Upgrade Your Physical Environment
I love the message in this article. Whether you are working on your business or home making changes in your surroundings changes your thinking. Think about going on vacation and how a beautiful hotel room or condo helps you relax. The choices we make about our surroundings affects us and the people we invite into our home, or if related to career and your business, how your clients see you and how you can, or can’t help them. – Liza Article #28 in my “7 Mindset & Manifesting Secrets of Multimillionaire...
read more5 Tips for Clickable Numbers for your Clients
If your business relies on clients being able to call you make sure your number is clickable from a mobile. Last Friday afternoon I was standing in Target with the children looking for a particular birthday gift. They didn’t have one, undeterred my daughter wanted to look around the mall for one, I really didn’t. Deciding on the most likely place to have the gift I thought I’d just look them up on my phone and give them a call to see if they had one in stock. Finding the independent gift shop website was hard enough but...
read moreEvernote saves trees and sanity
Before signing up for Evernote, I was spending increasingly more time online and this had wreaked havoc on my notebook system and I use the word ‘system’ lightly. I had notebooks for everything yep, actual paper notebooks. I was a nice pen, smooth paper and pretty notebook junkie with more dusty organizers in boxes and piles of notes on my desk than I should admit to. Online was not much better, my filing system for information and links was to use email drafts and bookmarking hundreds of pages in loose categories. Now I feel...
read moreWhy are you in business?
One of the first questions I ask my clients is Why they do what they do. The Why helps me connect to the original vision for their business and their target/ niche market and the greatest message they should be projecting with their website even if they haven’t achieved it yet. Annette Simmons quoted in ‘Enchantment’ by Guy Kawasaki: People don’t want more information. They are up to their eyeballs in information. They want faith -faith in you, your goals, your success, in the story you tell… It is faith that...
read more3 Emails Customers Love to Receive
Article from National Federation of Small Business (www.NFIB.com) that makes writing those client emails a breeze! Full article- 3 Emails Your Customers Love to Receive 1. Special Offers & Discounts …67% of US internet users say the motivation behind giving their email address to a company is to receive special offers and discounts. 2. Newsletters …Your customers will appreciate receiving information on your company, new products you offer, or special announcements. Newsletters are also an excellent forum to show your...
read moreA Big Thumbs-up for TinyLetter
Last week Mailchimp announced their plans for recently purchased TinyLetter. If you have a business and looked into sending out newsletters to clients (great idea) chances are you have either used, as I did, or at least considered using Mailchimp. I loved the attitude, the templates and the emails I could produce but it took most of a day to set up initially, longer than I liked to produce an email and I never looked forward to writing the next one! …All signs of an inefficient system. TinyLetter is the perfect solution. ...
read moreAbout Me
Elegant Approach Designs was started in the summer 2011 while creating websites for a few friends and family. I love to serve by sharing the possibilities of how a vision or idea for an online presence can become reality, assisting with online needs of small businesses and personal websites.