Business Development
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…
#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…
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…
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.…
How to Turn Off the Wall into Off the Charts Success
I bet you didn’t even know you could eat Spanish moss. Well I’m here to tell you can. I found out a few years ago when I went on a tour of the everglades and asked the guide what you could survive on if you got stranded. He said Spanish moss is entirely edible and…
Social Media Savvy: Are You Internet Famous But Can’t Make Ends Meet?
In today’s age, visibility isn’t difficult to achieve, the question is “does it mean anything?” Be very careful about judging a person by their social media presence, it can be deceiving. I’ve talked with hundreds of business owners online who, by appearances, are successful, productive, in demand and profitable. The reality is that they are…
Lead Generation Tips: Are You Turning Hot Prospects Cold?
Wow, this came on this week as I was requesting proposals for a future event. I was amazed at the lack of professionalism and time that potential vendors wasted. These deserve to be red-flagged just in case you have gotten too busy to pay close attention and might be losing valuable future clients the same…
Social Media Tips: I’m Not Into Those Things . . . Are You?
“I’m not into those things,” was the response I got from a business owner, regarding Twitter and Facebook, who had sent out a request for guest bloggers, on LinkedIN’s questions, regarding his brand new blog. This is someone who has no traffic to his blog and is asking fellow business owners and professionals at random…
3 Kinds of Business Owners: Which One Are You? (Only 2 Succeed)
There are just three kinds of business owners in today’s marketplace. Which one you decide to be determines your level of success and the speed at which you get there. You can make success long and difficult or shorter and simpler, the choice is yours. And, you even have the choice not to succeed at…