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Does Your Email Set Your Priorities for the Day?

Is your “to do” list created around what shows up in your email inbox? Guess who is in charge of you and your time when you do this? Answer: Not you. It is whoever wrote that email or posted that message on social media. This common mistake means that you are living a life that…

How to Grow Your Business: Step #3

Step #3: Follow Up Once you have defined your product or service and have developed a list of potential clients, the next step is to follow up with those customers through a series of emails. This email campaign is essential if you are providing a service. Buying a product can sometimes be an impulse buy.…

Grow Your Business: Step #2

Grow Your Client List Do you have a product or service to sell? Do you wonder who to sell it to? Too many first time entrepreneurs focus intently on getting their product on the market or the website up and running, then sit back waiting for the big bucks to roll in. If that was…

How to Grow Your Business: Step #1

Begin with a Menu of Products or Services If you have a business where you sell products then this is probably not that hard, unless of course you have hundreds of products (more about that in a minute.) However, if you provide a service, (think health coaching or business consulting or writing coach, etc.), then…

Got a vision for your future?

Three steps to creating work you can love “I’ve drawn a line in the sand. I’m quitting this job at the end of the year, come hell or high water.” “This is absolutely the last time I’m working a holiday season.” “I can’t take the stress any more. I’m retiring at the end of the…

Three Secrets to a Productive, Stress-free Day

Has Running Your Own Business…Run You Down? I was recently at an event where I ran into another entrepreneur that I had not seen in a while. I asked her how she has been and it was obvious that she was exhausted, overwhelmed and overcommitted. She couldn’t wait until the current holiday season was over…

3 Ways to Set a Goal that Works

Do you have some big goals? Are you making progress? Or are you making excuses? How long have you been saying you were going to write that book? Start your own business? Try a new career path? Get out of debt? Get in shape? Maybe you think you tried and it didn’t pan out. You…

Ten ways to make the most of a conference

Do you love attending conferences that get you fired up and energized? Do you leave a conference and a few days later wonder where the momentum went? Do you wish you could bottle the information and energy of a great conference? Stephen Covey in his Seven Habits of Highly Successful People identifies the key habit of…

Who do you think you are?

Your Mindset and How to Make it Work in Your Favor Who do you think you are to dream about being successful in a business? What makes you think you have a skill or talent that other people would want to invest in? Who made you an expert? Think you have something unique to offer?…

Is It Time for a Change?

Ever wonder what happened to Blockbuster? There was a time when they dominated the market for renting videos. They were seemingly doing everything right. They were growing every year with a very profitable business. When necessary, they made small tweaks like moving from VHS to DVDs to Blu-ray etc. Here were their assumptions: People want…