Clear, practical steps to build wealth, protect it and get your freedom back sooner than you think.
If you can help others build freedom, you not only empower real people—you can build a strong, ethical, profitable business around it.
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The single biggest determinant of your wealth is your income. An increase in income will hide a multitude of sins. The easiest and quickest way to increase your income is getting a pay rise.
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I am coming up to being able to withdraw a tax-free lump sum from one of my pensions, in the next few months. This will give me around £50,000 to do something with. I invest in property and so buying another buy to let property was my first thought. However, I do wonder if I should diversify into buying a business. In this post I explore the best small businesses to buy in the UK, if you have up to £50,000 to invest.
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I write a weekly blog post at www.mikeholdensales.com where I write about personal finance, productivity, mindset and business. I then repurpose these posts as LinkedIn articles, again once a week on a Friday. The reason I’ve done them as articles is that they are usually 1-2,000 words long, which would be too long for a regular LinkedIn post. I have started to re-share these articles in my LinkedIn post feed, but are there any benefits of doing this?
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I’ve just started a monthly newsletter, which is designed to attract my email subscribers back to my blog. This will remind people of what they might have missed on my blog if they don’t visit it regularly. As a biproduct of this, it will help with the Google Algorithm and SEO. I can also occasionally, but not too often, use it to sell my products and services. It’s a win: win. In the newsletter, I include snippets of the blogs I’ve written the previous month, with a link to that blog post. I also include any insights and what I’m reading/consuming.
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I am building up a writing/ coaching practise around financial freedom, at the same time as growing and maintaining my Sales Agent business. The issue was how to multi-brand myself on my LinkedIn profile?
I can have both brands on my LinkedIn profile, but the key is to structure it in a way that makes sense and doesn’t confuse my audience. Here are the options on how to multi-brand yourself effectively.
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I am a commission only self-employed sales agent and I represent two different companies who sell different but complementary products and services. Here I show you how I put together a unified sales strategy.
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The riches are in the niches. This is the advice you hear from the experts, when you are starting a business or content creation project. Its sound advice, but it’s easier said than done. It also doesn’t rhyme where I come from!
My advice for what it’s worth would be to be your own niche.
About midway through my sales career, I changed jobs. This meant a change of company and products sold. Although I was still selling to the same industry (Food and Beverage), it also meant a change from hybrid account management/ business development to solely business development. Before I started the new role, I read (and re-read) Agile Selling by Jill Konrath. The tagline of the book was ‘get up to speed quickly.’ This is exactly what I needed. Here are my notes on the book and my key takeaways.
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Having one lead content vehicle is important, when creating content. This is because it’s much easier to get traction if you concentrate your creativity on one outlet. You can then repurpose this into other formats later. My lead content vehicle is blogging.