A post by our Expert Contributor, Marilyn Logan:

Since we are in the business of celebrating Rock Star Women in Business, we thought we’d share a post from one we respect, love, and want you to know.  Meet Lisa Sasevich, The Queen of Sales.  We’ve learned a ton from her, but above all celebrate who she is as a wife and mother first.  Oh yeah, she’s also heading up her 7-figure company by using her own Rock Star qualities.  Here’s her latest:

What to Do AFTER You Get Off the Stage

Okay, you’re on stage, you’ve just done a great job of walking your audience through your offers, clearly communicating their value and the transformation your clients will experience. You did everything right, including presenting a Today Only bonus that has your audience chomping at the bit to buy from you.

You may or may not realize that what you do next ~ or, rather what you don’t do next ~ could cost you thousands of dollars in sales. Don’t let that happen to you. Follow these deceptively simple secrets and claim the sales you just earned. Read the rest of this entry »

We received a post from one of our regular contributing experts for your World Tour of Success, Kelly Stallings, and wanted to share it with you on the general blog.  Kelly is a psychotherapist and author of “Life is Mental: Think Thin to Live Thin.”  Here, she shared with us why so many resolutions never see a day past January and how to change that for yourself.  While access to Kelly is normally reserved for our WTOS members, we bent the rules a little here and said, “Welcome to February, friends!” Here’s what she wrote: Read the rest of this entry »

As a follow up to our last post, “How to Beat Adversity, Obstacles, and Other Crisis In Your Life,” we wanted to share with you the most important component on that list. The umbrella over it all, for us. We want to share it with you not to shove it down your throat or be obscene about it, but because it is who we are at the core and we always want to be transparent about that. Emphasis on always. Introducing our F-word. We have a few of them, but not the one you think. Failure is one of our favorites, because we have such a gratitude for the opportunity Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever poured a carbonated drink over ice and watched the path of the individual bubbles?  (Okay, I know that is a strange question.  Work with me.) Some of the bubbles in the carbonated drink go straight to the top, but most of them hit an obstacle (or two or ten) of ice cubes on the way up, and pretty much all of them follow a path that isn’t always the shortest path or the predictable path.  They go in all sorts of directions at various speeds, jostling side-to-side to get the right upward momentum.  A lot of the bubbles stuck on ice cubes do get there eventually, and then they all group together to make the “fizz” part of the drink.  It’s the part the advertisers show because it just looks good! It’s a great example of how life can go for our children and teens.  One of our roles as a parent is to teach our children how to get past the obstacles of ice to rise to the top of the glass.  Yes, it might take a path that is not the one we expect, but it is a path and a journey nonetheless.

So how do we teach our kids to get past obstacles?  Here are some critical elements to consider:

Teach your child or teen that there will always be ice in the glass.  That means there will always be obstacles to overcome.  We all have them to various degrees, and to be honest, life would be boring without them.  There is no value in spending energy expecting Read the rest of this entry »