Alexa (left), Gabrielle (center top) Kirsten (right) Me in the middle!
OK, so in my first post I kind of introduced myself as a husband and a dad of three beautiful little girls trying to find a way to quit my full time job to pursue my dreams of running my own marketing business.
We’ll I’m announcing it here that I have officially left my job and I’m working full time on my business, Radical Marketing Solutions!
Now this was a long time coming for me.
Running my own business has always been a dream of mine and I’ve identified three very important principles that got me to the point where I could leave my J.O.B.
And I’ll be very honest with you, none of this would have happened had I not figured out and implemented these three rules.
So you ready? Good, lets dive in shall we?
1. You must invest in yourself : One of the first things I did when I made the decision to start my own business was to find a course and coaching group for something I was interested in. In fact, the first thing I did was sign up to take a Real Estate Investing Course. Now I don’t invest in real estate but it opened my eyes to the world of marketing and how to be a business owner. I spent a lot of money on the course and while I never actually made one real estate deal, I did meet a ton of like minded folks who helped me along the way change my mental mindset from that of an employee to a business owner. This one course propelled me into other marketing coaching groups, I bought products on how to write direct response copy and how to become a direct response marketer. I turned my car into a rolling library of success and money making education as I had every CD known to man in my car or burned to my ipod. I joined local entrepreneur groups and paid for one-on-one coaching. It cracks me up how some folks have no problem dropping ten grand a year to get their bachelors degree or finish up their masters degree but will scoff at paying $250 for a course on how to build websites or how to write ads that sell.
2. Find a mentor : Success leave footprints. What do I mean by this? Well there are countless amounts of people who have gone out on their own and started their own business from scratch. These people have already made the mistakes and figured out what it takes to run a strong business. So why not find some of these folks and either offer to take them out to lunch or offer to pay them for mentoring. I actually have three different mentors I’ve paid at some point to learn different skills from. Each mentor had their strengths and I leveraged each one of them to cut my learning curve tremendously. And here’s the thing, you can always make money but you can never get the hours back in a day. So learning in a few weeks or months what it’s taken these folks years to learn is huge!
3. Take Action : It’s not enough to invest in yourself through education and mentors and then sit on your duff. You have to take what you are learning and apply it to your business. Look, you don’t have to jump right in, you can start small and start applying what you’ve learned and see what happens. The late great copywriter Gary Halbert said, “It’s motion not meditation that gets things done.” This statement is so true…the trick is to start doing something and you’ll be surprised how fast things start taking off for you!
So there you have it, the three success principles I beleive has allowed me to leave my Full-time job to becoming my own boss.
Look, a lot of people say they would love to run their own business but how many people actually do it? We’ll I’m one and these are the principles I used to reach my goals.
Now make no mistake about it, my job is not nearly done and now is when all the hard work takes place…getting up and running!
I also realize that not everyone reading this wants to start their own business but I believe these principles can help anyone who wants to improve their career, their marriage or their life!
Now get busy, Bill Parlaman
