Selling the right things to the right people at the right time
Karen Skidmore - Business Coach, Marketing Mentor & Profit Catalyst
by Karen Skidmore
1y ago
How strategic are you being about what you sell to your clients? When you are struggling to attract enough reliable and predictable business, it can mean you do your best to stay flexible and open for any new work. It can feel that by offering a big menu of services, quoting for bespoke work, and […] The post Selling the right things to the right people at the right time appeared first on Business Coaching & Mentoring ..read more
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The Do’s and Don’t’s of Payment Plans
Karen Skidmore - Business Coach, Marketing Mentor & Profit Catalyst
by Karen Skidmore
1y ago
There are many good reasons to offer a payment plan to your customers, but there are also a lot of assumptions that many business owners make about how they go about offering them, particularly whether they ought to be charging their clients more for taking up the payment plan option. In this article, I want […] The post The Do’s and Don’t’s of Payment Plans appeared first on Business Coaching & Mentoring ..read more
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How can your business operate without you?
Karen Skidmore - Business Coach, Marketing Mentor & Profit Catalyst
by Karen Skidmore
1y ago
If you run a busy business, it’s easy to feel responsibility for not only getting new leads and winning over new clients, but also for delivering the work and all the admin tasks that go along with that. For most business owners I speak with, having a business operate without them being in the thick […] The post How can your business operate without you? appeared first on Business Coaching & Mentoring ..read more
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No time to business plan? It may be that your brain is overloaded.
Karen Skidmore - Business Coach, Marketing Mentor & Profit Catalyst
by Karen Skidmore
1y ago
Are you an over-thinker? Does your brain only know how to solve short term tactical problems? One of the biggest barriers to growing my own business over the years hasn’t been because I didn’t have enough clients, or good enough products, or even enough time; it’s because I lacked the mental clarity and the space […] The post No time to business plan? It may be that your brain is overloaded. appeared first on Business Coaching & Mentoring ..read more
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How to fire your client
Karen Skidmore - Business Coach, Marketing Mentor & Profit Catalyst
by Karen Skidmore
1y ago
It’s not nice, but it happens! No matter how good your selection process is for winning clients, you will find yourself working with someone who you don’t want to work with anymore. They may not be paying their invoices on time, or they are consistently late to meetings. Or will even on occasion not even […] The post How to fire your client appeared first on Profit I Scale I Thrive in the Process ..read more
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The 3 simple rules for sustainable business growth
Karen Skidmore - Business Coach, Marketing Mentor & Profit Catalyst
by Karen Skidmore
1y ago
There are lots of ways of how to take your business to the next level, but having been working as a business coach for more than 15 years, there’s no doubt that the general theme to most business growth strategies and tactics is ‘how to have more’. This is why I changed tact in my […] The post The 3 simple rules for sustainable business growth appeared first on Profit I Scale I Thrive in the Process ..read more
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How hanging out with safe people can hold your business back
Karen Skidmore - Business Coach, Marketing Mentor & Profit Catalyst
by Karen Skidmore
1y ago
Having people around you who support what you do is important; it can be a very lonely job running your own business. Being able to pick up the phone, meet up for a walk or coffee and talk about what’s been going on in your week with someone you trust and feel comfortable around is […] The post How hanging out with safe people can hold your business back appeared first on Profit I Scale I Thrive in the Process ..read more
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Why down-sell products rarely work
Karen Skidmore - Business Coach, Marketing Mentor & Profit Catalyst
by Karen Skidmore
1y ago
There’s plenty to think through when deciding if your new product idea is going to be worth investing your time, energy and money in. Is it something that your clients *really* want? What price should you charge? How do you go about marketing it? But there’s one question that gets forgotten … what job is this […] The post Why down-sell products rarely work appeared first on Profit I Scale I Thrive in the Process ..read more
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Do we over-egg the life shit stuff?
Karen Skidmore - Business Coach, Marketing Mentor & Profit Catalyst
by Karen Skidmore
1y ago
We have the habit of overestimating the life shit that comes our way. And underestimating the power and influence we believe we already have. This was the hard truth that I was told yesterday by one of the world’s leading experts on mindset and women’s leadership. As Ambassador for The Hunger Project and leader of […] The post Do we over-egg the life shit stuff? appeared first on Profit I Scale I Thrive in the Process ..read more
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How to trust yourself to make good decisions
Karen Skidmore - Business Coach, Marketing Mentor & Profit Catalyst
by Karen Skidmore
2y ago
Being able to make good decisions is one of the keys to adopting a CEO mindset and growing a successful business.  But decision fatigue is real; the more decisions you have to make each day, your ability to make decisions becomes worse.  We’re faced with thousands of them every day, from the mundane (What to […] The post How to trust yourself to make good decisions appeared first on Profit I Scale I Thrive in the Process ..read more
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