Blog – Category Business
What is Wrong With Your Clients? Why Are They Not Buying?
There are three essential areas to understand when you sell your product: the client, the seller (you), and the offer. This sounds simple, but when the client is not buying what you offer, I have found that it often revolves around a language gap between their problem...
How To Grow Your Business
As a business strategist, I always find it interesting when I do an internet search on how to grow your business. I see things like doing your research, building a sales funnel, creating customer retention, and participating in networking events. That's all great, but...
Things To Consider When Making A Decision: Why am I So Indecisive?
How do you make a smart decision when faced with a significant opportunity, but you're unsure if it's the right thing to do? Everything may sound great, but how can you be sure the timing is right to go through with it? If opportunities are coming your way to invest...
Why Are They Not Buying My Product Or Service?
You have spent countless hours slaving away, creating an incredible product, crafting your offer, or designing a fantastic service. The landing page is built, the funnel, everything is ready – you put it out there and…CRICKETS! Why is your product not selling? Can you...
3 Steps to Building A Successful Business
There is actually a blueprint for growing a successful business, and it depends on doing the correct step at the right time. Building a successful business requires optimal alignment of three key pieces – strategy, a growth system, and growth authority. By following...
3 Essential Framework Elements for Building Authority
If you want to improve your expert status and become a dominant force in your industry, you must learn to establish a framework for building authority. The goal is never to be the best-kept secret; the goal is to reveal yourself as an authority and expose your...
What A Strategist Can Do For Your Organization
What is a strategist? What does a strategist even do? How many strategies are there? Which one is the right one for me? These are all questions you need to be asking because of the critical role strategy plays in the success of your business; strategy must be mastered...
Vistage 2022 CEO Projections – What You Need To Know
The Vistage report for CEO predictions in 2022 reveals some critical areas that any business owner, podcast, coach, consultant, or service provider needs to know to go forward and build their business and a strategy to grow authority and scale impact. By understanding...
What Problem is Your Business Solving?
To be successful, you have to understand what sets you apart from your competitors and be clear on the problems your business solves. By using precise language that establishes solutions to a client's problems, you can determine the exact elements needed to create...
Which Business Certifications Should I Get – Are Minority Certifications Worth It?
Seeking out minority business certifications can help your company scale to new heights by introducing you to an audience searching for businesses specific to your group. By obtaining these certifications, you set yourself apart and make your business easier to find.
How to Manage Clients that are Reluctant to Change
Wherever you are in the world, whatever your industry or expertise level, you are going to come across difficult clients who are resistant to change. The issues may be blatantly obvious to you – but no matter how vehemently you point them out, the client doesn’t...
How To Stay Focused
3 Tips To Stay On Task & Avoid Distractions (Your Time Is Valuable!) With so many things vying for your attention these days, I want to give you some pointers to help you stay on task and avoid distractions. We’re all guilty of compulsively checking the news,...
How To Build Business Resilience During A Crisis (& BOUNCE BACK!)
Are you going to let 2020 turn your story into a tragedy? Or are you ready to reclaim the narrative? The way I see it, there are two ways to look at life: as a victim under a pile of bad results… or as an opportunist, ready to channel adversity into possibility. If...
5 Entrepreneurial Characteristics & 5 Actions To Take
I sold a business to Bill Gates after a decade of literal disasters. I’ve run companies, I’ve built businesses from the ground up and I’ve worked with thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners throughout my career. Trust me when I say, I know what it takes...
What Helps Scale Women-Owned Businesses?
Are you one call away from success? 16 years ago, I met with the largest image-provider in the world, armed with 450 images/stock photos, and a great idea - and they almost laughed me out of the room! These executives were accustomed to companies coming in with...
Women Business Owners Facing Adversity
Even in what we now can call ‘normal times’, before the pandemic turned our world upside down and inside out, women often ran up against gender barriers when trying to be successful entrepreneurs. There is a full range of these and all of us have experienced some of...
The #1 Mistake Businesses Need to Avoid
There is no playbook for doing business in a pandemic. People are out of work or simply stuck and home and feeling low. Paychecks are being slashed or are nonexistent – and people are already missing payments. At this rate, it is only going to get worse. Now, if you...
No More Excuses. How to Start Moving Forward in Business Again
America may be in free fall, but the time for excuses is over. Here are five tips to help you jumpstart your motivation and start moving forward again.