How You Can Use The Lean Startup Idea
It’s easy to agonize over all the little details before we launch a new product, service, or business division. After all, a lot of money, energy, time, and resources are spent between planning and launching. But what if there were a better way to test your concept or...
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10 Tips To Get People To Read Your Emails
Here’s a harsh reality. Your carefully-crafted email is likely to land in the recipient’s Spam folder, or remain unread in the Inbox—unless you do something different. Here are 10 tips to get people to read your emails: Stop the hype. The days of turning on the...
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How to Devise the Right Growth Strategies for Your Business
Before you can devise the right growth strategy for your business, you want to make a commitment to growth and then decide how you are going to do it. In this post we’ll go over a few ideas that might be helpful in figuring out what comes naturally to you. I recently...
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What To Do (and NOT to do) When Growing or Scaling a Profitable Brand
I don’t even have to think about it. Your biggest DO to grow and scale: get your business plan in order! Let’s dispel the misconception that it has to be 75 pages long and contain every single element traditionally required by old school business plan writers. And...
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Put Growth on the Fast Track
I firmly believe that when one of us shatters the ceiling, we need to share how we did it. That's why I turned to supporting business owners after I sold my company for millions of dollars. One of the services I offer to private clients is a 1-on-1 VIP Day. Through...
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Women’s Power of Community
My one BIG epiphany came to me after I sold my business to Bill Gates. That's when I officially retired from the working life—for almost a whole week. I couldn't help myself from getting back into full-time-and-then-some work mode. Why? Because it suddenly dawned on...
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How to Achieve 5 Star Success
During the year prior to selling my photo syndication business to Corbis (a company privately held by Bill Gates) I remember the many nights I sat until midnight or later working on my business plan and the organizational details. It’s a HOW question You want to...
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My Promise To You — A New Chapter Begins For Us Both
It’s been called the tipping point, the breakthrough, and the breakout. It happens when our business graduates to independence and suddenly stands on it own. You can compare it to the day your teenager get a driver's license—your baby is suddenly an adult. Businesses...
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Why is everyone so out of sorts?
As an owner of a company that works with a fantastic team of specialists, things can get pretty busy. From managing the team, to mapping out future growth strategies, to marketing and promotional efforts, my days are filled to the brim. For the past few months I have...
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It’s Lonely at the Top for Women
Women wear bras, so why aren't we more supportive toward each other? For many years I had an issue with women because I felt women didn’t support me. I thought I was alone in that until I figured out that women often don’t support other women in general. And if you...
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Failing Your Way to Success
No exceptions! You need to hear this one. There has been so much feedback about this Podcast that it deserves to be shouted it from the rooftop! What did you think? A few of my favorite comments are below: I am a loyal listener of Unmistakable Creative. As a single...
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Living Intentionally
What Does That Mean: Living Intentionally? Many of us have watched the changes in our country’s leadership with grave concern, and these concerns have unleashed a flood of emotions. From sheer disbelief to outspoken resistance, we’ve each been reacting in our own way....
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How To Be Accountable and Implement Consistently – Clone
Wishing you a fantastic 2017! Perhaps like me, you used some of the downtime over the holidays to get clear on what it is that you want to accomplish this year. Research shows that setting goals and displaying them where you can see them every day increases the...
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Let’s Help Each Other
Let’s Be Clear About A Few Things Clarity leads to breakthrough. Do your goals need a little bit more clarity? What’s most important to you? Please answer these three questions: What are the three main things you want to accomplish this year? How are you going to do...
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Let’s Help Each Other Soar
It’s been a difficult year for many of us. Like me, you may be still feeling the crushing loss of the Presidential election. Not to worry, I won’t make this political. I only wish to share a few thoughts with you about success. The Women’s Code focuses on fostering...
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How To Save The World
My most favorite thing about you is your creativity. Because creativity makes everything better. The world needs a lot of creative solutions now. People are crazy angry, sore winners, disappointed losers, our President-to-be is hostile, and there are angry old white...
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How to Take the Big Leap
Just yesterday I had a great conversation with Bill Hines, a business owner in Texas who was able to score one of seven Uncovery Sessions that I offer each month. Bill said something that profoundly touched me. He said he was ready to stop being a freelancer and...
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How to Break Through Whatever is Eating You
Have you noticed this time of year tends to bring a deeper time of reflection? Deep thoughts, evaluations, and examination of what the year brought. I need to be honest with you. It’s been a tough past six months for me. The beginning of the year was great but then...
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