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The concept of spring cleaning shouldn’t be reserved just for our homes. It’s a good time to Refresh, Revamp and Re-organize our business to
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The concept of spring cleaning shouldn’t be reserved just for our homes. It’s a good time to Refresh, Revamp and Re-organize our business to
Writing a plan for your goals can help you to ensure that you succeed. Here are 5 tips that you can implement for every goal that you se
Every New Year brings with it the promise of people setting goals and starting new habits, but they generally fail. Read how you can en
Thanksgiving which is a day to show gratitude has also turned into the kickoff to the holiday shopping season. In this post, you will fi
If your income and client load is unpredictable , it could be your sales funnels. Learn how to use these effectively
If you run a coaching business, your main goal is to obtain clients. This post explains 3 tips you can implement to help it grow.
When you are marketing yourself to your audience, do you know exactly what they are looking for? If not, reading this post will tell you h
So many people set out to make today the day they will achieve their goals, yet something happens and postpones the actions it takes to achi
The National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking defines critical thinking as the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully: conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information gathered from observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. Every organization must be nimble when solving new and recurring challenges. Everyone must be able to use critical thinking and creativ
This post talks about ways to creatively plan your blogs so readers will always want to come back. If you are having difficulty, you can
Research shows that taking breaks can increase your productivity, even for entrepreneurs. Read here for tips on how to do it
This post describes steps to take for influencer marketing
This is the first post in a series explaining how to perform influencer outreach. This post will talk about reasons, statistics and some background information, the actual process will be described in the next post. Influencer marketing is a growing trend for business owners, but the question arises as to what is the best way to do it. You want to be able to connect with them as well as promote your content. They have the access you want as well as the trust, but you don’t k
Comments and opinions are another way to increase traffic to your website, even though they can be controversial, they are still important.
There’s a pretty neat strategy called foreshadowing that you can use in your email marketing to improve open rates. You may have seen this used on news programs and talk shows. Right before the commercial break, the hosts announces what’s coming up next. The idea is that you’re intrigued enough to sit through the commercial to see the next segment. Another good example of foreshadowing is when magazines show images and headlines or short bullets of what’s coming in next month
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a number or a schedule you could follow? While it would be great if there was research that suggested that mailing exactly every 5 days gets you the best results every time, there is no such thing. And there’s a very good reason for it. Every market, every niche, every audience and every person is different. While you’ll never make everyone on your list happy, there is a lot you can do to make just about any email frequency work. Let’s lay the
You’re spending a lot of time each week crafting emails to your subscribers, but none of that will do you any good if you don’t have a decent delivery rate. If those emails land in your potential customers’ spam folders, you don’t have much of a chance of making a sale or building a relationship with them. Here are three tips that will help insure that your emails make it to your subscribers’ inboxes. Use A Reputable Auto Responder Service Using a reputable auto responder ser
Everyone has conscious or subconscious ideas that can become limiting beliefs that stop us from achieving our goals if we let them. Sometimes these beliefs are instilled in us in childhood and sometimes we create them ourselves. An example of a limiting belief that can get in your way of success is how you see yourself with money. If you believe you will always struggle and always be poor, chances are you’ll set yourself up for failure. Your limiting belief that you’re poor a
This is the last part of our series on Time Management Techniques where we talk about blocking your time (You can read the earlier posts on Punctuality, Goals, Lists and “Tickler files” here). The final technique to help manage time is to block it out (sometimes called Time-blocking). This is a technique where you schedule tasks to be done at certain times during the course of your day. If you lay your calendar in front of you and block out as much time as possible for al
In part 4 of our 5 part series about Time Management Techniques Really Worth Using, we’ll be reviewing the use of “tickler” files. In the first 3 posts, we talked about ( Punctuality), ( Goals) and, ( Lists). In this post, we will discuss “Tickler files” which are a special type of list that can help you with managing time. Before we talk about using them, it is best to define what they are. A Tickler file is a collection of labeled and dated folders organized so that ti