Profit First from Mike Michalowicz

Mike Michalowicz new book "Profit First" is getting out today!

Mike is the author of some other great book also.

The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field 

The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur 

Get a sneak peek at five chapter of Profit First.

Free Five chapter.

Visit Mike Blog here.

Easy money!

There's no short cut to making it big in business!

"When is the big payoff?
It will occur way later than you ever expected.
It will require more effort than you ever knew you had.
It will happen because no one else stuck it out as long as you have. And because no one cared nearly as much as you.
When you refuse to ever quit. That’s when the big payoff happens."
- Mike Michalowicz

Easy money program promising your instant wealth are scam for you.

If you choose the way of the scam, you could end up with a lot of fast money. But you'll also build a large ball of negative energy from all the people you scammed. Yes, you can make lots of money with scam if your fast enough. But remember that most will be among the ones loosing money. Someday it will be you.

Scamer never get very far. One day or another their tricks get back to them.

Street sign advertising...

How to advertise?

Use the Street Signs concept. Mike has been talking about it in this post.

The principle are simple.

1. Be where your clients will look for you.
2. Deliver your message concisely and obviously.
3. Give a simple and obvious next step.

To use this, you need to know a little about your market. When you know how your new clients will look for your business, then you make yourself seen as they want. And then you give them the next step as simple as you can. The action button is what most will use on the web.

Using this effectively will bring more customers into your business with less expenses to advertise.

Free opinions

Opinion giver that can get you down.

Have you ever been in a conversation when someone tells you how to run your life? What you should do or not with what is wrong in his or her opinion?

Yes, you know what kind of people I'm talking about. It can become frustrating and sometimes we get angry because of those supposedly good comments. And sometimes, we feel sadness and even depression from those comments.

Don't, don't be affected from those comments. And I have a good way to make those less affecting. Just add this to the comment "From my limited opinion". Add it in your head. And you'll feel a lot better when someone come to you to give you that life threatening comments about what you're doing wrong in your life.

You should also think about the fact that if this person has nothing to lose from giving you that opinion. That opinion is worth nothing. When you want to best from someone, you need to get it when that person has something to lose if she send you in the wrong direction. If that person is outside of your life then you should use the "From my limited opinion".

You can even use this with your own thought. When you have limited thought you can see how limited they really are.

Take a look at Mike Michalowicz post about this subject.

Anger...

Angry people don't listen much...

"The good news is that when you stop immediately reacting to everything, you will end up listening more. And one of the great qualities of every good leader and manager is that of being a good listener."
- Mike Michalowicz

 Good leaders...     How good in leadership are you? Me, I know I still have a lot to work on. Instead of raging, I need to delay my reaction. On the internet, I was reacting really fast to what others were sending me. And I was just putting some oil on the fire. I lost so many friends over stuff that should never had come to that. Now, I take times before I reply to something that is stressing me. I do my best to take a step back and wait until I have a cold head before I write anything.

You should never answer an e-mail, twit, blog post, quick message, texto or anything like that if you feel anger. Anger will always get you more in trouble then you were before. Anger should never find it's way in any answer. I know that a lot of people think that anger can be good. And they can have their opinion, but I don't think like that. Anger cost me a lot more then it helped me to gain anything.

Listening (reading) and then taking the time to think about it, is the best way to do anything. When you feel that you need to take more time to think about it, then say so and take the time you need. People will see this as a mark of respect and they'll wait until you're ready to answer them.

Don't be a "The"...

Giving yourself title will always be seen as a big ego trip by others. Stop to pretend to be and be.

Big title are just feel good ego buzz. They don't build business.

Action build business.

"Don’t tell people how great you are. Let your actions prove it to them. Let them give you the title. Because when they give it to you, you are truly deserving of it." - Mike Michalowicz

If you think you need to tell someone what you are, then you're not much of what you say. Show, don't tell...

Title comes from people around you. If you deserve a title, they'll give it to you. So, if you want to have a great title, better be great!

If you want something from others, you're better to give them a lot first.

Do you have something to say?

When I don't have a lot of inspiration for my new post, I like to visit blog. Sometimes, I read a post that give me the drive to write my own post. But sometimes, I come across some very sad blog. There's too much blog that are just advertising board. I know, people want to promote and find new referral, but you do this at the expense of new follower and maybe referral on your blog. People join people, not business. If you build your reputation on good blog post, people will like you and join what you are promoting because it's you. So, if you get removed from the bookmarks because you only advertise on your blog, then it will be all your fault.

So, here's some blog that I like to read because they have something to say. :)

Entrepreneurship Blog by Mike Michalowicz. Mike has wrote two good books on building your own business. He's a straight talking guy that will always say what he thinks is the best. He post a lot, and on a lot of interesting subject. A must if you are into business.

Tom Wacker dot com by Tom Wacker. Tom have he's own way in presenting things. He wrote a lot and each of his post are filled with lots of great contents. I visit his blog many times a week, even if I'm not looking for a subject.

Seth's Blog by Seth Godin. Seth is working hard to write a post each day. Lot's of great stuff here.

Geri's thoughts by Geri Gerstner. Geri is working hard to make good post. And some of them are really good.

The Jon Olson Project by Jon Olson. This is the second blog by Jon. This one is more personal then the Hit Exchange News.

The Tim Linden Blog by Tim Linden. Tim talks about stuff from his business and what ever he want to. I like to read his blog.

Hit Exchange News by Jon Olson. Jon wrote some great post. Not very often, but really good in content.

I'm bringing nerdy back by Justin Ledvina. This blog is really good. Lot's of good stuff. But post are rare...


Force The Blog by Mike Allen's. Mike hasn't wrote a new post in more then a month. I miss his unique way to present idea. I miss your post Mike. :)

I read a lot of blog, but most of them are only advertising blog with no content.

Ask the question...

You are the power behind your idea.

You get great idea coming to you at random moments and random places. You just need to be ready to write them down and work on them.

But, how do you ask for those good ideas? You just ask, that's it. There's nothing complicated in this. You just need to ask the right question.

Mike Michalowicz made a great post about this. 

It's better to take your time in choosing the good word for your questions then to do this as a dump. You'll get the answer, even if it's a cheap one you wanted. Take the time to ask the real question you want and you'll get the best answer you can get.

If you want to become an internet superstar, then as it directly like this. How can I become an internet superstar? And even better, you should add that you want to make it from where you are. How can I become an internet superstar with who I am right now? And if you go one step ahead. How can I become an internet superstar with who I am and what I have right now?

The more specific you are, the more specific will be the answer to what you want.

Leave it working...    give it the time to get back to you...   You never know when the idea will come to you. You have to be patient and grab it as it will come. Stay positive and believe in this great idea and it will come to you. And the last thing, if you get your great idea, start to work on it. There's always something you have to do.

Heaven or Hell?

We choose how we see our universe.

It's a choice that we make and we have to take responsibility for it.

How do you see your universe? How do you react to what's coming to you?

I read a great post by Mike Michalowicz about this subject.

And he quote this...

“The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.” – Albert Einstein

When you get lucky, are you someone who's looking around for the brick? Or are you enjoying the moment and share with others your good fortune?

One of the step in getting all that you want in life, is to learn to receive. Learn to enjoy what you get and share the goods things with others. But you need to learn to take what you get and enjoy it first.

In which universe did you really choose to live in?

Raving fans

From the blog of Mike Michalowicz:

"The formula to creating a community of raving fans is simple:

Over serve the best at the deliberate expense of the rest.

Only when you have the courage to do this, will you grow explosively."

Wow, this is something powerful and so short.

Are you game to do that?

I always do my best to give it all and even more. I don't see how you can have a business and not giving your best to your customers.

I found out with time that we can all do more then we are use to. We can all do something better with each clients we have. It's all up to us to be willing to do it.

Who's your master?

Become your master.

As Mike said, Become a student of yourself in his post.

A lot of people asked him what was the secret of success. And that's what he found.

Why, because most of us already know what to do, but we just don't.

You need the will to become the master. You need the drive to face your fear and continue. This isn't easy, like most would think. It's hard and most will stop before taking action.

Success is the result of hard work and consistence. Success is when you get up after you fall down. Success is to keep going even if you haven't got any good results. Success is just to do it and keep doing it. To become a master, you need to "Do the Do".

I'm not the first to tell you this. You already know all that.