Start Up and Go Grow Your Biz

On the Cardone Zone this week, we focused on start ups and I thought you might find the information useful. Most people hear the phrase “start up” and automatically think it only refers to owning your own company. The truth is, we are all in start up mode every time we start something new. This can mean a new job, new role in your company, moving to a new city, a new relationship or starting a new week or new month. Employees, sales people, managers, and owners are ‘starting up’ all the time. And when you quit starting up, you will just stop. Once you start up, hopefully you’ll go where you want to go. Here’s how to make that happen. My first business started 25 years ago and I’ve had thousands of ‘start up’ phases along the way. I also had a bunch of stalls and slow downs, gone backwards more times than I can count and missed more quotas than I have hit. In fact, you and I are both in start up phase again right now, as we pass the midway point in the year and set new quotas and targets for a new month. When I start something new (a day, a month or a new business) this is what I do:
  1. Set a target. This is a sky-high, big picture goal.
  2. Create a business plan that will get me there.
  3. Start calling on clients, selling and closing deals.
  4. Reinvest the resources in expansion and marketing.
  5. Make adjustments in the plan and pitch to continue to add new customers.
New things happen everyday and most people need a little help staying focused and getting re-motivated. I know how tough it is but I also know that I can’t stop. Whether you measure your life and business by the day, week, month, quarter, or if you are starting a new business or relationship, you need to maintain your focus everyday to keep the main thing the main thing! Everyday start fresh – a new focus, a new attitude, new targets, new customers, new calls, new challenges and hopefully new resources (money). Don’t bring yesterday’s failures or disappointments into today. Hey, I know it’s not always easy. After realizing what worked to keep me motivated, I created my 100 Ways to Stay Motivated program to help build great habits. Each day in our morning meetings at our office, we play a short segment to get motivated to tackle the day and it really makes a positive difference. If you aren’t starting something new you aren’t challenging yourself but you also have to be sure you are staying focused and keeping yourself fueled up to carry your projects through to completion, where all the rewards are. Maybe the reason people hate starting a new month is because they lack the motivation, focus and mindset needed to make the most of each new day, week and month. You’ll see these new opportunities popping up everywhere when you start getting the proper motivation to start each day. Treat your start up like a car; get in, turn the ignition, know where you are going, who you are going to see, hit the accelerator and go as fast as you can! Get started today with my NEW program, 100 Ways To Stay Motivated. This tool will ignite your fire every day so you can start up and go! Be Great, nothing else pays, GC
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Star of Discovery Channel’s “Undercover Billionaire,” Grant Cardone owns and operates seven privately held companies and a private equity real estate firm, Cardone Capital, with a multifamily portfolio of assets under management valued at over $4 billion. He is the Top Crowdfunder in the world, raising over $900 million in equity via social media. Known internationally as the leading expert on sales, marketing, and scaling businesses, Cardone is a New York Times bestselling author of 11 business books, including “The 10X Rule,” which led to Cardone establishing the 10X Global Movement and the 10X Growth Conference, now the largest business and entrepreneur conference in the world. The online business and sales educational platform he created, Cardone University, serves over 411,000 individuals and Forbes 100 corporate clients throughout the world. Voted the top Marketing Influencer to watch by Forbes, Cardone uses his massive 15 million plus following to give back via his Grant Cardone Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to mentoring underserved, at-risk adolescents in financial literacy, especially those without father figures.