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What a Mastermind Can Do for Your Success

By Melanie Benson Strick | January 20th, 2010

I’ve participated in mastermind groups of one form or another for over 20 years. Early on my experience was focused on manifesting houses and marriage partners. Today my mastermind experiences have transformed into business owners helping each other achieve massive growth and wealth. I have even created and launched mastermind programs for other companies and [...]

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 [...]

Three C’s of Genius Leadership

By Melanie Benson Strick | October 20th, 2009

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.

Getting Beyond The “Gulp Factor” When Growing Your Business

By Shawn Driscoll, Guest Author | March 18th, 2008

Recently, my mastermind partner Maria called me for support. Several exciting business opportunities had come up and she needed a plan of action. As we looked at the opportunities – a large corporate contract, a web radio show, and a joint venture – it was clear Maria needed help to juggle all these priorities. I [...]

Why Are You Doing Everything Yourself?

By Alexandria K. Brown, Guest Expert | November 20th, 2007

One problem I often see with solo professionals is that their businesses aren’t growing because they’re simply not making enough time to do it!
It’s not that they don’t understand the value of those efforts, or they don’t WANT to make the time. It’s that they’re simply trying to do too much by themselves. They’re [...]

About the Coach

By Melanie Benson Strick | November 14th, 2006

Melanie Benson Strick founded Success Connections in 2001 when she left behind a lucrative Corporate job to pursue her passion in life – transforming the lives of overwhelmed, burned out entrepreneurs. Having learned first hand the difference between a struggling solo-practice and a thriving six+ figure business, Melanie works exclusively with entrepreneurs who want to [...]