What to Do When Somebody Pops Your Balloon
Here’s how to respond when someone ruins your presentation, asks for a refund, or does anything that makes you want to curl into a ball or leave your body.
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Increase Your Income by 1/3, Increase Your Fees by ZERO
If you trade your time for money, there are few options for earning more. Here’s a way that you can increase your income by 33% without working more hours or raising your fees at all!
10 Tips on Ethical Bribes, Bonuses and Pricing Your Offer
Ethical bribes, smart pricing and bonuses can help you grow your list and make more sales. But there are pitfalls. Here are 10 tips from a company that fell into 10 pits.
Is Your Website Headed in the Right Direction?
Before you build a website, know where it’s going so you don’t spend time, money and energy creating a site that doesn’t work for your business.
5 Obstacles Between You and Your Successful Practice
Practitioners often get stuck because they think they shouldn’t need help to get clients or build a business. Or they can’t afford it or don’t have time for it.
Your Brain on Accidental Self-Employment
For practitioners, a good deal of stress has to do with wanting to do the work you love with people who need it, and ending up accidentally self-employed. This video explores the effect on your brain and how intentional action helps.
XYZ: Promises You Feel Good About Making to Your Clients
Clients expect something from your work— otherwise, why commit? This easy formula lets you promise concrete results without feeling out of integrity.
The Importance of Being Connected
We know that social connections are beneficial to health–but if you’re used to working quietly with one person at a time you might have to make an intentional effort to create and maintain them.
Who Owns Your Business Assets?
Learn to see what your business assets are and how to protect them. Be careful about what you accept for “free” because it’s really important to stay in control of your content and your message.
These Are Not April Fool’s Jokes About Your Business
Why it’s important to build your business so that it reflects you, and 3 quick things you need to know about what it takes to be successful.
5 Quick Steps to Get Unstuck
When you can’t do everything you know you should be doing, it’s easy to get nothing done at all. Get unstuck in just 5 quick steps so that you can get your hands-on practice moving forward again!
Do You Need To Worry About Emailing Your List Too Often?
Are you afraid you bother people with your emails? Is that really true, or do you need to think about what your list is for and who should be on it?
Are Clients Getting The Time You Need For Yourself?
When you’re a hands-on practitioner, it’s really easy to lose control of your time. Here are 2 on-line scheduling apps that help in unexpected ways… one of them inspired me to do something that earned $5000…
Today… I Got Hit By Bad Manners
Adding all your “friends” to a FB group is really bad manners. Invite them, tell them why they would love it… don’t just add people you barely know!
The Client Journey for Hands-on Practitioners
Infographic shows how to create a path to your practice to help people who have just heard about you get the information they need to become your clients.
How To Find A Coach Who Will Make A Difference
A coach with clients “similar” to you may not understand how hands-on practitioners are different. How do you know a coach is a good fit for you?
Today I Overheard
… one of my clients tell someone that he’s beginning to realize there’s an awful lot of “annoying personal growth involved” in building his practice!
Today I Finally Talked with Someone
… I had to call twice to book an appointment I wanted to pay her for. By the end of our call, there was an interesting turn of events!
Seth Godin Doesn’t Use Images — Should You?
The right images used on a blog post or static page can make a huge difference in what visitors understand about you, how often your pages are seen, and how much they’re shared. Why does this matter to hands-on practitioners and movement educators? What’s relevant in the data on blog posts, images, readership? When should you copy the “big guys” and when can you ignore what they know and what they do?
Today I Had a Look at Unsubscribes From My Email List
Check your unsubscribes once in a while, be grateful that the people who don’t want to hear from you get off your list, and take these simple steps to minimize spam complaints.
Today I Was Proven Right About Profile Pictures
You get one chance to make a first impression and research shows what works best to make it a great one. Will you have to step out of your comfort zone?
Today A Friend Wrote on Facebook…
… about what happens when you lose control of your Facebook page. Don’t let it happen to you—here’s how to protect yourself!
Stop Wasting Money on Business Cards
Most people carry business cards… but the truth is that most of them end up in the trash. There’s a better way… and you stay in control.
Today I Read that Charles Darwin…
… didn’t trust himself to remember everything he came across that seemed to contravene the theory of evolution… so he did what you or I would do…
Graduate with Confidence
When you’re planning on turning your hands-on training into a sustainable practice after graduation, you need to develop confidence. You can begin doing that during your training with this simple secret!