What is success? For the business owner, success is defined as “the achievement of wealth and fame”. For many, wealth and fame remain only dreams, but there is a four step formula that will allow anyone who truly desires success to reach their dreams.
Step # 1. Know your product or service
Before you begin promoting your product or service, you must learn everything about it. You must know the benefits inside and out.
Don’t become a modern day snake oil salesmen by promoting something you know nothing about. Your reputation and credibility are on the line.
Promoting something just for the money is a sure fire way to damage your reputation and lose a customer for life.
Promote only products or services you truly believe in and know something about.
Step #2 Set Goals
Your goal is your roadmap to success. Without goals you wander aimlessly. Until you’ve sat down and committed your goals to writing, you are doing nothing more than daydreaming.
Make your goal big enough to get you excited, but not so big that you don’t believe you can achieve it.
Remember the formula: Conceiving + Believing = Achieving
Step #3
Make a plan for reaching your goal. A goal is important, but to accomplish your goal you must have a plan of action.
Your plan must be detailed enough to help you reach your goal, but flexible enough to allow for modifications as circumstances warrant.
We all operate from incomplete knowledge, so once we begin our journey, we must be prepared to make changes as our knowledge increases.
Step # 4
Put your plan into action. Without taking action, your goal will remain a daydream.
Once you start moving in the direction of your goals, you’ll find your goals will meet you half way.
Once your plan is in place, you must begin to act immediately. Remember an object in motion tends to remain in motion.
Start moving today.
These four steps may seem simple, but follow them and they’ll take you anywhere you want to go.
Wishing You Success, John Colanzi
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