by Elaine | Blog, Rethinking Your Business, Starting Your Business
My last post was all about the ultimate objective of every business—to sell our products or services. If we don’t, we won’t stay in business! So why do so many of us feel uncomfortable about selling? Because we’ve been on the receiving end of too many canned sales...
by Elaine | Blog, Rethinking Your Business, Starting Your Business
Yogi Berra captured it perfectly: “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up someplace else!” Unless you know what your objective is, you’re not going to achieve it. If you don’t know where you want to end up, you’ll have no idea how to get there. What...
by Elaine | Blog, Rethinking Your Business
What do you do when you realize your solopreneur business has lost momentum? Sure, you still get clients from time to time, but the pace is really slow. You know you offer services that people need, so it isn’t that. But it’s something. Recognizing that you need to do...
by Elaine | Blog, Overwhelm
It’s really easy to keep postponing tasks you don’t want to do—or are afraid you won’t do right. Everyone procrastinates to some degree, but allowing procrastination to become a habit can be destructive and self-defeating. It can keep you from being successful. In...
by Elaine | Blog, Overwhelm, Time Management
When you’re managing a solo business, you never know what sort of problem is going to pop up. Something slips through the cracks. A detail gets lost. No matter how careful you are, you’re just one person, and there are only so many plates you can keep spinning at one...
