Kelly McCausey start in business in 2002. At the time she was a single mom with one young son, she made graphics and websites for other home based business owners. She worked hard and charged too little for her time. Thankfully, Kelly learned quickly there are smarter ways to build an income online. For many years now, she no longer trade hours for dollars. Kelly blogs, has a podcast, she designs, she partners, she creates information products, runs membership programs, hold live retreats and coaches others to get where they want to be in their online business.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I didn’t have any money. I don’t know how many listeners can relate to what it’s like to be a single mother making $6.50 an hour. There is no money… I had to learn how to do everything myself I couldn’t afford to pay anyone. I often beat my head against my keyboard in frustration over some bits of tech. Everything was so hard. I look back and think about the computer I was working on it was so slow, my Internet connection was so bad, everything was just so tough. And yet I just kept persevering. The biggest challenge was money and having no idea what I was doing, not at all. I just knew that was away to do something and get paid so I was going to keep trying”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level Book by Gay HendricksFavourite Quote:
“you don’t have to be more than god created you to be, just stop being less”
Recommended Online Resources:
Feedly – organize, read and share what matters to you. Feedly is a news aggregator application for various web browsers and mobile devices running iOS and Android, also available as a cloud-based service. It compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customize and share with others. Feedly was first released by DevHD in 2008.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“elevate relationships over money. Go into networking opportunities looking to make friends not gather leads. Seek to be of service. I really really value a mutual experience in networking”…[Listen for More]
More About Kelly McCausey:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” Chinese Proverb
Other Quotes From the Chat with Kelly McCausey:
- “I would have written a different story if I would have been wiser of what’s possible”
- “I wish I could have hired a coach sooner. I didn’t have a coach that I paid for until 2010”
- “I was so in love with the story of doing everything myself, working hard”
- “when I got started, I remember thinking it’s going to so cool in 10 years when I can tell this awesome story of how I started so broke and now I am so successful. And it sounds cool except that you realise I was claiming a 10-year journey to success and now I realise especially looking at other people I could have planned a three-year journey to success”
- “we like about 80,000 thoughts a day or something like that and most of them are repeated. Most of our 80,000 thoughts are the same thoughts we thought yesterday and the day before and the day before and the year before. Like we just keep rethinking the same thoughts over and over again. And the only way to break out of that is to try something new, change your environment, go on a trip, go to an event, go and talk to somebody with a different type of business and compare the different ways that you are running your business. I’ve gotten some amazing ideas from people who operate in completely different niches and business models because they just introduced a new thought into my brain”
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