Michela Quilici, Business Navigator

May 4

Stop Treading Water in your Business, and Start Creating Waves

A recent conversation with a new client went something like this… “I feel like I’m treading water. My business is growing and I’m both excited about the future and scared because things are starting to fall through the cracks due to my ineffective processes and lack of proper systems to…

Business Growth

3 min read

Stop Treading Water in your Business, and Start Creating Waves

Apr 21

Remembering the Titans: Focus on your Strengths

Let me start by saying that I am not a football expert; however, I am an athlete. I love studying successful business models just as much as I love studying the psychology and strategy behind winning sports teams. There are so many parallels between the game of sports and the…

Performance

3 min read

Remembering the Titans: Focus on your Strengths

Apr 8

What a Park Bench Taught Me About Marketing (And Human Behavior)

I met up with my friend and colleague Pauline recently, amongst her many talents Pauline is a sales trainer and when her and I get together we always have the most interesting conversations. You see, Pauline sees the world from a sales perspective, and I typically view mine through a…

Marketing

4 min read

Feb 5, 2021

What a Tibetan Buddhist Nun Can Teach Us About Business Growth

No successful business owner grows a business without failing — a lot. It takes a specific type of skill set to weather the inevitable ups and downs of growth with a certain amount of ease and grace (or teetering emotional balance at the very least!) There isn’t a class or…

Business

3 min read

Published in The Startup

·Jun 14, 2019

How To Stop To-Do Lists From Damaging Your Self-Worth (And Your Bottom Line)

Do You Have A Doing Addiction? — My earliest memory of making a to-do list began when I was six years old. As I sit at my desk in my bedroom with my pencil in hand, I begin to write a list of everything that I need to do on a piece of lined loose-leaf paper. The…

Productivity

4 min read

How To Stop To-Do Lists From Damaging Your Self-Worth (And Your Bottom Line)

Published in The Startup

·May 31, 2019

Business Owners, Are You Wearing Busy Like a Badge of Honor?

5 Tips To Get Off The Hamster Wheel As a Business Growth Coach, I often hear from new clients that they feel like a “hamster spinning in a wheel” — their business being the wheel and them being the hamster stuck in it. It’s a funny metaphor, but how true…

Life

5 min read

Business Owners, Are You Wearing Busy Like a Badge of Honor?

May 14, 2019

Getting New Clients From Speaking is Not Easy, Here’s the Secret to Making it Work

Tales from the trenches of a business owner trying to get clients through speaking. I was given an opportunity to speak to a group of women entrepreneurs. My first — ever — presentation. I spent most of my life avoiding public speaking. Avoiding it like the plague. …

Public Speaking

5 min read

Getting New Clients From Speaking is Not Easy, Here’s the Secret to Making it Work

May 6, 2019

No Business-Traction? Here Are Eight Ways to Get a Grip.

Refreshing insight for business owners struggling to propel or continue to drive your businesses forward. You’ve been refining your craft for a while now, but your business-traction is stalled. Your wheels are spinning with endless ideas, but none grab the pavement. Your enthusiastic pursuit of self-improvement and craft-refinement bring consistent…

Startup

4 min read

No Business-Traction? Here Are Eight Ways to Get a Grip.

Apr 29, 2019

5 Secrets You Need to Know, to Take Back Control of Your Business

Erika and her mom started a cleaning business, and like many entrepreneurs, they had an optimistic and excited outlook for the future. After a decade of working extremely hard, wearing all the hats and being exhausted and underpaid, they were almost ready to close their 6-figure business for good. …

Entrepreneurship

4 min read

5 Secrets You Need to Know, to Take Back Control of Your Business

Apr 18, 2019

4 Undeniable Reasons Why Your Marketing Plan Isn’t Working

If your marketing plan isn’t working, there are four undeniable reasons for this (plus one bonus reason!) Over the past 18+ yrs I’ve worked with hundreds of business owners and Entrepreneurs to help them focus on the right marketing and business development activities that generate results. …

Marketing

5 min read