Small Business Strategy
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Feeling it, Friday? Because Being Bossy is Kind of Awesome
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading. –Amy Poehler I’ve always been a little bossy; I can’t help it, it’s just who I am. I hear a lot of women who say that they’ve always felt like they needed to disguise their bossiness, to hide it from others. I’ve never felt like that. It’s probably because my dad always laughed at my bossy antics. Or it’s because my mom encouraged me to just be me. And now, I’m married to a man who…
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Why Amazon Customers Want to Know Your Brand Story: Part Two– Using Your Blog to Increase Amazon Product Sales
Hello again FBA Sellers! A few months back I wrote a short post about why Amazon customers love to know your company’s brand story and how you can share that story by creating a User + Product Ebook. But what I didn’t talk about was how to continue telling your story even after your ebook has been delivered. And that small thing: entertaining and holding on to your customers attention; is what many FBA sellers struggle with the most in their businesses. Here’s the reality: In order to keep your business perpetuating income, you MUST keep your customers close to you, even after they have purchased. When I think about…
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5 Ways to Avoid Going Crazy Working From Home
Working from home is awesome. I mean, who doesn’t want to set their own schedule, dictate their own version of casual Friday, and manage their own office? Let’s just say it, working from home is pretty great. But sometimes, working from home can make you start to feel a little wonky. Especially if you’re working from a office all day, everyday, without anyone else around. So, before you lose your mind in your home office, go ahead and try these 5 simple things. #1: Take a Walk When we were kids, we were always given an outdoor recess in the afternoon. I remember my teachers always saying that this fresh…
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7 Reasons You are Your Worst Employee
It’s Friday here, which always puts a little rush in my step to get things done and closed up shop for the weekend. We work best under these deadlines, don’t we? When there isn’t much time left on the clock, we tend to kick it into high gear really well. In the madness of the Friday shuffle, I got to thinking: shouldn’t we always be working with this sense of urgency? Probably, yes, we should we. But we don’t. So what is it that holds us back? What is it that keeps us from being the stellar employees that we are every Friday afternoon? The reality is simple: we are…
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10 Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Ask Themselves by Lunch
#1 Uh, what am I doing today? If you don’t have a clear streamlined plan for your day, chances are you’ll find yourself wasting a lot of your time. Get out your planner and figure out what the hell you’re doing! Which YES Clients are you planning to work with? Which projects are you planning to finish? Seriously, what are you doing today? #2 When do I get a break? It’s important that you give yourself breaks every now and then. When I think about myself without a break, I imagine a cartoon engine overheating and smoking. If you don’t allow yourself the opportunity to take a break, your productivity…