Goals: Measuring Your Progress in 3 Easy Steps!


Let’s say you hop on a plane with your significant other for a long-anticipated vacation in Bermuda. Your pilot gives you the standard greeting at take-off, and you enjoy the rest of the flight munching peanuts, and watching a movie. Fifteen minutes before your scheduled landing, your pilot comes back on the intercom and says, “Sorry, folks. I forgot to check the navigation, so instead of

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Six Mistakes We Make When Setting Goals (Part Two)

Posted by Jeannine Clontz | Business Tips,Goals | Tuesday 5 October 2010 4:25 pm

Last week we addressed three of my Six Mistakes – not being realistic, challenging or specific enough. Here are the final three mistakes to avoid when setting your goals.

Not under your control.
 
Several years ago, I set a goal to publish a book with a
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Six Mistakes We Make When Setting Goals (Part One)

Posted by Jeannine Clontz | Business Tips,Goals,Marketing Tips,VA,Virtual Assistance,Virtual Assistant,Working with clients | Monday 27 September 2010 11:38 am

In my experience, these are the main mistakes we make when setting goals.

Not realistic.
 
Sometimes, you set goals that are perfectly reasonable – until you set a timeline on them. For instance, losing 20 pounds. is great. Doing so by next Friday? Probably
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How to Set Attainable Goals

Posted by Jeannine Clontz | Business Tips,Goals,VA,Virtual Assistance,Virtual Assistant,Working with clients | Tuesday 21 September 2010 6:31 am

Unfortunately, not every goal is a good goal. Goal-setting is a skill which can be broken down into three easily defined, concrete steps:

Brainstorm your big objective.
 
What are you trying to accomplish professionally or personally? Create a new
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Why Set Goals? Do Goals Matter?

Posted by Jeannine Clontz | Business Tips,Goals,Marketing Plans,Marketing Support,Marketing Tips,Marketing Your Business | Tuesday 14 September 2010 10:40 am

Do goals matter? OF COURSE goals matter! That’s the easy answer, but let’s look at specific reasons why goals matter.

How will you develop a marketing plan to promote your latest product or service if you don’t know how many you need to sell to be profitable? How will you know whether you need new software
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Top Ten Marketing Mistakes to Avoid (Part One)


Without marketing your business could stagnate, or even worse, close. Identifying and correcting some basic marketing mistakes will help you to promote and grow your business.

Here are my Top Ten Marketing Mistakes
 
1.     Your message
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Are You Like a Salmon When Looking for New Clients?


In my former life, I was a purchasing agent for a seafood company. This time of year reminds me of the salmon runs. During the summer months, many wild salmon species take the journey back to their birthplace to spawn and ultimately end their lives. 

Their upstream journey is a challenging one, swimming against rugged rapids, leaping over rocky waterfalls, traversing fish
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Five Ways to Grow Your Business to Six or Seven Figures!


Ever wondered how your competitors generate six and seven figures incomes? As a professional in your field or niche, you face many challenges when marketing and promoting yourself to achieve six and seven figure incomes. 

As we’ve helped more and more professionals grow their business through traditional and Internet marketing and social media, I’ve found several underutilized ways to entice the world
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Four Tips to Going Viral (Part Two)


Last week we looked at the length and tone of your video to keep your audience engaged and willing to help your video go viral. We close out our four tips by understanding the advantages of the lead-in and content.

Craft the Lead-In
 
Like a lead-in
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Four Tips to Going Viral with Your Video (Part One)


These powerful viral video techniques that will help you kick-start your campaign, ramp up word-of-mouth and put your video center in the spotlight.

By incorporating key viral qualities into your video, your target audience will be more likely to spread it online via email, social media and bookmarking sites like Stumbleupon, digg, and delicious, and on personal blogs and company
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