A Strong Personal Brand Is The Ultimate Safety Net – Here’s Why You Need One

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by  James McAllister

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In business, true safety is hard to come by.

Regardless of how hard you work, or how we’ll you’re doing now, things change.

Your product becomes obsolete, or a new, larger competitor enters your market. You’re hit with a baseless lawsuit, but still have to shell out  huge amounts of money for legal fees. You end up having a medical emergency, and have to take on serious debt just to get by.

These are all things we don’t like to think about, but become a reality for so many entrepreneurs. It’s not fair, but its a reality for far too many people.

And sadly, their companies often die in the process, and their lifestyle changes almost immediately.

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Future-Proof Your Business Before It’s Too Late With These 8 Strategies

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How can you be sure your business will be alive 5 years from now, when the statistics are stacked against you?

“But I’ve passed the initial hurdles,” you may say. “My business is already pulling in healthy revenue.”

Sorry to say it, but one of the most vulnerable places you can be in with business, is a place where you’re doing well.

Even worse if you’ve been doing well for a long time, without much change.

The most at-risk entrepreneurs aren’t the ones first starting out, nor is it the ones dominating their spaces at the moment – it’s the ones somewhere in between.

Companies who are not aware of that fact are in trouble, and will only suffer greater losses as time goes on. In this article, we’re going to poke at some of your businesses’ vulnerabilities, and discuss strategies you can begin implementing to future-proof your business today, so you can survive the rapidly changing world in the future.

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Don’t Wait 6 Months – Build A Profitable Business This Week, For Less Than $20

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by  James McAllister

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If I told you that you could build a business that starts making you money this week, possibly even today – how appealing would that sound?

I’m not talking about some get-rich-quick scheme that leaves you with nothing in the end, I’m talking about a real, tangible business that has value. Something legitimate, that you can depend on, scale, and do great things with.

When I started blogging at age 14, I had lots of time and no money. I literally had to ask my grandmother for a few dollars to buy web hosting, and thankfully, I got it. It then took months to start building even a small amount of income, and because I made some critical blogging mistakes early on, I ended up having to scrap the site altogether.

So I created a new one, which also took months and months to build up.

While every business should utilize blogging, and building up a brand through content marketing is still my favorite overall strategy, some of us can’t wait that long. We need to do something that brings in money right away – at the very least, to scale our businesses.

Fortunately, I have a solution for you. It’s just not going to be a solution most people will like:

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It’s hard to stay away from a good thing forever.

Just over two years ago, I wrote the final post on what used to be HelpStartMySite.com. I didn’t know it was going to be the final post at the time, but life got away from me. With other companies taking off more quickly than I could manage, I never ended up coming back.

I felt as if I had entered into the next stage of my career and of my life, the stage where things really begin to ‘take off’ (it turns out, no matter how much you grow, this feeling still remains.)

Anyhow, I focused all of my energy into my new ventures, and only now feel like they’re mature enough for me to step back to this place I still feel is home.

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