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Top 10 Indicators that You Need Help in Your Business

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

One of my clients was asked, "How do you know when you need help?" at a presentation she conducted recently, and she wasn't sure how to respond, except perhaps to say, "Well, you'll just know!" ...

10 Deadly Website Mistakes Made by Service Business Owners, Part 2

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

Websites of service companies seem to make some common website mistakes over and over again. Part of the function of your website is to establish a relationship with potential clients and get them into your ...

10 Deadly Website Mistakes Made by Service Business Owners, Part 1

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

I'm online for much of my business day, which means I get to visit many, many websites in the process of helping my clients learn how they get more clients online. I'm also asked to ...

How to Sell Your Expertise Over and Over Again

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

Putting all of your eggs into one basket in your business is never a good idea. Diversity is key, which means that your revenue should come from a number of clients (not just two or ...

How to Maintain Your Business and Your Romantic Relationship without Losing Either

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

I'll be the first to admit I'm the "Donna-come-lately" in this game of simultaneously managing a business and a romantic relationship. When I was married the first time around at age 26, I worked in ...

Top Seven Strategies to Help You Market Your Local Business Online and Market Your Virtual Business

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

Roughly 75% of the business owners I speak with in any given town or city see little, if any, need for an online presence. They believe in doing business the way it's always been done, ...

Seven Strategies for Creating a Successful Mastermind Group

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

Mastermind groups are nothing new. In fact, Napoleon Hill writes about them in his classic, "Think and Grow Rich", in which he defines "Master Mind" as the "coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit ...

Does Work/Life Balance Really Exist?

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

If you look at almost any issue of nationally published women's magazines, you'll find article upon article trying to convince the American public (and American women) that you can have it all -- a brilliant ...

Top 10 Features of a Shopping Cart That Will Make You Money Online

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

I've been doing business online since 1999. In that time, I've looked at several different options for ways to sell things online, and finally, in 2003, decided that I had wasted too much time in ...

Top 10 Ways to Market Your Website Offline

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

If you have a website, you are constantly bombarded with information about how to promote it, from pay-per-click search engines to submitting articles to exchanging links with other sites. The sheer volume of information that ...

How to Provide Exceptional Solutions (Not Just Service) to Your Clients

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

In 2003, I moved to Little Rock, AR, and I was amazed with how helpful my new property manager was. If you haven't moved recently, you may have forgotten all the joy associated with having ...

6 Secrets to Preventing Email Overload

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

I wonder now who was the genius who said email would make our lives easier? Don't you want to strangle this person on some days?? I've found email to be both a blessing and a ...

How to Hire Some Help (a Virtual Assistant) and Give Yourself a Raise

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

"There's no way I can hire anyone to do what I do. No one can do it as well as I can." Do you resemble that remark? If so, you've got much in common with ...

How Public Speaking Can Help You Dramatically Increase Your Business

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

There's an often-quoted statistic that the fear of public speaking is right up there with the fear of death as the two events people most fear in their lives. However, as a business owner, I ...

Top 10 Ways to Make Your Website Sell 24/7

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

I've spent more hours that I care to count attending networking functions, and I continue to be amazed at all the people I meet who don't have a website. Many entrepreneurs love what they do ...

7 Deadly Sins to Avoid When You're the Guest Speaker

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

Speaking about what you do is an incredibly powerful way of marketing your business, especially if you have a service business. I recently had the chance to evaluate some speakers at a conference I attended. ...

How to Beat the Mid-Winter Blues When You're Self-Employed

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

I usually try to walk my talk as a business owner and live a fairly balanced life. However, despite my best attempts, life happens and blows my plans all out of whack. For me, this ...

Top 10 Steps to Creating a Successful Business Retreat for Self-Employed Entrepreneurs

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

The notion of doing a business retreat for myself is very new, although not novel, as we used to conduct a retreat each year as a part of both the Student Affairs staff and the ...

5 Secrets to Building Business Relationships When You're an Introvert

By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago

I've tried any number of ways to market my business: attending networking functions, joining professional associations, exhibiting at trade shows, just to name a few of my tactics. However, despite my best intentions, I've gotten ...