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#meetoo à la Suédoise

06 Tuesday Mar 2018

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En Suède, garantir les mêmes droits et attribuer les mêmes devoirs aux femmes et aux hommes fait partie de l’identité nationale. Mais le mouvement #metoo a suscité une prise de conscience des avancées qu’il reste à accomplir.

La tribune, publiée par les actrices et comédiennes suédoises, le 9 novembre 2017, dans le quotidien Svenska Dagbladet, a fait l’effet d’une bombe en Suède. Dans le sillage de l’affaire Weinstein aux États-Unis, 456 d’entre elles y racontaient, anonymement et sans nommer leurs agresseurs, le harcèlement sexuel et les violences dont elles avaient été victimes sur les scènes de théâtre et les plateaux de cinéma, depuis des années.

Les semaines suivantes, plus de 70 000 femmes, représentant des dizaines de professions, publient des textes similaires : 4 446 juristes, 10 000 médecins, 1 300 élues, 1 132 salariées de l’industrie technique, 4 627 ouvrières du BTP, 1 089 écuyères, 387 archéologues, des centaines d’employées de la défense, de l’Église luthérienne. Mi-février, c’est au tour des «gameuses» de dénoncer, «les humiliations et le harcèlement», dont elles sont la cible dans l’univers des jeux vidéo en ligne. Nulle part ailleurs, hormis aux États-Unis, le mouvement #metoo n’a connu un tel retentissement.

Malena Rydell, l’une des deux journalistes à l’origine de la publication de la tribune des actrices, veut croire à la valeur « historique » de #metoo et à son impact sur la notion du consentement : « La ligne rouge de ce qui est acceptable a été redessinée, peut-être de façon définitive.» Difficile pourtant de ne pas voir un paradoxe dans ce déferlement de témoignages. Depuis des décennies, la Suède, avec ses voisins nordiques, passe en effet pour la championne de l’égalité entre les sexes, une valeur devenue partie intégrante de son identité nationale.

JMD

J. Michael Dennis is a former attorney, a Crisis & Reputation Management Expert, a Public Affairs & Corporate Communications Specialist, a Warrior for Common Sense & Free Speech, The Ultimate Fixer helping you achieve greatness.

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Fightback, Protect Your Reputation

22 Thursday Feb 2018

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Fightback. Join the revolution now

Lately, our right to privacy and maintaining our reputation seems to be an uphill battle.

The general disregard towards our right to protect our privacy and reputation is challenge as never before compared to any of the past generations.

Safeguarding our privacy and reputation is nothing about having something to hide. Privacy is about something to protect. Today, our reputation is who we are. That is what we believe in, what people believe in and who you want to become.

Privacy is the right to one self. It is what gives us the ability to share with the world who we are, on our own terms, for people to understand what we are trying to be. Without privacy, without a good reputation, we lose the ability to be ourselves.

The right to privacy is the source, the quintessence of all other rights.

Freedom of speech doesn’t have a lot of meaning if it is depriving us or anyone of a quiet space to decide what it is that you actually want to say or do and this last year was an unfathomable blow to the case of personal and public privacy.

People and Institutions are falling from the skies like dead flies. This is the result of a broken legal system, using the internet to destroy lives and reputations. Phones at sexual assault hotlines all over the world are ringing off the hooks, organizations are scrambling for help and media love it.

With the aggressive and increasing rapid demise of our basic rights to privacy in plain sight, it would be careless for anyone to only rely on businesses or governments to protect oneself. It is now up to each one of us to do whatever is necessary to protect our way of life and prevent anonymity in public to become a thing of the past.

JMD

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Men Are Now An Endangered Genus

20 Tuesday Feb 2018

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Thanks to Alyssa Milano, the #MeToo movement is now creating a moral panic.

If you have spent any time on social media lately and watching the news, you have probably been shocked and sad to see the incredible viral spread of the hashtag #MeToo Movement.

The #MeToo Movement is the product of a broken legal system, using the internet to cause stars to fall from the skies. Phones at sexual assault hotlines all over the world are ringing off the hooks, organizations are scrambling for help and media love it.

No one’s reputation is off limit anymore.

Tarana Burke

It is in 2016 that social activist and community organizer Tarana Burke created the expression “Me Too” on Myspace, as part of a grassroots campaign to promote “empowerment through empathy” among “women of color” having experienced sexual abuse.

Alyssa Milano

On October 15, 2017, actress Alyssa Milano encouraged spreading the expression as part of an awareness campaign in order to reveal the ubiquity of the problem among all women.

On January 4, 2018 Milano announced in an article published in the Rolling Stone magazine that she and 300 other women in the film industry were now supporting another movement called Time’s Up, an initiative aiming to help fight sexual violence and harassment and inequality in the workplace with creative strategies ranging from establishing a legal defense fund to aid working-class women to lobbying for legislation that would punish companies that foster environments for harassment.

In this exclusive essay for Rolling Stone, Milano explains how she was working to make sure that Time’s Up will have a positive effect for women both inside Hollywood and in the world at large.

After millions of people started using the phrase, and it spread to dozens of other languages, the purpose changed and expanded, as a result it has come to mean different things for different people and whoever you are, if you have any skeleton in your closet of any kind, your reputation is more at risk than ever.

A new comer: SpeakUp.eu

In the aftermath of the #MeToo Movement a new worldwide denunciation is born: SpeakUp.eu by People Intouch, a multi-language, integrated phone/web misconduct reporting & case management website.

The SpeakUp® Phone and Web System are designed for communicating with anonymous reporters of misconduct all over the web and make sure that all misconducts reported can be judged and investigated in a fair way [they say,] for all parties involved and to create a SpeakUp Culture without fear of retaliation.

Based in Amsterdam, People Intouch, a truly international company operating in 57 countries and 70+ different languages, was founded in 2004 to accommodate organizations seeking a European alternative to the American approach to whistle-blowing.

Again, whoever you are, wherever you are, if you have any skeleton in your closet of any kind, your reputation is more at risk than ever.

Is all this going too far?

While  many women may consider the #MeToo movement an important step toward countering widespread sexual abuse and wrongdoing, this never has been the final intended goal of the movement. This was only part of it and in the wake of the #MeToo movement analysis, we have somehow lost the intended plot and story-line.

Instead of celebrating a movement that was looking forward to making workplaces safer for women, classrooms better learning environments for girls and public spaces more accessible to all genders, women are now strangely only focusing on men.

Today, the alleged evil behavior of Weinstein, in other words, goes far beyond the Hollywood casting couch. For women, monsters are everywhere. In the hostile world that women face, we are now told, Weinsteins lurk around every corner.

Are all these Good Feminists fair-minded people?

Are all these Good Feminists fair-minded people or are they only, feeding into the very old narrative that holds women to be incapable of fairness or of considered judgment, giving their opponents another reason to deny them positions of decision-making in the world?

While I do believe that due process shall be applied to both, the denunciator and the denounce and that everyone’s rights shall be respected, many [including women] are now questioning whether the #MeToo Campaign has created a moral global societal panic and if there should be greater transparency in the nature and motives of the denunciations.

Sadly, some people would rather cast stones at all men and cast all women as victims.

The #MeToo movement has already received a fair share of criticism and the way it is going; the movement is doomed. Though they may have wanted to be in solidarity with other women, too many women have joined #MeToo too quickly and unthinkingly.

Meantime if you still have to fight for your reputation, let me know. It is time for everyone that is unduly and unfairly crucified on the public place to fight back.

JMD

JMD, a former attorney, a Crisis & Reputation Management Specialist is a Columnist for The Futurist Daily News and editor of the Social and Political Blog JMDlive.com. Follow JMD on Twitter @ jmdlive and visit the following JMD websites: jmdsystemics.com , bunkumless.com and jmdonline.tumblr.com

 

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Tarana Burke accepted the title of the leader of the MeToo movement but has also stated she considers herself a worker of something much bigger: “A movement that includes both men and women of all colors and ages and supports marginalized people in marginalized communities.

 

How Realistic Is The Dream Of A Successful Startup?

05 Friday Jan 2018

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Living on your own terms

“Over half of the new businesses will discontinue operations because of lack of profits or financial funding.”

Most startups will fail in the first three years of their existence

Yes indeed, starting a business does feel good, but it comes at a cost, and very few of the vaticinators and so-called business gurus of this world talk about the sacrifices it will take you to do it, the realistic outcomes of a new entrepreneur, and the reality of what the majority of all new entrepreneur or business founder end up doing when heading down that path.

Most of the time, starting a new business will prove to be a scary proposition, the scariest thing of all being knowing that most new businesses are not successful. Most startups fail in the first three years of their existence. Roughly 20% of new businesses will survive past their first year of operation, and half of all new businesses no longer exist after five years. Only one-third of all new businesses will make it past their tenth anniversary.

While starting a new business can prove to be a horrible decision for some and maybe most, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it. My intention is not to scare you but rather, to simply paint a more accurate picture of what life is often like for a new entrepreneur so you can weigh your options when considering either a new venture, joining an existing venture, or working at and for a more established company at various points in your career.

Being an entrepreneur is simply not that easy and glorious. Too many people are talking about things that they don’t have any clue about, and doing so, they are misleading the next generation of builders into thinking it’s the only way to do something meaningful and rewarding with their lives. This is total bunkum! If you choose to be an entrepreneur, and are fortunate enough to achieve some level of success, plan for a long, lonely ride eating ramen, dealing with people that will do anything for you one day and try to take advantage of you the next. This is the reality!

Why is it that most new businesses fail?

Over half of businesses discontinue operations because of lack of profits or financial funding.

A big issue is under-capitalization at the outset of starting a business. Business owners frequently underestimate how much money will be needed to fund operations. At the same time, they can overestimate how quickly their products and services will catch on in the marketplace.

Entrepreneurs are usually by nature highly confident. The problem is that confidence sometimes leads to overconfidence. It would be great if more businesses were successful and lasted for decades. However, history is telling us that this is not the reality.

REALITY CHECK

1.- Leaders eat alone. You will not be rich.

Very few startups provide founders with enough wealth to give them true financial freedom.

Most of the new entrepreneurs will be lucky if they break even and I am not even considering the possibility of failing. Having done all your homework, the way it should have been done, if you are lucky enough to survive, the Gods of Business being on your side, for the first few years of your new business venture, you will most likely make more money working for an established corporation than you will starting your own company.

All new entrepreneurs should be aware of that reality and seriously consider keeping their day job while starting their business. Time consuming you would say! Sure, but your monthly bills will be paid.

2.- Customers will turn on you.

Let’s assume you are one of the successful startups, and you find some level product or service market fit, you should feel satisfied: you built a product that solves a problem for a reasonably sized population. Remember and seize that moment, because in the years that will follow, you are most likely to encounter situations where your biggest product or service advocates will start to turn on you.

Facing this scenario, you will have to invest significant time and energy trying to maintain the goodwill you have acquired in the past by solving your customer’s and client’s problems. Doing so, business, technical, and market forces will necessitate a number of changes to your offering.

The reality is so that over time, for most new businesses, the constant balancing act between customer satisfaction and literally everything else you have to do to grow your business and maintain your profitability will starts to feel unsustainable.

3.- Even good people can really suck.

Everyone around your startup, including investors, co-founders, and employees will oscillate between fear and greed multiple times during the life of your newly founded company. Even the most successful startup founders have moments where they aren’t sure if they will be able to keep the business going.

Initially, problems will not really get in your way. The odds being already stacked against you, and being light on resources, you take a scrappy approach to getting things done. But, once your business shows any sign of growth, you have to hire employees, freelancers or both. You take investment and all of the sudden the small problems start to take up more and more of your time.

You now have to deal with a growing set of people that are counting on you to return a premium on investment or keep your employee’s jobs safe. All of a sudden, you only need one big problem to start losing sleep.

IN ONE WORD:

If you choose to be an entrepreneur, and are fortunate enough to achieve some level of success, plan for a long, lonely ride eating ramen, dealing with people that will do anything for you one day and try to take advantage of you the next.

Your life just got infinitely more complex.

JMD

 

How Realistic Is The Dream Of A Successful Startup?

05 Friday Jan 2018

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“Over half of the new businesses will discontinue operations because of lack of profits or financial funding.”

Most startups will fail in the first three years of their existence

Yes indeed, starting a business does feel good, but it comes at a cost, and very few of the vaticinators and so-called business gurus of this world talk about the sacrifices it will take you to do it, the realistic outcomes of a new entrepreneur, and the reality of what the majority of all new entrepreneur or business founder end up doing when heading down that path.

Most of the time, starting a new business will prove to be a scary proposition, the scariest thing of all being knowing that most new businesses are not successful. Most startups fail in the first three years of their existence. Roughly 20% of new businesses will survive past their first year of operation, and half of all new businesses no longer exist after five years. Only one-third of all new businesses will make it past their tenth anniversary.

While starting a new business can prove to be a horrible decision for some and maybe most, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it. My intention is not to scare you but rather, to simply paint a more accurate picture of what life is often like for a new entrepreneur so you can weigh your options when considering either a new venture, joining an existing venture, or working at and for a more established company at various points in your career.

Being an entrepreneur is simply not that easy and glorious. Too many people are talking about things that they don’t have any clue about, and doing so, they are misleading the next generation of builders into thinking it’s the only way to do something meaningful and rewarding with their lives. This is total bunkum! If you choose to be an entrepreneur, and are fortunate enough to achieve some level of success, plan for a long, lonely ride eating ramen, dealing with people that will do anything for you one day and try to take advantage of you the next. This is the reality!

Why is it that most new businesses fail?

Over half of businesses discontinue operations because of lack of profits or financial funding.

A big issue is under-capitalization at the outset of starting a business. Business owners frequently underestimate how much money will be needed to fund operations. At the same time, they can overestimate how quickly their products and services will catch on in the marketplace.

Entrepreneurs are usually by nature highly confident. The problem is that confidence sometimes leads to overconfidence. It would be great if more businesses were successful and lasted for decades. However, history is telling us that this is not the reality.

REALITY CHECK

1.- Leaders eat alone. You will not be rich.

Very few startups provide founders with enough wealth to give them true financial freedom.

Most of the new entrepreneurs will be lucky if they break even and I am not even considering the possibility of failing. Having done all your homework, the way it should have been done, if you are lucky enough to survive, the Gods of Business being on your side, for the first few years of your new business venture, you will most likely make more money working for an established corporation than you will starting your own company.

All new entrepreneurs should be aware of that reality and seriously consider keeping their day job while starting their business. Time consuming you would say! Sure, but your monthly bills will be paid.

2.- Customers will turn on you.

Let’s assume you are one of the successful startups, and you find some level product or service market fit, you should feel satisfied: you built a product that solves a problem for a reasonably sized population. Remember and seize that moment, because in the years that will follow, you are most likely to encounter situations where your biggest product or service advocates will start to turn on you.

Facing this scenario, you will have to invest significant time and energy trying to maintain the goodwill you have acquired in the past by solving your customer’s and client’s problems. Doing so, business, technical, and market forces will necessitate a number of changes to your offering.

The reality is so that over time, for most new businesses, the constant balancing act between customer satisfaction and literally everything else you have to do to grow your business and maintain your profitability will starts to feel unsustainable.

3.- Even good people can really suck.

Everyone around your startup, including investors, co-founders, and employees will oscillate between fear and greed multiple times during the life of your newly founded company. Even the most successful startup founders have moments where they aren’t sure if they will be able to keep the business going.

Initially, problems will not really get in your way. The odds being already stacked against you, and being light on resources, you take a scrappy approach to getting things done. But, once your business shows any sign of growth, you have to hire employees, freelancers or both. You take investment and all of the sudden the small problems start to take up more and more of your time.

You now have to deal with a growing set of people that are counting on you to return a premium on investment or keep your employee’s jobs safe. All of a sudden, you only need one big problem to start losing sleep.

IN ONE WORD:

If you choose to be an entrepreneur, and are fortunate enough to achieve some level of success, plan for a long, lonely ride eating ramen, dealing with people that will do anything for you one day and try to take advantage of you the next.

Your life just got infinitely more complex.

JMD

How to Reinvent Yourself in 2019

26 Tuesday Dec 2017

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“All reinvention requires change. But not all changes are a reinvention”

Most people want to be better. They want to live better lives, be happier, and have better relationships. But most people are horrible at execution and not everyone get the opportunity to reinvent themselves.

If you are in your thirties and you did not already met success, chances are, if you don’t decide to reinvent yourself now, that you will never be successful at anything.

The difference between change and reinvention

All reinvention requires change. But not all changes are a reinvention.

You lose your job; your spouse dies; you suffer a critical injury; you make a drastic personal or professional mistake; your girlfriend dumps you; your boyfriend or spouse is cheating on you, these are examples of situations that call for “Reactive Reinvention”.

Reactive reinvention occurs when an external event occurs and forces you to change in order to move forward. The event being irreversible, you cannot go backward.

You want a new job; you want to start a business; you want to live healthier; you want to run a marathon; you want to learn a new skill; you want to start a new relationship; you want to do something that you have never done before; you want to do something that no one has ever done before, this is the land of visionaries, romantics and entrepreneurs, who believe that there is a better way to live. This is the land of “Proactive Reinvention”

Proactive reinvention is the land of visionaries, romantics and entrepreneurs where you intentionally change your way of life in order to capitalize on a trend or an opportunity.

There is also the land of failure; the land of “Reflective Reinvention”. Reflective reinvention occurs when you fail at something, but you still have a strong desire to continue in that particular endeavour.

You fail at launching a new business or finishing first in this athletic competition, but you still have this strong desire to win, to be this successful entrepreneur. You fail repeatedly; you fail over and over, but you still have that strong desire to make it.

At this stage, the key to reinvention and transformation at this stage is: to “Change Something About Yourself” and the only way to change this something about yourself is to reflect on your situation and then, to make the required necessary changes in yourself that will allow you to win.

What would be your best possible strategy for 2018?

You want to change, you want to reinvent yourself! You need to find out what would be the best possible strategy that will work for you.

If you are in a situation where you need to “Reactively Reinvent Yourself”, you will be facing and having to deal with an enormous amount of negative energy motivation and emotions. You will have to channel all this negative energy into an activity that will motivate you without harming you.

If you are in a situation where you need to “Reflectively Reinvent Yourself”, you will need to look for information, data, answers and insights from outside yourself. You will have to admit that you do not have all the answers and that you may be hampered by your own vision.

In most situations, if you are unhappy about the way you live, the way things are going in your life, if you are struggling through life, instead of blaming everybody else other than yourself for your mishaps and miseries, you will need to either “Change Things About Yourself” or more often, to “Totally Reinvent Yourself”.

All reinvention requires change. But not all changes are a reinvention.

You want to know more about “Change” and “Reinvention”!

JMD

Owner of Bunkumless.com and JMDsystemics.com, JMD is a former attorney Corporate Strategist and Professional Problem Solver, a Columnist for The Futurist Daily News and editor of the Social and Political Blog JMDlive.com

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How to Reinvent Yourself in 2018

26 Tuesday Dec 2017

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“All reinvention requires change. But not all changes are a reinvention”

Most people want to be better. They want to live better lives, be happier, and have better relationships. But most people are horrible at execution and not everyone get the opportunity to reinvent themselves.

If you are in your thirties and you did not already met success, chances are, if you don’t decide to reinvent yourself now, that you will never be successful at anything.

The difference between change and reinvention

All reinvention requires change. But not all changes are a reinvention.

You lose your job; your spouse dies; you suffer a critical injury; you make a drastic personal or professional mistake; your girlfriend dumps you; your boyfriend or spouse is cheating on you, these are examples of situations that call for “Reactive Reinvention”.

Reactive reinvention occurs when an external event occurs and forces you to change in order to move forward. The event being irreversible, you cannot go backward.

You want a new job; you want to start a business; you want to live healthier; you want to run a marathon; you want to learn a new skill; you want to start a new relationship; you want to do something that you have never done before; you want to do something that no one has ever done before, this is the land of visionaries, romantics and entrepreneurs, who believe that there is a better way to live. This is the land of “Proactive Reinvention”

Proactive reinvention is the land of visionaries, romantics and entrepreneurs where you intentionally change your way of life in order to capitalize on a trend or an opportunity.

There is also the land of failure; the land of “Reflective Reinvention”. Reflective reinvention occurs when you fail at something, but you still have a strong desire to continue in that particular endeavour.

You fail at launching a new business or finishing first in this athletic competition, but you still have this strong desire to win, to be this successful entrepreneur. You fail repeatedly; you fail over and over, but you still have that strong desire to make it.

At this stage, the key to reinvention and transformation at this stage is: to “Change Something About Yourself” and the only way to change this something about yourself is to reflect on your situation and then, to make the required necessary changes in yourself that will allow you to win.

What would be your best possible strategy for 2018?

You want to change, you want to reinvent yourself! You need to find out what would be the best possible strategy that will work for you.

If you are in a situation where you need to “Reactively Reinvent Yourself”, you will be facing and having to deal with an enormous amount of negative energy motivation and emotions. You will have to channel all this negative energy into an activity that will motivate you without harming you.

If you are in a situation where you need to “Reflectively Reinvent Yourself”, you will need to look for information, data, answers and insights from outside yourself. You will have to admit that you do not have all the answers and that you may be hampered by your own vision.

In most situations, if you are unhappy about the way you live, the way things are going in your life, if you are struggling through life, instead of blaming everybody else other than yourself for your mishaps and miseries, you will need to either “Change Things About Yourself” or more often, to “Totally Reinvent Yourself”.

All reinvention requires change. But not all changes are a reinvention.

You want to know more about “Change” and “Reinvention”!

JMD

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To Blog or not to Blog!

21 Tuesday Nov 2017

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Blogging is not the easiest way to pay the bills

Kicking off a content generating machine doesn’t pay back instantly. The real magic of content happens when this slow return takes the form of a compound one, one that grows because of the incremental gains it earns along the way.

Publishing quality content every single day is no easy achievement

To constantly deliver quality content on a daily basis requires to give up on a lot of things. It is a full-time job and unless you are selling ads on your blog it will never allow you to pay the bills.

To deliver quality content on a daily basis that would generate income requires giving up on almost anything else that you are doing now, one of the most important one being giving up on spending any time managing or trying to manage social media.

Publishing often is easy, publishing quality content isn’t

Just because others publish daily or a few times a week doesn’t mean you have to. If you do not have an army of ghostwriters writing for you, you may as well forget about the idea of publishing quality content daily or even a few times a week.

Your best strategy would be to publish either monthly, a few times a month or even every few months, concentrating on building and publishing evergreen content.

While temporal content keeps blogs fresh, only evergreen content, content that is as valuable today as it will be in the future, will allow you to grow your audience and achieve compound return.

Stand Out from The Crowd

Delivering top-notch quality content remains the most powerful way to cut through today’s cluttered web space and making some top dollars doing it.

Unless you have an army of writers at your disposition, make sure to consider what other things you need to do to become “The Best In The World At What You Do”, to “Stand Out From The Crowd”.

JMD

Owner of Bunkumless.com and JMDsystemics.com, JMD is a former attorney Corporate Strategist and Professional Problem Solver, a Columnist for The Futurist Daily News and editor of the Social and Political Blog JMDlive.com  

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Is a 6 figures income and beyond a realistic goal for a startup?

12 Sunday Nov 2017

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It is not only realistic, it shall be your only goal and motivation

One thing that many new entrepreneurs seem to have in common is that they tend to get caught up in all of the little daily details and lose track of the big picture.

The most important thing that you have to concentrate on when starting a new business is to get a customer.

Without a customer, you don’t need a business card, you don’t need an office space, you don’t need a LLC and so on. You don’t need anything especially spending the money that you don’t have.

Before anything else, get a customer

What is the market that you are targeting? Do people need the product or service that you are offering? How is your product or service better than the competition? Why shall people deal with you? How do you differentiate yourself from anybody else?

When starting a business, this is what you have to concentrate on, the big picture: Is this going to make any money?

It’s easy to get wrapped up in the details

You want to survive? You want your business to be successful? Here is what you have to do:

  1. Define and refine your business, your product or service;

  2. Make sure to be “The Best in The World at What You Do”;

  3. Make sure to “Stand Out from The Crowd”;

  4. Define and refine your business model;

  5. Start hustling and grinding and,

  6. Delegate whatever task is not essential to your Customer Acquisition Process to anyone is better than you at it, even to a Virtual Corporate Services Firm.

You don’t know exactly what you want to or have to do! Let me help you.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to teach people what I know about entrepreneurship, startups, communications, branding and marketing. I decided to create some sort of bunkumless program about how to start a successful business.

So, I just threw together a name and structure and decided to go online. While I didn’t really know what the answer would be or what to expect, to my surprise, people started to follow me and emailing me asking for advice on how to start their business.

Suddenly, just a few weeks after publishing my website landing page, I realized that most of their concerns were about daily and routine details, ignoring the big picture: “Growing and Scaling” their Business Idea or Project to a six figures income and beyond.

This is when I decided to relaunch, to offer one of a kind service: An Online Consulting an Assistance Business Service to help young entrepreneurs, small and medium size businesses to scale and grow their business and most importantly, their income.

To my surprise 24 hours after the relaunch, I was in business. I had landed my first customer and was making just shy of $3,000 a month.

The Secret?

There is no secret; the only thing I had to do was:

  1. To pay attention and listen to my newly acquired customer and let him tell me exactly what were his concerns, issues and problems were;

  2. To pay attention and listen to what he was really looking for and expecting from me;

  3. After carefully listening and paying attention, to offer all possible solutions and that he would agree upon;

  4. After an “Understanding an Agreement” has been reached, to exactly and timely deliver as per budget.

  5. Finally, as an added bonus, added value, to provide him with all the tools that he needed to grow and scale his business.

The situation being resolved my customer was happy to promptly pay my bill and immediately retain my services on a monthly basis.

Let it be a lesson

Your first accountability and priority as an entrepreneur is to find a way to make your customers happy, to provide them with exactly what they need. with a bunkumless solution to solve any issue or problem that they may be facing or will be facing.

This is how you make money; this is where the money is.

If you have a product or offer a service that is making money for your customer, you can charge for it

The more money your customer makes using your product or service, the more you can charge for it.

Stop struggling with the daily administrative details of running a business. This is not helping any of your customers and they don’t give a shit about the color of your carpets.

What your customers care about is: “Making Money”.

Spend your time looking at ways to help your customers making money and making even more money.

Spend your time telling and showing your customers how your product or service answers their needs and wants and how it can always help them making more money.

Scaling up your business

Your business is doing well but not good enough! Your business is losing traction! Your business is not picking up! You don’t know what to do anymore!

NOW is the time to do something about it and I can help you.

Book an online 30 minutes FREE Consultation with me and let’s discuss your situation and expectations. But this is not the point.

The point is: How do you do it?

  1. Who is your targeted audience?

  2. What is your targeted audience looking for?

  3. How can you help?

  4. Is your product or service the best possible answer?

  5. If yes: Do you charge enough?

Charging and pricing, this is where a lot of entrepreneurs get scared.

Many, especially new entrepreneurs, think that there’s no way people will pay them more money to the money that they may be asking for. Let me tell you:

“You don’t charge enough, you look like a loser.”

I am not telling you to overcharge!

What I am telling you is that when you charge more money, you get better clients. They know they get more value, and you also get more value while getting more money and giving more in return.

When people pay more, they pay more attention. When people pay big, they really pay attention to what you have to say, your product or services. If you want to really scale your business, even a new business, don’t get caught in the process of not charging enough. On the long run, this would prove to be suicidal.

Do things as you go

Do things as you go. Listen to your customers, adapt to the situations and make changes when needed.

Don’t set yourself up for failure.

Don’t be afraid to charge for what you’re worth.

  1. See what people need and want;

  2. Offer it;

  3. Sell it,

  4. Tweak it,

  5. And, above everything else: Stop doubting yourself!

  6. Scale it; don’t be afraid to charge more.

You have the best possible product on the market, you are The Best in The World at What You Do! It is your duty to “Stand Out from The Crowd” and serve the people that need your help.

It’s also your duty, your most important duty to respect yourself and to charge what you’re worth.

JMD

J.Michael Denis, ll.l, ll.m

Professional Problem Solver

JMD Planification Stratégique

31 Tuesday Oct 2017

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J. Michael Denis, ll.l, ll.m

Professional Problem Solver