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Know Your Favorite Clients to Grow Your Business
The more you know about your favorite clients, the better your marketing can be.
How to Know Which Marketing Channels to Invest in Next Year
Enjoy this free template to help you figure out what worked, what didn't and where to focus your marketing efforts in the year ahead.
5 Clever Ways to Brand Your Business
Dress on-brand and more clever ways to make your business more memorable and recognizable, online and offline.
6 Written Ways to Improve Your Marketing
How to write your way to better, more memorable marketing, including a free email course on how to write an elevator pitch!
8 Visual Ways to Make Your Business More Memorable
Consistency is key and here are 8 visual ways to make your business more consistent (and more memorable) to ideal clients and customers.
How to Profit by Investing in Yourself and Your Business
Here's why spending a bit of money on a person or an app can mean more profit, more sanity, and more business success.
How Business Systems Can Make You More Profitable
Process can mean profit. How to document, optimize, and create systems that make your small business more profitable.
How to Profit From Better Time Management
Knowing how you spend your time can mean money in the bank for your small business. Here's how.
4 Weeks to More Profitability in Your Small Business
Keep more of the money you earn and discover my secrets to small business profitability in this month-long blog series.
How to Write a 30-Second Introduction for Referral Meetings
Not sure what to say at BNI? Here's how to finally write a clear 30-second introduction for you and your business.
The 5 Building Blocks You Need to Use In Your 30-Second Introduction
Stuck on what belongs in your elevator pitch? Here are the 5 key elements that belong in your 30-second introduction as an entrepreneur or small business owner.
When You Network, Stop Trying To Tell The Whole Story
Relax - you don't have to tell your whole story for people to care about your business. Here's what you DO need to say and what you need to let go of when you're networking.
How to Talk About What You Do Series: Why You Need to Ditch Creative Job Titles
Are you creating confusion when you talk about your business? In our new 4-part series, discover how to talk about what you do as an entrepreneur - and why a creative job title or creative business description could be hurting you.
Featured on Business of Story Podcast: Giving Yourself a Shot to Succeed
Featuring my episode of the "Business of Story" podcast with Park Howell, discover why it's important to give yourself a shot to make things happen in your life and business.
The Value of Building Relationships with Competitors
Are you afraid to get to know your competition? What I learned from building relationships with competitors, finding friends, and discovering this was the key to solving a growth problem in my business.
Why Giving Grace Makes Us Better Entrepreneurs
Even though we can look at fellow entrepreneurs and wonder "what are they thinking?" - here's why offering our support, instead of our judgment, makes us better (and more successful) business owners.
Secret Entrepreneur Struggles - Why There's More to the Story
Why do we hide our struggles as entrepreneurs? Here's why sharing the challenges we face in life and business makes our businesses and our business community better.
How to Prep Your Business for a Personal Emergency
Everything's running smoothly until life happens! What do you do when your husband gets sick, your puppy makes a mess, or you just need to drop everything? Here's how to prep and deal with a personal emergency as a small business owner.
Exceed Your Customers' Expectations With a Little Magic
Discover what a little magic can do for your small business. We're talking meeting and exceeding your customers' expectations to grow your brand.
Anticipate What Clients Need And They Won't Forget You
Are you thinking ahead to what your clients and customers might need? The more you can anticipate their next move and deliver the answers ahead of time, the greater impression and customer service experience your business can provide.