Brilliant Bites
Engage Your Audience Part 1: Show Up and Speak Up
True, we live in a digital world, but still nothing quite beats a face-to-face meeting. There’s something about being able to look into another’s eyes, read their body language, and feel their intention that solidifies relationships faster than any other approach....
Engage Your Audience Part 2: Get Visible With Social Media
Sure, social media is viewed as a brain drain and time-sucker by hoards of people because they don’t know how to use it. They focus on promote-promote-promote instead of providing value, and then wonder why they’re not getting the results they’re after. There are...
Engage Your Audience Part 3: The Power of Posting Regular Content
Posting regular (and original) content is a veritable marketing gold mine for your business. You have a blog, right? You at least have a monthly newsletter, right? If you don’t, you have it on your to-do list, right? If you don’t, it’s okay. For now. Just breathe....
Your Money is in the Follow Up
Most business owners excel at pitching their goods or services to prospective clients, once. But, if that prospective client doesn’t immediately shout a hearty YES from the rooftops, they walk away, head hung low, and the prospective client never hears from them...
How to Cultivate Energy, Focus and Freedom in Your Business
Self-care and business success are like wind and a sailboat – individually they’re all right, but together they make magic. You can have a moderately successful business and run yourself into the ground doing it. Or you can have a wildly successful business by taking...
Are You Living In the Past?
I’ve got a bit of news for you. That version of you, the previous one, the one you keep referencing, is old news. It's like spending all your time looking in the rear view mirror while trying to drive forward. If you’re spending time reminiscing about who you were...
3 Keys to Make This Year Better
This year just has to be better than last year, right? But how do you start? You know you’re destined to build your business and yet … you have doubts that you can make things happen. You aren’t sure what needs to change. Or where to start. I know how that is. I hear...
The Downfall of Many Small Businesses
Shiny object syndrome is the downfall of many small businesses. Especially solo entrepreneurs. You’ve got to focus. I could end this post with that sentence, because in all seriousness, focus is as imperative to your success as knowledge or skill. Focus. The...
How to Enjoy a Guilt-Free Holiday from your Business
I don't know about you, but for me thinking about “taking a holiday” from my business used to be an impossible thought. It can feel like the pressure is ON full force. All the time. 24/7. There is always more to be done when it comes to building my business. There is...
3 Adventures to Nurture Your Creative Side
As the caretaker of your business, it’s up to you to feed it new ideas and fresh insights. But sometimes it feels like your well has run dry, and finding an inspiring idea is more difficult than squeezing water from a rock. Which is why it’s imperative to your mental...
9 Tips for Sustaining Momentum in Your Business
It’s exciting to begin a brand new business. You jump in with both feet and you’re off and running. But eventually you hit an unexpected bump (or two or three). You find yourself stalled. Or just plain overwhelmed. The next thing you know, you’re frustrated or...
Delegation: The Secret Sauce to a Successful Business
You’re at a point in your business where the majority of the day-to-day work falls to you, and it’s rare that you assign tasks to someone else. Maybe there is no one else to assign tasks to. You realize you’re holding yourself back from expanding to the next level,...
