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If you make no sales, your business won’t be successful, so sales must be the first part of your training. However, once you make that first sale, you want to continue growing that success. During this past Friday Freebies, one of the Freebies I spoke about was MailerLite, an email automation platform. That inspired me with this blog post on the value of creating systems that lead you toward success. and I'm going to do it with a story. 1.   Systems Leverage Past Success To Create More Success Let's introduce you to Betty. She loves to cook. One day she creates this brilliant dish that everyone loves. If she writes down the ingredients she used to cook that dish and the methods she used to cook it, that's called a recipe. A recipe is a system that allows her to easily create more of that dish. 2.   Systems Create Consistent Results Without a recipe for her brilliant dish, it's going to be tough for Betty to duplicate the conditions that allowed her to make that di...

  Every Successful Person Seeks Mentors I spent from the age of 4 until the age of 36 trying, and failing, to start businesses. I didn’t have mentors. I didn’t seek them out.  I did read books, but while books are good, nothing beats a mentor who has been where it is that you are trying to go multiple times over and knows where the pitfalls are and what challenges lie ahead. Mentors can also help you check your blind spots. We all have them. These are areas of our life or our behavior that we don’t see the way that other people do.  Just as we use a mirror to examine our back because our head can’t turn around far enough to give us a clear view of it, a mentor is there to act as a mirror and help us examine the areas of our life that we can’t see on our own. This is why every successful sports team has a coach. Think of mentors as coaches who are there to help you avoid the obstacles and get past the roadblocks on your journey to success. If you're going to succeed at mak...