you will pay a price regardless of the path you choose. The question you should be asking is this, which path leads to success and how does the failure path look so that you can avoid it at all cost. A great author once said, if you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got. So look at your results so far and ask yourself what you have done so far to arrive at your results. You will soon find that you have a readymade formula to arrive at your current destination. Every successful entrepreneur you find across the global market knows the formula for success is the same irrespective of where you find yourself. This formula is simple in theory but difficult in practice for all sorts of reasons. In my book “My Business Is My Business” which you will find at the end of this page, you will find more information about this concept. For now, you need to know that the formula for business success is:

Right Attitude + Technical Competences in business management and leadership skills = Business Success

It is well known amongst successful entrepreneurs that 15% of their success has to do with technical competencies, whereas the remaining 85% has to do with right attitude and mindset. Sadly, most support available for business start up tends to be focus on the 15% factors for success and ignore the remaining which is why so many new businesses fail. One of the greatest and richest entrepreneurs, Andrew Carnegie made it clear that if he was faced with a choice of working with someone who is intellectually sound or someone who is harmonious and cooperative in approach, he will always choose the later. You will get a copy of “Think and Grow Rich” at the end of this page, where you will find this information. In addition, in this same book, which is a “must read”, you will find information about why people fail in business. I will list few of them for you now. They are the habit of getting something for nothing, the habit of cheating others, the habit of negative thinking, lack of financial capital the list goes on………………………………….. With all of this in mind, you are now best place to take the right action that will lead you to success.

Hang on; let me introduce myself to you so that you get to know why I am sharing all this information with you. I am a business coach and mentor with over 18 years experience working with different types of businesses across the UK and abroad. I am also qualified as a Fellow Chartered Certified Accountant, with a Masters in Business Administration and a Practitioner License in Neuro Linguistic Programming. In less than two years of starting my own business I generated income in excess of what I earned in my job. My business has been growing steadily using the tools I am about to share with you at the end of this page. I provide training, consultancy, coaching and mentoring services mainly to aspiring and small business owners and I have a strong passion to help develop businesses across the world as I see this as my mission l for the development of our economic prosperity. I have trained, mentored and consulted hundreds of businesses over the last 24 months. I have a track record of inspiring, motivating and empowering aspiring entrepreneurs to start a successful business. I am confident you will also learn from my expertise and those of my team members. You can find out more about me through the testimonial page.

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I don’t know about you, but I am sure you do not want to keep repeating a formula for business start-up that leads to failure in less than three years. I am sure you do not want to spend your money and time in a business that will not achieve your dreams. I am sure if faced with a choice of achieving your goals slowly or not achieving your goals at all, you will go for the former option. Well, if I should be blunt with you, many aspiring entrepreneurs go for the short cut approach and when they do not make it, they blame others instead of themselves. The road to success is simple and straight, however it is narrow and very few go through it.

Knowing what I now know, I absolutely refuse to learn formula that will lead to failure. My attitude is to win and to do so big time. This means, paying to get the best advice and using the advice to achieve the correct results. It also means being willing to sacrifice leisure to do the work I have to do to become successful.

Many aspiring entrepreneurs do not think correctly. When faced with challenges they focus on the challenges as opposed to finding solutions to the challenges which is what being an entrepreneur is all about. This is another secret you need to learn and one that is covered extensively in one of my resource listed at the end of this page. Imagine, being faced with no finance to start your business, will you give up or will you find ways of raising finance creatively. Will you start thinking of selling stuff in eBay, perhaps getting your friends to give you all their old books and clothing whilst you sell them on eBay to make money? An entrepreneur will do the later. Someone who is still thinking like a consumer as opposed to a producer will focus on blaming the bank and the government for not giving them grants or loans. Here again, you have just learnt a little secret that the 5% of entrepreneurs do differently from the 95% that fail. If you are serious about starting a successful business, the first thing you are going to have to do is ditch your old ways of thinking and start thinking and acting as successful entrepreneurs.

As I started my business, I realised I needed a coach and mentor. I carefully, chose successful entrepreneurs with proven track record to mentor and coach me in different subject areas. Every successful individual has a coach and mentor. People who are not successful very rarely have a coach. I also learned from my mentors and coaches that they also have coaches and mentors. This is another secret that many aspiring entrepreneurs do not know. I paid for my mentors’ time. I do not expect something for nothing which is one of the causes of failure. Remember this is another cause of failure in business. As I employ what I have learnt from my mentors and coaches, I develop resources that I will use to help others in their journey to success. I was pleasantly surprise when I purchased a programme recently to find that most of the contents of my resources are packaged in this programme and labelled “A business in the box”. The first module of the programme is all about what it takes to be successful, followed by the mindset of successful entrepreneurs. You will find out more about my resources at the end of this page.

As I started coaching and training business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs, I found that I am getting good results. In fact, many of them will describe my approach as inspirational and empowering. All I have been doing is employing what I know work. Most aspiring entrepreneurs have technical skills but lack emotional intelligence to handle the challenges of life effectively. Technical skills are easy to fix. Emotional intelligence is not easily fixed because they are rooted in our beliefs and values system.

…I discovered a couple of unfortunate events in which aspiring entrepreneurs have made decisions that cost them their business

As I work with business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs that are making progress, I noticed they approach their business differently from those that are struggling. Successful entrepreneurs have a clear vision, mission and systems in place to support their business. They understand the power of leverage of other people’s time, experience and money. They understand that partnership and harmonious working are critical for success. On the contrary, when I come across businesses that are struggling, their thoughts patterns are in opposition of those who are successful. They think the world is against them or that they can get by on their own. They are often guided by beliefs and values that are limiting and disempowering. One session with them and I will begin to see a different results emerging. Recently, one of my clients who was about to pack up her business told me that she now has a different type of problem. When I met her, the problem was that she cannot find customers. By the time I finished the coaching programme with her, two months later, she is now having more work than she could handle. What did you think I do? I merely helped her to focus on all the resources that she already has at her disposal, as opposed to focusing on all the things she does not possess in her opinion. I worked with her in developing a solid business plan, as well as policies and systems to underpin her business. This is something that is time-consuming but nonetheless important for business success.

My work in the business start up arena took a different turn for the better!

I realised that to help millions of entrepreneurs out there, I need to document the knowledge required by the market to build a successful business, using clear and simple language as well as real life examples. I decided to write my first main book and I choose the title carefully. You will find details of my book at the end of this page. The book is titled “My Business Is My Business- Learn How to Earn a Fortune”. Research has shown that the number one reasons for starting a business is financial independence and freedom. You want more money and more time to do what you want and how you want it. The title of my book should therefore not surprise you, particularly as it is based on successful business owners as well as those who have not made it. The book is also endorsed by well know multi-millionaires in successful businesses. As people read the book and give me their feedback, I am extremely pleased I published it.

As I get feedback from users of my resources, I realised that it was the right thing to do to ensure that you get the right resources that will take you through the journey of success. Successful entrepreneurs do not rely on one source of income. They have multiple sources of income, which explains why you will find at the end of this page a home-base business opportunity. We also run training courses on online business opportunity and we put together resources that will help you develop your internet marketing skills. You must be aware that most of the support programmes you will come across do not teach entrepreneurs about how to create multiple sources of income or how to think and behave like successful entrepreneurs, which is precisely why 95% of them fail in a short period of time. My resources will teach you different ways you can build multiple sources of income, whilst at the same time building the business you are passionate about. I discovered this information as part of my coaching and mentoring programmes with millionaires such as Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G Allen, Bob Proctor, Paul McKenna ……………………………………

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When you’re ready to start your own business, what you need is a resource that doesn’t just give you copies of the same old recipes everyone else has. You need real tips and sound advice, so you can figure out how to:

• Think and behave like successful entrepreneurs and get the same results they get. It is called the law of cause and effect.
• Generate, develop and protect your business ideas; learning the secret strategies for developing a creative mind and being innovative is a critical success factor in business.
• How to source products to sell…………………….
• Put together a robust business plan and financial forecast for finance and managing your business effectively
• Market your services using robust strategies that will bullet proof your business and see it grows when others are looking at you enviously
• Develop your mind power for business success
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• Access tools to clarify your vision, mission and passion which are pre-requisite for business success
• Fast track you success in raising finance for your business using conventional as well as creative approaches.
• Help you develop the mindset of successful business owners, so that you too can begin to get similar results they experience in business
• Boost your confidence as you learn skills and tools for empowering your inner self.
• Accelerate your capacity to develop products and services that meet the needs of your market, as well as the capacity to sell them for profits using the power of leverage.
• Quadruple your success rate in achieving your business goals
• Boost your self esteem and credibility in the market…………….
• Learn about internet marketing strategies and gain immediate access to strategies for raising passive income – see information at the end of the page. You can also log on to the ecommerce marketing page for more information.

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• Quadruple your success rate in achieving your business goals
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TOP TIPS FOR STARTING A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS

You may have heard that 95% of businesses fail before their third birthday.
However, this there still exists the 5% who survive and abound well beyond their 10th birthday!

Question for you: Have you bothered to find out the magic formula for a successful business start up?
The secret to starting a successful business lies within your understanding of the key ingredients for success. Many beginner entrepreneurs have no knowledge what these ingredients are and for those who do know, some lack its understanding and practical application for success.

ESSENTIALS FOR ASPIRING ENTREPRENEURS

Tip 1. Begin with the end in mind
You need a clear vision of what you want your business to be like. No vision, no clear direction and of course no success. Make sure you have high values as well as a mission for the business. A business whose values portrays good standard and a spirit of delivering excellent services and products will always thrive over those with mediocre values or no value at all.
Tip 2. Focus on what you are passionate about
If you focus on a business purely because of its moneymaking potential, you will be least likely to overcome challenges and setbacks. When you focus on a business you are passionate about, you are more likely to persevere with it in the face of challenges and setbacks.
Tip 3. Develop a success conscious mindset
The greatest asset of humans is the mind when used correctly. If the mindset is poor then the results you achieve will be poor. All successful business owners have a success conscious or rich conscious mindset.
Tip 4. Develop a dream team
Remember that nothing significant can be achieved by one man; you need to work with other people and so you need to carefully put together your dream team for success. In business 1+1 = 11; 2+2= 22; 3+3= 33; 6+6= 66 got it. This is called the power of synergy.
Tip 5. Spend enough time developing your business idea and researching your market.
The greatest flaw of most new businesses is that they get into the market in a rush, often prematurely. These businesses often die a natural death due to insufficient and often inadequate business incubators. Spending time researching the market and developing your business idea will save you time and money.
Tip 6. Develop a unique selling point
Avoid making the mistake of thinking that USP is the same as delivering high quality services. I am yet to meet a business that is set up to deliver low quality services. Even when a business provides substandard services and products somehow they still label them high quality.
Tip 7. Develop a clear and compelling business plan.
It is one thing to know what you want; it is quite another thing to know where you are heading. When you have a written business plan, your thought process is much clearer about your business as opposed to the mind map. This can be a time consuming process but it is well worth it in the end.
Tip 8. Get your business insured
This is important so that you can protect yourself should the unexpected occur.
Tip 9. Put in place robust financial management systems
This helps you keep track of all spending and monies received. Sounds like book keeping? Absolutely! Beyond bookkeeping, you also want to ensure a financial report of your business exists as this will be major input for making sound decisions for future growth and development.
Tip 10. Put in place robust sales and marketing systems.
A marketing plan is very important, you may need information systems (backup and other support), people management systems e.t.c. Some entrepreneurs invest in Customer relationship Management softwares to manage every contact.
Tip 11. Develop understanding of finance sourcing
Only approach financiers when you feel confident and the financial outlay is now necessary. Note of warning! If you have not done your homework properly or even lack passion for what you want to do- stay clear from the banks or private investors. Well experienced financial representatives are able to spot it real quick!
Tip 12. Invest in your own personal development
Learn how to sell, how to manage people, how to read financial statements, produce budget and general literature relevant to your line of business. What you fail to prepare for today you will repair tomorrow!
Tip 13. Get yourself a mentor or a coach
All successful business owners have one or more mentors as well as coach(es). Be wise in your selection of a coach or a mentor. Ensure they have real experience in what they are advising you on. It will be absolutely pointless to have a business coach who is an employee. Your coach has got to be in the business of running a business.
Tip 14. Protect your business idea by using the services of patent agents.
Be sure that the agent you use is registered with a professional body.
Tip 15. Familiarise yourself with business law
Take interest in the law regarding your upcoming business. Be sure to obtain professional advise from someone with expertise in commercial or business law. Never attempt to play the role of a lawyer unless of course you are one.
Tip 16. Finally take action and manage your decisions
Do not wait for a perfect product or service. Bill Gates started his computer empire without a perfect product. Be prepared to learn and improve your business consistently. Let me have your comment on this blog post.

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