Happy Thanksgiving, it’s more than going to a another holiday commercial sale. It’s to me about celebrating with friends, family and being grateful. The words in the picture say it all! There are so many people that I am grateful in my life for, people of whom I have learned life lessons from, people mostly who are strangers that have given me a place to live, friends and connections who refer me business and … read more..
What sets you apart from other Event Planners and Services? I asked for ideas, of what do they offer besides their event services, this is what a few people said. For some of us we have added services for some of us we do extra things in-between gigs. I asked this question in a Linkedin Group that I am a member of and found some very creative ideas. Kim Rozell I offer make-up,hair, services … read more..
How do you appreciate your clients and people in your life? We all need each other in order for us to grow, to maintain our businesses and our relationships. When you don’t hear from the people in your business it’s called Silence. This is quite often what our clients often hear from us besides our marketing messages. We aren’t in the world alone, we are meant to be together – as a community keeping … read more..
Learning from our mistakes about not having trust in your relationships are usually are our biggest insights and breakthroughs. I’ve been reading the Speed of Trust by Stephen Covey Jr. It’s been quite insightful and a reminder as I think about what role do I or have I played in my relationships with people and myself about Trust. I am just sharing tips on better ways to communicate and build your Trust muscles. How … read more..
Get Inspired with Heart@Work, a bit of a pun, it works! It’s all about bringing people together. Whether it’s inspirational talks or a Conversational Cafe, came about after discussing it with my Advisory Board some ideas. It has come full circle in how it has all come about. Interesting life is. When or if you are feeling that you are in a debunk or you get depressed and you have not sure where you … read more..
People love new content, tips, how to’s, anything that will help your audience their It’s important to have your own Promotional Strategy… read more..
Do you as a “Heart-Centered Entrepreneurs,” or sometimes called a Social Change Agent? Are you having trouble in getting your message out to the world? When I started Heart@Work..I just finished producing a conference on Kindness to Colleagues in the Workplace, from the response of this conference, it was felt that employees really wanted so changes to have healthier and happier places to work at. Non-profits were willing to do something about it, as … read more..
Here are a few best practices in creating a community for your business or yourself.… read more..
Share your vision by adding some delight in your life. Picture it what you want and it will change… read more..
It seems that our circle of connections are becoming more important to us as the economy has shrunk. Here are 10 best way to rock at networking. More and more people are really finding ways to increase their connection base and to get more visibility. Let people know what you offer and how you may be able to help each other. #1 One of the things that I have been working on as I … read more..
Connecting you to greater possibilities, it means we really want you to be very successful. Success has many various meanings, what is yours? When you imagine can imagine your possibilities, your vision will be BIG. For some people taking their next step is all they have a capacity for. Both are good steps. How you you get to where you want to go? If you don’t step up, then you will? Heart@Work Productions, is … read more..
How often do you say YES? OR do you say NO to opportunities? Every opportunity for a conversation will either advance you in all your relationships or not. Have you ever been in a relationship where you want to help your partner or business, except when you talk to your husband or wife or people in your business they just keep saying NO? Guess what, every time you say no, your opportunities are going … read more..
Have you ever thought of there has to be a better way to grow your business? Imagine the Possibilities to grow your business with Collaboration. … read more..
We all want to be a member of a Tribe or group, do you have a Tribe? When we do we’ll feel understood, this will help us go after or goals and to pursue our dreams. If this is the case, why is it so hard to find a tribe or get one going? Everyone’s tribe is made up of ‘your’ people, meaning there is always a select group of people who will fit … read more..
What are you not doing to retain customers? Here are 14 tips of why you want to retain and keep your customers. The costs of getting new customers The decline of revenue The lack of word of mouth for your promotions A lack of referrals Customers are switching to another business because of better customer service A lack of support or help Customers don’t feel appreciated Not a happy place to be – for … read more..
From these few ideas, you can create your own client stimulus packages, they are great ways to build relationships and get more clients. As an Event Manager and Marketing professional, people are always asking for ways to have more clients. Most of the time you can take a look at what other companies, or verticals are doing and swipe the ideas. Once you do, then you can hire an Event professional to help you. … read more..
My project that I am seeking partners who are ready to collaborate together. My intention is to help us get seed capital for our projects and our businesses… read more..
Without having relationships with people, you will NOT have a successful business or life. Here are 12 ways to develop relationships. It’s been interesting for me that past few months, as I have been traveling, met some great people, supported them the best I can, sometimes I have just relied on the relationships with people I’ve nurtured to help me. Then there are the people who have asked me to help them, in getting … read more..
James Evanow one of my favorite people, he’s doing a series of video messages on his blog about this one is on confidence… read more..
Since I decided not to get gigs for speakers, I put together a talk about some ideas for their marketing.
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Over the past few days I have witnessed how relationships, struggle with money, with communication with each other. How often we jump into the Fears Bucket, right away… read more..
Are you ready to deliver your message out to the world? For some people even very intuitive people they get scared. how many times have you practiced your talk that you want to deliver to an audience, and it’s not perfect yet? We all get scared of doing our next video, or tele-seminar or public speaking engagement or? You want everyone to understand you, as you are talking you’ll get some ahh moments. Can … read more..
Discovering your Key Audience is easier when you use Social Media as it’s ease of use, with a low cost to get started using it and it’s mostly free.… read more..
Social Media Questions how it effects your relationships… read more..
When I have shared a collaboration project like working on the book about Building your Business with Relationships. I didn’t get paid cash for my contribution, what I got was an opporunity to work with Marnie, some media exposure..and I made a few new friends. It was a lot easier to reach #1 on Amazon together rather than doing this solo. What does collaboration mean? When we take action, work with a group of … read more..
We all have a big dreams, it’s just being willing to share it and be it. Even though one of my BIG dreams is Kindness, … read more..
HAPPY DAD’S DAY! May you have a great time spending it with your man in your life, or your dad…I miss mine. All the best to you! From the book Build Your Business by Building Relationships for your business, I was really into what Lisa Rae Preston’s article was about. Stepping into your Destiny. She has a quiz to find out more about stepping into your destiny her Guide to Living Your Dreams. You … read more..
How you get more business by keeping prospects in your sales funnel. They write about how it is important to keep qualified prospects in your pipeline… read more..
How to recession proof your business..wouldn’t we all like this. If you really want to recession proof your business, you’ll want to be surrounded by people where you can bounce off ideas to a few people to can get clear. This is how my Mastermind group was beginning to help me. You really begin to see how you are recession proofing your business. Ever feel like that you aren’t getting as much done as … read more..
You know that you need to get out to network, however 90% of you don’t follow up after meeting people after you have met them this is the secret in growing your business… read more..
Trust is earned. Trust is more valuable than gold. People will pay for it. And if you’re working to earn it now, you’re already creating equity in your relationships.… read more..
Success starts with being empowered – every Entrepreneur needs help in their business.. I am inviting you to join a Mastermind Group, it will Empower you to grow and transform your business and you. Each group has their own theme, for example: Prosperity Marketing Relationship Marketing Transition The right group, is filled with the right people which gives the power to immediately and significantly help you to grow your business. Many people before you … read more..
Be in front of the eyeballs of successful experts who want to build mutually beneficial relationships with entrepreneurs just like you!… read more..
How you can build relationships that build our business. Come into my living room for a bit. I’m working with my mastermind partners, and we’re talking about marketing techniques that are working for us now.,/h2> Pull up a chair. I want to help you find different ways to grow your business through Relationships. I would love to have you join me in the next tele-seminar. Or perhaps you would like to interview me and … read more..
There are many kinds of Entrepreneurs and business owners you’ll want to be sure you work for the right one that fits your values. There are variety of different kinds and ways in which they do business. You want to be sure that you can work within their style. When you decide to work in the Direct Sales arena you want to pick someone that you feel good about, not just because they are … read more..
Are you grateful for everything in your life? If not, is it Gratitude Time for you? Even the times when you say to yourself what the??$%# is going on. Yes, all the time. Even when you feel nothing is moving along for you – or you have so many great ideas and you become unfocused it’s gratitude time. When you’ve been looking for a job for so long and nothing seems to be showing … read more..
If you want more growth in your business or in building up your self-esteem and self-confidence, join my mastermind group… read more..
Ever thought of yourself as Limitless? If you want to become limitless, you need to work on not having limits. One of the things I learned was as long as you tell yourself or say to someone else that you “Can’t” do something. Or if you are in the “No Party” How many times do you tell yourself NO or CAN’T? Think about it. And if someone is telling you NO or Can’t, then … read more..
Self-empowerment means for us to take charge of our own lives to bring about the changes that we want to see in our lives. How do we get empowered?… read more..
Why you want to consider why should you follow your passion or starting your own business. With the job market overflowing with talent, you likely have come to the conclusion that is getting tough out there. We need to become our own free agents. Whether we like it or not. You are not just competing against other professionals, you are competing agains the shifts in the marketplace itself. For example have you noticed that … read more..
On my own journey of doing a self-discovery of who am I? I woke up this morning, knowing that where I am today is perfect. I am starting to fix what I don’t like in my life right now.. Right now, all my experiences are for good, I own that I am a child of God, I can do anything. As I begin to fill myself up, I am discovering that I am becoming … read more..
Create a vision for yourself – whatever it is – own it. I want you to create an amazing life with purpose, passion, power and healing.… read more..
Re-creating you is about re-inventing yourself. What have your own experiences been, when work ends un-expectantly like getting laid off, or you quit or you get fired or relationships end for a variety of reasons. How can you re-create yourself? Your core of who are are is where you need to start, And she’s been on top and crashed and now can teach all of us to discover our pain. It does get deep. … read more..
Ok, you are ready to do something different, but what? Maybe you have always known what you want to do, just not sure where to start..maybe you want to start your own business or maybe you are ready to jump in to add some more excitement in your life. Mostly, we have been taking too much space and not really living our lives. After a long marriage you want to venture onto something else … read more..
We are all presented with challenges and opportunities, that we can either say YES! or not. If they are relationships that are falling apart we need to take time to grieve and pay attention to the ahh moments that we discover for ourselves. They usually pop up when we least expect it. That’s enough about that… As I was writing out my new About Mari-Lyn page for my blog, I realized that I am … read more..
If you are stuck in a rut, let me help. We all need a little help sometimes..it’s nice to have someone that has your heart in mind. … read more..
Communities take many forms. Not just for customers or business communty or if you have an interest group.… read more..
Grassroots is the best way start out.. It’s really about culivating relationships with your customer or people who can refer you.… read more..
Here are 11 ways to create connection evangelists to help you grow your connections. One of the things I have been doing more on a concious level is connecting with people I already know. These are people on Facebook, LinkedIn and who are in my address book. I must confess that I haven’t been that active in staying in touch with people. Yes, I have a few of my closest networking buddies, just haven’t … read more..
Even as a Networking Addict, I am always looking for ways to be better. In the Success Magazine 2011, there are 10 actions we can do today to become better at networking 1. Connect the dots this just means have clear mesaurable goals to help you to get to where you want to go. Write up your main goal and find three ways in which you can achieve it. 2. Never hurts to ask … read more..
Have you noticed lately of all the new tools, I want to share with you some great new tools to help you get noticed and followed.… read more..
The real answer in winning in our customer relationships is about creating more customer loyality, thanking our customers, staying in touch with them, giving them service.… read more..
The Thank you Economy according to Gary Vay Ner Chuk, who wrote the fabulous book Crush It. – His second book is about “The Thank you Economy”..he believes it is much easier now to develop relationships with people via Social Media. Developing relationships is time consuming, by doing the one on one with people, you want to win their hearts and minds. By doing it this way, you’ll gain better and more effective results … read more..
You want to share that you care about other people by being a good nieghbor and friend. It’s not just about getting someone to buy from you.… read more..
I am now a customer and I do refer others to use their services. Why? I am in the relationship business, helping others first.… read more..
Our relationships shouldn’t be taken for granted. How many things have people done for you? … read more..
When you are introduced to a second or third degree connection at least one person personally knows the person. This is how Trust is preserved.… read more..
Why do relationships have to be so challenging? When we think about situations in our life, what communications did we miss or not communicate? Recently, I was asked if I was interested in taking over a Women’s Networking group, since the gal who has been hosting it said she was done. And then all of a sudden a couple more gals said, they wanted to help. I thought great! My intention was that it … read more..
It’s about having a mentoring system, while you learn Network Marketing. I have failed at a few of them myself. … read more..
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members … a heart of grace and a soul… read more..
Word of Mouth usually happens when we experience something wonderful the we want to share it, or if we want to help others… read more..
A Community manager needs to provide leadership and engage in co-operation is also needed. Be a Queen Bee.… read more..
Their role is simply to develop relationships with people and invite people to take a look at what you have to offer. That’s it!… read more..
Watching the mainstream news we do start to feel dis-powered. We become hopeless, tired all the time..it’s time to take our power back. … read more..
The key thing is you need to grow a very connected web of relationships with people, it’s sometimes called a tribe, a community a referral club.… read more..
Get ready to set-up for growth..these next few years between 2012 to 2017 and beyond. It’s time to take your power back.… read more..
The more active you are, the more people will want to engage with you – just ask for help! The Universe will send someone to come help you.… read more..
Nurturing a relationship is better than a loyalty program..anytime for any business. Simply it gives you the opportunity to get to personalize it.… read more..
You your own business, yet you have forgotten about your frustration working in the corp world, yet you run your business like this. … read more..
What is Customer Retention? Maybe the question ought to be why do your readers and customers stay with you? … read more..
The real simple way to measure is how many did you have last year over this current year or count every six months. Why or why not are they returning?… read more..
CTA are using ways to convert your visitors, readers, fans to op-tin to your newsletter or get a FREE report or gift. It’s a way to grow your list.… read more..
By bringing my customers/members together to build a community or tribe for them.It’s called the VIP Sales Club.… read more..
I believe it’s a part of your whole strategy – as you need to think about what business are you really in? Let me tell you, you are in the people business.… read more..
This post is about Got Content? Publish it and I tell you where to go. Be an authority.… read more..
Customer retention is very important in business. A strong relationship with the customer and continues throughout the entire lifetime of a relationship… read more..
Capturing attention in your marketing is about using videos, to reach more people according to Anita Campbell and David Langton. There are several reasons..as Anita Campbell and David Langton have said in their new book “It’s Visual.” Most people learn and retain when it’s visual. And it can boost your business. I was fortunate to receive a copy of their book in my mail box, totally a surprise. They share in their book powerful … read more..
Many people STILL don’t realize that business networking is all about building relationships. Today, I thought it would be appropriate to post a few tips… read more..
Overcoming your prospecting fears forever. This blog post is brought to you by Bonnie Gortier a Wealth & Health Coach. One of the biggest challenges when joining a network marketing company is to find people to join your business opportunity. As your own boss you recognize why selling, sponsoring, and attending training are necessary. If you just stay the course you will be able to sponsor many of the people you meet at group … read more..
An effective elevator pitch makes a lasting impression, demonstrates your professionalism and allows you to position yourself with your target customers… read more..
Call it fall or autumn; it’s a season that somehow easily conjures up change with all the seasonal images, feelings, sounds and tastes. You can’t deny the change. … read more..
Creating a Customer-centric Culture has never been more important in business, than it is today. In this economy and era of incredible competition, … read more..
For some people it’s skydiving and for others it’s the Internet!! Yes, the good old internet with it’s ability to reek havoc within the technology challenged.… read more..
Your customers want to have a long term relationship with you. They want more than just what product or services you are offering, they want to be delighted… read more..
How to get more customers starts by converting your leads into sales. Unfortunately, inquiries soon they become cold and the person on the other end feels rejected and goes somewhere else. Say someone fills out a form from your website and requests more information? A member of your team, sends out a brochure or refers them to a part of your website to get more information. Then what? How many times has someone from … read more..
Many of us including myself we go through times when they are tough emotionally and challenging. The key thing that I have found is just to be kinder to myself.… read more..
Social Media and Kindness blends very well with Relationship Marketing, which became a natural fit for me.… read more..
Many people have found by having a loyalty program has enhanced their business growth. here’s five types of programs you can offer.… read more..
What’s the difference between customer service and retention? A big difference, one your customers return the other one they don’t. This subject came up when a gal was sharing me her experiences while she was in Sedona, for a weekend getaway, some good ones and some not so good. I decided to take my relationship marketing services to a narrower niche of customer retention, particularly businesses in Hospitality. As I was talking to Margo, … read more..
Do your customers/clients little favors – it will build goodwill and trust for a continued long-term relationship with you.… read more..
I pledge to support the “triple bottom line” of environmental, social, and financial responsibility and share this pledge with my colleagues..… read more..
You definitely need a map to why you want to use social media, this is why you need a plan or strategy to follow along to keep you focused.… read more..
how many times people fail to follow up after meeting someone at a networking event. This has amazed me too! I do follow-up even if it is just a quick Thank you.… read more..
You need to refine your business in how it is going to fit into your customers’ mind, to get more customers… read more..
Relationship Marketing goes beyond customer service..it’s how you will retain the customer over the long haul or the lifetime of your business.… read more..
Do you find that people give you excuses not to buy from you? My question is what are you doing to market yourself?… read more..
When you’ve learned the Trust Agents secrets, your words can carry more power and more weight than any PR firm or big corporate marketing department.… read more..
There are a few different kinds.. Marketing, Social, Tribes, Mastermind groups and the like. They are usually groups, where people are in action, they help each other, support each other and sometimes there is a leader that guides them along.… read more..
On July 12th, I did an interview with Shel about some Guerilla Marketing tactics, getting some ideas from him about getting PR … read more..
Here are 17 ways of how to be a successful networker online. If you are involved in business, then you know that networking is essential for your success. With websites like Linkedin, Facebook, Ning and other services it is easier than ever to network online. Unfortunately, most people don’t network. Here are some quick and easy tips to ensure successful networking online. 1) Your number one goal is to get your suspects to look … read more..
Nurture your relationships as it may take anywhere from 3 months to one year to finalize a partnership… read more..
Just like peeling an onion, as leaders address the pressing issues, other issues will surface. With a new understanding of the drivers of health we can ensure that our employees perform at higher levels.… read more..
My favorite Relationship market tools. to help you to be of service to your clients, referral partners, JV partners, the people you are close to… read more..
The more you provide great content of how to’s with your marketing messages you will then have growth. Invest more time in conversations with people, in communities where you hang out… read more..
Marketing isn’t just about using social media, it’s also how you show up networking or doing a one on one call with someone. If you don’t know them personally, if they are strangers to you, people still deserve your kindness.… read more..