Do You Have These Emotions Mastered For 6 and 7-Figure Biz Growth?

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As a woman entrepreneur, learning the right marketing strategies will help you create success, but unless you also master certain key emotions, you’ll continue to find yourself challenged as you try to grow your business.

For example, let’s say a client wants to cancel out of their program agreement with you. From a purely business stand point, there are practical steps you’ll take to handle this situation.

But what about your feelings? Situations like these can trigger emotions such as fear, doubt, anger, victimization and more.

And while it’s okay to feel your feelings, if you allow them to take over, you’ll stay stuck in the “how dare they” or the “why is this happening to me” type of mindset that doesn’t help you grow as a person, and doesn’t support you in confidently addressing these common business situations.

What’s helped me in growing my business is to have a checklist of emotional triggers that I’ve focused on healing, so they no longer take over when I find myself in common, challenging business situations.

I wish I’d had a checklist like this in the early days of growing my business, which is why I’m sharing it with you now. I hope you’ll use it to make the personal breakthroughs you need to create a healthy and thriving 6 and 7-figure business!

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Your 2012 Business Skills Checklist

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Every year I evaluate which marketing and business skills I’ve mastered and make a list of the areas that I need to learn more about to keep my business thriving and growing.

While it’s not possible to be an expert in everything (who would even want to be) if you’re serious about growing your business you definitely need to master certain skills. The good news is that once learned, what you can then do is yours for life.

As with all things, fads come and go but happily, there are certain key topics that are tried and true and will serve you all the years you are in business.

Which is why I’m sharing a checklist of my top skills anyone can — and must — master to make your new year start profitably and continue giving you a steady stream of income, month after month.

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Simple Ways To Give Your Business A Financial Fresh Start For The New Year

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As a woman entrepreneur, whether your business is robustly moving forward or you’re just getting started, it’s common to have a bit of “emotional money baggage” you may be carrying around, that is slowing you down.

For example, maybe you have debt, or perhaps you’re ready to increase your fees but you’re feeling a few pangs of guilt. Or maybe you see the perfect mentoring program you want to invest in but your spouse is skeptical that it will be a wise investment.

One thing is certain, if you carry past baggage with you into the new year, you’ll have a much tougher time creating success. Which is why this is the perfect time of year to give your finances a fresh start.

The mistake most women entrepreneurs make is in not knowing exactly what kind of financial actions they should take. It just isn’t a topic that’s often discussed.

Which is why I’m sharing 3 of my BEST tips with you on how to give your finances a fresh start as you head into the new year.

And while you may not be able to waive a fairy wand and magically make your debt disappear or make your husband have a sudden change of faith, you can create a plan that addresses the spiritual, emotional and practical components that make up every woman business owner’s financial future.

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Are You Ready To Be A ‘Tall Poppy’ With Your Income?

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Given that it’s only within the past few decades that women have had the opportunity to flourish as entrepreneurs, it’s no wonder that so many feel hesitant about becoming major income earners.

But with the economic changes of the past few years, women are now starting businesses in record numbers. And in the process, facing their feelings and their fears about making more.

Which is why it’s critical that as a woman entrepreneur, you get comfortable becoming a “tall poppy”. A tall poppy is the one who stands tall, leading others. The original story of the tall poppy admonished someone from standing out, above others. This story was meant to keep people from questioning their circumstances or from exploring fresh opportunities to better themselves.

Ladies, we know those days are over, and if you’re serious about making a difference for others, then it’s crucial that you become equally as serious about being a tall poppy with your income, otherwise, how can you be the leader and role model you were born to be?

Which is why I’m sharing 3 of my favorite tips with you, all on how you can get comfortable and confident making more money, while still being in your feminine energy.

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Ready To Turn Your Discovery Sessions into New Clients?

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It doesn’t matter whether you’re brand new in business or you’re an advanced entrepreneur with momentum and leverage working for you, you’re frequently going to be engaging in a conversation with a prospective client. And when you have a step by step template to follow, you can predict with extraordinary accuracy how many of these “Discovery session” style conversations will turn into paying clients.

Which is one of my secret strategies to accomplishing two critical goals as a woman entrepreneur. First, to smooth out your cash flow with a steady stream of ideal clients, and second, to help you increase your income as you raise your fees and gain more momentum with your marketing.

Ultimately, the goal in a Discovery session is to transform the ideal candidates into paying clients, so it’s important to understand that this conversation isn’t just a friendly chat and it’s not “free coaching”. 

The key part of any Discovery session is to make an offer. Remember: you’re helping a potential client find a solution to their situation. If you freeze when it comes time to offering your service, you deny them the gift of transformation your work can bring to them.

Fortunately, there is an easy way to smoothly transition when the moment comes to make your offer. Here are 3 simple tips to immediately help you with this.

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Holiday Blessing of Gratitude and Appreciation

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It’s Thanksgiving here in the U.S., which is my FAVORITE holiday of the year. So, instead of my regular, award-winning article, I’m sharing this special blessing I wrote for you — I hope you enjoy it!

Holiday Blessing of Gratitude and Appreciation

When your intuition says, “Yes” but logic tries to convince you that “You’re not ready,” remember that intuition is the voice of the Divine.

When your desire is to step up but you feel afraid, remember that you wouldn’t have the desire if you weren’t capable and ready to fulfill it.

Instead of comparing yourself to others, remember to feel immense gratitude and appreciation for YOUR unique brilliance.

If you find yourself holding back, remember that you’re standing on the edge between the old and the new you. Step over the edge and you’ll find freedom.

If you’re wanting clarity, remember that clarity comes when you decide and take action.

If you’ve been playing small, remember that you only have one life and it’s meant to be played full out and full of passion.

If your habit is to give generously to others, remember that you must give to yourself so that your creativity and spirit are rejuvenated and you can be richly of service to others.

Remember that what you admire and appreciate in others is ALREADY present within YOU!

I hope this holiday you give yourself the blessing of grace, ease and joy in your business…and in life!

3 Easy Tips For Selling From The Stage

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One of the best ways to give yourself a “big payday” is to host a live event. Even a small, 5-10 person workshop can help you create a significant, 5-figure payday. And bigger events can yield 6 and high 6-figure returns.

But you must strike the right balance between delivering content and making your offer from the stage. Unfortunately, many professionals are following an outdated model of “deliver the what and the why, but not the how”.

Between the economy and the inconvenience of travel, workshop attendees are raising their expectations in terms of the value they expect to receive, in return for their investment in a ticket to your event and in the associated travel costs.

Recently, while attending someone else’s event, I was approached by a participant who thanked me for providing high-quality, valuable content at the workshop of mine she had attended earlier this year.

Clearly, she wasn’t the only participant thrilled with the content they received because that workshop broke a record in how many people said “Yes” to the offer we made from the stage.

Which proves my point that when you deliver quality content, your attendees will WANT more of what you have to offer.

While I have a detailed, step by step formula for creating and making an offer from the stage, I want to share 3 crucial tips with you here today, that will help you position your offer authentically, powerfully and confidently, no matter if you’re just getting started hosting workshops and live retreats, or you’re a seasoned speaker.

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Are you energetically blocking your list from growing?

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Everyone knows that “your money is in your list,” but what if your list is growing slowly or seems to keep attracting low-end followers? Are you missing the right techniques to building your list…or is there an energetic problem here that needs to be solved first?

The answer is yes…and yes. Meaning, while you must have specific strategies in place to grow you list, if your list size isn’t growing rapidly then it’s likely there’s a energetic reason that must also be addressed.

Yes, I know this may sound like some flaky New Age philosophy but consider this: If list building were strictly about mechanics then everyone would have a rapidly growing database, when the truth is, this isn’t what most women entrepreneurs experience.

Or, consider the all-too frequent example of two entrepreneurs, each marketing to the same basic audience. One of them has a much smaller list yet makes considerably more. Why does this happen?

List building takes more than mere mechanics. Here are my personal secrets that will help YOU break through any energetic roadblocks you may be having, that are preventing your list from growing quickly and responding positively to your offers.

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Secrets to a 500K+ 4-hour-a-day Online Coaching Business from My Friend Milana

I wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know about what my friend and colleague Milana Leshinsky is up to.

I’ve often said that I believe with my whole heart that coaching can change the world. I also believe that if you want to be a coach and take a role in healing the planet then you need to charge what you’re worth and get it.

In a special webinar Milana is going to share her personal story of going from making 50k to 500k in just 2.5 years and how you can do that too.

Here’s what you’ll discover during this FREE training:

  • The breakthrough money-making business model that can at least triple your income in half the time, and completely change your life!
  • The four types of income every coach and expert entrepreneur should create to enjoy huge income growth without working crazy hours!
  • The specific ways to think about your expertise to create multiple passive income streams in your business.
  • Strategies for creating consistent monthly income streams, and the biggest mistakes people make when they try to set it up.

    I know it’s going to be a great call. You can register for free at http://tinyurl.com/26ma274.

How To Raise Your Pricing Self-Esteem

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Next to selling, no other aspect of a woman entrepreneur’s business causes her as much anxiety as figuring out what to charge.

I’ve known plenty of outwardly confident woman — the kind who wouldn’t hesitate to walk side by side with the big boys when it comes to success and achievement — who inwardly shrink when it comes to raising their fees.

Woman take everything in their businesses personally, which is why pricing pushes our self-worth triggers and stirs up old, past emotional wounds leftover from childhood, that we thought we’d left behind long ago.

Giving yourself a raise by raising your fees does not have to feel as if you’re tripping on emotional land mines in high heels. On the contrary, I’ve discovered that by learning a few simple secrets to raising your fees, you can begin healing deeply hidden self-worth issues AND benefit your bank account at the same time.

The secret is to follow the 3 simple steps I’ve outlined for you in this article. Do so and you can expect greater confidence, increased respect from others and the higher fees that tell the world you’re worth it!

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