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!
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10 April 2017

Happy Passover…

2022-08-07T16:15:37-04:00April 10th, 2017|Happy Holidays|0 Comments

I didn't know that my grandmother was Jewish until I was 12 years old.  Living in an Italian and very Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn, the subject never came up.  I just figured that she was Catholic but never went to church! Grandma wasn't a practicing Jew, but she lit special candles for my grandfather (the Catholic) after his death.  My mom chose, as an adult, to be Catholic.  I attended pre-K at a Synagogue on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn and then 13 years of Catholic School.  Today, I attend a Lutheran church.  Go figure. But to anyone who is Jewish... I'm Jewish.   Never did I realize how much so until I moved to North Carolina

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22 March 2017

Appointment Schedulers Offer Advisors Increase Productivity

2022-08-07T16:15:38-04:00March 22nd, 2017|Technology|0 Comments

Online appointment scheduling software is both a productivity and client service tool.  It's one way clients and prospects can schedule a convenient and timely call with you.  But remember,  some people prefer to schedule appointments by phone or email while others enjoy using an online scheduler. Scheduler technology provide you (and your team) with a secure and private dashboard online to view your entire schedule, and with whom you’re meeting. What people see, when they want to schedule a meeting with you, depends on how you run your firm and set up the app you choose.  You can show all the days and times you're available or choose certain times for certain types of meetings at days, times, and

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12 March 2017

Free MS Office Training For All!

2022-08-07T16:15:38-04:00March 12th, 2017|Technology, Trainings - Podcast/Webinars|0 Comments

When you put aside 10 minutes every morning for computer training, in one month, you'll increase your productivity by saving yourself many extra steps, over and over again. Last week I taped a podcast series for an association and learned that the PowerPoint slides I submitted weren’t formatted properly.  Someone at the association fixed them. While my version of slides looked great, I had used square slides when the current preference is rectangle. What I also realized was that it had been nearly 10 years since I attended a computer class. Egads!  Today I added a 2-year reminder to my Outlook calendar so that I don’t get this far behind ever again. So, this week, I

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6 March 2017

Automatically Send Twitter and Facebook Your Posts

2022-08-07T16:15:38-04:00March 6th, 2017|Social Media|0 Comments

Today's technology tip is a time save. It's called Revive Old Posts, and it's a free WordPress plugin. Actually, their original name is Tweet Old Post, and it keeps your old posts alive and attracting traffic to your website. The free version of the plugin sends posts (articles) that you have on your blog to your Twitter and Facebook accounts at a time you choose. I've been using it for 4 years now, and have it set to send out a post every 10 hours. This way it looks like I'm more active online than I am. And if you're not active very often, but have a good number of blog posts, you can look more

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16 February 2017

7 Ways To Graciously Communicate Your Boundaries & Standards

2024-04-26T23:58:16-04:00February 16th, 2017|1. Mindset - Life Coaching|0 Comments

It's more pleasant to get and give support that is positively encouraging.   Healthy support is the ability to communicate encouragement as well as to set boundaries in a healthy, gracious, and productive way.  That means that support is not always nicy-nicy!! Heck, we're human.   It's common to not enjoy communicating "no" or bad news to people.  In fact it's like being forced to listen to the noise that's made when you scratch your nails on a chalkboard. In business, healthy support sometimes means giving constructive feedback, putting an employee "on notice" or -- even firing someone*. As start-ups, it's common to say "yes" to everything and everyone. However, as we become more established,  if we keep

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