What is your goal?

I want to add net worth of $1 million in 2 years or less, using under-utilized business assets.

Why are you taking this challenge?

In 2007, I lost a revenue stream when a business partnership fell apart.  It got me thinking – what do I currently have that could generate more profit.  And then I thought about all of my clients through the years who have had incredible knowledge, abilities, assets and systems that they just weren’t using.  Instead of trying to tell my clients who made a million dollars+ per year to go learn how to invest in real estate (and then seeing them enroll in time intensive “no money down” programs), I wanted to show them they could take their business and create multiple sources of passive income.  They didn’t have to waste hours learning how to buy something with no money , when the issue wasn’t lack of money, it was lack of TIME. 

I’d done it myself with TaxLoopholes, but it took me 7 years to get to this level.  Now I want to do it in 2 years or less.  And I want to take along my friends with me this time.

What strategies do you have to hit your goal?

I want to do it all with websites.  I’m tentatively starting with 25 websites/landing pages to go along with better marketing to my database and through search engines.  I will develop some new information products (on tax, accounting, finance and wealth-building) to better address needs of niche markets.

What would happen in the next two years that would exceed all of your expectations?

I fully expect to make the goal of a million dollars, so the “above and beyond expectations” part for me would be if we are able to create a supportive community that changes how highly skilled business owners and professionals view the way they work.  I want to help thousands of professional discover how to highly leverage their business assets to create more money and in the process, create a lot more time so they can make a real difference in their life, the lives of their family and in their community.

I want to build a business of $500k+ in annual revenue through a network of websites and my web development company. All this, in two years or less of course!

Why are you taking this challenge?

First, because I want to be in a position where I’m able to give back, to improve the world I live in. Being from LatAm (Latin America) I’ve seen what poverty can do to society and I feel the need to help.

Second and equally important, because I think this is a unique learning experience and a great opportunity to grow financially.

What strategies do you have to hit your goal?

The current economic situation in Argentina makes labor force very affordable for the US. As of now, LatAmConnect is the only web development company from Argentina targeting small businesses, not to mention that a pretty hard entry barrier makes the timing perfect to reach the market.

I plan to improve the current systems at LatAmConnect to provide customers with the best service they could imagine, not just developing websites but guiding them through the whole process, thus leveraging worth of mouth publicity and revenue. I also plan to do a monthly teleseminar where I will teach about SEO, Internet Marketing and different ways to monetize websites among other topics. There’s a lot said about all this, I know that, but this information never has the average user in mind!

What would happen in the net two years that would exceed all of your expectations?

I think that my goal is very doable so although that would be awesome it would certainly not “exceed” my expectations. What would exceed them would be to be able to create steady streams of passive income from my business.

What is your goal?

To successfully transform my existing small business into a medium to large operation that functions independently from me. To have the time and energy to pursue some additional business ideas I’ve had kicking around. In total, I want to take the sum of what’s in my head, plus my experience, and transform it into a $1m+ business in two years or less.

Why are you taking this challenge?

To grow, personally, professionally, and financially. The money factor is important – I like money and even if I miss by half I’ll still be thrilled. But I also want to truly get comfortable with the big picture … that there’s lots of money in the world and I don’t need to think small or hang onto everything with both hands. I want to show my son and my family the big picture, and demonstrate that, regardless of where you start, the opportunity to succeed exists. And once I’m there, I want to show other people how to get there, too.

What strategies do you have to hit your goal?

Through my relationship with Diane and the B-I team, I have the privilege of being at the table for amazing ideas and plans that I can adapt to work in my own business. I’ve just entered into a couple of strategic relationships that dramatically increase the products we can offer to our clients. If part of the reason “big box” stores succeed is by giving people easy access to satisfy many needs at once, then I want to recreate that in my business. I see the Internet as crucial here – by tailoring services to specific groups in a way that appeals to each group’s wants and needs.

What would happen in the next two years that would exceed all of your expectations?

Good question! Certainly meeting my goal would be absolutely fantastic. I think what would be equally meaningful is seeing others aim high and hit their targets square on, especially if I knew I’d helped somehow. Oh, and I’d love to buy my husband a fully-restored, powder-blue, stock 1970 El Camino for his 40th birthday. But don’t tell him. I want it to be a surprise!

What is your goal?

Why are you taking this challenge?

Laura and I have been fortunate enough to have the freedom and flexibility to spend a lot of time with our son Daniel since he was born.  As he grows and gets to experience more things in life, I want to be able to be there for him and with him – to go to his ball games, to see him in school plays, to watch him grow up – without having to worry about losing revenue by taking time away from my business.  So my primary reason is to be able to spend just a few hours each week on my business, so that I can be involved with Daniel’s life, and to build a solid foundation for my future and his future.  Laura and I have been very blessed to be able to have the freedom and flexibility to be a big part of Daniel’s daily life and I’d like this to only get better.
Several years ago, we had reached this goal without really consciously realizing it, having created a business that gave us that freedom and income.  So I’ve had a taste of the feeling of accomplishment, satisfaction, and success that comes with building that opportunity.  It took us over five years the first time, with a lot of sweat equity, sleepless nights, and headache and heartache.  This time I’d like to do it a little more quickly and a lot less painfully.

What strategies do you have to hit your goal?

One thing I’ve learned over the years is I can’t do it all myself, and there has to be a meaningful goal – not just “I want to be rich.”  I can accomplish this, through the grace of God, and the help and support of my mastermind friends, clients, and business partners.  This is more of a life purpose than a strategy, but a critical cornerstone of our new business is to give back – to children’s charities primarily – a portion of the net revenue we generate.  The most successful people I’ve read about and have met, have made this part of their life purpose and business purpose, and I’ve personally seen it ignite opportunity and abundance for all who are sincerely involved.
We’ll initially be starting with internet marketing, online articles, and several websites to take advantage of the “speed of light” dissemination of information that can happen on the internet.  Because our plan and product mix is intended to take the roadblocks and steep learning curve out of the equation in relation to the “back-office” critical tasks and help clients and prospects become more successful in their businesses, we’ll be positioning ourselves more as “business partners” than as “product vendors.”

What would happen in the next two years that would exceed all of your expectations?

Since I expect to reach my initial goal, the things that would happen that would exceed my expectations would be if we could generate enough support for Thunder Mission so that David Kennedy Cooley could realize his goals for the orphanages in Juarez, enough financial support for children’s charities so that any child anywhere could dream big and realize their dream,  and enough compassionate support so that family shelters and food banks don’t have to scramble during “off-season” periods to have enough resources to meet their needs.  Just as I can’t create the synergy for ebizCFO by myself, ebizCFO won’t be able to do all this by itself: but the cascading effect of getting others motivated through their personal success can make an awful lot of dreams become reality.

What is your goal?

I want to raise $200,000 in the next 2 years to build a dormitory and recreational facility in Juarez, Mexico. 

Why are you taking this challenge?

By age 13, I had gone through a failed adoption and lived in 6 orphanages. Some of the orphanages were okay, but most were very bad.  I was adopted and came to the US at age 14. I never want to forget where I come from and what it is like to be an orphan in Mexico.

That’s why I started Thunder Mission, a 501 ( c) (3), when I was 16. I started off talking to groups at local Phoenix high schools and before I knew it, I had dozens of people who wanted to come on trips to a Juarez orphanage. The teens got to experience life outside their own neighborhood and the kids in Mexico had a cool teen to look up to. They created friendships and learned about each other. 

Our groups grew, but we had to limit how many teens could come and how often we could come.  That’s because it’s hard to find safe, inexpensive places to stay in Juarez. We could stay across the border in El Paso, TX but that would mean taking 4 hours or more out of every day to cross and the kids would lose a lot of the interaction. Other groups like Habitat for Humanity and church missions have the same problem – no place to stay.

That’s when I made it my goal to buy a piece of property and build a dormitory and recreation area. My dream is to have a couple that watches the property and rents it out at a very reasonable price for groups when they are down in Juarez doing charitable work. There would be a recreation space with grass, trees, a pool and a basketball court.  That would be for the inner city orphanages (there are over 200) that have kids that can never go outside because the neighborhoods are so bad. They could camp and play outside once in a while.

So, that’s why I want to raise $200,000 in the next two years. I want to build a facility so the kids can expand their horizons beyond where they currently are.

What strategies do you have to hit your goal?

I am networking with successful businesses to get them involved in the project. I want to promote my ideas to people who are more powerful than I am. 

What would happen in the next two years that would exceed all of your expectations?

My dream would be to raise $1 million so that we can expand what we do with the building. It will be a better facility with more options. I want to add a school and training area so that the orphans have a chance at a future that is more than just working in a factory for $1 a day.