Fake It Till You Make It

Being confident in your business and it your ideas can certainly help you stay focused.  Lacking confidence can send you down a path of trying everything under the sun and still failing.  If you don’t have the confidence you need can you fake it?  Having a clear path and focus for your business can help …

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Discouragement Sets In

What do you do when frustration and discouragement sets in?  It’s easy to give up when the going gets especially tough.  Christy shares her frustrations and then tells you the steps she is taking in order to push on.  

Are You An Imposter?

The Imposter Syndrome is alive and well.  You may even have a devasting case of the Imposter Syndrome and not even know it yet.  Listen to find out what it is, if you have it, but more importantly how to get rid of it!

Integrity isn’t always profitable!

Christy faces an ethical decision.  Having to choose between immediate income and long term good will isn’t easy.  Christy explains the problem, the choices that she has and the decision she makes as she tries to build her business on an ethical foundation.  Having intergrity isn’t always fun or profitable.

Having All Your Eggs in One Basket

Now that Christy has a grip on her original product, Cryopop, she is going to be diversifying her product line.  Christy reveals the strategy behind this move and talks about the products she will be adding to her offerings.

Haters Gonna Hate!

Christy reveals the haters and their strategy to try and get her to give up.  You know her better than that!  All the haters are doing is providing motivation to fuel her fire.  Christy also discovered some interesting things by collecting data. Data is important to validate or invalidate your assumptions.  Christy has just started …

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Sizzling and Smoke Don’t Always Mean Fire!

Christy continues to refine her sampling strategy.  She is working hard to stick to her objectives with samples.  The goal is to have a profitable business and that can only be accomplished when the samples convert to sales.  Cryopop has some work to do to educate customer about the product and also overcome some very …

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Targeted Sampling Success – Cryopop

Christy could go broke giving out samples of her product, Cryopop at Mallory Square.  The point is to make a living, so giving samples has to be targeted.  Christy changed her targeting strategy by offering samples only to those who stopped and appeared curious about her product.  While the overall sales for the night were …

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Turning Samplers into Buyers!

A week after the soft launch and Christy has learned one thing…….samples will be the key to her businesses success.  She has given away nearly 500 Cryopop samples down at Mallory Square as she tried to build her business.  Now she grapples with the issue of turning a large portion of the samplers into buyers. …

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Angel Rivera – A Time to Dance, San Deigo, CA – Part 2

Angel and his wife grew their dance studio to 3 locations.  Angel also realized that he was just trading his jtime for money, and that limited the income potential he could have with his business.  The bigger he grew his business and the more locations he opened, the more unfulfilled he felt.  Angel lost his …

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