Success Habits
How to Build a Winning Team Even When You Work Alone
While you may be a solopreneur, it doesn’t mean you can’t work with a team whether virtual or real to take your business (and theirs) farther. As a designer I have a real team that consists of my installers, my workrooms, my artists, my vendors, my deliver talent, my interns, and more. Yet none of…
How to Get Ahead When You are Just Hanging On!
I’ve noticed that a lot of you are struggling to juggle the surge in new business while still putting in place lasting marketing initiatives and strategy that will ensure your pipeline gets and stays full in the year ahead. The challenge occurs when you sacrifice your long term profit for short term gains by shelving…
Success Strategies: Getting Out of Your Own Way
Recently I was speaking with the son of a friend of mine, Jim. He bartends for a living and mentioned that he was launching a blog to earn money. Since I follow @problogger and have been studying blog monetization for awhile, I asked a few questions. The answers I got back, amazed me. Jim is…
Networking Knowhow: Be Interested, Not Interesting
Like many professionals, I don’t love networking. After all, too often, it is one letter away from not working! But I have learned how to make it easy and effective over the years. First, what networking isn’t about: Collecting business cards, only to put these in some box in your office never to be looked…
SUCCESS STRATEGIES: 5 Sure Ways to Your Prosperity Mindset
Regularly sharing Strategy Sessions with Creativepreneurs I have found that the single greatest challenge to your success is your mindset. Success is as much a choice as it is anything else. You can work hard, you can put in long hours, you can be tremendously talented, but if you don’t have the right mindset you…
Success Strategies: Write YOUR Book in a Weekend, Gain Credibility
Over 81% of people want to write a book! Now there are a variety of reasons for this among them they have romanced the idea of a “writer’s life.” More importantly they have something to share with the rest of the world. But the real benefit in writing a book is that it gives you…
ACT Instead of React, Stop the Flames of Failure BEFORE They Start
Are you caught in the Reaction Trap? Do you find yourself responding continually to the variety of messages and media that are hitting you daily? Are you working on putting out fires only to find more business blazes flaming? Stop. Whenever your energy and focus is just on containment that is what will keep showing…
Success Strategies: What Goldilocks Learned and You Can TOO!
In life and business we all need to know an experimenter if we aren’t one ourselves. These are the folks that push the limits, break rules, challenge barriers. These individuals don’t see a wall as a wall but instead look at ways to scale it, go around it, go through it, or dig under it.…
Success Strategies: It Takes a Village to Be a Success! Find Yours.
Stuck in Learning: All too often we spend our time in business development, taking teleclasses, attending seminars, reading the latest special report and we forget it isn’t in what we know, but in what we act on that our success is truly made. You can have all the talent, all the expertise, and all the…