Nancy Juetten is here to tell you that, as an entrepreneur, an attention-grabbing bio is your key to more clients and a better bottom line.
Juetten is the author of Bye-Bye Boring Bio: Attract Clients, Speaking Gigs and Media Interviews Now. The public relations consultant says she was compelled to write the book, now in its second edition, because of how frustrated she was with the information her clients were providing to her “with the idea that I could take that and make headlines with it.”
“It’s a very awkward thing to read what people say about themselves and be snoozing instead of standing at attention,” says Juetten.
According to Juetten, social media have changed the way entrepreneurs need to market themselves. “People everywhere have ADD when it comes to landing somewhere and making a split-second judgment about whether they like what they find. Those people who lead with their degrees and certifications–those doors close for them as soon as they open.”
Do people read bios? Juetten says they not only read them; they take action based on them. Her husband, Steve, a certified financial planner, is proof. “Three days a week,” she says, “someone tells him, ‘I landed on your website and I read your bio, and I knew you were the guy for me.'”
Steve Juetten’s compelling bio soundbite: “Clients hire me for my head, trust me for my heart and value me most when I use both.”

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Soft Sell Marketing …Do NOT Miss This FREE Interview…
Is marketing challenging for you? If you are like most of most my friends and associates you: Want to make a difference…not just in your bank account Want to serve your clients while making a living. You want to do it without feeling as if you have “sold out” AND still make a good living from your expertise . . . BRAVO! Congratulations!
Pushy hard sell marketing makes it very difficult, if not impossible, for you to enjoy your success. That’s why it’s my pleasure to invite you to a FREE call this Wednesday September 29 at 5:30 pm PT/8:30 pm ET when I get the pleasure of interviewing the leading voices for Soft Sell, Heart-based, Integrity-grounded Marketing . . . My friends and colleagues Judith Sherven, PhD and Jim Sniechowski, PhD (BEST known as Judith & Jim). They’ll be sharing with you how they went from trying to copy the hard sell hype types, to creating what is now an International movement – with it’s own training conference “Bridging Heart and Marketing” – now in its third year.

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How to Overcome the “I Need to Think about it / Need to Wait until Next Week/Month / I’ll Get Back to You ” Objection by Mike Brooks
One of the oldest and most used smokescreens in the book is the, “I need to think about it” objection. So many sales reps struggle with this one because they think the prospect isn’t saying no, and so they don’t know how to respond to it.
Unfortunately, what many of you have found out is that your prospect actually is saying no – they’re just saying it in a way that makes it difficult for you to handle it. Well that will end for you today. By using the scripts below, you’ll see if your prospect really does need to think about it, or if he/she is blowing you off. Believe me you want to know now so you can save yourself weeks of chasing and begging a deal that will never close.

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What an afternoon! San Francisco’s Carol Channing, internationally acclaimed star of stage and screen, joins inimitable entertainer Rich Little, and hilarious stand-up comic and actor Steve Rossi. Wow…what a show. They were all so happy to be together they were interviewing each other. Robert Strong who is a star in his own right is the […]

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5. We bring our characters to life through some of the verbs we use.
Fred casually sauntered into the boss’s office VS Fred rushed breathless into the boss’s office. Please note I am taking a lesson from the brilliant Mark Brown who taught us in a recent EDGE lesson about the importance of adjectives and adverbs.

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1. “TRAVEL WITH YOUR OWN PR AGENT” TECHNIQUE.
It’s simple and cost free. Enlist a co-sales professional, friend, or fellow speaker to form a duo. My networking buddy in San Francisco is Susan RoAne, the best-selling author of How to Work A Room, Secrets of Savvy Networking, and What Do I Say Next? We attend many meetings together.

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