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Quality, Quantity or Price? Which is Most Important?

December 25, 2011 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

In a recent survey I conducted on Facebook.com , I was surprised to learn that people unanimously voted that quality was more imporant than quantity or even price! Now I was stunned that it was a 100% unamimous vote here, because I expected some people to opt for either price or quantity. But the conclusion that… [Continue Reading]

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Filed Under: Business Tips, Featured Slider, Marketing Tips, The Latest Tagged With: Business, Marketing, Packaging, Price, Quality, Quantity

Hit the Pause Button Cause I Want Out of Here!

December 9, 2011 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Have you ever felt like that as an entrepreneur? Like you just want to change your mind and go and get a real job? All entrepreneurs go through that, I can guarantee you. Customers don’t pay on time and cash flow gets tight. You may have a partner in your ear constantly asking questions about… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Tips, Featured Slider, The Latest Tagged With: Business, Emotional Endurance, Entrepeneurs, Hayley Solich, Stability, Sustainability

4 Quick Tips on How to Catch and Keep Customers

November 27, 2011 By WomenCan 3 Comments

Firstly, if you want to catch fish you have to be prepared to spend time and money. Great fish don’t always get on the line the first time you put your bait in the water. It requires repetition – it’s a numbers game. You put your information in front of enough people enough times and eventually you will get the result you want. But it also requires strategy. After all, if you use the right bait, you’ll get the right catch, but only if you are fishing in the right fishpond for the fish you’re hoping to hook.

Filed Under: Business Tips Tagged With: Business, Customer Service, Hayley Solich

# How to attract and Keep Customers – Sue Crawford’s Thoughts…

July 8, 2011 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Sue Crawford shares about how to attract and keep your customers and raises the issue of how this is negatively impacting on businesses who don’t take their customer care program seriously.

Filed Under: Business Tips, Tips Tagged With: Business, Clients, Customer Care, Lead Capture, referrals, Sue Crawford

Cool Tools# Fabulous Social Media plugin – Wibiya

June 28, 2011 By WomenCan 3 Comments

I spotted this plugin on one of my Empowered Entrepreneurs from my Facebook Group’s website (@Chris Lucas) and I thought I’d give it a spin and I have to say that I am really impressed! You just join their website, add in the details of your social media accounts, copy and paste the code into… [Continue Reading]

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How to Attract and Keep New Customers# A quote from Jill Chivers

June 27, 2011 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Jill Chivers shares her thoughts on the whole customer attraction/retention theme.

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Pterodactyls: Do They Hold the Keys to Business Success?

June 25, 2011 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Are you evolving from one thing into another? Have you developed your full wing span and got that higher vision? Have you developed keen sight to see where your customers are congregating? Do you use your ‘head-space’ to help to direct you or are you operating solely from a ‘heart-space’? This morning when I awoke… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Tips, Tips Tagged With: Business, Consolidation, Creation, Dinosaurs, Hayley Solich, Innovation, Motivation, Pterodactyl, Strategy, The Creaticians

Media# How to Create a Wave of Interest in Your Business – Social Media Woman eMagazine

June 20, 2011 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Hayley Solich shares strategies on how to market your business online for business success, as published in the Social Media Woman Magazine, May 2011.

Filed Under: Business Tips, Marketing Tips, Media

Business Tip# Are you making the most of your Free Directory opportunities?

June 15, 2011 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

I was reminded just a day or two ago about the opportunity that comes to create back links and gain free advertising from free online directories. When I did a search for directories for my client, which was in the Sunshine Coast area, I was surprised to see how many directories there were just for… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Tips, Tips Tagged With: Advertising, Backlinks, Free Directories, Promotions

Creating a wave of interest in your business through customer referrals

May 19, 2011 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

You can choose to pay big marketing $’s to advertise your business. You can choose to make it really complex, frustrating and confusing. Or, you can choose to keep your marketing plan simple and to harness the gift that is a happy and satisfied customer. The most effective way to grow your business is… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Tips, featured, Featured Videos, Marketing Tips, Tips, Wisdom Tagged With: Advertising, Business Growth, business tips, customer relations, harnessing, marketing tips, multiplication, referrals, word of mouth

How to Sell Large Videos through a Size Limited E-Commerce Cart

May 18, 2011 By WomenCan 2 Comments

As many of you may be aware, I have recently been presented with the problem of working out how to sell large sized videos through an E-Commerce shop. I am not one to give in to a problem, but I have to say that this one was really troubling me. My initial thought was that… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Tips, Saving Time & Money, Tips, Web Tools, Wisdom Tagged With: Hayley Solich, Large Files, Solutions, The Creaticians, Uploading, Videos

Creating a wave of interest through Video Testimonials

May 13, 2011 By WomenCan 1 Comment

Are you using video testimonials effectively in your business? Are you sharing your customer’s positive experiences with others so they too can benefit from what you have to offer? If not, then you are missing a great opportunity to create a wave of interest in your business. Hayley Solich offers practical and action-focused… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Tips, featured, Featured Videos, Marketing Tips Tagged With: Business, Customers, Marketing, referrals, Testimonials, Testimonies, Tips, Videos

Hayley’s Top Business Tips – Have your Business Card Handy

May 1, 2011 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Have your business card handy with you and when you get into conversation with anyone, introduce yourself and give them your business card. You can do this at the supermarket, the school, the bank, a restaurant or on the train. Keep them in your pockets and not your bag, wallet or purse, as it will… [Continue Reading]

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Hayley’s Top Five Tools for Online Businesses

March 30, 2011 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Today I thought I’d give you the heads up on the top tools and online services that I use to manage my business efficently. First, there is my hosting service. I only ever recommend services that I have used or have come highly recommended to me. I have been with Hostgator for the past 3… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Tips, Product Reviews, Saving Time & Money, The Creaticians, The Latest, Tips Tagged With: Hayley Solich, Products, Services, Tools, Top 4 Tools for Online Business

Business Ideas – How do you come up with a winning idea?

January 25, 2011 By WomenCan 1 Comment

I have been asked numerous times by friends to come up with the perfect business for them. Well, that is kind of like asking someone to wave a magic wand and produce a million dollars out of thin air. Business ideas really are not that hard to find if you start with a process that… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Tips, Tips Tagged With: Business, Ideas, Successful, Winning

Business Planning Template

January 25, 2011 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

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We all know that planning is the key to success in any endeavour in life. Whether it is a written or mental plan, planning is just top of the list of what we need to do to accomplish anything. So why is it that business owners either fail to consider writing down a plan or… [Continue Reading]

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Why do we always start the New Year with renewed energy?

January 1, 2011 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

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Do you ever stop to think why it is that we start our new year with renewed vigour? Some might say it is because we allow ourselves the opportunity to start afresh. But I wonder how many realise that it is actually due to the fact that we have filled our love tank to overflowing,… [Continue Reading]

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Learn how to build your own website in two days with Gihan Perera

December 14, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

It’s not too often that you will find a business owner openly promoting the services of another business who is in direct competition, located in the same city, however, I have to say that I am in awe of Gihan Perera’s no-nonsense approach to building a credible online business and I do think this workshop… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Business Tips, featured, Training Tools Tagged With: Design, Gihan Perera, Websites, Workshop

“Faking it til you make it”…

November 9, 2010 By WomenCan 2 Comments

A tip for those setting up a business: “If you’re not known, then you need to get known and while you’re getting known, you might as well be the business you have a vision to be. Some call this faking it til you make it but I call it stepping into the shoes of your… [Continue Reading]

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Get READY!

November 7, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Blow those new year goals out of the water! Hayley Solich shares four tips on how to get things moving in the direction you want to go in.

Filed Under: Business Tips, featured, Motivation, Tips

Are you staying true to yourself?

October 24, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Hayley Solich shares 4 tips on how to focus your business and stay true to your business vision so you can avoid the trap of diversifying where you spread yourself too thin on the ground, which can lead to business failure.

Filed Under: Business Tips, Tips Tagged With: Business, focus, Growth, Jack-of-All, Master, Productivity, Wisdom

It’s all in the packaging…

October 15, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Are the photos you’re using on your website and in your promotions working as hard as they should be for you in creating the message you want to send to the world? It could be time to re-evaluate your influence and the message you are projecting to a world that may not know you. After all, first impressions really do count.

Filed Under: Branding Tips, Business Tips, Marketing Tips

Do potential customers know what they will get from you?

October 2, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Hayley Solich shares how you can differentiate yourself from the crowd and be more appealing to your potential customers just by being clear about your message to the world about what you can offer as a tangible benefit.

Filed Under: Business Tips Tagged With: Clarity, Communication, Marketing

Can you describe your mission in just three words?

September 25, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Hayley Solich shares a methodology for crafting an introduction about yourself, so that you can clearly communicate your mission in business or life and she asks the question, “Can you describe your mission in just three words?”

Filed Under: Business Tips Tagged With: Business, Communication, Connections, Creating, life, Mission, Passion, Vision

5 Tips to Clear Your Computer Clutter

September 5, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Donna Hanson is a Technology Translator and shares five very practical tips on how to clear your computer of clutter.

Filed Under: Business Tips, Saving Time & Money Tagged With: Computer, Decluttering, Donna Hanson, Technology, Tips, Translator

You never know who you will meet in life or how it will influence you

August 27, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Hayley Solich shares about her learning at a Mastermind Group in Perth, Western Australia today and how she has seen a huge life lesson from that one event.

Filed Under: Business Tips, Motivation, Tips, Wisdom Tagged With: Business, Gihan Perera, Hayley Solich, Mastermind Groups, Wisdom

A Warning for All E-Commerce Businesses – Janet Beckers shares her Online Credit Card Fraud Experience

August 24, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Janet Beckers, from Wonderful Web Women, shares about her recent experience of a customer using her business fraudulently. Immediately she has lost $300 in affiliate payments, but may be much more once the owners of the stolen cards realises what has happened.

Filed Under: Business Tips, Saving Time & Money, Tips Tagged With: Credit Card Fraud, Guard Yourself, Janet Beckers, Protection, Warning

Janet Becker shares on what are non-negotiables in business

August 19, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Janet Becker from Wonderful Web Women shares what she sees as her non-negotiables in running a business.

Filed Under: Business Tips, Featured Videos Tagged With: Business, Foundations, Structure, Wisdom

Facebook Fan Page Changes to Custom Page Size

August 11, 2010 By WomenCan 3 Comments

Hayley Solich shares how Facebook are changing their custom page widths from 750 to 520 which may affect many clients who have gone to the expense of having custom fan pages crafted.

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Don’t assume everyone knows what you do!

August 5, 2010 By WomenCan 2 Comments

Hayley Solich shares how you may be surprised how many people in your network are clueless about what you do in your business, encouraging business owners to get creative about how they let their network know what they do.

Filed Under: Branding Tips, Business Tips, Marketing Tips, Tips Tagged With: Branding, Business, Clients, Creativity, Marketing, Networking

The Value of Building an Email List

August 4, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Hayley Solich shares an experience she had recently with a client with regards to list building that really did show her there is more to list building than just making a sale.

Filed Under: Business Tips Tagged With: Building, Business, Clients, Email Lists, Information

The Basics of Websites – For people who have no idea

July 14, 2010 By WomenCan 3 Comments

Hayley Solich shares the basic terminology relating to websites and her map she uses to help clients understand what is required to get a website up.

Filed Under: Business Tips, Tips, Training Tools Tagged With: Business, Knowledge, Training, Websites

Branding and Packaging

July 13, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Hayley Solich shares four tips about branding and packaging, with a case study that demonstrates the value of investing in professional branding and packaging.

Filed Under: Branding Tips, Business Tips, Marketing Tips, The Latest, Tips Tagged With: Branding, Business, Chantal Vanderhaeghen, Franc Essentials, Hayley Solich, Marketing, Packaging, Tips

Saving Time & Money Series #2: Wait! You don’t have to be the first!

July 4, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Hayley Solich shares on the value of not rushing in to purchase goods when they are first released onto the market.

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Saving Time & Money Series: #1 Go Hootsuite to save time posting!

June 24, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

The Saving Time & Money Series is a series of tips and reviews about tools and systems that can save you time and money operating your business online. These tips and tools form part of the content of the Ultimate Business Plug-In Lunch Seminar Series. Coming soon: Online Business Quick Start Package which includes a CD full of valuable information and tools for setting up and smartly operating your online business.

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The “Find 10 an hour and feel the power” Challenge

June 15, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Hayley Solich shares her strategy for fitting some exercise into the day and improving her health whilst working from home as a solo entrepreneur who uses her computer a lot of the time.

Filed Under: Business Tips, Motivation Tagged With: Computers, Entrepreneurs, Exercise, Health, Home Based Business, Inspirational, life, Motivation, People, Solopreneurs

Your Marketing & Product Funnel: The Key to Online Success – Alicia Forest

June 14, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Alicia M Forest, MBA, Multiple Streams Queen & Coach? and creator of “21 Easy & Essential Steps to Online Success System?, teaches coaches, consultants, and other solo professionals and online entrepreneurs how to attract more clients, create profit-making products and services, make more sales, and ultimately live the life they desire and deserve. For FREE tips on how to create abundance in your business, visit http://www.clientabundance.com/

Filed Under: Business Tips, Marketing Tips Tagged With: Alicia Forest, Marketing, Product Funnel, Products

Goal Setting: You Only Get What You Aim For if You Aim!

June 13, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Hayley Solich shares 10 tips on goal setting. You only get what you aim for if you aim and focus helps you to achieve your dreams.

Filed Under: Business Tips Tagged With: Achievement, Business, Dreams, Goal Setting, Motivation, Purpose

It's all in the preparation!

June 12, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Hayley Solich shares about the power of preparing and staying focused when you are building your business or life mission.

Filed Under: Business Tips Tagged With: Business, focus, Foundations, Motivation, Preparation

One of the wisest men I've heard – Randy Pausche, RIP.

June 12, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Randy Pausche was a lecturer in the US and he shares a message about living that many people who are not dying don’t get to hear. His speech, delivered to his peers and students, was recorded with his children in mind. He wanted to pass on to them everything he had learned from his life time. It’s an incredibly brave message and completely inspired. RIP Randy Pausche, your legacy lives on!

Filed Under: Business Tips, Motivation Tagged With: Achievement, Action, Dreams, Inspirational, life, Philosphy, Plan, Randy Pausche, YouTube.com

Network Like You Date! – Ludwina Dutovic

June 11, 2010 By WomenCan 1 Comment

Ludwina Dautovic is the director and founder of The Red Tent Woman, an organisation supporting women in small and home based businesses. They host networking events nationwide, offer business mentoring and provide online and offline resources.

The Red Tent Woman is the 2008 MCEI National Marketing Award Winner for the ‘Women in Business’ Category, 2009 Australian Home Based Business of the Year, Coach of the Year Finalist 2010 and listed in the Who’s Who of Australian Women 2010. If you are looking to start your own small business, struggling with your existing one or looking for a unique women’s networking event then go to www.theredtentwoman.com.au now and get your free gift valued at $97.

Filed Under: Business Tips Tagged With: Business, Business Growth, Interaction, Ludwina Dautovic, Networking, Relationships, Targeted Marketing

Some fabulous advice on Media Releases by PR Specialist, Sue Papadoulis from Home Biz Chicks

June 7, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Online entrepreneur Sue Papadoulis empowers and inspires women (and enlightened men), to live the life of their dreams by starting and growing successful home businesses. She is the founder of Home Biz Chicks, which provides step-by-step advice on getting started, marketing, PR, finances, best mindset, and juggling work vs. home. Access Sue’s special video (valued at $279) How to Generate Free Publicity for Your Business free at http://www.facebook.com/l/c8a10;www.diyprkit.com. Get Sue’s $79 audio CD Secrets to Home Biz Success free at http://www.facebook.com/l/c8a10;www.HomeBizChickscd.com.

Filed Under: Business Tips Tagged With: Advertising, Free PR, Media Releases, Sue Papadoulis

Grow your business wisely…

June 7, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Hayley Solich bares her heart in this e-book that highlights some of the pitfalls of starting up and operating a home business.

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Words are powerful…but is there more to communication than just words?

June 6, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Hayley Solich shares how it is important to have a mix of media in your message because words alone can be misinterpreted and even worse still, completely ignored.

Filed Under: Business Tips Tagged With: Audio, Clarity, Communication, Kinesthetic, Market, Marketing, Message, Reach, Visual, Words

The power of the written word…

June 5, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Hayley Solich shares how it is important to have a mix of media in your message because words alone can be misinterpreted and even worse still, completely ignored.

Filed Under: Branding Tips, Business Tips, Marketing Tips Tagged With: Branding, Communication, Marketing

Some fabulous advice on Media Releases by PR Specialist, Sue Papadoulis from Home Biz Chicks

June 4, 2010 By WomenCan 1 Comment

Filed Under: Business Tips Tagged With: Free Advertising, Marketing, Media Releases

How would it be if…

June 4, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Hayley Solich shares her insight into how to keep motivated, especially if you are working alone.

Filed Under: Business Tips, Motivation Tagged With: Business, focus, life, Motivation, obstacles, overcoming

Leadership

May 2, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Fantastic video talking about leadership and starting a trend.

Filed Under: Business Tips Tagged With: Following, Leadership, Trends

5 Tips for a Great Website

April 28, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

Hayley Solich shares her 5 top tips for creating a great wordpress website.

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Building brand is easier than you think!

April 25, 2010 By WomenCan Leave a Comment

I added a customised banner to my Facebook Fan Page. Then I added a customised introduction page to my Facebook Fan Page. Then I introduced the same branding elements – the colour scheme, the photo imagery, the symbols and typeface – to my website and wherever I am in communites across the web. The result – my site stats doubled within 3 days.

Filed Under: Branding Tips, Business Tips, Wisdom Tagged With: Branding

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