Flow Rising

There's No Magic Formula For Success.   People do business with other people which means all sales are is creating a good relationship.   Alison Proffit, our sales expert, share her tip on how to set enough time for your calls.   She shares, "if you know, you're somebody that takes a little bit more time and wants to allow that time to unfold, then know that about yourself...

Choosing when to start can be a challenge   Growing a business requires some type of advertising and marketing. However, deciding when to take the leap and pay for ads needs to be looked at before jumping in.   During her recent expert Q&A session, Amand Mundo, our social media strategy expert, talked about knowing the right time for ads.   Amanda shares her thoug...

Open Yourself to The Answers You Already Have Inside.   We all know the feeling of being stuck in life or business. Mary Gaul shares her favorite tip for how to move yourself forward.  Her advice, ask yourself questions to find solutions.   Mary knows that it can be hard to start out so her tip is, "you start with that question, what's happening in my world? Yeah. And where do...

Master your Money Mind and Making Money Can Be Easy In this episode, I chat with LeAndra Foster, a money mindset coach, about why it's important to master what you think and feel around money. Even after all the years of learning how money works, LeAndra confesses she still struggles with her own money mindset from time to time.  One thing she enjoys doing around money is playing games and do...

The Answers and The Courage Are Inside.    No matter how long you are in business, from time to time things can just slide off the rails behind your back or just out of sight.   Stephen Krausse, our operations expert, knows all about having a business that is moving a million miles but something just feels wrong.   Sharing his thoughts on trusting your own gut Steve s...

You Wouldn't Build Your Own House, Would You?  So why would you build your own website?  When it comes to business a website is high on the list of must-haves. However, not just any old website will do.    As our expert, Sabene Georges, is always saying, your website must serve the bottom line of your business.  When it comes to hiring an outside professional, she sug...

Remember Just Be Yourself! Communicating about your business to potential clients is more than just explaining what and how you provide your services. It also includes you showing up as yourself no matter what. In this episode, Mike Woeckener, a writing expert shares his recent ah-ha's around the importance of being authentic in his own writing.  He shares a recent experience he had, saying,...

Sales fall through let yourself feel it when they do.   No matter how long you've been in business, hearing a yes that turns into a no later can be difficult.    Alison Proffit, our sales expert, shares her tip for how to move through the no so you can move forward in business.    She shares, "And I think that the the best thing to do is don't respond right...

Running a small business means making priorities and saying no when things are not right.  Mary Gaul talks about how to make stick to business priorities.  As a business owner, it is hard to say no because it can feel like you may be missing out on a good opportunity.   Mary Gaul, our productivity expert, shares her thoughts on why saying no is important.   She shares...

Picture This Creative is run by principal Consultant, Sabene Georges is a creative professional with more than two decades of experience working with corporations, non-profits, and private sector businesses. Sabene is a designer, artist, technical writer, and project manager, who loves to create beautiful things. Her belief is that organizations need to communicate to multiple types of audiences,...

Understand the Difference Between Marketing and Sales to Understand Where You're Stuck Marketing a business is everything that doesn't involve actually taking money. The money transaction is the sales part and that is where so many entrepreneurs fall down. For one reason or another, they get to the money part and simply stop.  Small business coach, Stephen Krausse, talks about when you get st...

Meet Alison Proffit.  Alison Proffit, founder of Proffit Coach is a business coach & consultant who takes a holistic approach in helping purpose-driven small business owners feel more heart-centered and soul-aligned in the sales, marketing, and operations aspects of their business. Her work is informed through a background in Human Resources, Operations, Sales & Marketing, and she is...

Amanda Mundo, the founder of Social Hero Brands, calls herself a former "corporate cyborg" turned soulful entrepreneur. Over the span of 15+ years, she climbed the corporate ladder crushing tasks, projects, and assignments. In return, she was given even more work, more deadlines, and less purpose. She found that her family would only receive the leftovers of her energy and spirit after spending 14...

Mary Gaul is a Business Strategy & FOCUS Guide who has helped over 500 businesses find practical solutions and new ideas for growth and success. As the owner of Success Magnified, she facilitates conversations with business owners individually or in groups, asking questions, being a thought partner, and providing resources to help them gain clarity.  Using her gifts to help clients see th...

Meet LeAndra Foster LeAndra Foster is an expert speaker on the topic of scale-up finances for women who run coaching or alternative wellness businesses.  With almost 20 years of experience as a former pension actuary, hedge fund operations manager, and university finance instructor, she knows what it takes to make small businesses profitable.  LeAndra helps her clients increase profits,...

Meet Stephen Krausse    In His Own Words:  My vision? A world where successful small businesses are the rule, not the exception.  I know success looks different to every entrepreneur because we're all different.  30 years of experience starting, buying, operating, and selling small businesses has taught me two things.  Businesses are bought and sold on the perception...

Offer Clarity Not Confusion   When it comes to deciding what to offer your clients, the sky is the limit. This is not necessarily a good thing because limitless offers may be hurting business.   Alison Proffit, our sales strategy expert, hits the nail on the head this week. She shares with us that it's easy to think your offerings should be vast, but really simple is the better way...

Just be you, it's going to work!   Sales conversations can be scary for both people. Our soulful sales expert, Alison Proffit, shares that being bold enough to say you know the fear can really open up a prospect.   In fact she says, "...it's showing that person that you are aware of the energy of the conversation, and that you're not just trying to push through to get your point thr...

Are you asking your happy clients to share their happiness?  When you get it right with a client their testimony is a powerful tool to promote your business to others.     There is a tiny trick to getting testimonies to happen as Amanda Mundo shares, "Honestly, the hardest part about it is just asking, if you know that this person enjoyed what they really gained value from your...

Details Matter, So Write Them Down   Planning. Whew, just reading that feels big.   Our productivity expert, Mary Gaul, says it doesn't have to feel big if you help yourself out.  Her tip, "...don't just put a time block on your calendar that says planning time, or marketing time, right? That's step one, step two is going into that calendar, block or invitation or whatever, you...

Pricing is More Than Replacing 9-5 Income   When you started your business it was most likely to fulfill a desire to serve others or bring a product into the world, and making money might have been a casual outcome.  Yet you need to make the money to keep doing what you love.   Our cash flow expert LeAndra Foster shares with us that paying yourself is the reason you started you...

Get Your Social Media Audience Moving  Having an online presence is a must for all small businesses these days. So, what's the next step once you created an online audience?  According to Amand Mundo, our social media strategist, the next step is to throw a party, kind of. She suggests hosting live challenges or events for your audience.   Amanda shares, "Events and challenges...

Mix In Some Play Time and Bring More Joy Into Your Business   You probably didn't start your business so you can work so much that you never have a moment to yourself.    Mary Gaul, our productivity expert, shares how she took an experience she had with her daughters and turned it into a business networking opportunity.   She shares, "And it was so much fun taking tha...

It Better Include Your Personal Lifestyle   Starting a business is a thrill of a lifetime, and scary too. For many, it's the first time you are responsible for making enough money to keep the lights on.   Our budgeting expert, LeAndra Foster, suggests starting with a firm understanding of your personal spending.   She muses, "If you don't have enough money, if you don't ma...

Stop Doing Tasks that Drain You Business owners are notorious for working themselves to the bone and rarely getting help.    Our operations expert, Stephen Krausse, shares that type of thinking may be causing more harm than good. "if you work 60 hours, and that's your, your, your lever to convince you, you need help, and then you hire someone and you're working 60 hours so that you...