Archive for the 'Business Goals' Category

10 “Mini-Vacations” for The Workaholic Entrepreneur

By Melanie Benson Strick | July 6th, 2010

When I was in corporate America, it was so easy to take a vacation – I was getting paid for it! As an entrepreneur, I find months slip away and I’m still going full speed ahead. “Who’s got time for a vacation?” is a phrase I hear often from my clients and friends.
What is [...]

Why We Resist Planning (and 4 Plans that Result in Big Pay Days)

By Melanie Benson Strick | June 9th, 2010

It happened again.
A great idea just dropped in.
It’s the big one.
The one that will generate MILLIONS and make a big splash on the industry!
You jump in and start working on it. You share your idea with your team and everyone is furiously burning the midnight oil to get this program up and running [...]

A Three Step System For Making The Right Decisions

By Melanie Benson Strick | June 1st, 2010

What if you had a sure fire system for making really good decisions – how much more successful would you be?
Some of the decisions I see entrepreneurs repeatedly make poor decisions around are:
- Where they spend their time
- What opportunities to say yes to
- What clients they should work with
- What team members best align [...]

Turning Breakdowns into Powerful Breakthroughs

By Melanie Benson Strick | May 4th, 2010

Its one of “those days” when…
Your assistant forgets to send the “welcome package” to your brand new program enrollees. Ten withdrawals happen within the day.
The product launch is behind by two weeks and when you finally go live your site goes down.
You spend months planning an amazing live retreat for 100 people – 25 show [...]

Is Bigger Really Better?

By Melanie Benson Strick | March 2nd, 2010

Over the last few years I’ve noticed a growing fascination in the business community with “bigger.” Growing a mailing list of 10,000, 50,000 or even 100,000 followers. Amassing hundreds and thousands of clients. Achieving a million (or even a billion) dollars in revenue. Conquering a niche. But is bigger really better? Have you ever stopped to wonder what the cost for achieving bigger is? What you might have to give up?

Diversify or Focus: The Sand Pail Approach to Stable Income

By Melanie Benson Strick | January 14th, 2010

Do you have all your revenue eggs in one basket? It’s the classic situation many entrepreneurs find themselves in – and it’s a precarious place to operate your business from.
If you have one big client, one main offering or one key industry that provides you most of your revenue, then you have left yourself [...]

Picking a Success Mentor to Accelerate your Results

By Melanie Benson Strick | December 15th, 2009

Jason read an article somewhere about how hiring a mentor who had demonstrated significant success could help short-cut his path and eliminate the frustration of doing the wrong things so he began the process of searching for a success coach.

Leveraging Your Way to Six Figures with Teleseminars

By Melanie Benson Strick | December 9th, 2009

Join me on December 16th, 2009, at 4 pm PT as I interview Bob Jenkins,
also known as ‘Bob The Teacher.’
Have you hosted teleclasses but didn’t get great results? What if you could regularly achieve five and six figure paydays by teaching what you do best from your phone?
Bob Jenkins is going to share how he [...]

Leaping From Secretary to CEO and Creating a Thriving Authentic Business

By Melanie Benson Strick | November 11th, 2009

Join me on November 18th , 2009, at 4 pm PT as I interview Tina Forsyth, author of Becoming an Online Business Manager.
Struggling with how to create a business that lets you enjoy your life and be profitable? Feel like you have to give up your magic in order to experience real success? What if [...]

Can Messy Delegation Actually Pay Off?

By Melanie Benson Strick | July 16th, 2009

Have you ever tried your best to get things off your plate…only to realize you had a made a HUGE mess? Or worse yet, the person you relied on had made a massive mistake and all your best efforts to hand things off went down the proverbial toilet?
Ah…the joys of team building. These kinds of [...]