Key Ingredients That Will (Almost) Guarantee Your Success
What if I could almost guarantee your success as a home-based business owner? No gimmicks or crap to buy, just some key things you can do to ensure success. I’m always asked what it takes to succeed as...
View ArticleYour Business Plan as a Story
When I’m talking to someone about launching their home-based business, and the subject of business plans comes up I usually get one of 3 initial responses – a glazed over look, a quick change of the...
View ArticleIs Fear Actually An Asset?
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear” ~ Mark Twain My 2-year old likes to jump off of things. In fact, all my kids did about that age. Doesn’t matter how high it is, or...
View ArticleCalculated Risk Becomes Calculated Reality
… is one of the principles I live by. With anything worth having comes risk. So how do you manage it? On my “…Fear of Flying…” post, Ellen said “… I am intrigued by your notion that ‘Calculated risk...
View ArticleDistractions Speak Louder Than Words
Jim Court: You’re not a permanent part of her life. You’re a distraction. Lloyd Dobler: I’m the distraction that’s going with her to England, sir. ~ John Mahoney and John Cusack in Say Anything...
View ArticleExplore Your History to Move Your Dream Forward
How did your get you where you are right now? What led to this moment in your career? Getting clear on your history can help you better map out your future. I’ve found that a lot of folks, who are...
View ArticleThe Mistake of Waiting for Your Start-Up to Be Perfect
It’s almost perfect. Just a few more tweaks and it’ll be all ready to go. Perfectionism as procrastination — it’s one of the easiest to justify and hardest to see. When you’re getting your new...
View ArticleWhen Is a Failed Business, Not a Failed Business?
When it was never a business to begin with. One of the problems I have with all the statistics for failed small businesses, entrepreneurial ventures, and startups, is that many of them weren’t really...
View ArticleSo How Do You Make Money from That…?
There’s this crazy misconception that I spend a lot of time trying to correct. It revolves around businesses making money. You see, they do. No really, I mean it. I know there are lots of “businesses”...
View ArticleWait, I Didn’t Mention That Teaching Sells Is Live?
Okay, I really do understand how scheduled posting works in WordPress. See, you have to click the little radio button to “published.” I didn’t. So now, a day later I give you… Teaching Sells is Now...
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