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I shot this Facebook live this week in snowy Toronto while attending a Mastermind with my business mentor Stu McLaren. When I come to these sort of business events and conferences I like to bring back some practical tips and strategies that I share with the members of my community – and I thought this would be a useful…
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A conversation between Marianne Cantwell and Catherine Watkin Do you consider yourself a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), introvert or empath? Do you ever feel that sales is just not “for you” because you feel you can’t be as bullish and outgoing as you need to be successful? If so then you are going to love this “chat” that my great…
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Today I want to talk to you about why selling your services by the session or by the hour is not only hurting your business, but it’s also hurting your clients. I’ve had two recent personal experiences that have really highlighted this for me and have inspired me to record this video for you. Watch the video or scroll down…
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Today I want to talk to you about timing in your sales conversation and why getting it wrong can cost you the sale – even if the client actually wants and needs what you have to offer. The video today was inspired by a sales conversation I had earlier in the year where I was the potential customer. I’d been to…
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This weeks video was inspired by an email I received from a private mentoring client. We’d started our work together with a whole day planning out a strategy for her business. But a few months in and she sent me an email… Watch the video or scroll down to read more. The email went a lot like this: “Catherine, I’m…
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It was October 2010. I’d recently qualified as an NLP Practitioner, hypnotherapist and coach. And always one to want to do things “properly”, I’d registered my business as a sole trader and set up a business bank account – after all I needed somewhere to pay in that £60 I got from my first ever paying client! Incredibly that was…
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I recorded this video at the end of a month I spent living and working in Perth, Australia last year. I wrote and recorded it sitting next to the pool outside an Italian style villa in the Perth hills – the day after I went for a walk and bumped into a kangaroo! I felt inspired to record this video…
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As I shared in last weeks video about Business Models, over the past couple of years I’ve had a big shift in my own business model, moving from a high-ticket mentoring programme to a low monthly investment membership community. However, it wasn’t an overnight thing – it was a shift that happened gradually over a long period of time. First…
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If you’re anything like me, then building a business you love will be really important to you. But it’s all too easy to build a business based on something you love but then find that you don’t actually enjoy it. Creating a business you love depends on a few different things, including marketing that you enjoy and which feels in…
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Last week I was working on a really important project but found myself getting stuck and just not making the sort of progress I wanted to. I ended up spending a whole day yet at the end felt I wasn’t getting anywhere and as a result was feeling really frustrated and unhappy with myself. Until I realised what it was…
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I might be at risk of showing my age with this one… but do you remember Zippy from Rainbow? Poor old Zippy, he had a zip instead of lips so when he went “on and on” talking too much his friends would just grab one end of the zip and pull it round to shut him up! Do you need…
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I’ve just got back from Canada where I attended an implementation workshop with my own business mentor. The theme of the workshop is “Love on your List” – all about nurturing your community. During the workshop we worked on a plan for creating 12 months of content which was so useful that I thought I’d share it with you in…
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