Start Your Business Now – Here Is Why

If you have ever thought about starting your own business or taking it up a notch or three now is the time.

I have covered this in several previous posts, but I think it is really worth repeating based on what is happening right now.

You may have heard the Administration is going to ride herd on the largest overall tax increase in the history of the country, but you may have not seen the numbers in black and white. Here there are.

• The 10% bracket will increase to 15%.

• The 25% bracket will increase to 28%.

• The 28% bracket will increase to 31%.

• The 33% bracket will increase to 36%.

• The 35% bracket will increase to 39.6%.

What this means is this.

• The 10% bracket will increase to 15%… a tax burden hike of 50%.

• The 25% bracket will increase to 28%… a tax burden hike of 12%.

• The 28% bracket will increase to 31%… a tax burden hike of 10.7%.

• The 33% bracket will increase to 36%… a tax burden hike of 9.1%.

• The 35% bracket will increase to 39.6%… a tax burden hike of 13.1%.

Capital Gains Taxes are due to go up by 50%. This is going to hurt all business investment and help kill any new job creation and drive manufacturing overseas even more.

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Why Clients Suck And Customers Are Great!

OK, what the heck am I talking about here you are asking? Well, over the past few years this has come become more and more clear for me. My partners and I have had hours and hours of conversations about this and we have come to unanimous conclusion. Clients SUCK and Customers are GREAT.

Let me explain here and see if you agree. I used to do a number of Websites for clients. This involved first educating them on the basics of what they needed to have for a profitable Website. Then after that part of the process was over you get into the components and look and feel of the site. In that most people are clueless when it comes to this, only about 1 to 2 out of every 10 clients actually could express exactly what they wanted and were flexible enough to understand that getting the site up and running first should be the main goal.

Then after the site is up, you then go back up and tweak it. We have also came to the conclusion that in far too many cases the more you do for them, the less they appreciate it and place no value on it. These are also the Clients that are the biggest pain in the butt. I have on a couple of occasions dumped thousands of dollars into a site only to still get nothing but complaints from them while they never realized that they may have been the reason why it did not work out with the past 2 or 4 developers.

That is a Warning Sign too. If they have tried several other people to do the same things an it did not work out, you really need to dig in and see what the scoop was. Now many times it could simply be they got incompetent people. But in well over 60% of the cases in my experience, it is the customer that is the problem and not whoever did the previous work for them. Be careful and do your homework here.

Plus, I have seen in many cases while you can wait for days for them to get you the information you need to move to the next step, even though the delays caused a train wreck to your schedule, they expect you to drop everything you are doing and get right back on their project. They never realize nor care that it may have caused you a week’s delay and it may be another week or a month before you can put them back into your schedule. They think that the customers that do what they are supposed when they are supposed to should suffer for their actions. Baloney, I won’t let that happen.

While most people don’t blink an eye when they pay their car mechanic $85 or $125 per hour to fix their car so it is reliable, they want a Website that is the basis of their business done for peanuts. It is both laughable and sad at the same time.

The same goes for Marketing clients as well. Many don’t want to pay $5,000 to $10,000 for assistance that can make them hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars that year. But, they will spend thousands on one stupid ad or marketing scheme or tool. LOL

I have heard this from others in all stripes of businesses and niches. Now again, not all Clients are like this, but day in and day out, enough are to have made me and my partners get rid of 99% of our Clients. I will tell you about the exceptions here shortly.

Get Rid Of Your Clients And Turn Them Into Customers

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Here is a Blueprint for your Affiliate Programs and Joint Ventures. Both of which can end up making your more money than any other marketing that you can do. Continue Reading >>>

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“You Sir, are a Wingnut!” – Easy Anderson

Here are some Quotes for my fellow Entrepreneurs and on the virtues of Economic Free Choice. The first group is by Winston Churchill. Probably one of the only truly honest and steadfast Politicians, Economists, and Leaders the World has seen in the past 100 years. I have also included some quotes by Ayn Rand. See if these quotes don not hit the proverbial nail right on the head.

Both experienced first hand the failures of Socialism and Communism and the success that happens when Free Choice Economics is let loose.

Let me know what you think.

Cheers,

Andrew “Easy” Anderson

“Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.” -Winston Churchill

“We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” – Winston Churchill

“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” -Winston Churchill

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” -Winston Churchill

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” -Winston Churchill

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” -Winston Churchill

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” -Winston Churchill

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I am here to tell you that you have what it takes to be successful. And I am going to give you a secret on how to make sure that you never forget it. Because if you do not believe deep in your soul, it is doubtful that other people or the Universe is going to believe it either.

First off you need to tell yourself that you do indeed have it. You need to get rid of any niggling doubts that you may have. You need to forget every single negative thing that has been said to about failure, about being careful, about not being smart enough, or having enough education, or that you are the wrong sex, color, race or whatever other stupidity has been foisted on you by stupid ignorant people Continue Reading >>>

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The Duhh Factor To Profits

I got this in via email on Friday from one of my customers.

“Your services were 1,000 times better than what I expected. I thought I would just try it out because it was such a good price. Lo and behold, it’s worked out wonderfully!”

I’m definitely going to have you keep going. I appreciate your good work.

-Jerret

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One of the main rules of marketing is to find out where you customers are and market there. Well guess what folks? Your customers on Social Media.

This is the latest from Nielson.

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Chaos and Opportunity

How to take advantage of both!

And I love it when it pulls up the frame that makes you look like you just got off a Benders. 

Cheers,
Andrew “Easy” Anderson

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How To Not Let Email And Other Ducks Peck You To Death

As an Entrepreneur, we are all usually faced with too much to do and too little time to do it. I am sure that you know what I mean.

In the past year, I have gotten off track with letting the Ducks peck me a little by little until I realized because of some family matter that demanded even more of my time, that they were literally beginning to peck me to death.

Now the things is that I know better and point in fact point this out and hammer it home with my customers and even have a whole chapter devoted to this in my Book, Start On Monday.

There are however easy fixes for this and I have had to implement them because of literally some life and death matter.

The kicker is, that I should not have waited to that point to put a stop on it. Because it takes an unnecessary toll not only on you and your business, but your customers and loved ones as well.

Now this may meet resistance from not only your subconscious, but your customers as well.

The first area is emails. I have gone back to checking my emails to twice a week following the lead of Tim Ferriss in his book, The 4 Hour Workweek.

I am going to cover the three major ones and give you their Scientific Names as well.

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Have you ever noticed that often times the hardest thing to do is the simplest thing? In that when you get you your Business idea all set up we often times kind of get twisted about it and try to figure out all of the  angles for every part of it. We make lists, and draw all kind of mind maps and become focused on what the outcome is going to be like.

If that has not worked for you yet, I have another way to approach things. Rather than making a huge list of things that you need to get done, you concentrate on doing just one thing and concentrate not on the outcome per say but on how you are doing the process. I think that you will be pleasantly surprised out how much more you get done. Instead of writing a whole list of things that you want to get done for the day or the week, you make your list only have the one item that has to be done. Just one.

Then after you accomplish that, you then add another thing. You are not going to forget all of the things that get done, but you will start getting a sense of accomplishment.

You see, if have your own business, or you are even thinking about starting your Muse or Business, you expect more out of yourself than most people.

This is a good thing for the most part, but you also have a tendency to think in a positive fashion so as an

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