Are You Afraid to Ask for Help?

Do you fail because you are afraid to ask for help?

According to SCORE 70% of business failure happens because business people do not recognize, or ignore what they don’t do well and do not seeking help from those who can help them?

Why is that?

Fear others will take advantage of them once their weakness is known?

Embarrassment about what others will think? After all we live in a culture of rugged individualism. Asking for help is a sign of weakness.

Not knowing who to call (who you can trust) to help?

Concerned about not have the money to pay someone?

Do you lack confidence that you may be wrong?

If any on those excuses (sorry reasons) are applicable to you then I have some bad news. The bad news is that you are human and it is part of the human condition to need help at some point in your life.

Contrary to popular opinion it takes courage to ask for help. More importantly it takes intestinal fortitude to look at yourself in the mirror and admit that you cannot know everything.

There are reasons why coaches and teachers and doctors and councilor exist and others in the helping professions exist.

When did we lose that childlike innocence we had when we first started school? Life it about learning, life is learning.  When we stop learning is when we start getting old and the dying process begins.

Go down fighting. Never stop learning.

Let me know if you need some encouragement. I would be happy to help?

To your success,

Ron Finklestein
ron @ businessgrowthexperience.com

www.businessgrowthexperience.com

Ps. Go to www.businessgrowthexperience.com and download my free eBook entitled “Answering The Six Questions Your Prospects Want Answered Before They Buy From You.”

Pss. I will be announcing a new marketing membership site for those of you who like self service. It will provide monthly marketing strategies that work to grow sales. More later.

The More Knowledge You Acquire

I am now a facility with Ultimate Life Company. They are having 50 presenters over three days (July 19 – 22.) As a thank you, I wanted you my readers, to have access to over 50 presenters. This is important because the more ideas you are exposed to, the more knowledge you acquire and the more opportunities see. It is really cool to see possibilities where none existed before. It is amazing how the world changes as we change. When we change how we look at the world the world we see changes. Here is a link to this event. There is no charge. Enjoy.

http://www.ultimatelifecompany.com/summitsummer/2083

As an FYI, my presentation is: “The Six Questions Your Prospects Want Your To Answer Before They Buy From You.” If you do not want to wait to see the presentation or you prefer reading, you can download the 39 page eBook about the six questions at http://www.businessgrowthexperience.com.

Sincerely,

Ron Finklestein
www.businessgrowthexperience.com
ron@businessGrowthexperience.coom

Are you speaking a foreign language?

Are you speaking a foreign language?

I received this email today from Ultimate Life Company (I suggest you check them out. They have some great information):

“Tie in two to four strands of pearl Flashabou; tie in a furnace hackle by its butt end, curved
side back, and make three or four turns at the bend. Tie off and trim the hackle.
Wrap the tying thread back over the hackle so it lies down around the shank.
Pull the Pearl Core tightly forward and secure it to the shank at a point 1/3
the distance to the eye; whip finish and trim. Repeat two more times, at the
2/3 point on the shank, and just behind the eye. Cover the overbody with head
cement or lacquer and allow to dry.”

Actually, in a way, it is a foreign language. It may be written in my native language, but the instructions
were for something I know little about — tying a fly for fly fishing.

It reminded me of all the meetings I had with people and walked away not understand what they do or why what they do is important to me.
We all speak English but not always the same English. We have lived and worked so long in our line of business that we take so much for granted, especially the words we use. Many times people who are important to us do not understand what we say.

There are six questions your prospects want answered before they buy from you. I will be announcing a 12 session program that will help you
feel understand by your prospects and allow your prospects to feel heard and understood.

Go to www.businessgrowthexperience.com and download my free report called the Six Questions Your Prospects Want Answered before They Buy from you.” I will then send you an email when we announce the program. If you have an immediate need please send me an email. I
will get right back to you.

Ron Finklestein
www.businessgrowthexperience.com
ron@businessgrowthexperience.com

Life begins after fifty; Taking back control of your life

Many people over fifty are starting their own business. Recent surveys of Americans 50 and over,  indicate  the vast majority want to work after “retirement”. A growing number find attractive the sense of independence and fulfillment that comes from doing work they really enjoy in their own businesses. This is consistent with the report from the latest census, (www.census.gov), 32 percent of the owners between the ages of 45 to 54; 25 percent between the ages of 35 to 44; and 32 percent over the age of 55. In Northeast Ohio 39% of the population is age 45 and older (http://development.ohio.gov/research/regionalprofiles/region09.pdf.)

Other reasons this age group embrace business ownership is the appeal of having more control over their job, their life and their income. If you ever lost a job or want more control over your time, energy and money then you know what I mean. The bad news is that over a five year period 95% of new businesses fail.  The most common causes of failure include: Not pricing properly, Being overly optimistic about sales, Not recognizing or ignoring-what they don’t do well and not seeking help from those who do, Ineffective prioritization, Minimizing the importance of marketing and Insufficient business experience.

The good news is that all these problems can be prevented or minimized with the right help from the right individual or company. If you lack business experience, there are hundreds of low cost business opportunities available you can buy into that have the support designed to overcome the challenges discussed above.

If you have an existing product or service that you want to sell or a business you want to grow, surrounding yourself with trusted advisors can go a long way to reduce your risk. No matter how good you are no one person can know it all. Large companies have a “Board of Directors” to provide feedback, hold the president accountable and help clear away the obstacles. Every business owner needs a trusted board of advisors to help them with the difficult issues associated with being a small business owner.  Do yourself a favor: don’t try to go it along. Find help, listen to that help, utilize that help to address difficult issues that are hard to handle. This will reduce your learning curve and keep you focused on the desired results, SUCCESS. If you have a business or thinking about starting a new business, call me. We can help you through the many pitfalls of being a business owner and help you avoid the obstacles when starting one.

Ron Finklestein
Business Growth Facilitator
330-990-0788
ron@businessgrowthexperience.com
www.businessgrowthexperience.com

Videos to help you grow your business

Several of my videos on business growth and achieving success have been posted on the World New and Report web site.

This is one place where you can view key videos. The videos and what we cover are listed below. As you can see all are less than 11 minutes (because I know how busy you are.)

Here is the link http://wn.com/rfinklestein

• Behavior of Successful Business Owners 6:54
• 7 Secrets to Overcoming Adversity in Business…10:54
• Anatomy of a Sales Call…6:38
• How to Grow Sales…9:49
• What Business Owners Can Do To Grow Their Business…9:56
• Hey! It is all about taking action…6:57
• Why Intelligent Self-Interest is Critical to Your Success…5:28
• Nine Principles for Inspired Action: A New & Targeted Perspective…5:50
• Only a few ideas…3:39
• Ownership and Empowerment…2:55
• Measurable, Repeatable, Predictable…3:12
• Persistence…3:29
• Free and inexpensive marketing secrets that works – part 1…9:40
• It is all about results

These videos can be used in these areas:

• building an effective team
• business advisory board
• business coaching
• business coaching programs
• effective communication training
• grow sales
• improve people skills
• people leadership skills
• people performance management
• people skills for managers
• presentation skills tips
• Small Business Coach
• small business marketing
• small business success stories
• team building challenge
• workplace team building

Revenue and Profit Enhancement Specialist
Ron Finklestein
ron@ronfinklestein.com
330-990-0788
www.ronfinklestein.com

Why Good Relationships are Essential to Your Success & How to Create Them

Relationships are essential to your success.

Why?

Because they are an essential component of

• building an effective team
• business coaching programs
• effective communication training
• growing sales
• improving people skills
• developing leadership skills
• managing people’s performance
• people skills for managers
• developing presentation skills
• small business marketing effectiveness
• building team

and so much more.

True profit and revenue growth comes from within, not form with out. What I mean is your personal growth in a large part drives your success. I learned that when I learned and applied The Platinum Rule in my own life. The Platinum Rule helped me create a great marriage and strong relationships with my children.

Because my personal experience has been so positive, I approached Dr. Alessandra about using this concept in all areas of business. I put together a DVD on The Platinum Rule (TPR).  TPR was created by Dr. Tony Alessandra. TPR is defined as Treating Others the Way They Want to be Treated.

In this video you not only learn TPR, you are shown how to apply what you learn. This DVD  will work for anyone trying to build better relationship, but the primary audience is small business owners who want an edge in sales or improvement in their marketing. Additional applications include building better relationships with their employees and significant others. Many of my clients use it to take the stress out of their relationships: with peers, family, customers, prospects, and employees.

Check it out here.

The material is based on a book I coauthored with Dr. Alessandra and Scott Zimmerman called The Platinum Rule for Small Business Mastery. The book focuses on the application of TPR in twelve areas of business. The DVD only cover TPR but the book covers the application of TPR in sales, marketing, customer services, IT, business process, and business planning to name just a few areas of application.

I invite you to check it out to how TPR DVD will help you with your business challenges.

Ron Finklestein
Revenue and Profit Enhancement Specialist
ron@ronfinklestein.com

How to avoid the top 10 time wasters

Ten Time Wasters to avoid

1. Not staying focused – Stay focused on your business and ignore any other opportunity that comes along. Jumping from business to business will ruin your career! Stay focused on your company. You are unable to promote more than one opportunity. Avoid being sucked in by numerous sources of revenue.

2. Stop Multi-Tasking. You cannot focus do multiple things well. Your productive suffers You think you got a lot done but studies have shown that none a re done well and you would have completed more had you stayed focused.

3. Do not discount your product. You are not the Banker. On more than one occasion I wanted to help someone so I gave them some help by discounting my product. The ones that I offered this help to were the ones who valued it the least. If you do not value your services (product) who will. Stay away from people who do not want to pay for your value. This is especially true for people who sell services. They will not produce!

4. Your do not need to be a expert. People will be confused if you explain every detail. They really want to know why it works not how it works. It helps with your confidence level to know this info but you do not have to tell everyone unless they ask.

5. Stop waiting for your family’s approval. They want you safe and many time what you want they see as risky. It is your life. Live it by your rules not theirs! Decide. Take action. Create your dream.

6. Stop going to networking events. Most people you meet at networking events want to sell you their product. That is why they are there. I cut way back on my networking because the same people show up. They were more like reunions. Spend your time elsewhere.

7. The tire kicker. They want to tell the world they tried everything when in reality they will suck you dry and never take action. Work with people who are where you want to be and let the others go. Do not waste your energy on them.

8. Understand your prospect’s pain. Live in their problem so they know you get it. Stop selling features and benefits. Anyone can do that. Tell them what they will experience when they work with you.

9. Why are you in business? Being in business is not a get rich quick scheme. You can make money quickly but to experience the power of being a business owner require personal growth. Jim Rohn said is best: spend as much time working on you as you do on your business.

10. Stop believing the wrong thing. It is not skills that hold us back but our beliefs. Anyone can learn anything, assuming they have the desire and interest. I cannot tell you how many audio programs I listened to an did not implement what I learned. I would then listen to the same program 10 years later and wonder why I did not trust (believe, implement, execute, etc) what I first learned.

If someone had told me 10 years ago that I would write four business books, have two published internationally and become a professional speaker and consultative business coach I would have laughed at them. I will give you a bonus.

11. Do not believe your limitations. Those are things you learned as a child and you do not have to belief them now. Here is something to help you immediately. It is not your fault if you are not happy with your life as it exists today but you are responsible and you can change it. Click on the video below (8 minute video) to learn how to change your thinking by just one degree:

Ron Finklestein
330-990-0788
ron@akris.net
Business Coaching
Growing Sales
Creating Effective Teams.

To Your Improved Effectiveness, Efficiency and Productivity

Improve Effectiveness, Efficiency and Productivity

Today I want to write about something different. I believe in growing sales. There are many tools for that. Some Tools I used within my own business and personal life. Tools that are effective for me. Tools I have shared with my clients. Tools to help me stay healthy so I can grow sales to tools that improve me effectiveness and increase my productivity.

I do this because there are so many tools and many are effective and many are not. I hope to shorten your learning curve to help you increase your effectiveness and productivity. As I find more tools I will add them on my web site: www.akris.net
Here we go.

Ever Note: Ever note is a tool to capture data and information and organization it in a way useful to you. I have not used it long but what I really like is that it runs on all the platforms I use (ipad, PC and android). When I enter some data or action item it syncs with the other platforms. This allows me to stop worrying about what tool I am using that day. The info is on all platforms. I take notes with my clients using my ipad and I access the info from my phone when my ipad is not with me. I can also access it on my PC when I have lots of work to do. The investment is free (with some minor limitations – otherwise $45/year.) Well worth the time to check this out: www.evernote.com.

World Ventures: I have been invoiced with World Ventures for several months. World Ventures is a travel/vacation web site with some of the best prices on the web. I subscribe to this for three reasons:
1. I want to travel more and I need to make travel a priority
2. I get paid when I make my reservation through the web portal http://akris.rovia.com
3. My clients get stressed from running a business. I will send them dream trips so they can get away. We sometimes get too involved in our business and we need time away. These prices are really low. If you are looking for a business this could be the one. (NOTE: this is one of the businesses I expect to be involved in after I retire to stay young.) http://akris.worldventures.biz/.

Call me if you have questions. My contact info is below.

It is a membership site and costs do very depending on your options. Check it out http://akris.worldventures.biz/ or book your travel here: http://akris.rovia.com. What I am finding it that business owners are making the investment in the site to help offset travel expenses for business travel and making the dream vacation portal available to employees because of the prices and the impact on employee morale.

Let us move to two product I use daily: authorize.net and VEMMA.

Authorize.net is a web interface if you need to process credit cards online. I have been using authorize.net for many years without a single problem.

Their pricing structure varies depending on options: reoccurring payment, check processing via account clearing house (ACH) and a variety of other options.

To my knowledge they do not provide credit cards only the online interface.

The other product I use daily is VEMMA.

Vemma is a nutritional supplement that I take daily. I find I am feeling better. I tested this product out over several months and even flew to Arizona to visit with the company president. Before Vemma I was in a good deal of pain. This was from years of running and martial arts training. I just hurt. After 30 days taking Vemma I notice the pain was gone. I stopped taking Vemma to see if the pain returned. It did. I started taking Vemma again to see if the pain stopped. It did. I now have my wife and some business associates taking it because of the overall benefits. If you take supplements or if you are concerned about taking the right supplements then check out Vemma. My productivity and effective has increase because I have more stamina and I am thinking clearer. Here is the link: VEMMA.

I cannot and will not guarantee results for you but I can say I am totally pleased with the results I have achieved.

One more product.

The most valuable product in my tool kit is called dailysuccessstream.com.

Dailysuccessstream.com is a personal and business web site with training from some of the best and innovative minds in the world. The training videos are short (less than 10 minutes) and they are full of actionable tips. Training can be audio, video or PDF. They also have a guided path for those who prefer a more structured process.

I believe the only thing that holds us back is not our skills but our beliefs. Skills are easily taught when the mind is right.
dailysuccessstream.com helps keep my mind straight.

To be fair I am both a user and an secondary instructor on the site.

The price is very reasonable: $39.95 a month with a five day free trial. No long term obligation.

They have a strong affiliate program, of which I am a member.

For those of you who were familiar with Ilearningglobal, dailysuccessstream is new and rebranded ilearningglobal. I stayed with them from the beginning and through the transition. I am glad I did.

Take me up on this five day free trial. Dailysuccessstream.com , you will be glad you did. Just sign up and if you are not happy you can cancel your membership within five days and not be charged.

To Your Success,
Ron Finklestein
330-990-0788
ron@akris.net

He is an AMAZING STORY – Homeless-to-25th Wealthiest American

Let me cut to the chase, because time is of the essence.

I have never made this kind of opportunity available to my reader. I am not sure I will again. You have an opportunity to hear first hand how someone took themselves from eating out of trash bins and living under a bridge to becoming a billionaire.

During the last government bailout of banks (the Savings & Loan crisis) my friend, Bill Bartmann, went from bankruptcy-to-billionaire.

He’s lived what is arguably the most astounding “rags to riches” story in U.S. history. Who else have you ever heard of going from homeless teenage alcoholic high school drop-out, to the 25th wealthiest American???

Most important and relevant to you, the business opportunity that made Bill wealthy beyond belief is now back with a vengeance after being dormant for more than 10 years. Even better, this same opportunity is now available to individuals who know about it and how to take advantage.

This coming Thursday Bill will be my guest on a special invitation only webinar. During our hour together, Bill will share how he accomplished what he did and he will make major announcement to make that for some on the call will be life altering.

In addition, Bill has agreed to explain the specifics of how you can make money from this “down” economy (while helping others). He’s someone to pay attention to, because in one year during a similar “bad” economy, he amassed $182 million dollars in personal earnings.

Interested? Here’s how to get registered:

Registration:
The Billionaire Nobody Knows: The Astounding Story of How Bill Bartmann Went from Bankrupt-to-Billionaire During the Last Banking Crisis and how he’s doing it again today (this time with partners like you!)

Date: Thursday, August 5th
Time: 2:00 PM EDT/1:00 PM CDT/12:00 PM MDT/11:00 AM PDT
Limit: 1000 attendees (first come, first served)

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Or go to http://bit.ly/ronandbill

See you on Thursday Aug 5, 2010

Ron Finklestein

P.S. While I promise you will leave this program motivated and also likely with a new path to wealth, I unfortunately can’t accommodate everyone. Our service provider limit is 1000, so if you want to be included go to http://bit.ly/ronandbill right now and get registered. And please exercise the professional courtesy to not take up a spot that someone else would want if you’re not going to definitely attend. Thanks so much!

P.S. Because we all busy please take action now. This webinar fills quickly. I will post another notice. If you are interested and cannot make this date and time, please register so you will receive notification of the replay date and time.

Why The One Degree Differece is Important

Business coaching is about helping other to think differently about their business.

Watch this 13 minute video to see why thinking differently is important and how to begin the process of thinking differently to grow sales, grow effective teams, become a master marketer and master many of the skills a small business owners need to master to become successful.