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!
7 April 2016

We’re Offering Training For Your Advisory Clients

2022-08-07T16:15:47-04:00April 7th, 2016|3. Marketing, Trainings - Podcast/Webinars|0 Comments

If business owners or CEOs are your niche, here's a special invitation. I can help you help your clients to grow their business by providing them with a business development workshop, just like I did for Sam’s Club. I brought the store manager the idea of offering his customers a 60-minute strategic planning on steroids workshop and he jumped at the idea. He was looking for opportunities to get more business owners into the store without it being about purchasing a Sam’s Club Card or products in the store. They invited their customers and asked them to invite other business owners, 60 of which attended the event. My offer to you is similar. It’s an opportunity

7 April 2016

Add Pizzazz To Your LinkedIn Profile With Symbols

2022-08-07T16:15:47-04:00April 7th, 2016|Social Media|0 Comments

Here's the answer to another question I've been asked this month. Question Where do you get the symbols you use in your title on LinkedIn and throughout your LinkedIn profile? Answer I use symbols and lines and such because it differentiates different sections of my profile and makes a profile easier to read. And we all want our profiles read, right? I gathered those symbol since 2004 from a variety of places online. You have my AOK to copy and paste the symbols and use them on your profile, too. Here's my profile www.LinkedIn.com/in/mariamarsala You can create them, too. When you're on your computer, open a document, you hit control >alt and some numbers, you'll create

7 April 2016

How Advisors Can Strategically Acquire Clients

2022-08-07T16:15:47-04:00April 7th, 2016|Niching & Attracting Ideal Clients|0 Comments

Each month, I’m sent questions by subscribers to my newsletter. Thinking you might find the answers helpful, I’m answering this question on my blog. Question I know I need a niche. I also need more best clients. Where do I start? Answer As I learned the hard and very expensive way, if I do what I’m doing and it’s not working, doing it more and working harder will get me the same results and will affect my health and well-being. Over time, I’ve seen personal and business reasons a client isn’t where they want to be – client acquisition wise. You may already know about some things you read in this post, and other concepts may

31 March 2016

Advisors: Make this summer your busiest ever

2022-08-07T16:15:48-04:00March 31st, 2016|Events|0 Comments

No matter what level of experience you have in the industry, this summer could be your busiest ever--if you master the art of the referral conversation and prospect follow-up. I am pleased to be sponsoring a 6-week Referral Mastery Webinar Series, beginning on Tuesday, April 19th at 2pm Eastern. =====> My friend and colleague, Sandy Schussel, who was one of the most popular experts in my Count on Success Conference event earlier this year, will be hosting this training which, in the past, has resulted in a dramatic increase of business for most of the past attendees. Sandy is widely recognized as a foremost authority on referrals. In his fifteen years as a sales trainer and

27 March 2016

Would you hire this financial advisor?

2022-08-07T16:15:48-04:00March 27th, 2016|Website Development|0 Comments

"I need new ways to attract or find more clients". In one form or another, that's the number one answer, and has been for 7 years, advisors give when they signs up for my Advisor Toolkit. They're answering the question "What is your biggest business challenge?" Often when I visit their websites, the first things I see are: "Create a XYZ* site! 100s of templates. No coding needed for the site". (XYZ is not the real name of the free website service. This is the message on the top right part of the website -- the most viewed space on every website!) At the bottom of the pages, it proclaims "This site was created using XYZ.com.

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