7 BEST ENTREPRENUERIAL TIPS

1. Find your gift.
When you start out, you must realize that you have raw talents, skills, and abilities. Sometimes you'll have to go out of your way to find them for yourself.
No one will find your gift for you. You have to search for them on your own. Once you do, make a special effort to do what you do best, whether it's dancing, drawing, or driving! Your gift will make room for you.

 When it comes to your gift, you either use it or lose it.

2. Tell your story.

No one has the same exact story as you do! It doesn't matter what profession you're in--you must still learn to tell your story. When I started to tell my story, it taught me a lot about myself. It also led me to better opportunities because it improved my communication skills. What's your story? When are you going to share it?

Most people should take the time to think about their story. Your story is important because it tells the world where you've been, who you are, and where you're about to go. Truthfully, everyone wants to know your story. Do yourself a favor and write your life story out in 5-10 pages. Keep in mind that it doesn't have to be perfect. Who knows? Maybe it might turn into a book!

If you want to build a multi-million dollar business, you need a product to sell and a story to tell. When you look at the biggest brands out there, they share a story along with their products and services. Thankfully, it doesn't cost that much to make a product that fits the needs of the people you're trying to serve. What kind of product can you make within the next few months?

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4. Expand.

consult with entrepreneurs on how they can brand, promote, and market their businesses. Fortunately, I found that my expansion was totally compatible with what I was already doing.

As I began to serve my clients successfully, my business grew immeasurably. Now, I had different sources of income and new ways to serve people. Along the way, I found new ways to improve my business, even in the smallest ways. All I did was ask the greatest question in the world: "How can I deliver more value to more people in less time?" 

5. Build systems.

As your business expands, you’ll need to create systems that support you. Systems that work in your favor will keep your empire from overwhelming you. The right system allows you to protect your most valuable asset: your time. Instead of rushing into false pressures, non-emergencies, and menial tasks, your systems will help you organize and prioritize your tasks.

If it isn't measured, it isn't managed.

6. Hire.

Once your systems have gone beyond your own capabilities, it's time to hire people to help you. For some strange reason, many aspiring entrepreneurs want to call themselves the CEO of the company and assign positions to people who shouldn't even be in their business in the first place. Hiring and training people is a serious duty because of all the responsibilities it entails. 

Whether my hired help are virtual or face-to-face, I let them do what they do best as I take care of what I do best: Producing Content.

7. Mass production.

Once you get a good grip on serving your market, you're going to want to scale and leverage your business. To build a multi-million dollar empire, you'll need to produce on a massive level. However, the only way you can cater to the masses is by using your feedback to reach a bigger audience. You should be able to get this feedback from those you've already served.

When you build your competence, your confidence grows. Personally, I feel more confident after each article, and speech I produce. Eventually, the marketplace showed me how to engineer bigger and better products and services to reach more people. When you serve hundreds of people, thousands will show up. If you take care of thousands, millions will come. Try it!

To make a million dollars, serve a million people.

Success begets success. If you start where you are and absorb the opportunities around you, you'll be able to drink the joys of life. You have to take what you get in life to get what you want out of life. Building a multi-million dollar empire is about learning how to serve people on a small level, then taking it to the highest level!

 

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What Makes a Successful Entrepreneur? Perseverance.

 Entrepreneurship is not the glamorous career path it’s been made out to be. It’s not about big ideas and ideals. It’s not about hopes and dreams. It’s not about guts and glory. It’s not even about invention and innovation.see more hereAnd it’s certainly not about a search for fame and fortune. More than anything, entrepreneurship is a game of attrition. It’s about having the determination, the discipline, and the cash to see it through. It’s about not giving up and being the last man or woman standing when everyone else has fallen
by the wayside.Don’t get me wrong. Having the vision to see what others don’t, the passion to motivate yourself and others, the savvy to build and grow a business, and the guts to make good decisions, are all part of the mix. But what binds those ingredients together is the tenacity to stick with it, day in, day out, year after year.Make no mistake, successful companies have no endpoint. That’s right, they don’t. The goal is to keep overcoming obstacles, growing sales, and making money, ad infinitum. If reading that sends a cold chill down your spine, you’re not alone. The prospect of having to keep all those balls up in the air and grow a business indefinitely is daunting to most.The few that find the notion intoxicating to the point where they can’t wait to get up every morning, get to work, and deal with the chaos of their chosen path in life are the true entrepreneurs of the world. Here are a few real examples to drive home the importance of perseverance in startup success:see more Nobody got Google at firstI bet you didn’t know that Larry Page and Sergey Brin pitched their idea for a standalone search-engine company all over Silicon Valley before Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim finally wrote them a check for $100,000. And in 1999, Google was ranked seventh with just 7.8 percent of the search-engine market. It took years before the startup hit critical mass, came to dominate the market, and became a popular verb all over the world. Jeff Bezos' "purposeful Darwinism"Jeff Bezos may have gotten a jump on ecommerce when he founded Amazon in 1994, but it wasn’t some grand vision that enabled the Seattle-based company to survive the nuclear fallout of the dot-com era and thrive through the Great Recession. It was the tenacity of a highly competitive, results-driven culture built on a version of survival of the fittest Bezos calls “purposeful Darwinism.” Jobs: Perseverance distinguishes successful entrepreneursIn a 1995 interview, Steve Jobs said, “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard and you pour so much of your life into this thing, there are such rough moments in time that most people give up. And I don't blame them, it's really tough.” Indeed, Apple has persevered; the company was nearly bankrupt when Jobs returned as CEO in 1997. Interestingly enough, Apple has only played a role in creating one market, the personal computer. MP3 players, smartphones, and tablets had all been around for many years when the tech giant entered those markets with a superior product painstakingly designed with the highest standards in mind. The Cupertino company as always taken the long view – and taken its time to be the best at what it does. VC: One of the things I admire most is tenacityIn a recent blog post appropriately titled “Tenacity,” VC Fred Wilson said that’s one of the qualities he admires most in leaders. “Every successful company I have been involved in has gone through periods where things didn’t work, where something important took too long and the doubts start to creep in,” he said. “Employees start to lose faith, the media turns cruel, and you’ve got to hold it all together.”Wilson should know. His firm’s notable investments include Twitter, Zynga, Etsy, Tumblr, Feedburner, and Foursquare, several of which have come under harsh scrutiny as public companies.He also said it took years for SoundCloud to ink licensing deals with the music industry. And although Foursquare recently announced a down round of funding and that its founder, Dennis Crowley, would be stepping down as CEO, Wilson said the location awareness company has “survived and thrived” due to its and Crowley’s tenacity.Lastly, Wilson said, “It gets harder, not easier, as the years pile up. That is where tenacity and believing in yourself and your team and your business is required.”Indeed. Just as with life, successful businesses are marathons, not sprints, except there is no finish line. It’s just a way of life, so live it up. Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the comment writers alone and does not reflect or represent the views of Victor Duru

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3 Entrepreneur tips

While 99 percent of the population is going to work every day, trading their time for money...there’s a special group of “in the know” people who are waking up to a world of financial potential that most people don’t know is possible.
There’s a simple blueprint for making money with an online business.

1: Choose a great business idea, then start to build a website that attracts visitors.

Here’s a quick tip to come up with a great business idea:Combine one of your ideas/hobbies/skills to find something that you care about and figure out how that can be used to solve another person’s problem. Here’s what to do: Create a simple website for pennies using Wordpress or Squarespace that advertises what you do, and/or the product you’re offering. You don’t need any web or tech skills to make this happen. Both resources have ready-to-install templates. You just need to know how to use the internet!
Use regular tools (like Facebook, Instagram, a blog, etc) to start driving people to your website. Nothing secret or tricky here. Just talk to your friends, family, and accessible networks and try to start solving their problems. Identify their pain points and then go about actively solving them. This will help you fine tune your idea.
Direct them to your site to pick up their free piece of value content that you’ve prepared for them. Which is the subject of Step 2…

2: Offer visitors something free in exchange for their email address.

Create free, helpful content and ask visitors for an email address in exchange.
For example, you could offer a free 15-minute consultation, a tutorial video, a downloadable checklist, an info graphic, a guide or other types of free content depending on your business and industry. The list is literally endless.
Add these people to an email list and keep building that list over time. Slow but steady wins the race. You can create HUGE results with a very small email list. I know this because I was able to quit my job with a list of about 500 members.
I know what you’re thinking, so let me stress it again -- you don’t have to be a “techie” or know any programming!! The website can be up and running in a day for less than $50. And you can use an email marketing solution like MailChimp to manage subscribers, send emails, and track results for free.

3. Turn those subscribers into customers by asking them to buy from you via email.

Now it’s time to make money.
You can sell whatever you want -- a physical or digital product, a course, a service, or even coaching. It’s all based on what’s interesting to you, and what you think you can help your subscribers with the most.
After delivering a ton of free awesome content for a while (emailing your blog posts, YouTube videos, or whatever else you create), now you have the “right” to sell. Really, this means you have a core audience—no matter how small—who anticipates hearing from you, who reads or consumes your work, and who relates to your message.
This is huge.
These people, your Tribe, actually WANT to buy from you. They’re eager for you to produce a real product because they trust you.
This satisfies our innate human instinct for reciprocity—but really it’s because they think that what you offer is valuable, and an actual product puts a price to that value.
Here’s an example how a simple idea can be turned into a $1,000/month online business:
Let’s say you’re a tutor who’s really good at preparing students for the SAT/ACT college entrance exams.
That’s a pretty in-demand skill set with a high hourly rate. But after a while, you might get burned out driving from house to house or teaching big classes.There are only so many hours in the day.

There’s an easier way.
Instead of having to go door-to-door teaching SAT, you could make a website that gave great SAT tips and strategies for free. Create a PDF guide of your top five proven strategies for raising test scores and, in exchange for their email addresses, give it away to visitors who visit your website.
Continue to build that list of email addresses over time. Your list is your money maker. Treat it with utmost care and respect. Always remember these are real people.
Behind the scenes, you build a simple six-week video course teaching lessons as if you were in front of a classroom.
(I don’t want to hear you say you don’t have the proper equipment!! All you need is an iPhone. Don’t believe me? Casey Neistat is an acclaimed film director, producer and YouTube star with nearly two million subscribers. He films everything he produces on an iPhone. Yup.)
Once every month or two, send an email to your dedicated email list selling the course.
Every time you send, there’s a good chance people will buy. As the list grows, more and more people will buy.
(Remember, you’re still peppering them with juicy content in between each sales push. That’s how they grow to love and respect you.)
If you priced the video series at just $97 (which is quite fair considering how much private tutoring costs) and sold just just 10 of those a video courses every month, you’d make a quick $1,000 automatically...every single month.From a TINY email list.
THAT IS LIFE-CHANGING.

• That’s enough money for you to take a vacation.
• That’s enough money to pay off student loans.
• That’s enough money to pay down your debt and finally start saving.

And that’s what I mean. It doesn’t take a lot.
From here, the sky’s the limit. From here, the sky’s the limit. You can easily tweak the “dials” of your internet business and 2x, 5x, 10x that money easily with a few changes.
Keep growing your list and try to imagine what’s possible...





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The Key to Better Sex Is All in Your Breathing

You've probably considered a yoga class once or twice — maybe a friend tried to convince you — but for one reason or another it never stuck and you're still skeptical. Consider, then, one huge bonus of the practice you may not be aware of: It can improve your sex life.

Here's how it works: The key to yoga's claim on your sex drive is in the breathing technique used during yoga, pranayama. It releases the same chemicals in the brain as sex does, meaning you can leave the studio post-yoga with enhanced sexual desire. Plus, during your practice, certain postures increase blood flow to the pelvic region, lighting up your sexual response. The heart rate of yogis in deep meditative states can even mirror that of frenzied lovers.

You don't even need to go to a class to reap the benefits, either. Here are five poses you can do anywhere to get you started — in more ways than one.

1. Chair Pose

Chair pose engages your pelvic region by forcing you to lift your pelvic floor as you lower your tailbone. It's the same muscles that are used in Kegel exercises and it leads to more intense control of sexual organs.

Do it: Start with your feet together, toes touching. Sit your hips back and reach your arms alongside your ears, like you are about to sit in a chair. Lengthen your tailbone down to keep from crunching in the low back, lifting the pelvic floor to elongate the spine.

2. Squat Pose

This deep squatting pose keeps pelvic joints healthy by forcing you to work your inner thigh muscles, pull up the pelvic floor, and engage your abdominals. It's also thought to stimulate your sex glands and spleen.

Do it: From a standing position, place your feet hips-width distance apart with the toes turned out. Bring palms together in front of your heart, and slowly lower down toward the mat to come to hover just above the floor. Place your biceps just behind your knees to spread them wider and to help lengthen your spine, reaching your chest up to the sky.

3. Cobra Pose

Cobra pose stretches out your sex organs and increases blood circulation to the reproductive organs.

Do it: Lie on your stomach, feet together and pointed to the back of the room. Place your hands alongside your ribs for stability, press your pelvis into the mat, and use your back muscles to lift your chest off the mat. Gaze just six inches in front of you to keep from crunching your cervical spine in your neck. Try lifting your hands off of the mat to lift higher. Lower slowly.

4. Seated Wide-Legged Straddle

This wide-legged forward fold increases libido by releasing tension in the groin muscles and heightening energy levels by signaling blood flow to the pelvic region.

Do it: Extend each leg to a 45-degree angle from your hip joint and flex your feet. Take a deep breath in, lengthening the torso. On the exhale, fold forward, reaching for your toes. Keep the spine lengthened as if someone is pulling the crown of your head forward. Breath deeply into the crease created at your pelvis.

5. Breathing Techniques

Fast breathing shuts down the cortex of the brain, which controls higher thinking, and allows your primitive brain and limbic system, responsible for sexual responses, to activate and release sex hormones.

Do it: Take a deep breath in, and exhale through the nose in short, sharp breaths, pumping the diaphragm as you count to 50. Take a deep breath in and out. Repeat. You can do this in a seated position, such as lotus, where you are seated with your legs crossed, or while holding other positions.

Source From: Esquire

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11 Ways to Protect Your Kids' Identity Online ; Just because your child doesn't have a Facebook account yet doesn't mean he's not at risk.​

1 Keep her SSN to yourself.

If the little league team asks for your kid's Social Security number, don't feel like you have to give it to them. "Try calling and explaining that you do not wish to share that information and ask what other info you can provide instead," says Ryan Anderson, the outreach program manager at the Center for Identity. "With very few exceptions — like government services, heath care, and insurance — most organizations do not need your child's SSN, but request it because it is convenient for them." If you absolutely have to give up the number, see if there's a way to do it over the phone rather than online.

2 Teach your kids to type links, not click.

Web-surfing children need to know how g00gle.com can be different from google.com. "There are a lot of people who collect misspellings and create clone sites for the purpose of gathering information, which can then help them to commit identity theft," says Adam Levin, founder of IDT911 and author of Swiped. To avoid unsafe sites, stress the importance of typing in URLs (rather than blindly clicking on links) and checking the spelling before logging any personal information.

3 Be wary when posting photos.

Parents often disagree about how much to post about their kids and, at the end of the day, it really is a personal preference. Just beware of the risks: You could potentially become a target for a robbery, your kid's photos could be taken and reused by a stranger, or info you post could even be used to facilitate a kidnapping. So skip that first day of class shot next to the school entry sign. "I was very protective of my son's identity when he was younger," says Tracy Gibb, the blogger behind Less Than Perfect Parents. "I never used his face on my blog or any social media sites because I was nervous some weirdo might take an interest in him."

4 Always turn off geotagging.

By disabling the location services on your cell phone, you'll save battery power and you'll make it harder for thieves to locate or track you. "If your picture is geotagged, that means someone with basic computer skills can click on the properties and get into the code to figure out where that picture was taken," says Levin. Why give away your child's school — or your home address — unnecessarily?

5 Check their credit reports.

"Most children shouldn't even have a credit score," explains Anderson, "given that those scores are only issued by the three major credit bureaus when someone has applied for or received some type of credit." (Think: student loans or credit cards.) With identity theft continuing to grow, the Center recommends that parents check their children's credit history at least once a year to be safe. Then, if something comes up, you can have the credit bureaus freeze your child's credit, which would prevent anyone from opening up more accounts.

6 Break the rules to safeguard passwords.

It's not enough to have a complicated password anymore — especially on websites that ask super simple questions in order to approve a password reset. Identity thieves can easily find out a pet's name or a school's mascot using social media. So when answering these questions, Levin has a trick: Lie. "When a site is looking for an answer to a security question, truth is not important. It's about consistency," he says. For example, if your maiden name is Brown, have your kid say it's Orange.

7 Register their domain name.

And, while you're at it, their email address. You don't have to actually build them a website, but Levin says it's smart to reserve those accounts for a few reasons. For one, they'll have easy-to-remember URLs and emails when they're ready. Plus, these accounts are reserved and can't be used fraudulently. But you might need to wait until the early teenage years: "Most social media networks and email providers don't actually allow you to create a profile for children under 13, unless you lie about their age," says Anderson. "And that account could always be flagged as fraudulent and shut down."

8 Steer clear of strangers.

Sure, your kids know not to talk to strangers in public, but have you made it clear that the same rule applies online? "Unlike the physical world where there are some easily identifiable good strangers — such as law enforcement or firefighters — there is no such thing as a safe stranger online, where someone's identity can easily be faked or concealed," says Anderson. There's no reason for them to accept friend requests from people they don't know.

9 Don't friend them on social media.

Why? It connects and exposes them to adults they don't know — and makes all of their data vulnerable, argues blogger Jessica Gottlieb. "Before you friend a child, any child... ask yourself what it might achieve. If your child is under 13, they aren't supposed to be on Facebook, but that's not because of maturity or Facebook caring about childhood. It's because Facebook buys and sells your data and it's illegal to buy and sell data from children under 13," she writes.

10 Set up separate computers.

"If you can afford it, have your kids use a different device," suggests Levin. "This way, if their device gets contaminated, your tax return and your bank information doesn't go up in smoke or end up in a ransomed file."

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11 Make sure they keep private info private.

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"Kids can become weapons of mass destruction in terms of online security," warns Levin. "They can be giving out information that they don't realize is personal, identifying info." Explain that they should never share info about themselves, their friends, their family, their neighborhood, or anything that could be used to identify them. The Center even has a free game called  Beat the Thief that will help educate kids on this very topic.

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