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WHY YOU WANT TO E.L.F.® YOUR BUSINESS Understand that, in the beginning, you will have to go through the momentum-creating stage. If you’re willing to put the effort in, you will transform your life and business. Today, I run the highest-level marketing group in the world called Genius Network. It consists of some of the world’s greatest business owners and entrepreneurs. However, I didn’t start there. Even if you’re not in a service business or a carpet cleaning business, realize this: I had to figure out how to sell something nobody wanted to buy and turn that into an Easy, Lucrative & Fun business. Some people make excuses or say, “You had it lucky.” To that I say try running a carpet cleaning business working 12-, 14-, or 16-hour days in 120-degree weather in the middle of summer in Arizona while going deeply into debt with credit cards and trying to figure out how to make it all work. If I can figure out how to do this with carpet cleaning and you have something even remotely sexier or more exciting than a carpet cleaning business, then you can do it too. In fact, think about what financial freedom means to you. Does that mean you would live in the home of your dreams, drive any car you like, work two days a week, or go on exotic vacations to different places? Whatever your dream life may be, the good news is that you can achieve your dream if you’re willing to take the time to learn how to get it. Wherever you live, you can see successful people living a life of financial freedom no matter what the state of the economy or where they might be living at the time. These people simply learned what it takes to become financially free, and then they did what it took to make it happen. Now right away, it’s easy to come up with excuses. You can say, “In my industry, things are tough. In my business, my customers, clients, patients, members, and donors are different. In my area of the country, the economy isn’t doing as well.” Before you let this type of thinking pour cold water over your dreams of financial freedom, just ask yourself, “Are there people in your industry right now who live near you and are rich or are at least making good money?” If other people can do it, why can’t you? Regardless of your present situation, regardless of the economy, regardless of who’s the leader of the country, and regardless of your past, you can make a lot more money in your business, and you can do it easily and quickly. You can do it now, and you can do it right where you’re living. Done right, E.L.F. marketing will bring you a crowd of people premotivated, prequalified, preinterested, and predisposed to doing business with you. This marketing sifts, sorts, and screens the people you want to talk to while ignoring the people you shouldn’t be talking to because they don’t need or want whatever product 15 or service you’re trying to sell. If you don’t do your marketing right, you wind up spending an enormous amount of time talking to people on the phone, electronically, or in person. This takes away time you could be making money by actually delivering your product or service to paying clients. More importantly, you wind up wasting time talking to people who have no interest in whatever it is you’re selling. The goal of E.L.F. Marketing is to put your marketing strategies on autopilot so they consistently and reliably deliver you the right prospects who want to buy what you have to sell. E.L.F. Marketing makes you more sales, which translates into greater profits, less wasted time, and fewer frustrations. Gary Halbert, one of the greatest copywriters who ever lived, said, “You’re in the arithmetic business.” Whatever business you think you’re in, the goal of that business is to make a profit—and profit is only useful to the degree that you can use it. You can have a profitable HALF business, but if you have no time, no joy, and your business is painful, I don’t give a damn how much money you make; that’s not an E.L.F. business. The whole concept of E.L.F. Marketing focuses on maximizing your productivity and maximizing your leverage so you can have an Easy, Lucrative & Fun business no matter who you are, where you are, what business you’re in, or what’s going on around you. BY: JOE POLISH Joe Polish is the founder of Genius Network® and the new Genius Network® Podcast which recently reached number No.1 in iTunes. He is President of Piranha Marketing Inc., and Co-Founder of 10XTalk. com and ILoveMarketing.com, two other highly popular free podcasts on iTunes. To find out more—and get Joe’s FREE “Anatomy of a Successful Business” Info-Graphic (plus watch Joe’s Ten-Minute Talk on Business Mindset Mastery) go to GeniusNetwork.com/RiskFree now. GENIUSNETWORK.COM