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 …
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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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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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 …
Tool Thinking Versus Problem Thinking: Which One is Better for Your Side-Hustle Many entrepreneurs fall in love with the wrong part of their business. It’s easy to get so deep in the weeds, we fall in love with our product. We might spend months, even years developing our product. It’s easy to become obsessed with …
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Understand What You Really Sell and You’ll Sell More It’s easy to start a business and become obsessed with the product. The business takes most of our waking hours. We fall in love with our product. We can’t stop talking about it. We think we’ve got the best answer of anyone in our marketplace. But …
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How to Build an Evergreen Side-Hustle An evergreen business is one that sells just as well five years from now (or 20), than it does today. While we can’t predict the future wants of our customers, we can design a business that will serve people over the long-game. We won’t focus on the hot topics …
Entrepreneurs Should Start with What They Have When you start a new business, or develop a business idea from scratch, it’s easy to begin with what’s missing. I got this technique from Hollywood director, Robert Rodriguez. His simple method is now known as your Rodriguez List. Instead of starting with loss, we start with abundance. …
Provide So Much Value Your Customers Feel Like They’re Stealing We’re in difficult times right now. But times have always been difficult for creators. While it’s true that many people are out of work and it’s tempting to cut prices to make sales, don’t. Instead, provide more value. Lot’s of value. So much value you …
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Why Most Small Business Owners are Doing Social Media Wrong …and what you can do to avoid their mistakes Most side-hustlers and small business owners are attacking their social media the wrong direction. It’s tempting to follow the herd, but most of the time the herd runs the wrong direction. While it looks cool to …
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Grow Your Hustle During a Downturn There’s no avoiding it. We’re all in this together. The entire world is now facing a stay-at-home economic shift. While there’s nothing we can do about many of the things facing our small businesses, there are many components we can control. You can grow your side-hustle during this Covid-19 …
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