Business Tips
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…
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…
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…
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…
You Are Only as Good as Your Resources: Get More Here!
None of us can succeed alone in business. We need a reliable collection of top notch resources including software programs, people, and coaches: Website Designer (the basics of business today is to be online) Logo Designer (increase your visibility) Printer (we still use business cards and direct response postcards) Email Service (Autoresponder) Social Media Manager…
Pull Back the Curtain: Does Your Market Know You are Human?
How NOT to be Human I know that the title sounds kind of silly, so let’s look at this for a minute. If you are anything like me, you are bombarded by internet marketing messages that are “personalized” for you but in fact are incredibly impersonal. I am even getting these now through LinkedIn from…
How to Use The 7 Laws of CLIENT Attraction: Marketing Made Easy
There are 7 Laws of Client Attraction that when you adhere to them and play by them, you will find your business growing by leaps and bounds. On the other hand when you ignore any given one of them, your business will be diminished, your profits less and your passion for your business challenged. Use…