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Last week, Victoria attended a public relations seminar for small business owners in San Francisco. Refreshing to get away, meet other entrepreneurs and learn what’s new.
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We’ve been working on our Fall Conference, Entrepreneurs Embracing Change—Tools for Tomorrow's Success Today. Experts in different fields will give practical, cutting-edge and very relevant info you can apply immediately. We encourage you to sign up early for this very special event.
When we’re not having fun with Make-it-fly® or playing tennis, we enjoy the challenge of patio gardening—amazing what you can grow in a small space! At last our tomatoes are ripening—they’re really good! We also picked the first zucchinis last week.
Our very best regards,
Dave and Victoria
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Terri Novell
Further Performance Group Terri Novell lives by the motto “the power in your business starts with the power in your people.” Working with individuals and teams in the workplace, Terri knows that when teams are working more effectively together, the workplace is more vibrant and business goals more readily achieved. “I teach managers and leaders how to be more effective and create turned-on teams with a forward focus,” she says.
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“My passion is assisting individuals to trust and believe in themselves, and know they can achieve anything,” Terri says. Through professional speaking, training, consulting and coaching, Terri offers fresh ideas and learning experiences to break through perceived obstacles and achieve results. “Clients break things…boards, arrows, old beliefs…all to provide proof that more is always possible.”
Terri started her business in 1996, two years after the birth of her twins. “I was working crazy corporate hours, which took me away from home way too much,” she says. I had started my business plan five years earlier and back-burnered it when pregnancy became the focus. While my working hours didn’t lessen, a home office and a nanny allowed me to spend quality snippets of time with the kids throughout the day. It wasn’t easy but it was a win-win – launching my business and more control of my time. I actually printed out a ‘stop’ sign and pasted it on my office/bedroom because they knew that STOP meant mommy was NOT to be disturbed!”
Q: What do you find most fulfilling
about running your business?
TN: What’s fulfilling about running my business is the flexibility. I like working…a lot! With the diversity of my clients being all over the country, I’m gone for two to three days at a time. So when I’m home I allow myself the flexibility of picking up my kids from school and making a Dairy Queen run in the middle of the day. My corporate thinking from so many years of being in larger organizations helps me keep mental tabs on how much time I’m “in the office.” This structure helps me to attempt some balance. I don’t know if this will ever stop!
Q: What motivated you to start
this business?
TN: I always knew that I would own my own business one day. I just didn’t know when or exactly what it would be. My business degree major was marketing because I got Cs in accounting and loved the creativity and strategy of marketing. Over the course of my corporate positions, I was in the food industry before landing accidentally in the real estate industry. I answered an ad in the San Jose Mercury newspaper for a regional marketing coordinator and 10 years later left that real estate development and property management firm as VP of marketing and training. When I started my business, I simply offered what I had been doing in-house to other developers in the Bay Area, CA. It was a natural progression.
Q: What book has been most helpful
to you in your business?
TN: This is a very tough question as I love so many books! I generally read two genres, business and personal growth. When I was starting out, I loved On Becoming A Leader by Warren Benis. On the personal-effectiveness side when starting out I was inspired by A Course in Life by Joan Gattuso.
Q: Who has influenced you most
in your life?
TN: This is a unique answer to a simple question. My grandmother greatly influenced me because she was so entrepreneurial. She started a general store in the very small town of RisingSun, Ohio. Women didn’t start business like this back in 1919. Here’s what’s so interesting. She made her transition when I was only 5 years old. Yet to this day, she is my inspiration. We just never know the impact we have on people!
Q: What has proved to be your most
successful marketing strategy?
TN: Sticking with a niche. Period. At one point I wanted to get away from the real estate/property management/development niche as I had been doing work in this area for so long. Bad idea! A niche is so very powerful and a true blessing.
Also, early on I started writing a monthly eLetter and building a list of clients and seminar participants. I frequently get speaking presentation referrals from each monthly column. Everyone is well served to build a client and prospect list and do it on an ongoing basis. It’s never to late too start!
Q: What have been the greatest
challenges you have had to overcome, or are currently facing,
in your business?
TN: I continue to face the challenge of “always be marketing.” When I’m on the road and jamming with business, I’m too distracted and busy to make biz dev calls. Not a good cycle. So I’ve created a time usage structure and use the Outlook follow-up reminder system to help me with the discipline to do what I know needs to be done!
Q: How did you benefit from participating
in a Make-it-Fly® board?
TN: Make-it-Fly® has provided me with connections and business contacts here in Denver. My focus for 2009 was/is to grow locally. My web designer and accountant are both Make-it-Fliers. They are both amazing and life savers.
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What would you say to other business owners who are contemplating
getting involved in a Make-it-Fly® board?
TN: Make-it-Fly® provides a great system and structure for doing what each business owner must do to set themselves up for success. The businesspeople you meet and the conversations are both insightful and validating. If you work alone, the Advisory Board provides a safe sounding board for your ideas along with camaraderie. It’s a really great experience.
Terri Novell can be reached by phone at: 303-439-0077, or visit her web site at: www.FurtherPerformanceGroup.com.
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 Business As Usual Isn't an Option
By Victoria Munro
Our world is changing at lightning speed—the economy, technology, the way business is being done. We’re living in a new world with new challenges. Seasoned entrepreneurs are finding that business as usual is no longer an option.
To lead your business successfully through these exciting but uncertain times, you’ll need to become more flexible—willing to make changes. You must be open to learn new ways to cut costs, connect, communicate and network with current and potential customers. Be innovative—the Web is challenging us to think globally as well as locally. Find resourceful and creative new ways to market and win customers (and competitors) all over the globe. The fact that the world is flat, and getting flatter, is both a challenge and an opportunity for entrepreneurs.
There are answers! And Make-it-Fly® is committed to providing relevant, up-to-the-minute solutions for small business owners in this rapidly changing world. Over the next weeks, we’ll invite experts in different areas to share their know-how here and give practical ideas you can easily use. In September, we’re also planning a Fall Conference for business owners: Entrepreneurs Embracing Change - Tools for Tomorrow's Success Today.
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Seek to keep your life in balance and take good care of yourself. When you’re tired, it’s easy to become discouraged. Plus you’re not creative and rarely make good decisions when you’re worn out. Remember, you are your business’s number one asset. |
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Plan on attending the Fall Conference, Entrepreneurs Embracing Change. We'll annouce details in a few days. |
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PR on a Shoestring
In tough economic times, don’t stop marketing. Focus on low- and no-cost approaches. For example, develop a story about your business, or one of your clients, and pitch a reporter. Write a guest post or be interviewed by a top blogger, include a link to your website. Submit articles to www.ezinearticles.com, a free directory of articles; add a resource box at the bottom to drive traffic to your website. Send out regular well-written, creative press releases on newsworthy topics related to your business.
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