Tag: Business
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Business Coach VS Business Strategist – What’s the Difference?
Coaches are not responsible for your results. Through coaching sessions, they help you to outline where you are and where you want to go. They are great with helping you to refine your vision but typically it’s still from a generalist perspective. Strategists, however, are results-driven. Given your goals (oftentimes created with your coach), it’s…
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Grief, Thyroidism and the Entrepreneur
This past weekend marked six months since we had the formal ceremony to say goodbye to my love. I never knew that managing grief would be so hard, go on for so long and take a toll on my body the way it has. For over the past 20 years I have suffered from…
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Pick The Best Idea and Run With It
More than one business idea and not really sure what to do, so you sit stuck not really acting or moving forward with any of them…. Sound familiar. I think most people who’ve been hit by the entrepreneurial spirit can relate. We see a problem and instantly thing of a solution. We can’t find a…
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Best Bank Closure: A Lesson In Contingency Planning for Entrepreneurs
One of the stories dominating the news cycle here in Atlanta is the closing of Best Bank on the evening of Friday, May 5, 2017 without notice or warning to customers. As the news of the closing began making its way around the city, hundreds of worried and panic customers went to First Citizens Bank…
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Operations Manual: Yes, Solopreneurs Need Them Too
Alrighty my fellow “party of one” business owners, by show of hands, who has a business operations manual? Anyone? Anyone? Just as I suspected, many of us haven’t taken the time to formally write down our processes and procedures. We may have a folder stuck somewhere at the bottom of a pile on…
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Love Lost: Managing Grief as a Full-Time Entrepreneur
Being an entrepreneur affords me the luxury of having a laptop business. I can work at any time from anywhere. So when my love was admitted in the hospital days before, that’s exactly what I did. I packed up my iPad, client notes, phone, and charger and went to the hospital to be with him.…