Let’s Recap 30 Days of Building a Business That Serves You and Your Lifestyle

Let’s take a quick walk down memory lane and browse through all the different topics we covered over the past 29 days.  In the last month, you’ve learned about building a business that practically runs itself. You’ve learned about various technology that can help you build this type of...

Reevaluate Your Dreams and Goals Regularly and Tweak Your Business Accordingly

Set aside some time each quarter or, at the very least, each year to revisit your dreams and goals. Change them as needed and then look at what you’re doing in your business. Does everything align? Can you tweak or change some things to make this business able to better support what...

Allow Your Business to Grow and Change with You

Did you know that every seven to ten years, you’re an entirely new person because your cells have totally regenerated and replaced their systems during that time? You can really see it when it comes to kids. Look at your child’s pictures from two years ago, or five years ago, and your...

Why You Need to Have an Exit Strategy – Even if You’re Just Starting Out

If you have ever talked to people in an online business group and ask the question – “When will you retire?” – a lot of people will say they’ll never retire. That might be true. Maybe you love your work so much you cannot imagine leaving it or retiring. 

Creating a Business That (Almost) Runs Itself 

Setting up a self-running business involves considering the aspects of your business that are most important to your customers that all businesses need to remain healthy. That means dealing with customer service - ensuring that they are getting their products on time and that they are happy with the service you offer....

Contingency Plans – What Will You Do When… 

As a small business owner, you need to be prepared when things go wrong. If you’re aware at all of “Murphy’s Law,” then you know that if something can go wrong, it often will. Well, it’s not true, but it’s good to pretend that it’s true so that you’re prepared for when...

Switch It Up – Why You Want a Mobile Office Setup

One issue with working for yourself, from home, is that some people end up feeling very isolated and even bored. This might especially be true in the early days of building your location- and time-independent business since you’re probably not dealing with clients that often on a one-to-one basis. Instead, you are...

Is Time Freedom and the Ability to Work Whenever & Wherever Important to You?

As you plan your ideal business that enables you to live your dream life, it’s important to think about what is important to you. For some people, time freedom is just as important as the ability to work from anywhere because they really want to be not only free of the constraints...

Why You May Not Want Your Business to Grow Too Fast

While growing a business is exciting, it can also be very stressful if things move too fast, and it grows too quickly. You may make more mistakes, some which can cause serious problems with your customers’ satisfaction, which can rub off on future sales.  Too Easy to Lose Track...

Let’s Talk About Bottlenecks and How to Widen Them

A bottleneck is just a term that describes the slowing down of productivity. If you look at a coke bottle, the neck is smaller than the bottle. The term signifies that a slow down or even a stoppage is occurring at a certain place in the plan you’ve implemented. Bottlenecks can occur...