The only person I have ever seen that didn’t have to follow this rule was Michael Jordan and Superman.
I talk to a lot of people about a lot of things. I just got back from an event where I spoke to a large group of people. It was a little intimidating; there were hundreds of people there. Most of them were highly educated professionals. They were the tops in their industry.
I got off stage and was greeted by their positive feedback, requests for personal consultations with their companies and general adoration of my grasp of the subject matter. I was feeling pretty good.
It took me almost two years to get that speaking gig. Since then (about two weeks ago) I have been offered two more bookings to speak – paid, all expenses covered for travel to cool locations. I have been offered a few paid consultation projects and even an offer to be a consulting partner on a new business venture. Continue reading ‘You need to move forward to move up’
A Hustler is constantly evaluating their surroundings and the resources available to them. I have said before that if all you have is time, use that time to advance your hustle. I lived in a housing project near some agricultural drainage ditches. People would go down there to catch crawdads to make soup and other foods and then sell what they could make (even just sell the live crawdads at the flea market). I used to collect cans and bottles that people threw away to gather up some money. Whatever it is that surrounds you, take a look at it and figure out who doesn’t have it. Farrah Gray took rocks and sold them as door stops. He took extra lotions from around his house and mixed them together and sold them for extra money. Farrah Gray is a Hustler.
One thing that is pretty much available to anyone in the United States is Internet access. Coffee shops, libraries, Internet cafes, schools are all potential sources of computers with cheap or free internet access.
Now, you might not be able to charge folks to use these free computers (but if you can, I might have a job for you because that would mean you are on top of your sales hustle). Anyway, so you now have this incredible resource. Every day, people like you are making a few dollars to a few thousand dollars using the Internet. I have. I was making a few hundred dollars a month on eBay about 8 years ago spending about 4 hours a month posting items and mailing them out. I didn’t do anything special. I could probably start it up again if I wanted too, but it was boring. I make better money now doing things that are more fun for me – and isn’t that the real hustle? Continue reading ‘Web sites to help you get your hustle going.’
If you havent already, go back and read these posts.
If you want to be rich, you need a crew
How to pick your million dollar crew
Starting a business is like robbing a bank - organize your crew
You need a plan – Fail to plan and plan to fail. That is the facts jack. The more time you spend on the plan and the more time you spend on putting together your crew, the better your chances of pulling it off. BUT! If you spend too much time planning and organizing, you crew will get restless. You run the risk of your team spilling your plan to someone else or going rogue. You will wake up one day and read in the paper how the whole thing went down without you. It has happened to me. It eats you up inside when you see your big idea in the newspapers. What do you need for a plan?
Goal Strategy – You want to get in and out with bags of cash and not go to jail right? Well right that down. You need to know what you are going to do. You need a direction, a general layout of what you are trying to accomplish. It doesn’t need to be detailed, it needs to be specific.
Continue reading ’starting a business is like robbing a bank – create a plan’
In the literal sense and the metaphorical sense – starting a business is exactly like robbing a bank. It is risky, confusing, exciting and dangerous and if you keep a cool head and stick to the plan – you might get out with some cash.
So, how do you plan a bank robbery (start a business)? Well this will assume that you have read the first two articles on this multi-part series – If you want to be rich then you need a crew and How to pick your million dollar crew. If you haven’t read these then you aren’t ready to read this. The first thing you need to pull off a successful job is the right crew. Continue reading ’starting a business is like robbing a bank – organize your crew’
Maybe you were blessed with the right group of friends. I wasn’t. I knew one “Rich Kid” but only because he was hooking up on the side with a poor girl from my neighborhood. Once he went off to college he left her behind. We all tried to warn her – but she wouldn’t listen. She was in love and was convinced that we just didn’t understand him.
We understood him better than she thought.
Thats the problem with picking the people around you. Sometimes your heart gets in the way of your brain. My first real crew got together when I was about 6 years old. We ran a little syndicate at the elementary school. We sold a product that had universal appeal and cost us nothing to get. We could have put any price on it because we cornered the market – but we wanted to make money, so we priced it at what would generate the most sales. Continue reading ‘How to pick your million dollar crew’
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