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Stop Being Your Own Worst Client

Imagine you had a coaching client who consistently failed to complete her tasks for the week.  She couldn’t find the time to get her email opt-in page completed.  She was too busy to write the next chapter of her book.  She was working too hard and completely forgot to put together her webinar presentation.  It....

More Important Than Money: Understanding Why You Really Do What You Do

What do super-successful coaches and small business owners all have in common?  It’s not experience.  It’s not extraordinary skills.  It’s not even a powerful drive.  Although all of these things can definitely help your business grow, they’re not a prerequisite for success. After all, no one is born with experience or skills, and plenty of....

3 Proven Ways to Market Your New Business

The world is filled with great ideas and broke business owners with fabulous products but no sales.  The fact is, ideas are not what drives most business success. Marketing does. So before you quit your day job to branch out on your own, it pays to have a solid marketing plan in place. Start with....

Mindset Tricks of Successful Entrepreneurs

Want to know what sets the uber-successful apart from the wannabe entrepreneurs?  It’s not money, or brilliant ideas, or even powerful friends.  All of those things (and more) are nice to have, but they’re not a requirement of success. What is a must-have, though, is a good attitude. Without the proper mindset, you’ll constantly be....

How to Turn a Dream Into a Workable Plan

As a coach, it can be difficult to watch the lack of progress of so many promising entrepreneurs and coaches. They’ve dreamed for so long about creating a solid, sustainable business, and yet, all they do is dream.  You know the people I’m talking about. They attend conferences, sign up for free webinars, buy paid....

Build a Business, Not Another Job

Many people dream of working for themselves, being their own boss, and having the freedom to only take on clients and projects they love.  What they don’t realize, though, is that there is a huge difference between building a business and being self-employed.  Business owners scale their income. Self-employed people trade dollars for hours Business....

How to Have a Stress-Free Business Launch

Let’s face it, the last thing you want to do now that you’ve decided to finally leave the 9 to 5 job is to add more stress to your life. Isn’t that why you decided to build your own business in the first place? You’re looking for freedom from your awful boss, nasty coworkers, and....

Beyond SMART: Goal Setting for Entrepreneurs

If there’s one thing we know about goals, they have to be SMART, right?  After all, that’s what we’ve been told for years. The only thing that matters is that your goals are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely.  While that looks great on paper—and clearly it’s easy to remember—it doesn’t go far enough for....