Give Now

You will continue to track your salary at the beginning of every stage. This will help you track your business growth along with your self reliance. This information will not be viewable by any member or leaders in country, and will only be viewable by The Academy HQ.

You should continue meeting with your Chapter regularly throughout this stage, as well as begin serving in leadership positions in your chapter. Discuss with your Chapter President how you can serve and lead.

Once you have completed all of the badges in Give Now you should have been able to successfully help another member, thus accomplishing the Milestone, completing this stage, and you will receive the Stage Badge of visionary.

"I can always give up something to help someone else, but I don't have to necessarily give up everything all at once."

• Pays an honest tithe

• Helps others, but doesn't over extend herself

• Still dedicates time to her business while mentoring others

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"In order to keep giving to others I have to keep selling things that people will buy."

• Doesn't stop researching customers and products

• Continues validating her own products

• Seeks to help others validate business ideas

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"Even though my business is a at a point where it can sustain itself, I have to stay focused on not only keeping it alive, but helping it thrive."

• Doesn't get lazy with her business

• Keeps her focus on her business and also helping new entrepreneurs

• Helps others stay focused by encouraging them with her story

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"What really helped my marketing agency take off was helping clients purchase more of our services all at once."

• Helps clients see the benefit of multiple services

• Always suggests add-on services or products

• Asks her customers if they know anyone else that might be interested in her services

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"My business money and my personal money live completely separate. I never let them mix."

• Has separate bank accounts for business money and personal money

• Keeps records of personal expenses and business expenses

• never lets personal and business money mix

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"Even when the business is successful it's important to only take a regular salary. That way the business can keep growing and you can in turn grow your salary."

• Takes regular salary

• Invests the rest of the profits back into the business

• Increases salary with time as the business grows

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"It's really important that I track where I spend my time. I have a lot of demands on my attention, and if I don't track my time, I find that I waste it."

• Keeps detailed records even on her own time

• Manages her business based on records

• Uses records to manage employees

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"For us in digital marketing, turning our inventory means getting our jobs done quickly so we can move onto the next client. If we waste too much time with one client, it's like we are getting paid fewer dollars per hour."

• Worked to help clients as well and as quickly as possible

• Always worked to have her next clients ready

• Tracked how much time she spent with each client, and didn't rebid clients that took too much time

• Understands that too much time spent with "inventory," is money lost

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"Taking your own inventory is stealing from the business, which in the long run just hurts yourself even more."

• Knows that the business is her livelihood and that eating inventory is just stealing from her own product

• Gives herself and her employees an employee discount of 40% (still enough to make a small profit)

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"In the information age, and if you run a digital business, continual improvement could not be more important. One of my favorite things is helping others improve."

• Helps others identify areas to improve

• Keeps looking for improvement in her own business

• Uses her business as a way to grow her own self

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"New entrepreneurs don't always understand how to price products appropriately; I know I didn't at first. What I do now is research the market and see what customers are currently paying my competitors. Often I price just under my competitors, or promise better service."

• Researches customers willingness to buy

• Understands what customers will pay for her product / service

• Prices products to make profit

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"I think that assuming is the deadliest sin in business."

• Works diligently to know exactly what happens in her business everyday

• Has regular individual meetings with each of her employees

• Sets clear rules and expectations for her employees

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"Because I said "no," a lot while we were growing, I am now able to say "yes," a lot more."

• Helps out her friends and family with reasonable requests

• Does not allow herself to get taken advantage of

• Asks that the recipients of her help do some kind of work in the business

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"Success in business is all about how much stuff you can get done. Working that extra time gets more stuff done and makes you more successful."

• Sees hard work as an investment in her business

• Get's more done than her competition

• Is able to take more vacation

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"Profit is the golden word to a successful business."

• Has a poster in her office that says "PROFIT PROFIT PROFIT"

• Knows that she must profit every day in order to be successful

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"I don't have to sell truckloads of vegetables...yet."

• Started with one small plot of land that he can manage by himself

• Started with just three different kinds of crops

• Bought only the minimum tools that he needed to get the job done

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"I don't have to sell truckloads of vegetables...yet."

• Started with one small plot of land that he can manage by himself

• Started with just three different kinds of crops

• Bought only the minimum tools that he needed to get the job done

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"I don't have to sell truckloads of vegetables...yet."

• Started with one small plot of land that he can manage by himself

• Started with just three different kinds of crops

• Bought only the minimum tools that he needed to get the job done

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"I don't have to sell truckloads of vegetables...yet."

• Started with one small plot of land that he can manage by himself

• Started with just three different kinds of crops

• Bought only the minimum tools that he needed to get the job done

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"I don't have to sell truckloads of vegetables...yet."

• Started with one small plot of land that he can manage by himself

• Started with just three different kinds of crops

• Bought only the minimum tools that he needed to get the job done

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"I don't have to sell truckloads of vegetables...yet."

• Started with one small plot of land that he can manage by himself

• Started with just three different kinds of crops

• Bought only the minimum tools that he needed to get the job done

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"I don't have to sell truckloads of vegetables...yet."

• Started with one small plot of land that he can manage by himself

• Started with just three different kinds of crops

• Bought only the minimum tools that he needed to get the job done

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"I don't have to sell truckloads of vegetables...yet."

• Started with one small plot of land that he can manage by himself

• Started with just three different kinds of crops

• Bought only the minimum tools that he needed to get the job done

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"I don't have to sell truckloads of vegetables...yet."

• Started with one small plot of land that he can manage by himself

• Started with just three different kinds of crops

• Bought only the minimum tools that he needed to get the job done

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"I don't have to sell truckloads of vegetables...yet."

• Started with one small plot of land that he can manage by himself

• Started with just three different kinds of crops

• Bought only the minimum tools that he needed to get the job done

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