Peter Fuller MBA CA

Hello Peter,
Nicely explained Sir! I actively engage in paid activities for my businesses and I actively participate in non paid activites. Often these involve the same work, but some thing which I charge a client for I might do for free for a non profit which I support. Like Jim I use a timer because I am a hopeless clock watcher and it ensures clients are charged for all of my time not just some of it!
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Hi Peter,

Great post with a powerful message that packs a real punch. Excellent analogy to the great game of Baseball.

Since I do my online business activities part time. I must be disciplined and leverage my time and work smart. So, I try to make sure that the limited time that I have I use wisely.

As you stated, the other things are important, too. But, if we don’t monetize our efforts online and offline, we are just not going to earn the income we deserve.

I know many of us are Attraction Marketers and understand the value of offering value first, but we also can’t shy away from presenting a prospect with our opportunity, product or service. It may be just what they are looking for.

So, connecting and building a relationship and follow up are key ingredients to “hitting that sweet spot”

Also, good follow up techniques will also enable you to build the relationship more quickly to get you to the point where you may feel more comfortable sharing what you have to offer.

It’s always great when you conduct those income generating activities and build your sales funnel and have prospects and customers seeking you out.

Keep inspiring us,
Marc
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Hi Peter,

Hitting the sweet spot happened to me most of the time for my offline business Peter, I am not bragging but I always say it is luck ! However, I should learn from your tips for my online business.

The main focus for me online is to have the mindset of making money activities ! Sometimes, being too accommodating can be unpleasant ! Will learn to polish that up.

Thank for your great tip here, Peter.

Cheers
Pearly
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Great post, Peter! I know that in my business, my big problem is finding people to talk to, but I’ve decided that I am going to work to build my business and getting the word out there.
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Hi, Peter. Thanks for sharing this.
It’s a very nice one. You know, it’s easy sometimes to be able to hit business on its sweet spot, but it’s also not a rare thing to experienced difficulties in it.
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Well, one of the most important goal in every businesses is to “make money”. The first few months when I started my business, I don’t think I make enough money as I’m expecting. Due to burnouts and stress from work, I tend to forgot my main goal, that is to make money. However, we all shouldn’t forgot as well that pleasing and making your customers happy is one way to make money. If they’re satisfied with your product/services, then it will increase your sales, increase profit, and that means more money…
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Short but powerful… it’s easy to get so wrapped up in getting a startup running that people forget that the point of a business is to actually make money. You’ve definitely made me think about how much time I’m spending on money making activities vs. all that other stuff.
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He who learns from his mistakes is a smart man, he who learns from others’ mistakes is a wise man. Learning from Peter (though not from any mistakes) makes you a wise man.

I guess the best way to know what does work is to try as many as you can, this way your chances are higher.

Thanks, Peter

Peter,
Great Post! Simple, powerful and straight to the point. Here’s a line that is truly key in your article:

“This may seem obvious yet many people who start a new business do everything but money making activities.”

Let’s face it. Before you develop the proper mindset, many of us found it easier to engage in NON-money making activities because the money-making activities were a lot tougher. Picking up your dry-cleaning, going to office depot, straightening out your office should not be included in the money-making category! But we’ve all fallen victim to it. I like to use a timer and I turn it on when I am engaging in revenue generating activities. Even 4 hours of solid “work” or income-generating activities every day could change your life.
Thanks,
Jupiter Jim
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Persistence and mindset are absolutely key for any real level of success. Like baseball, there are a lot of areas where showing up and applying yourself will yield results.

That being said, your point of focusing on money making activities is important. There are a lot of people who are successfully producing results, but unfortunately they aren’t the kind of results that generate income.
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Peter,
You are so right. Hitting the sweet spot is like hitting the jackpot. What is not discussed as part of this process is that it can take a long time, much longer than expected, and it can cost money, much more than anticipated, to remove the blocks and barriers to hitting your sweet spot. Ask any really successful person about their path and they will say they got there by making many mistakes.

I think there is a process and there is a period of time in which we are learning and discovering different possibilities. We may spend a lot of time doing some small tasks that do not seem to lead to instant money but they may help us in the future. For example, learning some web site functions that take hours to learn but later will be simple when we are implementing a program.

My one issue is followup. I have done so much leg work and put a lot out there but have not yet set up a good followup system. That is definitely on my to-do list.
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Hi Peter:

Great post. Totally agree with you. We must spend the time doing some Income Producing Activities. Studying and researching and putting a plan in place is all good. But we cannot spend so much time on these activities.

To hit that sweet spot some income generating activities have to be a part of our daily to do list. Sometimes we are busy managing the business or others and forget to keep the main thing the main thing. Thanks for sharing.

Hey Peter, lovely to see you after such a long while.

I couldn’t agree more with you on the fact that we really do need to make sure we allot time to spend on our money making activities, regardless of the business we are in.

I used to get so caught up in learning and thinking about putting things into practice, that I often overlooked the actual ‘doing’ and sharing aspect.

I am much better now… and follow up is a definite must. It’s daft not to. People and contacts are like bananas and they ripen very quickly.

thanks for the great reminder.

Jayne
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This post resonates with me. I am working with my business coach right now…working out my sweet spot. My objective is to be able to articulate the deepest message I am here to share, name my sweet-spot audience, make my message accessible to that audience, and craft a down-to-earth but powerful verbal introduction.
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You are so right Peter!

This one took me a long time to learn. I spent many months doing everything but telling people about my business and following up.

I have learned my lesson, I now have many systems in place that allow me to do these functions regurlarly and consistently!