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The Secret to Building Your Business from the Inside Out
Posted by: | CommentsThe Secret to Building Your Business from the Inside Out
As a woman entrepreneur, have you ever wondered what the secret is for building business success? Sure, it’s important to have a mission statement, a business plan, and a product or service that meets the needs of your niche market. It’s also essential that you have funding to back your venture, a support system in place to guide and mentor you along your journey, and savvy business acumen.
Yet even if you have all these things, you still may not hold the key. What is the key to business success for women? The secret is to build your business from the inside out. From a place inside that you as a woman intuitively know and understand. From your Inner Samurai. If you are an entrepreneurial woman committed to doing work that is meaningful and important if you see your work as a mission, service, or calling if your goal is to help other people transform their lives and make a difference in the world, then the key to making that happen is to connect with your Inner Samurai. Connect with my Inner Samurai? What’s that?
Connecting to your Inner Samurai means connecting to your “inner knower”. This will empower you with the strength you will need on your journey as you build a successful business.
All You Need to Know about Your Inner Samurai
Who? Your Inner Samurai is known by many names. It has been called the voice within, the inner knower, the still small voice, God Self, Soul, God Within, and Spirit, to name a few.
What? Your Inner Samurai is best defined by describing its opposite – the voice inside the head, the monkey mind, the ego. By contrast, your Inner Samurai is the inner voice, the voice within. It is the quiet, sure, confident, strong, vast, and powerful voice of inner knowing. Being able to tell the difference between the rationalizing, explaining, blaming, and chattering voice inside your head and the calm, sure, wise voice of your Inner Samurai will make all the difference to your business success.
Where? Your Inner Samurai is aptly named because it is the voice within. Inner because the voice is deep within your being to distinguish it from the voice inside your head and Samurai because of how strong and powerful it is. Understanding who your Inner Samurai is and knowing where to connect with it are vital for your business success.
Why? Everyone has an inner voice. It is that part of us that is the repository of all our life experiences, hopes, and dreams. It’s so important to get in touch with our Inner Samurai because it is our greatest source of strength and knowing. It is the seat of our wisdom. It is the place of our extraordinary uniqueness. It exists to remind us of who we are. How? The most challenging part of connecting with your Inner Samurai is realizing how it communicates with you. Your Inner Samurai has a gentle, yet very recognizable, way of doing so – I like to call it “pulsing.” When you go inward and ask your Inner Samurai a question, you will feel a pulse answering you. This pulse will have one of two distinct qualities. It will feel like either a yes or a no.
When? Once you know who, what, where, why, and how, the last thing you need to know is when. When is the best time to tune in and feel for the pulse of your Inner Samurai? The answer is always. Make your Inner Samurai the primary voice you listen to. Turn to others for support. Turn inward for guidance. When in doubt between your feelings and thoughts, go with the pulse. Your Inner Samurai will never lead you astray, do you wrong, or leave you hanging. Your Inner Samurai pulse is right 100%25 of the time. So, enjoy writing your mission statement and your business plan. Get creative making your product or service the best it can be. Develop positive relationships with your investors and supporters. And don’t forget the most important relationship of all – the relationship with your Inner Samurai. It’s the key to building your business success from the inside out.
Another Small Business Idea – Home Office Cleaning Business
Posted by: | CommentsSmall Business Idea – Home Office Cleaning Business
For the cost of cleaning supplies and a stack of marketing materials – you can be well on your way to starting a Home or Office Cleaning business A cleaning business is flexible and versatile in many ways. You can offer your services to small business offices churches day care centers private homes and much more. Due to the ease of start-up and low overhead costs the cleaning business is often crowded and can be very competitive in some areas. Read More→
Do genuine money-making opportunities exist
Posted by: | CommentsElectronic Commerce has proved to be a boon for all those who make money using the Internet. Every now and then I come across people who are more than happy earning a decent income using the Internet. At the same time, I also meet people who have lost hundreds of dollars as a result of online scams.
The first question that comes to my mind is- Do genuine money-making opportunities exist? As far as my experience with the Internet says, there are a number of genuine web sites which ‘pay’ you for your services. Online money making scams are like ghosts who continue to haunt us even when we are not sure whether they exist or not.
How can one distinguish a genuine opportunity from a scam? There are certain things which you can do to avert trouble. For example, never pay a single penny to web sites which ask for a membership fee. Think it this way- Do employers charge their employees for hiring them?
Read the succeeding sentence again and again- “Don’t start work from home until you read others reviews…” There are hundreds of people who have been victims of online scams. Those people post their experiences on a number of web sites to prevent others from making the same mistakes.
There are four basic domains which help you earn using the Internet- Completing online surveys, reading e-mails, viewing online advertisements (often known as ‘PTC’ or paid to click) and doing other freelance jobs. “Don’t start work from home until you read others reviews…”
Survey web sites do pay. But the payment is not quite lucrative. Beware of fraudulent companies which promise you of paying 10-20$ for every survey you complete. Such online companies ask you to pay them a one-time refundable fee (generally 40-100$).
The truth is that once you pay them, you will neither get surveys nor the amount you had paid as registration fee. “Don’t start work from home until you read others reviews…” You can find reviews of online scams everywhere on the World Wide Web.
You can narrow down your search by using the keywords ‘work at home business opportunity’ or ‘internet home business opportunity’. I recently visited a web site which claimed of listing home based business scams as well as authentic opportunities. When I visited one of the web sites listed under the ‘check out these wonderful web sites’ column, I realized it’s scam too! “Don’t start work from home until you read others reviews…”
Obtain Unsecured Loans By Building Credit Business
Posted by: | CommentsBusiness credit is the best way to obtain unsecured loans issued after a business’ entity is established, verifications done, and profitability prospects assessed. Owners are exempt from furnishing any personal guarantee for many, but not all corporate credit. In addition, the loan amount is usually large, extended at reasonable interest rates. Well yes, the proposition is interesting enough to make you jump from your seat! Let us explore the building up aspects of corporate credit.
Business credit build with time.
Just like personal credit, initially you get small loan amounts here also. This figure grows as the business owner continue to build good business credit. Overall, it takes some time for business credit to build properly. Therefore, it is prudent to apply for corporate loans of small amounts when actually there is no need for it. This way you go on comfortably building your business credit bit by bit. And, by the time, you actually require funds of large amount; your business credit record is set for the same.
Now, to avail this facility, your business needs to work upon certain areas. One of these is your organization’s structure. Ensure that you have your business registered as an LLC or corporation. Get Federal Tax Identification Number (FIN) as your business has an independent identity. Also, see that your business complies with all the government laws, operations, and expected conduct. You should have a license for your business’ operation if it requires one.
Next, you must ensure that your business should have enough proof of its physical existence. A valid address, and one or more landline connections for the organization, serve as ideal evidence for the same. P.O. Box addresses and cell numbers are not entertained.
You do not need to worry about creating Aged Corporations or Shelf Corporations for building corporate credit. Your new business can also get loans, if it meets the required eligibilities; however, shelf corporations can seriously speed up the process of building business credit.
Many financiers do verify the owner’s personal credit records to analyze their sincerity in repaying the loans and the degree of risk associated in dealing with them. Of course, a high-risk personal credit profile may be a setback to your loaning process. At times, financiers reject a business with good corporate credit record on the ground of its owners’ bad personal credits. The same applies to business credits as well. Therefore, both, your personal as well as corporate credits should have healthy payment records.
Work on building up your trade references as well. You should have a minimum of five ideally. For this, your financier should report about your credit details to the credit bureaus. This is a voluntary step from the financiers’ end. The financing companies are not bound by law to report to credit agencies, as is in the case of personal credits. Note that, if your credits are not reported to the credit agencies, your corporate credit is not building up. But, whatever the case, do not indulge into buying trade references. Your business has high chances of being suddenly graded as “high-risk.”





