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10 Tips for Networking during the Holidays

This is a season that is packed with messages about being jolly, SHOPPING, spending, giving gifts, eat-drink-and-be-merry events, ending with New Year's resolutions and midnight celebrations. One thing that is true for many is that this time of year has more people interaction with company parties, family events, gatherings with friends, and religious observances.

While this season is meant to be joyful, the expectations of others can over stimulate many of us. This time of year can result in feelings of pressure, guilt, overwhelm, stress and obligation. Notice how the messages on the commercials, in the news, and in your social and family circle are external messages.

Here are 10 tips to make networking, or as I like to call it, "connecting," easier, more natural, more joy-filled and less stressful this holiday season.

3 Proven Marketing Techniques to Increase Sales

Have you ever wished you could sit down with a successful businesswoman and ask her to share the benefit of her experience and her most effective business-building techniques? Well now you can with this article. Below are 3 of my 5 favorite hard-learned effective marketing methods. You can shave years off your learning curve and bring measurable immediate results with these activities.

How did I come to learn these methods? As a personal and business coach, speaker, and trainer, I have studied and learned from some of the best marketers, lecturers, webinars, and teleseminars. Over the years, I have invested thousands of dollars in great business coaches. This is the end product of what I have distilled from the experts in simple actionable steps. I've tested, refined and used these methods and, guess what, they work!

As a new, highly motivated, passionate coach, it took me awhile to really comprehend that "doing" my business was quite different than marketing it. It took getting into the minds of my target market, my future clients, to know how they think and what helps them buy from me.

TECHNIQUE #1. Define and refine your WHO and WHAT.

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10 Steps to Manage Judgments in the Workplace

I wrote an article that was published in the December 2007 issue of Today's Chicago Woman (TCW), a magazine in it's 25th year of publication serving professional women in Chicago.

This topic is one of my favorite "sticky" subjects that most people don't like to talk about unless it's to whine and complain about others!  We all fear being judged, we criticize others for being judgmental and we are judgmental!  The good news is, it's good news and we all do it and it protects us.  Read on to see my thoughts on why and when we do it and a unique 10-step approach to consciously shift your mindset and manage your judgments for the best outcome.

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Have you ever said, "She/he is so judgmental" about a boss, co-worker, girlfriend, parent or others? We tend to think being judgmental is not a flattering behavior. Well, guess what? All of us are judgmental! The good news is this natural behavior helps us evaluate the world around us and can protects us. The bad news is, when we act based on inaccurate, incomplete, or fear-based assumptions about people and events, we can hurt our relationships with others and ourselves at work, at play.

(Click here to download a copy of this article TCW_Dec07_044.pdf)

Why we do it

Gail Now Affiliated as Coach for Chicago Wellness Group

For all you Chicago fans of wellness for body, mind, spirit and soul, and those curious about alternative care, I am happy to announce a new affiliation with the Serenity Health and Wellness, located in the West Loop.  I am offering ways to shift the mindset and habits of their patients to support the benefits they receive from acupuncture, chiropractic, nutrition, massage, sports therapy, psychotherapy and more.  I highly recommend the services of this capable, energetic, fun, youthful and welcoming staff!  Call ahead to check on availability.

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