Posts Tagged ‘Lessons in Success Series’
Lessons in Business Success: Yet Another 10 Quick Marketing Tips
I believe you should always be marketing. While not everyone is your potential client, that person may know your potential client – so market away. Clients often ask where they should be marketing. Here are 10 suggestions for where you should be marketing your business: Social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, etc.) Meetup groups Your…
Read MoreLessons in Business Success: Be an Author
Writing and publishing a book is the Holy Grail of authorship. I believe you should all be moving toward that if your goal is to be identified as an expert in your field. But where do you start? I recommend you hone your voice by starting with a blog. Then perhaps moving on to guest…
Read MoreLessons in Success: Join a Mastermind Group
If you read Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, then you’re probably familiar with what a mastermind is. If not, as soon as you’re done with this article go read it! I’m serious. Think and Grow Rich is business success 101. Hill studied 500 of the richest people in the world and found many common…
Read MoreLessons in Business Success: High-End Coaching/Mentoring Packages
There comes a point where working one-on-one and trading dollars for hours will overwhelm and overwork you. This is when you need to begin to think about yourself as a highly-paid expert. When you begin to see your value as a highly-paid expert, you understand you’re now providing outcomes – not trading dollars for hours.…
Read MoreLessons in Business Success: Be a Speaker
I understand more people are afraid of public speaking than dying. And believe it or not, I get it. As an introvert, the idea of getting up in front of a group of people, be it 2 or 2,000, can be daunting. I’m here to tell you it doesn’t have to be. While I still…
Read MoreLessons in Success: How Big Is Your "Why"
Very often people focus on WHAT they want as opposed to WHY they want it. While knowing what you want is important – that’s outcome – knowing why you want it is often more important – that’s motivation. If you don’t have a strong enough “why,” you’re simply not going to be moved to make things…
Read MoreLessons in Success: More Business Resources
In the spirit of sharing more business resources, remember that some of these I have used and some just didn’t feel right for me. Use your best judgment as to what’s right for you and your business. (Click here for previously shared business resources.) Stock Photos: I learned a very valuable (read, expensive) lesson about…
Read MoreLessons in Success: Business Resources
Most businesses start off with you, an idea, and a whole lot of work laid out ahead of you. You are the creative genius, the skilled labor, the manual labor, tech support, customer service and the intern who brings you coffee every morning – all rolled into one. In our digital day and age, I’ve…
Read MoreLessons in Success: How to Handle Business Growth
There comes a point in almost every successful service-based business where you realize that 1:1 client interactions are very limiting. There are only so many hours in a day, in a week, in a month and in a year. That point came for me several years ago when I was back to working 40 to…
Read MoreLessons in Business Success: 10 Quick Marketing Tips
When I teach, my programs are typically jam-packed intensives where students walk away with more information than they know what to do with. My recommendation is always to pick two or three things that you’re not currently doing and implement those immediately. In a few weeks, when you have those initial two or three that…
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