Where to Find People

To find customers you must do one thing first. What’s that? Find people! Today is my last day as a full-time writer with Live Out Loud. True to Loral working with a lot of companies (in addition to having employees), she’ll be working with me through my company. But I thought today might be a fitting day [...]

Tips of the Day: Week Of 8/6/12 – Investing in Your Business

8/6/2012 Today’s Tip: Building Team  Last week, we talked about investing in yourself by maintaining your personal appearance at all times. This week, we’ll look into some business basics and why you need to invest in your business to create cash. The first investment you should make is TEAM. What kind of team you need [...]

The Art of Negotiation

The Art of Negotiation – Getting What You Want and Deserve from the Family Room to the Board Room  By: Eldonna Lewis Fernandez, LBT Alumni (Table 77) Negotiation is basically discussions to agree on a deal.  Someone makes an offer or submits a proposal and the other side either accepts the offer or enters into [...]

“Making Time” for Play

The first time I heard Loral say that you don’t have a business life and a personal life, you have one life, I can admit I was a bit perplexed. Of course I have two lives! Then I thought a little deeper into the meaning of that statement. No, I really don’t have two lives. [...]

The Power of Affiliates

Would you like to have new leads flowing into your database every day? Would you like to receive these leads whether you are out there, beating the pavement, or not? Consider starting an affiliate program! Affiliate programs pay on percentage of sales, so they return actual results. They can be run manually or you can [...]

Getting Exactly What You Want

There is something that is just so good about getting exactly what you want.  The process in getting what you want is something Loral talks about all the time. It’s more than setting your intention. It’s about taking action and enjoying the rewards of success. It’s mapped out something like this. I want _____________________________. (Fill [...]

Wild Card Shuffle

I’m a gamer. Video games, poker, blackjack, board games – you name it, I’ll play it. Which is why I was so excited when Loral decided to do Wild Card Shuffle this month to celebrate all of the birthdays in the Live Out Loud Community (including hers and mine, too.) This game is seriously fun [...]

Building Relationships That Support Your Goals

Loral is always saying that you need to find people to support your life: a maid, someone to set appointments for you, a nanny, and other members of a support team. Often, though, I think we overlook the support we really need – and it’s completely free. It’s the people we choose to surround ourselves [...]

Grab On To Your Dream

Loral speaks often about Big, Hairy, Audacious, Dreams. But what are they? How do you know when you are dreaming as big as you dare? I have a simple litmus test. If people’s eyes bulge a little when I tell them about it or if they tell me I’m a little (or a lot) crazy, [...]

Happy Birth-Month Loral!

It’s Loral’s birth-month! See, when you live a BIG life, you don’t have birthdays, you have birth-months! This month, we are doing something very special. It’s called the Wild Card Shuffle. Every day, you can shuffle the cards to win a variety of amazing Live Out Loud prizes. (Just pay shipping on any physical product [...]

Using Business ADD to Your Advantage

So I am sitting here, thinking about what to write today after a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. I ask my colleague Andrew what I should write about and he responds with a question. “What was your biggest problem today?” My office mate Jessica pipes up. “Your ADD.” I laugh. No one in the community wants [...]

It’s YOUR Life

I have a playlist of songs on Spotify that motivates me, gets me up, up, up and ready to go, go, go (as Loral would say). One of the songs on this playlist is “Its My Life” by Bon Jovi. It’s true guys. Life has a survival rate of zero. So what are you doing [...]