Storytelling is an incredible sales strategy… and READING stories — even fiction stories — helps business women become better writers, better bloggers, better communicators. So, when Jocelyn Bates – author of The Storyteller’s Throne — offered to send us a copy of her latest sci fi / coming of age book for the Birthing An Empire
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Sponsor Saturday: The StoryTeller’s Throne
HOW MANY DIFFERENT REASONS DO YOU USE TO JUSTIFY HOLDING YOURSELF BACK?
Are you “not ready?” Is the timing “bad” or even “not ideal?” Can you “not afford it?” Is the opportunity “inconvenient” for some other reason? Would you have to — gasp — travel to say yes? Do you have a lot “going on?” Would you have to cancel a meeting to say yes? Are you
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STOP BRANDING YOURSELF AND START JUST BEING THE BRAND… OF YOU. #DUH
I am smarter than my brand suggests. I DO know that it’s infinitely HARDER to sell HUSTLE than EASE. I DO know that tolerating — even EMBRACING — sloth and excuses and mediocrity and victim mentality is a POPULAR movement, passionately championed… and that going AGAINST this — and promoting ACTUAL accomplishment and achievement and
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BUSINESS BLASPHEMY ALERT: THERE IS NO “SECRET.” AND MOST OF WHAT “THEY’RE” TELLING YOU… IS TOTAL B.S.
I had a conversation yesterday. Many of them, actually. One with someone who has been FAITHFULLY and DILIGENTLY following a system designed to get her a CERTAIN type of client…. for DEFINITELY over a year, and I am thinking it’s been AT LEAST 18 months. Any client yet? Nope. Not yet. She’s going back
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THE SECULAR RELIGION OF AMERICAN WOMEN IS IN JEOPARDY.
Once upon a time, in a land we all know and love, women FOUGHT for independence. To think independently, bank independently, live independently, earn independently, love independently… And it wasn’t an EASY fight. There are times when I am guilty of too easily forgetting — even dismissing — how HARD this fight must have been.
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Sponsor Saturday: For The PAINS That Sometimes Come With Being a Woman Entrepreneur
Think aspirin and ibuprofen can’t be made better… and made into a business? Think again! This is EXACTLY what Josh and Tony Breeden did with b+b products! Josh and Tony Breeden grew up in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. At the height of the recession in 2009, Tony founded Ole Smoky Moonshine and Whiskey to
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The Four Key Principles Behind How I Write To Sell Without Feeling (or sounding) Clunky, Awkward, or Forced
People often ask me how I write the way I do… How I can “unleash” the message the way I do, and as OFTEN as I do, (daily) and how seemingly unrelated “topics” EFFECTIVELY SELL… whatever it is I’m selling that day. The answer is simple, but also a BIG FAT CONTRADICTION. In order to
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They Call Me Psychic, Even Though They Know I Reject That Term.
ANYWAY, HERE’S HOW I “KNOW” THINGS: I am often referred to as incredibly “intuitive,” Four people have literally said I’m the “most psychic person they know.” Even though they KNOW even the TERM “psychic” freaks me out. =) But, I admit… I DO tend to KNOW things… to SEE things that others don’t… or, in
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