Success Habits
Mindset Mastery: How to Switch from Lack to Limitless
I’m betting you are familiar with the idea that your business is like a big pie (pizza or apple, take your pick). And, that there is plenty of pie to go around for everyone, so it is best to focus on your business rather than give your attention to your competition and feel threatened by…
Mindset Lessons: Are You Charmed or Cursed?
The alarm went off. I got a wake up call at a recent business networking event that I hadn’t attended in several months. In speaking with a colleague, when I asked how business was I got the reply “terrible.” In fact, she went on to explain, that she felt certain that 80% of her colleagues…
Hot Marketing Tip: 5 Steps to Go from Now to WOW!
Are you afflicted with Bright Shiny Opportunity Syndrome? It’s okay, you can ‘fess up, I have it too. I’ve simply learned how to tame it so I can stop the distractions, get focused, and achieve extraordinary results. You can too, I promise, stop arguing with me and read how here! The Cure for BSOS: Step…
Hot Marketing Tips: It’s Never Too Late for Thank You
When I first started out in business for myself back in 1994, I had a habit of sending a thank you note for every call I went on. It didn’t matter if it was my first time meeting a client or my fifteenth time, I sent a follow up thank you within 48 hours. My…
Do Less, Make More: 3 Simple Steps to Leave Busy Behind and Find Profit
Next time you are in a pet store go and watch the hamsters carefully. They climb aboard their little round treadmill and will happily go round and round for hours and hours. Notice that they don’t actually go anywhere! I’m betting that you might be in the same situation. You are busy, you are on…
Obstacles to Success: 5 Ways You May Be Strangling Your Success
With any new business venture there are going to be obstacles to success to overcome. There are ways you can start out ahead and avoid strangling your success. I had a really intriguing conversation with a person new to business a few months ago. She wanted me to walk her through crafting a business proposal.…
3 Kinds of Business Owners: Which One Are You? (Only 2 Succeed)
There are just three kinds of business owners in today’s marketplace. Which one you decide to be determines your level of success and the speed at which you get there. You can make success long and difficult or shorter and simpler, the choice is yours. And, you even have the choice not to succeed at…
How to make a big difference with the little things
The brand, flavor, color and choices (if they have any) of tea is as significant (and essential) as the bread selections and just as often overlooked. When you don’t have the basics well done in your business it doesn’t lead your client or customer to expect the best. Put these in place and it really…
Success Leaves Clues: 3 Ways to Find the Patterns to Take You to the Top
It’s a known fact that the fastest shortcut to success is to model others who have already made it. Did you also know that success is about patterns and habits? Your daily, weekly, monthly, and even yearly patterns are a roadmap of clues to why you are making it (or why you might not be.)…