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Challenges, Clients & Customers, Communication, Entrepreneurs, Motivation, Prospects, Survey Tips & Techniques
What Do Your Customers Want to Buy?
I’ve been asked this question over 1,000 times— what do my customers want to buy? And another question I get is– how can I figure out what product or service to create so they will buy it from me? And I get a million more. Here’s the real scoop on what people want to buy, and I want to give you as much information as I can so you can be incredibly successful in creating the best products and services for your clients and customers. I stumbled upon this book years ago—7 Steps to Freedom II: How to Escape the American Rat Race, by Benjamin Suarez. It’s a rather dated…
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Discovering How to Add Some Disney “Mouse” Magic Into Your Business
Here are my two favorite quotes from Walt Disney: “Think beyond your lifetime. If you want to do something truly great. Make a fifty year master plan. A fifty year master plan will change your look at the opportunities in the present.” “If you can dream it, you can do it!” These quotes do an awesome job of giving you a birds eye view into Walt’s psyche and how he was able to accomplish so much in a given period of time. He was the epitome of driven and going after his dreams. After reading his book, “How to be like Walt,” I certainly was able to view how when…
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Attitude, Challenges, Coaching, Communication, Entrepreneurs, Goals, Implementation, Motivation, Overcoming Obstacles, Taking risks
What’s Holding You Back From the Success You Deserve?
This question I’ve been asked countless of times from coach’s, mentors, therapists, and many an event speaker. In fact, I just got back from listening to Larry Winget speak at the Glazer Kennedy Super Conference in Dallas and his approach was more like a baseball bat to the forehead, but I think it worked. I know I GOT it- what he was saying… let me explain… If you don’t know Larry he has several best-selling books out there- one called- Shut Up, Stop Whining & Get a Life, my other favorite is- You’re Broke Because You Want To Be. He has an interesting no holds bar approach to success and…
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Clients & Customers, Communication, Entrepreneurs, Marketing, Product Launches, Survey Tips & Techniques
The Anatomy of Creating a Survey
Over the last couple of weeks, we have gone over steps on how to know what your clients/customers want through creating surveys and writing out our questions. Today, I want to put all that information together and show you the anatomy of a survey. Other people might try to make this process really complicated or complex, yet the process is REALLY simple. And if you follow this process, I promise, you will discover EXACTLY what your customers want and then all that’s left to do is to create it! So after you’ve created your survey- here’s what you need to think about and plan: Survey Time Frame In order to…
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Clients & Customers, Communication, Entrepreneurs, Product Launches, Questions, Survey Tips & Techniques
How to Ask Questions in the Right Order
You know the whole chicken-egg theory, what came first? Well when you’re creating your questions for a survey, this can also be true. Experts argue whether you should ask demographic information upfront, in the end, or not at all. Then others argue about whether they should be optional to answer or not. What I know after doing surveys for over 20 years, is that the right order of your questions does matter. And the best order I’ve found is to: Ask easier questions first Move into more complicated questions that flow End with asking easier questions again. For example, do they get your newsletter, will they want the product as…
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Attitude, Balance, Challenges, Clients & Customers, Coaching, Communication, Entrepreneurs, Goals, Implementation, Marketing, Outcome, Productivity, Prospects, Questions, Survey Tips & Techniques
It’s All About the Questions
There is quote by Albert Einstein that says “If you can’t explain it simply, then you don’t understand it well enough.” This quote says it all when it comes to the topic of this week’s blog. It’s ALL About the Questions! This is actually STEP 2 – AFTER you figure out your goals and outcomes of what you want from doing your survey. Creating questions for your survey products is incredibly important because it will shape the answers you will receive and ULTIMATELY what you will be able to do with that information. Through this questioning process, you will step closer to finding success in your business. Step # 2…
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Attitude, Balance, Blogging, Challenges, Clients & Customers, Coaching, Communication, Entrepreneurs, Goals, Implementation, Marketing, Motivation, New Year, Outcome, Overcoming Obstacles, Procrastination, Productivity, Questions, Risk, Taking risks
Are You Hard Wired To Fail?
Do you ever set important goals and then find yourself really struggling and not being able to meet them? I used to have MANY sleepless nights when I first started my business. I would freak out about where my next dollar was going to come from or how I’d finish a project or what to do about x, y and z, it was endless. Worry was taking over my life. Until I was able to read some terrific books on worry and learn about ways that really helped stop me in my tracks and enabled me to push past my worry and fears to create more success for myself. The…
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Attitude, Balance, Blogging, Challenges, Clients & Customers, Communication, Entrepreneurs, Goals, Implementation, Marketing, Motivation, New Year, Outcome, Productivity, Prospects, Questions, Risk, Survey Tips & Techniques
How to Give Your Customers Exactly What They Want
Technique #1: Start With Your Outcome, Not Questions This week I want to challenge you with this thought: “Think Outside of the Box.” The topic of this blog is a little different and will require you to think outside of the box. Diving right into it, I do not want you to think about all the questions to put into your survey. I want you think about the outcome first! So many people fail before they hit the ground running with their survey because they think “Questions First.” Think about it…before creating and writing questions, you need to know what you want from them first. Therefore, in hindsight, your first…
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Attitude, Balance, Blogging, Challenges, Clients & Customers, Communication, Entrepreneurs, Implementation, Motivation, Mystery, Productivity, Survey Tips & Techniques
Solving the Mystery of What Your Clients Want
Whether you are an entrepreneur or working directly with clients starting from scratch with a new idea is hard, especially when it comes to creating new products. Knowing exactly what your clients need and are looking for is pretty much like a guessing game. Unless… you know the secret of predicting exactly what your clients want and are looking for. Today, I am going to share that secret with you. In fact, it is extremely simple…all you have to do is ASK THEM. The key to this “Secret” is realizing the core of what your clients or prospects want lies in doing a survey—asking a series of questions: What do…
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Balance, Challenges, Coaching, Communication, Entrepreneurs, Implementation, Motivation, Overcoming Obstacles, Procrastination
THE Way To Turn Your Annual Income Into Your Monthly Income!
Being addicted to learning is sometimes a hard road, especially when you’re an entrepreneur like me who LOVES to go after those shiny objects. I’ve been doing a tremendous amount of travel over the past year, attending a ton of events and feeding my learning machine addiction. Yet the one thing that’s eluding me after 6 years of being in my own business is “HOW” do I push my business past the 6 figure mark? I’ve been incredibly successful over the past 6 years, yet I still want more for my business. I want to reach that 7 figure mark and I want to do within the next 3 years—is…
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Attitude, Balance, Challenges, Clients & Customers, Communication, Entrepreneurs, Goals, Implementation, Marketing, Motivation, New Year, Overcoming Obstacles, Procrastination, Productivity, Risk, Taking risks, To Do List
Seek Out New Opportunities
Last week, I explained how overcoming setbacks is as an easy as A.B.C. A-Ambiguity B- Build C-Commit This week I am going to show you how easy seeking out opportunities is. It is as easy as N.O.W. stands for “Never-as in “Never Giving Up!” By making, a daily mantra of “I will never give up” means there is not a minute, an hour, or a month that you are not seeking out new opportunities. New opportunities are the only way to completely come out of a setback. The only way to find new opportunities is give it all you have every day! stands for “Opportunistic”. Before you see that word…
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Attitude, Balance, Challenges, Clients & Customers, Coaching, Communication, Entrepreneurs, Goals, Implementation, Motivation, New Year, Overcoming Obstacles, Procrastination, Productivity, Risk
Avoid Focusing on Set-backs and Seek out New Opportunities
Avoid Focusing on Setbacks There comes a time in one’s personal and business life, where a setback comes in and rears its ugly head. When it does come, because we know at some point it will, a person has two choices. They can either sit there or focus on all the negativity that comes with it. Or they can come to terms with the reality of the set back and push forward. It is as easy as A.B.C. stands for Ambiguity. A trait that is tied to most entrepreneurs which holds the meaning: The possibility of interpreting an expression in two or more distinct ways. When facing a setback, especially one that leaves a person in a negative situation, the best thing to…
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Attitude, Balance, Blogging, Clients & Customers, Communication, Entrepreneurs, Implementation, Motivation, New Year, Procrastination, Productivity, To Do List
The Right Attitude & Mindset is a Must ~Be like the Bee~
Aerodynamically, the bumblebee should not be able to fly, but the bumblebee does not know it so it goes on flying anyway. ~ Mary Kay Ash There is a saying that goes, “You are your own worst critic.” This simple six-word sentence is especially true when it comes to negative thoughts. In the last two weeks, I have encouraged you to take big risks about your life, business, and even your actions. I can challenge you and motivate you to reach these amazing goals, but there is one thing I cannot do. I cannot take away your own negative thoughts that probably consume you when something really positive is…
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Balance, Blogging, Clients & Customers, Communication, Entrepreneurs, Implementation, Motivation, Procrastination, Productivity, To Do List
It’s a Balancing Act
Continuing with the balance theme… there are so many areas of our lives these days requiring our attention and not just when we get to it but sometimes like it needed to be done yesterday. Work, relationships, personal time, school, emotional, physical, mental, etc are all aspects of life that require balance. If balance is not established, you may find yourself feeling or saying something like this; “I am drained, exhausted and overwhelmed.” “I wake up in the morning and automatically feel tensed and stressed.” “My life is chaotic and out of control.” “I need to change my life but have no clue where to start.” “I cannot focus…
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Balance, Blogging, Clients & Customers, Coaching, Communication, Implementation, Marketing, Motivation, Procrastination, Productivity, To Do List
It’s All In the Balance
When life is hectic, especially right now with the holidays, time seems to slip from our hands and balancing life, work, kids, and other things is hard to do. Yes, I can tell you to take a breather but that might make you hyperventilate. So instead, I am going to ask you to stop and take a moment to read these seven tips on how to balance everything. 1. Don’t overbook. This may seem unusual to people who try to crowbar as much as possible into every workday. The problem is things rarely go according to a prearranged agenda. That means a lot of time falling through the cracks chasing down…