When faced with a $40,000 loss, where do you find hope? How do you turn setbacks into success? Embarking in starting my online business was daunting yet irrepressible. While failure always lurks, fear looms larger. Because no matter how clear the horizon, clouds will always gather. Mine battered my...
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What’s Your Worst Solopreneur Roadblock To Getting Repeat Business?
Which out of 4 is your worst? There are 4 typical roadblocks that may significantly impact your solopreneur’s ability to generate ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐. ๐ As an entrepreneur, your assessment of your specific situation may identify one of these as the worst. While you could be confronting all four, to...
You Don’t Need to Quit Your Job To Get $3,000 Extra Income per Month
๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ. ๐๐ผ๐ปโ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐ฏ. ๐๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐ ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ $๐ฏ,๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ ๐ฝ/๐ ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ต You only need 3 ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐จ that you likely have no clue how to get. Let me point them out to you. But first the things you ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ปโ๐ need: You ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ปโ๐ need to be an expert or have social...
Why Online Solopreneurs Do Worse Than Brick-and-Mortar Business Owners
I’ve put brick-and-mortar businesses online and gotten them leads that they wouldn’t otherwise get. But online solopreneurs fail me right and left. The reason why online solopreneurs do worse than traditional business owners may not be obvious. But I’ll reveal it to you here. A client of mine owns...
Want to Make $50K per Month Investing $0?
I see this every single day, people living paycheck to paycheck, feeling stuck, miserable, afraid of their financial situation. But they’re not willing to invest a few thousand dollars on themselves. Practical education. Applied skills. This is what you need to create a six or seven-figure income no less...
Do You Have to Live Near Where You Work and Make Your Money?
If you’re an office professional who’d rather live other than near where you have to work, but you find that your way of earning your living inhibits your ability to move wherever you may be treated your best, then you have two options: 1๏ธโฃ You can stay put and...
Facebook Personal Profile Goes Professional. Should You?
To use or not to use your personal Facebook profile for business? Recently someone asked in a business group I participate in this question as it relates to Facebook’s policy that discourages the use of personal profiles as a business tool. Here was my response and a couple of...
All Social Networks Aren’t Healthy For You Or Your Business
โI see it all perfectly. There are two possible situations โ you can either do this or do that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or don’t do it โ in the end, you will regret both.โย โ Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life…ย The...
Starting Your Own Business Unemployed: Does It Pay Off?
Youโve seen it before: “Make hundreds of dollars in a few days! Thousands in a month at your own pace, comfortably from you our own home!” Those in desperate straits find the claim irresistible. For the right price, theyโre hooked, because it sounds like a goodwill prophecy. If you...
Why A Business Plan Is NOT Whatโs Fundamental To Starting Your Business
Letโs say you want to have income follow you. Letโs say you want it to follow you abroad. A fiery, inexperienced solopreneur determined to move overseas would aim to start a business of some kind to work from anywhere. The focus would be to make money transfers easy from...
What One Thing Shouldn’t You Do When Moving Abroad?
Expats in the know will tell you this was their stupidest mistake. It was to have sought first to buy rather than rent a place. Why was this a mistake? The need for security in your home country may seem fulfilled by owning a house or a condo. But...
Not Moving Abroad Because You Need More Info?
How much information is enough to convince you to move abroad? Expats who have moved say they’ve generally had more than enough information long before making the move, and regret not having acted on it sooner. Why is this so? Part of it is a lack of definition on...
How to Build Your Green Business Out of Roaches With Sheer Elbow Grease
Once upon a time I had a client from Staten Island. His dream was to own a renewable energy business to save the planet and all life on it. But a business like that proved difficult to win, especially since he wanted it home-based. I told my client that...
Neighbors Laughed At Him Until This Local Market Business Secret Made Him Rich
Why not make a fortune as a nobody? Jim Varney did it until he couldnโt keep from becoming famous. He died a multimillionaire. How? He focused on local needs. So very often today we read of one entrepreneur after another trying to make it big universally online or by...
Why Money Starting A Business Ainโt Cheap
Money for starting a business is available for the entrepreneur who can prove that the money will be well spent. This requirement eliminates having to look for grants for starting a business since, by definition, a grant is a gift and it matters not to the grantor how you...