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Hot 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…

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Hot 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…

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Do 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…

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Why 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…

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#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…

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Are 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…

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Obstacles 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.…

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Be 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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How to Stand in Your Strength to Succeed

As I’ve been sharing the details of my friends and follower clean up, it’s been fascinating to get the support and feedback from my tribe. Generally everyone is not only for it, but inspired by it and motivated to take their own action. If you are or have, please feel free to comment on the…

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5 Ways to Tell a True Friend on Facebook (vs. the Not-So-True Kind)

Well if you read my recent post about dumping 50K followers on Twitter, it won’t surprise you that at the same time, I purged my Facebook Profile of over 2500 not-so-true friends. You see, originally, I’d been given the same advice about Facebook; friend everyone who invites you to. With my recent years of accumulated…

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