SDF Posts

How we connect shapes our success. In business and life, the right connections lead to better opportunities, stronger collaborations, and a more fulfilling work-life. That’s why my word of the year for 2025 is “connect”—a reminder to build and nurture relationships that matter. This month, we talked about the ways we’re making meaningful connections: How […]

Now is the perfect time to start planning to attract great clients in 2025. Today we explored strategies for attracting quality clients.

Today we had a lively discussion about best practices for handling that crucial first contact with a potential client. Here’s an overview of what we talked about: Selling your service is an emotional process. It involves building trust and connecting with potential clients on a personal level, making them feel valued and understood.

The purpose of today’s meeting was to keep it casual and workshop some of our current challenges. Nick started it off by saying that there are just not enough hours in the day to get everything done. Who can’t relate to that?! This quickly turned the meeting into a conversation about time management. However Randy

This month we talked about our WHYs. But what is your WHY? If you haven’t seen Simon Sinek’s TED talk (only 64+ million views!) it’s very worth watching. In it he says “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” Articulating it isn’t as easy as it sounds, however. In today’s

Happy new year! Jumping into the new year is always exciting and I love the process of reflecting on the past year and planning for the new one.  So in today’s meeting we did just that and had a really insightful and fun discussion. The word for last year was “Clarity“, and we talked a

Today Jess Fleming, who is a social media specialist and co-founder of the brand and marketing studio Ern & Lu, lead our meeting. After sending a brief survey to the group to find out what kind of questions they had about Instagram, she focused on the big question: To Instagram or Not To Instagram? Is

Today Ashley Laabs, LinkedIn ghostwriter, strategist, coach, and owner of Composure Digital, gave a great presentation on optimizing your LinkedIn profile. Why is it important to optimize your LinkedIn profile? 99% of the companies on LinkedIn are small businesses 80% of the people on LinkedIn are decision makers People are on LinkedIn to do business,

The theme for 2023: Clarity! We kicked off the meeting with a round of 2022 accomplishments, and I introduced the theme for 2023: Clarity. This starts with being extraordinarily clear on who this group is in terms of purpose, people and place. First and foremost we are a supportive peer group. We all want to

It’s time to take SDF to the next level! Today we talked about the vision for the group, using this visual, and had a great conversation on how to support it. We talked a lot about the dual purpose of the group being both supportive and collaborative, and what that could look like. We all