In 2012 I launched a weekly radio show called “The Valtimax Podcast.”   My goal in doing this was to offer you an opportunity to receive valuable information on the go, automatically.

Each week, on Monday, your mobile telephone, your tablet computer or your RSS reader can automatically receive cutting edge information that will help you make a great living and live a great life®.

And this information is f-r-e-e.

This week I wanted to share with you some of the episodes of The Valtimax Podcast that had the most significant impact on our listeners’ businesses.

These are the episodes that help them the most.

Listen to them again, or for the first time:

How to Build Your Business Around Your Life

Most people get this wrong.  They build a business first and figure out how to live their life in order to maximize their business.

You need to stand that process on its head.

Build your business to support the lifestyle you love.  This episode will help you get started.

Build Your Business Around Your Life

How to Close the Deal Every Time

People love to learn how to help others.  But before you can help someone else, you must convince them of your value.  This is the essence of sales and selling.

Even if you hate “selling you must master the art of convincing others that you have a worthwhile point of view.

This episode of The Valtimax Podcast helps you master the art of earning the respect and the investment of time and money from your prospective client.

How to Close the Deal Every Time

How to Promote Yourself Without Looking Stupid

Most business leaders struggle with walking the fine line between personal promotion and bragging.

Unfortunately, if you do not promote yourself, you will never share the valuable services you possess with others. And you will be broke.

Self-promotion is a must.

In this episode, I help you discover the most effective ways to promote yourself while maintaining your professional demeanor.

How to Promote Yourself Without Looking Stupid

How to Create a Marketing Plan

You must have a marketing plan if you hope to attract new clients. This episode of The Valtimax Podcast will provide you with a step-by-step guide to developing an effective marketing plan that will deliver clients to you each and every day.

The key to consistent client attraction is marketing diversity. This means you should have a dozen ways to attract one client rather than one way to attract a dozen clients.

The reasons for this are obvious but they are often overlooked. Listen to this episode now and start attracting more and better clients today.

How to Create a Marketing Plan

Seven Strategies to Double Your Revenue

This episode covers the seven strategies you can implement immediately in your business to double your revenue in the upcoming year.

These strategies include:

• Providing additional service to existing clients
• When and how to raise your rates
• How and why to eliminate the worst four letter “F” word in business
• The best way to contact past clients to develop additional business from them
• Establishing relationships with referral sources
• How to gain more visibility
• The keys to developing recurring/passive income

If you are serious about growing your law firm, your professional practice and your business you must listen to this episode multiple times.

Seven Strategies to Double Your Revenue

How to Set Goals

There are a few opportunities each year to make a fresh start and get things going in the right direction. You face one of those opportunities right now.

Take a few minutes today and sit down and listen to this primer on goal setting.

This episode of The Valtimax Podcast will help you get your priorities in order and set yourself up for success in the next twelve months.

Today is the day.

Now is the time.

How to Set Goals

I hope you enjoy these episodes as and implement the strategy they contain.  This information will not only help you make a great living and live a great life®, it will transform the way you look at your business.

This morning I was sitting in a meeting with 40 successful business owners when one of them stood up and said:

“Forget politics.  Raise your hand if, from a business perspective, are you better off now than you were four years ago.”

Just about every hand went up.

This gentleman’s point was about gratitude and giving thanks.

Here in the United States, we just went through one of the nastiest political seasons in our history.  The politicians threw mud and other excrement at each other for the better part of two years, at every level – local, state and federal.

Everyone was exposed to this toxic behavior.

Yet in spite of all the negativity, most of us are in a better place than we were four years ago.

Even if your personal net worth is lower than it was at the beginning of The Great Recession, you probably see a shimmering glimpse of potential somewhere on the horizon.

Think about that for a moment.  Think about the one thing in your business or in your life for which you are most grateful. Feels pretty good to have that relationship/person/thing in your life, right?

What if you constantly thought about how grateful you were for that one thing?

What if you obsessed over it?

What if you started telling everyone you know about this one specific area of your business or your life?

What if you replaced any bitching and complaining you usually do with an expression of gratitude for things that you had and things that were going well in your life?

The simple process of replacing negativity with gratitude can transform your life and your business.

It is a mindset shift of immense proportion.

Over the years, making this shift has re-energized the corporate executives, business owners, and lawyers with whom I have worked.

Spend a few minutes, right now, making a list of the things for which you are grateful.  Fold that list up and keep it in your pocket.  Read it when you get up in the morning, when you eat lunch and when you go to bed.  Call someone each week and share at least one item on the list with them.

This exercise, if done consistently for six weeks, will transform your life.

As I write this, my son’s fourth birthday was yesterday and the Thanksgiving holiday is tomorrow.

The gravity of the emotion associated with these events is significant.

I am grateful for the love and support provided to me by my remarkable family.

I am grateful for this amazing country I live in.

And I am also grateful for having you as a part of my life.  Thank you for being here.

I wish you and your family a peaceful and abundant Thanksgiving and a wonderful holiday season.