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Stop Leaving Money on the Table: 3 Questions to Ask Before You Negotiate
“I’ve got the opportunity to land my first full consulting package client. Can you read the email below to see if I am doing anything repellent here?” I scanned the message and immediately wrote back...
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What You Should Know Before You Buy a Done-For-You Book Publishing Package
“She had my order in the cart, but forgot to hit submit. Then, she went away on holidays and now it’s too late.” My client was almost in tears. It was five days before her book launch party and she...
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The Only Marketing Strategy You Really Need
Have you heard something like this lately? “What you DO need however is the right strategy. Strategy. Is. Everything.” Those words are from an email that hit my inbox this morning. As I read it, I...
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What People Selling Time Management Tricks Don’t Want You to Know About...
It’s Monday morning. You’re excited. This is a big week. There are some cool opportunities on the horizon. You have a date night planned for Wednesday night, and you’ve decided THIS is the week you...
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What Robert McKee’s Hollywood Storytelling Can Teach You about Marketing
Sitting in the back of a large hotel conference room, I watched this white haired man shuffle up to the stage carrying a leather bag. He wore running shoes, dress pants, and a long sleeved blue button...
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How To Hire a Great Ghostwriter (Even if You Don’t Know a Damn Thing About...
Pop Quiz: What’s the most important search engine in the world? I forgive you if you said Google. I would have said that a couple of months ago, too. Then I heard a highly respected entrepreneur say...
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Connected – The Secret to Being Happier, Losing Weight & Making More Money
I was in a deep sleep when my alarm went off at 5:45am. My first thought in my groggy state was “ugh … what time do I have to leave to catch my flight?” There was no flight to catch though. For the...
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The Problem with SMART Goals
When I was a young girl playing in the back yard of my parents 20 room small town motel, I dreamed about being an astronomer, a teacher, and a writer. I didn’t dream of working ten hours a day to build...
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Happy New Year … Now About Your Goals for 2016
“Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.” ~ Steven Pressfield, The War of Art Dave was...
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When Your Body Betrays You – 3 Body Language Mistakes to Avoid
“Oh boy … here we go,” I thought. Leaning back in his office swivel chair, my boss had crossed his ankle over his knee, and clasped his hands together in front of his stomach as he looked at me. That...
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Stop Creating Boring Content – 3 Content Creation Tips to Knock Their Socks Off
Want a cure for insomnia? Do a Google search for blogs in your industry and start reading. There are so many boring blogs out there. Sure, some have good information, but often they all have the same...
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5 Ways to Be More Interesting
Imagine shooting the breeze in the arena locker room with your University Alumni hockey team after a game. A local jail is mentioned in a joke and with a serious look the goalie says, “Oh no boys –...
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What to Do When Something Bad Happens
This is an excerpt from The New Brand You. I was working at my desk when the phone rang. It was my Mom. “Your Grandma isn’t doing well. They rushed her to the ER last night. She has a blockage and...
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3 Tips When You’re Starting a Business
Do you have a daily habit that contributes to your success? That’s just one of the questions I answered on the recent Onward Nation Podcast episode where we covered all kinds of topics around starting...
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The New Brand You Wins Beverly Hills Book Award
I’m so excited to share that The New Brand You was a winner and a finalist in the November 2016 International Beverly Hills Book Awards contest! The International Beverly Hills Book Awards contest...
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Three Selling Tips for Introverts
Does selling scare the pants off of you? If you’ve read, The New Brand You, then you know that it actually happened to me once! Whether you consider yourself an introvert, an extrovert or just someone...
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How to Decide When It’s Time to Launch Your Book, Business or Project
We lost a lot of beloved celebrities this year (2016). The most recent loss, Carrie Fisher, was a pretty tough one for many. While she was best known for her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars, her...
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Living a Little Simpler: Paradox of Choice
“Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating...
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Selling for Small Business Owners – The How of Business Podcast
“I don’t like to push what I do on people. I figure, if they are interested, they will ask.” Chatting with this local small business owner, I was surprised to find out her business was a lot more than...
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5 Ways to Ruin Your Chances of Landing a New Gig
“Okay, guess I am being ghosted. Thank you for considering me, then. Best to you, Julie.” ~Miss O After receiving 241 applications in less than seven days I wasn’t ghosting anyone. I was swamped with...
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