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The Secret to Business Growth – Break on through!

Business growth can feel really challenging – you figure a few things out, you achieve some success and now you’ve got even bigger obstacles in front of you! In fact one of the biggest mistakes made is when people talk about a growth curve. What does your growth curve look like?  If it’s not flat, then it’s […]

Have you been validated lately?

Once again proving that it pays to spend some time on Twitter (at a bare minimum to see what people you know are up to and to pick up cool things they find interesting) – here’s a great video that I found very inspiring! It’s a short film (16 minutes) entitled Validation and I think […]

10 Reasons why you should be using Email Marketing

   photo by !!sahrizvi Your marketing is a net that you throw out to capture the attention of your best prospects.  You want to snare those prospects (and only those prospects) with the information, benefits and outcomes that speak to their situation.  That’s not going to happen on a single visit or interaction, you need […]

Discover 2 hidden treasures on the Internet!

   photo by Cesar R. The internet is an amazing resource – you can learn how to blow the shell off of a hard boiled egg (actually used this a few weeks ago – it’s pretty cool!).  You can learn why the sky is blue (handy when the kids start asking questions) or you could […]

What color is your social media?

Social media comes in a wide variety of choices, with more coming on every day.  There are more platforms than there are colors in a huge box of pencils…so it can be overwhelming to figure out where to get started.  When I’m giving Social Media workshops, inevitably someone asks “What social media platform should I […]

3 Ways to shoot yourself in the foot!

   photo by meddygarnet  It’s an interesting phrase, but what does it really mean to ‘shoot yourself in the foot”?  According to the Using English website it means the following: If you shoot yourself in the foot, you do something that damages your ambition, career, etc. Self inflicted damage!  Just the kind of thing you’d […]