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Five Insights On Increasing Profits through Value and Service
Are you focused on lead generation or improving customer experience? It's 5 times more expensive to generate a new sale. The most profitable way to grow is to increase repeat sales and referral business and yet, over 65% of entrepreneurs spend a majority of the budget on new business. When you increase your value and service experience, you'll be able to generate more profitable growth from your most valuable asset - your current clients.
The Tell-Tale Signs You Have Recreated a JOB. (vs. a Business that can Thrive With or Without You)
If you are an entrepreneur or service professional working harder than you ever imagined, you've probably created a job for yourself. But you may not even notice the signs that your business has you trapped! It doesn't have to be overwhelming to grow your business so discover the 3 tell-tale signs you've created a job and how to shift into more time and money freedom.

How to Leverage Your Unique Brilliance with “Brand Multiplication”
Tired of working so hard to get your products sold? Do you have a proven concept, program or product that could be successful in new markets? Then you may be a candidate for a brand multiplication program (otherwise known as licensing, certifying or reselling your unique brilliance.) Wi
When No Leads to The Bigger Yes
How do you know what to say yes to...and what you should be saying no to? As a business owner, your time is one of your greatest assets. Here are some tips to help you know the difference.
What To Do When You Outgrow Your Business
If you have ever hit a wall in your success, felt stuck or gotten confused about how to grow beyond your current level, you may have outgrown your current business model. Here are some tips on how to recognize this phase and what to do if you are ready to grow beyond your current business model.
Diversify or Focus: The Sand Pail Approach to Stable Income
Do you experience up and down cash flow? Or worse yet, worry that one of your "big fish" customers will stop and then you'll be left high and dry? You may be missing out on a strategy for predictable, consistent income. Try the "Sand Pail Approach" and get more peace of mind!
The Controversy of Coaching – Can It Be a Bad Thing?
Knowing when you need a coach, versus a mentor, can be a bank account saver. At different stages of our business development we need different kinds of support. Hiring the wrong kind of mentor can leave you frustrated, overwhelmed...and broke. Read on to discover this important distinction in a sea of "coaches."
Six Tips to Instantly Master Your Finances by Becoming a Millionaire-Thinker
What’s the fastest route from where you are today to your ideal financial status? Becoming a “millionaire-thinker”. Now you may think this means you have to be a millionaire – you don’t! The truth is many people don’t aspire to that level of financial success – and there is nothing wrong with that.
When the Pursuit of More Money Costs Too Much
I don’t know about you but I don’t see a lot of sustainable sales models - I see a lot of entrepreneurs desperate to make it big sacrificing what’s important to them to make more money! People hurt themselves, their team, their families, their clients and their industry with their approach to building an empire.
Is Giving Vital to Business Growth?
I’ve always been a softie for helping out families in needs during the holidays. But recently two good friends of mine stirred me up and had me rethink my holiday ritual. Why wasn’t I making this an all year practice?
Should I Pull the Plug or Persevere?
If you could start from scratch, what would your business look like? I’m hoping if you are feeling drained or uninspired by your current business you’ll find the courage to tackle this head on. Nothing good comes from forcing yourself to do what doesn’t light you up. Burn out and overwhelm are a sure-fire recipe for the Universal Wake Up Call (and you know those are painful, right?)
It Takes a Village to Raise a Nation
After years and years of building my business I know it’s a heck of a lot more fun (and a lot less work) to raise a vision when you have a village of people supporting you! I’ve always had a team. To me that’s a no-brainer. But sometimes I lose sight of the other important “villagers” I need to help me stay connected to my vision.
It's Time for a Revolution....But Not THAT KIND!
Sometimes I want to run up and down Melrose Boulevard screaming “Stop the Madness People!” Well, not really, but the thought has occurred to me that somewhere, somehow, this madness has to shift. I’ve found that picking up a paradigm-shifting book is the best way for me to re-center myself. Last week I finally started reading “The Storm Before the Calm” by Neale Donald Walsh. As I was browsing through the first few pages this quote literally jumped off the page at me.
7 Character Traits of an Extraordinary Entrepreneur
Extraordinary entrepreneurs recognize that all things are possible – it’s their attitude towards the goal that has to shift. When you believe you can accomplish anything you “sort” ideas and opportunities differently. Someone who has a limited filter typically rejects 99% of new ideas. Someone who sees everything as a possibility only rejects what isn’t in alignment. Which one are you?
Is Your Ladder on the Wrong Wall?
I had a client named John and he asked me to help him stop feeling overwhelmed so he could put the fun and freedom back into his life. Within our first conversation, John realized… After all of these years of working in his own business he had still managed put his ladder on someone else’s beautiful building! The success he created was the dream of his mentor. When you are crystal-clear about how YOU really want to live and climb your own mountain, you will have an experience of effortless action. It’s almost like you would pay someone else to show up every day and do your work. It’s not a job, it’s an indescribable passion that you are compelled to express. Nothing and no one can stand in your way.

Necessary Failure: 3 Stories of Tragedy to Triumph
What if failures are necessary to grow? Change your perspective on tragedy and uncover a more powerful way to shift....
Why Running Your Business Alone Never Works
Theodore Roosevelt once said, ‘The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.’
Enough Already.....Are You a Leader or a Follower?
I’ve been seeing a lot of “information” lately about being a leader or a follower. What I’ve come to understand is a lot of mentors, gurus and marketers need you to be a follower. Followers do what they are told. Which means followers will probably spend a lot more money with their “guru” and will implement exactly how they are told. Which means the “gurus” ego can be stroked, so they can capture the followers success and convince a lot more followers to buy.
Is Your Frog in Boiling Water?
You’ve probably heard the old metaphor – a frog that gets dropped in boiling weather will jump back out. But a frog placed in cool water where the heat is gradually turned up will cook to death before it recognizes it’s in danger. Did you know that in your life you may be like that frog who is, well, you get the picture. The frog literally becomes oblivious to its environment and the boiling water becomes the norm. Where are we being like that boiled frog in our life?
Do You Have a "Just Get By" Strategy?
What if I could guarantee you that I could teach you a strategy that would keep you stuck exactly where you are right now, designed to generate a predictably mediocre results? Would you race to my “buy now” opportunity?

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Mastering the Message: Ogilvy Becomes the Most Wanted Man in Advertising
“Don't bunt,” Ogilvy once said. “Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.” It was with this attitude that Ogilvy returned to New York and decided to start up his own advertising agency. With the financial backing of his former employers Mather & Crowther, the company Hewitt, Ogilvy, Benson & Mather was founded in 1948. He had never written an advertisement in his life, and had only $6,000 to his name, but it was a dream that Ogilvy wanted to see through.

Are You a "Control Freak?" Be Careful! It Can Derail Your Success
Do you want to be successful with your business? Do you delegate? No? Why not? If you are a "control freak" you could be costing your business its success. That is the theme of Melanie Benson Strick's latest article "How Control-Freak-It Is Can Derail Your Success". (http://tinyurl.com/ctrlFreak) Melanie raises some awesome points about how you cannot do it all yourself and do it well. As the picture to the right shows, this juggling lady is already losing some balance because that food is about to spill all over the baby on the floor! Keep reading for ideas on how you can do more in less time and be more successful!
Honesty and Integrity Build a Foundation of Trust
Seven-year-old first baseman, Tanner Munsey, fielded a ground ball and tried to tag a runner going from first to second base. The umpire, Laura Benson, called the runner out, but young Tanner immediately ran to her side and said, "Ma'am, I didn't tag the runner." Umpire Benson reversed herself, sent the runner to second base, and Tanner's coach gave him the game ball for his honesty.
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