A huge apology to all my readers! I just realized… it's been MONTHS since I last wrote to you.

These past 4 months have been some of the toughest in my business career. It seems that, every time I would move a step forward, something would happen to set me back TWO steps.

The bottomline is… the reason I've been experiencing these upsets is because my business grew too quickly for my business foundation to support. Here's what I mean…

When I started my business back in 1998, I never dreamed I would be so successful.

As most people who are first starting a business, I barely had two nickels to rub together, and so I ended up doing EVERYTHING myself:

• Writing my own salesletters.
• Designing my own websites.
• Making my own sales calls.
• Fulfilling my own orders.
• Filing my own paperwork.
• Answering my own correspondence.

… And the list goes on and on.

The problem is, I waited TOO long to hire other people to take some of these tasks off my hands.

When I finally hired people, I was already trying to fit more than a day's work into every 24 hours… and then had to take time out of my already overwhelming schedule to train people.

The theory was… I would fall behind for a time, but would eventually pull ahead because of the extra "hands."

Well, unfortunately, it worked much better in theory than in fact.

I made a few bad hiring choices and - as a result - have now lost 4 months of momentum and income in my business.

I am starting to come out of it now. But, if you've been wondering why I seemed to disappear and why I stopped writing, now you know. I had absolutely NO time whatsoever to spend on anything that wasn't vitally essential to keeping my business going just one more day.

Why am I sharing this with you?

To caution YOU not to make the same mistake I did. Don't wait until you are so swamped with work that you have no choice other than to hire someone.

As soon as you begin earning money in your business, you should begin hiring helpers to take over some of the more mundane tasks. That will free you up to focus your energies on the tasks that generate profit… which will enable you to build your business much faster (and with far less stress) than I have.

I guess this is just one more mistake I can help you avoid because I made the mistake first.
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Why does it seem like everything always goes wrong on Mondays?

I mean…isn't it enough that Monday is spent catching up on email and stuff that came in over the weekend? Why is it that — if something is going to go wrong — it seems to always happen on a Monday??

Okay, I admit it. Maybe I'm feeling a bit biased right now. But, let me tell you what happened to me on Monday this week, and let's see if you don't agree with me…

I have a project deadline coming up on April 3rd (yep, next Monday…go figure). This project is worth a bundle, so I want to launch it on time…but the videos for the project are taking just FOREVER to complete.

To make sure my time this week is clear for video production, I spent a portion of Sunday getting all my ducks in a row and preparing all the materials I'd need to spend all day Monday (and the rest of this week) in video production.

Now, keep in mind that I work out of my home…

I wake up bright and early Monday morning, shower, put on makeup (which I almost never do!), style my hair (again, something I usually don't take the time to do), dress in a "professional" outfit (definitely NOT something I do on a regular basis)…and I'm just about to sit down at the computer to begin making videos when someone starts to use a chainsaw in my next door neighbor's yard.

Do you know how LOUD a chainsaw is? And, the noise goes on, and on, and on!

Anyway, back to my story…

Even with the windows shut tight, the noise of the chainsaw is so loud (in every room of my house) that there is no way I can create a video without the sound of the chainsaw drowning out the sound of my voice.

So, I decide to do some busywork for a few minutes. After all, I figure, how long can it take to chop some wood…15 minutes, a half hour?

A full HOUR later, I finally get frustrated enough to stick my head out the door and ask "how long are you going to be?"

Guess what they said…

"All day."

Yep…they were cutting down a dead tree in my neighbor's yard. And, they were true to their word…it took the entire day to chop it down and cut it up into pieces they could cart away.

And, what did I do all day? (After all, it was too noisy in the house to hear the TV or even listen to the radio.)

I spent the entire day doing busywork, and preparing materials in hope that things will be quiet enough the rest of the week for me to get the videos finished!

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Why do I say this? There are several reasons. Here are just a few..

• While many seminars cost $1000, $2000 or more to attend… the "JValert Seminar" costs only $497 (and EarlyBirds can bring 2 friends for FREE!).
• While most seminars are big sale-a-thons… the "JValert Seminar" is full of content you can immediately apply to increase your business profits.
• While most seminars keep you so busy that you have only 10 minutes here and there on your break to network with other entrepreneurs… the "JValert Seminar" actually builds networking time right into the schedule.
• While at most seminars the speakers keep to themselves and you only really see them when they're on stage… at the "JValert Seminar," speakers spend the entire day (and some evenings, too) mingling with all the attendees.

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