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As a Business Coach one question that I am frequently asked is, “How do I become successful?” In order to understand success, it is important to study and become a student of successful systems. The most successful systems have been around a very long time. Some of the most successful systems I can think of reside in nature and are ancient, like flowers and trees.

As your business grows and you experience more success it becomes increasingly important to pay attention to your 5 Types of Energy to maintain the growth and also to enjoy the journey. Your energy is your #1 most important resource when it comes to growing your business. It's more important than money, ideas and, yes, even time. You see, if your energy is depleted, you'll never follow through, no matter how great the idea, how much money you can throw at it or even if you ha

I’ve been reviewing my copy of Thomas Leonard’s The 28 Laws of Attraction (formerly, The Portable Coach), and relishing the simplicity of creating a vibrantly attractive life. That doesn’t mean it won’t take some ‘work’ on your part to consider these timeless invitations. Habits do require some handling. However, unhooking from the assumptions that rule your world will unleash the freedom and creative expression to design the life you want to live. Principle #1: Become Incredibly Selfish

The other day, I was looking all over the house for my brand new pair of shoes. I checked the usual places, searched the unusual places, and even rummaged through unexpected places. Eventually, I found them unde eath a chair where they lay waiting for me to find them again. Of course, if I would have put them where they belonged…well, you know the rest.

Our leaders, managers, teams and organizations could benefit from developing a behavioral protocol, or a code of behavior or ethics based on agreed upon values. You may try this on your own, or have a facilitated off-site meeting to really dig into the issues. A code or protocol helps establish ...

Last week I added something new & different to my ezine: a (very) short story entitled ‘Meg’s Business Adventures’. So what’s that all about? Why am I doing this? And, even more importantly: why should you care? Let’s start with how & why I got the idea: I’ve been writing my ezine since 2005. And I always loved it. But last year it started to bore me. And you know what happens when you get bored with something, right? People feel that your heart’s not really in

Many will say yes - I have a strong platform. I have my website, I have my marketing materials, I have presented at a few events, even some freebies - does this mean you have a strong platform? No it does not, what it means is you have a low visibility platform and what you want to achieve is a ...

Executive training programs are one of the last areas where corporate spending is cut. Any smart organization that wants to grow - even in a recession, will continue investing in executive communication skills and presentation skills training. So, if you are a C-level, tapped as a 'future leader' or in upper management, you are in luck. Chances are your organization's training budget still has some courses in the curriculum. But is the training that is offered really what you need? Now, just a moment before we dive in to the answer.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. Albert Schweitzer Have you recently experienced the kindness of strangers? There’s something especially meaningful about it, because there is ‘no reason’ for it. They’re not friends or family and certainly have no obligation to help you. It’s an act of giving that is it’s own reward.

A major issue for most business owners is the ‘fire’ or emergency. This is a disruption in the normal routine or business process. Unfortunately, many businesses are plagued by consistent fires or emergencies. The entrepreneur or the management team is so busy working on these urgent fires they are unable to focus on the important aspects of the business. Most business people are not even aware there is a difference between things that are urgent and things that are important.

You are in business to sell something. You are hoping that people will want to give you money in exchange for what you are selling. That won't likely happen unless what you are selling serves one of the seven core human drives of all humanity. People are, at the core, the same all over the world. They want the same seven basic things. The only difference is in variations of culture, taste, color, size, delivery, approach, and so on, of those seven things. Yet they all want

Course Management: nGetting Results in Golf, Business and LifenRick Moroski, President & CEO, The Leadership CaddienRebecca Dengler, LPGA/PGA Teaching ProfessionalnnnHave you ever felt there were times when you just want to give up on it all? Quit this ever challenging, seldom rewarding game called golf? Tell the boss this is enough I’m not going to take it anymore! Do you ever feel the need to just get away from the never ending chaos of life?nnWe have all from time to tim

Are you tiring from doing all the things you need to in an effort to grow your business and have yet to experience any or limited results? In this post, I would like to offer some advice. Be patient with your business, it needs to marinate. Just like prepping for a wonderful feast, you do not just throw everything together and expect to eat right away. That is what fast food is for and I am sure you know the value of that, a quick and unsustainable fix with questionable results.r

Well, the smartass answer is that it depends. I know, I know, that is a cop out answer, but did you think there was a silver bullet, single easy solution for all people and all cases? There never is is there… For the full answer, please read on. Did you just get laid off and haven’t yet found the next full-time position that is a fit for you and so you are now looking for a short-term contract to help with a gap in employment until you can land another full-time position?

I want to share with you one of the easiest ways I have learned to strategically plan for things in general. Whether it is a three-year forecast on my business or to plan a project effectively and successfully implement it to the end, I use these 5 simple steps. 1. State your goals 2. Create a time frame 3. State your results 4. Divide and conquer obstacles 5. Identify the people who will help you and by when

Is your business purring along like a FerrarI..... or limping along like an old clunker? Like the rest of you, periodically my business like my car, requires some routine servicing. During my most recent visit to my neighborhood car care center, I found myself engaged in a thought process about ...

An employee being usually a company’s largest overhead; they play a huge role in determining overall company profitability. So any improvement in employee productivity adds directly to the bottom line of the organisation. It requires dedicated employee scheduling software , which is specially designed for this purpose and easy to use. In current business dynamics, employee scheduling software is not only expected to identify and schedule right employee to the right job but

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Back in 1999, a friend, Glen Whitbeck, and I who were working on a project together came up with the "3 Times Rule". It is a rule of thumb that even 12 years later has remained a pretty accurate rule of thumb. Since it is a rule of thumb, it isn't always totally accurate, but surprisingly enough it has turned out to be quite close as an average for sure.

A lot of internet marketers are hoping to get lots of benefits from their article marketing campaign but very few are doing the hard work. There are only few of them who are committed in producing more articles. If you’re one of these people, let me just tell you that you’ll have greater chances of attracting more organic traffic and you’ll have a better shot at improving your page ranking if you produce numerous high quality articles. More articles will mean more expos

How do you, as a small business owner, go through the window and become more value-conscious and not cost-conscious? The challenge goes like this: The nature of your value in the marketplace has nothing to do with what you create, or what you do for your customer. It comes from a much deeper place. The question you get to ask yourself is, “Are you enough?” Are you worthy enough to be able to create something great, and pay for what it requires to make that happen?

Potential visitors to your website can only be improved by certain simple SEO techniques. The famous search engines like Google, yahoo and Bing identify a good website by the content in it. Content is considered to be very important by the search engines. It is therefore very vital to add fresh and vibrant content to your website. Ensure that the keyword that you are focusing on is used several times in your website. This is an added advantage for improving the visibility of

It can be very challenging and discouraging to support someone else’s ideas, especially when we think our way is the best. There’s a lot of emphasis on being a good team player for top leaders, managers and front line folks. Can we use values and a protocol to make teams and leaders ...

There’s a moment when you reach the tipping point of your business. A tipping point is that split second when something reaches critical mass. It is also seen when the line on the chart starts to shoot upward. Once my clients systematize their marketing, they reach this tipping point quickly. Their prospect pipeline is filled and they bring in consistent income. Then, it happens. The person they hired to help them decides to move on to another opportunity. Just as the momentum starts, they need to put out another fire.

Do you know what matters to YOU? A Look Ahead This book is not your "short cut" to an MBA in Business and Marketing. It's not a magic pill that you can swallow so you're suddenly transformed into a marketing superhero. (And if it were…do you really have what it takes to run ...

At a time when many small businesses are struggling to get more customers it is important that decision makers have a clear understanding of what it takes to improve their returns on marketing investment (ROI). If your marketing sucks it is more than likely you are still in the dark about the dynamics of the seven Ps in the marketing matrix. Until you have a good understanding of this concept, you will not cherish every time spent improving different aspects of your business before rushing head on promoting prematurely to your market.

Let’s say that you want to reach the level of Director, or V.P. or maybe even get to a C-Level chair. As much as you say you want to follow this trajectory you have doubts. You question whether or not this is the right path and you look for evidence to prove, to yourself, you know what you want. You can lose confidence and berate yourself because you’re “supposed” to know what you want. After all you’re an adult. That’s what adults do, right?

One of the ways to make sure you have a thriving practice is to always market. The best way to do that is to systematize your marketing mix, so it runs on autopilot.

Having a well-oiled sales team and a great product ready to launch can fill your head with a lot of tempting plans. Just like finding a shiny roadster waiting in your garage on a sunny day and that wide open road beckoning, the urge can be irresistable to turn the key, hit the accerlator and see just how fast that thing can go. Don’t start your engine quite yet. There’s an important checklist you need to pay attention to first. At Engage, we conduct ongoing sales research

Corporate storytelling is becoming a new essential leadership skill. It can be used in training and development or succession planning. Through narrative stories, storytelling shares a story about a business challenge, success or experience, while imparting the values and skills of the storyteller. Storytelling creates an opportunity for active listening, reflection and dialogue. Stephen Denning, author of The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling, states the following seven objecti

“Please, please don’t ask for my website address”, she prayed silently as she told the woman about her services. Can you relate? You know you need a website, but you just haven’t gotten around to it. Yes, we are smack dab in the middle of a technological revolution, however most of us lightworkers have never experienced anything like this before as a service provider. Maybe you’ve been reluctant to really promote your healing services and grow your spiritual business because you don’t have a virtual home AKA a website.

Your business model describes how your business creates, captures, and delivers value. There are key ingredients that go into its development, including purpose, offerings, strategies, infrastructure, organizational structures, and operational processes and policies. While there are many factors that go into developing your business model, there is one key ingredient often overlooked by entrepreneurs: Your Inner Entrepreneur.

The ultimate business success tip you must have is – you must believe in yourself. You must believe in your abilities. You must believe in your success at whatever you are seeking to achieve. It is a fact. No one who is successful in their business has lost faith in their belief in their own self value, and their ability to be successful in attaining their goals.

I tend to do a lot more driving during the middle of the work day tha I used to when I was employed in my corporate career. When you are a sole proprietor and meet your clients at various public locations that will happen. One of the things that I have come to learn is there are a number of roadblocks and detours a daytime driver may need to take into account on their travels. Daytime is often when workmen have streets blocked for utility work or suburban road repair on quiet

This past week, my wife inadvertently drop kicked our toaster oven and caused it to experience a catastrophic failure. The toaster oven, the microwave and my grill are necessary to sustain life at our house if I have to fix any food. The toaster oven is great because it works well for just the ...

The real issue for small to medium business is how to cut costs and reduce waste. We are entering a world where there are shortages of oil and other forms of energy and it is all getting more expensive. We have polluted our atmosphere and we need to slow the rate of pollution down and ...

So you’re getting 1,000 hits a day on your site. But how many of those hits convert into sales for you? 50%? 25%? Or less than 10%? While it is important to drive traffics to your site, it is more important to get the sales from all these visits. You can do this by tracking and analyzing website traffic in order to figure out what you need to do to get the sales. With this information in hand you can then focus your campaign to converting those hits into sales. Since you al

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When you add speaking to your Marketing MixTM, it catapults you into the one-to-many conversation expanding your level of influence. There are many advantages to speaking, too. As a Speaker, you: • Leverage your business by serving many more people in your area of genius. • Promote your business through targeted venues. • Add revenue streams by either being paid for speaking or selling other products and services in the back of the room once you’re done speaking.

I’m sure you’ve heard people say things like “I was taken out of context,” “They took her statement out of context” or “You can’t take people out of context” because if you do you will distort their message and misunderstand what they are saying. And then blame them for whatever you don’t like about what they’re saying. Taking people out of context is a typical trick of someone who is trying to defeat someone else.

Writing a business proposal is by no means an easy task. It requires you to be familiar with different aspects of the business. Is familiarization enough to write a compelling business plan? You need experts to beat the competition. There are thousands of budding entrepreneurs out there who are looking for angel investors. Each one of them has a superb business idea that is waiting for funds to start off. Are you prepared to be better than the best? A business proposal docume

Most of us had the phrase ‘thank you’ drilled into us as a basic social concept. It seemed to me to be more about the appropriateness of the action than the energy behind it. But just like so many of the mundane habits that are part of our software programming the meaning behind this powerful practice has been lost amid the noise of daily living.

The concept of Context and Values has revolutionized our business for both in how we relate to our employees and our customers alike. It assists us to tap into understanding how someone frames their world, what they are afraid of, what they are excited about, and what they feel very confident about in themselves that will be deepened by working with us.

Small business coaching is hot. A few years ago the only coaches anyone talked about were sports coaches. But today, PriceWaterhouseCoopers estimates that there are 30,000 business and life coaches worldwide. Thousands of small business owners and managers turn to coaches every day to improve ...

I have a story about how an efficient operational system can make a difference in your business. It has to do with the best trip I took. My family took a 29-day trip to New Zealand. I left the business without a communication plan. No calls, no emails, no checking in.

How do you find a PR professional that the media will listen to? How do you go about choosing a good PR professional or company? There are many businesses that are in the dark about what makes a good PR professional simply because they are also in the dark about what constitutes effective PR. Whether we like it or not, the media does represent a larger portion of the nation and the world and has a profound influence on the communication lines of our society. If you are not cr

ISO9001:2000 is the latest revision of the ISO9001 Quality Management System. Most of the small and medium industries should be certified by now. This article is about how to prepare you for ISO9001:2000 certificatio In early days of employment in the late 80's, the company I worked with has ...

You have got an idea. So, what’s the big deal? Millions get ideas. You can get them just anywhere on the street. If you think we’re trying to offend you, you’re naïve. We’re trying to tell you the harsh reality of the world. An idea is an idea until you do something about it. How many ideas have you implemented so far? How many times have you lamented after watching somebody else implement your idea? Dummies get ideas and geniuses too. Often we see dummies basking in

One of the biggest challenges I hear from my clients and people I talk with is coming up with topics and content for their newsletters, ezines, and blog posts. This is also the number one reason people tell me they don't communicate with their tribe or community consistently - if at all. Can you relate? You may feel like it's a huge challenge to know what your people want to read or what they want to know about you and your business or what aspects of your expertise they're interested in.

First, let me be clear, this article is not a how-to piece to get everyone to like you. While your life will be more enjoyable and satisfying when you have many strong relationships,sometimes as a leader people will not like you. nnWhy?nnBecause, as a leader, you are challenging their comfort zones, encouraging change and expecting improvement. It wouldn’t matter what you did or how you did it, when you expect more than status quo some people get rattled. And there are some