Success Habits
How to Fail in Business Without Even Trying
Are YOU Sending Your Customers to the Competition? Have you ever called a business at an off hour wanting to check their hours of operation or get their address or even to leave a message for your sales person only to have it ring and ring and ring? Yes, in the information age, in the…
3 Surefire Shortcuts to Getting Ahead Online
I had an uncomfortable experience in the last couple of weeks and bet you can relate. When you enjoy connecting others to their dreams and to those who can help them reach those dreams, like I do, you are easy to reach. I might not be able to spend a ton of time with all…
How to Charge What You Are Worth!
I run into this so often, I finally had to do an article on it. For some reason, I’ve never had the challenge of not being able to charge what I am worth. In fact, I am very comfortable with my rates, packages and programs because I know that the value I bring is easily…
How to Build a Winning Team Even When You Work Alone
While you may be a solopreneur, it doesn’t mean you can’t work with a team whether virtual or real to take your business (and theirs) farther. As a designer I have a real team that consists of my installers, my workrooms, my artists, my vendors, my deliver talent, my interns, and more. Yet none of…
Success Strategies: Getting Out of Your Own Way
Recently I was speaking with the son of a friend of mine, Jim. He bartends for a living and mentioned that he was launching a blog to earn money. Since I follow @problogger and have been studying blog monetization for awhile, I asked a few questions. The answers I got back, amazed me. Jim is…
SUCCESS STRATEGIES: 5 Sure Ways to Your Prosperity Mindset
Regularly sharing Strategy Sessions with Creativepreneurs I have found that the single greatest challenge to your success is your mindset. Success is as much a choice as it is anything else. You can work hard, you can put in long hours, you can be tremendously talented, but if you don’t have the right mindset you…
ACT Instead of React, Stop the Flames of Failure BEFORE They Start
Are you caught in the Reaction Trap? Do you find yourself responding continually to the variety of messages and media that are hitting you daily? Are you working on putting out fires only to find more business blazes flaming? Stop. Whenever your energy and focus is just on containment that is what will keep showing…
MARKETING SUCCESS STRATEGIES: 7 Simple, Proven Techniques to Turn Prospects Into Clients
These quick and effective steps are ones I use regularly to turn prospects easily and quickly into clients (if there is a fit), and you can too! Listen. It sounds simple and it can be but too often we get caught up in wanting to tell them all about ourselves. This isn’t about us; it…
BUSINESS BUILDING BLOCKS: Leveraging Your Brand
I was catching up on my industry reading the other day with Qualified Remodeler. Does that surprise you? You thought I only read design publications, not nearly. We are in The Lifestyle Industry and that means architects, designers, stagers, organizers, contractors, builders, developers, real estate professionals, and home furnishing retailers and suppliers. Stop operating in…