Tag Archives: Success Habits
The Surefire Formula for Failure . . . Is This You?
Posted by Melissa Galt.
Do you remember the classic crooner Frank Sinatra? I ask only because in today’s high tech, warp speed world, classics come and go almost as quickly as a new trend or fad. Sinatra had, among his many hits, a song title “I Did It My Way.” And I realized the other day that has been [...]
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Marketing Strategies: Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Posted by Melissa Galt.
What is the sweetest sound you can hear? Your name. That’s right, it’s personal and real and in today’s age of communication overload, used far too little. Think about it, you don’t often use someone’s name in a text message, almost never in a Tweet, only if you are tagging them in a Facebook update, [...]
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What is the Difference Between Social and Personal?
Posted by Melissa Galt.
What is the difference between social and personal seems to be one of the biggest questions newbies (and even some pros) are asking today. I still get that eye roll from audiences and prospects when they say “I don’t care what anyone else ate for breakfast and am not going to share what I had!” [...]
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The Handicap of Hiring Others to Do Your Social Media
Posted by Melissa Galt.
While this sounds like a no-brainer idea to many small business owners and even big business owners, hiring someone else, like a marketing firm, to interact in social media for you isn’t necessarily a very good idea. The reality is that people do business with people. A brand is only as good as the people [...]
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How to Build Profitable Relationships and Powerful Friends: It’s All in the Invitation
Posted by Melissa Galt.
Wahhhh, I admit it, I haven’t been on LinkedIn much this year so far. In fact, I haven’t been doing nearly as much social “networking” as I did the last two years. Maybe it’s because I’m doing more real time networking, or perhaps social media is truly in that state of flux, but whatever the [...]
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Marketing Success Strategies: Got a Business Bucket List?
Posted by Melissa Galt.
One of the surest ways to get a lot more done in your business and scale that ladder of success that much faster is to create a bucket list for your business. After all if you saw the movie, The Bucket List, years ago you know that the idea is to actually live all the [...]
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How to Beat Overwhelm in 3 Simple Steps
Posted by Melissa Galt.
As I readied myself to write this I took stock of what I am juggling and very nearly curled up in a ball of inertia. Now I know that may come as a surprise. You probably think of me as most of my clients do, the Energizer Bunny of productivity and positivity. Well, now you [...]
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Success Nightmares: What’s Keeping You Up at Night?
Posted by Melissa Galt.
Success Nightmares? Having recently completed a very large project I was caught off guard when I found myself unable to sleep with nightmares about the project despite it being completed and turned over to the client. I didn’t have dreams about it in the last three months when I was in the thick of it, [...]
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#1 Ingredient to Success in Life and Business
Posted by Melissa Galt.
It is easy to get puffed up about the superiority of your product or service. The hitch is that this is only in your own mind and is how your ego is tripping up your success. Without fail, every contractor that came on the job site immediately sought to show me ways someone else needed [...]
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When Policies Prevent Profits: Are You Stalling Your Success?
Posted by Melissa Galt.
This is a lesson in how your policies and procedures may be preventing your profitability. Read closely not as a business owner but instead as a customer or client. Too often we get caught up in our operations, and forget that we are in business to serve our customer and clients. We must see it [...]
