Posts in Small Business
7 Solutions to Survive the Next Few Months as a Small Business: Fighting to Keep the Doors Open

As an online creative business owner, I know I’m just one of hundreds of thousands of people trying to figure out how to navigate the next few months, not only in their business, but every part of their life. There are so many unknowns. So many questions. So much confusion on how to navigate things, particularly in our businesses. It’s not just affecting one country, it’s affecting businesses globally, from the mom and pop shop on the corner, to entire corporations and supply chains.

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3 Failures in my First Year of Business

John Maxwell once said, “Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.” While there’s some controversy about whether this is a good mantra to live by, reality is, as a new small business or nonprofit owner, we are going to fail in some areas! And let me tell you, this enneagram 1 perfectionist does not like failing. But here are three ways in which I failed last year and what I learned from it.

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3 Steps to Starting a Blog as a Small Business Owner

You are a small business owner, you have a million things on your to do list, and blogging sounds like another huge task. Where in the world should you begin?! It doesn’t have to be that difficult! In fact, if you set things up properly at the front end, then the rest is easy. Here are the three first steps in starting a blog for your business. 

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How to Build a Website Homepage that Converts Visitors to Customers

Laying out and writing content for your small business website is not an obvious thing, and requires some dedicated thought. Thankfully, there are people to help you in the process.

Today I want to tackle one aspect of laying out your website—your homepage. In fact, it’s probably one of, if not the most important part of your website.

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