How To Sell Authentically Using Social Media

There is an art to using social media effectively without being offensive in your efforts to find new customers and sell more of your products and services.  I recently hired a friend of mine, Kerianne Mellott of www.MarketingMakesMeSmile.com to help clear the cloud of confusion about social media marketing. I know what to do once [...]

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The HeART of Selling

The reason most people, especially women, despise selling or avoid it, is because we have been taught that in order to “get” someone to buy or make a purchase means we need to manipulate them into doing it. I thought that too when I worked for corporate America.

I found another way to do it that was much more soul-satisfying. Selling matters because it is the lifeblood of our businesses. If we don’t sell, meaning exchange goods and services for money, then we are either running a charity or won’t be around for long.

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Nix Cold Calling!

Are you all tied up in knots? Staring at the phone, avoiding making that cold call, and watching your bank account dwindle?

When you started your company, you probably never dreamed you would have to be the one to try and get people to buy your products or services and become a pathetic telemarketer, right?I have some great news for you. You can nix cold calls and remove them from your to-do list right now, today.

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The Keys to Building A Soul-Satisfying Business #1

We chose the path as entrepreneurs because we wanted the freedom to create and run our own businesses our own way. We wanted to infuse our spirit into our products and services and truly help others in some unique way. And then along came needing to understand some basic business skills so we could actually make money doing what we love. I am right there with you.

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Four Ways to Find Your Audacity in 2010!

I read something once (I don’t remember where) that resonates with me at this time every year and reminds me to be responsible for creating the life I desire. It goes something like this – You can live 99 years repeating the same year every year, or, you can live 99 different years, if you [...]

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Accomplish More in Two Easy Steps!

Ever worked for a really bad manager or someone who was out to get you?! I did. What I learned from the experience taught me a new skill that has helped me to increase my productivity immensely! I would never give him credit for it because he doesn’t deserve it, but his management style of trying to make me feel inferior birthed a system that I still use today.

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