How do you keep the cash rolling in and keep funding alive? Even when you might want to step away from your business? Venture Capitalists? NO!!! Try Convertible Notes and Angel Funding. Have a clear picture of what you REALLY need. Christine Comaford, The 7 Figure Business Builder shares her expertise on all things funding. To see Christine Comaford LIVE and in person, you can attend her 7 Figure Business Summit in April. Go to http://www.7FigureBusinessSummit.com/2010 for details. (But do this NOW, since the early-bird special pricing is ending VERY soon, and bring a friend or colleauge for half price!)

To YOUR 7 Figure Success Story!
Christine Comaford, The 7 Figure Business Builder
CEO of Mighty Ventures, Inc.
NY Times Best Selling Author

PS: Here’s that link again http://www.7FigureBusinessSummit.com/2010

In our nation — THE land of opportunity — a business fails every SIXTY SECONDS.  We launch more success stories, and more failures than anywhere else in the world.  AND THAT MAKES ME HAPPY!  Happy?  Yes, because people are taking risks to change their lives.  But of course, I want you to be one of the success stories.  A 7 Figure Success Story, to be specific.  Because when you hit THAT level, you’ve built a business you can sell.  And how do you HIT that level? You practice business acceleration! And you learn to practice that from The 7 Figure Business Builder — me! Watch this video to learn the ingredients to my 7 Figure Business Formula.  Want more training (and who wouldn’t)?  Join my monthly video mentoring site — hugely affordable at $99 a month.  THIS is how I support new start-up entrepreneurs — or those entreperenurs who simply can’t leave their businesses to work with me in person in San Francisco.

To your amazing and IMMEDIATE success,
Christine Comaford, The 7 Figure Business Builder
CEO of Mighty Ventures, Inc.
NY Times Best Selling Author

PS: In the spirit of great free gifts, if you have not gotten my FREE CD on building a 7 Figure Business, you’re missing a vital key to your 7 Figure Success Story. http://www.bit.ly/iBmuI

Okay gang! Here I am again. Part 4 of this Video Series. Learn as much as you can, and then come to my 7 Figure Business Summit to learn from me LIVE! http://www.7FigureBusinessSummit.com

Christine Comaford, The 7 Figure Business Builder
CEO of Mighty Ventures, Inc.
http://www.7figurebusinesssummit.com

1.  “Tune your Radio to WIIFM” (WIIFM – “What’s In It For Me?”)

• This is the favorite and only station your prospect listens to
• Know why they are buying: 3 reasons – make money, save money, eliminate/reduce frustration or pain
• Remind them why they are buying
• Only talk to them about how this deal will help them!

2.  Ask for the Deal

• You have identified your prospect’s needs
• You have presented a solution to their needs
• You have earned the right to ask them to buy your recommended solution…So ASK!

3.  Stop Selling

• Your prospects know what they want
• They asked you to provide it and you did
• The more you talk, the more they think you are not done providing the solution
• Stop talking and let them decide to decide

4.  Close the Deal  

• Closing is about confidence
• If your prospect feels you have confidence in your solution, they will have confidence in your solution
• Confidence comes from preparation + a quality product you believe in + using the Confident Stance (if nervous, focus on something you are great at: parenting, a hobby, being a terrific friend, etc. Feel that energy in your body and posture.)
• Role play your final presentation in advance and prepare answers to objections

If you want these things for yourself too, then I have a gift for you. This is a gift that is going to rock your world, it is a gesture solely with YOUR success in mind.

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Christine Comaford, The 7 Figure Business Builder
CEO of Mighty Ventures, Inc.
NY Times Best Selling Author

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In order to rock your life and your business, it’s essential to assess where you ARE in your life; otherwise, one or both of the following will happen. First, you could wake up years later miles downstream from where you planned. Second, you won’t get the hang of letting go, which is essential in order to avoid burnout. Here’s how to do it: Twice a year, take yourself away from it all. If you can afford it, go away by yourself. If you can’t, lock the bathroom door. Then ask yourself these questions: 

Is my personal life working?

*  Am I progressing in my self-discovery/spirituality? 
*  Am I feeling close to God, or am I getting too swept up in stuff?
*  Am I my best friend; do I love myself? 
*  Am I being honest with myself and others – not fake or defensive? 
*  Am I stretching enough outside of my comfort zone?
*  What am I still afraid of? 
*  Where can I go and what can I do to get to the next level? 
*  Are my relationships deeply fulfilling?

Is my career working?

*   Am I learning, stretching, challenging myself? 
*   Am I building my network of fascinating people by 5 people per month?
*   Am I being honest with myself and others—authentic and not defensive?
*   What am I still afraid of? 
*   Where can I go and what can I do to get to the next level? 
*   Are my relationships deeply fulfilling?  
*   Am I becoming a more integrated human being, bringing my spirituality into the way I interact with others, being okay with who I am, taking care of myself? 

Am I copping to the fact that I’m the only problem I’ll ever have and the solution too?

Am I accepting people as they are, not expecting them to change? 

Am I being patient with the changes that take time? Am I appreciating all I have? Am I tolerant of those with different struggles?

Am I achieving my goals in all these seven areas: financial and wealth, career, free time/fun, health and appearance, relationships, personal development, community and charity?

Am I connected to all the important sides of my life (personal, family, intellectual, spiritual, recreational)?

Christine Comaford, The 7 Figure Business Builder
CEO of Mighty Ventures, Inc.
NY Times Best Selling Author

PS: Get your seat at my 7 Figure Business Summit before they’re gone. (Early bird pricing only available for a few more weeks.)  http://bit.ly/5dHdCp  

It’s taken me decades to learn what I’m good at and what I’m lousy at. I’m a builder, not a long-term maintainer. I’m a marketer, not a manager, a salesperson, not a bean counter. I no longer regard it as a character flaw that I love to start businesses, but want out after three to five years. I even tell everyone that up front. I have few employees and use contractors when I need extra help. Troubleshooting and providing solutions are strengths of mine, but that doesn’t mean I have to stick around and execute every idea. I accept now that I often prefer solitude to socializing and that socializing is fun for the first few hours but can become exhausting.

It took me years to figure out how my brain worked, what I was born to be good at, what I should avoid. Yes, when you finally discover what you’re good at and enjoy, sometimes it takes guts to do it. Yes, it may not make you rich initially, but success isn’t all about wealth. Too many people get stuck in a career that a high school counselor divined through those weird tests and said they had an aptitude for. Or found a summer job at McDonald’s and wound up in the food service industry. Or maybe you were one of the lucky ones who found out early in life what you were good at and made you happy.

Whether you discovered your gifts—and your gaps—early or late, you’ll want to have someone else to do the stuff you suck at. Flesh out your team with talent you don’t have. This is tough when you’re a control freak or are accustomed to being in charge, or when you think your way is the best way. But it’s the only way to avoid burnout.

If you’re seriously on your 2010 success ladder and ready to learn from me in person, my 7 Figure Business Summit is in April and seats are going fast http://www.bit.ly/5dHdCp. If you hurry, you can still bring a friend for half price.  (Yes, that’s two of you for $1,499.)

To your ROCKIN’ 2010 Success Story.  Christine

Christine Comaford, The 7 Figure Business Builder
CEO of Mighty Ventures, Inc.
NY Times Best Selling Author

PS: I am 100% looking forward to working with so many of you that I’ve met through Facebook and Twitter, etc.  http://www.bit.ly/5dHdCp   

Hi gang, THIS is Alyson Hoag’s amazing success story. Alyson is the CEO of Authentic Beauty, one of the rockin’ clients I mentor through my Business Growth Blueprint program.  Aly’s letter was so powerful that I decided not to change a word of it.  I know it’s longer than my usual blogs, but stick with it guys, it’s totally worth the four minutes.  To learn more about my BGB program, go to: http://bit.ly/7gZW41

Christine, I know you haven’t heard from me lately but I am still out here listening and engaging and rocking! I have been implementing my plan and I think this month is the month I deserve to be your success story.  I know this isn’t going to be in the format you’d like. I would be here writing all day if you wanted me to name the hurdles I have had to overcome. There are too many to name. In the story below the major ones are mentioned. As for the most important module – it was Business Essentials. I have hung onto my end game throughout all of this.

I want to back up to when we first met. It was at Guerilla Business School, March of 2007. If you don’t remember I ran after you delivered your presentation to introduce myself. I didn’t have enough money to pay for your course but I called my mother and said, “If you believe in me, you’ll lend me the money. I have to work with this woman”. 
I think I was your first round of Groundbreakers and that time was invaluable to me. It was in the “formulation” days when the idea was being born into reality. I hung onto every word you said and I listened to the replays over and over.  And then the rubber hit the road. The week I sent out my investor packages the market disintegrated and key people I knew lost millions. The following month we found out the building we leased wasn’t going to be permitted and then slowly one by one all the people who were part of my team disappeared. It looked as though I was going to crash and burn.  And through it all I kept listening to everything you had to say over and over. I was really scared. I didn’t know how I was going to make it. I had two kids to take care of.  I knew somehow I was going to get out of this. Despite the creditors calling I just kept moving forward.

When you sent the email and said just get here in June 08 for your Summit in CA, I begged for a buddy pass from my ex-husband, my sister took my kids and I got on the plane. It was the best thing I could have ever done. I left refocused, recharged and taking action.

Miracles began happening.  One after another.

A big part of my business model is to create mobile events inside of hair salons. Well, since I didn’t have a “home”, I decided to put the model to the test and I spent 9 months in 3 different salons, building the model on my own and learning. The most important thing I kept looking for was what I was going to learn from each situation.

In the meantime I had several key breaks. I became the lead makeup team for a local magazine and they did a story on me and I had a radio personality name me as “the brow guru of Atlanta”.

It turned out that one of those salons I was working with asked me if I wanted to take the front of his space. The owner wanted to downsize and if I didn’t want to take it he said he would shut the doors. At this point I had NO money. I worked it out with the salon owner and I went for it. It also just happens to be in one of the most central locations in Atlanta.

We opened the doors late November 2008. I was actually interviewed on tv by our local Fox affiliate about opening during a down turned economy. However, I believed in the lipstick effect. If you don’t know, in a bad economy makeup sales go up. Leonard Lauder coined the phrase.

We opened the doors and last month marked our one year anniversary. (We had a BIG party and nearly 100 people showed up to show their support.)

So what we accomplished this past year:

• We grossed nearly $160k this year ending with a 20k month in December!!!!!! 
• Hired our first employee.
• We have 10 freelancers
• We have over 850 active clients
• Authentic Beauty was written up in our local Fashion Mag as What’s Hot this year for 2009
• I write my own monthly beauty column in a local magazine.
• Have developed relationships with several PR companies who use me regularly in their promotions of other companies in which I benefit.
• Developed relationships with all local tv affiliates and this week had my first in studio appearance with the CBS Atlanta affiliate for their morning show.
• Developed relationship with the most popular morning radio show in Atlanta and do the makeup for a video weekly for one of the DJ’s AND as a result she featured me the week of Christmas as one of her favorite things.
• Authentic Beauty was written up in at least 7 magazines and our work was featured in at least 10 publications with at least 4 covers.
• We have been told by Jean Chatzky’s people that in the next week or 2 I will be featured as one of their entrepreneurs of the week on her blog
• I was featured as one of the top 100 entreprenness’ in the CRAVE Atlanta book
• We are in the middle of developing a new mobile tester unit that I will be able to resell to the artist community
• We are developing our own makeup line (I finally stopped resisting) and the plan is to get it on QVC and fund the whole business with it.
• We  just closed 2 deals with 2 MAJOR plastic surgeons who are going to carry my makeup line and bring our makeup artists in.
• I have a meeting on January 15^th with the hottest salon in the Atlanta area to bring our artists in and do events
• We have an investor presentation on January 14^th with someone who is VERY interested in what we are up to. He is coming to Atlanta to see us.
• I am fully in the REVENUE, REVENUE, REVENUE mode. This month was a huge breakthrough. We doubled our sales from what we started out with in January, reaching the over 20k mark in December. The goal is 40k per month and I am clear it won’t take that long. All the seeds are planted.

When you said to me on the last call I was on, “You need to come up with revenue generating ideas,” I went for it! That’s why you haven’t heard from me. I took a step back, looked at what needed to happen and I think I haven’t come up for air since. LOL

I am planning in all the structures to make sure I am taken care of…In fact a huge breakthrough is that I got sick this week and I had a whole team to cover for me. I couldn’t be there on New Year’s Eve and they handled it all!!!

My goals for this year are to clean up all the messes left from the first go round, get myself financially stable, get the salon/mobile model implemented, build our wedding work, develop the makeup line, QVC launch of our eco, gel based 3in 1 foundations, get the website revamped and get all the social media working in synch, begin the national PR campaign which includes MORE MAGAZINE and get my makeup artists booked solid, Have Project Authentic Beauty (our non-profit initiative) fully structured. AND TAKE AN UNBELIEVABLE VACATION WITH MY FAMILY.

I want to say thank you for all your support, encouragement and guidelines. I am far from being perfect but I launched!  I have taken everything you have said (or nearly everything) and have but it into practice. I am certainly not at the mastering level YET but I am moving in that direction!

I am grateful for your commitment to others and to me. Thank you for everything! Without you the beauty industry would have had to wait for someone else to come along to transform it.

I look forward to being one of your million dollar companies. I don’t think it will be long now! 

With All the Love in the World, Ayson Hoag
CEO, Authentic Beauty

 Note from Christine: Aly, it’s NO surprise to me that you’ve turned my Business Growth Blueprint formula and teachings into a REAL success story.  You definitely had the chops AND the know how to implement implement implement!  I totally enjoy working with you and look forward to your amazing 7 Figure Business Success. 

Christine Comaford, The 7 Figure Business Builder
CEO of Mighty Ventures
NY Times Best Selling Author

PS:  To learn more about my BGB program, go to: http://bit.ly/7gZW41

Well, the cat’s out of the bag. The #1 ways to find new clients and business are networking and word of mouth – what does that boil down to?  RELATIONSHIPS.  Before we really get into networking, we need to talk about emotional equity. Emotional equity is when others care so much about you that they take your goals and desires personally. They want to help you get what you want. Here’s the formula to create emotional equity and a 7 Figure Business.   

Energy = equity         Equity = access         Access = influence.

The key to building relationships is networking. This week, I’ll be sharing about my top six networking essentials, so don’t miss a day.

#1. Practice “Palm Up” Networking. When you network, are you giving, or grasping? Palm up networking embodies the spirit of service, of giving and wanting nothing in return. When you network “palm down” you’re grasping for personal gain. Palm up equals heart-oriented interaction. Based on my experience, the universe has a perfect accounting system. Give to others–it’ll all come back to you in time.

I go to a fair amount of networking events. I can’t possibly list all the times I’ve met someone, found out what interested them, introduced them to a potential client/partner/board member or provided some other benefit to them. As a result, amazing opportunities appear on a regular basis. For instance, when I wanted an intro to a Hollywood producer, I was introduced to one with two weeks of setting this goal.

As part of my own palm-up networking, I created a free CD for all of my social media connections http://www.bit.ly/iBmuI, with this I’ve offered a free two-week introduction to my monthly mentoring program.  This program is an opportunity to implement my 7 Figure Business Building Formula despite the recession, the market, the competition, etc., etc.

To your amazing and IMMEDIATE success,
Christine Comaford, The 7 Figure Business Builder
CEO of Mighty Ventures, Inc.
NY Times Best Selling Author

http://www.bit.ly/iBmuI

Okay gang, here’s the last two ingredients for your 10-step Business Plan.  Spend the time it takes to complete all ten of these items—do the best you can, but get it done. Bear in mind that the structure of your business will change over time, too. So be willing to adjust, shift, and move with the market changes, new technology, etc. 

9) Business Model. Show how you’ll make money and grow your business. By considering all the angles, you could end up discovering provide secondary and tertiary revenue streams that you’ve given cursory thought to. Don’t hold back. The Mistake: Not explaining exactly how your biz will make money, when, and what the new revenue streams will be in time.

10) Key Milestones: Show the deals/achievements that are accelerating/will accelerate your company’s growth—be specific in stating the stage these deals/achievements are at). This is where the rubber hits the proverbial road. The Mistake: Not explaining specifically what you have accomplished within a timeframe and what you plan to achieve within a future timeframe.

To your amazing and IMMEDIATE success,
Christine Comaford, 7 Figure Business Builder
CEO of Mighty Ventures, Inc.
NY Times Best Selling Author

PS: Do not miss my FREE CD on building a 7 Figure Business, there are only a couple hundred left of these, and they’re VITAL to building your 7 Figure Success Story. http://www.bit.ly/iBmuI