Managing your business involves a lot of thinking hats – there’s the owner’s hat, the manager’s hat, the marketing hat, the HR hat, the coworker’s hat etc. It is sometimes d ifficult to decide if they work in synchrony or they conflict one another. So, what can you do to have all hats at peace ... Views: 745
Having a business, faced every day with the unknown and with having to constantly make choices for which you know what the consequences, although unforeseen now are going to come back to you is just not easy. So, what do you do to enjoy the moment and still be in the midst of a hectic results ... Views: 778
Seeing this over and over again, I wish I could text message with this everyone in the world: You can’t be Rich with a Poor relationship with money. The way you approach money, earning money, spending money speaks volumes as to how much you’re going to make and keep. So, if you want different ... Views: 757
Even the best article or video marketing in the world, even the best content in the world is not going to do anything much for your business if you don’t have a compelling call to action. The trick about call to action is: before you create anything: from article, to teleclass, to video, to ... Views: 796
There is a right way to invite clients to buy from you with social media and there is a wrog way. Actually, there is a third option – there is a very wrong way to sell. For example, if you facebook someone with an offer more than once, then when they unlike your fan page, you start facebooking ... Views: 690
When I first started my own business, I thought that I’m the only one who stays up till 3am in the morning to “finish up something”. I remember once when I went to bed at 10am the next day just becasue I had started something that I was so inspired to work on it and … didn’t feel like sleeping. ... Views: 694
The purpose of social media is to create micro-communities with same interest where memebers can connect, interact and help out each other. The question is: how can this help you grow and find more clients in your business. Here are the top 5 basic ways to do that:
1. Write it, say it and see ... Views: 707
If you do business online, then sooner or later you run into the 3 things you must do before you go into a sales conversation: SMM (Social Media Marketing), SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and SEM (Search Engine Marketing). The key to getting visible, driving traffic to your website and helping ... Views: 841
Clients know that whatever they are looking for, they can find it online as well. In their mind, if something is not online as well, they can’t check it out and hence, no reason to buy it. The potential client makes a decision to buy or not to buy based on those 5 buying mindsets:
1. ... Views: 658
We can’t control what happens to us. What we can control is how we respond to that. Our attitude makes all the difference. It can help us to go that extra mile or it can leave us standing empty-handed in the side lines. To be successful it is important to take charge of your attitude. Otherwise ... Views: 657
Many people turn what they like to do into a business for the simple idea that if you do what you like to do for a living your life will be more fulfilling. In reality, though, once the business is launched more often than not the new business doesn’t bring in enough revenue for the owner to ... Views: 767
Just like everything you get good at, after a while you forget what it was in the beginning. Same happened with me. I absolutely forgot how great of a hobby I had a few years ago. My hobby was to stretch myself, i.e. go out of my comfort zone in every possible way. And let me tell you, it’ s a ... Views: 595
1. Has a Big picture overview
Where you’re coming from and where you are going to is the foundation of your marketing plan. Let’s say a year from now, what results do you want to have happened? Looking at the big picture, not only the final destination is important but also the 2 to 5 big ... Views: 661
We only get into our lives that which we invite. If we invite harmony, harmony will find us, if we are welcome to money, money will come to us. But we need to let it in. For many entrepreneurs the home office is where their laptop is – in the bedroom, in the car, on the kitchen table. Wherever ... Views: 683
Promoting your business around holidays is just another great way to boost your sales. The most recognized holidays are Christmas, New Year, Easter, 4th of July, Black Friday as well. However, all celebrations are a good occasion to show what you do and get a sale or two by the end of the day. ... Views: 1419
On-line and off-line holiday sales can be a huge pay day and can make your holiday even sweeter. Easter is one of the biggest holidays and of course shouldn’t go unnoticed. Otherwise you loose in potential sales and that’s a disservice to your clients who may as well be very happy with your ... Views: 845
Believe it or not we are in the era of Social Marketing. Marketing as we used to know it is all about products and consumerism. Social Marketing is about selling ideas, behaviors and attitudes. Sound familiar? All speakers, trainers, coaches, NLP practitioners, EFT practitioners, healers, light ... Views: 728
We’re all hearing from all over the place lately that it’s all about your mindset. If you have the right kind of mindset – which can be thought and modeled by doing what the already successful people do, then all the lovely things in the world will be yours. And it’s like the domino effect: you ... Views: 673
Some business attraction activities are very popular but what you are not told when you go to a networking meeting with the home to get a client is that it takes a lot of time, persistence and patience to get results.
1. Networking
A fantastic way to build a list of interested people. The ... Views: 607
Here’s the thing – a lot of times we just don’t accomplish things because we simply don’t do the action to get us there. Even all the positivity and all the confidence in ourselves won’t work unless we roll our sleeves and get things done. Here’s 5 mantra quotes to remind yourself how:
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With a shoe string budget, businesses naturally go to the social media for exposure and in their search for clients. Quality Twitter followers, LinkedIn connections, and Facebook fans are all you need to fill up your pipeline with clients, members and repeat business, should you know the do’s ... Views: 597
If you need just a little bit of something to nail that sale and get that income …just like it was wished for in an affirmation or pinned on a vision board, then something needs to change. What needs to change is how you’re thinking, your mindset. As soon aas you start to think differently, you ... Views: 678
Have you asked yourself this: Why am I not making enough money with my business / or any money? According to Feng Shui, money is just like any other energy (luck, happiness, prosperity). In order for this energy to do its magic in your business and your life, better not be cluttered. To ... Views: 789
Potential clients make all kinds of excuses but if I have to sum it up, they all fall into: excuses about money, excuses about time and excusing themselves with other people. The strongest deal breaker in a sales conversation is money. Here are the most common money excuses and what that really ... Views: 806
Blogs are much faster indexed by search engines and also they are the first place where internet users seek for answers. Why, because blogs give answers. So, you are in business, and you would like to blog – to promote your expertise, to hopefully monetize on it and eventually get clients. Here ... Views: 637
We say that we want to succeed, that we want to do the work but do we have what it really takes? Here are the Top 5 things to have a very firm grasp of in order to know you are on the road to a continued success:
1. Your top strengths
It’s essential to know what you are really good at ... Views: 617
How do we know that things are not good? The biggest red flag about it is: lack of money coming in. But there are others: like lack of motivation, loss of vision, unable to meet plans or deadlines. Any time you see those signs, stop, and ask yourself those 5 questions:
1. What does money ... Views: 629
Intuitively we all know that “it’s all in our head”. If we don’t believe it’s possible, it simply IS NOT. If we believe it IS possible, that doesn’t automatically mean that it will be but at least we are in the right direction. In other words, what our mind believes as impossible is where our ... Views: 643
My definition of a successful business is: Know-How with Know-Who and a Know-What. Hence, your marketing and sales consist of basically 3 main activities: networking, speaking and writing. This article is for all those who are just starting and feel shy speaking, who are sick and tired of going ... Views: 746
A sales letter is each and every communication you have with your potential clients explaining what you offer and why do they need it. The thing is, even if you offer a great product or service it’s really your sales letter that is explaining exactly how you add value to their lives. And guess ... Views: 711
Wherever you are in your business, sooner or later comes in the huge need to promote. In the end without a promotion of your business, where are the clients going to come from? The questions that usually circle around when it comes to promoting your product or service are: Where to find the ... Views: 780
If you are starting out – from the ground zero and you want to start from somewhere, anywhere, here are the 5 things you can do:
1. Offer a special
Create a limited time special, cut a sweetheart deal or offer a deal that is so good and so irresistible that your potential client can ... Views: 637
The quickest way to of being the best owner of your business is to be the best owner of your own life. How do you do that? By effectively claiming what’s yours. How?
1. Be clear on what you want
If you don’t know what exactly you want and you fail to communicate it to others in a way that ... Views: 592
My own definition of starting a business is: help others to solve a problem they have in a better,faster and more efficient way.. and being paid for that. Sounds pretty simple, right? And in fact it is, just that the complications come from the fact that it’s not the same to know how to do ... Views: 615
Tell me if you’ve ever experienced the same. Just yesterday I had just met this lady. She was talking with a friend of mine how her coworkers constantly take advantage of her kindness and willingness to help. And I have had the unpleasant encounter of exactly the same kind of people in my ... Views: 21036
Sometimes it’s not the motivation, it’s not the lack of resources: energy, time, money; it’s not the economy, our experience or not knowing what you did that got you into a dead-end situation. Here are the 5 other reasons to be stuck in your business:
1. Expecting perfection, falling into ... Views: 643
Ok, you are determined to succeed, you wake up with the idea that today you’re going to make it, today you will succeed, you breathe with that wish and pray it comes true. But it doesn’t. Why? Of course it could be because of many things, some of which depend on you.
Here are the top 5:
1. ... Views: 629
Sometimes, my clients come to me and tell me: Tsvetanka, I read every article out there, I go to every single free teleseminar out there and I still can’t find clients. What am I doing wrong?… Here are the top 5 things:
1. Being vague about what you offer
There’s a very quick test – if an ... Views: 722
I won’t be claiming that all your problems will be solved once you hire a team of assistants. Just like in the corporate world: there are good employees and bad employees. The difference is that now you are the employer and you get to decide what’s helping your business and what is not. But ... Views: 645
I often hear that: I can’t charge more because I am….. new, un-experienced, nobody knows me; and these are all valid reasons to start charging at a little bit lower price and to gain some experience and recognition before you raise your prices to what you wish for. Now, what I’ve found out is ... Views: 735
There are several reasons why people become entrepreneurs. However, just like the candler who went on the Island of Diamonds to get some diamonds for his family most entrepreneurs FORGET why they started all this in the first place. The candler was about to go home in 1 full year, as soon as he ... Views: 688
Negative energy is coming from undermining the importance of your business or of your ability to make money in your business, constant criticism that you are not spending your time on the “right things” according to them, not really believing that you have it within you to make things happen. ... Views: 749
Have you ever felt that you want to succeed but whatever you do there seems to be all kinds of things that are stopping you? While it is true that life happens, it’s how we respond to it that makes a difference. What usually happens is that we get accustomed to how we perceive the reality and ... Views: 582
Part of being a business owner is to overcome challenges and bring your business to the next level while focusing on keeping it alive and profitable day in and day out. But sometimes what we cant to see as challenge is actually a state of being stuck – neither moving forward nor maintaining a ... Views: 599
When you go though situations, feelings, relationships, that are unpleasant or even painful to your core, that means that a button of yours have been pushed. The thing is – the more and the better you know your buttons the easier and more joyful life can be BECAUSE it won’t be other people or ... Views: 607
We’ve all been there. You don’t feel good, maybe down, little despaired that things are just not happening, or not happening in the magnitude you wish to. And .. you’re stuck. Vision is lost as to where you want to go and how you’re going to be there. In one word: STUCK. This , of course, leads ... Views: 672
If you run your own business, I’m pretty sure by now that you’ve already experienced that social media marketing (My Favorite 3: Linked in , Twitter and Facebook) can take all the time in the world and the results are still not there or it can be done by someone else for you but what do you ... Views: 719
The more traffic you have, the better, right? More qualified traffic means: client generation, hence – more money in your bank account. But where does the traffic come from? There are 5 different sources of traffic and the are:
1. Content Marketing
You can create articles, or video tips, or ... Views: 731
Making million dollars in profit naturally changes your status to a millionaire. But how do you do that? Here is a very simple, very straight forward plan to do it:
1. Create a consumer-priced product
Create an info product like: an e-book or an audio program and sell it for $197. If your ... Views: 692
I know FOR A FACT, that every single rich entrepreneur started from “scratch”, self-learned and mastered all that they have discovered along the way into a signature system that makes them lots of money. And I know for a fact that they love to tell and re-tell their sobbing rags to riches story. ... Views: 799