Ever wonder if you stand any hope – any hope at all – in cutting through the noise online to have your voice heard? Do you find yourself reading mediocre blog posts, subscribing to formulaic newsletters and watching Pinterest quotes fill your Facebook feed, and ask yourself, “How on earth can I contribute anything unique…
I planned to write today’s post with tips and ideas on how to set yourself up for success in 2013. I wanted to build on our last post where I asked you some specific questions to evaluate 2012 and let you know about my upcoming PRO Marketing Calendar Workshop. I was going to give you…
Don Pep via Compfight For anyone who’s had a baby – you are intimately familiar with the nesting instinct. It’s that time just before baby arrives, when you go into hyper-plan mode to make sure everything’s ready for your new bundle of joy. The meals get made and frozen. The mobile gets hung. The onesies…
Everyone has a dream project or idea they need to bring to the world. The reason most people never make this idea a reality is because they don’t know where to start, they lack the motivation, the know how or the support to just take that first step. Rewind to early July at the…
Lori Greig via Compfight Going Pro isn’t…. :: Copying your idol’s brand, voice, offers, words just because they’ve been successful :: Doing it only for the money :: Forgetting to do it for the money at all :: Staying addicted to the stories that keep you playing small :: Believing that just because you could,…
Last night, one of my best friends came over for coffee. We caught up, talked kids, hubbies and the pursuit of work and motherhood. As always, funny (and not so funny) memories came up from our past life of being roommates and colleagues in our non-profit communication jobs. And then of course, it turned to…
I’d like to call forth a movement where every business owner takes full personal responsibility for their results. No more excuses. No more playing small. No more waiting, wondering, pondering or pontificating. There’s no denying that taking full responsibility for our lives and our results is H-A-R-D. It’s just so much easier to blame external…
As I’ve been sharing with my Sneak Peek tribe, change is afoot here at Stephanie Pollock Media Inc. Nothing drastic or crazy, but just some adjustments and re-designs to get me closer to creating the business and life I truly want (not just the one that shows up by default). This is a process and…
Picture this. You’re lying on a hospital operating table, waiting to have your brain cut open. There’s a tumour inside, and it’s gotta get out or things aren’t looking so rosy for you. You’ve mentally prepared as best you can, you’re anxious to have the surgery over with and you’re just hoping beyond hope that…
This is a special guest post from Kimberly Englot, Founder Center for Authentic Self Development Forget Marketing: Why your mindset is the key to creating your booming business It’s time to take your business seriously: and make decisions based on where you want to go, that is, for the LONG TERM. Leave Hobbyland (aka: land…
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