This past weekend, I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about 79-year-old Martha Stewart and how she stays Zoom-ready. She discusses how she has used the pandemic as a time to up her game and her presence online.
I’m going to pause for a moment while you let that sink in.
Martha Stewart, at 79 years old, is embracing technology and shows no sign of slowing down, no rationalization about being too old, and no fear of new technology.
The message to support small businesses seems to be everywhere these days, but where should the line be drawn?
Recently, we reached out to a boat repair company and left them a voicemail, followed by an email to see if they could do some work for us. Over a week later we still had not received a response.
Another professional was referred to us to buff out a portion of our boat. After several days, this individual finally responded and said he had taken a look at our vessel and was only willing to do the work if he could do the whole thing. We responded immediately and asked for a quote, and several days later, we still have not heard back.
This is not isolated to the boating industry. I see it everywhere.
Last weekend, Sarah Fuller became the first woman to play for a Power 5 football team when she kicked off for Vanderbilt to open the second half in a game against Missouri.
While Vanderbilt may have lost the game, they won the respect of women everywhere when they gave Fuller the opportunity to make history as the first woman to play in a professional football game.
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And, while there is a lot I don’t understand about football, I love the passion and enthusiasm of college football fans across the United States.
Everything you do affects your reputation.
You may think that other people can negatively affect your reputation, and while that may be true, in most cases, the only person who can positively or negatively impact your reputation is you.
There are seven things you should expect to happen at some point in your business, except… no one tells you about them when you first start out.
If you have been in business for a while, you have likely had some of these things happen to you, and if you are new to business ownership, you might not even realize that they are bound to happen.
The unfortunate truth is that you will experience a variety of challenges when you run your own business, and some of them will be easier to overcome than others. Keep reading to find out what they are, and so you can be ready for when they happen.
When faced with a challenging client, consider how the challenge you’re experiencing might be good for business.
In some cases, the very challenge you’re experiencing is a call for you to step up and do better work. When you do that, you can gain the loyalty and respect of the client who challenged you. And, in turn, you provide better outcomes for the rest of your clients too.
When you think about constraints, the first thing that comes to mind is being held back or being stopped from doing something you want to do. But, constraints, especially creative constraints, can actually be helpful in the achievement of goals in your business.
In fact, creative constraints can become your number one competitive advantage if you’re an entrepreneur with big ideas and a lot of goals.
When you have big ideas and believe the sky’s the limit, trying to figure out how you will get it all done can be overwhelming and you might feel stuck.
This is not fun, because then, your ideas start to feel like tethers holding you back instead of propelling you forward.
In a world where many business owners are sharing nothing but their success highlight reels, it’s time to normalize business failures, because they happen to everyone.
This past weekend, my friend and colleague, Christine Kane and I were sharing some of our “things gone wrong” stories via text and talking about how when things like this happen, people don’t talk about it.
She said “All these books act like if you do this right… you’ll never make a mistake again! And so we all hide it in shame when we do. And then you realize that everyone makes mistakes.”
But no one talks about it.
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