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What’s all the Fuss About EzineArticles.com and Content Anyway?
Having a blog should be a key part of your strategy to drive traffic to your website. Search engines love blogs because they are so timely and are constantly adding things to keep folks informed and up-to-date. Yet, here’s the deal: if your content isn’t any good, all the search engine results in the world will not help you. You really have to develop your valuable content first. High quality content is crucial to fuel your business and increase traffic to your website. Content alone can entice the reader to check out your website and return for more. Therefore the content you deliver must be valuable, giving helpful tips and…
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Blogging, Coaching, Communication, Entrepreneurs, Implementation, Marketing, Product Launches, Technology
You created a blog… Now What?
The beauty of blogs is that you don’t need to invest in software to maintain it. Blogs are maintained online and so you can access them anywhere and at any time, as long as you have an Internet connection. You just sign in to your blog account and you can create a post, edit post, change blog template, customize your blog and change blog settings easily. It is also very easy to add a lot of cool tools to your blog like an opt-in or subscription form so if you don’t already have a list it is a great way to start. If you already have a list it’s also…
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What is a blog, really?
I’ve had this blog for 4 years now, which is totally hard to believe… and it’s been a terrific tool for me and my business. So I thought it would be helpful to give you some tips about what a blog is and how to best take advantage of it in your business.. Blogs have gained a lot of notoriety in this techno world we live in because in an instant you have access to information on almost any subject or question you might have. And I know you can’t believe everything you read on the Internet but it’s all about adding value and giving terrific content. What is a…
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The “Oprah Factor” and how you can create your own “ X Factor”
In last week’s blog post I shared with you how Meredith and I were so very fortunate enough to attend a taping of one of Oprah Winfrey’s last shows. (Here’s the link: Are you giving your customers/clients and Oprah experience?) It was so exciting to be a part of that experience. I also talked last week about why Oprah is so phenomenally successful and popular. It is because she focuses on giving her audience what they want. She goes out of her way to create an experience that will get her audience excited and make them feel good. Oprah as an entrepreneur is worth billions and she continues to operate…
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Are you giving your clients/customers an Oprah Experience?
I’ve always wanted to be in the audience for the Oprah show, but it just was never the right time. In fact, I’ve been in the audience for a lot of shows since I live so close to New York City. I saw Phil Donahue way back in the day, and he even posed for a photo with me and my mom who of course asked a question and was on camera! I’ve seen David Letterman (when he was at NBC), Rosie O’Donnell Show, Saturday Night Live (when Ellen Degeneres was the host), Ellen Degeneres Show (when I was out in LA celebrating my 40th birthday), Tyra Banks, Jane Pauley…
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Oprah’s Not the Only One Who Can Have Fun While Working…
It’s true you know, Oprah’s not the only one who can have fun while working. You can too! Yes, I know, I know, it wouldn’t be called work if it was fun and all the other dreary sayings. Listen, you have a choice when it comes to work. The choice is in your attitude and how you view it. Yes, for some work is simply the thing we dread that we must do in order to make money, pay the bills and live. Sounds dreary and boring yet as I said earlier, it can be fun, it’s your choice. In my last blog, which I got a ton of great…
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How Firing a Client Will Set You Free…
This blog may be a bit unorthodox and I might even get some negative comments about my headline… However this subject has come up in conversations, no lie, with at least 5 people in just the past 3 days! What’s going on here? I think what’s happening in this “new economy” business owners, coaches and consultants alike are just incredibly thankful to have work and have clients that they are just taking anyone who shows up. Now I’m not saying this is a bad strategy, in fact I did this when I first started out. It actually helped me develop and shape my business into what it is today. By just saying…
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Moving Forward by Measuring Your Results Backwards
On the 4 hour drive home from D.C. after being at Yanik Silver’s Underground 7 event, I spent a lot of time mulling over the one day training we spent with Dan Sullivan of www.StrategicCoach.com He gave us SO MUCH valuable information, there’s no way I can tell you everything here in this post. The one thing that really stuck with me is his whole process of the 21 Day Positive Focus exercise. I do something similar to this now, but this took what I do and put it on steroids. Let me explain… The whole philosophy is that we won’t have a huge amount of forward motion, unless we’re…
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Picking, Choosing & Investing In the Best Resources For Your Business
So the groundhog didn’t see his shadow and they’re claiming we’re in for an early spring. I’m all for that after we in the northeast have been slammed since December with lots of snow. Thank goodness this week the temperatures are getting warmer and all that snow is finally starting to melt. So I thought this was the perfect time to get an early start on some spring cleaning of sorts. The word for this week is “Resources.” I speak to a lot of my clients about how to pick, choose and invest in the best resources that fit their business. The one thing that I have a lot of and…
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How to Turn Your Contacts Into True Connections
What’s the one word you ALWAYS hear when you ask someone, “How do I get more clients? More Business?” That word is – NETWORKING. I think this word has gotten a bad rap over the years, and I’m wondering if it’s because the MLM (Multi Level Marketing) industry has used and abused this word to the nth degree. It doesn’t really matter; what does matter is this is not a bad word at all. In fact, what I want to do in today’s blog is give you some amazing tips on how you can turn the people and contacts you meet into terrific connections. The real key, I think, is…
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What’s your plan to build profitable relationships this Year?
I remember back in January 2011, it was so darn cold, winter was surely coming in like a lion! And we’d already gotten almost two feet of snow and I was torn on whether to travel or not the next two months, because itwas proving to be a bit of a challenge fly out of the New York/New Jersey area. And I wrote this from writing from sunny and warm Phoenix, Arizona where I had just attended Jeff Walker’s Product Launch Manager (PM) Mastermind meeting. I almost didn’t make it because it snowed the morning I was supposed to leave and I was about 3 hours late to the meeting. And…
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Are you tired of second guessing what to do next in your business?
Maybe you’re stuck, or not quite sure how to move your business forward, or maybe you have too many ideas and just not sure which one is the best one that will bring you the success you so deserve. I’ve been through all of these things and as you may know, I’m totally hooked on just creating a simple survey and sending it out to my list to let them TELL ME what they want. I mean, why am I trying to figure all of this out in a vacuum? When I have all those people out there on my list who want and need something, let me just ask…
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3 Proven Strategies to Implement and Get More Done Each Day
My rear end was glued to the TV screen last night watching one by one as those miners in Chile were being pulled out from under all that rock and rubble… It was such an amazing feat of team work, brains, ingenuity and global communication. So I got to thinking: Well, if they can do this, what’s stopping me from accomplishing all I want to do? And I’m not even trapped in a mine. I looked back at my long “to do” list of a few things I had planned to do in March and that were supposed to be completed by now and aren’t… All I can say is…
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Here’s the 1 Thing That Will Help You Get More Clients…
Searching for the magic bullet can sometimes be an elusive struggle. However, I think I’ve found just 1 thing above all others that I’ve done in my business that’s helped me create an endless stream of new clients. I know because I’ve used it over and over again and guess what – it works! So what is it? It’s sending out a PRINTED newsletter every month to my clients, prospects and colleagues. I’ve been doing it for the past 4 years and it’s the one thing that over and over again has proved its worth in getting many new clients. The key here is that I’m connecting and communicating with…
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How to Leverage Your Relationships With New Influential People You Meet
In the past 6 months, I’ve met over 150 people, or probably more than that, simply because I traveled to some conferences and workshops where like-minded entrepreneurs gather. At those meetings, I simply meet a lot of people and give away a lot of cards, and I also get my share of cards. The real question here is how you leverage those new folks you meet. How can you turn them into more influential and helpful relationships? I’ve created some step-by-step guidelines that I’ve used over the past years that have helped me cultivate these relationships. This is what I do when I go to a conference or workshop and…