Heather Villa

Welcome to the third and final article of the membership program series. With these Tips In Ten article, I’ve wanted to take ten minutes each week to share with you some helpful insight into building membership programs. Membership programs can have a powerful impact on your business because they will save you time while helping [...]

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This is part 2 of a series I’m writing about membership programs. In the previous article of Tips In Ten, I talked about membership programs as a way to grow your revenue while decreasing the amount of time you worked. In other words, membership programs are about switching from an hourly model of working to [...]

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While a lot of my Tips In Ten article are “standalone” issues where I discuss just one topic, I’ve been lately enjoying a couple of these Tips In Ten “series” where I take ten minutes of your time each week for a couple of weeks to give you a really good base of information and [...]

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In some article of Tips In Ten I give you “little picture” projects that you can do well in 10 minutes: Twitter, LinkedIn, blogging, that kind of thing. They are important but often self-contained and fairly specific. On the opposite end of the spectrum is business growth. Big picture stuff! And, yes, it can be [...]

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Your business will be more successful when you can act on the future before it happens. In the last article of Tips In Ten I started talking about trendwatching and why it’s important for your business, and I gave you some homework so you could start preparing to watch trends. In this article of Tips [...]

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No, this Tips In Ten is not about how to become one of those costume-jewelry-wearing fortune tellers at the circus. This article (and the one that follows) is about staying on top of the trends that will impact your business. Foreseeing trends and acting on them before everyone else does gives you two distinct advantages: [...]

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You might remember back to one of the earliest Tips In Ten articles, I talked about how you can blog in ten minutes a day. Recently I sat down and was reviewing some of the past issues to make sure that the content was current and to see if there was anything I might consider [...]

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