Influencer marketing is not an emerging trend anymore but a strategic part of companies’ overall digital marketing budget.
While a decade ago, influencer marketing did not exist, the adoption of influencer marketing is rising fast and 93% of marketers use it today.
Ignoring the benefits of influencer marketing campaigns can spell doom for companies and social influencers. But what is influencer marketing, and how can you develop an influencer marketing strategy that works for you?
What is influencer marketing?
Influencer marketing is a marketing strategy in which brands partner with social media influencers to promote their products and services.
Influencers have an engaged and large following on social media platforms due to their knowledge, expertise, or unique point of view. They typically share content with their followers on diverse social media platforms such as:
• Podcasts
• Online blogs on WordPress, Wix, or other online content management websites
• Instagram
• Twitter
• TikTok
• Pinterest
• LinkedIn
• Snapchat
• Twitch
• Facebook
To strengthen your influencers online conversational marketing strategy you now need to consider seriously introduce A.I Technology. A Conversational Chatbot can interact with all your followers simultaneously providing them with advice, links, offers and much more.
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We can design a Interactive #Chatbot for your business and your clients which helps interact with visitors, capture vital information, signpost, send proposals, vouchers, videos and lots more.
Businesses, Enterprises, Organisations of all sizes and legal formats now find themselves post pandemic with increased online activity from current and new customers wanting information, customer services, services fulfilment and much more at an all time high.
As a result of this the last few years have set up scenarios where businesses and customers are mutually ready to adopt conversational automation.
A.I Chatbot for Business: Industry reports that today, just being present online is not enough. Businesses need to provide a 24/7 conversational availability, which is what customers expect across messaging platforms, social networks, websites, and other digital channels.
Virtual Speedy Services has looked at the top ten industries that are adopted conversational AI on various social media platforms like facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram or providing a link instead of their business website.
1. Social Media influencers
There is a growing number of social media influencers who have now amassed a huge following sometimes in the millions. In order to stay connected with their fans and streamline any endorsements, products or promotions they can stay fully connected in real time with their followers using A.I. Chatbot technology.
2. Using conversational A.I for e-commerce
The e-commerce industry is on a roll with exponential sales growth. The worldwide e-commerce retail sales amounted to £3.00 trillion in 2019, which is expected to reach £6.00 trillion by 2024.
Despite this growth rate, e-commerce businesses are struggling to maintain their sales cycle with traditional channels such as social media, emails, and phone calls. Not more than 1-3% visitors feel engaged enough to fill those static forms. If you also rely on these platforms, you must be struggling with the same problem.
Relying only on the human-driven sales and support system which are becoming more and more expensive can’t lead a business to success at profitable scale. E-commerce brands such as Shopify giant brands have created a new form of transformative digital customer experience with A.I chatbot.
Conversational A.I is helping e-commerce companies to
Every company needs a smoothly running HR department to ensure long-term success. During the process of recruitment, HR managers have to take care of hundreds of activities. And the success of those activities defines the future of a company. Finding the right candidates, ensuring policy compliance, resolving queries and conflicts- all these activities ensure that a business can run without any interruption.
Many organisations have started using conversational A.I for futuristic and proactive HR activities. Companies that use artificial intelligence for HR are able to increase their productivity by 45%. HR teams are saving almost half of their time usually spent on managing talent and answering repeative questions and queries. Hence, they can spend more time strategising, planning, developing, and recruiting talent.
With A.I deployed to your Customer services and HR activities, you can-
Attract more relevant prospective candidates
Reduce the hours spent and scale up the recruitment process
Qualify candidates based on automated background checks
Answer their questions with personalized interactions
Help candidates with paperwork, onboarding, and company policies
And more!
With Virtual Speedy Services, you can adopt an A.I-powered Customer Services or HR chatbot for more human-like engagement of candidates, customers and employees. An A.I that can find what they want in real-time and help them instantly rather than letting them go through an endless cycle of emails.
4. Conversational A.I for Distribution and Manufacturing
The distribution and manufacturing industry involves large-scale customer queries and operations. Manually handling interactions causes reduced results due to delayed responses and inefficient processes. With everyone having a mobile phone to hand they react by calling instantly when wanting assistance
To match the scale of manufacturing, enterprises are deploying AI in their digital conversations. Various tasks across marketing, sales, and support are being automated using AI chatbots for business.
Using Virtual Speedy Services conversational A.I platform, your manufacturing business can-
Run conversational marketing for more qualified leads
Take care of supplies and inventory with AI-enabled ERPs and legacy systems
Automate 90% of repetitive customer support queries
It’s hard enough for doctors and nurses to ensure accuracy in every minute detail of their jobs. At the same time, they have to invest 1/6th of their working hours into administrative work. For instance, even the small task of arranging doctor’s appointments requires a lot of attention. Any mistake during manual entries can result in serious problems for patients.
Thankfully, now your hospital staff can automate many such tasks with A.I-powered chatbots. Instead of manually filling forms, hospital staff can simply let the self-service A.I bot schedule meetings for patients as per the available time slots and much more.
Conversational A.I can offer complete automation to the healthcare front-office. Patients don’t have to rely on calling the staff to get information or wait for responses regarding transfer requests, discharge, and consultation requirements. Everything is processed and conveyed by an A.I-enabled virtual assistant.
With AI there for patients 24*7, hospitals can send on-time alerts and receive urgent requests to respond without any delay. AI bots are designed to update records, manage medical history of every patient, notify them about prescription refills.
Every prospective customer adds a big amount of money to an estate agency’s revenue. So, businesses can’t afford to lose those leads on social media and websites due to the nonresponsive approach or abandonment due to waiting too long..
Beautiful images and too much information can’t do the trick if customers want to ask questions for quick and relevant answers. In that case, they’re likely to enjoy an instant conversation with A.I that understands their requirements, rather than browsing through the long web pages.
Virtual Speedy Services can give that ability to estate agents businesses with conversational A.I, so they can have more qualified leads ready for nurturing and more satisfied clients.
In the travel and hospitality industry, businesses work for 8 hours while customers wish for assistance 24*7. This presents the challenge of losing more than half of your potential customers. Even the best of contact forms on your web pages can’t give you more than 1 to 2 percent of sales.
An A.I chatbot, on the other hand, lets you engage potential leads, qualify them, and convert them into sales. Not only that, but conversational A.I can also be there to answer customer queries 24*7 to enhance their travel experience without you lifting a finger.
For car dealerships, maintaining an ongoing relationship with customers is a must to keep on receiving revenue by fulfilling maintenance and repair requirements. At the same time, they need to ensure that no prospect goes away due to complications or wrong information.
Without any conversational automation, car dealerships struggle to capture leads and convince them to book a test drive due to delayed or no response. Often customers choose multiple channels to connect with a dealership and feel frustrated if they are restricted to a single channel for conversation.
So, automobile dealerships are now transforming their approach with AI-powered chatbots by integrating them across multiple channels for a unified customer experience. They are using the predictive intelligence and data segmentation capabilities of AI to find, track, and nurture leads.
The year 2020 was an eye-opener for many institutions that neglected the digital student experience for a long time. From primary schools to higher education institutions, all are now trying to establish a digital presence that can manage the immediate requirements for information by student.
A.I chatbots can help educational institutes:
Improve the quality of student query support
Increase admissions with conversational academic marketing
Attractive landing pages and regular social media promotion can’t do much if an instant conversation isn’t possible in the insurance industry. People decide to buy insurance from a company that gives them top-notch experience, answers questions, and resolves confusion.
To enable such prompt service and support, insurance companies now adopting conversational A.I. Instant interactions are improving engagement on websites, social media, and digital ads. Using this 24*7 availability, insurance companies are able to-
With a conversational A.I platform, you can generate leads on every channel and simultaneously nurture those leads with personalised interactions and help with transactional activities 24*7. But in todays world not everything is about leads.
Callers usually have questions, problems or want some information which is often hard to navigate via a mobile phone on a website.
It was statistically proven that most people respond to text messaging or prefer to engage in messaging on their phones, this is one of the main reasons why A.I conversational technology is proving popular
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Recent survey showed that 90% of ecommerce websites generally looked the same. And played little to no role in a customer’s decision to chose who they will purchase from. This means that thousands of pounds spent per month on traditional advertising has little to no contribution on over all profits.
But despite these setbacks, some businesses are earning more profits than ever while spending less time and resources then their competitors. No matter where your business is located, and no matter what condition its in, you can attract high paying customers in droves using little to known but effective techniques I’ll introduce just a couple of them to you now.
Did you know that many of your customers are willing to pay you more and buy more of your products if you simply presented it in the right way to them. You can also acquire more customers by simply marketing smarter and more efficiently as well.
One way to immediately increase your front end sales is to improve your sales letter offering.
Take control of your headline
You donʼt need to test and tweak a million different things until you start to doubt your own offerings, in order to bump up your conversions the first thing you want to do is just test and tweak the headline. Leave everything the same …just start changing the headline and see what happens.
You test your headline first or in some cases your email subject heading and you do that simply by just making a more powerful, more compelling headline that in my opinion should solve a problem for the reader. Once you have control over your headline then you can start testing the body of your content.
Use A.I technology by introducing conversational marketing
Start engaging with your social media followers especially if you have thousand of followers across your social media platforms?
Did you you can have a conversation, pass on details, resolve problems, show videos, get visitors to schedule appointment themselves, buy from your store, register on your courses, competition or events and much much more without you lifting a finger. A.I online virtual assistant can help you to:-
➢ Qualify your website visitors and direct them to what they want
➢ Increase your website or social media conversions
➢ Build a bigger email subscriber list
➢ Collect valuable feedback data to improve visitor experience
➢ Give them quick answer to questions
➢ Present a more streamlined buying experience
➢ Resolve complaint or problem in real time
➢ To get a more detailed answer to a query
➢ Link to calenders, videos, courses seamlessley
➢ Reduce your online admin time by 50%
Test your offering
The Key To It All. By testing your offer I mean you might want to, say, instead of selling an eBook for £12.99 – you might want to offer a physical version of your package for £27.00 + shipping and handling. You could offer three easy payments of £9.00 by a paypal subscription to a persons credit card. See?
Thatʼs actually £14.00 in total …over double the price …using a risk reversal offer that seems cheaper at first glance.
In fact, that offer would probably convert better. So it’s important to tweak your offer a lot. In the words of Dan Kennedy, “ITʼS THE OFFER, STUPID.” Iʼll give you another one.
Trial offers are another fantastic way to persuade potential customers to register, use your services and you can then up sell them afterwards (no spamming)
Testing your offer structure.
Instead of offering a trial, you could ask for a fair sum upfront £99.99 …and then gave them the big box of stuff as a bonus. They get the same thing but you simply structured the offer differently. Just imagine if you got 100 people to take your service there and then online, fees right up front. No trial, no launch, no affiliates you could see just how profitable and structured your offering truly is.
The number 1 complaint about launching and running a online #business or posting links is generating enough enquiries to make a #sale! and capturing contact details to respond
We can all agree tht social media plays an important part in sharing your message, services or products. But how do you start tracking what you have posted and how can it help your business, product or brand. I was researching this and have the following this to share with you.
It is important to set up a social media strategy to align with your business goals, and pulled together either paid or free social monitoring services, you’ve got one more habit to get into: tracking. From one fellow community manager to another, you know how important it is to know how one tweet performed versus another, or if one blog post rocked on one social network over another. This can only happen by having the right tracking in place.
Why Use Trackable Sharing Buttons
Not all sharing buttons are created equal, which is why you should pick sharing buttons that will give you a good signal of what’s going on in your site. You may see some insight in your analytics that tell you people visited your site, and some of them were from social. But to really know how and where your community is sharing your content, your sharing buttons should tell you.
2) Choose the social network you want people to share your content on.
3) Fill in the blanks.
4) Download a social button icon.
5) Make the icons clickable using your share link.
By using the right sharing buttons to help you see which social network is most popular among your audience, you’re going to understand your community better. Who knows? There may be a strong niche community reading your content in a social network you’re not actively engaging. These are a community manager’s dream gems to find!
Why Use Trackable Follow Buttons
Do you know, off the top of your head, how many social followers your site got for you this week? If your follow buttons were trackable, you’d be able to get this number without much digging in your analytics. And wouldn’t it rock to be able to tell your teammates you know that most of your Instagram followers came from your site? (This happened to us, actually!) As a community manager, this is the type of understanding that’ll open your eyes into exactly how your audience is engaging with your content. Discover which social networks your audience is most engaged with, and how your site is helping you drive engagement off your domain with trackable follow buttons.
Why Us Trackable Chatbots
Don’t lift a finger and still deal with your enquiries 24/7
The next big thing to hit SME’s is Chatbots Using Artificial Intelegence. The number 1 complaint about launching and running a online business or attracting responses to a posting is generating enough enquiries to make a sale or even responding to all the enquiries within 24 hours.!
Chatbots can assist you and there is “No Need To Lift a Finger Because some of the Proven System Will Do The Work And Get You More Leads!” The data coming out now is that more and more people are moving to online communications and shows that you need to start leveraging Chatbots to streamline customer communications, problem solving and sales. Individuals are using messaging Chatbots for many different reasons. However, the key things your customers want from any communication is quick response, help with there enquiry, ability to make appointments or make a purchase or have a problem attended to quickly.
You can automatically generate unique hashes appended to all of your site’s pages to help you generate unique links that you can then use to push to social. Address bar sharing adds a unique set of characters to the very end of your URL that will make that URL unique. (And don’t worry, this will not negatively affect your SEO.)
The reason you’ll want to do this is if you’re trying to monitor how the same content performs on different social networks, and which messaging performed best on the same topic.
There’s nothing more frustrating than spending so much time creating awesome content, and having tons of Tweets, tiktok and instagram out there to drive traffic to your pages, and then not being able to tell which phrasing or timing actually worked best.
Go beyond the pageviews and visits by making all your site’s URLs generate uniquely. You’ll then even be able to catch where a big segment of your traffic came from.
How to embed a tweet using the Twitter website
Open Twitter in a web browser, log in if necessary, and find the tweet you want to embed.
Click the three dots at the top right of the tweet.
In the dropdown menu, choose “Embed Tweet.”
The Twitter Publish page should appear. …
When you’re done, click “Update.”
How to embed a tweet on a website using Twitter’s embed tool
Why Use Analytics
Tying all of that data together into an easy-to-read dashboard is usually the hardest part of a community manager’s job, but lucky for you, AddThis’ dashboard pulls all of this information for you in one place.
The dashboard lays out in crisp and clear graphics how all of your audience members engaged with your site, which tools they used to engage, and which content they liked the most.
Know exactly which social network is growing the most from your site, and which is being shared to the most. Know all this by just scanning your dashboard (without drowning in search queries and exported spreadsheets).
Did you know that Sales of beauty products in Britain have outstripped France and now exceed £4 billion. And the British love of luxury and everyday hair and beauty including personal care products shows no signs of receding. Meanwhile, the industry is quick to innovate, including forthcoming hair, hair extensions and personal care product ranges covering “active beauty” and “active hair” tied into the huge health and well-being market, the rise of synthetic heat tollerant hair that feels and looks like real hair, temperature and water-activated products, water repellant and high gloss hair products and even personalised beauty regimes linked to DNA analysis.
Hair & Beauty Franchise Ideas
Having the backing of a franchiser in the hair and beauty industry can be vital, as you are guaranteed well-known and trusted procedures, products, and you can tap into a wealth of business and product support, plus training and marketing services.
Thanks to the power of the internet, opening your own salon is no longer a lonely standalone task. A new breed of entrepreneurs has risen up and is taking the Hair & beauty industry by storm. They supply a growing range of specialist services and products often promoted via social media and video blogs.
There is also a thriving marketplace for, specialists who are looking to set up their own Hair Extensions & Hairloss business.
You’ll find a massive opportunity at Need A Hair Makeover Franchise!
A fantastic opportunity
For many people in Britain and throughout Europe, hair loss, thin hair and damaged hair is a major problem. You can help them to get all the help that they need for a full-on hair makeover with the simplest of solutions.
With the help of our franchise set-up, you can:
* Duplicate a real, genuine business that allows you to help others.
* Set up a business that consistently provides an impressive return on investment.
* Put together a business that helps you assist real people with genuine needs.
* Develop a meaningful career path for yourself that has rewards for years to come.
Need a Hair Makeover Hair Extensions & Hair loss Specialist Salon received the ‘Best Salon for Hair Extensions’ and ‘Creative Image of the Year’ 2020′ at the Salon Awards.
Diane Shawe Signature & Celebrity Hair Extension Specialist and owner of Need a Hair Makeover Hair Extensions & Hair loss Specialist Salons was launched 4 years ago to help people with Hair Challenges by disguising thin hair, damaged hair, hereditary problems or bald patches caused by chemicals, alopecia illness or medical treatment.
looking for a viable business opportunity
Diane has trained over 4000 students worldwide through her Hair Extensions Training Academy since 2005 and is also the author of ‘Getting Started in the Hair Extensions Business’ and ‘How hair Extensions are Sourced, treated and Graded’ Her goal was always to launch a franchise business model and made the first stages of this by and selling her first Franchise just before the Covid 19 lockdown in March 2020 and has been patiently waiting to get things back on track.
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Diane’s initial excitement in selling her first franchise turned out to be a long drawn out waiting game but she still held out hope that both her and the franchisee would come out the other end unscathed, safe and still excited
Diane said: “We really do consider ourselves to be not only the best Hair Extensions and Hair loss Salon in the West Midlands but one of the best business opportunity for anyone wanting to open a specialist salon with impressive returns!
She goes on further to say “Just being a finalist would have been a massive achievement, but to win two awards was amazing considering the year we have had!” about the awards she goes on further to say that “Usually, we would be invited to an awards ceremony for the announcement od the winners, but it was 2020 style – Champagne, pyjamas and Zoom!”
Diane said “No matter who you are, your background, culture, age or gender, when you have problems with your hair, you want a non invasive quick solution to the problem, even those who just simple want a makeover for a wedding, special occasion, work or for personal reasons”
Need a Hair Makeover Hair Extension & Hair loss Specialist Salon became finalist in three categories
a) Best Customer Experience b) Best Salon West Midlands and c) Best Hair Extensions Salon and Winners in two categories’ a) Best Hair extension Salon and b) Creative Image of the Year by Diane Shawe
They had to submit an essay, pictures, and videos, highlighting how their business was different to others in the county, to a panel of four judges.
“We are so proud to receive this award after months of uncertainty. Hopefully it will be one of many!”
Diane Shawe Signature & Celebrity Hair Extension Specialist and owner of Need a Hair Makeover Hair Extensions & Hair loss Specialist Salons was launched 4 years ago to help people with Hair Challenges by disguising thin hair, damaged hair, hereditary problems or bald patches caused by chemicals, alopecia illness or medical treatment.
About Need a Hair Makeover (NAHM Specialist Salon Franchise ltd) Would you like to own your own Hair Extensions & Hair loss Business?
Specialist Salon Franchise Opportunity
Then you’ll find a massive opportunity here at Need A Hair Makeover & Hair loss Franchise!
Were we will train you, Establish your Outlet, Promote you and Support your Business Enterprise under our Brand. For many people around the world, hair loss, caused by illness, medication or stress, thin or short hair that wont grow, heat or chemically damaged hair is a major problem.
The salons specialise in disguising hair challenges with a variety of non invasive hair makeover solutions for temporary, semi permanent or long term comfort. Diane said “No matter who you are, your background, culture, age or gender, when you have problems with your hair, you want a non invasive quick solution to the problem, even those who just simple want a makeover for a wedding, special occasion, work or for personal reasons”
The main aims of Need a Hair Makeover & Hair loss Specialist Franchise Salons are to deliver the highest quality, the most innovative hair extensions techniques, hair loss treatments and disguises, hair care products and services to the maximum amount of people around the globe in a convenient, consistent, affordable, and enjoyable manner in our stylish salons.
The growing demand for applying bespoke high end human hair extensions and ultra high quality heat resistant synthetic hair and wigs across European Regions have created new opportunities for a new kind of specialist salons.
Contact: Diane Shawe NAHM Specialist Salon Franchise Ltd 160 City Road London EC1V 2NX Tel 0208 133 8212 email:contact@needahairmakeoverfranchise.co.uk
Good communication actually consists of many different sub-skills, from appropriate patterns of body language and eye contact to the ability to write clear and accurate reports. Accurate listening and the ability to follow instructions are especially important but are often ignored or taken for granted.
Many people simply do not pay close attention to what others communicate and fail to ask follow-up questions to understand fully. As a result, individuals act on their own inaccurate assumptions and create inefficiencies and frustrations at work. If you can really listen, your work will be a cut above many of your peers.
• Active Listening
• Oral Communication
• Written Communication
• Ability to Follow Instructions
• Investigation
• Attention to Detail
• Negotiation
• Nonverbal Communication
Goal-Setting and Planning
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Anybody can wish for something to happen, but to accomplish anything (except by accident), you have to make a plan—which surprisingly few people know how to do. Planning requires setting concrete goals, identifying workable action steps, and making a commitment to see the plan through.
Being an empathetic individual comes naturally to some, but is less natural to others. Behaving with empathy is more than feeling bad for someone who’s sad, or sharing in someone else’s joy. It means being able to step into someone else’s world to understand not just what their point of view is, but also to understand why they have that point of view.
Here is a list of more behavioral skills. Required skills will vary based on the job for which you’re applying, so also review our list of skills listed by job and type of skill.
• Accountability
• Assertiveness
• Asking Questions
• Concentration
• Conceptual Thinking
• Conversing
• Persuasion
• Creative Thinking
• Customer Service
• Diplomacy
• Decision Making
• Flexibility
• Gathering Information
• Honesty
• Improvisation
• Initiative
• Interviewing
• Leadership
• Management
• Motivation
• Persistence
• Persuasion
• Planning
• Problem Management
• Problem Solving
• Sales
• Self-Esteem
• Self-Improvement
• Self-Management
• Strategic Planning
• Stress Management
• Tact
• Training
Conversational Marketing A.I technology for SME’s is here
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It’s true, You can respond to clients 24/7 without lifting a finger
Get ready to start finding out about this groundbreaking virtual tool called “Conversational Marketing Chatbot” using #artificialintelligence! Find out how to #skyrocket your #business #sales, deal with your enquiries online 24/7 without lifting a finger!
A quick question for you, would you love to be able to employ a full time sales and marketing person to take your website enquiries in real time, take your sales to whole new levels but simply can’t justify the spend?
Are you thinking about or have tried all the popular methods like facebook, Instagram youtube, search engine optimisation with unimpressive results?
What if there was another yet affordable way to skyrocket your sales!
#artificialintelligencemarketing is here to Stay, It’s Grown up, It’s Powerful and Asynchronous but, How Do You Utilise it in Your #Business or #Organisation?
Study the ways in which a chatbot could help your business:
➢ Qualify your website visitors and direct them to what they want ➢ Increase your website or social media conversions ➢ Build a bigger email subscriber list ➢ Collect valuable feedback data to improve visitor experience ➢ Give them quick answer to questions ➢ A more streamlined buying experience ➢ Resolve complaint or problem in real time ➢ To get a more detailed answer to a query ➢ Link to calenders, videos, courses seamlessley ➢ Reduce your online admin time by 50%
It time for SME’S to activate this must have features to increase sales, provide customer support, build trust, automate booking appointments, taking orders, offering discounts and coupons whilst you collect genuine customer email and phone numbers 24/7 without lifting a finger! Click to see what we mean..
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A lot of people refer to them as Influencers today but here’s a little secret that can help you raise your status or even attract funding to help you successfully grow your business, So what’s the secret? find and leverage mentors and advisors.
You might think this is odd and not doable, but think about it, this is a win win senerio.
So, who or what are advisors?
Advisors are successful people that you respect and that agree to help your company. Advisors are generally successful and/or retired executives, business owners, service providers, professors, or others that could help your business.
Advisors generally will not cost you any money (you don’t pay them), although I do recommend giving them stock options to incentivise them to contribute as much as possible. But one of the benefits to them is that they also need referrals and new clients.
Getting advisors is not a requirement for raising money, but they have multiple benefits as follows:
Practice: if you can’t successfully pitch an advisor to invest time in your business, then you’re not going to successfully pitch anyone to invest money in your business. So, practice your pitch on prospective advisors first, and use that practice to perfect it.
Connectionsto capital and more: as successful individuals, advisors often have the ability to invest directly in your company; and/or they tend to have large, high quality networks of individuals they can introduce you to. Likewise the right mentors and advisors can connect you with key strategic partners, employees and customers.
Credibility: having quality advisors gives your company instant credibility in the eyes of investors, partners, customers, etc., can build enormous credibility.
Operational success: Having Advisors with whom you can discuss key business matters as you grow your venture will help ensure you make the right decisions, particularly if they have encountered and dealt with the same challenges already in their careers.
We assist startups or established businesses to generate a business plan and projections. We then help them to raise any finaces to help setup or expand their business.
When it comes to success, are you stuck in the same cycle, or are you ready to move beyond? Are you ready to move forward – not just a step or two, but a whole level?
Are you ready to leap into a new existence of achievement and power and if so, what does that look like?
Are you ready to leave your old life behind and move right into the life you deserve and if so what would your life looked like?
But if you were so ready, wouldn’t you be there already? Maybe. Maybe not.
Maybe, as much as you long for this dream world, you are also a little scared, a little nervous, or a little hesitant, you might also be exhausted.
Maybe as much as you say you’re ready, you’re blocking your own way. The good news is, if you’re your own worst enemy, then the only thing standing between you and the life you’ve always imagined is… you!
And once you recognise the issues that are holding you back, you can address them, one at a time. That’s what I hope to help you do in this short blog. I’ll discuss some of the main ways you can achieve lasting change and progress towards your dreams. It won’t be easy, but it’ll be life-changing – if you are willing to do the work.
“Up” Your Deserve Level We can only achieve as much as we think we can. Try this little exercise: Stand up and extend your arms out on both sides of your body. Close your eyes and, turning at the waist, see how far you can twist to one side without causing yourself bodily harm. Open your eyes and make a mental note of where you are pointing behind you. Now, close your eyes and imagine yourself going a little farther. Ready, twist! Open your eyes and see if you surpassed your previous point. If you’re like most people, you did!
Why didn’t you go further the first time? For the simple reason that you didn’t think you could. Once you imagined yourself going further, you did. It’s not very complicated!
If you allow others or your mental beliefs to impose limits on your physical stretching, it makes sense that you’lle limit your mental and spiritual achievement, too. So, you need to ask yourself what limits you’re putting on your: …dreams.
Are you dreaming big enough?
…income potential. Are you unnecessarily or purposely limiting your income or salary? …relationships. Do you doubt what you can achieve or deserve in your friendships and family life? …physical health.
Are you accepting less or making excuses other than the best because you think you’re too old or too outof shape?
The first step to changing your boundaries is to “up” your deserve level.
Here are three things that block you from accepting that you deserve the best:
1. Envy.
Envy is the result of a scarcity or lack mindset. You think that if someone else gets something – a great job, a new car, a book deal – that you can’t have it, too.
That is not the way the universe works. Just because someone else gets something doesn’t mean no one else can’t as well. even Angelina Jones has been married more than once! Realise that whatever anyone else in this world has – from a great career to a great family to a great body – you can have it, too.
Live your life to the full
Use their example to inspire, rather than depress you.
2. Fear.
Fear is one of the greatest demotivators. It’s hard to feel limitless and powerful when you’re shaking in your shoes! It’s natural to feel scared of breaking outside your normal boundaries, but remind yourself that all growth takes place outside your comfort zone.
To grow, you must push your own limits, by definition. get comfortable with discomfort – see it as a sign of growth, much like aching muscles indicate you worked out hard and are getting stronger and leaner.
3. Laziness.
We tend to get used to where we are and decide that it’s good enough because we don’t really want to have to work harder. Time for a harsh truth: There are different types of laziness such as mental, emotional, physical and spiritual liziness.
If you want an extraordinary life, you’re going to have to go to some out-of-the-ordinary measures. That means pushing yourself, challenging yourself, coaching yourself, whatever it takes to motivate you to move beyond “average.” Not that there is anything wrong with average.
Moving upward and onward starts with believing you deserve to have more and be more. It’s essential to own your dreams – and dream big, But it’s also imperative to live in the now and appreciate each experience, each gift and your blessings.
Allow No Excuses
In the immortal words of one of the greatest philosophers of our generation:
Do or Do Not: There is no Try.
Yoda
Your body doesn’t care that you were going to eat the right foods and go to the gym, but it was your birthday.
Your social media agent doesn’t care that you were going to finish that last chapter, but you was just too exhausted.
You do it, or you don’t. There are no points to trying. Once you accept that, you can move out of the victim mentality you begin to realise that it really is all up to you!
The other thing you can be sure of is that 99.9 percent of people don’t really care if you succeed or not.
Whether you finish your novel, run the triathlon, start your business or your still holding onto a grudge – they’re going on about their life, without much regard to you and your goals.
What it really comes down to is that it’s all up to you, and it’s all about you. That’s a little scary, but it’s also very empowering. That means once you make up your mind, no one can hold you back.
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