Are you blocking your Business Celebrity? – 7 ways you could be stopping your Superstar

I am not saying you need to run a 24-hour business—that’s why websites were invented after all—but let us know in any advertising if you’re not going to be open and don’t waste our time. Have your opening hours for phone calls in your ad OR point us only to your website (and let us know what we can do there).

I realise I’ve just launched this blog post into spam on a tonne of email systems because of the trigger of saying fr*e (apologies for the * but it’s the way round the spam filters…).

So what’s the deal with F-R-E-E and why is it so damn expensive?

I do the next thing. The next thing that will get my business closer to the result I am aiming for.

When you know what you’re aiming for, you can work out what to do along the way.

We can all climb a mountain if we put our minds to it (and backs into it) BUT sometimes, surely, it makes sense to take the cable car? I mean it’s there… would seem silly not to use it. And sometimes in business (and life!) even though there’s a cable car up our mountain, we either don’t see it OR choose not to use it. Are we mad?

Here’s my Christmas and New Year gift to you! I’ve recorded an audio (MP3) for you where I’ve shared 11 ways to get your Business Celebrity out in 2011.

What I’m sharing with you are 11 ways to really get YOU into your business in 2011, 11 ways to help you stand out in your market, 11 ways you can get in your spotlight next year.

If you’re happy to just do your Thing—get paid for it—all is well, but you’re probably not an entrepreneur—just a self-employed, or employed even, Thinger. It’s when you take risks—either the risk of standing out, of doing something differently, of calling yourself a ‘name’, of standing by a process or philosophy that’s yours—then you’re an entrepreneur.