Business Tips
Forget Your Weaknesses: Focus on Your Strengths
One of the biggest keys to success is to focus on your strengths and let your weaknesses go. This means that you’ve got to know clearly (as in slap your face silly), what you are NOT any good at. And then making sure you either never do it or do very little of it. (Ideally…
Power Words to Grow Your Business: Are You Under Valued?
Words are a powerful tool to impact your business growth. Leveraging power words will grow your business and there is no better pair than price vs value. Understanding the key difference between price and value can add thousands of dollars of revenue to your business bottom line. Years ago when I was a Purchasing Agent…
3 Real Reasons Your Business Is NOT All About Your Clients
I got an email from a client recently, bemoaning a client she had who was arguing over fee and suggesting her agreement wasn’t clear. My client was very upset and worried that her client would speak poorly of her and damage her reputation. She wanted to know what to do. Never Allow Your Clients to…
How to Craft Your Pitch Perfect Elevator Pitch in Just 30 Seconds
If you are like a lot of business owners, you struggle with creating a truly engaging and effective elevator pitch. As you move around the room at a lunch or networking event, do you find yourself tuning out because everyone sounds the same no matter what their business is? Check out the formula I describe…
Small Business Success Tips: 5 Sneaky Ways You Are Sabotaging Your Success
Success requires focus, commitment, resilience, and the willingness to do whatever it takes to move your business forward. It is all too easy to be derailed by temporary obstacles, to spin your wheels in confusion and chaos, and to allow poor choices and bad habits to stall your climb to the top. #1 Sickness You…
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…
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…
10 Simple Steps to Save Yourself From Identity Theft and Credit Card Fraud
Today, I’m pleased to report, that I picked my car up from the body shop, $5K worth of damage repaired. When the window shattered the glass went everywhere, including into my leather seat and door panel, necessitating replacement and even inside the seat belt locking mechanism which also had to be replaced. While my credit…
Grow Your Business: 3 Tricky Tips to Learn More for Less
Last week, I attended a LIVE 3 DAY FREE EVENT, Ready for the Stage, hosted by Suzanne Evans. Now, I’d seen at least five emails for the event, but didn’t heed the invitation until my colleague and friend, video presentation expert, Ruth Sherman, told me she was going to be in Atlanta and invited me…