Leaving Your 9-5 Job: 3 Steps for a Stress-Free Business Launch

Leaving Your 9-5 Job

Leaving Your 9-5 Job: 3 Steps for a Stress-Free Business Launch

Leaving your 9-5 job can be exciting. But sometimes it can be stressful. We understand your desire to work from home. We understand that you want freedom from your awful boss, nasty coworkers, and the limitations of a fixed salary. You are ready for the independence that comes from doing your own thing!

But if you are trading all that in for a different kind of stress, what have you really gained? Before you kiss your cubicle goodbye, be sure you first build a solid foundation. Before leaving your 9-5 job follow these 3 steps for a stress-free business launch:

·      Building a financial safety net

·      Gaining support from your family

·      Understanding the importance of taking time for YOU

Building a Financial Safety Net

Nothing causes stress us quite like worrying about money. Leaving your 9-5 job can be an opportunity for stress. Whether you are concerned about those college tuition bills you will be facing in a few years, or worse, not sure how you are going to make the mortgage payment, it is easy to lose your business mojo. As a new business owner, you certainly do not want money trouble casting a shadow over your entrepreneurial dream.

Before you turn in your resignation, set aside some cash in case of a rainy day. Aim for at least three months of living expenses, but more is better. Hopefully you will not need it. But having some cash on hand will relieve the pressure of having a new business that is not earning its keep—yet. It may take several months before you come close to replacing your salary. Having a financial safety net will make it easier for you to stay on track with your new business.

Receiving Support from Your Family

Money troubles are bad, but there may be one thing that is worse: an unsupportive (or downright hostile) spouse. And as any entrepreneur will tell you, not everyone understands the drive to be a business owner. In fact, most people find it scary to step away from that regular paycheck to chase after a dream.

If that sounds like your husband (or wife) do not take it personally. They are not making a statement about your ability. More than likely, they are just worried about what the future holds. Do your best to understand there point of view. Be sure to clearly explain your ideas, why you are confident it will work, and how you plan to cover the start- up expenses and manage the risk.

If he or she is still not on board, consider starting slow, with a part-time business while still working your day job. That will give you the opportunity to prove your idea is workable, and might just help your spouse get as excited about it as you are.

Dexter and I started our business while we were both working. I retired from my job to become a full-time entrepreneur. Because we own the business together, we support each other’s entrepreneurial dream.

Understanding the Importance of Taking “Me” Time

Understanding the importance of taking time for yourself is a key part of your solid foundation.  No matter what is going on with your money, your spouse or your business, you need to be sure to schedule some “me” time. No one can work all the time, regardless of how driven you are. You especially need to remember that no one can stay healthy while maintaining a nonstop schedule. Go for a walk, hit the gym, get a pedicure, or just binge on your favorite television show. The point is simply to take time away from your desk to rest, relax, and rejuvenate. Without it, you will soon find yourself overwhelmed and stressed, even if you truly love your new business.

Conclusion/Call to Action

Leaving your 9-5 job to start a business can be stressful. But with a solid foundation you can have a stress-free launch. This article outlines 3 steps for a successful, stress-free business launch. They are:

1.   Building a Financial Safety Net

2.   Gaining Support from Your Family

3.   Understanding the Importance of Taking “Me” Time

My following these 3 steps you are well on the way to launching a stress-free business.

Leave us a comment on our website to let us know if you are finally ready for leaving your 9-5 job.

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How to Brainstorm Your Non-Fiction Book in 10 Easy Steps

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How to Brainstorm Your Non-Fiction Book

How to brainstorm your non-fiction book is the topic of this episode of My Biz Dream Team: Opportunity Wednesday Training Series. Writing a non-fiction book can feel unmanageable. You may feel overwhelmed and frustrated by the process. We have separated the process into 10-steps that will help you deal with those feelings.

Before you sit down to write your book, be sure to plan. Many of our recent posts and podcasts have been about the preparation you make before you start writing.  This is the last in a 4-part series on how to brainstorm your non-fiction book.

Recap of Previous Episodes: Strategies for Writing Your Non-fiction Book

First, here is the recap of the previous episodes.

Step 1: What is the goal for your book?

This is the first step that many first-time authors skip. However, it is probably the single most important decision that you need to make.

Step 2: What will your book be about?

You must refine your message. Who is your ideal client? Why does he need your book? What unique insight can you provide?

Step 3: How will you incorporate your story into your book?

Remember that you have an important message that only you can share. It is your job to uncover and share your unique story.

 Step 4: Conduct research

You want to do research on the top 10 books in your niche. This is not to copy them, but to get a sense of what is selling. What types of books does your audience buy? How can you address their problem from a different point of view? What is your unique position on the issues and problems of your audience?

 Step 5: Outline and Organize your Content.

Remember that your outline keeps you focused. Your outline tells you what to put in the book. It also tells you what to leave out.

 Step 6: Set Goals, Deadlines

Give yourself a deadline and then announce it! Do not let yourself off the hook!

Dexter and Pamela Montgomery

Summary of Episode 3: How to Brainstorm Your Non-fiction Book

Now to the last four steps in how to brainstorm your non-fiction book. We discuss these four steps in detail in the podcast.

Step 7: Develop a plan for dealing with distractions and procrastination.

You should anticipate distractions and develop a plan. For example, you can plan to keep family and friends away while you are writing by turning off the phone and closing the door to your office.

  Step 8: Choose a publishing platform for your book.

Unless your goal is to publish a New York times, bestseller, then a combination of Kindle and Create space (Amazon’s print on demand company) is probably the right choice for you. This option allows you to get your book out quickly.

 Step 9: Choose the design for the book cover.

Your cover must (1) grab a reader’s attention the instant they see it, (2) pique the interest of a casual browser, and (3) quickly explain what your book is about.  Also, make sure that the cover is consistent with the overall branding of your business. To find out more about branding read this article.

 Step 10: Planning the launch of your book

You want to start immediately to create buzz about your book. You can do it in a variety of ways. For example,

•       Being a guest on podcasts or blogs in your niche

•       Getting interviewed in newspapers or magazines

•       Paid advertisements on social media

Remember that your book launch will have two distinct goals:

1.     Pre-release—to let everyone know about your upcoming book and to get them excited about it.

2.     Post-release—to make sales

Conclusion/Call to Action

This 4-part series on how to brainstorm your non-fiction book is a key part of our efforts to help you solve the problem of not attracting your ideal clients.  Your solution to this problem is to follow these 10 steps. You will find your book-writing experience more manageable and less overwhelming if you follow the result-oriented solutions in this series. Preparing and planning before you begin to write your non-fiction book is essential for your success.

Leave us a comment below to let us know if you plan to write a non-fiction book.

I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, online business strategist, and speaker, providing you result-oriented solutions to help you to achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life!

Pamela Montgomery

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Marketing Your New Business: 3 Proven Strategies to Achieve Successful Results

Marketing Your New Business

Marketing Your New Business: 3 Proven Strategies to Achieve Successful Results

Marketing your new business is essential for your business success. The world is filled with great ideas and broke business owners with fabulous products but no sales.

The fact is, ideas are not what drives most business success. Marketing does. Therefore, before you quit your day job to branch out on your own, it pays to have a solid marketing plan in place. Start with these 3 marketing strategies to achieve successful results.

1. Free Webinars/Teleseminars

Marketing your new business through free training is one of the best sources of new clients. You can conduct your training as a webinar or teleseminar. No matter what your niche, the promise of in-depth training at no cost is enough to entice potential clients to part with an email address (which you will be able to use to market to them later) and an hour of their time.

Not only that, but webinars/teleseminars are a fantastic way for those potential customers to get to know you better. Remember, the better they know you, the more likely they are to buy.

At My Biz Dream Team, we have a weekly teleseminar training series that attracts our ideal clients. We repurpose those free training programs into podcasts. You can join us on Wednesday, at 6:30 p.m. (Eastern) as we discuss topics that will help you to grow your business.

My Biz Dream Team: Opportunity Wednesday Training Series

Dial in #: 712-775-7035

Participant code: 930599

2. Content Marketing

Not comfortable hosting a webinar/teleseminar? Hit the keyboard and start sharing your thoughts and ideas via your blog, e-books, guest articles, and other written content. For internet marketers, this gives readers a taste of what they can expect from your product. If you sell physical products, it provides the perfect opportunity to share usage tips and other important information with your buyers. For more on content marketing read our recent article on creating a content marketing strategy. You also want to listen to this podcast on content marketing also.

Of course, there is another important key benefit to content marketing: search engine optimization. Google and other search engines index the words on your website and use the information to present search results to their users. Content marketing is a tool you can use to make the most of these results. It also helps to bring more potential buyers to your website.

3. Paid Advertising

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google and plenty of other sites all offer paid placement, and with today’s powerful analytics tools, it is easy to create ads and drive traffic inexpensively. Consider starting with Facebook, since the cost is low and it is easy to target your ads to your ideal client. Once you have perfected your sales funnel, you can branch out into more costly ads with a larger reach, such as Google AdWords.

Conclusion/Call to Action

Remember that marketing your new business is essential for success. These 3 marketing strategies will help you get new potential clients, who will have the opportunity to get to know, trust, and like you.

·     Webinars/Teleseminars

·     Content Marketing

·     Paid Advertising

Do not limit yourself to these three marketing methods though. There are dozens of others you can try, including affiliate programs, JV partnerships, automated funnels, and direct mail campaigns. The key is to keep testing and tweaking to make the most of every marketing effort, so that your business continues to grow and achieve the results that you desire.

At My Biz Dream Team, we can show you how to develop an internet lifestyle business that can help you reach your personal and money goals. Check out The Strategic Pathway to Success Program™. Let us show you how to reach your goal of creating a lifestyle and a business that you love! Act today.

Pamela Montgomery, Online Marketing Strategist

 I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, entrepreneur, and speaker, helping you create the life of your dreams as you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life!

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Brainstorming Your Book: 6 Steps Not to Skip

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Brainstorming Your Book

Brainstorming Your Book: 6 Steps Not to Skip

Brainstorming your book continues today. Our recent posts and podcasts have emphasized the importance of writing a book. This episode of My Biz Dream Team: Opportunity Wednesday Training Series continues this training on how to brainstorm your book.

In the previous episode, we discussed the first 3 steps in the book brainstorming process.

·     What is the goal for your book? This is the first step that many first-time authors skip. However, it is probably the single most important decision that you need to make.

·     What will your book be about? You must refine your message. Who is your ideal client? Why does he need your book? What unique insight can you provide?

·     How will you incorporate your story into your book? Remember that you have an important message that only you can share. It is your job to uncover and share your unique story.

 In this episode, we discuss the next 3 steps in brainstorming your book.

Begin Your Research

You must discover what kind of book will appeal to your ideal client. You must get a good understanding of what they are already reading. You will also need to find out WHY they are reading the top-selling books in your niche. Try to read the top 10 best-selling books in your niche. As you read and review, think about how your book will offer different angles that have not been covered before. Also, try to determine what is missing from the other books.

Start an Outline to Help You Organize Your Content

To successfully finish your book, you need a good idea of what you will be writing about. An outline will help keep you focused. An outline will also help you limit the scope of the book. Remember, if you did not include the topic in your outline, exclude it from the book.

Set Goals and Deadlines

Whether you are writing a 20-page mini-book or a 350-page opus, you must follow a writing schedule. Take a tip from us, you want to create an unbreakable goal-driven schedule. Set daily writing goals. For example, if you plan to write a 30,000-word book in a month, plan on writing 1000 words a day. That could take 1-4 hours, depending on how fast you write.  If you decide to speak your book aloud into a recorder, to save time, then be sure to schedule time for that. Be sure to decide on the days of the week and the number of hours that you will devote to writing.

Conclusion/Call to Action

Next week we will conclude our training on brainstorming your book on My Biz Dream Team: Opportunity Wednesday Training Series. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast, so that you will not miss it!

I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, online business strategist, and speaker, providing you result-oriented solutions to help you to achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life!

Pamela Montgomery

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How to Write a Book When You Don’t Have Enough Time

How to Write a Book When You Don't Have Enough Time

How to Write a Book When You Don't Have Enough Time

How to write a book when you don't have enough time? The failure to answer this question can lead  you to give up your dream of being an author before you even begin. But given how important a published book is to your overall business growth, now is the time to look at what you can do to make that happen. If this question has kept you up at night, then this article is for you. This article discusses 3 strategies that you can use to become a published author. Even the busiest person can will be able to write a book using one of these three strategies.

The first strategy for how to write a book when you don't have enough time is to:

1.  Outsource the Project

Who says you must write your book yourself? In the world of publishing, hiring a ghostwriter is a tried and true method for getting a book written. Many people including President Trump have used ghostwriters.  A ghostwriter is a perfect tool if you:

·     Do not have a “feel” for writing

·     Simply do not want to write

·     Are just too busy

Whatever your reason, working with a ghostwriter can make it easy to achieve your publication goals.

Ghostwriters are available in any budget. Be aware however, that you get what you pay for. While you may not want to pay several thousand dollars to hire top talent, you should not settle for the lowest cost providers either. You should interview several writers, look at samples of their work, and then choose the best you can afford.

Remember, you can always edit their work.  But if you need to edit too much, what have you saved?

2. Repurpose Other Content

If you have been marketing your business for a while, chances are good you have a wealth of content that might easily be turned into a book.

•       Your blog

•       Email auto-responders

•       Free opt-in gifts

•       Paid products

•       Podcast episodes

•       Training webinars

All this material can be edited to become your book. Do not be afraid to reach into your archives to get your book published.

3. Speak Your Book

If you love to talk, then speaking your book just might be the trick that works for you. In fact, a cell phone is all you need to write your book on the go. Simply speak your book while waiting in line to pick up the children after school, while you are out for your morning walk, or between client calls.

We used this strategy to write one of our books. We started with an outline. Then we used an interview format to orally record our ideas and experiences. It was a fun and quick way to write our book.

After you have recorded your book, then send your audio files out to be transcribed. All that remains is to edit the transcription. You can edit it yourself. Or you could hire an editor. No matter how disjointed or awful the transcript looks, you will find it is much easier to edit the content than to start from nothing.

Conclusion/Call to Action

Do not let a lack of time hold you back from writing your book. There is no better way to build your audience and establish your expert status than to publish a book. You owe it to yourself and your business to get your book out there. 

Remember you can use either of the following strategies to help you write a book:

·     Outsource the Project

·     Repurpose Other Content

·     Speak Your Book

Let us help you write a book. Join us on My Biz Dream Team: Opportunity Wednesday Training Series as we walk you through the process of brainstorming your book.

Leave us a comment to let us know of other ways of how to write a book when you don't have enough time.

I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, entrepreneur, and speaker, helping you create the life of your dreams as you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life!

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Creating Products and Services: 3 Tips for Creating Sure-fire Winners!

Creating Product and Services

Creating Products and Services: 3 Tips for Creating Sure-fire Winners!

Creating products and services that your ideal client needs and wants is your number one objective as an entrepreneur. However, many of you may be holding back from launching those new products and services. You many wonder, whether it will sell once you create it.

Imagine spending weeks or even months of your time on a new product, only to find no one wants to buy it. After all that time and energy spent in development, you discover it is not what your audience wants or needs.  How frustrating would that be?

You do not have to leave it to chance, though. There are plenty of ways to test your idea before spending the time and energy on a full launch. This article gives you 3 tips to create high demand products and services

Just Ask

Just ask! This is the simplest way to get a sense for what your market needs and wants. Simply ask them. For example, create a survey with Survey Monkey and send it out to your mailing list. For best results, keep it short. But be sure to ask:

•       What they are struggling with

•       Their preferred learning method (video, text, audio, etc.)

•       What they feel the training is worth (what would they pay)

These three pieces will tell you practically everything you need to know to create a program or service that is practically guaranteed to sell.

Listen to Your Ideal Client's Concerns and Questions

If you have a community (or are part of one) of ideal clients, pay attention to what they are asking about the most. These are the things they need help with. For example, if you are a business coach and your Facebook group is filled with questions about running Facebook ads, then clearly there is a need for some training in that area.

Study the Leaders in Your Niche

Hopefully you have connected with the leaders in your niche. They are the people who are already successful doing what you want to do. You should:

·     read their blogs,

·     read their emails, and

·     join their Facebook groups.

 This is a great way to gain insight into what they are doing. You do not want to copy them. But you do want to discover what is hot right now.

Consider buying their paid products as well. Again, you should never copy them, but you can either:

·     Promote them as an affiliate,

·     Create a better, more comprehensive version, or

·     Create a lite, lower-cost version.

Conclusion/Call to Action

Conclusion/Call to Action

Creating products and services in a vacuum is a great way to waste a lot of time and money on programs that will not sell. Instead of wasting your time and money, considering doing the following:

·     Pay attention to what your market is asking for,

·     Find out what they are willing to pay, and

·     Look at what leaders in your niche are doing.

The information you gain from these three activities alone will give you incredible insight into your market and creating product and services for them. This information will tell you what they want and need. This information will also make it easy to create your own sure-fire winning products and services.

For help in meeting the needs of your ideal client, consider joining us in The Strategic Pathway to Success Program™

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The Power of the Published Author: 3 Reasons to Write Your Book Now

The Power of the Published Author

The Power of the Published Author: 3 Reasons to Write Your Book Now

The power of being a published author cannot be underestimated. Dexter and I are the authors of 2 books. We understand how a published book propels your success.

Certainly, your presence on social media is a great representation of your brand. Your blog attracts and engages with new audiences. Your email list keeps you connected with fans and followers.

Each tool in your marketing toolkit has a job to do, but the one with the most power by far is your published book.

Your name on the cover of a tangible, hold-it-in-your-hands, printed-on-paper book is the one thing that can take your coaching, speaking, or consulting business from somewhat successful to rock star status.

This article discusses three reasons why you should write your book now.

1. As a Published Author, You Are an Instant Expert

Pay attention to the “experts” you see interviewed on morning news shows, talk shows, and on radio and podcasts. Notice anything?

They are almost always introduced as “The author of…”

There is a reason for that. Those who have the expertise to dig deep into a subject just so they can break it down in a way that others will understand clearly know their stuff. Books do not just skim the surface of a subject. They follow the rabbit trails and make new connections and explore unknown corners.

If you have written a book, you have almost certainly earned your “expert” status.

2. Authors are Committed and Driven

Not only are authors seen as the experts in their field, but they have proven themselves to be more committed than most. Think about the time and energy and frustration that comes from writing 150 or 200 or even 300 pages of content about the same subject. Not only that, but those pages must flow together in a logical order, make sense out of difficult to grasp concepts, and be engaging, too.

That is a tall order, and for those who pull it off, the kudos are well deserved. When your book is published, you deserve to walk a bit taller and to hold your head a bit straighter. But even if you do not, others will see you through new eyes, simply because you have written a book.

3. Books Offer a “Foot in the Door” When Nothing Else Will

When it comes to publicity—be it in the form of interviews, speaking engagements, JV invitations, or just more traffic to your website—you really cannot do better than a book.

Books open doors that no other content marketing tool can.

Having a published book gets you noticed by top-tier influencers in your niche.

You also become a memorable speaker when you have a published book.

I have also found that a book is better than a business card.

Also, self-published books even turn into traditional publishing contracts, and all the benefits that go along with it.

With all the advantages that come with having written a book, what is holding you back? No matter your niche, there is always room on the shelf for your unique insights. You owe it to your audience, and to your business to get that book published in now.

Conclusion/Call to Action

Now that you understand the power of being a published author, start brainstorming your book.  For help in writing your book, check out our podcast on the how to quickly write a business book in 10 weeks.

Pamela Montgomery

At My Biz Dream Team, we show you how to develop an internet lifestyle business that can help you reach your money goals. Check out The Podcasting Power Playbook, to help you increase your visibility, credibility, and authority status. Let us show you how to reach your goal of creating a lifestyle and a business that you love! Act today!!

I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, entrepreneur, and speaker, providing you results-oriented strategies that help you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life!

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Social Media Team: A Checklist for Building Your Team

Build Your Social Media Team

Social Media Team: A Checklist for Building Your Social Media Team

Having a social media team is a key component in growing your business. One of the best things you can do for your business is to build a great team to help you accomplish your social media goals. This checklist will help you find the right people for your social media team.

 1. Track Your Efforts

 Before you can even start building your social media team, you need to know what types of social media tasks need to be completed.

 o Track yourself for a couple of weeks

o Create social media goals for each network

o Write down everything you do right now for social media on each network

o Write down what you wish you could do if you had the knowledge

2. Create Roles From Duties                         

 When you see what, you do daily, plus what you wish you could do, create duties for each role.

o List expectations

o List tasks

o Give it a title

3. Determine Your Goals for Each Role

 When you know the roles and duties that each will do, create goals for each role, for example, if you want to hire a community manager what is the reason for them being there?

o Conversions

o Engagement

o Organization

o Content Calendar

o Number of Times and When to Share

o Ads

 4. Define the Skills Needed for Each Role

 When you write down the duties for each role you have created for your team, you can then determine which skills they need. For example, a graphic designer obviously needs to know how to use software, and design “something” but what? Book covers, memes, sales pages? What?

 o Designing Memes

o Choosing Images

o Making Text Overlays

o Engaging with Members

o Knowing your product — do you need to set up some product knowledge training?

 5. Ask Your Friends and Colleagues

 Finding just the right person for each role can be difficult but you probably know someone without realizing it. The first place you should go is to friends or colleagues that you know have awesome teams.

 o Know what you need before asking

o Define what makes a good (fill-in the blank for the role)

o Understand the basics of the role

 6. Check Out Job Sites for Freelancers

Today, there are many job sites you can check out to find just the right person.

 o Upwork.com

o VAnetworking.com

o Cloudpeeps.com

Conclusion/Call to Action

Finding the right people for your social media team is crucial. You must determine when the time is right. Using this checklist will help you make good decisions about this important aspect of your business.

For more information about building a great team see: The Special Report and Training Guide: The Ultimate Guide to Building a Business Dream Team

Leave a comment below to let us know whether you are considering adding a social media team to your business.

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Writing a Book: 5 Reasons Why Every Coach, Speaker, and Consultant Needs to Write a Book

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Writing a Book: 5 Reasons Every Coach, Speaker, and Consultant Needs to Write a Book

Writing a book is a dream for many people. It has never been easier to write and publish your own book. Many of you have told us that you are interested in writing a book, but you did not know exactly what to do. Some of you have started to take notes. Then you may have set them aside and now you cannot find them. Or may have become so confused by the process that you did not get started.

To help you write your book this year, our latest podcast episode is all about this topic. In this episode of My Biz Dream Team: Opportunity Wednesday Training Series we share with you three easy steps that you can take to start your book writing brainstorming process. Dexter and I have written and published two books. We understand how valuable having a book is for your business.

If you have not thought about writing a book, here are 5 reasons why every coach, speaker, and entrepreneur needs to write a book.

Are you struggling to bring in new clients or find speaking opportunities? Not sure what to do next in your marketing plan? There is one simple answer you probably may not have not considered:

Write a book.

It is true. This one thing—especially if it is an actual printed book rather than a Kindle or eBook—has the power to grow your business beyond your expectations. You will experience a whole new world of opportunities simply by having your name on the cover of a book.

 Authority

Imagine you are at a conference or local networking group and you meet two coaches who both specialize in business branding—something you know you need help with.

One coach says all the right things. She has been in business for years and worked with some top-notch business owners. She has great ideas for how she can help you solidify your branding.

The other has a similar history and story, with one additional bonus: she has just handed you a copy of her latest book. It is a professionally printed, substantial publication that practically exudes confidence.

Which coach do you think shows more authority in her field? The one with the book, of course. There really is nothing better when it comes to establishing your authority in any niche than having a book with your name on it.

Dexter and Pamela Montgomery

Expertise

So why does a book speak so highly of you and establish your authority so well? Because it gives you a platform to show off your expertise. It is like being invited to present on any topic you choose on the world’s largest stage.

Not only that, but your readers are a captive audience. They are listening—in that moment—only to you. That is a powerful position to be in, and one that gives you an opportunity to really show off your stuff.

Market Reach

No matter how many readers Google sends your way, no matter how much traffic your YouTube channel receives, nothing will ever compare to the number of potential readers Amazon and other online booksellers can bring your way.

Positioned correctly, your book can reach millions of new readers, and thousands of potential clients. Combine that with the expertise and authority we know comes with being a published author, and that is a recipe for success that cannot be beat.

Better Than a Business Card

If you have ever been to a conference, you’ve no doubt collected a stack of business cards. You get home and toss them in a drawer, and six months later you throw them out, without ever having contacted the people who gave them to you.

But if one of those people handed you a book instead, what happened? You have likely read it (or at least leafed through it). You almost certainly did not throw it away. And you remember it—and the person who wrote it.

Press Opportunities

Turn on your television to any interview show, browse through Forbes, or listen to any popular podcast, and you will quickly see that most of the guest speakers and interviewees have written a book.

The fact is, interview shows depend on interesting, insightful guests to keep their audiences listening, and there is no better applicant than an author. Writing a book will open many, many opportunities for appearances that you may never have without your name on that cover.

Do you have to write a book to be successful? No. But there is no denying the fact that a published author will find she has a much easier time growing her business than the coach or speaker, who keeps putting it off until later.

Conclusion/Call to Action

Are you ready to start writing your book? Remember the following 5 reasons to start writing your book today:

1.   Authority

2.   Expertise

3.   Market Reach

4.   Better than a Business Card

5.   Press Opportunities

Check out the other podcasts in the Book Writing Strategies Series:

Write, Speak, Broadcast

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3 Mindset Habits of a Super-Successful Entrepreneur

Mindset Habits of Super-Successful Entrepreneurs

3 Mindset Habits of a Super-Successful Entrepreneur

What if you had the mindset habits of a super-successful entrepreneur? Do you want to know what sets the super-successful entrepreneur apart from the wannabe entrepreneur?

It is not money, or brilliant ideas, or even powerful friends.

These things (and more) are nice to have, but they are not a requirement of success. The right attitude is the requirement for success.  Without the proper mindset habits, you will constantly be battling your own brain. Now, that is exhausting!

Yes, Dexter and I are writing about mindset habits again. You may be tired of hearing about:

Negative People: How to Protect Yourself from Them

The Entrepreneur’s Mindset: Taking Time to Renew, Refresh, and Relax

Finding Time for Yourself: Finding “Me” Time

However, we know from experience that when you are battling your own brain:

•       You will allow yourself to believe that your ideas are no good

•       You will remain convinced that you are not smart enough

•       You will be certain that someone else did it (whatever “it” is) better

And before you know it, you will have talked yourself right out of launching your new program. You will talk yourself out of asking for a JV partnership, or writing your book. In no time at all, you will be back at your day job.

Without the proper mindset, you will find yourself working away on someone else’s business because you do not have the confidence to create your own.

But a simple shift in your mindset can make all the difference.  Therefore, we will continue to share with you tips about that have worked for us.  We want you to join us on this journey to freedom from a 9-5 job. We want you to have the freedom to travel, invest, and live the life of your dreams!  Therefore, make a few shifts in your mindset to achieve the kind of super-success that you want. Here are 3 mindset habits of a super-successful entrepreneur.

 Mindset Habit #1:  Start Each Day With Gratitude

Choose to start your day grateful that you were given another chance to enjoy life and love. Your day will be so much better.  

Or you could choose to be grumpy and irritable.

The choice is always yours. When you choose to wake up declaring aloud a few things you are grateful for, watch how this daily habit changes your day and your life.

Mindset Habit #2:  Dress for Success

When you work at home, it is easy to fall into a habit of wearing sweatpants and T-shirts to the office. After all, why dress up just for the dog?

But if you are looking for a quick and easy way to instantly shift your mindset in the right direction, ditch the sweatpants and (for the ladies) break out the lipstick.

You will suddenly find you feel more professional, more confident, and sexier, too. (That last one will not necessarily help your business, but it might just help your love life. that cannot hurt, can it?)

Mindset Habit #3:  Never Let Fear Drive Your Decisions

Too many would-be entrepreneurs operate with a scarcity mindset rather than approaching business from a place of abundance. Rather than telling yourself that you cannot afford to hire a virtual assistant or work with a coach, try reframing your thoughts.

Rather than thinking, “I cannot afford to attend that event,” ask yourself, “How can I earn the money to invest in this trip?”

Rather than saying, “I must do everything myself because I cannot afford to hire a VA,” remind yourself that your hourly rate potential is much more than you would pay a virtual assistant. Then fill those hours you are saving by outsourcing with money-making tasks of your own.

By reformatting your thoughts, you will turn that negative money talk into positive solutions that help you grow.

Conclusion/Call to Action

Take time to consider the suggestions in this article and start to incorporate them into your life. You will find that taking a few simple actions can elevate your life and your business. The proper mindset habits are key. Start making the shift today.

Remember to:

• Start Each Day with Gratitude
• Dress for Success
• Never let Fear Drive Your Decisions

Leave a comment to let us know how you are shifting your mindset!

Pamela Montgomery

 I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, entrepreneur, and speaker, helping you create the life of your dreams as you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life

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