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The Remarkable Dina Eisenberg
I get approached weekly via LinkedIn, my vCita page and through direct email with the next "amazing" new way to grow my business using the services of the xyz company soliciting me. I ignore 99% of them. But sometimes, a very talented and creative person rises...
Where Are YogaToes on Your List?
Fill in your own self-care habit that's bitten the dust when you're crazed by the onslaught of life. I'm telling on myself here. Clients, listen to what I say, not what I do 😉 Just yesterday I relocated my set of YogaToes, a device that is meant to help with all...
A Remarkable Travel Experience
I'm speaking in Anaheim this week and traveled out here today via Southwest Airlines. I'd always heard about their legendary service, but experienced it myself firsthand. What should be standard for travel in general is remarkable in that so few airlines deliver as...
When People Aren’t Pleased
Tom Peters wisely advised business owners who want to grow their companies to let go of the bottom 10% of their clients annually. Bottom could be defined by economics, but there's also the P-I-T-A (pain-in-the-a**) function that can be at play. You know who I'm...
Getting a Kick Out of Myself Twice
I sent out photo cards announcing my uptown move to a handful of close friends and relatives--those least likely to see my post on Facebook (which I since took down on the advice of my brother). Upon its arrival, I received an email from one of those dear friends...
The Magic of Deadlines
"I was really stuck getting started on my assignment to create my dream revenue vision. But, I knew we had our call today, so I pushed myself. "First, I got the white board out and cleaned it off. Then I dug out the markers. I finally started writing things down,...
Charge What You’re Worth
In the last week, I've gotten more than a few queries from colleagues and clients asking my opinion on how much to charge for a particular service. Don't you wish there were a reference book or website where you could plug in your years in business, the prospect's...
Fear of Spending
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P78o2bC_1hc Everyone has issues around money. Gambling, credit card debting, hoarding, big-shot-ism. To one degree or another, our idiosyncrasies play themselves out, once in a while or chronically, through the medium of money. Like...
Behind The Scenes Speech Prep
When I was first invited to speak at the premiere session of the new, high-level networking group, the Entrepreneurial Women's Club, I had at least two months to prepare my talk. That was great, because I was offering a whole new topic--our relationship with money...
What Deadline is Most Pressing?
Here's what's on my BIG (and littler) PROJECTS list, beyond my normal coaching schedule, for early 2016: Deliver The $oul Proprietor'$ Roadmap to Abundant Living talk to women's group 1/21 Market new course (starting March 7) based on this talk Complete memoir...
Judy Batalion Inspires Me
I had the privilege of hearing Judy Batalion speak to a classrooom of writers during a Sue Shapiro seminar last November. Judy is one of Sue's many success stories--published authors who return to inspire current students and to share that Sue's methods work. Judy...
Most Memorable Marketing Gifts
Before we went on break for the holidays, I asked each of the remarkable women in my Mastermind Intensive to share her best marketing tip. They were all exceptional, but when everyone got out of their seats to inspect the packaging and note card that Diane Ripstein...
Carolyn See is a Rock Star
I wish I could ingest Carolyn See's book Making a Literary Life and have it swirl around inside me keeping me as inspired and excited about writing as I was in my first moments reading her marvelous words and advice. Ms. See has a success formula that she insists...
Oh, the Visions They Had!
Nearly 20 women joined me on Monday night to craft their visions for the near future. The spirit was joyful and productive as, after I'd lectured on the process and its merits, those present spread open their collected magazines and began allowing images and words...
Why I Haven’t Blogged in Two Weeks
I've been referring to my company, Jane Pollak LLC, as a lifestyle business from the day I started. That means that the business works for me and how I choose to live my life. The business doesn't dictate to me what's required. I say what I'm available to give. Not...