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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…