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The Power Of The Blog | April 19, 2011

Four years ago I teamed with a web designer and launched my first online website.  It was a small boutique and I was thrilled at the prospect of having a virtual store to sell my favorite things. The web designer was savvy enough to suggest that I start a blog using the same graphics and colors as the boutique website.   My first thought was “Why on earth would anyone want to read my blog?”  Then anxiety set in and I started worrying about content.

I work with clients who have experienced the same nagging … Read More »


 

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Ungenita Katrina Prevost
 
 
 
 

Being A Tough Cookie | February 2, 2011

It’s time to find your Fierce and Fearless voice! If you’ve ever been called a “smart cookie” or a “tough cookie”. It means you’re sweet and will stand up for yourself any day of the week. Yet speaking up and having a voice doesn’t mean we use it well.

What is it that you want right now? I’d like you to write it down. Think about it. If this is something that you really want. Please tell me why aren’t you going after it? Are you feeling weak? Are you feeling like you’re not equipped to bring it to fruition? What … Read More »


 

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GPS to Success: 3 Simple Steps To Get What You Want | January 24, 2011

GPS. You are probably most familiar with GPS as in Global Positioning System.  The wonderful and innovative system that helps you get from where you are to where you want to be.  That’s what got me thinking.  If GPS can give you directions to travel to your chosen destination why can’t we use GPS to achieve the things we want?  Hence, GPS for success was born.

You are likely thinking “Success in three simple steps,” ha! That just seems too good to be true.   This is one time when that’s not the case. If … Read More »


 

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Christie Ressel
 
 
 
 

Squash Office Gossip | February 2, 2010

It’s no secret that our places of employment can be not only a place of enjoyment, but one that can also inevitably lead to stress as well. As business individuals, we’re all constantly striving for our best, while competing with others that are also doing the same. Not only this, but most of us have deadlines to meet, and clients to interact – all of which are expected to be done with a smile and outstanding service.

But no matter how distinguished many business individuals claim themselves to be – there are so many businesses that succumb to the unfortunate mishaps … Read More »


 

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Beth Anderson
 
 
 
 

Chic Galleria Interview with Metromom Kim DeYoung | December 3, 2009

There are all kinds of entrepreneurial moms—ranging from stay-at-home moms to soccer moms to CEO moms. Kim DeYoung is all three. She’s really the original Metromom—a driven, evolving woman committed to her family, her career and to managing her own home-based business with class. Dynamic, creative and eminently entrepreneurial Kim is the founder of Metromom.com and The Metromom GET IT DONE Circle.

Kim never sacrificed her family to succeed. Instead, she designed a work/ life balance on her own terms by creating a company that helps other women do the same. Metromom is more than just a brand. It’s a tangible … Read More »


 

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Productivity Coach Inspires Positive Change | November 17, 2009

Lee Milteer is a Performance and Productivity Coach, Author and Professional Speaker. She is the founder of the Millionaire Smarts® Coaching program and Peak Performers Coaching.   Lee speaks all over North America and Europe in Conventions, Private Companies, and Entrepreneurs and Niche Market Events.  As president of Lee Milteer, Inc., Career Development Strategists, she has counseled and trained over a million people in her speeches. Her presentations are so effective that such organizations as Walt Disney, AT&T, XEROX, IBM, Ford Motor Co., NASA, Federal Express, 3 M, Sales & Marketing Executive International, plus hundreds of government agencies and scores … Read More »


 

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Home-based Business: Scheduling Time | October 16, 2009

IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES when my last two children were small, I started a sewing business from my home. I specialized in clothing, bed coverings, and miscellaneous accessories created out of colorful, machine-washable patchwork I had designed and constructed, working primarily from the bedroom I shared with my husband.

I chose this work to provide supplemental income for the family in a way that would enable me to remain close to the children and their needs as well as to satisfy my own creative urges. In those beginning days my entire schedule of “work” revolved around my husband’s job, the older … Read More »


 

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Dawn Del Russo
 
 
 
 

Unleashing the Human Spirit with Rich Largman | October 15, 2009

I had the opportunity about a year ago to work with a fabulous business coach. Rich Largman immediately had me focusing on my thoughts and bringing my dreams into reality. As important as it is to have an accountant and an administrative assistant,  a business coach, in my opinion, is just as important.  The guidance is so essential to an entrepreneur when our hands are dabbling in all parts of the business process.  Like the old saying goes “we wear many hats”, and sometimes we need to remove those hats to get back to the essence of our business and … Read More »


 

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Christie Ressel
 
 
 
 

Email Etiquette | October 13, 2009

E-mails, one of the many ways we now communicate to one another. They are sent worldwide to everyone we know all just with the simple click of a button. We send letters, notes, contracts, attachments, updates, jokes, and chain mails. It’s become more popular than the telephone in many ways. With tonality being taken out of the equation and being left with merely the words we type; it’s crucial to ensure you come across with warmth, etiquette and class. Do you know how you are perceived in your e-mails?

Like many business professionals, I receive an unlimited amount of e-mails every … Read More »


 

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Christie Ressel
 
 
 
 

Do Your Clients Rave That You’re The Best? | September 18, 2009

The rat race – most of us are a part of it. People are constantly striving for the new ‘edge’ in business…


 

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Christie Ressel
 
 
 
 

Power Lunches | September 9, 2009

In a society where everyone seems to be living busy, crazy lives, business lunches have become more and more popular.


 

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Christie Ressel
 
 
 
 

Networking Wonder | August 28, 2009

There are countless opportunities for business people today to connect with others from all around the world. Communication has become fast, easy and simplistic.


 

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Christie Ressel
 
 
 
 

Job Interviews | July 20, 2009

Interviews; the thought of them can have even the strongest of us break a sweat. They happen everywhere, everyday.


 

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How I Survived a Very Public Layoff… | July 13, 2009

I’ll never forget the words my News Director said in January that would change my world forever, “We don’t know if we can renew your contract. It depends on the economy.”


 

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Christie Ressel
 
 
 
 

Cell Phones: The New Form of Rude? | June 29, 2009

At a lunch and learn I was giving recently, I was embarrassed to see that almost everyone in the room sat down at the table and immediately place their phones beside them.