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How to Make Spending Decisions in Uncertain Times
Most business owners struggle at some point making decisions about business investments. There is plenty of financial advice out there, but it tends to be generic. The truth is that we all have unique spending profiles, and should know these in order to find the best way to support ourselves so we can be confident, responsive and clear in our spending decisions.
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Interview: Unscripted Small Business Podcast
Recently, I had the pleasure of joining Abbey Crane, the host of the Unscripted Small Business Podcast, where we discussed a topic that many entrepreneurs don’t want to talk about-business exits! As an entrepreneur myself and business strategist/coach, I shared...
How to Make Spending Decisions in Uncertain Times
Understanding Spending Stress Every day, it seems, we are presented with opportunities to make investments in our business. Sometimes these are driven by something more urgent, and sometimes they are a passing suggestion that comes from a referral or a conversation...
Breaking Down the Friction Between “Thinking Work” and “Doing Work”
In the past 6 years since I opened my coaching business, I have worked with a wide variety of creative entrepreneurs. Copywriters, graphic designers, stylists, clothing designers, photographers - the gamut! But I’ve also worked with consultants, professors, thought...
How to Overcome Perfectionism and Procrastination In Your Business
I want to share a story of a client who was struggling to overcome perfectionism, because it's just like so many other stories I hear that are the same. Sarah was a “freezer". She spent far more time being anxious about what she had to do than...
Don’t Be Satisfied With Stories
Your story gets to be whatever you make it. But you have to make it... don’t let your story happen to you.⠀[ess_post]Don't be satisified with stories. What’s your business story? How will your great myth unfold? Will you be the Goliath that slays all your challenges?...
Only You Own Your Time
Time management issues are symptoms of a bigger problem that no system is going to solve.[ess_post]Only you own your time. If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone tell me they just “don’t have time for everything”, I wouldn’t have to be selling anything ever...
You are the centre of everything.
This is your rally cry and should serve as your bible when deciding what you’re going to take on. [ess_post]You are the centre of everything. Not kidding. Your business universe revolves around you, and so it should. We are told all our lives not to take up space,...
Don’t forget about the profit.
Looking at your profit as a potential investment changes the decisions you make around your money. [ess_post] Don't forget about the profit. “My business made me $500,000 last year!” Whoa, awesome dude. Sounds great, right? Lucky girl. What that lucky girl didn’t tell...
You don’t need a marketing plan. You need a marketing habit.
So create the habit - show up every day and make yourself visible. [ess_post] So create the habit - show up every day and make yourself visible. Clients always come to me, fretting that they haven’t planned out all their marketing activities in minute detail and that...
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9 Types of Assets to Build in
Your Service-Based Business
Not sure where to start? I’ve compiled a list of 9 different ways you can build assets inside your service business – that you may not have thought of yet!
Download the guide for inspiration and stories of other business owners who are building their own asset-based businesses!