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ARTArticle3 Secret Tips For A Healthy SpringJust as a computer has only so much memory to store information so it is within the human being. Hence, it behooves us to periodically go in and do self maintenance on our own memory space. And how do we do this? By allowing ourselves to purge all old, negative, hurtful remembrances, feeling ...ARTArticle3 Simple Strategies for Never Losing Out AgainLife is full of ups and downs and sometimes has a few sideways thrown in too. When things go wrong or don’t go as planned, or when something happens to throw us off balance and doubt ourselves it can be tough to deal with. After all, we all want things to go well and to end up as ‘winners’. ...ARTArticle30 Questions To Help You Find Your Best Self30 Questionsr
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"You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be."rn~ Lou Holtz.ARTArticle4 Right Ways to Find Buying Clients with Social MediaThere is a right way to invite clients to buy from you with social media and there is a wrog way. Actually, there is a third option – there is a very wrong way to sell. For example, if you facebook someone with an offer more than once, then when they unlike your fan page, you start facebooking them from another user account and continue to be persistent with getting them to buy. So how do you do it the right way? Answer those 5 questions:
1. Who are you?rARTArticle5 ANSWERS What Keeps Entrepreneurs UP At NightWhen I first started my own business, I thought that I’m the only one who stays up till 3am in the morning to “finish up something”. I remember once when I went to bed at 10am the next day just becasue I had started something that I was so inspired to work on it and … didn’t feel like sleeping. Well, it turns out that this is the case with many entrepreneurs. And here are the top 5 reasons why they stay away till late:
1.”What If I make a mistake?”ARTArticle5 Basic Social Media Marketing StrategiesThe purpose of social media is to create micro-communities with same interest where memebers can connect, interact and help out each other. The question is: how can this help you grow and find more clients in your business. Here are the top 5 basic ways to do that:
1. Write it, say it and see itrARTArticle5 Business Critical Keyword UsesIf you do business online, then sooner or later you run into the 3 things you must do before you go into a sales conversation: SMM (Social Media Marketing), SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and SEM (Search Engine Marketing). The key to getting visible, driving traffic to your website and helping your conversion rates is: the skillful use of KEYWORDS. Here are the 5 business critical keyword uses:
1. Your elevator pitchrARTArticle5 Buying Mindsets of Online ClientsClients know that whatever they are looking for, they can find it online as well. In their mind, if something is not online as well, they can’t check it out and hence, no reason to buy it. The potential client makes a decision to buy or not to buy based on those 5 buying mindsets:
1. InfluencerARTArticle5 Deadly Attitudes About YOUR BusinessWe can’t control what happens to us. What we can control is how we respond to that. Our attitude makes all the difference. It can help us to go that extra mile or it can leave us standing empty-handed in the side lines. To be successful it is important to take charge of your attitude. Otherwise someone else will choose it for you and you may not like the result f that. Here are the 5 subtle example of that:
1. He/she made me do itrARTArticle5 Easy Ways to Know if you are IN BUSINESS or you RUN A HOBBYMany people turn what they like to do into a business for the simple idea that if you do what you like to do for a living your life will be more fulfilling. In reality, though, once the business is launched more often than not the new business doesn’t bring in enough revenue for the owner to support themselves with that even after the first or second year. What gets in the way is the hobby mindset that prevents the entrepreneur mind to get trained into working the business.rARTArticle5 EASY Ways to Overcome Your FEARJust like everything you get good at, after a while you forget what it was in the beginning. Same happened with me. I absolutely forgot how great of a hobby I had a few years ago. My hobby was to stretch myself, i.e. go out of my comfort zone in every possible way. And let me tell you, it’ s a lot of fun overcoming your own fears. Here are a few quick and easy ways to get in the game:
1. Call someone you don’t want torARTArticle5 Elements of a Successful Marketing Plan1. Has a Big picture overviewr
Where you’re coming from and where you are going to is the foundation of your marketing plan. Let’s say a year from now, what results do you want to have happened? Looking at the big picture, not only the final destination is important but also the 2 to 5 big accomplishments throughout the year. The can be the Quantum Leaps you consider as a sheer dream now but which need to take place in order your end goal to be achievable.
2. Has a detailed description of the small stepsARTArticle5 FENG-SHUI Home-Office Tips for WealthWe only get into our lives that which we invite. If we invite harmony, harmony will find us, if we are welcome to money, money will come to us. But we need to let it in. For many entrepreneurs the home office is where their laptop is – in the bedroom, in the car, on the kitchen table. Wherever your home office is, there are at least 5 things you can immediately do to be welcoming to business success, money and wealth. Here they are:
1. Dedicate an office space-ARTArticle5 Fun & Easy Ways to Get Out of the RutI don’t know about you, but sometimes I feel less than great. Low, grouchy, fed-up and bored are all words you could use to describe what I’m like on those days. Thing is, days like those are part of the deal with being human – it’s not an elective. There will always be off days, and that’s ...ARTArticle5 Good Reasons to Get Out of a Career You HateA lot of people don’t enjoy their work. A lot of people come to hate what they do for a living. I used to be one of them, and left it way too late to get out of what I was doing. I was off sick with stress and on a cocktail of anti-depressants when I was made redundant and hit rock bottom. ...ARTArticle5 I’s of Social MarketingBelieve it or not we are in the era of Social Marketing. Marketing as we used to know it is all about products and consumerism. Social Marketing is about selling ideas, behaviors and attitudes. Sound familiar? All speakers, trainers, coaches, NLP practitioners, EFT practitioners, healers, light workers, etc, they all sell ideas that are to benefit as many people as possible. Although Social Marketing is essentially the same as traditional marketing, it aims to create a movement, a global awareness and global call to action.ARTArticle5 Ingenious April Fool’s Day PromotionsPromoting your business around holidays is just another great way to boost your sales. The most recognized holidays are Christmas, New Year, Easter, 4th of July, Black Friday as well. However, all celebrations are a good occasion to show what you do and get a sale or two by the end of the day. Here are 5 ways to have a business impact with funny jokes:
1. Send a funny e-cardrARTArticle5 Ingenious Easter Holiday PromotionsOn-line and off-line holiday sales can be a huge pay day and can make your holiday even sweeter. Easter is one of the biggest holidays and of course shouldn’t go unnoticed. Otherwise you loose in potential sales and that’s a disservice to your clients who may as well be very happy with your holiday special.. Here are my favorite 5 strategies to promote your business during Easter:
1. Special NewsletterrARTArticle5 Ingredients for SuccessWhat's the difference between those people who build successful lives and those who often fail? What do those Rags-to-Riches people have in common? Is it luck? Or is it something else? I've always had a passion for studying the traits of my own role-models and trying to connect the common ...ARTArticle5 Keys to Making Incredible Money in Your BusinessWe’re all hearing from all over the place lately that it’s all about your mindset. If you have the right kind of mindset – which can be thought and modeled by doing what the already successful people do, then all the lovely things in the world will be yours. And it’s like the domino effect: you say one thing to10 people, they tell it as an absolute truth to 10 people of their own and soon enough everyone talk about this new industry standard. Is it true? Not entirely. There are 5 more key things to nail down to ensure incredible returns on your investment of energy, time and money.ARTArticle5 Little Secrets to Do Better even before you Know BetterManaging your business involves a lot of thinking hats – there’s the owner’s hat, the manager’s hat, the marketing hat, the HR hat, the coworker’s hat etc. It is sometimes d ifficult to decide if they work in synchrony or they conflict one another. So, what can you do to have all hats at peace with one another, i.e. think, talk and act in synchrony with all the conflicting desires inside you? There are 5 things that you can be mindful about and they are:
1. Loosen up that tight grip on controlrARTArticle5 LONG Term Ways to Get ClientsSome business attraction activities are very popular but what you are not told when you go to a networking meeting with the home to get a client is that it takes a lot of time, persistence and patience to get results.
1. Networking
A fantastic way to build a list of interested people. The real secret with networking is that you need to give and take and furthermore, you need to give and give and not to count what you get back because down the road you will be given back as long as you are both generous and prudent in your giving.
2. Article MarketingrARTArticle5 Mantras to Go Into Action FastHere’s the thing – a lot of times we just don’t accomplish things because we simply don’t do the action to get us there. Even all the positivity and all the confidence in ourselves won’t work unless we roll our sleeves and get things done. Here’s 5 mantra quotes to remind yourself how:
1. Well done is better than well said. ~Benjamin FranklinrARTArticle5 MARKETING LESSONS from the PROSWith a shoe string budget, businesses naturally go to the social media for exposure and in their search for clients. Quality Twitter followers, LinkedIn connections, and Facebook fans are all you need to fill up your pipeline with clients, members and repeat business, should you know the do’s and don’ts
1. Build RelationshipsARTArticle5 Mindset Shifts to Dramatically Increase Sales and ProfitsIf you need just a little bit of something to nail that sale and get that income …just like it was wished for in an affirmation or pinned on a vision board, then something needs to change. What needs to change is how you’re thinking, your mindset. As soon aas you start to think differently, you will start to act differently … and then the change will happen.
1.Don’t wait for things to happen, make things happenARTArticle5 Money Clutter Places and The Answer to “Why You Don’t Make Money in Your Business”Have you asked yourself this: Why am I not making enough money with my business / or any money? According to Feng Shui, money is just like any other energy (luck, happiness, prosperity). In order for this energy to do its magic in your business and your life, better not be cluttered. To recognize where you’re stopping the wealth and prosperity in your life, read on:
1. Misarranged Bills:ARTArticle5 Money Excuses Potential Clients MakePotential clients make all kinds of excuses but if I have to sum it up, they all fall into: excuses about money, excuses about time and excusing themselves with other people. The strongest deal breaker in a sales conversation is money. Here are the most common money excuses and what that really means:
1.Your price is too high.rARTArticle5 Must Have Accessories (For Life)If you are a true "Fashionista", you know the feeling; you're checking yourself out in the mirror. You have the perfect outfit! Your ensemble includes pieces that are in this season and 2 from the past. Your hair is highlighted, layered and bouncing all over the place. Your $50.00 perfectly polished manicure & pedicure makes you feel beautiful from head to toe. You're ready!!! But, wait a minute, something is missing... That's right. Despite the fact that you're "Dressed To The Nines", your entire look can make you a "Fashion Don't" if you don't accessorize.ARTArticle5 MUST HAVEs for a Successful BLOGBlogs are much faster indexed by search engines and also they are the first place where internet users seek for answers. Why, because blogs give answers. So, you are in business, and you would like to blog – to promote your expertise, to hopefully monetize on it and eventually get clients. Here are the 5 things you blog cannot do without.
1. Great DesignARTArticle5 MUST HAVEs in a Successful Solo-BusinessWe say that we want to succeed, that we want to do the work but do we have what it really takes? Here are the Top 5 things to have a very firm grasp of in order to know you are on the road to a continued success:
1. Your top strengthsr
It’s essential to know what you are really good at because this is what will take you least time to do and you will do it very well as opposed to performing tasks you are not so good at but still need to be done. Also, doing things you are naturally talented at adds to having a positive and productive environment.
2. Your shortcomingsr