Amazing Grace - Leading Your Business With Gratitude
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Published:07/07/2012 12:53am
According to Wikipedia, "Gratitude, thankfulness, gratefulness, or appreciation is a feeling, emotion or attitude in acknowledgement of a benefit that one has received or will receive."Gratitude is one of the most powerful and transformational energies in the world. It can be expressed, as the definition explains, in many ways via your attitude and your actions. It can also be experienced and demonstrated both before and after you receive the benefit. Therefore, you can experience gratitude for something that will come, even if it's not here yet.If you learn to express gratitude internally and externally, you'll fill your life with abundance. Abundance...
Goals: Measuring Your Progress in Three Easy Steps
Published:07/06/2012 10:31pm
Let's say you hop on a plane with your significant other for a long-anticipated vacation in Bermuda. Your pilot gives you the standard greeting at take-off, and you enjoy the rest of the flight munching peanuts, and watching a movie. Fifteen minutes before your scheduled landing, your pilot comes back on the intercom and says, "Sorry, folks. I forgot to check the navigation, so instead of landing in Bermuda, we'll be landing in Iceland."Chances are, you'd be less than thrilled. Now you're going to have to spend your precious vacation time booking a flight out of Iceland!Funny how ridiculous that sounds...
Monetizing Your Social Network
Published:07/06/2012 12:01am
Monetizing Your Social NetworkMonetizing your social networkSocial networks have become hugely popular over the last 5 years, with Facebook the largest and most successful on the planet. With so many users online, Facebook has become a great opportunity to make money. But how do you make money on Facebook? In this brief guide we will explore five different ways to monetize your favourite social network. We will explore how easy it can be to make money using simple methods and how you can expand your business opportunities.Top 5 methods used to make money on Facebook1)Have a Facebook Yard Sale - If...
How to Choose the Right Marketing Strategies for Your Business
Published:06/30/2012 10:03pm
What is a marketing strategy? I like to define it as "a process that allows you to concentrate your limited resources on the greatest opportunities to increase your visibility, sales and income."For example, let's say you have the goal to enroll 3 new clients within the next 30 days. You should then focus your time, energy and resources ONLY on the necessary tasks that will allow you to reach that goal, and NOTHING else!How can you ensure that your marketing plan will yield the results that you seek? By making sure to: Identify the needs of your ideal client and how...
Common Pitfalls That Are Killing Your Business (Despite Your Best Efforts)
Published:06/26/2012 09:07pm
Love it or hate it, marketing is a necessary part of creating a successful business. If you happen to reside in the "hate it" camp, it could be because you feel like marketing means you have to be pushy, sales-y or fake. We've all had the experience of having someone try to "sell" us and it doesn't feel good.Fortunately, such tactics are not necessary to enjoy a profitable business. And that is certainly NOT the Smart Simple Marketing way. To me, marketing is simply a matter of sharing solutions with people who are already looking for them.You and I both face...
Fresh From the Farmers' Market
Published:06/25/2012 02:37am
Although farmers' markets or curb markets as they're called in some parts of the country date back to the era of the family farm, these days the markets are sprouting up all over. No longer relegated to early Saturday mornings, today they are up and running as weekday events in central business districts and even in the nation's capital at the White House. The White House market is an offshoot of the garden installed by First Lady Michelle Obama along with her laser-focus on moving the nation's youth to increase or become more physically active and make healthier food choices.If the...
Exponentially Increase Your Revenue Through Speaking
Published:06/20/2012 02:55pm
One of the fastest ways to increase your revenue is to make yourself available as a public speaker. It's quite all right if you have never done it before. If you focus on a topic that's truly of interest to your audience, prepare well in advance and formulate a follow up system you really can't lose.Keep in Mind... It's ALL About Them!We entrepreneurs have a bad habit of focusing our marketing efforts on what we want to say, vs. what our audience really cares about. The first step in using speaking to get more clients and to increase your income is...
How To Create A Solutions-Based Business
Published:06/18/2012 02:59am
Ouch, I'm in pain over here! It doesn't matter who you are or what you do. If you can solve my problem, I will happily give you my time and money.We each have a pain that needs healing, an itch that needs scratching, or a problem that needs a solution. And we're on the hunt for that solution... yesterday!Keep this in mind as it relates to your ideal client and the reason you went into business for yourself. You are a problem solver. Therefore, you must make sure that your business is focused on solving problems and nothing else.Your business doesn't...
12 Ways to Attract Clients With Your No Cost Offer
Published:06/18/2012 12:43am
Once upon a time you could entice people to sign up for your newsletter without offering any type of offer. All it took was your great content and you were well on your way to a captive audience. But an email address is "online currency" and the best way to encourage your prospects to offer you theirs is to provide them something they really want.How do you do it? You need a Fabulous Free Offer.I'm often asked two questions, "How do I know what to offer?" and "What should I offer?".To answer the first, you must know what will trigger your...
Five Strategies to Achieve Your Goals
Published:06/17/2012 09:18pm
Even when you've set a "good" goal - one that adheres to your higher objective and is specific and measurable - you can run into some issues along the way... namely, staying motivated. Without motivation, even the most ambitious person will get sidetracked. Here are the strategies that I feel will keep you on track to achieving your goals:Get an accountability friend.Life can be lonely when you are making changes to your behavior. Your family, and work colleagues may not support "the new you." For instance, if you're trying to start a new business, your spouse may not "get" it and...
The Fastest Path To Cash
Published:06/11/2012 12:05am
No matter what differences you and I have, the type of business we have, our philosophy about being self-employed or what our personal goals are, we most definitely have one thing in common. We want to be successful and we want to make a good living doing the work we love.There are a lot of ways you could pursue creating your version of a successful business. But I'd like to share with you the fastest, easiest, least stressful method I know.Before I do though, I have a question for you. Do you like to eat? Most people I know do. I...
The Standard American Diet Is SAD
Published:06/10/2012 09:21pm
Without giving it a second thought, many Americans eat a diet that is both nutrient-poor and calorie-dense. We choose foods simply because they are "convenient" without giving much thought to the fact that they are full of nutritionally bankrupt ingredients such as sugar, starch, damaged fats, sodium, and chemical additives. In fact, we have gotten so used to eating these processed fake foods that we consider it okay; some people even think it's healthy. This is ideal for the food industry but not for the average American. Sadly, this way of eating is killing us.For many people, the standard American diet...
Baby Boomer Success Strategy: You Choose: Your Freedom or Your Story
Published:06/02/2012 02:19am
Your life is full of moments of choice. You can respond to each moment based on old patterns, old stories, (conscious or unconscious) or you can choose to react from a new place based on freedom from the past. You can make new choices that make you feel alive and free. It's your choice.The old story I'm talking about is not the fairy tale story your mother told you before bed at night, but it's the old story we drag around like a huge bag of useless rocks. Keeping this story alive drains your life force, your energy, and your very...
Five Affordable Ways to Create Video Marketing Content
Published:06/01/2012 11:41pm
There are many ways to create video marketing content that will make you stand out without access to a production studio or require spending thousands of dollars. Take a look at some of my five easy, affordable steps you can take to show your viewers you're worth their time and money:1. Create a Video YourselfThis is, of course, the most obvious option. You don't need professional equipment. You can easily start out with a computer webcam, mobile phone, or any video recorder that you have access to. What matters the most is not the technology you use but your concept and...
Access Your Unrealized Leadership Potential
Published:06/01/2012 02:10am
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tsu, Tao Te ChingAs the greatest self realized sages profess, mastering yourself is true power. And as one masters oneself and moves to higher levels of consciousness (or self actualization), he or she organically becomes the leader those with lesser development want to follow. Thus the need for prevalent fear based leadership tactics - command, control, cleverness, manipulation, hierarchy, and force -disappear.From my own experiential journey along Maslows hierarchy of needs, self actualization brings the gifts of acceptance,...
