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Today I am going to talk to you about bonding, believability, credibility. How to get it, and translate it into blockbuster sales in one fell swoop.

But before I get cranked up on today’s post, I want to discuss a few items of interest. First, today’s post picks up where we left of yesterday.

So if you haven’t read Entrepreneurial Success In A Sentence yet – you should click on over to it and read it first.

Second, did you get a chance to read over all the comments fellow readers contributed and witness the collective genius of our community?

What’s that? You say you did catch all that? You say you read all the comments and you noticed the very same fact?

GOOD! GOOD! GOOD!

Now listen: did you also notice Christopher Vogelmann’s comment?

No need to flip back, I’ll tell you what he said: “Greater Rapport = Greater Profits”

More about that later.

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- Online Business Success In A Sentence
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The conversation taking place on my previous post has been contagious.

So much so, it’s sparked a renewed enthusiasm on my part to tackle bigger challenges and issues currently taking place in our community, while also delivering profitable distinctions you can use to immediate grow your business.

Today, we’re going to roll-up our sleeves and begin a series that’ll solve the riddle of successful marketing. I said a series (as opposed to a single post) because we’re going to dive deep into what really makes insanely profitable marketing work – and that’s going to require some reflection on your part.

So, here’s the deal… I am going to post a new post (the next installment) each morning at exactly 10 A.M. on the dot everday this week.

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- A Daring Online Business Blog Post?
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Can you write a valuable blog post made up entirely of questions?

I think i can, but will you give me your opinion by commenting below once you finish reading it?

Should we begin? I’m ready, are you?

How’s your business going? Is it doing as well as you used to dream it would? Do you think you could improve it right now?

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by Brian Johnson

Is this a good thing?

Recently, Mastercard and Visa, as well as other merchant processors have conveyed some new regulations with regard to program execution such as one-time offers, forced continuities, and shipping and handling only, to name a few.

These new rules/regulations are due to longtime complaints from customers that are being billed for products they didn’t want or felt they were being misled into buying. All the processors have basically decided to shun any company that employs tactics like deceptive forced continuity type programs.

So the big question remains…is this a good thing or not?

Well, I guess the answer depends on you, your business philosophy, and the quality of products or services you provide for your customers.

I believe that there are many pros and cons to this new set of guidelines.

I’m very excited about these guidelines and plan to use them to our company’s advantage in order to lead our company to higher levels. We will simply do what we always preach and that’s to do the right thing.

Now, if you are one of those companies that is focused on taking every last dollar from your customers or trying to misguide or force people into a continuity program unwillingly in order to squeeze a month or two of program fees out of them… than you’re probably concerned about the new regulations. As you should be!

If you get caught violating these regulations, not only will you lose your merchant processor and merchant account, but most likely you won’t be able to get another account from other processors in the future.

Here at Strategic Profits, from time to time, we have tried optional continuity type programs. It is a possibility that we may offer some type of optional continuity program in the future, however, these new guidelines are making us step up our game, convey all of our offers with even greater clarity, and become superior in the way we handle our prospects and customers.

These new guidelines will force us to revisit the marketing basics that we know have worked for decades and decades (because consumer buying habits never change).

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- Online Business Owner: So You Want To Be One?
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Yesterday we discussed the difference between owners and victims. Today I want to tell you more about the “Owner’s Mindset.”

Owners give everything they’ve got to whatever they’re doing. They pour every ounce of energy into the current moment.

They realize that anything they could do while multitasking isn’t a high-leverage activity they should be doing in the first place. Instead it should be delegated or outsourced.

You see, when you give all of yourself to something you own it. In a sense, you wrap your responsibility around it completely.

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- Are You An Online Business Owner… or Victim?
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Yesterday, I shared with you this thought…

YOUR BUSINESS IS YOUR MASTERPIECE….NOT YOUR PRISON!

Today, let’s expand on it…

Online entrepreneurs can be separated into two different groups by the way they think…

Owners -or- Victims

Here’s what I mean…

Right now in your business you are either an owner of your outcomes, or you’re a victim of your circumstance.

Entrepreneurs who are victims, don’t realize the power they have to alter the results they’re getting. They fail to exercise their creativity to solve the current challenges standing in their way. Instead they give all their power away to circumstance. The net result — their business ends up getting worse and worse.

Entrepreneurs who are owners take ownership of every situation of their business. They realize they grow with each challenge they overcome. So they come up with creative solutions to their current obstacles. And in the process their skills get better and better…

Entrepreneurs who act like owners stay in the “profitable now.” They give all themselves to what they’re doing in the moment. They stay committed to the outcomes they’ve established and invest all their energy into achieving them.

You see, owners realize this…

Future business success is only created in the present moment. The small task, activity, or project you’re focused on right now will impact your business’ future more than all the excuses, worries, and fears you could possibly stack on top of each other.

Owners embrace the philosophy shared by Ralph Waldo Emerson when he wrote…

“Don’t wast life in doubts and fears. Spend yourself on the work before you, well-assured that the right perfromance of this hour’s duties will be the best preperation for the hours and ages that will follow it.”

So, for today, pick one excuse you’ve been using in your business and come up with all the different actions you could take that would begin to eliminate it once and for all.

If you get stuck, or you come up with a great new approach – share your obstacle or success by commenting below.

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- Online Business Profits…Now!
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Your business exists to make a profit.

Simple statement, right?

Well, before you agree, do a self-check to determine if your actions are congruent with this simple statement.

Are you currently prioritizing and managing your time (at work) according to what’s profitable and what’s not?

Yesterday, we talked about intentions — how entrepreneurs need to be crystal clear about the outcomes we’re committed to achieving each day.

Today, I want to take the conversation further…

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- My Online Business: What To Do Today…
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If your entrepreneurial life isn’t what you want it to be, you might be suffering from “Intention Deficit Disorder.”

Intention Deficit Disorder occurs when you have no real clarity about WHAT result you intend to produce and (even more importantly) WHY you want to produce it.

You see, many internet entrepreneurs spend all their time searching wildly for “how to” advice, yet neglect strengthening their “want to.” And that, my friend, is a big mistake.

Because when you’ve got your WANT TO tweaked and fully torqued, you’ll always find the HOW TO.

Think about this… My daughter Ava is seven years old. She’s relatively a neat little girl. But what if she wasn’t? Let’s just say her room was always messy. It would never occur to me to send her to a seminar on “how to clean her room.” The reason is the “how to” isn’t missing… the “want to” is missing.

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by Todd Brown

Because of what I read yesterday, I finally committed to do something many mentors have been telling me to do for some time now.

Our very own Rich Schefren does it and has been preaching its benefits to me for at least 2 years. Michael Masterson of Agora recommends it and has also been a long-time fan. Even my wife has been egging me on to get started.

What am I talking about?

Daily writing in a journal.

Many high-performance entrepreneurs swear by the increased clarity they receive from daily thinking and writing within a personal journal.

Thoughts about business, AHA moments, weekly reflection, brainstorming, success reviews, and anything else that’s on your mind are all great topics or categories you can journal about.

But, if you’re at all like me, sitting down to a blank page that’s awaiting your deepest thoughts and desires can often be a bit daunting. So much so for me that I’ve chronically delayed getting started. Until yesterday, that is.

I was sitting outside by the pool at the hotel I’m staying at here in Orlando enjoying a nice robusto. I was flipping through 55-pages of personal notes Rich Schefren shared with me from his read of a very deep, very profound, and very thought-provoking book about success and psychology.

Page after page I continued to notice an enormous number of questions being posed by the author. His purpose: to help readers get deeper and deeper clarity on who they are, what they want, and where they want to go with their lives.

And that’s when it struck me…

I could just use the questions posed by this author as the jumping-off point for my journal entries. I could simply tackle one question each day… and this way… I would never have to worry about sitting down to a blank page. And that’s exactly what I’m going to do as soon as I return from my trip.

If you’d like to give it a try along with me, below are some of the first questions I’m going to tackle:

* How do I define personal success?

* How would I describe a life well-lived?

* What is my vision for my life?

* What were the most successful moments in my life?

* What were the biggest failures I’ve experienced? (Describe the lessons I learned)

* What do I really value about my life?

* If I knew I couldn’t fail, what would I attempt to do?

* Who is the real me?

* What am I most grateful for?

* What am I really talented at?

* What relationships in my life do I value the most?

* How much success do I believe is possible for me?

* What are the most unhelpful, limiting beliefs holding me back?

* How do I measure success?

* How can I make today a success?

* Who do I want to be?

* What is it that makes me happy?

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