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11/18/2021

The #1 cause of success or failure in business (and in life) is mindset. Skipping mindset is a big mistake.

What does mindset have to do with success? Everything! If you don't make mindset your first thing to address each day before you work on stuff, you'll end up messing things up, making more mistakes more often, and generally frustrating yourself.

Our mindset is directly related to our emotional state, and when our emotional state is low vibe, meaning that we feel angry, frustrated, irritated, disappointed, bitter, etc., we make poor decisions.

On the other hand, when our emotional state is high, when we're feeling good, joyful, appreciative, and positively passionate, we make much better decisions.

Is there anything more important than making good decisions when you're self-employed? Not really!

That's why so many teachers urge people in business to make time to start each day with a strong, positive mindset. Meditation, journaling, affirmations, mirror work, exercise, and other good-feeling activities are important ways to get the day started.

I start my day with the following routine.

I begin with a 20 minute guided meditation to clear my mind of unwanted thoughts.

Then I spend a minute or two doing mirror work. Mirror work is where you look at yourself in the mirror and repeat affirmations while looking deeply into your own eyes. I usually start off by looking myself straight in the eyes and saying, "I love you!" It was very awkward and uncomfortable the first few times I did this, but these days I actually look forward to it because it gives me such a huge boost of self-confidence and self-love, which are essential for maintaining a pro-business mindset.

I follow this by finding three things to appreciate that day. It doesn't really matter what they are. What matters is spending enough time focusing on each one until I can feel it in my chest, in my heart area. Then I move on to the next affirmation.

I often follow up by taking a look at my vision board, again feeling each item and not just looking at it.

Then I set my intention for how I want the next hour or two of my day to go and what I want to have happen during that time.

Doing these things takes me a total of about 30 minutes each morning, but it's 30 minutes very well spent!

As the day goes on, I take a kind of "temperature check" of myself to see how I'm feeling. If I've had something happen to knock me down, I pause and repeat one or more of these mindset activities to reset myself back to a "higher vibe".

I also make it a point at some time during the day to go out onto the local bike path and take a walk for an hour or so, to further reinforce my mindset.

Trust me when I say that these daily activities really set me up for the day! They give me the powerful confidence I need to take the next steps in my business each day.

How is your mindset? Maybe it's time for you to install a daily practice!

11/17/2021

This is a short but interesting segment from a recent episode of my podcast. The guest was Kelly Coulter of Fit Pros Connect, and we talked about helping fitness instructors to market themselves online.

I asked her about whether anyone could turn any Facebook group topic into a business. Her response is instructive.

Kelly's own group has over 8,000 members, so she knows what she's talking about!

Would you pay $1 per month for a news website with reliable, objective reporting, containing no advertising of any kind,...
05/15/2016

Would you pay $1 per month for a news website with reliable, objective reporting, containing no advertising of any kind, where the pages load quickly, and where the spin was generally positive instead of negative?

If your answer is yes, please like this post, comment, or share.

I'm posting this as a market research test to find out whether there would actually be a market for this kind of news website.

Your input is appreciated.

Telemarketing / Outbound Sales Person WantedCommission Only, 100K and upWork from home, set your own hours, and make goo...
05/04/2016

Telemarketing / Outbound Sales Person Wanted
Commission Only, 100K and up

Work from home, set your own hours, and make good money as we build our business together.

If you're interested, call me at 860.264.5432 or send me a private message.

Here are the details.

I'm a Google-certified Adwords Search professional, and I need clients. If you're not familiar with Adwords, it is Google's PPC advertising service and a very reliable way to generate new customers for local service businesses.

I need you to get those local service businesses for me, and I'll pay handsomely for them.

I'm willing to split my earnings 50/50 with a good sales rep until we both get to $100,000 annual income. This is commission only, but with a 50% commission you can grow it very, very quickly if you're willing to do the work.

We will communicate by phone, by email, and/or by online video call (Skype or similar). You can use your own phone number, or you can get a free Google Voice phone number and make all your calls via the Internet.

I have software that enables me to create lists of potential clients from various online sources and put them into spreadsheets for easy use and access. I can use this software to generate complete calling lists in spreadsheet format for any type of client we choose to go after. I want to start by going after contractors: roofing, siding, window replacement, kitchen rehab, bathroom rehab, etc.

You will access and use the list via an online CRM I've set up.

I have two clients right now, both very small. I'm killing it with one. The other is a very tough nut to crack because it's rural and has a tiny market, but I'm working on it.

The successful one is a small irrigation services company in Connecticut that used to get serviced by yp.com (who are pretty good at this stuff and are one of Google's preferred vendors). The folks at yp.com were generating about 40 calls per season for this client. I increased that count to 60 the first year, and then increased it to 128 and 96 calls per season the next two years. This year, the 4th year, I've gotten them 38 unique calls so far in April alone, and the month isn't over yet. That's a record high so far for a single month for this client and nearly matches the output by yp.com for the entire season five years ago.

I strongly believe that I could generate a lot of phone calls from new customers this way for roofers, kitchen rehabbers, siding contractors, and other kinds of builders, as well as dentists, doctors, and other professionals. It's just a question of finding the clients who are willing to pay a few hundred dollars for each new customer they get, because that's typically what it costs them when all is said and done. Since the clients I want to go after typically earn four or five figures per customer, this price can be well worth it for them. Minimum investment level for a client would be $2,000 per month.

For us, we would split my monthly fee of $1,000 to $2,500 per month per typical client, perhaps more in some cases depending on the niche, region of the country, and other factors.

As I said above, I'm willing to share half my earnings with a good sales rep to help me get the business going and build it until we're both earning at least six figures. After that, I'd want the same person to build and train a full sales staff, while I build and train people to run and manage the campaigns.

So this is a ground floor opportunity to get in on something really, really big.

If you might be interested, please write back for a good time for me to call you. Or call me at 860.264.5432.

Walt Thiessen

01/09/2016

Last August, my team and I set out to create a 100% spamless email system, and I am happy to announce that we succeeded.

Last month, on December 13, 2015, we completed the core service and turned on our product for the first time to see how well it would work.

At the moment that I'm posting this, after nearly a month of live testing against real-world spam, I am happy to report that we have blocked 5,686 spam emails so far.

There were three spam emails that got through, and we figured out how to stop them as well.

Two of them got through because of an obscure programming error, which we repaired.

The third got through on a day when we turned off our system for a minute in order to do some administrative maintenance on the system. Obviously, we learned our lesson from that experience!

In short, we succeeded in reaching our initial goal. We have created a system that blocks 100% of spam emails.

Next, I need 10 people to help us test this system in the real world.

I'm offering 10 people the opportunity to get our email service free for one year, in exchange for giving me direct input about how well the service performs for you.

Would you be interested in being one of those 10 people?

We pledge not to track your email activities or scan your emails for data collection purposes like Google, Yahoo, or other email providers do. Nor will we sell you to advertisers who want to advertise to you. In short, we pledge to protect your privacy as much as we can.

I will also help you to set up automatically forward of your current emails to your new email address that we will supply to you. This way, you can see first hand from Day One how well we block spam, without losing any contact with your friends and family who have your current email address.

All I ask in return is that you agree to really put our spamless email system through its paces, to see if it's really as good as we think it is, and share with me your results and experience with the system.

If you would be interested in being one of our testers in exchange for getting this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try our service free for 12 full months, please post your reply or send me a private message. Or call me at 860.264.5432 and leave a message.

Walt Thiessen

09/28/2015

In 2009, I had a customer who was a contractor. Actually, her husband had been employed by contractors to do things like replace windows and redo kitchens, so they figured they'd make a go of it themselves. After all, why should the big contractors make all the money?

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