Can You Relate? — Guest Blog

February 15, 2012 By Lisa Smith 1 Comment

Can You Relate?
Guest Blogger, Kim Finley

One of the things my small business clients will hear me say over and over is, “People don’t buy from companies; they buy from people they like.” I find myself saying it so often, I believe, because I have a product-driven business. We build and sell websites and other forms of internet marketing…so people assume we must always sell on the merits of our products, service, etc.

I am not saying that does not matter; you have to have a solid foundation if you are going to be successful in business at all. But if the explosion of social media into the world of marketing, family, relationships, and business has shown us anything, it has demonstrated that you cannot take the relationship out of the business process.

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Must-Have Marketing Mix Elements: Speaking

February 6, 2012 By Lisa Smith Leave a Comment

Must-Have Marketing Mix Elements: Speaking

In a previous blog, I wrote about the importance of having a marketing mix and determining your top 3 effective marketing tactics to focus on. I've already covered one of them–networking. This post will cover another prime tactic to grow your business, which is through speaking.

The great thing about speaking as a marketing tactic is that it not only allows you to get in front of people to have the opportunity to generate leads but also gives you the opportunity to build your credibility and be seen as an "expert" in your field or topic. Yet so many entrepreneurs and business owners do not take advantage of this powerful tactic due to lack of knowledge or lack of confidence.

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Top Self-Improvement Resources

February 3, 2012 By Lisa Smith 2 Comments

Top Self-Improvement Resources

SelfGrowth.com recently took a survey (January 2010) to determine the Top 10 List of self improvement books and people.

If you're intersted in continued growth–personally or professionally, these are the places to start. Some are older and some are newer. Some are practical and some are "esoteric."

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Inspirational Video–Believe in Yourself

January 30, 2012 By Lisa Smith Leave a Comment

Inspirational Video–Believe in Yourself

How has this first month of 2012 been for you and your business? What tone have you set for the year with your plans, actions, and thoughts? Do you want to push the "reset" button or the "repeat" button?

Sometimes a little inspiration is helpful to get motivated, pick yourself up, refocus, shift paths, or feel encouraged to keep moving forward. Here's a short video clip to help you do just that.

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How To Find Money To Fund Your Business

January 23, 2012 By Lisa Smith Leave a Comment

How To Find Money To Fund Your Business

There's no way around it–it takes money to run a business. If you don't have money to invest in your business, you don't have a business.

Although there are ways to build your business that require less funds in the beginning, and smarter uses of your money, there are expenses involved with running EVERY business. If you don't accept that and start operating from a business owner's mindset, you WILL NOT make it.

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Series–Mental Mastery Techniques for Rapid Change: Limiting Belief Elimination

January 20, 2012 By Lisa Smith Leave a Comment

Series–Mental Mastery Techniques for Rapid Change: Limiting Belief Elimination Process

What Are Limiting Beliefs?
Our beliefs are the "rules" we've set up in our minds that help us make sense of the world and maneuver successful and safely through it. Our beliefs are largely formed early on from our parents, institutions (like church, school), teachers and other "authority" figures, our peers, and the media.

Because they help us feel a sense of order and understanding of our world and create a sense of "control" or safety (despite common distortions), they are stored in the subconscious as "truths" for us and are therefore, difficult to change (unless you know the key to releasing them rapidly, which I'll share in a moment).

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Releasing the “Inner Critic” with NLP–Guest Blog

January 18, 2012 By Lisa Smith Leave a Comment

How to Deal with the "Inner Critic" with NLP
Guest Blogger, Andy Smith

Many people are held back from reaching their full potential by an 'inner critic', sometimes known as the 'gremlin' or 'chatterbox', that constantly nags at them, criticises their decisions, and puts them down. Usually this is a leftover from parental criticism or put-downs from their peer group that the person unconsciously took on board during their childhood.

If this sounds familiar, you'll be aware that it's one thing knowing where the 'inner critic' came from, but quite another knowing how to deal with it. The good news is that you can reduce the emotional impact of an internal critic, without trying to challenge the meaning of what it's saying (after all, doing that would give you an extra 'inner voice' to distract you) – just by playing around with how the voice sounds.

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Series–Mental Mastery Techniques for Rapid Change: EFT

January 12, 2012 By Lisa Smith Leave a Comment

Series–Mental Mastery Techniques for Rapid Change: EFT

What is EFT?
Simply put, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is a form of acupressure that works with the energetic and emotional elements of illness/disease, stress, trauma, and pain to create a more balanced, healthy, positive and productive mind and body, leading to greater health, happiness, success, and satisfaction in life. Read more

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Series–Mental Mastery Techniques for Rapid Change: Hypnosis

January 6, 2012 By Lisa Smith Leave a Comment

Series–Mental Mastery Techniques for Rapid Change: Hypnosis

Hypnosis is a perfectly safe, relaxing technique that can benefit anyone. It is simply a focused state of awareness that increases the ability of the subconscious to absorb, accept & respond to information and ideas. It accesses the ultimate means of heightening motivation by programming your subconscious (reflective) mind to work in cooperation with your conscious (reactive) mind to achieve desired results.

You're already familiar with hypnosis, although you may not realize it. You go through this altered state of consciousness at least twice a day–when you are crossing over into sleep and when you are waking up. You also go into a "trance" state anytime you

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A New Year’s Gift to Achieve Your Goals in 2012

December 30, 2011 By Lisa Smith Leave a Comment

A New Year's Gift to Achieve Your Goals in 2012

A new year is closing fast and a new one is about to begin.

What did you accomplish in 2011? What did you not? How do you want 2012 to be better?

Rather than making the typical New Year's Resolutions (which I don't recommend, as stated in my blog here), below are a few ideas–and a free gift–for ending the year on a positive note and starting the year off with the right attitude and resources to truly make 2012 a breakout year.

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