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Critical Non-Essentials: Building Brand Loyalty and Customer Retention
By Carmen Gigar What is the difference between short-term clients and clients for life? What is the key to building retention? Why is building relationships so imperative in today’s business environments? In today’s fast changing world, clients have so many options it is even more important to strengthen bonds and keep them coming back for…
Let Go & Delegate
Hi everyone! Ted Schmidt here, ActionCOACH Northwest. As a business owner sometimes it is a struggle to let go of things. It can be difficult to let your team handle things and delegate tasks to someone, either an internal or external team. Letting go of things, especially if you’re the founder of the business, you…
Raise Your Hand Marketing: How-To Get Engagement
By Stacy Spahle We all remember in school that if you wanted to participate, you raised your hand. It was a response to a question or perhaps to add to a discussion, but it was a part of a structured dialog format we learned early on in our lives. In today’s digital world, sometimes we…
How a Little FUN Pays Big Dividends
How a Little FUN Pays Big Dividends GUEST BLOGGER: Karen Callahan, Program Coordinator, ActionCOACH Foundation Have you ever noticed how you always look forward to being with certain people? It’s usually because you feel comfortable with them, and they are just fun to be around. In life, that translates into more friends and better relationships….
Abundance – Make it a Way of Life
By Carmen Gigar Defined as plentiful and having ample quantities of resources, abundance is a mindset that can affect how you respond to adversity. Focusing on abundance means you are engaged in activities that raise wealth for everyone you encounter. In business, abundance can be a creed to lift the lives of your employees, vendors,…
Improving Conversion by Adjusting Your Processes
By Carmen Gigar What does it mean to adjust processes for better conversion? Essentially, it’s about identifying the areas of your business that need improvement and making changes that will streamline and optimize those processes. Here are some strategies that Daniel Priestley recommends for adjusting processes to improve conversion: The first step in adjusting processes…