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Do You Want 3 Networking Secrets?

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Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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Do You Want to Know 3 Networking Secrets?Just what is networking and how can we make it work for our businesses?

Our business purpose for networking is to have a unique opportunity to meet and socialize with other “like-minded” and successful business owners and entrepreneurs as we…

–          Expand our circles of influence.

–          Give and receive referrals.

–          Gain visibility, credibility, and expert status at what we do.

–          Build Relationships.

–          Ask questions that help us understand what our ideal prospect is struggling with and congratulating them on their successes that they share.

This then is us getting to really know and understand our target audience even more.

  • In reality, networking is about making a difference in the lives of others

Making connections to further our sales success is what we do regularly as a business owner.

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Positioning Your Unique Business

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Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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Business PositioningWe all know, starting our own business leads us to learn more about some kind of marketing and selling along the way.

But most of us struggle with how to let others know what we do without sounding like a used car salesman. And, as Internet marketers we want to avoid using hype.

Getting our information out there, being visible and bringing trustworthiness to our business can be frustrating, overwhelming and feel like a struggle, which usually results in very few clients and less income than we had hoped for.

  • It doesn’t have to be that way!

Understanding Our Positioning Challenge and Using Positioning as part of our own solution…

  • Is how we stay on top of the minds of our clients.

What are some positioning strategies?

Assuming we already know what our target audience wants, we begin to… Read more →

Missing These 3 POWER Tools?

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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unsureHave you ever heard someone talk about what they do, but not really understood what they did?

That’s why our introduction needs to hook, really grab, our ideal clients’ attention and instantly communicate our value in solving their problem. Making them want to hear more.

  • It’s what we will use offline and online to let people easily know who we help, how we help them, and why they should work with us.

Say you are at a networking event, how do you grab the interest of a prospective client?

  • I could say something like – I’m a Business Mentor and Internet Marketing Coach, helping small businesses with their marketing. Here’s how I do that…

These words sound great at first, but the focus of this statement is on service, titles, and processes. People care about what’s in it for them. They don’t care about our industry title, or how we run our business. Read more →

3 Tips To Creating New Clients

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Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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3 Ideas for getting new clientsI have always admired those entrepreneurs who knew how to assist their target audience, their prospects, with the intelligence of understanding and caring about their prospective clients and make clear the solution to getting their problems solved.

These pros come across as not just looking for a sale.

As a businessperson we form a relationship with each prospect that we come in contact with – not just trying to sell them. But creating an excellent experience, they’ll remember.

  • We all understand that people need, want, and desire to feel special.

Finding interested prospects is a part of our daily routine to grow our businesses and is one the most important actions we can take to maximize our business success.

So learning just how to find and build those relationships?

  • It is a daily practice that we always need to grow.

I am pretty certain that we all need a strong plan for effective prospecting.

==> Great marketers feel that nothing else really matters!

1. Without speaking with enough people on a consistent basis, and…

–         Understanding their wants,

–         Developing rapport,

–         Making a friend,

–         Getting permission to explore what’s missing in our prospects’ world,

–         Creating rich value, and

–         Passing along our unshakable belief in the complete success of those who buy our products or services…

We’ll have an inconsistent sales strategy and prospecting strategy, ending up in disappointment for our business.

What will dramatically impact our success and profits?

  • Having a consistent prospecting and sales strategy ~ Resulting in higher profits for us

2. Then we begin forming a relationship with each prospect that we come in contact with – not just trying to sell them.

I know now that our prospect must always be the star of the show.

  • Understanding their feelings, thoughts, and motives, then putting ourselves into our prospect’s shoes is at the center of target marketing.

We can develop the skill of contacting and guiding our clients to what they want from us.

==> When we do that, we will start getting the sales.

3. Helping our clients get what they want.

Connecting is us helping our prospective clients see the solution for themselves, so that they will want to hire us.

It does go back to really, really knowing our clients – What they want and our solutions.

  • And, the outcomes of these solutions for them…

Being consistent, and successful in prospecting is vital to business success.

If we’re not paying proper attention to the new opportunities available, the sales funnel health of our business will decline and so goes business.

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5 Easy Steps to Becoming an Email Marketer

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Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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5stepsWe’ve all know the buzz about email marketing and how cost-efficient and easy it is to do.

Sharing your value takes a lot of communication as well as applying your compelling marketing message and content.

  • E-mails are a good way to communicate your value to prospective clients and current clients.

What are the right steps for email marketing?

Have compelling emails to your list of customers and prospects that want to hear from you and have given you permission to contact them.

1. But, how do you get a list to send emails to? Read more →

3 Tips to Become an Email Marketing Superhero

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Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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Email SuperheroThere must be a reason why email marketing is still the most effective and profitable way to turn prospects into customers.

What is your email marketing strategy?

We all know and feel that our information and services are useful, important, unique, beneficial, but no one will notice if you can’t effectively explain and show how their value exceeds their price.

Demonstrating your value takes a lot of communication as well as applying systematic marketing standards for your business.

YOU CAN implement strategies that WILL make a difference in your email marketing results for relationship building, branding, and develop a responsive list that accelerates your online marketing success.

Want to be an Email Marketing Superhero?

Yes? Then read on for Superhero steps… Read more →

5 Secrets of Infomarketing

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info marketingFrom the moment you begin researching ways to make money online, you hear infomarketing, over and over again.

One of the hottest ways to make money online is through the power of content marketing through your blogging, Social Media, and article marketing.

You need great, informative, content.

But, first, you need to know why content so important on the Internet and especially your blog and article marketing.

Why is Content Crucial? Read more →

Ebooks Are a Marketing Strategy

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Why write an ebook?Again, why write an ebook?

 Your content in the way of an ebook usually suggests ways your prospective clients can use your expertise, products or services.

Ex: A dog trainer writes about how to use a certain collar in training your dogs more easily, they would also want to include a link to their dog collar product sales page.

An ebook helps you focus on the one or more things you do better and then share it with everyone else because ebooks (in PDF format) are:

  • For content marketing – letting your ideal prospective clients know more about what your expertise is in your busines
  •  Going to help you put it on your blog / web site to be a big part of building your list. Using your ebook as a give away in exchange for emails and names.
  • Going to have the benefits of having a library of ebooks is that these help spread your message for every stage of your growing business. Rather you sale them or give them as gifts of enticement.

PDF-style ebooks are easy to put together… Read more →

3 Reasons to Create Your Irresistible Ebook

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ebooks marketingInformation marketing is all about providing helpful content to attract new business, right?

It makes sense that you can generate more interest, more subscribers and sales when you show off your expertise with ebooks.

Yet, many people I’ve visited with have the erroneous beliefs;

  • That if they find a market with too many competitors why would they write an ebook for that audience (which may also be their targeted group).
  • And, Small Business Leaders who work with a company that offers a web site to send their target audience to, feel the same. Why should I write an ebook, when they can get all the info they need.

To the contrary, competition and getting your information to your audience in a personal way, can be beneficial for a variety of reasons including…

1. Researching. If there IS a lot of competition, you can reasonably expect your business to be part of a lucrative marketplace. Read more →

2 Keys to Marketing & Sales

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Marketing and SalesStarting your own business does lead to marketing and selling.

And if you are anything like most of us, you may struggle with how to let others know what you do without sounding like a used car salesman.

Getting your information out there can be frustrating and sometimes a bit uncomfortable

  • Which usually results in very few clients and less income then you had hoped for.

Because what often happens is as you try to step up and stand out, you feel the
tightening around your throat and a dryness in your mouth when you hear that
fateful question you know is coming, “What do you do?”

These are 2 Keys that can increase your successes and your income.

Key #1 – Get Intentional

You are always marketing your business, which means you’re trying to poke into your prospect’s consciousness.

What happens when you decide to be on purpose in your business? Read more →