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The interesting secret of how Warren Buffett & Other great leaders create success
Have you ever read any books or articles about great leaders like Gloria Steinem, Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, or Ruth Bader Ginsburg? The one “secret” they and many other successful leaders have in common is the mindset that I LOVE — A.B.L. – Always Be Learning. This is a critical piece to creating a life you love – always be learning, growing, and being open to new ideas and new things, which leads to having a beginner’s mind. Have you gone to a live event or virtual event, and you’re sitting there listening to a speaker, and your mind says, “Oh, they’re not saying anything new. Go check your email and pretend…
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It’s Time to Change Your Stories
What are the stories you keep telling yourself? You know, the ones when it comes to putting yourself out there in a big way to promote your business – “Oh, this won’t work. Someone else has already created something like this. I need to come up with a new idea.” Or “Who do I think I am trying to sell and promote this course? I don’t have enough experience.” Or “I can’t ask for $500. That’s way too much for this course. I don’ think they will pay it.” Can you relate to any of the above statements? It’s essential to pay attention to those thoughts that pop into your…
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Challenges, Coaching, Entrepreneurs, Implementation, Motivation, Outcome, Overcoming Obstacles, Questions
This is Not for the Faint of Heart
Two weeks into 2022, it’s already proving to be somewhat of an adventure and not for the faint of heart. Interestingly, “Adventure” is my word for the year, and it didn’t disappoint. I like picking a word for the year that I use as my decision touchstone. There was an excellent article in the NY Times if you want to discover more. I think I mentioned in an earlier email that we’re buying a house. It’s about 10 minutes from our current one. Or if I didn’t, well here you go … 🙂 Now that we’re nearly done with the whole buying process (We’re closing today.), it has been a…
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Dealing with “Can you do this cheaper?”
Have you ever been in negotiations with a new client or customer, and they ask the inevitable question: “Can you do this cheaper?” Or maybe they try to ask it more politically – “How can we work together to get this proposal to only $8k instead of $20k?” What’s the best way to answer a question like this? When I get this question – all I want to do is send them this meme: Seriously though, let me take a couple of minutes to give you some insights on this question that seems to come up more often than not. I mean, we’re all looking for a better deal. Retail…
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Challenges, Clients & Customers, Entrepreneurs, Product Creation, Product Launches, Prospects, Questions, Survey Tips & Techniques
First Steps You MUST Take to Creating Your Information Products
One of the many services I offer is working with clients to help them create their products and then launch these products for them. The question I always get over and over and over again is—“How do I know what product to create?” This is an incredibly important questions and often hard to figure out and most of my clients before they worked with me used all sorts of Google algorithms and some even used the pasta method, which I wouldn’t recommend. The important note here is most guessed and did many other things. The funny thing is THE best thing they could have done to find this out was…
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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 up front, at 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…
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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 a 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 #…
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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…
