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About David Wood

For 20 years David has helped entrepreneurs around the globe to grow their results, by growing themselves. A former consulting actuary to Fortune 50 companies in New York, David quit corporate life to pursue his inner journey, which now deeply influences his work. A digital nomad, David is currently dancing salsa, paragliding, and coaching his rock star entrepreneur clients from Colombia. His specialty is doubling your productivity and profits, while halving your stress. If you become a highly authentic and inspirational leader in the process, well….that can’t be helped.

Praise For Get Paid For Who You Are

The following is an excerpt from the book Get Paid For Who You Are.

“Many people wish to help the world, but don’t know the process to also make a living from it. David lays it out in a very simple 5 step process, making the power of the internet available even to us non-technical folks! Now you can make a contribution to your community and planet, while creating a lifestyle of freedom for yourself — it doesn’t get better than that!”

-John Gray, author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus – over 25 million copies sold

“The internet is still the wild, wild west for entrepreneurs. Fortunately, pioneers like David Wood arrived early and have reported back on what they’ve found. This book has something for absolutely anyone interested in starting a profitable online business in the shortest amount of time. David shares exactly what to do and how to do it, to catch the most exciting wave of our time.”

-Mike Dooley, New York times Bestselling author of infinite Possibilities, and Founder of Notes From The Universe at Tut.com

Reasons to Have a Newsletter

Here are the reasons to having a newsletter. Flowers before sex in Bahamas is something I like to talk about. You can’t expect people to come to your website and just buy something from you straight away. There’s too much competition in the world. We’ve given our email address out too many times. So a newsletter lets you develop a relationship. You wouldn’t normally invite someone to go to the Bahamas for sex unless you’re from California, maybe Norway and I’m totally generalizing. I don’t even; I mean I know one Norwegian and she wouldn’t do it. What you want to do is build a relationship first. Ask someone to dinner, maybe some flowers so the flowers in this case are your newsletter. So you build a relationship with people.

A newsletter will help you stay top of mind when someone needs you. You can’t expect that when they come to the website, they’re in a buying mode. Let’s suppose you help people with their indoor gardens, maybe they’re just kind of dabbling right now, maybe it’s going to be three, four, six weeks later that they’re like, “You know what? I’m really going to get moving on this.” And your newsletter arrives in their inbox that day and they go, “Oh, that’s right! Helen, the one with the indoor gardens. I’m going to get that CD.”

Feeling Comfortable with Your Mentor Coach

The following is an excerpt from the CoachStart Manual.

You want to feel comfortable with this person.  Interviewing, trialing or studying up on one to three coaches should be sufficient.  They no longer have to be in your country – just make sure if they’re overseas that they are willing to cover the cost of phone calls or factor this into your monthly fee.

If you’re concerned about the investment, consider what your return on that monthly investment might be.  In most cases, you only need two to three paying clients to cover the cost of your mentor coach.  And if your coach can’t help you increase your client list by MORE than two to three, something’s missing! Also consider the cost of NOT hiring a coach.

It can be very empowering to hire a mentor coach and set a goal of bringing in enough coaching income to cover the cost of your own coach by a particular date.

Remember, you don’t need a mentor coach.  No one NEEDS a coach.  It’s just a slower, less fun — and often — more expensive road without one.

Anna Dargitz on the Early Months

What were the biggest doubts you had in your early months?

Doubt and fear are my physical reactions to change. They don’t depict reality. But I get pulled in hook, line and sinker every time I make a big change. And creating a new career is one big change. My biggest doubt was that I would find a position of visibility. We doubt what we can’t control.

I was aware that preparation plus opportunity equals position. I had preparation mastered, but opportunity was up to the Universe. My worrying about it only got in my way.

I overcame the worry by surrendering to what was. I accepted my situation and recognized…right now I am preparing to give to the Universe my coaching…right now I’m working hard and not making much money…right now I’m playing a smaller game. I didn’t like it. But that was the truth of my situation. And in my heart, I believed, without a doubt and without the need for evidence that… as I was preparing something big for the Universe, the Universe was preparing something big for me.

Set Up Your Newsletter System

The following is taken from Get Paid University.

I invite you to go and do it. You can do a free trial, I believe. I haven’t checked recently but the last time I looked at getpaidforwhoyouare.com/pcs, get the auto-responder package. That’s $30 a month and you can get started. The alternative is to – as I mentioned in the book – if you’re on a very, very strict budget, you can go with MailChimp in the beginning and you’ll probably want someone to assist you with setting that up.

To set up your newsletter system so that even if you got four subscribers, four friends who come in you can be up and running and be ready to send out your first issue. The next step if it’s for bonus points put a sign up form on your website. So weebly.com, you can do it, MailChimp or work with Weebly, Professional Cart Solutions will work with Weebly and you’ll probably want some help to integrate the two so you might want, you know, I think you get x number of days of fund support with Professional Cart Solutions, use them. Say, “Hey, I need your help. Get me up and running so that people can sign up to my newsletter on Weebly.” It’s such an important step.

I Don’t Have the Money to Start a Business

The following is an excerpt from the book Get Paid For Who You Are.

Twenty years ago starting a business required a physical store front that in turn required thousands of dollars for a security deposit, monthly rent and cash to invest in inventory. So, it’s natural to associate starting a business with large up- front costs.

Those who didn’t have the money to set up a store front might start a mail-order business advertising in magazines and shipping from home, or from a drop-shipper. However, it often took weeks or months of trial and error to find the right advertisement or magazine to reach your customers.

Now, with millions of customers surfing the internet, buying and downloading information at the click of a mouse, the landscape has changed. the internet is a viable — and cheap — store front and to get started, you need very little investment.

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