by chala | Jan 7, 2015 | Ezines, Inspiration, Leadership, Marketing, Small business growth
Happy New Year everyone! I wanted to greet you with a scary statistic..call me strange…Only 19% of people who make new year’s resolutions keep them for one whole year. Here are the other numbers according to the Toronto Star article: 19%: Less than 24...
by chala | Dec 16, 2014 | Ezines, Inspiration, Leadership, Marketing, Small business growth
I had one of the most interesting confrontations of my life at last week’s Canadian Association of Professional Speaker’s Conference. It was really illuminating and I’d like to share it with my fellow business owners who dare to blog, speak and in...
by chala | Nov 20, 2014 | Ezines, Inspiration, Leadership, Marketing, Small business growth, Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW7NNtsBulk Yes, you’ve been posting articles on LinkedIn. You’ve said YES to every invite on Facebook and Twitter. You have done your job so how come social media isn’t doing its job and bringing you new clients? I...
by chala | Oct 27, 2014 | Ezines, Inspiration, Leadership, Marketing, Small business growth
A week after being rocked by the Parliament shooting, popular CBC host Jian Ghomeshi was fired over sex allegations about his involvement in rough play in the bedroom. He subsequently wrote a Facebook manifesto where he declared that all acts were consensual and that...
by chala | Oct 3, 2014 | Ezines, Inspiration, Leadership, Marketing, Small business growth
At the start of my coaching career 10 years ago, I had paid a slew of biz dev folks to teach me how to get clients. They agreed on one thing: You can’t get a sale unless you ask for it. I always found this really difficult, coming from an immigrant background...