When you take a good, honest look at your business and your brand, are you doing everything that you can to maximize your bottom line? If not, you need to start shaking things up and re-energize and re-dedicate yourself to your business and your life.  This episode, serial entrepreneur Peter Voogd shares his top 10 profit maximizers:

1. Start working in time chunks
2. Keep a lesson journal
3. Ask yourself what don’t you know that’s critical to your success
4. Build your dream team
5. The 3 ways you can build your business
6. Use a shotgun approach to marketing
7. Test your crazy ideas
8. Ask yourself: what’s your obsession?
9. Ask yourself: are you having fun?
10. Your customers are marketing geniuses

Tune in next week for more profit maximizing tips from Peter as he continues to draw from his own experience and his research into the best ways to expand your brand and increase your profit.

  

If you work in sales, do not skip this episode! In gathering research for Ford Motor Company, Peter Voogd uncovered advice from the world’s top sales superstars. In this episode of Young Entrepreneur Lifestyle, Peter shares his findings with you (2:45).

These people are all performing at the top of their game. If you hear something that you like, write it down and do it. Let this wisdom sink in, recharge your sales game, and take it to the next level. Be sure to stay tuned for next week as Peter shares his top 10 profit maximizes to increase your bottom line.

  

From our school years on, we are encouraged to conform and to be like everyone else. Unfortunately, what works on the playground is not what works for budding entrepreneurs. Rather than mimic successful competitors, find your own angle, your own niche, and differentiate yourself from the masses.

“Instead of comparing yourself to others, differentiate yourself from others.” Tweet This

This week, Peter Voogd shares his strategies for setting yourself apart from your peers and competitors by asking you to answer the ultimate question: why should people do business with you versus anyone else? To determine your own unique niche and competitive advantage, Peter offers some prompts to kickstart your efforts (2:25).

By standing out from the crowd, you can boost awareness of your brand and increase sales. Tune in to this podcast next week for advice from some of the top sales superstars on the planet. If you’re in sales or marketing, you don’t want to miss out on next week’s episode!

  

“The two scariest things are a lack of momentum and momentum.” Tweet This

Get the momentum that you need to power through this coming week and to take your life to the next level. With positive momentum, you will have more energy which will translate into accomplishing your goals faster, leading to your best year yet.

“Hard work trumps IQ any day of the week.” Tweet This

Listen in as Peter Voogd shares his five strategies for ensuring that you are maximizing your momentum:

1. Make an “all-out” decision
2. Put your thoughts on paper
3. Express gratitude and be present
4. Less talk, more do
5. Deep, daily reflections

Stay consistent and you will accomplish the goals you’ve set for yourself. Regardless of your past, you’re always just one step away from making the right decision. By doing the opposite of what mediocre people do, you will find the opposite results: success.

“It’s nearly impossible to make a lot of excuses and make a lot of money.” Tweet This