I’ve been thinking about writing this post all week. Day after day, I’ve opened the Google doc, looked at my notes. Hesitated. Delayed. “Are we really stepping away from all of this?” I wondered. As feverishly excited as I was to write for this blog in the early days of Kickstart …
They say you have to have guts to start a business, to take risks, try new things, and push yourself when you feel most tired. But what I learned these past few weeks is that it takes even more guts to walk away from a business you’ve poured your heart into building. The …
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Open any entrepreneur, coaching, career, leisure, life or business blog and you’ll find at least one post in reference to finding and following your passion. Books, seminars, workshops, video, podcasts and TED Talks can be found everywhere in stores and online. Hell millionaires have been made just speaking on the topic. It is almost …
Getting the RIGHT referral is like receiving a gift. Your heart skips with gratitude for the person who thought so highly of you and your services that they went the extra mile and referred a new client to you. Wouldn’t it be great if most of your new clients were referrals? Imagine …
“Authenticity” is an annoying buzzword these days. What it means in online marketing is that you have to be a nice person and honestly care about helping your customers or clients. I come from the rural Midwest, where the practice doesn’t need a title or an e-guide — it’s just the way we do business. …
Stop me if any of this sounds familiar: My business is growing like crazy, but I’m still just a side hustler who’s doing it on nights and weekends so I can’t really call myself “successful”. I have surpassed my income goals for my business, but I still have a lot of personal debt. …
So what exactly is a minimal viable product and why would you want to create one? A minimal viable product focuses on solving a core problem without all the bells and whistles. It allows you to test out an idea with potential customers in a shorter time frame versus developing a much larger …
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In our age of digital frenzy, nearly every entrepreneur I know had ‘get a website up’ at the top of their business startup to-do list. I know I started thinking of this before I even had a business name in the businesses I started. During my first website rodeo I was blissfully ignorant about …
