Tweet The Zeigarnik Effect and Your Business There is a principle I learned about when I first came online and started writing my own sales copy called the “Zeigarnik Effect.”It was named after Bluma Zeigarnik, a highly respected Russian psychologist and psychiatrist. It all began while she was in a restaurant in Vienna. The waiters […]
Sports and Self-Confidence for the Win!
Tweet Sports and Self-Confidence: How Softball Can Change Your Life While I was a classroom teacher I was always looking for opportunities to make my students feel successful. Many times this occurred as a result of something I presented to them as a challenge, and out of just pure fun for everyone. Softball came under […]
How Do You Show Up in Your Life?
Tweet How Do You Show Up in Your Life? Are you making great efforts in your life? It’s no longer possible to achieve great success in any area of your life by simply doing what is required of you and putting in your time. We are now eighteen years into the new millennium and you […]
How to Harness Creativity as an Entrepreneur
Tweet Harness Creativity and Be More Creative Who knows when that creative spark will strike? It can happen at any time. It often happens in a place where you can’t capture it. However, it is possible to set up yourself for optimal creativity and learn how to harness creativity as an entrepreneur. Until I came […]
Mental Toughness
Tweet Do You Possess the Mental Toughness Required to Succeed as an Entrepreneur? Perhaps I’m suffering from “Olympics Fever”, but I see a lot of similarities between the athletes and entrepreneurs. In order to be a contender, they must practice daily, endure unpredictable conditions, and maintain mental toughness at all times. As an online entrepreneur […]
Living the Mentored Life: What to Expect
Tweet Are You Living the Mentored Life? Having mentors in your life gives you an entirely different perspective on everything you do, as well as opportunities you may not have realized were available to you. My best friend growing up was named “Mentor”, so I knew from an early age this word meant teacher and […]
Embrace Your Fear and Prosper as an Entrepreneur
Tweet Why You Must Embrace Your Fear Franklin Delano Roosevelt was quoted as saying, “…the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” He said these words as a way of comforting a country devastated by a harsh depression. This was part of his inaugural speech for his first term. If you are willing […]
Product Bonuses – Are You a Generous Marketer?
Tweet Where Do You Stand on Product Bonuses? I’ve been online for twelve years now – starting in 2006 – and have learned a thing or two during this time as an online marketing strategist and entrepreneur. One thing that stuck with me from the very beginning and continues to be effective for me today […]
Lizard Brain Syndrome – Do You Care What Others Say?
Tweet Is Your Lizard Brain Holding You Back in Life? At some point or another, we’ve all worried about what someone else is going to think of something we do or say. It’s natural, and in part, it stems from our “lizard brain”—that part of the brain we all have that is primitive and is […]
Sleep and Productivity: The Entrepreneur’s Connection
Tweet The Connection Between Sleep And Productivity Getting the proper amount of sleep each night results in you being more alert and productive each day. Just look at the ways that getting enough sleep can improve your performance. Entrepreneurs tend to burn the candle at both ends on a regular basis, so sleep and productivity […]
How to Motivate Others by Knowing Their Dreams
Tweet Can You Motivate Others by Knowing Their Dreams? Ask someone what they dream about, and you have a window to their soul. If you can help them attain their dreams, they will follow you to the end of the earth. You will give them what they want and achieve what you need at the […]
Do You Believe in Yourself?
Tweet If you’re someone who doesn’t believe in yourself, you may have reached a point in your life where you simply accepted that’s simply the way it is. You might have the desire to change but it’s quickly stifled – because that would require a belief that change is possible, and you don’t see any […]
Persuasion Techniques in Your Online Business
Tweet Using Persuasion Techniques to Your Advantage If you have ever been in the position of attempting to get a child to do something they do not want to do, you are most likely already a master of persuasion techniques. Where this comes into play in your business as an online entrepreneur is when you […]
Visualization for Entrepreneurs
Tweet Visualization for Entrepreneurs Has Merit Having just completed a book entitled Rethinking the Work Ethic: Embrace the Struggle and Exceed Your Own Potential it’s been on my mind that our inner game is what guides us closer to or further away from the goals and aspirations that are important to us. There are strategies […]
How to Become Focused as an Entrepreneur
Tweet Why is being focused so important in today’s world? What results happen when you learn how to become focused? Does being focused make you less stressed? Happier? If it’s so important, why don’t people focus more? When you understand how to become focused on one thing for a certain period of time this allows […]
Success Tips for Entrepreneurs: You Can Do It!
Tweet Since coming online as an entrepreneur in 2006 I’ve made a study of successful people and what they do to achieve and maintain ongoing success. The success tips I want to share with you here are based on my informal, non-scientific research, as well as on the results I have been able to achieve […]
Connie Ragen Green – My Theme for 2017
Tweet Do you have a theme for yourself and your business for 2017? The first person I knew who chose a word for each year was Mari Smith. We met in 2009 while we were both speaking at a marketing event and I was taken by her choice of the word Influence for that year. […]
Positive Attitude: Maintaining This Mindset No Matter What
Tweet Maintaining a Positive Attitude I’ve been referred to as a “Pollyanna”, a term taken from the title character in a 1913 novel written by Eleanor H. Porter. This girl was an orphan who insists on maintaining a positive attitude and outlook on life despite her circumstances. There is even something known as the “Pollyanna […]
Doing What It Takes in Life and Business
Tweet Are You Willing to Do What It Takes? I regularly share that I spent the first fifty years of my life living in mediocrity. By this I mean that over those five decades I seldom did more than simply exist. Yes, once in awhile I did something over and above what was expected or […]
Fear of Success and Failure in Life and Business
Tweet Do You Have the Fear of Success or Failure? I grew up in a family based on the principle of fear. There was fear of the dentist, fear of flying, fear of being embarrassed, and basically, fear of failure. This precluded us from trying most things, as the probability of failure increases with each […]
Taking Risks for Entrepreneurs
Tweet Taking Risks in Life and in Business When I worked actively in real estate over a twenty year span during the eighties and nineties I developed a reputation for being a risk taker. Always one to have a positive outlook on life, it was not unusual for me to purchase the ugliest and most […]
Marketing For Introverts in an Extrovert Friendly World
Tweet Marketing for Introverts When you think about marketing for introverts, what comes to mind? I have always considered myself to be an introvert, although I am perhaps actually an ambivert, which falls somewhere in between the extrovert and introvert personality. But here I’d like to open up the discussion of marketing for introverts, simply […]
Focus on One Thing for Extraordinary Results
Tweet How to Focus on One Thing There is great power in having the ability to focus on one thing for an extended period of time. I was first introduced to this concept in 2005 when I was introduced to a concept referred to as the “68 second rule”. The idea was to sit quietly […]
Productivity and Your Brain
Tweet If you’ve noticed a connection between your productivity and your brain power, you’re not alone. Brain fog and a feeling of lethargy can spell trouble for anyone, especially entrepreneurs who need to stay sharp and focused in order to achieve their goals. If it’s true that we are what we eat, then it only […]
Technology and the Economy
Tweet If you Google the name Seth you will find that Seth Godin’s blog and some of his other sites are returned as six of the results on page one. That’s huge, and if you don’t believe me then Google your own first name and see what Google returns for you. I usually read his […]
Making The Shift From Employee To Entrepreneur
Tweet Making The Transition From Employee to Entrepreneur Recently I spent time with a group of newer entrepreneurs in a workshop setting. As we sat together that afternoon the conversation turned to the idea of connecting with a non-profit group as a way to network with others. I’m a Rotarian (Rotary is an international service […]
Team Building Techniques for Entrepreneurs
Tweet Effective Team Building Techniques Even though I work alone as an online entrepreneur, the truth is that I couldn’t do what I do without the help of other people. These people are part of my team, and I value each one of them for what they bring to my business. Teams rise and fall […]
Your Best Year Ever – 2016
Tweet Your Best Year Ever – 2016 – Is Coming Up Soon Today I’d like to share how you can make 2016 your “Best Year Ever” and to discuss the goal setting and achieving techniques and strategies that have enabled me to change my life dramatically over these past ten years. Much of this is […]