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Your Lead Qualification Process: 3 Steps to Higher Quality Prospects

Getting prospects who will make great clients all comes down to your lead qualification process – how you weed out the leads who aren’t right and attract the ones that […]

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How to Make Networking Fun (and Be Authentic!) – 4 Tips

Ever wonder how you can make networking fun in a way that doesn’t feel inauthentic? Here’s how to connect gracefully while being yourself. A Familiar Networking Scenario Imagine this: You […]

“Someday List” – 3 Steps to Your Best Ever Someday Maybe List

Making a “Someday List” allows you to file away ideas (even crazy ones) for the future without stress or obligation. Imagine this: Your friend mentions a fantastic best-kept secret neighborhood […]

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Blog Topic Ideas: 5 Ways to Generate Blog Topics All Year Round

How can you more easily come up with blog topic ideas? Here are some tips to help you get those creative juices flowing! It’s Friday morning, and I know what […]

Why Do You Need SSL? Here’s Why

Why do you need SSL installed on your website? Read on to learn why if you don’t have it installed, you’ll want to do so as soon as possible. SSL […]

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The People Pleaser’s Cure: Why It’s Ok Not to Be Liked

Do you consider yourself a highly likable person? Can you get along with almost anyone? Do you enjoy a life with very little confrontation or dispute? If you answered each […]

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The 5 Biggest Website Mistakes

What are the biggest website mistakes that people make? Read on to find out. Marketing experts love to talk all day long about what you should DO on your website. […]

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3 Secrets to Building Business Relationships

How to build business relationships? Give these 3 secrets a try, and you may just find yourself with some superhero comrades at your side. We’ve all heard that business is […]

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How EOS Transformed My Business

The Entrepreneurial Operating System illuminates even the darkest of rooms in your business. EOS benefits broken down. Fumbling around in a dark room: this is how I would describe my […]

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5 Simple Self Care Tips

Add a little self-care to your routine this December: 5 tips. For some, December is the most joyous of all the months. The snowfall, the decorations, the merriment and everything […]

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The Many Benefits of Board Experience

If I could give a single piece of advice to new business owners, it would be this: serve on the board of an organization in your local area. Really? Yes, […]

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Resizing Photos Made Easy

Resizing photos or cropping them, once you know how to do it, is a skill you’ll use a lot more than you might think. Resizing and cropping your photos, once […]

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Get Inspired and Get Moving!

All too often when we’re feeling unmotivated and uninspired in our work, we wait for a change to miraculously come from within us. In these “slumps” as some call them, […]

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The Simple Power of “Thank You”

As cheesy as it sounds, I’ve always cherished the minutes preceding my family’s yearly Thanksgiving meal during which we go around the table and each say what we’re thankful for […]

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The Perfect Contact Page

Your website’s contact page. In the end, it’s what your entire website comes down to. After all, the reason you work so hard to set up a website, write your […]

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Bust Through that Business Lull!

Oh, the entrepreneurial life – one moment we’re trying with all our might to keep our heads above water, and the next we’re sitting at our desks twirling our thumbs. […]

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3 Reasons to Start With Why

Business owners are entering into a new paradigm: one in which we are encouraged to talk not just about what we do – but also why we do it. As […]

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Put Your Personality into Your Business!

Did you ever hear about the New Jersey pediatric dentist who went viral when he started performing magic tricks for his young patients? Out of a simple desire to use […]

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5 Steps to Making Difficult Choices Without Regret

Do you remember the last time you had to make a really difficult choice? If it was recently, then you probably remember quite well how agonizing it was. Whether it was […]

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Letting Go of Perfectionism

I’m performing tomorrow night with my band at a local jazz festival in my city, and you know what? I’m not stressed or nervous about it. Not one bit. At […]

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Your Life or Your Inbox: 3 Tips

Can you remember life before email? I’m 35 years old and very thankful that I can. It was a simpler, more peaceful existence. Slower paced and far less chaotic. But […]

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Terrified to Speak? Remember These 3 Things.

I was recently a guest speaker at LA2M, a popular monthly marketing group in downtown Ann Arbor. Each month LA2M presents a speaker on a marketing-related topic, be it messaging, […]

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We Need Bold Strokes

As I write this blog, I’m sitting aboard an Amtrak train running from Chicago to Ann Arbor. Technically I can’t call the trip my mom and I took to Chicago […]

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You Can’t See What You Can’t See

Museums are one of my absolute favorite places to play my clarinet. The sound of my instrument flows through the halls, reverberating and echoing to my heart’s delight. I don’t […]

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Three Navigation Quick Tips

I know what you’re thinking – website navigation: B-O-R-I-N-G. But hear me out: it’s important. Really important actually. It’s how your website visitors find their way around your amazing content! […]

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Unfinished (Jigsaw) Puzzle

It’s my belief that every single one of us has an unfinished jigsaw puzzle in our home, somewhere or other. (let me explain) A few months ago on a Saturday […]

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My Favorite Website Mistake

My favorite website mistake (to fix) is often overlooked because at its essence it’s rooted in basic human nature: we as human beings are predominantly focused on ourselves. Try as […]

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Your Gut is Talking to You.

Do you know that feeling you get in your stomach when you don’t quite want to do something? For me it’s a subtle discomfort that sits right below my rib […]

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Say Hello to Ellanyze

In celebration of the rebrand of my business in creating Ellanyze, I present to you a list of FAQ to explain all the ins and outs of why and how […]

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My Recipe for a Rebrand

“Is it me and do I love it?” This is the simple yet powerful question that led me to the eventual complete rebrand of my business that launches in just […]

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