Tag Archive for 'building-a-crew'

29
May

You need to move forward to move up

By The Hustler 3 Comments
Categories: Personal Notes, Being a Hustler, Starting a Business, Building a Crew, Planning and Procrastination Tags: , , , , , .

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’

08
Mar

Web sites to help you get your hustle going.

By The Hustler 4 Comments
Categories: Starting a Business, Sales Training, Being a Hustler, Financing Your Hustle, Building a Crew, Author Background, Strategies, Time Management, Planning and Money Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

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.’

07
Jan

Financing your business using the Stone Soup Strategy

By The Hustler 11 Comments
Categories: Being a Hustler, Financing Your Hustle, Starting a Business, Money Making Ideas, Money, Planning and Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

I remember the first time I heard the story about stone soup. I was about 8 years old and it was a muppet story or something like that for kids on television. Even then I understood what was going on in the story. The two main characters used the only resources they had, their street smarts, to come up and get fed. For those who don’t know, here is the story:

Two travelers come to a village, carrying nothing more than an empty pot. Upon their arrival, the villagers are unwilling to share any of their food stores with the hungry travelers. The travelers fill the pot with water, drop a large stone in it, and place it over a fire in the village square. One of the villagers becomes curious and asks what they are doing. The travelers answer that they are making “stone soup”, which tastes wonderful, although it still needs a little bit of garnish to improve the flavor, which they are missing. The villager doesn’t mind parting with just a little bit to help them out, so it gets added to the soup. Another villager walks by, inquiring about the pot, and the travelers again mention their stone soup which hasn’t reached its full potential yet. The villager hands them a little bit of seasoning to help them out. More and more villagers walk by, each adding another ingredient. Finally, a delicious and nourishing pot of soup is enjoyed by all.  Continue reading ‘Financing your business using the Stone Soup Strategy’

27
Oct

starting a business is like robbing a bank - create a plan

By The Hustler 2 Comments
Categories: Starting a Business, Building a Crew, Money Making Ideas and Strategies Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

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’

16
Oct

starting a business is like robbing a bank - organize your crew

By The Hustler 3 Comments
Categories: Starting a Business, Building a Crew, Money Making Ideas and Strategies Tags: , , , , , , .

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’

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