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3 Reasons Entrepreneurs and Businesspeople Should Soar and Sting

by The Obvious Expert on September 30, 2009

Lesson one: Never look at the appearance of a consumer, business prospect, or client and assume he or she won’t be willing to pay your price.

Tagged as: building business, bumblebee, bumblebees, business building, business marketing, business prospect, businesspeople, Consultant, consultants, consumer business, entrepreneur, entreprenurs, strong points, urban myth, visionaries, visionary

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Grab a Part out of the Dishwasher, Stuff it in a Purse and Become a Powerful Business Leader and Advocate

by The Obvious Expert on August 24, 2009

Success Magazine calls her a “One Woman Brand” and “Creativity and Innovation Guru”. Entrepreneur Magazine says she is a leading “Serial Entrepreneur” and compared her to Walt Disney and Benjamin Franklin.

Tagged as: benjamin franklin, businesspeople, creativity and innovation, entrepreneur magazine, fox news, jen groover, Obvious Expert, purse, serial entrepreneur, small busines, success magazine, television appearances, walt disney, working mom

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Social Media Road Kill

by The Obvious Expert on August 3, 2009

The amazing tools of social media, from Facebook, to Twitter, YouTube, Linked-In, and of course, blogging, (along with others) will help you connect, communicate, and build relationships …They can also turn clients into adversaries and total strangers into your lifelong enemies.

Tagged as: blogging, businesspeople, client relationships, coaches, Consultant, consultants, consumers, entrepreneurs, facebook, image brand, linkedin, media tools, personal site, profession, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, social networking, twitter

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Easy Way to Get Cash into Your Business or Consulting Practice

July 24, 2009

But an often overlooked option is to get money from your clients and customers in advance of work, service, or goods you will be providing to them. Instead of going to a lender to borrow money against the income you anticipate in the future, why not skip that step and try to get your hands on that future income now?

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To Improve Your Social Media Marketing, Break Mirror Now

July 19, 2009

Using social media marketing is very important to your business. But taking the wrong advice, without thinking things through and checking them out, is tantamount to breaking a mirror in the event of a gas leak. Not only will it do nothing to alleviate the gas leak (real or imaginary), but it is a waste of time, effort, a perfectly good mirror, and it could even lead to seven years of bad luck. Social media marketing done badly probably does more damage than failing to do any at all.

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Game Plan for Entrepreneurs and Businesses in a Troubled Economy

July 8, 2009

And even if you were an eighteen-year-old entrepreneurial prodigy in 1930, today you are a 97-year-old entrepreneurial legend who hasn’t been through an economic depression during a time when the business is built or broken by relational marketing on the internet.

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The 5 Types of People Who Will Buy What You Sell

July 2, 2009

But no matter what type of business you are in or what goods or services you offer, all of the people with whom you interact are really a consumer on some stage of his or her developmental journey that hopefully leads to a long, happy relationship with you.Your job is to be the Sherpa, with the task of leading, herding, cajoling, inspiring, and enticing them to continue along the path.

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When Your Business Means More than Money

June 30, 2009

It is hard not to focus on the bottom line. If you are a sole practitioner, a consultant, a coach, small business person, or entrepreneur, it can be really stressful when the only boss who can give you a raise is you, and as your own chief financial officer, you have to tell yourself, “No, the business just can’t afford it.”

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Can You Get Your Brand into the Dictionary

June 29, 2009

The reason blogs and websites directed toward business people, consultants, entrepreneurs, and coaches, are using the phrase obvious expert as part of their vernacular is because it is one of, if not the, best descriptor ever conceived for conveying what it takes to be the top of the mind, go-to, specialist in your field.

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More about “The Call of the Entrepreneur”

June 25, 2009

Their insights are truly remarkable and may very well change FOREVER the way you look at your own career as a coach, consultant, entrepreneur, or bold businessperson.

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