One of the great advantages of working for yourself is the freedom it gives you. When you’re a business owner, you get to make your own rules and set your own hours. Unfortunately, in today’s “always-on” culture, this can also mean that you get to suffer from crippling stress and exhaustion…
As a small business owner, making sales is critical. However, finding the balance between “successful” and “annoying” can be challenging, especially if you don’t have much experience working in sales. HubSpot research shows that 50% of prospects found sales people pushy…
You love your business, but that doesn’t mean you can afford to work for free. Yet, figuring out how to pay yourself as a business owner can be complicated.
You need to think carefully about how you take money out of your business entity. Typically, that’s done one of two ways: a salary…
As any small business owner knows, your website is one of the most vital components of your business. Whether you’re in e-commerce or not, it’s the first place potential customers will go to discover and decide if they want to do business with you.
Luckily, building an engaging, inspirational, and profitable...
Restructuring my organization was one of the toughest things I’ve done as a business owner. In the last 18 months, the demand for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) transformative work has exploded across the business world. With the rise of social justice movements and civil unrest…
One is a cost center–the other is a profit center.
In almost three decades of coaching hundreds of companies on improving profit and engagement, my advice has never changed. It’s always been to help your employees think and act like owners, and to treat…
Problems and change are the only constants in business, so learn how to meet them positively.
Every entrepreneur and business owner I know has had more setbacks than they would like to admit, in this age of rapid change and constant…