How Many Affiliates Do You Have?

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Really. I mean it. Answer out loud. How many affiliates do you have who are sending you business on a regular basis? If you don’t have at least several, you are leaving money on the table. It’s one of the reasons I have a full-time affiliate manager to handle affiliate relationships, motivate them, and get them [...]

Live Where You Work Best

Last week, USA Today voted Lake Tahoe the best lake in the United States. I couldn’t be more proud. I’ve always loved this area for it’s beauty, skiing, and moto-cross trails. Really, it’s a great place to play. This news about the lake prompted me to remind you to do something. Remember, you have one [...]

The Art of Negotiation

The Art of Negotiation – Getting What You Want and Deserve from the Family Room to the Board Room  By: Eldonna Lewis Fernandez, LBT Alumni (Table 77) Negotiation is basically discussions to agree on a deal.  Someone makes an offer or submits a proposal and the other side either accepts the offer or enters into [...]

Finding Your Yes! = Cash

When I wrote “Yes! Energy: The Equation to Do Less, Make More” many people saw it as a departure from what I had been coaching. “Wait, aren’t you The Millionaire Maker?” “Do you still talk about wealth and finance?” Yes and yes! Reaching millionaire status, building wealth, and understanding finance has EVERYTHING to do with [...]

Find Your Shining Example

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but it’s also the best way to discover best practices for your industry and get your business off to a strong start. One way you can do this is through modeling. When you model a business, you find a business that is similar yours and look at what [...]

Freedom Day: When Do You Know?

I get asked all the time, “Loral – you talk about reaching my Freedom Day, but when do I know it’s time to pull the trigger and work for myself?” My answer is always the same. Do 12, 4, 5 (how much you need to make in 12 months, divided by 4 weeks divided by [...]

Be Ready to Take the Order

If you met someone and they wanted to do business with you RIGHT NOW, this very moment, would you be ready and able to take the order?  If you don’t have an order form with an ability to give a receipt your answer to that question is no. You need to have something on hand, [...]

“Making Time” for Play

The first time I heard Loral say that you don’t have a business life and a personal life, you have one life, I can admit I was a bit perplexed. Of course I have two lives! Then I thought a little deeper into the meaning of that statement. No, I really don’t have two lives. [...]

Live Out Loud About What You Do

What do you do for a living? Depending on what you do (or don’t do) that popular cocktail party question either invigorates you or makes you a bit queasy. If it’s making you queasy, it’s because: You don’t know your talk track, so you don’t know HOW to talk about what you do. You work [...]

Choose Your Own Adventure

Life is a little bit like those Choose Your Own Adventure books. Remember those? If you went one way, you ran into a monster. If you ran the other way, you found the treasure. Then you had another choice, befriend the monster or fight him. Open the treasure box or walk into the room that [...]

The Power of Accountability

This week, President Obama made a statement that infuriated some and others agreed upon. The idea was that no one does it alone. Now, when taken in the context of government help, no, they didn’t kick-start your cash machine for you. Unless you took a grant or did something of that nature, that idea and [...]

The Danger of the Make-Wrong

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I love working with entrepreneurs, the optimism, the motivation, the dreams. Just working with the Live Out Loud Community and introducing new entrepreneurs to it brings me so much energy.  Unfortunately, there’s a nasty little demotivator out there that is killing the spirits of both full-time workers and entrepreneurs every day. It’s called the make-wrong. [...]