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What it was like for Jane to start her first business
“Sometimes you can take your business idea and morph it into something else and that doesn’t mean it was a failure. It was something that you needed to go through to be in the model that you really needed to be in."
"If I'd have known how much work my first business was going to be and how hard it was going to be to build it, I probably would’ve never have started in the first place."
"You have to build a business that’s not dependent on you in the center."
"I sold the business and kept the marriage."
"I tried the Martha Stewart thing. I planted a garden I tried baking, but eventually, I realized that I’m an entrepreneur. It’s who I am."
"We decided that we would never base our businesses on the need for money. We decided that we would base it on our values and keep a relationship first."
"No one ever pulled me aside when I had my first business and told me that you actually get to have your vision and a life."
"It’s around trusting that your ideal clients will show up and that they’ll be willing to pay what you’re charging."
"People want to know that you’re living your truth."
"I will always turn away business if it doesn’t resonate with me in terms of my ideal client."
"In business, the quality of your life is determined by the quality of your clients."
"I look for appreciation in my clients."
How to launch your new business
- Be really clear about your vision.
- Create a five-year vision of what is possible. Go from thoughts to pictures to words to numbers.
"There’s something powerful when you write it down and claim it"
How Jane is living a Wi-Fi lifestyle...
- Jane and her husband are living where they want and she thinks that part of a Wi-Fi lifestyle is living a minimalist lifestyle so that you have the flexibility to go where you want. She’s not tied down by "stuff."
- Jane is also able to visit her 90-year-old mother quite frequently which she probably couldn’t do if she was tied down to a typical 9-to-5. She says one of the greatest benefits is being able to care for her the way her mother once cared for her.
"In business leverage is getting the greatest return for the least amount of effort."
"Build a support team. Automate the delivery of your genius."
"Automate the sales process and qualify people before you close them or pick up the phone."
"Build a dream team and keep them. Have tools for them. Do a weekly recap."
Book: You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living ... "If you want to live I Wi-Fi lifestyle you’re going to have to be bad ass. There’s always another level of badassery."
"I’m not here for being satisfied. I’m here for amazing."
Tool - Use an assessment to know where people are at in the process. To understand where people are at and personalize communication.
Cause - Bakashana.org - An organization in Zambia that helps girls go to school who otherwise wouldn’t have the opportunity to go.
Offer: Rockyourbizquiz.com A quiz that will help you figure out where you’re at in your business. What areas do you need to pay attention to help you get to the next level?
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