Stages of Business Development: The Quick and Easy Facts
This blog post is for those business owners who are so busy doing their thing that they’ve never really sat down to figure out exactly what stage they’re in, or for those business owners who want guidance on the stages and what they can expect to see in each one.
Read MoreDesign Programs From Your Services- 4 Proven Ways
As a service-based business owner, you’ve probably heard the debate about selling time versus selling value. When you sell individual services (like a single Reiki session, or a single massage), you’re selling your time. If you sell packages (like multiple massages, or a trio of sessions – massage, yoga, and counseling, you can sell your clients on the value – on what they get out of it (greater relaxation/better mental health? Something like that).
No matter how long you’ve been in business, there’s always an opportunity to re-examine existing packages or create new packages.
Read MoreDiscover The Powerful Benefits of Defining Your Business Niche
Creating a thriving business starts by defining your niche. It will set you up to achieve better results, quicker and with fewer costs.
Developing a well-defined niche can take trial and error. Don’t stress over starting out with a broader niche and then narrowing it down as you work with more and more clients, it’s very very common.
Read MoreHow to Choose the Business Coach That’s Right for You
Ask a handful of successful business owners what the secret is to their success and you’re likely to get many different answers. But I’ll be that the one that comes up the most often is, “I hired a business coach.”
Working with a business coach can be life-changing. But finding the one that gets you the results you’re looking for can be a challenge.
Read MoreThe Truth About What A Business Coach Really Does
With coaching being a non-regulated industry, there are likely many answers to the question, “What does a coach actually do?” as each coach has their own unique style, approach, and philosophy.
Read More10 Powerful Business Lessons Learned From Climbing A Mountain
10 Things Climbing A Mountain With HubbyTaught Me
About Business, Goals, And Being A Leader
How To Make Business Conversations With Hubby Less Icky
For more than a decade (since 2006) I’ve worked with hundreds of women who own their own services businesses and face one very common challenge that I also experience. That challenge is talking with one’s spouse about your business.
Sure it can be fun and easy to share with our husbands when we feel confident, are making money, our clients are successful.
But what about those times when we feel like nothing we do is right, our clients aren’t satisfied with our service, we lose a client to someone else?
Read MoreCreating A Start-Up Budget For Your New Business
3 Categories to Include in Your Business Budget and Why You Should Think of a Budget Different Way. In business, budget is not a dirty word. A budget is a tool that helps you to allocate your resources. A budget is a tool that helps you ensure your business’ future.
Read MoreHow To Make Blogging Easier
Discover 10 Exercises To Make Blogging Easier
Read MoreMinimalism; A New Approach to Business Growth
In today’s business world there is unspoken pressure to always be launching, always be growing, always be scaling, always be developing new and better products, programs, and offerings. From my own experience I know just how easy it is to get pulled in, sucked in, and stuck in this message and lose sight of why you started your entrepreneurial journey in the first place. I also know how hard it is to fight against this pressure, to feel the judgments of other women business owners. You just want to cave in and follow the crowd.
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