I don’t know about you but I have started to get hives whenever I sneak a peek at my email inbox. 50 or more per hour and that’s with a pretty strong spam filter as well as several folders set up to organize the flow, um, deluge. I know that I get more email than […]
Okay, that was a come on. I’m not going to give you 5,000 ways to build your business, not really. But if you do the math 5,000 ways equates to approximately 13 action items per day. Yep, weekends too, unless of course you decide to execute more on some of your work days and then, […]
Gotta love that song, right? http://youtu.be/TCBttS_y7lE I know that I do and sometimes I find myself humming it in the strangest of circumstances: My networking contact continually offers proclamations of “love” yet there is never an introduction sent my way. My client gets downright “gushy” about how much they “love” me yet they find it […]
I’ve been a sales consultant and trainer for a long time, 27 years in fact, and when I started my business there was nothing called social media marketing (Mmmm, there was no social media!), and branding was something that you did on the hind quarters of livestock. Make no mistake about it, back then companies […]
September 2nd and it’s back to school for students everywhere. Some will approach their new routine with excitement and enthusiasm; others with a bit more trepidation and it will take them a bit longer to “get with the program.” For me, the start of school feels like New Year. I get all sorts of excited […]
I’m all about getting more customers and when I read this article on the Small Biz Technology website I just knew that I wanted to repurpose it here! I also got to learn about Belly. Check it out…awesome! Now…from Sarah Reilly Engel, VP of Merchant Success at Belly, a loyalty rewards company for retailers: It […]
It’s an all too common story. Many start-ups and entrepreneurs take care of what they perceive to be the most mission critical elements of their business first and simply overlook what might be the most critical element of all! Lawyer? Check. CPA? Check. Marketing? Check. The fist pumping begins and there’s a feeling of “OK […]
I found this article by Diane DiResta to be incredibly helpful and hope that you do as well. Continuous self-improvement is the name of the game! Performing is not about juggling balls in the air or acting on the big stage. Every presentation you give is a performance – even a meeting update! Whether your […]
The Ronettes – Baby, I Love You Great (old) song, huh! But I digress…. The customer is always right. Do everything that you can do to keep the client happy. Suck it up and keep them coming back. Mmm, not so. There’s really only one motto that resonates true for me and that is “the […]
Sad huh, but not really all that unusual. The situation: you spend time and money developing a great website. You have some videos and well executed marketing materials that you can send electronically or through direct mail. You’ve even started to do some social media and as for Linkedin, heck, you’re doing that too. Yes, […]
