When Is It Time to Start Outsourcing? Earlier Than You Think
As soon as you can. You don’t have to spend a lot of money. Hire someone to help you with a few tasks that take you forever or that you can’t do (or at least not without spending a lot of time learning something new). If you can’t afford someone outright, see...
Writing Vs. Speaking – Different Ways to Reach Your Audience and Establish Your Expertise
Sometimes when you’re learning how to reach your audience while establishing expertise, it can get overwhelming thinking about all the ways you can accomplish it. While considering all the possibilities and the potential, you may start getting anxious thinking that you’ll never have time to do it all and, by the way,...
Do Ask for Advice to Shortcut Your Path to a Successful Business
People love to say that there is no shortcut to business success. However, there is a shortcut to learning how to be successful in business. The simplest way is to find the person who is already successful in doing what you want to do and then follow the leader.
Don’t Let Others Dictate Your Path to Success
The world is on information overload. You can turn the TV on or turn on your computer 24 hours a day and find new information about almost any topic you can imagine. Because of this, it’s natural that you’re going to find a lot of different opinions out there that may or...
Evaluate What You’re Doing Regularly to Make Sure You’re Doing What You Want to Do
One of the best parts of building your own business is the fact that you get to change your mind when you want to. If you thought you’d love doing something, but it turns out you hate it, guess what? You can change your mind and do something else, hire someone to...
Don’t Let Your Business Take Over Your Personal Life
When you become a business owner, one thing becomes clear fast. You’ll never get all the work done. Ever. Never ever. Let’s repeat that again for the people in the back. There is no possible way as a business owner that you’ll ever be done with the work that needs to be...
Leverage is Your Friend When It Comes to Scaling Your Online Business
One way to save time, effort, and money when building your business is to leverage the work that you’re already doing by using it in new ways. Doing this will save time by enabling you to reuse what you’ve done, save effort by not overthinking things, and save money because you can...
Review What’s Working and Focus Your Time and Efforts There
One reason you think you don’t have enough time to get everything done that you need to do is that you’ve been trained that “busy” is equal to “productive.” Nothing could be further from the truth. You can be busy all day long from sunup to sundown and still not see any...
Get Your Team in Place to Have the Freedom and Peace of Mind You Seek
As a small business owner, you’re likely performing a lot of roles in your business. You may wear several hats - such as customer service representative, secretary, graphic designer, web designer, technical support, bookkeeper, and so forth.
The problem is, this is not a good way to do business...
The Benefits and Downside to Creating Passive Income Sources
One way to ensure your business reaches the hands-off level that you want it to reach is to work on creating more passive income sources. Passive income is kind of a misnomer because you do need to do work to generate revenue.
The difference is that it represents the...