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- Aug 04 2006
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First some housekeeping…
It’s still crazy here at the office, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. We have finally finished finalizing the list of our 11 week clients and we expect to have our 12 month customer list finalized today.
Wednesday we had our intro call for 11 week members and it was fantastic. Today we have the intro call for the 12 month members and I am buzzing with excitement.
Our support center is up and running – so if you are still not getting our emails then please visit and let our customer service reps know. You can do that at www.strategicprofits.com/supportsuite/
We have chosen the technology that we will be using temporarily to deliver the content and managing the resource center, and man is it hot, you will absolutely go nuts over it! It’s looking like it will open for business on Monday and we’ve got some great bonuses in store for all of my new members (both 11 week and 12 month clients).
We’ve also set up our online scheduling system that allows our 11 week clients to schedule their own appointments and even reschedule their appointments without any of my staff having to get involved.
With all that great news you might be wondering why the headline to this post reads “Results or Excuses”, well, allow me to break things down for you.
Even with careful planning and testing – Murphy (of Murphy’s Law) has been working overtime here at Strategic Profits. Here are just two (there were more) of the presents that Murphy has dropped on strategic profits over the past week:
--The speed of the orders coming into our system crushed our PayPal integration – which left us with incomplete lists of clients for both programs. (this required to manually rebuild both lists by going through our PayPal account and our shopping cart system and analyzing each and every transaction to see the disposition for each and every person)
--Our email exchange server somehow developed a bug and so no emails that were sent out from Rich@StrategicProfits.com were received. I have 3 virtual assistants answering the emails that I receive so you can imagine the number of emails we are talking about.
I can hear members of my staff screaming at me right now, “Rich, why are you writing about this on the blog? Keep it a secret!” But you know what? There’s a very important lesson to be learned here and I don’t mind sharing our challenges to help you understand a very important business lesson.
My experience in business, after starting and growing my own businesses and working with some of the best internet companies, in business after all is said and done (and unfortunately there is usually a lot more said than done) bad things will still happen.
And that’s why I am proud of my team, because as we get ready to close out this week and I find myself writing this post… when you strip everything away you are left with one of two things Results or Excuses, and I am proud of our results this week.
What about you? Are you proud or the results you accomplished this week or do you have a bunch of excuses as to why you haven’t accomplished anything of significance? What about for the past month or year?
Here’s the big takeaway from this post, no matter what time frame you are looking at (day, week, month, year, or your entire life) if you are achieving the results you want – congratulations, but if you aren’t then all you’ve got is excuses.
The results you want and the excuses you use are mutually exclusive, they cannot coexist.
My virtual staff grew from 3 to 7 this week, Dan and Sheila have been working lots of overtime, and I have even rolled up my sleeves and gotten my hands dirty. And the net result is we’ve gotten a lot of great results this week because we were simply unwilling to let any excuses get in our way.
If you’ve got more excuses in your life than you do results, start keeping a list of the most common excuses you give for not achieving the results you want. It’s the same in your business too, if you’re staff is delivering more excuses than results start keeping a list of the excuses that you are given.
Your job - whether it’s you or your staff generating the excuses, is to get rid of the most common ones that keep rearing their ugly heads. But I’ll tell you how to do that in a future post. For now, take a look at yourself and your business, and decide whether you’re better at generating results or excuses. Then make your list…
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- Jul 25 2006
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The time is NOW!
I'm opening up the doors to everyone who didn't have enough time to take part in my original exclusive coaching program.
There is an odd sense of peace around the office. It's the calm before the storm.
Hurry to: http://www.strategicprofits.com/system/
...before your seat is taken.
Oh, one more thing...
I had someone email me and complain about what they perceive as 'hype' and even accused me of creating false scarcity.
If you think the lines we not JAMMED last night, call Voicetext and ask. If you think our server didn't OVERLOAD last time went live, call EV1 servers, and ask. If you think we didn't SELL OUT in 2 hours and 14 minutes last time, call 1shoppingcart.
Yes, there IS excitement, but it's not being created as if this were a Hollywood set...
It's being created by thousands of entrepreneurs who are finally serious about building their business.
And I'm PROUD to be a part of it.
Rich Schefren
UPDATE: Todd, the Winner of 60 Minute Makeover, decided to produce a short video thanking me for giving him a few ideas that will "double his business" over the next year. Thanks Todd, and I hope to see your business prosper!
Listen to what Todd had to say on his website:
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Rich Schefren reveals the SIMPLE answer in his newest report...
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