You have a new business idea! High five! You’re pumped! Fresh ideas are necessary for business growth and development. It may sound nerdy (it is nerdy), but I love nothing than a brainstorming session with myself. I have notebooks and an app filled with ideas. I learned long ago to write the ideas down. I […]

4 Ways to Have a More Productive Start to Your Day Go From Manic Monday to a Money-Making Feel-Good Morning Routine That darn alarm. It sounds signaling the start of Monday. The start of the business week. The start of insanity. You roll over and pretend like it’s not happening- the alarm, Monday, none of […]

Update your Home Page to Stand Out and Convert A homepage is THE HARDEST page of a website to write. Let’s just get that out there. It’s the virtual living room of your business. It must be inviting but not cluttered. It must have visible pathways to other areas of your virtual home (site pages). […]

Wrapping up 2020: You May Say I’m a Dreamer, But I’m Not the Only One If you follow my blog, you’ll probably see I love to weave in my favorite song titles and lines and sprinkle my writing with funny personal tales of my daily work and personal life to guide women through business and […]

If you identified the title of this blog as a Smiths’ song, I’m impressed. Hang out a bit and learn how to generate blog ideas for days! You sit down to write a blog, and you get stuck. The end. Does that sound familiar? Maybe you don’t even get to the sit down part, because […]

Starting a business seemed easy-ish. When you started your business, I’m sure you couldn’t wait to share what you sell and could only think of trading what you do or sell for some profit. You love what you do, and you were sure others would too. Open a cute shop and they will come. Make […]

Anyone who knows me well, knows I’m an over-the-top John Mayer fan, so he gets a blog title in honor of one of his great songs. I have seen him three times in concert. He inspired the name of my cat, Olivia (check out his song “Something Like Olivia”). Seeing him sing and strum his […]

It’s Monday! You already knew that though. I’m hoping Monday is not a state of ugh or dread for you. Yes, yesterday was fun when I spent the afternoon at the beach with my sister, but Monday has actually become one of my favorite days. No, I’m not crazy. I’ll tell you why, and it ties […]

Up until mid-March, like me, you probably had a couple weekly networking groups on your calendar each week. Chamber groups. Local business owner groups. Women’s groups. You were dedicated to the communities you linked arms with to further the impact of overall business community. Or perhaps, networking has felt daunting. Maybe you’re a newer business […]

Let’s cut to the chase. If you want a long and healthy relationship with your business, you’ll have to establish boundaries around it. Think of your business as a person. Do you want it calling you and texting you at 10pm? Do you want it to coerce you into work you’re not excited about? Would […]