Getting Your Message Out
When you start a new business, one of the first things you do is to create a product or service that is ideal for your target market. You set the price, you have the features and benefits and you are ready to rock and roll. Until you realize that you don’t know how to let […]
What Would You Do-Over?
I was thinking about some of the things that have happened in my life, both the amazing and the not so much fun times. I started daydreaming about the woulda, coulda, shoulda ways the outcome might have been different and realized that things happen just as they are supposed to and that everything we do […]
Making Your Sales Relationship Into A Selling Relationship
Making Your Sales Relationship Into A Selling Relationship Building relationships requires time, effort and patience. It requires a strategy unique to each situation and prospect. It doesn’t mean developing a shrewd approach to ingratiate yourself with your prospects. If your approach is not heartfelt, it won’t work because […]
Are You Enough? Insight in the Dentist’s Chair…
It’s been awhile since I’ve written in my blog. Since I write a monologue every week for my radio show, it feels like I’ve been writing on a consistent basis but I soon realized that listening is different than reading. I promise to get back to writing and sharing my thoughts with […]
Is There Really a Work/Life Balance?
Some people claim that they never find the balance between work and “real life.” In fact, one of the most common complaints from the women I speak to is that their careers seem to eat up their personal lives, leaving them no time for family and friends. In my book Selling in a Skirt as […]
“Act As If”- Notes on Time Management
Time management is one of the hardest concepts entrepreneurs have to grasp, especially when it means working from home. Many people find the transition from an office routine to the self-employed lifestyle confusing, because there are no rules. The only person holding you accountable to putting in a full day’s work is you, and the […]
Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make
Isn’t it funny that when you make the decision to be an entrepreneur your rationalization for situations is not always “smart”? Let’s take me for instance,the first thing everyone tells you to do is to have a business plan….but, why would I need a business plan? I was in business for myself. I was never […]
The Breadwinner
There was a recent study about wives earning more than their husbands. If you are a husband, are you ok with this? If you are a wife, are you ok with this? What about the role reversal? I was interviewed on Michigan’s Morning News about this topic by Steve Gruber and Jo Anne Paul. Click on […]
What If You Had A Secret?
I would bet that at some point in your life, someone told you a secret and told you not to tell anyone. Would you tell? Even your best friend? Or your spouse? Or perhaps a total stranger just to say it out loud? Maybe your pet, or stuffed animal or even your pillow…. Really, would […]
Are You Ready To Really Get SMART?
We are in our second week of January. How many of you still are following the guidelines you set for you New Year’s Resolutions? Everyone sets their resolutions…code name goals…with the greatest of intentions. Isn’t wanting a change enough to make it happen? If you’re not 100 percent committed to your goal, the odds of staying motivated are not […]
You Can Never Be Too Thin???
Over the years our vision of a beautiful woman has changed. Over 100 years ago, the perfect woman was curvy and in the 1950’s we had Marilyn Monroe. Over the past decade or so our idea of a perfect model is basically celebrating anorexia. The models are tiny and even at a weight of 100 […]
Just Another Year?
It’s New Year’s Eve and the ball is dropping, the seconds are being counted backwards and WOW! It’s now 2013. Can you believe it? Are you ready for another year? Is it going to be a great year or is it going to be JUST ANOTHER YEAR! Everyone has their set of resolutions. Some are repeated […]