By Richard Branson Whenever I’m listening to anybody, I try to note down the points that most interest or concern me. Afterwards, I can refer back to these notes and act upon them. Often these notes form the backbone of the types of blog posts you see on my social media channels, or I use […]

Do a Coaching Session with EVERY member in the chapter! During the session, lead-in with wanting to know more about THEM and THEIR business. Ask lots of questions. People love to talk about themselves. Your attentiveness will help you stand out in their minds and will result in more referrals for you. Create several versions […]

By Stacey Alcorn The Girl Scouts have been selling cookies for almost 100 years. As a former Girl Scout, I recall selling them, and now as an adult, a year doesn’t go by without buying several boxes. Girl Scout Cookies are more than a sugary annual purchase, they are also a lesson in entrepreneurship. Let’s […]

By Hampus Jakobsson  If you’ve just started a business, you need sales, right? Trouble is, you may not be sure how to put together a sales approach. And, the truth is, there is no magic formula for sending your sales through the roof. So, stop looking. Also, stop buying the popular belief that sales is […]

by Peter Daisyme When you take the first steps toward starting a business, it’s easy to get discouraged. Every market already has major players making tons of money. Unicorns like Uber can make their own markets, sure, but not every company gets to revolutionize the world. Fortunately, you don’t have to revolutionize the world to revolutionize […]

By Bill Cates How you receive and process the referrals and introductions you get from clients and centers of influence will determine if these potential advocates provide you with more. I call this process of receiving referrals and introductions:  “Referral T.R.U.S.T.”  If your referral source trusts your process, they are likely to provide you with more. If […]

“Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.” –Jim Rohn There’s no one secret to success, but it doesn’t happen by accident, either. Successful people work hard at themselves and their business. Importantly, they learn to stop hindering their efforts by avoiding these seven things: 1. Dwelling on regrets […]

By: Ryan Chevalier  Every organization screws up regularly and probably every day. You have two choices. Focus on keeping the customer or let them defect. Frederick Reichheld at Harvard Business Review has research that shows if you can reduce your defection rate by half you can double the growth of your business. If you can reduce the […]

By: Miriam Salpeter Author Malcolm Gladwell popularized the term “connector” in his book The Tipping Point, defining the word as “someone who knows many people.” Wikipedia,  meanwhile, describes connectors as, “People in a community who know large numbers of people and who are in the habit of making introductions. A connector is essentially the social equivalent […]

By John Murphy Let’s face it. Entrepreneurship is lonely. I would never do anything else, but it can often feel like you’re running a race that nobody else even knows is happening. You can talk to family, but most people don’t truly get it. Reid Hoffman once said, “An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a […]