How many times in your business have you heard, "You need to choose a niche"? While nearly everyone talks about the benefits of a niche and that they need to find theirs:
I am a real estate business coach.I have worked with hundreds and hundreds of clients over the past 7 years, and, you know what?Something has changed with most of my clients' businesses over the past few years.<
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Many internet business owners aren’t business owners at all. They’re knowledge collectors.
You’ve probably heard people say, “Just take action.”
I’ve given this advice also at times.
But there is one major problem with this advice. It’s not just taking
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My email subscribers received a special gift this week. As one of my blog readers, I also want to give you something (although not the full package the email subscribers received).
Recently I did an interview with Daniel Levis about how to grow your customer and prospect lists four to seven times
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Are you building a list of email subscribers on your blog?
If not, why not?
Even though RSS (Really Simple Syndication) usage is growing, you’ll still find a majority of your readers prefer email (unless you’re in a very technical market).
You have probably heard, “The money is i
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The August Monthly Mentor Club print newsletter is being sent out on August 11th at 9 AM Eastern. If you want to get this issue, you have to be subscribed before then…
This month I’m covering the 5 ways to do in depth research on your market. The person who knows their market the [...]
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I’ve been running my current intern program since the beginning of the year and it has been a wild success. Every week I’m getting messages from interns who have completed the program, thankful for everything they’ve learned throughout it.
At times I’ve been asked which proc
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I love running an internet business because of the lifestyle and freedom.
My normal work schedule is Monday through Thursday. Sometimes I’ll check email or finish a project Friday morning, but Fridays are normally part of my long weekends.
This week I’ve left for the north Georgia mount
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Sad news has reached me that my long-time coaching colleague, Susan Race, died suddenly last week.
Suze was a “bright light,” constantly optimistic and smiling. Her huge smile could light up a room and she had a way of encouraging you to follow your dream that left you feeling empowered
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In Technology Review’s article, Social Networking is not a Business, they ask some hard questions about the future of the social networking industry, especially it’s profitability.
The National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship says this about the article,
The articles note that social netwo
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Good news!
We have moved our blog location to a new home!
All my past blog entries have been moved to the new blog home, re-categorized for easy reading, and I’ve also included a “search” feature so you can find the information you need.
A few months ago, I decided to move my blog
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When marketing your business part of your strategy has got to be getting the word out to the general public.
Online classified ads are a great way to market your products and services, including events. There are several to choose from, including Craig’s List, OLX, and Bernardo’s List to
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Creating Small Business Websites That Grab Attention
begins July 17
Is your website giving you the results you want?
Your website can be a wonderful marketing and educational tool. But what makes a small business owner's website great?
Whether you design your own site — or hire someone to do
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Okay, I admit it. I’m a social networking newbie. LinkedIn, Facebook…totally new territory to me. I have a profile on LinkedIn and have lots of contacts there, but I didn’t know what my options were for really using this service.
Enter my friend Julie. She has over 500 contacts on
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Everyone seems to be talking about the poor economy these days. Recently, I was having a conversation with someone who serves the business community as a consultant. We agreed that this kind of cyclical economy "weeds out" those businesses who aren't strong enough to survive the storm. This i
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When is the last time you did something purely for your own enjoyment? As busy business people, we sometimes get caught up in the notion that we don't have time to do the things that make us truly happy. It's a fallacy; we DO have enough time. We each have the same 24 hours in [...]
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Sometimes we get so bogged down in the "doing" that we forget about who we're "being". As a coach, it's my role to help people gain clarity on how they are showing up in their life and their business. It's one thing to manage the time you spend on task oriented business-building; it's quite an
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Our favorite hometown restaurant has closed its doors.
No warning signs, no thank-you to all the loyal patrons who made it a weekly, if not daily stop. Even the newspaper reporters can't tell us what happened, or why they closed. The restaurant had been owned by the same family for several decad
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Every thriving business leader I know has one trait in particular which results in tremendously successful ventures. Can you guess what it is? It's focus. And it's not uncommon to struggle with giving a project the focus that will bring it to completion.
Here are 10 tips to bring focus to a pr
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Yesterday, someone took advantage of me. A customer came into my business nation and took advantage of me. And, I’m sure you know the type… the person who is ultimately looking for something for nothing. In this case, this person ended up getting a few somethings for nothing from me.
And
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I had a great conversation with a colleague last night. We were talking about marketing, business, and how he has been able to build his practice - his next adventure is into the world of internet marketing.
We got on the subject of how healing arts practitioners and holistic business owners view m
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I’ve been having some really deep conversations with healing arts practitioners and holistic business owners lately. We’ve been talking about business - what we like, what we hate… we’ve been talking about what it takes to get your business generating a full-time income. And
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When I’m asked what the #1 marketing tactic is that I use for my business, hands down, it’s my newsletter. And in addition to that, it’s having subscribers to my newsletter. 90 to 95% of my sales come from people who subscribe to my newsletter. And that is because, through my newsl
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I am honored to be hosting the 150th edition of the Carnival of Healing. You can read all about the 3rd anniversary of this Carnival from last week's host " and Carnival Owner " Phylameana.
Phyl's blog rocks, so definitely check it out.
This week, we have awesome entries " enjoy!
Self Improvement
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I am honored to be hosting the Carnival of Healing again next week. If you would like to submit articles, or join the ranks of fabulous hosts, please go here.
This week, the Carnival is being hosted at Spiral Visions - go check it out. It’s the third anniversary for this Carnival and I am hono
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In our prior post we talked about the importance of intelligent self-interest or selfishness, results, ownership, discipline, people, persistence, focused and ideas.
In our prior posts we talked about the importance of intelligent self-interest or selfishness, measuring results, taking ownership, developing discipline, understand people, being persistence and staying focused.
In our prior posts we talked about the importance of intelligent self-interest or selfishness, measuring results, taking ownership, creating discipline, understanding how to treat people others the way they want to be treated and persisten
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In our prior post we talked about the importance of intelligent self-interest or selfishness, measuring results, taking ownership, implementing discipline and treating people the why they want to be treated.
If you’ve never checked out Chris Pollinger’s blog, you need to. His insights always impress me, and I’m a regular reader. One of his most recent posts is about why he is frustrated with the real estate industry, and it really hit home for me.
In case you didn’t know, the
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After a lengthy wait, the new Localism.com has finally arrived…
After some of the launch day bugs were worked out late last night, the site seems to be running pretty smoothly all things considered. The new face of Localism (a sister site to Activerain.com), is at first look very impressive
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The Christian Real Estate Network has been around for over 6 1/2 years now… But during that time we never opened up our websites or customer base for Christian advertising. That is now changing with our release of a new advertising product for businesses looking to market to an extremely nich
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Ok, Ok… I know what you’re going to say: “Justin, why can’t you just decide on a title for your blog and stick with it?”
As you can see… we are back to using the Christian Real Estate Network title for the blog. I have always had a hard time trying to decide wha
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I wanted to give people that may be new to blogging an idea of what their inbox may look like after a year of blogging. So I compiled a short list of some of the junk emails I receive on nearly a daily basis because of all the social networks, comments, subscriptions, etc… [...]
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