With 9 months of Pandemic under your belt would it be too much to ask "How's your mindset?" Specifically what you can do to improve yours and why your mind might be holding you back from the success that you desire. Pandemic slow down has personally been good for me to get distance and perspective about business and to work on my pivot, but I've never lied to you, it's HARD to get moving again!
I've pulled this post from inside my Smart Boss Club because I think it might just...
It's probably safe to say we all feel a little out of wack these days! Our world has changed drastically, yet it's in our nature to try to make order out of chaos. This post was written pre-Pandemic, but I feel like we need structure MORE now than ever. If you are an essential worker you are still on a schedule and if you are working from home, perhaps you have now added teaching school as one of your daily duties. Furloughed? Maybe you have found more open ended free time than...
Since it is the kick off to the holiday shopping season people are expecting deals and steals and marketing from you. The only way this might back fire is if you have OVER MARKETED to them already. IF you send a weekly sale day, this may well be a big fat flop for you if your client list is used to getting “deals”.
These tips are going to help you get your emails opened, keep them...
What does "being productive" as a business owner ACTUALLY mean? In my view it means maximizing the income producing activities (IPA) and minimizing the paper pushing and wheel spinning. It also means shorter "to-do" lists and more actual DOING.
If you really want to be more productive, you need to focus on completing fewer tasks, learning how to work without distraction for a block period and taking much needed breaks.
See your productivity skyrocket when you put these seven habits into...
Remember when you were in middle school and you finally got the guts to say hi to that cute classmate you'd been crushing on all year? Remember that feeling you had when he didn't say hi back? Ugh! I feel the pit in my stomach just writing that!
Here's my point. Doesn't it kind of feel the same way when we post on social media and get ZERO response? No one likes to put themselves out there to be met with silence.
Good news! Over the last 9 years of working with thousands of small...
You’re back from your national conference with great ideas and inspiration swirling around in your head. Plus you have a new catalog, new products and you are BURSTING at the seams to book some parties and sell some of these fabulous new products!
Before you go hog wild filling up your social media sites with post after post, let’s gather ourselves and do it in a way that isn’t spammy, desperate and off putting.
Let’s also AVOID having Facebook targeting your posts as...
You’ve worked hard to get your fans to your business page. Are you doing enough to keep them interested in coming back? Can you think of a few Facebook fan pages off the top of your head that irritate you with their postings or don’t give you any reason to interact? Don’t be the owner of that page!
Picture this: Your fan page is a place that people seek out. They jump in to participate when you ask questions. Your content gets...
First, if you aren't familiar with the acronym, RBF if stands for Resting Bitch Face. RBF is a face that, when at ease, is perceived as angry, irritated or simply expressionless.
Being the owner of an RBF and being an introvert who spends lots of my day in deep thought, I am more than qualified to speak on this subject. I also learned a valuable lesson of judging other RBFs out in the world. The day I stopped doing it was the day my business TOOK off.
This...
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