Are You Getting The Most Out Of Your Business Cards?
One of your easiest and still one of the best tools to promote your business is the good old business card. Are you taking full advantage of them, or are they simply sitting there on your desk collecting dust? If you are just carrying a few of them in your wallet or purse and hand them out when someone asks you for one, you are leaving a lot of new customers, sales and thus money on the table. Let’s take a look at the different ways you can start utilizing business cards today to grow your business.1. Include a business card with all outgoing orders. You just never know who will be opening the envelope.2. Post your business card on community b

Put That Email Aside Until You Calm Down!
If we lived in a perfect world, business would be business.It wouldn’t be tainted with destructive competition and the petty conflicts that are so prevalent in everyday transactions. But, as you know, we’re far from that ideal.We have to handle defensive people, who make us defensive, and then who call us, defensive! When we feel burdened by someone’s ego, we should to try to ignore the weight of it.There is one, simple technique that has been working for me: waiting for a short period to respond to the communications of difficult or uninformed people.Let me give you an example.I was approached to deliver a speech by a rep

Using Employment Sites in Your Job Search
Employment Site Job Search ResourcesEmployment web sites have been the greatest advance in the field of recruiting since the creation of the resume. Since their first appearance on the World Wide Web, job boards and career portals have connected more organizations to more talent more efficiently than any other single medium in existence. Both employers and recruiters now consider these sites a critical component of their sourcing and recruiting strategy. Today, job boards and career portals serve virtually every profession, craft and trade, in every industry, in every country of the world.Employment Site Services & Featuresally thriving. How do I know? Well, let me tell you a little story...

I began acupuncture school in 1998 and graduated in 2001. For 3 straight years, I heard numerous teachers expound gloom and doom prophecies on the impossibility of making decent money as an acupuncturist. In fact, the whole environment was so entrenched in a poverty mentality that I felt deeply depressed about my ability to provide for my family with this career choice. My wife and I had our first child in my 2nd year of school and I was stressed out beyond belief about how I was going to provide a good life for this child.

After I graduated from school, I was lured out to New York to set up a holistic medical practice with a medical doctor. Did I really want to move to New York? Not really. But I was convinced that I could not set up shop where I was living (Boulder, Co.) because there were so many other practitioners.

RULE #1: Set up your practice where you truly want to be. You are the only competition you will have to face.
Through a series of serendipitous circumstances, I signed up for a 2 year continuing education program with Lonny Jarrett, M.Ac. to study 5 element acupuncture. Now I see that the universe had guided me to the East coast not to set up a practice with this doctor, but to have this opportunity to study with a great teacher. During this program, I saw in Lonny a role model of success that showed me it is indeed possible to create an amazing practice.

RULE #2: You need at least one role model of success. Your brain has to conceptualize what is possible before it will materialize. Without this experience, I NEVER would be where I am now.
After spending one year in New York, I mustered up the courage to move back to Colorado to set up a private practice on my own terms. (No, I never did end up working with the medical doctor. Instead, I worked in a pain clinic for the year. This allowed me to treat a high volume of patients AND witness firsthand how I did NOT want to set up my own practice). When I returned to Colorado, I made a commitment to myself to learn as much as I could about business and marketing. It was frustratingly clear to me that there were precious few resources available that were directly relevant to my situation. So, I created my own way of building a practice.

RULE #3: Building an acupuncture practice is all about building relationships. The conventional marketing tactics that work well for other professions are generally useless for the acupuncture profession. Creative marketing is the essence of my success. This means free or low cost marketing techniques that are targeted only to a captive audience.
Now, 4 years after starting my practice, I see as many patients as I want. This ranges from 35-50 depending on the week. That is the most I would want to see. I have done this just outside of Boulder in an area said to be saturated with acupuncturists. I make a comfortable 6 figure income working 3.5 days a week in my practice. I now believe without a shadow of a doubt that there are far more people out there who need my services than I could ever see. The demand is enormous. Why? Because the majority of Americans are struggling with their health. A small percentage of this majority is interested in doing something about it. I can only see a tiny fraction of this small percentage in my practice. Therefore, my mind only sees an overflowing practice.

RULE #4: You will attract what your mind perceives. If you believe in scarcity, you will find that it is difficult to bring in new patients. You really have to work for them. If you believe in abundance, then you will find that you will always treat just the perfect number of people every week. Your practice will grow without resistance and struggle.
There is far more to creating the practice of your dreams than I can outline here. If you are serious about taking your f

u are the only competition you will have to face.
Through a series of serendipitous circumstances, I signed up for a 2 year continuing education program with Lonny Jarrett, M.Ac. to study 5 element acupuncture. Now I see that the universe had guided me to the East coast not to set up a practice with this doctor, but to have this opportunity to study with a great teacher. During this program, I saw in Lonny a role model of success that showed me it is indeed possible to create an amazing practice.

RULE #2: You need at least one role model of success. Your brain has to conceptualize what is possible before it will materialize. Without this experience, I NEVER would be where I am now.
After spending one year in New York, I mustered up the courage to move back to Colorado to set up a private practice on my own terms. (No, I never did end up working with the medical doctor. Instead, I worked in a pain clinic for the year. This allowed me to treat a high volume of patients AND witness firsthand how I did NOT want to set up my own practice). When I returned to Colorado, I made a commitment to myself to learn as much as I could about business and marketing. It was frustratingly clear to me that there were precious few resources available that were directly relevant to my situation. So, I created my own way of building a practice.

RULE #3: Building an acupuncture practice is all about building relationships. The conventional marketing tactics that work well for other professions are generally useless for the acupuncture profession. Creative marketing is the essence of my success. This means free or low cost marketing techniques that are targeted only to a captive audience.
Now, 4 years after starting my practice, I see as many patients as I want. This ranges from 35-50 depending on the week. That is the most I would want to see. I have done this just outside of Boulder in an area said to be saturated with acupuncturists. I make a comfortable 6 figure income working 3.5 days a week in my practice. I now believe without a shadow of a doubt that there are far more people out there who need my services than I could ever see. The demand is enormous. Why? Because the majority of Americans are struggling with their health. A small percentage of this majority is interested in doing something about it. I can only see a tiny fraction of this small percentage in my practice. Therefore, my mind only sees an overflowing practice.

RULE #4: You will attract what your mind perceives. If you believe in scarcity, you will find that it is difficult to bring in new patients. You really have to work for them. If you believe in abundance, then you will find that you will always treat just the perfect number of people every week. Your practice will grow without resistance and struggle.
There is far more to creating the practice of your dreams than I can outline here. If you are serious about taking your f

atients AND witness firsthand how I did NOT want to set up my own practice). When I returned to Colorado, I made a commitment to myself to learn as much as I could about business and marketing. It was frustratingly clear to me that there were precious few resources available that were directly relevant to my situation. So, I created my own way of building a practice.

RULE #3: Building an acupuncture practice is all about building relationships. The conventional marketing tactics that work well for other professions are generally useless for the acupuncture profession. Creative marketing is the essence of my success. This means free or low cost marketing techniques that are targeted only to a captive audience.
Now, 4 years after starting my practice, I see as many patients as I want. This ranges from 35-50 depending on the week. That is the most I would want to see. I have done this just outside of Boulder in an area said to be saturated with acupuncturists. I make a comfortable 6 figure income working 3.5 days a week in my practice. I now believe without a shadow of a doubt that there are far more people out there who need my services than I could ever see. The demand is enormous. Why? Because the majority of Americans are struggling with their health. A small percentage of this majority is interested in doing something about it. I can only see a tiny fraction of this small percentage in my practice. Therefore, my mind only sees an overflowing practice.

RULE #4: You will attract what your mind perceives. If you believe in scarcity, you will find that it is difficult to bring in new patients. You really have to work for them. If you believe in abundance, then you will find that you will always treat just the perfect number of people every week. Your practice will grow without resistance and struggle.
There is far more to creating the practice of your dreams than I can outline here. If you are serious about taking your f

a comfortable 6 figure income working 3.5 days a week in my practice. I now believe without a shadow of a doubt that there are far more people out there who need my services than I could ever see. The demand is enormous. Why? Because the majority of Americans are struggling with their health. A small percentage of this majority is interested in doing something about it. I can only see a tiny fraction of this small percentage in my practice. Therefore, my mind only sees an overflowing practice.

RULE #4: You will attract what your mind perceives. If you believe in scarcity, you will find that it is difficult to bring in new patients. You really have to work for them. If you believe in abundance, then you will find that you will always treat just the perfect number of people every week. Your practice will grow without resistance and struggle.
There is far more to creating the practice of your dreams than I can outline here. If you are serious about taking your foot off the brake and achieving your potential for a lucrative acupuncture practice, then click on the link below to learn more about my consulting service . There is NO reason why you can't earn a comfortable 6 figure income in our profession. You just may need some solid guidance to show you how!