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April

11 2017

How to Bounce Back After a Disappointment

Disappointment is something that we ALL have to deal with, whether in our personal or professional life, we WILL be disappointed. As a business owner, entrepreneur, coach or consultant who takes risks and steps out of your comfort zone on a regular basis, you will probably experience more disappointment than the average person because you are constantly putting yourself out there. However, you can’t let the fear of disappointment stop you from pursuing your dream, because it’s not about the disappointment, it’s about how you bounce back after you have been disappointed.

Here are three areas in which you will probably experience disappointment, and how to bounce back from that disappointment.

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February

07 2017

How facing your fears can drastically increase your business

As an entrepreneur or business owner, there are some aspects of building a business that will be very intimidating. This will differ for each person depending on your personality, but in most cases overcoming those fearful aspects can help you increase your business by leaps and bounds. In this blog post I am taking a look at five common fears that business owners should overcome in order to be successful:

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October

05 2016

9 Types of Events You Can Host to GROW Your business

I recently wrapped up my annual event Purpose, Profit and Passion. The event focused on women living on purpose, with passion and creating, starting, or growing a profitable business. For the second year in a row, the event was well received and I received sooo much feedback and encouragement to continue to do it again in 2017.

As I mentioned in my blog post, This ONE Marketing Strategy can GROW your business by leaps and bounds, hosting business events can be a really great marketing strategy. It can help you create brand awareness, promote your business, and become more visible in your community.

Here are 9 Types of Events you can host to GROW your business:

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Posted by Nadine Mullings | Comments Off | in Business, Business Events, Marketing

September

06 2016

The Top 3 Powerful Online Appointment Scheduling Tools

The right tools can be very helpful in making your business more efficient and effective. In my series Essential Marketing Tools, I discussed an easy and affordable tool to get more traffic to your blog and the world’s easiest email marketing system.

A new tool that I have started using this year that has helped me to be more productive and has saved me time is an online scheduling tool that syncs to my calendar. An online scheduling tool saves you the hassle of the back and forth when it comes to scheduling appointments, meetings, conference calls, demos, etc.

However, before I decided on the tool I am using now, I did a lot of research and noticed that 3 online scheduling tools kept coming up, Acuity, ScheduleOnce and Calendly, so in this post, I compare the three most popular online scheduling tools, and share with you the reason why I selected ScheduleOnce.

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August

15 2016

This ONE Marketing Strategy can GROW your business by leaps and bounds

As a business owner, coach or consultant, you probably know the importance of MARKETING your business in order to GROW your business. However, there are 1,001 ways to market your business, so how do you know what will work BEST for your business without wasting a lot of time and money?

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Posted by Nadine Mullings | Comments Off | in Business, Business Events

June

23 2016

3 Reasons You Should Use The World’s Easiest Email Marketing System

Selecting the right tools for your business can really make a difference in the success of your business. Tools can help you to accomplish sooo much, so it’s important to select the right ones.

A key tool that you will need if you plan to use Email Marketing in your marketing mix is an Email Marketing Service Provider (ESP). This service allows you to send mass emails, track your results, automate and schedule your messages, and so much more. There are many ESP systems on the market, and I love to research tools and figure out what is going to work best for my business. So in the series, Essential Marketing Tools, I am highlighting the ESP tool I use that helps me to stay organized and consistent with my marketing effort.

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Posted by Nadine Mullings | Comments Off | in Business, Email Marketing, Marketing for Coaches, Marketing for Consultants

June

09 2016

4 Stages of Growing Your Business that I learned from My 3 Yr Old Nephew

I officially started my business in January 2012, and my nephew was born a year later on January 31, 2013. As I watch my nephew grow up, I realized that the first few years of a child’s life is similar to the first few years of the growth of a business. In this blog post I will share the four stages of growing a business that I learned from my 3 yr old nephew.

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Posted by Nadine Mullings | Comments Off | in Business, Business Development, Small Business

April

28 2016

4 Powerful Habits That Can Help You Achieve More

Most of the time my blog posts are focused on Marketing strategies. Strategies you can use in your business to get more business, but today’s blog post is focused on one of the biggest assets in your business – YOU!

When running a business, it is important to take time out and take care of yourself on a daily basis, and a helpful way to make sure that this happens is to incorporate self-help habits in your daily routine.

For me, I have four powerful habits that I include in my daily routine every morning. Some habits I have been practicing for years, and others I have just added into my routine recently.

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April

14 2016

Is Email Marketing Dead?

I remember it like it was yesterday, it was 1998 and businesses were just starting to use this new thing called web-based email. I was working for a financial institution and we were using an AOL email address for business until the IT Department declared that we must use the new corporate email addresses.

In the beginning email was very much considered just a way to communicate with staff and vendors via the Internet. It was mainly used to communicate with other employees internally and a handful of vendors or partners.

However, a couple of years later email started to be considered a viable marketing communication channel for businesses. A way for businesses to communicate with customers and prospects.

Now fast forward almost 20 years later, and email is still an integral part of business communication, but some have been questioning whether it is still a viable marketing channel. Hence the question, “Is Email Marketing Dead?”

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Posted by Nadine Mullings | Comments Off | in Business, Email Marketing

April

07 2016

Why You Shouldn’t Build Your Email List

Email Marketing is one of the B.E.S.T. modern marketing strategies and one that I always recommend for coaches, consultants, and service business owners.

However, having an effective email marketing strategy can be challenging. One of the key pieces of your email marketing puzzle is your email list. If you don’t have a list, then you won’t have anyone to send emails to, no one will read your emails, and you will never get any sales through email, so it is very important to build your email list.

However, you shouldn’t build your email list until you have an email marketing plan. Many people make the mistakes of building a list and then they don’t have a strategic email marketing plan that will allow them to get business from their email marketing.

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