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August 30, 2012 By Andy Traub

Seven tips on starting your own business

On a recent episode of the No More Mondays Show my co-host Justin Lukasavige and I went through some very basic ideas if you’re starting a business.

Here’s the episode:
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Things To Do

1. Work for someone for free 

Dave Ramsey gave this bit of advice on his show last week to a guy who was seriously depressed about his work life. The caller had a terrible work history and didn’t have good references. If you can work in your field of interest for free to prove your worth you’ll get on the job training and you may even prove you’re worth hiring full time.

2. Try to find successful people who want to be more successful
You don’t want to work with people who are on their last leg. You want to work with people who are on their way to being successful and working with you will help them get their faster. You won’t love all of your clients but from the beginning work to establish an ideal client then go find them!

3. Take care of the few people you have. Get your systems in place so you can scale later on
 If you can’t help two people you can’t help 22. Paying attention to the clients in front of you is important if you want to get more of them. Every fire starts with a spark so focus on building your business consistently. If you pay attention to the details in the beginning you’ll scale more easily.

4. Keep it simple – find out what people want from people, not your own head
Rework is a great book to read about this topic. Planning is great but it doesn’t compare to learning from your customers. Taking too much time to “figure out what your customers want” becomes an excuse. The best way to learn what works is to do it and pay attention to the results. You can’t measure the success of your business without customers. You aren’t the measure of your effectiveness, they are. Get their feedback early and often and adjust accordingly.

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Thing to not do:

1. Don’t be a burden when you’re helping someone.
Be professional and be present but don’t communicate the idea that you’ve got no boundaries or other clients. Be a help and don’t overstay your welcome.

2. Don’t take everyone who needs help
Set up boundaries on who you work with and how people can reach you. If your phone rings off the hook it’s because you gave people your phone number. I have found that those with the least to lose will take the most from you. Even if you are generously giving of yourself you can still put in boundaries so you can continue to take on clients that can afford to pay you your full wage.

3. Don’t be someone else because you’ll never win that game
God only made one of you. Stop trying to be like other people because they’re always going to be better at it than you are. Seek out your own voice, services and products. Develop yourself and use those heroes as inspiration. The world needs you, not a mini-version of your heroes.

Filed Under: Marketing, Permission, Solopreneur, Uncategorized Tagged With: justin lukasavige, no more mondays

September 21, 2011 By Andy Traub

How to be successful in life and business – It's pretty simple

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God made you special.  He gave you unique gifts, perspective and passions.  If we’re all special why are some of us happier and more successful than others?  The difference between success and failure is the support system around you.  People and books are what make my life what it is today.  That sounds simplistic because it’s not that complicated.

  1. Read good books.
  2. Surround yourself with encouraging people who are as hungry for success as you are.
  3. Take action and seek accountability

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Filed Under: Personal, Productivity, Uncategorized Tagged With: andy andrews, dan miller, dave ramsey, friendships, justin lukasavige, leadership, pierce marrs, podcasting, success

July 10, 2011 By Andy Traub

Why I started Take Permission Media Network

You can ask my wife, I’m not very organized. After trying to start my own podcast in 2009 and ending up sounding more like a computer than a human I got really, really lucky and Cliff Ravenscraft asked me to do a podcast with him on his network GPSN. The next week I called Cliff on Skype and we started Business Tech Weekly. It felt so amazing to be on iTunes and to sound good. The shows were full of helpful content and we had a growing audience that would show up on Thursdays to chat with us during live shows.

In early 2010 I read Seth Godin’s book Linchpin. Half way through the book I felt this incredible urge to share what I was reading with other people. A podcast was the perfect medium to share my thoughts and most of all to connect Linchpins together. I used my $30 headset, used one of Cliff’s digital products to learn how to create my podcast the right way this time, and I was off and running. Oh yeah, I also emailed Seth Godin to ask his permission to use the book cover and he said yes with very little hesitation.

Be A Better Husband Podcast was born in 2010 because I wanted to encourage other husbands who like me, struggled to be the husbands they knew they should be. As 2010 progressed I started another podcast with my business coach Justin Lukasavige based on Dan Miller’s book No More Mondays. In the summer of 2011 I got tired of updating separate sites and I wanted to start even more shows.

Take Permission Media Network was supposed to be like Cliff Ravenscraft’s network GSPN, full of my own content. I had built http://www.takepermission.com/ and was preparing to move my old Linchpin and Be A Better Husband episodes.  I had mapped out new shows around Steven Pressfield’s book Do The Work and a show about homeschooling your kids. Then my friend Aaron Curtis bought me Anything You Want by Derek Sivers. That book ruined my whole idea and I’m so grateful it did.

More to come…

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cliff ravenscraft, dan miller, derek sivers, gspn, justin lukasavige, linchpin, podcasting, seth godin

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