The Business Survival Guide: Your Small Business, Marketing, Human Behavior, and Motivation Questions Answered

This is the last episode in our Entrepreneurship Bootcamp series. From here on out the podcast will be all about your questions.

Submit your questions at TheBusinessSurvivalGuide.com so we can get you an answer to the specific issues you're dealing with as an entrepreneur.

In this episode we'll get into a question almost everyone faces: How do I sell without feeling sleazy? Everyone has had bad experiences with salespeople and we fear that we will come off like that. But when you see your role as teaching how to make a good buying decision (with excellent products and services) then you'll make more sales and feel like you're helping—because you will be.

Have a difficult challenge? Submit a question for the podcast.

There's no way to manage time. It's going. You can't stop it. The real issue is that when you're working for yourself sometimes you "just don't feel like it." Imagine a 3 year old pouting—sometimes that really how we act once we become our own bosses... except we're acting out against ourselves.

So what you really see as an entrepreneur is an incredible need to manage your mood. It's easy to identify in others, but hard to accept ourselves.

The good news is it really doesn't have to be so bad. We're running our own business, we're living the life we want to live, shouldn't we be able to enjoy it? Yes!  Let's get into it.

Have a difficult challenge? Submit a question for the podcast.

There's no way to manage time. It's going. You can't stop it. The real issue is that when you're working for yourself sometimes you "just don't feel like it." Imagine a 3 year old pouting—sometimes that really how we act once we become our own bosses... except we're acting out against ourselves.

So what you really see as an entrepreneur is an incredible need to manage your mood. It's easy to identify in others, but hard to accept ourselves.

The good news is it really doesn't have to be so bad. We're running our own business, we're living the life we want to live, shouldn't we be able to enjoy it? Yes!  Let's get into it.

Sibling rivalry, spousal jealousy, overprotective people—we'll get into all of that today. It's time to look at the parts of running a business that most people sweep under the rug. It's a big mess, but we'll get into it today and really dive in if people ask more about this subject at TheBusinessSurvivalGuide.com.

We've talked about people wanting all of their relationships to be "nice" and neat in their business life. But what about their personal life?

Setting boundaries early is great to talk about, but most people can't implement them because they don't first set outcomes. How do they expect to set boundaries that make sense before they know the goals they're trying to achieve?

Take a moment and think about your future. Imagine the life you want to live and imagine the successful business (or businesses) you'll create. This episode is part of our Entrepreneurial Bootcamp series. It's designed to equip you with mantras that will help you install the beliefs that lead toward success as an entrepreneur.

Your core beliefs need to be aligned with success or they'll take you down the wrong path. So listen to the episode and then go to TheBusinessSurvivalGuide.com to download the PDF of the mantras. Print them out and put them everywhere!

In future episodes I'll be answering your questions directly. Go to TheBusinessSurvivalGuide.com to submit your question. Or find me on Facebook or anywhere as AskScottMcFall.