Implementing a System and Repeatable Process Blueprint
I recently wrote a post on Avoiding 8 Business Growth Blunders. I want to delve deeper into this subject, specifically on the topic of business blunder #3: forgetting to implement a system and repeatable process. Entrepreneurs like you and I can avoid this major...
Do you have a Value-based Mindset?
If you want to get paid what you’re worth and leverage your time, stop trading your time for money. The billable hour legacy is a salary-based equation. Within this flawed system, the amount that a professional is paid does not have a direct correlation to the quality...
Avoid these 8 Business Growth Blunders
Many small businesses forget the importance of marketing to grow their business, and marketing soon becomes an afterthought. Or the thought of marketing brings about such a feeling of overwhelm for some business owners, by just how much work there seems to be in...
Comparing yourself to the Competition leaving you Feeling Deflated?
Are you comparing yourself to your competitors and getting discouraged about your own business? A client of mine recently told me that one of the challenges preventing her from moving forward in her business is self-comparison to everyone else in her industry and as a...
Become a Client Attraction Magnet
Stand up, stand out, and become a client attraction magnet. How? Focus on a hyper niche market. I know you’ve heard this before, but are you doing it? This is what happens when you don’t have a solid niche market. Any of this sound familiar? too few client referrals...
Manifest-ing your Business Destiny
Before I started blogging regularly, I used to get writer’s block every time I sat down to write a post. Asking myself the same question each time, “What should I write about?” It was really painful because I couldn’t come up with any ideas on the fly. I became...
Eliminating Nightmare Clients
How to attract more of the clients you want to work with and less of the people you don’t? When you first start out as an entrepreneur, you are enthusiastic and energetic. You are eager and ready to leap into the world of marketing yourself and your services to anyone...
If your Brand is not your Logo, then what is it?
According to an article written by brand catalyst Isabelle Mercier Turcotte of Leapzone Strategies, branding is when you take a good, honest look under the hood of your business and get crystal clear about: Who you are and what makes you different. What problems you...
Focus Inward not Outward, for Better Results
As a business, what makes you valuable to your customer? If you can’t answer this question succinctly, then you won’t be able to communicate your value to your customer in such a way that engages them to enter into a buying relationship with you. How does a company...
Get your (Business) Groove Back
“Help, I’m stuck!” I hear this often from business owners I come into contact with. Businesses can sometimes grow despite themselves, with a great deal of sweat equity invested by the business owner, lots of DIY marketing, word-of-mouth sales growth, customer...