Getting More Business
Small Business Marketing: 5 Revenue Generating Activities To Boost Cash Flow
Best Interior Design Business Coach As a small business marketing consultant and coach, I meet a lot of business owners who seem to have more social media icons on their website than they do clients in their practice. If this sounds like you, this is a poverty producing imbalance and indicator that your time is…
Episode #3 ~ How to Craft Your Irresistible 30 Second Elevator Pitch & Networking Intro
I have worked with many clients who aren’t networking face to face. They are playing online and not getting any traction in their business. Too often networking is NOT working because of a lack of clarity around the transformation and impact they provide. See if this sounds like you! (All names are changed for privacy…
Grow Your Business by Having Fun: Lessons from an Athlete
A friend sent me the awesome video here last week. She called it mind blowing! Actually it is business growing. . . Jason Brown, the extraordinary skater featured in this video, excels not just technically but because he is absolutely captivating to watch and he engages his audience entirely. Let’s take a look specifically at…
Small Business Goal Setting: How Big is Your Ask?
What I’ve discovered in business and in life is that you pretty much get what you ask for. What you ask for is directly tied to the goals that you have, goals that are annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily. (By the way, if you aren’t breaking it down this far, you will accomplish far…
Conversion Strategies: Know Your Prospect’s Priorities
I had ordered some handouts for recent event online through Fedex Kinkos. It isn’t my favorite way to go as it usually involves a phone call or three because my orders are rarely standard. It is, however, convenient particularly for this ace procrastinator (yes, I did just admit that.) On my way to the airport,…
Free Sessions that Sell: The Fortune is in the Follow Up
Learned a valuable lesson this week, that reminded me of the profound value in follow up, and establishing a professional, polished, and effective on-boarding process (if this sounds unfamiliar, get in touch, I’ll help set this up with you in your business, www.talkwithmelissa.com) I’ve been attending a gym at the business club I belong to,…
Relationship Building: It’s a Small World After All
What are the odds that you’ll meet and do business with the man now married to the woman who bought your former house seven years ago, and you never met her at the time? You could have knocked me over with a feather when I did exactly that this week. We’d spoken by phone prior…
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”…
10 Winning Ways to Boost Credibility and Attract More Clients
Credibility is your key ingredient to enhancing business relationships and knowing how to boost credibility simply and powerfully will transform your profitability. One of the greatest aspects of the Social Age we are in is that there are so many simple ways for people to find out about you, to sample your expertise, to experience…