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Tame Your Time-Wasters to Boost Your Productivity
If you work for yourself , and especially if you work from home, you are probably inundated with time-wasters and distractions. While it may seem like checking Facebook throughout the day or reading your email all the time may seem like it’s only robbing you of a few minutes here and there, it’s likely that you’re more distracted then you might think. And, even if you are wasting just a few minutes a day, added up weekly, monthly, or annually, that can be a lot of your time. And lost time equals lost revenue. This is why it’s critical that you reduce your distractions. Notice that I didn’t say remove – in many cases, it’s not always possible to completely remove your distractions – but we can get them under control. Here’s how: MORE
How to Market Your Business Consistently to Grow Your Income
Do you find that your marketing efforts are haphazard and all over the place? If so, you're not alone. Consistency is the one area where entrepreneurs often have the most trouble. It's an area to give careful attention though, because in order to grow your business and your income, you need to consistently connect with people who are already looking for what you have to offer. (Really, that's all marketing is.)
Focusing on just a FEW key marketing strategies at a time – and not spreading yourself too thin – is guaranteed to get you the best results. Honing in on these strategies and doing them week in and week out will ensure your target market remembers you are available to serve them and give them an opportunity to purchase what you have to offer.
Even if you are not a structured, scheduled kind of person, you can make improvements in this regard. (Believe me, it takes one to know one...I'm not the most structured person you ever wanted to meet!) Creating consistency with your marketing efforts is as simple as picking two to three strategies, creating systems for them and working your plan each and every day.
Here's a few tips that I you can model for your business to help get your marketing on track and implemented consistently: Read more about How to Market Your Business Consistently to Grow Your Income
7 Tips for Organizing Your Marketing Efforts
Joseph Ghabi once said: “Your life will begin changing the moment you decide that you want it to.”
I’ve found that the same is true for growing your business. If you want to see different results than what you’ve seen in the past, you must make a heartfelt decision to do things differently. You need to start with making over your mindset.
Mental blocks can hold you back and keep you from achieving your goals. When you sit down to work on your business are you clear and focused, or is your mind cluttered with ideas, client requests, overdue items and more?
The FIRST step to achieving your goals is de-cluttering and organizing your mind. When you do this, you’ll be able to clearly define what you want to accomplish and start taking the necessary action to achieve your goals.
If a never ending to do list, too many ideas for marketing your business, missed opportunities and a constant state of overwhelm are running your life, it’s time to clear out the old and get organized. When you do this, you’ll find that it’s easier to focus on marketing your business consistently and effectively.
Here are seven simple practices that you can use NOW to do just that: Read more about 7 Tips for Organizing Your Marketing Efforts
How to Ask For (and Get) the Right Referrals
Do you want to work with more of your ideal clients?
Would you like to save time on marketing and get better results?
Do you desire to become a recognized expert in your field?
You can do all this and more when you build your business by referral. If you ask for and encourage referrals, you’ll be able to fill your practice with ideal clients who need the exact solutions that you offer.
By taking the time to figure out exactly what type of clients you’re looking for and how to ask for it, you’ll have a much better success rate with attracting referrals and you’ll see your business grow by leaps and bounds. Follow these three simple steps to ask for and encourage referrals from your current clients and contacts: Read more about How to Ask For (and Get) the Right Referrals
How to Track Your Marketing So You Know What’s Working (SSMS Episode 67)
Effective marketing isn't just about the strategies you use to create visibility for your work. It's also about tracking your progress. No, it's not the fun, exciting part of growing your business. But if you don't pay attention to what you're doing, you're going to waste time, money and effort. In this week’s article, I share my simple tracking strategy that you can use to get better results from your marketing.
How to Track Your Marketing So You Know What’s Working (SSMS Episode 67) [ 10:06 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (201)Building A Strong Foundation for Business Success (SSMS Episode 60)
Building a successful business is no small undertaking but having the right foundation in place can make your business stronger and more successful. Whether you’re brand new to owning your own business or have been running it for a while, this week’s article has important components that you need to have in place in order to minimize stress and realize your potential.
Building A Strong Foundation for Business Success (SSMS Episode 60) [ 12:25 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (333)How to Find Out EXACTLY Where You Should Be Promoting Your Business
I recently reviewed my client list over the past 18 months to see where my clients had come from so that I could fine tune my marketing efforts. You see, Smart Simple Marketing is not about doing more. It's not about doing the "latest and greatest thing". It about doing what works and doing that consistently. Read more about How to Find Out EXACTLY Where You Should Be Promoting Your Business
Get Focused in 5 Easy Steps
Do you feel like you’re working all of the time and struggling to get your tasks done? When you’re unproductive and disorganized, you’ll get further and further behind on your goals and feel even more overwhelmed. It’s common feeling but fortunately, there’s an easy fix. Being an entrepreneur doesn’t mean working 24/7 but it does mean putting systems into place so you can do what you need to do when you need to do it. Use these five tips to increase your productivity and focus so you can get more out of each day: MORE
Get More Done In Less Time (SSMS Episode 44)
Do you ever feel like you’re spinning your wheels with the marketing of your business? I have found time and again that tweaking your daily habits can make all the difference in how much you get done each day, which directly effects how close you can get to your goals. In this week’s podcast, I share five simple tips that will take you from feeling overwhelmed to feeling like you’re at the top of your game.
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Five Steps to Eliminating Time Wasters and Increasing Your Profits
Time. It's the most precious asset we have as entrepreneurs and the one thing we can't get enough of. Many service professionals struggle with using their time effectively and find it hard to consistently market the way they should. While we can't literally add hours to our day, we can use the time we have much more efficiently so that on a daily/weekly/monthly basis we are connecting with ideal prospects that want and need what we have to offer.
If you want to change the results you are seeing in your business, you have to change your actions. The truth is, you DO have the time to market consistently. You just need to "buy it out" from other activities and use it to work towards your goals. Follow these five steps to eliminate the time wasting activities that are holding you back from success: MORE
