May 21, 2013

9 Lessons I’ve Learned from Being an Entrepreneur

9 Lessons I’ve Learned from Being an Entrepreneur

Being an entrepreneur can definitely be an educational experience, as I’m sure many of you know firsthand. Here are some of the lessons I’ve learned since I officially started my own business: 1) Patience isn’t just a virtue; it’s an essential. So are faith and perseverance, otherwise we’d be so tempted to give up when [...]

3 Tips To Improve Your Marketing By Updating An Old Ad

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Ever wonder why some marketing campaigns get results and others don’t? To get better results with your next ad, you don’t need an advanced degree in marketing. Here are three simple improvements you can make to an existing ad that will increase the likelihood your readers will respond. 1. First, How’s That Headline? Your headline [...]

Rip off the mask, attract more clients

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The mask I never even knew when or how I grew my mask. One day my boss was having a painful review with me telling me that when I laughed too much in the office, people would assume that I didn’t work hard. The next few years, I became a hardnosed, hard faced professional stifling [...]

Boost your metabolism to maximize your workday!

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  The biggest mistake people make with their food Do you wake up sluggish and slow? Do you coffee up to get your motor running before you can even think about anything else? Do you skip breakfast just to find you are starving mid – morning and then grab starchy carbs to fill the void?  [...]

How Original Are You?

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  Have you ever Googled what you do for a living? Did thousands of businesses who offer exactly what you do pop up? Well if the fact that your industry is fiercely competitive and crowded is scary to you, take heart—there is a way to stand out. What’s different about you? As a small business [...]

The Stupefying Simple Way to Pick Your Niche

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  Tough nut to crack Picking a niche has been the bane of every entrepreneur’s existence. If you are a small business owner and recognise that to grow your business, you need to focus your marketing efforts on 1 target market (WHO) and talk to them about only 1 product or service (WHAT), then you [...]

Building Winning Websites Part 2 is now available!

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It’s really taking off!   I just released part 2 of the FREE Building Winning Websites video series.   I really hope you enjoyed Part 1! Part 2 focuses on how a visitor views your site, and offers some tips on how to make YOUR website more effective. If you’ve already signed up for the [...]

Advertising You: Smile For The Camera

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    You are your business and your brand. When people buy your product or service in some way they are buying into you and what you bring to the table. As a result when it comes to the issue of advertising it would be a disservice if you didn’t advertise You. In this day [...]

Use #Hashtags on Twitter

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Our Hashtag: #Womeninbiznetwork Hashtags Introduction Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. Hashtags were developed as a means to create ”groupings” on Twitter, without having to [...]

Don’t put your dreams on hold!

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There’s a growing force of entrepreneurs — Moms, says a BMO Bank of Montreal survey. It shows that optimism reigns within the female demographic, with 74% of female business owners optimistic about the economy, and three quarters (76%) currently investing in their business. The data was released as part of the BMO Year of the [...]

We think Manon is very savvy. Do you?

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Manon from Savvy Social Solutions has been working with us a while now and just joined as a member.  We are so lucky to know her – she is absolutely amazing at what she does and she is so nice to work with. A winning combination!   1. Tell us about your business. Savvy Social [...]

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