Archive for the ‘Start Business’ Category

Unknown Think and Grow Rich Video Series

My friend and fellow mentor Jack Sinclair sent me an email today with a interesting post he just put on his blog. I really would like to share with you.

We all as entrepreneurs want to grow rich, who has heard of think and grow rich, will enjoy this newly discovered video set of Napoleon Hill videos, discussing the principles he discovered, and his revelation that the mind of man (or woman) is the key driver in finding success.

Any entrepreneur involved in business, whether they have a established business or a business startup will really enjoy these 12 videos by Napoleon Hill, a great edition to your business learning library….

Check out Jack Sinclair’s Blog here

http://www.mentorschools.biz/jacksinclairblog

Start Business – Powerful Ideas For Holding Your Price

Today I read an excellent article online in the New York Times about what is the best way to maintain your prices and get the most money out of each transaction or project.

The article written by Paul B. Brown on the changing world of small business and the colorful characters who inhabit it.

Paul highlighted some “powerful ideas” which include never drop your price, but instead offer additional products or services that equal or exceed the requested discount. B sure to check it out as it comes with a full 23 page pdf, yours free to download. Awesome tips for your offline or online start business.

To your business startup success, Rick Ostler

Click here for the full article…..

http://www.mentorschools.biz/powerfulideas

How to Use Free Giveaway Products

With any start business venture, building a customer list is most important. Free Giveaways are one of the fastest and easiest ways to add a lot of subscribers to your email list. You would be surprised at how many of the big guru’s started there lists with JV Giveaways.

They are the perfect free business plan tool for people who are just getting started with their list building because they don’t cost anything and they create the JV partnerships for you. You get to leverage the efforts of 100′s of other marketers. It is a very easy and simple internet marketing strategy.

Learn From The Giveaway Products

Obviously, the very first thing that you should do with the products that you download from the free giveaways is to learn from them. There is a great deal of valuable information that you can apply to your start business, especially since so many of the products are Internet Marketing related. You can learn a variety of different things by reading the information, but there is still more that you can learn from these products.

First, remember why you are downloading these products in the first place, in terms of how it benefits that person providing the free product. They are building a massively large list of prospects. By going through and looking at what others are providing, the next time you hear about an upcoming giveaway, you can toss your own name (and free product) in the ring, and build your own list.

Pay attention to what types of products are given away, how long they are, how much detail goes into them, and to their potential value if they were sold, instead of given away. Look at the overall quality of the products. Also pay attention to the squeeze pages, where you submit your name and email address in order to download the product, and to the OTO, that you will inevitably see before you reach the download page. This is all valuable information and knowledge to have when you are ready to participate in these giveaways as a donor.

Pay special attention to the Internet Marketing related products, even if you have no interest in entering the Internet Marketing niche yourself. Again, there is a ton of information that you can learn from. Make use of it! Start reading each product, and make notes. Who knows? At the end, you may discover that you’ve created your very own Internet Marketing niche product – even if you didn’t intend to!

Pay attention to the packaging. You will find that most products are PDF files. This is because people don’t mind downloading PDF files, whereas they often will avoid downloading an .exe file. .Exe files have the potential for carrying and spreading viruses.

Look at how the products are presented as well. Even though they are typically simple PDF files, they almost always have a graphic that looks like a book, with the title of the ebook or report on the front. They look very nice, and this is important. You can easily create your own ebook covers, as well as graphics of CDs and DVDs with software – and the chances of you coming across such software at one of the giveaways is very high.

So, the first thing you do with your downloaded products is to learn as much as you can from them – from the information they contain, to the way they are put together, to the way that they are presented. This information alone can literally be worth thousands of dollars to you down the road.

I would certainly include a free business plan using JV Giveaways to your start business. I highly recommend this internet marketing strategy.

To Your Start Business Succes

What People Are Saying... Gavin Barrie
I just wanted to say thanks for all your help over the summer. Your interest and dedication into helping me start up my own business did not go unnoticed. Your ideas brought up in the breakfast meetings and over email added great value towards the further success of my business career. I hope you have a good fall/winter and I'll see you next summer at the lacrosse games. Thanks again.
Gavin Barrie, Laker Labour
Brittany SirtonskiThank you so much for everything throughout the summer. I think that it is a wonderful thing that you are doing to put aside time from your busy schedule and running your company to be able to assist new entrepreneurs. I am glad to have made some great business connections throughout this summer and will contact you for advice in the future! Brittany Sirtonski, Owner/Managing Director - Dare to Dream Dance and Visual Arts summer camp for girls
Justin Beaudoin
I enjoyed the program, and I have to say that I was lucky enough to have a real mentor like you. You have tonnes of experience in business and were able to give me great advice, especially when it came to advertising on the internet. I'm happy how it continues to turn up new clients. You've provided me with everything I could as for as a "mentor", I couldn't have imagined anything you could have done better. You got to my questions, you've applied your knowledge to help me and I sincerely appreciate your undying effort to help me! Thank you for your fine work, you've been a great help and I wish you good luck next year with your new set of students. I will be sure to keep in touch! Justin Beaudoin, Founder - MobiTek -