As a small business owner, your days are filled with meetings to attend, task lists to complete, and hundreds of other pressing items that all seem to need your attention right now. Oftentimes, marketing doesn’t make the cut. But there are quick, easy ways to accomplish your marketing goals in 10 minutes or less. Here's 12 easy marketing tasks you …
Self-Quiz: Is It Time to Re-design Your Website?
If your website is not giving you the results you want, or if your business has grown and changed over the past few years, many business owners start asking, Should I redesign my website now? Your website is the front door by which your customers enter. If it's amateurish, hard to read, difficult to navigate, or poorly designed, your customers …
Business Goals: START with Your Emotions
I'm watching a series of Tony Robbins videos on YouTube, and he asked a great question: "If you could achieve a goal that would really, really excite you... that would bring you a full sense of joy, ecstasty, personal achievement...that would bring you to the heights of creativity and the depths of your spirituality...would create more love and …
Feeling Like Your Business Needs to Change?
Something's in the air! Everywhere I turn recently, I keep running into seasoned business owners who tell me stories about how they are changing their business model, reinventing the way they do business, modifying the products/services they offer, and shifting who their target audience is. Some say they're feeling restless: that they know …
Releasing Judgment and Asking For Help
A colleague sent me this email last year, and I wanted to share it with you, because it affects all small business owners: "I've purchased some of your material and taken a course on masterminding and still haven't moved forward with creating a mastermind group. I've recognized that part of my problem is moving past my desire for …
Following Your Soul, as a Business Owner
How do you know what your life purpose is, and the purpose of your business? How do you know if this is what your soul wants you to do? I'm a firm believer in "try something" even if we're not sure that it's the right thing. Let me tell you a story: On Christmas Eve 1999, I was home from work wrapping presents and watching the …