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Free Sessions that Sell: The Fortune is in the Follow Up
Learned a valuable lesson this week, that reminded me of the profound value in follow up, and establishing a professional, polished, and effective on-boarding process (if this sounds unfamiliar, get in touch, I’ll help set this up with you in your business, www.talkwithmelissa.com) I’ve been attending a gym at the business club I belong to,…
Profitable Content Marketing – 3 Content Title Mistakes and What to Do Instead (Prospects, Profits)
Crafting profitable content titles will bring you more prospects and profits. And you do want more prospects and profits, right? The challenge is there are so many mistakes you can make when you are creating titles for your content. So in this article I’ll show you 3 of the many mistakes and what to do…
Leadership Training: 5 Effective Ways to Foster Employee Engagement
A Gallup study, released in June 2013, on the State of the American Workplace reported that 70% of American workers are disengaged in their jobs. A whopping 7 out of every 10 workers in the USA is showing up to collect a paycheck but has otherwise checked out of their job. Workers today are disconnected,…
Small Business Development: 5 Key Questions to Experience Business Naked (not what you think)
Despite technological advances, business today is still, and will always be, about person to person, and relationships. Whether you are connecting by voice to voice, face to face, or keyboard to keyboard, it’s about building trusted relationships that allow your business to deliver the goods and services your clients count on. While being authentic and…
Blogging Checklist: What to Do Before You Write Content, Before You Post Content
Speaking with a client the other day, I was caught off guard when he proudly stated that he’d completed a dozen blog posts to launch his blog, and had sent them off to his VA for posting late night. Waaaiiiitt!! There is so much more to this than just writing and posting. Where is the…
Relationship Building: It’s a Small World After All
What are the odds that you’ll meet and do business with the man now married to the woman who bought your former house seven years ago, and you never met her at the time? You could have knocked me over with a feather when I did exactly that this week. We’d spoken by phone prior…
Take Action: 3 Steps to Ditching the Drama and Finding Your Sunny Side
A problem is simply a label you have applied to something in your life. I am fond of correcting that word choice into “a solution waiting to happen.” In actuality, a problem is only created by the way you frame any given situation or event. When I was younger, I had a lot of problems…
How to Win Clients and Generate Leads the Easy Way
Let’s be honest, we all have a favorite channel, WIIFM – What’s In It For ME. This is the channel we tune into automatically when we aren’t thinking about it or perhaps when we are nervous about meeting or talking with someone new. At least that is what I’m telling myself must have happened to…
Grow Your Business: 3 Tricky Tips to Learn More for Less
Last week, I attended a LIVE 3 DAY FREE EVENT, Ready for the Stage, hosted by Suzanne Evans. Now, I’d seen at least five emails for the event, but didn’t heed the invitation until my colleague and friend, video presentation expert, Ruth Sherman, told me she was going to be in Atlanta and invited me…
5 Questions to Uncover Your “Boutique” Brand Advantage: The Keys to a Business You Love
I’m about to turn everything you know about business upside down. You’ve been taught that to make more, you’ve got to serve more clients, you have to climb on an endless treadmill of more, more, more. Stop. The marketing strategy I’m sharing here is the key to making more money with fewer better clients in…
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