The key to business growth
Next month I’m celebrating my 5 year anniversary with one of my dear clients, Ebony! YES!!! 5 years working together. You might think… What makes her stick around? It’s my looks… well not really ;-). It’s the strategy we have to serve our clients powerfully beyond our first engagement. Ebony is not alone…. Jane, Suzanne,
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Are you in it for the long term?
The goal with marriage is to create a bond that lasts a lifetime. One that is full of happiness, trust, and respect. When you’re growing a business, the relationships you want to develop with your clients are not all that different. Once you’ve sealed the deal with your leads, you’ll need a plan of action
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Walk down the aisle…
The goal with a first date is to make it to a second right? It’s time to ask yourself – is my business second date material? Like dating, building trust is crucial to growing your business. Think about this – when you go to purchase a product or service online, who do you buy from?
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I Had a Crush on a Boy
Many years ago, I had a crush on a boy.. Shhh don’t tell my husband! I remember how I desperately wanted him to ask me out. I knew everything about him but I’m not sure he knew I existed. I would talk about him with my friends, would lie on my bed and listen to
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How Do You Show Up?
Right now I’m living in what I would call a “construction” zone. We are in the middle of painting our home and chaos lives all around me. Yesterday, I couldn’t even find my keys. 🙂 Maybe you aren’t dealing with a major home project right now, but are you feeling the chaos and confusion in
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What is your unique brilliance?
Are you spending 80% of your time doing what you LOVE TO DO and getting properly compensated? When I first started my business, I struggled with knowing how to define my own niche, my own unique brilliance and the one thing I loved to do AND that people would pay for. If you
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HAVE YOU LOST YOUR FOCUS?
As I sit and write this piece it’s August and we are in the middle of a Pandemic. Whatever I had laid out clearly and neatly in my 2020 plan (back when I planned my year ahead in December 2019) is out the window. Monthly sales goals. Gone. Quarterly projects. Gone. Product launches. Gone. Travel
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WHAT PRODUCT DO I LAUNCH?
How many IDEAS do you have stored in your “back pocket”? If you are an entrepreneur like me, you are constantly brainstorming new IDEAS. You write them down on pieces of paper, you put them in a google docs, store them in Asana or better yet – jot them down on a napkin in desperation
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3 Tips to Hold the Vision & Trust the Process
I am sitting at my desk, it’s 9 AM and my calendar is free of appointments this morning. Actually, if I am honest, most of my mornings looked like that in the first few years of my business. I might have 2 maybe 3 client calls a day but the rest of the day was
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Online Dating
Have you tried online dating? I got married in 1997, so I have not, but many of my friends have tried it with great success. So I asked them what are the rules of online dating are and they answered: Don’t share too much too soon Don’t meet in person until you feel you can
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Are you ALL in?
I’m sitting by the beach today. I had an opportunity to work at a friend’s beach cottage and I took it! I’ve been asking myself lately what does it mean to be all in? What does committing to my message and my work look like, really? Is there room for second-guessing? For playing small? For
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How to build relationships with your market and grow your business.
Do you trust me? Your answer is probably… Maybe? I’m not sure? I don’t know enough about you yet. Or simply NO, I don’t trust you. Why would I? I don’t know you. I believe that in life and in business TRUST is at the core of any human interaction and is the KEY INGREDIENT
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