Online vs Brick & Mortar - Which Should Your Business Be?

So you have an idea for a business, and you can’t wait to start. You’ve daydreamed about your Grand Opening, you’ve told your family and friends what you want to do, and you’ve already thought of the perfect name for your new venture.

There’s one problem though. You can’t decide whether you should be opening your business in a store front or limiting your business to the internet.

Before you go throwing thousands of dollars on a lease for a retail space, you should fully understand the commitment you’re about to make AND the alternatives you have to going that route.

To really give your decision thorough consideration, here are a few of the questions you should ask yourself.

  1. Is your business the type of business that absolutely needs a storefront? Are you offering a product or service that can only be delivered to the customer with a physical space—like a hair salon, a car wash, or a restaurant?
  2. Can you afford the retail space?...
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The Universe is Calling You - Here's How You Know

I think that we all have a purpose in life. Everyone’s purpose isn’t necessarily to be the next Oprah Winfrey or Barack Obama, but we all have a roll in making this world a better place.

I think of the impact each of us have, as individuals, like a drop of water that creates a ripple. The ripple gets bigger and bigger and creates gigantic waves downstream. We each create drops that eventually become waves somewhere downstream in the lives of others.

One of the most difficult questions most of us spend our lives trying to answer is, “What is my purpose?” Sometimes, we look for grandiose answers, when it’s much more simple, and sometimes we allow our fears to block us from what we know we should really be doing in life.

It’s true of most people, who make a great impact on the world, that something exists deep down inside that calls them to do their life’s work. As if an external force is pulling them in the direction they should go.

And when...

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7 Ways to Market Your Product or Service for Free

When most people think of what they need in order to be a successful entrepreneur, they think of one thing first. MONEY! They think they need money for inventory, money for a website, money for marketing, they think they need money for everything or they can never own a business. And they couldn’t be more WRONG!

People tend to think that if the money comes first, they’ll all of a sudden stop procrastinating and start taking action. In reality, many successful entrepreneurs, I’m talking 7 figure earners and up, started their businesses with no money.

They bootstrapped their businesses until they started seeing their profits grow. Just to be clear, as I’ve said before, what you don’t invest in money, you’ll have to invest in time, but using the lack of money as an excuse for why you can’t start some type of business, doesn’t really fly these days.

I could go into a whole spill about that, but I won’t. The point of this article...

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Your Energy Affects Your Business

Energy is extremely important to the success of your business. Of course, your physical energy is important, but in this case, I don’t mean your physical energy; I mean your metaphysical energy.

The vibes you or your employees give to potential customers is easy for them to pick up on. If they sense bad energy, it could mean game over for you making that sale.

Case in point. I once went to a well known store to make a major purchase. I was going to buy a refrigerator. I had researched the refrigerator I wanted and I was certain, when I walked into that store, that I was going to buy it that day. 

I didn’t really need to be sold, and I didn’t have any questions about what I wanted to purchase, because I had looked around and done my homework. My plan was to walk in, make the purchase, and leave. Boom. Bam. Bing.

When I walked into the store, the salesman approached me to help me with my purchase, but his approach felt very off to me. I was getting such bad...

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5 Ways to Develop Self-Discipline

Any level of great success requires focus that can’t be broken, routine that becomes second nature, and commitment that prioritizes your goals right up there with the things that are most important to you. That means that running your business and accomplishing those big goals you’ve set for yourself will require an extreme amount of self-discipline.

Mastering self-discipline is something that most people learn in the trenches of struggling for something they really want. It’s never learned when things come easy.

But are there ways you can develop self-discipline before things ever get tough? Absolutely.

Here are 5 ways you can develop self-discipline so that you’re able to see your vision through to the finish line.

Work out and eat healthy.

Working out and consuming a healthy diet are great ways to develop self-discipline. Doing this requires you to establish a routine that—when you stick to it long enough—becomes second nature. You can...

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Why Success Requires You to Be a Robot

I talk about mindset a lot on my podcast, Master Your Mission. I’ve said before that I think it’s the single most important factor to your success.

It’s the one thing that can either keep you locked in a state of fear and immobility or free you and allow you to go hard for your dreams. Your education can’t do that, money can’t do that, your circumstances can’t do that—nothing else has the kind of power over your life that your mindset has.

Your tenacity and ability to keep going through all the tough things you experience in life, are a result of your mindset. When your mindset is that you are fully committed, even when you’ve failed every day in the past and don’t know what tomorrow holds, you still get up and act on your wants and desires because you believe that someday something will be different.

When you have a mindset for success, your drive is unquestionable. Success driven people often operate with an, almost, robotic...

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What's the Best Online Business for You - 5 Questions to Ask Yourself

So you really want to start an online business, but there’s one major problem. You don’t know what type of business you want to start.

Because it’s so easy to start a business online—you can literally do anything—it’s also really easy to be overwhelmed with all the ideas you come up with. To make this conversation easy, let’s narrow your choices down to two main categories.

We’ll use the two I mentioned in the How to Start Your Online Business with Virtually No Money episode of my podcast, Master Your Mission—Coaching and Dropshipping.

Now, remember, Coaching means you’ll be teaching other people something that you’re an expert at, like I do. Dropshipping means you’ll have an online shop or boutique where you sell products without ever buying or holding inventory—your wholesaler holds the products and ships them directly to your customers.

To help you determine which option is best for you, I came up with...

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Do You Believe You Can Manifest Success?

I believe that being a great entrepreneur and being a great person, in general, requires that we dig really deep and tap into the power that our brains hold to affect what we are, who we are, and what we accomplish in life. We know that the brain is powerful beyond what we even fully understand, and that science is continuously discovering things about how it works.

But is the brain powerful enough to will what we want to happen? Can we use our brains to manifest our own success in life?

According to The Law of Attraction, there is some scientific research that supports the idea that our thoughts directly affect the level of satisfaction we reach in life. But if we can manifest what we want by our thoughts, how do we do that?

In an article on their website, The Law of Attraction gives 5 steps to manifest anything you want in 24 hours or less. Here’s what they say you should do:

Step 1

Decide what you want to manifest. Be very specific and be sure that it’s something that...

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How to Find Your Niche and be a Big Fish in a Small Pond

 

Today I want to talk about finding your niche for your business. First, I’ll define what a niche is for those who might not be familiar. A niche is a very small, very specific subset of the general population.

In business, your niche is your lifeline. It’s your lane, and it’s vital that you find your lane and stay in it. In other words, be narrow down what you sell and who you sell it to.

Many people who are new to entrepreneurship find the concept of picking a niche rather difficult. Even experienced entrepreneurs struggle with it sometimes. Most people want to sell as many of their products or services to as many people as possible, so it seems counter intuitive to exclude large swaths of people by narrowing your audience and product offering down. 

It’s natural. We all want to make a shit ton of money! But trying to sell everything to every one is not the way to go. The more laser focused you are about what you sell and who you sell it to,...

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7 Free Resources Every Entrepreneur Should Know About

Entrepreneurship can be a confusing maze of wrong turns, tough decisions and unknown pitfalls. You don’t know what you don’t know and even when you do, you still sometimes feel like you don’t. Confusing, right?

Following your instinct is great, but that won’t always get you far. Sometimes you need solid information from people who know more than you do to set you on the right track.

No matter whether you’re a beginner to entrepreneurship or you’ve been around the entrepreneurial block a few times, learning should always be a part of your business plan. As a business owner, you should never ever stop learning.

To help you, I put together this list of 7 free resources every entrepreneur should know about.

SCORE

Did you know that you could have your own personal business mentor that you don’t have to pay? Yep, and you can get one through SCORE. SCORE is a network of business owners and entrepreneurs, many times retired, who volunteer their time...

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