Business Development
10 Top Tips to Boost Your Visibility on LinkedIn
With over 300 million registered users, and 33% of the professional workforce on LinkedIn, it is the network of choice for B2B success. The average age of a LinkedIn user is over 35, and there are more graduate degrees and six figure earners on LinkedIn than any other network. It is the place where business…
The Entrepreneur’s Journey: 7 Surefire Ways to Beat Loneliness in Business
In a recent survey I took, one of the greatest challenges facing solopreneurs and home based CEOs these days is the isolation that can come with working from home and doing a lot of that work by phone or online. While you have the convenience of working in your pajamas, you also face the loneliness…
Time Management Tips: 3 Secrets to Making More in Less Time
Rebecca is a talented interior designer, but lacks the time management tips and savvy to claim the success she deserves. She’s made a beautiful difference to many clients over the last decade. Her frustration is that her business growth seems to have plateaued and she’s stuck spinning her wheels and not moving forward. Her time…
Small Biz Branding: 3 Email Signature File Tips to Get More Business
Recently I sent my online tribe an email asking them to let me know if they wanted to attend an event in Boston that I was speaking at. I made a critical mistake. Mistakenly I thought that replies would include the reason WHY they wanted to attend, WHAT their business is, and WHO they serve.…
Blogging Tips: 5 Keys to Blogging Success
Blogging is nothing more than a conversation with your reader. Visualize your ideal reader (hopefully your ideal client) sitting across from you with a cup of their favorite hot beverage and you are having a conversation. The only difference is that the conversation is all from you and it’s in writing, a blog post. Right…
10 Smart Reasons Successful People Take Vacations
Whether you make it a STAYCATION or you vacate your everyday life and make it a VACATION isn’t as important as that you take the time to call a digital disconnect and recharge your own internal batteries. This is about resting and refueling your body, your mind, and your spirit. While I’m certainly a fan…
Mindset Mastery: Do You Want to Be Safe or Successful?
Have you ever been in a networking meeting and after speaking with just a handful of attendees, you felt like yelling “stop being so small,play a bigger game!” (Oops, is that just me?) It happened just the other day . . . It was frustrating because I was in a room filled with wildly well-educated…
Small Business Success: 7 Essential Steps to Finishing What You Start
Success can only happen when you finish what you start. When you look at the landscape of your business and don’t see the success you envisioned, it is because you failed to finish what you started. I know you may want to say, but Melissa, it’s because of where I live, or it’s because I…
Small Business Marketing: What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do
One of the things I’ve noticed is that when I’m in conversation with a female business owner, the questions and challenges that come up are often the same. “Melissa, I know I need to do video, but I don’t know how to use youtube.” “Melissa, I’ve got a VA doing my Facebook and Twitter because…