Entrepreneurial Success – 5 Tips for Success in Todays Conscious Business Model

I just returned from The Radiant Success Event in Raleigh NC where I had the opportunity to learn from 5 incredibly successful entrepreneurs. Kathleen Gage, Denise Wakeman, Janis Pettit, Ellen Britt, and Marnie Pehrson were the main presenters and they each brought something totally different to the table. They were also transparent about what worked and what did not work in each of their own personal journeys to creating a successful online business.

They say one of the best ways to learn how to be successful is to surround yourself with people who have already achieved success in your niche. This weekend 70 entrepreneurs did just that as we all emersed ourselves in 2 full days of learning about the ins and outs of creating a successful online business.

Here are 5 tips I picked about how to create success in todays marketplace.

From Janis Pettit I learned how thinking small will hold you back. She called it the bottleneck syndrome where you imagine an hourglass shape is your business. At the top is where you are right now and at the bottom is where you want to be in the future. Between the 2 places is that narrow area you need to move through for success. And what usually holds you back in that area is fear. You need to let go of the fear for success.

Ellen Britt focused on the Zen of List building. She taught us that this is the lifeblood of our business. We need to be constantly building our list and then we needed to use a good autoresponder program to have consistent and quality contact with our list. Don’t worry about people who opt out of your list because you send them information. If they opt out that is a good thing because it means they are not your target market anyway.

Denise Wakeman rounded out the first day with how to use your Blog to create a 5 step system to leverage your expertise and attract more traffic and clients.  She showed us how to create content with our Blog and then re-purpose that content across other sites on the Internet for even more exposure. She also gave us an comprehensive list of ways to take one Blog post and syndicate it across the web.

Day 2 started off with a bang with Kathleen Gage’s presentation about how to build a sustainable business using continuity products and information products. She pointed out that everything begins with an idea and those that were successful were the people that had an idea and then took action. Kathleen also talked a lot about creating multiple steams of income so when a crisis such as 911 strikes you are not dependent on only one source of income.

Last but not least was Marnie Pehrson. She is the creator of the longest running Article Marketing site on the Internet and she showed us how to use articles to build our credibility and visibility online that will lead to more opportunities and clients. Her explanation of how to do keyword research was very informative especially since good keyword research is the cornerstone of success on the Internet. She also pointed out how dangerous it is to think or speak negatively.

There were many more golden nuggets of information over the course of the weekend! too many to count actually. I will most definitely be on board for Radiant Success Atlanta in May 2011.