Author: Leanne Hoagland-Smith

Do You Have A Mobile Technology Plan to Compete In Business?

Every business needs to put a plan in place for updating hardware and software as well as staying abreast as to new technology trends when it comes to local marketing through mobile technology. How mobile is your business? Being ahead…

Understanding Talent to Achieve Amazing Results

Do you think you could leverage your higher talents better to achieve results with greater consistency and quality? Are you aware of your own talent? Many professionals, including small business owners to C Suite executives, truly do not know their…

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Your Employees Are Your Profit Centers

It is imperative that all employees understand how they are profit centers and how all these profit centers connect to the bottom line. Certain paradigms exist within each business culture. These paradigms are philosophical frameworks from which generalizations are formed.…

Change How You Think About Your Competitors

In this highly connected world (courtesy of technology), being able to collaborate with other like-minded small business owners is a proven business winning strategy. Spending Time With Your Competitors Having self-confidence and courage are necessary talents or strengths for any…

Strategic Planning is the Key to Sales and Business Success

Many professionals lack clarity about their results because they have failed to engage in strategic planning. Confusion in business creates poor sales results and a continual drain on the bottom line. From not knowing the purpose of business, to executing…

Tips For Sales Leaders: Are You Captain Wing It?

Are you struggling with employee discipline in your office? People challenges occur most often because there is a lack of structure and understanding of the company goals. How many times do you hear something like: "Boy, if I could only…

How Much Gold is Hidden in Those Hills of Business Cards?

Why do you have those business cards? Do you have piles of business cards near your desk or computer stand? So what are you doing with them? Waiting for a few spare moments to enter them into your database or…

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Selling Value to Creating Value is “Quite Illogical”

The connection of value between the buyer and the seller begins with marketing and then selling takes over. Selling value is a hot topic and now is incorporated into many sales training coaching programs, books or workshops under some of…

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Fly High Marketing

Today, having a flight plan, or what is called an integrated marketing plan, that unites many of the actions mentioned earlier is no longer an option, but a necessity. Imagine this first business day after Super Bowl Sunday you are…

Who Is Your Greatest Competitor?

When small business owners, C-suite executives, and crazy busy salespeople start focusing on the competition, they are missing incredible and powerful opportunities to increase sales. Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to speak at two events. In both presentations,…

Relationship Selling is a Powerful Sales Strategy

Being your personal best is your invisible business card. Is your sales strategy based upon relationship selling? Then how can you leverage relationship selling to increase sales? The answer lies within you. Why Relationship Selling Works Relationship selling is becoming…

How to Do More With the Same Amount of Time

If you truly want to do more with the same amount of time each and every day, then begin by developing those self-leadership skills necessary for personal success. Can we agree that: A minute has 60 seconds? An hour has…