As you know, good leaders are self-aware. When something isn’t working in your business, you don’t just blame the market or your team. You take a good look at yourself, too. Are you the bottleneck? Is your thinking getting in
Would you know if you were burned out? Of course, right? Because people who are burned out fall apart. You haven’t fallen apart, so you must be okay. You’re just a little stressed. You’re still answering every email (or enough
You pay everyone – your team and landlord, the software companies and vendors, and even the tax bill that shows up, whether you’re ready for it or not. Every month, you find the money, mostly, to keep all of it
Making your first hires is a major milestone for most small business owners. Whether you decide to hire a VA, a part-time or full-time employee, or a contractor, the goal is to take things off your plate. The problem is
For more than a decade, the answer marketers gave to the question of SEO or PPC was something like, “That depends on what your goals are. It’s SEO if you’re budget-strapped, patient, or wanting traffic that lasts. It’s PPC if
If you’re like most, the pain of perfectionism shows up for you as late nights, endless tweaking, and work that never feels finished. There’s a constant buzz of anxiety that things aren’t just right, and all of this is just
It’s amazing how many owners treat small business financing as a last resort. Few consider it until something’s gone really wrong. And what usually goes wrong is that they’ve run out of other options because they’ve run out of cash
