Using A Transcription Service Makes You More Money

I get asked quite often what is the best way to easily add more to the bottom line and perhaps the easiest one of all is using a Transcriptionist instead of a typing things out yourself.

Why you might ask?  Well, it is because you already know how to talk and I bet you can’t type 100 words a minute.  Plus, you won’t make money when you are typing. You make money by doing whatever wonderful thing that you do that is unique and wonderful.

Think about this. The average person can speak 7,000 to 10,000 words per hour.  Bet you know some people that can blow those numbers away.  Some books only have 40,000 words in them.

So, in 4 or 5 hours you can get out the book you have always been thinking about writing! LOL

But really, it is about not wasting time on things that you are not good at and spending time on things that you are great at. That is how you make money.  It is not what they teach you in college or any type of schools for the most part. They always tell work on your weaknesses.

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Tags: Doing Things You Love, Transcription

Well, it has been one of those weeks with Murphy in full force.    I managed to take out my computer and my car each in less than 5 seconds since this last weekend.

While I knew it was possible,  I had just never done it myself.  While I was driving less than five mph, apparently that was 4 mph too fast when driving during a gully washer and you have a mini-creek in the middle of a suburban street, you can take out an alternator in one big splash.  Thank goodness for AAA.  Love you guys!!!! You Rock!

While chatting with a client on Skype from the comfort of my cushy chair, and swiveling around to grab a file, little did I know that by having the headset get stuck in said chushy swivel chart that you can pull over your computer that just so happened to have a 1 terabyte external hard drive on it where I store most of my work and my anti-virus software.  Said hard drive make a terrible noise and died with a spasm right after it hit the floor.

Can you say ARGGGHHHH…  That is when I figured out the limitations of my back up system.  Looks like it may be another two weeks to see what can be recovered.  And because I did not get my anti-virus reloaded to the main drive in the first hour, guess what? You guessed, 4 bazillion infections later.   The good news it was and is all contained.  But wow, what a pain in the butt.   But there is the 3 doozies for you.

Now of course if I had been using what we put our clients on I would have been fine but hey, that would have taken an couple of extra hours to do.

Guess what?  I have lost about 30 hours of productivity and counting now.

So, let this be a lesson to you.  Don’t drive in Torrential Downpours if you don’t have to.  Don’t put external hard drives anywhere they can fall off and make sure your back up systems are fully up-to-date!  Oh, and don’t go on the Web for even two seconds without Virus Protection.

Drowning your car and killing a hard drive and getting some viruses all officially and unofficially suck.

That being said, it won’t happen again and it could have been a whole lot worse.

I only have about 150 urgent emails to answer and if you are one of them, I will get back with you ASAP.

Cheers,
Andrew

More Chaos to come that is for sure.  In my previous post, I talked about how to come out ahead of the stupidity in DC.  Most of them are in denial and are not taking any of the blame for the Downgrade of the US Debt for the first time in History.

They are spending more than they take in and no matter how many times they say otherwise, the party is over. It is not about raising taxes and killing off even more jobs, it has to come from not spending like a drunken sailor and not pushing radical and stupid agendas like Global Warming.  You can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. —–> READ MORE

Tags: Chaos, Debt Downgrade, Profits

Profits Are Everywhere Plus….

How To Fix The Economy Overnight

OK, well, I thought that I would throw that pic in there just because they were advertising to a very niche market and you know what? It actually worked.  Right up until the busy body whack jobs imposed the prohibition.  Kind of like the anti-smoking, anti everything elitists idiots now.   I will show you how to make money from this fact as well as other herd mentality tid-bits.  Plus, just some other random Profit ideas for you to think about.

Now you may be asking yourself, what the heck does that have to do with Profits Everywhere and are easier now then ever before?

And what about “How To Fix The Economy Overnight” ?

Just a note, beer is actually good for you by the way.

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Tags: Chaos, Debt Crisis

I find great comfort in quotes. They often remind me very quickly of reality and can help me marshal my thoughts and appreciate a given situation.  Here are some by George Bernard Shaw and one of mine that I picked out for today.  I was reminded of him by one of my best friends today.  Aren’t friends great?

Hopefully one or more of these will ring true with you.  Let me know what you think!

Enjoy!

Andrew Anderson

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
— George Bernard Shaw

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
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Tags: George Bernard Shaw, Quotes

Texting Makes You Stupid And Costs You Money

OK,  my friend’s 15 year old daughter Megan said this to me awhile ago and I realize how wise she is every day.

If you run a business, this is especially true. In Tony Schwartz’s book, The Power Of Full Engagement, he shows several studies that when you get interrupted by things like texts and emails that it takes you a full 20 minutes to get back to the mental focus that you had before you stopped what you were doing to check the text, email, im etc. Wow, does that suck or what?

Not only that, specifically when you are texting, because of the brevity, important details are often lost and misunderstandings occur on a regular basis.

How Much Texts Really Cost You

I am in the process of quantifying this, but in the studies I am doing right now with a couple of guinea pigs, each text looks like it costs somewhere between $20 to $300 in actual lost revenue and this is harder to quantify, but it could be over $500 to $1,000+ in lost opportunity costs.  Pretty cool!

How does that make you feel?

So, do yourself and your business a favor, and stop texting unless it is a freaking emergency. Because it does make you stupid even if you are not and it does hurt your bottom line whether you realize it or not.

Plus, if you really have to answer texts all day, you really need to rearrange how you are running your business. If you can’t disengage, you don’t have a business, you just have a job.

If I don’t answer your text, now you know why.

Cheers,

Profit Consultant

Tags: Profit Consultant, Texting

Lone Ranger Wasn’t Alone

Entrepreneur Mistakes 101

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One of the biggest mistakes I see Entrepreneurs make is that they think that they can go it alone.  Let me clue you in. That is just plain wrong!  If you want to really grow and hit your full potential you you need a Tonto. You need a side kick and if you are really smart, several of them.  Not only the more the merrier, but the more the money you will make! A partner in crime not only works with your business, but with you life as well. Things just go better when you can fill in each others gaps and watch your partner’s back.

But, many of us are control freaks by nature and like doing stuff our own way.  Get over it. It does not work well that way.

You cannot do it all by yourself.  The easiest and hardest way to do that is to snag a partner or two.  When it works, it works great, when it does not work so well, it sucks really, really bad.

Good partners are like finding a good mate. It can be hard but there are techniques that you can learn and ways to go about doing so.  You may get luck on the first try or it may take some dating to find just the right one.

The other way to find your side kick is to hire them. I have people that I pay via profit sharing, and I also use PVA or Pooled Virtual Assistants.   PVA’s are a term I coined in my book The Muse Blueprint and I created the term and implemented it because I needed back up. So, I created a pool of Virtual Assistants and would assign items to the pool, and someone would get it done, it someone was not available, I had someone else available to get it done.

So whether you hire and partner up with someone or better yet several someones, you should do so as soon as you can.  It can and will make a big difference in your success.

Cheers,

Andrew Anderson

Profit Consultant

Tags: Lone Ranger, PVA's, Virtual Assistant

Are You Looking For A Business To Become Involved In That Is Already Up And Running?

Perhaps it is you or you know someone that can help me find a partner for one of my niche virtual businesses.

I am looking to bring in a partner to run one of my virtual businesses. I currently slowed things down so that it only does a couple of hundred per month because I don’t have time to run it properly, but it should be doing $5,000 to $25,000+ per month.

Looking to bring in preferably a female partner that is detail orientated, has excellent management and communications skills, has good systems skills and is motivated on a 50/50 basis that will go to a 60/40% basis in your favor once you prove you can run it for me.  You must know Excel and Quickbooks, have a newer computer and a fast Internet connection. You can work from your home.

$1,500 gets a buy in and all profits go back to you until you get your buy in back.  I just need someone with skin in the game so that I know you are serious. I have had this since 2007. When ramped up, it could do $250,000 to $500,000 per year.

You have to be honest and fun to work with and be easy going.  I need less headaches and not more.    This is a very cool and fun business that just needs some TLC to make flourish again. I can ramp up sales again, but only if I have you!

If this sounds like you, please call 307-459-1092 .   If you now someone that might be interested, please pass this on.

Cheers,
Andrew Anderson

Bad Video VS No Video And The Winner Is…

Cheers,
Andrew Anderson
Profit Consultant

Tags: Connecting With Customers, Marketing, Video

Gene Simmons Of Kiss On Marketing

Gene Simmons Of Kiss

Ok, if you have only watched Gene Simmons of KISS on the Apprentice or Family Jewels listen to this interview. It is a treat. This is shows why Gene is the smartest guy in entertainment.

Did you know that Kiss  has more license agreements than the Beatles?  It have more than any other band in history as a matter of fact.
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Tags: Gene Simmons, Kiss, Marketing, Steven Baldwin