Recent Articles From EvanCarmichael.com http://www.evancarmichael.com/ http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/Business-Survival-Tips-from-WILD-THINGS.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/Business-Survival-Tips-from-WILD-THINGS.html Perhaps the "solution" to many business survival obstacles can be found by watching the "wild things" of nature! What do they DO that we DONT? What can we learn? business growth, small business marketing, small business success.... Let's take some ACTION today! http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/Monetize-Your-Message--HOW-to-profit-WILDLY-in-the-new-world-of-Speaking--Part-THREE.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/Monetize-Your-Message--HOW-to-profit-WILDLY-in-the-new-world-of-Speaking--Part-THREE.html The step by step plan of how to profitably implement all you learned in parts one and two of this article series for aspiring and experienced speakers. Become Profitable as a speaker - again - or for the first time!!! http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/Monetize-Your-Message--HOW-to-profit-WILDLY-in-the-new-world-of-Speaking--Part-TWO.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/Monetize-Your-Message--HOW-to-profit-WILDLY-in-the-new-world-of-Speaking--Part-TWO.html marketing Your message... Speakers today are facing unprecedented challenges in demonstrating their value and overcoming the now-standard obstacle of decreased funding for events and training opportunities. In Part TWO of this article series for aspiring and experienced speakers, we learn EXACTLY how to combat this and remain profitable. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/Monetize-Your-Message--HOW-to-profit-WILDLY-in-the-new-world-of-Speaking--Part-ONE.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/Monetize-Your-Message--HOW-to-profit-WILDLY-in-the-new-world-of-Speaking--Part-ONE.html During the golden age of the speaking industry, speakers found themselves being paid to motivate and inspire audiences all over our nation and beyond. Bureau agents presented us to perfect clients and meeting planners wouldn't think of bringing in an inexperienced "green" speaker for an event. We were valued and valuable. Companies and organizations had large training budgets that they would "lose" if they didn't "use". Oh, yes. Business was good. Now, we are seeing a new set of circumstances entirely....long-standing conferences being cancelled due to low participation.... Companies required to justify every $$ they spend are finding it hard to demonstrate the ROI of bringing in a motivational speaker. Speakers in general are being "booked" less often, and far too many speakers have invested LOTS of $$ for far too little return http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/Just-Play-the-Hand-Youre-Dealt.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/Just-Play-the-Hand-Youre-Dealt.html Are you waiting on the economy to recover? Waiting for the recession to pass? Waiting to see what your business produces? Waiting for things to turn around? The truth is simple: Wait and you will starve. Act NOW, and you will profit... in any economy. Play (and profit from) the hand you've been dealt. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/HONK-If-You-Need-More-Clients-NOW.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/HONK-If-You-Need-More-Clients-NOW.html If you need more clients now, don't waste any more time or money on efforts, experts, or programs that don't work. Read this article twice. Once for understanding... and once for IMPLEMENTATION. Marketing success, guerrilla marketing, business survival, business success, business growth, more clients NOW. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/Slow-Down-to-Make-MORE-Money.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/Slow-Down-to-Make-MORE-Money.html If you are sick of twittering till your thumbs fall off, facebooking and blogging until you have a headache, and networking neurotically, you have to read this article! I can't tell you the number of entrepreneurs I speak to who will tell me all they are doing to "chase success" and then ask, "What else should I be doing?" While I admire their stamina, the truth is that their schedules are already staggering. They already have so much going on, it made me tired just listening to it! But we are ALL busy these days. And if we are NOT experiencing success, doesn't it make sense that we should ADD something to the equation? Not always. Sometimes (most of the time) MORE is simply too much! Sometimes (most of the time) we need to slow down... to make more money, to accomplish more, to succeed wildly! http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/Two-Minute-Truth--Are-you-MOTIVATED-to-succeed.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/Two-Minute-Truth--Are-you-MOTIVATED-to-succeed.html Another quick truth about business success... not for the "in a box" thinker and certainly not for anyone who would turn me into the National Speakers Bureau for committing the sin of speaker "heresy"! http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/Two-Minute-Truth--HOW-to-AVOID-DEATH-in-a-TOUGH-ECONOMY.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/Two-Minute-Truth--HOW-to-AVOID-DEATH-in-a-TOUGH-ECONOMY.html Learn one quick strategy for surviving a tough economy! Um.... not appropriate for the very sensitive animal rights activist or the chronic excuse maker! http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/HALFTIME-STRATEGY-SESSION-for-Business-Success.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/4221/HALFTIME-STRATEGY-SESSION-for-Business-Success.html It's July and we've already reached the half-way point of 2009. If you are serious about your business, you need to perform regular "check ups" on how it is (and you are) performing. Now is a great time to do it. Take another look at what you wanted to accomplish this year... assess your progress, and carve a more strategic path forward. This article is second-best to personally being coached by leading international business and marketing coach, Michelle Pippin. WARNING: This article isn't meant to be READ, but implemented!