Is Your Business A Pyramid?
It better be.
If your business is more like once big brick or even a tall skyscraper with many bricks then you're working to hard too hard and not making nearly as much money as you should.
What do I mean by a pyramid? I mean that you're at the top of your business managing the managers. The managers in turn are managing the more numerous amount of people who do the more repetitive types work who may even have more types of people helping them out.
This is not to slight those who write articles, sales letters or are affiliates...we NEED you. A brick in the bottom of the pyramid is just as important as one at the top. No brick is "better" than the other and the whole thing would be screwed if even one fell out. The ECONOMY needs you too and odds are you will be most happy doing what you do instead of managing others because that's just not for everyone.
But right now I'm talking to the business OWNERS. Want to make a lot more money? Make sure you have a pyramid in place and you are at the top of that pyramid.
Articles? Should be done by others. SEO? Should be done by others.
PPC? Should be done by others. Selling? Should be done by others.
My goal this coming year is create a pyramid. I do not want to sell anymore. I want to have salemen (aka affilates) who do it for me for a commission (contact me for an awesome opportunity coming up by the way...). On top of them I want to have an affiliate manager who manages the affiliates.
I want an SEO team on another horizontal segment of the pyramid. Then I want an SEO manager who is the brick above them.
My job then becomes managing these few (outstanding) people in the second row of the pyramid. As long as I make sure those managers do their job...everything else should work out.
This is my plan for '09. I just gave it all away for nothing.
If you consider yourself a "top of the pyramid" kind of guy or gal, it should be your plan to.
If you're a "lower level" kind of person (every bit as important) try to figure out where you fit into the pyramid.
I think this pyramid concept is probably the most important one to a successful business and to personal happiness as well. Know the pyramid. Find out where you fit it and you'll be the happiest wealthiest person you know.
Good luck to all of us in '09 and if you'd like to be a part of my pyramid in '09 let me know what kind of "brick" you are and I'll see how I can fit you in.
Mike
If your business is more like once big brick or even a tall skyscraper with many bricks then you're working to hard too hard and not making nearly as much money as you should.
What do I mean by a pyramid? I mean that you're at the top of your business managing the managers. The managers in turn are managing the more numerous amount of people who do the more repetitive types work who may even have more types of people helping them out.
This is not to slight those who write articles, sales letters or are affiliates...we NEED you. A brick in the bottom of the pyramid is just as important as one at the top. No brick is "better" than the other and the whole thing would be screwed if even one fell out. The ECONOMY needs you too and odds are you will be most happy doing what you do instead of managing others because that's just not for everyone.
But right now I'm talking to the business OWNERS. Want to make a lot more money? Make sure you have a pyramid in place and you are at the top of that pyramid.
Articles? Should be done by others. SEO? Should be done by others.
PPC? Should be done by others. Selling? Should be done by others.
My goal this coming year is create a pyramid. I do not want to sell anymore. I want to have salemen (aka affilates) who do it for me for a commission (contact me for an awesome opportunity coming up by the way...). On top of them I want to have an affiliate manager who manages the affiliates.
I want an SEO team on another horizontal segment of the pyramid. Then I want an SEO manager who is the brick above them.
My job then becomes managing these few (outstanding) people in the second row of the pyramid. As long as I make sure those managers do their job...everything else should work out.
This is my plan for '09. I just gave it all away for nothing.
If you consider yourself a "top of the pyramid" kind of guy or gal, it should be your plan to.
If you're a "lower level" kind of person (every bit as important) try to figure out where you fit into the pyramid.
I think this pyramid concept is probably the most important one to a successful business and to personal happiness as well. Know the pyramid. Find out where you fit it and you'll be the happiest wealthiest person you know.
Good luck to all of us in '09 and if you'd like to be a part of my pyramid in '09 let me know what kind of "brick" you are and I'll see how I can fit you in.
Mike
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