#BusinessTip #Tuesday Overview of Your Request for Proposals (RFP) First off, let’s just agree on the current market rate for a website. Let’s factor in that you don’t know anything about the web for business, and you don’t want to know. You just want it to work and produce increasing your capacity to meet your […]
MAWMonday Motivators 10/04/2015
#MondayMotivation This week, I’m focusing on self-talk retraining. I find that many have only the negative, self-defeating messages in their heads. Following is a list of more sustainable and more supportive names to train your inner voice to call you. The progression this week also suggests a habit of positive self-talk as well as a […]
MAWMonday Motivators 09/27/2015
#MondayMotivation MAWMonday Motivators is the anti-social media post. It is not about showing off the best of life and appearances. It’s not about selfies with celebrities and awesome restaurant dishes. It’s about realizing that motivation comes from choice. A choice to listen to the small voice that speaks positivity into your life while you wait […]
Why and How You Can Use Social Media for Business
#Business #Tip #Tuesday Network! You will have to build a social media presence. It’s not that social media is honest or true within itself. It’s that most everyone who will ever happen upon a morsel of information about you will enter your name into a search engine to find out more. Having a social media […]
MAWMonday Motivators 08/30/2015
#MondayMotivation #selfish This weeek, I’m thinking about all the bad advice I have been given over 40 years of life. I have learned to explore even the dark feelings to maintain a keen sense of the light. It is with that in mind that I provide tweets this week that could be interpreted as dark […]
MAWMonday Motivators 08/23/2015
#mind #vision #smile Another week of breakthroughs, clarifying my vision into action steps. I am writing with a confidence only 3 years of blogging can engender. I am bolstered by a certainty that can only result from the experience of having achieved, completed, and failed over and over again. I am realizing my energy and […]
Business Legal: Photographs & Model Releases
#photos #business I had the same question posed to me twice in one day. That’s a great indication that a blog needs to be written. When do I need a model or property release? I read up on this a few years back while developing the first Caregiving CDROM training. We wanted to have photos […]
Building a Brand: Found vs Built Markets and Your Expertise
The Challenge with Expertise Consider that, unless you hire a publicist, your expertise is what you are selling. Even if you have a product, your position as chief marketer in you small operation means that it is expertise, not just the product that you must be concerned with. Most people find help as soon as […]
MAWMonday Motivators 08/16/2015
I outlined a book for a client this week. One of the chapters discussed doubt as the most detrimental tool working against your success. More than procrastination, fear, and writer’s block. Doubt may be the source of them all. Some mistake questioning for doubt. Questions are appropriate and important to your continued growth. It is […]
For Associations: Business Case for a Marketing & Development Director
Social media in particular has opened up the need for new skills in social interaction, communications, and marketing. Associations are one non-profit in particular that needs to tap into this skill base. But, as with many emerging fields, executive directors don’t know what to expect from these professionals. They are not always familiar with how the […]