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| The Small Business Revolution Has an Impassioned Leader Every revolution has a leader...to awaken the spirit, to champion the cause, to lead the charge! Business visionary, entrepreneur, best-selling author and Chairman of E-Myth Worldwide, Michael Gerber has been leading a Small Business Revolution before anyone knew there was one! He called it The E-Myth Revolution, and over the past two decades, he has indelibly touched hundreds of thousands of small business owners throughout the world with his brilliantly insightful, original E-Myth message. Michael Gerber's E-Myth Point of View embodies his commitment to personal growth and the realization that a business owner's purpose in life can be actualized through his or her business. Michael Gerber's efforts, his message--his very life's work has been to empower business owners to gain more freedom, more money, more time, and more life. |
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There are so many opportunities how can one choose?
- For more on Michael Gerber visit www.inthedreamingroom.com
Every time I lead a Dreaming Room® this question comes up. It’s usually asked by someone who has difficulty making up his or her mind. Who is so overwhelmed by the flood of thoughts that run through the mind as to be completely incapacitated by the sheer weight of them? At least that’s how it feels when you’re inside that person, as we all are from time to time. I call it the Reluctant Entrepreneur. I talk about that syndrome a lot in my latest book, E-Myth Mastery: The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World Class Business.
But, as you’ll read in E-Myth Mastery, the overwhelm has nothing really to do with the bewildering number of opportunities; it has more to do with the terror of actually pursuing the one you’ve already got – the business you’ve already created which is just idling there at the curb waiting to grow.
It came to me like a shock. Why is it that over the past 30 years having worked with tens of thousands of small business owners to help them transform their dysfunctional business into an incredibly functional one, they rarely go on to grow it beyond the very first one?
Why is it that after successfully prototyping their business, what I call building their franchise prototype, very, very few of them actually follow through and franchise it, or open up 3 or 5 or 10 more?
They could, you know.
They have already done the hard work; the work of building their turnkey business operating system.
So why don’t they grow?
As I said, it came to me as a shock when I looked at that question in the light of the work I’m doing now. The work I call The Dreaming Room®. The reason they don’t grow the way they could is because there is no vision of growth. Let me say that again: there is no vision of growth.
And that’s why I call them reluctant entrepreneurs. Because they are reluctant to take what they perceive as the risk of losing what they’ve worked so hard to build to go where they’ve never gone before. To scale their business as it is ready to do, despite the fact that it is simply waiting to be done.
And that, dear friends, is why I am writing you this manifesto.
To let you know, time and time and time again, that the reason for building your single operating business into what Ray Kroc called, “The most successful small business in the world,” is to grow it.
Why else would you do all that work?
Why else would you go to work ON it as opposed to just IN it if you weren’t getting ready to reap all of the exciting benefits of scaling your business, of letting it grow?
Don’t you realize that if you can build one to work, you can much more easily build 10 to do the very same thing? And, in the process, expand your reach exponentially while getting prepared for the fulfillment of every entrepreneur’s dream…the realization of your exit strategy?
And that’s going to be my mantra from this day forward. Did you get your prototype done? Are you ready to scale it? Are you ready to reap the benefits of working ON it so you no longer have to work IN it, so you can begin to pay yourself back for everything you’ve invested in it…and more?
Have you?
Are you ready to?
Do you need my help?
I’m ready whenever you are.
Just let me know.
Here I am at the end of the first night of my Leed’s Dreaming Room®, getting excited all over again.
Aint life grand? Could it be any better than this?!
There are so many opportunities how can one choose - To learn more about this author, visit Michael Gerber's Website.
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David BarrDavid Barr is the President of Venture Opportunities, Inc. David has been a professional business broker/intermediary since 1980 focusing on General Business Brokerage and Mergers and Acquisitions representing client transaction value from $400,000 to $20,000,000. Mr. Barr has handled the sale of over four hundred and fifty companies. David earned a university degree from the State University of New York majoring in economics and business. David holds the Mergers and Acquisition Master Intermediary and the Certified Business Intermediary designations from the International Business Brokers Association. He is also a Senior Business Analyst and a Texas licensed Real Estate Agent. For more information about David and Venture Opportunities, visit www.bizdealmaker.com. - Visit David Barr's Website |
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John PowerJohn Power, founder of Biltmore Franchise Consulting, has extensive experience developing and marketing franchises and business opportunities. He has been in and around franchising for over twenty years. From 1980 through 1990 he conceptualized, organized, and developed the American Video Association. He grew AVA to 2,000 national members, before selling the company it 1990. It was later merged into another home video marketing company. From 2000 to 2005 he worked as a contract marketing and human resources consultant to several local and national companies. In 2005 Mr. Power began working as a franchise development consultant on a full-time basis. Since that time he has helped more than three dozen companies initiate and develop their franchising program. He notes that there are many companies interested in developing a franchise program, and who need his specialized assistance. Mr. Power is a “hands-on” franchise consultant. He said, “I am the ‘nuts and bolts’ person who tends to the details for my clients.” Mr. Power holds a B.S. degree with a major in Marketing. See: www.biltmorefranchise.com You may contact Mr. Power at: jpower@biltmorefranchise.co - Visit John Power's Website |
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