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Today's blog post is by NadyaJones. Are you often worried youre not making the most out of your office space? Wondering if you dont get enough natural light or if youre spending too much time away from nature? Having a green garden office, whether indoors or outdoors, can help in ways you may not have expected. Embracing the light and bringing plants, flowers, and a hint of the great outdoors into your work space can actually help you with your business by boosting your productivity. We explore it further in this article. The... Read More

If you've tried to use networking to get more referrals, you've probably experienced something like this: You spend time and gas money to drive to an event, give your elevator speech, listen to everyone else'selevator pitches, exchange business cards, give and receive promises that if I meet someone who needs you, Ill send them your way, hopefully follow up with your potential referral network members, and then... nothing happens. You try again next week, because maybe repetition is the key. You give the same pitch everyone's already... Read More

When youre creating your product, program or service package, designing your brand, scripting your marketing materials, and speaking to potential clients and referral network members, one of the most important questions you need to answer is What problem do I solve for my clients? I recently met an entrepreneur who was having trouble answering that question in her business. Here are the strategies I recommended: 1. Create a list of all the physical, emotional, financial, and/or lifestyle problems that you've helped people solve, or... Read More

Today's blog post is written by Hisham Wyne. We could all use more coaching. - Richard Thaler The world is a noisy place. The chaos of everyday life, the cacophony of the city, and even the muted chatter around you can all contribute to a distracted mind. The modern world with all its developments and conveniences can also be a place where you cannot even hear yourself think. A Helping Hand There are some people who cannot function well in the midst of all the auditory and visual noise. They get sidetracked, lose focus,... Read More

When you're starting or growing a business, having the right tools, training, services and resources can make your job exponentially easier. To help you accomplish that goal faster, I've made a new page on my website with descriptions and links for the software and services I use to: 1. Get more referrals and get paid for the referrals I make, WITHOUT spending hours attending networking events 2. Attract clients through social media, without getting sucked into the black hole of my timeline feed 3. Create attractive lead capture... Read More

One day, an ad appeared in the sidebar of a site I was browsing, and I couldn't help but stare at it. Not out of curiosity or desire, but out of the same kind of incredulous fascination one might feel if they were walking in a desert that had only one tree, and saw that a car had somehow managed to crash into that tree. It was just that improbably bad. The headline in particular caught my eye: "The only site that gets you a girl". There are so many things wrong with this ad. Let's take a moment to break it down. Problem #1: For... Read More

After several months of contacting leads for Realtors, I've come to a disturbing conclusion: a lot of lead generation systems just aren't very good. Between the duplicates and stale leads and formatting problems (oh, my!), it was a lot of time, work and expense for not a lot of good leads. I decided it was time for me to use that experience to help business owners, especially Realtors, to determine whether their lead system is actually doing its job, or if it's time to find a better one. If you'd like to find outwhether your lead... Read More

If you get coupons in your mailbox, you might have seen this one recently: Image credit: Foodology.ca If you're anything like my family and I, your reaction was probably something like this: "Ummm, what? What's beyond meat?" "Something unexpected? What would I not expect to have in a burger? If I don't expect it to be in the burger, I probably don't WANT it to be in the burger." "Are they seriously advertising the fact that they're being dodgy about what's in their burger?" "It's human meat, isn't it?" "Frell me, they're... Read More

Getting leads is an essential part of any business. Realtors especially tend to pay a hefty sum for lead generation.But many business owners don't know what to look for in a lead generation system, so they end up spending thousands of dollars and getting little or no results. Today, two members of my referral network will reveal why many lead generation solutions don't get results, and which factors and features you should look for when you're choosing a lead generation system. Jeff and Chris will also explain how to tell warm and... Read More

ByJock Purtle When you first decide to launch your own business, the chances are that you'll be full of excitement and expectations. There's something wonderfully freeing about making the decision to launch your own company and bring your incredible ideas to life. Unfortunately, while there are many people out there who dream of creating fruitful ventures, only a handful achieve the success that they crave. In a world where everyone has an opportunity to launch their own company online, it's the entrepreneurs that put extra time and... Read More