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About Maria Marsala
Maria Marsala is a former Fortune 300 executive, small business strategist, author, and speaker. She started her career on Wall Street at the tender age of 17 and made her mark at several formerly well-respected firms, including Merrill Lynch, Dean Witter Reynolds, and Bear Stearns, becoming a bond trader at a time when women executives were a rare commodity. Maria shepherds her clients towards success by focusing on simplicity and execution. She helps them create, refine, and reuse business systems and marketing processes that “work.” To learn more about her, visit her website at ElevatingYourBusiness.com.
Maria is an instructor in the Marketing Strategies for Promoting ... You! program. To learn how to get your copy of the program, click here.Posts by Maria Marsala
Communicating Your Message, Featured, General Business »
MARKETING DEFINED: Marketing is about building relationships, attracting the best people to your commodity, connecting with others, and telling others how your service or product adds value to their lives or the lives of their friends and family.
To market wisely, it is imperative that you clearly can tell others about the benefits of your product and how it can help them – and do so in one sentence! It’s also important that you consider your ideal client, your best fit or target market, when you are marketing. You can create …
Featured, Foundations for a Thriving Business, General Business »
OK, We all know how planning is helpful to the growth of businesses. So let’s put all the excuses on the table.
Let me know if I missed any excuse you’ve told yourself!
Plans are ONLY for companies that need financing.
My plan is going to change.
My business is too small.
I don’t want to create a monster business.
I don’t have time to create a 50-page plan.
I make up my business as I go along!
I don’t want to make much money anyway.
I’ll never use it again anyway.
I don’t think ahead.
I don’t want to be …
Featured, General Business »
I’m asked all the time, “what could I do that will help me grow faster?” And I’d love to have just one answer, but of course I Don’t. The “what” is different for each person who hires me, because they are running their business differently that someone else. What I can tell you is that when you’re not winning like you’d like to be winning, there are tried and true things that can help you and you’re not going to like the answer. So I’ll hold off on telling you …
Featured, General Business »
To validate your web pages means that the code behind what you see when you visit a web site page has been written correctly. Then your page will be in a format that is viewable to anyone in the entire world, no matter what browsing program they are using. And we all want our sites to be viewable!
Featured, General Business »
Use this helpful scorecard, “How Are You Doing? Rate the Health of Your Business,” to measure 36 key indicators of a successful, highly profitable business. You’ll test your business in the key areas that affect income, expenses, and production.
Learn exactly where your business excels and what areas need improvement.
Find new areas you haven’t thought about before, but could use to gain a competitive edge.
Use the survey results to create a plan to get your business to the next level – and beyond!
Rate The Health of Your Business
Small to mid-size business …
