How to Get Retainer Clients: Copy & Paste this Step-by-Step Marketing Plan!

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Last week I launched a free video training that’s now available year-round for your viewing! It’s all about how to create a strategic plan of action for your freelance business, so you can get more done in less time and be intentional about every step you take in your business. Even better, it includes an example plan of action for how to get retainer clients in 12 weeks that you can basically copy and paste into your own business!

The bootcamp features step-by-step instructions for exactly what you could be doing every single week to build relationships with prospects,

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Working full-time and running a small business on the side? Here’s how to do it…

There just are NOT enough hours in the day. And especially when you’re working full-time and running a small business on the side, it can feel nearly impossible to do anything besides work, work, work! Are youworking full-time and running a small business on the side? Feeling as though you have ZERO time to make it work? Getting overwhelmed with it all? Use these 5 tips to make managing your side business that much easier... even if you have a hectic full-time job!

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Luckily, it IS possible to work full-time at a 9 to 5 job while managing your home-based business on the side.

Yes, really!

In fact, I did it for years.

I built up my freelance business while I was working a stressful,

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How to grow your small business without a team

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Okay, so you want to grow a successful business… but you don’t have a team. As I mentioned in last week’s article, What is a solopreneur?, you can ABSOLUTELY grow your small business without a team of people to help you out! Learn what you need to know for how to grow your small business... WITHOUT having a team of employees at your disposal! Click on over to get the goods for solopreneur tips, business goal planning tips, a business goal planning workbook, and small business tips.

Before we go over how to grow a successful small business without a team, I first want to be very clear:

As a solopreneur, everything will take time and/or money.

So if you don’t want to hire someone to do work for you, you’re going to have to take the time to do it for yourself.

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Business Planning Tips for Solopreneurs

business planning tips for solopreneurs

After taking a month-long hiatus from blogging, I’m BACK! And what better way to kick off the new year than with some business planning tips for solopreneurs? Business planning tips for solopreneurs PLUS get a free goal planning workbook to do big-picture planning for your business! Solopreneur business tips and tips for home-based small business owners -- click on over to get it now

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(Pssst… if you’re wondering, “but what IS a solopreneur?”, it’s pretty straightforward! A solopreneur is simply someone who has a one-person business—including freelancers and most home-based business owners. If you have a business without employees, you’re a solopreneur. And in 2017, I’m expanding my area of focus to include all kinds of solopreneurs, not just freelancers—starting with today’s blog post.

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10 Ways to Keep Accountable With Your Business

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We’ve all been there: Want to FINALLY move forward with your freelance business? Discover the top 10 ways to keep accountable with your business in this article! You'll get valuable tips to help you stay accountable as a small business owner and continue making progress over time. Click on over to get the accountability tips for freelancers now!

“Someday I’m going to start my own business and it will be awesome!”

“Pretty soon I’m going to actually quit my 9 to 5 job and work from home full-time.”

“I’m an *aspiring* freelancer.”

To each of these statements, I ask…

WHEN and HOW are you going to go about starting your own business/quitting your day job/becoming a freelancer?

WHAT is your strategy and timeline, exactly?

It’s like when people say that they’d love to write a book someday:

Okay… that’s great!

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The Ultimate Home Office Checklist

Ready to work from home full-time? You’re going to need an awesome home office to work at! Thinking about working from home full-time? You're going to need an awesome home office to work at! Grab your FREE ultimate home office checklist + get tips for setting up your own perfect home office for your freelance business. Click on over to get the tips + freelancer checklist now!

Today I’ve got a few tips for you on how to set up your perfect home office when you’re starting a freelance business—plus a handy home office checklist for ensuring you don’t miss anything!

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Tips for setting up a home office for your freelance business:
1) Assess what supplies you already have.

You might be surprised at what you already have kicking around your home that would be useful to use for your home office.

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4 Tips for Creating Your Plan of Action When Preparing to Work From Home Full-Time

4 tips for preparing to work from home full-time

Today I thought I’d share with you a sneak preview of what you’ll get inside the Goodbye 9 to 5 masterclass: 4 tips for creating your plan of action when preparing to work from home full-time! Thinking about quitting your day job and starting to work from home full-time? Get 4 tips for how to map out your plan of action PLUS a 10-point checklist for preparing to work from home full-time in this blog post featuring a sneak preview of the Goodbye 9 to 5 masterclass. Click on over to get the goods! ::: home-based business :: small business tips ::

Grab your checklist for preparing to work from home full-time

The Goodbye 9 to 5 masterclass teaches you step-by-step how to quit your day job and transition from your 9 to 5 office job into working from home full-time, within the space of just 3 months.

The video training provides an overview of a three-phase process with numerous steps (and action items) inside each phase.

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3 Productivity Tips for When You’re Having Trouble Focusing

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On any given day, there is always so much work that I could be doing. It often comes down to what needs to be prioritized, or what I’m in the mood for—but I’m sure I could work 12 hours days, every day, and still have more things on my to-do lists.

That being said, even when there’s a lot of interesting and important work to do, sometimes it can be challenging to stay focused on our workload. We all have those days when our work just feels overwhelming or when we’re trying so hard to work on a project and we can’t seem to get our brains to focus.

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What You Need To Do for a More Productive Morning

If you’ve ever wished you were a little more productive in the morning, these tips will help you out! Simple tips to make for a more productive morning

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1. Prepare the night before.

Tidy up your workspace before you wrap up your workday. Make notes on your to-do list for the following morning so that you’ll be set to go when you wake up.

Also make a point of making your lunch and choosing your clothes the night before.

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Meetings: Worthwhile or Worthless?

I have attended a lot of worthless meetings over the years—meetings that just end up wasting your time, and which don’t really seem Are your meetings an effective use of your time... or are they worthless? Find out the main questions you should ask yourself to identify just how useful and necessary your meetings are, plus some tips for being more productive at every meeting to make good use of your time!to have a point to them. It was doubly frustrating when I knew that the meetings could have been useful and meaningful, but they were just conducted poorly.

Nowadays, with freelancing, my meetings are so much better, and I cringe when I think about how many hours of my life were wasted by attending useless meetings.

If you’re not sure about whether your meetings are worthwhile or worthless,
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