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How to have more productive business meetings

Whether you’re a solopreneur, in a business partnership, or part of a larger team, business meetings matter. Productive business meetings can enable you to have more direction and clarity with your business, improve communication and business relationships, and increase your confidence, motivation, and excitement for moving forward with your business ideas. The problem? Many business …

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Time Management Tips: 5 Steps to Reducing Business Overwhelm

When most students sign up for one of my freelancer programs, they often do so because they feel overwhelmed and they don’t know what they should focus on first, or what they should spend their time on. It’s hard to know how to manage your time well when you feel as though you’re being pulled …

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How to grow your small business without a team

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!  Before we go over how to grow a successful small business without a …

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Business Planning Tips for Solopreneurs

Get the FREE goal planning workbook >> Goal planning workbook The must-have, FREE goal planning workbook—designed especially for solopreneurs… Success! Now check your email to confirm your subscription. There was an error submitting your subscription. Please try again. First Name Email Address We use this field to detect spam bots. If you fill this in, …

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10 Ways to Keep Accountable With Your Business

We’ve all been there:  “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 …

The Ultimate Home Office Checklist

Grab the ultimate home office checklist now! Get the (free!) ultimate home office checklist: Perfect for solopreneurs… Success! Now check your email to confirm your subscription. There was an error submitting your subscription. Please try again. Email Address Yes! I want this Powered by ConvertKit Ready to work from home full-time? You’re going to need …

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 Grab the cheatsheet to save 45+ hours each month >> 1. Prepare the night before. Tidy up your workspace before you wrap up your workday. Make notes …

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 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 …

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1 Simple Organizing Tool that will Change Your Life

You all know how much I love to-do lists and planners. Well, I have discovered something new which I absolutely adore!  Let me back up a moment. A lot of my work, for both my blog and for the work I do with clients, is ongoing long-term work. That means that I have to chip …

A Simple Trick to Get More Work Done

Last week I wrote a guest post for Freelancers Union: My Client Didn’t Give Me a Deadline. Now What? I encourage you all to check it out! We all have those times when you just feel like you’re plodding along. You have work to do, but it’s tough to just sit down and do it. The clock …

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How do you stay disciplined when you don’t have a boss?

This is a common question I get from people who work traditional 9—5 jobs, or who don’t have much experience in the small business world or in freelancing. And it’s an excellent question: if you don’t have a boss, then how can you stay on track with your work? What’s to stop you from just …