Business Development
Client Attraction: 7 Sexy Stages to Client Courtship
A great business relationship is a lot like dating. If you are good at dating and courting, it is likely you are going to be good in business. You understand the nuances of client attraction (lead generation), how to warm them up, how to ensure they are qualified (you wouldn’t just date anyone, now would…
5 Extremely Exciting Ways You’ll Grow Your Impact with More Income
Are you one of those talented professional service providers who gives yourself and your gifts away because you love what you do so very much that you’d do it for free? Are you struggling with the delusion that everyone deserves your help and that you’ll make the world a better place by accepting less compensation…
Your Best Year Yet Marketing Plan: When You Hate Marketing, You’ll Love This
Are you one of those business owners or professional service providers who wants to outsource your marketing because it makes you feel like you are chewing foil? NEWS FLASH, the only way you can outsource your marketing is if you outsource your personality, your experience, your talent, and your expertise. Yup, that means you need…
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…
