What Is Your “Leadership Value” To Your Customers?
Home business opportunities abound on the internet today.
Someone seriously looking for a home business opportunity can easily become overwhelmed with the choices.
- Which business?
- Which products?
- Which compensation plan?
You now what?
None of this really matters.
What people really want is someone to follow!
Someone who they can count on to show them the ropes, how to be successful, and someone to lead them out of the mess they currently call their “lives”.
So how does one become a leader of value? Simply by posturing or positioning? While these are components of demonstrating leadership, they don’t define it.
If I had to think of one work to define Leadership, it would be this —
VALUE
In order to be a leader to someone, you must have value to that person. Maybe that value comes in your marketing or business knowledge. Maybe it’s your interpersonal skills and phone skills. Maybe it lies simply in the fact that you are successful online and they are not.
Whatever it is, if it’s NOT there, you won’t have a chance at sponsoring that person.
How does one go about INCREASING LEADERSHIP VALUE to attract more customers?
It’s fairly simple — making a consistent effort every day to increase your knowledge and skills.
I liken it to making deposits in a piggy bank.
When you’re first starting out, you are learning more elementary components of your business. In essence, you are putting pennies in your bank. But pennies build up, right?
Your knowledge and skills build as you take consistent steps to learn. With every step, another penny.
And then a funny thing happens. You start learning more advanced business or marketing ideas, and instead of depositing pennies in your bank, now you are depositing dimes. Dime after dime you are improving your value.
Then it’s quarters, and then dollar bills. The more skills you know, the more valuable you become. The more knowledge you accumulate, the more you have to offer to your customer.
And the more leadership you begin to display.
And what happens to your stuffed piggy bank?
That money begins to double, triple, quadruple and more… for it’s a well known fact that the more you have to offer, the more VALUE you have in the MARKETPLACE, the more money you will make.
The key is to make consistent, determined efforts to improve your knowledge and your skills so that you, too, can become the leader that everyone else will want to follow.
Once you’ve attained that status, you can write your own check.
To your success!
Global online business coach and marketing expert
Make Money, Not Excuses
“You can make money or you can make excuses, but you can’t make both.”
These words were written recently in a blog by Karl Bessey, co-founder of a Texas-based finanical education and wealth creation company called Wealth Masters International.
I have been in this industry for more than a couple of years now, and I couldn’t agree with this more.
As I have said on this blog before, 97% of all home-based business owners fail. I take this to mean that 97% of all people who start a home-based business do not make enough money, and most probably spend more money than they make.
What that also tells me is that 97% of these people MAKE EXCUSES.
I have heard a lot of excuses in this business, some rather unique. But most center on the theme of NO MONEY, NO TIME, NO SUPPORT. OK, OK, and OK.
So what? You want to know how many of the 3% of people who make money in this industry had NO MONEY when they first started? Probably 95% of them.
You want to know how many of these people had time issues? Most of them.
You want to know how many had little to no support, and had to find their own way? Probably ALL of them.
That’s right, guys. It’s time to lay down the excuses and start making money.
Don’t let ANYTHING get in your way.
I am changing my mindset on this issue of EXCUSES.
Here are my new edicts:
- You have money problems? So does everybody. You will find the money if you really want it.
- You have time issues? Too bad. Stay up later or get up earlier.
- Your sponsor leave the company? So what, it happens all the time. Find the support you need elsewhere.
- Your spouse giving you crap about spending money? Work it out. Make money.
- You have too many expenses? Life getting in the way? That’s life — work it out (Rosemary and I have 2 kids in college, 1 going next year, and 1 more the year after… make it work anyway you can).
I know this may sound hard ass to many, but I’ve found in building my business with Carbon Copy PRO and WMI that it’s the only way you’ll make money.
No Excuses, Make Money. $$$
Great advice from someone who has “made it” in the Direct Sales industry. Karl Bessey is someone I really have come to respect. His story is compelling…. coal miner turned entrepreneur. So when he speaks, I listen.
And on this one, he is right on the money!
To your prosperity,
Bob
October 24, 2008, Cresskill, NJWhat business am I involved in?
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