Someone Needs To Say It!

Really great post By Diane Potter on October 3, 2013

I wish I had a dollar for every entrepreneur who came to me and said, “I want you to help me make money online.”

I’m not sure when this ugly lie started, but the lie goes something like this… “It’s EASY to make money online! Anyone can do it! My husband’s brother’s cousin through marriage is making like, $1000 a week coaching and he just talks on the phone!!!”

Or something ridiculous like that!

Here’s the truth. Why would building a business online be so much less work than building a brick and mortar business? Why would it cost so much less? Granted, there’s no building, no employees and less overhead, but your market area is bigger. So your marketing, joint venturing, networking, and implementation costs would be expected to rise significantly, yes? It would be harder to get noticed in the WORLD versus the town. So those costs might just be the same in the end.

The first rule of online entrepreneurship is that it’s JUST as hard, if not HARDER, to “make it” — so don’t go into this decision lightly. It’s nearly impossible to build an online business while you’re working a full-time job, and if you don’t have the money to do it right, don’t even try it. You really can’t build a business for nothing — not anywhere, and online is no exception.

The second rule is that you have to be a genuine expert.

This is my absolute favorite. I like to ask, “Why would I pick you as my coach versus the 1000′s of other coaches available in this genre?” Answers vary, but people generally tell me some story about their experience.

Expertise is said to have come from two things — experience (and loads of it) or education.

Experience doesn’t mean you once went through it for a month or two. It means you lived it, breathed it, and slept it for years. You didn’t just have money issues, you were living on the street and now have millions because of your mindset and strategies!

You have to know your topic inside and out, sideways, upside down, and blindfolded. There’s barely a question you can’t answer on your subject. You normally have some incredibly entertaining stories, tragedies, lessons learned, and stories of mistakes made.

I hope this is making sense. I cannot stress it enough — you have to be an expert. I believe people who are true experts know it in their heart and soul. So let’s say you’re a genuine expert and you’re going to take this seriously and put in the time and money it takes to “make it online.”

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HOW do you do it?

I’ll give you the shortest, easiest answer you’ll ever hear. It might bum you out, but it’s the truth.

1. Relationships: If you opened a shoe business on Main Street in your home town, what would you do for marketing? Would you sit in your store and hope people come in — or would you go out and meet people?

Sure! Eventually you would make friends and they would tell their friends about you. It’s the same concept online. Find synergy, make friends, and cross-promote each other’s stuff as an affiliate or as a joint venture.

2. Content Creation, Done Consistently: This is the stickler. Suddenly these serious-minded subject matter experts are learning to build websites, set up autoresponders, do teleseminars, and more.

Why? If I need to get my nails done, I don’t get to beauty school to learn to give myself a manicure!

You create content — and do it often! Create audios for podcasts, write blog posts, write tweets, Facebook status updates, create ebooks, and more. Your team can go out and promote these, and can also give you great ideas on how and where else to promote these for exposure.

Here’s the bottom line… there are too many software products that promise to make you rich overnight. It’s making the software author rich. There’s no short cut… it’s just hard work and time. So save yourself some heartache and go after it the real way. Once you make it, you’ll laugh at all those “overnight success” stories and those “get rich quick” seekers.

The good news in all of this is that it’s absolutely possible and happens to real people like you and me! So do NOT give up! Just adjust your mindset and expectations, and someday you’ll be living the life you truly want!

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Did You Hear About Marisa?

By Showcasing Women on September 23, 2013

Today we are sharing Marisa’s amazing story…

Marisa decided to start a business so that she could have freedom and earn more income than with her J-O-B. She left skid marks leaving her 9-to-5 job and threw herself wholeheartedly into her new business. From that point forward Marisa lived happily ever after!!

Just kidding.

That would be a pretty hard-to-believe story, right?

Here’s why – most people hide the truth from others. Here’s what really happened…

Marisa started her fabulous business by getting super-cool business cards, setting up her Twitter and Facebook pages, and started tweeting and posting her services. Soon she discovered that “doing what she loved” turned out to be a lot harder than she had expected.

She also discovered that she really needed a website and squeeze pages and lead capture strategies… oh my! More money, more money, more money out the door, before making any. Ugh!

Suddenly she had to market herself, do social media, manage her time and money, figure out how to use new business tools, create materials for her customers, try to get free publicity, find a mentor who she could afford, and so much more.

Marisa discovered she was working way more than she wanted, and was enjoying it less and less each day – and was in no way going to make 6-figures any time soon. While she planned for a few months of getting up to speed… she was in overwhelm. A year later, she had only made $23,458 total dollars.

(Don’t worry; there is a knight on a white horse coming to save the day!)

One day as Marisa was scrolling through her inbox she found an invitation to join the 6-Figure Circle! All of her troubles were over. Suddenly she had a world-class website, capture pages, videos, mentors who have made 6- and 7-Figures, a support team and something to offer customers and prospects that everybody wanted.

Sound too good to be true? Well, now for the rest of the story…

When we started ShowcasingWomen.com, our purpose was to birth a safe place for Women Entrepreneurs to learn, share, and thrive.

Two years later not only have we created that, but we have learned so much more about the needs of Women Entrepreneurs. And what we learned really surprised us. In fact, we were downright shocked! Here is the real cold hard truth about being an entrepreneur…

The #1 challenge that entrepreneurs face is managing all of the moving parts of their business and turning a tidy profit. In fact, most of the entrepreneurs we work with have been struggling to reach 6-figures when they come to us!

Unfortunately, many heads nod in agreement when reading this because people can relate to this frustration and challenge.

Women are multi-taskers. Naturally we expect that managing all of the pieces to a business and making a good profit would be easy-peasy for a woman. But we were wrong!

And here is why…

Reason 1 – without good mentors it is hard to stay focused on what really ads to your bottom line.
Reason 2 – without the money and proper resources to start and grow your business properly it can take years and years to finally start making 6-figures and beyond.
Reason 3 – women often let emotions make their financial decisions.

We’re about to change all of this. It’s time to make business simpler and to turn a fabulous profit!

Introducing the 6-Figure Circle – created by the founders of Showcasing Women. The 6-Figure Circle is a dynamic project designed to take a small group of women to the top, and be led by a team who have already done it!

The 6-Figure Circle is designed for the Women Entrepreneur who wants three things:

1. A fabulous 6-Figure income and she is willing to work for it with NO excuses.
2. Mentors who have already earned 6 and 7-figures and will work in the trenches training you step-by-step.
3. A proven “business-in-a-box” that is based on social and relationship marketing.

Are you that savvy woman?

If you are, then visit us at 6FigureCircle.com and learn how we can help you own a business that actually makes you money while having fun with great people.

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Green tea really does improve your memory!

You’ve heard it before, but it’s true: Green tea, one of the most studied substances in recent history, really does help improve your memory. That is the not-so-new conclusion of Chinese researchers who essentially have reaffirmed that the chemical properties of green tea tend to affect the generation of brain cells, which provides benefits for memory and spatial learning.

Prof. Yun Bai, of the Third Military Medical University in Chongqing, China, and a research team focused on the organic chemical epigallocatechin-3 gallate, which is better known as EGCG, an antioxidant ingredient of green tea.

“Green tea is a popular beverage across the world,” said Bai in a statement. “There has been plenty of scientific attention on its use in helping prevent cardiovascular diseases, but now there is emerging evidence that its chemical properties may impact cellular mechanisms in the brain.”

Improvements in recognition and spatial memory

The results of the study, which were published in the journal Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, found that EGCG elevated the production of neural progenitor cells, which – like stem cells – can adapt, or differentiate, into various other types of cells.

“We ran tests on two groups of mice, one which had imbibed EGCG and a control group,” Bai said. “First the mice were trained for three days to find a visible platform in their maze. Then they were trained for seven days to find a hidden platform.”

Researchers found that the EGCG-treated mice required far less time to find the hidden platform and overall EGCG enhanced learning and memory capabilities by improving object recognition and spatial memory.

Earlier studies have shown similar benefits of consuming green tea, many of which could be construed as improving mental function, especially as we age.

For example, a recent study in Japan, which was led by Yasutake Tomata of the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, found a general decrease in “functional disability” among older adults who drank five cups of green tea daily, compared to those who consumed one or fewer cups per day.

Tomata and his team monitored almost 14,000 senior citizens 65 and older for three years. In the end, 13 percent of adults who drank just a cup or fewer of green tea daily became functionally disabled, compared to just seven percent who drank five or more.

“Green tea consumption is significantly associated with a lower risk of incident functional disability, even after adjustment for possible confounding factors,” Tomata and his research team wrote.

A healthy diet may contribute as well, but green tea is a definite factor

Granted, researchers have noted that people who consume green tea on a regular basis tend to be healthier anyway, consuming more fish, vegetables and fruit. They also tend to be more educated, have lower rates of smoking, suffer fewer heart attacks and strokes, and have greater mental sharpness overall.

In addition, they tend to be more socially active and have more family and friends to rely on.

Still, with all that in mind, researchers have found that green tea itself is definitely tied to a lower risk of disability.

Besides helping to boost mental performance and ability, researchers have linked the consumption of green tea with anti-cancer activities.

“The science is certainly promising,” David L. Katz, MD, director of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center, says, though he notes more research is needed to flesh out all of green tea’s actual benefits.

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Government agencies at all levels selling personal data to marketers!

How many times have you gone to your mailbox and found it stuffed with useless junk mail? If you’re like most Americans, you find that happens a lot. One of the major reasons why as much as 60 percent of the mail we get is worthless to us – and why we tend to get more of it after major life events – is because government agencies at virtually all levels are selling your personal information to scores of direct marketers.

Per CBS4 in Denver:

Eric Meer is a small business owner who works out of his home in Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood. Meer says he was deluged by direct mail after registering his small business with the Colorado Secretary of State. He says many of the ads he received were deceptive asking him to pay fees that he wasn’t required to pay.
‘It feels like betrayal’

Immediately Meer says he got a hunch that the Colorado Secretary of State’s office sold his business info to marketing firms. The local CBS affiliate found out that his hunch was correct; last year, the Secretary of State’s office raked in some $59,000 by selling business registration data.

Once again, so much for the Fourth Amendment’s privacy protections. As usual, everyone except the government has to respect it.
“It feels like a betrayal,” Meer said in what we believe is an understatement of epic proportions. “Because our government is supposed to protect us, not to sell our information and profit from us.”

And how.

Andrew Cole, a spokesman for the Secretary of State’s office, completely whiffed on explaining the sales. He told CBS4 that the business information is sold for anywhere between $200 and $12,000, depending on the frequency and amount of info requested.

But, he said, not to worry – the Secretary of State isn’t making any money on the sales. No. They are only charging as much as it takes to run the information for the purchasing marketer.

“We are not looking to make money,” said Cole. “We charge to cover our costs.”

Oh, okay then. By all means, go ahead and continue to violate the Constitution. Because that’s allowed, you see, as long as you’re not making a profit.

Who thinks like that?

What’s more, Cole says, businesses don’t have the option of opting out. He says anyone can buy the data, even scammers, because there is no process in place to screen requesting firms.

“It’s a public database,” Cole said. He said it’s “meant to be public” and part of running a transparent government.

My guess is that most business registrars a) don’t know that; and b) were not told that when they registered.

The data sold is pretty personal, as well. “The Secretary of State also sold voter registration information – including names, addresses and political party affiliation of voters – for $58,000, last year,” CBS4 reported.

Okay, so have you ever received a surge of confusing mail after you’ve either refinanced a house, been foreclosed upon or sold your home? Well, the local TV news found that that’s because the Denver Clerk and Recorder is selling that information as well. The department made $32,000 in income in 2012, in fact.

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Listen Up Gents: Moderate chocolate consumption is linked with decreased stroke risk in men

The scientific community has released yet more good news about the health benefits of chocolate – moderate consumption may reduce the risk of stroke in men. Earlier studies have shown this delectable food reduces the risk of stroke in women, as well as enhances the health of the heart and brain in both sexes. This latest word of cheer gives male chocolate lovers one more reason to indulge in this treat, as long as they do not overdo it.

Author Susanna Larsson tells Fox News that it made sense to explore chocolate’s effect on stroke, given that it has already been shown to lower blood pressure and LDL cholesterol, both of which are risk factors for this cardiovascular event. So the next logical step was to look at stroke.

In the research, scientists examined the dietary habits of 37,000 Swedish men and followed them for 10 years, identifying close to 2,000 participants who suffered a stroke during this period. The findings revealed that men who ate approximately one third of a cup of chocolate chips lowered their stroke risk by 17 percent compared to those who avoided chocolate. Even after factoring in other risk factor data collected on the men, such as obesity, high blood pressure and smoking, the results still held.

Although most of the men in the study ate milk chocolate, Larsson expects the results would have been the same with the dark variety. However, she recommends dark chocolate as the better choice because it would only be necessary to eat half the amount to get the same benefit. Eating less of this rich food would reduce the risk of weight gain, explains Larsson.

While the scientists do not know exactly why chocolate produced the benefit, Larsson postulates it may be due to the flavonoid content, compounds that appear to enhance cardiovascular health through antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-clotting effects. “There are several potential mechanisms,” she says.

Since chocolate is high in fat, sugar and calories, Larsson and other experts stress limiting its consumption to a moderate amount. Rather than focusing solely on the chocolate, the authors advocate exercise and eating a healthful diet.

Even though a cause-effect relationship between chocolate and reduced stroke risk has not been established, the association between the two has definitely been proven. The study was published in the online version of the journal Neurology.

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