Who creates your calendar and books every waking moment of your time? Who asks you to work evenings and weekends to grow your business? Who forces you to work with clients who are not really a good match, or pushes you to sell, sell, sell when you are tired or sick? Being self-employed means you are the boss. You set the agenda. If you're unhappy …
Managing Your Website Redesign Project – 22 Point Checklist
I know many of you are thinking it's time to redesign your website, but you don't know where to start or how to manage the project. Let me share my experience with you in hopes that it will make your website redesign process smooth and efficient. After 11 months of hard planning and implementation, multiple website graphics and layout choices, and …
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Choose One Project
I'm just like you -- just like every entrepreneur I know. I have a million ideas and I want to do them ALL right away! Here's how that's killing your business. I learned an important and enlightening lesson last year that I'd like to share with you. By focusing all my attention, energy, time and resources on One Big Project, I increased my income …
Giving Your Best to Your Customers
In the small business world, where practically everyone is time-constrained, it's sometimes difficult to give your best to every customer, every project, every task. This is what I discovered over the years: that giving your best to everything you do is so important that there's rarely an excuse for not reaching for your highest potential. The …
A Little At a Time, That’s How Big Things Happen
Many small business owners feel overwhelmed with what they have to do and the time constraints they have for accomplishing both big goals and everyday tasks. I heard an interview with Zack Hample (who wrote a book about baseball). Zack has a 203 pound rubber band ball in his home. The interviewer asked Zack if he was obsessive. Zack replies, "I …
Are You Cut Out To Be Your Own Boss?
I had an interesting discussion with one of my clients recently. She's been in business for six months and is ready to quit. (I have permission to share her story.) She writes, "I give up. Starting a business is so much harder than I thought it would be, so much more time-consuming. I was hoping to be making a profit by now! There are so many …