Business Success
5 Questions to Uncover Your “Boutique” Brand Advantage: The Keys to a Business You Love
I’m about to turn everything you know about business upside down. You’ve been taught that to make more, you’ve got to serve more clients, you have to climb on an endless treadmill of more, more, more. Stop. The marketing strategy I’m sharing here is the key to making more money with fewer better clients in…
Stop Making Excuses, Start Making Money: You Are Enough!
I see and hear of this happening all too often. Whether you are a new business owner or have been in your business for a few years, you may be stalled out because you have set up roadblocks to making money. In fact, you are struggling with the misconception that you have to have “certain”…
Customer Service Fails: Are You Taking a Bite Out of Your Business?
The other day I was at a local neighborhood vegetarian cafe. It is owned and operated by my former caterer. His food has always been great, but customer service sometimes questionable. For example, there was the last party he catered for me, food was divine, mouth watering bite-size appetizers including such delicious morsels as brie…
Shortcuts to Success: 3 Simple Ways to Make More Sales
Now, there are those who will argue with me that there are no shortcuts to success. I disagree and I can prove that there are. When I was traveling recently from Providence, RI to Atlanta, GA, I had a first class ticket. Usually that means there is an expedited security line for me to use,…
Smart Solutions: 5 Steps to Taking Your Business from Imaginary to REAL!
In my recent post, Do You Have an Imaginary Business? I shared with you the number one question you needed to answer before you could move tangibly into making your business real. You need to determine your WHY! Now, that you’ve got your WHY . . .(and if you still don’t, keep working it, it’s…
Smart Solutions: Do You Have an Imaginary Business?
Is your business real or imaginary? It’s an important question. Are you making excuses or making money? I experienced two conversations this week with coaches, both of whom, currently have imaginary businesses. One has named it and claimed it and is ready to move into a real business that makes real money and give up…
Smart Solutions: 5 Simple Secrets to Being Whole and Happy in Your Business
I am embarrassed to confess that I have a multiple personality disorder. I didn’t realize it until I went searching for an introduction for an upcoming event and found no less than 36 different introductions on file over the past decade. OMG, I am one person, not 36. Even if I’d updated annually with new…
Productivity Tip: How to Tame Your To Do List (Get More Done & Have More Fun!)
Are you a list maker like me? Do you start your day with a full page of items to tackle only to find that you get through less than half, and you wind up rolling more than half of your list to the next day? I used to do that until I found a way…
Networking Tips: 3 Wickedly Simple Ways to Red Carpet Ready Your Conversations
One of the toughest things about networking is knowing what to say. And I don’t mean the usual “blah, blah, blah” about your business. I mean being both interested and interesting so that you’ll be remembered beyond your tagline. (You do have a tagline, don’t you?)Â This is about being a good conversationalist. It means…