I’m about to share a very personal experience with you. This is not something I’ve always felt comfortable doing but my hope is that many of you will relate as well as benefit from some powerful lessons I’ve recently learned—lessons learned not by choice.
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Why do so many small or solo businesses fail? Is it because the owners weren’t good enough at what they did? In most cases that’s just not true. Most of them were very skilled and talented in their area of expertise. So why do people...
It’s always amazing to me how owning a small business is the best self growth program around (except perhaps for parenting). The problems we experience growing a business are exactly the ones we experience in life.
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For start-up and early stage small and home based business owners the pressure to nail down a lucrative niche and create multiple products and services is anxiety producing. I see this with my small and solo business clients all the time. The truth is there’s...
You spend endless hours prospecting, going to business networking events, speaking to groups, or making sales calls. Maybe you even purchase lead lists.A certain percentage of the prospects you connect with will become clients-maybe anywhere from 1% to 10%. But what about the other 90%?
My colleagues and I often rant about the unfortunate amount of alluring hype that exists online about making money fast. It's so easy to actually believe this stuff if you are a small or solo business struggling to survive, or even if you're just tired...