Here is what you need to do now:

Step 1- Stop what you are doing and take a quick look at the websites so that you can see the product lines

Step 2- Think about what you really want for your life. If you love fashion and beauty and you are passionate about starting a business then think about this opportunity.

Step 3- If you conclude you like what you see and would like to know more, pick up the phone and call me for more information.

Step 4- If you conclude this is not for you, then please seriously consider sharing this information with all your friends, families, colleagues etc. You will be helping someone who is desperately looking for this opportunity.

Remember, this is a rare opportunity to start a homebusiness selling top quality branded and designer products of over 500 lines for a healthy commission. You will be doing this business from the comfort of your home or alongside your existing business. Contact me on 07737459730 or 0845 226 4315 for more information.
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But here is another shocking truth , many small businesses and start-up compromise their privacy by publishing their home address on the web simply because they are not aware of alternatives to protect their privacy and security of their family members. Are you one of them? Do you know people whose home address is published on their website, companies house website and brochures.

Publishing your home address publicly is a very risky thing to do. Have you ever thought about the consequence of a disgruntle customer turning up at your home or even suppliers desperate for his payment turning up at your home? All you have to do is get a virtual office provider offer you the solution to this problem. Not only will you be protecting your privacy, when you utilise virtual office service, you will be projecting a professional image of your business.

To find out more about where you can get virtual solutions worldwide please go to http://www.businessservicessupport.com/virtual_office_and_assistants.php

For those who are new to the subject, let me clearly state that affirmatons are set of definite positive statements you repeat silently and frequently to yourself about things you want to see manifest in your life. I recently produced a set of affirmation statements for a client that needed support to become more positive about herself and her business which I will share with you to give you an insight into what affirmation statements are and how they should be put together. Affirmation statements should always be in the positive and in the present tense. Moreover, it should be believable so that the subconscious mind can accept the statements and go to work on it.

Examples of affirmation statements

I am now creating a successful business doing what I love to do.
I am now taking steps to learn all the skills I need to run a profitable and successful business
I am now creating sales income of xxxxxxxxxxxx per month and my business is growing steadily each month.
I am now creating a profitable business as my expenses are well below my income
I now think and act positively consistently at home, in my business and with my external relationships
I believe in my self and I am confident that the universe supports me in all my affairs
I am supported by the universe and I am one with the universal intelligence that creates all things abundantly around me and through me.
I have faith that what so ever I do will succeed. I simply ask the universe, believe that what I have asked is on it way to me and accept all good things that come to me speedily.
I am directed and guided by the universe and I have complete faith in the universe.
I love, value and respect my family and they love, value and respect me too.
I love, value and respect my customers and they love, value and respect me too.
I am paid well for the services I provide my customers and I serve my customers with passion and love
I am now taking steps to become financially astute and I now begin to make wise decisions about money matters
Nothing but the best comes into my life because I am the best at what I do and I am respected in my sector.
I am harmonious, perfect, wise, whole, complete and intelligent. I make wise and intelligent decisions.
I am at peace with myself, my family and the rest of the world and I am living a healthy and blissful life.
I now let go of all past negativity and fully embrace positive thinking and the best the universe has to offer me.
Money is good, money is energy, money now comes freely into my life through my services and unexpected channels.

Affirmation works because, we are spiritual being and the “I” that speaks is spirit and is all creative and powerful. This “I” is one with the universal mind which is omnipotent, all knowing and intelligent and all powerful and creative. When this “I” says I am harmonious, it directs the mind (which is the tool within used in the creative process), to create the mental pictures of harmony which in turns attract the resources and events to create harmony in our surroundings. We may not understand how this work in detailed but persistence, patience, faith and continuous repetition of affirmation statements will soon manifest in physical form. The speed of manifestation will depend on how persistence the individual is backed by their faith and emotions surrounding that which is affirmed. So, if there is something you truly desire to change in your world, why not start affirming it.

To learn more about affirmations and how to use them to improve your business, check out chapter 6 of my book titled “My Business Is My Business”. This chapter covers information about the laws of the universe and it relationship to the power of the mind. You will learn that when a great teacher says that we will be accountable for every word spoken, the truth of his statement was not understood by many at the time (and even now) because only few people in the world understand the relationship between spirit, mind and physical manifestation.

To your success
Sheila Elliott
Founder of BSS Management Consultancy
Author of My Business Is My Business
www.businessservicessupport.com

1. Who your market is and what they want as solution to their problems- check your business plan
2. Who your market is and what they want and need as solution to their problems- check your business plan
3. What benefit your services and products offer the target market in solving their problems- check your business plan
4. How does your target market search for the answers to their problems on search engines such as Google and Yahoo – in short what keyword phrases are they using to search for solutions and this must be provable not what you think they are using. There are tools you can use to find this very quickly.

Armed with these answers, your next task is to ensure your website is set up with the relevant key word phrases in your domain (e.g. pet-sitters-help.co.uk for a pet-sitting business) and sales letters. You also need to ensure that you take steps to promote your website to relevant directories with a high page ranking using SEO service provides that offer services in directory submission, article submission, social bookmarks, social media, link exchange and video directory submission. All of these various submissions have their dos and don’ts and it is important you understand how to do this yourself without breaking your bank accounts and/or get one of our SEO experts of BSS Online Marketing to assist you achieve your goals without breaking your bank accounts.
Now, here is the deal, never use a SEO service provider who is not recommended by a third party. Remember, the quickest way to go out of business is to run out of money. If you spend all your capital on marketing that don’t generate positive returns for you, I am sure you know what will be the outcome to your business.

A great business is one with great products and services that are well supported by an effective marketing system. If you truly want your business to grow the two areas you must never undermine is ideas generation and development, as well as marketing and sales. Get yourself educated in these areas and you will be good to go.

Marketing as you know need not be reduced to online marketing. It should be both online and offline. The rules governing effective online marketing is only partly explained here as we are only looking at strategies for traffic generation and sales conversion. However, you must also be aware that driving traffic to your site does not necessarily mean you will generate sales. Sales are a function of:
1. The products and services on offer and how well they are presented online to address the needs and wants of your market – specifically offering them benefits that are deemed valuable.
2. The prices of your services and products compared to competitors- and this includes shipping costs and other costs incurred by the prospects.
3. The professionalism and accessibility of your services and products. In short, can the prospects reach someone in your customer services department or reception easily on the phone or by e-mail? It is for this reason we partner with a number of organisations to offer you virtual office and phone services at competitive prices.
4. How confident and trustworthy your business appears to the prospects and much more. Using a PO Box as a business address is a No, No. Asking for payment online by Western Union and refusing to take payment by credit card or PayPal is a sure recipe for lose the trust of your prospects and customers.

So when you are looking at traffic generation and sales conversion, don’t forget to review all other aspects of the marketing equation.

For more information about reliable tools and systems you can plug into your business toolkit contact Sheila Elliott at 0845 226 4315

If you are starting your business and have ideas but struggle with developing these ideas, you will do well to get help from a coach like myself because it will make the difference between launching a lame duck business that will suck money out of your bank account and launching a proper business that will put money into your bank account. You will be surprise how many businesses under perform due to lack of expertise in organising their ideas.

One simple step you can take to develop your business idea is to step back and look at the broad market and start thinking outside the box about all the different ways the problem can be solved before coming up with your solutions. Avoid falling in love with any particular solution because to do so will leave you expose to making the wrong choice due to biasness. Think about how you can combine different independent solutions into one single solution to come up with a unique product. In one of my audio CDs titled ‘Creative Mind’, I covered some of the tools you can use to address this issue. Those of you in the paid coaching programme can access the audio and workbook in the membership resource page. Combination is a technique whereby you look at different services you can combine to form a unique product. I was with a client last week seriously in need of assistance in this area. She has been running a small fashion and accessory boutique for the last twelve months that is struggling to make sales. The business offers:
1. Ladies bags
2. Ladies shoes
3. Jewelleries- necklace, brace lace, earrings,
4. Body and facial cream
5. Lipsticks, nail polish
6. Hair dressing
7. Textile
8. Ladies dresses
9. Menes shirt
10. Perfumes
All the products are sold individually to the end users. No packaging for the gift market is done to capitalise on the opportunities of special celebrations throughout the year such as Valentine’s day, Mothers day, Easter holiday, May bank holiday, Fathers day, August bank holiday, Back to school, Christmas, New Year, special birthdays – 21st, 18th, 40th , 50th , 60th , 70th , 80th etc.
The poor organisation of the ideas of this business alongside, weak marketing plan and strategies have resulted in poor financial outcomes for the business. Why did the owner not see what was so obvious to others. Her internal conditioning (thought patterns are an obvious suspect). Until she dissolves limiting thought patterns and access new and empowering beliefs and thoughts she will be operating below her capacity. She will continue to blame everyone except when all this time the answers lied within her. If this story sounds familiar contact me for more information.

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Tip No 1

Make sure that you present yourself well, when you meet with investors and lenders. The way you dress and speak matters. Every step of the way you are being observed. Your presentation must be compelling. This is why we provide training seminars in financing your business to help you develop the right knowledge base so that you give yourself the added advantage when you are faced with potential investors and lenders.

Tip No 2

Think correctly and positively. Your mental life is one you have to take control over. One of the secret of success is the ability to take control of your mind and direct it to what you want to see happen in your life. If you want to raise finance, you can’t be talking about defeat and doubting your ability to do so successfully. I covered this aspect of “Mind Power” in my book “My Business Is My Business- Learn How to Earn a Fortune” and I have produced audio CDs on the subject of the power of the mind. Remember, you have something to offer the investor or lenders. Investors and lenders of money make their money through your ideas. They sell money for interest or dividend to those with great ideas that will generate profits. So the relationship is two ways. All you have to demonstrate is that your deal will help them realise their dreams. They have to see it clearly and so it is up to you to show them how it will work. Stay clear from fuzzy language and terminology that will only serve to distract from raising finance when faced with the opportunity to do so. Do not use jargons familiar in your industry but not outside your industry.

Tip No 3
Solicit the support of experts. You do not want to be “Jack of all trade and master of none”. Remember, the money you pay for expert services is not an expense; it is an investment in your business. Change your perception of money. This is one of the causes of success. Successful people always pay for good advice. The opposite is equally true for people who repeatedly fail in business and life generally.

OK, I rest my case. If you think you will get your hands on other peoples money to invest in your business without incorporating these tips, I will be glad to hear from you. However, it is more than likely you wont and so i would like to encourage you all to take decisive actions to improve your capacity to raise finance.

Regards
Sheila Elliott

Secondly, my role from being a finance employee to becoming a business owner was a significant change because I was responsible for my own income and dare I say my salary. Where do I start? Will people take me seriously? What if no one buys from me…………..? These were all the questions I silently asked myself. It is funny, because the truth is, I experienced a mixture of excitement and anxiety all at the same time.

One of the biggest challenges that many entrepreneurs will find when they start a business is the practicalities of selling their own products and services to the target market they really want to serve. Making that first sale is important to boost your motivation to continue. Being able to sell is a skill no entrepreneur can afford to be average at. True, you may be average when you start your business but you should not be content to stay at that level, unless you want to have an average performance in your business. In my case, I had to utilise the expertise of gurus who have helped others in the field and with strong market reputation. I utilised Jay Abraham’s ‘Marketing Mastermind and 93 Extraordinary Referral Systems’ which I used and quite honestly my income grew by more than 300% in twelve months just putting some of the tools shared by Jay Abraham. It is funny when I think about it now but I remembered when I started putting the techniques learnt and seeing the results. I remembered how I unwittingly sought advice from people who are not in business on a subject they know nothing about and sure enough they guided me towards the wrong directions. Thank God, I was wise enough to recognise when to put a break on their proposals. Remember, that it does not help you in any way to get someone who is not running a business to be advising you on this subject. If they know how to market they will be in business. Marketing is not just textbook stuff, it involves your interaction with yourself and others and much more.
Here are my top tips for start-up businesses trying to get their first sales and growing their business by at least 50% over eighteen months- consider them as my top tips.

• Start spending more than 25% of your time per week on marketing activities

• Recruit and utilise the skills of associates and joint venture partners to leverage time and boost sales income

• Seek ways of understanding your existing clients needs and develop solutions for them so that you can increase the average spend per clients

• Develop a marketing system using the likes of Jay Abrahams Marketing Mastermind System and be prepared to invest the time and money to put the system in place. No business will succeed without a solid system to support its success.

• Monitor the performance of all your marketing effort and do more of what works and less of what does not work.

• Seek expert advice and never take advice from people with no track record of doing what you are doing or for that matter with poor results in the area you are trying to master.
• To find out more about tools to assist your business in effective marketing, please visit www.businessservicessupport.com/marketing-strategies

One thing I do know is this, there is a business system that guarantees your success but it is only used by few people. The likes of Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki, Richard Branson, Mark Victor Hansen, Robert Allen, Zig Ziglar and many more are not successful by accident. They all agree that success starts from the mind and without an entrepreneur mastering the quality of the thoughts in their mind, success will elude them.

My membership site will teach you three things, all of which you need, if you are to be successful in business:

1. Mindset Solutions- You will learn how to develop a creative and success conscious mindset using a wide range of tools that are appropriate to your particular needs and preferences

2. Personal Development Solutions- You will learn skills for putting together a very robust personal development & growth plan, which will help you improve your personal effectiveness. This is so important if you are to build effective relationships with your customers, prospects and those you work or do business with.

3. Business Management Solutions- You will learn skills to generate and develop products and services, market and sell services online and off line, raise and manage your finances, hire and manage staff and much more.

4. Leadership Solutions- You will learn how to develop leadership qualities that will enable you to gain the respect and trust of your team and of course achieve much success in your business.

I like excellence and I like the best things in life. So what I do for my members is find and link them with the best experts in the market. The contents that will be made available to you through our e-courses via teleseminars and more are high quality contents that will guarantee your success. Moreover, the additional resources recommended to you are from affiliated partners with unbeatable records which all goes toward enhancing your capacity to succeed in the market. All in all, you are in good hands and the only thing that remains is for you to sign up today and start learning with us.

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2 To optimise your website with keywords phrases that are searched on engines such as Google and Yahoo as well as include meta description and meta title on your site. Each webpage should be optimised with its own unique keyword phrases, meta description and title

3 To implement strategies for ongoing traffic generation such as website submission to major search engines and directories as well as writing and submitting articles via blogs and ezines.

4 To set competitive product prices with clear images and descriptions on the website. Products you want to sell online should not be too expensive except where they are well known brands which are in high demand.

5 A reliable customer support system to help you address issues quickly. This can be via phone or email.

6 A system for managing contact list and promoting services to contacts. Email marketing systems are critical tools for on-going relationship management and sales promotion.

7 A merchant account with PayPal and other payment gateway processor such as 2checkout or Nochex. Never rely on a single provider. You never know when you may have a dispute and the last thing you need is not to be able to receive payment from customers.

8 Details of contact names and business telephone number, as well as testimonials and success stories should be on your website and other marketing materials. All of this should be well laid out and presentable.

9 A domain name that is keyword rich and a reliable web host that provides 24/7 technical support 52 weeks in the year. Do not compromise your website hosting with a business that does not offer 24/7 support. Check out our recommended providers.

10 A landing page with a short sales letter carefully crafted to persuade leads to opt-in for your invaluable special report or gift to them.

These simple tips if utilised will make a big difference to your marketing activities over time.

Sheila Elliott is a business start-up and development expert offering group and one to one coaching as well as financial consultancy and training sessions. She is the founder of Business Services Support Limited and the author of My Business Is My Business- Learn How To Earn A Fortune. For more information about are free articles visit, http://www.businessservicessupport.com and http://www.sheilaelliott.com