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Mark Silver
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Do you want to express your heart and soul in a new business, make it successful on every level AND truly serve the world?
Do you want to position your business in a high-integrity, authentic way that attracts
the people who most need your services
or products?
If you answer “yes” to either of these questions, you are a pioneer among a growing population of heart-based entrepreneurs committed to embodying your highest values in your business.
And yet you may feel daunted by the number of things you need to understand in the start-up phase of your business — from developing your core offer to marketing, to accounting, to building a website. Add the pressure of generating revenue to pay the bills while you’re learning new systems. And then trying to do it all in a conscious way?
Frankly, it’s a lot to handle, which is why a lot of people never make it past the vision stage and get into action...
Like a lot of heart-based entrepreneurs, you may wish you could offload many of the “business-y” aspects to someone else so you can focus on providing the transformational services that bring you the most joy.
You may not even think of yourself as a businessperson — just someone with a gift who wants to serve on the deepest level possible. Which is beautiful!
However, if you’re developing a business where you are going to be charging for your services, you are ALSO an entrepreneur and you have to get reasonably good at some of the core business fundamentals if you want to grow a sustainable business.
Good intentions are not enough. It takes a marriage of inner work and outer skills to have your business grow into something that serves clients, you and the larger world.
The challenge is that you didn’t get an MBA or training in business fundamentals, or the latest in internet marketing, sales funnels or launch strategies.
That’s where the Transformational Business Foundations Program comes in. It has been created to provide essential insights, principles and practices for conscious, caring people like you who are faced with the challenge of growing a conscious and profitable business from your passion and gifts.
This program will shift your inner relationship with business, money, marketing — AND teach you what you need to do on the outer levels to succeed.
The truth is that it takes a lot to make a business thrive. It requires the right foundations — the core positioning, the right offer, the right language, and the right amount of marketing knowledge to generate sales among your ideal audience.
It takes an understanding of what to do first (and when) — and perhaps even more importantly, what NOT to do.
If you lay down solid foundations and build patiently, before you know it, you can have a healthy, growing business that feeds you and your family and eventually wows clients and employees.
In seven weeks, you’ll learn exactly what you need to know to lay those foundations in a grounded and effective way that also will prepare you to grow the business of your dreams.
As you master these fundamentals you will become more than a person with good intentions and some heartfelt gifts.
You will become the kind of person who can help change the world.
The world actually needs you to reach as many people as possible who can benefit from your work, your services, your products and your example. The world needs some big changes, and by becoming a successful transformational business owner, you can help make them happen.
That’s why we have invited Mark Silver, one of the pre-eminent teachers of heart and soul-based entrepreneurs, to give you the essential training in business foundations that you probably never received.
Mark has mentored thousands of teachers, coaches, healers, and transformational service providers and built multiple successful businesses himself (while experiencing failures as well). As a respected Sufi teacher and top entrepreneurial coach, he can show you how to combine nuts-and-bolts business knowledge with deep spiritual principles so that you can create a business that’s profitable AND based on love.
He understands the most typical startup challenges and roadblocks — and how to get beyond them.
Mark will guide you in exactly what you need to know to build a business that you can be proud of, one with enlightened principles, marketing with heart and offerings that are holistic and beneficial.
As you learn these fundamentals, based in time-tested principles for spiritual growth and development, you create a new-paradigm business that is not only aligned with your soul, but a LOT of fun.
You’ll learn which parts of traditional marketing you can safely let go of and how to replace them with heart-based, high-integrity marketing that speaks to the deepest needs of your customers.
You’ll learn how to operate under new rules, be held to a different standard — and actually use sounder methods.
The Transformational Business Foundations Program gives you seven weeks of group mentoring, teachings and concrete strategies for creating a sustainable and successful heart-centered business — in one affordable package.
This is the training those of us in the first wave of heart-based entrepreneurship wish WE had received when we were getting rolling. It will help you avoid costly mistakes that we’ve made, and empower you to grow organically, naturally and joyfully without having business take over the rest of your life.
The return on your investment from this program can be enormous because once you get the core fundamentals of heart-based business in place, your business can grow naturally into delivering transformational offerings that can change the world.
The Transformational Business Foundations Program is different than other “toolkit” approaches that make you feel as if you’ve stepped into a sterile business factory, or that try to entice you with more dollar signs.
We know that you care about more than dollars — and yet it’s also important for you to be financially savvy and have a clear understanding of how to drive profit and manage your business.
Mark’s approach takes you on a journey that will help you grow from the inside out, bring your business vision into alignment with your higher purpose, attract your ideal clients and develop a marketing approach that aligns with your soul so that the right customers can find you.
You’ll let go of old blocks you might have around money, business and success, as well as understand business from a more transformational perspective
A unique part of this course is that each module will offer tools to help you embody the lessons and strategies that Mark will share with you, so that you can run your new business with confidence.
You’ll rest easy knowing that you can build your business step-by-step at an organic pace, using just the information you need to know — when you need to know it!
Here's how you and your business can benefit from the Transformational Business Foundations Program — you will:
- Really understand what business is — and what it is isn’t — from both a spiritual and practical perspective
- Align your business with your true purpose
- Increase your effectiveness by focusing on your ideal client and honing your niche as your business grows
- Minimize stress and increase creativity and enjoyment in the early phase of your business
- Shift your psychology around money
- Refine your “single sentence,” so that it communicates the key transformational offer for your ideal clients
(and doesn’t feel “sales-y”) - Experience progress as you learn how to turn good ideas into deliverable offers
- Learn exactly what you need to know about online marketing for the initial start-up phases
- Gain clarity on the specific transformation your customers will experience — helping to direct your business, simplify marketing and serve customers and affect positive change
- Understand the four stages of business development and the unique challenges and opportunities of the first stages, as well as the signs of the transitioning stages
- Know what you must learn and do — and what you can outsource
- Start to really trust your heart so that you can discern which advice to use when you’re getting it from every direction
As you apply the Transformational Business Foundations principles, you’ll begin living the truth that your work represents, which makes all the difference in creating a business that serves your ideal clients.
You’ll emerge with a grounded sense of how to move forward and where to focus to get results. You’ll have achievable timelines and a sense for the natural stages your business will go through.
If you are still in another job, you’ll understand how to transition effectively in part by understanding what you can expect from your growing business at each phase.
If you’ve tried to get your business off the ground and suffered some painful setbacks, you’ll recognize what you did wrong and how to fix it in a way that leaves you more whole and fulfilled.
Most of all, you will gain confidence in your ability to succeed — and you’ll know which tasks you need to hire out that just aren’t yours to do.
While you will have seven full weeks of content, we also recognize that much of the learning, support and sharing that you do with other students can be central to the realization of your biggest dreams. So the program will include integration and embodiment lessons, peer support and community networking in each stage of the journey. And we strongly encourage you to share all YOU know from elsewhere — so we’re creating a strong, global learning community.
So, if you’re ready to create a thriving, heart-based transformational business, this is the course for you — even if you haven’t yet incorporated, landed your first client or customer or rolled out your first product.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
Course sessions are on Thursdays at 1:00pm Pacific.
In this 7-week transformational intensive, Mark will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies that you’ll need to focus on successfully creating a business that matches your heart in a grounded way.
Each weekly, LIVE training session will build harmoniously upon the next, so that you’ll develop a complete, holistic understanding of the practices, tools and principles you’ll need to sustain your progress with a real sense of timeline and priorities while aligning with your spirituality and values.
Module 1: What *Is* Business
(September 10)
Although many people are "in" business and can describe what they offer, very few understand the basic functions that make up what business actually is — and then end up missing key ingredients to what makes a business successful and why.
During module one you'll:
- Develop a heart-centered definition of business, and how it can keep you oriented and aligned.
- Learn the role of spirituality in business, what it can do and what it can't do.
- Gain perspective on business in the world, including both the power of business and it's innate limits.
- Understand the stages of business development, and what is needed at each stage, so you know where to focus and what you can safely ignore.
Module 2: Healing Your Relationship with Business (September 17)
If people treated their primary relationships the way most people treated their businesses, everyone would be divorced or broken up with. In this class we delve into how to have a healthy relationship with business in general, and with your business in particular.
During module two you will:
- Learn a simple, ancient Sufi practice for accessing your heart in a moment — stepping out of overwhelm and fear, and returning to love and connection.
- Discover how to access your Jewel, the spiritual gift and presence that is placed in your heart — the source of you, and your business', natural attraction.
- Take the weight off of finding your "Divine calling" and learn to let your business be what it is, so there can be a sense of lightness and joy.
Module 3: Healing Your Relationship with Money (September 24)
Nearly everyone has money issues and there's a reason for it: the way money is used in the modern world is deeply dysfunctional. At the same time, you need to have a healthy relationship with what is, because your business deals in money. So, let's heal your relationship with money and face issues of abundance head-on.
Module three will dig into:
- The very surprising answer to whether you can charge money for your gifts (you can't), but why you can receive plenty of money through your business.
- Understanding that abundance, energy, has 4 different flows, and it's easy to be in the wrong flow for a particular situation.
- Transforming your relationship not only to money, but to so many aspects of the world around you.
Module 4: Discerning the Difference Between Spiritual and Business Issues
(October 1)
Many times people say that a spiritual issue is blocking them in business, when in fact they just didn't understand how to explain what they do clearly, or how to hold a sales conversation. On the other hand, I've watched spiritual clearings open the door to amazing business results. How do you discern if it's a spiritual issue or if you just need to do something differently?
In this class you'll learn:
- The relationship between the spiritual and the physical, as the Sufis see it.
- Key symptoms for how business issues manifest, as well as a list of foundational business skills to help you discern if you're lacking knowledge, experience or effectiveness in a particular situation.
- How spiritual issues manifest within business, and the 3 elements of spiritual healing as understood by the Sufis.
Module 5: The Three Journeys of Marketing (October 8)
"Just get out there," is a phrase you might hear, or tell yourself, but where in the heck is "out there?” And how will it help your business? Marketing is often seen as a monolith, you just "do" marketing, but that's not true. Marketing not only has different avenues, but there is a reason marketing is needed. Without an understanding of its true job, marketing can easily feel gross or intrusive.
During this session, you'll learn:
- The true purpose of marketing, and it's NOT attraction.
- The role of spiritual connection in marketing.
- What someone needs in order to become a client, which many entrepreneurs miss, and thus miss out on many clients.
- The single most underestimated element in enrolling a client.
- The 3 different journeys of marketing, so that you can understand how to create a comprehensive marketing plan that feels good to your heart.
Module 6: What a Business Needs to Succeed (October 15)
Some businesses succeed wildly, some limp along kinda doing okay, and others crash and burn. What does a business need to truly succeed? Bringing together the learning and insights from the previous 5 weeks, the holistic picture of what it takes to be successful will bring a grounded sense of optimism and compassion to your journey by removing unrealistic expectations, and bringing clarity to the road ahead.
During module six you’ll:
- Understand why competition is so important to the success of your business.
- How the preceding weeks create a big picture for the journey to business success.
- Gain clarity on what kind of commitments are asked of you in order to be successful.
- Explore the nitty gritty aspects of your business, including understanding how many clients you really need.
Module 7: Making the Commitment
(October 22)
So often people want a business, but don't make the commitment to what it really takes. Can you make a compassionate, heart-full, aligned commitment to your business? This is more than a commitment to work, it's a commitment to a precious being that can bloom into a substantial venture, caring for you for years to come.
We'll dig in with:
- Understanding that your business has a separate heart and beingness from you, which is how it can carry you in the first place.
- How to communicate with the heart of your business, listening to it and learning from it.
- Making the decision: Is being a business owner your path? Can your heart make the full commitment?
By the end of the seven weeks, you’ll have what many people in business are missing, a true understanding of what business is, what it means, and what it takes, from both a spiritual perspective and the nitty-gritty. You'll be equipped for the long haul to get what you need and support your business into a real flow and momentum.
The Transformational Business Foundations Program Bonus Collection
In addition to Mark’s transformative 7-week virtual course, you’ll also receive these powerful training sessions with the world’s leading visionaries and teachers. These bonus sessions are being offered to further complement what you’ll learn in the course — and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Your Heart and Money
A Teaching from Mark’s Course The Heart of Money
Having a healthy relationship with money is critical to being in business, yet our hearts often have a very tortured relationship with it. This PDF teaches a foundational healing approach to having a healthy relationship with money and the financial side of your business, so you can move price and charge for your work, receiving it with humility and strength.
Backwards: Why Common Abundance Manifestation Approaches are Sabotaging
Your Success
A Guidebook by Mark Silver
There are certain beliefs about manifestation and making things happen floating around in the popular press, yet those beliefs contain fundamental misunderstandings. Discover what a mystical Sufi sheikh wrote about this topic centuries ago, and has held true ever since. Your heart can relax knowing how manifestation comes in, and it’s not dependent on thinking the right thoughts. This is also the healthiest and most effective approach to goal setting we’ve ever seen.
How to Get Subscribers from Talks
Video Interview with Michael Katz
Giving a talk can be one of the most effective ways you can gain new clients and subscribers, yet many have the experience of giving a talk and walking away with nothing. There is an approach that is very effective, and Mark interviews his colleague Michael Katz on how to do exactly this.
What People are Saying About Mark Silver...
My whole attitude towards money and business shifted in a dramatic way, all the have-to’s and the shoulds just fell away, and I felt open-hearted freedom to just do what I want to do. Getting that on a kinesthetic level.
My stress level is zero compared to what it was before. It’s exciting. If you just look at the financials I had a hit or miss income before, and now for the last three months I have doubled my monthly income at the minimum. That sure brings down the stress (chuckles).
I would recommend ... Mark’s work ... to anyone who really values being in their heart and being connected, and who wants their work in the world to be meaningful and an integrous contribution.
— LaShelle Charde
I wanted to let you know that I very much appreciate the work that you do. I ... follow ... a number of practice building ... mentors ... and most of them I ... unfollow ... because they make me anxious or annoyed. You ... are the only one that I ... continue to follow ... Your work gives me a feeling of spaciousness and excitement about my business!
— Rebecca Schwartz, N.D., L.Ac., DrRebeccaSchwartz.com
... I love your concept of helping people in business learn to make a healthy profit and a real difference without losing their heart. It’s unlike anything else out there.
— Jackie Kiadi
Wow.... I read what you have to offer and I got tears in my eyes! I’m excited to get started on this! I’m passing it along to a friend of mine too... Thank you!
— Cari Zoebelle, All Pathways LLC
Thanks a lot, Mark. You solved two of my stucknesses.
— Celeste Varley, British Columbia, Canada
Join the Global Community
The Transformational Business Foundations Program not only offers some of the most advanced online teachings currently available, it also offers a thriving global community of support.
Join your fellow students and practitioners from across the world in the live interactive conference calls or in our online community to support and learn from each other while you learn the steps to starting a business that balances inner and outer work.
This international community is also at the leading edge of a global movement of people who are committed to manifesting a better world for all beings. This emerging planetary movement is rooted in an open heart and stands for the principles of mutual support, cooperation, harmony and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions with Mark Silver
Experience a rare opportunity to be mentored and learn with pioneering heart-based entrepreneur Mark Silver — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session helps you create the specific skills and abilities to build a business you love.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to download in high quality MP3 format. This way, you’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere — on your iPod, in your car and at your convenience.
Seven PDF Transcripts of Class Sessions
In addition to the high quality MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription in PDF format after each session is completed. This way you can review, print and highlight the most important insights and practices that you’ll learn.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
Following each class session there will be a live 30-minute interactive practice session where you will be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the conference call to interact, share and do additional practices to help further integrate the weekly lessons.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
After each lesson, you will then have the option to do related exercises, practice new tools and answer questions in order to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your learning after each class. Here, you can ask additional questions, interact with your fellow students and get access to additional resources to take your learning experience to an even deeper level.
The Transformational Business Foundations Program Bonus Collection
- Your Heart and Money
From Mark’s Course The Heart of Money
- Backwards: Why Common Abundance Manifestation Approaches are Sabotaging Your Success
A Guidebook by Mark Silver
- How to Get Subscribers from Talks
Video Interview with Michael Katz
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join The Transformational Business Foundations Program Virtual Training
We at The Shift Network feel deeply honored that Mark Silver has chosen to partner with us on this exclusive, LIVE online training. As you may know, this is a rare opportunity to learn directly from a mentor and entrepreneur whose powerful insights are helping us create businesses that present our gifts to the world.
Through this powerful online format, you’ll not only save time and money on workshop costs (plus travel, accommodations and meals — which would cost thousands of dollars), you’ll be able to benefit from Mark's incredible teachings and exercises from the comfort of your home — at your own pace!
If you are serious about transforming your relationship to building a profitable, heart-centered business, then you owe it to yourself and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If you’re ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
About Mark Silver
Mark Silver is a fourth-generation entrepreneur who has run a distribution business, turned around a struggling non-profit magazine, and worked as a paramedic in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He is the author of seven different in-depth programs and a number of other smaller teachings and classes for entrepreneurs. Together they form a comprehensive entrepreneurial wisdom academy curriculum.
A designated Master Teacher (“muqaddam murrabi“) in his Shaddhilliyya Sufi lineage, Mark has earned his Masters of Divinity with a speciality in Ministry and Sufi Studies.
As a coach, consultant, mentor and spiritual healer, he has worked with thousands of entrepreneurs and has led hundreds of classes, seminars, groups and retreats. His weekly writings and teachings are followed by thousands of people around the globe.
He lives just outside Ithaca, New York with his wife Holly, twin sons Sam and David, two cats Rafi and Kira, and all the flannel-lined jeans you could possibly wear.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is a virtual course?
"I have never participated before in an online course. The packaging, presentation, inclusion and Facebook postings created a wonderful, safe cocoon to participate. I haven’t seen a course so well put together ever — not in all the years of taking college classes — and I had my doubts about doing an online course. The wealth of organization and ease of learning materials and support made this fun as well.”
– Claudia F., Medford
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Q: Can I get benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?
A: Absolutely! You can download the recordings and transcripts of all course sessions from our online media archive, so you never need to worry about missing live calls. You can also engage the full community and leaders on our private community website.
Q: Can you tell me about the Private Course Group?
A: We will have a private community group for all course participants on Facebook that will support you in making connections with others, sharing insights, engaging in discussions, completing homework assignments and exchanging information about events and other activities that can supplement your transformational journey. You’ll have the ability to share your experiences, projects, and growth throughout the Course.
Q: Are there scholarships available for this Training?
A: Yes, we always make a certain percentage of spaces available for partial scholarships, giving preference to those in developing countries or doing important but underpaid work to which they can apply the training material immediately. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please review our guidelines, which include a link to our online application form.
Q: What is your refund policy?
A: Your satisfaction with The Shift Network and this course is our highest priority! We offer a satisfaction guarantee so that you can sample the course risk-free. The deadline to receive a full refund is September 24, 2015. To request a refund, please click on this refund request form and submit your request. Your refund will be processed within five business days and we'll send you an email confirming your refund. However, we'd love to have a chance to address and resolve your concerns first. If there is something we can assist you with, please email us at support@theshiftnetwork.com, and we'll be happy to help! (No refund requests accepted after the above date or with scholarship awards.)
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