There are 9 Quick Start Ideas and each one will show you how you can eliminate most of the long, detailed telephone calls and lengthy emails explaining and vetting prospects by providing a simple link. This link is your vehicle to quickly gather all of the needed information from the prospects BEFORE you even respond to their voice message and email.

What is this method?  Assessments.

Assessments are being used in a variety of ways throughout the coaching, career, employment, health, and even to test employees’ knowledge about the jobs they are doing. Jobs like customer service, software knowledge, hardware knowledge, management style, and what type of career a person would be most suited for can be tested and analyzed by giving a simple assessment. Think about all of the forms and questionnaires that you send manually to have people fill out so that you can get to know them better.

Every Tuesday and Thursday starting May 8th a new Quick Start Idea will be posted for you to utilize in your business immediately! There are 9 of them in total.

The first one is “Quick Start Idea #1: How to Attract More Coaching Clients Without Giving Away Complimentary Sessions” but you’ll have to wait until May 8th to find out more!

• Go from 50K to 500K+ just 2.5 years after discovering it!
• Work only 4 hours a day and take lots of time off!
• Stop giving away free consultations or “closing” clients!
• Enjoy LOTS of passive income

Join me on a special FREE training call where I will reveal my breakthrough business model:

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Here’s what you’ll discover during this FREE training:

* The breakthrough money-making business model that can at least triple your income in half the time, and completely change your life!

* The four types of income every coach and expert entrepreneur should create to enjoy a huge income growth without working crazy hours!

* The specific ways to think about your expertise to create LOTS of passive income streams in your business.

* Strategies for creating consistent monthly income streams, and the biggest mistakes people make when trying to do that.

The experience was truly transformational for all of us, and I wanted to share a few things I learned this week:

1. There are hundreds of ways to create a successful business, but only a handful are right for YOU. Take your time identifying your skills, passions, and dreams before investing too much time or money into your business.
2. The “guru” doesn’t have all the answers. What works for your mentor or your colleagues may not always work for you. Get advice from others, but use your own goals and skill set as filters for deciding how to proceed.
3. When shifting into another business model, be patient. New revenue streams may take time to show up in your life, but when they do, you’ll love the new ways you’re creating income and can slowly let the old ways go.
4. It can be both, scary and exciting to create new income opportunities in your business. But as long as you’re more excited than scared, it’s okay to move forward!
5. Nothing is ever wasted in business. Even if you created a product and put it out there, and nobody bought, you haven’t really wasted anything. Now you know how to go through the process of creating and launching a product, and can do it over and over again, getting better with each try.

Most importantly, surround yourself with people who can support you and love you no matter what, and give you the courage to keep growing your business!

Here are just a few photos from my mastermind retreat:

Enjoying the bay view on Inner Harbor before dinner

Dinning on Inner Harbor in Baltimore

Recurring Revenue Business Mastermind Retreat

Deep in the mastermind process!

Ah…. Last night I found a web site that seemed dangerously close to my own. The concept, the program – everything is close, and yet completely original to its creator. Not only that, but the creator has been in business for years, and is most definitely an online celebrity. How can two people come up with almost identical program?

I start reading, downloading, almost enjoying his writings, but falling deeper and deeper into that state of mind, in which it is impossible to feel anything but overwhelm and depression. In which it’s impossible to function, grow, and create.

Being depressed about someone else’s great idea and success is the worst feeling, and can turn you into a “green monster” that can eat at your creative entrepreneurial spirit. Re-framing time!

“Snap out of it!” I say to myself. I remember those golden words my mentor once said to me. “Just because someone else is offering it, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. People want to hear YOUR perspective, YOUR story, YOUR take on it. And who knows, maybe you’ll say it in a way that no one else said it, and trigger someone to finally get off their ass and do it!”

And that’s absolutely true! I’ve seen it over and over again. I’ve heard about social media at events, read books, been on teleseminars… But it took a woman named Susan at the JV Alert to become excited and finally sign up with Twitter! It took a marketing coach, who thought he was preaching to the choir, to finally focus on ONE topic and create amazing energy in my business!

Ever feel like everyone else is more successful than you are? You’re not alone. The key is to be YOU – the authentic, passionate YOU, whose story and ideas will inspire those people who … also think that everyone else around them is more successful.

1. Focus on what’s important to you and why you’re doing

2. Understand that genius minds think alike, but nobody has your story!

3. Get a coach or a supportive mastermind group

Success is not a lonely matter.

Simple Formula to $100K

In spite of so many people struggling in the first few years of their business, getting to $100,000 in is not that hard. Here are the basic steps that will easily allow you to do that:

1. Specialize in a “hungry” niche market

2. Create a high-ticket product or program for them

3. Market this program via articles, teleseminars, and simple strategic alliances

This is all there is to it, really. To create $100K a year, you need to generate $8,500 a month. And that means getting 15 people to pay you $567 a month; or 5 people paying you $1000 for private coaching and 10 people paying you $350 a month for group coaching; or a combination of some coaching and speaking income.

At any rate, it doesn’t take a lot of clients to create your first six figures.

The Journey to $250K

I remember the day I realized that my income surpassed $250K.  It hit me then that it’s a quarter of a million dollars. Such a wonderful ring to it! It’s the first time the word “million” was in my income!

$250K starts with several mind shifts.

I think the most important mind shift is 1) deciding that you want to grow your business to the next level. Many people are completely happy operating at their current level and there is nothing wrong with that. But this is where you can’t have a “wishful thinking” attitude.

Last year Lori Davila was like many coaches, working hard in her business but deep down knowing she wanted something bigger, yet not knowing exactly how. That was what led her to attend my event.

All too often people go to conferences, come home with a bunch of notes, and don’t do the legwork to make real change in their business. So before Lori left, she decided that rather than let this be a conference of gathering information, that she was committed to making it an experience of deep transformation.

One of the key shifts that Lori got from the event was hearing the stories of very successful coaches who had started from nothing and truly built empires just by shifting their beliefs and taking the right steps. Hearing that they had made the journey from where she was to something bigger fired her belief and helped her realize “if they can do it, I can too!”

So 2) seeing that it was possible and already done by others is another key step to reaching your next income milestone.

Another major shift was the realization of how important leveraging your time was by 3) moving away from a one-on-one client coaching mindset. Lori quickly saw if she wanted to help people on a greater scale and boost her income, she needed to 4) develop a line of products.

When Lori got home, she made the space in her life and discovered the products came POURING out of her. That big discovery was the spark for her core product  “The Secret Sauce for Creating Wealth Doing What You Love”.

These fundamental changes in Lori’s business not only exploded her income, but also made more time for her to enjoy her life and spend time on the lake with her husband.

“I have my new website, blog, products, thousands of subscribers, retreats for wanna be writers, and I’m changing the world!” says Lori. “The summit completely motivated me, and I am projecting $250K in revenue my first year!”

So, how do you get from $100K to $250K in coaching in more practical terms?

Designing a coaching program, getting your group coaching going, and creating a few educational products is a great way to reach $100K. But to get to the next level a few other things become important:

1. Start a membership-based mentoring program, also known as a coaching club, which allows you to work with a lot more clients and significantly grow your continuity income every month.

2. Getting a virtual assistant and outsourcing becomes essentially at this stage in your business – there are simply not enough hours in the day to do it all, so delegating lower-hourly-pay tasks is key.

3. Becoming more skilled at strategic alliances and joint ventures will help you get to that next level much faster. In fact, it might take only ONE good deal to push your income over the edge and into $250,000.

4. Creating different levels for people to experience your value. A line of educational products and coaching programs (one for each goal, topic, or level) will allow you to leverage your time better and become a highly valuable resource in your niche.

5. Automating many of your processes, systems, lead generating, sales, and other tasks you used to do manually is going to free up the time and energy for you to do what you do best!

6. Stop using coaching jargon and start using the language of your prospects!

But there’s one very important factor that many people continue to dismiss… Surrounding yourself and spending time with people who have already reached that level.

You can’t cheat the process of shifting your thinking, which takes listening and watching other people who have achieved YOUR goal. And that’s important at EVERY level of the business game.

If you could cut your work hours in half, and at the same time double your coaching income, would that make you excited? Here are some of my favorite strategies that have built-in leverage – use them to take your coaching business to the next level!

1. Create Group Programs

A group program is an excellent way to make more money without putting in any more effort. Rather than working with clients one-on-one, which is time-consuming and exhaustive, you can teach the same material to many individuals. The way you do this is by taking maximum advantage of today’s technology.

A group coaching session is somewhat like online learning. You as the leader determine the number of sessions your “course” will consist of, the length of time each session will be, and then you put together an agenda or an outline of each session. That way, all those who plan to participate know ahead of time when to meet, for how long they will meet and what will be discussed during those meetings.

For example, you might decide that you will hold a total of eight 90-minute sessions, and the sessions will be every Tuesday evening from 6:30 – 9:00 pm EST. During each session, you’ll cover the materials outlined on your agenda. And best of all, the coaching doesn’t have to be one-way. It can be totally interactive, with participants able to ask questions during the appointed “question and answer” period. If you want, you can even assign work that is to be completed before the next session.

Go ahead and start imagining the possibilities. Then start thinking how much more income you can earn by switching from teaching individuals to teaching groups of individuals.

2. Look For Joint-Venture Opportunities

Joint ventures are excellent opportunities to partner up with one or more industry-aligned partners in order to share resources, expenses and client lists.

The goal is to establish a working relationship with other professionals who offer services that do not compete with yours yet would be of interest to your clients.

The type of joint venture that you arrange will vary widely depending upon your goals. You might do something as simple as having all parties agree to send out a personal endorsement of the other partner’s services to each other’s mailing lists, or you may want to go as far as planning a jointly-sponsored event.

Regardless of the type of joint venture you’re planning, always keep these rules in mind:

· Create a Confidentiality Agreement

There is a good chance that you’ll be sharing sensitive or proprietary information with your partners, even if it’s your mailing list. Not all joint ventures work out and you may not part as friends if things go terribly wrong. That’s just one reason why it’s important to draw up a reciprocal confidentiality agreement. Better yet, share the costs and have an attorney do it.

· Get It In Writing

Create a written agreement setting out each party’s responsibilities for work and expense sharing. If there are deliverables required, establish who will produce them and what the deadlines are.

· Know Your Partner

When you create a joint venture you are placing some of your reputation into the hands of someone else. Make sure to perform your due diligence regarding all partners’ reputations for honesty and integrity, their business standing in the community, and their financial ability to participate, if appropriate.

3. Consider Licensing Your Program or Workshop

You can leverage your high-quality materials by licensing the content to other coaches. Since it’s your content, you can set the rules. You might not want to offer a license to coaches in your immediate market in order to avoid helping your competition, but you certainly could consider making your materials available to coaches outside of your immediate market.

There are copyright, royalty and other issues involved in licensing, and you don’t want to pursue this option on your own. Your best bet is to hire a Copyright Attorney to get you started.

4. Do Public Speaking

Other than writing a book, or appearing on TV, nothing sets you apart from your competition like being a guest speaker. If you’ve got something to say, then you need to get yourself in front of a group who will listen.

If you’ve not had much experience speaking publicly, start by speaking in front of familiar faces. If you’re a member of the local Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club or other similar type of organization, find out the person you need to speak with to get your name on an upcoming agenda.

When you’re ready to branch out from there, consider appearing as a guest speaker on a local talk radio station. Contacting the show’s producer is the approach you want to take here. Before making contact, be sure you’ve got your pitch all figured out. Make is strong and compelling because producers are busy people. It might take a few rounds of telephone tag before you actually get to speak directly with the show’s producer, but persistence will pay off.

The nice thing about appearing on the radio is that you don’t necessarily have to appear in person. You might be able to arrange a call in during which you are interviewed right over the telephone. If you do land a spot as a guest speaker, make sure you write down the details – the date and time you’re scheduled to speak and most important of all how long you’ll be expected to speak.

Anytime you do get an opportunity to speak before an audience, always find out if you are allowed to make a “plug” at the end of your speaking session. If you can, be sure to take advantage of this type of free publicity. After all, you never know who is listening.

5. Create A Coaching Club Or Coaching “Gym”

A coaching club is a membership-based business that you set up to offer specific types of coaching support. You simply take your current coaching material and rework it to appeal to a highly-targeted market.

Once you have your materials available, you can sell membership in your club on-line, where all materials are delivered via the Internet on a monthly basis, or you can conduct the sessions in a group format over a telephone bridgeline.

The benefits of the club include the ability of your members to interact with other members to share ideas and strategies with each other as well as with you.

A coaching gym is a highly-specialized form of coaching where you are laser-focused on obtaining one particular result such as teaching health professionals how to improve their referral network.

Because you are offering highly-specialized information, your coaching sessions can be shorter and you can charge more! Gym services can even be delivered over the phone or via e-mail.

6. Get A Virtual Assistant

As a coach, your billable time is your most valuable asset. But if you’re tied down in the “business of managing your business”, you’re burning hours that could be sold.

Also, if you have a lot of great ideas like building a web site or writing a marketing letter, but you lack the skills to get it done, you’re a perfect candidate for a “virtual assistant.”

They’re called “virtual” because they work in their home or office and not yours. You can outsource as much or as little of your work as you want to, and you can even hire different assistants to perform different tasks.

Not only will you instantly free up more time that you can bill to customer, but you’ll be more relaxed and stress-free to boot!

7. Start A Coaching Team

The concept of a coaching team is a lot like the way law firms are set up. There are typically one or more senior attorneys and a lot of junior attorneys. The firm provides the business infrastructure, such as accounting and administrative support, marketing and advertising, etc. The senior attorneys provide their name and reputation to the business and the junior attorneys do all of the grunt work.

Now, simply substitute the word “coaches” for the word “attorneys” and you’ve got the picture!

8. Create Your Own Affiliate Program

An affiliate program is used to pay people for providing you with leads that turn into sales. At its simplest level you can just hand out your business cards to your network of friends and contacts who, in turn, distribute them to their friends and contacts. Mark each set of cards that you give out with a code, or the referrer’s name, so you’ll know who to pay the commission to.

If you have a web site, you can install affiliate management software that will handed the process for you. What? You don’t have any idea where to find or how to install affiliate software? See Item # 6.

9. Re-Use And Re-Package Content

If you’ve spent time developing content that you’ve used once and then forgotten about, then in a sense you’re missing out on an opportunity to earn royalties on your own work! If you’ve spoken at a seminar, and your speech was recorded, then hire someone to transcribe your work. The transcription is something you probably can sell on your website. Those who attended the seminar in person were willing to pay to hear what you had to say and others will be too! Think about everything you’ve written and then think what you might be able to sell or use as an incentive for some other promotion you are running.

10. Create Your Own Annual Event (Conference, Seminar, Mastermind, Or Other Gathering In Your Industry)

Seminars are big business and they’re a great way to raise your visibility and make a lot of money in the process. If you can put together a seminar on a topic that you know others are interested in learning more about, then all you’ve got to do is attract attendees.

With all of the technology available today, arranging a seminar has gotten a lot easier and a lot less expensive. For example, a teleseminar offers an excellent opportunity to start promoting yourself as an “expert” in your field. Such an arrangement is not going to cost nearly as much as it would if you held a seminar at a conference center and you had to coordinate travel, meals and lodging for your attendees and special guest speakers.

The key to marketing your seminar is to establish yourself as an expert. Give yourself a title, elaborate on your pertinent experience, and offer a few incentives to entice people to sign up.

Plan on making your seminar an annual event and if your first one goes off well, you can be assured that your attendees will want to come back for more next time around!

11. Run A Retreat

Retreats are another segment of the coaching business that’s on fire these days. They operate a lot like group coaching that was mentioned in Item # 1, and a coaching seminar like was discussed in item #10.

The difference is that these sessions are usually held over a weekend at some relaxing location that provides an opportunity for recreation and fun as well as learning.

The best results are usually had when the recreation takes the form of team-building events like whitewater rafting where everyone has to work together or they end up getting wet. However, golf or tennis-based retreats, or any other kind, can work just as well depending upon your clientele.


A lot of the planning will be similar to the planning required for an event, so you might want to hire an event coordinator to handle the details.

12. Record Everything You Do Then Sell It As Audio/Video Programs And Products (Teleclasses, Live Events)

If you conduct teleclasses and events and you don’t record them, then now is the time to start. If you do record these sessions, then it’s time you do something with them so that they can start adding to your bottom line. If you make your sessions available on a CD or via a download on your website after the fact, you will have another chance to get money out of every person who did not or could not attend your teleclass or seminar. Don’t miss this money-making opportunity!

13. BONUS! Hire A Cleaning Service

As with a Virtual Assistant, the time you save by having someone else clean your home or office can be spent on building your business and generating more income. Where’s the break-even? Just compare how much you pay the cleaning service to how much you charge per hour or how much you make on a sale of your content or licensable material. I’ll bet the ROI is a lot quicker than you think.

Hey, even if you spend the time you save doing nothing but chilling on the couch, you’ll be happier and more relaxed – so just do it!

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- the simple compelling language
- the promising topic of a best-selling title
- the deep thinking it made me do

But I just couldn’t stop reading “The Secrets of the Millionaire Mind”, by Harv T. Ecker.

Have you read it?

No, no….

Have you DONE it?

It made me look back at my upbringing and ask myself: “What did my family teach me about money?”

We definitely couldn’t afford a lot of things, and even if we could, we’d have to be on a mission to FIND it (former USSR in the 80′s is where I spent my childhood).

But then I remembered something else…

My dad has a business on the side…quite illegal in those days, but he was simply responding to consumer demand.

It was impossible to find any European or American music in stores. You had to go to the “black market” to meet with other “moonlighters” and either buy it or trade it there. Then my dad would resell that music to others for a higher price.

He also would create a custom recording from different albums by request, for a special price.

So he was always on the lookout for business opportunities… Unfortunately, that’s as far as his entrepreneurship took him in the socialistic Russia in the 80′s. I wonder what he’d be doing if he lived here in his younger years.

Perhaps that’s where my entrepreneurial “gene” came from…

One of the things that especially hit the nerve from the book was the fact that, just because you’re rich, you shouldn’t feel guilty or bad about people who don’t have as much as you do. After all, your being poor doesn’t make them any richer.

On the other hand, if you’re rich, you CAN help them by doing charity, pro-bono work, fundraisers, etc.

1. “Unleashing the Idea Virus”, Seth Godin
2. “The E-Myth”, Michael Gerber
3. “Four-Hour Week”, Tim Ferriss
4. “The Irresistable Offer”, Mark Joyner
5. “Work Less, Make More”, Jennifer White
6. “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind”, T.Harv Eker
7. “The Ultimate Sales Letter”, Dan Kennedy

Freedom to do what I choose, when and where I choose.

What was the turning point in your life that began your success? In other words, when did things begin working for you?

When I realized that the world puts a huge value on knowledge and expertise, not on time.

What was the toughest personal challenges you have had to overcome, and how did you overcome them?

My mom and I in Las Vegas First Time, 2009

Most people think it’s immigrating to another country. However, I had very little to do with it. My parents made the decision and I followed them. Of course, the challenges came when we actually arrived – language, culture, and financial barriers lasted for a couple of years.

I had three main challenges after that.

Changing my career from music to computers. After spending the first 20 years of my life in music, it was a tough and painful decision to make. But computer programming promised to be a solid and reliable career, so I went for it.

Quitting my job to start my business was another big one. After struggling to find good day care for my one-year-old at the time, I finally took a plunge and gave my notice. My family couldn’t believe it, I would wake up in cold sweat for the first few weeks, but I knew somehow everything would work out. It just had to.

Realizing that I can’t do it all and building a team. Three years into my business building venture, I had more ideas than I could handle on my own. I knew I needed to hire someone, but that required a big mind shift: hiring someone to do what I could do myself? Impossible! Today I have 7-9 people on my team depending on the time of year, and love being able to delegate and outsource many projects and tasks.

What is the best piece of advice you can offer someone who is struggling to achieve success in any area of their lives?

Choose one idea, one strategy, one mentor, focus on it for a year, tune everything else and everybody else out.  That’s how I’ve been able to get ahead and build a business without any previous experience.

Who or what inspires you?

I love personal brands. It’s such a noisy world, everybody is an expert, everybody has something to sell. But when I see someone who used their personal story to create a compelling brand in their niche, built a product line for their customers, and was able to rise above this noise in the market, I feel inspired.

My favorite people who have inspired me are Michael Gerber, Seth Godin, and Nido Qubein