Melanie Benson Strick's Articles

Leveraging: How Virtual Teams Catapult Your Results, Increase Your Sanity and Free Up Your Time
Are you tired of just earning within the 6-figure range and want to go beyond it at the same time have more time to enjoy what you love doing most? Learn the power of a virtual team and get the results you've always wanted.
Virtual Teams: The #1 Reason Why Entrepreneurs Fail To Leverage Their Time With A Virtual Team
Want to be able to go beyond your six-figure range but finding it hard to do just that? Doing it on your own will get you NOWHERE. You need to learn the power of a virtual team and get your profits rising exponentially...and be able to enjoy life more!
3 Quick (and 3 Lasting) Cash Flow Fixes To Get You Through Lean Times
Are you feeling the repercussions of the economic crisis? Get a grip on things that you need to accomplish and learn how to go against the tide of the trying times.
How to Boost Your Bottom Line by Strengthening Your Power Factor
Your Power Factor is a combination of your energy, your bandwidth and your support systems. As entrepreneur's, our greatest asset is our creativity and ambition. But if our Power Factor is being compromised, then your bottom line can take the hit.
Six Sanity-Saving Scenarios to Turn a Massive Breakdown into a Powerful Business Breakthrough
I've learned over the years that a breakdown means that something very valuable is happening - I have new insight into how I can improve my process, my attitude, or my belief so that problem never happens again. Here are six sanity-saving scenarios that can turn that breakdown into a breakthrough.
How Control-Freak-Itis Can Derail Your Success
Imagine what it would be like if you could run a profitable six, seven or eight figure business and enjoy as much freedom as you desire? For many, the moment you decide to grow your business you simultaneously think of all the hard work ahead. You begin to question the dream and wonder if it's really worth it. What if you could tap into a simple way to achieve your dream - without having to work m
5 Essential Habits to Protect Your Most Essential Commodity
A couple of years ago I was at a leadership conference where one of the keynotes, Suzanne de Passe of Motown Productions, talked about protecting the entrepreneurs' greatest commodity - our energy. Suzanne's key comment was 'how you spend your energy is how you measure your success.'
The Insider Secrets to Not Losing Your Shirt on your Client's Next Project
My client Anna called me last week, completely frustrated, about an unfolding nightmare with her new client. Anna had recently accepted a new client who had an exciting project. They discussed what specific needs the client had, and Anna determined that it would fit in her schedule. She received a down payment for the work, and scheduled the time in her calendar.
How to Transform Over-Commitment, Way-Too-Busy and Debt: Simple Strategies to Skyrocket Success
What's the number one difference between the hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs barely making it and the top 10% who are wealthy, successful and living a life that they love?
Six Steps To Create An Instant Shift In Your Results
What would you do if you knew that you could change your results in an instant? Would you create more money? More fun? More freedom? The ideal relationship?
Monkey Management: 3 Simple Solutions to Reclaim Your Time, Focus, and Sanity
Do you ever feel like you are carrying the weight of a thousand people on your back? Somehow no matter how good you think you are at delegating it still feels like you have a thousand things to do. It's a feeling many entrepreneurs, managers and business owners have. William Oncken, author of Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey, calls it 'the monkey on your back.'
7 Keys to Identifying an Ideal Partnership
In the world of small business, it seems there is often a common quest: to find the ideal business partner. Usually this stems from a need to 'get rid of' the roles or tasks that we struggle with. Like marketing, finance or sales.
How Your Greatest Gifts Can Turn Into The Saboteur That Ruins Your Success
Have you ever noticed that the very skills or attributes that you feel most proud of can become your biggest nightmare? Maybe you can relate to this story.
Six Tips to Instantly Master Your Finances by Becoming a Millionaire-Thinker
What's the fastest route from where you are today to your ideal financial status? Becoming a 'millionaire-thinker'. Now you may think this means you have to be a millionaire - you don't! The truth is many people don't aspire to that level of financial success - and there is nothing wrong with that.
Do You Have A Hobby or a Real Business: 6 Key Indicators To Know the Difference
As every business owner knows, almost every business is born from a passion for 'some thing' that we think we can do better on our own. The need for freedom, independence and unlimited earning potential gets the better of us and the next thing you know, you are in business for yourself.
Why Entrepreneurs Must Slow Down to Speed Up
I know you are probably thinking that slowing down to speed up is an oxy-moron. But it's true. You have to slow down to speed up your results.
Let me explain.When I started my business, I had a brilliant coach named Michael Stratford who had a saying...

Slower + Smoother = Faster
5 Questions to Catapult out of “Stuckville” and Into Massive, Focused Action
If you were already a millionaire, what would you be doing differently?

Got you thinking didn't I. That's the power of a question. So really, what would you be doing differently if every day you got up and went about your business as if you were already a millionaire?
Billionaire Leverage Techniques: 5 Tips to Accomplish Your Big Dream
Have you ever had a dream so big that you had no idea how to accomplish it? The dream is there, in the background of your mind, gnawing at you and clamoring for your attention.

For many busy entrepreneurs, you might start to feel like the dream is slowly dieing. With everything you have to do to generate financial results, you never have time to focus on the dream. You are always busy running y
Why You Need To Manage Your Compulsive-Inventor
As entrepreneurs, we all have that compelling need to create. It's part of our genetic code; it's what makes us willing to do what it takes to be entrepreneurs. Sometimes that compelling need to invent new things gets in the way of what makes us successful.

The other day I realized I was feeling kind of tired. Not just physically tired but mentally tired. As I scanned my inner and outer environ
A Little Secret to Skyrocket Your Success
Do you know anyone who over and over again makes poor choices in their life, in their business and particularly, in managing their time? Yes, you probably do. Have you ever found yourself struggling with a decision, not knowing what to do? Maybe you are faced with a poor performance employee who has been loyal yet you know they aren't working out. Or perhaps you are being offered a chance-of-a-lif
7 Steps to Creating Million-Dollar Results with Your Own Mastermind Team
'Mastermind' is the one of the greatest 'secrets' to success. A Mastermind is a group of people who share a common vision and commit to leveraging each other's brilliance, skills and big thinking to achieve their biggest dreams. Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, talked about the power of masterminding almost 100 years ago! When you gather a small group of committed, successful people t
Is My Mastermind Having a Meltdown?
A mastermind group is a team of people who come together to talk about their business (or sometimes another type of focus like relationships, real estate investments, spiritual growth, etc.) The members of the group come from a like-minded focus to grow and excel in their success.
A Dirty Little Secret That's Costing You Your Profit…and Your Sanity
It can cost a lot of money to launch a product (and run a business!)

The truth is you have to spend money to make money. But at some point, you really must identify HOW MUCH you are willing and able to spend.
My Ten Insights to Playing a Bigger Game (Part Two)
My insights will give you that golden nugget to play a bigger game in 2007.
7 Sure-Fire Time Management Tricks To Get More Done
Do you know why you don't get all the stuff on your to-do list done? Sometimes it's as simple as a having a strategy for time-blocking.

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Melanie Benson Strick's Articles