Let’s face it -
If you’re like most of us and get tons of email, most of which isn’t very interesting to say the least, there is a set pattern to what you do. We all do it, because we’re really busy and time is valuable.
“Text Sells – But Don’t Make Me Look Too Hard For [...]

I was just rocking my 4-month old son to sleep. In that peaceful quiet few minutes, 3 important marketing ideas came to me:
- One was how to move forward on something I’ve been stuck on;
- One was a new way to offer something that will help generate more referrals from my network;
- And a third [...]

We all learn from mistakes and experiences.
As noted in the video below, it takes several, if not hundreds and sometimes thousands, of failures before we succeed.
How has your past failure motivated you?

One of my past failures was public speaking – A HUGE fear of many, many Americans.
In fact, it’s the #1 fear of people in [...]

I don’t know if you’ve experienced this, but it sure happens to me all the time.
This even happened yesterday when I met someone that I was very interested in having speak at one of my networking events for small business owners. But you see…
She unknowingly messed it all up in a big way and [...]

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Running your own business can be really tough.
There are so many things to do, so many people to connect with, so many action items to execute, and so many little things you just don’t want to fall through the cracks.
And [...]

A heartfelt THANK YOU to those that came out on March 23, 2011 to…
“Network Like the Pro’s and Explode Your Business!”
We really enjoyed having a full house at our event last week, meeting so many local small business owners and being able to make valuable connections and what we’re sure will be long-lasting, valuable relationships.
Here [...]

Recently, I’ve seen a lot of people setting up a second Facebook profile that they intend to use as a “professional profile”, so that they can keep their personal one for connecting with Friends and Family, and their professional profile for business and career use.
On the surface, this makes some sense, especially for people that [...]

Buuurrrrrrr………..!!!!!
It’s zero degrees in Chicago this morning.
But the weather is looking up. I checked the daily and monthly averages, because I am getting really tired of this cold. I can’t wait for it to warm up!
January is the coldest month of the year for my area. And on average, January 20th is the coldest day of [...]

Well… Here come the holidays, and in full force.
I don’t know about you, but my schedule is BUSY… jam-packed, full to the brim. There are networking events, association and chamber meetings, family gatherings, friends’ parties, Facebook events, Evites… Oh my head!
This can be a very interesting time of the year for many small businesses (and tough for [...]

One of the single best ways to connect with potential clients in a way that they get to understand how you can help them is to speak to groups of people – a very powerful way for others to get to know, like and trust you.
This can be done in person via speaking engagements, workshops, [...]