MSNBC featured Entrepreneur Andy Willoughby’s 3 Step Plan member success stories about creating and managing a home business. The 3 Step Plan allows members to find financial freedom while not having their lives consumed by work.
Rob and Denise Carver became members of the 3 Step Plan in 2007 after Rob was diagnosed with MS and was no longer able to work outside their home. With the 3 Step Plan, they took control of their finances and were able to work from home . “The 3 Step Plan is so simple and truly made for anyone to use. We started this almost three years ago and haven’t looked back,” said Denise Carver.
Entrepreneur Andy Willoughby’s 3 Step Plan is featured on retirementplantips.com. Members of the 3 Step Plan discuss how it benefits people of all ages and helps to achieve financial freedom by increasing wealth with their home business. Entrepreneur Andy Willoughby developed the 3 step plan to achieve three goals:
One family member creating income from a home-based business
Here is a video post by ABC, featuring USA Today contributor and small business expert Steve Strauss about why starting a small business in this tough economy can deem successful by following 5 simple tips.
Tip 1: Be A Business Person: Learn business and start writing a business plan
Tips 2: Look For Vacuums And Waves: There are 27 million businesses and 99 percent account for small businesses. Your business needs something new and different, the vacuum, and something old and successful, the wave. The vacuum is doing something different, thinking outside of the box. Wave is old that deems successful for other businesses such as a twitter page for your business.
Tip 3: Have A GREAT Online Presence: Set up a Website that makes you look professional and big no matter how small your business is because it can generate more business and profit
Tip 4: Use Available Technology: Buy software that can help contribute to your business and have a professional business space for client meeting
Tip 5: Don’t Lead: Find successful business models in your industry
Despite what some people may think about network marketing, Entrepreneur Andy Willoughby’s 3 Step Plan has assisted many people start and manage home businesses. Willoughby’s members assess how the 3 Step Plan has offered them the financial freedom and flexible hours they have always desired.
Denise and Rob Carver, members of the 3 Step Plan reviewed the system. “Andy Willoughby’s 3 Step Plan has changed our lives. My husband’s income was our sole income for the past 20 years. But everything changed in 2007 when he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and was unable to work. With Andy Willoughby’s 3 Step Plan, we took control of our own finances. The 3 Step Plan is so simple and truly made for anyone to use. We started this almost three years ago and haven’t looked back,” said Denise Carver.
For Patty Messer, a retired school teacher, octogenarian parent and mother to an adult special needs daughter, the 3 Step Plan has allowed her to manage her own schedule and finances. “Retirement means a fixed income, but the cost of living continues to rise. I am not able to work outside the house with specific hours. The 3 Step Plan gives me the freedom and flexibility to be able to work from home while taking care of my family. I am very grateful to Andy Willoughby for providing a method of advertising that is both rewarding and successful,” Messer said.
David Gillispie added that the plan is reliable, easy to use and informational. “Andy Willoughby’s 3 Step Plan has been advertised for several years, people recognize that it is a stable system. This system provides very useful training, support and tools that proved to be successful in building my home business,” Gillispie said.
Willoughby is grateful to those who are successfully utilizing his 3 Step Plan. “I created this business system to give people the opportunity to have financial freedom, and at the same time, to not have their lives consumed by work,” said Willoughby.
I want to share an article from Entrepreneur written by Lydia Dishman about how to get your business green incentives by reducing, reusing, conserving and recycling.
Green business initiatives are buzzworthy for good reason: They are a boon to the environment as well as a company’s balance sheet. A greener workplace reduces impact on the planet while being a healthier and more productive place to work. And according to Matt Becker, the head of BDO’s Green Energy Tax Practice, “Green incentives were the most significant group of tax credits and deductions for businesses this past year.” Companies that took steps to go green were eligible for up to four different sources of savings, says Becker, with tax incentives being offered from federal, state and local governments, “plus the added bonus of utility savings.”
But contrary to what many cash-strapped small-business owners may think, Marcos Cordero, CEO of the Green Business Bureau, which offers green business certification, says sustainability management doesn’t have to cost a lot. “Many things require simply changing behavior that results in excessive waste. Start small and building sustainability will pay for itself,” says Cordero.
Whether you run a homebased business or an off-site enterprise, here are several simple and affordable things you can do to run an eco-friendly business that will green your bottom line.
Reduce
Cordero says many office-based businesses spend too much on paper and toners. If you must print, he suggests trying nonbranded toners. “Private-label and re-manufactured toners are often 70 percent cheaper and work just as well,” says Cordero, a savings of hundreds or thousands of dollars, with no upfront costs.
I want to share an article from The Wall Street Journal written by Colleen DeBaise about how to expand your home-based business to increase wealth with business lines of credit, microloans or bank loans.
We’ve looked at how you can get your hands on the cash necessary to start your own business. (See related article, “How to Fund a Start-up”) But once you’ve been operating for a few years, you might need another round of cash—this time to expand or improve your business.
For instance, say your home-based business has really taken off. You’ve hired a few employees, you’re regularly meeting with more clients—and now the space in your basement seems pretty tight. You dream of buying or leasing some nice office space, furnishing it to suit your tastes, wiring it for Internet access and installing new equipment.
Expansion into new locations or territories is generally the most common reason a small business might search out a business loan. An entrepreneur who’s been in operation a few years might have other reasons to seek out financing, too—perhaps he or she wants to buy more inventory, upgrade equipment, renovate an existing facility or simply boost working capital.
Sometimes a growing business might have enough capital to fund an expansion or improvement outright. But the owner might seek out financing to ensure there’s enough money on hand to cover any unexpected businesses expenses that arise. And of course, some business owners simply can’t afford to lease new space or open another store unless they’ve got a loan. In that case, they’re betting that the revenues generated by the expansion or improvement will cover the cost of the loan.
It’s always a calculated risk to take on debt, so if you are considering it, you need to make sure the benefits are worth it. Maria Coyne, head of KeyBank’s Business Banking in Cleveland, cautions that loans aren’t for the unprepared: “If you lend someone money who’s not ready for it, or who doesn’t have a plan for it, then in many cases you are just hastening their failure.” In other words, you’d better do your homework first.
