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Lazy Successes

For those of you who know me, it won’t come as a surprise to learn that I am a very driven person. I actually love working, and believe the harder I work, the more results I will get. I’m sure this is no great revelation to anyone. But for the past two weeks, I’ve had a series of minor maladies....

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Avoiding the “Ick” Factor in Networking

Recently I was at a Speed Networking event, and just as I was about to sit down in front of a new networking partner, I watched her lick the first two fingers of her right hand and to pick up one of her own business cards. Now, most of us do this kind of thing from time to time in...

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3 Sales Tips (none from a used car salesman)

SALES. It’s treated like a curse, and yet anyone who is in business for themselves must to be familiar with salesmanship. So, we’ve come up with a more acceptable word – “conversion”. Conversion means to take a prospect and to convert them into a client. Again – convert. There’s something that still seems forceful about this word. I suggest a...

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What do you care about?

Contributed by guest blogger, Candy Sugarman of PlayBig Online Marketing. One of the best things about Social Media is how easy it is for people to share information about causes and events that are important with others. One of the worst things about Social Media is how easy it is for people to respond to shared information about causes and...

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Personal Branding with Expert Katy Goshtasbi

Guest blogger Katy Goshtasbi is a Personal Branding expert who works on translating your personal brand to your business brand in order to increase revenues, productivity and morale. Learn more about Katy on her website, www.PurisImage.com. What is “personal branding”? Personal branding is the process of distinguishing your relevant attributes and communicating them consistently to your audience and then it...

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The Busy Barrier

One of my HUGE pet peeves is when people run around like crazy, saying “I’m so busy, I’m so busy!” I’m not sure precisely why it bugs me, but I think it has something to do with it carrying an underlying message that the person is basically a victim to time. I came embarrassingly face-to-face with this the other day...

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The Worst Thing About Mountain Climbing

You know what the WORST thing about mountain climbing is? They leave the hardest stuff for the end. Think of it. You’re exhausted, dragging your pack with you, and isn’t that last quarter mile just the hardest to haul? I thought of this as I was planning my day and chose just four things to tackle (it was the weekend)....

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Recognize!

Last week I after proudly announcing that I had gone national with my networking event, my husband said to me, “No you didn’t.” Huh? He said, “You went national LAST year when you did your event in Kalamazoo, Michigan.” Forehead slap! How could I have forgotten that? The answer is simple - I’m an entrepreneur. I’m always looking at what...

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Avoiding the Verbal Card Toss

I was talking recently to a new business acquaintance, Tracy Karbus, about (what else?) networking. She mentioned how she hated going to events where everyone just threw their business cards at each other and there was no real connecting. Then she asked, “What do you think you should do for a 30-second elevator speech?” And I cringed. I know, I...

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No Matter How Good it Is…

I recently discovered a very sneaky saboteur in my mind. I was putting together a coaching program and kept tweaking and tweaking and tweaking it, the whole time thinking, “How can I make it so that EVERYONE will want this?” So I kept improving, adding things, adjusting the price, the timing, the deliverables. And then it hit me… No matter...

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New Year’s Overwhelm

A few years back, I started selecting a theme for the new year. For instance, when I'd experienced a lot of turmoil the prior year, I chose simply "stability". The following year, I chose "strength". I kept the theme in front of me over the course of the year, and always ended up truly embodying the theme I chose. It's...

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Leveraging Old Tapes

Today, while in my favorite thinking place (the shower), I was getting more and more stressed out. Thoughts raced through my head, “There’s not enough time. I don’t do enough marketing. I don’t have enough events…” Understand that the “not enough” theme is the most damaging old tape that runs through my head. In good times, I’m conscious of it...

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