I was recently talking with K about a conversation I had with a group of Entrepreneurs concerning how I have so many businesses.  When I say tell people that I have nine businesses I often get looks of disbelief, awe, and shock.  They simply can not understand how I have any free time to do anything, let alone have coaching clients, business clients, family time, and cycling time.  Yet I always give them that knowing smile and say one word: Automation.

In my world of being a recovering control freak, analytic, and perfectionist I realized that I needed to get my businesses automated so that I could simply check in on them from time to time and make sure that they were still rocking and rolling.  When the business is built around Read the rest of this entry

One thing that I am often asked by my clients is how they can increase the number of leads coming into their business.  No matter what your industry, I hope that you realize that new leads or customers are the path to growing your business.  This does NOT mean that you should ignore your current customers by any means, instead it simply means that if you were to not generate any NEW business, you would eventually either be OUT of business (as your current customers move on, or leave you) or at the minimum your business would remain stagnant or in decline.

So here are four quick ways to increase your business right NOW online using my favorite method, pay per click (Online Marketing, Paid Search, etc).  Please note that these will get customers to your site, it is still up to you to convert them once they arrive!

1.  Create Ads for your Pay Per Click Campaign with your Telephone Number

I started doing this with our Real Estate Investing business by simply recreating the Bandit Signs that K had made.  I ran several different versions, including the standard “We Buy Houses” but below is a sample Read the rest of this entry