Business Development
How to Grow Your Credibility and Your Bank Account by Phone
You are an expert in your industry; you regularly share gold nuggets and priceless tips about your business, your services, your products, your topic with your clients and customers. Now, imagine that instead of doing this one on one, there was an easy way for you to share the very same information and expertise with…
Ditch the Double Speak & Talk Transparency for Real Results
What “Strategy Session” Really Means . . . Have you been bothered, like I have, by all the games that are played both online and offline to trap you as it were into someone’s system or program? I say “trap you” because when you want to be there of your own free will you will…
A Winner’s Mindset: How to Profit with Passion While Doing What You Love
On a Wing and a Prayer . . . When I began my first business venture back in 1994, it was on a wing and a prayer in many ways. I had a planned start up but six months prior to that, I went head to head with my boss over, of all things, vacation.…
How to Know When Criticism Will Help You or Hurt You
Gosh this year has really flown by, and I think it feels faster today since we are all living on multiple planes of not just reality but virtuality. It is impossible to actually be alone anymore as there is always someone ready and willing online to either dish praise or bash (not always gently) with…
How to Start at the Top
We all know analysis paralysis and the dangers of over thinking something, most often this comes from knowing too much, not too little. What if you truly didn’t know what you didn’t know? How different would your life and your business be if you didn’t stop because failure might happen, rejection might occur, it might…
TOP 10 REASONS WHY YOU NEED A BLOG: Shortcuts to Profit with Ideal Clients
From everything I’ve seen, the biggest hurdles to starting a blog for small business owners and solopreneurs is the fear of writing and the perceived technical aspects. Well, take it from this avowed NON-tech, there is no technical skill required. And you don’t have to be a writer, in fact you don’t have to write…
Success Leaves Clues: 3 Ways to Find the Patterns to Take You to the Top
It’s a known fact that the fastest shortcut to success is to model others who have already made it. Did you also know that success is about patterns and habits? Your daily, weekly, monthly, and even yearly patterns are a roadmap of clues to why you are making it (or why you might not be.)…
How Will YOU Claim Your Independence Today?
I’ve been thinking a lot about Fourth of July lately, not because of fireworks and bbq’s but because we are more than half way through 2010 now and I know far too many people who are shackled by their business, confined by their beliefs, trapped by debt, enslaved by a poverty mindset, snared by health…
How to Fail in Business Without Even Trying
Are YOU Sending Your Customers to the Competition? Have you ever called a business at an off hour wanting to check their hours of operation or get their address or even to leave a message for your sales person only to have it ring and ring and ring? Yes, in the information age, in the…