Seize Your Opportunity
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Seize Your Opportunity

Opportunity is all around you. I believe that opportunity is everywhere at all times. Every moment presents opportunity to grow and create. What do you want to create? More prosperity? Stronger, healthier relationships? New business? It’s all right here, right now. Yet very often people don’t see the opportunities right in front of them. Why…

Saying NO
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Saying NO

As a business coach, I found this article from the Wall Street Journal on saying “no” to be very interesting. Nearly everyone I know, including myself, friends, colleagues, and all of my clients, from the small business owner to the corporate CEO, faces this challenge on a regular basis. Saying no effectively is ultimately about being…

Are Your Enrollment Conversations Too Pleasant?

One of Steve Chandler’s 18 Disciplines for enrolling coaching clients is to “sell the experience, not the concept.” Rather than abstractly describe what you do, actually do it so that the client’s decision is to “continue, not to start.” Our enrollment conversations are likely the first substantial experience our potential clients have with us. Of…

Ask Ron: Do I Have a Sales Problem?
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Ask Ron: Do I Have a Sales Problem?

A business coach asks: My practice is doing ok, but I don’t have enough ideal clients.  I have a few clients who are great, although they aren’t paying me what I’m worth.  I have several clients who are total energy drains and not worth it.   Obviously I’ve been successfully in signing up these clients, so…