EP125. Terri Levine: Best Advice For Today’s Business Owners!

Terri Levine, PhD, is the founder and CEO of Comprehensive Coaching U and the Coaching Institute, providing internationally recognized programs that provide training to individuals and organizations that want to learn coaching skills. She has an impressive track record of growing million-dollar businesses. A popular keynote and motivational speaker, Terri is also a successful author.    Join My Free Dream Business Community Dream Business Community: The Dream Business Community gives the help and support you need for your career and business! Want more success? =Highlights= How it all started for Terri Levine at heartrepreneur.com. She came out of college as a speech language pathologist. Opening up her own business, she started bringing on contracts with nurses, veterans & schools. Terri found out quickly she was good at business development. She sold her first business when in her 20s. Terri Levine then started a home art show business, and years later sold that business. After a bout of successful businesses, she tried her hand in corporate America and found she did not fit well in that. Terri Levine is a master certified guerrilla marketing trainer and coach. A little info about my interviewing David Fagan, the former CEO of Guerrilla Marketing on my other show, The Spotlight with Tony DUrso. Terri co-authored two books with J Conrad Levinson before he passed. About heartrepreneur (and how to pronounce it!). It became the name of her book, and also the new name of her company and her brand, which is trademarked. A heartrepreneur is someone who does business heart-to-heart without selling or marketing, and treats people like family. About the challenges that Terri sees in today’s marketplace. People seem to be generally confused about marketing. Should they be online, offline… Terri works to get her exact target audience to raise their hands and come to her, and ask to do business with her. She’s worked with well over 5000 businesses in over 200 kinds of industries. Terri’s best advice for today’s business owners. Do your marketing as if the people you are communicating with are already your client family members. She puts on an event every two months in her local community that normally costs $5000, and she does it for under $100. She does the same online and gives away reports, webinars, videos, audio, tips, tool sheets, templates, advice all over Facebook, Facebook groups… The number one thing is to just get out there and give, give, give. If you don’t have enough clients, you are not creating enough value. The difference between a coach, mentor or consultant. About Terri Levine’s latest book, Sell Without Selling — Lessons From The Jungle. She gave up selling 40 years ago and never does it. It’s all about coming from the heart. A great point that I witnessed at a workshop held by Terri Levine about setting your price, and never going back with a lower one. Some great points about never de-valuing your prices. What the future looks like for Terri Levine. She’s very serious about creating a heartrepreneur movement of minimum 1000 people who are really learning to do business differently. She also teaches coaches and consultants how to have an automated webinar that brings a constant flow of high-quality prospects. Terri is having a ball doing business mastermind groups. The figures of how much people are adding to their business after attending Terri’s mastermind is amazing. Several new books are coming out centering around the word “turbo charge.