Understanding The Power Of Leverage: The Secret Weapon Of The Rich

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Understanding The Power Of Leverage: The Secret Weapon Of The Rich The power of leverage is one of the secrets to achieving good fortune in business and in life. If hard work alone were enough to ensure business success then everyone would be retired by age 40.

Understanding The Power Of Leverage: The Secret Weapon Of The Rich

By Merv Stevens on May 20th, 2013

What most people don’t understand, the fact of the matter is this: it’s not just about working “hard,” it’s about working hard and smart.

Sounds simple enough… But, as Yoda may say… “difficult it is to get the right balance”.

From my personal experience and the experience of many others, here’s what “hard work” typically looks like: • Long hours • Low pay • Lots of stress • Little time off • Little freedom • Little control

The power of leverage is one of the secrets to achieving good fortune in business and in life. If hard work alone were enough to ensure business success then everyone would be retired by age 40.

The worst part of all is that hard work alone, without the power of leverage, rarely leads to any real long term results. It seems that the harder I have worked in the past, the less I had to show for it in the end.

One thing I have learned, while working with Stuart, Jay and the Six Figure Mentors (SFM), is that there

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is a delicate balance which you have to find between what it is to work hard and to work smart.

The secret to working smart is this: working smart means your time and talents are amplified by the power of leverage. It means that the direct correlation between the exchange of time/talent and remuneration is severed.

This is a KEY distinction I only recently understood myself.

When you get this concept, you will also agree that your income isn’t limited by how hard/long you work alone, but rather how much leverage you can apply to the work you are doing.

The Power of Leverage: An Entrepreneurs Secret Sauce The power of leverage really is an entrepreneurs’ “secret sauce”. Combined with hard work, leverage is the secret to breaking free from the rat-race, and beginning to replace your income.

It means eventual freedom! This is exactly what we learn here at the SFM.

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Jim works his butt off; every day. Win or lose, he’s just a piece of the puzzle. Little risk, little reward; just lots of hard work.

He looks forward to every coffee (tea) break and lunch break. He looks forward to the weekend. On Sunday night, he has a pitiful knot in his stomach thinking about the long week ahead.

Though Jim is happy to have a job, he’s generally feeling unfulfilled just “putting in time.” He knows he is worth more but honestly, he doesn’t have the motivation to change his circumstances. Thus, he sticks with what is familiar and safe.

He went to school, got a degree in digital ditch digging and just like his friends and family, he goes to work for a company in the digital gold rush.

Daily, diligently, Jim digs; month after month and year after year. After 40 years of digging, he has a lot of experience digging trenches. He may have been rewarded with health care, on going training and some benefits. However, he has little to show for at the end of the day.

The Power of Leverage: A small Spade v a large Spade Compare this to Joan, a slightly more innovative person than Jim.

The following is a very simple example of how leverage can be used to make more money in less time with less effort.

In this example, you will see how Joan is able to use the very same resources as Jim to earn 30 times as much.

Jim digs trenches for a living at Digital Ditches, Inc (DD, Inc). He earns $750 per completed ditch. (DD, Inc charges the customer $1500.)

The tool given to him for the job is a little garden spade; the same tool all of the other diggers use. (A garden spade is a tool with a blade of about 6 inches and a handle about the same length.)

It takes Jim about 50 hours (a week) to dig each ditch. (That’s assuming he can work 10 hours a day, 5 days a week.) At $750 per ditch divided by 50 hours, Jim’s maximum earning potential is $15 per hour.

Joan started digging ditches for digital diggers the same time as Jim. But, after the first month, realizing how back breaking it was to dig with this little garden spade provided by her employer, she started thinking about a solution.

The garden spade (her “business system”) was the weak link. She applied some “smarts” to her work and went out on her own, and out of her own pocket, she bought a real spade. This tool has a blade of 12 inches and a handle of 48 inches.

Compare what she was given, a 6″ blade with 6″ handle (1:1 leverage), to her new shovel. This new tool has a 12″ blade (2x more result for each shovel stroke) and 48″ handle giving her a whopping 4:1 leverage.

Let’s do some basic math: Double the result for each scoop plus 4:1 leverage from the long handle = her leverage is now 8 times what it was. In other words, for the same output and effort, she is getting 8 times the results.

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Joan can now earn $750 per ditch in about 6.25 hours instead of 50 hours. (8 x 6.25 = 50)

working harder and longer and start thinking about leveraging yourself with a business system.

Read further to see how Joan doubles down and leveraged herself even further!

Yes, it’s going to take you learning some new skills, investing in yourself, and maybe even more hard work for a time… It’s going to take you stepping out of your comfort zone and include taking on additional risk, but once you get the concept of the power of leverage, there is no limit to what you can earn in the digital economy.

Joan decides she’s ready to make a leap and take on some additional risk. Instead of working for Digital Diggers the rest of her life, she is going to start her own company. She’s going to become an entrepreneur and try to increase her income while digging even less.

With her own company, Joan cuts out the middleman and earns the full $1500 per ditch – keeping all the money for herself.

Compare $1500/6.25 ($240 per hour) with Jim at $15 per hour. By taking on some additional risk, and finding a way to work smarter while STILL working hard, Joan has 16 times the income earning potential as Jim.

The secret to Joan’s success is her “business system”: 1. She’s able to leverage other people’s time 2. Her employees are already trained 3. Her market is already established 4. One employee gets extra perks to manage the crew of 4 5. Her marketing is set 6. She gets paid top dollar 7. She has a lifestyle business

We could take this a step or two further and look at leveraging her efforts even more… Maybe Joan learns about business systems, (marketing, how to hire employees and contractors etc), she places an ad online and hires 5 former co-workers from Digital Diggers, including Jim. She offers to pay her new subcontractors each $900 per trench, keeping $600 for herself. They are happy and so is she.

Now, without even lifting a shovel she is netting an additional $3000 a week (5 x $600) before actually digging a single ditch herself. Her hard work has paid off and now she is actually making money in her sleep you could say.

Let’s say Joan digs just two trenches a week herself ($3000) plus makes an additional $3000 by leveraging the efforts of her subcontractors. That’s $6000 weekly for only 12 hours of digging and a little supervising.

The Power of Leverage: Business Systems You see, the power of leverage makes life easier. The secret is to stop thinking in terms of

All of the business parts are systems that work together creating efficiency and profits for her.

Obviously this is a uncomplicated example. Building a real business from scratch is no small task. If it were as easy as this example everyone would be a business owner and everyone, would be independently wealthy.

The reality is that most small businesses and entrepreneurs fail at least a couple of times before they gain enough real world business experience to have sustainable success. (It’s estimated that 85 to 94% fail within their first 5 years with 50% of survivors lasting an additional 5 years.)

The Power of Leverage: Proven Turnkey Business Systems So, what is the solution? What’s the secret?

The secret is to find an already proven, turnkey, “business system.”

The most predictable and reliable business model is the franchise model. There are infinite benefits to being able to plug into a proven system rather than

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building it all from scratch. Especially if you’ve never done it before.

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For example, when I started my first online business I made every mistake in the book. I had to learn everything from scratch.

Compared to a franchisee, it’s like building your own car from scratch vs going to a dealership and picking one off the lot. The beautiful thing about getting a proven business system is that most of the learning curves and opportunities for human error have been eliminated.

You can focus on “running” the business, instead of, “building” it first, then running it.

The person who pioneered and perfected the first digital marketing business system is Jay Kubassek, co-founder of the SFM. To learn more about our turnkey business system, to purchase a risk free application kit Included you will have the opportunity to speak with a business coach who will be able to answer any questions you might have about getting started.

It doesn’t get any more simple than this. By being part of SFM you will be truly using the power of leverage to transition from the traditional economy to finding success in the booming digital economy.

My only regret is that I wish I had found the SFM sooner.

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Merv Stevens works in internet and network marketing and is based in London, England. He is of the opinion that marketing online provides the potential for people to create a substantial income and a life filled with freedom and flexibility and believes if you provide quality products and services with integrity and ethically then you will achieve success in your business and all areas of life. It’s these values and practices that he brings to his internet marketing business. To learn more about what Merv Stevens has to offer visit his blog: www.WealthSuccessVentures.com

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