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Whether you want to sell your business one day or not, build for success from the very beginning. And success means leverage. In other words, if one-on-one dollars-for-hours transactions is your primary business activity, it’s impossible to grow your business.

To achieve leverage, you must stop selling time and productize your service. Turn your service into something you can deliver without actually doing the work: information products, membership sites, software, etc.

How do you begin?

Dr. Anita Campbell, the founder of Small Business Trends, writes in her “5 Steps to Turning a Service Into a Product - So You Can Sell Your Business” article:

Here are 5 steps to turn services into products:

1. Identify something you can replicate repeatedly (what do you keep doing over and over?)

2.  Document it (steps and processes)

3.  Put limits around your offering (don’t leave it open-ended)

4.  Incorporate technology (automate some steps)

5.  Build an organization (build a team)

Even if you don’t want to create a big business, productizing your services and knowledge will help you achieve a lot more freedom, profits, and fun in your business!

Watch this video to find out, plus learn the 3 foundational business success principles you can’t live without:

I am in south Pennsylvania, totally snowed in, and it’s not stopping - at least 10 inches deep!

This didn’t stop my 15-year-old son from going to play ultimate frisbee, while my 10-year-old daughter
is having fun on the huge snow slide in our back yard. This reminded me of the blizzard of 1993. We had just arrived in the U.S. to Syracuse, NY, and lived in a one-bedroom apartment — in “projects,” as I learned later.

We had no car, no money, no English, and no means of earning any income. It was a scary and uncertain time. But there were three things that took me from “projects” to a home of my dreams years later.

Here they are:

1. I specialized and mastered a high-demand skill.

2. I kept my focus on what I truly loved.

3. I never gave up.

And one more thing… I ALWAYS invested in myself with people, whose business model and lifestyle I admired. It was always more important to me HOW I’ll make my first million, than WHETHER I’ll make it.

If you want more freedom of time, passive income, and ease of attracting coaching clients any time you want, then I am probably the right person for you to model.

I say as I do, and I do as I say - and my entire business system, which took me from zero to $500K, is available this week ONLY at a fraction of the regular price.

If you’ve ever been to any business or networking events, you probably noticed that many times attendees are hanging out in the hall instead of listening to the presenters.  People want to interact, learn, network, brainstorm, and mastermind, and a line-up of presentations with short breaks simply doesn’t allow for that to happen.

I wanted my event to be different. Lots of interaction, hot seats, Q&A, mastermind groups, networking, and other group activities allowed me to connect people during the event.

Unfortunately, this trip would never qualify to say that I’ve been to Dallas. We stayed at the hotel and visited the biggest mall in Dallas, where the hotel was located, but that was the extent of seeing Texas

Coaching Millions Super Summit - Milana Leshinsky Dallas Texas, Westin Galleria Mall

I don’t know what it was….

- the simple compelling language
- the promising topic of a best-selling title
- the deep thinking it made me do

But I just couldn’t stop reading “The Secrets of the Millionaire Mind”, by Harv T. Ecker.

Have you read it?

No, no….

Have you DONE it?

It made me look back at my upbringing and ask myself: “What did my family teach me about money?”

We definitely couldn’t afford a lot of things, and even if we could, we’d have to be on a mission to FIND it (former USSR in the 80’s is where I spent my childhood).

But then I remembered something else…

My dad has a business on the side…quite illegal in those days, but he was simply responding to consumer demand.

It was impossible to find any European or American music in stores. You had to go to the “black market” to meet with other “moonlighters” and either buy it or trade it there. Then my dad would resell that music to others for a higher price.

He also would create a custom recording from different albums by request, for a special price.

So he was always on the lookout for business opportunities… Unfortunately, that’s as far as his entrepreneurship took him in the socialistic Russia in the 80’s. I wonder what he’d be doing if he lived here in his younger years.

Perhaps that’s where my entrepreneurial “gene” came from…

One of the things that especially hit the nerve from the book was the fact that, just because you’re rich, you shouldn’t feel guilty or bad about people who don’t have as much as you do. After all, your being poor doesn’t make them any richer.

On the other hand, if you’re rich, you CAN help them by doing charity, pro-bono work, fundraisers, etc.

Here’s my top 7 business book list I discovered and read over the last 5 years:

1. “Unleashing the Idea Virus”, Seth Godin
2. “The E-Myth”, Michael Gerber
3. “Four-Hour Week”, Tim Ferriss
4. “The Irresistable Offer”, Mark Joyner
5. “Work Less, Make More”, Jennifer White
6. “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind”, T.Harv Eker
7. “The Ultimate Sales Letter”, Dan Kennedy