These five things are crucial for every social media platform!

 “Branding is about much more than the fonts that you choose, your branded colors, or if you have a logo. Branding is much more than that. Branding is literally what people say about you when you're not around. .”

-Bonnie L. Frank 

In today's episode I share 5 tips to improve your social media. Social media is probably your best marketing tool for your online business. If your business is online then you need to make sure your social media is working for you. These 5 tips will help you grow your business and avoid many of the mistakes business coaches, first time entrepreneurs and digital marketers make online. These simple tips will help you with branding and help your audience connect with your message. I share what your audience expects of you online. How you show up for your audience really affects how they engage with your posts.  It is so important to be consistent. In order to really be...

I love the Royals and I've have learned loads of business lessons from Queen Elizabeth. Here are some of them.

 “It's absolutely expected that in time you will hire a team. You will hire out for the things you need. You will have somebody else take care of this and have somebody else take care of that, and you will manage those people. That's how you scale a business.”

-Bonnie L. Frank 

Today's episode is all about the business lessons I learned from Queen Elizabeth. If you know me, you know I love the Royal Family. I love all the rules and protocols they have to follow. As I discussed in episode 84, I really do think you can find business lessons all around you. Leadership comes in all forms and in this episode I share some of the strategies I have learned from  Queen Elizabeth and how she makes her professional life more manageable. They are great business lessons that we can apply to our own lives. This will be a particularly interesting episode if you...

If you're open to them, business lessons are all around you, every single day, and they're yours to grab and take hold of as you move through life.

“ I think as you are surrounded by other people, whether they're business people or not, you can learn a lot about people and success by watching them. By watching how they go through life. By watching how they act and interact and react. We learn the most about people when they are in adverse situations.”

-Bonnie L. Frank 

Today's episode is about business mindset and how to see business lessons in everyday life. If you are trying to grow your digital marketing business, online business or coaching business this is the episode for you. I share various lessons I’ve learned growing my coaching business over the last seven years. I share some bad advice from business coaches about when to hire a virtual assistant. I share lessons from watching a child with her grandfather. I also share my observations of an online...

Why do people actually start businesses? Being an entrepreneur isn't an easy gig. Most people never try and fewer actually succeed; however, it's totally possible and there is no ceiling to anything you can accomplish. I made the decision to start from scratch at 49 yers old with no training, money or support.

“Because every entrepreneur knows it's not a straight line to success”

-Bonnie L. Frank 

Today's episode  is not just for entrepreneurs starting a business but but for any business owner who wants to reach their business goals. This episode shares what you need to do in order to keep going when times get tough. Every entrepreneur knows there's no straight line to  success in business. Simon Sinek in his book Start with Why shares that your business mindset and your WHY is the biggest indicator of success. Whether you are starting an online business,  a coaching business or any kind of business where you are the decision maker, your WHY is...

This is part 2 to the question, "Bonnie, how do you ever sell anything without making any sales calls?" The answer to this question took up two episodes! Episode 82 is part two of the answer.

"Once again, what I'm doing should be selling for me. I shouldn't have to go to great lengths to get people to buy things from me.  If you have to jump through hoops yourself to get people to buy your things. That is just too much trouble.”

-Bonnie L. Frank 

Today’s episode is a continuation of Episode 81. If you haven’t listened to that episode, go back and listen because you'll hear why I really don’t like sales calls. In this episode, I explain how what you are doing online should sell for you. I explain the best marketing practices to get prospective clients on your email list or to your website.. You can use all the other online platforms such as Clubhouse, Facebook, Twitter and your podcast to make connections. I also explain the three things people need...

I get asked this question a lot, "Bonnie, how do you ever sell anything without making any sales calls?" The answer to this question took up two episodes! Episode 81 is part one of the answer.

“Well, people never like to be sold to, I certainly don't like to be sold to. So, I don't do sales calls. People don't like them.”

-Bonnie L. Frank 

Today's episode was inspired from a question a gentleman asked in a Facebook group. He asked, “How do you ever sell anything if you don’t do sales calls?” Well, I get asked this question quite a lot because the way I do sales is so different from the way many people do sales. Seven years ago, when I was starting my business from scratch,  I had a tough time and interviewed 25 different coaches to possibly hire one myself in the future. You'll hear me explain what that was like and how it directly shaped my view on sales.

Today, as a business coach, I offer three types of calls. A business strategy call and...

The number one reason your business is not growing as fast as you'd like is very likely YOU.

In this episode:

• You are 100% in control of your mindset and your mindset keeps evolving as you do.
• Carol Dweck wrote a great book called Mindset that provides valuable info. and is a fast read. Businesses and schools often read this for their teams.
• Consumer Mindset vs Producer Mindset is a major issue for entrepreneurs and is fully explained in the episode.
• Your mindset will get in the way of your business success if you let it!
• How do you react to a need int he marketplace?
• The limitations that exist are truly only the ones you place on yourself, no other limitations exist in business.
• Keep a pulse on your competition.
• I refer to JV Partnerships in this episode. The previous episode is on JV Partnerships.
• The number one thing that will make or break your business is your mindset.

Are you on Clubhouse? If you are and you'd like to learn more about growing your business there,...

Clubhouse is a wonderful platform and it can do amazing things for you personally and professionally, but it isn't your business marketing answer. Listen in for all the details.

“ It is never okay, in my opinion, to just talk about what you've got for sale. Nobody cares that you've got something for sale. Guess what? They’ve got something for sale, too!”   

-Bonnie L. Frank 

Today’s episode is my third episode about Clubhouse. Yes, my third. Why? Well, I thought it was about time I dispel some misconceptions about Clubhouse. If you’ve heard the buzz about Clubhouse from any online social media marketers, you would think there were customers just lining the Clubhouse hallways eager to buy any discount webinar, photo filter or online course you are hawking. I can tell you that is just not so. If you go onto Clubhouse with the idea that you're going to sell, sell, sell, you'll probably fail. So then, what is really going on in those rooms...

Instagram, Facebook and Clubhouse polls are wonderful ways to get to know your audience and more!  

In this episode:

• Polls have been around for a while (even on Twitter and LinkedIn!) 
• Polls can be used for any reason including a "yes" or "no" answer or more specific answer choices that you provide.
• Polls are a great way to get to know your audience better, what they like, what they dislike, content they'd like for you to create, etc.
• You can choose two choices that are both positive or negative to be funny and to provide another opportunity for engagement and for your audience to get to know you.
• You can tease out a new blog post topic, product, event, etc. through polls, too.
• Although stories created on Instagram work on Facebook, polls created inside of Instagram do NOT work on Facebook and vice versa.  (Fully explained and an easy how-to in the episode.)
• Having your audience engage in your polls (or quizzes) shows the algorithm that people are interested in...

 Joint Venture Partnerships are wonderful but choosing the right one for you can be challenging.

There are loads of different ways to do a jv partnership! Here are some things to consider:

• It should be beneficial to all parties in the partnership...Choose someone who has a similar audience, but not the exact same audience. If it's EXACTLY the same, that's a competitor. If it's someone who compliments what you do, that's a great choice.
• Partner with people who align with your brand, your message, the way you do things, your vibe.
• Determine how you divide up the money ahead of time! Is it a percentage? A dollar amount? I go over a lot of different things to consider here in the episode.
• How big and valuable is their "list?" (email list) compared to your list? Do the people on their list actually open the emails?
• I describe, in detail, an unfortunate situation that occurred because I did NOT choose a partnership well...a cohost I chose for a Clubhouse room.
• Remember that just...