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Sept. 3, 2024
Essential Elements of Building a Calm Business
What if you could design a business that inherently operates on calm, not chaos? What are the essential elements to make this possible, and how can they be systematically incorporated into your business model? As we dive int…
July 23, 2024
Crowdfunding For service Businesses with Lena West
Do you need funding for your business but loathe the idea of giving up a piece of your company to someone else? I get it. You built this baby with your own two hands, most likely giving up nights, weekends, early mornings, a…
July 20, 2021
Examining Your Relationship With Your Business With Nicole Lewis-Keeber
Nicole and I talk about how your foundational experiences might show up in your business and create limitations to your growth, especially when it comes to perfectionism and control.
July 6, 2021
The End Goal of Maintenance Mode, What it Is, and What it Isn't
I've spent the last 16 episodes interviewing founders about maintenance mode and consistency, exploring capacity, business model, and techniques to prepare and execute maintenance mode in your business. And to wrap up the th…
June 8, 2021
Preparing Your Business So You Can Take a Real Break with Claire Pelletreau
The point of maintenance mode is to give you time and space to take a REAL break. Not a vacation where you're checking your email or you're stuck on your laptop kind of break. But a real, genuine break. To go through the pro…
May 25, 2021
Leveraging People, Processes and Technology with Jason Staats
In order to get your business into maintenance mode–and build a stronger business while you're at it–you have to answer the question, "What if I'm not here?" Ideally, the answer is that nothing changes. Invoices still get se…
April 13, 2021
Assessing Your Business' Capacity with Anna Wolf
When Anna ran up against her capacity ceiling, she decided that she loved the work she was doing and didn't really want to change the way that she was working. But that something still had to change.
Feb. 23, 2021
Leaving Social Media and Re-Investing in Organic Growth with Nathalie Lussier
Social media is a major marketing channel for LOTS of small businesses, and it's an important part of the decision-making process if you're thinking about your own marketing from a perspective of privacy, so I wanted to brin…
Feb. 2, 2021
Growing a Business With Digital Privacy as a Priority with Paul Jarvis
Paul and his cofounder, Jack Ellis, are two of my go-to experts on both digital privacy AND on the logistics of how to build that ethos into the DNA of your company. It's a core value for them as well, so they have to naviga…
Jan. 19, 2021
Making "Enough" in Our Business with Rita Barry
Rita Barry is a certified measurement marketer. She founded her company, a boutique digital marketing optimization consultancy based in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, in 2009. Rita deals with numbers and measuring success all…
Dec. 22, 2020
Increasing Profits Through a Revenue Sharing Structure with Lacey Sites
We've been talking this month about creative strategies around pricing or packaging your services. And as part of that exploration, I wanted to re-air an interview that I did with Lacey Sites from a Lit Up Life in 2019.
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Oct. 20, 2020
Driving New Business and Managing Operations Using ClickUp with Layla Pomper
You can use no-code tools like ClickUp to streamline and automate your internal processes and enhance your communication with clients. You can also build digital products, help your students learn more effectively, and add t…
July 28, 2020
How to Build a Community Around Your Business with Katie Hunt
Katie Hunt, founder of Proof to Product, helps product-based businesses create product lines, sell wholesale, and build stronger businesses. She has a podcast, courses, masterminds, coaching, conferences, and yes, a communit…
July 21, 2020
Evolving Toward a Community Business Model with Margy Thomas
Margy looked at her business and realized that 1:1 services was no longer the best delivery option for her clients and it wasn’t the business she wanted to be running. Creating the ScholarShape community was the natural evol…
July 14, 2020
Where Community Belongs In Your Business Model with Sophie Bujold
Harnessing your IP isn't the ONLY way you could add additional revenue or build resilience into your business. Sophie Bujold has another option: building a community product around your business.
Key takeaways:
- Using…