When you start a new business, one of the first things you do is to create a product or service that is ideal for your target market. You set the price, you have the features and benefits and you are ready to rock and roll. Until you realize that you don’t know how to let […]
I was thinking about some of the things that have happened in my life, both the amazing and the not so much fun times. I started daydreaming about the woulda, coulda, shoulda ways the outcome might have been different and realized that things happen just as they are supposed to and that everything we do […]
Owning A Business Is Extremely Exciting; It Is Also Hard Work And It Is Easy To Make Mistakes! You will not avoid every mistake of a first-time business owner, but with the right guidance you can make good decisions and avoid the problems that may cause some business owners to give up. Hang in there; […]
You’ve written your book, you’ve got a marketing plan set up, it’s all good and then….life happens. Not everyone is on the same page, things aren’t completed in the right order but guess what? You’ve written your book and that is something to be proud of so pat yourself on the back! In the midst […]
Time management is one of the hardest concepts entrepreneurs have to grasp, especially when it means working from home. Many people find the transition from an office routine to the self-employed lifestyle confusing, because there are no rules. The only person holding you accountable to putting in a full day’s work is you, and the […]
Isn’t it funny that when you make the decision to be an entrepreneur your rationalization for situations is not always “smart”? Let’s take me for instance,the first thing everyone tells you to do is to have a business plan….but, why would I need a business plan? I was in business for myself. I was never […]
Someone asked me a question that I’m going to ask you. If you could be on the cover of any magazine, what would it be? I thought about different magazines and then started to divide them into categories. If I were younger maybe a Fitness magazine. If my family all lived under one roof, maybe a Family […]
Have you even been faced with a situation that has just zapped all your energy? Could be personal, could be professional. What do you do? You can’t stay under your blankies for too long. After all, how do you explain that to your mortgage company or utilities? I had been going along excited and happy […]
It’s always funny when someone suggests something for you to do but doesn’t actually do it. Like someone talking to you about sales but has never sold anything, or a choreographer that has never danced. Last week I gave you some thoughts to consider and told you that if you shared your thoughts with me, […]
As we get into the craziness of the holidays, we seem to let things go and blame it on the craziness of the holidays…there is a pattern here. For me, I have been lax on my blog posts because after all, isn’t everyone too busy to read what I have to say? I decided this […]
For those of you unfamiliar with my youtube channel, I just wanted to create a quick little post about what is going on over on that corner of the web in case it is something you could find some value in. Every week (for the next year at least) I release a short little sales […]
The following is an outstanding guest post from Ruth Thoes Vivrett. It seems she has seen and done just about everything, and I know just about everyone could learn a thing or two from this post. Enter Ruth: My father always used to say I had my daddy’s good looks and my mama’s disposition. Guess […]
