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What to Do When You Experience Business Failure
Read more: What to Do When You Experience Business FailureWhen you’re running your own business, chances are you’ll experience failure more often than you’d like. It’s just the cost of doing business. Those business fails teach you so much and eventually you learn to fail better. But that doesn’t meant that it’s not absolutely devastating. If you get stuck in that devastation, you are…
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Professional Development and Running a Business
Read more: Professional Development and Running a BusinessYou’ve got your business going and things are looking up. You’re now looking to grow and that means learning more. But what kind of professional development can you really do? I’ve found it’s really tough out there and lots more snake oil salesmen than actual great products to help you. So where do you go…
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Should You Be a Generalist or Pick a Niche?
Read more: Should You Be a Generalist or Pick a Niche?When you get started in running your own business, you will be faced with one question pretty quickly: Should you pick a niche? For me, it wasn’t even a question. I came out with loads of contacts in the tourism industry and I leaned into that. And social media marketing was in its infancy at…
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Impostor Syndrome and Running a Business
Read more: Impostor Syndrome and Running a BusinessI am a huge sufferer of impostor syndrome. I think everyone is better than me, and eventually everyone will find out that I have no idea what I’m doing. Obviously that’s nowhere near the truth. There is not a single person out there that fully knows what they’re doing. There are just some people who…
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How to Avoid Overworking as a Business Owner
Read more: How to Avoid Overworking as a Business OwnerI live in a home that has two business owners. My partner just started his business, whereas I just celebrated twelve years of working for myself. It’s been eye opening to go through this with him, due to the different ages of our businesses and the different kinds of businesses we do (he is a…
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Managing Social Media Client Expectations
Read more: Managing Social Media Client Expectations“Yes, when I worked with her before, I increased her company’s engagement by 5000%.” The second those words left my mouth in a prospective social media client meeting I wanted to pluck them from the air and stuff them back in as quickly as possible. But I said it. The prospect heard it. And now…
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The Role of Values When Running Your Business
Read more: The Role of Values When Running Your BusinessWhen it comes down to it, all of us have values we hold sacred. They guide what we do and what we don’t do. Your business shouldn’t be any different. On day one of your business, you should write down what is important to you when it comes to your business. And it can be…
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Be Yourself in Your Business
Read more: Be Yourself in Your BusinessBeing yourself can be the secret to your success. But why? When I first started my business, I looked at other businesses similar to mine or ones that had stared similarly to mine. I studied what was successful and what was not. And I studied the journeys to that success. From all of that study,…
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Balancing It All As a Business Owner
Read more: Balancing It All As a Business OwnerFor a long time, I’ve been balancing so many facets of my life to keep myself a whole person. It hasn’t it been easy, especially at the beginning when I was convinced I had to work work work if I was going to own my own business. But it’s only gotten harder as I’ve tried…
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Setting Your Fees For Your Own Business
Read more: Setting Your Fees For Your Own BusinessThe most frequent question I get from new business owners is: How do you set your fees? My partner launched his own business this year and that was obviously where he started as well. It can be such a confusing process. I don’t have the right answer for everyone. But I have talked with MANY…
