Sales
Beginner’s Blueprint: 3 Steps to Launch Your Profitable Business
Thinking about starting a business? Here are the THREE key questions to ask. What is the basis for a successful business? Do you like (or better love) what you do? Are you great at this (or at least better at it than your client)? Is what you do something that’s hard or unpleasant for your…
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Demystifying Sales and Marketing: What You Need to Know
Many businesses use the terms sales and marketing almost interchangeably. While related, sales and marketing have different aims and mindsets. Although closely related, sales and marketing are two distinct facets of business that serve different purposes and employ different strategies. Making the distinction can help you with both. How marketing and sales are different Objective:…
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Secure Your Future: Easy Steps to Consistent Income
The question I get most from clients is how to create consistent income. I get this from my clients, entrepreneurs, and creatives. The industry doesn’t matter; the idea of having reliable income does. Ready for the big secret? The path to consistent income comes from consistent marketing. Not so revolutionary. Coca-Cola, Toyota, and Netflix spend…
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When You Specialize You Unlock the Path to Greater Income
Think of your own life. Your doctor may refer you to an orthopedic surgeon to help you solve back problems. If you’re rewiring your house, you call an electrician, not a handyman. Are you building a skyscraper? You’ll hire an architect who has won awards for their tall buildings, not a local homebuilder. These specialists…
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Overcome Overwhelm: How to Build Your Dream Business Step-by-Step
When we hand a child a violin for the very first time, we don’t expect them to map out their worldwide concert tour. We don’t hand a kid their first pair of ice skates and start talking about preparing for the next Olympic games. Yet that’s what we often expect of new business owners.…
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Find Out If Your Audience is Listening – Act Now!
When it comes to profitable businesses, one of the biggest drivers to gaining audience share is how well your audience understands your messaging. Your messaging can make your customers brand loyalists and directly affect a campaign’s effectiveness – if you get it right. Being on point with your marketing messaging can affect how your audience…
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Do You Understand Your Customers’ Buying Motives? Learn NOW!
It’s Sunday morning… I take my dog and head out for our walk. On the way back, I stop at Lyndell’s Bakery Lyndells, an old-school place in Somerville, MA, where you grab a paper number from the 1950’s dispenser by the door. The 1960’s curved glass cases display cakes, Italian cookies, pies, cakes, cannolis, and…
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Unlock a Killer Marketing Message: Follow These SIX STEPS Now!
When it comes to profitable businesses, one of the biggest drivers to gaining audience share is how well your audience understands your messaging. Your messaging can make your customers brand loyalists and directly affect a campaign’s effectiveness – if you get it right. Being on point with your marketing messaging can affect how your audience…
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The ONLY Four Things You Need to Start a Profitable Business (that you love).
When we hand a child a violin for the first time, we don’t expect them to map out their worldwide concert tour. We don’t hand a kid their first pair of ice skates and start talking about preparing for the next Olympic games. Yet that’s what we often expect of new business owners. Business coaches…
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