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By: Want the power to grow your company. Here it is! « The Business Blog @ Capital Active

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:13:31 +0000

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By: Jeremy W

Jeremy W — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:33:29 +0000

Jason, thanks for the insight. I am learning a lot from all of you guys. I can definately see what you mean about people being fear motivated just by looking at those around me here in my cubicle.

By: Are you money motivated? « The Business Blog @ Capital Active

Are you money motivated? « The Business Blog @ Capital Active — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:25:17 +0000

[...] have been posted on other blogs. Over the last few days I have written a series of comments on another blog and I would like to share them here. I had a very successful computer business. I was working 80 [...]

By: Alina Phoenix

Alina Phoenix — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:23:32 +0000

wow … excellent article. I never really realized until you pointed it out. But now I find myself needing some employees and systems. O.o E-Myth you say? Gotta get it. Thanks~

Namaste,
Lina

By: Jason Dragon

Jason Dragon — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:14:31 +0000

Jeremy, good questions.

First when I mean money motivated, I mean people that want to earn big money. Most people are fear motivated, they have the fear of not paying the bills, and not having food, and not having a safe place to live BUT once those fears are gone (Once they earn enough money so that they don’t have to worry) very few people that I know will continue to do what it takes to make higher levels of income. This is why 80%+ of people have crappy jobs and are not really striving to do better.

You second question was, what would I do different. Well FIRST off I would have got out of the computer industry back in 2003 or so when it became super price competitive, and there was no margin or market. I also would not have borrowed the 300k+ that I did to keep my company alive, I would have just let it die and go start something else. But if I had to keep the company I would have had more time mentoring the employees. I would have spent more time figuring out who was good and who was bad and got rid of the bad people. I would have been much quicker to fire people, and slower to hire them.

I also would have spent a lot less money on print advertising and spent a lot more money paying people to make phone calls and go door to door. Our return for that was at least 20 times higher than any print ad we ever did.

Jason Dragon
http://blog.capitalactive.com/

By: AJC

AJC — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:40:01 +0000

@ Jeremy – “how to see a plan disguised as a series of random posts” Actually, NWiQ will be an integral – and shared – part of the journey for the 7 Millionaires … In Training! http://7m7y.com maybe also the final 15 (to be announce live tonight http://ajcfeed.com )

By: Jeremy W

Jeremy W — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:34:13 +0000

Ok AJC, you've convinced me. I'm going to follow along. I've set up a NwIQ account. One thing, I can't seem to find a link anywhere on your 7M7Y.com site for other people's NwIQ, are you going to make that available?

By: AJC

AJC — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:47:15 +0000

@ Di – thinking no differently to the masses produces indifferent results. Viva la differance!

By: Di Eats the Elephant

Di Eats the Elephant — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:04:42 +0000

I’ve always believed (in a working employee way) that you should never be indispensable – if you can’t be fired, you can’t be promoted!

This post goes well to reinforcing this as I look into my future where I work for myself (self-employed? perhaps…owning a business? ideal)

Thanks for adding the next step of definitions – setting up the systems that work.

Jason, thanks for adding that there is a critical risk when we think that others will think like us. I’ve also had that blindspot to others in my life, and had not considered it to be a problem at work, yet I am working around a unique set of individuals today – pretty much we’re all eccentric – and it’s easy to forget that there’s a whole other group that does not think like we do as regards work ethics.

By: AJC

AJC — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:51:15 +0000

@ Jeremy – interesting questions for Jason … if he doesn’t reply here, you might be able to catch him at his own blog: http://capitalactive.wordpress.com/

I guess Jason’s comment is true for me … but, I stopped working to free up to time do, well, pretty mucb what I’m doing now with this blog.

Do you know exactly why you need $1 Mill. by 30?

Helping my 7 Millionaires … In Training! understand their how “much / when / why goal” on my sister-site http://7m7y.com is the first step on their journey to early financial freedom … even if you’re not in the Final 15 you can follow along!