Working with Mark Silver, for leaders of small businesses who need to make a difference and a profit, without losing your heart in the process.
When you have the potential to make big change, that’s when it’s most dangerous. Making a big impact, having big success, reaching many people is wonderful… and it can shake you to your core. To stay in your strength, in your sovereignty, to hold onto your humility and desire to serve is not easy. So many people have been seduced off their path or stumbled painfully (even disastrously) when they experience success.
Steering through and staying true to your heart often requires a few things.
As you begin to read through this page, I’ll let you know that although I love working with clients, I can only handle a very few.
That said, if you’re a perfect fit and I have an opening, I’d love to support you.
The Three Foundations of Leadership In Success:
- Strength and Clarity. You have to own your strength and know it. You have to see your path clearly and walk it. You don’t want to let self-doubt, worry, or bright-shiny-object syndrome erode your momentum. You also don’t want to mistake the patience of right timing with the indecisiveness of losing your clarity.
- Surrender. You’ve heard it before: what got you here can’t get you there. Often success brings the invitation to surrender and let your entire being be changed. Surrender is, by nature, a painful spiritual process because it requires letting go of what you know. And you know you need to go through this door.
- Humility. If you really care, you probably worry whether the success will go to your head. How many other leaders have been seduced and caught up in sexual or financial misconduct? Even if it’s not that dramatic, just simply staying humble and in service, is where your heart is happiest, and it can be hard to discern what is humility and what collapse or backing away from your growing sense of power and ability.
If you’ve tasted success at some level then you know what I’m saying is true.
And if that wasn’t enough, you also need to integrate your internal growth and evolution with practical business strategies, an eye for profitability and market, and an ability to lead and support a team (even a small team) with your vision.
Whew! Need some help with all that?
You can make a big difference in the world, and watch the money come in to support it. If you’ve been in business for any time at all, you know you need to make a profit if you want to keep helping people. It takes a lot more than just being good at what you do- you have to know how to run a business, and how to keep your heart and generosity at the same time. The Heart of Business™ helps to make it all possible.
Hi Mark,
I can’t begin to thank-you enough for your support through my dark night of the soul. My business has been so much more fun and at least 3 times more profitable by putting love first. … I would like to continue working with you because your work is so valuable to me. I love the direction you are taking in your work.
Blessings and continued abundance to you,
Terri Cotts, client
Sounds great, but will it work for you? This kind of intense, individual attention is not for everyone, or every business. In fact, for some businesses, it’s definitely NOT the answer.
Clients who are successful working with me tend to have these four things in common:
- You are past the start-up phase of your business.
Successful clients are generally ‘over the hump.’ Meaning you’ve been in business for at least a couple of years, are familiar with the terrain of your industry, and have confidence in what you do. - You are beyond bare survival level.
Because much of the work we would do would be looking at higher level strategy, and long-term business growth, you need to be able to focus on the future. When someone is in survival, it’s impossible, and inappropriate, to focus on long-term business building. We can get results quickly, and we can pay attention to urgent needs, but you need to be above hand-to-mouth.(Note: If you are still in the start-up phase or in survival, you probably need certain foundational pieces put in place, and you will learn and apply them much more quickly in a group situation. Check out the Opening the Moneyflow course or working with one of our practitioners instead.)
- You have a spiritual commitment in your life.
Making a quantum leap requires transformation, and transformation requires surrender- which is ultimately a spiritual process, no matter how many practical steps are involved in it. Successful clients are comfortable and engaged with spiritual practice on some level- and willing to engage more with it. - You have a tiger by the tail.
You have an inkling, or more than an inkling, that your business has hold of something special- something that can shake up some part of the world, make a lasting impact, has the potential to be pretty darn big.
If you find that your business has these four elements to it, I can help you skyrocket forward. I can say this because, after delivering more than 2000 individual sessions, and teaching dozens and dozens of classes, I’ve seen what works, and what doesn’t.
Let me now introduce to you…
The Organic Business Development Program
For you to get the results you want takes more than just an individual session here or there. After working with hundreds of clients, I’m wanting to save you the trouble of having to piece it all together.
12 Individual Sessions.
I’ve noticed that between three and four months of consistent work, there is a tremendous and permanent shift from problem-solving to creative development. For this reason we will do 12 sessions over six months- generally two sessions a month. At that point we re-evaluate. Many clients continue, some feel complete.
What do we handle in a session? There is always a combination of spiritual alignment, finding clarity of direction, and integrating know-how and expertise. Typical topics for sessions include:
- Authentic, effective marketing;
- Clarifying business purpose/mission, so you feel solid;
- Clearing emotional/spiritual blocks to abundance and success;
- Plugging passion/creativity drains;
- Designing your business model for maximum profit;
- Creating a productive schedule that works for your business and your life;
- Handling challenging relationships in business and life;
- Diagnosing and transforming your sales process;
- Learning to deeply trust your own intuition and decision-making process;
- Helping your business stand on its own;
- Breaking workaholic patterns, so you can enjoy your life, and still run your business;
- Designing business systems that can significantly cut your daily work load;
- Understanding and implementing successful internet strategies;
- Learning to balance your natural generosity with your need to make a profit;
- Bringing out the authentic jewel of who you are in all aspects of your business;
- Finding a solution to overwhelm;
- Strategic and creative planning for the future;
- Learning effective prioritizing strategies;
- Helping your business fly!
And on, and on… if it has to do with business, we can either handle it in the session, or find you a comfortable, doable strategy to get it handled.
Every session ends with a clear assignment so you know what your next steps are.
Laser Heart Calls
Usually two calls a month is more than enough, but sometimes something urgent or painful comes up. I maintain a small enough client load and flexible enough schedule that I can often be available for a short additional support call.
Email Support and Session Recordings
Often questions come up between sessions. Or, you have just finished a draft of your latest sales brochure. You think you’ve finally hit the right tone for your web copy. Perhaps you’ve had a disturbing interaction with an employee, client, colleague, or superior.
I am available to my clients by email to answer questions and give feedback between sessions.
You also receive an mp3 recording of each session.
Hi Mark,
I need to say, Mark, I wouldn’t be where I am today had it not been for your clever and insightful coaching from your heart. I honestly feel you saved me a minumum of two years of suffering, self-pity and being frozen from drastic life changes I’m experiencing this year.
For the first time in my life I’m savoring the sweetness that comes from a relationship with the Divine. Because of you, I’ve found a new way to live, a life being grounded in love. The healing I’ve experienced through your coaching has made space for my business to thrive and focus it’s purpose to serve the greater good.
I will always refer you to anyone I come across interested in coaching for themselves or business.
Brenda Monaghan, client
Needless to say, this is a serious commitment to your business. By stepping into this container for growth, you are, in essence, saying that you want to be in a very different place with your business, you want you business to produce tens, or hundreds, of thousands of dollars more than it is, and that you want to be of real service in helping the world be a better place through your work.
The Cost
The cost for this program is $5970 for the six months. You can either pay in one payment, or you can pay $995/month. We accept Visa/MC/Amex/PayPal. This assumes that I will be working one-on-one with one person: the business owner or primary decision-maker. For partnerships or organizations where more than one person needs support, let’s talk and find out what structure is needed.
I know this isn’t inexpensive, because it represents a significant investment in your business future.
This is not meant for folks who want to make minimal improvements, or aren’t sure what help they need. This is meant to be an investment that will, pay for itself many times over the years to come.
An Alternative- A Business Assessment
I also will do one-off business assessments. You send me all the info about your business that you can, I review it, then we spend an hour on the phone doing an overall assessment of your business model and strategy, including spiritual/energetic components. At the end you’ll have recommendations on how to move forward.
The cost is $500 for this session.
If you want to feel like you are truly serving your life purpose, and have your business supporting you and your family in abundance and generosity, then I want to support you in getting there.
The best way to start is to give me an overview of your business. Fill out the form below, and we’ll set up a time to talk on the phone.
Blessings,
Mark
First the fish has to say,
“There’s something wrong with this camel ride,
And I’m feeling so damned thirsty.”from The Gift by Hafiz