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Which Are You Afraid Will Give Out First…
Your Wallet, Your Time, Or Your Dream?
We have all been in that gut-churning place as a small business owner: with this fantastic mirage-like vision of success in front of us by day. But by night, when we’re all alone, we’re visited by the closet monsters of too-few paying customers, and the Mongol Horde of salesmen, ravenous to take your hard-earned cash for some doo-dad.
And most of them are selling marketing. “Just buy my magic marketing beans and you’ll be rich,” they say. Mmmm, hmmm.
Every day, you stave off the big question: “Will I make it?” But every night the monsters are still there.
Every one of us needs more revenue. To do that, we have a limited amount of money and time, and there are a zillion and eight marketing ideas that can suck more money out than they can put back in.
In the follow-on book to his original smash hit, “Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant,” author and business owner Robert Kiyosaki tells us, “There are thousands of shysters waiting to prey on the emotions of people moving from the employee to the business owner quadrant.”
And there you sit, by yourself, trying to figure out what will work.
Your friends can’t help you…they’re probably all employees somewhere, so they aren’t accountable for results like you are. When it’s your own money, the decisions get bigger.
Your family doesn’t understand…they keep wondering why you don’t just get a job.
And you can’t trust someone trying to sell you something to give you an honest opinion.
So you read, study, hope, hesitantly spend…and wait for good things to happen.
Imagine Joining Other Business Owners Helping Each Other in the Marketing Battle.
Can you see it? A qualified expert and a group of people just like you, gathered for the sole purpose of thinking up, perfecting and executing small-business marketing.
A regular time dedicated to working on your business so you can keep working in it.
A group of experts and fellow strugglers helping you evaluate and improve ideas.
A team of small business owners, getting clear together about who they serve and how.
It exists - just like the chemistry lab in high school…without the smell or the high school angst.
In it you experiment, design, collaborate, improve…it’s, quite literally, “Your Marketing Lab.” Not a talking-head classroom or sterile ebook where you get to figure out all the parts - this is a gathering chock full of the people, tools and supplies a growing business needs.
Tools like:
Eyes - decisions in a vacuum are dangerous. You know this, but don’t have people you can rely on regularly to give you the advice you need when you need it. They’re either unqualified, too busy or have an agenda that bends the truth, especially when it comes to marketing. You need eyes on what you’re doing. Participating in a YML Mastermind Group will give you eyes that help you see what’s good a bad in an idea, adding confidence and power to your decisions.
Ears - very few people can think and talk like their customers…they are just too close to the mechanics of the solution to really be able to state their customer’s needs clearly. And without that, all marketing is doomed to mediocrity at best. You need ears to listen to what you’re saying and help you refine it. YML Mastermind Groups are designed for hearing so that you can get out of your own head and think like your customers.
Experience - the shysters selling marketing succeed so often because small business people isolate themselves and face each decision as if it were the first time anyone ever made it. Within a five-mile radius of your business there are probably a dozen small businesses who have made the same mistakes you’re about to…or have succeeded with a marketing tool and know how to use it. You need to learn from others. YML Mastermind Groups bring real-world experience into your business.
Hands - most small businesses generate their first ‘profit engines’ from relationships with other businesses. You know, systems that share leads and revenues, and split costs…easier work, more hands on the problem, more money in, less money out. You need some additional hands working in areas where you’re not an expert. Participating in a YML Mastermind Group will offer you ways to get the help you need.
Hearts - Robert Kiyosaki points out that fear is a primary reason small businesses fail. They don’t know what to do, it creates fear, and so they make poor decisions. Being alone in the dark with those fears is a sure way to make sure you can’t identify problems and defeat them. You need a regular, unlimited supply of encouragement and contact with people doing what you’re doing…you need to be a part of a YML Mastermind Group.
Being in Business For Yourself is A Brilliant, Brave Act! Being in Business BY YOURSELF Is Neither.
Are you a small business owner or entrepreneur who likes collaborating in a safe environment?
Are you even slightly comfortable with technology?
Do you have goals bigger than the status quo? Are you open to and seeking advice and feedback?
Are you action-oriented and able to give and take real, honest advice?
You Belong With Us.
Join a group of fellow business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals looking for perspective, hoping to feel more clear and confident about the decisions they make, developing solid, creative ideas for how to market their business in a way that’s profitable.
If you KNOW there is value in your business, you need to be a part of a YML Mastermind Group.
Legendary business coach Kevin Nations says the value of any business goes well beyond what it offers. In his world:
Value =
What you offer
x
The effectiveness of your communication
x
Your willingness to take action to communicate
Even if you offer something great, you have to develop effective ways to tell people about it, and be willing to take action. You can find both effectiveness and willingness when you gather and grow with people trying to improve the value of their business and yours!
None Of Them Have To Give Out…
• Time can be your friend, if you spend it wisely.
• Your wallet can grow fatter, if you learn how to communicate.
• Your dream can move from mirage to magically real if you get sound advice.
Join us.
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