15 “Rules” for Micro–Business Which You Should NOT Ignore…

I have listed these in no particular order… each is about as important as the others.

1. Always know your real reason why.

You want to start and run a micro-business, or you want to do a money-making project, so you must know what your true reasons are for dong it. This is what will motivate you and keep you going, whatever the obstacles. Without a clear vision of what you want, and why you want it, you’ll have no reason to continue when the going gets hard, or something gets in the way. Humans are need-driven. Wishful thinking without clear, decisive action will get you nowhere fast. This is how dreams really are turned into reality.

2. Always know that you can.

To be successful in any aspect of life, you have to believe in yourself and what you are doing. A negative, defeatist attitude will kill a business project faster than anything else ever could. Knowledge, skills, self-confidence, having reachable goals and taking action are what makes for highly successful micro-businesses. Read more »

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Golden Business Opportunities – NOT!

This is an excerpt from a Home Business Group conversation I had with another member on LinkedIn.

It seems that nearly every post to that group’s discussion board is an offer for someone’s “fabulous opportunity to make tons of money, fast and easy.”

I posted to the thread – mainly to show that not everyone is out to make a buck selling stuff to other suckers who bought the same sort of crap they did.

Here’s that conversation:
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Why Do Bikini Marketing – AKA: Content Marketing?

A Heaping Dose Of Unconventional Methods And Strategies (With Some Inspirational Whoop-Dee-Do Mixed In For The Intellectually Adventurous)

Why Do Bikini Marketing – AKA: Content Marketing?

Bikini Marketing is an old-fashioned (from the 1950′s – sometimes called “sample marketing”), but very effective marketing idea – where the “just looking” potential customer… and your curious current customer…

Freely samples and discovers 90% of the content they want…
that will only make them desire the remaining 10% all that much more.

As I was working with a local business owner recently who didn’t want to post his so-called “company secrets” online, he said… “Why would I do that – my competition will just copy me?”

Well – as I told him – here’s “why” he should, not worrying about – and in fact, beating – the competition…

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It’s ALL about Leadership!

Though this is a humorous look at leadership, the lessons are valuable nonetheless…

Are WE there yet?

The rest is up to YOU!  ‘Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.’ {General George Patton, Commander, US 3rd Army, WWII – and famous “gunslinger” from California}

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