Best Small Business Advice – Interview with Kelly O’Neil

This is the final interview of the Best Business Advice Ever interview series featuring successful entrepreneurs. I’ve asked each of them what’s worked, which mistakes they learned from the most, and the one piece of advice they have to share with you.

Award winning Speaker, Author and Marketing to the Affluent Expert, Kelly O’Neil, is passionate about helping entrepreneurs think big and play bigger to build thriving six and seven figure businesses. Kelly O’Neil is no stranger to the good life. Having been raised in an affluent family in the Silicon Valley where private planes and luxury vacation homes were a way of life, she set out after college to create her own wealth…and succeeded.

In 2000, she left a thriving career in corporate public relations and founded UpLevel Strategies (now Kelly O’Neil International™) where she works exclusively with thousands of small businesses and entrepreneurs as both a coach and consultant to help them design businesses where they earn more and work less through her Marketing to Millionaires™ programs.

While Kelly grew up in an affluent family, she did not always have the privileges associated with money. Listen to the interview to learn:

• The lesson she learned renting her first apartment after graduating from college
• How an unexpected reaction when she decided to quit her six-figure salary job made her even more determined to succeed as an entrepreneur
• Why she succeeded financially but failed miserably in other areas of her first business
• The one thing she would have done much sooner if she could start over again
• What an important mentor told her (this advice is invaluable, and one of the hardest lessons to learn)

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Best Small Business Advice – Interview with Heather Dominick

Until March 31, I’m running the Best Business Advice Ever interview series featuring successful entrepreneurs. I’ve asked each of them what’s worked, which mistakes they learned from the most, and the one piece of advice they have to share with you.

Heather Dominick, founder of the EnergyRICH Success System for Entrepreneurs, a proven step-by-step system that allows you to bridge your passion to 6-figure profit  by partnering Universal Energetic Principles with practical step-by-step “How-To’s” to  joyfully make more money in your business so you can better serve the world. Through her EnergyRICH® Business Boot Camp, Private Mentor Coaching Programs and products, Heather shows her students how to transcend lower level energies like fear and doubt to be able to build their business from a place of serving, joy and abundance.

Heather was a high school drama teacher for eight years in the New York public school system, and although she loved her work, she felt there was something more that she was meant to do. After her own “dark night of the soul” she left her job to create a business around her passion for nutrition and wellness. She filled her business quickly, but when in the first summer her sales dropped and others in the industry told her that was to be expected, she set out to learn about alternate ways to generate revenue and build a business. Listen to the interview to learn:

• Why you should listen to the “nudge” and not others’ voices who tell you that you’re crazy for following your passions
• What happened to her revenue and how she realized she had a much larger role to play in her business
• The major mistake some entrepreneurs make that severely restricts their growth
• How she learned there is never just one way to market or build your business

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Best Small Business Advice – Interview with Lara Galloway

Until March 31, I’m running the Best Business Advice Ever interview series featuring successful entrepreneurs. I’ve asked each of them what’s worked, which mistakes they learned from the most, and the one piece of advice they have to share with you.

Lara Galloway, The Mom Biz Coach is a sought-after business coach, speaker, writer and Blog Talk Radio show host in the mom entrepreneur world. Her work has helped countless mompreneurs define success on their own terms and achieve it. Her signature training program, The Mom Biz Makeover, teaches mompreneurs how to create a sustainable business that fits into their family life. Known for her pay-it-forward attitude and love of helping others, Lara uses her Engagement Marketing Strategy to take a passive approach to earning income and an aggressive approach to spending quality time with family.

Lara grew up in the Atlanta, Georgia and worked for IBM in the United States for several years before moving to Michigan, and then Canada, with her husband.  She quit her job to raise her children, and soon realized she missed working. Lara developed a coaching business that allowed her to work from home. Listen to the interview to learn:

• How growing up in Corporate America taught her the right way to do a lot of things
• How she reinvented herself as a stay at home mom, then an entrepreneur
• The difference between being an entrepreneur and someone who earns money from her own business
• The danger of being the Chief Everything Officer in your business

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Best Small Business Advice – Interview with Jennifer Bourn

Until March 31, I’m running the Best Business Advice Ever interview series featuring successful entrepreneurs. I’ve asked each of them what’s worked, which mistakes they learned from the most, and the one piece of advice they have to share with you.

Jennifer Bourn specializes in working with leading entrepreneurs, speakers, authors, and information marketers to support them in achieving big business results. As founder of the web design and online marketing management agency Bourn Creative, Jennifer offers full service design, marketing strategy, and implementation services to emerging small businesses who desire big marketing results on a small business budget.

Jennifer founded Bourn Creative 2005 to give her the freedom to stay home with her children and continue to build a career doing what she loves. She immediately jumped into the branding, web design, and marketing arenas to fulfill her passion for helping smart, savvy business owners create powerful brands, attract more clients and get found more often online. Today she is a savvy mompreneur and Bourn Creative’s Marketing Manager, Art Director, and Chief Strategist, and is constantly reading, experimenting, and learning to expand her knowledge-base, keep informed of the latest trends and tools, and provide a high-level of service to Bourn Creative’s clients.

By the time Jennifer graduated from college, she already had five years of full-time graphic design experience at an advertising agency, moving from production grunt, to creative services director. And, she had completed internships at a printer, a newspaper, a magazine, and a marketing agency. So starting her own business was a natural step, although it was not a simple decision to make. Listen to the interview to learn:

• Why it took her six months to work up the courage to quit her agency job, and what the idiosyncracy was that set her off to resign
• The challenges of working at home with children, and how she used to try to hide this from her corporate clients
• How wearing jeans set her free and turbo-launched her business
• Why you shouldn’t cut costs on your accountant or your website
• How little she used to sleep and how different her life and business became once she allowed herself to hire help
• A simple SEO tip to get more traffic to your website

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Best Small Business Advice – Interview with Linda Miller Zellner

Until March 31, I’m running the Best Business Advice Ever interview series featuring successful entrepreneurs. I’ve asked each of them what’s worked, which mistakes they learned from the most, and the one piece of advice they have to share with you.

A veteran of investment banking, fashion and publishing, Linda possesses the business savvy and creative inspiration that propels Hamptons Creative Group into a much sought-after advertising, marketing and special events firm serving the Hamptons and other niche markets with similar brand cache. Linda chose to exit a groundbreaking career as one of the first women to hold a position in the male-dominated firm Goldman Sachs in the 1970s to form a magazine publishing company which was eventually purchased by a well-known media giant. At the helm of Hamptons Creative Group, Linda’s skills as a community organizer, marketing concierge and “Brand Therapist,” leverages her call to action in a new way, benefitting like-minded businesses, solopreneurs and organizations.

After selling the publishing business, Linda worked with her husband Bob Zellner to publish The Wrong Side of Murder Creek, his memoir of being a white southerner in the freedom movement before she established Hamptons Creative Group. Listen to the interview to learn:

• What she learned from the “school of hard knocks” as a woman in the business world of the 1970s
• Her personal “24-hour rule” that she learned after making a bad business investment decision
• Why face-to-face contact is still so important in business in this online world, and how you can maintain this sense of connection and community
• How to stay true to yourself in your business

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Best Small Business Advice – Interview with Ali Grace

Until March 31, I’m running the Best Business Advice Ever interview series featuring successful entrepreneurs. I’ve asked each of them what’s worked, which mistakes they learned from the most, and the one piece of advice they have to share with you.

Ali Grace is the CEO of Guilt Free Goddess and Graceful Living Retreats. Ali’s transformative work as a coach, speaker and retreat facilitator shows women how to transform and realign their lives. Having survived cut-throat Corporate America, a major health crisis before the age of 30, devastating relationships, and financial crisis – a few times, Ali draws on her own exploration of spiritual psychology and her continual commitment to learning to inspire others to live peacefully and gracefully. Her lifestyle today bears little resemblance to her former six-figure, seven days a week sales career for a Fortune 500 company. Ali’s private coaching practice is dedicated to working with women and men in life transformation, co-dependent relationships, early life trauma and moving into life purpose.

As the first person in her family to graduate from college, Ali grew up adopting the belief that working hard equals success in life, and that it was achievable at a price. Her first job was at the age of 14 and she worked her way through college. Early in her career she climbed to a position as a sales manager for a Fortune 500 company responsible for a $1billion sales goal. Travel around the world, high income, and working seven days a week became the norm for her and was simply the cost of success. At age 28, she had a mild stroke and took time off work for the first time in her life. But that was still not enough to make her stop. Listen to the interview to learn:

• How she went from the proverbial corporate fat into the corporate fire (and why a new career only made things worse)
• Why we often think doing things the safe way will guarantee success, love and happiness (and why it often doesn’t)
• How being skeptical and “mainstream” kept her focused as she began the profound spiritual journey that changed her life
• What her Masters advisor told her about her “Triple A” high achiever work ethic and how her thesis experience turned into her new business

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Best Small Business Advice – Interview with Matt Arndt

Until March 31, I’m running the Best Business Advice Ever interview series featuring successful entrepreneurs. I’ve asked each of them what’s worked, which mistakes they learned from the most, and the one piece of advice they have to share with you.

After developing Internet marketing strategies for countless companies, Matt Arndt discovered a big need for social media marketing services.  He founded Turbo Social Media in 2009 to not just fill that need, but also provide a level of expertise and service offerings that are unparalleled in the industry. Matt has always been “the techy entrepreneur”.  While in college, he started a successful company called “PackMyDorm”, a full service moving and storage company that was virtually based and operated out of Davis, California in association with Bekins Van Lines.  He operates Turbo under the same principles he teaches, which is why you’ll see him all over the social web in blogs, articles, videos and networks.

Matt was determined to be an entrepreneur early, and established his first online business at the age of 15. After college, he took a job (something he swore he’d never do) and lasted six months before starting Turbo Social Media. Listen to the interview to find out:

• The valuable lesson he learned in his short tenure as a sales employee in a major international company
• How to get the most out of working with a mentor or coach
• The simple piece of advice he received to handle cash flow crunches
• His perspective on marketing and why doing more “stuff” doesn’t necessarily equal more sales
• Why it’s important to get the right help early and before you think you need it
• His best picks for internet marketing tools to keep you in front of your contacts

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Best Small Business Advice – Interview with Marie Guthrie

Until March 31, I’m running the Best Business Advice Ever interview series featuring successful entrepreneurs. I’ve asked each of them what’s worked, which mistakes they learned from the most, and the one piece of advice they have to share with you.

Marie Guthrie is an Executive Career Strategist and CEO of The Legacy Track, a boutique consulting firm specializing in revitalizing the careers of Fortune 500 Senior Executives with the complexities, pace and pressures of operating in the global arena. The Legacy Career System and The New Rules for Executive Careers help top executives in their 40’s & 50’s find a purposeful career no matter what the business climate, to earn the income they are worth and to provide a good life for themselves and their loved ones. Marie offers Coach the Corner Office Training for coaches wanting to work with Fortune 500 executives and their very complex personal and professional worlds.

Marie labels herself a “recovering executive” who reinvented her career five times due to mergers, economic downturns, market shifts and new bosses before she established a thriving business.  

Listen to the interview to hear:

• How the early days being her own boss were spent more like an employee than the CEO of her own business
• The two people she would hire immediately to help her build her business if she could do it over again
• Her ABCD list and why “Don’t Like, Don’t Care” items are deadly for your business
• How she reinvented her business using the same methods she did in her career
• Why she doesn’t call herself a coach anymore

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Best Small Business Advice – Interview with Beth Schneider

Until March 31, I’m running the Best Business Advice Ever interview series featuring successful entrepreneurs. I’ve asked each of them what’s worked, which mistakes they learned from the most, and the one piece of advice they have to share with you.

Beth Schneider, President and CEO of Process Prodigy, is a highly sought after, internationally known Systems expert. Beth works with small business owners, showing them how to squeeze two to three times the results from their existing business so they can work less, make more money and create Outrageously Effective Systems in their businesses. Her client list reads like a Who’s Who of the small business world because of the results produced by her work. Process Prodigy clients have seen remarkable growth; often adding six figures or more to their bottom line and increasing productivity by as much as 600%. Because of her work, Beth has had the privilege of being invited to partner on projects with world-class entrepreneur, Michael Gerber. Gerber, who is touted as the world’s #1 small business guru, is best known as the author of the E-myth Revisited. Beth is the featured Systems Expert in Michael Port’s bestselling book Beyond Booked Solid and you’ll find her chapter “Lions and Tigers and Process…Oh My” in the book Inspiration to Realization.

Beth Schneider, a corporate employee who quit to start her own dream business, and instead developed a million-dollar business consulting with other entrepreneurs (it wasn’t the business she intended to start). Listen to the interview to find out:

• What she overlooked about herself that became the core of her business (and how you can do this for yourself)
• The letter she wrote to herself at 17 and what it said
• Why it’s so important to be willing to test the waters and how to make choices wisely
• The worst thing you can do in your own business
• What to do after eating chicken at networking events

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Best Small Business Advice – Interview with Tina Forsyth

Until March 31, I’m running the Best Business Advice Ever interview series featuring successful entrepreneurs. I’ve asked each of them what’s worked, which mistakes they learned from the most, and the one piece of advice they have to share with you.

Tina is the CEO of OnlineBusinessManager.com, and trains, writes and consults in advanced online marketing and business systems for business owners and their support teams. She is author of Becoming an Online Manager: Playing a Bigger Role with your Clients (and Yourself) and co-author with Andrea Lee of Money, Meaning and Beyond, Pink Spoon Marketing. Tina’s first foray into the business world was at age eight, when she used her trusty tape recorder to create a radio commercial for her family’s rental business. (Funnily enough they didn’t use it.) Since then, she has been a “Jill of all Trades” working in everything from marketing to recruiting for businesses big and small, and of course, running her own successful online business.

Looking back at her various corporate positions, Tina says there were many areas that prepared her well for her future online business. But at the time, she could not have imagined that her first venture into the online world in 1999 would lead her to where she is today. She left a “cushy” corporate job to join Thomas Leonard and Andrea Lee in the early days of Coachville, the largest network and trainer of coaches worldwide with 20,000 coaches as members and graduates from 85 countries.

After an early attempt at coaching herself, Tina realized her passion and skills tended toward the business of coaching, and not being a coach. Since then she’s grown her business to support and lead the charge for online business managers, and she trains and coaches people who want to become online business managers.

Listen to the full interview to learn:

• Why you need to pay close attention to the opportunities in front of you
• How the online world has changed online and offline business forever (and is no longer considered a hobby)
• What you need to do first when you create your business
• How to avoid dead end love affairs in your business
• The shift she made from being self employed to a business owner
• The recipe for insanity and how to make sure you’re not following it

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