Category: Business Strategy
Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - January 27, 2012 - Business Strategy, Leadership Strategies, Success Strategies
Anita said that what saved The Body Shop over and over was their willingness to recognize what wasn’t working and quickly identify a new way to approach a problem. This is a crucial strategy because everyone who starts a business is going to face challenges. Things never work out exactly as intended and creativity will play a key role in enabling a new business owner to conquer daily battles. If you don’t come up with alternative solutions, your dreams will die.
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - January 24, 2012 - Business Strategy
After talking with my friend Jenna (name changed to shield her real identity) I knew that the feeling I felt deep inside was real. Everything was changing in our industry – and I wasn’t the only 7 figure business owner who was experiencing an evolution that meant changing everything. A revelation had occurred to me, [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - October 18, 2011 - Business Strategy
Two years ago I was coaching a client who was significantly in debt, had a service-based business that took him 80 hours a week to run, and was so stressed out trying to grow his business that he had stomach ulcers and slept about 4 hours a night. Of course I started running the numbers [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - September 30, 2011 - Business Strategy
Laying on the floor sobbing, curled in the fetal position, the reality sank in that everything Martin had worked so hard for was gone. His trust had been violated, his life savings that he invested with his partner in an overseas venture, spent. Now what? Martin Howey, President of TopLine Business Solutions, realized as painful [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - August 26, 2011 - Business Strategy, Marketing
by Guest Expert, Sheri McConnell As you look at the map of the Infinity Business Model, you should take notice that your marketing is always in movement. Your marketing is also a combination of free strategies and activities and paid ones that your customers invest in, to expand and take big leaps. You should also [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - August 16, 2011 - Business Strategy, Mindset
As an entrepreneur we are trained to focus on results – make more money, get more clients, sell more products, and achieve more recognition. It becomes easy to let these hard numbers dictate our daily levels of success, happiness, and even survival. In order to get more results, many of us condition ourselves to rise [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - June 27, 2011 - Business Strategy
I’m just back from spending four days in the desert with the Motley Mastermind (a self-appointed name for a group of entrepreneurs all making big money with their big ideas on the internet.) Amidst the cutting-edge social media and SEO (search engine optimization) techniques that I was learning something very fascinating came out of this [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - June 21, 2011 - Business Goals, Business Strategy
We’ve all heard the phrase, “Ideas are a dime a dozen.” Especially when bright shiny object syndrome kicks in and you start chasing all kinds of opportunities without any real clarity of what’s a viable business idea. But what about a big idea? How is that different from all the other ideas swimming around in [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - June 7, 2011 - Business Strategy
Recently I watched a somewhat cheesy movie, Rockstar, where Mark Wahlburg plays an obsessed cover band singer who is impersonating a popular 80’s heavy metal band. Chris, the main character, takes his role so seriously that he learns everything he can about the lead singer – and completely imitates every facet of the guy’s life [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - May 17, 2011 - Business Strategy
What if I could guarantee you that I could teach you a strategy that would keep you stuck exactly where you are right now, designed to generate a predictably mediocre results? Would you race to my “buy now” opportunity? Heck no! But yet so many people spend hours a day perfecting a strategy in life [...]
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - April 12, 2011 - Business Strategy, Outsourcing/Team/Delegation
Have you ever had a big idea that was so juicy you could almost taste it….but something causes you to hold back? Somehow a lot of little distractions keep you from focusing on the tasks that would help you to make that big leap forward?
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Posted by Melanie Benson Strick - January 8, 2011 - Business Strategy
If you are a thought leader with fire in your belly and a big brilliant idea you are ready to step into, then be sure to watch the video to discover the five essential elements of your Big Idea Blueprint. If you’ve run out of steam or have tried to step into your dream but [...]
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Melanie Benson Strick, the Big Idea Catalyst, helps thought leaders uncover the biggest way to unleash their brilliance without losing their sanity or their soul. With over 12 years in corporate America and eight years as a business owner, Melanie works exclusively with big thinking, heart-based entrepreneurs who are frustrated trying to run a successful business. Co-author of Entrepreneur.com’s “Start Up Guide to an Information Marketing Business” and faculty member for StomperNet, Melanie has a solid reputation for authentic but direct training and mentoring on 6 figure plus business success.