A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about the problems small business owners have with finding and keeping great team members. You can find that post at http://confidentmarketer.com/2013/04/29/get-team-building-right/. It created a lot of discussion and several questions from readers. The pool of workers available for hire and the skills they need to [...]
We form our impressions and beliefs about money at a very early age. Do you remember what your parents and grandparents told you about money? I do – my grandparents had to make ends meet through the American Great Depression, and my parents were young children at that time, too. Consequently, my parents [...]
I’ve just gotten back from being live on stage at Ali Brown’s Thrive Live event, two days especially for her Elevate coaching members. There’s nothing I love more about my work than listening to and helping purposeful entrepreneurs and small business owners, so I enjoyed every minute! We took a lot of live [...]
For 16 wonderful years I worked side by side with a strong willed girl we named Phoebe the Huntress. I’ve always had the belief that we can learn much about business and how it works by watching animals (click here for a blog post about animals, business, and spirit). Phoebe was a great [...]
Most of the time, small business owners are optimistic creatures. We like to look forward. We look at what isn’t working in our businesses and decide to change things around or quit doing the thing that isn’t doing well. We enjoy our customers and clients and look forward to serving them. We have [...]
It’s funny to me that so many solo professionals and small business owners start their business with a huge enthusiasm for what they do, but not much enthusiasm about marketing. When I owned a massage therapy clinic, I had no trouble attracting excellent therapists to work for me – because most massage therapists [...]
Would you prefer to listen to this article? Use the audio player below. Let’s say that your long-awaited trip to the beach comes, and you spend it looking outside from your room as rain pours down every day. Or, that your new blog’s launch date has been set for months, but [...]
This is one of the questions I got in the recent survey I did of my readers. Here’s a 5 minute video with Sue’s suggestions about when to stay and when to fold. Main points: No magical thinking Takes money to make money Measure your fear factor Ways to save for starting a [...]
Over the past week I’ve had the opportunity to work with two fairly new business owners. Both have had the idea for their businesses for a while now, both still work full-time jobs, and both have been circling around their idea for at least a year. As I worked with both of them, [...]
Sue shares 5 sure-fire ways to get out of doubt when you work for yourself and things aren’t going as well as you would like right now.
