Posts by Melissa Galt
How to Ride the Coattails of Your Favorite Guru by Invitation
Creating winning joint venture partnerships can be the difference between a launch that sizzles and a launch that fizzles. It can be the difference between tapping your tried and true 200 subscribers or tapping over 20K new potential subscribers. The choice is yours. You can wait until you are big by yourself or you can…
Read MoreHot Marketing Tips: It’s Never Too Late for Thank You
When I first started out in business for myself back in 1994, I had a habit of sending a thank you note for every call I went on. It didn’t matter if it was my first time meeting a client or my fifteenth time, I sent a follow up thank you within 48 hours. My…
Read MoreHot Marketing Tips: How to Ditch the Duds and Work With Only the Best Clients
Well I had a big AHA! moment awhile ago. I had agreed to meet a new date, but he hadn’t made firm plans and the voicemails left were focused on what was going on in his day, and nothing about where and when to meet. We’d been talking for over a week and I realized…
Read MoreDo Less, Make More: 3 Simple Steps to Leave Busy Behind and Find Profit
Next time you are in a pet store go and watch the hamsters carefully. They climb aboard their little round treadmill and will happily go round and round for hours and hours. Notice that they don’t actually go anywhere! I’m betting that you might be in the same situation. You are busy, you are on…
Read MoreWhy You Must Stop Marketing (and What to do Instead)
I’ve been in business over fifteen years and I’ve studied it for even longer. What I’ve noticed is that when I’m in flow, confident, comfortable, and excited about who I am, what I offer, my talents and my gifts, I don’t have to market. I simply connect to a prospect, determine their need, and engage…
Read More#1 Secret to Building Relationships for Results with Everyone
There are lots of parallels between dating and business networking. In fact if you treated your prospects like you would a new romance with full on courtship, you’d probably get a lot farther and a lot faster. Whether you are a woman in business or a man in business doesn’t matter, what matters is that…
Read MoreAre you apologizing for your business?
Have you ever met someone at a networking event and when you asked for their business card they began apologizing? They made some excuse like they were waiting for their logo or they were new in business and didn’t yet have their business name confirmed? These are irrelevant factors to success. When I hear the…
Read MoreObstacles to Success: 5 Ways You May Be Strangling Your Success
With any new business venture there are going to be obstacles to success to overcome. There are ways you can start out ahead and avoid strangling your success. I had a really intriguing conversation with a person new to business a few months ago. She wanted me to walk her through crafting a business proposal.…
Read MoreBe Yourself, Now What’s the Question?
This is the answer to almost every question you’ll ever be asked, be yourself. I’m not kidding, it really is. Most of us spend the majority of our lives trying to be who we think someone else wants us to be (or worse who several someone else’s want us to be, resulting in split personalities…
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