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    To Grow a Home Business

    Hi this is Jane Gardner and welcome. This is all about growing your home business. And today we’re going to just be talking  about some of those strategies they could have in order to grow your business. As I have mentioned previously, I’m going to be talking about growing your blog doing anything with your home business whether it’s offline or online on the internet.

    So first off, we’re going to be talking about some of the offline strategies of course because these are some of the standard strategies that you have throughout time to grow your business.

    We’re going to be looking at networking and marketing.

    We’re going to be looking at outsourcing and we’re going to be looking at promoting your business in order to create more awareness for your business.

    These are some of the ways that you can grow your home business whether it was 1990 or now. Then we’ll be looking at the Internet and how having the Internet has increased the possibility for you to grow your business. Whether it’s offline or online today you can have a larger Internet international audience for your business and especially if you can do your business in different languages you can have an even larger market. We’ll be looking at your market potential on the internet.

    I can tell you right now there was 3.6 billion people on the Internet and I’m sure by now there’s probably more so I’ll keep you up to date on the number of people that are on the Internet and hanging out where they’re hanging out and how you can grow your home business by going where your market is.

    So we’re going to be looking at some of the new opportunities for you as a business to grow your business. Of course the most important one being of course the opportunities on the Internet but also by looking at partnering with other businesses and creating a collaboration in order to have a larger success and outsourcing. Being able to outsource some of your work, so that you have more time to grow your business rather than working in your business. So we’ll be looking at growth strategies that will help you save time and money in your business. So if we can get your business to grow by 5 percent, 10 percent or 25 percent just getting your business onto the Internet creating awareness for your business on the Internet. Even if you’re an offline business the Internet is important for your business because at all times you have to be able to grow your home business so you have a strong structure and foundation to your business.

    So yeah that’s all we’re looking at and I hope it’ll be useful for you and grow your home business Fridays. Let’s see what should we leave you with today. Think about your own business and what you want to have your business grow at and how you want it to increase by 5 percent. Have a look at your productivity in your business and see how you can be more productive in order to have the time so you can grow your business.

    We’ll be looking at social media. So if you haven’t got yourself a social media account on Facebook or Instagram or Twitter, it’s about time that you did. So we’ll be going over some of the reasons for why you should be getting on on social media even if are a home based business who thinks you don’t cater to people on the Internet. I can certainly show you some businesses that have been successful on Instagram, for example, posting photos of ships. These are ships that are shipping! They have people who actually follow them. So it’s not impossible for you to grow your business with social media and on the Internet. And so we’ll be looking at some of the ways you can do that in the coming months.

    So I hope you’ll join me and subscribe here at boahb.com and will talk to you again next week. I’ll start with the basics. Start with what did we do back in 1990 when we were growing our home business. I had one of the original guerrilla marketing handbook so we were going over some of the simpler ways that you can sell your home business by doing some marketing for it. And if you have already know about that well we might find a few new ones for you on next week.

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    Mindset of the Entrepreneur

    Welcome. I’m Jane Gardner. And today on Mindset Monday, we’re going to talk about being an entrepreneur and what a mindset of an entrepreneur is and whether you are capable of being an entrepreneur due to your mindset. Over the next few weeks we’ll be talking about some of the ways you can be challenged as an entrepreneur in terms of your mindset and how you can conquer those challenges. You do not have to be born an entrepreneur and you can actually learn to be an entrepreneur. You can also train your mind to have the mindset of an entrepreneur.

    Unlike what some people say that you have to come from an entrepreneurial family, over 50 percent of successful business owners come from the middle class and 35 percent were either poor or working class. So you don’t have to be a family member of an entrepreneur.

    You can change your mind in order to be an entrepreneur. So don’t let that stop you. The idea that you don’t know what it is to be an entrepreneur should not stop you because we can talk about changing your mindset as we go along.

    Ask yourself these questions because I believe that you shouldn’t quit your day job as I mentioned in order to be an entrepreneur that you should be at least thoughtful about your process etc.

    So let’s ask these questions of yourself.

    How many of you would you agree that.

    “I don’t like to risk my money.” Not at all.

    “I would never think of quitting my job and risking my life savings.

    “I like the idea of being my own boss. I’m not sure I would be good at it.

    “I’m willing to take responsibility for my actions but I still don’t want anyone to find out about my mistakes.

    I sometimes have good ideas but often have no idea of what to do.

    Well, if you agree with any of those statements you are a reluctant entrepreneur at heart.I invite you to join our ranks because you don’t have to be a risk taker in order to be an entrepreneur.

    As I mentioned yesterday, one of the books I highly recommend is “The Reluctant Entrepreneur” by Michael Masterson and read through that and start learning how to train your brain to be the successful entrepreneur.

    So for today I want you to think about who you think is a successful entrepreneur. Next time, we’ll be talking about some of the entrepreneurs you may not know of who have conquered their inability or their fears. Being an entrepreneur and becoming a successful entrepreneur is regardless of being a risk taker or trying something without even thinking beforehand because you or anyone else can be an entrepreneur. All you have to do is try to have a positive, committed attitude and have a natural love of a challenge and the ability to manage a lot of stress and work at a high level and the willingness to take responsibility.

    These are some of the ideas of having the mindset of the entrepreneur and if you don’t have them now you can certainly learn how to train your brain in order to be challenged as an entrepreneur.

    My husband and I have been entrepreneurs for 20 years we work on our own. Every day is a challenge and every day is a pleasure. Every day is a day where we don’t know what the next day will bring, what work will come but we accept that work will come and we continue on. We will also have a huge pile of work for the day and know that there’s a huge pile the next day and we have to get through it.

    So , you have to have a few traits of the entrepreneur to succeed. In season one, I talked to you about some of the traits of an entrepreneur. I’ll go into more detail in the second season on what the traits of the entrepreneur is and some of the ways you yourself can learn some of these traits and train your brain to have the mindset of the entrepreneur.

    So I hope you’ll come along with me on the challenge and the triumph of being an entrepreneur on Mindset Monday. We’ll see you next week.

    Just have a think about “are you an entrepreneur now” or “do you want to be an entrepreneur in the future.

    Do you want to take action and get control of your life or at least make some extra money too as a business person so that you can have a more successful life and that you can have the things that you want and you can help your family and you can help yourself and you can control your life. So we’ll see you next week. Subscribe to the podcast on Itunes.

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    Solopreneur Success Strategies Season Two on HomeBizStartup

     

    INTRODUCTION

    Welcome to season two of Solopreneur Success Strategies. This is Jane Gardner and we’re going to be talking about business startup. We’re going to be talking about starting running and growing your own home business whether offline or on.

    Monday is all about mindset. Tuesday is all about starting a home based business, Wednesday is all about selling, sales and your customer. Thursday is going to be about running your home business. Friday will be running your home business. Saturday is all about putting systems in your business and Sunday is all about strategy. So subscribe to this daily podcast and help you get started running and growing your own home business For more information go to boahb.com. [27.7]

    SHOW

    Hi this is Jane Gardner. And welcome. This is all about you because we’re going to be talking about how to start run and grow a business in season two of Solopreneur success strategies. So I’m going to be giving you some tips and tricks in five minutes or less on the various subjects from mindset on Monday, Tuesday is about starting your home business, Wednesday is selling and sales and your customers, Thursday is going to be about running your home business and Friday is about growing your own business. Saturday is about systems as we mentioned in our introduction. Sunday is all about strategy. As it is Sunday today, I’m going to give you some strategy to think about for the idea of starting a home business. So today, I wanted to just to introduce you again to myself. I’m Jane Gardner. I have a Web site Jane-gardner.com where I talk about sales and I’ve had my Solopreneur success strategies podcast there as well as the web- tv show and we talk about your message and your brand and who you are and how you sell. I have started a Web site called boahb.com which is the business about home business membership where you’ll be able to go in and start learning how to run and grow a home business.

    But today I’ll just talk about myself and why I think I can help you. I’ve worked in engineering firm with my husband for the last 20 years. We started in about the 1990s when the Internet was just in its infancy.

    Our business was always very local based and wide in terms of our clients. Now in terms of where we are in western Canada, we basically do renovations and retrofits and some new construction. My point to all this is that most of the time we are a “word of mouth” business that is local. So if you have a good “word of mouth” on your business then you get more business. So that’s a tip for you on starting a home business in the local area.

    Always make sure that you have good word of mouth about your business.

    In about 2013, I decided there might be time for me to go out and help other people start their own home business and find out what the resources and tools and the ideas and mindset that you need in order to start a business. So that is why I am here now. We’re going to do Season two of Solopreneur success strategies just talking about starting running and growing your business as well as putting together a strategy for your business.

    So today I just wanted to talk about the first strategy that I want to talk about which is if you’re thinking of starting a business consider it as to be a business that you will start part time. You will not quit your day job in order to start on business even though you know it might be a successful business until you start selling in your home business. You really should consider testing your idea and doing some research as well ,as of course, trying to sell your service or product to your market.

    I would certainly suggest today that you consider buying the book “Reluctant Entrepreneur” by Michael Masterson.

    It’s a great book to read to realize that you need to be able to test the market before you actually start a business in order to see whether or not they’re interested. So one of the ways I test the market is by having this podcast and seen how many people want to listen in. One of the ways that you can test your product or service is to do something like this and do a podcast on the subject. You’d be surprised what kind of people are interested in it and you can find your audience there as well. So that’s one thing you can do certainly for free. It’s just a matter of using their time and getting the voice in order to learn how to create a podcast. So we’ve given you one tip.

    First don’t quit your day job.

     Recommend to get the book “The Reluctant Entrepreneur” by Michael Masterson to give you some ideas.

    I’ll be giving you some other ideas from that book in order to get you going and thinking about starting your whole business. And of course on Tuesday I believe is starting your home business will be given you more tips about how to research and find out how are whether or not you should start the business you’re thinking of.

    The other idea is why not do a podcast and see whether or not there is a market out there if there’s people who are will listen to you about your business. That’s the other tip.

    Certainly in my business about home business we can certainly learn about how to do the research very easily in order to find out about your market. We’ll be talking about other ways to find out whether there’s a market out there for your business. But today I just wanted to introduce myself on Sunday.

    Monday will be about mindset when starting the whole business and I will give you tips and tricks to think about selling on Wednesday. Thursday will be running a home business , Friday is growing your own business and Saturday is systems. On Saturday, systems will help you to save time and money. Sunday will always be about strategy.

    So today we talked about having this strategy to realize that you shouldn’t quit your day job. You should do this new business you’d like to start part time and see whether or not there is a market out there by selling it and testing whether or not you can sell the product or service out there. So we’ll talk a bit more about that next Sunday. But for now this is Jane Gardner on Solopreneur Success Strategies. This is season 2 and we’ll be getting into the nitty gritty and down and dirty for starting your own home business and running and growing it. So thank you for listening. I hope that this podcast will give you some ideas to think about and subscribe on Itunes.

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