Business Success

3 Mistakes to Avoid Being a Marketing Meathead (with a Marketing Message Mismatch)

When you’ve got a marketing message mismatch, you are a marketing meathead. I know sometimes my alliterative tendencies go to far, but I couldn’t resist this title. I couldn’t resist because I actually dated a guy a couple of years ago who repeatedly referred to himself as a meathead. Really? This was mismarketing to me.…

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The Surefire Formula for Failure . . . Is This You?

Do you remember the classic crooner Frank Sinatra? I ask only because in today’s high tech, warp speed world, classics come and go almost as quickly as a new trend or fad. Sinatra had, among his many hits, a song title “I Did It My Way.” And I realized the other day that has been…

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3 Must Haves for a Happy Customer Experience in Every Business

With my recent extensive and intensive experience with Apple, I am more qualified than usual to share with you three BASICS you must have to create and sustain a happy customer experience.  Face facts, it isn’t enough to sell your product or services, you have to ensure that your sale is satisfying and leaves your…

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Touch My Senses, Get Your Sale: Retail Strategies for Success

Recently I was scouting for furniture and checked out two big box retailers. Both have great looking furniture, both are well crafted. One was clearly higher priced than the other, though not necessarily a better value, they did give a better experience. Here’s why . . . they touched all of my senses. You read…

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5 Rules of Marketing You Must Know Now

Recently I visited a series of Designer Showhouses.  The point of these showhouses is threefold: To sell the house. To sell the designer. To sell the furnishings, accents, accessories, lamps and more. In this case, the marketing company that put this together did their level best NOT to sell anything! It was truly one of…

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5 Steps to Boost Your Business and Referrals

Melissa Galt, Prosper by Design, discusses how an incentive or a marketing gold nugget can work with your business model. Take a look at the five ideas to boost your business and referrals and see how many of them you can fit into your business quickly and easily.

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5 Steps to Creating Winning Joint Venture Partnerships

Creating winning joint venture partnerships can be the difference between a launch that sizzles and a launch that fizzles. The choice is yours. Prosper by Design, Melissa Galt teaches how to harness relationship building techniques and practices to catapult you to the top.

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5 Steps to Creating Your Own Tribe

Building a business community, fostering your own tribe is about stepping out of the small self you are and moving into the bigger self you can be when going farther together. Here are five essential building blocks to creating your own tribe.

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5 Simple Steps to Creating a Business of Impact & a Life of Vision

Stop spending your work day rushing from crisis to crisis and struggling to create a long range plan! Here are five steps that you can take quickly and comfortably to design your own business and life success.

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