Kaya Singer
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Kaya Singer Quick Facts
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- Helping small/solo bsuiness owners clear their focus and grow their business
- Career Focus
- entrepreneur, author
Kaya Singer owns Awakening Business Solutions.
Her company helps small business owners clear their focus and improve their bottom line. Since 1985 she has helped over 1000 people to overcome blocks to success in their business and life. Her website has free tools and help. She offers books, seminars and one-on-one support.
She can be reached at 503-493-1199
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5 Tips to Move Past Business Overwhelm
If you are a small or solo business owner you probably suffer from a disease called “Overwhelm-it is.” Symptoms may include, inability to focus, stress from being pulled in too many directions, not enough time and constant energy drain. Sound familiar? Sometimes I wish there was a quick fix or a magic wand for this ailment. During the past week I had three different solo business owners tell me they felt they were spinning their wheels. It was funny that they all used that exact same phrase. It reminded me of driving in the snow and getting stuck.
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5 Keys to Developing Correct Pricing for Your Small Business Services
Pricing seems to be the hot issue this month. Many of my clients are asking for help with how to decide how much to charge for their services. Many years ago I would have avoided this topic like the plague because of my own unresolved money issues.
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5 Reasons is it so important to Have a Niche Market?
Solo-business owners seem to have such a struggle around the whole idea of niche marketing. Of all the concepts I teach my clients, this is the one that is the most challenging for people. In theory people get it, but in practice, it tends to throw them into full on fear-based reaction. What exactly is niche marketing and what does this term mean? It’s about developing products or services that are directly fulfilling the needs and wants of a specific and narrow group.r
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Now that you have a niche, how do you grow your business?
If you have managed to figure out your niche, you are miles ahead of most small businesses who either have no marketing plan at all or a very poor one. Last month I wrote about why entrepreneurs struggle with the concept of niche marketing, and the fears around it. Maybe you have managed to overcome those niggling doubts that say, “If I narrow down my focus to one tiny group, my business will slow down to a trickle.” In fact, it is the opposite, but there are a few things you need to be aware of in order to grow your business from this place.
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3 Things That Get in the Way of a Great Sales Process
If you own a small business you likely spend more time marketing than everything else put together. You also know that in marketing there's an order and a system to the process and when you follow the system correctly, it works and it brings you more clients.
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Kaya's Easy 5 Step Strategic Planning Process
If the idea of strategic planning scares you or makes you want to crawl into a hole, use my 5 easy steps to begin the process and you will be on your way. Here it is December again, and over here in Oregon, it is creeping towards winter solstice, the darkest day of the year.
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Marketing and Twitter
About 15 years ago my husband and I had a bright idea one day. He was busy doodling on our Mac and I thought, “Those are really cool designs and I bet we could make them into coloring books.” We ended up creating and self-publishing two mandala coloring books. We were sure this was going to be a huge money-making deal (totally naïve). Instead we were shocked to find out that they were not so easy to sell. Bookstores ordered a few at a time and we managed to sell some on our website (websites were still new). The rest we sold at a Saturday Market and then let it go.
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Networking is Not Selling
You've probably all had the "used car salesman" experience at networking groups. You meet a new person, and doing the normal protocol, you politely ask them what they do. They immediately launch into a passionate pitch about how wonderful their product is and assure you that you'll be dead next week if you don't buy it. You politely don't ask them any more questions, hoping the conversation will end so you can move on. Or you wait for a break in their diatribe so you can blurt out that you need to find the rest room.
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Three Tips for Baby Boomers Staring a New Business
Women and men in their 60s and 70s are now busy re-inventing themselves, sharpening and learning new skills and beginning new enterprises. After quitting a corporate job or retiring from teaching many of you aren’t ready to stay home and watch TV knit all day. You want to "do something!" Maybe your retirement isn't stretching as far as you thought, but mainly it's because you just want to. You plainly aren't done yet. This age group has the distinct advantage of life experience to draw on, plus contacts and connections to offer support.
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My 3 Personal Success Strategies That Never Fail
When I arrived into the second half of my life, I realized that the years were drifting by and I began to wonder why my life hadn't completely turned out the way I had wished. Certainly I had racked up many successes but there were also still unfulfilled dreams, places I wanted to go, books to write and things to learn. Self- doubt slowly crept in and I wondered whether I would ever manifest all of my ambitions. That's how it once seemed to me. Maybe you are like me, and you too have also wondered whether you missed your chance and now it's too late.
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Why it's Important for Entrepreneurs to Get Help
Entrepreneurs are often independent minded souls who like to do things their own way and in their own time. You're risk takers and initiators. All those are wonderful traits that can support your success, but like any qualities they also have challenging sides. You might be so used to going for it, and making decisions yourself, that when you're faced with a larger challenge you just step on the gas and do more of what you've already been doing.
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5 Steps on How to Take Your Business to the Next Level
If you're like many small business owners, you've put in the hard work to get your business going, you've taken risks, overcome some obstacles and now your business is doing ok. But ok is just…well, ok. You want it to be doing great! Why not? You didn’t start a business in order to stay mediocre. The longer you're in business the more ideas emerge as to how you could take your business to the next level.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Kaya Singer
To succeed in your business and life and to obtain the prosperity, self-empowerment and balance you want, it is necessary to move through whatever mental blocks are holding you back or getting in your way.
A mental block is like a brick wall in your path. It can block your energy and make you feel stuck. A positive thing about being up against any wall is that you will find out how important it is for you to get past it and to pursue what is on the other side; in this case, growing your business. To read more about this...
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