Jeez, I feel so lucky and warm inside from all of your responses to the nine question survey I put out there a few weeks ago. I had 35 really rich, engaged, fabulous responses. I think my favorite thing about this is that I didn’t offer anything in return for the time you all spent…
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Results from Small Business & Private Practice Marketing Survey
Written on April 13, 2010 by Michelle Barry Franco in business planning, marketing, networking, small business marketing
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The Power of Story
It’s All Story – IgniteBend 2009 from Michelle Barry Franco on Vimeo. I think a lot about story. Do you? I wonder if other people (besides Chris Brogan and Donald Miller) think about story as much as I do. The way I see it, it’s all story. What I mean is, story is the essential…
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Radical Clarity: The Secret to Creating a Business You LOVE
Written on April 5, 2010 by Michelle Barry Franco in business planning, entrepeneurialism, marketing, messaging
Picture this: You walk into your office and the phone rings. You think to yourself, “Ugh. I wonder who this will be…” You answer the phone (unsmiling, of course) and the person on the other end says, “Hi! Is this [your name]?” “Yes, it is.” You reply. “Oh, good! My friend, Resa, gave me your…
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Will you please do me a favor? I want to *really* understand soul-inspired business owners' needs.
I have been head-down focused on product creation a lot lately. I do love that kind of work, however intense and grueling it can feel at times. Now it’s time for me to get eye to eye with more of you all who are doing the soul-inspired work I always talk about and try to…
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8 Ideas for Establishing Yourself as a Leading Authority in Your Field
My new (fabulous) SEO/tech person for The Brazen Soul says I need to get content out there that speaks to the pain of my “market” and is super-easy to digest. (Jeez, he sounds like a good marketing guy, too, doesn’t he… hmmm, even more fabulous.) He’s right. We’re out here on this web of connection…
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A Sense of Home in Business
Nancy Jane Smith explored the concept of “home” in her Live Happier blog yesterday and it really got me thinking. This sense of “home” is so powerful, isn’t it? It’s that feeling that we are safe, comfortable, nurtured. There’s warmth, acceptance… for me, even a sense of empowerment. These are a big deal – these…
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Soulful Sales & The Sacred Moment
I am finding my way back into the rhythms of home after two blissfully spiritual days at a sales seminar. Yes, you heard me right – a sales seminar. A blissfully spiritual sales seminar. Oh, isn’t this a complex statement on so many levels? First of all, we soulful types often have a harder time…
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A Manifesto of True Clarity
Do you know why The Law of Attraction doesn’t work for many people? I do. It’s lack of Clarity. “The Secret” is Clarity. That’s the magic. It’s simple. And, if only it were so simple… Clarity is elusive. You think you have it one minute and it feels so good. It feels so right and…
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Networking & Marketing for Artists, Artisans & Designers
Written on March 9, 2010 by Michelle Barry Franco in authenticity, networking, small business marketing
My friend and client, Maya of Maya Moon Designs, makes seriously stunning handmade leather handbags. I mean she MAKES them, from concept to design to sewing every stitch of the piping on every one of her pieces of practical fashion art. I am blown away regularly by her ideas and creativity. Her gifts are way…
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The Good Kind of Long Day
Yesterday as our four-year-old “center” daughter and I were driving home from a “date day” including birthday party of one of her preschool friends (a ballet, tea party no less!), I had the thought: This has been a long day…. the good kind of long day. I wonder if she was having a similar feeling…
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