Posts by Melissa Galt
How to Craft Your Pitch Perfect Elevator Pitch in Just 30 Seconds
If you are like a lot of business owners, you struggle with creating a truly engaging and effective elevator pitch. As you move around the room at a lunch or networking event, do you find yourself tuning out because everyone sounds the same no matter what their business is? Check out the formula I describe…
Read MoreStop Doing TOO Much: The ONLY 3 Activities You Need to Get More Business
Are you one of those business owners that likes to brag about how busy you are? Do you get a kind of insane sense of satisfaction by being on a hamster wheel of business activities none of which you’ve proven to be effective? Well, if you enjoy that, then DO NOT read any farther. On…
Read More3 Fast Fixes to Turn Your Fear Into Fuel and Move Your Business Forward
Fear is the only thing that is stopping you from getting exactly what you want and fear is something that is created inside of you. Whether you grapple with fear of failure or fear of success (much more common), fear of being poor or fear of being rich, fear of not having enough clients or…
Read MoreSmall Business Success Tips: 5 Sneaky Ways You Are Sabotaging Your Success
Success requires focus, commitment, resilience, and the willingness to do whatever it takes to move your business forward. It is all too easy to be derailed by temporary obstacles, to spin your wheels in confusion and chaos, and to allow poor choices and bad habits to stall your climb to the top. #1 Sickness You…
Read MoreYour Best Year Yet Marketing Plan: When You Hate Marketing, You’ll Love This
Are you one of those business owners or professional service providers who wants to outsource your marketing because it makes you feel like you are chewing foil? NEWS FLASH, the only way you can outsource your marketing is if you outsource your personality, your experience, your talent, and your expertise. Yup, that means you need…
Read More10 Top Tips to Boost Your Visibility on LinkedIn
With over 300 million registered users, and 33% of the professional workforce on LinkedIn, it is the network of choice for B2B success. The average age of a LinkedIn user is over 35, and there are more graduate degrees and six figure earners on LinkedIn than any other network. It is the place where business…
Read MoreThe Entrepreneur’s Journey: 7 Surefire Ways to Beat Loneliness in Business
In a recent survey I took, one of the greatest challenges facing solopreneurs and home based CEOs these days is the isolation that can come with working from home and doing a lot of that work by phone or online. While you have the convenience of working in your pajamas, you also face the loneliness…
Read MoreTime Management Tips: 3 Secrets to Making More in Less Time
Rebecca is a talented interior designer, but lacks the time management tips and savvy to claim the success she deserves. She’s made a beautiful difference to many clients over the last decade. Her frustration is that her business growth seems to have plateaued and she’s stuck spinning her wheels and not moving forward. Her time…
Read MoreSmall Biz Branding: 3 Email Signature File Tips to Get More Business
Recently I sent my online tribe an email asking them to let me know if they wanted to attend an event in Boston that I was speaking at. I made a critical mistake. Mistakenly I thought that replies would include the reason WHY they wanted to attend, WHAT their business is, and WHO they serve.…
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