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Welcome to the Good Girls Get Rich Podcast with your host Karen Yankovich, LinkedIn expert and CEO of UpLevel Media. This podcast is all about embracing how good you are. Stop being the best kept secret in town and learn how to use simple LinkedIn and social media strategies to make the big bucks.
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Beyond the bottom line. Creating true success in sales is creating real solutions for your clients. Product knowledge is great but relationships, and understanding your client’s goals will help you stand out from the crowd. You’ll be able to anticipate their future needs and troubleshoot a potential problem. This means listening and focusing on the person you are working with, even if it’s on zoom. Connie Whitman knows sales. Heart-Centered Sales Leader will help you tighten the gap between ...
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The Quality of Your Life Starts With Your Mindset We are here to share with you the Success Patterns of highly successful people so you can model them and skip the old ”success by trial and error” approach, and get a better outcome and better results for your life and your business in an extremely short amount of time.
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Kelly O’Neil is on a mission to help small businesses and entrepreneurs recession proof their business and catapult their profits by teaching them the insider secrets to mastering the art of Marketing to Millionaires ™. Each week, join the internationally recognized expert in marketing to affluent clientele as she shares her behind the scenes insights, strategic tips and market disrupting information on how to find, engage, sell and impress your high-end clientele. Kelly will also share cand ...
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“People buy from people they know, like and trust. At the start of building a relationship with your buyer the only thing you can shoot for is ’Trust’. Building trust has to be very obvious from the very first contact you make with your buyer or you kill any chance of starting a dialogue.”- Michael deGroot YouTube: https://youtu.be/7VLfEVq5ifA Chec…
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Welcome to another episode of Good Girls Get Rich! I’m your host, Karen Yankovich, and today I’m chatting with the amazing Kimberly Spencer. Kimberly is a high-performance coach, TEDx speaker, and the brilliant mind behind CrownYourself.com. She's a total powerhouse when it comes to turning podcast guesting into a business-building goldmine, and I …
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“The sale most often goes to the most interested party.” – Steve Chandler. Being interested and curious about what our clients need today and in the future is critical to our sales success. So, how do we show that we care, are curious, and are interested in helping our ideal client? One way is to use resources available to us to spotlight our geniu…
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Welcome to episode 284 of the Good Girls Get Rich Podcast, hosted by Karen Yankovich. In this episode, Karen dives into essential yet often overlooked basics for optimizing your LinkedIn profile. Whether you're new to LinkedIn or looking to polish your existing profile, these five steps will help you maximize your presence and leverage LinkedIn to …
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“The confidence you have going into the sales call will determine the level of profit you have coming out.” – Mark Hunter. Being in sales for many decades, I have had my share of prospecting wows. Sometimes, I didn’t feel like prospecting. Getting motivated to make cold calls, follow-up COI calls, and warm prospect calls to meet my revenue goals ha…
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“The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” - Socrates. To make your email marketing efforts successful, one of the major components is building your list. Essentially, we are always doing two things: fueling our email marketing “machine” with leads and working to improve the conversion r…
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“When deploying AI, whether you focus on top-line growth or bottom-line profitability, start with the customer and work backward.” – Rob Garf. This quote is essential for sales teams to understand that sales have always been about building relationships and the human touch or experience. At least, that has been the source of my success. Early in my…
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In this week's episode of the Good Girls Get Rich Podcast, Karen Yankovich sits down with the dynamic Candy Barone, CEO of You Empowered Strong, to explore the transformative power of human design in leadership and business. With a rich background in corporate leadership, mechanical engineering, and Six Sigma, Candy brings a unique blend of practic…
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This week’s episode of Good Girls Get Rich is brought to you by Uplevel Media CEO and LinkedIn expert, Karen Yankovich. In this episode, guest Joanne Bolt discuss podcasting for women thought leaders. CEO+Founder of Podcast(H)er and host of The B-Word Podcast Your slightly snarky, southern girl who ran a $56 million dollar producing Real Estate tea…
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"Your customers are the judge, jury, and executioner for your value proposition. They will be merciless if you don't find the fit!" - Alexander Osterwalder. The percentage of businesses that do not know customers’ top buying criteria is frightening. A ton of research shows how few businesses know what their customers value, so they miss the mark wi…
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"To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, 'Your end of the boat is sinking.'" - Hugh Downs. I have always been part of a team, even as a business owner. I have learned, probably the hard way, that I can’t achieve success alone. Both while raising my kids and starting my business, I needed experts to help me understand business, techn…
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Hello, hello, and welcome to the Good Girls Get Rich Podcast! I’m Karen Yankovich, your host, and today we’re diving into a topic I’m incredibly passionate about: the transformative power of investing in your personal brand, especially in a market that’s changing faster than ever. Embracing the Shift in Marketing Trends Let’s face it, the marketing…
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“Marketing is no longer about the stuff you make, but about the stories you tell.” – Seth Godin. A component of marketing ourselves and our companies is becoming memorable to potential clients so they choose to do business with us. This involves different forms of media exposure. Publicity is one form of media exposure that helps us market our prod…
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“This is not hard sell-it’s heart sell. Good questions get to the heart of the problem or the need very quickly, and the buyer doesn’t feel like he or she is being pushed” – Jeffrey Gitomer. Selling from the heart and building long-term relationships were intuitive for me and helped me quickly stand out from my peers in the financial industry. By c…
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Welcome to the Latest Episode of "Good Girls Get Rich": Unleashing Your Inner Power with Summer McStravick Episode Description This week’s episode of Good Girls Get Rich is brought to you by Uplevel Media CEO and LinkedIn expert, Karen Yankovich. In this show, Karen Yankovich shares how to overcome imposter syndrome, shatter the limits, and increas…
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“In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.” – Bo Bennett. For over 35 years, I have been blessed to live off referrals. It’s all about building relationships so deeply that your ideal clients know you and know who to refer to you. I have learned that the key is harnessing the power of magnetic marketing with LinkedIn and PR, which …
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“Even when you are marketing to your entire audience or customer base, you are still simply speaking to a single human at any given time.” – Ann Handley. I always say this: Sales and Marketing are different. They support each other; they are like a marriage. Marketing gets people to agree to speak with you, while sales get the client or prospect to…
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“Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.” - Roger C. Schank. I use stories in my sales conversations with prospects and when teaching. Years later, people approached me and said, “Do you remember when you taught us XYZ? I still think about that and remember how to use that concept with my cl…
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“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill. Boy, this quote hit home for me. I know I have failed many times in my life. We see quotes like this when we are in a crisis or facing failure and think, BS, I failed, I’m not good enough, or I don’t deserve the success. And there lies the issue—our mind…
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Episode Description This week’s episode of Good Girls Get Rich is brought to you by Uplevel Media CEO and LinkedIn expert, Karen Yankovich. In this episode, Karen Yankovich shares how to overcome imposter syndrome, shatter the limits, and increase your revenue. #GoodGirlsGetRich We want to hear your thoughts on this episode! Leave us a message on S…
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“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Nelson Mandela. I love this quote. If we didn’t continue to rise after we fail or fall, we wouldn’t have innovation, growth, new opportunities, and potentially a better life. Most people think it’s only about having the ability to achieve X, Y, or Z. The r…
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This week’s episode of Good Girls Get Rich is brought to you by Uplevel Media CEO and LinkedIn expert, Karen Yankovich. In this episode, Karen Yankovich discusses the mindset and strategy that you need on LinkedIn. #GoodGirlsGetRich We want to hear your thoughts on this episode! Leave us a message on Speakpipe or email us at info@karenyankovich.com…
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“If you don’t have a defined process that moves your people forward so they can achieve greater results, then what is it you are managing? You’re managing the status quo.” – Keith Rosen. I often see managers managing numbers or metrics versus coaching someone to grow and build new and improved skills. Those who know me have heard me often say, “We …
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“Great things are done by a series of small things done together.” – Vincent van Gogh. After COVID, I was forced to pivot and create an entire digital library of training and new business outreach. Understanding this new world of online automation, branding, and client outreach required a huge learning curve. So what did I do? I buckled down, took …
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“A bad habit appearing at many companies is to put reps in the unenviable position of trying to hit their quota by feverishly working through as many opportunities as they can. But this isn’t necessarily the ideal solution. Data-driven sales teams are finding that it is usually more effective to spend more time on qualification earlier in a sales c…
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"Let tech do all the heavy lifting. Let it do all the research. Let it even write all the emails. But right before you engage with the human, that’s where you have to put that human factor in.” – John Barrow. Unless you have been living under a rock, AI is everywhere. So, how do we use AI effectively without watering down our brand and, more import…
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This week’s episode of Good Girls Get Rich is brought to you by Uplevel Media CEO and LinkedIn expert, Karen Yankovich. In this episode, Karen Yankovich discusses the mindset and strategy that you need on LinkedIn. #GoodGirlsGetRich We want to hear your thoughts on this episode! Leave us a message on Speakpipe or email us at info@karenyankovich.com…
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“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.” - Zig Ziglar . Trust is such an interesting and important word. We think we know what it means but don’t always know how to earn it. Becoming a trusted partner isn’t about discounting the fees you charge; it’s about the relationship you continue to bui…
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This week’s episode of Good Girls Get Rich is brought to you by Uplevel Media CEO and LinkedIn expert, Karen Yankovich. In this episode, guest Lousia Havers shares how to overcome energetic blocks that impact your journey to prosperity. Louisa Havers is an internationally renowned Business Success Coach and Master Manifesting teacher, Master Akashi…
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“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”- Zig Ziglar. I had a huge paper to write for one of my business classes in college. As part of my research, I read a Zig Ziglar book (yes, a real book, not online references), and my life was changed forever! His brilliant approach to business and life was all I needed to know I had …
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This week’s episode of Good Girls Get Rich is brought to you by Uplevel Media CEO and LinkedIn expert, Karen Yankovich. In this episode, Karen Yankovich shares how to overcome imposter syndrome, shatter the limits, and increase your revenue. #GoodGirlsGetRich We want to hear your thoughts on this episode! Leave us a message on Speakpipe or email us…
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“When you say ROI, do you mean return on investment or risk of inaction?” – Paul Gillin, I love this quote. Having been in sales for many decades, I know the importance of measuring ROI. However, many leaders try to measure ROI by managing their sales teams solely through numbers. I believe using numbers as your only metric may be dangerous. If we …
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This week’s episode of Good Girls Get Rich is brought to you by Uplevel Media CEO and LinkedIn expert, Karen Yankovich. In this episode, guest Amy Collette discuss how you can become an author. Do you feel some hesitation in the idea of writing a book? Amy Collette would love to hear about your concerns. You see, she has developed a proven method t…
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“The confidence you have going into the sales call will determine the level of profit you have coming out.” - Mark Hunter. Being in sales for many decades, I have had my share of prospecting wows. Sometimes, I didn’t feel like prospecting. Getting motivated to make cold calls, follow-up COI calls, and warm prospect calls to meet my revenue goals ha…
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“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang. I love this quote because it is about taking action. Everything was analog when I started my business, so there was no internet or social media. Wow, how times have changed! Looking back, the learning curve for using social media, email campaigns, and othe…
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Connie's motivational quote for today is by – Andrea Mignolo, “I want to do business with a company that treats e-mailing me as a privilege, not a transaction.” When COVID hit, and many business activities stopped, the one thing that continued was email campaigns. Now that things are kind of back on track, are email campaigns still relevant? This i…
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This week’s episode of Good Girls Get Rich is brought to you by Uplevel Media CEO and LinkedIn expert, Karen Yankovich. In this episode, Karen Yankovich shares what’s going on behind the scenes with the She’s LinkedUp Program. #GoodGirlsGetRich We want to hear your thoughts on this episode! Leave us a message on Speakpipe or email us at info@kareny…
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Connie's motivational quote for today is by – John D. Rockefeller, “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” Good is the enemy of great, yet sales leaders hire the wrong team members or hire correctly but don’t provide long-term support. I have more stories than I’d like to admit here where I’ve had the worst of the worst sales lea…
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This week’s episode of Good Girls Get Rich is brought to you by Uplevel Media CEO and LinkedIn expert, Karen Yankovich. In this episode, Karen Yankovich discusses the strategies you need to adopt to gain industry recognition. #GoodGirlsGetRich We want to hear your thoughts on this episode! Leave us a message on Speakpipe or email us at info@karenya…
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Connie's motivational quote for today is by – Nick Haase, “You only have so many hours in a day; let others make the money for you!" I always felt like no one could deliver or duplicate my deliverables in my career and business. Well, our working life teaches us differently. This quote nails today’s topic. We can’t do it alone, and if we do it righ…
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This week’s episode of Good Girls Get Rich is brought to you by Uplevel Media CEO and LinkedIn expert, Karen Yankovich. In this episode, guest Dee Taylor shares about the success she’s had working with Karen Yankovich and the She’s LinkedUp Program. Are you feeling overwhelmed by the relentless demands of running your business? Do you long for expe…
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Connie's motivational quote for today is by – Napoleon Hill, “If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way." Okay, I am a Napoleon Hill geek and love his quotes. The one I’ve chosen for today’s show is no different. For the past 40 years, I have lived my personal and professional life working on or creating micro habits that I could…
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This week’s episode of Good Girls Get Rich is brought to you by Uplevel Media CEO and LinkedIn expert, Karen Yankovich. In this episode, Karen Yankovich talks about not stepping out of your comfort zone but rather embracing it! #GoodGirlsGetRich We want to hear your thoughts on this episode! Leave us a message on Speakpipe or email us at info@karen…
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Connie's motivational quote for today is by – Bruce Lee, “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” I love talking about sales. Most of you have been following me for a while and know my motto for sales is selling through love, care, and respect. Respect is probably my most important word to live and sell through! We have one of the mo…
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This week’s episode of Good Girls Get Rich is brought to you by Uplevel Media CEO and LinkedIn expert, Karen Yankovich. In this episode, Karen Yankovich talks about the joint venture strategies you can use to grow. #GoodGirlsGetRich We want to hear your thoughts on this episode! Leave us a message on Speakpipe or email us at info@karenyankovich.com…
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Connie's motivational quote for today is by – Carlos Ghosn, “Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish." I remember that in the ‘90s, banks underwent a huge metamorphosis of banks merging. We called it “merger mania. “ Being part of the transition team for two different merg…
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This week’s episode of Good Girls Get Rich is brought to you by Uplevel Media CEO and LinkedIn expert, Karen Yankovich. In this episode, guest Sarah Waldbuesser shares how entrepreneurs can legally safeguard themselves. Sarah Waldbuesser, Esq., is an attorney for coaches and online business owners. After several years at a law firm and a few career…
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Connie's motivational quote for today is by – Brian Cornell “Technology is going to disrupt the future of work, perhaps sooner than we thought. We are exploring everything from AI to VR, but we see no substitute for our stores and employees. We focus on building talent and personal service.” Since starting my career in the 80s, I have learned to go…
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Connie's motivational quote for today is by – Ryunosuke Satoro, “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.’” Recently, have you read any articles about new leadership skills needed to succeed? Leadership skills like agility, empathy, respectful communication, listening to employees, and more. As I reflect, leaders from around the gl…
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This week’s episode of Good Girls Get Rich is brought to you by Uplevel Media CEO and LinkedIn expert, Karen Yankovich. In this episode, guest Tina Wiles shares how adults can combat test anxiety. Meet Tina Wiles, a passionate educational strategist and the heart behind My2tor, a woman-owned venture revolutionizing test preparation. With over 17 ye…
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