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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
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One of the key factors in a successful business is to know what your customers or clients are thinking – about your business, your products, your services. As a business owner, you’ll get feedback from your current customers just in the course of day-to-day business. But the results can be skewed by the interaction itself, and so most business owners find it useful to allow their customers to answer questions anonymously. And that’s where surveys come in.
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It sounds ideal, doesn’t it? Conference calls in your pajamas, doing laundry in between talking to clients, saving money on all those work lunches! But is working from home always a perfect situation? Here are some things to watch out for if you’re already working from home, or things to think about if you’re considering making the move.
This is work, this is home.
Keep your office and house as separate as possible. Create an office that you really enjoy walking into and that has everything you want in one area. Organization …
Communicating Your Message, Foundations for a Thriving Business, General Business »
Do you enjoy one-on-one networking, however, the thought of walking into room full of people you don’t know horrifies you? You’re not alone. Yes, even a social butterfly, President of the Social Committee in High School and avid networker knows how you feel. Here are some of my tricks.
And they have all worked!
A great way to network at a conference is to volunteer at the registration desk. Why? You get to say hello to everyone who registers in your line and everyone who registers gets to see you behind the …





