Author: Cynthia

How to Make Money from Home

How to Make Money Working from Home in Comfort

Women are brilliant beings.  They possess the uncanny ability to start, grow and do amazing things and making money is no different.  

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Entrepreneurs are those brilliant people who have the awesome ability to make money through and by their thought process.  Entrepreneurs truly have the midas touch.  And while money is not always at the helm or the reason for starting a business, it does come into the scope of being a business owner.  Let’s face it and let’s be honest, making money is primarily the reason most people start their own businesses amongst other things.

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I believe that if you start a business doing something that you absolutely love you will enjoy phenomenal success in every aspect of your business which can be from helping people solve problems or selling a product to make people’s lives a whole lot easier.  When your heart and mind are focused on being a help to people because it is what you love to do, then you can best believe that the money will come.

Why You Should Work for You!

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There are many lucrative businesses in the work-from-home arena moms and women have started simply because more and more women want to work for themselves.  They want to have and enjoy the freedom that comes from being an entrepreneur along with the flexibility it gives them.  Women want to be in control of their own money.  They want to make their own money without ever having to worry about their salaries being capped because someone tells them that their skill set is only worth $30,000 a year.  Let’s see now, $30,000 a year is the minimal salary that you can receive for getting out of your bed 5 days a week, driving to work, working 8 hours a day, limited to using your gifts, talents, skills and abilities, being somewhat stressed if not a whole lot stressed, dealing with office politics, getting an annual raise of 1% year after year.  I can understand and this may make sense for a whole lot of people who may not know anything any differently, but for the women entrepreneur who has been equipped with a brilliant mind, beyond gifted, super talented, highly skilled and clothed with great abilities, this is not the answer to living a rich lifestyle and not just rich in terms of money being rich in being fulfilled overall.  For the amazing entrepreneur this is not an option because entrepreneurs have the magnificence to build an awesome and highly successful and profitable work from business.  Entrepreneurs possess the knowledge, wisdom, understanding and patience that comes  from the fire that burns deep within that cannot be extinguished ever.

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I am reminded of this whenever I think of WordPress.  My goodness, WordPress is probably one of the most complicated website platforms I have ever tried to use or so I thought until I was able to master this brilliant work of art.  It was like a light popped on and I was hooked.  I had tried building several of my websites using WordPress.  I designed my own headers/banners and buttons for my website which was easy to install, but when it came to static pages, plugins, settings, menus and widgets, forget it, I was lost.  I would then shut down my websites and head on over to Weebly which was super easy to use, but I wasn’t crazy about their templates so here I go again, right back to WordPress.  WordPress wouldn’t let me rest.  I’d go back again and again until one day, it all just came to me.  It all flowed and I’ve been using WordPress every since.  I had this passion, this burning inside that wouldn’t let me rest and I’m glad because I enjoy being challenged and learning new and great things.  WordPress is a lesson all by itself.  If you ever decide to try it you will see what I mean and if you’re already using WordPress then you  may know what I’m talking about.

How to Make Money from Home Typing and Transcribing

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If you’re on an entrepreneurial journey and you’re searching for that terrific work from home business that you can work anytime you want and enjoy all the freedom and have all the flexibility you want and/or need, then a secretarial or typing business may be the perfect work from home business for you.  If you can type 30 wpm (words per minute) and you enjoy typing or perhaps transcribing this is a fantastic way to make a lot of money working from home.  

When I first started working from home, I started my own typing and transcribing business.  I was typing dissertations for grad students in addition to resumes, cover letters, follow-up letters and more.  I also incorporated transcribing into my business, medical transcription to be exact.  I typed for gastroenterology and hematology/oncology departments at the local hospital near my home.  I transcribed medical reports, pre-op notes and more. I also had a certificate in medical terminology which helped in transcribing medical reports because you must know how to spell all those medical terms that doctors use.  I found it to be really easy for me because I enjoyed it, for a short while at least.  If you can type and you have a computer, a fax, typing paper and a telephone you could open the doors to your own typing business right this very moment.  All you need is a flier, run it off and make about 100 copies and post them on college campuses, libraries, in your neighborhood or anywhere people frequent on a daily basis. You can easily charge $25-40 an hour for typing and transcribing.  I have a book of marketing tools that have proved to be a great success for my typing business.  You can get it here if you decide you want to start your own typing business.   

Now Is the Time

If you want to work from home and make a lot of money doing something you enjoy doing, then it’s time to think about making your goals and dreams come to full circle so that you can start using your God-given gifts in a way that pleases God and fulfills your life. So why not give yourself the gift of entrepreneurial ship.  You have it so why not use it.  It will change your life.  Now is the time.

Written by Cynthia G. Boyer 

How to Stay Focused in Business

Focus, Focus, Focus

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For most entrepreneurs, coming up with a brilliant, executable idea is easy. The hard part is staying focused on it long enough to actually see it through to fruition.

 

Sound familiar?

That’s why the power of focus is so crucial. I like the definition I heard podcaster John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur on Fire give, using every letter of the word focus: “Follow one course until success.”

So what’s one thing that you want to really accomplish this year? I challenge you to focus on it until you complete it. Don’t be distracted by the many shiny objects that will inevitably pop up throughout your journey to finish what you’ve started.

Here are four principles to help keep you on track:

Related: 5 Ways to Sustain a Long-Term Career Focus

Staying Focused on Your Business

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1. Focus on your priorities.

Do first things first. Map out your day the night before. If you don’t have a clear goal for your day, you will pilfer your time and not accomplish what you set out to do.

Motivational speaker Zig Ziglar said, “Lack of direction, not lack of time is the problem. We all have 24 hours in a day.” Focus on the benefits of sticking to your set course.

2. Focus on the end results.

If the one goal you set will take the entire year to accomplish, don’t get tired half way and give up. Keep reminding yourself why achieving this goal will make your life better.

“Whatever your goal for this year, you can get there — if you’re willing to do the work,” Oprah wrote in her magazine.

3. Focus on the present.

Zig Ziglar also said, “Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand new day and it’s yours.”

Even if you get off track from pursuing your goal, remember that tomorrow is another day.

Don’t get stuck on the trivial or mundane — or yesterday. Jump back on the horse and give things your best shot the next day. Focus on the positive things that you can do in the future, not on what you failed to do yesterday.

4. Focus on strengths.

Everyone has some things he or she is good as well as things he or she is not so good at. Make sure the goal you set is something you can realistically accomplish and preferably something you are good at or can become proficient in over time.

Mozart, Beethoven and other musical geniuses developed their skills through practice and sheer dedication to their craft.

If you want to achieve similar results, you must have laserlike focus.

Written by Meiko Patton

 

How to Make $1,000 Or More Per Hour

Want to Make $1,000 per hour?

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No, you don’t need to go to law school or become a doctor. In fact, you can start making $1,000 an hour or more right now.

This is not an article about some new multilevel marketing company or passive income stream. You can achieve these results in your current business, knowing what you already know.

And best of all — you can make this money consistently.

I recently listened to 80/20 Sales and Marketing by Perry Marshall on Audible. Like these books I mentioned a few weeks ago, 80/20 Sales and Marketing is changing how I think about business. (Whether you are in sales and marketing or not, pick up a copy of this book today. Trust me.)

In the book, Marshall explains how in a typical day, a person does numerous tasks that are worth just a few dollars per hour, and a few small tasks that are worth much more.

How much is an hour worth?

Nearly every task on earth could be outsourced, for a price. If you want to get ridiculous, you could even hire a butler to pick you out of bed, carry you to the bathroom, and brush your teeth for you. While I don’t recommend this, let’s expand on this topic.

If you are mowing your lawn for one hour, how much are you earning during that time? You could have paid the neighbor’s kid $10 for that work, but instead you did it yourself. You earned $10 for that work.

Look at you, big-shot entrepreneur! You should be proud.

Now, maybe you already hire a kid to mow your lawn. But what about checking your email? Your Facebook? How much is that worth?

You could probably get that done for around $10 an hour also. Maybe less.

OK, Brandon, I get it: outsource more. But how does that help me earn $1,000 an hour?

Hold your horses, we’re getting there.

Just as there are certain tasks during the day that are worth very little, there are other tasks that are worth more. For example, hiring new employees.

If you are the CEO of your company, you are likely still hiring your own employees, sifting resumes, doing interviews and making offers. But how much is that task worth, per hour? What would a competent person charge to do such a task for you: $30 to $50 an hour?

Let’s be excessive and pretend we all live in San Francisco. A good HR person might cost you $100 per hour. So by doing all the work of hiring new employees, you are making a whopping $100 an hour. Look at you, hot shot! Your parents would be proud.

But I’m not done yet.

What about the tasks during your day that are worth much more. I’m talking about those special moments when you make a huge sale, land a big client, install a new product or reach 50,000 people on a podcast.

Those moments are worth much more. Those moments, even if they last only a few minutes, can be worth $1,000 an hour or more.

Related: The One Productivity Hack Every Entrepreneur Needs to Incorporate

Consistency is key.
Let me ask you a few questions:

How much time today did you spend doing tasks that were $10-per-hour tasks?
How much time did you spend doing $100-per-hour tasks?
How much time did you spend doing $1,000-per-hour tasks?
My guess is you probably spent a lot more time doing $10-an-hour work than $1,000-an-hour work. In fact, I’d guess you are spending 99 percent of your time doing the former and just 1 percent doing the latter.

But what if you could spend more time doing $1,000-per-hour work and less time doing $10-per-hour work?

You can!

I know what the naysayers are thinking right now: “In order to have those $1,000-per-hour moments, you have to spend a lot of time on the $10-per-hour administration tasks.”

True.

However, do you need to spend that time on the $10-per-hour tasks? Can you train someone else to do all those tasks for you? Why can’t they do the windup and you throw the pitch?

Everyone can earn $1,000 an hour. Even a fast food employee has tasks that, if only for a few seconds, are worth $1,000 per hour. The key is in consistency, and increasing those moments in your day.

The more time you can spend doing $1,000-per-hour tasks the more money you, and your business, will make. It truly is as simple as that.

If you currently spend 30 minutes per day doing $1,000-per-hour tasks and the other seven and a half hours doing $10-per-hour tasks, you are bringing in $575 per day for your business. But if you spent two hours per day doing $1,000-per-hour tasks, and six hours doing $10-per-hour tasks, you are bringing in $2,060 per day for your business.

Do you see the power in this?

The best part isn’t even the money, it’s time. What would be better? Spending 12 hours per day doing $10-per-hour work or one hour per day doing $1,000-per-hour work?

Exactly.

Take a minute right now and write down what tasks in your business are worth $1,000 per hour? What tasks are worth $100 per hour? What tasks are worth $10 per hour?

Start outsourcing the $10-per-hour jobs out today, followed by the $100-per-hour jobs.

Watch how fast your business explodes.

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Brandon Turner
Real Estate Investor and VP of Growth at BiggerPockets.com
Brandon Turner is a real estate entrepreneur and the VP of Growth at BiggerPockets.com, one of the web’s largest real estate investing community. He is also the author of The Book on Investing in Real Estate with No (and Low) Money Down and several other books. Buying his first home at the age of 21, Turner quickly grew his real estate portfolio to over 40 units using a variety of creative finance methods. He and his wife Heather live in Grays Harbor, Wash. 

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/245311

 

Never Give Up

Never Give Up and Never Stop Doing What You Are Doing!

When I started Cyndi’s Light Work Designs my goal was to have my own line of t-shirts and other various items that people love to buy and use; coffee mugs, tote bags, key chains and more.  

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Pressing For the Mark

Having done what I thought was all my homework on how to make this happen, I found it to be extremely difficult because I was traveling all alone on a road leading nowhere or so I thought.  I was ready to give up more times than I care to admit.  I tried every avenue, every platform searching for that star that had my name on it.  I deeply became discouraged and was ready to give up on my dreams and on ever accomplishing all my goals.  I didn’t realize how easy it was.  I made it much more difficult than it had to be which was why I was ready to give up.  My husband kept saying you have to keep plugging away; somebody, the right person is going to see your designs.  I believed it and continued pressing on.

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I, Woman, Aspire

With each new day I was making more and more designs; Scriptures on the Table, Praise Him, Personalized Keepsakes and more.  I was amazed at the unique beauty in each one of my one-of-a-kind masterpieces even if I say so myself.  My girlfriend told me that I had enough designs and that I needed to take the next step.  For some reason I could not stop designing.  Every time the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart I was in my studio creating more and more masterpieces.  This, for me, was the peace in my day.  Designing was the hope that would inspire me.  It was the joy that encompassed every inch of Cynthia G. Boyer.  I love to design.  It is, I do believe, one of my callings.  Every week I was coming up with a new topic for my designs.  I was making things that I thought would bless women, children and people in general.

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In addition to designing a new collection of light work designs every week, I was writing; writing to accompany my new portfolio of designs.  To give them more of a purpose; to give them life and to give them meaning.  God has truly and deeply blessed me to build this business and I was determined to help it to bless people, to serve a need and I finally realized that this could only happen if I did things differently, but more importantly I had to shift my mind to thinking and speaking greatness over my business.  I didn’t have to stop doing what I was doing.  I didn’t have to give up.  I just needed to think positive thoughts and be grateful to God for giving me this amazing business in the first place.  Just because I thought people weren’t seeing my designs didn’t mean that I had to give up.  No, I had to shift my mind into thinking positive thoughts about my business.  

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Making Plans To Prosper My Business

I also knew I had to come with a plan to grow my business and growing my business meant marketing my business which would in turn help me to explode my business. After many years of researching and researching it was time to stop messing around and just do it!

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Starting Over

I revamped my entire design business.  I kept my name, Cyndi’s Light Work Designs, because I love the name and all my customers liked it as well as did my family.  My name was out there in the world wide web.  My name had been established and I didn’t think it was necessary to change it.  I just needed to grow my business.  I needed to  be more serious than I had ever been before.  If I was going to be an entrepreneur I knew I had to get moving and stop the feeling of wanting to throw in the towel.  

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Writing, Speaking and Believing in Positive Affirmations

Now, there were days when I still felt a little discouraged, but when I shifted my mind once and for all, which wasn’t an easy process, everything changed.  I decided to write my own affirmations.  I knew that if I was going to soar in my design business I had to encourage myself first and then speak encouragement over every goal, over every aspiration, over every desire, over every dream, over every endeavor along with having mountain moving faith in God in addition to trusting and believing that things in my business would change.  The very second that I began speaking affirmations into my life every day, can you believe that I was getting design work the same day that I shifted my mind.  I was elated and could not believe that it was just that simple to prosper my business.  Cyndi’s Light Work Designs is a real and breathing business that is alive and well because I never gave up.  I never stopped doing what I love to do.

Be Encouraged!

I encourage you to never give up and to keep doing what you’re doing even if you don’t see any progress, please keep pressing on and moving forward in your business especially if you are operating from the gifts you’ve been given.

Cynthia G. Boyer 

5 Ways to Aggressively Grow Your Newsletter Subscribers

Email is one of the most effective forms of digital marketing and an essential component of every campaign. A great way to build your email list is to offer a newsletter.

Simply placing an opt-in form on your website isn’t enough to build a large subscriber list. Sure, you will get the occasional subscriber here and there, but if you want to aggressively grow your list consider these five options.

1. Include an opt-in form after each blog post.

By placing an opt-in form at the bottom of each blog post you are catching the visitor at the perfect time — right after they finish reading your content. If your content provided value the visitor will be more willing to hand over his or her email address to continue engaging with your brand.

If your website is built using WordPress there are several free plugins that allow you to create several customizable styles of opt-in forms and integrate them with your email marketing service. Optin Forms and WP Conversion Boxes are two great options.

2. Promote your newsletter via social media.

Every business should have a social media presence, and this is a great audience to attract newsletter subscribers from. Is every single follower and fan that is socially connected to your business already subscribed to your newsletter? That is highly unlikely, making this an easy way to add new subscribers.

If someone has “Liked” your Facebook page or is following your Twitter account then there is already an established relationship. They are obviously interested in your brand, so encourage them to join your newsletter by sending out frequent posts welcoming them to subscribe by highlighting the benefits of your newsletter.

3. Run contests and giveaways.

What is one thing the majority of people can’t pass up? Something for free. It doesn’t even have to be some outrageous giveaway in terms of monetary value. In fact, your own products or service is often the best giveaway.

Create a contest and offer a free trial, free service or free product — and to be entered into the contest require that the individual subscribes to your newsletter and shares the contest on Twitter or Facebook. So you gain a new subscriber and you also get additional exposure across social media, which can potentially attract more subscribers and more social promoters. The right contest can become viral quickly, delivering a huge influx of email subscribers.

4. Use an exit-intent pop-up offer.

There will be some people that just don’t complete your website forms, even if they are placed right after your blog content. While aggressive, an exit pop up can help convert traffic into blog subscribers. Rather than using a pop up that fires when the page loads or after a specific period of time, opt for one that uses exit intent technology, only displaying when it detects that the visitor is about to leave.

Bounce Exchange, the pioneer of converting abandoning traffic, is behind some of the most aggressive and successful exit conversion campaigns. In fact, I have witnessed enough successful campaigns run by Bounce Exchange that my company, Market Domination Media, has engaged it to create and manage campaigns designed to increase our newsletter subscribers.

5. Create Twitter lead generation cards.

This is one of my favorite ways to build highly targeted email lists for our clients. Twitter lead generation cards allow you to create an offer and collect email addresses in a single click. What’s the best part? You know the email address is valid because Twitter passes the email address that the user has confirmed and uses in his or her profile.

Twitter ads have incredible targeting options, which allows you to only present your newsletter offer to prospects that match your target criteria. You have to pay for each email collected, but for businesses that really want to grow their subscriber list fast this is a great option.

 

Why You Need to Focus on Focus in Your Marketing Plan

Focus — it’s something I’ve tried to instill into my kids through the years. It’s something I teach in my class at New York University. It’s something I try to place into every client assignment.

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Focus is a key tenant of any marketing plan.

Without focus, a marketing plan is all over the map. It lacks a mission and a purpose. It lacks a central objective that guides its every move. It lacks clarity and a specific call to action for the team.

Without focus, you don’t have an actionable marketing plan.

Truth be told, focus isn’t something you suddenly think about when you’ve completed your plan. It would be a lot of work to go back in and add focus at the end of your planning.

But hopefully what you’ve been noticing as this series has progressed is that the process we’ve been following to build your marketing plan has had focus built right into it. If you’ve been following it step by step, then your plan couldn’t be anything but focused.

It all started with a clearly defined objective to kick off the process and a single-minded question: What do you want to accomplish this year?

The plan got rooted in some fundamentals of the brand and then we kicked into gear with some data about the target customer, the competition and your own past marketing initiatives.

The plan then followed a somewhat regimented approach to map out strategies and tactics as well as a measurement protocol to make sure that you were accomplishing your objective along the way.

There was focus the entire time!

But don’t take focus for granted. We could have easily strayed and added in a litany of tactics that could have put us in a spin. We could have decided on strategies that wouldn’t really accomplish the objectives. We could have mishandled the budget and tried to do too much with too little.

We could have easily lost our focus. It happens every single day.

Which is why I have to say that while focus is built into the process, it’s not automatic. Focus is not an innate talent for most of us. We have to learn it along the way.

As human beings, we are enticed by shiny objects, and as marketers we are constantly bombarded with new ways of doing things. We are constantly sidelined with new problems that have to be fixed and fires that have to be put out.

It’s so easy to lose focus at any given moment in the process.

So as you write your marketing plan and begin to execute it throughout the year, keep your focus sharp. Challenge yourself to bring even more clarity to your tactics and even more acuity to your marketing spending.

It’ll not only make for a closer adherence to your plan and to your goals. It’ll also set you up for even greater success next year.

Good luck to you!

JIM JOSEPH
CONTRIBUTOR
Agency President, Author, Blogger, Professor

Something Different

As an entrepreneur, I realize that those who have started their own entrepreneurial journey, are looking for success spelled money.  Money is their number one reason for starting a business and it is their main priority for growing a business.  I just want to say that if you’re doing what you love to do and you are sincerely passionate about your work, then the money will come.  

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Looking around on Facebook I see that making money is all that I read about.  Our entrepreneurial journey should be about doing what we love, using the gifts that God has presented to us.  With all the amazing tools that God has equipped His children with, we should be focusing on using those tools to build thriving businesses that will honor Him.  

How do you spend your day?  Do you start out in prayer of thanksgiving and then asking God for guidance and direction in and for your business?  Are you on every social media platform promoting your business?  What are your main goals?  Is it that you just want to make enough money to care for your family; to make ends meet or do you sincerely want to help others with a need they may have?   Are your entrepreneurial goals in line with God’s plan for your business?  

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I know for me working from home as a graphic designer, I have a deep love for graphic design.  It is my passion.  It is everything I dream about in terms of being a Christian women business owner.  It is everything I dream about in terms of working from home.  It is everything I dream about when I think about all the masterpieces that I have created when I hear people say, “Your designs are spectacular”!  Behind every creation, the various hues, the vibrant purples, blues and reds, there is love.  Love for God and then for my business.  There is thanksgiving.  I thank God for the amazing skill set that He has bestowed upon me and the ability to use the tools found in the software program that allows me to create such beauty that is truly timeless and traditional.  Behind every design there is hope.  Hope that my business will go to an even a higher level than it has ever gone before.  I am hoping to continue building my design business, Cyndi’s Light Work Designs, to help others learn to do what I do so that they too, can enjoy a thriving home based business that is both fulfilling and successful. 

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I hope you are enjoying your entrepreneurial journey with each new glorious day that the Lord creates and with you in it, life just doesn’t get any sweeter.  So come and join me and let’s take our entrepreneurial journey together without fear, without doubt, without worry and just be who we are meant to be; Great Christian women entrepreneurs who look out into the universe and recognize that our prosperity is abundant because we have something special indwelling on the inside of us; God’s Holy Spirit.  Business just doesn’t get any better than this.  

Written by 

Cynthia G. Boyer

Dare to be different and watch your business soar!

 

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Higher Standard

High Standard of Business Which Leads to An Amazing Life

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I remember watching the Temptations movie and the one thing that spoke to my heart was when Paul said to Berry Gordy, founder and owner of Motown Records, “What’s wrong with being the biggest group in America and Berry said, “You’re the biggest black group in America, but I want you to be the biggest group in the world period!”  Berry had a great plan for the Tall, Talented and Tan group and when he set his amazing plan in motion, the Temptations soared to newer and greater heights.  

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I had what I think was a very important conversation with my son, B.J. this morning as I was driving him to school. My B.J. is a sophomore in college and is enjoying all the lessons he has been blessed to receive last year as well as this semester.

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My family and I have conversations often about being business owners and one of the things that my oldest son, Todd, always tells me is that in order to be highly successful in business you have to be a shrewd business owner. He tells me stories about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and how they built, ran/run their businesses. He says, “Mom, you cannot take any mess from people” because people will walk all over you.” While I do believe that there is some truth to this, it is not what I believe in or how I run my businesses.

Getting back to the conversation that I had in the car while driving B.J. to school. I told B.J. that if he were ever going to start his own business that it would be wise for him to set his standards at a much higher and superior level so that his business will soar and thrive in such a way that he will enjoy long lasting success for as long as he’s in business. Now, I’m not saying that people don’t have high standards when it comes to business. No, I’m not saying that at all, but what I mean by this is that just because everyone else runs their businesses the way most of corporate America runs business doesn’t mean that his business can’t be successful.

Starting a business should be exciting especially if you’re operating from your gifts, talents, great skills and remarkable abilities. Your business should be a welcome mat for your customers. Your brand should be comprised of greatness, kindness, consideration, wisdom, patience, knowledge, understanding, passion, brilliance and intelligence. Your brand should tell the world that you are an endless ocean of greatness; yes you are special and while you may think that “special” should not apply to your brand and business, I think being special can give you the advantage over your competition. I think that branding your business to be spectacular, brilliant, sensational and phenomenal by doing things your way, by being that special, creative, giving, understanding, patient, confident and spectacular boss can make your business a magnificent one. I believe this makes an enormous difference in every aspect of your business that pour over into your life. Being special means that a conversation about you and your services will endure for years to come and your customer base never stops growing. Branding should not just be the look, feel and the message of your logo, but it should be who you are and how you run your business.

As Christian women in business, I want you to take your God-given gifts and use them to always bring glory to His Holy name. Remember, your gifts are exclusive. God wrapped them and presented them to you in love. They are yours and yours alone which simply means that you can build a business from scratch, from the ground up, laying a foundation that will allow you to help change the world of business, standing firm and true to God, yourself and your employees, taking your journey to go new and higher heights, setting amazing standards at a level that is higher than the norm and where prosperity and abundance daily embraces your business.

Be blessed.

Written by Cynthia G. Boyer