Business Growth Insights

We’ve all been through it at least once in our lives. We decide to make a change: Make more money, lose weight, quit smoking, start exercising, whatever. We set goals and work toward them. And for a while, there is progress.

Then we start to slip, and before we know it we are back where we started. This happens all the time. The source of the backsliding isn’t that people lack self-motivation or willpower. The primary reason that so many people don’t achieve their objectives is that they have no idea how to create workable goals and maintain the forward motion necessary to make them happen.

Successful people are masters at setting and reaching goals. If you interact with people who have “made it,” you will see patterns that anyone can apply. Here are seven goal-achieving “musts” from the “success masters”:

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Referrals are a great way to build your business, and there’s an art to generating more referrals. A previous guest on the OneCoach Expert Insight interview, Jill Lublin is CEO of the strategic consulting firm Promising Promotion, and author of the new book Get Noticed — Get Referrals, which shows you how to become more influential using an intuitive, people-oriented approach.

Jill shared with us her top 10 tips for getting noticed, and here they are:  
 
• Be yourself. Build on your assets and your uniqueness because they are really what people want. Clients and customers want you, your special viewpoint or approach; your unique insights or touch, not a weak imitation of someone else. Don’t just be a copycat; find your own voice. Get noticed in your own way; in the manner most natural and comfortable to you. Examine the approaches that others have taken and then follow what feels natural for you. Trust yourself and your instincts.

• Work your business around your life, so it fits in your life, supports your life, and reflects you. Too many people do the reverse, they work their lives around their businesses and it frequently doesn’t work out well. continue reading…

Last week we invited listeners of the OneCoach Momentum Call to submit their business-growth questions so our experts could provide practical answers. The response was phenomenal, so we’re doing it again.

If you were on last week’s call, you got great information on how to:

• Generate more sales with less effort
• Identify your ideal client
• Grow your profits faster – whatever business you’re in

So this week we’re going to do it again – which means another very profitable hour for listeners. OneCoach Regional Owner Gene McNaughton and Regional Director Adrian Ulsh will address some of the questions they didn’t get to last week, and take yours, via e-mail and live call-in.

So register for the call now, and then send us your questions on:

• Sales – how to generate more?
• The recession – how to get through it?
• Strategy – what steps do I take next?

Or whatever your specific issue is. Whatever is in your way, you have an opportunity to get world-class help to overcome it. The OneCoach Momentum Call is free, and you’ll gain valuable business knowledge just by hearing the answers to issues that other business owners are facing right now.

One more important thing: There are only 250 lines available for this call, so you need to reserve your spot now.  

Recession or no recession, whatever is going on out there in the economy, it’s up to you to find the answers you need to keep your business growing now.

That’s why we’re hosting a Q&A session for the next OneCoach Momentum Call, featuring OneCoach Regional Owner Gene McNaughton, and Regional Director Adrian Ulsh.

If you need to increase your cash flow, but you’re not sure how, this is an opportunity to ask an expert. Sales, marketing, management, operations — Gene and Adrian will address any business topic. 

All you have to do to take advantage of this opportunity is register for the call and send your question to AskGene@OneCoach.com. Then be on the call Thursday night, or listen to the replay Saturday or Sunday.

What’s the value of an answer that lets you move forward with confidence and certainty? There’s one way to find out: Register now and send your most difficult business questions to AskGene@OneCoach.com. Then listen to the call to gain expert knowledge not just on your question, but on what other small-business owners are asking too.

With gas prices way up and still climbing, CNN talk show host Larry King will focus on the turbulent economy in tonight’s show. Among his expert guests will be OneCoach CEO John Assaraf, who will share strategies on how to thrive financially and personally, in any economic climate.

Tune in to Larry King Live on CNN tonight, Wednesday, June 11, at 9 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific, to see John and other guests answer questions and share expert advice on how to manage your money right now.

You can e-mail in your questions for John and the other guests here.

Make sure to tune in and watch!