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Business Tip #1 – Why Setting Goals Will Strengthen Your Confidence Muscle
Three questions for you… What do you want to have achieved by the end of 2018? How will that change your life for the better? How will it make you feel when you achieve this goal? Goal setting is all about moving you to a more preferred position. It needs conscious...
Business Tip #5 – The Top 5 Reasons Procrastinating is Jeopardising Your Business
The statistics are telling. According to researchers, procrastination has quadrupled over the past 30 years. An investigation has found that 40% of people have experienced financial loss due to procrastination. Ouch! The definition of procrastination is the practice...
Life Tip #1 – Three Habits To Be Happy For No Reason
Are you guilty of waiting to be happy instead of realising you can be happy…right here…right now? Do you ever think, I’ll be happy when the weather gets warmer? Or, you will be happy when you retire or you win the lotto? Always wishing for something to change in your...
Presenting Tip #2 – How to Tell a Story When Speaking
I want to know about you. I do. And so does your audience. Oh no…I can hear you cringing from here. If you are a professional speaker or you want to become a speaker, it is vital you know how to share your story. When you speak in public, a narrative is a...
Sales Tip #15 – Is Cold-Calling a Thing of the Past in Your Market?
For most of my clients, the thought of cold-calling makes them want to run for the hills. And, they do everything else to ensure they are “too busy” to cold-call. Recognise the scenario? Don’t be concerned as you aren’t alone. Cold-calling can be...
Presenting Tip #1 – The 3 Things that are a Must in a Every Presentation
One of the downsides to being a speaker’s coach is that I’ve had to train myself to just sit back and enjoy what a speaker is saying rather than analysing their presentation. A tough ask but I’m working on it. I used to be the same watching netball games. Having...
Sales Tip #14 – Who Said Business Success was as Simple Just Thinking Differently?
Tony Robbins was spot on (as he is most of the time) when he proclaimed. “Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.” I work with people every day who are being held back from the star I see in them because of their unsupported beliefs. And...
Presenting Tip #9 – Practice Won’t Make You Perfect.
Practice makes perfect. Well, that is what we are constantly told isn’t it? But is it correct? This idea was probably best publicised as Malcolm Gladwell’s “10,000-hour rule”, which says that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert at any...
SAYING YES TO NEW EXPERIENCES WILL EXPAND YOUR OPPORTUNITIES
Saying yes to new experiences will expand your opportunities. Read this blog contribution to SMALLVILLE - Business Owners Who Think Big
Sales Tip #13 – Four simple Techniques to Create the Perfect Pitch
You either love it or you hate it. What is the first thought that goes through your mind when you are asked to stand and provide a one minute pitch about who you are and what you do? Excitement or dread? As my clients are mostly micro & small business owners, I...
Why You Shouldn’t Fear The Pulpit More Than The Casket
Can you relate to this? You have been asked to present your ideas to the entire staff at your workplace and instead of feeling joy at the prospect, you want to run for the hills. Or, you receive a promotion which now involves running regular staff training but even...
Why You Should Dream Big?
Have you given yourself permission to dream? So many people fail to give themselves the go-ahead to dream in case they fail. One of the most powerful gifts you can give yourself is the opportunity to dream of what could be. A dream isn’t the same as a goal. When you...
Why procrastinating is okay until it affects your bottom line?
The statistics are telling. According to researchers, procrastination has quadrupled over the past 30 years. Investigations have found that 40% of people have experienced financial loss due to procrastination. Ouch! The definition of procrastination is the practice...
Why you should let go and Outsource?
I figure I’m like most people. Not quite a perfectionist but we do like things done to a particular standard. Nothing wrong with that…unless it means we don’t recognise our shortcomings and get help when we need it. And for your perfectionists…it is even more...
Rapport Building 101
Do notice there are some people you feel instantly connected to but others who no matter how hard you try to build rapport nothing works? Have you wondered why? Just imagine how much more success you could have if you knew how to harness the power to build instant...
Who Are Your Customers and What Do They Want?
Just about every business course – webinar – podcast I attend, I hear the same thing. Choose a niche. Don’t try to be everything to all people. I’m sure you would have done similar exercises to determine your niche by figuring out where they hang out and then market...
5 Ways To Get Good At Selling
Selling doesn't come naturally to most people but is the most vital component of any business. No sales...no business. Read more on 5 tips to get good at selling... 1. Be Clear Confidence in yourself and in your product should never be underrated when it comes to...
7 Tips To Following Up Successfully
If you aren't regularly in touch with your clients and prospects, you could be missing out on valuable relationship building opportunities, not to mention sales! Following up is one of the essential business sales skills to produce sales growth. Here are 7 Top Tips to...
Is Your Comfort Zone a Confinement of Anxiety?
One of my favourite poems of all time is Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.” You may have read it and love it as much as I do. If you haven’t then I’d recommend doing so. When I first read this poem I was completed senior studies. Not as a seventeen-year-old but as...
7 Tips for Fear-Free Cold Calling
Are you making cold-calls or going into a sales conversation with this list of fears that are holding you back from making the sale? Can you relate to any of these fears? Fear of calling on a new prospect. � If you don’t ask, it is already a no. Fear a customer won’t...
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