The 7 Secrets to Online Sales Mastery and Entrepreneurship

Mentorship: A mentor is someone that paves the path for you success with their own experience and success, a leader.  You’ll want access to them regularly, to be on the ‘inside’ of their circle so to speak.  Give them a reason to want to work with you and invest their time in developing YOU as a leader as well. Show them that you are hungry, a hard worker and that you can provide them value as well.  Way too often people want to know what we can do for them versus what they can provide us in exchange for what we know.  All fundamentally working relationships are reciprocal, they are never one way.  We always prefer to work with hard working, motivated and capable people.  Whiners and and people who are lacking the ability to take any form of personal responsibility rarely get our ear or our time.  Time is your most precious commodity and if it’s wasted you can NEVER get it back, choose who you associate with and how you spend your time wisely.  You’ll be shocked at how much faster you and your business will grow when you associate yourself with the right community, given the goals you have set for yourself.  We are all products of our environment, you are not the exception!  You’ll want to create the same being and action in everyone who joins alongside you or is in your organization. Cultivating your leadership is pivotal for your success.   We have yet to meet anyone successful in this industry that is not an extraordinary leader who gives generously.  Create the mindset first and the actions will follow.  Essentially being before doing, most people do it the opposite way and fail.

Ongoing Training: These days things move fast, especially in online marketing (which is where  most successful plays today) and you want to make sure that you are getting ongoing training on the latest marketing and sales techniques available so you can stay ahead of the curve. What worked two years ago is not probably NOT What’s Working Now. Make sure you are getting trained in these three crucial areas: Marketing, Sales, and Leadership.

Leadership:  Most people are not cut out to be true entrepreneurs — scratch that — they are, they just won’t do what it takes. Leadership is born from dealing with personal blocks and challenges.  The moment someone asks me, “how much money do you make?”, I know they are not cut out for this gig.  My income, my leadership, my actions and my mindset have little to nothing to do with anyone else’s success.  Leadership is earned through personal experiences and failures.  Someone can’t hand it to you.  There are plenty of leadership courses that can help you deal with this inner most parts of yourself and when they are dealt with responsibly can unleash incredible amount of motivation, peace, vitality, strength, courage and more.  I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to be working on yourself.  Your business is a reflection of your mindset and the value you bring to others.  If you don’t deal with those 2 areas, you are setting yourself up to fail.

Community: The truth is that most people have been brought up with the ‘worker bee’ mentality, starting from a young age and straight through their higher studies at universities and college.  I am not an exception to this rule.  I wish there was an “easy button” that could flip the switch, but Apple hasn’t invented it yet. When starting your own business whether online or offline, realize that you will be working, no boss (Yippe!), and possibly overwhelmed at first.  This is completely natural and don’t run away from this discomfort.  Many people have massive breakthroughs in their life during this stage as they build the courage (distinct from being fearless) to be and take the actions necesary to grow their business and create their designed life. Having a community that you can communicate with daily, bounce ideas, share experiences, grow, and learn together is vital to your success. This will help you in moments where you want to quit or feel stuck. Don’t underestimate the power of community, especially a like minded one.

Masterminding: If you’ve never heard of this term; it’s is a process where a group of people get together regularly in the spirit of harmony for a definite, major purpose.  I can not express how important this process is for your own personal and business development. The ability to mastermind with top leaders in your company or industry is an added bonus and will yield the fastest results imaginable. You’ll get your best ideas and learn how to traverse the biggest obstacles by putting this into practice.

Self Generated Leads: No self respecting success story or industry would tell you a story where they “bought leads” from a company, so why are you? Our leads are self-directed, super-targeted, and they attack their respective niche like hornets who’s nest was knocked over by an unsuspecting individual. With the cost of some company leads being as much as $30 per lead (which is insane!) and the unknown quality of these leads, your chances of success just got slashed in half.  Make sure you learn how to market and capture your own targeted leads.  You’ll also want to follow up with this prospects and build strong relationships with them to increase your sales conversions.  If you have any questions about this, please join us on our FREE Online Sales Mastery Workshop.

When you know how to create your own super targeted leads and have the appropriate marketing and sales training, you will NEVER have to sell anything at all. Your marketing will do all the selling and telling for you. You will just collect checks and let the marketing do all the work. This is how you leverage your time, multiply your efforts, make money while you sleep and turn your computer into an ATM.  Isn’t that whole point of being a an entrepreneur, freedom? I’ve never had to make one cold-call since starting my own business and you better believe that the first action I took in my business was NOT making those infamous “top 50″ family and friends list. Can anything make you feel more sleazy then selling to the people closest to you in order to kick-off your business? Worse yet, what do you do when they don’t buy or join up with you?

Live Events: You might be wondering what this one has to do with your own business. Forget those hyped up “rah-rah”, “we are the best and everyone else sucks” events. You want to go to events that deliver actual training, quality, and true networking value. When I attended my first event it was a major shift for me. I went from being someone who ’believed they could succeed’ to be being someone who ‘knew they could succeed‘. The distinction is mild, but extremely powerful.

I see way too many people enter into this industry believing they should have overnight results, push button million dollar systems with zero personal investment. Are you serious?  If you are one of these people, go back to your job — please!  The truth is that an online business or network marketing business is not so different then building any other bricks and mortar business with a few unique exceptions of course. It requires patience, resolve and investment. Granted with an online business you can be very successful in a shorter time frame (because of time leveraged and automated systems that are impossible with bricks and mortar), operate from anywhere in the world, operate 24 hours/7 days a week, work on your own time, and have a global presence. Totally feasible in fact…

A bricks and mortar business typically fails (over 90%+) in the first 3 to 5 years, carries with it overhead, liabilities, insurance, taxes, training, and you have to be there to open/close in order to turn a profit. Old school way of thinking. This is quickly going to become an obsolete way of doing business in the coming decade. Time magazine has already predicted that by 2019, 40% of the American workforce will be independent consultants working from home. Do you really want to miss this transition by not developing these winning skills right now?  Register for our Online Sales Master Workshop to Learn More.

If you’ve made it this far, I think you are finally ready to listen to what I REALLY wanted to tell you about our beloved industry. I had to communicate the above just so you can hear what I’m about to say, so lean in close and read carefully. Making money with an online or home business is NOT some pipe dream. It is very real, very sustainable, and can yield a massive income potential if you find a system and community that delivers on everything we discussed above. I was lucky, I am, I didn’t have to join a million companies to find an opportunity that made sense for me and the goals I set for myself when I got started.  However, over time I have found that there isn’t one solution for everyone out there.

People come with varied circumstances, financial liquidity, time investment and past experience.  And as such, a “one size fits all” option (like so many would have you believe) is not my solution at all.  This is why Ilan (my partner) and I always encourage you to contact us for a FREE CONSULTATION.  This allows us to assess specific solutions for your specific needs.  Makes sense right?

This is your moment to make a choice that can change everything, if you let it. I know you have concerns, and most of them are valid, but not necessarily true. I’m guessing it’s somewhere along the lines of money and/or time. You can’t approach something that’s has the ability to solve many of your problems, by allowing your current circumstances to dictate a choice that could lead to a solution. There’s a huge difference between being a the effect of your circumstances or affecting your circumstances. And here’s a little something I learned about money and time. I think is vital to success in your online home business system…

Money and time are like everything else in this world. They are a function of language. They are just energy and humans, like anything else, NEED to understand and reason. We created a way to measure and experience this energy by defining and giving them the distinction of time and money. But really think about it for just one moment –

You can’t “have time” you can only “make time”. This is a complete misnomer in language. You alone choose what’s important to you. Anything that is deemed important or to take it another step, urgent — you will naturally make the time for. (I.E. When your car breaks down and you need to get to work or your child gets sick you’ll bring him or her to the doctor — money and time will not seem like a problem at all). What’s more important than your future? 

Money, in REALITY is dirty paper with dead presidents on it. It is nothing more then a measurement of value, more succinctly, a measure of YOUR value. The more valuable you can become to people, the more they will be willing to work and pay you for that value.

Money and time is the ultimate knee jerk reaction to people who don’t want to think about what is REALLY holding them back and what is holding them back is almost never money or time. Anything…I mean anything, that you’ve ever really cared about or deemed urgent you’ve found the money for and made the time for. Validate it with your own experiences, don’t just take my word for it.

If you are serious and I mean DEAD serious about making a change in your life, then you’ll probably have to deal with whatever it is that you fear the most to find your success. On the other side of that will be the life of your dreams. So what are you waiting for? Create this moment in time as urgent and important to yourself and make the best choice of your life and those participating in it.