Why Social Entrepreneurship?

Why Social Entrepreneurship?

Passive Income

How To Earn More and Work Less.

Do you want to continue working 50, 70, 100 hours a week the rest of your life? Good!
 
 Neither do I.
 
Do you want to be able to take time off whenever you want to, without worrying about what's going to
happen to your business?
 
So do I!
 
There's a saying in the corporate world: "Don't make yourself irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted." As an entrepreneur, this is still true in its own way. Let's think of "being promoted" as earning more and working less. You can raise your prices, but until you can remove yourself from being directly involved in doing the work that generates the income, there's always going to be a limit to how much you can earn, and it can only increase very slowly.
Passive income, on the other hand, is income that does not require your direct involvement. Some kinds of passive income you may be familiar with include owning rental property, royalties on an invention or creative work, and network marketing. If you want to earn more, work less, and have a decent retirement, you're going to have to start creating income streams that do not require your direct involvement. Whether you're just starting your business, or you've been running it a while, the sooner you start thinking about how you are going to shift your business model to create more passive income, the sooner you can achieve personal and financial freedom.
Let's look at two basic types of passive income, and a third type of income that, while technically not passive, is a key strategy for earning more and working less.
Residual Income
Residual income is revenue that occurs over time from work done one time. Some examples include:

• An insurance agent who gets commission every year when a customer renews his policy
• A network marketing or direct sales rep's income from her direct customers when they reorder product every month
• An aerobics instructor who produces a video and sells it at the gyms where she teaches
• A marketing consultant who creates a workbook and sells it in e-book format on the Internet
• A photographer who makes his photos available through a stock photography clearinghouse and gets paid a royalty whenever someone buys one of his images
• A restaurant or retail owner who has grown to the point of hiring a trustworthy manager

As you can see, there are many different ways to generate residual income across a wide variety of businesses. It may be recurring income from the same customers, or the sales of a product to new customers. It may require no personal involvement whatsoever, such as an e-book sold on a web site, or it may require some personal interaction, such as the insurance agent calling the customer to remind them about their renewal and ask them if they want to change any of their coverage. Often, it's something that you can delegate to an assistant. Note that this is different from merely recurring income. Recurring income may still require your involvement to earn the income, e.g., a coach or consultant on a monthly retainer, or a caterer who delivers lunch every Monday to the local school board. While this "active recurring income" offers welcome stability, it also tends to tie you down, and you still have limits on your earning capacity based on your own personal production capacity.
Leveraged Income
Leveraged income leverages the work of other people to create income for you. Some examples of leveraged income include:

• An e-book author selling her e-book through affiliates who promote the product
• A network marketer who builds a downline and receives commissions on the sales made by people in his downline
• A general contractor who makes a profit margin on the work done by sub-contractors
• Franchising your business model to other entrepreneurs (the ultimate leveraged income)

Again, there are many different models in many different businesses. The key is that you are making money off of other people's labor, rather than primarily your own. Note that leveraged income may or may not also be residual income. When you combine them, that's even better. Active Leveraged Income
This is a term I use to describe income that requires your direct participation, but that you can make more money by having more people involved. This generally involves a one-time event, such as:

• A seminar or class
• A conference or convention
• Concerts and dance recitals
• Raves and other parties

Although these require your direct participation, your earning potential is much higher than if someone were just paying you a direct hourly rate. Fill a room with 1,000 people paying $50 each and you can cover your facility cost, promotional cost, and staffing fees and still have a nice chunk of change left over. Applying It
Now is the time to think about how to apply this in your business. Can you create a product that people will buy over and over again? Can you engage others to sell your product? How could you make money off the work of others?
The sooner you answer these questions, the sooner you'll have financial and personal freedom.

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Be The Master Of Your Own Destiny

We all have dreams and we all have goals, it's wether we can or get the chance to fullfill these aspirations as we travel through our lives. These goals and dreams can only be defined by you from educating your children or yourself for that matter, buying a home, car, going on holiday,donating to charity. What ever is your goal or dream is it within reach?

Do we want to be a slave to someone else's goals and dreams instead of fullfilling our own, do we want the landlord to have control of when we live in there house or live with the unknown, of if and when they could sell their house from underneath you?

The feeling of uncertainty can be pretty frightning.

Web Definition of Uncertainty: Being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance,"the uncertainty of the outcome" "the precariousness of his income".

We all need to learn the art of working smarter not harder, the science of becoming rich can be summed up in the following comments by 3 very famous businessmen.

Robert Kiosaki said, "The poor and the middle class work for money, the rich have money work for them"

John Paul Getty said, Ï would prefer to get 1% of the effort of 100men, than 100% of my own efforts"

Jim Rohn said, "The same wind blows on us all, so you need to set a bigger sail"
...............all of these comments describe the concept of financial leverage.

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What Do Highly Successful Women And 7-Year-Olds Have In Common?

Oct. 12 2010 - 11:55 am | 1,469 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments

By MOIRA FORBES

My niece's cast.

Last weekend, my 7-year-old niece landed herself in the ER after trying to ascend a set of very high, slippery monkey bars, only moments later, to find herself catapulted onto her elbow on the grassy playground below. (In full disclosure, the catalyst for the tumble remains somewhat vague given that the only witness was a fellow seven year old, and given that coordination has never been a bright spot in our family’s gene pool.)
That being said, within three days of the accident, my niece walked out of the hospital having successfully undergone surgery for a complex fracture with the prospect of an astonishingly quick recovery despite the severity of the break. And when I called my niece yesterday, she spent the entire conversation proudly describing her “awesome” hot pink cast as if its traumatic genesis was reduced to a distant memory, one that had resulted in what she viewed as “awesome” benefits — from her entire 2nd grade class signing her cast, to being allowed to choose her favorite foods for dinner rather then her brother.

Any doctor would be quick to remind that my niece’s fracture on an adult would be a serious injury– months of pain, long-term physical challenges, and endless trips to the doctor. Why the Olympic-bounce-back speed of my niece? Simple: 7-year-olds are flexible with bodies that are constantly growing and developing, ultimately allowing them to heal quickly and often without long-term effects.
In thinking about my niece, I was reminded of my childhood fear, or lets be honest, my sheer terror, of the monkey bars — or anything related to scaling, climbing… and falling at the playground.
Fast forward to my life today, and this same emotion occasionally creeps through when I catch myself evaluating an opportunity based on the potential downside rather than the potential benefit or reward. I’ve spoken to countless women whose careers are shaped, and often defined, by their own “monkey bars.” That is, how they approach risk — whether to make the decision to propel forward into a new opportunity, or run to the safety of the sandbox for fear of change, or worse, failure.
It’s no surprise that the motivation to take risks, albeit calculated or guided by gut, remains one of the most important attributes embraced by highly accomplished women today. Yet their success transcends the moxie to make what ended up being “that” visionary career leap or “the” game-changing business decision. In fact, their wins are often outweighed by their wrong decisions and big mistakes — the same experiences that far too often shatter the confidence and ambition of talented women and cripple their ability to seize the career-transforming opportunities ahead of them.
For power women today, lasting success then is not just shaped by a willingness to take risks and make bold decisions. And it’ not just attained through a Rolodex of accomplishments and accolades. Rather, long-term success is perhaps as much driven by what these women have achieved as it is by how these women have failed. That is, how they have conquered moments of profound adversity by ultimately choosing to fail (or fall) like a 7-year-old— to catapult off the monkey bars, painfully land flat on their face, suffer from “fractured” egos (at times in a very public and humiliating way) — and yet still manage to dust themselves off and aim for even higher goals in the future.
What do these extraordinary women then and 7-year-olds have in common? Like my niece, these women are flexible and nimble. They recognize that they, too, are undergoing constant growth and development as leaders, no matter what the job title, the age, or previous track record.
And just as bruises and stitches are often par for the course with young kids, these women accepted early on that mistakes and failures, albeit it painful, appear on everyone’s career road map, often in profound and unexpected ways. Failing like a 7-year-old ultimately allowed these women to bounce back quickly from their massive setbacks rather than become victims of them, and in the end, avoid the long-term side effects that could prevent them scaling the future monkey bars so essential to their success.
Just like my niece, these women are always the first to identify the “awesome pink cast” that resulted from their stumble, whether it be an important learning, a humbling insight, or a new sense of confidence to meet the challenges before them. And always along the way, these power women displayed the sheer willpower and resolve to achieve success on their own terms and in their own way — a trait also shared by my niece with her truly herculean-like-strength and astounding determination to avoid the IV before her surgery, one that was not only well beyond her years, but much to the embarrassment of her parents, one that also required an entire nursing team and countless challenging attempts to break through.
So in 15 years when I take my niece out to celebrate the start of her first job, I will be sure to remind her that when (not if) she comes face-to-face with failure, to fail like a seven year old (with a bright pink cast)…not to mention like some of the most successful women in the world.

Y.E.S