We want the quickest way to succeed.  We want the SURE FIRE way to succeed. We want “The Secret” or — as my upcoming book is titled, The Short Cut.” (By the way, The Short Cut is a work of DELIBERATE business fiction…  Depending on where you are, it may serve as a MEMOIR.  Or
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This past week, I’ve been looking for entrepreneurial conferences to attend — with my girls.   With my girls, because I want to expose them in a new way to this world.. but not JUST for my girls. I want to attend a conference that will leave me better equipped for bigger success as well.
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Just yesterday, I was contracted to consult with someone on his copy and sales strategy — for these two go hand in hand of course.  The gal who brought me into this conversation “gushed” over how my work with her had “magically” transformed sales… how she was doing far less “junk” and focusing on a
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There are many many things to consider when sitting at the helm of your own business.  Employee training, systems, overhead, accounting, bookkeeping, legal structure, schedule, cash flow, marketing calendars, content creation, product or service fulfillment, launches, hiring goals, social media, potential partnerships, and more.  Some of these are legitimately complicated. Others are just “hard” because
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Have you ever seen New Beauty magazine?  It’s a good one.  But — and I’m sure their publishers wouldn’t like this next comment — it seems to have one purpose: To make you feel dissatisfied about your current appearance and point you in the direction of some surgery or filler or injection or product -based
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Today, I begin my 36th year on this earth…. and I’m enjoying my 13th year in business. 13 years being, as Barbara Winter calls it,  a self-bosser. Barbara Winter, by the way, wrote the FIRST business book I ever read.  I still recommend it.  (How to Make a Living Without Having A Job.) After all,
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