Did you start your business with the high hopes that you’d spend every waking moment pouring through piles of receipts trying to update your bookkeeping reports, chasing down past due payments from customers or struggling to keep up with the growing list of marketing tasks to hopefully attract enough sales to stay in business this [...]
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When you’ve got the call to play big and impact the world with your message, learning from mentors can help you discover how to package it and present to the world in a powerful way. From how to accept your call to play big to building the empire so it doesn’t crumble, each of these [...]
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Recently someone I know told me for weeks in a row they didn’t have time to exercise. However I noticed each morning that they had time for a flurry of activity on Facebook. Now this is someone who has a TON of stress in their life and would tell you how important it is to [...]
Read MoreI’ve been in my “upleveling the game” process – a process I do annually to access new levels of clarity about where I want to go with my life and business. From this process I have made some tough choices. Some of which will seem really strange as I reveal some big changes in the [...]
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As the months wore on it became painfully obvious. My grand plan had gone horribly off-track. With pride and excitement, my team and I spent many days at the end of 2008 planning for a $1.5 million year. By February, part of that strategy had crumbled as a key partner in one of my programs extracted themselves. By June it was terrifyingly clear that something was very, very wrong. Something bigger than the economy and the rampant competition of other business coaches. Clients were dropping, our lead sources had slowed to a crawl, and I was starting to panic.
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Living just outside Los Angeles, Melanie has spent the last 10 years exploring the secrets to sustaining a successful thriving business without recreating a job. With freedom being one of her core success principles, Melanie spends her free time in search of the best spas and beaches in the world. |
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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.