Why It’s Important for Entrepreneurs to Carry A Pocket Notebook We’ve out-digitized ourselves as entrepreneurs. Everything you need to operate your business can likely be done on your phone. But just because you can keep everything in your phone, doesn’t mean you should. If you want to have the best creative edge for your business …
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The Importance of A Daily Work Practice No matter what kind of side-hustle you create, there’s no bigger gift you can give yourself than to find what works and keep doing it. It’s so easy to get trapped on the hamster wheel of bigger, better, and never. But when we leave behind the tasks that …
Adopt a Publisher’s Model for Your Creative Business It’s time to shut the gate. While we’ve been trained to share our content and interact all over social media, the best gift we can give our creative business, is to build our own ecosystem and win our reader’s attention. The new economy is all about attention. …
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Develop a Strategy for Your Business Moving-Forward, By Researching the Past As entrepreneurs, when we start a new business the process usually begins with a spark of an idea. This spark, or intuition morphs into our business vision. The vision is our unwavering idea—the final transformation we’d like to see happen. Once you have your …
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Frameworks Help Make Your Business Number One in Your Category If you want to build a successful creative business, it’s likely there are already competitors in your space. While competition can mean the market for a product is already proven (a good sign), it also means you’ll have a brutal time differentiating yourself as the …
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Three Paths for a Digital Side-Hustle Entrepreneurs and freelancers struggle to start. We think we’ve got this great idea. We start with a ton of momentum. Then the willpower slides and reality kicks in. Most creators don’t pause before starting. But if we take the time to design the work around our personality, the business …
Why You Need to Start a Subscription-Based Business Whether you have to re-think your idea of what a business should look like, or the pandemic has locked you inside your home or community—a subscription-based business could be your ‘freedom’ solution. As with any business, the subscription business model is a lot of work, and if …
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How to Build a Brand of One As the barrier of entry to start a new business approaches zero, the competition is greater than ever. Copycats and also-rans have more analytical tools at their disposal than ever before. There’s a fast race to the bottom of you choose to compete in the arena with everyone …
How to Avoid Competition by Taking the Opposite Path If you have a small business or side-hustle, competing head-on with others in your arena can be a total race to the bottom. When you’ve got competition, or when others are watching, sometimes the best answer is to choose the road less traveled. You can build …
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How to Presell Your Side-Hustle Before You Do the Work When we start a new business venture—especially when it’s on the side—it’s important we don’t waste our time on ideas that won’t sell. You might think you’ve got the best solution in the world, but without a proven concept, we’ve got nothing more than an …
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The ‘Big-Little’ Goal-Setting System to Get What You Want We live in a time of ever-growing hustle-culture. While we’re supposed to work harder every day to get what we want, there’s also this ever-growing pile of to-do list items we’re supposed to accomplish to get ahead. Wake-up before 5:00 AM Read a book a week …
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Why You Need an Evergreen Side-Hustle If you want to make a huge splash with your idea and exit fast, before the current trend dies—build a trend-based business. However, the problem with trend-based side-hustles is they’re set-up to be disposable. Whether you like that or not. It’s easy to get wrapped in a trend without …