Insights from the Trenches
Innovative yet practical tools, tips and resources derived from a voracious love of learning and over 20 years of working with clients around the world.
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What Business Are You Really In?
Many businesses spend thousands of dollars branding everything they do to create a familiarity with their prospects and customers and… Read More >
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Where Are You In Reaching Your 2008 Goals?
It seems like just yesterday everyone was talking about "making 2008 the best year ever". Now that it’s the end… Read More >
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Are You Preventing Sales and Turning Away Customers?
A few days ago, my assistant was looking into toll free number services. After researching the websites of two companies,… Read More >
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Why Most Small Businesses Fail and How You Can Avoid Being One of Them
You already know that most small businesses fail in the first few years — what are you doing to be… Read More >
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Recommended Resource: Microlending and PovertyFighters
I’d like to thank one of my readers, Phil Bordeaux of Integrity Realty of North Carolina, for sharing a way… Read More >
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Your Questions Answered…Free Email Accounts
I received the following email question in response to the below post: "Hi Sandy, You noted that I shouldn’t use… Read More >
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Are you sabotaging sales?
As a business owner, are you treating your business with the respect it deserves? I received an email today from… Read More >
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Do you do what’s “right”?
I was reading a book on country living earlier (I am a rural gal after all) and how people generally… Read More >
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Lessons Learned from a Mastermind Group
If you were a fly on the wall during a powerful mastermind meeting, you’d quickly realize how the sooner you… Read More >
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Traits of the Super Successful
My sister told me recently that, in a conversation with her in-laws-to-be, her almost-mother-in-law was speaking about how she felt… Read More >
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How Well Do You Communicate?
There is so much competition in most industries these days that a well-defined communications plan can easily make or break… Read More >
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Eric Lindell, fresh from the Conan O’Brien show and a Lesson in Repurposing
DH (darling hubby) and I went out with a few members of his band the other night and saw a… Read More >
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5 Mantras To Insure Business Success
Several years ago my husband comforted me as I lay in bed terrified my business was going to fail –… Read More >
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“Anywhere” Business…
As my clients know, I’ve been cooped up in the house lately — pretty sick combined with a hectic schedule… Read More >
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Business by Design, Extreme Client Care / Customer Experience, Marketing Strategy & Implementation, Revenue & Profitability
4 “Must Know” Tips for Pricing Your Services
Do you stress during that silent moment between when you quote your rate to a potential client and her response? While… Read More >
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Recommended Resource: Impact Products
I attended a seminar in Los Angeles last year and got to hear renowned direct marketer Mitch Carson speak on… Read More >
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7 Tips To Working Successfully From Your Home Office
Remember the commercial of the woman in a business suit top, pajama bottoms and bunny slippers while on a conference… Read More >
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If you’re doing this, reform or lose your list!
It’s rare that something bugs me enough to warn others NOT to do it, but this is a special case.… Read More >