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How to Build a Successful Homebased or Small Business around Your Life
Janis Pettit offers small business coaching, and is an in demand business strategy and marketing expert who has owned successful small businesses for 21 years and has coached hundreds of small and solo business owners, showing them how to dramatically increase profits and build wealth. Janis is the creator of numerous business and marketing home-study courses and coaching programs. Get a complimentary copy of her special report, 12 Secrets to More Clients and More Money, plus access to 4 business building audios all worth $217 at http://smallbusiness-bigresults.com. Visit her blog at http://janispettit.com.
How to Build a Successful Homebased or Small Business around Your Life
Many of my clients own homebased businesses. If that’s you, then not only are you committed, passionate and serious about what you do, you are also committed to creating a lifestyle that reflects your values. You want to own your time, and be able to carve out quality time for family and friends. You want to work to live, not live to work, right?
How You Deal with Problems Can Impact Your Success
Running a business means dealing with problems, just like any other part of your life. You’ll run into problems with technology, client problems, marketing problems, problems with your outsourced help or employees and life problems that take time and energy away from your business. How you deal with those problems will have a big impact on your success.
How Does Being Successful Impact Your Quality of Life?
Over the years I’ve had many wonderful women clients voice their concerns and worries that if they really follow through, take the right action steps, work hard and grow their businesses, wouldn’t they have to really sacrifice quality time with family?
Do You Need a Business Plan?
If you’ve started a small business and you came out of the corporate world where detailed, endless paper work can sometimes take precedence over creativity and marketing, you may feel pressured to create an elaborate business plan. In fact traditional thinking is that you should never start a business without an elaborate business plan.
Money Saving Tips for Small Business Owners: Should You Be a Cheapskate?
With the economy still lukewarm entrepreneurs everywhere are trying to conserve cash. Investing money to grow your business is a must, but wasting money—well that’s something no one wants to do, but many business owners manage to do unknowingly. And although many businesses are still booming, being a cheapskate can keep more profit in your bank account.
Get outside Your Comfort Zone and Take Risks: It’s the Only Way to Grow
Part of what you signed on for when you started a small business was calculated risk-taking and moving outside your comfort zone. A client once asked when she’d get to the point where it would be easy and she could just operate her business on autopilot and just sort of float. When I told her never, she was shocked.
Pay Attention: Amazing Marketing Lessons are All Around You
I just returned from an awesome vacation visiting friends and hanging out in New York City and on the Connecticut shoreline. Everywhere I go I’m surrounded by lessons on what to do or what not to do when it comes to marketing. I’ll share a few observations I made while traveling.
While in New York, my [...]
Are You Getting the Right Help You Need to Succeed?
You’re smart, skilled, knowledgeable, passionate, and yet you’re still struggling to make enough money doing what you love. I’ve seen this over and over so you’re certainly not alone. When people get fed up trying to figure it out on their own, they finally take the advice they’ve been hearing all along and they get [...]
How to Move Your Small Business from Stuck to Soaring
Someone e-mailed me a link to a short video called the 212 movie that is going viral. This inspiring video pointed out that at 211 degrees water is merely hot, but at 212 degrees it’s boiling and able to create steam which can actually make a train run among other things. Just one degree makes [...]
