About Maria Marsala

An irrepressible entrepreneur, Maria Marsala sold AVON at age 14 and landed on Wall Street three years later. She became a bond trader when female executives were as rare as pink diamonds. For 25 years, Maria streamlined Fortune 500 companies, nurtured non-profits, and discovered her niche—mentoring women CEOs and executives. Armed with corporate secrets and life coach credentials, Maria founded Elevating Your Business to help female financial professionals live better using her proprietary brand of consultative-coaching. Contact Maria today and take the first step toward freedom, full-fillment, and a sparkling quality of life!
4 October 2017

Three ways to make your LinkedIn profile stand out a bit more.

2022-08-07T16:15:34-04:00October 4th, 2017|Social Media|0 Comments

Want to make your LinkedIn profile stand out a bit more? Use 1. bold, 2. symbols, 3. fancy fonts, and more. One thing to note: Behind each of these symbols is html (website) code. So don't use symbols on the most important words people would search on to find you, unless you have those words written in "normal" text on many areas of your profile, too. What happens if you don't know how to code a website? No problem, just: 1) put the words you want to use in the search feature 2) click show 3) it will show you your options 4) copy and paste the option you like best into your profile. For words:

28 September 2017

Advisor Business Building Videos (3)

2022-08-07T16:15:34-04:00September 28th, 2017|2. Management, Trainings - Podcast/Webinars|0 Comments

To celebrate my 20th year in business at the end of this year, I'm giving you free access to 3 Business Building Videos. There is absolutely nothing to buy. There is nothing to subscribe to (unless you want to get more marketing and management tips from me. My clients use these videos as a basis to create their business plan, niche, and develop an ideal client profile. Now, so can you! Video: Niche Clarity The first step in strategically acquiring clients is to determine a niche; a general area of people/population, passion, and product/service. If you don’t have a niche or need to change it, start here: Video: Business Vision Statement / 5 Steps To A

28 September 2017

I hate writing, do you?

2022-08-07T16:15:35-04:00September 28th, 2017|Writing Articles|0 Comments

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Celebrating 19 years of writing! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I hate writing and try as I have, I suck at it and yet, I still I do a lot of it! But no matter what classes I took to write better, proofread better, etc., they didn’t work. Like many of you, I’m an insightful idea person (that’s what my clients call my out of the box ideas that they use

19 September 2017

Do You Use These Advisor Success S.Y.S.T.E.M.S.?

2022-08-07T16:15:35-04:00September 19th, 2017|Leadership|0 Comments

While systems are meant to automate certain mundane aspects of business, they can also be used strategically, to leverage the talents of your staff and achieve more business growth. Systems also: • Help advisors identify the bottlenecks in their workflow. • Make new employee training more efficient. • Improve the implementation and effectiveness of new procedures. • Allow others to find inefficiencies that you don’t see in a process. • Leverage your time and help your business run like a well-oiled machine. Creating systems changes the way you do business for the better! While a Wall Street trader, I became tired of repeatedly dealing with the same operational problems. So, I followed each problem from its

24 July 2017

Advisors. Follow-up is not rocket science.

2022-08-07T16:15:35-04:00July 24th, 2017|Networking|0 Comments

Follow-up is not rocket science. You follow up with people you want to know better. Maybe you can use their services. Maybe they can use your services. Maybe they'll be good strategic partners. Maybe your clients could use their services or products. Maybe you want to conduct a teleseminar with them. Most important is that you feel that knowing them will add value to your life. Next, make the call or send the email then follow up with a call. Be honest. "I'd like to meet with you because I think we have similar clients and I'd like to get to know you better". OR "I'd like to meet with you because your "product/service" really sounded

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