Dena Patton Blog: My Video With 2 Hours of Free Training on Systems, Sales and Marketing
Today you get some awesome free training! This was a FABULOUS business webinar that I cohosted with the beautiful Kim Flynn. It covers powerful training on SYSTEMS, SALES AND MARKETING for entrepreneurs. Kim teaches first and then I start about 54:54. If 2016 you...
2016 Tip #10 – The Top 10 2016 Success Habits For Business Owners & World Changers – By Dena Patton
Tip #10 Stop the excuses. Excuses are so last year! Leave any excuses or limiting beliefs in last year and dream big, really big. Allow yourself to play bigger this year and really own the dream you have for your life, your revenue, your family, your goals and your...
2016 Tip #9 – The Top 10 2016 Success Habits For Business Owners & World Changers – By Dena Patton
Tip #9: Have Boundaries and Self-care. This is where a lot of business owners flail. This is a CRUCIAL element of success or else you could possibly: burn out, get sick, get cancer, get divorced, or die. It took a minor stroke at the age of 27 for me to learn...
2016 Tip #8 – The Top 10 2016 Success Habits For Business Owners & World Changers – By Dena Patton
Tip #8: Have a clear marketing strategy. This is a no-brainer, it is a must have item in your 2016 to do list. A marketing plan doesn't have to be complicated, but a marketing plan supports your sales goals. NOT the other way around. First, create your sales goal for...
2016 Tip #7 – The Top 10 2016 Success Habits For Business Owners & World Changers – By Dena Patton
Tip #7: Think and lead from your greatness. My teachings on 'smallness and greatness' (are being documented in my book Igniting Greatness) is that you were BORN with greatness and you get to CHOOSE each day if you will think and lead from your greatness, or from your...
2016 Tip #6 – The Top 10 2016 Success Habits For Business Owners & World Changers – By Dena Patton
Tip #6: Practice more self-discipline. Everyday. I believe that 'how we do ONE thing is how we do EVERYthing', so for example, if you practice saying "no" to sugar 4 out of 5 times each day, then you are refining the "skill set" of self-discipline (SD) and that will...
2016 Tip #5 – The Top 10 2016 Success Habits For Business Owners & World Changers – By Dena Patton
Tip #5: Build a well-oiled machine. This is important if you don't want to BURN OUT! What I mean by this is to have systems and structures in your business so that you aren't doing everything manually. Let's just take a look at 9 of 14 systems that I use and coach my...
2016 Tip #4 – The Top 10 2016 Success Habits For Business Owners & World Changers – By Dena Patton
Tip #4: Have a plan. I believe that success is scheduled and you can't schedule things if you don't have a plan. We are all super busy and most things on our to-do list won't get done unless we schedule them in our week ON a specific time. Plan your work and work your...
2016 Tip # 3 – The Top 10 2016 Success Habits For Business Owners & World Changers – By Dena Patton
Tip #3: Learn Sales Skills. Why? Because business owners don't GET a paycheck they CREATE a paycheck. Your business revenue relies on your ability to market and sell your products or services, and if your ability to sell your good would get a D or F grade then your...
2016 Tip #2 -The Top 10 2016 Success Habits For Business Owners & World Changers - By Dena Patton
Tip #2: Know what game you are playing. You might be winning, but winning at what? I have a saying, "you are always winning the game you are playing", so you better know what games you are playing. If you don't know the TRUE game in your business, then you might...
2016 Tip #1 – The Top 10 2016 Success Habits For Business Owners & World Changers - By Dena Patton
Tip #1: Pay Yourself A Paycheck. One of my biggest tips to business owners is to pay yourself the same amount each paycheck (like you are on salary) and have the check automatically deposit into your personal account on the same date 2 times a month. Whether...
Help! I Need a Marketing Strategy and More Customers
We all love the freedom of being an entrepreneur, but the scary part is that you have to generate your own paycheck. Every single week! There's no showing up and getting paid because you are on the corporate payroll. Which means, not only, do you have to have a great...
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