Making and Keeping New Years Resolutions
Everyone does it! New Years Day rolls around and we all sit down and make our New Years Resolutions. It’s one of those things that just come natural to us on January
How many of you make those New Years resolutions each year and lose site of them before the first quarter is over? I know [...]
Communication and Your Business: 7 New Year’s Resolutions for 2008 to Get Your Year Started Off With a Bang!
Creating New Year’s Resolutions for your business can be a daunting task. Where do you start? As a communication consultant, I suggest you consider thinking about the various ways you communicate in your business as a way to help you see business success in 2008.
Following are seven types of effective communication skills which [...]
Projecting Your Voice to the Last Row—Your Speechmaking Secret Weapon
Using a strong, projected voice is one of the most fundamental ways to create a lively, exciting presentation. A robust voice also creates an image of knowledge, credibility, and authority. Still, in my work as a speech coach at colleges and corporate settings, I have found most people must be cajoled to speak [...]
How to Use Trial Offers to Increase Your Sales
Do you ever find yourself tempted to purchase something online, and even with a money-back guarantee, you’re still not quite sure about handing over your cash?
Well, some of your prospects will feel the same way as they read your sales page for your product or service. Your offer sounds great, the right guarantee eliminates their [...]
Guarantees: Why You Should Offer Them
There are many questions that often come up for new small business owners around offering guarantees – what kind, how long, am I risking too much by doing so, and even if they should offer them at all.
In my business, I offer a guarantee on everything I sell (except for my personal coaching and consulting). [...]
Celebrate and Leverage Your Success!
One of the most effective success strategies I share with my coaching clients is regularly attending to the WINS and Successes—in life and in business. Luck is never an accident. Any success you have can be replicated if you really pay attention to what you did that worked. Doing more of what works is key [...]
What Is Keeping You from Losing Weight?
Most people know that eating healthier, in smaller quantities and exercising helps you lose weight. Yet 60% of Americans are overweight. Why is that?
Here are the top four reasons I have heard people give:
1. I don’t have enough time in the day
2. I really don’t want to work at it (it’s too hard [...]
Your web site is speaking for you – do you like what it is saying?
Your web site is sending potential clients a message about your business, often before they even meet you. Is it saying the things you want it to say?
Ideally, your web site does three things for your business:
• It educates your clients about their problem or need so that they realize your business can help them
• [...]
Responding to Clients by Quickly Creating Products They Want and Need
As a business owner, you have a lot of balls to juggle all at once. However, you must always remember your clients and customers and respond to their wants and needs. I do this by creating products and services they tell me they want. I pay attention and respond quickly. Here [...]
Holiday Decorating Like The Pro’s
I love looking at magazines for decorating tips, especially for the holidays. I wanted to share with you some of my own ideas along with some that I have found over the years in other magazines that really have helped my home to look less cluttered and quite crisp for the holidays.
Decorating Your Christmas Tree
Step [...]