At the end of the day, WordPress clients come to you for the purposes of goal attainment. You are the expert and so they reach out to you in order to get the best results on their path to success. But have you ever considered what is the best way to provide WordPress consulting services to these clients?

You have three options to consider:

Do-It-Yourself
One-on-One Consulting
Group Coaching

What I want to focus on today, however, is why group coaching is the best option for everyone–not just for you, but for your clients. To do this, I’m going to paint a brief picture of each consulting method to give some context for this verdict.

DIY

The do-it-yourself method refers to the end user doing the work themselves.

To provide this type of indirect coaching, you must first use your skills to create something of value: a theme, plugin, ebook, video tutorial, etc. Customers then buy the product and use it as a guide as they build and maintain their WordPress website.

The benefits of DIY?

— It’s a one-and-done approach.
— It’s a good way to reach a large volume of customers at once.
— It’s low-touch, so aside from initial work spent building the product, there isn’t much of a time investment aside from marketing it.
— You can use this as supplemental income for any WordPress business model.

Disadvantages of DIY

— Price points tend to be low, so you have to sell a lot to be profitable.
— No matter how clear your guidance is, leaving customers to guide themselves through your product can lead to serious issues in WordPress.
— There’s a limit on what you can teach them.
It’s not a good way to build relationships.

One-on-One Consulting

One-on-one consulting, or the done-for-you approach, is when you build a website on the client’s behalf.

There are, of course, times when you will interact with the client. This is especially the case at first when you spend time learning about the client’s business and get everything else you need from them to handle the project. However, most of this is done on your own.

The benefits of done-for-you consulting

— You are fully ingrained in every piece of the project, which means having a greater control over the outcome.
— You can ensure that clients have a top-of-the-line website.
— You can charge a lot more for this kind of consulting.
— The client gets your undivided attention and focus.

Disadvantages of One-on-one consultant

— The client doesn’t learn anything and will always have to rely on your help to do anything with their site.
— Client accountability is low as they know you can take care of whatever they need.
— This requires a huge time commitment on your part, which can detract from other clients.
— While you can charge a large sum for consulting, the profit margin might be slimmer than expected.
— This model isn’t scalable as it limits how many other clients you can work with.

Group coaching, one-on-one consulting or DIY – Here’s the breakdown Which one’s best

Group Coaching
Group coaching, or the done-with-you approach, is what I like to refer to as the “sweet spot” of WordPress consulting.

When offering group coaching, both you and your clients get the most out of this partnership as it’s collaborative, educational, supportive, and aimed at helping everyone improve and hit their goals.

The benefits of done-with-you?

— You and your clients work together to achieve their goals. In so doing, they learn a lot more.
— By coaching more than one client simultaneously, everyone has a chance to contribute, ask questions, and address concerns that others might not have considered or were too afraid to broach on their own.
— You can retain more clients and for longer with group coaching as there’s always something new to teach.
— There is a greater degree of accountability as each participating client keeps each other in check.
— You become a valuable resource for clients; not just someone to offload work to or get self-guided material from.
— With a strong framework, you can increase efficiency and productivity on your end.
— This is the easiest type of consulting to scale as you’re not restricted by hours in the day or manpower to grow your business.
Group coaching is an incredibly lucrative business model.

Disadvantages of Group Coaching?

There aren’t any!

Obviously, I’m not going to talk about any drawbacks to group coaching. It leads to higher success rates in terms of hitting goals and equipping clients with the tools and knowledge needed to do so now and in the future. And it’s also incredibly rewarding for you as the coach as well as for your clients.

By increasing your own efficiency and keeping clients accountable, you can offer a much better quality of service to each of your WordPress clients.

1. Productize Your Services

You might want to look at productizing your services so that you can now create packaged services that you can price at a fixed rate. And the reason is because in a lot of times people can make that buying decision on the internet because they know the prices upfront. Whereas, if they have to wait for an estimate, they might not ever contact you for it. Some people they see or request an estimate and they just won’t bother even if they are curios what you are going to charge. They just won’t bother because they think they are getting into a sales process, it takes time, they want instant gratification… A lot of psychology comes in there when people see that “Request an estimate” type of button or “Contact our sales team” or whatever.

So one of the things about productizing your services is to literally turn it into a product; in that you know what the price is upfront.

Now, it might be that you got to simplify some things which is going to get us into our next point here, in just a minute, but it might require also that you stop doing certain things and that you concentrate on certain aspects of your service offering that are pretty repetitive.

Stop offering á la carte type of things (that is all customized and every kind is being treated different), and concentrate on a niche.

And so, it is the idea of offering packaged services and instead of trying to be all things to all people, we productized it and we might even simplify it down to just a few things.

2. Simplify Things

Offer less things. Don’t have one of these situations where you are trying to accommodate such a wide variety of clients that you have to do things like “Request an estimate” and have a fancy phone call with them and that type of thing to determine what they want and you got to do the estimate process and all that… Just offer less stuff. You might even want to specialize what you are doing so instead of being all things to a very wide market, you just pick a sub-section of that market and you just focus on them. And then you become the person who does “that”. And that is going to make you stand out in the sea of like wider amount of people.

Now, that is just an idea off the top of my head in my particular market and obviously membership sites is something that I am big on and that is why I thought of it. But the idea here is to simplify; to offer less stuff, maybe more specialized stuff that you just do it better.

3. Systematize Production

A system is basically like an assembly line in a factory where you get certain inputs, certain very predictable steps take place to those inputs and then on the other end of it you get a finished product. That is systematizing things.

Now, you can do this with a service as well because most likely, your service consist of certain fairly repeatable steps; things that you kind of do with most people, and it is going to be the same from client to client. And so, you should be looking at those items and how to systematize things.

—Look for opportunities: to create templates, shortcuts, things that you do on a repeating basis, but now you have got 60% to 70% of the work already done because it is so similar and then all you got to do is tweak that remaining 30% for that client.

—Look for opportunities: for canned responses where you have really good, solid customer support replying and stuff like that, that are already pre-written so that you can concentrate on just delivering and only customizing the necessary things.

Even in terms of marketing… You might have a customer follow-up process for a new lead and you can totally automate all that with your email autoresponder and so your site is literally doing your marketing for you while you are sitting there just working on growing the business and performing client work.

—Look for opportunities: to use forms. Like for example, if you usually need certain input from your clients and they are like everybody needs to answer the same questions, send them to a form which asks for all those things and it avoids all these email back and forth. You can systematize that using forms.

—Look for opportunities: for internal staff checklist and even if it is just yourself, make checklists for the things that you do. Also, look for anything that you can turn into a procedure… a checklist, that type of thing. This is all a matter of systematizing production.

It might seem like an extra amount of work at the beginning but I guarantee you, it is going to save you a lot of time later on. It is going to allow you to scale up to service offering in a much bigger way plus it is definitely going to come in handy when it comes to productize the business even further.

4. Turn Your 1-on-1 Work Into A Group Offer

Now in some lines of work, this isn’t going to make sense. But if you are in the consulting business, coaching, then it most certainly can; in fact, a lot of coaches actually do that. So instead of actually offering one on one work where your time is not really very leveraged at all because you can only talk to only one person at a time, you instead scale up by offering small group coaching where you might put 5 to 10 clients into one class. And you teach that class and it is basically very systematized, you are going to have a systematized process at this point which you can bring 5 to 10 people at a time through it, simultaneously. So instead of you talking to one person at a time, you are now talking to ten. You are delivering 10 x scales from what you were before.

Now, obviously, every client is going to have their own little unique thing and so you are still probably going to have some one on one in there and you build that end to the value of the program and you make time for that. But then, you are only talking about those things that are custom to that client. You are not covering and repeating ground with each client one to one because you are now got the group coaching to it.

The other thing that is great about offering group coaching type of things like these is that it allows you to basically open and close each one and that provides that marketing scarcity which you can say “Hey, you got to get on this class by such and such date” and it gives you that sense of urgency and it helps you basically close the sale and then you deliver for a while… And then when that class is done, you go to marketing mode again or to bring in the next set of clients.

So it works out really well, especially again, if you are in a consulting or a coaching style of business.

5. Record Everything That You Do

Record all of it; even your one on one call with your clients. Now, it doesn’t mean that you are going to like distribute those calls; I wouldn’t think that is legal, but record everything that you do just for archiving purposes. So you are going to find; from that material that you are going to have things that you can add in to products later.

Obviously, for private one on one type of work, you are not going to be able to do that, at least without permission. If you got their permission to turn their thing into a case study, then you can go ahead. But otherwise, you definitely don’t want to do that. But you want to record everything that you do for people, especially for “how-to” type of things, because while you are performing a service…

Let’s say you are on your computer and you are performing some service that some client hired you to do. Why not open up a video recording software and just talk out how you are doing what you are doing? It is a pretty big deal because that material can turn in to a product later. But the other thing that it does is that it enables you to someday be able to walk away from what you are doing and have somebody else fulfill your role. And this is something important for all service businesses to keep in mind; especially, like single entrepreneurial business whom they are doing all the work themselves… is that even though you are doing all the work and you are like the face of the whole thing, you want to document your own job as if it is a job separated from you.

In other words, don’t identify yourself with your own work like it is a part of your identity. Look at your job as a separate job, as an employment position. And you write it up and you document it as if it is just another employment position. And what you are doing is you are making that thing doable by somebody else. And therefore, the entire operation becomes less dependent on you over time and that means that one of your avenues of scaling is simply going to be hiring other people to do it. And therefore, you are still doing a service business but you are now the owner of the operation and somebody else is now doing what you used to be doing.

Record everything you do because it will get to come in handy for future products or it will come in handy for you to be able to make your position doable by somebody else.

6. Take The Repeatable Systems And Turn Them Into Products

So this one you might have known was coming, but you have been recording everything, you are hopefully even spending time on systematizing your production, you may have simplified operations to allow you to do that, you are not focusing to being all things to all people but you are specializing on certain services that you know people need and want…

And now, you take a lot of these repeating systems that you are now doing and you assemble them into a product that people can purchase from you and it is complete and total scaled at that point. Because if it is going to be a digital product and now people who don’t want to have you do it for themselves; they just want you to do it on a cheaper way, you say “Well, fine! Here’s the how-to, there you go… It’s cheaper!” And go for it! And it is a digital product so it is 100% profit to you, right? And the other thing too is that you can build that into your funnel at that point where you have the product offer, maybe a series of different product offers but you are also, still offering the service. It is just now more of a back end product; it is more of a higher end product, but you now have that front-end type of thing of digital products in your business.

7. Look For Opportunities For The Back End Of Your Sales Funnel

So you have got your core thing that you do, hopefully now you are thinking about simplifying it, systematizing it, productizing it and so on, you still want to look at the idea of a sales funnel. And you want to build that into your service business. So some opportunities for this back end of your sales funnel might include service arbitrage.

Service arbitrage is very simply where you have some other business provider; some other provider out there performing a service that your clients might also want. But instead of doing it for them yourself, you arbitrage somebody else’s service and you take a cut on the other end.

So let’s say that other providers charges $500 and maybe they cut you a deal because you are referring people to them and they don’t have to do any marketing work and they are now charging $300, and then you get to pocket $200 service arbitrage. So look for opportunities to partner with other businesses to refer people to them and basically you are getting a finder’s fee. And then you can set this up in multiple ways.

It can be a simple affiliate type of relationship or it could even be where that person is performing the work under your brand and you guys just create kind of a licensing agreement there. So another opportunity for a back end would be in offering supporting offers as an affiliate; basically, simple affiliate marketing. So what you would do there is look at products and services (if you want) but in this case, I am talking about products, software and things like that, that would be of interest to your type of clientele.

Last one I want to mention here for a backend opportunity would be Retainer Fees… So if you are in the service business and you kind of get the core product done, you can actually have a maintenance agreement after that or something like that. You are on retainer to help them debug certain issues and they might pay you monthly for that and that is just basically the opportunity to have you do smaller scale follow-up work. But what you have essentially done there is allow you to build a recurring revenue into a service business, which is a really, really beautiful thing. I’ll talk more on this same topic in the part two. So stay tuned.

Creamy Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 3 cups of flour
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder/soda
• 1 teaspoon of pure grounded cinnamon (optional)
• 10ml of vanilla flavored essence
• 10ml of strawberry flavor
• 250g of butter/ margarine (3 of 100 naira butter or V/2 satchet of butter?)
• 7 eggs
• 3 tablespoons of powdered milk flavour(optional)
• 1 tin of milk
• 1 satchet of icing sugar

Procedure

• In a neat bowl, add sugar and butter and start mixing. … Mix for about 3 mins, add vanilla and strawberry flavor, cinnamon and continue mixing.
• Mix again for about 5-10 mins till the mixture is smooth and fluffy.
• Using a sieve., sieve in flour.
• Add baking powder or soda, powdered milk flavour. In another bowl, beat in the eggs, beat at a high speed until it foams.
• Slowly start mixing the flour in the bowl and add the beaten eggs gradually,,, open the tin milk and pour adequate quantity and mix,
• Continue mixing the cake with your spatula until your cake mixture is neither too thick nor too soft. Don’t add water in your mixture as it can cause your cake to spoil easily and not last longer.
• Grease the under of your cake pan with oil, sprinkle a little flour on it and pour in the mixture.
• Remember to preheat the oven or your local oven and then bake for 20 – 30 mins.
• Do not open your oven frequently to check your cake to avoid trapped air and cracking.
• To check if your cake is done, use a neat broom stick and stick inside the cake if it comes out oily and dry then it’s done but if it’s sticky and wet it’s not done. For cupcakes icing
• Put butter in a clean bowl, sieve in the icing sugar, add vanilla flavor and add some liquid milk and start mixing with your spatula until smooth and fluffy. Your icing can be plain or coloured.
• Transfer some of the icing to your pump ice and start decorating.

Ferrero Rocher Stuffed Cupcakes

INGREDIENTS

• Devil’s food cake mix, plus ingredients called for on box
• 12 Ferrero Rocher chocolates
• 1 cup butter
• 3 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup Nutella
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1/2 tea spoon salt
• 3 table spoon heavy cream, if needed
• Chopped Ferrero Rochers, for garnish

DIRECTIONS

• Preheat oven to 350° F and line a muffin pan with cupcake liners.
• Prepare cake mix according to the instructions on the box. Fill muffin tins 1/4 full with batter and top with a Ferrero Rocher chocolate. Top each with more batter, so that the cupcakes are 3/4 of the way full. Bake 25 minutes, or until no longer wet.
• Meanwhile, make buttercream: In a large bowl, beat butter and powdered sugar together until light and fluffy. Next beat in nutella, vanilla and salt until smooth and fully combined. If you feel your buttercream is too thick, add cream one tablespoon at a time and beat to combine.
• When cupcakes are cooled, pipe on frosting and garnish with chopped Ferrero Rochers. Serve

S’mores Cupcakes

INGREDIENTS

• 3 c. graham cracker crumbs (about 20 full-sheet graham crackers)
• 12 tbsp. melted butter
• 1/2 c. granulated sugar
• Pinch kosher salt
• Devil’s food cake mix, plus ingredients called for on box
• 1 c. chocolate chips
• 1/2 c. heavy cream
• 24 marshmallows

DIRECTIONS

• Preheat oven to 350° and line two 12-cup muffin tins with cupcake liners.
• Make cupcakes: Combine graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, sugar, and salt in small bowl. Press about 1 tablespoon of mixture into each cupcake liner to make mini crusts.
• Prepare cake mix according to box instructions and divide batter between liners and bake for a couple minutes less than the box instructs, about 16 minutes.
• While the cupcakes are baking, make a quick ganache: Place chocolate chips in a medium, heatproof bowl and set aside. Heat heavy cream in a small saucepan over medium heat and bring to a gentle simmer. Pour hot cream over chocolate chips, whisking constantly until smooth.
• When cupcakes are almost done baking, pull them out and spoon about a tablespoon of ganache onto each cupcake, then top each with a marshmallow. (If it feels unwieldy, place the marshmallow on its side.) Return trays to oven and bake—watching closely!—until marshmallows are golden and very soft, 4 to 5 minutes more.

Almond Joy Cupcakes

INGREDIENTS

CUPCAKES

• 1 1/2 c. semisweet chocolate chips
• 1 c. (2 sticks) unsalted butter
• 5 large eggs
• 1 c. granulated sugar
• 2 tbsp. cocoa powder

COCONUT FROSTING

• 1 c. heavy cream
• 1/4 c. coconut milk
• 2 tbsp. confectioners’ sugar
• pinch kosher salt

TOPPING

• 3/4 c. sweetened shredded coconut
• 12 cocoa-dusted almonds
• 2 oz. semisweet chocolate, chopped

DIRECTIONS

• Heat oven to 375°F. In a small saucepan, melt the chocolate and butter over low heat until smooth. Set aside to cool for 10 minutes, then whisk in the eggs, sugar, and cocoa.
• Meanwhile, line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners. Divide the mixture among the liners (they will be filled about 1⁄4-inch from the top). Bake until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean, 25 to 28 minutes. Let cool completely (don’t worry when they sink).
• Make the frosting. Using an electric mixer, in a large bowl, beat the cream, coconut milk, sugar, and salt, gradually increasing the speed until medium peaks form, 2 to 4 minutes.
• Spoon frosting on top of cupcakes (scant 1⁄4 cup each), then sprinkle with coconut and top each with an almond.
• In a small microwave-safe bowl, melt the chocolate until smooth, about 20 seconds. Drizzle over the cupcakes.

PER CUPCAKE 475 CAL, 36 G FAT (22 G SAT FAT), 141 MG CHOL, 67 MG SOD, 5 G PRO, 39 G CAR, 2 G FIBER

Chocolate Merlot Cupcakes

INGREDIENTS

FOR THE CUPCAKES

• 1 box Devils food cake mix
• 3/4 c. merlot wine
• 1/2 c. water
• 1/3 c. vegetable oil
• 3 eggs

FOR THE FROSTING

• 1 c. (2 sticks) butter, softened
• 6 c. powdered sugar, divided
• 1 c. fresh cherries, pitted and diced, plus more for garnish
• 1/4 c. merlot wine
• Pinch kosher salt
• Pink food coloring, optional

DIRECTIONS

• Preheat oven to 350° and line two cupcake tins with cupcake liners. In a large bowl using a hand mixer, beat cake mix, wine, water, oil, and eggs. Fold in chocolate chips. Fill cupcake liners about two-thirds full with batter.
• Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of each cupcake comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Let cool in pans 10 minutes, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
• Make frosting: In a large bowl, using a hand mixer, beat butter with half of the powdered sugar until fluffy. Add cherries and beat until combined. Add wine and salt and beat until incorporated, then add remaining powdered sugar and beat until smooth. Stir in food color if desired.
• Transfer frosting a piping bag fit with a round attachment. Frost cupcakes and garnish with cherries.

Mgbachi Diamond bakeries and pastries

1. Richard Branso: Here’s his best business advice for aspiring entrepreneurs who want to start a business of their own, first-hand:

The best businesses come from people’s bad personal experiences. If you just keep your eyes open, you’re going to find something that frustrates you, and then you think, ‘well I could maybe do it better than it’s being done,’ and there you have a business.

“If you can change people’s lives, you have a business.”

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If you can improve people’s lives, you have a business. People think, ‘well everything’s been thought of,’ but actually, all of the time, there are gaps in the market here and gaps in the market there.

2. Arianna Huffington: Here’s her business advice for entrepreneurs who want to start a business for the first time:

If you’re going to start a business, you need to really love it, because not everybody is going to love it. When The Huffington Post was first launched in 2005, there were so many detractors. I remember a critic who wrote that The Huffington Post was an unsurvivable failure.

“You have to really believe in your product to deal with the naysayers and persevere.”

When you get reviews like that and detractors like that, you have to really believe in your product. When you really believe in your product, you are willing to deal with all the naysayers and persevere.

3. Mark Cuban: Here’s his business advice to those who want to start a business:

What I always ask people is, (1) is it something you love to do and (2) is this something you’re good at?

“Choose something that you both love and are good at doing.”

Then, taking that first step is always the hardest. It’s terrifying, but really, it’s about preparation. We all go through this process where you’ve got the business idea, you get that feeling in your stomach and you get all excited. Then you talk to a friend, and your friend says, ‘oh wow that’s pretty cool, I’ve never heard of anything like that. I’d buy that.’ And then you do the Google search.

The first thing I’ll tell you, is that just because you don’t see it on Google, doesn’t mean one hundred companies haven’t gone out of business doing the same thing. It hasn’t been done for a reason, because every company that’s tried it, has gone out of business.

4. Robert Herjavec: Here’s Robert’s best business advice for aspiring entrepreneurs when it comes to pitching your idea:

You have 90 seconds, if you’re lucky. If you can’t make your point persuasively in that time, you’ve lost the chance for impact. Facts and figures are important, but it’s not the only criteria, you must present in a manner that generates expertise and confidence.

“You have 90sec to make an impact in your pitch. Show expertise and confidence.”

If you’re not prepared to make your pitch, you may just miss your next big opportunity.

5. Sophia Amoruso: Here’s her best piece of business advice to aspiring entrepreneurs who want to start a business:

Don’t give up, don’t take anything personally, and don’t take no for an answer; you never know what you’re going to learn along the way.

“Don’t give up, don’t take anything personally, and don’t take no for an answer.”

The people who told me no, were the people that eventually told me yes; so don’t forget it.

6. Tony Robbins: Here’s his business advice for aspiring entrepreneurs who want to start a business:

The most painful mistake I see in first-time entrepreneurs is thinking that just having a business plan or a great concept is enough to guarantee success. It’s not. Business success is 80% psychology and 20% mechanics. And, frankly, most people’s psychology is not meant for building a business.

“Business success is 80% psychology and 20% mechanics.”

My business advice? Think honestly about who you are, what you want to accomplish, and what mindset you need to have to get there. Because the biggest thing that will hold you back is your own nature. Few people are natural risk-takers or emotionally ready for the challenges of building a business. You can’t just sign up for a marathon and run it without ever training. You have to increase your capacity and become fit. Being an entrepreneur requires similar kinds of emotional and psychological fitness so that you don’t become the chokehold on your business’s success.

7. Tim Ferriss: Today, he’s passing on the best business advice he’s received:

The best advice I’ve ever received is that you’re the average of the 5 people you associate with most.

“Choose friends wisely. You’re the average of the 5 people you associate with most.”

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I’ve actually heard this from more than one person, including bestselling authors, Drew Houston of Dropbox, and many others who are icons of Silicon Valley. It’s something I re-read every morning. It’s also said that ‘your network is your net worth.’ These two work well together.

8. Guy Kawasaki: Here’s his business advice to aspiring entrepreneurs who want to start a business of their own:

My best business tip is to focus on the prototype. Don’t focus on your pitch deck, business plan or financial projections.

“Focus on the prototype.”

If you get a prototype out and you get enough people using it, you never have to write a business plan, do a forecast or do anything like that. A prototype is where you separate the BS from the reality.

9. Derek Sivers: Here’s his best business advice for aspiring entrepreneurs:

Start now, you don’t need funding. Watch out for when you want to do something big, but say you can’t until you raise money to fund the idea. It usually means you’re more in love with the idea of being big than with actually doing something useful.

“Start now. For an idea to be big, it has to be useful-being useful doesn’t need funding.”

For an idea to get big, it has to be something useful–and being useful doesn’t need funding. If you want to be useful, you can always start right now with just 1% of what you have in your grand vision. It’ll be a humble prototype of your grand vision, but you’ll be in the game. You’ll be ahead of the rest because you actually started, when others waited for the finish line to magically appear at the starting line.

10. Nir Eyal: Here’s his two cents and success tips for first-time entrepreneurs who want to start a business:

The easiest way to tell if someone is a first-time entrepreneur is when they’re secretive about their ideas. I don’t reply to people who ask me to sign an NDA. Real entrepreneurs know good ideas are cheap and that success comes from hard work, not a stroke of genius.

“Good ideas are cheap. Success comes from hard work, not a stroke of genius.”

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The other big mistake I see entrepreneurs make is building a product for a customer they don’t know well. That’s why I always advise entrepreneurs to build a product for themselves–at least that way you ensure you’ve built something for a user you know intimately. All of the great tech companies of the past decade–Facebook, Twitter, Slack, Snapchat–were built by founders who were making products they wanted to use.

11. Tara Gentile: Here’s Tara’s take on the biggest mistake new entrepreneurs make when they want to start a business:

They wait to get started. They wait until they have more information, more experience, more, more money, and a more perfect version of whatever they have created.

“The best way to learn is by doing. Stop waiting and bring your ideas to life today.”

Want to learn more from Tara? Check out her classes on CreativeLive covering a wide range of topics like turning your service into a product, building a community around your business, writing and selling eBooks, and more.

12. Chase Jarvis: Here’s his business advice for new entrepreneurs who want to start a business of their own:

Scratch your own itch. Go after solving a problem that you have. Something that’s near and dear to you, not some random market opportunity.

“Scratch your own itch and solve something that’s near & dear to you.”

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Because, when things get hard, if you’re chasing just the dollars, or a random market opportunity, you’re not going to be able to have the fortitude, the passion, to stay with it.

13. Noah Kagan: Here’s his business advice for entrepreneurs wanting to start a business for the first time:

“Don’t waste time or spend money on non-core issues when starting a business. In fact, don’t spend any money until you make some.”

14. Steli Efti: Here’s what Steli has to share as far as business advice for aspiring entrepreneurs who want to start a business today:

One of the most painful and common mistakes I see first-time entrepreneurs make is that they fall in love with their own business idea.

They’ll spend months building what they believe to be the next innovative, disruptive, game-changing startup. Then they launch… and nobody buys, nobody cares, nothing happens.

“Don’t fall in love with your idea, fall in love with the problem you’re solving.”

Don’t fall in love with your business idea. Instead, fall in love with the problem you’re trying to solve for your customers, and validate your business idea early on that it is a problem worth solving.

15. Vanessa Van Edwards: Here’s what she believes is the biggest mistake entrepreneurs make when they start a business for the first time:

There is no path! I think the biggest mistake first-time entrepreneurs make is they desperately want a structured business plan and direct path.

“Don’t plan everything! Listen to your customers and make changes as needed.”

One of the most important things about starting a business is being flexible. Listening to customers, watching data and making iterations and changes as needed. Sometimes having a path or a rigid business plan can limit you. Think of your business like a meadow not a path, just play!

16. Lewis Howes: Here’s his single best piece of business advice for aspiring young entrepreneurs:

Perfectionism cripples a lot of entrepreneurs. They won’t launch their site or put their product up for sale until they think it’s perfect, which is a big waste of time. It’s never going to be perfect.

“Don’t let perfectionism cripple you. Launch as soon as possible and adapt.”

Pitch your product or service as soon as you have the bare bones of it put together. This will give you valuable feedback about whether your market really wants it. You can polish it later.

17. Jon Acuff: Here’s his business advice for aspiring entrepreneurs who want to start a business:

What I’ve learned, and what you’re going to learn too, is that being an entrepreneur takes hustle. And here’s the problem: Sometimes we think hustle is about becoming a workaholic or adding a lot of stuff to our lives.

“Hustle the right way. It’s not about doing more, it’s about doing what you need to do.”

Hustle is an act of focus, not frenzy. Hustle is about subtraction and addition. It’s not about doing more, it’s about focusing on the things that you need to do, in order to move your business forward. Hustle the right way.

18. Syed Balkhi: When asked to share his best business advice for young entrepreneurs, here’s what he has to say:

“Perfect is a curse. Innovation is messy. Test, learn, and improve.”

“Perfect is a curse. Innovation is messy. Test, learn, and improve.”

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Often new entrepreneurs wait too long to put their product out in the market. With limited resources at hand, its crucial that you get an MVP out ASAP and start getting traction. Take the user’s feedback to iterate and improve your products.

Not launching fast enough is a mistake you simply can’t afford to make. If you want to get an edge over others, launch now!

19. Sujan Patel: Here’s his best business advice for first-time entrepreneurs who want to start a business today:

The most painful mistake I see inexperienced entrepreneurs make is copying or doing the same things that successful entrepreneurs have done, expecting similar results. What first-time entrepreneurs don’t realize is that the world is not a vacuum and there’s more going on behind the scenes than it appears. There’s much more effort that has gone into creating the success they see on the surface, and there’s no guarantee that a particular tactic or strategy will be successful for everyone.

“Don’t get caught up in the glamour and don’t take things for face value.”

My advice to first time entrepreneurs is to not get caught up in the glamour and don’t take things for face value. Rather, use these successes they read about as inspiration for what you can do too. I almost always recommend they set more realistic goals and forget about ‘going viral’ or trying to be like someone else.

20. Ilise Benun: Here’s how she advises first-time entrepreneurs when it comes to setting expectations around what it takes to start a business:

Most people start out with completely unrealistic expectations of what level of effort is required and how long it takes to get a business off the ground. They are easily discouraged and give up way too soon. I blame it on wishful thinking.

“There’s no guarantee in business. Approach it with humility, grit and determination.”

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The reality is that there is no way to know how long it will take or whether it will work at all. So my advice is to approach it with humility, grit and a willingness to do whatever it takes to succeed, even if that means you have to work really hard for a long time.

21. Jeff Haden: Here’s his best piece of business advice to aspiring entrepreneurs who want to start a business of their own:

Never forget that your business needs to take in more money than it spends. I know that sounds too simple, but so many people lose sight of that. That’s also why so many first-time entrepreneurs over-invest (or spend so much of their time looking for investors) early on.

“Create solutions that cost little to no money & always spend less than you make.”

Instead, work to come up with a creative solution that costs little to no money. That forced discipline will help you spend less than you make, even when you’re not making a lot. Sometimes capital is necessary, but at some point there must be return on that capital. There’s nothing wrong with taking equity investment, investing for the future, even losing money for a few years. But your plan has to get you back to that simple equation of making more than you spend.

22. Larry Kim: Here’s his best business advice for aspiring entrepreneurs:

The biggest mistake I see entrepreneurs make is over-estimating the novelty of their big idea.

“Don’t over-estimate the novelty of your big idea. Wait for a truly great one.”

Most often when I get pitched ideas from first-time entrepreneurs, I ask how is this different from [x]? Seriously, because it takes so much time and effort to go all-in on a business idea, you might as well wait for a truly great one.

23. Srinivas Rao: Here’s his business advice for aspiring entrepreneur who want to start a business of their own:

Probably the most costly mistake many entrepreneurs make is in choosing the people that they work with or hire. It’s a mistake I’ve made. And it’s a mistake I’ve seen over and over again.

“Work with people on projects before handing over equity or large sums of money.”

The way we’ve gotten around that is to always work with somebody on a project before we start handing over significant equity stakes or large sums of money. If the trial project goes well, then talk about expanding the scope of the relationship. Sam Altman from Y-Combinator once said something to the equivalent of ‘a bad hire in the first few employees can be detrimental to a startup.’ I’ve really taken that to heart in my business.

24. Michelle Schroeder: Here’s her business advice for new entrepreneurs who want to start a business and become gainfully self-employed:

The most painful mistake I see first-time (or inexperienced) entrepreneurs make is that they see others in their industry or blog niche as competition. This can significantly hold you back, as you may never learn industry secrets and tips, make genuine friends, and more.

“Don’t view others in your niche as competition. Network and build relationships.”

Instead, I think you should see others in your industry or niche as colleagues and friends. You should network with others, attend conferences, reach out to people, and more.

25. Conrad Wadowski: Here’s the business advice Conrad has to impart with entrepreneurs who want to start a business today:

At this point, I’ve worked closely with dozens of new technology products.

Across the board, the most painful mistake I see first-time entrepreneurs make is placing too much focus on building product versus learning from users.

There usually isn’t much risk in building software, but there’s a lot of risk in bringing a new product to market.

A few ways to solve this include: constantly talking to users, building an audience while or before you build and taking time to learn how users actually behave with your product. Not easy, but if you can really understand which type of user you want to optimize toward, you’ll increase your odds of finding an initial wedge in the market.

26. Ankur Nagpal: Here’s his business advice for new entrepreneurs who want to start a business:

The most painful mistake I see people making repeatedly, particularly with their first project is striving for perfection over getting it done.

Weeks turn into months, months into years. As a result, whatever they are trying to launch isn’t out there gaining traction in the marketplace because of the fear of being perfect.

My advice is to go out and break shit. It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission when you start a business.

The only way your project, your business idea or whatever is in your mind is going to become better, is by having people use it in the real-world. Listen to them and iterate until you have a solid product.

27. Laurence Bradford: Here’s her business advice to first-time entrepreneurs who want to start a business of their own:

“The biggest mistake new entrepreneurs make is not putting themselves out there. If you want to succeed as an entrepreneur, you need to show others what you’re doing.”

Instead of praying an audience (or customers) will find you, get in front of people in your space. Start a blog, podcast or create video content. Take advantage of social media. Attend in-person events. One way to make “putting yourself out there” easier is by making an effort to help others. (Sounds counterintuitive, I know!) On the individual level, maybe it’s by making an introduction. For a larger audience, perhaps it’s by pursuing and executing on actionable blog post ideas. However, by being helpful you’ll make a lasting impression.

28. Nathan Latka: Here’s his business advice for first-time entrepreneurs who want to start a business of their own:

“The most painful mistake I see first-time entrepreneurs make is that they try and invent something totally new because their ego tells them they have to.”

It’s much smarter to copy a competitor you like, then tweak one or two things that you think will put you over the top.

29. Tony Stubbelbine: Here’s his best business advice for aspiring entrepreneurs who want to start a business:

“I’ve been trying to start companies for years and I still make this mistake. Planning too far ahead. Many new entrepreneurs are stuck on this idea of what the company could be five years from now. They’re trying to make the five year version of the company happen tomorrow.”

What they need to realize is that if you have no customers, the next milestone is one customer. A very powerful tactic to overcome this is to help young entrepreneurs focus on building on momentum. That means focusing on the next step and trusting that those first few steps will build to the speed and impact you want.

30. Advice from Steve Rayson: From his experience starting and growing four different businesses over the years, here’s Steve’s business advice for new entrepreneurs who want to start a business without falling flat:

“Avoid being a single founder.”

Creating a company is hard work, most startups fail. The one characteristic you need above all others is resilience. You need to be relentless and work harder than the competition, and even then you will have tough times. It is for this reason I have always started companies with more than one founder. It means there is someone to share the load, to reflect and to support each other.

It’s not impossible to be a single founder but in my experience it is easier to be and successful as a team.
Whether you want to start a business for the first time or you’re an experienced entrepreneur, you’ll find incredible value in the best business advice and success tips these entrepreneurs have to share today—plus, for further reading, see part two of this article

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses found in both animals and humans. A novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a new strain of coronavirus that has not been previously identified in humans. The new, or novel coronavirus, now called 2019-nCoV, was detected after the first reported case in Wuhan, China in December 2019. 💁🏻‍♂

You can watch the video by WHO to know more 👇

People with 2019-nCoV infection, the flu, or a cold typically develop respiratory symptoms such as 💁🏻‍♂

🤒 Fever
😫 Tiredness
🤧 Dry Cough
👃 Runny Nose
🤢 Sore Throat
💩 Diarrhea
😐 Breathing Difficulties

It can be difficult to identify the disease based on symptoms alone. In any case, if you have fever, cough and difficulty breathing seek medical care early.

Older people, and those with underlying medical problems like high blood pressure, heart problems or diabetes, are more likely to develop serious illness. People with fever, cough and difficulty breathing should seek medical attention.
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses found in both animals and humans. A novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a new strain of coronavirus that has not been previously identified in humans. The new, or novel coronavirus, now called 2019-nCoV, was detected after the first reported case in Wuhan, China in December 2019. 💁🏻‍♂

You can watch the video by WHO to know more 👇

People with 2019-nCoV infection, the flu, or a cold typically develop respiratory symptoms such as 💁🏻‍♂

🤒 Fever
😫 Tiredness
🤧 Dry Cough
👃 Runny Nose
🤢 Sore Throat
💩 Diarrhea
😐 Breathing Difficulties

It can be difficult to identify the disease based on symptoms alone. In any case, if you have fever, cough and difficulty breathing seek medical care early.

Older people, and those with underlying medical problems like high blood pressure, heart problems or diabetes, are more likely to develop serious illness. People with fever, cough and difficulty breathing should seek medical attention.

Wash your hands frequently

Regularly and thoroughly clean your hands with an alcohol-based hand rub or wash them with soap and water.

Why? Washing your hands with soap and water or using alcohol-based hand rub kills viruses that may be on your hands.

Maintain social distancing

Maintain at least 1 metre (3 feet) distance between yourself and anyone who is coughing or sneezing.

Why? When someone coughs or sneezes they spray small liquid droplets from their nose or mouth which may contain virus. If you are too close, you can breathe in the droplets, including the COVID-19 virus if the person coughing has the disease.

Avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth

Why? Hands touch many surfaces and can pick up viruses. Once contaminated, hands can transfer the virus to your eyes, nose or mouth. From there, the virus can enter your body and can make you sick.

Practice respiratory hygiene

Make sure you, and the people around you, follow good respiratory hygiene. This means covering your mouth and nose with your bent elbow or tissue when you cough or sneeze. Then dispose of the used tissue immediately.

Why? Droplets spread virus. By following good respiratory hygiene you protect the people around you from viruses such as cold, flu and COVID-19.

If you have fever, cough and difficulty breathing, seek medical care early

Stay home if you feel unwell. If you have a fever, cough and difficulty breathing, seek medical attention and call in advance. Follow the directions of your local health authority.

Why? National and local authorities will have the most up to date information on the situation in your area. Calling in advance will allow your health care provider to quickly direct you to the right health facility. This will also protect you and help prevent spread of viruses and other infections.

Even in areas experiencing outbreaks, meat products can be safely consumed if these items are cooked thoroughly and properly handled during food preparations

❌ Sick animals and animals that have died of diseased should not be eaten

✅ Use different chopping boards and knives for raw meat and cooked foods

✅ Wash your hand between handling raw and cooked foods

❌Avoid Travel if you have a fever and cough

❌Avoid close contact with people suffering from a fever and cough

✅Frequently clean hands using alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water

Avoid touching eyes, nose or mouth

✅When coughing and sneezing cover mouth and nose with flexed elbow or tissue – throw the tissue away immediately and wash hands

✅If you chose to wear a face mask, be sure to cover mouth an nose , avoid touching mask once it’s on

✅Immediately discard the single-use mask after each use and wash hands after removing masks

✅If you become sick while traveling, inform crew and seek medical care early

✅If you seek medical attention, share travel history with your health care provider

✅Eat only well-cooked food

❌Avoid spitting in public

❌Avoid close contact and travel with animals that are sick.

COVID-19 virus can be transmitted in areas with hot and humid climates?

From the evidence so far, the COVID-19 virus can be transmitted in ALL AREAS, including areas with hot and humid weather. Regardless of climate, adopt protective measures if you live in, or travel to an area reporting COVID-19. The best way to protect yourself against COVID-19 is by frequently cleaning your hands. By doing this you eliminate viruses that may be on your hands and avoid infection that could occur by then touching your eyes, mouth, and nose.

Cold weather and snow CANNOT kill the new coronavirus.

There is no reason to believe that cold weather can kill the new coronavirus or other diseases. The normal human body temperature remains around 36.5°C to 37°C, regardless of the external temperature or weather. The most effective way to protect yourself against the new coronavirus is by frequently cleaning your hands with alcohol-based hand rub or washing them with soap and water.

Taking a hot bath does not prevent the new coronavirus disease

Taking a hot bath will not prevent you from catching COVID-19. Your normal body temperature remains around 36.5°C to 37°C, regardless of the temperature of your bath or shower. Actually, taking a hot bath with extremely hot water can be harmful, as it can burn you. The best way to protect yourself against COVID-19 is by frequently cleaning your hands. By doing this you eliminate viruses that may be on your hands and avoid infection that could occur by then touching your eyes, mouth, and nose.

The new coronavirus CANNOT be transmitted through mosquito bites.

To date there has been no information nor evidence to suggest that the new coronavirus could be transmitted by mosquitoes. The new coronavirus is a respiratory virus which spreads primarily through droplets generated when an infected person coughs or sneezes, or through droplets of saliva or discharge from the nose. To protect yourself, clean your hands frequently with an alcohol-based hand rub or wash them with soap and water. Also, avoid close contact with anyone who is coughing and sneezing.

Are hand dryers effective in killing the new coronavirus?

No. Hand dryers are not effective in killing the 2019-nCoV. To protect yourself against the new coronavirus, you should frequently clean your hands with an alcohol-based hand rub or wash them with soap and water. Once your hands are cleaned, you should dry them thoroughly by using paper towels or a warm air dryer.

Can an ultraviolet disinfection lamp kill the new coronavirus?

UV lamps should not be used to sterilize hands or other areas of skin as UV radiation can cause skin irritation.

Can spraying alcohol or chlorine all over your body kill the new coronavirus?

No. Spraying alcohol or chlorine all over your body will not kill viruses that have already entered your body. Spraying such substances can be harmful to clothes or mucous membranes (i.e. eyes, mouth). Be aware that both alcohol and chlorine can be useful to disinfect surfaces, but they need to be used under appropriate recommendations.

Can eating garlic help prevent infection with the new coronavirus?

Garlic is a healthy food that may have some antimicrobial properties. However, there is no evidence from the current outbreak that eating garlic has protected people from the new coronavirus.

Are antibiotics effective in preventing and treating the new coronavirus?

No, antibiotics do not work against viruses, only bacteria.

The new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is a virus and, therefore, antibiotics should not be used as a means of prevention or treatment.

However, if you are hospitalized for the 2019-nCoV, you may receive antibiotics because bacterial co-infection is possible.

Can regularly rinsing your nose with saline help prevent infection with the new coronavirus?

No. There is no evidence that regularly rinsing the nose with saline has protected people from infection with the new coronavirus.

There is some limited evidence that regularly rinsing nose with saline can help people recover more quickly from the common cold. However, regularly rinsing the nose has not been shown to prevent respiratory infections.

Does the new coronavirus affect older people, or are younger people also susceptible?

People of all ages can be infected by the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Older people and people with pre-existing medical conditions (such as asthma, diabetes, heart disease) appear to be more vulnerable to becoming severely ill with the virus.

WHO advises people of all ages to take steps to protect themselves from the virus, for example by following good hand hygiene and good respiratory hygiene.

Is it safe to receive parcel or letters from China or Other Countries?

It’s safe people recessing packages from China or Postal / Parcels since they are no risk for contracting the new coronavirus, from previous analyses we know coronavirus do not survive long on objects, such as letters or packages.