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The Story of Our Pricing: My Experiment With the Gift Economy (and Your Invitation to Join Me)
What story does your pricing tell about you and your business? In the past, experts said if you wanted to position yourself as high quality or even luxury, you'd better price your product high. Why? Because higher prices tell your potential customers your stuff is...
Tell a More Engaging Brand Story: Use a Villain!
One of the things I have my clients do over the course of our time together is create a persona (or three) for their customers' Big Challenge/Desire. (It's part of the Biz Story Outline.) We ask the question: Who, or What stands in the way of your client...
A Business Paradox: Slow Down to Speed Up
You've seen the marketing hype and heard all the promises: Build a Six-Figure Business in just 60 Days! Or, Fail Fast, Succeed Faster. There's even a magazine called Fast Company. And it's true: most of us want that income NOW. We've got bills to pay. Kids to send to...
10 Best Books for Learning the Art of Business Storytelling
Unless you live under a rock, you've likely heard by now that using stories in your marketing is the Golden Ticket to business success. There are scads of blog posts and books out there all telling you WHY storytelling is so important: Stories help our brains make...
Deep Fried Kool-Aid: a Marketing Parable
5 Ways to Make Your Marketing Stick
#Follow Friday Much? My Love-Hate Relationship with Fan Base-Building Tactics
Yes, we all know it's about quality, not quantity. But still. It's tempting to want to take shortcuts with building your connections on social media. After all, at some point, you DO need a critical mass to help you get traction. But when we stoop to buying Facebook...
The Art of Growth: An Interview with Tara Gentile
Everyone has a different idea of what it means to grow their business. Some of us think we need to reach for 6- or 7-figures. Others would prefer a 4-hour work week. And then there are those who would just like to be able to pay the bills and put a little away for...
Case Study: How to Conquer the Blank Page and Write Better Sales Copy
Writing copy for your website or other marketing materials isn't always easy. And unless you're a professional copy writer (and sometimes even when you are), the blank screen of your computer can feel like it's taunting you: You've got no idea what you're doing, do...
Go Old School: Have a Real Conversation
This post is part of the 30-Day Bloom Your Online Relationships Challenge. If you'd like to play along, you can sign up here (don't worry -- it's FREE). We're all working through these small, powerful actions together and sharing our questions, learnings and...
Must-Have Kitchen Tool: The (Sales) Funnel
What I Wish I’d Known Then about Starting a Business…
Advice for My (Much Earlier, More Naive) Entrepreneurial Self (Note: Much of this post first appeared on the Prosperity's Kitchen website under the title, "An Open Letter to New Entrepreneurs." I've modified the text somewhat.) Hey Girl, I'm really proud of you for...
How Well Do You Tell Your Brand’s Story?
This past weekend I attended (via simulcast) Andrea Lee's Lasting Lead Generation event. It was three days of fabulous teaching, coaching and delivery of actionable content. And I gotta say, she really knows her stuff! One of the first exercises she had us do was to...
Case Study: Using Email Marketing to Deepen Relationships
Last month in the Digital Dining Room, the group's mission was to create a welcome email that would help them get to know their subscribers on a deeper level. Here's how we got them there: Step One: Brainstorm three questions they could ask a new subscriber...
Be a Chef: a Manifesto for Entrepreneurs
Remember the Day You Said Yes to Your Dream? You hung out your shingle, launched a website and did plenty of other business-starting-activities. Bet you never said, "I can't wait to create average, boring, standard work." Me either. The following ideas guide me as an...
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