One of the greatest gifts of being an entrepreneur is the opportunity to flex your financial muscles. It’s also one of the greatest challenges for me personally. In fact, many entrepreneurs make the decision to start their own business because they have a certain skill or talent – or an idea for a product. They [...]
Simply observing people can be quite revealing. You have probably formed an opinion on a person, based on what you saw. Likewise, you never know when someone might be zeroing in on you and watching your personal presence and professionalism. A person’s experience of you can be a deciding factor in whether or not they [...]
Your intuition is the best business building tool you have; please use it. Your intuition is that gut feeling; or those little nudges or inklings you sense within you. Listen to it, it is telling you something. Ignoring those inklings can be a BIG mistake. Paying attention to them however, will steer you in the [...]
So you sit down and start to work. You have to write your newsletter. You’ve got to write two promotional e-mails. You need re-work your calendar for the week. You have a few clients to reach out to and some follow up with current clients. You’ve even got it neatly organized on a to-do list. [...]
So what’s your excuse for not getting your book done? Is it not having enough time? Money? A general fear people won’t like it? It’s time to defeat each one of these issues stopping you from finishing your book! I Don’t Have Enough Time! Making time to write can be a challenge. For some, focusing [...]
When you publish your own book, it’s easy to focus your marketing strategy on only online efforts. While it’s true that the internet is a great place to spread the word, you can’t forget about finding your offline audience. Even though the web offers you a lot of opportunities to gain new readers, offline events [...]
If you’re searching for a miracle pill, the latest get-rich-quick idea or some sort of law-of-attraction mindset hoopla, you’re not going to find it here. No, what I have to share with you is not nearly as seductive. My ‘secret’ to achieving any goal isn’t expensive or exclusive. It’s not complicated or ambiguous. But…it works. [...]
You spend your week working a full-time job, taking care of your kids, making sure dinner’s on the table every night and somehow managing to stay on top of the piles of laundry and dishes that seem to never end. You’re good at what you do, but you know in your heart that what you [...]
One of the things I noticed about many of my clients as well as so many of you is that you put a great deal of pressure on yourself to succeed. And often that pressure can be paralyzing. Now this pressure comes from various sources – your internal dialogue with yourself, societal pressures, family demands [...]
Social media is not going anywhere. It can be the avenue that takes your business to the next level of success. Unfortunately, when it comes to social media and small business, many entrepreneurs market themselves in the entirely wrong way. Whether you are just starting out on your social media journey or have already tried [...]