The Power of Masterminds and Partnerships

We had the most kick ass Unstoppable “Freedom-Preneur” Mastermind in Bali October 14-19. I LOVE doing these live events. The internet has given me the life of my dreams, but nothing can replace the human connection.

That is why we have chosen to align ourselves with other people that share our values and our interests. This is not only in those that we invite to join us at event, but it also includes the people we chose to partner with.

If you didn’t know, we take huge pride in our team. We want to make sure that those we partner with are uphold our same values. This allows us to provide you with top quality service and training.

Here are some of the people that worked our last Mastermind event.

Kim Barrett

We have just partnered with Kim Barrett from Your Social Voice marketing agency. If you have never met Kim Barrett you life and your business is missing out. He’s genuinely one of the kindest and most knowledgeable person I know when it comes to Facebook marketing. His company Your Social Voice runs marketing for Unstoppable Family, Gary Vaynerchuk, Reece Witherspoon …he’s kind of a big deal.

Kim was able to attend our Mastermind here in Bali to teach our attendees about social media. He also provides many done-for-you services with his company. Brian and I are so excited about this partnership. When join businesses happen, it allows both of our businesses to scale.

Mirza Nurman

Mirza Nurman is pure quality. He spent 10 hours shooting, if you are in bali and need a professional photographer he’s your guy! All of my high quality photos are from Mirza.

Samantha Essenhigh-Nicholson

Samantha Essenhigh-Nicholson CEO of Essenhigh Farrington Law Limited. One of the classiest ladies I’ve met. Lives in London and Spain. Her firm sets up the legal structures for all forms of businesses including freedompreneur’s.

Luke Lucky

Luke Lucky top stylist that turned our humid bali hair and faces into runway ready. You are one of a kind.

Dan Usher

If you have watched any of our films, you are watching Dan Ushers work. He is one of the most talented filmmakers I’ve ever seen.

Phil Wilson

PhiL Wilson can not only make you smile but get thousands of followers on Instagram. He taught our VIP’s strategies they can use now to build their following and leverage Instagram for business.

Victoria Murphy

I cannot say how grateful I am that Victoria Murphy came into our life! She is a freedompreneur and part of the backbone of making our events run so smoothly. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Not only did we have those amazing people helping us out, but we also had a great group of Freedom-Preneurs join us. In attendance was:

Starrwyn Tonkin

Starrwyn Tonkin mum of Barefoot Six has been a FreedomPreneur for over 8 years teaching and inspiring other family’s how to live free.

Roos Melchers

Roos Melchers founder of Homemade Home. She is committed to helping other families to create a home that they can feel comfortable in. What is so inspiring about her is the way she incorporates these tips and ideas into traveling. She has an uncanny ability to make herself at home wherever she goes.

Wayne McMurtrie

Wayne McMurtrie founder of The-Rogue-Adventurer inspires people through his love and dedication for running 100+ mile races, hang gliding and freedom-preneuring while he travels the world.

Mel Frye

Mel Frye is a creator by nature. She is passionate about spreading her message with others. She defines herself as a Wild Woman that dances with the tides of the moon. I say that is absolutely true.

Catheryn Wright

Catheryn Wright the founder of the Wright Property Group turns visions into victories for her clients. She’s a no B.S. Agent and her clients love her style!

Tom Moester

Tom Moester and Inge Hart Parents  of the Dutch Nomad Family believes in family values and building a legacy for his family. His family relocated to bali from the Netherlands to live a balanced life and inspire others to do the same. They own a beautiful villaVilla Bloom Bali – Lovina and serve organic, wholesome foods to provide the ultimate balanced experience.

Vladka Kadlec

Vladka Kadlec CEO of Find It. Hit It. Rock It has an incredible sense of know how and zest for life. This girl is a quiet powerhouse.

We Focus On Developing Your Brand

Attending Mastermind events are powerful for growing your business. When you get together with other like minded people, the energy that is created amongst you is contagious.

We have been hosting these events for years, because we see the huge value that comes from them.

Here’s what we focus on:

• Deliverables
• Authority Website or Blog
• High Converting Sales Funnels
• Funnel Hacking Training, Email Marketing
• Professional Marketing Video’s
• Photo shoot
• Fame Banners
• Developing Your Brand

During this 5 night, 6 day branding and business building journey, we weave in culture and mindset training. A healthy, open mind breeds creativity and success.

Our events are different, because we make it our mission to walk along side you and help you develop your brand. We want to give you actionable things that you can do from the moment you arrive to well after you leave.

Bali Mastermind Incorporates Culture

As part of incorporating culture into our Unstoppable Masterminds, we watch Balinese dancers on the first night. They tell beautiful stories through their interpretive dancing.

The second night we were together, we had a bonfire at the beach. We invited Shervin Boolarian to do a sound healing sessions with use. He took us through a journey of mindset and healing through sound and vibrations. This is the 2nd time we have invited Shervin to join our tribe. He is a true giver of peace and solidarity.

On the fourth night, we went to the Uluwatu temple to enjoy the sunset off the cliff. We ended the day with a Kecak Ceremony.

Join Us At The 2017 Events

The next Masterminds in first half of 2017 will be: 

Whister, B.C. Canada on January 12th-16th

Bali, Indonesia April 6-11th

These private Exclusive events are limited to 18 VIP’s. You are welcome to sign up for the event below and we will get back to you about your application.

From this event, you will walk away with a full branding photo shoot, professional branded video for marketing, a high converting sales funnels, website/blogs and all the branded graphics you need to be an authority in your niche.

Be ready to learn about:

• Mindset

• Branding

• Funnel Building

• Email Marketing

• Facebook Marketing

• Instagram Marketing

If you are serious about attending our next event, apply below! Read More..

Skills Are Cheap Passion is Priceless

I want to get very real with you and share my life’s story. I am going to take you on the journey from the very beginning of my childhood on up to the point of where I am today. The reason I am sharing the raw and honest details of my life is so that you can understand that success is not determined by your past.

Behind every successful person out there is a story filled with devastation, determination, pivotal moments and raw emotions. No matter who you are, where you’ve been, what you’ve done, it is your passion. Skills are cheap, anyone can learn how to do something, but it is your passion that is simply priceless.

Devastating Things Happened in My Life

In my book, Skills Are Cheap, Passion is Priceless, I show you snippets of the devastation and tragedy that I dealt with as a child. I talk about my drug addict father, my amazing mother, my caring grandparents, and the dad that raised me.

Later on in the book, I share about my struggle with bulimia and self-esteem. For many years, I allowed the way I looked to dictate every choice I made.

I’m not the only one that had devastating things happen in my life. Brian shares about the death of his father and how that put him on the path he took in life. He talks about the way his dad lived in his final years, made a lasting impact on him.

I’ve Always Been Determined

For me, I always had to be the best. I would never allow myself to be less than the best. So I put a lot of pressure on myself. Many people fall into this rut. They either stay in the bottom because they feel as though they can never achieve, so they don’t try. Or they are at the very top, and you can never go any lower, you have to work super hard to stay at the top all of the time because anything less would be like losing.

My Pivotal Moment

You might have heard my story of how the pivotal moment I experienced in my corporate job. The day I decided that I would never put my children in daycare. From that moment on, I knew my why. I made a vow never to put my child in daycare, all I have to do is look into her eyes and my commitment to the WHY is stronger than ever. What is your WHY?

I Became an Online Marketer

Back when I started in online marketing, we didn’t have half of the resources that we have today. Social media wasn’t even a thing, blogs were just beginning, and people were just starting to tap into the power of internet sales.

I Googled how to work from home and found so many resources. It was then that I knew I had found the way to do what I set out to do. Although…I had a lot of learning to do.

Grab your copy of my book now- Skills Are Cheap Passion is Priceless.

Learning The Hard Way

As with anything that you put your focus to, good or bad, you start to see examples and signs of it everywhere. One call back list in particular caught my eye and I decided to leave my name and phone number on it to get more information.

I put in my email address and a woman called me to tell me about the business. She asked me why I wanted it, but she was a really poor prospector, I just wanted her to get to the point. There I was, my ego was so big that I didn’t even want to listen to her, I just wanted to bypass her and get to the information. When in reality I needed that woman so badly, I needed the movement that she made, I needed her energy, and that is exactly what people do in business, they want to skip over the important stuff, which is what I did.

If only I had known that mentors play such a huge role in success. It’s not enough to just read and learn. You need someone that is 4-5 steps ahead of you to help guide you.

Business Deals Gone Bad and Finding Mentors

Sure, Brian and I were super successful in our online ventures for a while. We were bringing in unbelievable amounts of money. But then…we lost it all. Since we hadn’t brought mentors into our lives, we made really poor business decisions.

The fallout from that choice wrecked us. We were hurt and struggling. This one interview with Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer radically changed our lives.

Here’s what they said-

No one can make you upset, depressed, hurt, anxious, or fearful without your consent. The worst things in life turn out to be the most important steps that you need to take, in order to get to the next place in your life. The highest place you can get to with this individual is to practice forgiveness, instead of revenge & anger”

My Mantra

Their words meant so much to me. From that day forward, I decided to change my mindset. I developed regained my confidence and developed a manta.

Every single day, I wake up with a mantra, and I talk to myself. I either look in the mirror, or I sit and say, “Rhonda, you are an incredible leader. You inspire people to do great things in their life. You show them that everything is possible. You help more families be free. You must show more families how to get to building a life that they love.” This is the essence of belief. When you have a mantra that you tell yourself, you are teaching your brain to believe in the life you want to create for yourself.

Remembering My Why Has Made Me Unstoppable

When I started my job and said I’ll never put my child in daycare, that I was going to live out this day, perfect day, every single day, that I was going to quit my job and replace my income, I wasn’t going back. There was no plan B. That was my vow and my commitment, and she, Hanalei, became my WHY. Everything I did fueled me to get me to that next step. Everything I did I did because she was my WHY and it was robust enough to keep me motivated and disciplined. I became Unstoppable!

When you wear the word unstoppable, you hold an armor that tells you that you can. It reminds you every day to be unstoppable. Being unstoppable needs a strong ‘WHY.’ Once you have worked out your WHY everything is possible.

If you want to hear more about Brian’s and my journey, snag a copy of my book, Skills Are Cheap, Passion is Priceless. I will take you through our life and share with you the practical tips you need to develop a successful business while you live out your perfect life. Read more

FREE Online Business Training Webinar

FREE Online Business Training Webinar

Are you sick and tired of grinding away at your 9-5 job?

FREE Online Business Training Webinar

If you want to learn exactly how you can leverage the internet to create a lifestyle by design join us live by registering above or below just click "GET STARTED NOW"

How to Stream Using YouTube Live and Hangouts On Air

How to Stream Using YouTube Live and Hangouts On Air

If you didn’t know, we have a Freedom-Preneur show every week so that we can share valuable information that you need to know. This past Wednesday, before we did our show, I took this video explaining to you how we get set up. I will show you how to stream using YouTube Live and Hangouts on Air.

You can no longer go through Google+ to access your Hangout on Air. This posed a problem for us, because we do our shows live on Wednesday nights. to do a live show in Clickfunnels.

If you didn’t know, we don’t record our shows ahead of time. That is already a unique thing we offer to our readers, because if you know much about Clickfunnels, you’ll know most of it is pre-recorded. It is important to us to have the interaction with you all during the show.

Now that changes have been made with Google+, this is the process we use to stream live for our Freedom-Preneur Show.

How to Use YouTube Live and Hangouts On Air

Make sure that you do each of these steps in order so that you can do your show

1. Sign into your YouTube channel
2. Click on video manager
3. Click the live streaming option
4. Locate and click on events
5. Look at the top right and find- new live event
6. Select Type: Quick
7. Create a title of your video
8. Go Live

Once you have done those steps, you will need to login to your Clickfunnels account.

How To Stream Live Through Clickfunnels

Since we prefer to go live for our shows, we have a work around to add the YouTube link we created into our Clickfunnels page. After you do all of the steps to get your video started, you will be able to grab your YouTube link and input it into your Clickfunnels page. 

Here’s what you will need to do next-

1. Go to your live show page in Clickfunnels (this is a page that you have to set up ahead of time in your account)
2. Click on the video
3. Video Type- YouTube
4. Paste in the video URL
5. Save the changes

After you do all of these steps, click preview to make sure it is working correctly for you. Before you send it out live, you will want to be certain that it is streaming properly.

When you go to the preview page, it should say “Live stream is starting soon”. This will let your viewers know that you are going to be on shortly.

Start The Broadcast

Once you have all of these components together, you can start your live broadcast. If you have been going through your Google+ page, and no longer have that ability, this is how you can go live.

Need Clickfunnels training? Be sure to check out our Freedom-Preneur Academy where we will address this exact type of topic.

Source: How to stream live on youtube

Establishing Cash Flow in Business

Establishing Cash Flow in Business

Whenever we are starting a new business or venture, cash flow is the most critical element. As Paul Maguire says, it’s oxygen for your business. That means planning your month, quarter and years promotions and activities are vitals and required for your success.

To help you plan for the close of the year, I put together a quarter branded plan outlined with examples of how I manage my sales cycles to keep the cash flow in business going. 

For Better Cash Flow in Business Think About Your Entire Quarter

It is important to understand your budgeting needs for the entire quarter. This will allow you to break down your financial needs for each month and see how they fit together. If you are going to be successful in your business, you need to know what your financial commitments are.

You Need a Budget

If ever there was a need for a budget, it is when you are a business owner. Without an understanding of your financial obligations, you can get into deep trouble real quick. What if you have a big bill that you need to pay in the second month of the quarter? How are you going to pay the bill if you haven’t earned enough in sales?

That is why having a quarter branding plan is essential.

What is a Quarterly Branding Plan?

A quarterly branding plan allows you to map out exactly what you need to do to bring in the earnings necessary to cover both your personal and business expenses. You will develop very specific action plans that help you know what has to be done every day in order to reach your goals.

Download this Quarter Branded Plan example for free.

Quarter Branded Plan

In this document, I give you a real life scenario of how Brian and I would structure our quarter to host an event. In order to get interested people to the event, we will launch a 4 week workshop and host weekly calls to bring in new members to our Freedom-preneur academy.

What is the Freedom-preneur Academy?

Over the last few years, we have realized that there is a major hole in the online marketing industry. If you do enough searching around and digging, you will find all of the information you need to build a successful business. The problem is, many people run out of time and funds long before they find all of that information.

We created the Freedom-preneur Academy to house all of that valuable information you need to be successful. When you sign up to join our academy, you will have access to training videos and worksheets that will help you know exactly what you need to do.

Not only do we offer the video training courses, but you can also plug into the online community of other Freedom-preneurs that are in the academy. These men and women bring so many skills and knowledge to the table.

Establishing Sales Funnels and Developing a Lead Magnet

If you are going to effectively establish cash flow in your business, then you have to understand sales funnels. Developing the right lead magnet is where you need to start. A lead magnet is a free product, like an ebook, that will grab the attention of your target audience.

Download this free PDF that will lead you through developing an effective lead magnet.

Creating Lead Magnets With Links

Source: Cash flow in business

Tips, Tricks, Do’s and Don’t’s of Social Media Marketing- Selling the Dream & Living the Nightmare

Tips, Tricks, Do’s and Don’t’s of Social Media Marketing- Selling the Dream & Living the Nightmare

In here, what I want to talk to you about today is selling the dream and living the nightmare.

Being a Freedom-Preneur Means Having Fun!

It can be inferred that there is a huge struggle for those that leave the corporate world. It’s this– we don’t take time to have fun.

Now let me ask you: So you finally did it, right? You left your corporate job so that you could pursue being a Freedom-preneur, only to turn right around and put in the same amount of time and effort to your home based business as you did for someone else.

What is the point of all of that? You left but then you were just going to still spend all of your time working, then why did you not stay in the industry you were in? Don’t ever forget that living the dream means taking the time to live.

In all seriousness and strictly speaking, you have to get away from your desk. You didn’t sign up for that. You signed up to be a Freedom-preneur and determining what your version of the Dream is.

Here are some of the tips I have for you today:

• You need to get out in the world and have fun! This is one of the most important things to remember. Take the time– in fact, a lot of time– to get away from your computer and enjoy life. Furthermore, spend time with your family, do something new, whatever you enjoy, go do it!

• Create a business that you can enjoy- We all know that there is no end to the number of things you can do in the online world. The key to this is to pick something you enjoy. Take note that you aren’t in it just for the paycheck, but for the other benefits of being on online marketer. Namely, those benefits are creating a business that you actually love. You don’t like what you are selling? Then sell something else.

• When you are doing what you love, you can do it longer- When you sell the things you love, then you will not even feel like you are working. You might find that you have been running non-stop 12-15 hours doing the thing you love. It won’t even feel like work, because you are so passionate about it.

Don’t Sell The Dream While You are Living the Nightmare

It’s time to get real people.Always be connected and transparent to your audience. You can’t sell them a dream life while you are living your own worst nightmare because people are going to see right through that.

For a long time, I was selling things that I didn’t like and couldn’t feel passionate about. I woke up and asked myself, “What am I doing this for?”. To me, my realizationwas that, what I was doing at home wasn’t much better than what I had been doing in my corporate career.

So, here is something you need to know about being a Freedom-preneur: the direction of your life is up to you. You don’t have a boss hovering over you dictating to you the exact dimensions of the box that you have to stay in.

It is undeniable that being in the online marketing industry will either energize you, or drain the life out of you. I am encouraging you to make 2016 your best business year yet and get your priorities straight. Last word of advice: Figure out what makes you tick and pursue it.

Source: Personal Branding

TIPS on Customer Service That Make Your Business BOOM

Customer service is the key to keeping your business bubbling along, without this important element supporting your business you will lose customers as quick as your attracting them.

CUSTOMER SERVICE USES

There are many ways that customer service grows your business its the human element of just wanting acceptance and become part of the community in which could be as simple as welcoming the new member, or having the virtual assistant watching your new Facebook group that you have formed and being there to answer simple questions and comments.

AMAZON - SHOPIFY - EBAY STORES

These stores rely heavily on you the owner to have the best customer support possible to help keep people with quick response times to questions, to give login information and be responsive to reviews that they write to know that they are being heard.

These simple steps are the way to have repeat customers that turn into raving fans that bring you more business. Doesn't it make sense to spend advertising dollars once and then to keep them for repeat customers they're after all then costing you absolutely nothing to retain.

Many customers just want to have their questions answered or follow up their orders or how to apply a code to give them the discount off the full price you are offering. To keep the customer happy it all comes down to quick response time to questions in order to avoid frustrations, which leads to refunds and buyers remorse.

Research reveals that customers want human interaction not something that frustrates them like a recorded message or phone prompts they want to speak to a human voice to answer questions quickly.

It may be something as simple as logging on people get stumped and annoyed when they can't get access to products that they have just purchased. This delay in getting back to them with a solution to their problem gets them upset and writes reviews that are sometimes unpleasant and will hurt your future business.

With all the hard work that goes behind a launch of a new product or service with advertising and webinars I have seen personally the numbers of new sign ups drop off dramatically between 25-30% due to no customer service. This is leaving money on the table.

WEBINARS

What about shopping cart abandonment this happens a lot and many businesses just send an email to get lost amongst the many emails that people get sent wouldn't your company stand out from others to pick up the phone and ask them "was there a problem - how can we help you?"

WELCOME CALL

There are some clients who will say nothing and will never take the next step because they are unsure of the next step in your program or service. A follow up call warms the person and shows warmth of your company.

This only takes a few minutes and something like "Hi Mary this is Dan from ABC Company, just giving you a courtesy call to first to welcome you to our company and to see if I can help you with and questions."

How good does that customer feel now, first they are acknowledged and secondly they have an opportunity to say if there is a problem and have someone help them.

We at Need a VA have known the human touch is so important in growing your business we personally help variety of businesses, product launches and services increase their bottom line just by being there to help their customers.

Contact us through the website http://needava.com or email us at info@needava.com today to see how we can help you.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/expert/Jenny_H_Jordan/299899

A Virtual Assistant Bookkeeper Is Gold For Your Business

I want to share a story with you that I know will ring true for many of you that produce a shoe box full of receipts and pay big dollars for the CPA to make sense of the contents in the box.

To be truthful I was using the shoe box accounting systems where friends would laugh as I opened the box carefully and shut it quickly to squeeze yet another receipt in.

The box was full to the brim and I had made my way in for my appointment with the CPA and faced him with a large pad of paper in front of him as I tried to recall events, dates and different expenses I was trying to write off. Then the Accountant took off his glasses looked me straight in the eye and said "I am only as good as the information you give me!"

"Just imagine in this room if I had the tax department sitting around the table would your stories satisfy him?"

This truth hit me straight between the eyes I can still remember the sinking feeling when I thought that my poor record keeping would get me into hot water sooner or later and I virtually became obsessed about finding a virtual assistant to help get my house into order.

Tips to Get Your Started:

It's always hard starting anything new but to be prepared to spend only an hour a day to tackle this task, as it will overwhelm you.

Definitely do not do this task late at night or you will find you can't sleep.

Go purchase either a filing cabinet or do what I did and buy color-coded concertina boxes so you can easily find the year that you're looking for.

Clear the kitchen or office desk and first sort out in year then date order.

What I did is look for a virtual assistant bookkeeper and found much more than I bargained for she is she is a qualified CPA and she journals all of my receipts straight away directly onto QuickBooks and for the Australian clients MYOB.

We now have clients all around the world with many like how I was and they either started out with good intentions but just either got busy or lost the enthusiasm for book work and started to fall behind.

A good bookkeeper will save you money two ways as there will be less for the CPA to do, the cost of a virtual assistant bookkeeper is thirds of the cost of an accountant. The records will be kept beautifully and will stand the scrutiny of the tax office.

At Need a VA we are a virtual assistant outsourcing company that have expert qualified accountant/bookkeepers on hand to do your books no matter if you are in the US, Australia, Canada etc contact us TODAY at http://needava.com or email info@needava.com

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/expert/Jenny_H_Jordan/299899

How an Outsourcing Team Can Grow Your Business

Have you thought of an outsourcing team before to grow your business? I wish to share with you the simple steps that you can take to increase the bottom line easily and economically.

Tim Ferriss who wrote the now famous "the 4 hour work week" showed the world how you can work less and earn more. The whole concept intrigued and open people's mind about using virtual assistants in 3rd world countries who are by the way well educated and highly trained.

With the knowledge in hand that there are people who can work for a 3rd of a cost of labor in their own countries then came the challenge of how do you train them and what can they do and I will now show you how you do both of these.

First things first:

Do you provide a service or have you an office based business for your clients?

• Bookkeeping
• SEO
• Website Design for
• Social Media
• Article Writing
• Amazon, Shopify or eBay store

All of these listed services can be outsourced and here is the exciting thing that happens you will be able to expand your business and take on extra clients and then outsource them and this will increase your bottom line.

I have personally seen outsource teams grow from only 1 or 2 virtual assistants to a team of 7-10+ VA's now that tells me the business is expanding. One of our clients came to us with only 1 Shopify store that we helped set up and train the customer service and with in 6 months they opened a further 5 stores!

Need To Train Staff

All businesses run a little differently you would not set a person up in your office and say there you go now you get to work. That would be setting yourself up for failure.

Online there is no limit to the training you can set up effortlessly. For example you could arrange to run a webinar and share and record your training, or you could do a short video and lastly a well written email in dot point.

Spend the time giving the necessary training that you would give any new employee.

What about other businesses?

Small start-up businesses normally start on a shoestring budget and want to do it all themselves and don't get me wrong it is good to have an understanding but I disagree that you need to be able to do yourself. If you look at the following list of "to do" tasks within a business, there is not any creative time in there for you to grow!

If you are doing everything yourself like:

• Bookkeeping
• Social media
• Marketing
• SEO on your website
• General admin tasks
• Video editing
• Blog promotion
• Customer Service

Where would you possibly get the time necessary to grow your business? Even if you worked 15-16 hour days how well would you do either of these tasks? You need to outsource, put a dollar value on your time and if you are worth more than $8.50 per hour you should look at getting your own VA.

So there you have it, the only way you can grow your business and increase productivity is to outsource and develop a team within a team.

If you are sick of burning the midnight oil missing family events to work on your business it now time to work less and grow your business by first outsourcing smaller tasks and growing your own virtual assistant team.

Only then will you see the growth in your business contact us at http://needava.com or email me at info@needava.com

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/expert/Jenny_H_Jordan/299899