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What is Leverage?

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

What is Leverage?

Leverage is explained by webster in 2 ways which is the following

Leverage (noun) 

 as 1 : the action of a lever or the mechanical advantage gained by it 2 : power , effectiveness <trying to gain more political leverage> 3 : the use of credit to enhance one’s speculative capacity

Leverage

Main Entry:
2leverage
Function:
transitive verb
Inflected Form(s):
leveraged; leverag·ing
Date:
1957

1: to provide (as a corporation) or supplement (as money) with leverage ; also : to enhance as if by supplying with financial leverage2: to use for gain : exploit <shamelessly leverage the system to their advantage — Alexander Wolff>

Realistically if you put it all together you combine any numerous amounts of techniques, tactics, to get what you want. Hunh?

Ok let me put another way for you by actually addding a short list of things of which you can leverage but not limited to following list:

True and Real Assets

Time

Money

Contacts

Mailing List

Products  (Ebooks, Audio Ebooks, Videos Either on DVD or Downloadable online, Software)

Services (In Exchange for something else of equal or more value)

Content

Knowledge and Skills

Marketing Ability

Salesmanship

Alright I think that give you some kind of idea of what leverage is and how you can maximize your ability to achieve what you want, if you cannot do something find someone willing to partner with you and leverage each others ability to get things done.

Now choose someone where he fills in your weaknesses and you are able to fill his, that way you both are able to correct each other’s weakness through leverage, this will allow for you both to be a better structured and successful partnership.

If you have a group whereby you all lack the same abilities, find someone to help eliminate that gap of that group and you will see that your group will become so powerful through the art of Leverage.

So many people miss out on the real efforts and strength of what leverage can do for you both personally and business and as well as financially, friendships, etc.

All of it can deliver so much value to you and your goals, missions, plans.

This will be touched upon a little bit later on and should not be thought of as not valuable, because it will show you that you are not really using your head. Why do I say that here?

Think about all of the successful people who has come before us and are currently popping up all over the place, do you think that success just falls into their lap, no it doesn’t and if you believe that they are lucky, yes they maybe but not completely.

They used a variety of connections to the above list and helped them Leverage their past failures and turned them into successful leveraged leaders. Remember no matter who you are and what you do, even if you do not believe me, you are using leverage.

Do you use a alarm clock in the morning, tooth brush and tooth paste, fork to eat your food, keys to lock your door at night, I do believe I have given you a few examples here.

That’s how powerful Leverage is and how it can help you really achieve success.

Start thinking of ways of using the above list to start t achieve your desired lifestyle and take it from me, you will be hearing about how I am applying this strategy to both my personal and business lifestyles as well.

I have always loved this word but never really took that massive action that helps this really come alive for me until last year and now I am taking massive action and will unleash the power of leverage.

All the best,

Julio R. Mattos

Discover How You Can Learn To Fish and Teach Your Team To Do The Same!

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Discover How You Can Learn To Fish and Teach Your Team To Do The Same!

I am very sure you remember the old quote as follows:

“Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.”

This quote has so many hidden ideas and plans and meanings behind it, but it’s simply put into just that meaning.

If I simply gave you $10 you can only eat for today, but if I taught you how to make $10 over and over again, then you will eat for the rest of your life.

This is more aimed towards your team Building side of your business or simply put you can implement this the way you would like to implement it.

Creating a team is a very useful way for your business to really to take off, please think carefully what I am saying here, because this is the reason why so many businesses out there fail.

They believe that they are only one can do their job better then anyone else, sometimes this is really true, but delegating work will play a key role in the Longevity of your business.

Business is truly a team sport, not to say you that you have to hire tons of employees, but to say if you are a start up and if you feel that some of the work, that you do not like to do and rather not do because you feel your time can be better, spent on producing more profits for the business, then by all means outsource the work.

Even though your budget maybe small think about the fact of you putting your time towards, more productive things as selling more, creating JV’s (Joint Ventures), or setting up a Autoresponder (Automatically will send info To your email list, tips or newsletter for your company) for you, to be able to stay in contact with your clients, either daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly or however many times you feel comfortable, with your list.

So the Quote I would like to say is this below another way of saying it for Team Building as follows:

“Give your team a bucket of fish and they will eat for a day, but teach your team how to Fish and they will Eat for a Lifetime.”
-By Mr. Julio Mattos or by Mr. Mattos Julio

Or Maybe I should say it another way, which will make it more suitable for this article as follows:

“Give your team a sale and they will profit for today, but teach your team to sell and they will sell for a lifetime.”
-By Mr. Mattos Julio or By Mr. Julio Mattos

Ah you know the name thing, in so many countries the name more thoroughly said by the last name in the first greetings and then the first name there after, so if your name Julio Mattos, it would be more pleasant to say, Mattos Julio, a friend from Poland just so happen to tell me this, I knew about this.

But he recently returned from Japan and a few other Asian countries and told me about this, even it’s more of First Name and then last name here in America, other places, I have had many mixed reviews on this but hey if you think may know about out it, please by all means write comment or email us, we will glad here any and all feedback here at Mrjulio.com

Ok back to reasoning behind this article, I have prolonged it a for a while when I was younger trying, to do all of the work myself in a few ventures and trying to have a life at the same time.

If have ever worked on any project, job, or business venture, then you will know exactly what I mean, this is the reasoning for all new companies or we should call them start up fail in the first year, you try to shave off expenses because you are on a set start up budget and sometimes you have no money for the start up and so you have to everything yourself.

But you know maybe there are some people out there where you make a trade for their services or products, something you maybe good at, for example accounting, bookkeeping, computers maybe IT, you can offer to trade services, with someone that has the experience in something you really need, perhaps you need content and a writer or copywriter whose up and coming will be willing to trade with you, maybe you know a lot about website design and he doesn’t know anything or would perhaps be more happier to not know and he’s on a budget awesome, work out a deal.

Being Strategic and very resourceful for what you have and don’t have or know, you can and have to improvise also you must come up with solutions to the problems you currently have on your plate, and you have clear the plate with solutions, before the plate can be cleaned.

Think about setting up a team, join a master mind group or something like that, work with local small businesses and see if you work with them and you guys can set something up, you never know who you may meet and ask your friends if they know someone.

Wow, I just gave a bunch more tips then I actually intended to do here, ah I writing is the life for me.

Think about this when you are actually starting a internet business, or a offline business, think of ways to saving yourself the time and stress and money, as well as the return on investment (ROI, that can be made.

Let me know what you think about this and feel free to contact me, in the future we will be looking to be more resource for you and us, by recommending links to sites that we believe to be very useful for us here at MrJulio,com

Have a very pleasant day.

By Mr. Julio Mattos
Getting up and Taking Action.
http://www.MrJulio.com