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14 WHY YOU WANT TO E.L.F.® YOUR BUSINESS WHY YOU WANT TO E.L.F. ® YOUR BUSINESS I started out as a dead-broke carpet cleaner living off credit cards and struggling year after year. I had been reading a number of books to teach myself how to become more successful, but I was still missing something. I needed an ability to communicate the value I delivered to people so they would hire me and pay me for my services. that made running a business hard, annoying, lame, and frustrating, which I call a HALF business. Occasionally, a business could be hard, annoying, lucrative, and frustrating. But if you have to struggle and you’re not enjoying your business, what’s the point? If you follow the advice of everyone else as well as traditional thinking, you almost always wind up with a HALF business. All the conventional wisdom and knowledge about marketing I had learned in college never seemed to work. I quickly discovered that there were two ways to run any type of business. First, there was the traditional way Then I discovered a contrarian way of running a business that wasn’t difficult, time-consuming, or troublesome. In fact, this contrarian way of thinking made running any business E.L.F – Easy, Lucrative & Fun. GENIUSNETWORK.COM To many people, E.L.F. is a new concept because everyone thinks that running a business must be hard, annoying, lame, and frustrating, and that’s just part of what you need to go through to succeed in business. What I’m here to tell you is that any business, even yours, can be E.L.F. so you can make more money, have more free time, and do less work. There’s a lot more to living than forcing yourself to go through a HALF business or life. I had to work really hard to build an E.L.F. (Easy, Lucrative & Fun) business. Creating momentum is more difficult than maintaining momentum.