Attract Joint Venture Relationships... While Unleashing Your Financial Freedom

Joint Venture Partnerships are fast becoming a popular sales & marketing strategy for many small business owners. In short, a joint venture partnership is a monetized, nurtured relationship where two business owners share energy, efforts, and passion to collaborate and promote each other. Of course, nurturing a relationship does not happen overnight, but as a small business owner, this is the best strategy if you meet the following criteria:

1. You have plenty of clients, but you work like a hungry beast, 24/7. Desire: work less, make more money.
2. You earn less than $100,000 per year. Desire: go from $50k to $250k in six months.
3. You have a new business, where your email list (opt-ins) is less than 5,000. Desire: building your list over 5k, where 5k is the "hump".

Joint venture partnerships (which I prefer to refer to the term "relationships"), are fast, easy, cheap, and very lucrative. While you do not have to fit the criteria above (joint ventures are usually for everyone), meeting 1 of the 3 criteria above is by far the optimal method if.....

• you're a people person
• you work from home, or in an environment without walk in traffic
• you desire a freedom lifestyle
• you have a great, distinctive product or offering
• you have the ability to fill in product "gaps" for other similar businesses

Joint venture partnerships are not for shy or introverted people. You must have the ability to effectively build a relationship with another person, and give that person a reason to want to promote you! Also, if you possess a license, which certifies you for your business, you will want to research compliance specifications (since you will be paid when an actual product or service is sold).

Thanks for following...hope this is informational to you...Donna 

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Women In Business-Why Everyone Deserves To Be "Coached" (Part 1 of 4)

What is a coach? Oy vey, that's a loaded question! Coaches come in all forms, they excel in unique skills, and they all serve many purposes to society. No one coach is alike! In the society we live in they can be Business Coaches, Sport Coaches, Psychotherapists, Teachers, Life Coaches, Mentors, and on and on. The point is many individual people can serve others through "coaching" at different moments or periods in their life. By the way, I am not suggesting these individuals all serve the same purpose and can, therefore, be interchangeable. Just saying...don't get lost in the messaging.

Each and every one of us have engaged in "coaching", whether we were the recipient or the coach at some point in our lives. We all learn and grow until the day we die. If you are reading this and you think you have learned all you can learn, and grown as as a student of life as much as you possibly could, you need not read further. But, if you are a student of life, so to speak, and your brain is a sponge for information, intellect, and stimulation, allow yourself to be coached.

The experience of being coached by somebody who has a vested interest in you, somebody you trust, and somebody who will except your vulnerability, will help you open doors in your life you hardly know exists. 

Let's not go crazy, I am not comparing "coaches" to Archangels or Greek Goddesses. Coaches are just like you and me, come in all colors and religions, and some are smarter than others...enough said. However, I contend coaches can offer some unique traits that a friend or family member does not normally provide, even when asked. Consider these factors:

• Coaches will always tell you the truth, no matter what, simply because they are not your friend or family member. 
• Coaches will listen to you without judgement and understand your idiosyncrasies in a way no other individual can.
• Coaches will allow you to be a vulnerable student of life, guiding you through moments of dizziness to clarity, so to speak.

Please don't get me wrong. I am not insinuating our family and friends cannot provide us the supportive traits described above. But the truth is our family and friends cannot provide this support at all times. Whether it is because they have their own busy lives and stresses, or they are not skilled, nobody has a vested interest in you to excel like a coach or mentor does. 

Of course, finding the RIGHT COACH is another coaching opportunity...for another day.....tomorrow...

Thanks for reading my blog for women in business. Comments, topics, and perspectives are always welcome....

Donna Slater

Business Coach & Consultant

donnaslater@women4womenclub.us

Women In Business-Are We Ready To Take On Small Business As A Society?

Now is the time for women in business to excel and thrive in the small business world! We are poised to seriously move forward as a gender related society in small business. Women are everywhere, from politics to corporate leadership, but small business is where women have ample opportunity to excel and thrive now and into the next decade!

In my experience as a coach, I wonder if women are really ready to proceed as leaders in small business? I encounter resistance, insecurity, and passive characteristics with some clients and prospects. I feel they are almost ready, but not quite there yet. They have distrust for other people in small business, and wonder what's in it for them.

However, I also encounter women of great strength, courage, tenacity, and a feeling of indescribable unity (amongst all women in small business). Many women have identified the significance of their role and leadership in business, and I see the spirit of connectedness making a serious effort to advocate and advance women in all roles for the next few decades.

So, are we ready to take on small business as a society? Yes....and no is the correct answer. This is evolutionary, exciting, and scary. We are making progress and have ample opportunity for future market share, and the fear and anxiety we feel can only amplify our spirit to greatness.

Women in business.... let us seize the moment, unify in masses, and come forward to for all women everywhere, and for the strength of the women of the future!

Thanks and hope you enjoyed this message. Comments welcome. Contact me at   donnaslater@women4womenclub.us

Small Business Owners - "Outsourcing" vs. "Building A Team Of Professionals"

I am pretty sure we all agree small business owners need to outsource some of the skills and resources they don't possess themselves. Perhaps they don't have the time to complete all the tasks!

I see a trend of small business owners just hiring anyone who answers their call and reacts to their problem. As a coach, I see more "just call someone and fix the problem" than building a team of professionals (around you)  which you can count on and they will return your calls, share ideas with you, collaborate with you, and refer client's and other professionals to each other because you share a mutual trust and respect for each other.

My message is to build relationships with the professionals you work with, share the same values and goals, feel a connection, and create a working partnership, which is a win-win for all. More and more "accountability partners" come out of this relationship building.

The creation of a professional team evolves over the life of your business, creating a static environment of constant re-assessment and re-evaluation of your vision and mission statements.

If you want to take this further, you can create an "affiliate program" to pay and receive business and revenue, as a result of your outgoing referrals or referrals sent to you (by someone on your professional team). This subject is easier discussed over the phone or in person, than through a blog. 

Look for my article about this subject with more information and solutions in the next week.

Hope you enjoy my blogs and contact me with feedback:    donnaslater@women4womenclub.guru