Networking is a fundamental marketing strategy to growing a profitable business, however most people dread the idea. For most business owners I’ve worked with, networking feels unnatural, intimidating and a little sleazy. But what if the best networking only took you 10 minutes a day and you never even have to leave your house? Really! […]
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What is a Mastermind Group? Mastermind Groups are one of the most powerful ways to grow your business quickly, with the support of other like-minded business owners, so you never have to go it alone! The purpose of a Mastermind Group us to promote learning, problem solving and creativity among a small group of business
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I’ve had a LinkedIn account for years, but I never really used it much for building business or finding leads. I spent a lot of time and money on Facebook – creating a business page, trying to get people to like my page or spending money on Facebook ads, all to mediocre results. Why? Now
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When was the last time someone asked you, “What do you do?” How did you answer? How did they respond? Most people tell me that 9 out of 10 times their “elevator speech” falls flat. Honestly, there is nothing worse than getting that blank stare from someone you are trying to network with and the
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Do you remember a show on the cable channel VH1 a few years back called “Behind the Music?” It was a documentary-type show, which told the back-story of a musician or band that had once been famous, but had fallen out of the limelight. It was always about how they got famous, experienced an inevitable
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In this digital age of marketing, I believe we’ve lost sight of one of the basic building blocks necessary to growing any business…building relationships and face-to-face networking. We’ve lost sight of building relationships with people. Instead we’re focused on the size of email lists, social media, sales pages, making six-figures or more, and treating each
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Defining your niche is a challenge for most business owners, primarily because their niche is far too broad. Your niche cannot be just anyone with a checkbook. It has to be very specific so that your potential clients know that you serve them and you are the expert at solving their unique, specific problems. Your
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If you build it (your business website) they will call, right? Not true. The main ingredient for a website that gets leads is your call to action. So what makes an effective call to action, and how can you put that to use on your site to generate those conversions? An effective call to action
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It’s a good question: if the flashy, stylish websites aren’t for you, what is? What is the secret to getting visitors to pick up the phone and call? Well, there are a few things. Let’s take a look at them and find out how to build the website that will get the most visitors to
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Connecting with others face-to-face through business group and community involvement is still so important to building your credibility and visibility as a entrepreneur. Networking is all about sharing your network and contacts with others in ways that we focus on what we “give” to each other instead of what we “get” from each other. We all
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