: About Me

Katrina Collins-Belcher has been self-employed for 20 years, successfully marketing four businesses. She's won numerous national division and zone sales awards for highest-producer, highest-premium-per-lead, and highest-producing national district office in sales, and is the author of the acclaimed "Walk, Talk, Sell - Marketing Techniques for the 21st Century" series of marketing books.

Katrina now owns and operates a grant proposal writing and nonprofit organization development company; provides services to MMA fighters and event promoters; is the editor of theultimatefemalefighter.com, an online e-zine; and is the founder of the National Association for MMA Fight Professionals (NAFMMAF.org), an organization that provides group benefits and services to the MMA industry.

On a personal note, Katrina holds a blue belt in Krav Maga and currently studies BJJ and grappling, as well as Agedo (Shorin-ryu) and Kendo, where she will soon be tested to black belt in each system.

My passion is ...

Life.

I know too much about ...

grant proposal writing!

My parents always told me ...

to be honest.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a dancer.

My favorite memory ...

cooking with my grandmother.

Why I write ...

words just come to me.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

another Dune book; Anaconda; my hubby making me some tea.

My first job ...

working in a booth at a country fair for my father.

My best moment ...

well, two actually: when my children were born.

My inspiration ...

being as good as my mom wants me to be at whatever I do.

Business > Business Issues How to find great leads for your business

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Effective Leads for the 21st Century Business We're living in an economy where, if a business does not change the way it works, it could very well go broke. Some suggestions to keep that from happening? Work hard at getting effective leads, do it smart, and use the tools that are already available to you. Used to be that networking (weekly networking groups, the golf course, luncheon meeting) was a great way to get good business leads. The raise in gas prices, the lack of time available to us, and the fact that many of us are brown bagging it, can make these weekly networking meetings proh...

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