Does Your Business Give You All the Freedom You Want?

I flew out to the West Coast of Canada this week to beautiful city called Victoria for a month’s escape from the snow and cold of Toronto. Victoria has a very moderate climate where it doesn’t snow. I lived here for a few years several years ago. I love walking by the ocean every day. It really inspires my imagination and creativity, so I plan to get lots more writing done on my new book and home study program while I’m here.

I have designed my business so that I can travel when and where I want and work when and where I want. My business is entirely automated and much of what I do is over to the internet and the phone. The days I am consulting or masterminding in person with clients or speaking or training, I can plan in advance around the time I will be away – which I always schedule in first – so my time is very flexible.

Why am I telling you this?

Because I want to give you some tips on how you can design your business to give you all the freedom, lifestyle and income you really want.

Here are the steps I took that you can take too:

First, if your only method of delivering your service is one person at a time and requires you to be present, think of ways you can shift some of your services so you can deliver them to more than one person at a time – for example, a small group or a workshop – or ways you could deliver your information in a packaged format.

Next, design a group program or a workshop, or create an information product. Or, do it all at the same time like I do. Start a group program and use that structure to create your first information product that you can sell online.

Then, automate many of the functions in your business using some of the low cost internet tools available that save you lots of time. You can automate things like client attraction, your ezine sign up, your special report or ebook delivery, follow-up messages, and online sales.

Because of the way I have set up my business, I make sales of my products and programs even when I’m on a plane or visiting a different city. It’s a great feeling to turn on your computer in the morning and see the sales notifier pop up to say you have made a sale – like I did this morning – even when you’re doing something else you enjoy.

These are some simple changes you can make to get you started. It’s about shifting your thinking about how you can grow your business and income, and then changing some of your delivery formats and methods.

I’ll be posting many more tips about this over the next several weeks.

I invite you to post your comments or questions below.

Wishing you much joy and success in 2010,
Jan

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