Archive for April, 2009
By Cathleen Pratt
Why is this so important?
Building and maintaining adequate cash flow is obviously essential to keeping your business running, enabling you to meet your financial obligations, meet your payroll, accounts payable and loan payments. You may decide that in order to do this, you need to obtain a business loan in order to insure [...]
April 30th, 2009 | Posted in Feature Marketing Article, Full Marketing BLOG, recession | No Comments
By Terri Sinclair
Speakers beware of the following seven sins.
1. Passively Pathetic Apologies that Deliver Disappointment
“Unfortunately”, “we regret to inform you”, and “sorry” (when you’re not) are inauthentic and delay acceptance.
Instead: State possible negative news neutrally.
2. Informing that You’ll be Informing
I’d like to tell you; I’d like to ask you; I’d like to discuss with you; [...]
April 28th, 2009 | Posted in Feature Marketing Article, Full Marketing BLOG, speaking | No Comments
By Wayne Turmel
When most of us think about speaking professionally, we imagine being on stage in front of cheering people, looking up at us with tears of gratitude as we dispense our wisdom, motivation or sage advice. Then we wake up.
These days, you’re as likely to be invited to speak to groups over the web [...]
April 27th, 2009 | Posted in Feature Marketing Article, Full Marketing BLOG | No Comments
By Ken Thomson
I have attended a lot of seminars on “how to get paid.” It’s always important to figure out the mindset and methodologies of collectors and attorneys and to keep up with developments.
It’s a mantra with attorneys at these events that, before they file suit in a debt action, they always do their “due [...]
April 27th, 2009 | Posted in Sales, branding, recession, speaking | No Comments
By Nancy Daniels
In today’s multicultural world, many people are looking to eliminate their accent and I have a better suggestion. Instead of trying to get rid of your dialect or accent, why not clean it up?
You may believe that your accent is keeping you from getting the job you want or moving ahead in [...]
April 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Feature Marketing Article, Full Marketing BLOG, speaking | No Comments
By Nancy Daniels
While the spoken language is certainly less formal than the written language, the value of using good grammar when delivering your speech or presentation can be the difference between a successful performance and one that is less than stellar.
One of the most common mistakes I hear with younger speakers (and writers as [...]
April 21st, 2009 | Posted in Feature Marketing Article, Full Marketing BLOG, speaking | No Comments
By Nancy Daniels
Whatever your reason for standing in front of an audience, it is important to identify your objective before you even outline your material. What is your primary goal? Are you being requested by your boss to give a report on your latest sales presentation? Are you taking a course in public speaking [...]
April 20th, 2009 | Posted in Feature Marketing Article, Full Marketing BLOG, speaking | No Comments
By Kathy Esper
Welcome! I’m delighted you made your way to this report, which was created to provide the Creative & Conscious Entrepreneur with 3 Powerful Strategies to Grow Your Business with Ease.
These 3 strategies were created through witnessing what was not present for struggling clients, and when we developed these 3 areas, they were empowered [...]
April 13th, 2009 | Posted in Feature Marketing Article, Full Marketing BLOG, leadership | No Comments
By Kathy Esper
Owning your own business is a challenge in its own right, and growing one that thrives in our current environment is even trickier. Those who are sowing the growth of their business in the traditional sense are getting stuck and creating not-so-desirable results. The practices that worked yesterday are not standing up in [...]
April 12th, 2009 | Posted in Feature Marketing Article, Full Marketing BLOG, leadership | No Comments
By Christine M. Kloser
Nothing endures but change. -Heraclitus
Yesterday, I had the honor of participating in two of my spiritual masterminds. One was with a group of fellow spiritually-oriented women entrepreneurs and the other was a one-on-on visioning session with a long-time friend.
The theme through both of these calls was change; deep, profound change. We [...]
April 10th, 2009 | Posted in Feature Marketing Article, Full Marketing BLOG, leadership | No Comments