Success Secrets | From the The Personal and Business Blog of Katrina Sawa

Sacramento Smiles with Tamara Dorris!

May 15, 2012 By Katrina Sawa Leave a Comment

Katrina will be interviewed by Tamara Dorris from Sacramento Smiles on Blog Talk Radio. Sacramento Smiles with Tamara Dorris Wednesday, May 16th at 10:00 am (PT) Tamara Dorris is dedicated to highlighting local businesses, providing real estate updates, and interviews authors and experts who can help listeners everywhere improve their lives. Tamara is a long-time real estate professional & personal development author,committed to supporting Sacramento with positive, effective action! You can listen live to the show by going here. … [Read more...]

I Bet You’re Not Even Doing the Basics

May 13, 2012 By Katrina Sawa Leave a Comment

We're almost to the half way mark for the year and boy is it flying by! I wanted to let you in on a little secret that I'm doing right now in my business and it's about SIMPLIFYING. Yes, you heard it here first....the queen of doing all kinds of stuff in her biz is SIMPLIFYING. Let me share with you why.... You see, while the leveraged business models are still working, there are some business models that you want to spend your time on and some you ABSOLUTELY DON'T right now.... It's time to 'Get Back to the Basics' of what works in your business, your marketing, your follow up and your overall effective work habits. In the last few months every business owner I've spoken … [Read more...]

What’s LOVE got to do with it?

May 9, 2012 By Katrina Sawa Leave a Comment

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Many times entrepreneurs get stuck in their businesses and can’t figure out what’s going wrong when the money stream dries up, clients drop off, and referrals disappear. This can be so confusing, frustrating, and emotionally draining. It might be surprising to you to find out that, regardless of what type of financial situation you’re in, many entrepreneurs struggle because of lack of love in their life….love and support for or by a significant other, love and confidence in yourself or love for life or your business in general. Lack of love in any capacity can surely hold you back from making huge monetary gains in your business whether you realize it or not. And this can … [Read more...]

Who is determining your wealth?

May 8, 2012 By Katrina Sawa Leave a Comment

Do you really know what you’re making per hour after all is said and done? I’ve worked with hundreds of women entrepreneurs who THINK they really know how much money they make. When we really break it down to all the time they’re spending before, during and after the sale, many times they’re shocked to see what that price tag really is. Sometimes it’s even less than working in a fast food restaurant! So I ask you: How much money do you ACTUALLY make per hour? Is it above minimum wage? Have you ever taken the time to ask yourself WHY you have you priced yourself (or your products and services) the way you have? When was the last time you looked at your … [Read more...]

Looking to Jumpstart your business, grow your mindset and get clarity around what you are doing in your business and in your marketing?

April 23, 2012 By Katrina Sawa Leave a Comment

VIRTUAL TRAININGS: Looking to Jumpstart your business, grow your mindset and get clarity around what you are doing in your business and in your marketing? Prefer to learn virtually over the phone and email? This can be a very affordable option to getting the advice and coaching YOU need for YOUR business to take it to the next level. Date: TUESDAY, April 24TH @ 5:00 PM (PST) Topic: How to Teach Live Calls & Programs to Boost Your Business Find out why you want to embrace the new marketing strategies such as doing video marketing, mobile marketing, live streaming video shows, teleseminars, webinars, podcasts, radio shows, etc. There are always ways to incorporate some of … [Read more...]

What would happen to YOUR business RIGHT NOW if something really bad happened and YOU couldn’t do the work?

April 16, 2012 By Katrina Sawa Leave a Comment

If you haven't seen my posts on Facebook lately I'm currently in the process of restructuring my team. Not something I really WANTED to do, more like forced to do since my main VA (OBM) just left me to go back and work in an office. I know it was a good move for her so that's good but for me, yes, I'm a little left in disarray for a few weeks until we get someone in place to manage what she was doing (which was managing the entire 10+ person team!). I can't believe how it takes a village to run my business now...so far from the days of my one little assistant in my home office 9 years ago... We'll be fine I know it, my team luckily seems to know what they're supposed to do and it … [Read more...]

FREE Call with me & Erika Watson on April 11th!

April 10, 2012 By Katrina Sawa Leave a Comment

ADMIT IT….You have a stack of business cards sitting on your desk of people you want to follow up with BUT HAVEN’T. I know you do because 99.9% of all the small business owners I see do too. You do realize that you’re missing out on a TON OF SALES, right? Join me and Erika Watson on this free call on the topic of “Maximize your follow up system for million dollar results." The call is on April 11, 2012 at 5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern On This talk you will learn: What exactly you should be sending, mailing, emailing and saying in your follow upin your field How to capture more leads from your social media marketing and in-person networking events The 3 types of … [Read more...]

FREE Call with me & Erika Watson on April 11th!

April 5, 2012 By Katrina Sawa Leave a Comment

Did You Know That NOW (In this Economy) Is Such a Great Time to Start or Grow a Business?

March 30, 2012 By Katrina Sawa Leave a Comment

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It Is - I Promise! BUT....You Have To Set It Up Right AND Have The Right Business Model and Marketing Strategies or It May Not Work! With this day and age of our fast-paced, online and virtual world so much is possible….but you have to be in even MORE places than you can imagine just to build a modest sized income-generating business! (Not to mention a 6+ figure business!) Do you get overwhelmed by the amount of things you COULD be doing to build your business? The problem with most small business owners is that you hear the big long list of things you SHOULD be doing and think, "Well, I'll just pick one and do that for now". WRONG ANSWER! You won't get anywhere doing just … [Read more...]

“One of the Easiest Ways to Double Your Revenues ASAP”

March 24, 2012 By Katrina Sawa Leave a Comment

One of the biggest mistakes small business owners make is not doing enough referral source marketing. One of my mastermind clients used to not delegate anything. When she first started working with me a little under a year ago she was making low five figures in her business, been doing it for a little under two years and she was 'doing it' all herself. In fact she wrote this to me in her initial coaching application: "I can do all that stuff; create my own business cards in Word, Create my ebooks, change up my website, do my email newsletters". And she went on to list about a dozen other tasks she could and was doing herself. Yet she couldn't figure out why she wasn't making the … [Read more...]

Imagine Loving Your Business and Loving Your Life

March 14, 2012 By Katrina Sawa Leave a Comment

Is your business the dream you hoped for when you started? Do you often feel guilty about working instead of playing with your kids or the other way around? Do you feel that you are working WAY too hard for the results you are getting? If yes, I have good news for you…..STOP right here and listen…. Having an online business requires effort, energy, work and discipline. However it also requires RESULTS, otherwise you don’t have a business. What if….? 1. You could attract all the clients you want without spending hours in the process 2. You knew how to build your list faster so you can increase your income quicker while reducing your working hours 3. Somebody were to give … [Read more...]

“Unique Marketing Strategy – Being a Radio Show Host – Do You or Don’t You?”

March 9, 2012 By Katrina Sawa Leave a Comment

I've been hosting my own radio show now for a couple years. And frankly I've been able to track literally ONE client the whole time from it. Now it was a pretty big client mind you so it more than covered my investment for doing the show for the whole two years. However, is that a good enough ROI for the time spent? What are the other pros and cons I've learned along the way about being an online radio show host? I share most of them in the following video - CLICK HERE OR THE IMAGE TO VIEW THE VIDEO AND FIND OUT if this is a good strategy for YOU now or not and if so when? © Copyright 2012 K. Sawa Marketing International Inc. WANT TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR E-ZINE OR WEB … [Read more...]

Being An Entrepreneur Isn’t Easy

March 6, 2012 By Katrina Sawa Leave a Comment

It's not easy being an entrepreneur and it certainly isn't easy getting your own business to the 6-figure mark either although so many people think it will be when they start out. Only 5% of entrepreneurs are making over $100,000 a year in their business, how do you expect yourself to be in that group if you aren't actively investing in yourself, your business and learning exactly how to get there. What I've learned over the last 9+ years in my business is that this all takes effort. Something busy business owners don't always spend time working on. A lot of times we're so busy in our businesses that we don't stop and focus on where we're headed and how we can get there. … [Read more...]

Pick Kat’s Brain Today!

March 4, 2012 By Katrina Sawa Leave a Comment

Are You Frustrated or Feeling Stuck in Your Business Trying to Figure Out How to Get More Clients & Make More Money? Not all entrepreneurs know how to market your business though, you know your product or service well but not necessarily how to get new or repeat clients. I built my business the traditional way yet realized a few short years ago I could do much more - I went global! So, now I'm implementing some traditional forms of marketing in my business (such as networking, speaking, publicity, writing articles, live events, good follow up and more) and some more modern, international forms of marketing in my business (such as teleclasses, social networking, blogging, webinars, … [Read more...]

Want a 6-figure business makeover and fast?

February 28, 2012 By Katrina Sawa 2 Comments

I'm Katrina Sawa, many call me The Jumpstart Your Biz Coach because this is exactly what I LOVE to help seasoned business owners do and what I've learned over the last 9+ years in my business is that this all takes effort. Something busy business owners don't always spend time working on. A lot of times we're so busy in our businesses that we don't stop and focus on where we're headed and how we can get there. Instead we focus on the day-to-day stuff since it's right smack in our faces. But making huge shifts like this, takes looking at everything in your business - the BIG Picture - and figuring out where the holes are, the opportunities are and basically what else is possible for you … [Read more...]

Breaking Free Live Experience 2012 Palm Springs

February 10, 2012 By Katrina Sawa Leave a Comment

David Neagle just announced his next Breaking Free Live Experience in the Palm Springs area Sept 27 - 30, 2012. I'm at his event now and its always a great experience, I highly recommend anyone go to this for life or business growth. Especially for the rate he's offering it at this weekend.....only $97! Hurry and go snatch your seat now!! www.tinyurl.com/katsept No matter how conscious & motivated you are to serve: opportunity blind spots exist in your business because you just don’t know what you don’t know. So, you can’t just see what you can’t see… And the darnedest thing about it is: It’s what you can’t see that’s holding you back. more than anything else. -David … [Read more...]

Start Up Business Basics Not to Ignore

February 2, 2012 By Katrina Sawa Leave a Comment

It can be easy to start up a business and yes you need to have motivation and determination in order to be successful. But the biggest thing you need to have on your side is the correct training on HOW to be a business owner. Getting the entrepreneurial training you need should be your #1 priority but hardly any new small business owner ever thinks about that. That's why most of them go out of business frankly. They don't learn what it takes and what's involved besides providing your products and services on how to be a successful business owner. Here are six steps to starting up a new business by yourself on a limited budget (or jumpstarting the business you've got!): Choose a … [Read more...]

Did you forget?

January 14, 2012 By Katrina Sawa Leave a Comment

Did you forget to registering for my FREE Teleclass "How to Attract More Clients and Make More Money in Your Small Biz, Plain and Simple!" The bad news is that the call has already happened but the good news is you can still listen to the recording. Just hop on over to http://katrinasawa.com/attractclients2012 and register to receive the recording. But hurry and do it now because the call link will only be active until Tuesday, January 17th at noon pst. What I covered on the call was: - How to take your business 'idea' into a full-fledged business in less than a week! - The simple 3-step system start-up biz owners need who don't know where to start, what to do or how to … [Read more...]